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• Celebrating art through the School of the Arts sticker contest - Nevada Today

  01-03-2022 23:51 via unr.edu
  
  Celebrating art through the School of the Arts sticker contest  Nevada Today
  
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• Ned Eisenberg, New York Actor Known for ‘Law & Order,’ Dies at 65

  01-03-2022 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Eisenberg performed in several Broadway productions between appearances as the defense lawyer Roger Kressler on NBC’s long-running police drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
  
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• A New Code for Ethical Collecting Calls on the Art Market to Do Better by Transparently Working with Dealers

  01-03-2022 23:41 via artnews.com
  
  The art industry generates around $50 billion annually. A global enterprise that spans auctions, fairs, and galleries, it’s conducted worldwide through closed-door transactions, highly controlled limited access, speculative buying, and ill-tracked flipping. Despite the whole trade being predicated on an artist’s ability to produce new work,  the artist is often the most vulnerable, underpaid player.
  With inequity in the art world under scrutiny like
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in March

  01-03-2022 23:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of March’s most promising new titles.
  
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• Record-Setting Franz Marc Tops Christie’s $334 M. Sale in Shanghai and London

  01-03-2022 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  Launching the spring auction season with a three-part auction that took place in London and Shanghai, Christie’s sold $334 million in works from the 20th and 21st centuries on Tuesday.
  Between the three sales, 94 out of a total 105 lots that were offered sold. Two works—one by Stanley Whitney, the other by Gabriele Münter—came with in-house guarantees, while another 20 were secured with third-party backing. The entire grouping after several lots were withdrawn was expected
  
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• Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 66

  01-03-2022 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its first director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.
  
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• Sharon Wohlmuth, Photographer of Best-Selling ‘Sisters,’ Dies at 75

  01-03-2022 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Her images, paired with the words of Carol Saline, created a publishing sensation that led to the follow-up books “Mothers & Daughters” and “Best Friends.”
  
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• Paris’s Galerie Templon to Open Outpost in New York

  01-03-2022 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  Galerie Templon, one of Paris’s leading contemporary art galleries, will open a location in New York this fall. The space’s inaugural exhibition will be a solo show devoted to artist Omar Ba, who is based in New York and Dakar, Senegal.
  The new location, at 293 Tenth Avenue, is located in New York’s Chelsea area, and was formerly home to Kasmin gallery. The 6,500-square-foot space will be renovated by architect Markus Dochantschi’s studio MDA. In addition to the Ba exhibi
  
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• Venus of Willendorf’s Origins Are Traced Back to Italy, Solving Longstanding Archaeological Mystery

  01-03-2022 19:51 via artnews.com
  
  The source of the materials used to make the Venus of Willendorf, a 30,000-year-old figurine that counts among the world’s oldest artifacts, have long eluded experts. The figurine, which resembles a woman with fulsome breasts and round hips, is made of a rock known as oolite, which isn’t native to Willendorf, the village in Austria where it was found. At long last, how the oolite made its way to Willendorf appears to be solved.
  An anthropologist with the University of Vienna and two
  
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• As Ukraine Remains Under Siege, Tate Faces Calls to Divest from Russian Philanthropy

  01-03-2022 19:48 via artnews.com
  
  With Ukraine under siege from Moscow, Tate is facing calls to cut ties with Kremlin-linked billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, a patron of the London institution and a target of U.S. sanctions since 2008. Vekselberg, the founder of a Russian energy conglomerate associated with Vladimir Putin, is an honorary member of the Tate Foundation, the gallery confirmed to the Guardian.
  “We need to use every single sanction available to us: financial, cultural and sporting. We can’t be the generatio
  
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• ‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne?

  01-03-2022 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Pattinson puts on the Batsuit and cats around with Zoë Kravitz in the latest attempt to reimagine the Caped Crusader.
  
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• College of Fine Arts to host annual International Symposium on Arts and Wellness during the Global Arts Festival - Ohio University

  01-03-2022 19:14 via ohio.edu
  
  College of Fine Arts to host annual International Symposium on Arts and Wellness during the Global Arts Festival  Ohio University
  
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• Sea Change: Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin and O’Flaherty’s

  01-03-2022 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  Late last year, Ashley Bickerton revealed on Instagram that he had been diagnosed with ALS, the debilitating motor-neuron condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which has left the artist wheelchair-bound at his home and studio on the island of Bali in Indonesia. For those who followed the Neo-Geo artist’s unorthodox career path, the news added an unexpected emotional charge to the recent works on view in “Seascapes at the End of History” at Lehmann Maupin, and cert
  
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• Curator Adrienne L. Childs Wins High Museum’s $50,000 Driskell Prize

  01-03-2022 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  Adrienne C. Childs, an art historian who serves as the adjunct curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., is the winner of this year’s David C. Driskell Prize, an annual award for individuals in the art world who push African American art and art history in new directions that comes with a $50,000 purse.
  Childs has been celebrated for her work on Black artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the acclaimed 2020 exhibition “Riffs and Relations: African American A
  
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• Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met

  01-03-2022 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the sprawling masterpiece, which is being presented by the company for the first time in its original language.
  
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• ‘The Unknown Man of Shandigor’ Review: A Sci-Fi Fable of the Nuclear Anxiety Age

  01-03-2022 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  What if you had a formula to sterilize all the world’s nuclear weapons? This newly restored 1967 spy spoof suggests you’d be much sought-after.
  
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• Julianne Hough and Vanessa Williams to Star in Broadway Farce 'POTUS'

  01-03-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “POTUS,” by Selina Fillinger, will star Julianne Hough, Vanessa Williams, Rachel Dratch, Lea DeLaria, Lilli Cooper, Suzy Nakamura and Julie White.
  
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• Anon(ymous) production opens March 3 at Center for the Arts - University of Montevallo News

  01-03-2022 17:40 via montevallo.edu
  
  Anon(ymous) production opens March 3 at Center for the Arts  University of Montevallo News
  
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• ‘Summer of Soul’ Reclaims a Concert Documentary Tradition

  01-03-2022 17:26 via nytimes.com
  
  As music stars turn to movies as promotional tools, the Questlove project looks back to a golden age of filmed performances that the academy rarely acknowledges.
  
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• Gérard Depardieu, Friend of Putin, Denounces ‘Fratricidal War’

  01-03-2022 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “Stop the weapons and negotiate,” the French actor and staunch Russia ally told a news agency.
  
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• Bio Art: Interspecies Collaborations + Sculpting with Mushrooms + Art for Octopi

  01-03-2022 16:20 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past two years, we’ve all had to teach ourselves a little biology. We’ve learned how airborne germs spread, what mRNA is, and that viruses mutate. Simultaneously, many of us have spent months on end distancing ourselves from our fellow humans, communing instead with other species, whether by gardening or adopting pets. Given this abundant interaction among species, a new wave of bio art is blooming.
  Bio art is that work made with nonhuman living things, either as materials o
  
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• 'The Dropout' Shows Elizabeth Holmes's Style Evolution

  01-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How the costume and makeup teams for “The Dropout,” a new Hulu series, transformed Amanda Seyfried into the disgraced Theranos founder.
  
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• Mira Sorvino Replenishes With Crosswords and Marinara Sauce

  01-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Her career comeback continues as a ghostly housewife in the Starz horror comedy series “Shining Vale.” Inspirational writers help her find peace.
  
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• ‘Encanto’ Soundtrack Is No. 1 for a Seventh Week

  01-03-2022 15:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Music from Disney’s latest animated movie continues to dominate the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, where the song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” is on top for a fifth time.
  
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• Hoxworth teams up with arts organizations for inclusive, life-saving blood drive - FOX19

  01-03-2022 14:48 via fox19.com
  
  Hoxworth teams up with arts organizations for inclusive, life-saving blood drive  FOX19
  
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• Sculptor Richard Hunt to Create Work for Obama Center, Artist Antonio Seguí Dies at 88, and More: Morning Links for March 1, 2022

  01-03-2022 14:11 via artnews.com
  
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  THE WAR IN UKRAINE. The J. Paul Getty Trust condemned Russia for apparently burning the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum during its invasion of Ukraine, the Los Angeles Times reports. Some 25 paintings by Maria Prymachenko are believed to have been destroyed in the fire. Russian artists an
  
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• ‘The Jump’ Review: A Seaman’s Story of a Daring Escape

  01-03-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary looks back at a Cold War defection drama that took place off the coast of Massachusetts.
  
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• When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New fiction of familial roots and grief, spanning Louisiana, suburban New York and Trinidad.
  
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• When Relationship Problems Mirror the Struggles of a Nation

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his debut novel, “Groundskeeping,” Lee Cole arranges an unlikely courtship on a college campus.
  
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• When Nations Disappear, What Happens to Nationalities?

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Yoko Tawada’s novel “Scattered All Over the Earth” imagines a future in which a climate crisis has eroded borders and cultural identities.
  
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• What Does Alzheimer’s Disease Do to a Marriage?

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amy Bloom’s midlife love story was interrupted by a dreaded diagnosis. In her memoir, “In Love,” she writes about what happened next.
  
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• Sabaa Tahir’s New Y.A. Novel Poignantly Explores the Meaning of Home

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “All My Rage” is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever about home when you feel you don’t fit in.
  
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• 'In Love' Review: A Powerful Memoir About Marriage and Assisted Suicide

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new book, Amy Bloom writes about loving her husband and helping him to end his life after a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
  
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• In a Novel of the ‘New India,’ Success Has a Steep Price

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Run and Hide,” by Pankaj Mishra, follows the conflicting paths of three university classmates who join India’s elite.
  
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• In a New Memoir, Harvey Fierstein Shares Gossip and Regrets

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “As much as it hurts, tell the truth,” says the Tony-winning performer and playwright, tracing his path from Brooklyn to Broadway.
  
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• In a Debut Novel, Humans Are Scarce and Humanity Is Scarcer

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Doloriad,” by Missouri Williams, imagines a large coterie of siblings dwelling in a bleak future.
  
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• How to Buy a Masterpiece on a Budget

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With online auctions there’s no accounting for taste — only paying a price for it.
  
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• How Sarah Polley, Child Star and ‘Canada’s Sweetheart,’ Grew Up Way Too Fast

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her essay collection, “Run Towards the Danger,” Polley discusses her early fame, her largely unsupervised adolescence and her complicated relationships.
  
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• How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Invisible Kingdom,” Meghan O’Rourke exposes the ways our afflictions can undermine our very sense of self.
  
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• Book Review: "Never Simple," by Liz Scheier

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her memoir, “Never Simple,” Liz Scheier writes about life as the child of a master manipulator.
  
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• An Old Tale of Sea Gods and Sacrifices Gets a Fresh, Feisty Spin

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Axie Oh’s latest novel, “The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea,” transforms a classic Korean folk tale into an empowering fantasy story about defining your own fate.
  
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• A Tour of Writing’s History Bounces From Script to Script

  01-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Greatest Invention,” Silvia Ferrera offers a dizzying and entertaining tour of written language.
  
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• Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Fired as Chief Conductor in Munich

  01-03-2022 10:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The conductor was dismissed from the Munich Philharmonic after he refused a demand to denounce Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Trevor Noah Reviews Putin’s Attempt at a Soviet Reunion

  01-03-2022 07:41 via nytimes.com
  
  If bringing back the Soviet Union is Putin’s goal, the “Daily Show” host joked, long lines are a good start.
  
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• The show can’t go on: Russian arts cancelled worldwide - The Guardian

  01-03-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The show can’t go on: Russian arts cancelled worldwide  The Guardian
  
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• In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely

  01-03-2022 00:10 via nytimes.com
  
  A Kyiv couple stage a socially charged exhibition in South Florida as their Voloshyn Gallery back home becomes a bomb shelter.
  
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