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• Despite Few Reported Sales at Art SG, Dealers Remain Hopeful About the Asia-Pacific Market

  12-01-2023 23:45 via artnews.com
  The arrival of a major international art fair, with blue-chip exhibitors tapped to participate, typically means that a locale’s art market has reached a certain inflection point. What dealers think about the new art fair says a lot about their expectations, how the art market is changing, and where collectors are located.ARTnews spoke with several art dealers ahead of and at ART SG in Singapore, the world’s newest fair, this week about why they chose to attend (or not), their thought
  
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• Norm Fruchter, Champion of Equal Access to Education, Dies at 85

  12-01-2023 23:24 via nytimes.com
  A lawsuit he helped initiate to change how the state allocates aid to localities reaped a bonanza for New York City schools.
  
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• Carolina Performing Arts and UNC Athletics collaborate to promote ... - unc.edu

  12-01-2023 21:54 via news.google.com
  
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• Carolina Performing Arts and UNC Athletics collaborate to promote ... - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  12-01-2023 21:54 via news.google.com
  
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• Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94

  12-01-2023 21:42 via nytimes.com
  He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views.
  
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• Possible Site of Temple of Poseidon Identified by Archaeologists in Greece

  12-01-2023 20:53 via artnews.com
  The remains of what archaeologists believe was the temple of Poseidon have been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, Greece, according to a report by Phys. The location corresponds to the area that was mentioned in writings by the ancient Greek historian Strabo, who described the shrine more than 2,000 years ago.Located near the Peloponnesian coast, the area is known to have been hit with multiple tsunamis in prehistoric and historic times. Because Poseidon is the Greek god who presided ov
  
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• Ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon Identified in Samikon, Archaeologists Believe

  12-01-2023 20:53 via artnews.com
  The remains of what archaeologists believe was the temple of Poseidon have been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, Greece, according to a report by Phys. The location corresponds to the area that was mentioned in writings by the ancient Greek historian Strabo, who described the shrine more than 2,000 years ago.Located near the Peloponnesian coast, the area is known to have been hit with multiple tsunamis in prehistoric and historic times. Because Poseidon is the Greek god who presided ov
  
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• In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place

  12-01-2023 20:10 via nytimes.com
  Inspired by the pioneering photographer William Christenberry, RaMell Ross moved to the Deep South and found fertile terrain. Now Pace Gallery puts their art in conversation.
  
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• ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood

  12-01-2023 20:06 via nytimes.com
  A real-life case of infanticide is the basis of Alice Diop’s rigorous and wrenching courtroom drama.
  
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• Shakespeare in the Park Will Stage ‘Hamlet’ This Summer

  12-01-2023 20:04 via nytimes.com
  Ato Blankson-Wood will star as the aggrieved prince in a modern-dress production directed by Kenny Leon.
  
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• Producers Guild Awards Nominate Several Blockbusters and Omit Films by Women

  12-01-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Top Gun: Maverick” made the cut. “The Woman King” and “Women Talking” were snubbed.
  
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• 5 Broadway Veterans on Race and Representation in Theater Design

  12-01-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  “Theater traffics in unconscious symbolism.” Set designers, lighting designers and a sound designer talk about skin tones, aesthetics and more.
  
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• ‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis

  12-01-2023 19:48 via nytimes.com
  The Amazon thriller, starring Al Pacino, returns for Season 2 with its sights on the ultimate target: Hitler.
  
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• A Showcase for Up-and-Comers, With Some Vogueing (and Shade Thrown)

  12-01-2023 19:36 via nytimes.com
  The American Dance Platform, this year curated by Ronald K. Brown, gives three companies a stage in New York.
  
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• ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: One Movie, Eight Directors

  12-01-2023 19:05 via nytimes.com
  Gillian Jacobs’s blank slate protagonist floats through a series of encounters in this feature-length movie made up of short films.
  
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• Warhol Foundation to Give $4 M. to 48 Organizations in Fall 2022 Grants

  12-01-2023 19:01 via artnews.com
  The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts will dole out over $4 million to 48 nonprofit arts organizations as part of its Fall 2022 grant cycle.The Warhol grants are given out in three categories: two-year support for programming, direct exhibition support, and research fellowships. As part of its continued response to the economic challenges small- and medium-sized arts organizations face as a result of the pandemic, awardees may use up to 50 percent of their grants for administrative expe
  
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• Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting

  12-01-2023 18:35 via nytimes.com
  HBO’s video-game adaptation doesn’t reinvent the apocalypse genre. But it injects an undead story with new life.
  
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• Guerreiro do Divino Amor Picked to Represent Switzerland at 2024 Venice Biennale

  12-01-2023 18:30 via artnews.com
  Guerreiro do Divino Amor, a young Swiss-Brazilian artist, has been picked to do the Swiss Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, which will open in April of that year.The Swiss Pavilion is located in the Giardini, one of the two main areas of the Venice Biennale. The Giardini is the site of many of the most heavily trafficked national pavilions.The artist, who goes by his full name, will work on the pavilion with curator Andrea Bellini, the leader of the Centre d’Art Contemporain and the Bi
  
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• ‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Violent Jerks

  12-01-2023 18:26 via nytimes.com
  In this brutal Icelandic drama, four teenagers — both bullies and the bullied — struggle and rage against a world that rages back.
  
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• ‘The Traitors’ Was a U.K. Hit. Will the U.S. Version Catch On?

  12-01-2023 18:25 via nytimes.com
  A cross between “Survivor” and the party game Mafia, the competitive reality show arrives on Peacock after a British version became a word-of-mouth hit.
  
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• One Work: Elaine Cameron-Weir’s “Dressing for Windows/Dressing for Altitude/Dressing for Pleasure”

  12-01-2023 18:25 via artnews.com
  Dressing for Windows/Dressing for Altitude/Dressing for Pleasure (2022), part of Elaine Cameron-Weir’s current exhibition at Hannah Hoffman in Los Angeles, is a simple arrangement of found objects hooked up to a rig of chains, cables, and pulleys. A bronze statue of the Virgin Mary and a fighter-jet seat bereft of cushions or seatbelts anchor a contraption that hoists a strip of metal mesh. There, a leather jacket, like Christ on the cross, hangs front and center. All of this is withi
  
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• Expo Chicago Names More Than 170 Exhibitors for 10th Anniversary Edition in April

  12-01-2023 18:00 via artnews.com
  For its 10th edition, due to launch in mid-April, the Expo Chicago art fair has lined up more than 170 exhibitors from 36 countries to present work at the Navy Pier.The fair is slated to run April 14–16, with a VIP preview day on April 13. Among leading galleries that will participate are Gallery 1957, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Cristea Roberts Gallery, Luis De Jesus, Edel Assanti, Kavi Gupta, half gallery, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Kasmin, Monique Meloche Gallery, Galeria
  
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• Jeremy Deller to Show Massive New Artworks at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in London

  12-01-2023 17:58 via artnews.com
  Turner Prize–winning artist Jeremy Deller has unveiled a grouping of new artworks that will adorn the Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates Stadium in London. Their installation began today, and they are expected to be fully mounted within the coming weeks.
  Working in collaboration with typographer David Rudnick and artist Reuben Dangoor, Deller sought to honor Arsenal’s 137-year history while also tweaking its reputation. While Arsenal is typically thought of as an all-male team, D
  
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• Maori Tribe Requests Return of Artifacts Being Sold at Sotheby’s

  12-01-2023 17:51 via artnews.com
  A Maori tribe has requested the return of artifacts being sold at Sotheby’s, the Guardian reports. “We have so very few of these taonga [precious objects] and treasures left in our possession,” Ngārimu Blair, deputy chair for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei people, told the Guardian. “When something like this comes up where we’re both excited, but also that sorrowful that we lost so much.”The items in question include a pair of Maori short clubs,
  
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• Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed

  12-01-2023 17:45 via nytimes.com
  In the 17th century, plague and famine devastated Seville. The Baroque painter turned this strife into engrossing parables of a Golden Age in decline.
  
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• ‘Nanny’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  12-01-2023 17:22 via nytimes.com
  Nikyatu Jusu, the writer and director of the film, narrates a scene featuring Anna Diop.
  
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• How ‘Nanny’ Unleashes a Downpour in a Bedroom

  12-01-2023 17:21 via nytimes.com
  The film’s writer and director Nikyatu Jusu narrates a sequence.
  
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• Community Arts Center closes for expansion, renovation | News ... - Auburn Villager

  12-01-2023 17:15 via news.google.com
  Community Arts Center closes for expansion, renovation | News ...  Auburn Villager
  
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• Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs

  12-01-2023 16:35 via nytimes.com
  The guitarist, who died on Tuesday, could make his instrument slash, burn and sigh. Listen to tracks released from 1966 to 2010 that reveal his range and intensity.
  
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• Jazz’s Year of Reckoning With Tradition

  12-01-2023 15:24 via nytimes.com
  As the genre experiences a creative renaissance, has it become quietly radical to re-embrace the past?
  
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• Woman Up: Nina Yankowitz Defies the Patriarchy

  12-01-2023 15:00 via artnews.com
  In 1972, the year that art historian Cindy Nemser cofounded the Feminist Art Journal, she fired off a letter to the New York Times, taking critic James Mellow to task for labeling a female artist’s exhibition a “one-man show.” “Evidently,” she wrote, “Mellow still has not caught on to the fact that women are not ashamed of their sex and resent being mistaken for men.” After protesting the reviewer’s chauvinistic language—the work was “s
  
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• Why Do Some Films Get Restored and Others Languish? A MoMA Series Holds Clues.

  12-01-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  History, finances and practical concerns all played a role in preserving the movies being shown at To Save and Project.
  
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• How December’s ice storm hurt Seattle performing arts - The Seattle Times

  12-01-2023 15:00 via news.google.com
  How December’s ice storm hurt Seattle performing arts  The Seattle Times
  
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• ‘Here Lies Love,’ an Imelda Marcos Disco Musical, Will Play Broadway

  12-01-2023 14:55 via nytimes.com
  The immersive dance show, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, will arrive this summer after a decade of productions Off Broadway and in London and Seattle.
  
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• Do You Dig it? The World’s 10 Most Notable Archaeological Finds

  12-01-2023 14:35 via artnews.com
  Over the centuries people have found, and continue to find, interesting and important objects from long-vanished civilizations. Whether they are discovered through intense searching or merely stumbled upon—which often seems the case—these finds can convey key details about the cultures that created them, including their ritual practices, artisanal skills, societal values, and daily life. The Rosetta Stone, for instance, helped scholars crack the code of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,
  
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• Athens Archaeological Museum Architect Named, Copyrighting A.I. Art, and More: Morning Links for January 12, 2023

  12-01-2023 14:05 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesON THE MOVE. Patti Wong, a powerhouse in the Asian art market who departed Sotheby’s late last year after more than 30 years there, is setting up an art advisory, Angelica Villa reports in ARTnews. Wong is going into business with Daryl Wickstrom, who is also a Sotheby’s alum, and is partnering
  
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• Joni Mitchell to Be Honored With Gershwin Prize and Tribute Concert

  12-01-2023 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The award from the Library of Congress comes amid a wave of recognition for the singer-songwriter, who performed in public last year for the first time since a 2015 health scare.
  
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• Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Has ‘Interest in Arts and Culture,’ Mom Angelina Jolie Is ‘Very Encouraging’ - Yahoo Entertainment

  12-01-2023 13:20 via news.google.com
  Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Has ‘Interest in Arts and Culture,’ Mom Angelina Jolie Is ‘Very Encouraging’  Yahoo Entertainment
  
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• ‘The Offering’ Review: A Demon in the Family

  12-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this Brooklyn-set horror film, an evil spirit causes torment at a Jewish funeral home.
  
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• ‘Skinamarink’ Review: Night Terrors

  12-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Two children are trapped in a shape-shifting home in this spookily impenetrable horror experiment.
  
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• ‘Plane’ Review: Flight, Camera, Action

  12-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this thriller, Gerard Butler and Mike Colter have to avoid a hostage situation and deliver a plane full of passengers to safety.
  
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• ‘Kitchen Brigade’ Review: Oh Chef! My Chef!

  12-01-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A sous chef is forced to take a job at a hostel for undocumented minors in this feel-good drama with a white-savior problem.
  
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• Nicola Benedetti Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader

  12-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Nicola Benedetti is the first Scotland native and the first woman to serve as director of the storied Edinburgh International Festival.
  
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• Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection

  12-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Though his turn in the drama “Living” is the subject of Oscar chatter, just try getting him to talk about his art. He prefers self-deprecation instead.
  
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• With Sights on Southeast Asia’s Booming Market, Former Sotheby’s Rainmaker Launches Advisory Firm

  12-01-2023 09:30 via artnews.com
  Patti Wong, the woman credited with radically transforming Sotheby’s operations in Asia before she left in December, will launch her own advisory firm. Set to work with her on it is Fine Art Group, an influential advisory firm led by Philip Hoffman that will partner with Wong to expand its reach to Asia.Before Wong’s departed her post as international chairman last month, Wong had been at Sotheby’s for almost three decades. There, she built the house’s Hong Kong business
  
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• LCC receives NEA Grant to support arts project - City of Lakewood

  12-01-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  LCC receives NEA Grant to support arts project  City of Lakewood
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Biden Aides Finding More Classified Documents

  12-01-2023 08:10 via nytimes.com
  After the discovery of a new batch of documents tied to President Biden, Kimmel joked that America is “one episode of ‘Storage Wars’ away from finding out who killed J.F.K.”
  
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• S.E.A. Focus, a Curatorial Alternative to ART SG, Offers a Concise Look at Southeast Asia’s Various Art Scenes

  12-01-2023 03:30 via artnews.com
  As the international art world descends on the island of Singapore this week for the inaugural edition of ART SG, a smaller but notable fair in the city-state has officially opened. Running from January 5–15, S.E.A. Focus is a local boutique art fair in its fifth edition and the second year of a partnership with behemoth Art Basel.Initiated by STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery and the National Arts Council, S.E.A. Focus presents mostly galleries from Singapore and Southeast Asia
  
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• Jeff Beck, Guitarist With a Chapter in Rock History, Dies at 78

  12-01-2023 00:34 via nytimes.com
  His playing with the Yardbirds and as leader of his own bands brought a sense of adventure to their groundbreaking recordings.
  
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