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• Inigo Philbrick, Art Dealer Accused Of Swindling $86 M., Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

  23-05-2022 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  Inigo Philbrick, a dealer accused of defrauding dealers and investors out of millions of dollars, was sentenced to seven years in prison by a New York court today, bringing a saga that has taken the art world by storm to an end.
  Last November, about a year after being detained by U.S. authorities on the island of Vanuatu, the 34-year-old dealer pleaded guilty to wire fraud, telling a New York court that he did it for the money. As part of the plea deal, Philbrick forfeited $86 million and two pa
  
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• Board of Arts and Culture District in Kilgore working to resubmit culture district application - KLTV

  23-05-2022 23:39
  
  Board of Arts and Culture District in Kilgore working to resubmit culture district application  KLTV
  
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• Cannes Cameraman Explains How He Shoots Standing Ovations

  23-05-2022 23:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-Baptiste Cortet explains what he focuses on and why (partly to goad the audience) when he’s filming those premiere close-ups.
  
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• Simon Preston, Acclaimed Organist and Conductor, Dies at 83

  23-05-2022 22:59 via nytimes.com
  
  A force in the world of choral music, he was considered one of the most important English church musicians of his generation.
  
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• A Hacker Took Over NFT Artist Beeple’s Twitter And Followers May Have Lost Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

  23-05-2022 22:20 via artnews.com
  
  Yesterday, an unknown hacker assumed control of digital artist Beeple’s Twitter account for five hours and posted malicious links, possibly resulting in the loss of over $438,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
  Teasing a fake Louis Vuitton x Beeple collaboration, the hacker first tweeted out a raffle entry and then a link where followers could claim one of 200 free NFTs Beeple was supposedly offering.
  “Stay safe out there, anything too good to be true IS A FUCKING SCAM,” Be
  
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• Art in America Celebrates Annual New Talent Issue

  23-05-2022 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  As Frieze New York’s VIP preview was wrapping up last Wednesday, Art in America brought together collectors, artists and friends to celebrate the magazine’s second annual New Talent issue with a cocktail party at Chelsea’s Malin Gallery, just down the steps from New York’s The High Line elevated park.
  Artists from the issue who attended the event included Diana Sofia Lozano, Laurie Kang, fields harrington, André Magaña, Alexander Si, Tiffany Sia, Kristi Cava
  
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• Review: Small Pittsburgh arts company delivers impressive 'Rigoletto' - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  23-05-2022 21:58
  
  Review: Small Pittsburgh arts company delivers impressive 'Rigoletto'  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Peoria martial arts instructor accused of having sex with a student - Arizona's Family

  23-05-2022 21:47
  
  Peoria martial arts instructor accused of having sex with a student  Arizona's Family
  
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• Third Arts Walk of 2022 to be held in downtown Morgantown - WBOY.com

  23-05-2022 21:36
  Third Arts Walk of 2022 to be held in downtown Morgantown  WBOY.com
  
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• Before She Became a Sculptor, Louise Bourgeois Painted Disturbing Images of Women and Homes

  23-05-2022 21:26 via artnews.com
  
  The works that come to mind when one thinks of Louise Bourgeois are her iconic sculptures of spiders, doll-like figures, and forms recalling genitalia. But before Bourgeois ever began working in three dimensions, she was a painter.
  Bourgeois’s paintings are now the subject of a small survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Looking at these under-recognized works, the show’s curators believe, can potentially unlock more mysteries latent in Bourgeois’s sculptures.
  “What s
  
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• Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment

  23-05-2022 21:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Édouard Louis grew up scorned by his family for being gay. Now he sees homophobia as part of the portfolio of “humiliation by the ruling class.”
  
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• In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss

  23-05-2022 21:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Anthony Banua-Simon discusses his documentary about how the lives of Hawaii residents have been affected by tourism.
  
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• Greece Rejects British Museum Claim That Parthenon Marbles Were ‘Removed From Rubble’

  23-05-2022 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Greece rebutted a claim Sunday by the British Museum that most of the Parthenon Marbles were removed from “the rubble” around the Acropolis.
  The assertion came days after UNESCO announced the first formal talks between the U.K. government and Greece regarding the potential reunification of the ancient statuary with the Athenian monument.
  Jonathan Williams, the deputy director of the London institution, said during a UNESCO meeting Friday that “these objects were not all hacked
  
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• A Cannes Faux Pas, as Tik Tok Comes to Town.

  23-05-2022 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  At the festival, the video app ran a short film competition. The president of its jury briefly withdrew after he said TikTok employees tried to influence the jury’s decision.
  
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• Museum of Arts and Design Exhibition Explores the International Language of Dress - Hyperallergic

  23-05-2022 20:00
  
  Museum of Arts and Design Exhibition Explores the International Language of Dress  Hyperallergic
  
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• Apple Reportedly Talked With Electronic Arts About Potential Acquisition - MacRumors

  23-05-2022 19:58
  
  Apple Reportedly Talked With Electronic Arts About Potential Acquisition  MacRumors
  
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• Review: “Phil,” by Alan Shipnuck

  23-05-2022 19:57 via nytimes.com
  
  “Phil,” a new biography of the confounding golf star, arrives as he finds himself the subject of a public outcry.
  
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• Andy Warhol Museum Launches $60 M. Expansion to Establish ‘Pop District’ in Pittsburgh

  23-05-2022 19:42 via artnews.com
  
  The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has launched a $60 million development project that will transform the museum’s surrounding neighborhood into a cultural hub drawing on the Pop artist’s legacy.
  The plan for the expansion project, which will be rolled out over the next decade, spans six blocks and is aimed at turning the local area home to the museum’s campus into a tourist attraction with public art installations and live performances, hoping to draw galleries and local bus
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: A Long-Awaited Noir Premieres

  23-05-2022 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  “Decision to Leave,” which its director Park Chan-wook described as both a “love story and a detective story,” screened at the film festival on Monday.
  
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• A Cannes faux pas, as TikTok comes to town.

  23-05-2022 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  At the festival, the video app ran a short film competition. The president of its jury briefly withdrew after he said TikTok employees tried to influence the jury’s decision.
  
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• Anna Delvey’s Biggest Scam Of All Might Be Her Art Show

  23-05-2022 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  “Welcome to my partyyyyyy,” a vaguely Eastern European-accented voice drones, as a crowd of reporters, influencers, and hangers-on whip out their phones to capture the magic. “Shut up! I’m a masterpiece. I’m a masterpiece. I am Annaaaaaaa. Am I gorgeous or what? And don’t you worry. The wire money is coming. The wire money is coming, baby.”
  The voice on the loudspeaker is from an Anna Delvey impersonator, but a few minutes later, the real Anna speaks in
  
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• The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter

  23-05-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Steven Schick, a renowned figure in contemporary music, had nearly burned out as a performer. But a new recording project shows he’s hardly finished.
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: Noir and Horror Open the Second Week

  23-05-2022 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  As attendees gear up for the packed week ahead, long-awaited films by Park Chan-wook and David Cronenberg premiere.
  
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• Artesian Arts Festival Call for Chickasaw Artists - Chickasaw Nation

  23-05-2022 17:56
  
  Artesian Arts Festival Call for Chickasaw Artists  Chickasaw Nation
  
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• Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House

  23-05-2022 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  No longer does museum validation or scholarly attention determine a painting’s value. Now, the collectors’ hunger comes first, and institutions must follow.
  
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• Angela Lansbury Will Receive Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement

  23-05-2022 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of stage, film and screen has already won five competitive Tony Awards, and starred in several Stephen Sondheim musicals.
  
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• Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale’ Is No. 1 With the Year’s Biggest Opening

  23-05-2022 17:07 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” Lamar’s first album in five years, may be eclipsed by Harry Styles’s LP next week.
  
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• Ellen Carey Is Pushing the Limits of Photography With Mysterious Abstractions That Look Like Paintings

  23-05-2022 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  Ellen Carey spent the summer of 1988 in her darkroom attempting to answer a question that had been bugging her: “What is an abstract photograph?” Her experiments kept failing—she processed black and white 120 film with different scrims and lighting, made black and white photograms, and airbrushed and painted chemicals on various papers.
  Then, one day, she developed a photo with nothing in it. “It just takes one picture when you’re struggling,” Carey says. It w
  
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• The Horror and Happiness of Oliver Sim

  23-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The xx singer on going solo, disclosing his H.I.V. status and learning that he actually likes people.
  
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• The ARTnews Guide to Abstract Expressionism

  23-05-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  By the time the Second World War ended, in 1945, some 70–85 million people had died, and cities across Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Economies were devastated in countries around the globe, with one huge exception: the United States.
  Although Japan had brought the war to America’s Pacific protectorates and German U-boats had prowled off the East Coast, the U.S. mainland had been left virtually untouched by the conflict. America’s infrastructure and industry remained intac
  
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• “American Scale”—The ARTnews Guide to Abstract Expressionism

  23-05-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  By the time the Second World War ended, in 1945, some 70–85 million people had died, and cities across Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Economies were devastated in countries around the globe, with one huge exception: the United States.
  Although Japan had brought the war to America’s Pacific protectorates and German U-boats had prowled off the East Coast, the U.S. mainland had been left virtually untouched by the conflict. America’s infrastructure and industry remained intac
  
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• Shards of the Planet Mercury May Be Hiding on Earth

  23-05-2022 15:58 via nytimes.com
  
  New research explains how meteorites called aubrites may actually be shattered pieces of the planet closest to the sun from the early days of the solar system.
  
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• Bedford Public Library is partnering with Ivy Tech, StoneGate Arts & Education Center, and the City of Bedford to provide a week-long art camp. - WBIW.com

  23-05-2022 15:52
  
  Bedford Public Library is partnering with Ivy Tech, StoneGate Arts & Education Center, and the City of Bedford to provide a week-long art camp.  WBIW.com
  
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• Denver Arts Festival Returns For Memorial Day Weekend - 303 Magazine

  23-05-2022 14:12
  
  Denver Arts Festival Returns For Memorial Day Weekend  303 Magazine
  
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• Obama ‘Hope’ Work Sells for $735,000, Ukrainian Artists Create War Protest in Davos, and More: Morning Links for May 23, 2022

  23-05-2022 13:51 via artnews.com
  
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  THE KEY TO THE CITY. If the lawyer Frank Gilbert had picked a different line of work, New York City might look very different today. Many other parts of the United States might, too. Gilbert, who campaigned to prevent Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal from being demolished in the 1960s, and who was involved in cr
  
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• Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Electronic Arts, VMWare, GameStop and more - CNBC

  23-05-2022 13:38
  
  Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Electronic Arts, VMWare, GameStop and more  CNBC
  
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• Review: ‘What the Ermine Saw,’ by Eden Collinsworth

  23-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A history of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-Century portrait, “Lady With an Ermine,” is also a history of modern Europe.
  
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• Liberal arts colleges need new strategies (opinion) - Inside Higher Ed

  23-05-2022 09:07
  
  Liberal arts colleges need new strategies (opinion)  Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Pittsburg Festival of the Arts planned for June in unique venues - PittState.edu

  23-05-2022 09:00
  
  Pittsburg Festival of the Arts planned for June in unique venues  PittState.edu
  
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• Artesian Arts Festival Call for Chickasaw Artists - chickasaw.net

  23-05-2022 09:00
  
  Artesian Arts Festival Call for Chickasaw Artists  chickasaw.net
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘This Is Us’ and a Memorial Day Concert

  23-05-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The series finale of “This Is Us” airs on NBC. And an annual Memorial Day concert at the Capitol Building is on PBS.
  
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