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• Sotheby’s Reportedly Taps Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stnaley to Advise on Potential IPO

  13-01-2022 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has enlisted Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to advise on a potential public offering of the company, according to a report published by Bloomberg on Thursday. Owned by telecommunications mogul Patrick Drahi, the auction house could be taken public later this year. It may seek a valuation estimated around $5 billion.
  When Drahi purchased Sotheby’s for $3.7 billion in June 2019, the deal took the 277-year-old auction house private. It had been a publicly traded company for
  
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• Sotheby’s Reportedly Taps Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley to Advise on Potential IPO

  13-01-2022 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has enlisted Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to advise on a potential public offering of the company, according to a report published by Bloomberg on Thursday. Owned by telecommunications mogul Patrick Drahi, the auction house could be taken public later this year. It may seek a valuation estimated around $5 billion.
  When Drahi purchased Sotheby’s for $3.7 billion in June 2019, the deal took the 277-year-old auction house private. It had been a publicly traded company for
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: 'La Jolla Reading Room,' California Fibers, Roman de Salvo, Mara Kaye, All Peoples Celebration and immersive takes on old masters - KPBS

  13-01-2022 22:45 via kpbs.org
  
  San Diego weekend arts events: 'La Jolla Reading Room,' California Fibers, Roman de Salvo, Mara Kaye, All Peoples Celebration and immersive takes on old masters  KPBS
  
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• Council seeks nominations for Arts Person of the Year - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press - Stanly News & Press

  13-01-2022 22:41 via thesnaponline.com
  
  Council seeks nominations for Arts Person of the Year - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press  Stanly News & Press
  
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• House of the Week: Arts and Crafts in Ballston - Times Union

  13-01-2022 22:22 via timesunion.com
  
  House of the Week: Arts and Crafts in Ballston  Times Union
  
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• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth to Mount Epic Exhibition of ‘Women Painting Women’

  13-01-2022 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  “Why have there been no great women artists?” is the question at the heart of a Linda Nochlin essay by the same name, first published in ARTnews in 1971. In that article, Nochlin argued against the “insidious” answer that the question provoked: “There are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness.”
  The 50th anniversary of “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” last year prompted Andrea Karnes, chief curator of the Moder
  
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• Colleen Echohawk to lead Seattle Native arts firm Eighth Generation - The Seattle Times

  13-01-2022 21:45 via seattletimes.com
  
  Colleen Echohawk to lead Seattle Native arts firm Eighth Generation  The Seattle Times
  
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• Art-Filled Sicilian Castle That Appeared in Third ‘Godfather’ Film Comes to Sale for $6.9 M.

  13-01-2022 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  Near the Ionian coast in the southern slopes of Sicily, there sits a 19th-century castle built by a prominent mining baron that remains, against all odds, intact. Now, the private complex, which boasts three joint buildings, 22 rooms, its own park, and commissioned artworks, is being offered for sale for €6 million ($6.9 million).
  Baron Agostino Pennisi di Floristella commissioned Palermo architect Giuseppe Patricolo to design the castle, which was completed by 1800 and built on the site of
  
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• Old warehouses would become new arts campus under COPA plan - Madison.com

  13-01-2022 20:25 via madison.com
  
  Old warehouses would become new arts campus under COPA plan  Madison.com
  
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• Baryshnikov Arts Center to Return to Live Performance in Spring - The New York Times

  13-01-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Baryshnikov Arts Center to Return to Live Performance in Spring  The New York Times
  
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• Baryshnikov Arts Center to Return to Live Performance in Spring

  13-01-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After a two-year hiatus, live programming resumes, including evenings by the violinist Johnny Gandelsman and the choreographer Ashwini Ramaswamy.
  
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• Ways of seeing: Titans of the arts taught curiosity - Addison County Independent

  13-01-2022 19:51 via addisonindependent.com
  
  Ways of seeing: Titans of the arts taught curiosity  Addison County Independent
  
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• Frieze Global Fairs Director Unexpectedly Departs After 18 Years

  13-01-2022 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  In an email sent to professional colleagues today, Victoria Siddall, the longtime global director of Frieze’s art fairs, said that she would leave the organization after 18 years, calling the choice to depart a “difficult decision.” Siddall will stay on through the end of Frieze Los Angeles, which is set to run February 17–20. Siddall has not yet announced her plans for the future but said she would remain on Frieze’s board.
  In her email, Siddall wrote, “The e
  
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• Frieze Board Director Unexpectedly Departs After 18 Years

  13-01-2022 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  In an email sent to professional colleagues today, Victoria Siddall, the board director of Frieze’s art fairs, said that she would leave the organization after 18 years, calling the choice to depart a “difficult decision.” Siddall will stay on through the end of Frieze Los Angeles, which is set to run February 17–20. Siddall has not yet announced her plans for the future but said she would remain on Frieze’s board.
  In her email, Siddall wrote, “The extraordina
  
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• Art We Saw This Winter

  13-01-2022 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  From our critics, reviews of closed gallery shows around New York City.
  
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• Dozens of Cambodian Artifacts Surrendered by Netscape Founder Amid Global Repatriation Efforts

  13-01-2022 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  James H. Clark, the cofounder of early internet provider Netscape, has surrendered dozens of Cambodian and Southeast Asian artifacts after federal authorities proved he was one among many collectors duped into buying looted art by a now-disgraced art dealer.
  According to a complaint filed by federal prosecutors, Douglas A. J. Latchford, a British antiquities dealer who died in 2020 during a federal investigation into his trafficking operation, persuaded Clark to spend roughly $35 million on 35 a
  
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• Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots

  13-01-2022 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  On Jan. 6, many artists shared the belief that they should respond to a national trauma. But how?
  
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• Artists Respond to Jan. 6 With Brushes and Ballots

  13-01-2022 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  On Jan. 6, many artists shared the belief that they should respond to a national trauma. But how?
  
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• Review: In ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Home Is Like No Place

  13-01-2022 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The cabaret singer and Kansas native Bridget Everett is subtle and stunning in an HBO comedy about finding your voice in midlife.
  
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• Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds

  13-01-2022 18:57 via nytimes.com
  
  An energizing presentation of the artist’s landscapes, interiors and sculptural objects at David Zwirner lets visitors enter his secret universe.
  
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• The Book That Turned Annie Leibovitz Into a Photographer

  13-01-2022 18:43 via nytimes.com
  
  “I became a photographer because of ‘The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson,’ which was published when I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. I was studying painting. Maybe it was something about the word ‘world,’ as well as the pictures, that seduced me.”
  
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• In ‘Station Eleven,’ the arts outlast an apocalypse - The Boston Globe

  13-01-2022 18:27 via bostonglobe.com
  
  In ‘Station Eleven,’ the arts outlast an apocalypse  The Boston Globe
  
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• Southampton Arts Center Receives $49.5K NYSCA Grant - Dan's Papers

  13-01-2022 18:21 via danspapers.com
  
  Southampton Arts Center Receives $49.5K NYSCA Grant  Dan's Papers
  
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• Alabama Arts: From virtual lectures to new exhibits, here are nine events to see in mid-January - AL.com

  13-01-2022 18:20 via al.com
  
  Alabama Arts: From virtual lectures to new exhibits, here are nine events to see in mid-January  AL.com
  
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• Finding Joy Through Art at the End of the World in ‘Station Eleven’

  13-01-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Emily St. John Mandel talks about the pandemic novel she wrote years before Covid-19 and the HBO Max adaptation that some viewers have found oddly life-affirming.
  
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• Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate

  13-01-2022 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  His public art installation in New York’s Madison Square Park takes on the thorny issues roiling American classrooms.
  
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• ‘Me Watching Y’all Cry Over a Robot Scooping Red Paint’: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu Installation Becomes Bizarre Viral Hit on Social Media

  13-01-2022 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s installation Can’t Help Myself (2016–19) is one of the most fondly remembered works from the 2019 Venice Biennale, and it has found a new afterlife in the most unexpected of places: TikTok. Now, with the piece going viral on that app, it has also found a wide following on Twitter, where users circulated misinformation about the piece and faced the scorn of others seeking to correct them.
  In November, video of the Venice installation, which
  
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• How Disney Created the Hit Single 'We Don't Talk About Bruno'

  13-01-2022 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from “Encanto” is a surprise chart topper and TikTok darling. Here’s how Disney created its biggest smash since “Let It Go.”
  
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• Fireside storytelling is this Belfast arts group latest pandemic tonic - Bangor Daily News

  13-01-2022 17:11 via bangordailynews.com
  
  Fireside storytelling is this Belfast arts group latest pandemic tonic  Bangor Daily News
  
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• Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away

  13-01-2022 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  With his longtime bandmates, the English songwriter noisily demolishes illusions on “The Boy Named If.”
  
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• Police: Wednesday night fire at Scotia martial arts academy investigated as arson – The Daily Gazette - The Daily Gazette

  13-01-2022 17:00 via dailygazette.com
  
  Police: Wednesday night fire at Scotia martial arts academy investigated as arson – The Daily Gazette  The Daily Gazette
  
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• Delaware Division of the Arts Announces 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship Awardees - State of Delaware News - news.delaware.gov

  13-01-2022 17:00 via news.delaware.gov
  Delaware Division of the Arts Announces 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship Awardees - State of Delaware News  news.delaware.gov
  
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• ‘Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America’ Review: Social Studies

  13-01-2022 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  In a documentary constructed around a lecture from 2018, the lawyer Jeffery Robinson presents a persuasive look at United States history.
  
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• ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow

  13-01-2022 16:50 via nytimes.com
  
  In this gorgeous anime, a high school student journeys into a virtual world and finds herself amid cute, kooky and menacing fellow users.
  
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• Interscope Records, LACMA Team Up for Show of Artworks Inspired by Music

  13-01-2022 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Music has always held a special allure for artists, who have been tapped to do album covers, direct videos, and design merchandise for singers and bands. Signs that that history is still rich and varied will be on display this month at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is set to unveil 50 artworks inspired by music for an exhibition put on in collaboration with the label Interscope Records.
  Under the title “Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined,” the show, which
  
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• New York’s Independent Art Fair Announces 2022 Exhibitor List

  13-01-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Independent art fair has announced 61 galleries that will participate in its forthcoming edition in New York, scheduled to take over Lower Manhattan’s Spring Studios May 5–8.
  Several New York galleries are lined up to offer their wares at the fair, including Canada, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, P.P.O.W., Derek Eller Gallery, and Ross + Kramer, which made headlines earlier this month when it announced that 15 NFTs it owned, valued at $2.2 million, had been digitally stolen.
  Other ga
  
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• Clare Barron on ‘Shhhh’ and How Playwriting Is Her ‘Kink of Exhibitionism’

  13-01-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The playwright says her semi-autobiographical works, including her new play for Atlantic Theater Company, help to provide a measure of clarity about painful experiences.
  
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• Animated Movies for Adults That Are Generating Oscar Buzz

  13-01-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A handful of animated features gaining attention this awards season take a more mature approach.
  
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• Netscape Founder Surrenders Antiquities Identified as Looted, Man Attacks London Statue, and More: Morning Links for January 13, 2021

  13-01-2022 14:15 via artnews.com
  
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  HEADING HOME. James H. Clark, the entrepreneur behind the Netscape internet browser, has voluntarily relinquished 35 Cambodian and Southeast Asian antiquities after being shown evidence by U.S. authorities that they were looted, the New York Times reports. Clark spent some $35 million on the material, which he acquired from
  
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• City Commission tackles dueling performing arts centers, dangerous pop-up parties at retreat - Tallahassee Democrat

  13-01-2022 13:29 via tallahassee.com
  
  City Commission tackles dueling performing arts centers, dangerous pop-up parties at retreat  Tallahassee Democrat
  
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• ‘Why Is We Americans?’ Review: A Family Synonymous With Newark

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary looks at Amiri Baraka and his loved ones, who have played a vital role in arts and politics in their city and beyond for generations.
  
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• ‘The Pink Cloud’ Review: Love in Lockdown

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Iuli Gerbase’s first feature film reflects a funhouse-mirror image of our present lives.
  
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• ‘Scream’ Review: Kill Me Again, Again

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Neither a remake nor a sequel, this tired retread can’t move forward for looking back.
  
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• Leading Bookseller’s Private Collection Goes Up for Sale

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Christie’s will auction the personal Americana collection of William Reese, which carries an estimate of $12 million to $18 million.
  
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• ‘Italian Studies’ Review: Alone in New York With Amnesia

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vanessa Kirby plays a woman who has lost her memory and finds herself wandering the streets of the city.
  
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• ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Review: Another Monster Mash

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The plot, about a crystal-powered ray gun that can turn monsters into humans, seems to acknowledge the need to goose its characters out of their inertia.
  
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• ‘Delicious’ Review: Ahead of the French Revolution, a Culinary One

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This film embellishes the tale of a first restaurant with some contemporary garnish.
  
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• ‘Brazen’ Review: Not So Novel

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A prolific crime novelist teams up with a hunky homicide detective to track down a killer in this painfully formulaic Netflix murder mystery.
  
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• ‘A Cops and Robbers Story’ Review: Keep Your Enemies Closer

  13-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary follows a police officer who rose through the ranks while concealing his criminal past.
  
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• New Best Sellers Run the Gamut From Escapist to Galvanizing

  13-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nita Prose’s novel whisks you to a luxury hotel, while Jamie Raskin’s memoir is a reminder of what really matters: home, family and democracy.
  
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