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• Christian Boltanski, Artist Who Tenderly Pondered Mortality and Trauma, Has Died at 76

  14-07-2021 23:51 via artnews.com
  
  Christian Boltanski, an artist whose installations about loss, memory, and trauma propelled him to the forefront of the French contemporary art scene, has died at 76. His longtime gallery Marian Goodman, which represented him alongside Berlin’s Kewenig, announced his death in a post on its website on Wednesday.
  Boltanski’s installations often make grand statements about death, particularly as it relates to the Holocaust, World War II, and the lingering effects of these events on Euro
  
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• At the White House, Olivia Rodrigo Says Vaccines Are ‘Good 4 U’

  14-07-2021 23:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop star with the No. 1 album in the country joined the Biden administration’s efforts to encourage the young and unvaccinated to get their shots.
  
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• Joe Exotic of ‘Tiger King’ To Be Resentenced

  14-07-2021 23:45 via nytimes.com
  
  An appeals court upheld the conviction but ruled that the trial court had miscalculated the sentence for hiring people to kill Carole Baskin.
  
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• Court Orders Resentencing of Joe Exotic in ‘Tiger King’ Murder-for-Hire Plot

  14-07-2021 23:45 via nytimes.com
  
  An appeals court upheld the conviction but ruled that the trial court had miscalculated the sentence for hiring people to kill Carole Baskin.
  
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• Britney Spears Approved to Hire Own Lawyer in Conservatorship Case

  14-07-2021 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The judge overseeing the singer’s guardianship permitted the hiring of Mathew S. Rosengart, a prominent Hollywood lawyer and former federal prosecutor, on Wednesday.
  
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• The Lucky Jewel Collective Blurs Boundaries While Celebrating the Spirit of Craft

  14-07-2021 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  Lucky Jewel, an art-and-craft collective that originated in Chicago, hosted its first New York show at the end of June in the form of “Lucky Jewel IV: I Love This Place and I Love This World,” an exhibition that showcased the work of 33 artists assembled for a curated shopping experience over the course of just one weekend at the downtown gallery Lubov NYC. Pieces were scattered across the space, with bags hung from the ceiling and clotheslines decorated with pom-poms supporting make
  
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• Conservation Reveals Carved Medieval Tombstone May Depict Assassination of Scottish Monk

  14-07-2021 22:37 via artnews.com
  
  The excavation and conservation of a 13th-century tombstone at the ruins of Dundrennan Abbey in southwest Scotland revealed that the carving may illustrate the assassination of a medieval abbot, according to archaeologists at Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
  Dundrennan, meaning “hill of thorns” in Gaelic, is a Cistercian monastery dating back to the 12th century. It is perhaps most famous for hosting Mary, Queen of Scots on her last night in the country, before she fled to Englan
  
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• Louvre Abu Dhabi Launches $50,000 Prize to Spotlight Emerging Artists

  14-07-2021 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre Abu Dhabi, in partnership with the watch brand Richard Mille, is launching a new annual exhibition to spotlight the work of emerging artists who will also receive $50,000.
  The new exhibition series, titled “Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here,” will be conducted via an open-call process for contemporary artists working in any media to submit proposals to show work in the museum’s Forum space. An international jury will then choose four to six artists to show in the exhibitions
  
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• Two surprises for School of the Arts: A major donation, and a visit from alum Taye Diggs - 13WHAM-TV

  14-07-2021 22:22 via 13wham.com
  
  Two surprises for School of the Arts: A major donation, and a visit from alum Taye Diggs  13WHAM-TV
  
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• Things You’ve Been Missing

  14-07-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Collective effervescence, for one.
  
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• Kristen Richards, 69, Dies; Reshaped Architecture Journalism Online

  14-07-2021 21:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Her ArchNewsNow website connected architects, designers and journalists with its curated list of must-read articles from around the world.
  
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• Bernette Ford, Who Made Children’s Books More Diverse, Dies at 70

  14-07-2021 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  As a publishing executive and as an author, she sought to make sure that all children saw themselves in what they read.
  
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• Objet: Gem Palace Lotus Cuff

  14-07-2021 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  Samarth Kasliwal remembers that his late father, Munnu, considered it a crime to leave the underside of a piece of jewelry blank. Whatever touches the body must be beautiful, he believed, calling this “the wearer’s pleasure.” Not everyone agreed—but his father used to say to the doubters, “Why do you buy expensive underwear? It’s not important; no one’s really going to see it. It’s about your own happiness.”
  The Kasliwal family has been makin
  
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• Knopf Names Jordan Pavlin Its Editor in Chief

  14-07-2021 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Pavlin, a longtime editor at the publishing house who has worked with Ayana Mathis, Tommy Orange and Yaa Gyasi, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died in 2019.
  
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• ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Review: That’s Not Quite All, Folks

  14-07-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Looney Tunes characters are back on the court, this time with LeBron James, in this update to the 1996 live action/animation hybrid.
  
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• Hollywood Foreign Press Presented With Golden Globes Reform Plan

  14-07-2021 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Proposals for the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association include adding 50 members to its voting ranks to bring in more diversity and creating a for-profit spinoff company.
  
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• Jeff Bezos Gives $200 Million to National Air and Space Museum

  14-07-2021 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The donation will finance renovations and a new learning center at the Smithsonian museum on the National Mall.
  
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• Ballet Soloist’s ‘Swan Dive’ Is a Candid Account of Ballet Culture

  14-07-2021 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Georgina Pazcoguin, a New York City Ballet soloist, has written a page-turner of a memoir.
  
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• Ryuichi Sakamoto on Life, Nature and ‘Time’

  14-07-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician and artist, currently undergoing cancer treatment, unveils a music-theater work about dreams, reincarnation and humanity’s struggle.
  
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• Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice

  14-07-2021 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Andrew Haigh of “Looking” makes an Arctic adventure, filmed above Svalbard and featuring Colin Farrell as a frightening harpoonist.
  
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• Cannes: We Need to Talk About This Crazy Celine Dion Movie

  14-07-2021 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  “Aline,” an unofficial biopic of the singer, boasts a singular casting choice that has all of Cannes buzzing.
  
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• 'Aline': The Crazy Celine Dion Movie at Cannes

  14-07-2021 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  “Aline,” an unofficial biopic of the singer, boasts a singular casting choice that has all of Cannes buzzing.
  
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• How I Made This: Windy Chien’s Knotted Art

  14-07-2021 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  Humans have documented almost 4,000 different knots, many of them invented by sailors. In 2016, Windy Chien set out to learn a fraction of them. That year, the San Francisco–based artist—an avid sailor herself—decided to learn one knot a day, embarking on what would eventually become The Year of Knots, a book detailing her diligent creative journey. “I had this idea that by the end of the year I would be fluent in this language,” she told ARTnews. “I’d h
  
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• The Art of the Con

  14-07-2021 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  Émile Zola’s 1886 novel L’Oeuvre follows the doomed career of the painter Claude Lantier, the most talented of a band of rebellious young artists in 1860s Paris. A rough composite of Manet and Cézanne, Lantier exhibits his manifesto-like painting Plein Air, modeled on Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, at the 1863 Salon des Refusés, where it is roundly mocked:
  Some young fellows went into contortions, as if somebody had been tickling them. One lady
  
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• Georgina Pazcoguin Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture in 'Swan Dive'

  14-07-2021 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Georgina Pazcoguin, a New York City Ballet soloist, has written a page-turner of a memoir.
  
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• Taipei’s Thriving Art Scene Looks to Become an International Star

  14-07-2021 18:02 via artnews.com
  
  For a survey of what lies ahead as the art world looks forward to the future, ARTnews devoted part of the June-July 2021 issue of the magazine to 10 cities to watch: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Vancouver, Guadalajara, Bogotá, Oslo, Tallinn, Casablanca, Abu Dhabi, and Taipei. Stay tuned as each city joins related reports from Seoul and Paris online in the weeks to come.
  Taiwan, an island off the southeastern coast of mainland China with a population of more than 23 million,
  
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• 8 things to do this week: Cathedral Park Jazz Fest, Gresham Arts Festival, and Shakespeare outdoors - OregonLive

  14-07-2021 17:50 via oregonlive.com
  
  8 things to do this week: Cathedral Park Jazz Fest, Gresham Arts Festival, and Shakespeare outdoors  OregonLive
  
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• New Playwrights Horizons Season Includes Will Arbery World Premiere

  14-07-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Arbery’s “Corsicana” was added to the theater’s slate for next summer, along with four plays previously announced for 2021.
  
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• Road Hard: Kit Keith at William Shearburn Gallery

  14-07-2021 16:34 via artnews.com
  
  Of the fifty letter-size drawings of women’s faces in “I Live Alone,” only a few bear text. “Content,” states one, the letters articulating the neckline of a slightly dizzy visage. “Road Hard,” says another, the hair neat, mouth firm, and face sharply rendered. On each piece, Kit Keith has delicately applied small, watery strokes of black acrylic to dimpled onion skin stationery, a found material bearing the letterhead of a bygone Missouri circuit court
  
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• Reconnecting With Keith Haring’s Grace House Mural (in 13 Pieces)

  14-07-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ever wonder what happened to the artist’s 85-foot stairwell, sold at auction? It’s at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver — sliced and diced and on loan from a collector.
  
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• Unique Whitesburg media and arts group gets Bloomberg funding - ABC 36 News - WTVQ

  14-07-2021 15:55 via wtvq.com
  
  Unique Whitesburg media and arts group gets Bloomberg funding - ABC 36 News  WTVQ
  
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• Italy Banishes Cruise Ships from Venice, Porn Site Offers Guides to Nude Art in Museums, and More: Morning Links for July 14, 2021

  14-07-2021 15:34 via artnews.com
  
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  IT IS DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN. The Italian government has barred gargantuan cruise ships from Venice’s historic waterways, declaring them a national monument, the Associated Press reports. The ban takes effect on August 1. If this all sounds familiar, you are not wrong: in April, an Italian decree ban
  
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• ‘Dana H.’ and ‘Is This a Room’ Will Share Broadway Stage

  14-07-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In an unusual joint venture, the two acclaimed documentary plays will alternate performances at the Lyceum Theater this fall.
  
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• James Gunn Nearly Blew Up His Career. Now He’s Back With ‘The Suicide Squad’

  14-07-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Guardians of the Galaxy” director talks about the Twitter controversy that got him temporarily fired from Marvel, and his crossover to the DC franchise.
  
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• ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Review: The Ladies Who Punch

  14-07-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This neon-lit, female-led Netflix shoot-‘em-up tries way too hard to be cool.
  
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• New 'Arts on Broadway' debuts along southside of Granville's main street - The Newark Advocate

  14-07-2021 11:12 via newarkadvocate.com
  New 'Arts on Broadway' debuts along southside of Granville's main street  The Newark Advocate
  
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• ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog

  14-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The unlikely hit on Apple TV+ begins its second season on July 23. Jason Sudeikis and his creative team tell us how they made it happen.
  
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• Islands in the Stream, That Is Where We Are

  14-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New York is almost entirely set on a group of islands. Here’s how to enjoy some of the lesser-known ones.
  
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• ‘Intimacies,’ a Coolly Written Novel About the Arts of Translation and Power

  14-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, a woman adrift takes a job at an international criminal court.
  
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• When Rembrandt Met an Elephant

  14-07-2021 10:33 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition in Amsterdam explores the wandering life and untimely death of Hansken, an Asian elephant who became a spectacle in 17th-century Europe.
  
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• Late-Night Hosts Rib Rudy Giuliani Over New Election Night Reports

  14-07-2021 08:27 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s an age-old strategy: After a devastating loss, just say you won,” Stephen Colbert joked of Giuliani on Tuesday.
  
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• Cannes Par Jour: Days 4 & 5 | Arts - Harvard Crimson

  14-07-2021 07:03 via thecrimson.com
  
  Cannes Par Jour: Days 4 & 5 | Arts  Harvard Crimson
  
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• Media arts and design professor awarded fellowship to study representations of Black women in pop culture - James Madison University

  14-07-2021 06:49 via jmu.edu
  Media arts and design professor awarded fellowship to study representations of Black women in pop culture  James Madison University
  
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• California Theaters, Facing a Shaky Future, to Get $50 Million in Aid

  14-07-2021 06:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom and fellow Democrats responded to strong lobbying from small nonprofit theaters to support their reopening.
  
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• Britney Spears Conservatorship: Will She Ask to End It?

  14-07-2021 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday could address how the singer’s next lawyer will be chosen and who will control her finances.
  
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• Britney Spears Conservatorship Hearing: What Happens Next?

  14-07-2021 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday could address how the singer’s next lawyer will be chosen and who will control her finances.
  
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• Kids return to stage and studio through Arts Alive - Scranton Times-Tribune

  14-07-2021 06:00 via thetimes-tribune.com
  
  Kids return to stage and studio through Arts Alive  Scranton Times-Tribune
  
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• Fiber arts business in Greentown 'revives' church building - Kokomo Tribune

  14-07-2021 06:00 via kokomotribune.com
  
  Fiber arts business in Greentown 'revives' church building  Kokomo Tribune
  
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• Amplified Arts returns to the woods | News | eagletimes.com - eagletimes.com

  14-07-2021 06:00 via eagletimes.com
  Amplified Arts returns to the woods | News | eagletimes.com  eagletimes.com
  
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• Hollywood martial arts legend Jackie Chan says he'd love to join the Communist Party - Insider

  14-07-2021 05:42 via insider.com
  
  Hollywood martial arts legend Jackie Chan says he'd love to join the Communist Party  Insider
  
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