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• William Agee, Leading Art Curator and Teacher, Dies at 86

  30-01-2023 23:51 via nytimes.com
  
  His exhibitions and his writings expanded the view of American Modernism, and his decades of teaching shaped future scholars and curators.
  
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• Lisa Loring, Wednesday Addams in ‘The Addams Family,’ Dies at 64

  30-01-2023 22:58 via nytimes.com
  
  With her dark clothes and pigtailed hair framing a pale face, Ms. Loring played Wednesday as a young girl obsessed with death on the ABC series, which ran from 1964 to 1966.
  
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• France Acquires Caillebotte Painting with $47 M. in Funding from LVMH

  30-01-2023 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  The luxury holdings company LVMH has backed France’s acquisition of a valuable painting by Gustave Caillebotte. The painting will now be held by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.The work, A Boating Party (1877), features a close-up view of a man rowing a wooden skiff along a river. It’s the latest addition to the Musée d’Orsay’s substantial collection of Impressionist art, which is already substantial. The core of those holdings were established after work f
  
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• Andrea Riseborough’s Path to Surprise Oscar Nomination Is Scrutinized

  30-01-2023 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Andrea Riseborough got the nod for the little-seen “To Leslie.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reviewing whether her A-list campaign violated rules.
  
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• A Rare Chandelier by Alberto Giacometti, Bought for $300, Is Set to Make Millions at Auction 

  30-01-2023 22:18 via artnews.com
  
  It’s the story every antique store sleuth hopes to star in: a curious object, purchased for a pittance, reveals itself as the work of a blue-chip artist. In the 1960s, an eagle-eyed customer bought a chandelier for £250 at a London shop, and later learned it is one of the few lighting fixtures made by famed Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The chandelier, which dates to the 1940s, will appear at Christie’s next month. The house has said it may even bring in mor
  
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• Workers at the British Museum and Other U.K. Institutions to Strike in February

  30-01-2023 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  Staff workers at museums and cultural institutions across the United Kingdom are planning to strike in February over pay and labor conditions.Security and visitor services staff at the British Museum in London and civil servants at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said they would refuse to continue working under current conditions. Workers at the Wallace Collection, Historic England, National Museums Scotland, and the National Museum of Liverpool are expected to join.C
  
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• Which Sundance Movies Could Follow ‘CODA’ to the Oscars?

  30-01-2023 21:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Jonathan Majors in “Magazine Dreams” and Teyana Taylor in “A Thousand and One,” among others, could make the journey from Park City to the Dolby Theater.
  
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• Princess Diana’s Strapless Gown Sells at Sotheby’s for Over $600,000

  30-01-2023 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  A deep purple strapless gown designed by Victor Edelstein and worn by Princess Diana recently sold for more than six times its estimate at a Sotheby’s auction.A buyer went well past the high estimate of $100,000, winning the 1989 dress and its tulip-shaped stiffened skirt with a bid of $480,000 ($604,800 with fees). This is a new record for a Diana dress sold at auction.The dress had been previously sold by Christies New York on June 25, 1997, as part of a charity sale of nearly 80 dresses
  
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• Stream These 8 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in February

  30-01-2023 20:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A handful of great titles are leaving the service for U.S. subscribers soon, including a bona fide comedy classic. See them while you can.
  
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• Cooper Union Postpones Exhibition About Pioneering Russian Art School, Leaving Artists and Historians Uneasy

  30-01-2023 20:51 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, Cooper Union, a storied New York art school that has been attended by many famous artists, made the decision to postpone an exhibition about Vkhutemas, a Moscow-based art and architecture school that was active between 1920 and 1930. Cooper Union said it had made the decision in light of the war in Ukraine.The decision was decried by a group of artists, critics, and art historians who released an open letter on Sunday in which they called the possibility that the show could eventually
  
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• Cooper Union Indefinitely Postpones Exhibition About Pioneering Russian Art School, Leaving Artists and Historians Uneasy

  30-01-2023 20:51 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, Cooper Union, a storied New York art school that has been attended by many famous artists, made the decision to indefinitely postpone an exhibition about Vkhutemas, a Moscow-based art and architecture school that was active between 1920 and 1930. Cooper Union said it had made the decision in light of the war in Ukraine.The decision was decried by a group of artists, critics, and art historians who released an open letter on Sunday in which they called the possibility that the show cou
  
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• ‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ Review: Pick a Card, Not Just Any Card

  30-01-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A master at the top of his game, the magician Asi Wind performs fluidly and with obvious pleasure.
  
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• Being Edward Hopper

  30-01-2023 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s no longer enough to like our favorite artists’ works. By putting on Hopper’s fedora, Picasso’s striped shirt, Warhol’s wig or Kahlo’s colorful couture, we want to become their avatars.
  
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• Free Harvard arts events on Thursdays – Harvard Gazette - Harvard Gazette

  30-01-2023 19:27 via news.google.com
  
  Free Harvard arts events on Thursdays – Harvard Gazette  Harvard Gazette
  
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• Carved Gems Found in Roman Bath after Falling Down Drain 2,000 Years Ago

  30-01-2023 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  A treasure trove was discovered by archeologists in Carlisle, England, at the bottom of the drain system of an ancient Roman bathhouse near Hadrian’s Wall, according to a report by the Guardian.Around 30 intricately carved semiprecious stones were found. Known as intaglios, the stones had slipped down the drains of the pools and saunas two millennia ago. The vegetable glue that secured the stones in ring settings likely deteriorated in the steamy air, leaving the gems to their watery
  
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• Uovo Is Expanding the Definition Of Art Storage—and Rapidly Growing Its Operations

  30-01-2023 18:25 via artnews.com
  
  For as long as there have been art collectors, there has been the need to store art. These days, a crop of storage companies has arisen to meet that demand, and one of them is Uovo, which stands apart not only for its state-of-the-art facilities and its rapid growth, but also its expansion into the art lending and fashion worlds.Founded by the collector and real estate executive Steve Guttman in 2014 as a 280,000-square-foot art storage facility in Long Island City, Uovo now has 12 facilities ac
  
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• Desert X Names Artists Commissioned for 2023 Edition, Including Torkwase Dyson and Tschabalala Self

  30-01-2023 17:48 via artnews.com
  
  For its fourth edition, Desert X, a biennial-style exhibition that presents public art at various sites across the Coachella Valley in California, has named the 11 artists it has commissioned to create new installations. The exhibition’s 2023 iteration is scheduled to run March 4 to May 7, and it is organized by artistic director Neville Wakefield and co-curator Diana Campbell.Among the major artists who will show work in Desert X are Torkwase Dyson, Tschabalala Self, Mario
  
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• SZA’s ‘SOS’ Holds Strong With Seven Weeks at No. 1

  30-01-2023 17:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The R&B star’s “SOS” has racked up more than 1.4 billion streams and had the equivalent of 1.1 million sales since its December release.
  
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• Institution-Building in the Global South: Hoor Al Qasimi of the Sharjah Art Foundation

  30-01-2023 16:45 via artnews.com
  
  For the annual Art in America Guide, published in print in January, the editors spoke to five directors of notable museums and institutions—Adriano Pedrosa of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Ibrahim Mahama of the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale, Ghana; Sharmini Pereira of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka; Hoor Al Qasimi of the Sharjah Art Foundation; and Roobina Karode of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi—about their work in and arou
  
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• ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: One More Good Day

  30-01-2023 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  This week’s episode, starring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, stepped away from the main action, offering a melancholy vignette about companionship.
  
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• Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller.

  30-01-2023 15:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a broad audience.
  
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• Artist Alfred Leslie Dies at 95, £250 Giacometti Chandelier Could Make Millions, and More: Morning Links for January 30, 2023

  30-01-2023 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesARTIST ALFRED LESLIE, whose rule-breaking work spans the entire history of postwar American art, died on Friday at the age of 95, William Grimes reports in the New York Times. Born in the Bronx, Leslie studied with Tony Smith at NYU, was an artist’s model for Reginald Marsh’s classes, and showed his
  
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• Dallas Art Fair Names 88 Exhibitors for Its 15th-Anniversary Edition

  30-01-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Marking its 15th anniversary, the Dallas Art Fair has announced the 88 galleries that will take part in its 2023 edition, scheduled to take place April 21–23, with a preview day on April 20.The 88 exhibitors are drawn from 20 countries and 48 cities, and include a large number of returning galleries, such as Perrotin, Various Small Fires, Night Gallery, Half Gallery, Luis De Jesus, and Voloshyn Gallery. Nineteen galleries will participate for the first time, including Alexander Berggruen (
  
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• 'Arts are meant to be at the heart of our life': what the new national cultural policy could mean for Australia – if it all comes together - The Conversation Indonesia

  30-01-2023 07:41 via news.google.com
  'Arts are meant to be at the heart of our life': what the new national cultural policy could mean for Australia – if it all comes together  The Conversation Indonesia
  
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• 'Arts are meant to be at the heart of our life': what the new national cultural policy could mean for Australia – if it all comes together - The Conversation

  30-01-2023 07:41 via news.google.com
  'Arts are meant to be at the heart of our life': what the new national cultural policy could mean for Australia – if it all comes together  The Conversation
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Fight the Power’ and ‘The Ark’

  30-01-2023 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Chuck D hosts a documentary about hip-hop on PBS. And a new science fiction series debuts on Syfy.
  
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• ‘Squid Game’ Actor Oh Young-soo Goes on Trial on Sex Crime Charges on Feb. 3

  30-01-2023 05:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Oh Young-soo, the actor who portrayed a contestant in the popular Netflix series, is accused of inappropriately touching a South Korean woman in 2017.
  
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• ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3: One More Good Day

  30-01-2023 04:10 via nytimes.com
  
  This week’s episode, starring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, stepped away from the main action, offering a melancholy vignette about companionship.
  
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• Annie Wersching, Star of ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ Dies at 45

  30-01-2023 03:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Wersching was best known for playing the Borg Queen on the Paramount+ “Star Trek” series. She was also on the television series “24,” “Bosch” and “Timeless.”
  
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• Morgantown Wow Factory offers clay hand-building classes and more - WBOY.com

  30-01-2023 02:04 via news.google.com
  Morgantown Wow Factory offers clay hand-building classes and more  WBOY.com
  
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• Gregory Allen Howard, Screenwriter of ‘Remember the Titans,’ Dies at 70

  30-01-2023 01:16 via nytimes.com
  
  After the success of the movie, he established a brand for writing Hollywood movies about inspiring episodes in Black history.
  
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• 10 Future Martial Arts Stars Who Appear In Bruce Lee's Enter The ... - Screen Rant

  30-01-2023 01:10 via news.google.com
  10 Future Martial Arts Stars Who Appear In Bruce Lee's Enter The ...  Screen Rant
  
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• ‘I’ll Always Be an Aussie’: G’Day USA Arts Gala Hails Sam ... - IMDb

  30-01-2023 00:14 via news.google.com
  
  ‘I’ll Always Be an Aussie’: G’Day USA Arts Gala Hails Sam ...  IMDb
  
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