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• Proceeds From Rare Treasures Sold at Auction Help Steady Jewish History Museum

  02-12-2021 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In June, Stuart Weitzman sold one-of-a-kind collectibles through Sotheby’s. Now, he’s using the proceeds to secure the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
  
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• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Maps New Meanings

  02-12-2021 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  At 81, the artist is still making clever and cutting work that juxtaposes symbols of American empire with those of Native culture.
  
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• Records for Amoako Boafo, Avery Singer, Bernard Buffett Set in Christie’s $192 M. Hong Kong Evening Sale

  02-12-2021 23:14 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday night in Hong Kong, Christie’s held two back-to-back modern and contemporary art evening sales that raked in a total of HKD 1.5 billion ($192 million) with premiums. Together, the two sales hammered within the pre-sale expectation of HKD 1.05 billion-HKD 1.5 billion ($134 million-$197 million), which is calculated without buyer’s premiums included.
  The four-hour two-part event saw 73 of the 76 works on offer sell, achieving a 96-percent sell-through rate. One lot, a pain
  
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• Records for Amoako Boafo, Avery Singer, Bernard Buffet Set in Christie’s $192 M. Hong Kong Evening Sale

  02-12-2021 23:14 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday night in Hong Kong, Christie’s held two back-to-back modern and contemporary art evening sales that raked in a total of HKD 1.5 billion ($192 million) with premiums. Together, the two sales hammered within the pre-sale expectation of HKD 1.05 billion-HKD 1.5 billion ($134 million-$197 million), which is calculated without buyer’s premiums included.
  The four-hour two-part event saw 73 of the 76 works on offer sell, achieving a 96-percent sell-through rate. One lot, a pain
  
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• Art Basel Parties with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alicia Keys

  02-12-2021 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Loewe took over Twist, Superblue held a concert and CORE auctioned off art.
  
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• Sold out “Elf” makes merry at Lehi Arts Center - lehifreepress.com

  02-12-2021 23:02 via lehifreepress.com
  
  Sold out “Elf” makes merry at Lehi Arts Center  lehifreepress.com
  
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• Top 10 Percent of NFT Traders Perform 85 Percent of All Transactions, New Research Reveals

  02-12-2021 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  Though the NFT market is on everybody’s mind, the details of how it functions and who it rewards are still murky. This past October, however, a team of researchers with funding from the Alan Turing Institute released one of the first papers to analyze the NFT market. Titled “Mapping the NFT revolution: market trends, trade networks, and visual features,” Matthieu Nadini et al. published in Nature some surprising results.
  Despite the fact that NFTs have been touted as a democrat
  
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• Saint Laurent Displays Paintings by Designer Sho Shibuya at Waterfront Showcase in Miami

  02-12-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  For Miami Art Week, the fashion brand Saint Laurent tapped designer and artist Sho Shibuya for an exhibition mounted on the sands near 17th street. The French luxury label’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello, commissioned Shibuya to show a series of painted newspapers made as part of his series “Sunrise from a Small Window.”
  Shibuya, the New York-based founder of the creative studio Placeholder, started the series last year in response to the pandemic. In April 2020, he beg
  
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• Loudon High School culinary arts program catering to the community - WATE 6 On Your Side

  02-12-2021 22:30 via wate.com
  Loudon High School culinary arts program catering to the community  WATE 6 On Your Side
  
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• Three Great Documentaries to Stream

  02-12-2021 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  A look at standout nonfiction films, from classics to overlooked recent works, that will reward your time.
  
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• ‘Citizen Ashe’ Review: Advantage, Arthur Ashe

  02-12-2021 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  This warm, sympathetic documentary portrait traces the career of the tennis champion and pioneer who smashed through history.
  
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• What African Americans Thought of Barack Obama

  02-12-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Claude A. Clegg III’s “The Black President” looks at the often surprising reactions of African Americans to the Obama administration.
  
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• Ron Cephas Jones Has Something to Prove Again

  02-12-2021 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The Emmy-winning “This Is Us” actor received a double-lung transplant after a secret battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Now he’s back onstage in “Clyde’s” on Broadway.
  
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• Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Redesign Is Approved

  02-12-2021 20:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The much-debated plan by Hiroshi Sugimoto will overhaul the Brutalist design by Gordon Bunshaft, adding open-air galleries, a new water feature and improved access.
  
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• What Holiday Events Are Happening In NYC? Our Guide to the Season

  02-12-2021 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  A rundown of seasonal celebrations in every borough, including the return of the Rockettes, miniature trains in the Bronx and light shows in Brooklyn.
  
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• “Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts” Releases New Issue, Calls for Guest Editors and Submissions - Hyperallergic

  02-12-2021 20:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts” Releases New Issue, Calls for Guest Editors and Submissions  Hyperallergic
  
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• Ace Frehley of KISS kicks off Mount Vernon Arts Consortium's 2022 Season - knoxpages.com

  02-12-2021 20:00 via knoxpages.com
  Ace Frehley of KISS kicks off Mount Vernon Arts Consortium's 2022 Season  knoxpages.com
  
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• Duke Athletics, Arts and University Communications Videos Sweep Up Emmy Nominations - Duke Today

  02-12-2021 19:54 via today.duke.edu
  
  Duke Athletics, Arts and University Communications Videos Sweep Up Emmy Nominations  Duke Today
  
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• Students reflect on their favorite arts events of the year - University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily

  02-12-2021 19:36 via cavalierdaily.com
  Students reflect on their favorite arts events of the year  University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
  
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• Betye Saar, Hugh Hayden Conjure Mysteries with Everyday Objects in Standout ICA Miami Shows

  02-12-2021 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  As is often the case at art fairs, where artworks vie for the attention of eyes stimulated by so much overabundance, there is easily legible art aplenty at Art Basel Miami Beach. So it comes as a bit of respite to see standout shows that reward contemplation of the kind encouraged at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Betye Saar and Hugh Hayden, two artists with shows now on view, could not be more different—they are separated by multiple generations, and they work in seemingly diffe
  
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• Gagosian Taps Former Museum Strategy Head Christina You to Expand in China

  02-12-2021 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian has appointed Christina You as the gallery’s China representative. You joins the mega-dealer after a six-year tenure at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, where her most recent post was director of development and creative strategy. In her new role, she will work with clients and collectors in the region in order to expand the dealer’s presence in China. Her new position is effective immediately.
  In her role at the UCAA Center for Contemporary Art, You led the form
  
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• ‘Try Harder!’ Review: California Overachievement Test

  02-12-2021 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary from Debbie Lum goes inside a top-performing San Francisco public high school to see how students are preparing for the future.
  
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• Marilyn Manson Loses a Grammy Nomination, and a Songwriter Gains One

  02-12-2021 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The Recording Academy has made various changes to its list for the 64th awards, adding Linda Chorney, whose name appeared on an earlier version of the ballot, back to the competition.
  
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• ‘Torn’ Review: A Climber’s Son Explores His Father’s Legacy

  02-12-2021 18:14 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary on the life and death of the mountaineer Alex Lowe demonstrates how unexpected bonds can form around those in grief.
  
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• ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen

  02-12-2021 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  A Danish documentary uses animation to tell the poignant, complicated story of an Afghan refugee.
  
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• The Rhythmic Arts Project at the Lobero - Santa Barbara Independent

  02-12-2021 18:07 via independent.com
  
  The Rhythmic Arts Project at the Lobero  Santa Barbara Independent
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Names Humberto Moro as Deputy Director of Program

  02-12-2021 17:43 via artnews.com
  
  The Dia Art Foundation has named Humberto Moro as its next deputy director of program, a new position to oversee all elements of programming for the organization based in New York and active in satellite locations including the Hudson Valley, New Mexico, Utah, and Germany. Moro has previously worked as deputy director and senior curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and as an adjunct curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. He also recently completed a Center for Curatorial Leade
  
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• For Andy Warhol, Faith and Sexuality Intertwined

  02-12-2021 16:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The Brooklyn Museum shows how Catholicism seeped into his art, complicating our view of the Pop master.
  
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• In a Museum Collaboration with Snapchat, Alex Israel Asks: What’s in a Brand?

  02-12-2021 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Though Snapchat is usually associated with teens using dog filters and disappearing chats, just before the pandemic, the social media company partnered with Alex Israel to create something a little less ephemeral.
  Now on view at The Bass museum in Miami through May 1, “Alex Israel x Snapchat” is the latest in the Los Angeles–based artist’s long running collaborations with luxury brands (Louis Vuitton, Rimowa, Vilebrequin, to name a few). Over the years, he’s consist
  
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• The T List: Holiday Gift Guide, Part I

  02-12-2021 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Kitschy ornaments, handwoven throws, a pine-scented essential oil — and more.
  
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• Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim

  02-12-2021 16:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The philosopher-artist reveled in nature and in exploring her inner life. The phosphorescence of her work has not dimmed.
  
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• Arts commission criticizes proposed changes to Torpedo Factory - Alexandria Times

  02-12-2021 16:12 via alextimes.com
  
  Arts commission criticizes proposed changes to Torpedo Factory  Alexandria Times
  
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• Fabric of Impulse: Fiber Artist Olga de Amaral Melds Artistic Spontaneity with Slow Craft

  02-12-2021 16:09 via artnews.com
  
  “The mind was following, not guiding.” This is how Olga de Amaral looks back at her own work, from the lofty summit of a nearly seven-decade career. “Very little planning went into it,” she writes in her most recent catalogue. “It all happened in the moment, following impulses, the intuitions of the moment that came in the process of doing. My creative language developed in this way. Without conceptualization.”
  That approach isn’t unusual for an artist o
  
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• Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close

  02-12-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a strategic feat of survival, the Lab, a Los Angeles dance studio stalwart, has transformed itself into a creative agency and “lifestyle brand.”
  
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• Breaking Up with the Arts - lareviewofbooks

  02-12-2021 14:40 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Breaking Up with the Arts  lareviewofbooks
  
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• Tempe Festival of the Arts is back. Here's what to expect, plus what roads will be closed - The Arizona Republic

  02-12-2021 14:30 via azcentral.com
  Tempe Festival of the Arts is back. Here's what to expect, plus what roads will be closed  The Arizona Republic
  
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• Vanguard Composer Alvin Lucier Dies, New Details of Rubell D.C. Museum, and More: Morning Links for December 2, 2021

  02-12-2021 13:58 via artnews.com
  
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  ALVIN LUCIER, the avant-garde composer of unconventional means and immense influence, has died at 90, the New York Times reports. Trained in classical composition, Lucier had early encounters with pieces by radical figures like Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage that pushed him to make venturesome work. His most famous piece may be 
  
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• Best Albums of 2021

  02-12-2021 13:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Less isolation didn’t mean a return to normalcy. Albums with big feelings and room for catharsis made the most powerful connections.
  
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• Best Jazz Albums of 2021

  02-12-2021 13:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In a year of continued uncertainty, musicians held their colleagues, and listeners, close.
  
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• ‘Wolf’ Review: Animal Behavior

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This psychological thriller unfolds in a brutal clinic for young people who feel they are animals trapped in human bodies.
  
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• ‘The Advent Calendar’ Review: A December Full of Tricks and Treats

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this Christmastime French horror film, a woman struggles against a powerful, old demon eager to rope her into a Faustian bargain.
  
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• ‘Single All the Way’ Review: Cookie Cutter Christmas

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix holiday rom-com rests its family-friendly shenanigans on a display of chemistry that never materializes.
  
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• ‘Silent Night’ Review: Waiting for the End of the World

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this feature from Camille Griffin, a group of friends facing global disaster have one last Christmas dinner.
  
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• ‘Red Pill’ Review: The Horror of a Weekend of Racism and Extremism

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tonya Pinkins is in the director’s chair for this bizarre face-off between political opponents in which rhetoric is the least of the weapons.
  
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• ‘Listening to Kenny G’ Review: Good Sax?

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Penny Lane’s documentary about the superstar sax player Kenny G shows an artist who can be defensive and self-satisfied almost simultaneously.
  
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• ‘Benedetta’ Review: Habit Storming

  02-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Paul Verhoeven takes us to a nunnery where faith, eroticism and the Black Death make for an unholy good time.
  
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• Top 10 arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 2-8 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  02-12-2021 11:25 via heraldtribune.com
  Top 10 arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 2-8  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• Mural Arts is flooding Kensington with public art. But is that what the neighborhood needs? - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  02-12-2021 11:08 via inquirer.com
  
  Mural Arts is flooding Kensington with public art. But is that what the neighborhood needs?  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Veteran Authors and Mistletoe Descend on the Best-Seller List

  02-12-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  But where are the menorahs and Kwanzaa candles?
  
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• Shifting Styles and Blue Moods in the Pages of a Graphic Novel

  02-12-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ed Park’s latest Graphic Content column looks at new work from Matt Madden and R. Kikuo Johnson.
  
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