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    • Rescued From a Manhattan Dumpster, Now at the Met

      Good Morning,

      Alejandro Mario Yllanes, a Bolivian protégé of Diego Rivera jailed at home for his paintings of Indigenous labor, disappeared in the early 1950s. By several accounts his work was later pulled from the trash outside his Manhattan studio. The Met and MALBA, Buenos Aires’s Latin American art museum, have since collected him, the Toledo Museum of Art just bought Lake Titicaca (1935), and his paintings sell for up to $1.9 million (The New York Times).

      In 1996 Jonathan Franzen complained in Harper’s of the “banal ascendancy of television.” He is now a month from finishing the script for Netflix’s eight-part The Corrections, with Meryl Streep as Enid (The Guardian).

      Hong Kong Ballet moves in 2027 into the Dancehouse at West Kowloon, the city’s first venue built for dance, which takes it from seven performance weeks a year to ten (South China Morning Post). The National Theatre of Scotland agreed with Equity to cut rehearsal weeks from six days to five and pay overtime past 40 hours (The Stage).

      Hungary’s new government closed Budapest’s House of Terror, the Orbán-era museum of fascist and communist history, and fired its director, a former Orbán adviser (ARTnews). Nova Scotia, now the only Canadian province with no core funding for publishers, is closing five of the Annapolis Valley’s eleven libraries; Rachel Reid, author of the hockey romance Heated Rivalry, gave $300,000 to keep them open (The Walrus).

      All of our stories below.

    • Hong Kong To Get Its First Dedicated Dance Venue

      The “Dancehouse” will be part of the WestK Performing Arts Centre, opening next year in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The theater will be the new home of Hong Kong Ballet, which will be able to increase the length of its season. – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

    • Nova Scotia Closed Libraries. The Backlash Has Been Intense

      Persistent provincial underfunding forced the Annapolis Valley Regional Library system to announce plans earlier this year to permanently close five of its ten libraries. Many are tired of—even enraged by—what they perceive as the government’s assault on culture, treaty rights, and the environment.  – The Walrus

    • Six Artists Who Shaped Modern American Design — And The Bitter WWII Experience Which United Them All

      “The (Barnes Foundation) exhibit ‘Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America’ examines six renowned Japanese-American artists whose work defined modern American art and design in the mid-to-late 20th century — all of whom were severely impacted by mass incarceration” in wartime internment camps. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

    • Are Debates Over Student AI Use Arguing Over The Wrong Things?

      The battle for the role of AI in higher education this fall is being fought over when and where AI and other digital technologies should be used. This combat ignores the larger crisis: how can colleges verify that they are preparing students to become productive members of society in a digital age? – Post Alley

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    • Nova Scotia Closed Libraries. The Backlash Has Been Intense

      Persistent provincial underfunding forced the Annapolis Valley Regional Library system to announce plans earlier this year to permanently close five of its ten libraries. Many are tired of—even enraged by—what they perceive as the government’s assault on culture, treaty rights, and the environment.  – The Walrus

    • Jonathan Franzen’s TV Conversion

      Franzen used to think TV was the “enemy” of the serious novelist. But after the HBO series failed, he watched Breaking Bad, Nurse Jackie and Silicon Valley and loved them. In the age of social media, AI and the endless scroll, TV has started to look like a “friend”, he says now. – The Guardian

    • Arkansas Ends Effort To Restrict Prisoners’ Access To Hard-Copy Books

      “The Department (of Corrections) first proposed banning incarcerated people from receiving physical books last year in order to tamp down on drugs making their way into prisons. … (The focus will be shifted) to ban ‘misbehaving’ third-parties selling publications laced with drugs to incarcerated people.” – Arkansas Advocate

    • 2026 Booker Prize Finalists Include “The Disappearers,” “John Of John,” “The Things We Never Say”

      “This year’s Booker prize shortlist features some very familiar names – previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart …, along with Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout and prominent British speculative fiction writer M John Harrison. Novelist and poet Luke Kennard and debut novelist Rebecca Perry are also in contention for the £50,000 prize.” – The Guardian

    • How The American Public Library Model Evolved

      When you view the centuries-long history of American librarianship through a Pennsylvania lens, it’s more complex, nuanced and fascinating than many people realize. – The Conversation

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    • Rescued From a Manhattan Dumpster, Now at the Met

      Good Morning,

      Alejandro Mario Yllanes, a Bolivian protégé of Diego Rivera jailed at home for his paintings of Indigenous labor, disappeared in the early 1950s. By several accounts his work was later pulled from the trash outside his Manhattan studio. The Met and MALBA, Buenos Aires’s Latin American art museum, have since collected him, the Toledo Museum of Art just bought Lake Titicaca (1935), and his paintings sell for up to $1.9 million (The New York Times).

      In 1996 Jonathan Franzen complained in Harper’s of the “banal ascendancy of television.” He is now a month from finishing the script for Netflix’s eight-part The Corrections, with Meryl Streep as Enid (The Guardian).

      Hong Kong Ballet moves in 2027 into the Dancehouse at West Kowloon, the city’s first venue built for dance, which takes it from seven performance weeks a year to ten (South China Morning Post). The National Theatre of Scotland agreed with Equity to cut rehearsal weeks from six days to five and pay overtime past 40 hours (The Stage).

      Hungary’s new government closed Budapest’s House of Terror, the Orbán-era museum of fascist and communist history, and fired its director, a former Orbán adviser (ARTnews). Nova Scotia, now the only Canadian province with no core funding for publishers, is closing five of the Annapolis Valley’s eleven libraries; Rachel Reid, author of the hockey romance Heated Rivalry, gave $300,000 to keep them open (The Walrus).

      All of our stories below.

    • Hong Kong To Get Its First Dedicated Dance Venue

      The “Dancehouse” will be part of the WestK Performing Arts Centre, opening next year in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The theater will be the new home of Hong Kong Ballet, which will be able to increase the length of its season. – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

    • Nova Scotia Closed Libraries. The Backlash Has Been Intense

      Persistent provincial underfunding forced the Annapolis Valley Regional Library system to announce plans earlier this year to permanently close five of its ten libraries. Many are tired of—even enraged by—what they perceive as the government’s assault on culture, treaty rights, and the environment.  – The Walrus

    • Six Artists Who Shaped Modern American Design — And The Bitter WWII Experience Which United Them All

      “The (Barnes Foundation) exhibit ‘Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America’ examines six renowned Japanese-American artists whose work defined modern American art and design in the mid-to-late 20th century — all of whom were severely impacted by mass incarceration” in wartime internment camps. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

    • Are Debates Over Student AI Use Arguing Over The Wrong Things?

      The battle for the role of AI in higher education this fall is being fought over when and where AI and other digital technologies should be used. This combat ignores the larger crisis: how can colleges verify that they are preparing students to become productive members of society in a digital age? – Post Alley

    PEOPLE

    • Rescued From a Manhattan Dumpster, Now at the Met

      Good Morning,

      Alejandro Mario Yllanes, a Bolivian protégé of Diego Rivera jailed at home for his paintings of Indigenous labor, disappeared in the early 1950s. By several accounts his work was later pulled from the trash outside his Manhattan studio. The Met and MALBA, Buenos Aires’s Latin American art museum, have since collected him, the Toledo Museum of Art just bought Lake Titicaca (1935), and his paintings sell for up to $1.9 million (The New York Times).

      In 1996 Jonathan Franzen complained in Harper’s of the “banal ascendancy of television.” He is now a month from finishing the script for Netflix’s eight-part The Corrections, with Meryl Streep as Enid (The Guardian).

      Hong Kong Ballet moves in 2027 into the Dancehouse at West Kowloon, the city’s first venue built for dance, which takes it from seven performance weeks a year to ten (South China Morning Post). The National Theatre of Scotland agreed with Equity to cut rehearsal weeks from six days to five and pay overtime past 40 hours (The Stage).

      Hungary’s new government closed Budapest’s House of Terror, the Orbán-era museum of fascist and communist history, and fired its director, a former Orbán adviser (ARTnews). Nova Scotia, now the only Canadian province with no core funding for publishers, is closing five of the Annapolis Valley’s eleven libraries; Rachel Reid, author of the hockey romance Heated Rivalry, gave $300,000 to keep them open (The Walrus).

      All of our stories below.

    • Hong Kong To Get Its First Dedicated Dance Venue

      The “Dancehouse” will be part of the WestK Performing Arts Centre, opening next year in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The theater will be the new home of Hong Kong Ballet, which will be able to increase the length of its season. – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

    • Nova Scotia Closed Libraries. The Backlash Has Been Intense

      Persistent provincial underfunding forced the Annapolis Valley Regional Library system to announce plans earlier this year to permanently close five of its ten libraries. Many are tired of—even enraged by—what they perceive as the government’s assault on culture, treaty rights, and the environment.  – The Walrus

    • Six Artists Who Shaped Modern American Design — And The Bitter WWII Experience Which United Them All

      “The (Barnes Foundation) exhibit ‘Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America’ examines six renowned Japanese-American artists whose work defined modern American art and design in the mid-to-late 20th century — all of whom were severely impacted by mass incarceration” in wartime internment camps. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

    • Are Debates Over Student AI Use Arguing Over The Wrong Things?

      The battle for the role of AI in higher education this fall is being fought over when and where AI and other digital technologies should be used. This combat ignores the larger crisis: how can colleges verify that they are preparing students to become productive members of society in a digital age? – Post Alley

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