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• ‘Girl From the North Country’ to close on Broadway, hoping to return.

  12-01-2022 23:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical, which uses the songs of Bob Dylan, is the latest show to close as the surge in cases caused by the Omicron variant disrupts New York theater. It hopes to come back in the spring.
  
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• 7 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York

  12-01-2022 23:24 via nytimes.com
  
  From in-person and virtual performances to exhibitions and tours, the city offers plenty of options for honoring the civil rights leader this year.
  
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• Ronnie Spector, Who Brought Edge to Girl Group Sound, Dies at 78

  12-01-2022 23:16 via nytimes.com
  
  As a member of the Ronettes, she sang on the hits “Be My Baby” and “Baby I Love You.”
  
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• Lourdes Castro, Portuguese Artist Fascinated by Doubles and Shadows, Dies at Age 91

  12-01-2022 23:03 via artnews.com
  
  Lourdes Castro, a prominent Portuguese artist known for her semi-abstractions making use of silhouettes, died this past Saturday at age 91. In a statement mourning her passing, the Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which had given Castro a grant early on that allowed her and her husband at the time, René Bértholo, to found the experimental art magazine KWY, remembered her as “one of the most remarkable contemporary Portuguese artists.”
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• Workers at Art Institute of Chicago Vote to Unionize

  12-01-2022 22:10 via artnews.com
  
  Riding a wave of unionization swelling over museums across the country, workers at the Art Institute of Chicago voted to join the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The vote was 142-44, the bargaining unit said, with 20 votes “not counted due to management challenges.”
  On its website on Tuesday, the union wrote, “Now, as a union, we will take the next steps to shape our future at the museum, gathering in listening sessions, surveying needs to inform
  
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• What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

  12-01-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Hopes and goals for 2022.
  
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• Dale Clevenger, Chicago Symphony’s Fearless Horn Master, Dies at 81

  12-01-2022 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Clevenger, who played his notoriously treacherous instrument with daring, was an anchor of the Chicago orchestra’s famed brass section for 47 years.
  
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• Product Spotlight: Takashi Murakami Pixel Flower Pancake Pan

  12-01-2022 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  One luxury in the kitchen, to my mind, is owning hyper-specific cookware and tools—a tamagoyaki pan, say, or a cast-iron fish pan, or a humble but elegant mushroom brush. For the flapjack fanatic, there’s the pancake pan, designed to make perfectly golden and uniform cakes. Now you can buy one designed by Takashi Murakami that turns batter into edible art: specifically, one of the famous smiling flowers that populate his anime- and manga-influenced works.
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• How Germans Reconciled Themselves to Defeat After World War II

  12-01-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Harald Jähner’s “Aftermath” recounts the complications of living in a battered country of rubble and ashes.
  
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• Mona Lisa Immersive Experience Comes to France

  12-01-2022 20:37 via artnews.com
  
  First it was van Gogh, then it was Monet. Now, it’s Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa that will have its own immersive installation. An experience themed around the iconic painting is headed to the Palais de la Bourse in Marseille, France.
  The immersive installation is co-organized by the Louvre and Grand Palais Immersif, a new initiative by the Grand Palais. The show will open on March 10 and acts as a test run for the Grand Palais Immersif team, which is preparing to unveil a new immer
  
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• ‘Dear Mother’ Review: Mamarazzi

  12-01-2022 20:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Laurent Lafitte directs and stars in this fast-paced French comedy about a man forced to reconnect with his mother.
  
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• Settlement Reached in Collectors’ Secret-Buyer Lawsuit

  12-01-2022 20:11 via artnews.com
  
  A lawsuit involving warring allegations between two collectors over a behind-the-scenes $700,000 sale of a Cecily Brown painting has been settled.
  In a lawsuit filed in March 2021 in a Miami-Dade County circuit court, and detailed in a recent report from Bloomberg, collector Michael Xufu Huang alleged that Federico Castro Debernardi violated the terms of a sales agreement involving the Brown painting. Accusing Debernardi of “reputational damages,” Huang was seeking $1.3 million.
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• 2021 in Jazz: Intimacy and Conversation

  12-01-2022 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Throughout the pandemic, the music’s flexibility has become an asset. Where will artists take it next?
  
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• Bob Saget, Comic Who Starred in the Sitcom ‘Full House,’ Dies at 65

  12-01-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who had also hosted “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” was found dead in an Orlando hotel room while on tour.
  
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• Don’t Sleep on These 6 Performances During Awards Season

  12-01-2022 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  As various nominating groups unveil their choices, these impressive turns have been largely overlooked. But there’s still time to rectify that, academy voters!
  
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• The Creative Advantage ALL ACCESS Arts Stream WINTER SESSION is open for enrollment - SPD Blotter

  12-01-2022 19:52 via artbeat.seattle.gov
  The Creative Advantage ALL ACCESS Arts Stream WINTER SESSION is open for enrollment  SPD Blotter
  
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• Creative Capital Funds 50 Artist Projects for a Total of $2.5 M., Including Projects by Teresita Fernández, American Artist, Kameelah Janan Rasheed

  12-01-2022 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  The New York–based nonprofit Creative Capital has announced the 50 artist projects it will fund as part of its 2022 Creative Capital Awards. Each project will receive varying amounts up to $50,000, with the amount of funds being administered this year totaling $2.5 million.
  For the 2022 cycle, Creative Capital increased the number of projects it will fund from 35 to 50, and the organization reported that 90 percent of awardees identify as Asian, Black, Indigenous, or Latinx artists. Select
  
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• How I Made This: CJ Hendry’s Colored Pencil Drawings of Wigs

  12-01-2022 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  From a distance, Andrew, a drawing by Australian-born, Brooklyn-based artist CJ Hendry of a bobbed platinum-blond wig, looks like a study in pale golds. Yet the artist used almost no yellow when making the work. Instead, “There’s a lot of brown, a lot of black,” she commented during a recent studio visit. “But you look at the overall piece and it reads as blond.”
  Hendry is known for hyperrealist drawings, executed in pen or (since 2017) colored pencil, that she post
  
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• Richard Klein, Longtime Exhibitions Director at Aldrich, to Depart Museum

  12-01-2022 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  Richard Klein, the longtime exhibitions director at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, will leave the museum in June after more than three decades in the role. His final exhibition at the museum will open in February 2023.
  Klein began his 30-year tenure with the institution as a registrar and preparator  in 1990. In 1995, he organized his first exhibition at the Aldrich, a group show titled “Drawn on the Museum” featuring works by Karen Finley, Sol L
  
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• Netscape Founder Gives Up $35 Million in Art Said to Be Stolen

  12-01-2022 19:12 via nytimes.com
  
  “Why would you want to own something that was stolen?” said James H. Clark, who investigators said had been persuaded to buy dozens of looted items by a rogue dealer.
  
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• Sackler Name Removed from Serpentine Galleries Building in London

  12-01-2022 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  The Serpentine Galleries is the latest institution to strip the Sackler name from its building. Last spring the institution, which maintains two spaces in central London capital, quietly wiped the family from its online exhibition archive and rebranded its second location—formerly known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery—as the Serpentine North Gallery, the Art Newspaper reports. However, the Sackler name remained displayed on the gallery’s façade until this year.
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• ‘American Urbanist,’ a Well-Timed Biography of a Man Who Reshaped City Life

  12-01-2022 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Richard K. Rein’s book tells the story of William H. Whyte, a sociologist who wrote “The Organization Man” and helped to rethink how cities look and feel.
  
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• Flesh and Oil: Chaïm Soutine and Willem de Kooning at Musée de l’Orangerie

  12-01-2022 18:27 via artnews.com
  
  Ever ambitious, Willem de Kooning once declared to his photographer friend Rudy Burckhardt that he wanted to paint “like Ingres and Soutine—both at the same time.” Ingres, no doubt, for the rigor and refinement of his portraits of noble patrons, and Soutine for the expressionistic abandon he brought to everything from scenes of everyday working people to dense, windswept landscapes of the South of France. Even if Soutine did not return the reference—he and de Kooning neve
  
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• Phillips Names Jean-Paul Engelen Americas President as Auction House Expands

  12-01-2022 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  Phillips has named Jean-Paul Engelen as its Americas President, a newly created role to follow his previous stint as deputy chairman of the house’s Americas division. Since 2015, Engelen has also overseen the contemporary department with his co-head, Robert Manley, and he will continue to do so in his new role, in which he will oversee business strategies across offices and consultancies in the U.S. and South America.
  In a statement, Phillips CEO Stephen Brooks described Engelen as “
  
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• Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together

  12-01-2022 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer continues his research into African American worship and the Black Shakers in “Power” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
  
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• COMMENTARY: Addressing the crisis in arts and music education in California - EdSource

  12-01-2022 17:45 via edsource.org
  
  COMMENTARY: Addressing the crisis in arts and music education in California  EdSource
  
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• SAG Award Nominations 2022: The Complete List, Snubs and Surprises

  12-01-2022 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  “Being the Ricardos” hit big, but some likely contenders, including Kristen Stewart, were overlooked.
  
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• MLK - Activism and the Arts on WBGO - wbgo.org

  12-01-2022 17:07 via wbgo.org
  
  MLK - Activism and the Arts on WBGO  wbgo.org
  
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• Sakuliu Pavavaljung Dropped as Taiwan’s Venice Biennale Artist Following Sexual Assault Allegations

  12-01-2022 16:46 via artnews.com
  
  Sakuliu Pavavaljung, a Paiwan artist born in southern Taiwan, was poised to have a breakout year in 2022, with appearances lined up for Documenta and the Venice Biennale, the world’s two preeminent art festivals. But allegations of sexual assault have ensured that the artist will no longer be the commissioned artist for the Taiwanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and have cast his participation in Documenta 15 into doubt.
  On Wednesday, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, which commissions the T
  
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• SAG Award Nominations 2022: The Complete List

  12-01-2022 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The actors’ group will be unveiling its list amid a Covid-affected Oscar season.
  
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• Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film

  12-01-2022 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Scoring films like “The Power of the Dog” and “Spencer,” he has become a major composer, his concert music fueling his soundtracks.
  
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• Warhol Foundation Doles Out $4.1 M. in Grants to 49 Art Institutions

  12-01-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has named the 49 arts organization that received a combined $4.1 million in funds as part of its Fall 2021 grant cycle. As part of the announcement, the foundation also unveiled a new website designed by Wkshps.
  The grants go toward overall programmatic support over two years to organizations for varying between $50,000 and $150,000 and for specific exhibition support for funds ranging between $35,000 and $150,000. Five institutions also received cu
  
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• Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages

  12-01-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical “Hadestown” and the opera “Eurydice” aim to offer new twists on a Greek myth. But when it comes to their heroine, they only go so far.
  
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• UPAF Ride for the Arts will feature a closed-loop course over the Hoan Bridge in June - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  12-01-2022 15:30 via jsonline.com
  
  UPAF Ride for the Arts will feature a closed-loop course over the Hoan Bridge in June  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• Stream These Three Great Documentaries

  12-01-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s picks include a personal essay on tobacco, an experimental look at pieces of the Berlin Wall and a chronicle of a revolt in Wukan, China.
  
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• At Expo Chicago Fair, Museum Directors to Convene for Summit About ‘Institutional Reinvention’

  12-01-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  For its upcoming 2022 edition, set to run April 7–10, Expo Chicago will launch a summit for museum directors to complement its annual Curatorial Forum. Both will run in tandem with Expo Chicago’s main event, which will see more than 100 galleries their wares to the city’s Navy Pier.
  Titled the Directors Summit, the new event will bring together eight museum leaders for two public roundtable discussions and a keynote address about “institutional reinvention,” accordi
  
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• Art Institute of Chicago Workers Unionize, Explicit Acropolis Film Scene Sparks Controversy, and More: Morning Links for January 12, 2022

  12-01-2022 14:32 via artnews.com
  
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  LABOR DEPT. Workers at the Jewish Museum in New York have filed papers to have a union election, Artnet News reports, making them the latest of many museum employees around the the United States to pursue collective-bargaining arrangements in recent years. Over at the Art Institute of Chicago, staffers won a v
  
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• Korean Artist Lee Kun-Yong, Whose Vital Work Bridges Performance and Abstraction, Joins Pace Gallery

  12-01-2022 14:11 via artnews.com
  
  The artist Lee Kun-Yong, a crucial figure in the development of Korean avant-garde art, is now represented by Pace Gallery. It is a global deal with the powerhouse firm, which has nine international locations, though Lee will continue to work with Gallery Hyundai, of Seoul, and Leeahn Gallery, of Seoul and Daegu. His third show with Pace, after outings in Beijing (in 2018) and Seoul (2019), opens in Hong Kong on Friday.
  Lee, who is 80 this year, was a founder of the influential Space and Time gr
  
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• Charlotte arts and advisory board hoping to determine grants by end of March, has $4.4 million unspent - Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte Business Journal

  12-01-2022 13:24 via bizjournals.com
  Charlotte arts and advisory board hoping to determine grants by end of March, has $4.4 million unspent - Charlotte Business Journal  Charlotte Business Journal
  
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• Danbury-area arts, history organizations awarded nearly $900K to help with pandemic-related costs - Danbury News Times

  12-01-2022 12:03 via newstimes.com
  
  Danbury-area arts, history organizations awarded nearly $900K to help with pandemic-related costs  Danbury News Times
  
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• Inside the Arts: Gallery Talk with Lily Reeves (Opening Reception) - Hoover Sun

  12-01-2022 11:55 via hooversun.com
  
  Inside the Arts: Gallery Talk with Lily Reeves (Opening Reception)  Hoover Sun
  
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• Christian McBride and Inside Straight Coming to Miller Center for the Arts - bctv.org

  12-01-2022 11:42 via bctv.org
  Christian McBride and Inside Straight Coming to Miller Center for the Arts  bctv.org
  
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• Segerstrom Center For The Arts Presents Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis - Broadway World

  12-01-2022 11:41 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Segerstrom Center For The Arts Presents Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis  Broadway World
  
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• Autocrats vs the arts: Which European nations are cracking down on their cultural sectors? - Euronews

  12-01-2022 11:32 via euronews.com
  
  Autocrats vs the arts: Which European nations are cracking down on their cultural sectors?  Euronews
  
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• 9 Newly Opened Museums Enriching the Arts and Culture Scene - ArchDaily

  12-01-2022 11:30 via archdaily.com
  
  9 Newly Opened Museums Enriching the Arts and Culture Scene  ArchDaily
  
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• New beginnings: Marco Island Center for the Arts 2022 gala - Marco News

  12-01-2022 11:04 via marconews.com
  New beginnings: Marco Island Center for the Arts 2022 gala  Marco News
  
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• The Visions of Penélope Cruz

  12-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She already felt a mystical connection with the director Pedro Almodóvar. For their seventh collaboration, “Parallel Mothers,” she gave her all, even collapsing after one scene.
  
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• Does Art Have to Be Relevant? One Prominent Critic Says No.

  12-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The composer John Adams reviews a new book by Jed Perl, “Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts.”
  
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• Arts Center Hootenanny features comedy acts and music - Daily American Online

  12-01-2022 11:00 via dailyamerican.com
  Arts Center Hootenanny features comedy acts and music  Daily American Online
  
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• A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Survival Amid Mounting Horrors

  12-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Mala’s Cat,” Mala Kacenberg describes her time hiding out in the forest during World War II after losing her family.
  
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