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Petition Against Premiere Of New Emmet Till Opera

Mya Bishop first launched her petition earlier this week, which has already received over 10,000 signatures, asking the public to "urge" the college to "cancel the play." - Newsweek

The New Museum Housing Vast Treasures Of Medieval Georgian Art

The region of Svaneti, a pair of protected valleys high in the Caucasus Mountains, was where the rest of the country sent its finest work when the armies of Byzantium or Persia or the Ottomans or Russia came a-conquering. Here's a look at where those treasures are kept today. - Apollo

Okay, So The Arts Shouldn’t Take Fossil Fuel Money. What’s The Alternative?

What are the alternatives to corporate arts partnerships with links to fossil fuels? (Because, let’s face it, once you start looking, coal, oil and gas connections across the corporate sector are not hard to find.) - ArtsHub

Collector Budi Tek, Who Helped Create The Contemporary Asian Art Scene As We Know It, Dead At 65

A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those artists get seen. He founded the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and arranged major partnerships between the Yuz, LACMA, and the Qatar Museums. - ARTnews

How Barcelona’s Superblocks Idea Could Be Adopted In Other Cities

As cities become more dense—moving in the direction of the “15-minute city,” where offices and simple errands are a short walk or bike ride away from home—designs like the superblock become more feasible. - Fast Company

Five More Ancient Egyptian Tombs Are Unveiled At Saqqara

"The tombs, which are believed to have housed senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate period, date back to as long ago as 2700 BC. ... Archaeologists found not only well-preserved paintings, but also small statues and pottery as well as stone and wooden coffins." - Deutsche Welle

Evolving COVID Policies Are Putting Cultural Institutions In Impossible Positions

Cultural institutions are left having to figure out not only which policies are right to protect their patrons, but which ones their patrons want, and which ones they will accept. (This will vary mainly on whether the audience is mostly older, or mostly younger.) - The Globe and Mail (Canada)

The Authors Of Books Banned From Schools, Or Entire Countries, Speak Out

Art Spiegelman: "This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in."  Margaret Atwood: "They're playing woke snowflakery back."  Hamid Ismailov: "I'm the most widely published Uzbek, yet nobody can mention my books. It's a total ban of my name, of activity, of books, of existence." - The Guardian

Progressives Are Fighting Book Bans (And Getting Them Overturned)

The progressive wins are a development that looked unlikely as the right wing, often through organizations with connections to wealthy Republican donors, has introduced bill after bill in states across the country. - The Guardian

After Almost 20 Years, The Art Scene In Baghdad Is Showing Signs Of Revival

As bad as things often got after the wars started in 2003, art and artists in Iraq's capital never went completely dormant.  Now galleries are starting to open and some artists who fled abroad are returning home. - Artnet

What The Fictional President Zelensky Played On TV Shows Us About Real-Life Ukraine

On Servant of the People, Volodomyr Zelensky played a teacher who becomes president after a video of him fuming about corruption goes viral. Ashley Fetters Maloy points out three key things the series shows us about Ukraine and why life ended up imitating a sitcom. - MSN (The Washington Post)

With The Kiev City Ballet In Their Unexpected Exile

The company left Kyiv for a tour in France one day before Putin's army invaded. The city of Paris has given them a residency at the Théâtre du Châtelet, and nobody knows how long it will last. Here's a photo journal of their stay so far. - National Geographic

How Did A Classical Radio Station Get To No. 1 In The Ratings In Charlotte?

"Theories abound as to why non-commercial 'Classical 89.9' WDAV Charlotte suddenly went to No. 1 in Nielsen's January survey. Here are the numbers behind the improbable victory." - Inside Radio

During The Pandemic Shutdown, Unemployment Among US Arts Workers Was Double The National Average

"In the early months of the pandemic, unemployment in the arts and culture sector spiked to nearly 30% while the national rate hit about 15%. As new data becomes available, we explore demographic trends and study the effect of COVID-19 relief funds." - SMU Data Arts

New York City’s New Arts Czar Has Faced Some Pushback

Mayor Eric Adams's appointee to head the Department of Cultural Affairs is Laurie Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and former City Council majority leader. The opposition to her, which includes Lin-Manuel Miranda, actually has nothing to do with the arts. - Artnet

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