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Nearly every fine violin bow starts as pernambuco, an endangered Brazilian wood, and its most devoted conservators turn out to be the bow makers themselves, documenting legal stockpiles, tracing the provenance of finished bows, replanting trees by the millions (The New York Times).
In London, theatre owners and Equity negotiated a three-year West End pay deal that averts a strike (WhatsOnStage). On Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber answered the closing of Cats: The Jellicle Ball with a plea for owners, unions and producers to convene before “a crisis coming to a head” (Broadway World).
Wyoming’s public TV station will keep PBS programming but drop the branding — “Wyoming’s storyteller first and a member station second” (Current) — a bet that stewardship is valuably local. The countercase: UK universities axed nearly 4,000 humanities and arts jobs in a single year (The Guardian).
And the Louvre heist suspects say the client who hired them was disappointed — he thought they could have taken more (The Guardian). Everyone’s a critic.
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