As a working archaeologist, a regional official, and the national Minister for Culture, Hamdani — born and raised very near the ancient Sumerian city of Ur — worked to protect antiquities from looters, established a comprehensive database and atlas of archaeological sites, and trained a generation of specialists. - The Art Newspaper
Can we really justify the idea that some lives carry more ethical weight than others in general, and that human lives carry more ethical weight than nonhuman lives in particular? And even if so, does it follow that we should prioritise ourselves as much as we currently do? - Aeon
Joshua Hammer traveled to Lviv to look into the history of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis, a 36'-by-42' wall of delicately painted icons in a lavishly decorated wooden framework, and the dangers it has survived over its 317 years. - Smithsonian Magazine
Take, for instance, the hit French series Call My Agent: "(The French) argue stylishly, they fall in love stylishly. It's all said, they tell each other exactly what they think," says adapter John Morton. "British people aren't like that at all. ... We are very poor at saying what we mean." - BBC
Why are people in the art world being hacked? Criminals are not just looking for accounts with thousands of followers and the signature blue tick (confirming authenticity) but also those with high engagement, which is often the case with creatives. - The Art Newspaper
The unconventional appointment — previous mayoral designees were political and philanthropic heavyweights — gives the club owner an entrée into one of New York’s wealthiest and most influential circles. - Politico
And she was revolutionary in more than one way. Not only did Bronislava Nijinska embrace choreographic aesthetics that were radical for her day, she understood — from watching Diaghilev and her brother trying to maintain dance companies in the West — how commercial pressures could be as oppressive as political ones. - The Nation
The union has ended or expanded (depending on how you look at it) its proceeding against a nonunion tour of Waitress to petition the Broadway League (the association for theater owners and producers) to end the arrangement where a show may have union and nonunion tours simultaneously. - The Hollywood Reporter
"The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine. ... Both museums will display a rotating, year-round selection of Wyeth's work" and will lend to other museums. - Smithsonian Magazine
In a guest column, the 84-year-old actor gives his account of the on-camera move that led to his firing from the lead role in the Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher. - Deadline
There are blind auditions, special fellowships for Black musicians in particular, prep and financial aid for auditions as well as other programs from the Sphinx Organization. Writer Tim Diovanni looks into the efforts, focusing on the Detroit, Dallas, and Fort Worth Symphonies. - The Dallas Morning News
Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called "Open Books Open Doors", while the Authors Guild has launched a Banned Books Club on the app Fable, on which users organize social media book groups. - Publishing Perspectives
Well, strictly speaking, they're being admitted to the choir school; there will be separate boys' and girls' choirs. Music director Andrew Carwood: "I accept the idea of a boys' choir as culturally iconic, and I'd like to keep that. And I'd like girls to experience exactly the same thing." - The Guardian
These toxic books, produced in the 19th century, are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green that’s laced with arsenic. - National Geographic
