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• Watch These 13 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in March

  28-02-2022 23:27 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s awards season, and a bunch of great Oscar-winning and -nominated films are leaving this month. Check them out while you can.
  
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• Essential Books: 7 Critical Overviews of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture

  28-02-2022 22:55 via artnews.com
  
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  There’s an old joke describing sculpture as the thing you bump into while backing away to look at a painting. While the gag reflects the long-held bias that sculpture is somehow secondary to painting, this wasn’t always the case. During classical antiquity, three-dimensional representations of the body were considered the truest mirror of nature, an
  
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• USC Sells Frank Lloyd Wright House in Deal to Secure Preservation

  28-02-2022 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  The University of Southern California (USC) has sold a historic residence built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1924 to a Los Angeles real estate developer, in a private deal that will see the fragile site permanently restored. The home was purchased by Richard E. Weintraub, president and CEO of the Weintraub Real Estate Group, the Los Angeles Times first reported.
  The 2,800-square-foot building located in Hollywood Hills is one of Wright’s several textile block constructions, made with walls con
  
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• German President Pulls Funding from Putin-Backed ‘Diversity United’ Show

  28-02-2022 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the President of Germany, will reportedly no longer provide funding to the traveling “Diversity United” exhibition, whose current Moscow iteration also received funds from Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The German press agency dpa reported that the show would also no longer travel to Paris as had been initially planned.
  “Diversity United” originally featured around 90 artists from countries throughout&nbs
  
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• Years in the Making, the Beirut Museum of Art Breaks Ground

  28-02-2022 22:10 via artnews.com
  
  After seven years of stops and starts, the Beirut Museum of Art broke ground over the weekend, signaling a new era for modern and contemporary art in the Lebanese capital. The museum will be located steps from the National Museum of Beirut, a beloved repository of Levantine antiquities, and along the city strip which served as battle lines during the country’s 15-year civil war. On display will be works collected by Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture, as well regional and international ar
  
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• Ethel Reed, the Early 20th Century’s Most Famous Female Poster Artist, Gets a Long-Overdue New York Survey

  28-02-2022 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  By the standards of her day, Ethel Reed was an impractical woman. Born in 1874, she wished to live independently, supporting herself with her art. Worse, she wanted to have sex with whom she wanted, when she wanted. Against all odds, she managed to live as she wished, becoming a nationally known illustrator with lovers to spare. But it was not to last, and Reed suffered an early, tragic death in 1912, before she even turned 40. Her brief life and her few years of prodigious production are the su
  
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• Unsolved Murder Could Shed New Light on Gardner Museum Art Heist

  28-02-2022 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  A murder that has gone unsolved for decades may offer the latest lead for investigators trying to recover the works stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum over 30 years ago, according to a report by Boston 25.
  During that famed heist, 13 artworks, including major paintings by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were taken in the early hours of March 18, 1990. Collectively valued at $500 million, the works have never been recovered. Many names have circulated over the years as to who might
  
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• Russian-Owned Phillips Auction House Says Sanctions Won’t Affect Business

  28-02-2022 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  Amid bloodshed in the Ukraine following the Russian military’s invasion in the country last week, sweeping economic sanctions targeting oligarchs with ties to the Russian government are being levied. With questions lingering about how businesses of all kinds will be impacted, the auction house Phillips, which is owned by Russian luxury retailer Mercury Group, has said it doesn’t expect sanctions to affect its operations.
  Owned by Leonid Friedland and Leonid Strunin, the Moscow-based
  
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• Lovecraftian Creature in Paris Gallery Goes Viral: ‘I Am Shocked’

  28-02-2022 20:52 via artnews.com
  
  Size and shock value are two of the big factors in why certain artworks go viral on social media. A third, however, is strangeness, which may account for why a sculpture of a hairy humanoid by the Tehran-based artist duo Peybak hit it big on Twitter this weekend.
  A tweet featuring video of the Peybak sculpture, which resembles a being curled up in a corner, has garnered more than 28,000 likes since it was posted on Saturday, with many musing on what this mysterious creature may be. Few of the pe
  
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• Speculators Win Big With Bets on Young Artists

  28-02-2022 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  When demand outstrips supply, there is huge money to be made by “flipping”— the practice of buying low from the artist’s gallery and reselling high at auction.
  
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• Online Dating Can Kill You. Literally.

  28-02-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Jane Pek’s debut novel, “The Verifiers,” an unlikely sleuth starts out researching digital Casanovas — and finds herself involved in a possible murder.
  
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• Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say

  28-02-2022 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Roughly 25 works by the painter Maria Primachenko were destroyed at a museum in Ivankiv, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
  
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• Russian Artists Speak Out Against War, but Fear Reprisals

  28-02-2022 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Two Russian artists have pulled out of the Venice Biennale and thousands are signing antiwar petitions.
  
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• They Are Fans of ‘Euphoria,’ but Not of Its Creator, Sam Levinson

  28-02-2022 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The season finale of “Euphoria” demonstrated once again that even its most impassioned fans have decidedly mixed feelings about its writer and director.
  
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• Kandinsky Painting Returned to Jewish Heirs by Amsterdam Museum

  28-02-2022 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Dutch officials, citing their “moral duty,” gave over the work which had been held by the Stedelijk Museum since 1940.
  
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• On ‘Better Things,’ a Small Story Goes Out With a Big Bang

  28-02-2022 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Pamela Adlon’s comedy of family and chaos takes a cosmic perspective in its final season.
  
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• Why a Curator and Art Critic Adapted an Instagram Account on Black Collage Artist Into a Book: ‘It’s a Feeling That I’m Trying to Translate’

  28-02-2022 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  When the Instagram account @blackcollagists first launched in 2020, it served as a way for Baltimore-based curator and art critic Teri Henderson to organize her thoughts. Henderson had been tasked with curating an archive of collages made by Black artists held by the Kanyer Art Collection, close to 400 pieces in the medium amassed by Doug and Laurie Kanyer beginning in 1978. She used the account, which she now runs independently, to upload artworks she was interested in and artists she wanted to
  
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• Brooklyn Academy of Music Plans a Global Season

  28-02-2022 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The company’s spring offerings include the British choreographer Akram Khan’s “Giselle” and the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby.
  
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• Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time.

  28-02-2022 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Belgian singer-songwriter’s hits marry serious subject matter and dancey beats. His first album in nine years, “Multitude,” expands his spectrum of sounds.
  
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• The Asphalt Avant-Garde

  28-02-2022 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  We were somewhere north of Phoenix on the edge of the desert when the aesthetics of the highway began to take hold. This came as a surprise, at least to me. My friend, who was doing most of the driving that day, is the open-minded, take-what-comes-at-you sort, but I’m much more suggestible—when I go to parties, I usually end up having as good or bad a time as I suspect I’m going to have; when I do drugs, I have whatever kind of experience I think I’m going to have, etc. I
  
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• Paintings by Maria Prymachenko Burn as Ukrainian History Museum Weathers Destruction

  28-02-2022 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  Twenty-five paintings by Ukrainian self-taught artist Maria Prymachenko were burned during Russia’s invasion in the country, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on social media. The works had been held by the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, in a town about two hours outside Kyiv that has been shelled by Russian troops.
  Sometimes labeled a folk artist, Prymachenko, who died in 1997, was known for her richly colored portrayals of mythical beasts and her quaint images
  
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• Chris Burden’s Impossible Artworks

  28-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new book reveals the dozens of planned pieces that the artist, known for his extreme performances and wry installations, left unrealized.
  
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• Artists and Curators Respond to War in Ukraine, Investigators Pursue New Lead in Gardner Heist, and More: Morning Links for February 28, 2022

  28-02-2022 15:30 via artnews.com
  
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  THE WAR IN UKRAINE. Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, arts groups and art workers are responding. The organizers of Russia’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which starts in April, said they were canceling the project, Alex Greenberger reports. “There is no place for art when civilians are dying under the
  
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• Neil Diamond Sells Entire Catalog to Universal Music

  28-02-2022 15:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician behind ubiquitous hits like “Sweet Caroline” sold his songwriting rights and recordings in another major deal.
  
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• Yusaku Maezawa to Sell $70 M. Basquiat Painting at Phillips

  28-02-2022 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  This spring, Japanese multimillionaire Yusaku Maezawa will part with a prized work from his collection, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting Untitled (Devil), which he bought just six years ago at Christie’s for $57.3 million. Scheduled to hit the block at Phillips during a New York contemporary art evening sale on May 18, the work carries an estimate of $70 million and is poised to become the most expensive lot that the house has ever sold. It is being offered with a guarantee.
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• Arts education is woefully underfunded in California schools - CalMatters

  28-02-2022 14:30 via calmatters.org
  
  Arts education is woefully underfunded in California schools  CalMatters
  
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• Culture Ireland Online Festival SEODA presents Irish arts to a global audience - Gov.ie

  28-02-2022 11:05 via gov.ie
  Culture Ireland Online Festival SEODA presents Irish arts to a global audience  Gov.ie
  
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• The 'Peanuts' team is creating scholarships to support diversity in the arts - The Washington Post

  28-02-2022 11:00 via washingtonpost.com
  The 'Peanuts' team is creating scholarships to support diversity in the arts  The Washington Post
  
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• St. Mary’s Arts Council Spotlight on Arts “Edward A Young III” - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

  28-02-2022 11:00 via southernmarylandchronicle.com
  
  St. Mary’s Arts Council Spotlight on Arts “Edward A Young III”  The Southern Maryland Chronicle
  
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• Matt Reeves on 'The Batman' and Robert Pattinson

  28-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amid concurrent versions of the crime-fighter, this director aimed for something personal that would also serve a studio’s needs. The result is a foreboding vision.
  
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• In Search of Panama’s Elusive Spider Monkeys

  28-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Environmental initiatives in the Azuero Peninsula offer hope for the future of a critically endangered subspecies.
  
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• Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’

  28-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor and writer recounts his life, from Bensonhurst upbringing to Broadway smashes, in a raw, funny and fabulous memoir.
  
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• Arkansas Arts Council's grants, awards and Living Treasure honors support creative economy - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  28-02-2022 09:20 via nwaonline.com
  
  Arkansas Arts Council's grants, awards and Living Treasure honors support creative economy  Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  
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• March Arts: Waterstone welcomes new artist Sabina Haque - Pamplin Media Group

  28-02-2022 09:00 via pamplinmedia.com
  
  March Arts: Waterstone welcomes new artist Sabina Haque  Pamplin Media Group
  
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• March Arts: Waterstone welcomes new artist Sabina Haque - Beaverton Valley Times News

  28-02-2022 09:00 via pamplinmedia.com
  
  March Arts: Waterstone welcomes new artist Sabina Haque  Beaverton Valley Times News
  
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• Eat or paint: Turkish visual arts teacher transforms eggs into art | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

  28-02-2022 09:00 via dailysabah.com
  
  Eat or paint: Turkish visual arts teacher transforms eggs into art | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah
  
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• Vidyut Jamal to host Discovery's reality show on martial arts 'India's Ultimate Warrior' - Economic Times

  28-02-2022 07:57 via economictimes.indiatimes.com
  
  Vidyut Jamal to host Discovery's reality show on martial arts 'India's Ultimate Warrior'  Economic Times
  
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• Arts Beat: Several symphonies returning to stage next month - MassLive.com

  28-02-2022 07:06 via masslive.com
  
  Arts Beat: Several symphonies returning to stage next month  MassLive.com
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘After Yang’ and the State of the Union

  28-02-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith and Justin H. Min star in a new sci-fi movie on Showtime. And President Biden delivers a State of the Union address.
  
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• Selena Gomez's grand SAG Awards look | Arts & Entertainment | timesnews.net - Kingsport Times News

  28-02-2022 07:00 via timesnews.net
  
  Selena Gomez's grand SAG Awards look | Arts & Entertainment | timesnews.net  Kingsport Times News
  
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• Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Adds 2 (Movers & Shakers) - Arkansas Business Online

  28-02-2022 07:00 via arkansasbusiness.com
  
  Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Adds 2 (Movers & Shakers)  Arkansas Business Online
  
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• Folk legend Doc Watson, retrospective album project share Johnson City roots - Johnson City Press (subscription)

  28-02-2022 06:00 via johnsoncitypress.com
  Folk legend Doc Watson, retrospective album project share Johnson City roots  Johnson City Press (subscription)
  
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• UA receives $20 million for performing arts center - The Crimson White - The University of Alabama Crimson White

  28-02-2022 05:34 via cw.ua.edu
  
  UA receives $20 million for performing arts center - The Crimson White  The University of Alabama Crimson White
  
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• SAG Awards 2022: Complete List of Winners

  28-02-2022 04:55 via nytimes.com
  
  “We, deaf actors, have come a long way,” the “CODA” star Marlee Matlin tells the audience. On the TV side, “Succession,” “Ted Lasso” and “Squid Game” won big.
  
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• Edi Patterson on Tapping Into Her Id for ‘The Righteous Gemstones’

  28-02-2022 04:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Ahead of the Season 2 finale, the actress, writer and producer talked about the joys of being Judy in this HBO comedy about a family of televangelists.
  
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• ‘Billions’ Season 6, Episode 6 Recap: I’ll Be Watching You

  28-02-2022 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Prince takes a hit, and Taylor makes a hit job. The gamesmanship is getting expensive, in more ways than one.
  
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• Shrek the Musical Opens March 4 at Middletown Arts Center - TAPinto.net

  28-02-2022 02:32 via tapinto.net
  
  Shrek the Musical Opens March 4 at Middletown Arts Center  TAPinto.net
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Says It Will Cut Ties With Pro-Putin Artists

  28-02-2022 01:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The decision comes as arts institutions seek to distance themselves from some Russian performers amid the invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Birmingham to host six-month arts festival for Commonwealth Games - The Guardian

  28-02-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Birmingham to host six-month arts festival for Commonwealth Games  The Guardian
  
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• Judy Foreman: Maune Contemporary Brings Fresh New Perspective to Santa Barbara Arts Scene - Noozhawk

  28-02-2022 00:30 via noozhawk.com
  
  Judy Foreman: Maune Contemporary Brings Fresh New Perspective to Santa Barbara Arts Scene  Noozhawk
  
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