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• Edward Downing, longtime arts educator who led Interlochen Center ... - Detroit Free Press

  15-02-2023 22:59
  
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• The Blanton Museum in Texas Receives Gift of More Than 5,000 Works by Latinx and Chicanx Artists

  15-02-2023 22:24 via artnews.com
  
  In most U.S. museums, Latinx and Chicanx art continue to be under-represented — if they are represented at all. But this will no longer be the case at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, which has received a massive gift that is likely to make its collection in that area one of the biggest in the country.
  Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia have given 5,650 works of Latinx and Chicanx art to the Blanton, which is located on the campus of the University of Texas, Austin. The
  
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• The Blanton Museum in Texas Has Added More Than 5,000 Works by Latinx and Chicanx Artists to its Collection

  15-02-2023 22:24 via artnews.com
  
  In most U.S. museums, Latinx and Chicanx art continue to be under-represented — if they are represented at all. But this will no longer be the case at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, which has received a massive gift that is likely to make its collection in that area one of the biggest in the country.
  Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia have given 5,650 works of Latinx and Chicanx art to the Blanton, which is located on the campus of the University of Texas, Austin. The
  
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• The Tricky Geometry of a Throuple

  15-02-2023 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Stories from couples in unconventional arrangements, exploring the possibilities of two-way and three-way relationships.
  
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• Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Estimated to Sell at Sotheby’s Auction for $30M-$50M

  15-02-2023 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will auction off the oldest surviving, nearly complete Hebrew Bible, known as the Codex Sassoon, the auction house announced Wednesday. The 1,100-year old volume carries an estimate of $30 million to $50 million, which could make it the most valuable historical document ever sold at auction.The Codex is named after businessman, philanthropist and Judaica collector David Solomon Sassoon, who once owned the item. According to Sotheby’s, it predates the earliest entirely compl
  
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• Raquel Welch, Actress and ’60s Sex Symbol, Is Dead at 82

  15-02-2023 21:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Beginning with a doeskin bikini in “One Million Years B.C.,” she built a celebrated show business career around sex appeal and, sometimes, a comic touch.
  
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• Howard Bragman, Publicist Who Helped Clients Come Out, Dies at 66

  15-02-2023 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  He was often called in to do damage control for celebrities and others in a negative spotlight, but his specialty was working with gay stars, athletes and others.
  
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• Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs Presents Mär Martinez ... - Orange County Government, Florida

  15-02-2023 19:42
  
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• A Ukrainian Orchestra on a Mission to Promote Its Country’s Culture

  15-02-2023 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Members of the touring Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine have watched the devastation of war from a distance.
  
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• How a Documentary on Great Whites Aroused Romantic Notions of Sharks—and Raised Distressing Questions About Race

  15-02-2023 18:19 via artnews.com
  
  Two men stand on the deck of a boat, dripping water as they dismantle their breathing apparatuses. Moments before, they clambered out of the bloodstained patch of ocean where they had hung suspended—defended only by a colleague with an electric prod—in a feeding frenzy of whitetip sharks. One man turns to the other and says, “You know what I mean now, Stan? You’ve got to have a sense of well-being!”The speaker is Peter Gimbel, the leader and bankroller of a crew who
  
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• What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer.

  15-02-2023 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  “Russia: Today,” a piece by the composer Eugene Birman, is based on hundreds of interviews with hundreds of Russians, in which they share their private feelings about the country.
  
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• K-Pop Star Eric Nam and Raveena to Perform at Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

  15-02-2023 18:13 via artnews.com
  
  K-Pop star Eric Nam and Indian American singer-songwriter Raveena will headline a performance at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art on May 13 as part of the institution’s two-week festival marking its centennial. The museum is comprised of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, with more than 44,000 items in its collections. Eric Nam and Raveena will perform as part of the museum’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival. This year will be the 100th annive
  
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• A Major Gift of Degas Sculptures, Including His Famous Dancer, Will be Exhibited this Fall at a U.S. University 

  15-02-2023 18:12 via artnews.com
  
  A bronze ballerina poised in plie and belonging to one of the most famous companies in art history, the oeuvre of Edgar Degas, is among a collector’s major gift to a U.S. university.Chicago businessman Avrum Gray has given 74 bronze works to his alma mater, Purdue University in Illinois. The group includes “La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen),” one of a few copies of his most famous work, which is valued around $21 million. This is the second signi
  
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• Elite Residences Uncovered at Chichen Itza in Mexico

  15-02-2023 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  A group of structures, believed to have been part of an elite housing complex, was uncovered by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at the famed Maya city Chichen Itza. Until now, there were no known residences within the city limits.Founded in the 5th century CE, Chichen Itza is a complex of Maya ruins in Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. The city was ruled by Maya elite and served as a place of pilgrimage for the ancient Maya, particularly durin
  
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• An Ancient Housing Complex was Uncovered at the Famed Mayan City of Chichen Itza in Mexico

  15-02-2023 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  A group of structures, believed to have been part of an elite housing complex, was uncovered by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at the famed Mayan city Chichen Itza. Until now, there were no known residences within the city limits.Founded in the 5th century CE, Chichen Itza is a complex of Maya ruins in Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. The city was ruled by Maya elite and served as a place of pilgrimage for the ancient Maya, particularly duri
  
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• Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Heads to Auction

  15-02-2023 17:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late ninth or early 10th century, is set to be sold by Sotheby’s for an estimated $30 million to $50 million.
  
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• Foundations of Harriet Tubman’s Birthplace Discovered on a Maryland Farm

  15-02-2023 17:51 via artnews.com
  
  The location of Harriet Tubman’s birthplace had long been unknown, but a press release on Tuesday from the Governor of Maryland’s office revealed that the foundations of her childhood home had been discovered.A team of archaeologists led by Maryland Department of Transportation Chief Archaeologist Julie Schablitsky have been excavating the Thompson Farm, where Tubman was raised, for two years, hoping to uncover the homes of the 40 or so enslaved people who lived there. The home of Be
  
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• Ser Serpas’s Swiss Institute Show Heralds a Major Talent

  15-02-2023 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  A maroon-colored wall used as a backdrop for a prior exhibition at New York’s Swiss Institute gets a second life as a floor in Ser Serpas’s new show there, one of the season’s buzzier outings. Partly torn up, slightly battered, and now lined with the dusty prints left behind by sneakers, the wall constitutes something akin to an art object in its own right.Serpas has a way with trash, which she plucks from the street and then presents in galleries to maximum effect. I can still
  
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• Mellon Foundation Announces Imagining Freedom, An Arts ... - Mellon Foundation

  15-02-2023 16:06
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• Frieze LA’s Welcome Party at the Getty Villa Draws Top Artists, Including rafa esparza, Guadalupe Rosales, Lauren Halsey, and More

  15-02-2023 16:04 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of its VIP opening on Thursday morning, Frieze Los Angeles, in partnership with the Getty Trust and the Loewe Foundation, hosted a welcome party Monday night to celebrate the week’s festivities.
  Staged at the Getty Villa, inspired by Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum and home to the Getty’s Greek, Roman, and Etruscan holdings, the chilly night—by LA standards—was flowing with drinks, bites, and conversation among members of LA’s dynamic art scene and those wh
  
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• An International Lineup Returns for Jacob’s Pillow’s 2023 Season

  15-02-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The summer dance festival will feature Olga Smirnova, the former Bolshoi star, now with the Dutch National Ballet, and Mark Morris’s Burt Bacharach tribute.
  
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• An Ice Factory From the 1900s Is Now a Spectacular New Bronx School

  15-02-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Designed by David Adjaye, a $50 million Dream Charter School rises from a ruined plant on the Harlem River. But the construction process was tragic.
  
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• Better Video Game Stock: Take-Two Interactive vs. Electronic Arts - The Motley Fool

  15-02-2023 15:30
  
  Better Video Game Stock: Take-Two Interactive vs. Electronic Arts  The Motley Fool
  
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• Two Norway-based Artists Performed An Experimental Music Concert Structured Around Sweater Patterns

  15-02-2023 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  To conclude the world premiere of Identity Pitches, a performance of graphic scores structured around Norwegian sweater knitting patterns at the Flamboyán Theater at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center in early February, artists Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel did a bit of acapella.   For the first 50 or so minutes of the show, Janvin and Arcangel, who hail from Stavanger, Norway and Buffalo, New York respectively, played a set of music that, guide
  
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• Pharrell Williams Tapped for Louis Vuitton Job, Christie’s Invests in Art Finance Firm, and More: Morning Links for February 15, 2023

  15-02-2023 13:30 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesROCK STAR. Fashion giant Louis Vuitton has tapped the musician and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams to be the creative director of its menswear division, WWD reports. Williams fills a position left vacant when Virgil Abloh died in late 2020, at the age of 41. Though the Star Trak producer is of cour
  
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• How the Kinsey Collection Grew from a Family’s Deep Dive into African American History to an Expansive Collection Narrating Over 400 Years of the Black Experience in the US

  15-02-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  “Looking at the African American story is like going into a graveyard with no headstones. So much of the contributions of African Americans in building this country have been wiped clean.”So says Bernard Kinsey in describing the impetus behind why he and his wife, Shirley, have spent the last almost 50 years amassing close to one thousand artworks and collectibles related to the African American experience: they want to bring those contributions forward. Early on in their collecting,
  
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• Video and Fine Arts Competition 2023 - News - Transparency.org - Transparency International

  15-02-2023 12:56
  
  Video and Fine Arts Competition 2023 - News - Transparency.org  Transparency International
  
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• Five Shows to See in Los Angeles During Frieze Week 2023

  15-02-2023 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  If Frieze LA 2022 was the last time you were in Los Angeles, you’ll notice that we’ve made a few changes since you’ve been gone. The fair tent has since migrated west to Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar, just a stone’s throw from the Pacific Ocean. At the same time, further east, Hollywood and Mid-Wilshire are booming as gallery hubs, with new big-box locations for Roberts Projects, Make Room, Karma, Ghebaly, and more, with new David Zwirner, Lisson, and Marian Goodman
  
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• How a Production of Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin' Changed the Met Opera

  15-02-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Wilson’s staging of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” opened to a wall of boos in 1998. But it brought new theatrical possibilities to the Met.
  
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• Why Are We Living With Such Ugly Succulents and Cactuses?

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Lumpy and weirdly shaped plants are a reminder of what can still grow under harsh conditions.
  
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• Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There.

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In some cases, the inflammatory, Nazi-associated term has been changed out of sensitivity. What do we lose when that happens?
  
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• Tom Ford Talks Gucci, Cocaine and Influence

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  And other juicy morsels from Tom Ford, Giorgio Armani and Santo Versace in a new fashion documentary.
  
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• Read Your Way Through São Paulo

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Brazil’s ultra urban megacity overwhelms the landscape and the imagination. Paulo Scott recommends books that peel back its layers.
  
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• Podcast Companies Face Layoffs, Budget Cuts and Scuttled Deals

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The dumb money era is over” as layoffs, budget cuts and scuttled deals challenge a long-booming industry.
  
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• In “The Darkness Manifesto,” Johan Eklöf Asks Humans to Dim the Lights

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Light pollution is disruptive to many species, from corals to bats to the humans who put up all those lights. “The Darkness Manifesto” urges us to reconsider our drive to dispel the dark.
  
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• Hari Nef and Parker Posey: Two ‘It’ Girls Whose ‘Humanity Peeks Through’

  15-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a pairing that seems almost predestined, the actresses are sharing a stage in “The Seagull/Woodstock, NY,” a contemporary riff on Chekhov.
  
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• At the Hammer, Hilton Als Presents a Remembrance to Joan Didion, in the Form of a ‘Visual Equivalent of Essay Writing’

  15-02-2023 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  A little over a year after her death, Joan Didion, the esteemed essayist whose writings both defined and defied the New Journalism style, has been the subject of several kinds of memorials, including the acquisition of her papers by the New York Public Library and a New York auction of her personal effects that generated nearly $2 million.And a posthumous ritual of a different form is currently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Curated by another iconic writer, Hilton Als’s &ldq
  
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• UCF Celebrates the Arts 2023 Has Something for Everyone - UCF

  15-02-2023 09:00
  UCF Celebrates the Arts 2023 Has Something for Everyone  UCF
  
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• Equity in the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture - boston.gov

  15-02-2023 09:00
  
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• Stephen Colbert is Underwhelmed by Nikki Haley’s Big Announcement

  15-02-2023 08:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “As she said in her campaign announcement tweet, ‘Get excited,’” Colbert said on Tuesday.
  
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• Bridge to the Arts / LOMA architecture. landscape. urbanism - ArchDaily

  15-02-2023 08:00
  
  Bridge to the Arts / LOMA architecture. landscape. urbanism  ArchDaily
  
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• ‘Cornelia Street’ Review: A Musical With Local Ambitions

  15-02-2023 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe’s production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.
  
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