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• Anton Fier, Drummer Who Left Stamp on a Downtown Scene, Dies at 66

  07-10-2022 23:42 via nytimes.com
  He worked with everyone from the Feelies to Herbie Hancock to Laurie Anderson, as well as leading the indie-rock supergroup the Golden Palominos. But there was a troubled side.
  
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• Atlanta-based nonprofit South Arts receives $1.175M gift from Alice L. Walton Foundation – WABE - WABE 90.1 FM

  07-10-2022 23:33 via wabe.org
  Atlanta-based nonprofit South Arts receives $1.175M gift from Alice L. Walton Foundation – WABE  WABE 90.1 FM
  
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• James Memorial Art Center goes big for Arts Month - Williston Daily Herald

  07-10-2022 23:27 via willistonherald.com
  James Memorial Art Center goes big for Arts Month  Williston Daily Herald
  
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• Performing Arts presents ghost story “Concord Floral” through Tuesday - Today at Elon

  07-10-2022 23:24 via elon.edu
  Performing Arts presents ghost story “Concord Floral” through Tuesday  Today at Elon
  
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• The many roles of Nevada Fine Arts - This Is Reno

  07-10-2022 23:10 via thisisreno.com
  The many roles of Nevada Fine Arts  This Is Reno
  
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• Questionnaire: Collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Answers 12 Pressing Questions

  07-10-2022 22:48 via artnews.com
  Over the past five decades, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, have amassed one of the world’s most significant collections of Latin American art. They are among the very few collectors to have appeared in every edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list. A longtime trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Phelps de Cisneros has donated more than 200 works to MoMA, and funded the establishment of a research institute on Latin American art there.Wh
  
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• Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing ‘Love Goddess’ of Comedy, Dies at 72

  07-10-2022 22:24 via nytimes.com
  She cracked comedy’s top ranks with a memorably outlandish act in the 1980s, when the stand-up scene was largely male.
  
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• ‘Let the Right One In’ Joins a Parade of Bloodsuckers on TV

  07-10-2022 22:17 via nytimes.com
  October offers voluptuousness in an Anne Rice adaptation on AMC, goofy satire in Syfy’s “Reginald the Vampire” and mystery in Showtime’s “Let the Right One In.”
  
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• Vermeer Did Not Paint ‘Girl with a Flute,’ National Gallery of Art Reveals

  07-10-2022 21:37 via nytimes.com
  Museum researchers said there was enough evidence to warrant changing the attribution of one of its four Vermeers.
  
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• LaTanya Richardson Jackson on Directing ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and Her Husband)

  07-10-2022 20:52 via nytimes.com
  As she makes her Broadway directorial debut, she said her “vision is about seeing a deeper way into” what August Wilson intended with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
  
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• Judd Foundation Alleges Art Dealers Caused ‘Irreversible’ Damage to Artwork in New Lawsuit

  07-10-2022 20:43 via artnews.com
  The Judd Foundation, which focuses on preserving the legacy of Donald Judd and manages the late artist’s two former studios in New York and Marfa, Texas, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against two galleries, alleging that they had caused irreparable damage to one of Judd’s works while it was their care.In its complaint, filed with Manhattan Supreme Court, the foundation claims that New York–based Tina Kim Gallery and Kukje Gallery, which has locations in Seoul and Busan, South Kore
  
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• Liverpool Will Host 2023 Eurovision Song Contest

  07-10-2022 20:25 via nytimes.com
  The popular competition would have been held in Ukraine, which won this year’s event, but safety concerns sent it to Britain instead.
  
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• A Vermeer? It’s Actually an Imitator, National Gallery of Art Reveals

  07-10-2022 20:12 via nytimes.com
  Museum researchers said there was enough evidence to warrant changing the attribution of one of its four Vermeers.
  
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• National Gallery of Art Reveals That a Vermeer Is an Imitator

  07-10-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Museum researchers said there was enough evidence to warrant changing the attribution of one of its four Vermeers.
  
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• What to Know About Kevin Spacey’s Civil Trial: Anthony Rapp Takes the Stand

  07-10-2022 19:49 via nytimes.com
  In a lawsuit, Mr. Rapp said Mr. Spacey made a sexual advance when Mr. Rapp was 14. Mr. Spacey is accused of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
  
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• Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill.

  07-10-2022 19:46 via nytimes.com
  The hit musical arrived in Hamburg with its verve, ingenuity and idealism intact. And it gains unexpected depth from being staged in Germany.
  
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• The Power Player of ‘Triangle of Sadness’: Dolly de Leon

  07-10-2022 19:42 via nytimes.com
  The Palme d’Or-winning class satire hinges on her surprising character, but the veteran Filipina actress never thought she had a chance to land the role.
  
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• 1,500 Year-Old Salt Works Submerged in Belize Lagoon Reveals Rare Mayan Architecture

  07-10-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists at Ta’ab Nuk Na, the largest salt works site in Paynes Creek National Park in southern Belize, have uncovered a rare grouping of underwater Mayan structures. Their research, published today in the journal Antiquity, describes large residential buildings along with three salt kitchens submerged in the coastal lagoon.“[We found] hundreds of wooden posts that define the walls of Classic Maya ‘pole and thatch’ wooden buildings,” E. Cory Sills, a co-author
  
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• Governor's School for the Arts class of 2023 applications open - Kentucky Teacher

  07-10-2022 19:15 via kentuckyteacher.org
  Governor's School for the Arts class of 2023 applications open  Kentucky Teacher
  
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• Review: Lift Me Up (but Where?). A Dance of Escape and Connection.

  07-10-2022 19:06 via nytimes.com
  In Kimberly Bartosik’s “The Encounter,” young performers and professional dancers navigate a world in turmoil, looking for a way out.
  
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• ‘Pretty Problems’ Review: A Getaway Goes Quirky

  07-10-2022 18:48 via nytimes.com
  A woman spends a weekend with some wealthy new acquaintances and discovers something (though not nearly enough) about herself.
  
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• 2,500 Archaeologists Demand the British Museum Return Rosetta Stone to Egypt

  07-10-2022 18:46 via artnews.com
  More than 2,500 archaeologists have signed a petition calling on the British Museum in London to repatriate the Rosetta Stone to Egypt.This effort, which was launched last month, urges the Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to officially request the object’s return, along with 16 other artifacts that were illegally and unethically removed from the country.Earlier this year, renowned Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass called for the Rosetta Stone’s return and announced his plans
  
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• Jazmine Sullivan’s Meditation on Courage, and 10 More New Songs

  07-10-2022 18:44 via nytimes.com
  Hear tracks by Charlie Puth, Chloe Moriondo, Kali Uchis and others.
  
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• Robert Kalfin, Founder of an Adventurous Theater, Dies at 89

  07-10-2022 18:28 via nytimes.com
  For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound.
  
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• What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic

  07-10-2022 17:55 via nytimes.com
  When Anthony Tommasini was a young, aspiring musician, he made his first forays into the orchestra’s concert hall. He realized it would not do.
  
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• A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man

  07-10-2022 17:46 via nytimes.com
  The creators of “Last Days,” an eagerly-anticipated opera about a grunge star’s final days, insist it’s really about how society treats its icons.
  
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• Getting Inside Srijon Chowdhury’s Head

  07-10-2022 17:27 via artnews.com
  Related Articles Yooyun Yang Paints Everyday Scenes with a Tender, Haunting AmbienceAstrid Terrazas Paints Fantasy, Folklore, and Family into Enigmatic ScenesWhen Portland painter Srijon Chowdhury was invited to present a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, he asked himself, “what’s the best kind of museum show an artist could have?” His answer: “a retrospective.” Endeavoring to create the effect of a career survey with his first-ever museum exhibiti
  
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• The 12 Best Museums to Visit in Paris

  07-10-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  Paris, the City of Light. Millions of travelers perceive it as an ideal destination. With architectures spanning the Middle Ages (Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés) to the 21st century (Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton Foundation), Paris offers a way to time travel through beauty. It is the birthplace of Gothic and Art Deco styles, of postmodern aesthetics even. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (1163–1345), the Dôme des Invalides (1677–1707), the École Mil
  
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• Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing ‘Love Goddess’ of Stand-Up Comedy, Dies at 72

  07-10-2022 16:41 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Tenuta rose to prominence with an outlandish act in the 1980s and became one of the most prominent women comedians.
  
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• Wharton Arts Makes Key Appointments | Berkeley Heights, NJ News TAPinto - TAPinto.net

  07-10-2022 16:27 via tapinto.net
  Wharton Arts Makes Key Appointments | Berkeley Heights, NJ News TAPinto  TAPinto.net
  
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• Review: “Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice” by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes

  07-10-2022 16:10 via nytimes.com
  It’s who Jackie Robinson and Tommie Smith were off the field that elevates two new books about them.
  
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• Collector Lisa Perry Hopes to Highlight Women Artists with New Space in East Hampton

  07-10-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  Designer Lisa Perry’s love affair with art began with fashion, when she began collecting vintage clothing from the 1960s, designers like Pucci and Pierre Cardin. It ultimately led her and her husband, Richard, to amass a collection of Pop and Minimalist art that includes the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Bell, and Donald Judd.After learning that a ’60s modernist home in East Hampton, New York, that once belonged to
  
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• New Exhibition Will Celebrate First Author: Mesopotamian Priestess Enheduanna

  07-10-2022 15:34 via artnews.com
  The Morgan Library & Museum in New York will open its much anticipated exhibition “She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia” on October 14. In a series of sculptures, cylinder seals, and translated clay tablets, “She Who Wrote” will celebrate the Mesopotamian High Priestess Enheduanna, the first-ever named author in all of humanity’s history. “The Morgan has done exhibitions on Emily Dickinson, Mary Shelley, the Brontés, so I thought we sh
  
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• With an Expansion to the Nation’s Capital, Rubell Museum Looks to Highlight Artists Sensitive to Today’s Most-Pressing Issues

  07-10-2022 15:30 via artnews.com
  “It’s not like any other city,” Mera Rubell told ARTnews, referring to Washington, DC. “To be bringing a collection that [my husband] Don and I built over the last 58 years to our nation’s capital is emotional.
  I have a lot of history with Washington. I was there for Martin Luther King Jr.’s march in 1963.”Over a decade in the works, the Rubell Museum DC, which opens to the public October 29, is Mera and Don Rubell’s second private museum, after on
  
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• Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy

  07-10-2022 15:06 via nytimes.com
  In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole da Vinci’s masterpiece from Paris and later brought it to Florence. But the theft’s success as a repatriation effort was very short-lived.
  
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• Phoenix fall festivals 2022: Don't-miss arts and culture events - The Arizona Republic

  07-10-2022 15:01 via azcentral.com
  Phoenix fall festivals 2022: Don't-miss arts and culture events  The Arizona Republic
  
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• With New Venture, Collectors Michael C. Forman and Jennifer Rice Are Ensuring Philadelphia’s Art Scene Thrives in a Post-Pandemic World

  07-10-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  Beyond buying pieces by Rashid Johnson, McArthur Binion, Deborah Roberts, Carmen Herrera, and Barbara Kruger, Philadelphia-based collectors Michael C. Forman and Jennifer Rice have spent much of the past year seeking to help the local arts scene, still ailing from the pandemic. In 2021, knowing that the city’s larger organizations would likely find a way out of economic distress, Forman and Rice focused their attention more directly on artists and on small and midsize arts institutions. Th
  
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• Arts-relief funding down in Seattle mayor’s proposed 2023 budget - The Seattle Times

  07-10-2022 15:00 via seattletimes.com
  Arts-relief funding down in Seattle mayor’s proposed 2023 budget  The Seattle Times
  
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• Fall arts season kicks into high gear this weekend in metro Detroit - Detroit Free Press

  07-10-2022 14:05 via freep.com
  Fall arts season kicks into high gear this weekend in metro Detroit  Detroit Free Press
  
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• An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment

  07-10-2022 13:51 via nytimes.com
  A Netflix series and a new movie explore the life of Elisabeth, the 19th-century Empress of Austria who had a tattoo, worked out daily and wanted more from life than just producing heirs.
  
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• Bortolami Plans Vegas Show, Judd Foundation Sues Over Damaged Sculpture, and More: Morning Links for October 7, 2022

  07-10-2022 13:40 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesON THE MARKET. In November, Christie’s will offer a ca. 1480s Sandro Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary from the collection of the late Paul Allen with an estimate above $40 million, Angelica Villareports in ARTnews . It is the latest marquee Allen lot to be detailed by the house, which
  
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• ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes

  07-10-2022 13:16 via nytimes.com
  This ancient version of Middle-earth is starting to look a little more like the one we know. Here are five takeaways from this week’s episode.
  
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• Paul Allen’s Botticelli to Sell for $40 M. at Christie’s

  07-10-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  A Sandro Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary that was once owned by the late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen will be auctioned Christie’s this November. The house expects that it will fetch more than $40 million, making it one of the most expensive works from Allen’s estate to head to sale.In late August, the auction house made waves when it announced plans to sell $1 billion in art held by Allen. Among the works headed to sale are pieces by Claude Monet, George Seurat, Jasper John
  
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• On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History

  07-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Charles Gaines re-enters public art in a huge way with a rumbling sculpture that evokes America’s economy built from conquest and enslavement.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Calls Biden’s Marijuana Pardon a ‘Green New Deal’

  07-10-2022 09:28 via nytimes.com
  Colbert celebrated Biden’s announcement on Thursday that people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law would be pardoned.
  
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• 'Antiracism in the Arts' Symposium Explores Best Practices for Doing the Work - Old Dominion University

  07-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  'Antiracism in the Arts' Symposium Explores Best Practices for Doing the Work  Old Dominion University
  
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• 'Antiracism in the Arts' Symposium Explores Best Practices for Doing the Work - odu.edu

  07-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  'Antiracism in the Arts' Symposium Explores Best Practices for Doing the Work  odu.edu
  
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• Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing ‘Love Goddess’ of Standup Comedy, Dies at 72

  07-10-2022 05:17 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Tenuta rose to prominence with an outlandish act in the 1980s and became one of the most prominent women comedians.
  
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• Review: ‘1776,’ When All Men, and Only Men, Were Created Equal

  07-10-2022 04:00 via nytimes.com
  A revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers — and everything else.
  
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• ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Review: Lean In, to Outrage

  07-10-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Mila Kunis plays a successful career woman who faces a horrific incident from her past in this drama based on the novel by Jessica Knoll.
  
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