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• Ruby C. Williams, Folk Artist With a Produce Stand, Dies at 94

  30-08-2022 23:33 via nytimes.com
  Her colorful paintings started out as advertisements for her farm stand in Florida. Before long, her works found their way to art galleries.
  
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• Collector Adrian Cheng Revealed as Backer of Viral Azuki NFT Collection

  30-08-2022 23:11 via artnews.com
  The Hong Kong mega-collector and real estate mogul Adrian Cheng has been revealed as the backer of the viral Azuki NFT collection, which comprises 8,7000 anime-inspired avatars. Since its debut in January, the collection has brought in $29 million.
  By February, with $300 million in Azuki sales, the collection had surpassed sales of its competing tokens like the Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks.
  Cheng, who has been included on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list since 2015 and is known for be
  
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• The Benefits of Arts Education for K-12 Students - U.S. News & World Report

  30-08-2022 22:55
  The Benefits of Arts Education for K-12 Students  U.S. News & World Report
  
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• VPA Dean Michael Tick to Serve as International Council of Fine Arts Deans Leadership Development Mentor - Syracuse University News

  30-08-2022 22:32
  VPA Dean Michael Tick to Serve as International Council of Fine Arts Deans Leadership Development Mentor  Syracuse University News
  
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• ARPA for the Arts: Grant lets James Rickley concentrate on composition - Great Falls Tribune

  30-08-2022 21:51
  ARPA for the Arts: Grant lets James Rickley concentrate on composition  Great Falls Tribune
  
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• Fall 2022 Arts and Humanities Virtual Internship Fair - UMass News and Media Relations

  30-08-2022 21:32
  Fall 2022 Arts and Humanities Virtual Internship Fair  UMass News and Media Relations
  
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• Marine Archaeologists Scour a Busy Trade Route for Ancient Shipwrecks

  30-08-2022 21:23 via artnews.com
  On August 24, UNESCO launched an underwater archaeology expedition in the Skerki Banks between Sicily and Tunisia. Along one of the world’s busiest maritime routes, a dozen marine archaeologists are searching the seabed for shipwrecks sunk between ancient times and World War II.
  The Skerki Banks, comprising reefs that are dangerous and difficult to navigate, once connected Rome’s supply port Ostia to the city of Carthage.
  The 150-foot-long Alfred Merlin archaeological research vessel
  
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• Marine Archaeologists Are Scouring a Busy Trade Route for Ancient Shipwrecks

  30-08-2022 21:23 via artnews.com
  On August 24, UNESCO launched an underwater archaeology expedition in the Skerki Banks between Sicily and Tunisia. Along one of the busiest maritime routes in the world, a dozen marine archaeologists are searching the seabed for shipwrecks sunk between ancient times and World War II.
  The Skerki Banks, comprised of reefs that are dangerous and difficult to navigate, once connected Rome’s supply port Ostia to the city of Carthage.
  The 150-foot-long Alfred Merlin archaeological research vesse
  
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• Daniel Barenboim, Star Conductor, Withdraws from ‘Ring’ Cycle in Berlin

  30-08-2022 20:44 via nytimes.com
  “I must now give priority to my health and concentrate on my complete recovery,” the conductor said.
  
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• September 1 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities - Vallejo Times-Herald

  30-08-2022 20:20
  September 1 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Metro Arts Commission appoints Daniel Singh as executive director - The Business Journals

  30-08-2022 20:18
  Metro Arts Commission appoints Daniel Singh as executive director  The Business Journals
  
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• A Utica Sculpture Studio Is Ransacked, and 5 Children Are Arrested

  30-08-2022 19:51 via nytimes.com
  Sculpture Space, a residency program, was vandalized over the weekend. The police said Tuesday they had charged five juveniles between the ages of 8 and 11 in connection with the crime.
  
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• A Star Maestro, Fighting Brain Cancer, Finds Peace in Music

  30-08-2022 19:37 via nytimes.com
  Michael Tilson Thomas, who returned to Tanglewood, where his career first took off, refuses to be confined by his illness.
  
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• Painter Elizabeth Peyton Did the Poster for Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell’s New Horror Movie

  30-08-2022 19:23 via artnews.com
  Bones and All, the new Timothée Chalamet–led Luca Guadagnino cannibal film that is about to debut at the Venice Film Festival, has a new poster, and it came courtesy of the painter Elizabeth Peyton, who’s known widely for her portraits of celebrities and close friends.
  The Bones and All poster that can now be seen hanging around Venice shows Chalamet and his co-star Taylor Russell locking lips. Their faces appear to dissolve into abstraction, thanks to Peyton’s thin brus
  
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• Katie Gregson-MacLeod Sang About a ‘Complex’ Love. TikTok Responded.

  30-08-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  The 21-year-old Scottish folk singer-songwriter found a sudden hit by tapping into the platform’s appetite for melancholy with a striking, sorrowful chorus.
  
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• Russian Security Guard Who Doodled Eyes on Avant-Garde Painting Found Guilty of Vandalism 

  30-08-2022 18:55 via artnews.com
  A Russian security guard at Yekaterinburg’s Yeltsin Centre who doodled eyes on an abstract painting by avant-garde artist Anna Leporskaya last December was found guilty of vandalism by the local magistrate’s court on Monday. According to the Art Newspaper, he must serve 180 hours of “compulsory labor” and undergo “psychiatric evaluation.”
  The painting, titled Three Figures (1932-34), was on loan to the Yeltsin Centre from Moscow’s State Tretyak
  
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• How Did ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Get Those Dogfight Scenes? Joseph Kosinski Explains.

  30-08-2022 18:26 via nytimes.com
  The director behind the biggest movie of 2022 so far discusses trying to make a movie that can’t be traced to any particular year and the meaning of Dad Cinema.
  
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• Ten Works by Cezanne Where There Is More Than Meets the Eye

  30-08-2022 18:00 via artnews.com
  For an artist who died more than a century ago, Paul Cezanne has a way of feeling perpetually new. He was an artistic nomad, both within and outside the Impressionist movement du jour—and a literal one, too, shuffling between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. After his death in 1906, his name became a Modernist rallying cry, his works zealously collected by artists like Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro.
  A new retrospective currently in transit from
  
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• Francis Alÿs to Receive $100,000 After Winning One of the World’s Biggest Art Prizes

  30-08-2022 17:33 via artnews.com
  Hot off doing the Belgian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, artist Francis Alÿs will receive the Museum Ludwig’s Wolfgang Hahn Prize. With a $100,000 cash purse, the prize is among the world’s biggest art prizes.
  Through the award, Alÿs, who is based in Mexico City, will have an exhibition at the Cologne museum. His work will also be acquired for the institution’s collection.
  “Of course I am much honored, and in these polarized times, receiving such
  
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• Book Review: “Partisans,” by Nicole Hemmer

  30-08-2022 17:03 via nytimes.com
  A new book by the historian Nicole Hemmer charts the demise of Reagan-style optimism and the birth of a rage-and-fear-based politics on the right.
  
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• Laura Linney to Return to Broadway in New David Auburn Play

  30-08-2022 16:55 via nytimes.com
  “Summer, 1976,” about a friendship between two women in Ohio, will open next spring at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
  
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• Prairie Arts Festival set for Saturday - The Commercial Dispatch

  30-08-2022 16:45
  Prairie Arts Festival set for Saturday  The Commercial Dispatch
  
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• $13.5 M. Worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Stolen Since Collection Was Founded

  30-08-2022 16:26 via artnews.com
  Nearly 150 Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens have been stolen since the blue-chip collection was launched in June 2021, according a report released Tuesday by Web3 security firm Immunefi. The 143 NFTs, collectively worth $13,582,962, were stolen from owners through a variety of scams and hacks.
  The majority of that value was stolen during two major hacks in 2022. In April, hackers posted a phishing link — a malicious link used to steal user data. — to the BAYC official Instagr
  
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• With ‘Tár,’ Todd Field Returns to Directing. Where Has He Been?

  30-08-2022 16:20 via nytimes.com
  Sixteen years after “In the Bedroom” and “Little Children” made waves, he’s nervous about stepping back into the limelight with a hot-button story.
  
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• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg announces interim executive director - Tampa Bay Times

  30-08-2022 15:55
  Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg announces interim executive director  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Is Heading to Broadway

  30-08-2022 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The play, adapted from his memoir of the same name, will run for 75 performances starting in October.
  
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• A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet

  30-08-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Alexei Ratmansky, one of the most important figures in ballet, is supporting Ukraine by staging “Giselle” with a company made up of Ukrainian refugees.
  
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• Climate Activists Damage Rubens Painting’s Frame, British Museum Receives Chinese Jades, and More: Morning Links from August 30, 2022

  30-08-2022 14:23 via artnews.com
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  A BIG BEQUEST. The British Museum in London revealed this week that it had received a large bequest of Chinese porcelains and jades from Sir Joseph Hotung, a member of a powerful Hong Kong family who died last year. George Osborne, chair of the British Museum’s board, told the Guardian that the bequest i
  
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• Venice Film Festival 2022: What to Watch For

  30-08-2022 12:32 via nytimes.com
  The event fires the award-season starting pistol with some of the most anticipated films of the year — including “White Noise,” “The Whale” and “Don’t Worry Darling.”
  
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• Lee Bul Is an Artist in Pursuit of Balance

  30-08-2022 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Lee Bul, a contemporary Korean artist, blends old traditions and new techniques. Work from her latest series, “Perdu,” will be shown at Frieze Seoul.
  
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• Frieze Debuts in Seoul, With Big-Name Galleries and a Hometown Spectacle

  30-08-2022 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The art fair takes on a whole new continent this fall, showcasing more than 110 galleries in the South Korean capital.
  
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• Maggie O’Farrell Looks for Stories Hiding in Plain Sight

  30-08-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Her latest book, “The Marriage Portrait,” imagines the life of the girl who is thought to have inspired Robert Browning’s famous poem “My Last Duchess.”
  
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• In Seoul, Perrotin Adds a Second Gallery

  30-08-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The global dealer opened a second space in South Korea’s capital just before the Frieze and Kiaf fairs, with an eye toward new artists and new buyers.
  
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• For the Artist Do Ho Suh, Memories Are a Medium

  30-08-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Work by Do Ho Suh, being shown in Seoul and New York in September, highlights the global nature of the art world — and of his own personal journey.
  
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• Exploring Spain’s Arab Influence

  30-08-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Exploring the country’s Arab influence is an impossibly romantic journey, involving palaces with intricate geometric designs, castles and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.
  
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• Penn Live Arts and the Negro Ensemble Company: Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival - University of Pennsylvania

  30-08-2022 06:10
  Penn Live Arts and the Negro Ensemble Company: Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival  University of Pennsylvania
  
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• 5 Shows to See During Frieze Seoul

  30-08-2022 06:00 via artnews.com
  At last. After many months of speculation, and then many more months of anticipation, the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul opens Friday at the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in the Gangnam district, alongside the Korea International Art Fair. Hundreds of exhibitors from around the world will be on hand. In many other countries, galleries are still closed for summer breaks, but not here. All around the South Korean capital, dealers have been opening major exhibitions in recent days, hopin
  
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