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• The New Frugality?

  01-05-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For decades American culture has promoted the ethos of disposable things. We are encouraged to be acquisitive – getting things for the sake of getting them. Suddenly under lockdown, is a new zeitgeist taking hold? Reuse. Make last. Seek permanence. – Vox
  
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• ArtYard seeks Managing Director

  23-01-2026 03:44 via artsjournal.com
  Organization ArtYard is a contemporary arts center dedicated to serving as an incubator for creative expression and a catalyst for collaborations that illuminate the transformational power of art. Founded on the belief that artistic exploration thrives in an environment of curiosity and care, ArtYard is both a physical campus and an animating ethos, a multidisciplinary hub where artists are invited to stay, work, and share their practice within a supportive community.Located along the Delaware R
  
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• Cultural policy: what don’t we know

  22-01-2026 23:40 via artsjournal.com
  This past week I’ve been sent different, interesting takes on the state of cultural policy research. My friend James Doeser, who is very smart about these things, has a short post “The crisis of cultural policy in the 21st century” that is well worth your time. Friends and former colleagues
  
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• Finally, A Ballet Shoe That Incorporates Athletic-Shoe Technology

  22-01-2026 21:03 via nytimes.com
  Seth Orza, when he was a principal with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, developed plantar fasciitis and couldn’t find a shoe that would give his feet enough support and shock absorption to keep the pain at bay. So he designed one, using features copied from running sneakers. – The New York Times
  
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• Trump and the Arts

  22-01-2026 20:41 via artsjournal.com
  The following article is an abridged adaptation of my January 22 NPR report on recent developments in government and the arts — at the NEA, the NEH, and the Kennedy Center —  under President Donald J. Trump. I write: “The arts sector feels invaded by aliens. The incursion is so
  
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• The Remarkable Art In A Building The Federal Government Has Marked For Sale

  22-01-2026 20:31 via washingtonpost.com
  What would happen to the murals is an open question, as removing them may prove difficult. Advocates for the building fear that without protections put in place ahead of a sale, the buyer would have no incentive to maintain the historical features inside. – Washington Post
  
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• The Erasure Of Paul Robeson

  22-01-2026 20:05 via theguardian.com
  He was once the most famous Black American in the world, and one of the most accomplished: college football and NFL star, a degree from Columbia Law School, a major career as a classical concert singer and film and stage actor. Then Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player, testified against him. – The Guardian
  
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• The Wrong Way To Popularize Classical Music

  22-01-2026 19:44 via nytimes.com
  In execution, this theory works very simply: Don’t change the music; change the way you deliver it. Do the opposite of what institutions are doing when they offer radically shortened operas or watered-down symphonies. – The New York Times
  
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• The Real Battle For The Smithsonian

  22-01-2026 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  Americans argue about the Smithsonian far more than we would if only its possessions mattered. When our museums of record tell us a story, that story matters enormously. – The Atlantic
  
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• Science Peer Review Journals Are Being Swamped By AI Slop

  22-01-2026 19:15 via theatlantic.com
  For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop. – The Atlantic
  
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• Rarely-Seen Leonardo Da Vinci Mural In Milan Opened To Public For Winter Olympics

  22-01-2026 19:01 via news.artnet.com
  For just over five weeks, from February 7 to March 14, visitors will be allowed to climb the towering 20-foot scaffold inside the Sforza Castle’s Sala delle Asse to view conservators at work on a vast, unfinished wall and ceiling painting by Leonardo hidden for centuries. – Artnet
  
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• Snubs In This Year’s Oscar Nominations

  22-01-2026 18:44 via deadline.com
  The overlooking of the Good Witch was truly Wicked. Then again, crowd pleaser Wicked: For Good got basically nothing overall, so maybe it’s time to reconsider that shunned Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film category …just sayin’. – Deadline
  
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• Napa Art Museum Selling Its Estate Because Of Financial Pressures

  22-01-2026 18:44 via msn.com
  The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa has listed its 217-acre estate for $10.9 million, less than a year after announcing a plan to boost revenue through event rentals. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy review – a saucy parade of bouncing bosoms, smirky smokers and a spot of BDSM

  22-01-2026 18:38
  The Box, PlymouthRoof-felters, bawdy boozers, off-duty sailors, whip-wielding dominatrixes … this 100th birthday show in Cook’s home town is an exuberant celebration of working-class frivolityGenerally, you get two versions of England in art: it’s either bucolic vistas, rolling hills, babbling brooks and gambolling sheep – or it’s downtrodden, browbeaten, grim poverty and misery. But Beryl Cook saw something else in all the drizzle and grey of this damp old country
  
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• La Scala Finished 2025 With Record Box Office

  22-01-2026 18:31 via gramilano.com
  La Scala closed 2025 with record ticket sales of over €40 million (+7.3% compared to 2024). Added to this is the record revenue of the La Scala Theatre Museum, which reached €3.4 million. – Gramilano
  
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• Hollywood’s “Woke” Era Has Emphatically Ended

  22-01-2026 18:15 via nytimes.com
  For anyone fantasizing about Hollywood as some liberal bulwark, though, the 2024 election brought that idea to an abrupt halt. The industry’s era of progressive sincerity, and much of its wariness toward conservative-coded content, has evaporated. – The New York Times
  
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• Unique, “Priceless” Medieval Manuscript Discovered In English School Library

  22-01-2026 18:06 via msn.com
  The book is the only surviving complete original manuscript of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae, written circa 1340. – BBC (MSN)
  
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• Will The Met Opera Sell Its Chagalls?

  22-01-2026 17:44 via artnews.com
  New York’s Metropolitan Opera is facing a serious financial crunch, and may sell two beloved Marc Chagall murals to help fill the gap—but if it does, it will leave them in place. Sotheby’s valued the artworks at a total of $55 million. – ARTnews
  
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• Hundreds Of Artists Warn About AI Slop

  22-01-2026 17:31 via theverge.com
  Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call “theft at a grand scale” by AI companies. The signatories call the campaign “Stealing Isn’t Innovation.” – The Verge
  
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• The Messy Details Of Extracting Washington National Opera From The Kennedy Center

  22-01-2026 17:15 via washingtonian.com
  Extracting the endowment after 15 years of operating under the auspices of the Kennedy Center will take more work—and a lot of lawyers. “It is rightly ours,” Francesca Zambello says of the endowment, declining to comment further on the negotiations. “We have a very large legal team.” – Washingtonian
  
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• BBC Strikes Deal To Produce Original Content For YouTube

  22-01-2026 17:03 via deadline.com
  Under the agreement, the BBC will grow its number of YouTube channels to 50, which includes those operated by commercial arm, BBC Studios. New specialist channels will include BBC3’s Deepwatch (working title), featuring new and existing documentaries. Seven children’s channels will be launched (as well).” – Deadline
  
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• Director And Designers Demand Their Names Be Removed From Met Opera’s “Carmen”

  22-01-2026 16:32 via apnews.com
  Carrie Cracknell’s staging has Escamillo (here a rodeo star rather than a bullfighter) enter to the “Toreador Song” in a Jaguar convertible followed by three trucks. As part of the Met’s money-saving measures, the Jaguar and two trucks have been removed, saving $300,000 but infuriating Cracknell and the designers. – AP
  
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• Oscar Nominations 2026: “Sinners” Sets All-Time Record With 16 Nods

  22-01-2026 16:04 via variety.com
  Director Ryan Coogler’s Mississippi Delta vampire epic has surpassed the 14-nomination record jointly held by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. Paul Thomas’s black comedy action thriller One Battle After Another scored 13 nods. (includes complete list of nominations) – Variety
  
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• Trump Administration Just Won’t Let Its Court Fight Against Institute Of Museums And Library Services Go

  22-01-2026 15:31 via publishersweekly.com
  “Although the IMLS restored discretionary grant funding in December and just last week reopened to grant proposals for FY 2026 — in compliance with a November court order — defendants in State of Rhode Island v. Trump have filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Sally Tallant appointed as new director of London’s Hayward Gallery

  21-01-2026 16:30
  Leeds-born artistic director lands sought-after post as Southbank Centre celebrates its 75th anniversary this yearSally Tallant, the former boss of the Liverpool Biennial, has been announced as the new director of the Hayward Gallery and visual arts at London’s Southbank Centre.Tallant, who is currently in charge of the Queens Museum in New York, will return to the UK to take over from Ralph Rugoff, who will step down after two decades in charge of the institution, which celebrates its 75t
  
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• ‘The rise of fascism makes our work even more important’: Montez Press, champions of queer, feminist art

  21-01-2026 12:20
  They published a raunchy book inspired by the Guardian’s Owen Jones; broadcast interviews with obscure punk legends; and make calendars to navigate the world of underground art. Now they’re going globalStuart McKenzie turns towards a fan on a makeshift stage so his long brunette hair blows in the wind. The artist is dressed in a power suit with thick rimmed glasses, flamboyantly smoking a cigarette as he performs the confessional poetry he’s been writing since the 80s. “S
  
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• Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell

  19-01-2026 16:40
  Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
  Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloomTracey Emin catches me looking from her self-portrait to her as I try to assess the closeness of the resemblance. Not that close. This inky screenprint is bigger than she is, its face wider and taller. But it’s not a picture of the outer person but an inner vision. As we stand in front of it I seem to fall into radiating p
  
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• Remember hedgehog flavour? Moon cheese? The weirdest, wildest, coolest crisp packet designs ever

  19-01-2026 09:00
  From the Space Raiders cooked up by a 2000AD artist to Odduns with their Dark Side of the Moon style packet, we pop open a new 140-page celebration of crisps and the garishly beautiful bags they’re sold inWould you eat a smoky spider flavour Monster Munch? What about a Bovril crisp, cooked up to celebrate the release of Back to the Future? Then there’s hedgehog flavour – and even a Wallace and Gromit corn snack designed to capture the unique taste of moon cheese, which the duo
  
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• A 10p masterpiece! The golden age of crisp packet design, from Chipsticks to Frazzles to Hedgehogs

  19-01-2026 09:00
  Aliens drawn by a 2000AD artist, graphics echoing the Dark Side of the Moon cover, Dennis the Menace fronting bacon and baked beanflavour … we pop open a new 140-page celebration of the weirdest, wildest crisp bags everWould you eat a smoky spider flavour Monster Munch? What about a Bovril crisp, cooked up to celebrate the release of Back to the Future? Then there’s hedgehog flavour – and even a Wallace and Gromit corn snack designed to capture the unique taste of moon cheese,
  
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• In An Attempt To Beat AI, Matthew McConaughey Trademarks His Phrase

  18-01-2026 22:00 via npr.org
  “McConaughey has had eight trademark applications approved over the past few months, and the actor said in an email ..r that he wants to, quote, ‘create a clear perimeter around ownership with consent and attribution the norm in an AI world.’” – NPR
  
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