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• Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder Suffers Throat Damage From Europe’s Wildfires

  20-07-2022 23:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The band canceled a show in Vienna after Mr. Vedder sought treatment following a musical festival in Paris.
  
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• ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes

  20-07-2022 23:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Jordan Peele’s genre-melting third feature stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as brother-and-sister horse wranglers defending the family ranch from an extraterrestrial threat.
  
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• Sotheby’s May Be Responsible for the Loss of Diamonds Worth $4 M., Judge Says

  20-07-2022 23:23 via artnews.com
  
  A California federal judge ruled that Sotheby’s may be responsible for the loss of 45 yellow diamonds worth $4 million last week. The ruling overturned a lower court’s previous decision in favor of the auction house.
  M&L Financial, Inc., a financial services firm, had sued Sotheby’s, claiming that the house was liable for losing the diamonds that the firm had consigned.
  The firm allegedly told the auction house that it was the sole owner of the jewels. On the consignment ag
  
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• Google Posts Uvalde School Shooting Victim’s Drawing: ‘I Want the World to See My Art’

  20-07-2022 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  Google is honoring a victim of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, by featuring a drawing by her on a dedicated memorial page.
  In March, Alithia Haven Ramirez submitted a drawing as part of the Doodle for Google contest, which allows children to compete to have their work displayed on the search engine’s homepage. The work that the 10-year-old sent in features a girl and her pet sitting on a sofa, with the word “Google” spelled out on the wall behind them.
  “I want the w
  
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• Oasa DuVerney’s Black Power Wave

  20-07-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With graphite drawings of family and friends, and radiant orchid garlands in acrylic paint, the artist draws us into her version of paradise.
  
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• New York Returns 142 Looted Artifacts to Italy

  20-07-2022 22:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The Manhattan district attorney’s office arranged the transfer of items it had seized, including a fresco from a town that was covered in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
  
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• William Hart, Driving Force Behind the Delfonics, Dies at 77

  20-07-2022 22:40 via nytimes.com
  
  With hits like “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” his group pioneered the soulful Philadelphia sound.
  
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• The Shame Game

  20-07-2022 22:02 via nytimes.com
  
  He considered himself a “toothfish,” carefully curating his dating profile to hide the gaps in his teeth.
  
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• Italian Authorities Block $2M Gentileschi Painting from Auction in Vienna

  20-07-2022 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  Authorities in Italy have blocked a Viennese auction house from selling a painting by the 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
  The carabinieri’s unit overseeing crimes related to cultural property allege that two sellers, whose identities have not been disclosed, fraudulently catalogued the work as having been painted by an anonymous follower of Gentileschi.
  Titled Caritas Romana, the scene is taken from the first-century Roman historian Valerio Massimo’s story of a woman
  
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• Italian Authorities Block $2 M. Gentileschi Painting from Auction in Vienna

  20-07-2022 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  Authorities in Italy have blocked a Viennese auction house from selling a painting by the 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
  The Carabinieri’s unit overseeing crimes related to cultural property allege that two sellers, whose identities have not been disclosed, fraudulently catalogued the work as having been painted by an anonymous follower of Gentileschi.
  Titled Caritas Romana, the scene is taken from the first-century Roman historian Valerio Massimo’s story of a woman named
  
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• ‘Boomerang’ at 30: Think of It as the Robin Givens Rom-Com

  20-07-2022 21:56 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s remembered as Eddie Murphy’s bid at romantic stardom and as a key point in Halle Berry’s career. But the riveting antagonist arguably created a new archetype.
  
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• HarperCollins Workers Strike For Increased Wages, Benefits and Diversity

  20-07-2022 21:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The one-day action, unionized employees said, was intended to draw attention to core problems with the publishing industry.
  
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• ‘The Gray Man’ Review: Guy vs. Guy

  20-07-2022 21:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Ryan Gosling plays a blasé government operative opposite Chris Evans’s showy psychopath in this globe-trotting spy action movie.
  
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• Holding Out for a Hero? Ballet Theater Has It Covered.

  20-07-2022 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniel Camargo’s breakout season at American Ballet Theater changed his rank from guest artist to principal. (Now, all he needs is an apartment.)
  
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• R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically

  20-07-2022 19:59 via nytimes.com
  
  New releases from Brent Faiyaz and Muni Long show how the genre has evolved in recent years.
  
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• An Immersive ‘Next to Normal’ Debuts in Barcelona

  20-07-2022 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway musical and its Tony-winning star, Alice Ripley, return to the stage in this condensed and deconstructed production.
  
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• A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz

  20-07-2022 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Williamstown Theater Festival, Daniel Fish’s “Most Happy in Concert” confounds and Anna Ouyang Moench’s “Man of God” raises it own question.
  
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• Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers

  20-07-2022 19:13 via nytimes.com
  
  A new festival moves away from a genre that has been central to the performing arts center’s identity for decades.
  
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• Sean Kelly, Early National Lampoon Troublemaker, Dies at 81

  20-07-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He helped set the magazine’s irreverent tone with his pitch-perfect parodies. He also wrote lyrics for the Off Broadway Lampoon show “Lemmings.”
  
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• Local Creative Arts Competition | VA Salt Lake City health care - Veterans Affairs

  20-07-2022 19:01
  
  Local Creative Arts Competition | VA Salt Lake City health care  Veterans Affairs
  
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• Archaeologists Find ‘Important’ 2,500-year-old Tomb of Ancient Egyptian General Near Giza

  20-07-2022 18:59 via artnews.com
  
  A group of archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of an ancient Egyptian general at a site south of Giza, in a find that experts in the country have hailed as major.
  The tomb in Abusir once belonged to Wahibre-mery-Neith, who once led a group of foreign soldiers during a period when Egypt’s empire was expanding. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities said that the tomb dates to sometime between the 26th and 27th dynasties, putting it just before 500 B.C.E.
  Its main burial area
  
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• What to Know About Jafar Panahi, the Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker

  20-07-2022 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The auteur is now serving a sentence that Iran’s judiciary handed down in 2010 when he was arrested for supporting protests.
  
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• 13 Standouts at Cleveland’s Front Triennial, From a Healing Fountain to a Functional Barricade Made of Artworks

  20-07-2022 17:59 via artnews.com
  
  The second edition of the Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art was themed around healing before there was even a pandemic. That all may explain why the show, which opened to the public this past weekend, does not include many Covid-themed works. But the aftereffects of the virus and the tumult that has followed linger everywhere throughout the exhibition.
  Curated by Prem Krishnamurthy, the exhibition is titled “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” a reference to a
  
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• For the Jacob Burns Film Center, a Season of Off Screen Turmoil

  20-07-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester, a celebrated venue that enjoys backing from cinema’s A-list, has been roiled by the dismissal of one of its original leaders who was accused of bullying behavior.
  
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• For a Revered Art House Cinema, a Season of Off Screen Turmoil

  20-07-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester, a celebrated venue that enjoys backing from cinema’s A-list, has been roiled by the dismissal of one of its original leaders who was accused of bullying behavior.
  
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• Bellevue Arts Museum Arts Fair Celebrates 76 Years | A&E | 425magazine.com - 425magazine.com

  20-07-2022 17:00
  
  Bellevue Arts Museum Arts Fair Celebrates 76 Years | A&E | 425magazine.com  425magazine.com
  
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• Make your own Spy x Family arts and crafts projects with this DIY guide - Polygon

  20-07-2022 16:55
  
  Make your own Spy x Family arts and crafts projects with this DIY guide  Polygon
  
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• Divine Excess on Avenue C

  20-07-2022 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  With the once-bold Downtown scene replaced by slickness, a democratic open call at a gallery welcomed hundreds of artists desperate for exposure and recognition.
  
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• Arts & Cultural Alliance of Freeport announces new name, logo - Press Herald

  20-07-2022 16:21
  
  Arts & Cultural Alliance of Freeport announces new name, logo  Press Herald
  
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• In a New Take on ‘Gaslight,’ a Heroine Finds Her Own Way

  20-07-2022 16:16 via nytimes.com
  
  At this year’s Shaw Festival in Ontario, a favorite melodrama is reimagined, and other plays grapple with femininity and gender fluidity.
  
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• Youth Hoop Dance Competition At Museum Of Indian Arts & Culture To Honor Life Of Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance - Los Alamos Daily Post

  20-07-2022 16:07
  Youth Hoop Dance Competition At Museum Of Indian Arts & Culture To Honor Life Of Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance  Los Alamos Daily Post
  
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• Value and Its Sources: Slavery and the History of Art

  20-07-2022 15:40 via artnews.com
  
  AT THE END OF 2021, the National Gallery in London published initial findings from an inquiry into its ties to transatlantic slavery conducted in collaboration with University College London’s Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery. The report named individuals involved with the museum in its early decades who profited from slavery or the slave trade, either through the direct enslavement of people or through financial ties to plantation economies. It is a lengthy list, en
  
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• Students curate tourism exhibit on display at TROY's International Arts Center - Troy Today - Troy University

  20-07-2022 15:38
  
  Students curate tourism exhibit on display at TROY's International Arts Center - Troy Today  Troy University
  
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• Center for the Arts and Humanities Forges Ahead - news.colby.edu

  20-07-2022 15:15
  Center for the Arts and Humanities Forges Ahead  news.colby.edu
  
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• Today’s obits: Eva Cook taught Mohawk language, arts and crafts for Syracuse Native American special educatio - syracuse.com

  20-07-2022 15:05
  
  Today’s obits: Eva Cook taught Mohawk language, arts and crafts for Syracuse Native American special educatio  syracuse.com
  
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• In 'Air' exhibition, 16 artists try to connect people to pollution - Salt Lake Tribune

  20-07-2022 15:01
  
  In 'Air' exhibition, 16 artists try to connect people to pollution  Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Jane Austen? Fans Play a Part.

  20-07-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The backlash to the Netflix version of “Persuasion” has as much to do with who’s watching as who’s scripting. Still, the new film broke some rules.
  
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• Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.)

  20-07-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The backlash to the Netflix version of “Persuasion” has as much to do with who’s watching as who’s scripting. Still, the new film broke some rules.
  
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• Greg Meyers of Teton Arts receives '22 Dawn Banks Award - Teton Valley News

  20-07-2022 15:00
  Greg Meyers of Teton Arts receives '22 Dawn Banks Award  Teton Valley News
  
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• Lakeland announces auditions | Arts Entertainment | warrenrecord.com - warrenrecord.com

  20-07-2022 14:57
  Lakeland announces auditions | Arts Entertainment | warrenrecord.com  warrenrecord.com
  
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• Quidditch Becomes ‘Quadball,’ Leaving J.K. Rowling Behind

  20-07-2022 14:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Citing copyright issues and objections to the author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender issues, the sport’s leading groups officially distanced themselves from their “Harry Potter” roots.
  
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• Veteran photographer from Hollis focuses lens on music and the arts in Queens – QNS.com - QNS.com

  20-07-2022 14:30
  Veteran photographer from Hollis focuses lens on music and the arts in Queens – QNS.com  QNS.com
  
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• ICI hosts Indigenous Arts Summer Encounter | Dripping Springs Century News - drippingspringsnews.com

  20-07-2022 14:23
  
  ICI hosts Indigenous Arts Summer Encounter | Dripping Springs Century News  drippingspringsnews.com
  
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• Indiana Arts Commission announces new team members, staffing changes - WBIW.com

  20-07-2022 14:15
  
  Indiana Arts Commission announces new team members, staffing changes  WBIW.com
  
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• Italy Halts Allegedly Illegal Sale of Gentileschi Painting, Artist Ritzi Jacobi Dies at 80, and More: Morning Links for July 20, 2022

  20-07-2022 14:04 via artnews.com
  
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  THE CARABINIERI STRIKE AGAIN. Police in Italy said that they halted the auction of a painting by 17th-century great Artemisia Gentileschi in Vienna that had allegedly been exported from the country under false pretenses, the Associated Press report. Officials said that the work, estimated to be worth €2 million ($2.05 millio
  
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• Opinion: ARTS 101 - A class that is more than meets the eye - Eastern Echo

  20-07-2022 14:03
  Opinion: ARTS 101 - A class that is more than meets the eye  Eastern Echo
  
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• Cyprus Opens Its First Underwater Archaeological Park at a 2,000-year-old Ancient Port

  20-07-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Cyprus’ first underwater archaeological park opened to the public last week. Located near the ancient city of Amathus, the park showcases one of the eastern Mediterranean’s best preserved ancient harbors.
  Though the origins of Amathus remain unclear, it is believed to have been settled by the Eteocyprians around 1100 BCE. At different times, the settlement was passed among the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Persians, the Ptolemies, and the Romans. During the Roman era, the ancient city
  
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• College of Arts and Sciences announces highest annual faculty honors - University of New England

  20-07-2022 14:00
  College of Arts and Sciences announces highest annual faculty honors  University of New England
  
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• ‘The Beta Test,’ ‘Closet Monster’ and More Streaming Gems

  20-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Put this selection of off-the-radar movies in your queue.
  
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• Liverpool Arab Arts Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary - Middle East Eye

  20-07-2022 12:35
  Liverpool Arab Arts Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary  Middle East Eye
  
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