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How Russia Is Plundering Ukraine’s Art

Ukrainian officials say that Russian forces have robbed or damaged more than 30 museums — including several in Kherson, which was retaken in November, and others in Mariupol and Melitopol, which remain under Russian occupation. - The New York Times

Predictably, Perhaps, The Online Backlash To The Embrace Is Vicious

"From one angle, the limbs form a heart, representing the couple’s love. But much as Chicago’s landmark 'Cloud Gate' sculpture quickly became known as 'The Bean' for looking like, well, a giant bean, legions of amateur art critics aren’t seeing what Thomas intended." - Washington Post

Boston’s Newest Public Art Is Meant To Honor The Kings

The sculpture, called "The Embrace," is also meant to give Boston a new shine. "People come to Boston to get their American story reified. And if Boston can tell a different story about America, then America can start telling a different story about itself." - Boston Globe

The Full List Of Critics Circle Awards

Cate Blanchett rolls on, and Everything Everywhere All at Once picks up critical steam. - Variety

A Friend Hid This Munch Masterpiece In A Barn To Keep It From Nazis

"Dance on the Beach was part of a masterpiece of 12 major panels, which Max Reinhardt, the theatre director, commissioned in 1906 for his avant-garde theatre in Berlin." Years later, the Nazis declared Munch a "degenerate." - The Observer (UK)

Awards Shows Are Rapidly Losing Audience

Should they follow the Screen Actors Guild to Netflix or other streamers? - CBC

Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Abandons Seatgeek To Return To The Fee-Laden Clutches Of Ticketmaster

Why? It's a mystery. "The abrupt switch, at a high-profile venue in one of the biggest markets in the world, is head-spinning news in the lucrative ticketing business." - The New York Times

Try This One Not So Weird, Research Based Trick To Be Happier

Only connect: "The strongest predictors for people to maintain their happiness and health throughout the course of their lives were people who described their relationships as having satisfying levels of quality and warmth." - NPR

Who’s Guiding Marvel’s Multiverse Now?

Without Iron Man, there's a leader-shaped hole at the center of all of the various stories. Is Paul Rudd really supposed to fill that hole? - The Guardian (UK)

Ruth Adler Schnee, Who Fled Nazi Germany And Turned Textiles Into Midcentury Modernist Art, 99

Schnee's "ebullient fabric designs and avant-garde home furnishings store in the heart of Detroit introduced midcentury modernism to baffled and delighted Midwesterners" - and changed the look of contemporary houses for good. - The New York Times

Keeping Artists Out Of The Mother-Shaped Hole That Swallows Creativity

The problem?"If you aren’t in a lactation closet, you’re at home." - LitHub

Frontrunners In The Race For The Academy Awards

It's Cate Blanchett, no doubt. Then things get a bit complicated. - Washington Post

Turning Paris’s Trash Into Visual Poetry

Itinerant artist and poet Ser Serpas says that "Parisian trash is sturdy." The 27-year-old, "like, many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers." - The New York Times

More Star Actors Bow Out Of Awards Ceremonies After Getting COVID

The list of those testing positive and missing Sunday's Critics Choice Awards, a few days after the Golden Globes, included nominees Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, "head cheerleader" Jamie Lee Curtis, and planned presenter Michelle Pfeiffer. - The Hollywood Reporter

Michelle Yeoh Says She Hopes She’s Helped Smash Barriers For Asian Actors

The star of Everything Everywhere All at Once says, "But the only way we can keep this going is by getting the right storytellers, having the studio executives understand and keep putting it forward." - HuffPost

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