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Monet Pastel Stolen By Nazis Returned To Family Generations Later "Adalbert Parlagi and his son Franz kept meticulous ownership and search records. After Franz’s death in 2012, Françoise Parlagi stumbled upon her father’s cache of documents, including the original receipt from her grandfather’s purchase of the Monet pastel." Read more - AP
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Remembering Lewis Lapham, My First Boss: "It’s a strange thing to have a walk-on role in the fifth act of a great man’s life. Lewis was exactly fifty years and one month older than I was. Twenty-two when I first entered the small Irving Place office." – Literary Hub
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Good morning: Is there any reason opera shouldn't be THE art form of 21st Century? We live in a time of story, of multimedia, music. This article in Salon discusses what it would take for opera to be part of the popular culture again (which of course, it was at one time). And here are the rest of today's...
Good morning: The Internet Archive is either a piracy orgy violating the copyrights of millions of authors, or it's a library or archive record of the world's creativity. Libraries have preserved work since the beginnings of history. Having a record in a digital age when copies can be eliminated in the click of a button would seem to be...
Good morning: Last week Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan suggested that music editing software like ProTools had "made music worse." He said: "Pro Tools, as a sort of way of making music, on some level, has levelled the playing field that allowed people who can’t sing to sound like they can sing. And people who can’t play guitar now...
Good morning. Here are this week's highlights:
Asheville’s Arts District Devastated by Flooding from Hurricane HeleneAsheville's River Arts District, home to galleries, studios, and performance spaces, was severely impacted by flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. Artists and businesses are grappling with significant losses as they work to rebuild the city’s vibrant cultural hub. Read more on Hyperallergic.
Manchester Climate-Protesting Art Vandals...
Good Morning: A While back the NEA asked several arts "practitioners" to write essays in response to the Endowment's latest arts participation study which came out last year. We've featured a couple of them so far -- National Book Foundation director Ruth Dickey's musings on declines in reading -- less than half of American adults report reading even one...
Good morning: Even in the time of Big Data, you might be surprised to hear how difficult it can be to get good statistical data on the arts. Like how many tickets were bought to symphony orchestra concerts last year. Or how are the music or theatre or museum sectors doing as businesses. Journalists have difficulty getting accurate recent...
Good morning: French president Macron's idea to promote culture among young people was to offer students between 15 and 18 money to pay for culture. It's expensive, costing the government €260m per year. And a study came out reporting that 70 percent of the culture young people bought is mangas and comic books. Perhaps not the culture Macron sought...
Good morning: Drugs intended to treat diabetes have had the remarkable side effect of helping people to lose weight. Everyone wants them. But it turns out these GLP-1 drugs also impact other cravings, like smoking or gambling or alcohol. Some even suggest it might help blunt addiction to social media. So are our strong reactions to stimuli merely chemical?...
Good morning: Here are today's ArtsJournal highlights:
LiveNation Builds "Temporary" Music Venue in Toronto for 50,000 FansLiveNation is constructing a massive "temporary" venue at Downsview Airport in Toronto, designed to accommodate up to 50,000 concertgoers. The move responds to the growing number of stadium-level artists touring today. This venue offers a unique solution to the rising demand for large performance...
Good morning: More than 43 percent of all websites on the internet run WordPress (AJ is one of them). The basic WP has always been free, and a whole ecosystem of developers has grown up around the platform. But in the past few years Wordpress has been beating the bushes to earn revenue, starting to charge for plugins that...
Good morning: We collected 132 stories this week. That's a lot to sort through, so here are some highlights. Jump down to see all the stories we posted.
Man Smashes Ai Weiwei Art at Show Opening in RomeA man vandalized a sculpture by Ai Weiwei at an art show in Rome, smashing the piece during the exhibition’s opening. The footage...
Good morning: It's no secret that humor sells, or at least that's what the research says. But interestingly, the use of humor in ads declined to about 33 percent in 2022 in the wake of COVID. More recently, however, humorous ads accounted for three-quarters of major ad awards, and 70 percent of Super Bowl ads this year featured humor....
Dood morning: Here are today's highlights:
World’s First Museum of AI Art to Open in Los Angeles Refik Anadol, a pioneer in AI-generated artwork, will open the world’s first museum dedicated to AI art in downtown Los Angeles. This museum, called Dataland, will be located across from Disney Concert Hall. Read more in Los Angeles Times.
Newspaper to Revive London’s Legendary...
