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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).
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