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• Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Show to Include Recently Disputed Work

  02-11-2022 23:32 via nytimes.com
  The museum will present “Girl With a Flute” as a Vermeer work in an exhibition next year despite a contrary finding by the National Gallery of Art, which owns the painting.
  
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• Howard University taps Moody Nolan to design arts and communication center - The Architect's Newspaper

  02-11-2022 21:59 via news.google.com
  Howard University taps Moody Nolan to design arts and communication center  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Climate Change Threatens to Destroy Major Archaeological Sites, Study Finds

  02-11-2022 21:20 via artnews.com
  Archaeological sites all over the world are being threatened by climate change, according to an article published Wednesday in Cambridge’s journal Antiquities.Whether it is coastal erosion ravaging archaeological sites in Iran, Scotland, and Florida due to increased violent storms and the rise of the ocean, or increased microbial degradation due to the loss of Arctic permafrost, climate change is currently impacting archeological sites “on such a wide global scale, and within so many
  
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• Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’: Listener Mailbag

  02-11-2022 21:03 via nytimes.com
  The New York Times pop music team had its say; now a new panel answers questions about the blockbuster album.
  
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• The Internet Still Thinks I’m Pregnant

  02-11-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  When Amy Pittman had a miscarriage, she grieved her loss — and tried to move on. But the internet wouldn’t let her.
  
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• ‘Parade’ Review: The Trial and Tragedy of Leo Frank

  02-11-2022 20:59 via nytimes.com
  City Center’s gala production delves further into America’s history of violence and delivers the best-sung musical in many a New York season.
  
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• A Work Attributed to Basquiat at TEFAF was Made by Artist André Heller — He Called it a ‘Childish Prank’

  02-11-2022 20:52 via artnews.com
  A sculptural frame attributed to Jean Michel-Basquiat and offered in 2017 at TEFAF for $3 million has been revealed as the work of Austrian musician and artist André Heller. Is this a case of foiled art forgery or a “childish prank,” as the artist described it this week to German press? Heller glued sketches by Basquiat to strips of wood, applied red paint, and hammered nails and pieces of a black broom handle; a genuine portrait by Basquiat, acquired by Heller in 1990, w
  
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• Hard Truths: How Can an Artist Learn to Slay at Karaoke?

  02-11-2022 20:00 via artnews.com
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide.I’m not a shy person, but I’ve been finding myself in awkward situations as an artist who is regularly getting invited to art gatherings that involve karaoke. Don’t get me wrong, I love singing, but being drunkish or belting out favorite songs in front of curators, g
  
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• Mike Birbiglia Can’t Get ‘Hadestown’ Out of His Head

  02-11-2022 19:52 via nytimes.com
  The comedian, 44, discussed his one-man Broadway show that opens this month, his love for Taylor Swift and why he doesn’t actually hate the Y.M.C.A.
  
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• Artist Monica Bonvicini ‘Pauses’ Representation with König Galerie Amid Allegations Against Its Founder

  02-11-2022 19:19 via artnews.com
  Monica Bonvicini has become the first artist on König Galerie’s roster to publicly sever ties with the gallery following reports of allegations against its founder, Johann König.Bonvicini has “paused her relationship with the gallery until the allegations against Johann König are resolved,” a spokesperson for the artist told the German art publication Monopol on Wednesday.The allegations of sexual harassment that König faces were first reported by Die Zeit i
  
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• Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period

  02-11-2022 19:08 via nytimes.com
  At 86, this eminent composer takes a surprising but still searching direction in his music, while recent projects look back on six decades of work.
  
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• National Gallery of Art Uses $10 M. Donation to Back Purchases of Work by Women Artists

  02-11-2022 19:05 via artnews.com
  The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is using a $10 million gift from the family of a former trustee to fund the acquisition of works by women artists.The money comes from the relatives of Vicki Sant, the late collector who became the museum’s first female president in 2003. It will now be put toward addressing historical gaps in the museum’s collection.Sant was a member of the museum’s board from 2000 until her death in 2018. She served as chair of the board from 2
  
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• Three Chinese Artifacts Worth $77 M. Broken at Taiwanese Museum

  02-11-2022 18:35 via artnews.com
  A bowl, teacup, and plate from the Ming and Qing dynasties worth £66 million ($77 million) were broken in three separate incidents at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum over the past 18 months. These incidents were previously undisclosed, and only came to light last week following questioning from a Taiwanese legislator.On Friday, Taiwan’s opposition legislator Chen I-shin claimed he received a tip that the museum director Wu Mi-cha instructed staff to cover up the incidents and t
  
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• Antiquities Dealer Subhash Kapoor Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison by Indian Court

  02-11-2022 18:27 via artnews.com
  Subhash Kapoor, a former Manhattan arts dealer described by authorities as one of the world’s most prolific antiquities smugglers, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in Kumbakonam, India, on Tuesday.Kapoor, 72, faced charges for the burglary and illegal export of idols belonging to the Varadharaja Perumal temple, a Hindu place of worship located outside the southern Indian city of Kanchipuram. These objects then made their way to his Manhattan gallery, Art of the
  
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• George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Dies at 96

  02-11-2022 18:13 via nytimes.com
  He depicted a quirky cast of people and pets — notably his mad-as-a-hatter bull terrier, which became a reader favorite and the magazine’s unofficial mascot.
  
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• Mayor Bowser Breaks Ground on EucKal Housing and Arts Project in Ward 1 | mayormb - Executive Office of the Mayor

  02-11-2022 16:40 via news.google.com
  Mayor Bowser Breaks Ground on EucKal Housing and Arts Project in Ward 1 | mayormb  Executive Office of the Mayor
  
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• How Her Ancestors Reignited Her Return to Theater

  02-11-2022 16:40 via nytimes.com
  Quiara Alegría Hudes is back with a new work, an Off Broadway production of “My Broken Language,” adapted from her 2021 memoir.
  
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• ‘Enola Holmes 2’ Review: A Clever Force of Nature

  02-11-2022 16:38 via nytimes.com
  Millie Bobby Brown delivers an understated, playful performance in this young-adult mystery sequel.
  
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• How Do You Tell the Story of Roe v. Wade?

  02-11-2022 16:34 via nytimes.com
  A new exhibition at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library looks at how the 1973 Supreme Court decision reshaped American culture and politics.
  
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• Harry Bates, Modernist Architect of Long Island Homes, Dies at 95

  02-11-2022 16:14 via nytimes.com
  Withstanding “a tsunami of shingles” on houses going up on the East End, he stuck to an aesthetic of clean, elegant lines and simple materials.
  
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• Investing in the Arts | County of San Mateo, CA - San Mateo County

  02-11-2022 14:28 via news.google.com
  Investing in the Arts | County of San Mateo, CA  San Mateo County
  
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• Hear How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap

  02-11-2022 14:16 via nytimes.com
  Quick-jabbing triplets had been a staple of rap, but the trio made the style sound fresh, thanks in large part to Takeoff, its master of syncopation. The rapper was shot and killed at 28 on Tuesday.
  
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• Who Is Jennifer Lawrence Now?

  02-11-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The Oscar-winning “Hunger Games” actress is free from her franchise commitments. But after a brief hiatus from acting, what will she do next?
  
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• How ‘Babylon’ Roars Through the 1920s

  02-11-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The writer-director Damien Chazelle and the production designer Florencia Martin discuss how they captured the excess of a period when Hollywood was heading for a reckoning.
  
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• An Artist Sent Hundreds of Anonymous Postcards to Art World Luminaries — With Intriguing Results

  02-11-2022 13:28 via artnews.com
  On a long-distance flight from Hamburg to Paris, then onward to New York, Israeli artist Yuval Pudik was addressing postcards. These postcards, however, were not to friends or relatives, but strangers—people he knew of, was acquainted with, or admired from afar.Pudik didn’t purchase the postcards from a gift shop or tourist destination, and they possessed none of the hallmarks of travel. Instead of writing a note in the space to the left of the recipient’s address, Pudik create
  
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• Rijksmuseum to Show Deattributed Vermeer as Vermeer, Toyin Ojih Odutola Paints Serena Williams, and More: Morning Links for November 2, 2022

  02-11-2022 13:05 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesRETURN OF THE REAL. Last month, the National Gallery of Art said that, after careful study, it believed one of its four Johannes Vermeer paintings, Girl With a Flute (1665–70), was not, in fact, a Vermeer, but instead the work of someone with “a profound understanding of Vermeer’s techniques,” as&n
  
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• Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty

  02-11-2022 10:00 via nytimes.com
  A survey of Walter’s recorded output is fascinating for the ways in which it reveals him reinventing the traditions he was seen to represent.
  
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• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman

  02-11-2022 10:00 via nytimes.com
  We asked writers, critics and musicians including Kamasi Washington, Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings to tell us how they connect with Coleman’s fearless artistry.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Isn’t Amused by Elon Musk’s Plan to Monetize Twitter

  02-11-2022 06:47 via nytimes.com
  Colbert said that Musk’s idea to charge users for verification would lead to “chaos” on Twitter. “I rely on that blue check mark to know which of my butters I can’t not believe!”
  
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• Electronic Arts (EA) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript - The Motley Fool

  02-11-2022 04:30 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts (EA) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript  The Motley Fool
  
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• Shattered by Nazi Bombs, a Fossil’s Lost Copies Are Just Being Found

  02-11-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  The first full ichthyosaur fossil was thought lost to the ravages of World War II. But researchers recently identified a copy, then more started to emerge.
  
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