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• Only Ancient Greek Theater In Ionian Islands Has Been Excavated

  08-04-2025 21:03 via news.artnet.com
  “Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been excavated by archaeologists from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Aitoloakarnania and Lefkada over the past decade.” – Artnet
  
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• Why The College Admissions Essay Is A Very Bad Idea

  08-04-2025 20:31 via yaschamounk.substack.com
  The college essay is a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against the poor than standardized tests. It wrongly encourages students to cast themselves as victims, to exaggerate the adversity they’ve faced, and to turn genuinely upsetting experiences into the focal point of their self-understanding. – Yascha Mounk
  
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• Russian Ballet Company Pretending To Be Ukrainian Toured Scandinavia

  08-04-2025 20:07 via broadwayworld.com
  During 2023 and 2024, a troupe calling itself “Ballet of Ukraine” played dates in several cities in Sweden and Finland — but an investigation by Swedish television found that the group is registered in Russia and had its fees sent to a Russian-owned company in Switzerland, thus deceiving audiences and violating sanctions. – BroadwayWorld
  
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• What It’s Like being A Librarian In The Time Of Trump

  08-04-2025 19:44 via theguardian.com
  “I see all that being as a measure of: ‘If we fly under the radar, we’ll be safe,’” they said. “But it’s sad because who gets left behind – for staff members of color, [or] who are visibly queer, who are disabled, we don’t get to turn off that part of ourselves.” – The Guardian
  
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• San Francisco Agency Funding In Disarray, Payments Missed

  08-04-2025 19:31 via sfchronicle.com
  The latest target is San Francisco’s Dream Keeper Initiative, introduced in 2021 at the height of the “defund the police” movement… But now, a variety of theaters, media companies and other entities say the city is reneging on promised grants — a total of more than $14 million affecting 38 recipients — without explanation. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Executive Director, Greenwich Historical Society

  08-04-2025 19:15 via artsjournal.com
  Company: Greenwich Historical Society
  Location: Cos Cob, CT
  Date Posted: March 24, 2025(Please download PDF for full job description: https://dsgconnect-files.dsgco.com/search/22037/position-profile.pdf)ABOUT GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETYGreenwich Historical Society preserves and interprets Greenwich history to strengthen the community’s connection to our past, to each other and to our future. It collects and chronicles the vibrant history of Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. Founded in 1640, Gr
  
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• Are Our Storytelling Tropes Insufficient For The Complexity Of Today?

  08-04-2025 19:15 via psyche.co
  Unfortunately, the dominance of psychological narratives manifests in the misplaced hopes we cast onto individual leaders – whether in the political, technological, social or religious realms – and the often simplistic ideas they put forward. – Psyche
  
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• The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain

  08-04-2025 17:00
  In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship – and it’s also incredibly beautifulIn a darkened room, a fractured symphony of rattles, hums and warbles bounces off the walls – like an orchestra tuning up in some parallel universe. But there’s not a musician in sight.If you look closely there is a small fragment of a performer. Albeit one without a pulse. Continue reading
  
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• London mural by key postwar artist saved from demolition

  08-04-2025 15:14
  William Mitchell artwork saved but Blackheath community centre in which it was housed will be torn downA rare piece of postwar art that was under threat of being demolished along with the south London building it was housed in has been saved.The work, a mural by William Mitchell, was created for a community centre in Blackheath that is to be torn down to make way for social housing. The mural will now be preserved by Heritage of London Trust (Holt). Continue reading...
  
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• LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m

  08-04-2025 13:00
  Rare early work Going to the Mill is to be auctioned after remaining in the Wallace family since 1926When LS Lowry sold one of his earliest paintings to the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian in 1926, he had an immediate change of heart.Arthur Wallace had edited a supplement for the Guardian to accompany a civic week organised by Manchester city council in October 1926, and featured three paintings by the then struggling artist. Continue reading...
  
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