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• The Kitchen Offers the Public a Rare Opportunity to See Its Archives at the Armory Show

  09-09-2022 23:36 via artnews.com
  Typically, organizations stow their archives away, keeping them far from public viewing. But the Kitchen has taken a different approach at the Armory Show, where it’s turned its archive outward.This year at the fair, the Kitchen has organized a section devoted to art nonprofits. Founded as an artist collective in 1971,the Kitchen is one of the most esteemed organizations of the kind in New York. It’s currently undergoing a multiyear renovation on its Chelsea home, and has temporarily
  
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• At New York’s Armory Show, Dealers Sell Works Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

  09-09-2022 23:03 via artnews.com
  Since its opening on Thursday, the 2022 edition of the Armory Show has seen a good number of sales. Though the sums here are more modest than those of other international fairs, a lot did sell at various price points, showing that the fair is still attracting collectors who are eager to acquire work by closely watched artists as well as by emerging ones whom they are likely still learning about.[See the best booths at the 2022 Armory Show.]With nearly 250 exhibitors across some 250,000 square fe
  
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• ‘Burbank’ Review: When Disney’s Animators Went on Strike

  09-09-2022 22:45 via nytimes.com
  Cameron Darwin Bossert’s smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.
  
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• The Netherlands Returns 343 Pre-Hispanic Artifacts to Panama

  09-09-2022 22:26 via artnews.com
  The Netherlands has returned a trove of pre-Hispanic artifacts to Panama, aiding the country as it works toward its goal of reclaiming looted cultural heritage from international collections.Some 343 ceramic objects were returned on August 29 in what Panama’s Foreign Minister, Erika Mouynes, has called the “largest repatriation of archaeological pieces in the history of Central America.” The Foreign Ministry also reported that another repatriation
  
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• Fayetteville opens Lower Ramble as part of cultural arts corridor project - Fayetteville Flyer

  09-09-2022 22:26
  Fayetteville opens Lower Ramble as part of cultural arts corridor project  Fayetteville Flyer
  
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• Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts

  09-09-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  The unmasking of a fake Galileo manuscript this summer brought renewed attention to a colorful, prolific early-20th-century forger named Tobia Nicotra.
  
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• Remnants of Ancient Roman Turret Discovered at Hadrian’s Wall in England

  09-09-2022 21:51 via artnews.com
  Remnants of a turret from Hadrian’s Wall were unearthed by archaeologists during construction work for student accommodations in Ouseburn, near Newcastle, England. Hadrian’s Wall was a defensive fortification that spanned 73 miles across Roman Britain. Sixteen stone forts were built every 1,000 paces, with 80 milecastles, turrets and 6 supply forts set in between. Construction along the Stanegate Road route began in 122 CE and took seven years to complete.The turret is the only known
  
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• Artist Bharti Kher’s Monumental Ancestor Is Now Guarding Central Park

  09-09-2022 21:44 via artnews.com
  A towering mother is stationed at Central Park’s mouth. She’s 18-feet-tall with a body of painted bronze. The heads of her 23 children sprout from her womb, belly, shoulders, and back. Her expression is kind: all passersby—and any who may spot her from the distance—are welcome within her embrace. Titled, Ancestor, she’s the work of Bharti Kher, a New Delhi– and London-based artist whose practice collapses daily ritual and ancient symbol, sacred objec
  
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• At the Armory Show, Two Young New York Galleries Incisively Explore the Land We Live On

  09-09-2022 20:52 via artnews.com
  At this year’s massive edition of the Armory Show, numbering nearly 250 exhibitors, a moment of reflection comes courtesy of two booths in the fair’s Presents section, for galleries in business for fewer than 10 years. The works on view are by two artists—Joiri Minaya (at Calderón) and Nona Faustine (at Higher Pictures Generation)—whose practices have long explored what our relationship to the land we live on.Minaya’s works often reflect on how white people i
  
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• Walter Hive in Scottsdale advocates for building community through the arts - Daily Independent

  09-09-2022 20:50
  Walter Hive in Scottsdale advocates for building community through the arts  Daily Independent
  
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• Encinitas to unveil Arts Alive banners Sunday - The San Diego Union-Tribune

  09-09-2022 20:38
  Encinitas to unveil Arts Alive banners Sunday  The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• A Joyous, Novel Fundraiser Brings Together 50 Artists for David Zwirner Exhibition

  09-09-2022 20:09 via artnews.com
  Isn’t it amazing? That will likely be the case for a new exhibition opening Friday at David Zwirner in New York, titled “A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A Mezzaning, Meza-9” that brings together the work of 50 artists benefiting Performance Space New York. Proceeds from sales made through the exhibition, which is organized by four artists—Kerstin Brätsch, Ei Arakawa, Laura Owens, and Nicole Eisenman—will allow the nonprofit to expand its programming and offer arti
  
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• Virginia Dwan, Risk-Taking Dealer Who Helped Fund Epic Land Art Projects, Dies at 90

  09-09-2022 19:55 via artnews.com
  Virginia Dwan, a dealer whose short-lived gallery propelled many Minimalist and Land artists to fame during the late ’60s and early ’70s, died on September 4 after a battle with cancer. She was 90, a representative for her archive said.In the past decade, Dwan has been canonized as one of the 20th century’s great American dealers for her risk-taking sensibility and her willingness to put money behind game-changing artworks.Her gallery, which opened in Los Angeles and later move
  
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• Tina Ramirez, Founder of a Leading Hispanic Dance Troupe, Dies at 92

  09-09-2022 19:46 via nytimes.com
  Her company, Ballet Hispánico, performed for audiences across the United States and beyond. It also trained countless dancers.
  
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• ‘American Gigolo’ Review: Can You Take the Escort Out of the ’80s?

  09-09-2022 19:36 via nytimes.com
  A Showtime series remakes an era-defining film for the current age of victimization.
  
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• Walker Art Center’s Amanda Hunt Shares Her Top Five Recent Obsessions

  09-09-2022 19:01 via artnews.com
  Amanda Hunt was recently named the new head of public engagement, learning, and interpretation at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. There, she strives towards community building and representation in a city that saw great strife following the death of George Floyd in 2020. Below, Hunt discusses her recent interests as she started her latest role.
  
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• Washington Becomes the First State to Tax NFTs

  09-09-2022 18:12 via artnews.com
  Washington became the first US state to tax NFTs, the state government announced this past July.The regulations are complicated, and enforcing them may be harder still. Tax agencies may have a difficult time determining whether the sales of digital, decentralized, placeless products like NFTs actually took place in Washington. The tax regulations assume that sellers of NFTs know where in the world their customer is based, though that is often not the case. Experts at Greenberg Traurig law firm w
  
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• A Filmmaker Explores David Bowie’s Life and Gets Clarity on His Own

  09-09-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  With the epic “Moonage Daydream,” Brett Morgen contended with a chameleonic star whose approach to living helped him refocus after a heart attack.
  
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• Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs

  09-09-2022 17:41 via nytimes.com
  Hear tracks by Blood Orange, Madison Cunningham, Yeat and others.
  
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• A Back-to-School Book List for the Ages

  09-09-2022 16:54 via nytimes.com
  Karina Yan Glaser, author of the Vanderbeekers series, recommends picture books, chapter books and novels for preschool to middle grade readers.
  
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• Issy Wood Met Power Players in Art and Music. She Went Her Own Way.

  09-09-2022 16:10 via nytimes.com
  The painter and budding electronic-pop musician has a new show of figurative paintings in New York, and quietly released the LP “My Body Your Choice” last month.
  
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• Three Divas Give Voice to ‘The Hours’ at the Met Opera

  09-09-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato discuss their preparations for the staged premiere of Kevin Puts’s work at the Metropolitan Opera.
  
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• Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us

  09-09-2022 15:52 via nytimes.com
  His forthcoming book, “The Song of the Cell,” part of what he says will be a quartet, is “fundamentally about understanding the units that organize our life.”
  
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• UAFS receives $18.77 million from Windgate Foundation for nursing, arts programs (Updated) - talkbusiness.net

  09-09-2022 15:47
  UAFS receives $18.77 million from Windgate Foundation for nursing, arts programs (Updated)  talkbusiness.net
  
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• Town hall discusses Harpur School of the Arts | Binghamton News - Binghamton

  09-09-2022 15:34
  Town hall discusses Harpur School of the Arts | Binghamton News  Binghamton
  
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• ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 3: Island Time

  09-09-2022 15:11 via nytimes.com
  New characters, new realms and the same old prejudices (onscreen and off). Here are five takeaways from the third episode of Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” prequel.
  
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• Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans’s MoMA Retrospective Is One of the Year’s Best Shows

  09-09-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  Wolfgang Tillmans’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective is one of the biggest New York shows mounted since the start of the pandemic, and its grandness is felt right from the start in the unlikeliest of ways: a video of a wet leg stepping up and down that’s projected from floor to ceiling. The video’s subject matter is banal, and yet Tillmans has cast it at a scale most artworks will never achieve. In this show, and in Tillmans’s universe, nothing in the world is too small
  
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• Artists discuss how they turned the queen into an icon.

  09-09-2022 14:39 via nytimes.com
  Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was one of the world’s most photographed and painted people. Three artists explain how they made portraits of the monarch that stood out from the crowd.
  
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• Greece Approves Plan for Repatriation of 161 Ancient Works, Tarantino and Miramax Settle NFT Dispute, and More: Morning Links for September 9, 2022

  09-09-2022 14:26 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHEADING HOME. A total of 161 ancient Greek artifacts from the collection of billionaire Leonard N. Stern will eventually make their way back to Greece after its parliament agreed to what the Associated Press termed “a complex deal.” That deal has Athens admitting that it cannot prove that the works—which date
  
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• ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’: What to Know Before Watching

  09-09-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  After 13 years, James Cameron’s sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” is finally opening in December. Here’s everything you need to know.
  
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• Column: As fall arrives, the arts offer a chance to come back together in our shared Chicago home - Chicago Tribune

  09-09-2022 12:15
  Column: As fall arrives, the arts offer a chance to come back together in our shared Chicago home  Chicago Tribune
  
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• For the Nerds: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s First Solo Show at Pace Makes Data Beautiful

  09-09-2022 12:00 via artnews.com
  Titled “Common Measures”, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s first solo exhibition with Pace Gallery features three large pieces that exemplify the artist’s poetic fascination with data and technology. But don’t call him an innovator. “Despite the fact that I work with technology, I really dislike the word ‘new’ in new media,” Lozano-Hemmer told ARTnews. “Anybody that thinks what we’re doing is new is someone who has not studied enough art hi
  
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• Are Men in Dresses and Wigs Still Funny in Comedy?

  09-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  As “Some Like It Hot” and “Ain’t No Mo’” head to Broadway, following runs of “Tootsie” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,” 10 artists reflect on an enduring trope and how it works, or doesn’t, today.
  
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• Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices

  09-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The 29-year-old musician has recorded with Frank Ocean, released a film score and made oodles of outré indie rock. One thing has guided his unusual career: gut decisions.
  
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• College celebrates 60 years of Visual Arts Department – The Bowdoin Orient - The Bowdoin Orient

  09-09-2022 08:45
  College celebrates 60 years of Visual Arts Department – The Bowdoin Orient  The Bowdoin Orient
  
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• James Corden Pays Tribute to the Queen

  09-09-2022 07:56 via nytimes.com
  The British host of “The Late Late Show” called Queen Elizabeth II “a guiding light.” Other hosts went a bit lighter with their commentary.
  
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• Review: “Holler of the Fireflies” by David Barclay Moore

  09-09-2022 06:10 via nytimes.com
  In “Hummingbird” and “Holler of the Fireflies,” a girl with brittle bones and a boy plagued by racist tensions seek healing in the hills.
  
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• Olivia Colman and Claire Foy on Playing Queen Elizabeth II on ‘The Crown’

  09-09-2022 03:16 via nytimes.com
  In “The Queen” and “The Crown,” actors took different approaches to get under the skin of the enigmatic monarch.
  
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• ‘About Fate’ Review: Love the One You’re With?

  09-09-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Thomas Mann’s beguiling performance drives this Emma Roberts vehicle, but the romantic comedy creaks under the weight of its coincidences.
  
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• 'Please Help Us': Humboldt's Arts Community Pleads Governor to Sign Bill That Would Offer Financial Support for Theaters and Other Struggling Arts Organizations - Lost Coast Outpost

  09-09-2022 01:27
  'Please Help Us': Humboldt's Arts Community Pleads Governor to Sign Bill That Would Offer Financial Support for Theaters and Other Struggling Arts Organizations  Lost Coast Outpost
  
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• ‘End of the Road’ Review: Thrill Ride

  09-09-2022 01:00 via nytimes.com
  Queen Latifah and Chris Bridges anchor a predictable thriller that also manages to spin a charming tale of family unity.
  
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• The 10 Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Pregnant Cyborgs to Sleek Figuration

  09-09-2022 00:35 via artnews.com
  Summer vacation is officially finished for dealers all over the world, and many of them kicked off the fall season in New York this week at the Armory Show. For the second year in a row, the Armory Show was held in the Javits Center, lending the show far more space than it had previously. The fair has also grown dramatically since last year’s iteration, as more and more galleries return to business as usual.Some dealers said sales hadn’t come as quickly as they’d hoped during t
  
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• Six Animated Shorts Present Work From Texas A&M Arts & Humanities Fellows Six Animated Shorts Present Work From Texas A&M Arts & Humanities Fellows - Texas A&M University Today

  09-09-2022 00:16
  Six Animated Shorts Present Work From Texas A&M Arts & Humanities Fellows Six Animated Shorts Present Work From Texas A&M Arts & Humanities Fellows  Texas A&M University Today
  
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