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Since the Kennedy Center closed on September 15, the National Symphony Orchestra has been playing in six venues around Washington. It will give about half its usual concerts, and ticket revenue is expected to fall by half and donations by a quarter (NPR).
The earliest spoken recordings of Louisiana Creole were made in 1935 by the linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner and found on aluminum discs labeled only “Louisiana.” They are the only extended audio of the New Orleans variety, which died out in the city by the 1950s (The New York Times).
Italy’s art crime squad used an AI system to flag an oil painting at an antiques fair as a Saint Agnes stolen from a church 20 years ago. Someone had painted over its lamb (ARTnews).
Voters in Independence, Oregon, decide Tuesday on a city fee that will determine what happens to the Heritage Museum’s 25,000 items, in storage since the city sold the building (Oregon ArtsWatch).
In Amsterdam, the Rembrandt House Museum is tattooing Rembrandt’s 1633 etching The Descent from the Cross across one winner’s back, with smaller tattoos on sale from €100 (The New York Times).
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