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The British Museum sold £2.4 million of Bayeux Tapestry tickets in 24 hours, the biggest day in its history. Days after the show opened it banned photography, because visitors shooting the 230-foot embroidery were blocking the line (The New York Times). After an Electra/Persona curtain call at the National Theatre, Cate Blanchett asked the audience to stop filming: “there are few places on this planet where we can simply be together and be present” (Deadline).
Tara Bess, 43, drove for Uber for nine months to afford a $1,400 barricade spot at Harry Styles’s Madison Square Garden residency; Goldman Sachs says superfans are worth an extra $4 billion a year (The Guardian).
Deutsche Oper Berlin’s new general director, Aviel Cahn, answered years of thin houses with Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht: four hours, a string quartet flown live in four helicopters, the first complete staging since Birmingham in 2012 (The New York Times).
Museums are dropping the ±2°C, ±5% humidity rule, a 1970s London climate control standard written into loan agreements worldwide. HVAC is 60 to 70 percent of a museum’s energy use; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine cut 9.5% in a trial with wider ranges (The Art Newspaper).
Russian drones destroyed 13 million Ukrainian books this summer, a third of the annual print run, 8 million of them at Ranok, the Kharkiv publisher that supplies textbooks to nearly every Ukrainian school. Its owner, Viktor Kruglov: “The Ukrainian book is the one product that cannot be imported” (AP).
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