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• LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

  02-05-2025 22:48
  
  Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the familyA rare painting by LS Lowry bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000.The painting, Going to the Mill, was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. Continue reading...
  
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• Heroes & Zeroes: Why DOGE Shouldn’t Fund Trump’s Redundant Sculpture Garden

  02-05-2025 22:14 via artsjournal.com
  Where’s Elon Musk, the DOGE watchdog, when we really need some “Government Efficiency”?
  There’s nothing efficient about the proposed creation
  
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• Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes

  02-05-2025 20:50 via yahoo.com
  “Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want to be taken somewhere a bit deeper.” – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
  
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• Trump Budget Proposals To Eliminate NEH, NEA, Etc. Etc.

  02-05-2025 20:33 via insidehighered.com
   The skinny budget also eliminates funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, AmeriCorps, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump has already made deep cuts at those agencies and put most—if not all—of their employees on leave. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• How Tate Modern Changed London 25 Years Ago

  02-05-2025 20:31 via theguardian.com
  This repurposed power station was set to become the UK’s cultural powerhouse. Hulking on a once unloved stretch of the South Bank, its 99-metre tower signalled a message of regeneration and possibility to the rest of the world. And the world responded. They had prepared for 2 million visitors in its first year – 5 million came. – The Guardian
  
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• Getting Classical Chinese Literature Before The English-Speaking Public At Last

  02-05-2025 20:03 via lareviewofbooks.org
  “The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE) to the end of the last empire, the Qing, in 1911, … (in) translations that are scholarly (without detracting) from the pleasure of reading.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Glastonbury Festival Sells Out In 20 Minutes

  02-05-2025 19:30 via bbc.com
  The general admission tickets for the world-famous event in Somerset were released at 09:00 BST on Sunday, and the festival announced on X they were gone by 9:20 BST. – BBC
  
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• Jon Voight Is Working On A Plan To Save Hollywood. What Is It?

  02-05-2025 19:16 via deadline.com
  The exact plan that Coming Home Oscar winner Voight, whose daughter is Angelina Jolie, has prepared for Trump is unclear, but sources with knowledge of his conversations with Hollywood insiders tell us they expect a federal tax incentive to be the main component. – Deadline
  
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• Berlin Culture Official Who Presided Over Major Arts Funding Cuts Resigns

  02-05-2025 19:02 via yahoo.com
  “Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the cuts. However, he said Friday that extra measures now being planned went too far and could ‘lead to the imminent closure of nationally known cultural institutions’.” – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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• Why Pope Francis Pushed Along Sainthood For Architect Antoni Gaudi

  02-05-2025 18:44 via theconversation.com
  If this happens, Gaudí would be the first secular architect in history to be declared a saint. – The Conversation
  
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• How Physics Is Improving Deep Learning

  02-05-2025 18:31 via quantamagazine.org
  Research has drawn on principles of fluid dynamics to improve traffic predictions, sped up simulations of turbulence to enhance our understanding of hurricanes and devised tools that helped predict the spread of Covid-19. – Quanta
  
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• Fantasy Versus SciFi: Where The Politics Align

  02-05-2025 18:15 via dissentmagazine.org
  Since the founding of the tiny corner of academia known as science fiction studies in the 1970s, there has been a sense that science fiction is of the left, while fantasy is of the right. – Dissent
  
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• Comedienne Ruth Buzzi, Mainstay Of “Laugh-In,” Is Dead At 88

  02-05-2025 18:04 via msn.com
  “A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In playing a matron who wields her purse like a cudgel.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Queer Art Visible

  02-05-2025 17:44 via glreview.org
  We wanted to make clear that in many respects, trans and queer have always been with us. You can’t talk about same-sex desire without interrogating what sex you are talking about. – The Gay & Lesbian Review
  
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• Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra Musicians Blame Bad Management For Shutdown

  02-05-2025 17:31 via news-press.com
  They’re blaming the orchestra’s management for what they call “over a decade of weak and shortsighted leadership.” – Fort Myers News-Press
  
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• This Year’s Tony Nominations Rewarded Risk

  02-05-2025 17:15 via latimes.com
  The most memorable offerings didn’t care a whit about product-testing strategies. What marketing genius, for instance, could have predicted that “Maybe Happy Ending,” a jazz-infused rom-com about robots and mortality that originated in South Korea. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Sotheby’s Prepares To Auction Off Jewels Revered As Relics Of The Buddha

  02-05-2025 17:03 via theguardian.com
  “The auction of the Piprahwa gems will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby’s listing describes them as being ‘of unparalleled religious, archaeological and historical importance’ and many Buddhists considered them to be corporeal remains, which had been desecrated by a British colonial landowner.” – The Guardian
  
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• When Immersive Wall Street Play “Life And Trust” Closed Without Notice, Cast And Crew Were Left With Nothing

  02-05-2025 16:35 via playbill.com
  The show was staffed with early-career, non-unionized theatermakers, and they received no severance pay or other compensation when producers abruptly ended the run. When that news reached social media, some “angel investors” came together to help the suddenly jobless cast and crew. – Playbill
  
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• Edward II’s coronation roll goes on display alongside King Charles’s

  02-05-2025 16:29
  Oldest surviving version from 1308 is dwarfed in size by 21-metre roll produced more than 700 years laterThe oldest surviving coronation roll – a 2ft hand-stitched official record of Edward II’s 1308 crowning at Westminster Abbey – is dwarfed by the 21-metre-long version produced for King Charles III two years ago.Much has changed in 700 years. The former is tightly inscribed, on remarkably well-preserved parchment, recording details of the service, processions, promises, who a
  
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• The City Of Austin Finally Has An Arts Department

  02-05-2025 16:01 via austinchronicle.com
  “As of Feb. 14, the city has a real, big city-style department, the Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment. After years of performers, administrators, boards, and venues having to bounce between offices for everything from grants to permits, there’s finally a one-stop shop whose sole concern is the arts.” – The Austin Chronicle
  
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• Ari Emanuel Buys Frieze Art Fairs From His Own Company

  02-05-2025 15:36 via finance.yahoo.com
  “Beverly Hills sports and entertainment company Endeavor is selling contemporary art organization Frieze to a new events and experiences company launched by superagent and Endeavor founder Ari Emanuel. … The deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter, was valued at roughly $200 million.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Trump Issues Executive Order Blocking All Funding For NPR And PBS

  02-05-2025 15:02 via apnews.com
  “The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies ‘to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS’ and further requires that that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations.” This is funding already approved by the U.S. Congress. – AP
  
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• Existential encounters, a birthday bash and forensic feminism – the week in art

  02-05-2025 15:01
  Jane Austen meets JMW Turner, Huma Bhabha takes on Giacometti and the Secret Lowry’s work is taken seriously at last – all in your weekly dispatchEncounters: Giacometti – Huma BhabhaA season of sculptural “encounters” with Giacometti’s primal, existentialist figures kicks off with this Pakistani-American artist taking him on.• Barbican, London, from 8 May to 10 August Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I was thrilled when they put me in solitary’: Pussy Riot’s Nadya on Putin, joining OnlyFans and turning her prison cell into art

  02-05-2025 15:00
  The artist spent time at a penal colony for her work – and has channelled the trauma into a stark new show. Despite being on Russia’s ‘wanted’ list, she remains hopeful for the futureTen minutes into our interview, Nadya Tolokonnikova ducks to fetch a piece of paper from the floor and I find myself looking at something unexpected behind her. Next to a double bed, two crucifixes hang on the wall. Given the Siberia-born artist is best known for a performance piece that so o
  
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• “Immature”: San Francisco Symphony Management Publicly Slams Musicians Over Contract Negotiations

  02-05-2025 14:34 via msn.com
  Just days after musicians leafleted the audience at Michael Tilson Thomas’s last-ever concerts, management released an open letter pointing out that the orchestra is facing down years of large deficits and charging that musicians’ attitude during negotiations has been “counterproductive and even immature at times.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• UK Culture Secretary Rules Out Taxing Streaming Services To Fund British TV Dramas

  02-05-2025 14:00 via variety.com
  “British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has firmly rejected proposals for a levy on streaming platforms operating in the U.K., despite recent recommendations from a parliamentary committee suggesting such a measure could help support the country’s television drama sector.” – Variety
  
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• Ian Hamilton Finlay review – under the classical veneer, this artist was an idiot

  02-05-2025 12:19
  Victoria Miro Gallery, London
  Finlay was a defiantly archaic figure with a fondness for plinths and marble. But this show’s glorification of the guillotine proves he had a shallow, adolescent mindWe all respect a classicist. So it’s hard not to be impressed by Ian Hamilton Finlay’s learned citing of the Aeneid, Book X, on a stone column in this exhibition marking the centenary of his birth. The poet, artist and creator of Little Sparta – his renowned art garden – re
  
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