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• Greg Tate, Influential Critic of Black Culture, Dies at 64

  08-12-2021 23:43 via nytimes.com
  
  His writing for The Village Voice and other publications helped elevate hip-hop and street art to the same planes as jazz and Abstract Expressionism.
  
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• Agreement could allow sale of Bennington arts center - Bennington Banner

  08-12-2021 23:41 via benningtonbanner.com
  
  Agreement could allow sale of Bennington arts center  Bennington Banner
  
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• ‘Being the Ricardos’ Review: Kiss, Fight, Rinse, Repeat

  08-12-2021 23:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem star as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s drama about one very bad week.
  
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• Puppies Puppies Wins Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland’s Prize

  08-12-2021 22:58 via artnews.com
  
  Jade Kuriki Olivo, an artist who works under the moniker Puppies Puppies, has won Toby’s Prize, a biennial award given out by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio.
  In the past, the award came with $50,000, $25,000 of which went toward a new commission by the museum. The museum’s announcement did not state how much money Puppies had won, however, and a representative for the institution said that the artist had requested that the amount not be listed.
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• Major Retrospective of Robert Indiana’s Sculptures to Open in England Next Spring

  08-12-2021 22:44 via artnews.com
  
  A preeminent American Pop artist is making his full-scale British debut. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England has announced a retrospective of Robert Indiana’s work to open next March and run through January 2023. Spanning 60 years of the artist’s career, this will be the first survey of Indiana’s sculptures outside the United States.
  Indiana, who died in 2018 at the age of 90, is widely celebrated as a pioneer of the Pop art movement, though he often bristled at the associa
  
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• Long-Unseen Van Dyck Pendant Portraits Fetch $8.2 M. at Sotheby’s

  08-12-2021 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  In their first appearance at auction in four decades, two paintings by Anthony van Dyck depicting a married couple from Antwerp sold for £6.2 million ($8.2 million) at Sotheby’s, achieving the second-highest price for the artist at auction.
  Sold together as a single lot during a Sotheby’s Old Masters sale in London on Wednesday evening, the two portraits had remained in private hands since 1976, when they were sold at auction for £38,000.
  The sum paid for the pendant port
  
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• Stockton is awarding $50K in arts grants for 2022. Here's how you can apply - Stockton Record

  08-12-2021 22:42 via recordnet.com
  Stockton is awarding $50K in arts grants for 2022. Here's how you can apply  Stockton Record
  
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• NFT Cloud Initiative Aims to Allow Collectors to Own Their Data

  08-12-2021 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Three years ago, Fred Jin and Kenzi Wang had an ambitious idea: What if they created one of the world’s first decentralized data clouds? “It was obvious that a consumer-focused data ecosystem was needed,” Jin said. “We believed that people should own their data and choose which applications to connect that data with.”
  Currently, major companies like Google and Amazon own the data clouds where the majority of our information is stored. That has become a sore point fo
  
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• Does It Make Sense to Categorize People by Generation?

  08-12-2021 22:14 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Generation Myth,” Bobby Duffy deconstructs the stereotypes that have built up around millennials, boomers and other cohorts.
  
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• Catharsis Songs

  08-12-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Big feelings, big playlist.
  
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• ‘Fatal Distraction’ Review: Parents Go Through the Unthinkable

  08-12-2021 21:51 via nytimes.com
  
  In the documentary by Susan Morgan Cooper, a father is on trial after his baby dies in the back seat of a hot car.
  
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• From Gentileschi to Tourmaline, Getty to Showcase Recent Acquisitions in New Exhibition

  08-12-2021 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  Later this month, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles will mount an exhibition featuring 20 of its latest acquisitions, culled from a large cache of purchases made during the pandemic.
  Opening on December 14 at the institution’s Getty Center location, “Acquisitions 2021: Collecting for the Museum” will feature works spanning the Getty’s six collecting categories of painting, drawing, photography, antiquities, decorative arts, and manuscripts.
  Visitors to the exhibition will f
  
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• Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80

  08-12-2021 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  For six decades, the folk singer has chronicled his woes and loves on records he’s mostly made himself. His new album celebrates that independence — and the community it fostered.
  
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• Who’s That Art Dealer in the Beatles Documentary?

  08-12-2021 21:01 via artnews.com
  
  Just shy of the three-hour mark in episode two of Peter Jackson’s new Beatles documentary Get Back, as the band is rehearsing “Let It Be,” an impeccably dressed gentleman with slicked-back hair glides into the studio while John Lennon looks up and sings, to the tune the nascent song was taking,“Ah, here’s to Robert Fraser.” The film then identifies the visitor, in text at the bottom of the screen, as none other than “Art dealer Robert Fraser.”
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• The Peerless Imagination of Greg Tate

  08-12-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For four decades, he set the critical standard for elegantly intricate assessments of music, art, literature and more, writing dynamically about the resilience and paradoxes of Black creativity and life.
  
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• ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ Review: Candace Bushnell Dishes Hot Details

  08-12-2021 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  In her one-woman Off Broadway show, the “Sex and the City” author invites audiences behind the scenes of her life with a wink and a cocktail.
  
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• The Arts Scene: First Fridays are great Fridays in Ellensburg - Yakima Herald-Republic

  08-12-2021 20:14 via yakimaherald.com
  
  The Arts Scene: First Fridays are great Fridays in Ellensburg  Yakima Herald-Republic
  
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• Newly Excavated Burial Grounds in Egypt Reveal Ancient Mummies with Gold Tongues

  08-12-2021 20:08 via artnews.com
  
  If you found yourself intrigued by an ancient mummy with a tongue wrapped in golden foil unearthed in Alexandria earlier this year, you are in luck: two more mummies like it have been discovered at a site in Minya, Egypt.
  On Sunday, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Facebook that a University of Barcelona–led archaeological mission had begun researching two burial tombs that may date back to the 26th Dynasty, which is believed to span from 664 B.C.E. to 525 B.C.E. On
  
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• The Oscars Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them.

  08-12-2021 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The ratings flop that was the last ceremony provided useful lessons in what not to do. But there are steps the academy can take for an actually enjoyable evening.
  
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• Researchers Uncover New Links Between Arts Programming and Social Action - NYU News

  08-12-2021 20:04 via nyu.edu
  Researchers Uncover New Links Between Arts Programming and Social Action  NYU News
  
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• Christie’s NFT Auction with OpenSea Fails to Impress, with Middling $3.6 M. Result

  08-12-2021 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  While some auction houses and galleries are attempting to launch their own NFT platforms, Christie’s is experimenting with an alternative route. Bidding closed last night on a Christie’s NFT auction that took place entirely on OpenSea, one of the leading NFT platforms, as opposed to on Christie’s own website. By tapping into the existing technical infrastructure that OpenSea has already built, Noah Davis, Christie’s head of digital sales, hopes to launch the auction house
  
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• Christie’s NFT Auction with OpenSea Concludes with Middling $3.6 M. Result

  08-12-2021 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  While some auction houses and galleries are attempting to launch their own NFT platforms, Christie’s is experimenting with an alternative route. Bidding closed last night on a Christie’s NFT auction that took place entirely on OpenSea, one of the leading NFT platforms, as opposed to on Christie’s own website. By tapping into the existing technical infrastructure that OpenSea has already built, Noah Davis, Christie’s head of digital sales, hopes to launch the auction house
  
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• Christie’s NFT Auction Led with OpenSea Fails to Impress, with Middling $3.6 M. Result

  08-12-2021 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  While some auction houses and galleries are attempting to launch their own NFT platforms, Christie’s is experimenting with an alternative route. Bidding closed last night on a Christie’s NFT auction that took place entirely on OpenSea, one of the leading NFT platforms, as opposed to on Christie’s own website. By tapping into the existing technical infrastructure that OpenSea has already built, Noah Davis, Christie’s head of digital sales, hopes to launch the auction house
  
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• Arlene Shuler to Step Down as President of New York City Center

  08-12-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Shuler, a former dancer, has run the theater since 2003, instituting its popular Fall for Dance series.
  
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• Arts Integration Puts the "Art" in "Smart" — Albuquerque Public Schools - Albuquerque Public Schools

  08-12-2021 19:43 via aps.edu
  Arts Integration Puts the "Art" in "Smart" — Albuquerque Public Schools  Albuquerque Public Schools
  
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• Will Forte Is Still Waiting for ‘MacGruber’ to Blow Up

  08-12-2021 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new Peacock series, Forte returns as the unruly “Saturday Night Live” action hero who’s once again reckoning with bombs (including his 2010 movie).
  
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• Justo Gallego, Who Built a Cathedral, Brick by Brick, Dies at 96

  08-12-2021 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  A former monk, he spent decades constructing a grand edifice as an act of faith and devotion, and did so almost single-handedly.
  
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• Revolution, Restaged and Translated: Diane Severin Nguyen

  08-12-2021 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  Diane Severin Nguyen’s nineteen-minute video If Revolution Is a Sickness (2021) seems paced to the push and pull of tides, the rhythm of the waves. The centerpiece of her first institutional solo show—which begins at SculptureCenter in Queens, New York, before traveling to the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago—the film was shot in Poland while the Vietnamese American artist was supported by a residency there. It opens with a shot of a sunless shoreline amid a des
  
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• Arts Focus: Moving Words 2022 -- Arlington Transit and Arlington Arts collaboration - ARLnow

  08-12-2021 19:00 via arlnow.com
  
  Arts Focus: Moving Words 2022 -- Arlington Transit and Arlington Arts collaboration  ARLnow
  
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• From Venus to Medusa, How Art Codifies the Objectification of Women

  08-12-2021 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Women in the Picture,” the art historian Catherine McCormack traces classical female figures and their effects on Western culture.
  
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• Interest in Stephen Sondheim's Music, Books and Shows Soar After His Death

  08-12-2021 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Fans have been streaming his music, buying his books, and trying to get in to see his shows, with a new revival of “Company” opening this week on Broadway.
  
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• Arts and Sciences Holiday Open House - Mississippi State Newsroom

  08-12-2021 18:36 via msstate.edu
  Arts and Sciences Holiday Open House  Mississippi State Newsroom
  
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• Freed's Bakery opens a bake shop in the Arts District - Eater Vegas

  08-12-2021 18:00 via vegas.eater.com
  
  Freed's Bakery opens a bake shop in the Arts District  Eater Vegas
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Hires Former Obama Administration Aide as President, COO

  08-12-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Brooklyn Museum has appointed Kimberly Panicek (KP) Trueblood as its next president and chief operating officer, beginning next year. She replaces David Berliner, who has served in the role since 2016 and was previously a trustee.
  Trueblood has an expansive résumé outside of the museum world, most recently serving as chief of staff for the American Civil Liberties Union since 2017. At the ACLU, she spearheaded several organizational changes within the organization, revamped its
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Gets a New President and Chief Operating Officer

  08-12-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimberly Panicek Trueblood will run the business side of an institution that has struggled financially and plans to refresh its building and galleries.
  
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• Introducing ARTnews’s Deciders 2022 Guest Editor: Hank Willis Thomas

  08-12-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Hank Willis Thomas, the guest editor of the latest Deciders issue of ARTnews, is an artist whose practice is so wide-ranging that it resists easy summary. He makes art in a variety of mediums (photography, sculpture, collage) and materials (recent work renders images of protests as screenprints on retroreflective vinyl). From the beginning of his career, he has been inverting recognizable branding and advertising messaging and imagery, using it to direct viewers’ attention to troubling asp
  
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• ARTnews Presents ‘The Deciders,’ As Selected by Guest Editor Hank Willis Thomas

  08-12-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  For the latest “Deciders” issue of ARTnews, we turned to the esteemed artist and activist Hank Willis Thomas as a guest editor to help identify and highlight individuals and institutions currently contributing to the cultural conversation in a pointed way—and moving that conversation forward. As Willis Thomas explains in a Q&A about the project, he selected the Deciders featured in the list below as well as others featured in different ways in different sections of the maga
  
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• Hidden Sketch Discovered Beneath Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’

  08-12-2021 16:18 via artnews.com
  
  After two and a half years of research, Operation Night Watch, the Rijksmuseum’s investigation into Rembrandt van Rijn’s iconic painting, has revealed its findings. The museum announced on Wednesday that analysis of the colossal Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq—more commonly known as The Night Watch—has afforded new insight into the Dutch master’s process, as well as pointers for how to restore the picture as best as po
  
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• Meg Stalter Rejoices With Dolly Parton and a Loyal Chihuahua

  08-12-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian talks about banishing the worst of 2021 in Amazon’s “Yearly Departed,” while celebrating the best in real life.
  
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• ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight

  08-12-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Steven Spielberg rediscovers the breathing, troubling essence of a classic, building a bold and current screen musical with no pretense to perfection.
  
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• The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles

  08-12-2021 15:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back,” Ono is a performance artist at the height of her powers.
  
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• The family-friendly Phoenix Festival of the Arts is this weekend. What to expect if you go - The Arizona Republic

  08-12-2021 15:01 via azcentral.com
  The family-friendly Phoenix Festival of the Arts is this weekend. What to expect if you go  The Arizona Republic
  
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• ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera

  08-12-2021 14:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Based on the popular 1962 children’s book, the show aims to celebrate Blackness and attract new audiences to the art form.
  
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• Robert E. Lee Monument to Be Melted Down, White House Addresses Art Market, and More: Morning Links from December 8, 2021

  08-12-2021 14:40 via artnews.com
  
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  TO PRESERVE OR NOT TO PRESERVE. That is the question that has frequently come up during conversations about Confederate monuments that have been removed. A Robert E. Lee monument that was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past summer won’t quite be kept in its original form, the Washington Post reports. Instead,
  
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• Pastor Who Appeared in Drag on HBO's 'We're Here' Leaves Church

  08-12-2021 14:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A United Methodist Church pastor in Indiana stepped down after performing in drag and speaking about inclusion on the show “We’re Here.”
  
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• 10 Works of Art That Evaded the Algorithm This Year

  08-12-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Contemplation, not clicks: Our critic looks back on marble sculptures in Rome, songs of “atmospheric anxiety” and the Frick Collection in a new light.
  
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• Mr. Men Little Miss Books Stand the (Silly, Splendid, Topsy-Turvy) Test of Time

  08-12-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Men Little Miss, the children’s book series created by Roger Hargreaves, turns 50 this year.
  
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• A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods

  08-12-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Accidental Gods,” by Anna Della Subin, is about “men unwittingly turned divine,” including Julius Caesar, Gandhi, Douglas MacArthur and others.
  
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• 10 Ways I Fed My Fandom(s)

  08-12-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  No apologies from our critic-at-large, who found plenty of movies, plays and TV series to nourish the culture nerd within.
  
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• Late Night: Putin and Biden’s Call Could Have Been an Email

  08-12-2021 07:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The two-hour video call was a hot topic on late night Tuesday.
  
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