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• The Key To Courage In Uncertain Times

  09-04-2025 20:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Paul Tillich defines “the courage to be” as “the ethical act in which man affirms his own being in spite of those elements of his existence which conflict with his essential self-affirmation.” In other words, it is not simply an attitude or disposition. The courage to be is a deed. – The Conversation
  
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• Mexico City’s Maze Of Museums

  09-04-2025 19:44 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Only one museum in Mexico, with comparable material, didn’t make me feel culturally exhausted or embarrassed by my ignorance in this way. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Painter Of Trump Portrait He Criticized Says Her Career Is Threatened

  09-04-2025 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  Sarah Boardman won a nationwide “call for artists” by the Colorado state government to paint its official portraits of Obama and Trump. At the unveiling of Trump’s in August 2019, Boardman said she painted in the style of artist Lawrence Williams, who created 43 of the presidential portraits in the state building. – ARTnews
  
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• The Case For Canada Growing To 100 Million People (It Currently Has 40M)

  09-04-2025 19:15 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Proponents say that reaching the 100 million target would give Canada the centres of gravity it needs for such clusters to form; critics say the plan is nothing more than a corporate push for more profits, backed by multinationals like McKinsey & Company and BlackRock. – The Walrus
  
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• Poetry and Music at the Palace in St. Gallen

  09-04-2025 19:04 via artsjournal.com
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• Once “The Handmaid’s Tale” Became A Political Symbol, The TV Series Suffered For It

  09-04-2025 19:04 via msn.com
  “Eight years after its premiere, the series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel is coming to a much lower-key close, indicative of all that’s happened in that intervening time, and the toll that becoming an iconic symbol, far beyond a mere TV show, can creatively exact on any work of art.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• How Streaming Services Might Get Caught In Trump Tariffs

  09-04-2025 18:44 via wired.com
  
  Generally, streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ are just that: services, not goods, so they don’t face any kind of markup when they cross borders. But at a time when the stock market is in “chaos,” the economic uncertainty caused by Trump’s tariffs is sure to have impacts on those services. – Wired
  
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• More Than 1,200 Humanities Grants Canceled By Trump’s NEH

  09-04-2025 18:34 via washingtonpost.com
  The loss of potentially thousands of such grants has left recipients reeling and prompted some organizations to mobilize, as millions of dollars of previously approved funding were stripped from state humanities councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets. – Washington Post
  
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• “Revivification”: A Reconstituted “Mini-Brain” Of The Late Alvin Lucier Is Creating Music

  09-04-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  A team of artists and neuroscientists took white blood cells donated by the composer (who cooperated with the project), reprogrammed them to be stem cells, grew cerebral organoids (clusters of neurons that mimic the human brain) and used customized technology to render the organoids’ neural signals into music. – The Guardian
  
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• Can The Kennedy Center Survive The Next Four Years?

  09-04-2025 17:31 via newyorker.com
  
  So many artists have quietly pulled out of the 2025-26 season that the center has had to keep delaying its schedule announcements. – The New Yorker
  
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• Canadian Artists Are Canceling Gigs In The US

  09-04-2025 17:15 via cbc.ca
  
  “Unfortunately I had to cancel all my upcoming events in the United States as I felt unsafe traveling, especially after watching students and university professors abducted on the street just in front of other people.” – CBC
  
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• The Met reveals feminist take on porcelain that ‘has always elicited a strong reaction’

  09-04-2025 17:09
  
  In a new exhibition, the ‘monstrous’ history of chinoiserie is used to discuss ideas of women and femininityChinoiserie – the European practice of imitating Chinese aesthetics – flourished throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, touching areas ranging from home decor to gardens, architecture and even the literary arts.The Met’s fascinating new exhibit, Monstrous Beauty, takes an innovative look at the practice by showing the significant role it played in shaping mod
  
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• Frank Rich’s Brief History Of Broadway As Business

  09-04-2025 17:05 via msn.com
  “The historic fantasy of the Great White Way as a glamorous montage of gleaming marquees, sparky backstage romances, and elegant audiences reveling in black tie was a Hollywood concoction, arguably false from the start.” – New York Magazine (MSN)
  
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• ‘It’s torture!’ Turner-winning artist Richard Wright on obliterating his painstaking works

  09-04-2025 17:00
  
  He hand-painted 47,000 stars on the Rijksmuseum’s ceiling and drew 1,000 perfect circles, one a day. Ahead of his major London show, he explains why he often paints over his work afterwardsThere’s a kerfuffle in the Camden Art Centre. Painter Richard Wright’s exhibition is opening soon and time is not on their side. Ten people are on the landing off which the galleries open. Huge, elaborate leaded glazed panels have just arrived, the metallic sections forming intricate geometri
  
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• Yorgos Lanthimos Denied Permission To Film Sci-Fi Comedy At Acropolis

  09-04-2025 16:33 via theguardian.com
  “Yorgos Lanthimos had filed a request to film scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at the fifth-century BC site in April. But in a statement on Thursday, the culture ministry said permission had been refused because ‘the proposed scenes are incompatible with the symbolism … and the values the Acropolis represents’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Some Of The Plainest Objects From Tutankhamun’s Tomb May Be Among The Most Interesting

  09-04-2025 16:01 via news.artnet.com
  “Call them what you like — mud trays, clay troughs, unbaked earthen dishes — but the four 3×1½-inch dull-colored things hardly get the pulses racing. … A new study … (suggests they were) objects used in the funerary rites of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.” – Artnet
  
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• ALA Sues Trump Administration Over Dismantling Of Museum/Library Agency

  09-04-2025 15:04 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “The American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), whose members include museum and library workers nationwide, have sued over what the ALA called, in a release, ‘the Trump administration’s gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).’” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Only One In Six Attempts To Censor Books In US Is Originated By Parents

  09-04-2025 14:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups, government entities and elected officials, board members and administrators, reported the American Library Association (ALA). Just 16% of ban attempts were made by parents, while 5% were brought forward by individual library users.” – The Guardian
  
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• William Finn, Composer-Lyricist Of “Falsettos” And “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Is Dead At 73

  09-04-2025 14:00 via playbill.com
  
  “(He) became a heavily autobiographical musical theatre writer, folding his experiences as a gay Jewish man with a brain stem malformation into some of his most lauded work.” – Playbill
  
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• Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived

  09-04-2025 11:50
  
  Exhibition of rarely seen paintings by Cassandra Austen is part of events marking 250th anniversary of author’s birthPerhaps most well-known for destroying thousands of her more famous sister’s letters, Cassandra Austen’s act of what some called literary vandalism overshadowed her accomplished skills as an artist.But now the artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister – played by Keeley Hawes in the recent BBC drama Miss Austen – are to go on display together for th
  
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• ‘There’s so much beauty’: artists celebrate California in the wake of tragedy

  09-04-2025 10:12
  
  The exhibition California Is Somewhere Else showcases artworks from Californians affected by the recent wildfiresThe California artist Dashiell Manley had been at work for over a year on the paintings he was to exhibit at Marianne Boesky Gallery’s elegant new show California Is Somewhere Else when fate intervened. In early January, he set the works to dry in his studio in Altadena – and two days later nearby Eaton Canyon was engulfed in flames, part of recent California wildfires. &l
  
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