Ai Weiwei Is Not Optimistic About the Protests in China, How to Dust Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ and More: Morning Links for November 29, 2022

Iranian artists are calling for a boycott of cultural groups affiliated with, or receiving funding from, Iran, amid its brutal crackdown on activists there. St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice has constructed a glass barrier to hold back the flooding that has plagued it for so long. The British Museum has been hard at work conserving a very large (more than seven feet tall!) ultra-rare (1550) Michelangelo drawing of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child from around 1550. The museum plans to put it on view in its permanent-collection galleries in 2024, and the in-house restorer at the Galleria dell’Accademia, Eleonora Pucci, said, “Is there anything greater than passing on beauty? . . .

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