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• Activists Protest Christie’s Over Sale of Taíno Objects: ‘These Aren’t Just Cultural Heritage’

  09-11-2021 23:39 via artnews.com
  
  A sale of Pre-Columbian art and Taíno artifacts at Christie’s set to take place in Paris tomorrow has become the subject of protests by Taíno activists and allies.
  The sale, titled “Pre-Columbian Art & Taino Masterworks,” includes 38 works from the Fiore Arts Collection of Taíno art. Many of the works in the sale are priced between $5,000 and $200,000. Among them are ritual spatulas carved from manatee bones, as well as shell, wood, and terra cotta orna
  
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• Queer|Art’s Inaugural Black Artist Mentorship Award Goes to Pamela Sneed

  09-11-2021 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  The New York–based nonprofit Queer|Art has launched a new prize, the Black Queer|Art|Mentorship Award for Artists and Organizers, the first of which will go to poet and artist Pamela Sneed. The organization’s fifth annual Prize for Sustained Achievement has also been awarded to photographer Lola Flash. Both artists will receive a cash prize of $10,000 each.
  “Together, these awards represent a natural outgrowth of Queer|Art’s work and values by honoring LGBTQ+ artists both
  
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• Aperture Receives Landmark $1 M. Grant to Establish Endowment for Publications Program

  09-11-2021 22:57 via artnews.com
  
  The Andrea Frank Foundation (AFF), a New York–based organization founded by late photographer Robert Frank, announced it has pledged $1 million to the establish an endowment for the photography-focused nonprofit Aperture.
  The endowment will be dedicated to supporting Aperture’s publications program, which is known for producing important monographs of photographers, and is a first for the organization. As part of the initiative, AFF and Aperture will co-producing a new edition of Fra
  
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• Aperture Receives Landmark $1 M. Gift to Establish Endowment for Publishing Program

  09-11-2021 22:57 via artnews.com
  
  The Andrea Frank Foundation (AFF), a New York–based organization founded by late photographer Robert Frank, announced it has pledged $1 million to the establish an endowment for the photography-focused nonprofit Aperture.
  The endowment will be dedicated to supporting Aperture’s publishing program, which is known for producing important monographs of photographers, and is a first for the organization. As part of the initiative, AFF and Aperture will co-producing a new edition of Frank
  
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• Aperture Receives Landmark $1 M. Gift to Establish Endowment for Publications Program

  09-11-2021 22:57 via artnews.com
  
  The Andrea Frank Foundation (AFF), a New York–based organization founded by late photographer Robert Frank, announced it has pledged $1 million to the establish an endowment for the photography-focused nonprofit Aperture.
  The endowment will be dedicated to supporting Aperture’s publications program, which is known for producing important monographs of photographers, and is a first for the organization. As part of the initiative, AFF and Aperture will co-producing a new edition of Fra
  
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• Harvard Professor to Sell Barkley Hendricks Portrait for Anti-Racism Cause

  09-11-2021 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  More than 50 years after he first bought it, a professor at Harvard University is selling a portrait by Barkley Hendricks made when the artist was in the National Guard. Titled FTA (1968), the work will be sold during Phillips’s contemporary art evening in New York on November 17. Proceeds from the sale will go to benefit anti-racism initiatives.
  The painting is estimated to sell for $4 million–$6 million, and if it finds a buyer for a price anywhere within that range, the work could
  
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• The Head of the Mana Contemporary Arts Center Has Been Indicted for Allegedly Dodging $7.8 Million in Taxes - artnet News

  09-11-2021 22:00
  
  The Head of the Mana Contemporary Arts Center Has Been Indicted for Allegedly Dodging $7.8 Million in Taxes  artnet News
  
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• Green Valley residents express concerns about updated arts plan - ARLnow

  09-11-2021 21:55
  
  Green Valley residents express concerns about updated arts plan  ARLnow
  
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• Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New

  09-11-2021 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Wu Han and David Finckel take a conservative course navigating passionate feelings about the future of classical music.
  
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• Russell Shorto Will Lead New Institute Dedicated to the History of New York Community Activism 

  09-11-2021 20:34 via artnews.com
  
  The New York Historical Society has named Russell Shorto as executive director of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute for New York City History, Politics, and Community Activism, which focuses on community activism in the 20th and 21st-century.
  Shorto, a narrative historian and journalist, is known for his chronicles of New York’s past, in particular its origins as a Dutch colony. As the head of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute, Short will oversee the creation of a new historical arch
  
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• Hard Truths: Fools for Love

  09-11-2021 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  I feel like a fool. A month ago, I received an email from a foreign art collector who said he admired my paintings and wanted to buy one for his wife as a birthday present. Rent was coming up, and, honestly, it felt validating that someone liked my work. We went back and forth before settling on a large painting. He sent a check that included a few thousand extra to cover shipping and payment for the art handlers, which had to be in cash. A couple guys with a truck came to collect the work. It a
  
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• The ‘Rust’ Shooting Spurs a Debate Over Using Guns on Film Sets

  09-11-2021 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Alec Baldwin, who fatally shot a cinematographer with a gun he had been told was safe, has called for productions to hire police officers to monitor gun safety.
  
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• Taíno People Want to Stop Christie’s Sale of Artifacts

  09-11-2021 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The auction house says none of the objects to be sold in Paris on Wednesday are from illicit sources. But to those with roots in the Indigenous Caribbean culture, no price can be put on its history.
  
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• At a Four-Day NFT Conference in New York, Start-Up Wunderkinds and Art-World Elite Mingle

  09-11-2021 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  The four-day NFT.NYC conference that took place in New York last week brought together speakers to talk abut a range of subjects like gamefication, decentralized finances, fashion, and, of course, the metaverse. But it was the spinoff events that people really came for: the collector dinners, the Rare Pepe gallery, and the countless parties that may not have been an official part of the conference but were no less highly anticipated.
  At these events, hedge fund managers mingled with start-up wun
  
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• ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions

  09-11-2021 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The creator Alena Smith had planned to set the final season during the conflict. “What we did not know was that there would be a pandemic, and that it would have echoes of the Civil War,” she said.
  
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• New Initiative Aims to Change How Movies Portray Muslims

  09-11-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An advocacy group has created a worker database with help from Disney to bring more Muslims into the filmmaking process.
  
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• With a $10 M. Gift, Otis College Establishes Scholarship Honoring Charles White’s Teaching Legacy

  09-11-2021 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  A local philanthropist has given Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles a $10 million gift, part of which will go toward establishing an endowment for a four-year scholarship program in perpetuity named after artist Charles White, who taught at the school during the 1960s and ’70s.
  The donation comes from Mei-Lee Ney, who is the chair of Otis’s board of trustees, and matches the largest gift the college has ever received. The first scholarship will be awarded to a student from
  
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• Arts Council awards inaugural $20,000 Artists Elevated grants to two female creators - The Columbus Dispatch

  09-11-2021 19:19
  
  Arts Council awards inaugural $20,000 Artists Elevated grants to two female creators  The Columbus Dispatch
  
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• Jaime Botín Will Not Go to Jail for Smuggling Picasso Due to ‘Incurable Illness’

  09-11-2021 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  Jaime Botín, a prominent art collector and the president of Spanish bank Grupo Santander, won’t go to jail for attempting to smuggle a Pablo Picasso painting out of Spain because he has an “incurable illness,” El País reports. The collector had been expected to spend three years behind bars.
  In 2017, Spanish authorities raided Botín’s yacht, where they found Picasso’s Head of a Young Woman (1906), a Rose Period painting. The work had been deemed
  
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• Anthony Meier Named President of the Art Dealers Association of America

  09-11-2021 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  Anthony Meier, who founded the San Francisco gallery Anthony Meier Fine Arts, will be the next president of the Art Dealers Association of America, an industry group that counts 190 galleries among its members. He succeeds dealer Andrew Schoelkopf, who led ADAA from 2018 until early 2021.
  Meier has served on the ADAA’s leadership team since 2007, and was previously vice president of the board of directors and chair of the Art Show Committee, an advisory group to the ADAA’s annual fai
  
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• Dean Stockwell, Child Actor Turned ‘Quantum Leap’ Star, Dies at 85

  09-11-2021 17:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who started his career alongside Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, later had signature roles in “Married to the Mob” and “Blue Velvet.”
  
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• The Fresh Prince of Belles-Lettres? Will Smith Has a Memoir.

  09-11-2021 17:28 via nytimes.com
  
  From rap stardom to movie stardom, “Will” traces its hero’s quest out of West Philadelphia.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Will,” by Will Smith with Mark Manson

  09-11-2021 17:28 via nytimes.com
  
  From rap stardom to movie stardom, “Will” traces its hero’s quest out of West Philadelphia.
  
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• How Cheech Marin’s Forthcoming Art Center Is Changing the Game for Chicanx Art

  09-11-2021 16:14 via artnews.com
  
  What does Rembrandt’s Night Watch have to do with Chicanx art? For actor and comedian Cheech Marin, it was the inspiration for building a collection that could one day be the basis for a museum. In the 1980s, at the height of his Cheech & Chong days, Marin had started collecting Chicanx art. He visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and spent nearly an hour gazing at Rembrandt’s 14-foot-wide masterpiece—“looking at the painting and taking in every aspect of it,” h
  
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• Thandiwe Newton Feeds Her Soul With Critical Race Theory and Cleo Sol

  09-11-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Westworld” actress talks about her new Audible recording of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and why too much entertainment can be bad for you.
  
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• How the Mosh Pit and ‘Raging’ Came to Hip-Hop

  09-11-2021 14:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld turned attention to how rap festival performances are increasingly oriented toward the rowdy.
  
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• The Future Is Big. So Courtney Barnett Still Sings About Small Things.

  09-11-2021 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  This Australian musician’s third album, “Things Take Time, Take Time,” rolls in a breakup, therapy and the pandemic as well as death and other certainties.
  
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• Artist Lance De Los Reyes Has Died, New York Museums Hope for Tourists, and More: Morning Links for November 9, 2021

  09-11-2021 14:12 via artnews.com
  
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  A GRAFFITI LEGEND IS GONE. Lance De Los Reyes, a revered New York graffiti artist who went by the name Rambo, has died at the age of 44, the Art Newspaper reports. A cause of death has not been released. De Los Reyes was known for public works that spelled out gnomic phrases in angular script. He worked for a period with Shepard
  
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• Anonymous Was a Woman Names 2021 Winners, Expands Award Program

  09-11-2021 13:31 via artnews.com
  
  The New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman has revealed the winners of its 2021 awards, each of which carries a $25,000 purse. For two decades, the awards have been given annually to women-identifying artists over the age of 40.Now, for the first time, Anonymous Was a Woman is dramatically growing its program. Thanks to two anonymous donors, the organization will give out an additional $300,000 in funding to 12 artists. Through the donors’ gifts—one of which was mad
  
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• Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From a New York au pair to a kathak dancer in India to an aspiring mathematician in Oslo, the heroines of three debut novels seek solace in vocation.
  
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• Three Y.A. Novels About the Challenges and Charms of Growing Up

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World” (by Benjamin Alire Sáenz), “Bad Girls Never Say Die” (by Jennifer Mathieu) and “Himawari House” (by Harmony Becker) all explore, through very different approaches, what it means to grow up.
  
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• The Superheroes From House of Slay Are Here to Stay

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How five fashion friends got a starring role fighting discrimination and hate in a new comic book series.
  
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• Scholars Cringe at the Term ‘Dark Ages.’ Dan Jones Explains Why.

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jones’s book “Powers and Thrones” is a comprehensive history of the Middle Ages that links the medieval era’s genuine achievements to modern times.
  
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• Reporting on a Chaotic and Unfamiliar Place That Used to Be Home

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “O Beautiful,” all that stands between a writer and the career of her dreams is a trip to the land of her nightmares.
  
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• Lily King Tries Her Hand at Something New: Short Stories

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Five Tuesdays in Winter,” the longtime novelist strings together a series of small worlds that form their own solar system.
  
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• How a 55-Year-Old California Teacher Became a Bollywood Actor

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Richard Klein left behind his life as a Hebrew day school teacher in California and became an actor in Mumbai, often playing a “mean British officer.”
  
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• A New Novel by Louise Erdrich Haunted by Covid and George Floyd’s Death

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Set in Minneapolis mostly during 2020, “The Sentence,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, is a ghost story about America’s current traumas that also evokes those of our collective past.
  
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• 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists

  09-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These fantasy novels — “Year of the Reaper,” by Makiia Lucier; “Beasts of Prey,” by Ayana Gray; “Skin of the Sea,” by Natasha Bowen; and “Gilded,” by Marissa Meyer — will transport you to magical worlds.
  
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• Late Night Goes After Ted Cruz for Going After Big Bird

  09-11-2021 08:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Jimmy Kimmel said conservatives like Ted Cruz have some bizarre beliefs: “The elections are rigged, the deep state runs the world, and Big Bird is working for Merck now.”
  
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• Instructional Materials for Visual Arts and Music - Letters (CA Dept of Education) - Southern California Online Academy

  09-11-2021 07:11
  Instructional Materials for Visual Arts and Music - Letters (CA Dept of Education)  Southern California Online Academy
  
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• Cultural trust leaders lay out priorities for $16.9M to help arts and music spaces - Austin Monitor

  09-11-2021 07:03
  
  Cultural trust leaders lay out priorities for $16.9M to help arts and music spaces  Austin Monitor
  
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• U.S. Allows Vaccinated Foreign Travelers to Enter

  09-11-2021 01:45 via nytimes.com
  
  On Monday, after more than 18 months, restrictions that kept families separated and cost the global travel industry hundreds of billions of dollars were lifted.
  
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• With Tears, Hugs and Balloons, U.S. Allows Vaccinated Foreign Travelers to Enter

  09-11-2021 00:33 via nytimes.com
  
  On Monday, after more than 18 months, restrictions that kept families separated and cost the global travel industry hundreds of billions of dollars were lifted.
  
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