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• U.S. Officials Repatriate a Looted Relic to the Palestinian Authority

  05-01-2023 22:58 via nytimes.com
  As the object, a carved spoon, was handed back at a ceremony in Bethlehem, officials said it was the first time the United States had repatriated an antiquity to the Palestinian government.
  
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• Stony Brook University's Graduate Arts Programs Prioritize ... - Hyperallergic

  05-01-2023 21:32
  Stony Brook University's Graduate Arts Programs Prioritize ...  Hyperallergic
  
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• 15 local nonprofits receive $550k from Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District - Dayton 24/7 Now

  05-01-2023 21:09
  15 local nonprofits receive $550k from Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District  Dayton 24/7 Now
  
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• Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music

  05-01-2023 21:06 via nytimes.com
  The Albany Symphony is the first orchestra to record two early works in David Del Tredici’s “Alice” cycle.
  
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• The New Louis Vuitton x Kusama Collection Misses the Mark

  05-01-2023 21:02 via artnews.com
  Louis Vuitton presented its second collaboration with Yayoi Kusama on Thursday at a pop-up store in New York’s Meatpacking District, just across the street from the Whitney Museum. Inside, uniformed men held silver platters of champagne amidst a sea of black dots covering yellow walls, mirrors, and reflective spheres. A giant, standing LV sign, encrusted with more chromatic spheres, stood glinting and flashing. These simple forms speak immediately to Kusama’s body of work. The mirror
  
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• Louis Vuitton’s New Kusama Collaboration Lacks Their First Collection’s Attention to the Zeitgeist

  05-01-2023 21:02 via artnews.com
  Louis Vuitton presented its second collaboration with Yayoi Kusama on Thursday at a pop-up store in New York’s Meatpacking District, just across the street from the Whitney Museum. Inside, uniformed men held silver platters of champagne amidst a sea of black dots covering yellow walls, mirrors, and reflective spheres. A giant, standing LV sign, encrusted with more chromatic spheres, stood glinting and flashing. These simple forms speak immediately to Kusama’s body of work. The mirror
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: 'Working Title,' 'Winterreise' and ... - KPBS

  05-01-2023 20:59
  San Diego weekend arts events: 'Working Title,' 'Winterreise' and ...  KPBS
  
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• Henry Grossman, Photographer of Celebrities and Beatles, Dies at 86

  05-01-2023 20:51 via nytimes.com
  He was best known for his formal portraits of prominent politicians and entertainers. Less famously, he took thousands of candid shots of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
  
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• At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page

  05-01-2023 20:47 via nytimes.com
  Literary influences suffuse this year’s festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them.
  
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• Faculty receive grants from Arts & Science Council - Inside UNC Charlotte

  05-01-2023 20:26
  Faculty receive grants from Arts & Science Council  Inside UNC Charlotte
  
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• Professor’s Termination for Showing Paintings of Prophet Muhammad Spurs Debate Around Academic Freedom

  05-01-2023 20:25 via artnews.com
  In October, an adjunct professor at Hamline University displayed an image of the Prophet Muhammad to a class. The move ignited a firestorm on campus after students reported the incident and then, late last month, the university said that it had declined to renew the professor’s teaching contract, spurring debate about on-campus academic freedom.The incident took place during a virtual art history class at the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based private liberal arts college. According to school new
  
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• What Is a Ghostwriter? J.R. Moehringer’s Role in Prince Harry’s Memoir

  05-01-2023 19:53 via nytimes.com
  Ghostwriters write books in someone else’s voice — without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires great technical skill and a flexible ego.
  
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• 24 TV Shows to Watch This Winter

  05-01-2023 19:53 via nytimes.com
  That downturn in streaming content that you’ve been hearing about? Not here yet.
  
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• William C. Agee, Art Historian and Curator Who Led Taste-Making California Museum, Dies at 86

  05-01-2023 19:38 via artnews.com
  William C. Agee, an art historian and curator whose leadership of the Pasadena Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston demonstrated a forward-thinking, risk-taking sensibility, died on December 24, 2022, at 86. A representative for the MFA Houston confirmed his death.When Agee became director of exhibitions and collections at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970, he was just 34, making him one of the youngest museum leaders in the U.S. at the time. He would go on to become director of the muse
  
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• A Massive Viking Hall was Unearthed in Denmark: “The Largest Find” in a Decade

  05-01-2023 19:12 via artnews.com
  The remains of a Viking hall has been uncovered by archaeologists from the Historical Museum of Northern Jutland in Denmark. Unlike any other known in the area, it is the biggest building of its kind found in more than a decade. “This is the largest Viking Age find of this nature in more than ten years, and we have not seen anything like it before here in North Jutland, even though it has only been partially excavated,” archaeologist and excavation leader Thomas Rune Knudsen said in
  
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• At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism

  05-01-2023 18:58 via nytimes.com
  On the developing Manhattanville campus, the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro reinforces a social movement in business education to do good as well as make money.
  
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• Rodin Museum Scraps Plans for Outpost in Canary Islands Following Criticism from Locals

  05-01-2023 18:34 via artnews.com
  The Rodin Museum in Paris has scrapped its controversial €16 million (roughly $17 million) project to build an outpost in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a port city in Spain’s Canary Islands, following scathing criticism from prominent Spanish politicians, educators, and art world figures. According to the Times of London, the news was announced in a letter signed by the director of the Rodin Museum in Paris, Amélie Simier, and was addressed to José Manuel Berm&u
  
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• Vermont Arts Council distributes $3.6M, announces next round - Vermont Biz

  05-01-2023 18:32
  Vermont Arts Council distributes $3.6M, announces next round  Vermont Biz
  
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• When the Writing Demands Talent and Discretion, Call the Ghostwriter

  05-01-2023 18:22 via nytimes.com
  Ghostwriters write books in someone else’s voice — without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires great technical skill and a flexible ego.
  
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• Amateur Archaeologist Decodes Ice Age Calendar Tracking Animal Reproductive Cycles

  05-01-2023 18:08 via artnews.com
  Cave drawings made by European hunter-gatherers during the Ice Age were more than just artistic expressions. The 20,000-year-old markings were also a primitive writing system that recorded detailed information about the lives of animals and a kind of lunar calendar, new research shows.Ben Bacon, a furniture conservator and amateur archaeologist, made the initial discovery of a “proto-writing system” of these ancient markings found in more than 600 images from the Ice Age across Europ
  
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• Book Review: ‘Age of Vice,’ by Deepti Kapoor

  05-01-2023 18:04 via nytimes.com
  In Deepti Kapoor’s cinematic novel, a young man from the provinces falls in with a powerful crime syndicate.
  
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• Alexei Ratmansky, Renowned Choreographer, to Join City Ballet

  05-01-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  “I wanted a change,” Ratmansky said, announcing his next chapter after 13 years at American Ballet Theater.
  
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• ‘Ohio State Murders,’ Starring Audra McDonald, to Close on Broadway

  05-01-2023 17:30 via nytimes.com
  The 75-minute memory play by Adrienne Kennedy had been scheduled to run until Feb. 12; it will close on Jan. 15.
  
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• Man Suspected of MoMA Stabbing Is Charged With Attempted Murder and Assault

  05-01-2023 17:00 via artnews.com
  Gary Cabana, the man who New York police accused of stabbing two workers at the Museum of Modern Art last year, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault.According to the New York Post, Cabana has also been extradited to New York, after having been held in Philadelphia for a period of psychiatric evaluation.Cabana is suspected of having stabbed two 24-year-old female workers at MoMA in March 2022. At the time, police said that he had been denied entry, and th
  
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• ‘M3gan’ Review: Wherever I Go, She Goes

  05-01-2023 16:50 via nytimes.com
  A state-of-the-art robot doll becomes a girl’s best friend, and dangerously more, in this over-the-top horror film.
  
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• Love, UNC Athletics Collaborate To Promote Arts, Dance - UNC Athletics

  05-01-2023 16:35
  Love, UNC Athletics Collaborate To Promote Arts, Dance  UNC Athletics
  
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• Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence

  05-01-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In “The Inspection,” he plays a drill instructor who takes a bullied recruit under his wing, the kind of nurturing the actor says he has benefited from as well.
  
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• British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow

  05-01-2023 15:45 via nytimes.com
  The farce, by the team behind “The Play That Goes Wrong,” is about a bumbling theater company attempting to stage the popular children’s play.
  
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• Arts and entertainment events happening January 5th-8th across the Mid-Ohio Valley - WTAP

  05-01-2023 15:11
  Arts and entertainment events happening January 5th-8th across the Mid-Ohio Valley  WTAP
  
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• Within Himself, an African Photographer Finds Multitudes

  05-01-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  A studio portraitist turns the lens on flamboyant alter egos in his first solo U.S. museum exhibition at Princeton.
  
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• $400,000 Art Theft in Colorado, Rodin Museum Nixes Canary Islands Outpost, and More: Morning Links for January 5, 2023

  05-01-2023 14:09 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesON THE HUNT. Police in Boulder, Colorado said that they are seeking tips on the theft of five paintings—valued at more than $400,000—from a truck parked at a hotel in the city last month. The purloined pieces include a small bullfight scene by Elaine de Kooning and a sizable pastoral landscape by Jane Freilicher. (You c
  
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• From the Archives: Andres Serrano, The Spirit and The Letter

  05-01-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  On the occasion of the December 2022 print edition of A.i.A., the Religion Issue, we revisit this article from the April 1990 issue that was published at the height of the Culture Wars. In response to conservative politicians’ and religious organizations’ attacks on Andres Serrano for his provocative work Piss Christ, the author argues that what those critics saw as deliberate sacrilege is in fact only one aspect of his work, which also encompasses the theme of spiritu
  
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• ‘The Old Way’ Review: Mild Mild West

  05-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Nicolas Cage phones it in as a deadly, taciturn gunslinger in this middling western.
  
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• ‘Mars One’ Review: Hope on the Horizon

  05-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This film from Gabriel Martins follows the dreams of a Black Brazilian family living on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte.
  
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• ‘Last Resort’ Review: A Martial Arts Hostage Mission - The New York Times

  05-01-2023 13:00
  ‘Last Resort’ Review: A Martial Arts Hostage Mission  The New York Times
  
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• ‘Last Resort’ Review: A Martial Arts Hostage Mission

  05-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this action film set in Bangkok, a special forces guy goes in to rescue his wife and daughter.
  
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• ‘January 6th’ Review: Scenes of a Riot

  05-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary from Gédéon and Jules Naudet recounts the day of the U.S. Capitol attack.
  
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• ‘Candy Land’ Review: Truck-Stop Thrills

  05-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this sleazy slasher by the writer and director John Swab, a group of sex workers adopts a former member of a religious cult.
  
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• ‘Alcarràs’ Review: Labor of Love

  05-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this naturalistic drama from Spain, a family confronts the impending loss of its generations-old farm.
  
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• Jake Paul to Fight in Mixed Martial Arts in Deal With P.F.L. - The New York Times

  05-01-2023 11:00
  Jake Paul to Fight in Mixed Martial Arts in Deal With P.F.L.  The New York Times
  
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• Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital

  05-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The inaugural Frieze Seoul fair was one sign of the city’s ascent. Now a dealer invasion is underway and artists are navigating a new landscape, as competition heats up.
  
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• A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth

  05-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for centuries.
  
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• A (Bitter) Winter Love Letter

  05-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  An artist reflects on enduring a winter in New York City.
  
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• Opera House Arts serves up 'Something to Do on a Monday' - The Ellsworth American

  05-01-2023 09:00
  Opera House Arts serves up 'Something to Do on a Monday'  The Ellsworth American
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Kevin McCarthy as He Falls Short, Again

  05-01-2023 07:54 via nytimes.com
  Kimmel joked that the “last time a Kevin felt this abandoned in his house was in the movie ‘Home Alone.’”
  
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• ChatGPT and DALL-E Have Come to Save the Arts from Themselves - Bloomberg

  05-01-2023 06:00
  ChatGPT and DALL-E Have Come to Save the Arts from Themselves  Bloomberg
  
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• Frank Galati, Mainstay of Chicago Theater, Dies at 79

  05-01-2023 01:17 via nytimes.com
  He brought his adaptation of “The Grapes of Wrath” to Broadway and won Tony Awards. He also directed the long-running hit “Ragtime.”
  
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