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• Carol Sloane, Jazz Singer Who Found Success Early and Late, Dies at 85

  03-02-2023 23:50 via nytimes.com
  
  After seemingly being on the verge of stardom, she languished for decades, battered by changing tastes and bad luck, before enjoying a midlife comeback.
  
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• What Will It Take to Trust M. Night Shyamalan?

  03-02-2023 23:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The director, whose latest is “Knock at the Cabin,” has been working to regain audience faith, one B-movie at a time.
  
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• Arts, Interrupted: Streaming Slump - The Michigan Daily

  03-02-2023 23:04
  
  Arts, Interrupted: Streaming Slump  The Michigan Daily
  
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• SITE Santa Fe awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant - Albuquerque Journal

  03-02-2023 23:02
  
  SITE Santa Fe awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant  Albuquerque Journal
  
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• Fred Lonidier’s Drily Humorous Works Channel Political Power through Conceptual Art

  03-02-2023 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  Called to testify in a 1981 lawsuit brought by a San Diego transit workers union against Aztec Bus Lines, photographer Fred Lonidier found himself explaining the finances of his art practice. The purpose of his testimony was to interpret some pictures he had taken of striking bus drivers to help determine whether the strikers had impeded access to a bus depot. The lawyer for Aztec asked whether he’d been paid by the union, and Lonidier said that he had not, that all the expenses came out o
  
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• Investigation Finds That Artifacts From the Kingdom of Benin in Swiss Museums Were Likely Looted

  03-02-2023 22:48 via artnews.com
  
  A review of 96 artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin in Swiss museums found proof or strong evidence that more than half of the items were stolen by British soldiers in the 19th century.A research report from the Swiss Benin Initiative (SBI) released this week found that 21 Benin objects in eight Swiss museums were looted based on written records or evidence like burn marks that “provide a direct link to the fateful events of 1897.” Researchers found “strong evidence” of lo
  
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• The Teagle Foundation Builds Diversity and Access in Liberal Arts - Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

  03-02-2023 21:32
  
  The Teagle Foundation Builds Diversity and Access in Liberal Arts  Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
  
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• Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90

  03-02-2023 21:09 via nytimes.com
  
  In 15 collections, beginning in the early 1970s, she wrote of family, nature, loss and sometimes dogs.
  
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• Ancient Buddhist Statue May Be Returned to Japanese Temple after 10-Year Legal Battle

  03-02-2023 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  A high court in South Korea ordered the return of a Buddhist statue that was stolen from a temple in Japan in 2012. The statue, which is more than 450 years old, depicts the Kanzeon Bodhisattva. Kanzeon is known among Buddhist culture as the One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World and is said to “grant salvation to the suffering.”The bodhisattva statue has been at the center of an international tug-of-war since it surfaced in South Korea, according to the Asahi Shimbun.In
  
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• Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance

  03-02-2023 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Memphis Jookin’: The Show,” which presents jookin “in the world it comes from,” is sincere entertainment, packed with talent and heart.
  
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• Statue of Emperor Depicted as Hercules Is Discovered During Sewer Repairs on the Appian Way

  03-02-2023 19:47 via artnews.com
  
  A life-sized statue of a Roman emperor depicted as the Greek hero Hercules was discovered near the Appian Way, ancient Rome’s first highway. The statue was recovered on January 25 during a sewer repair project.The statue’s face emerged as a bulldozer was tearing through old pipelines. On-site archaeologists investigated the find.The marble statue has Hercules’s trademark lion skin pelt and club, with frown lines on its forehead that are meant to indicate of a time of deep crisi
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Celebrates 25 Years of First Saturdays

  03-02-2023 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  During that time, the museum has welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors to live performances by a diverse group of artists.
  
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• French Court Upholds Charges Against Former Louvre Director in Antiquities Trafficking Case

  03-02-2023 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  This week, a French appeals court upheld the charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, the former president and director of the Louvre in Paris, for his alleged complicity in the trafficking of antiquities from Egypt.  Martinez, who led the Louvre from 2013 to 2021, was charged in May for “complicity in fraud,” money laundering, and “facilitating” the purchase of artifacts linked to a vast trafficking ring that has been the target of a yea
  
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• Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets

  03-02-2023 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Herbert Blomstedt introduced the New York Philharmonic to a piece he premiered in Stockholm 59 years ago.
  
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• Raye Made ‘My 21st Century Blues’ After a Long Journey

  03-02-2023 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The British musician spent years writing for other artists, eventually sharing her frustrations online. After speaking her truths about the industry, she shares personal revelations on her debut.
  
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• How BMG Secretly Signed a Rapper Dropped for Antisemitic Lyrics

  03-02-2023 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Though the music label ultimately backed out, the deal illustrates the temptations and risks faced by corporations seeking to capitalize on the notoriety of pop-culture figures.
  
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• How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema

  03-02-2023 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Bringing a great crying scene to the big screen requires a combination of craft and empathy. This is how three recent movies — “Close,” “Babylon” and “The Woman King” — pulled it off.
  
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• Anish Kapoor’s Manhattan Mini-Bean Is an Eyesore That No One Asked For

  03-02-2023 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  It may only have been a couple days since word leaked out that a long-awaited Anish Kapoor sculpture in New York was finally complete, but already, crowds have begun to form on a previously unremarkable corner on Leonard Street in Tribeca to see it. They’re there to greet a 19-foot-tall sculpture that resembles a legume being squashed by a luxury building, its steel form appearing to bulge out beneath the weight of a sleek outcropping.The New Yorker once termed the sculpture, which is not
  
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• Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and More New Songs

  03-02-2023 17:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Morgan Wallen, Yves Tumor, Lankum and others.
  
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• The Ecstatic, Elusive Art of Ming Smith

  03-02-2023 17:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist was the first Black woman photographer to have her work acquired by MoMA. Now, decades later, as she returns for a solo show, she reflects on her singular career.
  
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• Independent Film & Media Arts Field-Building Initiative - National Endowment for the Arts

  03-02-2023 16:58
  
  Independent Film & Media Arts Field-Building Initiative  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• The Liberal Arts Are the Foundation of Catholic Education - National Catholic Register

  03-02-2023 16:25
  The Liberal Arts Are the Foundation of Catholic Education  National Catholic Register
  
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• John Guillory’s ‘Professing Criticism’ Asks, What Is Literary Criticism For?

  03-02-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.
  
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• Court Upholds Charges Against Martinez, Ex-Louvre Chief

  03-02-2023 15:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-Luc Martinez, who led the museum from 2013 to 2021, is fighting charges of complicity in fraud and money laundering, part of an inquiry into the illegal sale of Egyptian artifacts.
  
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• Internationally acclaimed artist Eiko Otake explores time and place ... - Colorado Springs Gazette

  03-02-2023 15:00
  Internationally acclaimed artist Eiko Otake explores time and place ...  Colorado Springs Gazette
  
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• Arts Playlist: Delaware Shakespeare's 'Love Poem' poetry workshop - Delaware First Media

  03-02-2023 14:37
  Arts Playlist: Delaware Shakespeare's 'Love Poem' poetry workshop  Delaware First Media
  
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• Artist Mira Lehr Dies at 88, Statue of Roman Emperor Found During Sewer Repairs, and More: Morning Links for February 3, 2023

  03-02-2023 14:02 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesARTIST MIRA LEHR, whose multifarious art tackled environmental issues, and who was involved in founding Continuum, a cooperative gallery in Miami Beach, Florida, for women artists in 1966, has died at the age of 88, Neil Genzlinger reports in the New York Times. Powerfully influenced by her participation in a 1969 experim
  
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• The-Dream and Muni Long: From Behind the Scenes to the Grammys

  03-02-2023 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ahead of the first-ever Grammy Award for songwriter of the year, two musicians who have been both headliners and behind-the-scenes cogs trace their unique journeys to recognition.
  
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• Hudson Arts Building's Foundations Progress at 220 Eleventh ... - New York YIMBY

  03-02-2023 14:00
  
  Hudson Arts Building's Foundations Progress at 220 Eleventh ...  New York YIMBY
  
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• Directors of ‘Skinamarink’ and ‘The Outwaters’ on Horror Experiments

  03-02-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kyle Edward Ball, the filmmaker behind “Skinamarink,” and Robbie Banfitch, who made “The Outwaters,” talk about their creepy, buzzy movies.
  
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• The Night Falls: A Song and Dance Collaboration Straight Outta Swamplandia

  03-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Troy Schumacher, the composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone and the novelist Karen Russell teamed up, pushing one another to new places in their mediums.
  
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• The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination

  03-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A blockbuster exhibition brings together more paintings by the Dutch master than ever before. Yet he remains a mystery, despite efforts by authors, filmmakers and researchers to fill the empty space.
  
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• Brazil’s Lula Promised ‘More Books in Place of Guns.’ Can He Deliver?

  03-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his first terms as president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expanded the scope of who could get published in the country, and who could access books. His return to the presidency comes with expectations, and hurdles.
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) Insider Sells $93424.00 in Stock - MarketBeat

  03-02-2023 09:00
  
  Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) Insider Sells $93424.00 in Stock  MarketBeat
  
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• Arts and Culture Caucus: New effort to support Oregon's culture, arts - Coos Bay World

  03-02-2023 09:00
  
  Arts and Culture Caucus: New effort to support Oregon's culture, arts  Coos Bay World
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Netflix’s Plan to Charge for Shared Accounts

  03-02-2023 07:49 via nytimes.com
  
  “I understand. You don’t like paying for TV,” Kimmel said. “So, let me just say this: My name is Jimmy and I’m free every night, no charge.”
  
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• Poetry, book arts, and painting highlight our weekly arts picks - KUOW News and Information

  03-02-2023 03:54
  
  Poetry, book arts, and painting highlight our weekly arts picks  KUOW News and Information
  
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• Keeping the "Arts Alive" with the Thurmans | SDPB - SDPB Radio

  03-02-2023 03:01
  Keeping the "Arts Alive" with the Thurmans | SDPB  SDPB Radio
  
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• ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse?

  03-02-2023 02:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play.
  
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• Photos: Berkeley High's A Building for visual and performing arts - Berkeleyside

  03-02-2023 01:33
  
  Photos: Berkeley High's A Building for visual and performing arts  Berkeleyside
  
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• Reflections on Star Quality From a Golden Age of ‘Junk TV’

  03-02-2023 01:20 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new memoir, a longtime casting director revels in memories of a bygone Hollywood, matching actors with the roles that made them stars.
  
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• Arts Crawl | Winter Celebration of the Arts in South Pasadena | The ... - The South Pasadenan

  03-02-2023 00:03
  
  Arts Crawl | Winter Celebration of the Arts in South Pasadena | The ...  The South Pasadenan
  
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