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• 2024 — The Year In Art Forgery

  31-12-2024 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  A pan-European forgery network, a disputed Malevich at the Pompidou Center, supposed Monet and Renoir on eBay, yet more fake Basquiats, and the bogus Picassos in Tasmania that went undetected for over three years. – ARTnews
  
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• How Schools Are Expanding What Music Education Is

  31-12-2024 20:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Step into a music class today and you might find laptops, turntables and MIDI controllers joining the expected clarinets, recorders and violins. From elementary through post-secondary schooling, some teachers are expanding music education and encouraging more students to try more contemporary forms of music-making. – CBC
  
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• The State Of British Theatre, In 20 Shows Across All Four Nations

  31-12-2024 20:05 via thestage.co.uk
  “Two decades after theatre’s funding taps were turned off, editor Alistair Smith embarked on a tour from the tip to the toe of the United Kingdom, taking in productions across the four nations and speaking to those behind them, to discover how this period has shaped the industry we see today.” – The Stage
  
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• Studying the Scriptures According To TSwift

  31-12-2024 19:30 via theconversation.com
  
  Swift’s music still forms the basis of their interest in her. Fans study it like scripture, offering various interpretations of the lyrics. Uniting these interpretations is a desire to understand more about the figure of Swift and who she “really” is. – The Conversation
  
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• This Year In Great Sentences, Frank Bruni Edition

  31-12-2024 19:15 via nytimes.com
  In The Times, Jason Farago defended an artistic movement against its detractors: “If you find Monet, Renoir, Degas too pretty and popular — if you think Impressionism is the artistic equivalent of a pumpkin spice latte — I want you to taste the espresso beneath the foam.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Literary World’s Biggest News Stories Of 2024

  31-12-2024 19:01 via lithub.com
  
  “Here are the book-world-adjacent stories that thrilled, disgusted, amused, and otherwise occupied our group chats this year.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Musicians We Lost In 2024

  31-12-2024 18:44 via gramilano.com
  
  A list of prominent musicians who dies in 2024. – Gramilano
  
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• Best of 2024: the year in illustrations for Guardian US stories

  31-12-2024 18:26
  
  From online privacy to sex parties and an election illustrated entirely with cut paper, this is how artists illustrated the year’s biggest stories for Guardian US Continue reading...
  
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• The Top Library Stories Of 2024

  31-12-2024 18:21 via publishersweekly.com
  
  It’s been a challenging year for libraries. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Top Archaeology Stories Of 2024

  31-12-2024 18:15 via hyperallergic.com
  From sexy frescoes emerging from the ashes to hidden cities surfacing due to Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scans, archaeologists continue to make discoveries that transform our understanding of the past and how best to preserve it for the future. – Hyperallergic
  
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• The “Unphilosophical” Life?

  31-12-2024 18:15 via unherd.com
  Thinking hard makes sense if you want answers; it makes less sense if the highest reward you anticipate from your intellectual efforts is surprise. The difference between a philosophical life and an essayistic one is that the former aims at knowledge, while the latter aims at novelty. – Unherd
  
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• Have A Listen To The Earliest Known Recording Of A Country Music Song

  31-12-2024 18:06 via bbc.com
  
  “A wax cylinder containing the oldest recorded country song was discovered in Pennsylvania. The track, ‘Thompson’s Old Gray Mule,’ was recorded in 1891 and sung by Louis Vasnier, a Black man from New Orleans.” – BBC
  
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• Why Are We So Fascinated With Our Own Demise?

  31-12-2024 17:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Young people today are no less obsessed with climate disasters than Gen X was with nuclear war. Where we had nightmares about missiles, theirs feature mass extinctions and climate refugees, wildfires and water wars. And that’s just the beginning. – The Atlantic
  
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• What Accounts For Those New Year’s Music Traditions?

  31-12-2024 17:15 via msn.com
  For old time’s sake, we sing “Auld Lang Syne.” We embrace the waltz to remember and ward off depression. Everywhere in the world there are New Year’s concerts featuring Strauss waltzes. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Highs And Lows Of U.S. TV Ratings In 2024

  31-12-2024 17:04 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “A little blue dog was the biggest star in the streaming world; the most watched cable series in years took a final bow; sports, specifically the NFL, proved their viability on streaming platforms; and the biggest new broadcast show is a meta-remake that stars a 76-year-old treasure.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Worst Artworks Of 2024

  31-12-2024 16:35 via news.artnet.com
  
  “As we close out the year, we’ve rounded up the artworks that left us unimpressed — pieces that didn’t live up to the hype, ideas that fell flat, or works misplaced in their context.” – Artnet
  
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• How Modern Dance Came To The People’s Republic Of China

  31-12-2024 16:02 via nytimes.com
  Beginning in 1986, with funding from two foundations and the U.S. Department of State, American Dance Festival director Charles Reinhart sent American teachers to the Guangdong Dance Academy. Four years later, the country’s first modern dance company was formed; among its alumni is choreographer Shen Wei. – The New York Times
  
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• Assessing Damage Done To Lebanon’s Heritage Site’s By Israeli Bombing

  31-12-2024 15:31 via tinyurl.com
  “Lebanese cultural preservation organisation Biladi said at least nine heritage sites were completely destroyed and 15 badly or partially damaged by Israeli attacks between September … and a ceasefire in November. But archaeological experts also say bomb blasts close to important sites … may have caused ‘invisible damage’.” – Financial Times
  
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• Artnet’s Biggest Art World Controversies of 2024

  31-12-2024 15:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  Interestingly, there is little overlap with CNN’s similar list, released last week. – Artnet
  
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• Russell Sherman (1930-2023)

  31-12-2024 14:33 via artsjournal.com
  At a memorial event in Jordan Hall in Boston on September 29, 2024, these were my remarks:This concert hall,this space,
  the vibrating air in here,the music that’s been heard, those sounds.
  The piano playing done on this stage…
  In 1907, Ferruccio Busoni played the piano right about … here. Arthur Rubinstein’s first Boston concert, right here in 1904. 
  And Russell Sherman, pianist, many, many times. He played here, imore than 30 solo recitals over four decades in thi
  
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• Edinburgh Cancels This Year’s Hogmanay Celebrations Due To “Extreme Weather”

  31-12-2024 14:30 via bbc.com
  
  With heavy rain and very high winds pounding the Scottish capital, the torchlight parade, outdoor concerts, street party and fireworks display have been called off, though indoor events will proceed. – BBC
  
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• Actress Linda Lavin, 87

  31-12-2024 14:06 via apnews.com
  
  She became a household name in the US thanks to her decade starring in the CBS sitcom Alice, and she worked regularly in TV and film thereafter, but she was at heart a stage actress, with a Tony Award and multiple nominations to her credit. – AP
  
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• The Dutchwoman guiding the gallery of America’s most famous faces

  31-12-2024 14:00
  
  Nigeria-born, Australia-raised, Kim Sajet is the cosmopolitan director of the National Portrait Gallery, whose collection includes 1,700 images of presidents from Washington to Trump“All portraiture is a lie,” observes Kim Sajet, standing before the revered Lansdowne portrait of George Washington. Artist Gilbert Stuart painted only Washington’s face from life; the body was a stand-in. The canvas is also replete with symbols: a rainbow, an inkwell shaped like Noah’s Ark, b
  
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• ‘There are so many crazy stories’: the hunt for every sports statue in world

  31-12-2024 06:00
  
  Chris Stride leads project that gives insights into UK society – such as statues of Lester Piggott outnumbering those of women“There are more statues of Lester Piggott in the UK than there are of sporting women,” said the statistician Chris Stride with dismay. “It is really bad … there are hardly any at all.”In fact, there are a fewer than a handful of sporting women celebrated with public statues. They include the pentathlete Mary Peters on the outskirts of
  
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