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• A Chinese Lion Dance Troupe Resists The Patriarchy

  29-01-2025 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Top-level lion dancing in China incorporates acrobatics and martial arts — and has traditionally excluded women from performing. But an 80-member lion-dancing troupe called Lingdong, in the city of Shantou, is one-quarter female; its coach intends to bring that to 50-50 and, eventually, to train an all-women group. – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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• Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Starts Charging Admission For The First Time

  29-01-2025 20:32 via artshub.com.au
  
  What else can MCA do if its core costs have shot up 20% from 2022 to 2023, and its revenue has not increased at the same rate? – ArtsHub
  
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• Reviving The First Known Opera By A Black American Composer

  29-01-2025 20:05 via earlymusicamerica.org
  
  Edmond Dédé was born in 1827 to a free Black family of musicians in New Orleans. He settled and made his career in France. In 1887 in Bordeaux, he completed Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, a full-fledged French grand opera which was never performed — until now. – Early Music America
  
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• The Super-Communication Technologies That Separate Us

  29-01-2025 19:44 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
   The cost-benefit calculation is complicated and nuanced, requiring us to find a course between apocalyptic visions of civilizational decline and the naive utopianism of Silicon Valley. – LA Review of Books
  
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• The Former Chicago 7-Eleven That Will Now Dispense Classical Music

  29-01-2025 19:32 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  The venue, designed by Chicago-based JDJ Architects, will be called the Checkout, a nod to the building’s former life as a 7-Eleven, and doubles as part of ACM’s hopes for the establishment. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Spotify Paid A Record $10 Billion To Music Rights Owners In 2024

  29-01-2025 19:15 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  Spotify’s $10 billion payout figure means that it paid music rightsholders an average of $833 million every month in 2024. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• Superstar Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin Has Co-Authored A Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper

  29-01-2025 19:01 via arstechnica.com
  
  The paper, just published in the American Journal of Physics, derives a formula to describe the dynamics of a fictional virus that is the centerpiece of the Wild Cards series of books, a shared universe edited by Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass with 44 contributing authors. – Ars Technica
  
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• Paul McCartney And Elton John Protest Proposed Changes To UK Copyright

  29-01-2025 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  McCartney told the BBC that the proposed changes could disincentivise writers and artists and result in a “loss of creativity”. – The Guardian
  
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• The Small Publishers Shaking Up Africa’s Books Culture

  29-01-2025 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Othuke Ominiabohs started Masobe – which means “let us read” in the Isoko language – in 2018 with a $7,000 (£5,600) loan from his sister. In doing so, he joined a wave of new independent African publishers nurturing emerging African writers and getting fresh, exciting literature to African readers. – The Guardian
  
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• Sotheby’s Reports Declined Sales

  29-01-2025 18:15 via news.artnet.com
  
  Sotheby’s auction sales were down 28 percent, to $4.6 billion, from $6.4 billion, but private sales were up 17 percent, climbing from $1.2 billion in 2023 to $1.4 billion. Christie’s, for its part, reported a 41-percent jump in private sales, to $1.5 billion—their highest level since 2020. – Artnet
  
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• Sundance Film Festival Is Leaving Park City, Utah. What Will That Mean For The Town?

  29-01-2025 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “The organizers have said, essentially, that the event has gotten too big for Park City. When Sundance arrives every January, it balloons the ski town of 8,200 full-time residents into a snowy circus, with over 20,000 people streaming in from around the globe.” – The New York Times
  
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• Louvre’s Decision To Move “Mona Lisa”: Misguided?

  29-01-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The decision, dramatically announced by Emmanuel Macron, to move the Mona Lisa to a special hygienically isolated gallery where les idiots who flock to take selfies in front of it won’t bother more cultured visitors who wish to study art in a hushed atmosphere, is a misguided act of snobbery. – The Guardian
  
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• French Protest Macron’s Stained Glass For Notre Dame

  29-01-2025 17:31 via msn.com
  President Emmanuel Macron’s vision to immortalize himself in glass? Replace some windows in the recently reopened Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The custodians of French architecture have responded with a resounding “non!” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Is This Really A Forgotten Van Gogh?

  29-01-2025 17:15 via msn.com
  “People love it when things fall through the cracks, and it would be wonderful if they found a Van Gogh—but they’ve got to pin everything down and get a scholar at the Van Gogh Museum to sign off on it.”  Doing so could prove to be a tall order. – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Site-Specific New York Company On Site Opera Shuts Down

  29-01-2025 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “For more than a decade, (the) small but nimble group brought opera to unexpected places: the Bronx Zoo, Madame Tussauds, cafes and soup kitchens. The company won acclaim for its innovative approach, including a Beethoven song cycle performed by phone during the pandemic.” – The New York Times
  
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• Climate-Protesting Theatre Vandals Interrupt West End “Tempest”

  29-01-2025 16:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  On Monday evening, two members of the group Just Stop Oil climbed onstage at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, fired a confetti cannon, stopped Sigourney Weaver (Prospero) mid-scene in The Tempest, and, amid boos, displayed a sign reading “Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck.” – The Standard (London)
  
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• Paule Vézelay: Living Lines review – fierce artist forged in the heat of Picasso’s avant-garde Paris

  29-01-2025 16:13
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  The woman born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol is honoured in her home city with a powerful show that captures her packed life, dramatic work – and even her faded curtainsIn 1926, Paule Vézelay invented herself. Born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol, she moved to Paris and became the artist she had always imagined being, brand new name and all. She thrived at the centre of Paris’s swirling avant-garde currents, quickly building a rich community for herself a
  
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• Artistic Director Of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre To Step Down

  29-01-2025 16:02 via msn.com
  Weyni Mengesha will depart as of August 31 after seven years in the post. A statement said she is leaving in order to focus on her family and her freelance directing career. – Canadian Press (MSN)
  
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• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pioneering Native American Artist, Has Died At 85

  29-01-2025 15:35 via news.artnet.com
  
  “For five decades (she) mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks. … The past few years have seen a reawakening (for) Smith’s distinct abstractions, collages, and sculptures, which unpack the historic injustices against Native American peoples, while shattering dominant cultural narratives.” – Artnet
  
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• Botticelli’s Primavera review – lucid study of a Renaissance masterpiece

  29-01-2025 10:00
  Howard Burton’s scholarly look at the companion painting to The Birth of Venus provides a calm and instructive commentaryHere is an interesting, thoughtful and well-reasoned study of a single Botticelli masterwork, the late 15th-century painting that is the perhaps slightly less well known companion piece to The Birth of Venus – though, as this film is at pains to point out, they were not painted as a pair. Primavera is the somewhat left-field first subject in a series of hour-long f
  
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