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• Tamara de Lempicka’s ‘remarkable nude’ of lover Rafaëla to be auctioned

  12-06-2025 10:00
  La Belle Rafaëla by ‘revolutionary’ art deco painter to go on sale at Sotheby’s with estimate of £6m-£9mWhen Tamara de Lempicka first came across the young sex worker Rafaëla on Bois de Boulogne in Paris, she was enchanted.Recalling the meeting, the artist called Rafaëla “the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Bike lanes are great – I hope these issues get resolved’: Rafael Escobedo de la Riva’s best phone picture

  08-11-2025 12:00
  On a street in Tenerife, an architect spotted a graphic composition - and evidence of drivers resisting changeRafael Escobedo de la Riva was heading home from his office in Santa Cruz de Tenerife when he took this image. New bike lanes had recently been installed and it seemed to be taking drivers time to adjust. “There was some resistance and a lack of understanding by local people of this new way of moving around the city,” Escobedo de la Riva says.He took this image in the af
  
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• Die My Love to Rosalía’s Lux: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  08-11-2025 07:00
  Lynne Ramsay’s latest is a portrait of a relationship in decline, while the Spanish nu-flamenco star enlists a plethora of talent for her latest albumDie My Love
  Out nowLynne Ramsay’s remarkable portrait of a couple spiralling emotionally in the wake of the birth of their child sees Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson go hell for leather in a pair of no-holds barred performances that chart the journey from passion to … well, it would be too sim
  
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• Good Morning.

  08-11-2025 04:42 via artsjournal.com
  Today’s AJ highlights: Switzerland is asking UNESCO to add yodeling to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list — a local practice seeking global certification. (AP) In Seattle, the new $800 million waterfront park opens amid high civic expectations and question-marks about payoff. (Bloomberg) In Russia, publishers and bookstores are nervously playing Minesweeper under the Kremlin’s shifting red-lines. (NYT) At the Kennedy Center, a disaster under new management. (NYT) And in Brit
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Site Where Benin Bronzes Were Made

  07-11-2025 20:50 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Rediscovered structural remains, pottery, and glass vessels illuminate daily life and craft practices in the centuries preceding colonial rule. The dig established a complete archaeological sequence from before the kingdom’s founding to after its ruin. As the repatriation of Benin bronzes remains at the forefront of art-world conversations, archaeologists also unearthed artifacts related to metalworking.” – Artnet
  
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• Seattle’s New $800M Park Transforms Its Waterfront

  07-11-2025 20:31 via bloomberg.com
  
  Waterfront Park is thus making its debut in a city eager for a win. When it began opening in stages over the last year, Seattleites swarmed the space, dodging construction fences and heavy equipment to check out the progress. Now much rides on its success. – Bloomberg
  
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• Russian Publishers And Bookstores Are Nervous As Kremlin Cracks Down On Books

  07-11-2025 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Publishers have faced a difficult dilemma: stop offering books that the Kremlin dislikes, clandestinely cut the risky parts or openly redact them to show readers that something was censored. … ‘Right now we’re all playing Minesweeper, (said one literary critic,) when you don’t understand what is forbidden and what is not.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Woeful Security At The Louvre (Including Its Passwords)

  07-11-2025 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  Since the heist, information has resurfaced showing that gaps in security appear to have been known for years – including a 2014 warning that alleged one of the museum’s key passwords was simply “LOUVRE.” – CNN
  
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• Inside The Kennedy Center’s Nose-Dive

  07-11-2025 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Interviews with 25 people, including current and former Kennedy Center executives, board members, longtime employees, recent hires, industry leaders and Trump administration officials, revealed a Washington institution in crisis. – The New York Times
  
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• Alabama Public Television Has Major Second Thoughts About Dropping PBS

  07-11-2025 19:04 via al.com
  
  “Officials said the end of the PBS partnership could cost Alabama Public Television millions in funding, 90% of its content and thousands of audience members. ‘I’m afraid that it would be the end of APT-PBS as we know it,’ APT Commissioner Pete Conroy said.” – AL.com
  
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• Engage with the arts – and put your phone away | Letters

  07-11-2025 18:51
  Ian Flintoff champions live performances and Val Mainwood argues that great art should challenge us. Plus a letter from Ross Speirs on snap-happy gallery visitorsThe case that you brilliantly make for seeing actual paintings rather than reproductions (Editorial, 2 November) also goes wholeheartedly with seeing real and actual performances by live human beings rather than the two-dimensional screen reproductions which are now accepted as the norm.Humans benefit enormously from seeing live perform
  
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• AI Is Exacerbating An Education Crisis

  07-11-2025 18:44 via artsjournal.com
  
  As one instructional designer you’ll hear says, “If this technology becomes more ubiquitous, we’ll have courses created by AI, graded by AI, with submissions from students absolutely generated by AI. So it begs the question: What are we even doing here in higher ed?” – The Verge
  
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• Music Labels Are Beginning To Make AI Deals. What Does It Mean For Musicians?

  07-11-2025 18:32 via theconversation.com
  
  Such settlements and strategic partnerships will help major labels set the ground rules for developing AI-music ecosystems. And it seems they are becoming common. – The Conversation
  
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• The Unpleasant Art Museum Tour That’s Wildly Popular

  07-11-2025 18:15 via nypost.com
  
  Joseph Langelinck’s “highly unpleasant” tours cost around $8 USD, and they’ve reportedly sold out every session since they launched in May, with bookings well into 2026. – The New York Post
  
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• England Moves To Undo Cuts In Arts Education; Creative Sector Heaves Sighs of Relief

  07-11-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  For years, Britain’s leading cultural figures have warned that substandard arts provision in schools is devaluing the sector and creating an increasingly elite industry. But the government’s proposed shake-up of the national curriculum, … has been met with overwhelming positivity, with one figure saying it could end ‘the madness of the past decade’.” – The Guardian
  
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• An AI Map Of Bob Dylan’s Songs

  07-11-2025 17:44 via aeon.co
  
  Could machine analysis measure the qualities that make Dylan’s songs resonate – how complexity arises, how new images mix with the familiar, how ambiguity threads through songs? – Aeon
  
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• Film Festival In New York Cancelled At Last Minute After Chinese Filmmakers Withdraw

  07-11-2025 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  “The inaugural IndieChina film festival was planned to take place between 8 and 15 November. But on 5 November the festival’s curator … posted on Facebook that he had been forced to cancel 80% of the planned screenings because film-makers had pulled out” after their families in China were pressured by authorities. – The Guardian
  
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• The Mona Lisa Problem

  07-11-2025 17:15 via washingtonpost.com
  
  One solution might be to put it in a separate structure — climate-controlled, transparent — in the neighboring Tuileries Garden. Time-controlled tickets could be sold at a premium, while the general public could view it for free at a distance, through the glass walls. – Washington Post
  
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• Why Japan Shadow-Banned Paul Schrader’s Biopic Of Yukio Mishima

  07-11-2025 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Until, that is, last week, when the 1985 film Mishima finally had its Japanese premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where the screening sold out in ten minutes. Before that? Well, in his homeland the life and ideas of the author were something of an uncomfortable subject. – The New York Times
  
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• Has Chicago’s Theater Scene Addressed The Issues In The “We See You, White American Theater” Letter?

  07-11-2025 16:35 via wbez.org
  
  “WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times asked some Black Chicago theater makers what has changed for them since 2020. Among those interviewed for this story, even the most optimistic back in 2020 felt no significant change in the years since. That’s despite the promise of major action by groups themselves.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Toronto’s Only Purpose-Built Dance Venue To Reopen

  07-11-2025 16:03 via ludwig-van.com
  
  The auditorium at Queens Quay had been called the Fleck Dance Theatre; early this year, the Harbourfront Centre, which manages Queens Quay, declined to renew the Fleck’s lease. Now the Toronto Stage Company will take over, presenting its own mainstage season there and making it available to dance organizations. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Bizarre Attack By Teen Tourist On Met Museum Artworks

  07-11-2025 15:34 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, a 19-year-old hurled water at a 19th-century portrait and a 16th-century altarpiece, then ripped two tapestries. His mother turned him over to police, who said he seemed to be to be under the influence of an “unknown substance” and took him to a hospital before having him arraigned for criminal mischief. – ARTnews
  
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• LACMA Management Won’t Recognize Employee’s Union Formed Last Week

  07-11-2025 15:06 via yahoo.com
  
  “This means LACMA United cannot move forward with collective bargaining efforts until it is formalized by a National Labor Relations Board election. Complicating matters further, NLRB activities — including elections — are on hold amid the federal government shutdown.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Actress Pauline Collins, Known For “Shirley Valentine,” Has Died At 85

  07-11-2025 14:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  She began her carer in theatre and TV and first became widely known as troublemaking parlour maid Sarah on Upstairs, Downstairs. Her turn as the lonely housewife talking to the wall in the one-woman play Shirley Valentine won her an Olivier, a Tony, and, for the film adaptation, an Oscar nomination. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Anti-Israel Protestors Light Flares Inside Crowded Paris Concert Hall

  07-11-2025 14:02 via msn.com
  
  Thursday night’s Israel Philharmonic concert at the Philharmonie was interrupted three times by demonstrators, including twice when flares were lit in the balcony and smoke filled the auditorium. One of the disruptors was attacked by angry audience members and a physical fight broke out. Four people were arrested. – BBC (MSN)
  
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• The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

  07-11-2025 14:01
  It may be a midlife crisis, says the man behind seven-metre installations of the Earth, moon and Sun who has planted 365 trees in a 100-year project in SomersetLuke Jerram, whose art installations have travelled the world, is philosophical about his latest project bearing fruit beyond his time on Earth.Known for his Play Me I’m Yours street pianos project and his Museum of the Moon artwork – a seven-metre diameter sculpture of the moon featuring detailed Nasa imagery of the lunar sur
  
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• Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

  07-11-2025 13:00
  Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR – all in your weekly dispatchWright of Derby: From the Shadows
  Two of the greatest paintings ever done about science – in which audiences are transfixed by lectures on an Orrery and Air-Pump – are brought together in this small but luminous show.• National Gallery, London, until 10 MayContinue reading...
  
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• Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum review – a grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity

  07-11-2025 11:16
  David Zwirner Gallery, London
  From cruel pictures of elderly widows to a shocking image of motherhood, the American photographer’s genius is on full display in a show that finds ugliness all around herIn 1971, at the age of 48, the American photographer Diane Arbus killed herself. Someone should have seen the clues, for her photography is not so much tragic as utterly alienated from the human species. Here is a woman nursing her baby, a modern Madonna – except the woman’s limbs
  
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• Director of Programming, Hult Center, Eugene, OR

  07-11-2025 05:04 via artsjournal.com
  Application Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025, at 5 p.m. P.T.
  Accepting Online Applications Only Via the City of Eugene’s Website: Director of Programming | Job Details tab | Career PagesCity of Eugene
  Director of ProgrammingSALARY
  $44.83 – $60.52 Hourly$93,246.40 – $125,881.60 Annually
  JOB TYPE Full-TimeLOCATION Eugene, ORJOB NUMBER 04311DEPARTMENT Library, Recreation & Cultural ServicesDIVISION Cultural Services DivisionOPENING DATE 11/05/2025CLOSING DATE 12/1/2025 5:15
  
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• Switzerland Asks UNESCO To Officially Recognize Yodeling

  06-11-2025 21:03 via apnews.com
  
  The country’s government has requested that the UN agency designate yodeling as Intangible Cultural Heritage. UNESCO’s committee for Intangible Heritage will decide at its mid-December meeting in New Delhi. – AP
  
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