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• NFT Expert Noah Davis Leaves Christie’s to Work for CryptoPunks

  21-06-2022 23:28 via artnews.com
  
  Noah Davis, the head of digital sales at Christie’s who helped initiate the NFT boom in the art world, will leaving the auction house to work on CryptoPunks, a hugely popular NFT collection.
  CryptoPunks was recently bought by YugaLabs, the parent company of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, and is valued at more than $2 billion.
  “I’m humbled and honored to announce I’ll be leaving my current post in July to steward the CryptoPunks as Brand Lead under the umbrella o
  
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• Christie’s NFT Expert Noah Davis Leaves to Work for CryptoPunks

  21-06-2022 23:28 via artnews.com
  
  Noah Davis, the head of digital sales at Christie’s who helped initiate the NFT boom in the art world, will leaving the auction house to work on CryptoPunks, a hugely popular NFT collection.
  CryptoPunks was recently bought by YugaLabs, the parent company of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, and is valued at more than $2 billion.
  “I’m humbled and honored to announce I’ll be leaving my current post in July to steward the CryptoPunks as Brand Lead under the umbrella o
  
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• U.S. Orchestras Playing More Works by Women and Minorities, Report Says

  21-06-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The recent discussions over racial justice and gender disparities appear to have accelerated efforts to bring more diversity to classical music.
  
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• ‘Granada Nights’ Review: Growing Abroad

  21-06-2022 22:48 via nytimes.com
  
  This drama tells the hackneyed story of a lovelorn expatriate pulling himself together and dragging us around with him.
  
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• New York’s Biggest NFT Event Gets Off to an Awkward Start as Powerful Players Try to Soothe Crypto Doubts

  21-06-2022 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  The whining cords of Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” echoed across the dim, velvet-lined main stage of Radio City as attendees of the third-ever NFT.NYC conference filtered in to take their seats, before fading into the next track, Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything.” It was a strange soundtrack that would end up being totally appropriate for the awkward friction and manic messaging that permeates this kind of convention.
  This year’s conferen
  
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• Documenta Leader Speaks Out on Controversial Banner: ‘Anti-Semitic Depictions Must Have No Place in Germany’

  21-06-2022 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  Documenta, the famed recurring art show in Kassel, Germany, kicked off its 15th edition this week with faintly positive reviews—and a controversy revolving around a banner that many said contained anti-Semitic imagery.
  After Documenta leaders initially made the decision to drape the piece in black fabric, officials with city of Kassel said the piece by the Indonesian collective Taring Padi would be removed altogether. While Documenta has not been shy in apologizing for putting the piece on
  
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• Former Superblue Dealer Faces Extradition to the U.S. Amid Inigo Philbrick Investigation

  21-06-2022 21:34 via artnews.com
  
  The U.K. art dealer Robert Newland could face extradition to the U.S. for allegedly aiding the the embattled art dealer Inigo Philbrick in defrauding his clients out of millions of dollars, the Daily Mail reports.
  Extradition proceedings for wire fraud are due to take place at a Westminster court, with a hearing scheduled to take place in November. Newland’s bail has been set at £250,000 ($307,000), according to the Art Newspaper.
  Newland, who previously served as head of sales for t
  
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• ‘The Last Resort’ Interrogates the Beach While Enjoying It

  21-06-2022 21:15 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new book, Sarah Stodola tours seaside resorts and catalogs some of the damage they can do.
  
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• Inside 'The Looking Lab,' a Princeton course where visual arts spark entrepreneurial thinking - Princeton University

  21-06-2022 21:01 via princeton.edu
  
  Inside 'The Looking Lab,' a Princeton course where visual arts spark entrepreneurial thinking  Princeton University
  
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• Review: ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’,’ Saving Its Love (and Pain) for You

  21-06-2022 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  A revival of the Fats Waller musical revue emphasizes the blues in its blueprints.
  
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• Boston Revisits ‘Common Ground’ and Busing, Onstage

  21-06-2022 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The Huntington Theater Company is staging a play based on the seminal J. Anthony Lukas book, reconsidering the legacy of the busing crisis.
  
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• Alabama State Council on the Arts awards fellowships to four UAB faculty and staff - University of Alabama at Birmingham

  21-06-2022 20:33 via uab.edu
  
  Alabama State Council on the Arts awards fellowships to four UAB faculty and staff  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  
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• Inside New York’s Throwback Roller-Skating Extravaganza

  21-06-2022 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Music is the key to a summertime experience for pros and amateurs called DiscOasis in Central Park. Its curator: the funk-disco guru and lifelong skater Nile Rodgers.
  
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• Black Country, New Road, a Breakout Band, Starts Over (Again)

  21-06-2022 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The group lost its lead singer just as it was gaining widespread acclaim. Its members have come up with an unusual solution.
  
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• New Soho Rep Season Spotlights Emerging Artists

  21-06-2022 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A Bengali-English play and a meditation on the work of Whitney Houston are among the offerings.
  
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• KAWS Drawing Graces the Cover of New York Magazine

  21-06-2022 19:24 via artnews.com
  
  An illustration by American artist and designer KAWS, also known as Brian Donnelly, graced the cover of New York Magazine this week. The pen drawing, which makes use of the artist’s infamous cartoon character, takes “cancel culture” as its inspiration.
  The magazine’s cover story, for which KAWS was commissioned, explores the reality of cancel culture among American high school students, “where calls for accountability for bad behavior can often spiral into bullying,
  
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• ‘Lilo & Stitch’ at 20: How It Broke the Mold Long Before ‘Moana’

  21-06-2022 19:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The animated fan favorite, released 20 years ago this week, featured nuanced depictions of Hawaii and strong female characters.
  
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• Broadway Will Drop Mask Mandate Beginning July 1

  21-06-2022 18:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Most theaters stopped requiring proof of vaccination this spring. Now they are going “mask optional.”
  
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• Documenta Takes Down Art After Antisemitism Accusations

  21-06-2022 18:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Organizers of the international art exhibition in Germany said they would remove a work after diplomats and lawmakers said it contained antisemitic images.
  
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• Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In

  21-06-2022 18:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexei Ratmansky’s “Of Love and Rage,” a New York premiere for American Ballet Theater, tells its story through fluent dancing bodies.
  
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• Naomi Osaka Starts a Media Company, With Help From LeBron James

  21-06-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The tennis star, who has struggled on the court of late, is behind an entertainment company called Hana Kuma in partnership with Mr. James’s fast-growing SpringHill.
  
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• City of Charlotte Arts Board Awards $2.01M to Arts & Science Council - charlottenc.gov

  21-06-2022 17:03 via charlottenc.gov
  
  City of Charlotte Arts Board Awards $2.01M to Arts & Science Council  charlottenc.gov
  
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• 2022-2023 Arts Calendar - Ohio Wesleyan University

  21-06-2022 16:04 via owu.edu
  
  2022-2023 Arts Calendar  Ohio Wesleyan University
  
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• George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too.

  21-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “George Michael: Freedom Uncut,” a film the musician worked on with his longtime collaborator David Austin, tells the story of his professional life via interviews and previously unseen footage.
  
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• John Waters Will Get Hollywood Star, Sculpture Stolen from Cincinnati Park, and More: Morning Links for June 21, 2022

  21-06-2022 14:04 via artnews.com
  
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  THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. Palais de Tokyo founder Jérôme Sans has been named to head Lago/Algo, a new cultural venue in Mexico City, ArtReview reports. The institution is backed by the OMR gallery and is part of an ambitious and controversial redevelopment of Chapultepec Park
  
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• National Council on the Arts Public Meeting, Thursday, June 23, 2022 - National Endowment for the Arts

  21-06-2022 14:00 via arts.gov
  
  National Council on the Arts Public Meeting, Thursday, June 23, 2022  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• Review: ‘A Year to the Day,’ by Robin Benway

  21-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Robin Benway’s new book, “A Year to the Day,” explores death and loss, but in reverse.
  
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• Building Back Better — One Community at a Time

  21-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Michelle Wilde Anderson’s “The Fight to Save the Town” highlights four places where citizens have come together to combat urban decline.
  
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• CSU Summer Arts festival kicks off with jazz and poetry performance - Fresno State News

  21-06-2022 09:00 via fresnostatenews.com
  
  CSU Summer Arts festival kicks off with jazz and poetry performance  Fresno State News
  
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• Stephen Colbert Explains How His Staff Was Detained at U.S. Capitol

  21-06-2022 07:39 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Capitol Police are much more cautious than they were, say, 18 months ago, and for a very good reason,” Colbert said. “If you don’t know what that reason is, I know what news network you watch.”
  
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• Stephen Colbert Explains How His ‘Late Show’ Staff Was Detained in Washington

  21-06-2022 07:39 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Capitol Police are much more cautious than they were, say, 18 months ago, and for a very good reason,” Colbert said. “If you don’t know what that reason is, I know what news network you watch.”
  
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• Russian Journalist’s Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million

  21-06-2022 05:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Dmitri A. Muratov, the editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, will donate proceeds to UNICEF to help Ukrainian child refugees.
  
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• Jury in Bill Cosby’s Sex Assault Case Ends Third Day of Deliberation

  21-06-2022 01:41 via nytimes.com
  
  No verdict has been reached in the civil case brought by a woman who says Mr. Cosby molested her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, when she was 16.
  
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