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• ‘They’re Trying to Erase Us’: Chevron Takes Down Public Art Piece

  08-06-2023 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  In the middle of the night on May 15, a public art project in Richmond, California, disappeared without a trace. The project, titled Fencelines – A Collective Monument to Resilience, was a collection of slats onto which community members wrote their hopes and wishes for the future of the city and its environment. The slats were installed on a fence that cordons off the Chevron refinery, which sits along the waterfront of the San Francisco Bay. On Wednesday, Chevron admitted that it took do
  
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• Gang Members Arranged Return of Stolen Gottfried Lindauer Paintings from New Zealand Gallery In Secret Prison Deal

  08-06-2023 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  Two paintings by Gottfried Lindauer, valued around $490,000 US ($800,000 NZD) that were stolen in 2017 were returned to police through a secretive deal arranged by senior gang members, the New Zealand Herald reported Wednesday.The Māori portraits, Chieftainess Ngatai-Raure and Chief Ngatai-Raure, were painted by the Czech-New Zealand artist in 1884. The art works were stolen from the International Art Centre gallery and auction house in a “smash-and-grab” incident
  
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• Justin Chance’s Wool Quilts are Catchalls for Curiosity

  08-06-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  My pieces begin as titles. Titles come to me when I’m washing dishes, or running, or showering. A recent example is Aloha Sadness (2023): I thought, That’s so dumb, but also so real. Aloha means goodbye, but also hello. I asked what would Aloha Sadness look like? I did a little research—looked up tiki culture, watched Lilo & Stitch, played that song “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” in the studio.I’m driven by curiosity, and I can get interested in literally
  
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• Finally: Universal Says Its Video-On-Demand Strategy Is Making Money, Not Impacting Theatre Box Office

  08-06-2023 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Universal has generated more than $1 billion in premium V.O.D. revenue in less than three years, while showing little-to-no decrease in ticket sales. In some cases, box-office sales even increased when films became available in homes, which Universal has decided is a side effect of premium V.O.D. advertising and word of mouth. – The New […]
  
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• HR Business Partner

  08-06-2023 18:20 via artsjournal.com
  Reports to: Executive Director SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: The Mark Morris Dance Group is seeking a full-time experienced HR professional to join our team as an HR Business Partner. This newly created Department Head level position will play a vital role in supporting our staff and supervisors by working collaboratively with leaders and staff across the organization […]
  
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• The “New Michelangelo”: This Italian Sculptor Has A 21st-Century Take On The Art Of Shaping Bodies In White Marble

  08-06-2023 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The 36-year-old artist known as Jago says he uses the same techniques his Renaissance forbears did. He’s so highly regarded for his ability to capture human featured and emotions in stone that he already has his own museum in Naples. – The Guardian
  
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• A 6,000-Year-Old Slab of Carved Wood Predating Stonehenge Has Been Found in Berkshire, England

  08-06-2023 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  A crew of builders in Boxford, Berkshire, England stumbled upon a large chunk of carved oak over 6,000 years old while digging foundation trenches for a new building, Historic England announced Wednesday.The ancient slice of decorative oak, which was carved 2,000 years before Stonehenge and more than 4,000 years before the Romans set foot on the British Isles, is believed to be the oldest piece of carved wood in Britain.The wood, which measures just about three-feet-long, one-and-a-half feet wid
  
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• Artist Julien Creuzet Wants Us to Question What We Know and Free Ourselves

  08-06-2023 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  “Forgotten, buried at the bottom of insomnia,” a woman’s soft, high-pitched voice repeatedly sang out against slow, ethereal music as you descended a staircase into a recent basement installation by Julien Creuzet, one of today’s most closely watched artists who earlier this year clinched the commission for the French Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.   Creuzet’s exhibitions typically carry paragraph-length titles that point to the show’s underly
  
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• Talia Suskauer & the Contemporary “Leading Lady”

  08-06-2023 17:32 via artsjournal.com
  I absolutely loved interviewing my guest this week, the amazing former star of Wicked on Broadway (Elphaba) and current star of Gypsy at Goodspeed Opera House (Louise), Talia Suskauer. I think you’ll be able to tell even from the first few minutes of the podcast that Talia and I were fast friends: within minutes we’re […]
  
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• Deborah Borda On Her Life In Music

  08-06-2023 17:28 via playbill.com
  
  “Decades ago, I was offered and accepted the top post at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; then Lorin Maazel, its music director, objected, saying that a woman couldn’t do the job, and the board of directors had to withdraw the offer. I can laugh at it now, but it was painful at the time.” – Playbill
  
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• This Year’s Theatre Olympics Are Especially Fraught, Shot Through With Europe’s War And Tensions

  08-06-2023 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “At the heart of the 10th festival stands the divisive figure of Attila Vidnyánszky, artistic director of the Theatre Olympics and director of the National Theatre in Budapest” — and a strong supporter of Viktor Orbán. And, of course, the Russian invasion of Ukraine looms large. – The Guardian
  
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• Fiber Is the New Painting: A Younger Generation of Artists Is Weaving and Sewing Personal Histories

  08-06-2023 16:50 via artnews.com
  
  South African artist Igshaan Adams trained as a painter at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town. Amid financial struggles in his mid-20s, he decided to stop buying pricey oil paints. Instead, with his grandparents’ permission, he cut up clothing and other fabrics from their home and stitched them together to create a figurative image. Soon after, in 2010, he got a job teaching painting and composition to weaving artisans at an NGO called the Philani Maternal, Child Health and Nutriti
  
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• Japan’s Hot Young Kabuki Prodigy Is … French

  08-06-2023 16:35 via apnews.com
  This may be surprising in a genre that’s both deeply Japanese and family-based — but it’s less surprising than you might think. Maholo Terajima Ghnassia’s father is French, but his mother is well-known actress Shinobu Terajima, and his grandfather is the current leader of an eminent Kabuki dynasty. – AP
  
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• Sukanya Rajaratnam, Taste-Making New York Dealer, Joins White Cube

  08-06-2023 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  Sukanya Rajaratnam, a New York dealer known for mounting historically significant exhibitions of Black artists, will join White Cube as global director of strategic market initiatives in September.Earlier this year, Rajaratnam announced that she would leave her role as partner at Mnuchin Gallery after 15 years. During her tenure there, she was known for staging groundbreaking exhibitions of Black artists who had long been overlooked by the mainstream art world, including Sam Gilliam, Ed Clark, A
  
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• Why Are More And More Americans Watching TV — Even When It’s In English — With Subtitles On?

  08-06-2023 16:03 via msn.com
  
  It drives writer Devin Gordon nuts, but he learns that people have good reasons for doing it. (At least one of those reasons is the fault of streaming studios.) – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• The Australian Ballet’s Dancers Are Preparing For A Strike

  08-06-2023 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “The sticking point is management’s refusal to maintain a clause in the dancers’ contract that guarantees pay will keep pace with inflation, a guarantee that has been in place for more than 20 years, to recognise dancers’ comparatively short career span.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Our house was bombed the night I was born’: Anselm Kiefer on the nightmares he can’t escape

  08-06-2023 15:09 via theguardian.com
  
  The great German artist has tried again and again to read James Joyce’s twisted novel Finnegans Wake. His latest show takes inspiration from that book – and from a childhood making toys from the rubble of his family homeAnselm Kiefer is putting the finishing touches to his exhibition Finnegans Wake with the help of a forklift truck. The huge gallery at White Cube Bermondsey has been all but filled with a mound of shattered concrete surrounded by barbed wire, like a bombed second worl
  
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• Mike Bloomberg Gave $130 Million To Get The Ground Zero Performing Arts Center Finished

  08-06-2023 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s called the Perelman Performing Arts Center because Ron Perelman gave the $75 million that finally got the building started in 2016, but the gift from the former mayor, now the Center’s board chair, got it completed. And he gave another $130 million to The Shed. – The New York Times
  
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• Pianist George Winston, 73

  08-06-2023 14:31 via npr.org
  
  “Selling more than 15 million albums worldwide, Winston became synonymous with a distinctive, highly imitated flavor of solo piano: warm, melodic and pastoral. His reputation was largely built on a series of blockbuster instrumental albums for the pioneering new age label Windham Hill Records.” – NPR
  
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• White Cube Heads to Seoul, Canada’s National Gallery Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for June 8, 2023

  08-06-2023 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesON THE PENINSULA. In recent years, galleries from the United States and Europe, like Gladstone and König, have been opening outposts in Seoul, hoping to tap into South Korea’s burgeoning art market. Now, Melanie Gerlis reports in her weekly Financial Times column, White Cube is joining them. It&n
  
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• West Virginia Symphony Appoints A New Music Director

  08-06-2023 14:05 via wvgazettemail.com
  
  Maurice Cohn, a 27-year-old native of rural Illinois and an Oberlin graduate who’s currently assistant conductor (to Fabio Luisi) at the Dallas Symphony, begins his term immediately. – Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail
  
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• Out of this world – 2023 Film London Jarman award nominees announced

  08-06-2023 12:19 via theguardian.com
  
  The shortlist for the prestigious prize includes boundary-pushing stories about migration, capitalism … and technicolour cocktail barsFrom Nigerian Guinness factories to the British countryside via small German towns and distant galaxies, this year’s Film London Jarman award nominees take viewers on a dazzling tour of the world – and beyond.The £10,000 prize, which is named after groundbreaking film-maker Derek Jarman and recognises British artists who work with moving i
  
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• A Conversation with Nicole Chung

  08-06-2023 11:01 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Nicole’s recent book A Living Remedy explores loss and family as well as sharp observations about American health-care. Nicole Chung has written two memoirs in five years—both about loss and family.  The first is the highly acclaimed All You Can Ever Know which was a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. It explores the […]
  
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• Edinburgh festival fringe 2023 to host artists from nearly 70 countries

  08-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Executives urge audiences to ‘fill yer boots’ and watch as many shows as possible amid Covid fightbackEncore! Surefire shows returning for the Edinburgh festival in 2023The Edinburgh festival fringe is expecting to host artists from nearly 70 countries this year, with participants hungry to return to live performances after the Covid crisis, its directors have said.The fringe, regarded until the pandemic as the world’s largest arts event, is fighting to rebuild its finances and
  
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• Executive Director – Stanford Live

  08-06-2023 02:58 via artsjournal.com
  Stanford, California Stanford Live, a premier arts presenter in the San Francisco Bay Area and a highly visible component of Stanford University’s commitment to the arts, seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and visionary leader to serve as its next Executive Director (or ED). This role presents an opportunity for an arts leader to advance innovation, equity, […]
  
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• AI Is Going To Change Music. Until Then, We Have Issues…

  08-06-2023 00:01 via wired.com
  
  “How do you search? Who are the creators? How do you attribute labels to them? What do those revenue splits look like?” he says. “And how does that even work, when you can make a hundred remixes of the same song?” – Wired
  
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• The Problem With Thinking About Misinformation As A Virus

  07-06-2023 23:31 via washingtonpost.com
  We do not actually have an immune system for misinformation, and there is good reason for this. Unlike viruses, there is nothing inherent in false information that ought automatically to trigger any sort of natural response on the part of the brain. – Washington Post
  
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• National Gallery of Australia Postpones Major Exhibition of Aboriginal Art Due to Ongoing Investigation Over Provenance

  07-06-2023 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The National Gallery of Australia has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio assistants.On June 7, the museum issued a statement about the exhibition Ngura Pulka – Epic Country officially being postponed. Scheduled to open this month, the show featured the work of Aboriginal artists from the APY Art Center Collective (APY ACC) and was billed as one of the largest community-driven art proj
  
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• National Gallery of Australia Postpones Major Exhibition of Aboriginal Art amid Ongoing Investigation of Provenance

  07-06-2023 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio assistants.On June 7, the museum issued a statement about the exhibition Ngura Pulka – Epic Country officially being postponed. Scheduled to open this month, the show featured the work of Aboriginal artists from the APY Art Center Collective (APY ACC) and was billed as one of the largest community-driven ar
  
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• Quiet Tragedy: Sale Of The Whitney Breuer Building To Sotheby’s

  07-06-2023 22:31 via washingtonpost.com
  There is an important difference between a building that is “open to the public” and a public building, and that distinction may explain the palpable sadness among art lovers on social media after news of the sale broke. – Washington Post
  
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• Egypt Bans Dutch Archaeologists from Excavations in Response to Museum’s ‘Afrocentric’ Egyptian Exhibition

  07-06-2023 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists from the Leiden National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands have been barred from carrying out future excavations in the necropolis Saqqara after Egyptian authorities took offense to its depiction of ancient Egypt in the exhibition “Kemet: Egypt in Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk.” The head of Foreign Missions of the Egyptian Antiquities Service accused the museum in a leaked email of “falsifying history” due to the “Afrocentric” lens
  
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• Annie Ernaux: Winning The Nobel Ruined Me

  07-06-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “So I’m going to be brutal and say that I obtained a prize I never wanted. The Nobel prize fell upon me. It fell into my life like a bomb. It was an enormous disruption; since winning it, I cannot write and the act of the writing was always my future.” – The Guardian
  
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• Measuring “Wellbeing” After Visiting A Museum

  07-06-2023 21:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  According to the final technical report, more than 95% of participants reported some benefits to their well-being after visiting a museum and 85% indicated positive effects in all four areas. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• When Adrienne Kennedy Turned John Lennon’s Book Into A Play For Olivier’s National Theatre

  07-06-2023 21:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The Black American playwright was inspired to adapt Lennon’s In His Own Write by her son’s Beatlemania. To her initial surprise, Kenneth Tynan picked up the play, and she watched the first performance next to Olivier, her hero. Most of the rest of the experience, though, was more dispiriting. – The Guardian
  
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• Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painting Restituted to the Heirs of a Jewish Banker Fleeing Nazi Persecution and Repurchased by a German City

  07-06-2023 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  A landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was restituted to heirs of its original Jewish owner and then re-purchased by the northern German city of Hagen, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The painting, View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes (ca. 1910), was originally owned by Jakob Goldschmidt, one of the most influential bankers in Weimar Germany and a major collector of Old Masters and Impressionist art in the 1920s. He was also a major patron of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1933
  
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• Sorting Out What The Research Says On The Benefits Of Music On The Brain

  07-06-2023 20:28 via sfcv.org
   In recent decades, numerous studies have shown that kids who study music outperform their peers in a variety of realms. The problem is it is difficult to discern whether these benefits are the result of the lessons themselves or if kids who choose to study music are simply sharper than their nonmusical schoolmates. – San Francisco Classical […]
  
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• Insults Through History (They’ve Changed Less Than You Might Think)

  07-06-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “Despite the different time periods and languages used, the content of insults hasn’t evolved: They’re still highly personal barbs about people’s courage (or lack thereof), status, competence, appearance, hygiene, sexual prowess and lineage.” – The New York Times
  
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• Brookfield Properties Is Betting Art Will Draw Workers Back to the Office

  07-06-2023 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Earlier this week, Brookfield, by most measures the largest real estate company in the world, unveiled its latest project, Manhattan West, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that lacked ribbon. What it did have were two major works of public art, a sculpture by Charles Ray and a mosaic piece by Christopher Wo
  
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• How Actors’ AI-Generated “Digital Doubles” Are Already Being Used

  07-06-2023 19:04 via slate.com
  
  “So are we on the cusp of major studios forcing Meryl Streep into a sequel by casting her digital double? Not quite. It’s not that studios wouldn’t want to. But, unions aside, A.I. can’t replicate top-notch acting from scratch. Just yet.” But here are four things it’s already doing. – Slate
  
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• Art World Grifter Anna Delvey Owes Her Immigration Lawyer $150K, Lawsuit Says

  07-06-2023 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  A lawyer hired by art world grifter Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, to fight her deportation and appeal her conviction in a $270,000 fraud case has sued Sorkin for over $150,000 in legal fees, according to court documents filed last week in the New York State Supreme Court.Sorokin hired Audrey Thomas in 2020, after a string of fraud charges against Sorokin led to a conviction for grand larceny and theft of services. According to the complaint, while Sorokin paid Thom
  
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• The Artists Rebuilding Beirut

  07-06-2023 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The Lebanese creative scene has never been more prosperous and vibrant: it has kept on blooming like an unlikely flower on a volcano’s crater. Painters, sculptors, poets, dancers, photographers, musicians, novelists, designers, playwrights, chefs, performers … these are the superheroes of our country. – The Guardian
  
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• “Nobody Dances In Prison.” But In This One, They Do.

  07-06-2023 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Dance is far rarer than other art forms in prison arts programs: it “goes against prison-culture codes of masculine behavior.” But two inmates decided to start what was, at first, an informal class — and they ended up working with Dimitri Chamblas, dean of dance at CalArts. – The New York Times
  
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• Art Advisors Should Add Value To Collecting, Not Extract It

  07-06-2023 17:33 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Alex Glauber is an art advisor, curator, and educator based in New York. He is the founder of AWG Art Advisory and, as of last month, the president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors.How do you navigate a profession where the title is offered before the skillset? A career that for many starts with nothing more than a business card and email address. Throughout history, art collectors have relied on counsel when it comes to determining what to spend their mo
  
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• Art Advisers Should Add Value to Collecting, Not Extract It

  07-06-2023 17:33 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Alex Glauber is an art adviser, curator, and educator based in New York. He is the founder of AWG Art Advisory and, as of last month, the president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors.How do you navigate a profession where the title is offered before the skillset? A career that for many starts with nothing more than a business card and email address. Throughout history, art collectors have relied on counsel when it comes to determining what to spend their mo
  
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• Gagosian to Represent the Photographer Francesca Woodman

  07-06-2023 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, will now represent the estate of enigmatic photographer Francesca Woodman, who before her death, at 22, helped define a style of contemporary photography through her inward reflection that drew from Gothic, Victorian, and Surrealist influences. Gagosian will be showing a selection of these prints at Art Basel next week, with an exhibition on the artist’s work planned for next spring in New York. Woodman’s estate had previously been jo
  
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• Gagosian to Represent Photographer Francesca Woodman

  07-06-2023 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, will now represent the estate of enigmatic photographer Francesca Woodman, who before her death, at 22, helped define a style of contemporary photography through her inward reflection that drew from Gothic, Victorian, and Surrealist influences. Gagosian will be showing a selection of these prints at Art Basel next week, with an exhibition on the artist’s work planned for next spring in New York. Woodman’s estate was previously represe
  
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• The news from a Mozambique landfill site – Mário Macilau’s best photograph

  07-06-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘The men who roam this dump play an important role in the economy, but they are marginalised. I was warned they were “uncivilised”, that they would steal my camera, attack me, even kill me’There’s a giant landfill site near Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city, that covers 42 acres and rises to 15 metres in height. Young men roam it hoping to find things that are either valuable or can be recycled. These people play an important role in the local economy but they
  
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• Françoise Gilot obituary

  07-06-2023 14:22 via theguardian.com
  
  French painter who wrote about her relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso in a bestselling bookIn 1943 the artist Françoise Gilot, who has died aged 101, accompanied her teacher, the surrealist painter Endre Rozsda, to the Gare de l’Est in Paris. Rozsda was Jewish and Hungarian; the occupying Germans had begun rounding up foreign Jewish people, and he was leaving for the apparent safety of Budapest. As his train steamed out of the station, the 21-year-old Gilot wailed: “Bu
  
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• Reina Sofía Gets New Director, J. Paul Getty Trust Gets New Board Chair, and More: Morning Links for June 7, 2023

  07-06-2023 14:02 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE TOP JOB. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has a new leader, curator Manuel Segade, the Art Newspaper reports. He is currently the director of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in the Spanish capital; his curatorial credits include helming Spain’s pavilion at the 20
  
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