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• Ballet In A Theatre With An Air Raid Shelter: Kyiv’s “The Snow Queen”

  23-01-2025 21:02 via thetimes.com
  
  A full house for the National Ballet of Ukraine these days is 560 people, because that’s the capacity of the bomb shelter in the theater’s basement. Here’s a photo journal of the Christmas production at a company where, as one ballerina puts it, every show could be the last. – The Times (UK)
  
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• Quick Study: Monetizing Health Benefits from the Arts

  23-01-2025 20:45 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we discuss findings from a UK study about the economic consequences of using arts-based strategies to improve health and well-being. A transcript is available at the Arts Endowment website.
  
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• Barnes & Noble CEO On The Bookseller’s Rising Fortunes

  23-01-2025 20:31 via publishersweekly.com
  
  Upgrading the look of B&N stores, and improving the quality of its workforce, are among the reasons James Daunt cited as contributing to the bookseller’s resurgence: “We want to have good teams inside nice-looking stores.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Who Are We If We Lose The Ability of Language?

  23-01-2025 20:14 via publicbooks.org
  
  Aphasia brings up existential questions that get at the heart of human connection: Who are we without language? If I were struck by aphasia today, what would be left unsaid, to my family, my friends, my readers? – Public Books
  
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• The Louvre’s Building Is In Seriously Bad Shape, Warns Director

  23-01-2025 20:05 via yahoo.com
  
  In a leaked memo to French culture minister Rachida Dati, Louvre director Laurence des Cars wrote that overcrowding at the museum is causing “physical strain” on the building and that some areas “are no longer watertight, while others experience significant temperature variations, endangering the preservation of artworks,” – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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• Man Discovers 2000-Year-Old Statue Near Some Garbage Cans

  23-01-2025 19:44 via msn.com
  A 32-year-old Greek man discovered the artifact in a black bag in the college town of Thessaloniki and turned it in to police on Saturday evening, Greek authorities said in a statement Wednesday. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Listeners Prize Vinyl For Its Analog Sound. Here’s The Thing, Though…

  23-01-2025 19:32 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The ability to create a fully analog recording in 2025 is exceedingly difficult and expensive. Analog recording decks require specialized maintenance, and the tape used for master recordings is vastly more expensive than recording to a hard drive. – Digital Trends
  
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• How To Alleviate Milwaukee’s Arts Funding Crisis? Collaboration Across The State, Say Leaders

  23-01-2025 19:01 via milwaukeemag.com
  
  “Among the issues are determining what private philanthropy’s role should be in maintaining the arts-and-culture ecosystem and forging a unified effort to advocate for increased public funding.” Key to the latter is forming partnerships with organizations elsewhere in Wisconsin, so as to counter “deep Milwaukee skepticism” in the state legislature. – Milwaukee Magazine
  
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• What Do Ticket-Buyers Value Most When Choosing A Seat?

  23-01-2025 18:44 via insidethearts.com
  
  Among the findings of the study are that people value being closer to the stage than further away. Reserved seating is more valuable than general admission seating. However, for people with children and older respondents, reserved seating held significantly more value. – Butts In Seats
  
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• Attention Has Now Become Our Most Precious Resource

  23-01-2025 18:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention. It is now the defining resource of our age. – The Atlantic
  
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• ‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub

  23-01-2025 11:47
  
  He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book celebrates his extraordinary lifePerhaps nothing captures the many paradoxes of Eric Tucker’s extraordinary life more succinctly than his choice of bookmark for all the art history books he secretly devoured. “Betting slips,” reveals his nephew Joe Tucker, with a grin. “T
  
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• Iconic review – Bardot, Bacon and the Beatles bestride the plastic fantastic age

  23-01-2025 01:01
  
  Holburne Museum, Bath
  This compact yet brilliant show looks at how painters responded to the subjugation of real life in the 1960s media age, with its explosion of photos, film and mass reproductionWhen Peter Blake painted a portrait of his friend David Hockney in 1965, he based it on a photograph. Why? He got on with his fellow Royal College of Art graduate and could have got him to pose. In fact, their relationship was relaxed enough for Hockney to suggest Blake include the male youth in Austr
  
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