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• Gordon Parks Foundation Names Bisa Butler, Andre D. Wagner, and Nicole R. Fleetwood as Fellows

  26-01-2022 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  The Gordon Parks Foundation—an organization that works in service of the legacy of the late, great photographer Gordon Parks—has named three new fellows for 2022: textile artist Bisa Butler, photographer Andre D. Wagner, and scholar and curator Nicole R. Fleetwood. Each fellow will receive $25,000 to support “projects examining themes of representation and social justice,” according to a press release.
  Projects by Butler and Wagner will lead to exhibitions at the foundati
  
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• Spain Investigates Banking Heir Paloma Botín Over Purchase of Looted Artifact

  26-01-2022 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  Paloma Botín, the daughter of Spanish Santander banking chairman Emilio Botín, and her husband Ricardo Gómez-Acebo, the Marquis of La Deleitosa, are the subject of an investigation into the potential fraudulent purchase of an antiquity dated from the 6th century B.C.E. The artifact was believed to have been looted from an archaeological site and subsequently trafficked illegally on the art market.
  The work at the center of the investigation is a sculpture of an Iberian lione
  
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• A Killing Jolts Sweden’s Rap Scene

  26-01-2022 22:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about hip-hop’s evolution in the country, and how a high-profile shooting thrust the music into the spotlight.
  
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• Spotify Is Removing Neil Young Songs After He Complains of ‘Misinformation’

  26-01-2022 22:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer had warned that he would leave the streaming service because it gives a platform to Joe Rogan, whom scientists accused of promoting falsehoods about coronavirus vaccines.
  
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• Spotify Removes Neil Young's Music After Complaints About Joe Rogan

  26-01-2022 22:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer had warned that he would leave the streaming service because it gives a platform to Joe Rogan, whom scientists accused of promoting falsehoods about coronavirus vaccines.
  
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• Hard Choices: Should I Go to Art World Events During the Plague?

  26-01-2022 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  There was a glorious, albeit brief, moment in the fall when it felt like the new normal had finally set in. Galleries were once more hosting crowded openings, and art fairs had restored luxury shopping back to pre-Covid levels. Delta had caused a disruption, but, like a phoenix risen, the art world was pumped to party again—until the fever pitch dimmed and made everything seem like a sobering superspreader event. Now, in deep winter, here we are with a new variant and the same old pandemic
  
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• The Best Printmaking Papers for Woodcuts, Block Printing, and More

  26-01-2022 21:46 via artnews.com
  
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  The kind of paper you use for printmaking can make or break your artwork. Whether you work with woodcuts, relief printing, or stone lithography, you’ll need some good-quality sheets that can tolerate the weight of ink and pressure (whether from hands or a mechanical press) while offering the right amount of absorbency. When you’re armed with the ri
  
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• Biennale de Lyon Names Artists for ‘Fragility’-Focused 2022 Edition

  26-01-2022 21:13 via artnews.com
  
  The Biennale de Lyon, one of the most important biennials in France, has revealed the artist list for its 2022 edition, which is due to run from September 14 to December 31. Delayed by a year by the pandemic, the biennial is likely to be a closely watched one this time because its curators, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, were recently named directors of the Hamburger Bahnhof, a major modern and contemporary art museum in Berlin.
  Bardaouil and Fellrath, along with the biennial’s artistic
  
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• Liz Larner Makes Sculptures for a New Era

  26-01-2022 20:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist, whose installations and sculptures run from microscopic to immense, is having a midcareer survey at SculptureCenter, her largest exhibition since 2001.
  
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• ‘Gomorrah’ Review: The End of TV’s Sleekest Italian Import

  26-01-2022 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The final season of a gangster saga that combined brutal realism and high style arrives on HBO Max.
  
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• Spring exhibitions at FSU's Museum of Fine Arts - Florida State News

  26-01-2022 20:02 via news.fsu.edu
  
  Spring exhibitions at FSU's Museum of Fine Arts  Florida State News
  
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• Katarzyna Kobro, Pioneering Polish Sculptor, Is Celebrated in Google Doodle

  26-01-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  
  Katarzyna Kobro, a Polish artist whose sculptures polarized critics in her home country during the mid-20th century, is the latest under-recognized artist to get a Google Doodle. Today, a portrait of Kobro appears on the front page of the search engine to mark her birthday.
  Kobro is hardly a household name in the U.S., where she has never had a major retrospective. Part of the reason for this is that much of her work was lost or destroyed during World War II; another is that, as with other femal
  
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• Cheeze & Thank You Turns Vegan Cheese Into Art

  26-01-2022 19:21 via artnews.com
  
  If cooking is an art, cheese is vegan cheesemaker Megan Schmitt’s canvas. For her, cheese must not only taste delicious but also look beautiful. She launched her business, Cheeze & Thank You, in June 2019 after having made plant-based cheeses for more than six years. You can now find her products, including black garlic truffle fontina and herbed feta, at Whole Foods stores in the Chicago area.
  Schmitt’s interest in making vegan cheese grew out of her own shift to plant-based eat
  
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• He’s a Doctor. He’s an Actor. He’s an Indie Heartthrob.

  26-01-2022 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  How does Anders Danielsen Lie of “The Worst Person in the World” juggle careers in acting and medicine? “This has been my ongoing identity crisis,” he said.
  
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• Picasso Heirs to Offer NFTs of the Artist’s Ceramic Work

  26-01-2022 18:48 via artnews.com
  
  The granddaughter of Picasso, Marina Picasso, and her son, Florian Picasso, will be releasing 1,010 NFTs of a hand painted ceramic work by Picasso at a Sotheby’s auction in March, the National reported.
  So far, the Picassos have been reticent to reveal exactly which work will be converted into an NFT, but Marina described the work in general terms to the National. “It’s a work that represents a face, and it’s very expressive,” she said. “It’s joyful, hap
  
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• A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic

  26-01-2022 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Anthony Roth Costanzo, a restless countertenor with a vast network of collaborators, has planned a wide-reaching festival.
  
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• Broadway Grosses Fall, but Average Attendance Rises, as Shows Close

  26-01-2022 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Theaters were a bit more crowded, but there were fewer shows running as several closed amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
  
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• For Michael K. Williams, a Legacy Interrupted

  26-01-2022 18:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Williams died before finishing the new season of his documentary series “Black Market.” The producers completed it with the help of some famous friends.
  
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• The 2022 Whitney Biennial Artist List By the Numbers: An Older Crowd for a Traditionally Young Exhibition

  26-01-2022 17:59 via artnews.com
  
  Yesterday, the Whitney Museum released the artist list for its 2022 Whitney Biennial, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards. That biennial, titled “Quiet As It’s Kept,” is due to open on April 5, and will include an array of artists whose works “reflect these precarious and improvised times,” as the curators said in a statement. What should we make of the list, and what directions will this biennial take? To find out more, ARTnews crunched the numbers.
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• Jim Drake, Who Captured Joe Namath on Broadway, Dies at 89

  26-01-2022 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  In his years with Sports Illustrated, he also photographed Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer and many of the other biggest sports stars of his time.
  
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• For This ‘Great Pottery Throw Down’ Judge, It’s All About the Clay

  26-01-2022 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Keith Brymer Jones has judged amateur ceramic makers’ work on “The Great Pottery Throw Down” since 2015. When it’s good, it still moves him.
  
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• France Approves Return of Nazi-looted Artworks, Including Paintings by Gustav Klimt and Marc Chagall

  26-01-2022 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  France has finalized the restitution of 15 artworks sold under duress or looted by the Nazis, including paintings by Gustav Klimt and Marc Chagall. The bill passed unanimously on Tuesday in the French National Assembly, and is expected to be approved by its Senate on February 15.
  In a statement, the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, applauded the vote, saying that the continued dispossession of the art was “the denial of the humanity [of these Jewish families], their memory, their me
  
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• Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit

  26-01-2022 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  With four surveys, the challenging Los Angeles artist has redefined his art form in a flat-screen world.
  
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• Sweden’s Songwriters Look to K-Pop

  26-01-2022 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Dozens of songwriters and producers in Stockholm make a living from K-pop — even if they can’t speak Korean.
  
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• Sweden’s Songwriters Dominated U.S. Pop. Now, They’re Looking to Korea.

  26-01-2022 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Dozens of songwriters and producers in Stockholm make a living from K-pop — even if they can’t speak Korean.
  
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• Cape Town–Based Curator Khanyisile Mbongwa to Organize 2023 Liverpool Biennial

  26-01-2022 17:06 via artnews.com
  
  The organizers of the Liverpool Biennial in the United Kingdom have chosen Khanyisile Mbongwa to curate the forthcoming 2023 edition, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the exhibition and is set to run from June to September of that year.
  Of Mbongwa’s appointment, Liverpool Biennial director Sam Lackey said in a statement, “Her longstanding curatorial concerns around care and repair will be vital in thinking about new futures together with the city.”
  Mbongwa is an independ
  
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• Art Basel to Run New Paris Art Fair. Just Don’t Call it ‘Art Basel Paris.’

  26-01-2022 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The new fair will run every October at the Grand Palais, a glittering venue that had been home to the FIAC contemporary art fair for the last 47 years.
  
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• Degas at Muscarelle headlines arts at W&M this spring - William & Mary News

  26-01-2022 16:20 via wm.edu
  
  Degas at Muscarelle headlines arts at W&M this spring  William & Mary News
  
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• United States Artists Fellowships Go to Olu Oguibe, Melissa Cody, American Artist, Lonnie Holley, and More

  26-01-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  United States Artists, a Chicago-based nonprofit that focuses on direct-to-artist grants, has named the 63 artists that have won their 2022 fellowship awards, each of which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000. This year’s cohort is the largest in the organization’s history.
  The winners come from 23 states and Puerto Rico. New York and Brooklyn are where the greatest share of winners are based, followed by Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago. This year, 20 percent of the awardees
  
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• Their Characters Are Stuck, but the Filmmakers Are Anything But

  26-01-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sujata Day and Agam Darshi, who hadn’t met until their movies were done, each portray women of South Asian descent who stay home to care for parents.
  
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• Teresa Reichlen Retires From New York City Ballet

  26-01-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A principal dancer since 2009, Reichlen will make her final appearance in George Balanchine’s one-act “Swan Lake” on Feb. 19.
  
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• On New Podcasts, the Sound of Falling in Love

  26-01-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “This Is Dating” and “It’s Nice to Hear You” let listeners eavesdrop on singles in search of connection.
  
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• The best knitting and fiber arts stores in Philly - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  26-01-2022 15:55 via inquirer.com
  
  The best knitting and fiber arts stores in Philly  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Essential Books: Monographs on 8 African Photographers

  26-01-2022 15:06 via artnews.com
  
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  Photography has a long history in Africa, where it was introduced by colonial powers shortly after its invention. Originally used there as an ethnographic tool by Europeans, it was transformed by African photographers, who opened photo studios as early as the 1860s, beginning in Senegal. These artists showed Africans through African eyes, documenting life unde
  
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• Essential Books: 8 Monographs on African Photographers

  26-01-2022 15:06 via artnews.com
  
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  Photography has a long history in Africa, where it was introduced by colonial powers shortly after its invention. Originally used there as an ethnographic tool by Europeans, it was transformed by African photographers, who opened photo studios as early as the 1860s, beginning in Senegal. These artists showed Africans through African eyes, documenting life unde
  
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• Investigators Unable to Determine Cause of Glasgow School of Art Fire, Banksy Piece Is ‘Trapped,’ and More: Morning Links for January 26, 2022

  26-01-2022 14:26 via artnews.com
  
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  A SHAKE-UP IN PARIS. Art Basel, which runs three of the world’s biggest fairs, in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and the namesake Swiss city, has plans to add a fourth edition to its arsenal, in Paris, ARTnews reports. Art Basel’s first fair in the French capital will kick off this October—and effectively eject FIAC, t
  
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• Art Basel Takes FIAC’s Grand Palais Slot, With New Paris Fair to Launch in October

  26-01-2022 14:04 via artnews.com
  
  In a major shakeup, the October dates typically held by FIAC, Paris’s top art fair, will now belong to Art Basel and its parent company MCH Group. Art Basel revealed plans on Wednesday to launch a new fair for modern and contemporary art in Paris this October, making this the fourth event staged by the enterprise, which also hosts editions in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and the namesake Swiss city.
  The news came after the Grand Palais, which has been the longtime home to FIAC and Paris Photo,
  
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• It Started as a Romantic Idyll. It Ended With a Stack of Corpses.

  26-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Reckless Girls,” by Rachel Hawkins, a vacation on a remote atoll in the South Pacific goes very, very wrong.
  
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• In 'Black No More,' the Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul

  26-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new show “Black No More,” inspired by a 1931 satirical novel about race relations, has “the point of view of people who are very much products of now.”
  
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• ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer

  26-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book is the first major biography of Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, among other achievements.
  
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• After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album

  26-01-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer-songwriter fully plunged into her acclaimed theater project. Since then, her life changed wildly — and she recaptured the desire to record her own music.
  
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• Elton John Shows Postponed After He Tests Positive for Coronavirus

  26-01-2022 09:33 via nytimes.com
  
  He is fully vaccinated and has had his booster shot and is experiencing mild symptoms, a Dallas venue announced as it postponed two concerts.
  
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• Trevor Noah Weighs In on Biden’s Hot Mic Drop

  26-01-2022 08:10 via nytimes.com
  
  “You see? This is what happens when you have been on Zoom calls for two years — you forget that real life doesn’t have a mute button,” Noah said of the president’s comments about a Fox News reporter.
  
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• Review: A Shorter ‘Long Day’s Journey,’ Now With N95s

  26-01-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Eugene O’Neill classic, set in 1912, is just as powerful in Robert O’Hara’s revival, set in our own age of disease and lockdown.
  
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• N.J. martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting teens, prosecutor says - NJ.com

  26-01-2022 00:39 via nj.com
  
  N.J. martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting teens, prosecutor says  NJ.com
  
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