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• Robert Hershon, Artful Poet Who Published Poets, Dies at 84

  30-03-2021 23:22 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a founder of Hanging Loose Press, which started as a loose-page poetry journal and became a book publisher as well.
  
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• As NFTs Soar, Experts Warn of an Unsustainable Bubble

  30-03-2021 23:08 via nytimes.com
  
  As the prices of blockchain-secured works skyrocket and speculators swoop, experts are warning of an unsustainable bubble.
  
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• Elena Malagodi Dies at 84; Dedicated Her Last Years to Senegal

  30-03-2021 22:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Malagodi escaped the Nazis, married a famous Cuban sculptor and an Italian politician, then devoted her life to helping children and mothers in Senegal. She died of Covid-19.
  
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• Joan Walsh Anglund, 95, Dies; Her Children’s Books Touched Millions

  30-03-2021 22:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Her first in a prolific career, “A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You,” was a phenomenon. And her illustrations capturing childhood became a cottage industry.
  
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• How hard have Seattle-area arts and culture groups been hit by pandemic closures? New data provides snapshot - Seattle Times

  30-03-2021 22:44 via seattletimes.com
  
  How hard have Seattle-area arts and culture groups been hit by pandemic closures? New data provides snapshot  Seattle Times
  
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• Antonio Caro, Colombia’s Greatest Conceptual Artist, Has Died at 71

  30-03-2021 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  Antonio Caro, a Colombian artist whose work acerbically critiqued commercialism in his home country, has died at 71. Bogotá’s Casas Riegner gallery, which represents the artist, announced the news on social media, calling him “one of the talents most representative of Columbian art from the seventies to the present.” The Bogotá-based outlet the City Paper reported that he died of heart failure.
  Caro is best known for his paintings riffing on the Coca-Cola logo, re
  
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• New U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions Advisory Impose Compliance Obligations on Art Market

  30-03-2021 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  In recent years, law enforcement agencies around the world have increasingly focused their attention on the use of high-value art and antiquities sales in schemes to evade sanctions, launder money, and even finance terrorism. And last summer, a bipartisan report by a U.S. Senate Subcommittee documented the circumvention of anti-money laundering measures and sanctions in the art market.
  Prompted (at least partly) by that report, the U.S. government recently enacted new laws and published regulato
  
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• New U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions Advisory Impose Compliance Obligations on Art Market—What Does this Mean for Participants?

  30-03-2021 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  In recent years, law enforcement agencies around the world have increasingly focused their attention on the use of high-value art and antiquities sales in schemes to evade sanctions, launder money, and even finance terrorism. And last summer, a bipartisan report by a U.S. Senate Subcommittee documented the circumvention of anti-money laundering measures and sanctions in the art market.
  Prompted (at least partly) by that report, the U.S. government recently enacted new laws and published regulato
  
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• Bags, Bootlegs and Art: A Quirky Communion on Canal Street

  30-03-2021 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The creators of Canal Street Research Association have lost their lease but they can still show the way for a new arts community.
  
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• Rare Photo Album by Dutch Street Photographer Sets Record at Auction

  30-03-2021 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  A rare photo album made by Ed van der Elsken sold for $21,000 at an auction in New York, setting a new record the Dutch photographer and filmmaker.
  Made ca. 1951, the untitled album comprises 27 black and white photographs depicting Parisian street scenes, as well as portraits of Dutch photographers Emmy Andriesse and Ata Kando (who was married to Elsken). Five bidders competed for the work during a photography sale on March 11 at Swann Galleries in New York, where it was estimated at $10,000&nd
  
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• Rare Photo Album by Dutch Street Photographer Bought at Auction by Rijksmuseum

  30-03-2021 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  A rare photo album made by Ed van der Elsken sold for $21,250 at an auction in New York, setting a new record the Dutch photographer and filmmaker.
  Made ca. 1951, the untitled album comprises 27 black and white photographs depicting Parisian street scenes, as well as portraits of Dutch photographers Emmy Andriesse and Ata Kando (who was married to Elsken). Five bidders competed for the work during a photography sale on March 11 at Swann Galleries in New York, where it was estimated at $10,000&nd
  
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• Calling on the Arts to Thrive During a Pandemic - Psychiatric Times

  30-03-2021 21:21 via psychiatrictimes.com
  
  Calling on the Arts to Thrive During a Pandemic  Psychiatric Times
  
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• How Reclusive Artist Bahman Mohassess Shaped Iranian Modernism—and Buried His Own Legacy

  30-03-2021 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  Bahman Mohassess is considered Iran’s most important modernist, and has been dubbed the “Persian Picasso.” But for nearly five decades of his career, he lived outside the public eye in Italy, and his countrymen even thought he was dead. Now, however, there is no missing the many contributions of Mohassess, who is best known for his paintings of anthropomorphic figures that allude to international political conflict.
  It only took a few years for curators to take note of Mohasses
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ Aims for Broadway

  30-03-2021 21:04 via nytimes.com
  
  A stage adaptation is in the works for Broadway, the West End and Australia. The goal is a 2023 debut.
  
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• Damien Hirst to Debut 10,000 Works on Paper on ‘Environmentally Friendly’ NFT Platform

  30-03-2021 20:55 via artnews.com
  
  In an attempt to grapple with claims that the sale of NFTs consumes too much energy, a new digital marketplace called Palm has debuted with the aim of being more ecologically efficient. To kick off the platform, Palm has tapped major talent: artist Damien Hirst, whose work is known for its shock tactics.
  His work for Palm will be The Currency Project. Five years in the making, The Currency Project is comprised of 10,000 oil paintings on paper, each of which is accompanied by its NFT, or a non-fu
  
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• ‘Listening Party’ Review: Can Songs Heal a Brotherly Divide?

  30-03-2021 20:49 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Jackson C. Frank Listening Party w/ Special Guests,” the musician is simultaneously central and peripheral to the story.
  
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• Freddie Redd, Jazz Pianist and Composer, Is Dead at 92

  30-03-2021 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  He was best known for writing the music for “The Connection,” an Off Broadway play that depicted the lives of heroin-addicted musicians in New York.
  
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• Multiple Trustees Resign from Detroit Institute of Arts Board Following Misconduct Investigations

  30-03-2021 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  Amid controversies related to the Detroit Institute of Arts’s leadership, seven members of the museum’s board have resigned from their posts. According to the Art Newspaper, the members’ departure follows the leaking of a recording of a board meeting from November in which lawyers hired to investigate the conduct of DIA director Salvador Salort-Pons revealed the ways his behavior had allegedly contributed to a hostile work culture at the institution.
  The investigators reportedl
  
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• Multiple Trustees Resign from Detroit Institute of Arts Board Following Misconduct Investigations - ARTnews

  30-03-2021 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  Multiple Trustees Resign from Detroit Institute of Arts Board Following Misconduct Investigations  ARTnews
  
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• Is the Music Over at Mills College?

  30-03-2021 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  A hotbed of experimental sound for nearly a century, this school in Oakland, Calif., is preparing to close its doors.
  
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• Art’s NFT Question: Next Frontier in Trading, or a New Form of Tulip?

  30-03-2021 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  As the prices of blockchain-secured works skyrocket and speculators swoop, experts are warning of an unsustainable bubble.
  
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• Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ

  30-03-2021 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper’s new single, video and sneaker were merely the prelude to a brilliantly orchestrated main event: a virtuosic performance on Twitter.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Libertie,’ by Kaitlyn Greenidge

  30-03-2021 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  In her second novel, “Libertie,” the dark-skinned daughter of a light-skinned doctor finds freedom in art.
  
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• The ARTnews Accord: Curators Cecilia Alemani and Natasha Ginwala Talk Biennials During Covid

  30-03-2021 18:34 via artnews.com
  
  Cecilia Alemani is artistic director of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, which will take place in 2022. Since 2011, she has been director and chief curator of High Line Art, the organization that curates exhibitions in New York’s elevated park. Born in Milan, Alemani first achieved wide acclaim as a curator in 2009, when she directed the X Initiative, which staged cutting-edge exhibitions by top artists at the Dia building in Chelsea. From 2012 to 2018, she oversaw a section at the
  
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• ‘The Place That Makes Us’ Review: Rebuilding, Brick by Brick

  30-03-2021 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary offers a brief look at a handful of people trying to revitalize Youngstown, Ohio.
  
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• How Flock of Dimes Found Herself (With a Little Help From Her Friends)

  30-03-2021 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Jenn Wasner has tended to let thoughts rather than feelings guide her songwriting. For her second solo album, “Head of Roses,” she did the opposite.
  
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• ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight

  30-03-2021 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Ape and lizard go toe-to-toe, with a cast of talented humans to comment on the action
  
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• When a Break From TV Brings More TV

  30-03-2021 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  What does a TV critic do when he’s laid up for six weeks? Tracks down the shows he missed the first time around.
  
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• ‘Diana’ Musical Sets Netflix Run — and Broadway Opening Night

  30-03-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In an unprecedented move, a recording of the show will start streaming in October, while audiences can see it live (if theaters reopen) in December.
  
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• When King Kong Accidentally Met Godzilla

  30-03-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 1962 monster matchup was supposed to pit the big ape against Frankenstein’s monster. A rights issue cropped up, Toho got involved and the rest is history.
  
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• Bear Grylls Wants to Climb Every Mountain, but His Soundtrack Is Abba

  30-03-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Grylls, whose “Running Wild” began its second season on Nat Geo on March 29, talks about the thrill of BASE jumping, boating in for pizza and treating himself to gooey s’mores.
  
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• Getty Acquires Artemisia Gentileschi, Fire at São Paulo Art Warehouse, and More: Morning Links from March 30, 2021

  30-03-2021 15:28 via artnews.com
  
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  ATTENDANCE AT THE TOP 100 ART MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD was down 77 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the Art Newspaper‘s annual attendance survey. That report typically provides a chance for museums to take a victory lap for well-attended blockbusters. This year it is stark picture of just how dramatically their aud
  
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• Members of the Paris Opera Take Their Talents to a Different Stage

  30-03-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The singers, dancers and musicians played on, serenading their phones, pirouetting in masks and performing, faceless, on the radio.
  
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• Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Linda Colley’s “The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen” examines how constitutions came to be written — and why they sometimes fail.
  
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• Why Are Migratory Birds Vanishing Out of the Sky?

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A World on the Wing,” Scott Weidensaul describes the splendor of birds that can span continents in their flight, and also all the ways they are threatened.
  
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• The Paris Opera, Awaiting Normalcy, Forges Ahead

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s no applause for these performers, but they’re working to be ready for live audiences when they return.
  
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• The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Do Not Disturb,” by Michela Wrong, paints a picture of a country, and a region, long vexed by ethnic conflict, corrupt leadership and human rights abuses.
  
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• Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The senator from Illinois shares the occasionally harrowing, never boring story of her barrier-breaking life in a new memoir, “Every Day Is a Gift.”
  
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• Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Eight essays tell a collective story of female adolescence and womanhood, fraught with unwanted attention and abuse.
  
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• How to Pretend You’re in New Orleans Tonight

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Crescent City is the kind of place you daydream about long after you’re gone. Here are a few ways to be there in spirit.
  
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• From Cuba to Miami, These Women Contend With Abusive Men and Countries

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Of Women and Salt,” Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, evokes the history of a Cuban family rived by brutal events.
  
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• Book Review: ‘A World on the Wing,’ by Scott Weidensaul

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A World on the Wing,” Scott Weidensaul describes the splendor of birds that can span continents in their flight, and also all the ways they are threatened.
  
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• Augusta Savage, the Black Woman Artist Who Crafted an Unlikely Life

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage fought racism to earn acclaim as a sculptor, showing her work alongside de Kooning and Dalí. But the path she forged is also her legacy.
  
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• An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Wright shared a political cause and residency in Auburn, N.Y. “The Agitators,” by Dorothy Wickenden, tells the story of their joint crusade.
  
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• A Musician’s Daughter Faces His Music — and His Choices

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Dawnie Walton’s debut novel, “The Final Revival of Opal & Nev,” readers will hear an oral history that harks back to a simpler time.
  
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• A French Monument Remains Every Bit as Grand on Film

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Palais Garnier, which inspired the first “Phantom” in 1910, is silent at the moment, but it continues to hold the imagination.
  
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• 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Whether you’re craving a thriller, a spy documentary or an exploration of an American musical icon, each of these limited series can be enjoyed in one big gulp.
  
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• How the Feds Became the Leading Patrons of the Arts - Governing

  30-03-2021 07:03 via governing.com
  
  How the Feds Became the Leading Patrons of the Arts  Governing
  
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• After flood, pandemic, Center for the Arts focuses on survival • Chemical City Paper - Chemical City Paper

  30-03-2021 05:49 via chemicalcitypaper.com
  
  After flood, pandemic, Center for the Arts focuses on survival • Chemical City Paper  Chemical City Paper
  
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• Canton art leaders discuss path forward in post-COVID world - Canton Repository

  30-03-2021 05:05 via cantonrep.com
  Canton art leaders discuss path forward in post-COVID world  Canton Repository
  
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