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• Trump outburst prompts removal of his ‘distorted’ portrait from Colorado capitol

  25-03-2025 20:16
  
  Painting of Trump was commissioned by Republicans, though president blamed Colorado’s Democratic governorA portrait of Donald Trump that was commissioned by fellow Republicans – but which he evidently came to believe had been “purposefully distorted” – was removed from a wall at the Colorado state capitol where it had been since 2019.After Trump posted complaints about the painting on his Truth Social platform, Colorado’s senate minority leader, Paul Lundeen,
  
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• A good night’s sleep for Heathrow boss | Brief letters

  25-03-2025 18:46
  
  Power cut crisis | Orwellian narrative | Birthday wishes | Emetic art | Tax timingThe transport secretary said she’d “struggle to sleep” if she had been running Heathrow, after reports that the airport’s chief executive slept during the early hours of its power cut crisis last week (Report, 24 March). I – and, I suspect, most travellers – would prefer the person in charge of an airport to have had a good night’s sleep before going to work. That also
  
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• ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

  25-03-2025 16:11
  
  It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from lead
  
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• Pilobolus Debuts Multigenerational Dance Curriculum

  25-03-2025 15:05 via timesunion.com
  “The dance program — developed by Pilobolus in a multiyear partnership with Saratoga Performing Arts Center — builds upon Pilobolus’ current education programming, which includes balance and mobility workshops for seniors and in-school youth. The ultimate goal is to expand nationwide.” – Albany Times Union
  
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• Enormous Hoard Of Iron Age Artifacts Uncovered In North Of England

  25-03-2025 14:36 via theguardian.com
  
  “More than 800 objects were unearthed in a field near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire. They date back to the first century, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain under Emperor Claudius, … potentially altering our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago.” – The Guardian
  
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• Protesters Disrupt Israel Philharmonic Concert In San Francisco, Audience Members Fight Back

  25-03-2025 14:04 via msn.com
  Activists scattered throughout Davies Symphony Hall interrupted the show one by one, displaying Palestinian flags and yelling denunciations of the war in Gaza. Some audience members shouted back; others pinned one protestor, pulled another’s hair and broke her glasses, and tried to pull others from their seats. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 6 — Don’t Talk About It; Do It.

  25-03-2025 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do. It’s right there in the phrase.
  Image by Anna Shvets on Pexels
  In the new/old world order of Trumpian policy, your arts organization faces the real possibility that, in the face of anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-truth political muckraking euphemistically calling itself “populism,” it will be shut down. The most intelligent thing your nonprofit arts organization can do right now is concentrate on your community. Act hyp
  
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• 45-Foot Nude Woman Finds Her Place In San Francisco After All

  25-03-2025 13:32 via sfstandard.com
  
  The statue’s much-discussed appearance in Union Square was called off when engineers determined that it was literally too heavy for the site to bear. Now the piece by sculptor Marco Cochrane, titled R-Evolution, will appear in Embarcadero Plaza starting on April 10. – The San Francisco Standard
  
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• Gérard Depardieu Sexual Assault Trial Begins In Paris

  25-03-2025 13:00 via apnews.com
  
  “Depardieu, 76, is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of Les Volets Verts (‘The Green Shutters’). The actor faces up to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($81,000) if convicted.” – AP
  
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• ‘This is injustice’: inside Trump’s attack on funding for LGBTQ+ arts

  25-03-2025 10:13
  
  The president has demanded that the National Endowment for the Arts denies grants to projects promoting ‘gender ideology’, leading to protest and legal action“We now, as a community, have the ability to galvanise,” says Giselle Byrd, the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theatre company in the US. “This is injustice. We have fought this before and we will fight it again. We cannot let bigotry and hatred defeat us nor take over our stages or places of cultur
  
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• ‘A modern-day Greek tragedy’: the life and death of artist Thomas Kinkade

  25-03-2025 09:00
  
  The American painter built a multimillion-dollar empire but a new documentary highlights the dark side of a complex artistThirteen years after his death from an overdose of alcohol and valium, the American painter Thomas Kinkade’s brand lives on. The original Thomas Kinkade store in Carmel, California, still operates, and the official Kinkade Instagram account has a tidy, if modest, 67,000 followers. A recent partnership with Disney features, among other things, a 16-month calendar showing
  
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• ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

  25-03-2025 07:00
  
  The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regimeThe Burmese painter Htein Lin’s art bears the imprint of his years in a Myanmar jail, where he created hundreds of paintings using prison uniforms as his canvases and makeshift tools including syringes, soap blocks and cigarette lighters.“I had no canvas, no brushes, no paint. But I had to make art,” says H
  
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