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• Grace Glueck, Pioneering Arts Journalist at New York Times, Dies at 96

  10-10-2022 21:32 via artnews.com
  Grace Glueck, a pioneering art reporter at the New York Times who helped bring to light a major controversy over sex-discrimination at the paper, died at the age of 96 on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. The writer’s relatives confirmed the news to the Times.During the six decades that she was active, Glueck reported on artists and the art world. She began doing so at a time when criticism was considered the primary way of writing about visual art.Her reporting on the niche sector, which
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’: Paddy Considine Won’t Watch Sunday’s Episode

  10-10-2022 19:58 via nytimes.com
  “I’m sure somebody will show me a photograph,” he said, about his character’s big moment on Sunday night. The actor discussed the inspiration and meaning for King Viserys’s decline.
  
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• A Vermeer at the National Gallery of Art Loses Its Attribution, Opening New Questions About the Master Painter

  10-10-2022 19:48 via artnews.com
  One of four Vermeer paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has had its attribution stripped, museum experts revealed Friday, settling a decades-long debate over its author while also raising new questions about the Dutch master’s life.Girl with a Flute was not painted by Johannes Vermeer, however historians shared at a news conference that it was painted by someone with a profound understanding of Vermeer’s techniques, challenging the notion that
  
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• Volcanic Eruption Causes ‘Irreparable’ Damage to 500-Year-Old Indigenous Statues in Chile

  10-10-2022 19:24 via artnews.com
  Ancient indigenous statues on Chile’s Easter Island have been burned by fire following a volcanic eruption that started on Monday, according to local authorities. The ‘Moai’ stone-carved statues were created by a native Polynesian tribe more than 500 years ago.In addition to the ‘Moai’ statues, more than 247 square miles of land on the island has also been razed as a result of the volcano Rano Raraku’s eruption.Ariki Tepano, the director of the indigenous Ma&r
  
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• 25 Years After ‘Sensation,’ Has London’s Art Scene Kept Its Cool?

  10-10-2022 18:19 via nytimes.com
  The city is still capitalizing on the success of a landmark 1997 show that put it on the contemporary art map and launched the careers of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
  
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• Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’

  10-10-2022 18:18 via nytimes.com
  All four parts of Wagner’s epic were presented within a week, in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov inspired by the work’s experimental roots.
  
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• COMMENTARY: Too many California schools fail to provide mandated arts education; let's fix that - EdSource

  10-10-2022 17:35 via edsource.org
  COMMENTARY: Too many California schools fail to provide mandated arts education; let's fix that  EdSource
  
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• Frieze Sculpture Presents a Bevy of Public Art, From Brightly Colored Sun Dials to Humorous Banal Signage

  10-10-2022 16:15 via artnews.com
  A contemplative mood prevails at Frieze Sculpture this fall, the tenth consecutive year the outdoor exhibition in London’s Regent’s Park has been curated by Yorkshire Sculpture Park director Clare Lilley. To mark the occasion Lilley has brought together 19 artists from ten countries and sought a strong representation of women and non-binary artists in this male-dominated field of public sculpture. (The ratio is not quite half-half but close.) The artworks fall into various themes. Te
  
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• Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Arts Now

  10-10-2022 16:06 via artnews.com
  Art has played an integral—maybe even primary—role in the burgeoning movement for disability justice throughout the United States in the last decade. In memoirs, paintings and drawings, sculptures, installations, videos, and live performances, and in venues ranging from small galleries to movie theaters to professional sports arenas, disabled artists have shared their myriad perspectives on life, again and again. With persistence, these works have begun to chip away at the ableist be
  
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• MoMA’s Just Above Midtown Exhibition Radically Expands New York Art History

  10-10-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art’s new exhibition about the short-lived Just Above Midtown gallery is that rare and special thing: a show that promises to expand our understanding of art history and actually succeeds in doing so. The portion of art history that interests this show’s curator, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, is a very small slice: New York during the ’70s and ’80s, which continues to hold a grip on the public imagination. But do not come expecting to see works by art stars l
  
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• A Brooklyn Artist Crafting Perforated Furniture

  10-10-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Plus: voluminous outerwear, a hotel with floor-to-ceiling views and more from T’s cultural compendium.
  
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• Fire Damages Easter Island Statues, Art Writer Grace Glueck Dies at 96, and More: Morning Links for October 10, 2022

  10-10-2022 13:32 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. In a tough break for fans of Johannes Vermeer, the National Gallery of Art said on Friday that, after high-tech study, it has determined that its painting Girl With a Flute (ca. 1669/1675) is not the work of the 17th-century Dutchman, as it had previously believed, Zachary Small repor
  
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• Review: ‘Marigold and Rose,’ by Louise Glück

  10-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Marigold and Rose” explores the inner lives of two very different sisters.
  
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• Collector’s Diary: Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Reflects on Her Grand Tour of Europe This Past Summer

  10-10-2022 11:00 via artnews.com
  The arrival of spring brought back the possibility to start traveling again and mapping out new paths and itineraries on the routes of contemporary art.Reuniting with new artworks and old friends—artists, collectors, curators, and gallerists—from all over the world was hugely emotional for me, like picking up the thread after the fragmentary experiences of the past almost three years.April was the month of Venice, with the opening of the 59th Biennale, which curator Cecilia Alemani p
  
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• This Program Is Making the Arts Accessible to Every New York City Kid - Town & Country

  10-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  This Program Is Making the Arts Accessible to Every New York City Kid  Town & Country
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘38 at the Garden’ and a ‘Twilight Saga’ Marathon

  10-10-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  HBO airs a documentary about Jeremy Lin’s winning streak with the New York Knicks. And all five vampire/werewolf romance movies play back to back.
  
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• Arts Alliance's Garden Party presents 'Into the Woods' - Daily Northwestern

  10-10-2022 06:32 via dailynorthwestern.com
  Arts Alliance's Garden Party presents 'Into the Woods'  Daily Northwestern
  
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• Interlochen Arts Camp: A Day In The Life - Interlochen

  10-10-2022 06:20 via interlochenpublicradio.org
  Interlochen Arts Camp: A Day In The Life  Interlochen
  
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• Constellation Stage and Screen presents The Importance of Being Earnest - Indiana Public Media

  10-10-2022 06:10 via indianapublicmedia.org
  Constellation Stage and Screen presents The Importance of Being Earnest  Indiana Public Media
  
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• Waterville film fest opens submissions, plans '23 event in new arts center - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

  10-10-2022 06:00 via centralmaine.com
  Waterville film fest opens submissions, plans '23 event in new arts center  Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel
  
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• Access Arts SU showcases disabled students creative talents - The Daily Orange

  10-10-2022 05:24 via dailyorange.com
  Access Arts SU showcases disabled students creative talents  The Daily Orange
  
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• MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER PRESENTS: The Addams Family -A New Musical Comedy! - TAPinto.net

  10-10-2022 05:12 via tapinto.net
  MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER PRESENTS: The Addams Family -A New Musical Comedy!  TAPinto.net
  
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• Local Martial Arts School teaches students self-defense - WVNS-TV

  10-10-2022 04:45 via wvnstv.com
  Local Martial Arts School teaches students self-defense  WVNS-TV
  
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• Billy Al Bengston, Giant of Los Angeles’s Postwar Art Scene, Dies at 88

  10-10-2022 04:40 via artnews.com
  Billy Al Bengston, a painter whose unclassifiable semi-abstractions made him a core figure of Los Angeles’s postwar art scene, died at 88 of natural causes on Saturday at his home in Venice, California. A representative for his gallery, Various Small Fires, confirmed his passing.Last year, CBS News reported that Bengston had “a moderate case of dementia.”Bengston rose to fame in L.A. during the ’60s, when he was painting works that abstracted commercial logos and car part
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Calamitous Ambition

  10-10-2022 04:10 via nytimes.com
  This week brought the end of an era as the second sons, those overshadowed, resentful men of Westeros, instigated most of the action.
  
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• APSU Mondays: Conservation, arts and literature highlight campus events - The Leaf-Chronicle

  10-10-2022 04:05 via theleafchronicle.com
  APSU Mondays: Conservation, arts and literature highlight campus events  The Leaf-Chronicle
  
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• 10 Indigenous People Shaping Culture | Arts & Entertainment - Native News Online

  10-10-2022 03:55 via nativenewsonline.net
  10 Indigenous People Shaping Culture | Arts & Entertainment  Native News Online
  
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• Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway Makes the Lomans New Again

  10-10-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke star in a powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s drama, led by a Black cast.
  
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• How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List

  10-10-2022 02:45 via nytimes.com
  With legions of devoted fans and a knack for high-voltage emotional drama, Hoover has sold more than 20 million books. And she’s done it her way.
  
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• W.Va. Fire Marshal approves use of sound booth in Colonial Arts Center ahead of 'Clue' production - My Buckhannon

  10-10-2022 02:21 via mybuckhannon.com
  W.Va. Fire Marshal approves use of sound booth in Colonial Arts Center ahead of 'Clue' production  My Buckhannon
  
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• Photos: Annual MOJA Arts Festival celebrates finale | Photos from The Post and Courier | postandcourier.com - Charleston Post Courier

  10-10-2022 01:51 via postandcourier.com
  Photos: Annual MOJA Arts Festival celebrates finale | Photos from The Post and Courier | postandcourier.com  Charleston Post Courier
  
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• A Minecraft Player Set Out to Build the Known Universe, Block by Block

  10-10-2022 01:31 via nytimes.com
  Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth.
  
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• North country artists featured at Remington festival | Arts and Entertainment | nny360.com - NNY360

  10-10-2022 01:20 via nny360.com
  North country artists featured at Remington festival | Arts and Entertainment | nny360.com  NNY360
  
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• Bus Boys bring folkish fun to Perry Fine Arts Sunday - theperrynews.com

  10-10-2022 01:09 via theperrynews.com
  Bus Boys bring folkish fun to Perry Fine Arts Sunday  theperrynews.com
  
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• Silke Otto-Knapp, Painter of Moonlit Landscapes and Spectral Dancers, Dies at 52

  10-10-2022 00:23 via artnews.com
  Silke Otto-Knapp, a painter whose muted watercolors often depict landscapes and dancers, has died at 52, according to her Los Angeles gallery Regen Projects. The Los Angeles Times reported that Otto-Knapp had been battling ovarian cancer.Otto-Knapp’s works had been widely seen at venues in Europe and the U.S., as well as in biennials such as Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum, the Bienal de São Paulo, and the Liverpool Biennial. A solo exhibition by her will open this month at New Yo
  
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