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• The Choreography of Public Mourning

  19-09-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  The events around Queen Elizabeth’s death have unfolded with an astonishing amount of formal, choreographed movement.
  
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• Go Easy On Me: FRONT Triennial

  19-09-2022 22:55 via artnews.com
  Lately, I can’t stop thinking about an argument Maggie Nelson made in her most recent book, On Freedom (2021). She writes that, while 20th-century artists focused on exposing viewers to the horrors of the world, many artists in this century have turned their efforts toward the necessary work of healing and repair. The second edition of Cleveland’s FRONT Triennial, whose theme is healing, seems to take Nelson’s claim to the extreme.Titled “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,&rd
  
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• From Gravel Pits to Sculpture Parks

  19-09-2022 22:29 via artnews.com
  THE FIRST ARTWORK SPONSORED by the United States Bureau of Mines was realized in 1979 in the small unincorporated community of SeaTac, named for the nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport in Washington State. According to a 1981 technical report for the U.S. Department of the Interior, “a depleted county gravel pit was rehabilitated by contracting an artist to turn it into a sculpture.” That artist, Robert Morris, conceived the gravel pit sculpture as a critique of surface mining and the prof
  
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• Dutch Museum Returns Kandinsky Painting to Heirs of Jewish Collector

  19-09-2022 22:00 via artnews.com
  A 1910 painting by Wassily Kandinsky is being returned by a Dutch museum to the heirs of a Jewish family from which it was seized during World War II. The decision ends a years-long legal dispute over the painting, which has been in the collection of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven since 1951.The painting, View of Murnau with Church, will be transferred from the city-owned museum to the relatives of the Berlin-based collector Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann, who was active as a collector of mo
  
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• Ai Weiwei Thinks Freedom of Speech is Disappearing in the West

  19-09-2022 21:49 via artnews.com
  Famed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said that freedom of speech issues are widespread across the world in a recent talk at Hay Festival Segovia, a literature and arts festival that takes place annually in Segovia, Spain.Speaking on a screen over video-conference with Anne McElvoy, executive editor of The Economist, Ai spoke at length about political dissidents, human rights, and freedom of speech, though his criticism was not limited to China. During an exchange about Ai’s time in Europe explor
  
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• Alain Tanner, Leading Director in Swiss New Wave, Dies at 92

  19-09-2022 21:41 via nytimes.com
  With his brainy works of neorealism, he made films that helped establish Switzerland as a film center in the 1970s.
  
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• Artist Prize Roundup: Jesse Krimes, Odili Donald Odita, and Cesar Viveros Win $75,000 Pew Center Fellowships, Juan Sánchez Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation Award, and More

  19-09-2022 21:23 via artnews.com
  The Philadelphia-based Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has named the recipients of its 2022 grants and fellowships cycle, which will distribute $9.5 million to local nonprofits and artists based in the city. As part of the cycle, the center will award 12 artists $75,000 fellowships. Those artists are Jesse Krimes, Odili Donald Odita, Camille Acker, Maia Chao, Sabaah Folayan, Denice Frohman, Adebunmi Gbadebo, James Maurelle, Asali Solomon, James Allister Sprang, Ada Trillo, and Cesar Viveros.
  
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• One Last Broadcast for Queen Elizabeth II

  19-09-2022 20:53 via nytimes.com
  The funeral for Queen Elizabeth II honored a seven-decade public life. It also felt like a capstone to the mass TV era that defined her reign.
  
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• Arts Initiative names eight for Public Art & Engagement Fellowship | The University Record - The University Record

  19-09-2022 20:46
  Arts Initiative names eight for Public Art & Engagement Fellowship | The University Record  The University Record
  
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• Waving Goodbye to ‘Dear Evan Hansen’

  19-09-2022 20:33 via nytimes.com
  Sam Primack, the final actor to play Evan Hansen on Broadway, reflects on the musical and clearing out that rack of striped blue polos.
  
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• Prominent Egyptologist Claims He Has Discovered the Lost Mummy of Queen Nefertiti

  19-09-2022 19:59 via artnews.com
  A prominent Egyptologist has boldly claimed to have solved one archaeology’s greatest mysteries: the location of Queen Nefertiti’s mummified remains. Zahi Hawass, the previous Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs in Egypt, is part of the Egypt-led team that undertook a high-profile excavation in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings that allegedly uncovered amulets once owned by King Tut. The team announced last December that they had also unearthed several unnam
  
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• Advocacy Groups Are Helping Drive a Rise in Book Bans

  19-09-2022 19:40 via nytimes.com
  A report from the free speech organization PEN America looked at the role of politics and advocacy groups in the growing number of book bans in schools across the country.
  
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• Rare 3,000-Year-Old Gold Mask Found in Chinese Royal Tombs

  19-09-2022 19:35 via artnews.com
  An estimated 3,000-year-old gold mask has been unearthed by archaeologists in central China. It is the first of its kind to be identified dating back to the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 B.C.E.).The mask was discovered among royal tombs in Shangcheng county in the Henan provincial capital of Zhengzhou, China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration announced Friday. Notably, it predates another gold mask found at the Sanxingdui archaeological site last fall.Sanxingdui in southwest Chin
  
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• Bad Bunny, No. 1 Again, Puts a Spotlight on Inequities in Puerto Rico

  19-09-2022 18:39 via nytimes.com
  Days before his latest album notched its 11th week atop the Billboard 200, the pop superstar released a music video paired with a documentary by Bianca Graulau.
  
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• Review: ‘Marie It’s Time’ Pieces Together a Woman in Fragments

  19-09-2022 17:42 via nytimes.com
  This three-actor play initiates a dialogue with Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck,” examining men’s violence against women.
  
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• Jennifer Bonjean, the Lawyer Who Defended R. Kelly and Bill Cosby

  19-09-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Jennifer Bonjean has become known for her aggressive approach as she has defended men accused of sexual misconduct in several of the highest profile cases of the #MeToo era.
  
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• Brad Pitt Shows His Art, MoMA’s Chief Photography Curator Departs, and More: Morning Links for September 19, 2022

  19-09-2022 15:28 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesIT’S THE PITTS—the artworks by actor Brad Pitt, that is. Some of them are on display in Tampere, Finland, at the Sara Hildén Art Museum, TMZ reports. In a new show there, Pitt is showing recent work alongside sculptures by his friend Thomas Houseago, whom Pitt reportedly counts as a close frie
  
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• Sean Hayes to Star in Broadway Play About Oscar Levant

  19-09-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “Good Night, Oscar,” by Doug Wright, explores the life of a pianist who became famous as a witty guest and host of midcentury radio and television shows.
  
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• Milly Alcock and Emily Carey Say Goodbye to ‘House of the Dragon’

  19-09-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  In a joint interview, Milly Alcock and Emily Carey discussed their now-completed stint in the HBO epic. “We were forced to hang on to each other for dear life,” Alcock said.
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Stars Say Goodbye to HBO’s Biggest Hit

  19-09-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  In a joint interview, Milly Alcock and Emily Carey discussed their now-completed stint in the HBO epic. “We were forced to hang on to each other for dear life,” Alcock said.
  
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  19-09-2022 12:00 via nytimes.com
  A report from the free speech organization PEN America looked at the role of politics and advocacy groups in the growing number of book bans in schools across the country.
  
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• Review: ‘Getting Lost,’ by Annie Ernaux

  19-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Getting Lost,” a diary by the French writer Annie Ernaux, recounts an all-consuming Paris romance.
  
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• Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked

  19-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In her new poetry collection, “The Rupture Tense,” Xie peeks at the past — her family’s, and China’s — to examine the consequences of “how we see, what we see, and also what we allow to remain unseen.”
  
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• New study asks what high school students think of the liberal arts - Inside Higher Ed

  19-09-2022 09:00
  New study asks what high school students think of the liberal arts  Inside Higher Ed
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Bachelorette’ and ‘Abbott Elementary’

  19-09-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  The ABC reality dating show wraps up a season, and the Emmy Award-winning sitcom begins its second.
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Wedding Crashers

  19-09-2022 04:01 via nytimes.com
  The repercussions of Rhaenyra and Daemon’s illicit adventures continue to reverberate throughout the realm.
  
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• Acropolis Museum President, Dimitrios Pandermalis, Dead at 82

  19-09-2022 00:24 via artnews.com
  Dimitrios Pandermalis, the president of the board of directors of Greece’s Acropolis Museum has died at the age of 82, Greece’s culture ministry said in a statement Wednesday. The cause of death was not disclosed.Pandermalis served as the museum’s president since 2009, overseeing the construction of an ambitious $145 million revamp of the museum, situated on an Athenian archaeological site. He also served as president of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s department o
  
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