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• Joyce Dopkeen, Barrier-Breaking News Photographer, Dies at 80

  02-02-2023 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1973, she was the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer.
  
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• Mira Lehr, Artist Who Explored Nature’s Distress, Dies at 88

  02-02-2023 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  She helped found a gallery for women artists in Miami Beach and, influenced by an early Buckminster Fuller experiment, focused her art on ecology.
  
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• Max Guy Built a Yellow Brick Road from Chicago to the Land of Oz

  02-02-2023 22:41 via artnews.com
  
  The exhibition “But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country?” is the result of Max Guy’s deep dive into the Land of Oz, a territory the self-deprecating Witch of the North described as uncivilized because it harbors wizards and witches like her. The exhibition title—actually, the witch’s question to Dorothy about Kansas from the first Oz book, published in Chicago in 1900—brings to mind the racist and criminal inhospitalities of recent times, from Texas and Arizona
  
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• Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium to Provide Perspective on Society ... - University of California, Merced

  02-02-2023 22:18
  
  Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium to Provide Perspective on Society ...  University of California, Merced
  
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• How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level

  02-02-2023 22:16 via nytimes.com
  
  In the six years since her debut, “Take Me Apart,” the 39-year-old musician has been researching, processing and preparing to make an even bolder statement.
  
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• Open Letter Voices Concern for Madrid’s Reina Sofía Following Departure of Longtime Director

  02-02-2023 22:14 via artnews.com
  
  An open letter voicing support for Manuel Borja-Villel, the former head of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, is circulating amid Spain’s election to appoint a new director for the state-backed museum. Borja-Villel unexpectedly stepped down on January 20 from his post after 15 years with the institution.In an open letter first published by e-flux, artists, scholars and museum leaders in Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg published their support of the recently-departed Bor
  
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• Advocates Defend Former Madrid Museum Director Amid ‘Culture War’

  02-02-2023 22:14 via artnews.com
  
  An open letter voicing support for Manuel Borja-Villel, the former head of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, is circulating amid Spain’s election to appoint a new director for the state-backed museum. Borja-Villel unexpectedly stepped down on January 20 from his post after 15 years with the institution.In an open letter first published by e-flux, artists, scholars and museum leaders in Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg published their support of the recently-departed Bor
  
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• Claudia Cardinale Gets MoMA Tribute for Film Career

  02-02-2023 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Ahead of a MoMA retrospective, the actress reflected on her career, which includes over 100 films and many classics of Italian cinema.
  
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• In ‘Dear Edward,’ Connie Britton Embraces Her Inner ‘Real Housewife’

  02-02-2023 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The series reunites the actor with Jason Katims, the “Friday Night Lights” showrunner. But the wealthy suburbanite she plays is “so not Tami Taylor,” she said.
  
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• UNESCO Adds the Ukrainian City Odesa to List of Endangered World Heritage Sites

  02-02-2023 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  The historic center of the Ukrainian Black Sea port city Odesa has been added to UNESCO’s list of endangered World Heritage sites. The key strategic port city, known for its cosmopolitan history and architectural landmarks, has been the target of Russian bombing since its invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. Last October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a formal appeal to the United Nation’s cultural organization to place the city center under its protection&mdas
  
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• The Performing Arts Series presents one of the newest and most ... - Nevada Today

  02-02-2023 20:14
  
  The Performing Arts Series presents one of the newest and most ...  Nevada Today
  
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• Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut

  02-02-2023 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  “Fortuitous Ash,” Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s first work for a ballet company, was spectral in two senses: ghostly and insubstantial.
  
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• Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions

  02-02-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Lars Vogt, for one of his final albums made before dying from cancer, turned to chamber music by Schubert with Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff.
  
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• ‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually)

  02-02-2023 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  In this striking drama set in the late 19th century, a Danish priest travels to Iceland and is gradually undone by a world he can’t understand.
  
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• Japanese Researchers Uncover Seven-Foot Iron Sword from Ancient Burial Mound

  02-02-2023 19:36 via artnews.com
  
  Japanese researchers discovered a large dakō iron sword and a giant bronze mirror in a 4th-century burial mound in the city of Nara.The two items were found last November in the Tomio Maruyama Tumulus. Nara’s board of education and the city’s archeological institute, who supported the excavation of both items, issued a press release about the discovery this week.According to the local government groups, the 125-pound, shield-shaped decorated mirror was the first of its kind to b
  
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• Review: Dancing for Themselves in an Underworld of Shadows

  02-02-2023 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Cullberg, a contemporary Swedish company, makes its Joyce Theater debut with Deborah Hay’s delicate, hypnotic “Horse, the Solos.”
  
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• Russian Artist Could Face Prison Time After Police Raid Exhibition with Anti-War Art

  02-02-2023 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  An exhibition of 20 works with anti-war themes was raided by police in St. Petersburg, Russia, seizing the pieces that had been on view, according to the Agence France-Presse. The artist behind the show, the 77-year-old Elena Osipova, now faces up to 15 years in prison for violating a law enacted last year that made “discrediting Russian armed forces” and anti-war protests illegal.Officials claim that members of the police came to the exhibition, which was being held a
  
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• ‘Cunk on Earth,’ a New Mockumentary on Netflix, Is Not Afraid to Get Silly

  02-02-2023 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Netflix show “Cunk on Earth” looks like an ambitious BBC documentary. Until its fictional host, created by Charlie Brooker, starts to ask some deeply silly questions.
  
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• Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Master of Mutability

  02-02-2023 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  An ultra-polished survey of the artist’s works at David Zwirner — some not seen before — demonstrate how preservation and change can coexist.
  
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• ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast

  02-02-2023 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Alberto Sordi stars as an idealistic Italian Everyman caught up in a changing postwar world in this rediscovered comedy from the ’60s.
  
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• USM’s Multi-Arts Celebration Revelry Returns this Month - The University of Southern Mississippi

  02-02-2023 19:16
  
  USM’s Multi-Arts Celebration Revelry Returns this Month  The University of Southern Mississippi
  
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• Philomena Cunk Is Weird Enough to Take on the World

  02-02-2023 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Netflix show “Cunk on Earth” looks like an ambitious BBC documentary. Until its fictional host, created by Charlie Brooker, starts to ask some deeply silly questions.
  
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• Open Space for visual, performing arts now accepting applications - Hastings College

  02-02-2023 18:37
  
  Open Space for visual, performing arts now accepting applications  Hastings College
  
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• At the Met Museum, Richard Avedon at Large

  02-02-2023 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Richard Avedon: Murals” fills just one gallery of the Met, but “fills” is an understatement. These portraits of prominent political and social figures are a milestone in image-making.
  
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• US Authorities Probe Auction Houses over Ties to Sanctioned Russians

  02-02-2023 18:25 via artnews.com
  
  Federal authorities in New York have subpoenaed auction houses for records linked to sanctioned Russian businesspeople as sprawling investigations into those figures continue. Bloomberg, which first reported the news, did not specify which of the auction houses were subpoenaed, although it is possible that Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips—the three largest ones in the city—who may have been contacted by investigators.Leading the investigation are officials with the US
  
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• Amateur Archaeologist in Belgium Finds Fragment of Mysterious Roman Object That May Have Been Used for Sorcery

  02-02-2023 17:44 via artnews.com
  
  A fragment of a mysterious ancient Roman object known as a dodecahedron was found in Belgium, Live Science reports. The dodecahedron is a 12-sided, hollow metal object that has small balls attached to each corner. Similar ones have been discovered previously. The fragment of this one was found by an amateur archaeologist in the Northern Flanders region of Belgium who was searching in a plowed field. The amateur archaeologist passed the fragment on to the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, a small c
  
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• Mass Strike of U.K. Cultural Workers Forces British Museum to Close

  02-02-2023 17:43 via artnews.com
  
  Strikes among the United Kingdom’s cultural workers forced the unexpected closure of the British Museum in London yesterday.Last week, civil servants working for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) — the government department heading the cultural sector and policy in the U.K.— announced that they would begin striking on February 1 due to poor pay and labor conditions. More than 100 members of the British Museum security and visitor services staff, who be
  
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• Rising Artist’s Video Was Edited for New Singapore Art Fair, With State Agency Claiming It Was ‘Unsuitable’ for Children

  02-02-2023 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  At the inaugural edition of ART SG held in January at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore, Shanghai-born multimedia artist Lu Yang’s work Electromagnetic Brainology! (2017) was exhibited at the fair’s curated Platform section. While his video installation was generally well-received by visitors, two channels of the typically five-channel work were not on show, raising concerns of censorship among some.Moreover, the main video, positioned in the middle, was cut
  
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• Questions Loom About Vatican Monsignor’s Collection Following His Death

  02-02-2023 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  Italian Monsignor Michele Basso, a Vatican official who was once investigated by the Roman government for allegedly trying to sell counterfeit antiquities and paintings, died in early January, sparking renewed interest in his extensive art collection and how he came to acquire it.Basso’s death has also raised questions about the Euphronios Krater, a 2,500-year-old vase Etruscan vase that was once the property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was later repatriated to Italy in
  
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• ‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic’ Review: Just Like the Movies

  02-02-2023 17:21 via nytimes.com
  
  In this wry Finnish drama, a disabled man embarks on a journey to visit his girlfriend, encountering inaccessible infrastructure and evil goons along the way.
  
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• New AP African American Studies Course to Include a Focus on Art—With Few Living Artists Required

  02-02-2023 16:53 via artnews.com
  
  The College Board has revealed the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, which will be offered to high schoolers across the U.S. starting in 2024 following smaller-scale pilot programs. As part of the college-level course, there will be a focus on visual art—but almost all of the work required to be viewed by students will be by deceased artists.The course charts several millennia worth of history, with nearly all of it from the 16th century onward, and
  
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• ‘Let It Be Morning’ Review: After the Wedding, the Siege

  02-02-2023 16:53 via nytimes.com
  
  A Palestinian citizen of Israel returns to his hometown and encounters problems in this film from Eran Kolirin.
  
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• The Arts Commission Announces Grants to Local Arts… - City of Toledo

  02-02-2023 16:51
  
  The Arts Commission Announces Grants to Local Arts…  City of Toledo
  
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• ‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible

  02-02-2023 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  This psychological horror movie stars Noémie Merlant as a new mother experiencing delusions and paranoia.
  
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• Much ado about the To-Do List, your arts and culture newsletter - ideastream

  02-02-2023 16:30
  
  Much ado about the To-Do List, your arts and culture newsletter  ideastream
  
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• ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse.

  02-02-2023 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thought experiment, Dave Bautista brings the end of the world to a peaceful country cottage.
  
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• Application deadline for Kentucky Arts Council Performing Artists ... - WMKY

  02-02-2023 15:39
  Application deadline for Kentucky Arts Council Performing Artists ...  WMKY
  
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• 10 Standout Artists at the Inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale - Artsy

  02-02-2023 15:39
  
  10 Standout Artists at the Inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale  Artsy
  
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• University of Tulsa to acquire former Hardesty Arts Center building - Tulsa World

  02-02-2023 15:30
  University of Tulsa to acquire former Hardesty Arts Center building  Tulsa World
  
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• This Weekend in The Arts: Feb. 3-5 - Indianapolis Recorder

  02-02-2023 15:29
  
  This Weekend in The Arts: Feb. 3-5  Indianapolis Recorder
  
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• Your weekend arts forecast: A new comedy venue - St Pete Catalyst

  02-02-2023 15:13
  
  Your weekend arts forecast: A new comedy venue  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Miami Beach Accepting Grant Applications for Cultural Arts ... - Miami's Community Newspapers

  02-02-2023 15:12
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• ‘Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over’ Review: A Trailblazer Gets Her Flowers

  02-02-2023 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary tries to do justice to a six-decade career in 95 minutes, which proves challenging.
  
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• It’s Beyoncé’s Time to Shine at the Grammys … Right?

  02-02-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With a dominant new album, “Renaissance,” and the chance to become the most awarded artist in Grammy history, all eyes are on the pop superstar ahead of Sunday’s show. What could go wrong?
  
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• Arts Notes: Concerts, theater and a very special art program in ... - Daily Press

  02-02-2023 15:00
  Arts Notes: Concerts, theater and a very special art program in ...  Daily Press
  
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• Arts Notes: Concerts, theater and a very special art program - Daily Press

  02-02-2023 15:00
  Arts Notes: Concerts, theater and a very special art program  Daily Press
  
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• Ryan Coogler, Tracy Oliver Join USC School Of Cinematic Arts’ Board Of Councilors - Deadline

  02-02-2023 14:35
  Ryan Coogler, Tracy Oliver Join USC School Of Cinematic Arts’ Board Of Councilors  Deadline
  
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• UCSC set to open new arts and cultural hub on Santa Cruz's Westside - Lookout Santa Cruz

  02-02-2023 14:29
  
  UCSC set to open new arts and cultural hub on Santa Cruz's Westside  Lookout Santa Cruz
  
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• U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Russians’ Art Buys, Jenny Moore Joins Montana Art Group, and More: Morning Links for February 2, 2023

  02-02-2023 14:13 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE WAR IN UKRAINE. US prosecutors have subpoenaed auction houses, including Sotheby’s and Christie’s, as part of an effort to track artworks that sanctioned Russians could use to evade sanctions, Bloomberg reports. Among the high-profile art patrons reportedly named in the subpoenas are Viktor Vekselberg
  
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• Black History Month discussion: The role of the arts in the ... - University of Michigan News

  02-02-2023 14:07
  
  Black History Month discussion: The role of the arts in the ...  University of Michigan News
  
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