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This is a playbook we’ve all seen before. Rigoberto Gonzalez, whose painting about refugees crossing the border wall was deemed “objectionable,” says that “the White House list reminds him of the 'degenerate art’ exhibitions in 1930s Germany.” - NPR

The remains of the sunken city include "partially preserved pre-Roman statues of sovereigns and sphinxes, such as a beheaded Ptolemaic granite sculpture and an incomplete sphinx with a cartouche bearing the inscription of Ramesses II.” - Hyperallergic

Sure, yes, so is the language part. But: “The game is filling a hole for this type of instruction; there aren’t many programs that teach basic chess.” - Wired

“Guédelon has quarriers, stone cutters, masons, joiners, blacksmiths, tilers, painters, carpenters, ropemakers, wheelwrights, carters and basketmakers – 60-odd artisans in all – building cob and rubblework walls, firing tiles, blending dyes and pigments, braiding rope and forging and beating nails, hinges and decorative ironwork.” - The Guardian (UK)

“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in a bus with wings. I probably will not watch anything worthy of the Criterion Collection.” - The Atlantic

"Cheap and easy, at least five hundred lesbian-themed paperbacks sold millions of copies nationwide between 1935 and 1965. That’s a lot of lesbians.” - LitHub

In 2001, thanks to foot-and-mouth disease, “the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland.” And they haven’t ever stopped. - The Guardian (UK)

Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The New York Times

The film premiered in June on Netflix to little fanfar. But “given the way that Demon Hunters has broken out, the streamer would be remiss not to give it a major push.” - Vulture (MSN)

White's "initial goal was modest: He wanted to open a theatre.” Things sort of snowballed from there. - American Theatre

Bluesky: “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms.” - Wired

And Venice says it "is, as always, open to dialogue.” - Variety

Mostly, they’re knuckling under. One might, if one were a student of history, think of this as totalitarian. “The chilling effect on museum programming at the heart of artistic experimentation and the historic role of art to occasionally provoke strong reactions in viewers.” - The New York Times

“I’m obviously in no position to do anything other than say how sorry I am. But there is a small part of me that thinks: what about all the good deals? … The ambition is to get back to doing what I was doing. I was a great art dealer.” - The Guardian

The redevelopment and restoration of older theatres such as the Citizens has become important as their social value and anchoring presence in towns and cities has been recognised. - The Conversation