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• Livingston Taylor bringing songs, optimism to Southern Vermont Arts Center - Bennington Banner

  29-06-2022 23:45 via benningtonbanner.com
  
  Livingston Taylor bringing songs, optimism to Southern Vermont Arts Center  Bennington Banner
  
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• Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court

  29-06-2022 23:40 via nytimes.com
  
  In a book published last year, Breyer depicted the Supreme Court as an apolitical institution that sticks to its guiding principles.
  
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• 32nd Arts in Bloom garden walk in South Bend - WNDU

  29-06-2022 23:31 via wndu.com
  
  32nd Arts in Bloom garden walk in South Bend  WNDU
  
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• Documenta’s Anti-Semitism Controversies Come Under the Microscope During Heated, Awkward Panel

  29-06-2022 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  At a tense panel this evening in Germany, experts came together to discuss the fallout from the removal of a work at Documenta 15 that contained anti-Semitic imagery.
  The explicit aim of the panel was to discuss the subject of anti-Semitism and art—not only in relation to questions about censorship and artistic freedom, but “also in relation to the state of Israel,” per an event description. But it was clear early on that the event had come to fruition because of the controvers
  
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• School of Communication & the Arts inspires, trains young artists at summer camps » Liberty News - Liberty University

  29-06-2022 22:29 via liberty.edu
  
  School of Communication & the Arts inspires, trains young artists at summer camps » Liberty News  Liberty University
  
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• Artists Scrutinize Nazi Family Past of Julia Stoschek

  29-06-2022 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  As word circulated of a link between Julia Stoschek’s fortune and forced labor in World War II, some began questioning the ethics of working with the billionaire art patron.
  
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• Mary Mara, Actress on ‘ER,’ ‘Dexter’ and ‘Nash Bridges,’ Dies at 61

  29-06-2022 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  She appeared in dozens of movies and television shows in a career of more than 30 years. The police said they believed she died in a drowning accident.
  
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• With $440 Million, a New Arts Foundation Spreads the Wealth - The New York Times

  29-06-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
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• With $440 Million, a New Arts Foundation Spreads the Wealth

  29-06-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Based in Milwaukee, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts starts in the top echelon of arts philanthropy. But the money came as a surprise to many grantees.
  
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• Genshin Impact Leak Reveals Splash Arts for 3 New Characters Coming in Version 3.0 - GameRant

  29-06-2022 19:40 via gamerant.com
  Genshin Impact Leak Reveals Splash Arts for 3 New Characters Coming in Version 3.0  GameRant
  
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• Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance

  29-06-2022 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  A new adaptation of the Mo Willems book “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” uses animation and rock songs to tell a story about self-expression and acceptance.
  
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• Review: Remaking the Ballets Russes, With a Queer Spin

  29-06-2022 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher Williams, a choreographer captivated by the otherworldly, presents the New York premieres of “Les Sylphides” and “Afternoon of a Faun.”
  
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• Where Is Jazz Most at Home?

  29-06-2022 18:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The genre has long been filled with tension between mainstream outlets and the spaces in which the music is most likely to grow.
  
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• U.S.T.A. and the Armory Show to Bring 5 Artists to the U.S. Open

  29-06-2022 18:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Sculptures by the artists, from underrepresented communities, will be on display as part of the U.S. Tennis Association’s Be Open social justice campaign.
  
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• Margaret Keane, ‘Big Eyes’ Painter, Dies At 94

  29-06-2022 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Margaret Keane, whose paintings of big eyed children were incredibly popular in the ’50s and ’60s, died on Sunday at 94, the New York Times has reported.
  Keane’s paintings were fabulously successful with the public, who not only bought her paintings, but the plates, prints, and a whole range of franchised home goods decorated in her signature style — waifs and children staring out mournfully with big, dark eyes, perhaps clutching at a small animal.
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• Orlando Museum of Art Director Is Out Following FBI Raid of Basquiat Show

  29-06-2022 18:10 via artnews.com
  
  Aaron De Groft lost his job as director and chief executive of the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida on Tuesday night, days after the FBI seized 25 paintings with a contested attribution to Jean-Michel Basquiat that were on display in the museum.
  Agents raided the museum on Friday after presenting museum employees a 41-page affidavit for the search warrant based on an investigation which found “false information relating to the alleged prior ownership of the paintings.” According to t
  
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• A Rare 2,000-Year-Old Roman Temple Is Unearthed in the Netherlands: ‘A Beautiful Site’

  29-06-2022 18:06 via artnews.com
  
  Archaelogists in the Netherlands unearthed a Roman temple in the country’s Gelderland state, government officials announced in a statement earlier in June.
  The temple structure was relatively intact, according to the Dutch cultural heritage agency, and objects associated with it have already gone on view at the archaeology-focused Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen.
  The temple was found along the Roman Limes, the border line of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century CE, which was designated a UNESCO
  
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• ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’

  29-06-2022 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The former political operative Tim Miller writes about why most of the Republican establishment learned to stop worrying and line up behind President Trump.
  
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• ‘The Art of Making It’ Review: Seeking a Bigger Canvas

  29-06-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Despite its haphazard approach, this documentary about the contemporary art world serves as a decent explainer for the industry’s fraught dynamics.
  
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• Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror

  29-06-2022 17:39 via nytimes.com
  
  In Munich, the Bavarian State Opera’s annual festival opens with Krzysztof Penderecki’s harrowing account of demonic possession and pervasive evil.
  
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• Bulging Codpieces & Multicolored Tights: Renaissance Men’s Fashion Today

  29-06-2022 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  Certain men’s fashions have always been controversial. In 2014, Mark Rylance, a star of the BBC’s popular sixteenth-century TV drama “Wolf Hall,” told reporters that he thought “the codpieces are too small.” The actor, who played chief minister Thomas Cromwell, protagonist of the Hilary Mantel best seller on which the series was based, speculated that the sartorial edit was perhaps a directive from the show’s American producers, who feared that historica
  
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• Who Is Cecilia Vicuña, and Why Is Her Art Now Receiving So Much Attention?

  29-06-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  For most of a career spanning 50-plus years, Chilean-born artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña has been ahead of her time. Since starting to write and make art in the mid 1960s, she has focused on environmental and social justice, making her an ecofeminist avant la lettre.Vicuña’s ongoing project, to link sensuality and environmentalism to women’s and human rights—to, in her words, awaken the world to the “feminine” life force of the earth—e
  
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• She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry

  29-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She breathes, coughs and mourns, and now the cow puppet that captured hearts in the Encores! “Into the Woods” revival is on Broadway.
  
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• Applications Being Accepted for ARPA 4 Arts Grant Program - City of San Antonio

  29-06-2022 15:53 via sanantonio.gov
  
  Applications Being Accepted for ARPA 4 Arts Grant Program  City of San Antonio
  
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• Orlando Museum Director Loses Job After Jean-Michel Basquiat Dispute

  29-06-2022 14:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Aaron De Groft was removed from his position days after the F.B.I. seized 25 works that had been shown in a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit and whose authenticity had been questioned.
  
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• Embattled Orlando Museum Director Is Out, Artist Margaret Keane Dies at 94, and More: Morning Links for June 29, 2022

  29-06-2022 14:06 via artnews.com
  
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  GAME ON! After months of anticipation, Frieze has released the exhibitor list for its inaugural Seoul contemporary art fair, which runs September 2 through 5. The lineup features a total of some 110 galleries, and is rich with upper-echelon dealers like Gagosian, Matthew Marks, David Zwirner, and Hauser &
  
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• Detroit Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship Issues Open Call for Artist To Paint Community Mural on the Farwell Recreation Center - City of Detroit

  29-06-2022 14:00 via detroitmi.gov
  Detroit Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship Issues Open Call for Artist To Paint Community Mural on the Farwell Recreation Center  City of Detroit
  
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• The 8 Best Booths at TEFAF Maastricht, From a Rare Artemisia Gentileschi to a Two-Sided de Chirico

  29-06-2022 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  After its New York iteration, which took place in May, TEFAF is back in its hometown of Maastricht. It’s the first time the fair in the Dutch city since 2020, when multiple exhibitors claimed they got Covid there. This time, about 242 dealers from 20 different countries have shown up at the Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre. The fair’s design has slightly changed for this edition, the TEFAF’s 35th in Maastricht—ceilings above the booths have been removed to en
  
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• Taika Waititi on “Thor” and “Our Flag Means Death"

  29-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Thor: Love and Thunder” director can’t say no — to starring in “Our Flag Means Death,” making a soccer movie, writing a “Star Wars” idea, adapting Roald Dahl. For starters.
  
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• Art, Darling

  29-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Antwaun Sargent wanted to change the art world. He already has.
  
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• Frieze Taps 110 Galleries, Including International Megas, for First Seoul Fair

  29-06-2022 08:00 via artnews.com
  
  Frieze has revealed the exhibitor list for its first Seoul fair, which is set to run from September 2–5. With 110 galleries participating, the Seoul fair is set to be bigger than both Frieze’s New York and Los Angeles editions.
  Among the galleries that are participating are some of the biggest ones in the world, including David Zwirner, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace.
  There is a solid showing of local galleries taking part in the fair, with enterprises like Hyundai, Kukje, an
  
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• Late Night Reacts to Cassidy Hutchinson’s Damning Trump Testimony

  29-06-2022 07:59 via nytimes.com
  
  “I mean you’ve got to admit, though, fighting your own Secret Service agent is genius on Trump’s part — he’s hitting the one person who can’t hit back,” Trevor Noah said.
  
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• Orlando Museum Director Loses Job After Disputed Basquiat Show

  29-06-2022 05:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Aaron De Groft lost his position days after the F.B.I. seized 25 works that had been shown in a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit and whose authenticity had been questioned.
  
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• The Jan. 6 Committee Produces a Very Special Episode

  29-06-2022 02:09 via nytimes.com
  
  At a surprise appearance, a White House aide tells a jaw-dropping story of broken dishes and fragile democracy.
  
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• Koons ‘Balloon Monkey’ Sells for Ukraine Relief, Yves Klein Overperforms at Christie’s London-Paris Sale

  29-06-2022 01:40 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s staged two back-to-back sales of modern and contemporary art on Tuesday afternoon in London and Paris, bringing in a combined total of $250 million with fees.
  The 106 lots offered spanned works from young newcomers like Anna Weyant and pieces by long-gone art historical figures like Claude Monet. Some 97 works sold, with one piece by Cy Twombly withdrawn in advance. Twenty-eight lots in the auctions were guaranteed; 24 of them were secured with irrevocable bids.
  The Paris portio
  
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