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Overnight News Digest: The last month of the year [1]

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Date: 2023-12-01

OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw.

I have sometimes covered arts news in this digest, but not tonight. I do, however, want you to share with you an advent calendar of art, which comes from the Danish branch of Bonham’s, Bruun Rasmussen (the link takes you to the first episode):

Kær’s Art Calendar 2023 Join us on a fantastic journey back to Baroque Europe, when, once again this year, we give you the opportunity to follow Peter Kær’s unique art dissemination project “Kær’s Art Calendar” in collaboration with the National Gallery of Denmark. This is the sixth year in a row that we’re doing this, and every day from the 1st to the 24th of December, the popular art detective will be zooming in on a new detail in “The Judgement of Solomon”, the dramatic painting from c. 1617 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. “The idea behind the art calendar is to take you on a voyage of discovery. Much like a detective, over the 24 video episodes, I look at the importance of the details to the overall scene. It’s something you can do with a painting, and you can also do iti n so many other contexts in life. This year, our investigations are based on“The Judgement of Solomon” by Peter Paul Rubens. It’s a work that has always both fascinated and irritated me. Something terrible has happened, but what? Find out more in this year’s art calendar.”

In other art news, from France 24:

Should they stay or should they go? An expert's guide to the Parthenon Marbles spat This week, the British prime minister was accused of "losing his marbles" by the opposition for refusing to talk to his Greek counterpart. Rishi Sunak cancelled a planned meeting with Kyriakos Mitsotakis because the Greek prime minister had told a reporter he wanted to discuss the possibility of Britain giving back the Ancient Greek sculptures, known as the both the Parthenon Marbles and the Elgin Marbles. Setting out both sides of the argument is our Perspective guest, Alexander Herman. He's the author of "The Parthenon Marbles Dispute" and director of the Institute of Art and Law. He spoke to FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee.

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A bit more on the topic, from the BBC:

King's tie features Greek flag after Elgin Marbles row By Sean Coughlan & Brian Wheeler After Mr Sunak's Greek row, eyebrows were raised by the pattern on the King's tie King Charles's choice of neckwear at the COP28 conference has sparked speculation that it was a coded message to Rishi Sunak. The King's tie had a pattern based on the Greek flag - after a week-long row between the UK PM and the Greek PM over the Parthenon Sculptures.

Some interesting news you may not have heard about, this from the Straits Times:

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