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• Nandy raises question over Foreign Office 'racial' Goetze murals

  15-06-2020 19:27
  
  Debate about appropriateness of images reignited in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests
  The Foreign Office has come under scrutiny over a set of large-scale painted murals in which the Anglo-Saxon empire is triumphantly portrayed, including one in which Africa is depicted as a little naked boy carrying a fruit basket.Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, has written to her counterpart, Dominic Raab, asking him to set out his views on the murals that decorate the Foreign Office grand stai
  
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• Managing The Celebrity Egos At Vanity Fair

  15-11-2026 16:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Stars of a certain caliber demanded certain privileges in their con­tracts: quote approval, cover approval, cover-or-nothing. Vanity Fair wished to appear to grant these privileges but really had no intention of doing so.” – LitHub
  
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• People Really, Really Love Star Wars Memorabilia

  15-11-2026 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Auctioneers estimated it would sell for over $1m, but on Thursday a Star Wars lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the famous ‘I am your father’ scene from The Empire Strikes Back ended up selling for nearly $5m.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Man Who Invented Reduced Shakespeare, And What He Called A Whole New Brand Of Entertainment

  15-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers’ Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of “reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles.”– American Theatre
  
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• How Olivia Wilde Bounced Back For A Career-Defining Year Of Acting And Directing

  15-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Moral – And Possibly Legal – Harm From Being ‘Nice’ To Bots

  15-11-2026 14:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “‘We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.’ … All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings ‘to the equivalent of a box of equations.'” – The New York Times
  
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• A Grim Trend In Children’s Literature And Movies

  15-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  Seriously, why would The Cat in the Hat (the character) need a real job? – Reactor
  
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• Why Isn’t This Art Collection, Pledged To Seattle University, Heading There?

  15-11-2026 13:30 via ArtsJournal
  Well, some of it may be — after the owner sells enough of the collection to clear old debts. – Seattle Times
  
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• Fifty Years Of Canadian Law Has Shaped The Direction Of U.S. Entertainment

  15-11-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  CanCon, or Canadian content, is “a set of rules for minimum broadcast percentages of music and television originating in Canada. Launched in the early ’70s, the rules require that roughly a third of Canadian radio airplay consist of Canadian artists or songs.”- Slate
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Chief Was Paid by Ticketmaster’s Owner

  14-11-2026 23:32 via ArtsJournal
  This Week’s Highlights:Canada’s new budget lets artists earn up to $45,000 a year from their creative work tax-free, through a new Canada Creative Credit (CBC). It also raises the Canada Book Fund for the first time since 2001 (Publishers Weekly). Meanwhile, the UK put up to £15 million behind National Theatre Nationwide, which will send shows to 400 schools and sell thousands of £10 tickets to young people (WhatsOnStage).The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing sy
  
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• Hassan Anderson shares the power of teaching artistry and Music for the Common Good

  14-11-2026 16:38 via ArtsJournal
  Hassan Anderson, Coordinator of Teaching Artistry & Director of the Music Teaching Artist Certificate & Associate Professor of Oboe at USC School of Music, shares the power of teaching artistry and Music for the Common Good.
  
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• Fake Art Portfolios Are Being Sold for UK Visas

  14-11-2026 03:38 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing system the Met built, for Ticketmaster. While the deal was negotiated, then-president Richard Grenell sat on the board of Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation, which paid him $260,205 last year (NPR). Hmnnn.A London firm offered an undercover BBC reporter a UK “Global Talent” visa as an artist for about £100,000, paintings from China and press reviews included. Nigerian critic Molara Wood found her byline on fake
  
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• Director of Artistic Planning and Operations

  14-11-2026 03:26 via ArtsJournal
  The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for planning and executing the artistic operations of WNO in collaboration with the artistic vision and business goals established by the General Director & CEO and Artistic Director.The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for collaborating with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s productions and lead WNO’s season planning process. The incumbent will also oversee WNO’s Artistic Department and all re
  
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• The Machine That Gave Birth To Mass Media

  13-11-2026 20:50 via ArtsJournal
  Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• UK Artist Visas Are Being Sold Fraudulently

  13-11-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. – ARTnews
  
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• Will A SciFi Booker Win Bring More Attention To The Genre?

  13-11-2026 20:15 via ArtsJournal
  Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”.  – The Guardian
  
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• Three-Day Strike At French Riviera’s Leading Opera House

  13-11-2026 20:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  The number-one issue for the choristers, instrumentalists, and ballet dancers at the Opéra de Nice is low pay. Union spokespeople say some of their members net as little as €1,600 a month — in a resort city where housing costs are unusually high. – Riviera Radio (Monaco)
  
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• Are We Scapegoating Our Phones?

  13-11-2026 19:44 via ArtsJournal
  Against the suggestion that the furor over phones is no different from past outcries over new technologies, some point to novel features of social media—exploitative algorithms or “infinite scrolling”—to argue that this case is different.  – Boston Review
  
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• Artnet Makes Controversial Partnership With Kalshi

  13-11-2026 19:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  On Wednesday, Artnet announced that it had partnered with Kalshi, the prediction-market platform that lets users bet on everything from election results to sporting events. Artnet will become Kalshi’s official art partner, helping select markets and supplying the auction data used to determine which bets pay out. – ARTnews
  
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• How Aztec Historians Saved Their People’s History From Spanish Bonfires

  13-11-2026 19:04 via ArtsJournal
  There were codices of Nahuatl hieroglyphics before the conquistadors arrived, but they were all either burned by militant Catholic priests or lost to time. Secretly, though, indigenous scholars collected oral history and wrote it down, usually in Nahuatl using the Spanish alphabet, and a surprising amount has survived until today. – History Today
  
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• Indonesian Copyright Bill Would Require Payment For News Aggregation From Tech Companies

  13-11-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The bill does not distinguish between aggregation and republication. Tech platforms would have to pay even when they surface news link previews or story snippets in their products, including AI search products. The law would also force platforms to compensate publishers when their journalism is used to train AI models. – NiemanLab
  
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• Refugees And The Imagination Of Borders

  13-11-2026 18:15 via ArtsJournal
  Each of us had imagined a life that exceeded the border and acted upon that imagination. In that sense, the prison did not simply contain border-crossers; it brought together people whose aspirations had collided with the territorial imaginary of the nation-state. – Aeon
  
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• Shady Companies Make Fake Portfolios For Rich Migrants Who Want UK “Global Talent” Visas

  13-11-2026 18:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  For a hefty fee, these companies will fabricate forged portfolios, with fake images of work and forged review clips, for applications for the Global Talent visa, which can lead to permanent residency in three to five years and is one of a very few UK visas which doesn’t require demonstrated fluency in English. – BBC
  
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• What It Looks Like When The Internet Stops Working

  13-11-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  Your bank’s app is down. The pharmacy cannot pull up your prescription. Your paycheck is late because the payroll company unplugged its system to be safe. None of it is a catastrophe on its own. All of it, every week, is a different country from the one we live in now. – Washington Post
  
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• Exporting Paris Opera Ballet To The World

  13-11-2026 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  “For me, the French school of ballet is the best in the world. Thanks to this program, our ballet school in Santiago has been transformed — not just in terms of its technique, but in terms of its way of thinking.” – The New York Times
  
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• Kennedy Center Switches Ticket-Buying To TicketMaster

  13-11-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  For decades, the Kennedy Center has used a not-for-profit platform called Tessitura to handle its ticketing. But the Kennedy Center plans to partner with the ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster. – NPR
  
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• When Postmodern Dance Meets Ping-Pong

  13-11-2026 17:01 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Those quarter-size Ping-Pong tables can be merged to make half-size or full-size ones, and that’s a pretty good metaphor for what (choreographer Cherrie Yu’s) Daily Diversions does: It takes Ping-Pong apart and puts it back together.” – The New York Times
  
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• Novelist, Filmmaker, And Photographer To Stand Trial For Selling Looted Gold Ingots

  13-11-2026 16:35 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Eleanor ‘Gay’ Courter, an author of best-selling fiction, nonfiction, and memoir; her husband, Philip Courter, a film director; Yves Gladu, a professional underwater photographer; his wife, Brigitte; and his sister-in-law, Annette May Pesty, have been charged with conspiracy. Some also face charges of money laundering and receiving stolen goods.” (All are over 75.) – ARTnews
  
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• UK’s National Theatre Will Get £15 Million For “National Theatre Nationwide” Scheme

  13-11-2026 16:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The programme will combine National Theatre touring productions with workshops, schools tours and skills development activities. Young people will be able to explore acting, directing, playwriting and backstage roles. … Thousands of subsidised £10 tickets will be made available to young people, while productions aimed specifically at school audiences will visit 400 schools.” – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
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• Researchers Are Using The “Grand Theft Auto” Games To Improve Road Safety

  13-11-2026 15:32 via ArtsJournal
  
  “From testing cycle-safety technology to teaching self-driving vehicles to avoid hazards on the roads, researchers have been jerry-rigging the Grand Theft Auto games into experiments that promise to make accidents and injuries on roads less likely.” – BBC
  
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