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• At Zona Maco, Sculptures Made In Collaboration with Fungi Shine

  08-02-2023 23:58 via artnews.com
  
  Since last month’s premiere of HBO’s television adaptation of video game The Last of Us, there’s been a seemingly endless fascination with fungi and how they might prove to bring about a deadly pandemic. (The Wall Street Journal’s science section even reported out an article about the topic.) And in the art world, mushrooms have seen a rise since the 2017 publication of anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World: The Possibility
  
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• A Kandinsky Recently Restituted To Its Original German-Jewish Owners Expected to Fetch $45 M. at Auction

  08-02-2023 23:45 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, Sotheby’s unveiled a early abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky that had recently been restituted to its original German-Jewish owners ahead of its London sales next month. The work, expected to fetch a price around $45 million, will be auctioned during its Impressionist and modern art evening sale taking place March 1. Kandinsky produced the large-scale abstract canvas, Murnau mit Kirche II (View of Murnau with church), in 1910, during a period considered by
  
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• Review | The Atlas arts center, and its full theater menu, is a gem on ... - The Washington Post

  08-02-2023 23:29
  
  Review | The Atlas arts center, and its full theater menu, is a gem on ...  The Washington Post
  
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• Berks LaunchBox partners with Berks Arts Council and Kutztown ... - Pennsylvania State University

  08-02-2023 23:28
  
  Berks LaunchBox partners with Berks Arts Council and Kutztown ...  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Mexico City Galleries Show There’s Still Much to Be Explored When It Comes to Figuration 

  08-02-2023 23:19 via artnews.com
  
  Much has been written about the state of figurative painting today—that much of it has come to a standstill, forming a style of its own, “zombie figuration,” as ARTnews termed it in 2020. Generally speaking, it’s hard to argue with that sentiment, especially when it comes to the kind of figurative painting that continues to dominate most art fairs, where it proves especially salable. And so, ahead of the opening of the Zona Maco art fair, I was pleasantly surprised to see
  
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• New York Arts Program Alumni Panel - Ohio Wesleyan University

  08-02-2023 22:49
  
  New York Arts Program Alumni Panel  Ohio Wesleyan University
  
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• Ronald Blythe, Scribe of the English Countryside, Dies at 100

  08-02-2023 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  He was best known for his 1969 book “Akenfield,” but he was also beloved for his many essays and columns about rural life in his native Suffolk.
  
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• Soul Told Black Musicians’ Stories. Its Archives Are Going Digital.

  08-02-2023 22:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The newspaper, which started in 1966 with a focus on R&B, funk and disco, shut down in 1982. But one of its founders’ grandsons is devoted to finding it a new online audience.
  
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• The Oscars’ Andrea Riseborough Controversy, Explained

  08-02-2023 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  You’ve got questions about the surprise best-actress nominee, and our awards columnist has the answers (and a few more questions).
  
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• ARTS PICKS | Feb. 9-12 - Jacksonville Today

  08-02-2023 22:12
  
  ARTS PICKS | Feb. 9-12  Jacksonville Today
  
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• I Promised God It Was the Last Time

  08-02-2023 22:05 via nytimes.com
  
  After years of suppressing her gay desires, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman reaches her breaking point.
  
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• Lineup Announced for 3rd Annual Big Night in for the Arts - Chapelboro.com

  08-02-2023 22:02
  
  Lineup Announced for 3rd Annual Big Night in for the Arts  Chapelboro.com
  
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• Tom Brady Isn’t the First Athlete to Go Hollywood

  08-02-2023 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  With Tom Brady appearing in the comedy “80 for Brady,” a look at other sports figures who have made their way to the big screen.
  
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• Tom Brady Continues a Long History of Athletes in Sports Movies

  08-02-2023 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  With Tom Brady appearing in the comedy “80 for Brady,” a look at other sports figures who have made their way to the big screen.
  
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• Hermès Wins Lawsuit Against Artist, Whose NFTs Based on Birkin Bags Were Deemed Not Art by Jury

  08-02-2023 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of the first major NFT-related lawsuits to be heard in the US culminated in a decisive loss for an artist as the luxury brand Hermès triumphed.Hermès had sued the artist Mason Rothschild, whose “MetaBirkins” NFT project, the company claimed, deliberately sought to dilute the luxury brand’s trademark. In the Southern District Court of New York today, a jury sided with Hermès, saying that Rothschild’s NFTs failed a test that would allow them to be c
  
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• Graceland Performing Arts Camp Summer 2023 - Graceland

  08-02-2023 20:47
  
  Graceland Performing Arts Camp Summer 2023  Graceland
  
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• Review: A Hip-Hop Take on Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers

  08-02-2023 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  “Rome & Jewels,” revived at the Joyce Theater, established Rennie Harris as a gifted and canny choreographer of street styles for the concert stage.
  
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• Hermès Wins MetaBirkins Lawsuit; Jurors Not Convinced NFTs Are Art

  08-02-2023 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The verdict means First Amendment protections did not apply to a digital project blurring the line between art and business.
  
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• ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter

  08-02-2023 19:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A workplace comedy set at home, this cleverly detailed production explores child care as both labor and primal instinct.
  
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• In L.A., Gustavo Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall

  08-02-2023 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The news that Gustavo Dudamel is leaving the Los Angeles Philharmonic for New York was a blow to a city where he has been much more than a conductor.
  
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• What Darwin Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution - Dartmouth

  08-02-2023 19:18
  
  What Darwin Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution  Dartmouth
  
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• Equity, Arts & Intersections: Black Voices - KPBS

  08-02-2023 19:17
  
  Equity, Arts & Intersections: Black Voices  KPBS
  
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• Artists create on-site work with Virginia Tech students for Moss Arts ... - Virginia Tech Daily

  08-02-2023 19:11
  
  Artists create on-site work with Virginia Tech students for Moss Arts ...  Virginia Tech Daily
  
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• Expansive Subterranean Aqueduct That Once Served Elite Romans Is Identified in Naples

  08-02-2023 18:40 via artnews.com
  
  A vast subterranean aqueduct that once served elite Roman villas was discovered in Naples, Italy. Archaeological authorities had been prompted to look for the aqueduct by locals, who shared memories of playing in the caves and tunnels under the hill of Posillipo as children, not realizing it was an ancient structure. The aqueduct is one of the longest examples of its kind.The ancient Romans’ aqueducts were among their finest engineering feats. They supplied water to the entire empire, prov
  
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• Jim Carrey’s $28.9 M. Los Angeles House Filled With Art Is On The Market

  08-02-2023 18:34 via artnews.com
  
  For about the last 30 years, when Jim Carrey has sought to escape the hullaballoo of Hollywood, he’s retreated behind the handsome brick gates of his two-acre estate in L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood. Behind 280 feet of extraordinarily tall and time consumingly clipped hedging, the “Dumb and Dumber” star has presided over a private idyll that is serene and bucolic but also a playful place for artistic endeavors and a testing ground of eccentric (and expensively executed) d
  
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• Hermès Wins MetaBirkins Lawsuit, With Jurors Deciding NFTs Aren’t Art

  08-02-2023 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Legal experts have been monitoring the First Amendment ramifications of a fashion brand’s lawsuit against the creator of a digital project that blurs the line between art and business.
  
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• William Blair, who helped expand public support of arts, dies at 81 - Canton Repository

  08-02-2023 17:30
  
  William Blair, who helped expand public support of arts, dies at 81  Canton Repository
  
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• Archie Moore Becomes the Second-Ever First Nations Artist to Represent Australia Solo at the Venice Biennale

  08-02-2023 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  Australia has announced that Archie Moore, a Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist based in Redlands, Queensland, will represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale, which is due to open in April of that year.Moore will be the second Aboriginal artist ever to represent Australia at the Biennale in a solo presentation, after Tracey Moffatt in 2017. Ellie Buttrose, a curator of contemporary Australian art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, will organize Moore’s pa
  
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• From the Archives: Wangechi Mutu Dresses Cultural Critique in Freakishly Beautiful Disguises

  08-02-2023 17:15 via artnews.com
  
  With a major 25-year survey of Wangechi Mutu’s artwork opening at the New Museum in New York next month (March 2–June 4), we look back at this article from May 2010 that covered her early career survey in Toronto. The article provides context for the evolution of her practice, which still centers on otherworldly forms that subtly comment on themes of civilization and the natural world, feminism, and states of otherness.THE WORK OF KENYAN-BORN Wangechi Mutu features gorgeously grotesq
  
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• Holistic health coach to teach culinary arts at SPAC - NEWS10 ABC

  08-02-2023 17:01
  Holistic health coach to teach culinary arts at SPAC  NEWS10 ABC
  
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• John Cleese to Reboot ‘Fawlty Towers’ With His Daughter Camilla Cleese

  08-02-2023 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Cleese will write and act alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese in a revival of the renowned BBC comedy.
  
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• John Cleese to Reboot ‘Fawlty Towers’

  08-02-2023 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Cleese will write and act alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese in a revival of the renowned BBC comedy.
  
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• How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age

  08-02-2023 15:43 via nytimes.com
  
  From the set design to the wig styles, the Broadway musical creates a richly detailed vision of the 1920s and ’30s. Its creators share their inspirations.
  
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• Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion

  08-02-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Best known for her work as a choreographer, the artist is the subject of a wide-ranging show at MOCA in Los Angeles — and a recipient of the Venice Biennale’s lifetime achievement award.
  
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• Republicans Give Biden the Gift of Heckling at 2023 State of the Union

  08-02-2023 15:25 via nytimes.com
  
  A presidency that’s been short on galvanizing TV gets an infusion of energy from a feisty speech.
  
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• Student storytelling performances Feb. 23 to showcase expressive ... - SUNY Oswego

  08-02-2023 15:24
  
  Student storytelling performances Feb. 23 to showcase expressive ...  SUNY Oswego
  
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• Rihanna Returns at the Super Bowl Halftime Show: What’s at Stake?

  08-02-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On Sunday, one of pop’s most reliable hitmakers returns at the Super Bowl halftime show. During her hiatus from music her mystique — and the stakes for her return — have only grown.
  
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• Oregon state lawmakers create first-ever arts and culture caucus - Oregon Public Broadcasting

  08-02-2023 15:00
  Oregon state lawmakers create first-ever arts and culture caucus  Oregon Public Broadcasting
  
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• A New Marvel Hero Battles Supervillains and Teen Angst

  08-02-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the animated series “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,” the superhero exploits are based in relatable teenage emotions and concerns.
  
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• Arts and Sciences Dean Search Begins - Harvard Magazine

  08-02-2023 14:15
  
  Arts and Sciences Dean Search Begins  Harvard Magazine
  
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• Vermeer Tickets Are Selling Fast, Australia Makes 2023 Venice Pick, and More: Morning Links for February 8, 2023

  08-02-2023 14:02 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesIT IS BLOCKBUSTER TIME. The Rijksmuseum’s hotly anticipated Johannes Vermeer blowout does not open until Friday, but it has already sold an astonishing 200,000 tickets, the Associated Press reports. The Amsterdam institution has extended its hours so that more people can pay the exhibition a visit. Treasures await t
  
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• Arts Showcase Calls for R&R: Risk and Regeneration - Maryland Today

  08-02-2023 11:30
  
  Arts Showcase Calls for R&R: Risk and Regeneration  Maryland Today
  
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• Stock Market Sell-Off: Is Electronic Arts a Buy? - The Motley Fool

  08-02-2023 11:20
  
  Stock Market Sell-Off: Is Electronic Arts a Buy?  The Motley Fool
  
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• Whitney Houston’s Enduring Legacy: Lifting Up Other Black Women

  08-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer was intimately familiar with how punishing the spotlight could be. Instead of only guiding others toward greater visibility, she worked to ensure they would survive it.
  
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• An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny

  08-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With sculptures that blend evolutionary history and science fiction, Wangechi Mutu draws on her bicontinental life for an ambitious New Museum survey.
  
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• Ted Bell, Adman Turned Author of Best-Selling Thrillers, Is Dead at 76

  08-02-2023 07:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In midcareer, having worked for the biggest agencies, he quit to conjure up novels about a British spy named Alex Hawke, who was likened to James Bond.
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Sounds Off on State of the Union Applause

  08-02-2023 07:53 via nytimes.com
  
  “It was a tough night for all of Biden’s staffers watching from the White House, because every time people clapped, the lights went on and off,” Fallon said.
  
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• Charlie Thomas, a Drifter in Song Nearly All His Life, Dies at 85

  08-02-2023 06:48 via nytimes.com
  
  He was heard on hits like “There Goes My Baby,” “Under the Boardwalk” and “Up on the Roof.” He kept singing them for decades.
  
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• Ted Bell, Adman Turned Author of Best-Selling Thrillers, Dies at 76

  08-02-2023 06:42 via nytimes.com
  
  In midcareer, having worked for the biggest agencies, he quit to conjure up novels about a British spy named Alex Hawke, who was likened to James Bond.
  
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• 10 Detroit arts groups get $23M in grants to boost digital presence - Detroit Free Press

  08-02-2023 00:25
  
  10 Detroit arts groups get $23M in grants to boost digital presence  Detroit Free Press
  
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