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• Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81

  17-02-2023 23:58 via nytimes.com
  
  He wrote more than two dozen books, including richly detailed biographies of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Laurence Olivier and Jesus.
  
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• LA Dealer François Ghebaly Has Become a Major Player by Supporting Risk-Taking Artists

  17-02-2023 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past 15 years, Los Angeles–based dealer François Ghebaly has established himself as a major player. He represents some of today’s most important artists, from Farah Al Qasimi to Candice Lin; expanded to New York two years ago; and opened a second LA space earlier this month. Even still, he never considered pursuing a career in art until he moved to LA in the mid-2000s, when he was in his early 20s. Ghebaly grew up in Saint-Louis, France, on the other side of the
  
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• A ‘Big Desecration’: Native American Activists Call for Digging to Stop at Brickell Archaeological Site in Miami

  17-02-2023 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  Two Florida–based Native American activists are asking the city of Miami to stop an ongoing archaeological dig in the Brickell neighborhood. The site is being developed for residential housing.The artifacts found at the site include pottery sherds, stone tools, and humans remains likely dating back to the Tequesta people who lived along the Miami river. Will Pestle, a bioarchaeologist and University of Miami professor, told Local 10 News that the site dates back as far as 7,000 years: &ldq
  
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• Rena Gluck, Who Helped Bring Modern Dance to Israel, Dies at 89

  17-02-2023 22:19 via nytimes.com
  
  As a student of Martha Graham and a founding member of the Batsheva Dance Company, she helped lay the foundation for an art that continues to thrive in Israel.
  
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• $3 M. Works by Mark Bradford and Richard Prince Top Frieze Los Angeles Sales

  17-02-2023 22:16 via artnews.com
  
  At the opening of Frieze Los Angeles on Thursday, collectors and museums appeared especially keen to acquire art, with dealers reporting success in placing works in institutional collections based in the U.S. and Europe.In their sales reports, dealers said that the return to Los Angeles for this year’s edition of the heralded fair was fruitful. Works valued as high as $3.5 million landed buyers, signaling that business was taking place at a steady pace on opening day.A few dealers said thi
  
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• The ARTnews Guide to Art Shipping

  17-02-2023 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  Shipping might not be a glamorous aspect of the art industry, but it is an essential service crucial tosuccessful exhibitions, acquisitions, and archival collections, as well as the growing import and export of art. For the Frieze Los Angeles art fair, this means dozens of galleries — from across the city and around the world — shipping artworks to the Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar in hopes they will be snapped up by collectors, curators, and other institutions. Art ship
  
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• Watch a Friendship Dissolve in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

  17-02-2023 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer and director Martin McDonagh narrates a scene between Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
  
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• ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  17-02-2023 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer and director Martin McDonagh narrates a scene from the film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
  
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• Authorities Recover 100-Year-Old Dalí Drawings Stolen in Barcelona Art Heist

  17-02-2023 20:58 via artnews.com
  
  Catalan authorities have recovered a cache of graphic works by Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró that were stolen last year in Barcelona. Police have detained three brothers, aged 50, 53 and 55, who allegedly targeted homes in Barcelona’s high-end neighboorhoods that held fine art and luxury goods. The robbery ring has been under investigation since January 2022 as part of operation ‘Gresca,’ and, on Friday, police announced that a trove of stolen jewelry and bankn
  
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• With ‘Letters From Max’ Onstage, Sarah Ruhl Again Mourns a Poet’s Death

  17-02-2023 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Through dialogue, poetry and ritual, the playwright revisits her correspondence with her former student, who died at the age of 25.
  
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• ARTnews Announces Clothing Collection in Collaboration with LA-Brand PLEASURES

  17-02-2023 20:45 via artnews.com
  
  ARTnews and Los Angeles-based lifestyle brand, PLEASURES, announced Friday that they will be releasing a unisex apparel collaboration. The collection will launch on February 18th.
  “We wanted to educate our audience about the importance of art not only in culture, but also in media through one of the most premier platforms: ARTnews,” said PLEASURES Co-Founder, Alex James. “The merging of fashion and art is not a new concept but something that will surely live on.” 
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• Scenes from Frieze Los Angeles’s VIP Preview

  17-02-2023 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  Thursday’s VIP preview at Frieze Los Angeles was packed with celebrities and art world heavy-hitters alike, including actress Margot Robbie, record producer Benny Blanco, model Heidi Klum, and entrepreneur Laure Hériard Dubreuil. With significant interest following the pandemic, the fair appeared to be back in full swing.
  Past VIP days at Frieze’s various editions have felt more “like waiting for a sneaker drop than trying to get into an art fair,” an advisor told
  
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• ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High

  17-02-2023 19:59 via nytimes.com
  
  A restored version of the film, which has returned to theaters, amplifies the ways in which it was groundbreaking.
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Art Workers Picket Outside the Museum Amid Unionization Battle

  17-02-2023 19:47 via artnews.com
  
  Workers at the Minneapolis Institute of Art have begun an informational picket outside of the museum, the Minnesota Reformer reported Thursday. Temporary employees at the museum, who refer to themselves as “casuals,” unionized in 2021 with OPEIU (Office and Professional Employees Union) Local 12. The unionization process was prompted by massive layoffs of “casual” employees during the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, those employees numbered around 100, but were then shav
  
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• The Overlooked Art of the Computer Age Gets Its Due in a New Show at LACMA

  17-02-2023 19:41 via artnews.com
  
  “Art will be sunk or drowned by technology,” Marcel Duchamp told an interviewer in 1966, continuing that the latter was mixed up with the market and destined to destroy original thought. Duchamp was among the most famous, but not the first, artist made anxious by the age of the mainframe. The computer had debuted a little over a decade earlier, and institutions initially appeared averse to any art made using it, even as automated systems increasingly upended visual culture. Thou
  
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• How Iconic Gallery Just Above Midtown Swapped Art History’s Lone Geniuses for Vibrant Community

  17-02-2023 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  One November night in 1974, a boisterous crowd spilled out onto 57th Street in Manhattan as a new gallery opened in what was then the center of the art establishment and its elite power brokers. Linda Goode Bryant, a 25-year-old single mother fueled by a vision and some debt, opened the space to support an emerging group of Black conceptual artists whose work strayed from the representational mode celebrated in Harlem—the city’s Black art Mecca—while going unrecognized by New Y
  
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• Marc Maron, Roseanne Barr and Nathan Macintosh Have New Specials

  17-02-2023 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  In the mix this month are hour sets from a maturing Marc Maron, a very funny Nathan Macintosh and a pandering Roseanne Barr.
  
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• A Doodle Reveals da Vinci’s Early Deconstruction of Gravity

  17-02-2023 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Long before Galileo and Newton used superior mathematics to study a fundamental natural force, Leonardo calculated the gravitational constant with surprising accuracy.
  
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• Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs

  17-02-2023 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Lana Del Rey, Pink, Janelle Monáe and others.
  
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• Review: ‘In Seven Days’ Conjures the Creation, With Video

  17-02-2023 17:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Ruth Reinhardt, played Thomas Adès’s “In Seven Days,” for piano, orchestra and moving image.
  
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• Spring/Break Delivers a West-Coast Cool Version of Its Hurly-Burly Art Show in Los Angeles

  17-02-2023 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Spring/Break has always accomplished with ease what many galleries and so-called satellite fairs often struggle with when a behemoth outfit like Frieze rolls into town: It stands out. And it does so without the slightest hint that they were trying hard to do it. But, in a way, that’s Spring/Break’s purpose. In New York, Spring/Break has a reputation for being over the top and, to some, overwhelming (a point one of its founders, Andrew Gori shares with a smile). This year marks t
  
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• The Revamped Manchester Museum Reassesses Britain’s Colonial Past

  17-02-2023 17:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.
  
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• ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Review: Willy-Nilly Killy Old Bear

  17-02-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A childhood favorite gets a threadbare horror treatment.
  
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• Rick Lowe’s Work at Gagosian’s Frieze LA Booth Pulls You into Its Atmosphere

  17-02-2023 16:20 via artnews.com
  
  One drawback of visiting an art fair like Frieze is that, after the second or third hour, the works begin to blend together. As is the case with visiting the Louvre, the Uffizi, or the Met, it just isn’t possible to see everything. During this year’s edition of Frieze Los Angeles, Gagosian was able to sear an image, or rather an experience, into the mind of everyone who passed through its booth with a solo presentation of recent paintings and works on paper by Rick Lowe.The stan
  
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• Carrie Yamaoka Doesn’t Want Her Category-Defying Art to Become Another ‘Selfie Opportunity’

  17-02-2023 14:15 via artnews.com
  
  Carrie Yamaoka still isn’t exactly sure how to describe her category-defying art. Nearly three decades into her career, the Japanese American artist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, has continued to produce work that blurs the boundaries between sculpture, photography, and painting.“I’m not interested in the perfection of the perfectly glossy, polished surface,” she told ARTnews in a recent Zoom call from Paris, where she is installing an exhibition of work
  
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• Carrie Yamaoka Doesn’t Want Her Category-Defying Art To Become Another ‘Selfie Opportunity’

  17-02-2023 14:15 via artnews.com
  
  Carrie Yamaoka still isn’t exactly sure how to describe her category-defying art. Nearly three decades into her career, the Japanese American artist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, has continued to produce work that blurs the boundaries between sculpture, photography, and painting.“I’m not interested in the perfection of the perfectly glossy, polished surface,” she told ARTnews in a recent Zoom call from Paris, where she is installing an exhibition of work
  
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• Gilbert & George Centre Gets Opening Date, Choreographer Is Out After Attack, and More: Morning Links for February 17, 2023

  17-02-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesA DISPATCH FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY. Some key museums in Greece are closed this week, as staffers protest a new law that severs the institutions from the nation’s culture ministry and forces them to undertake individual fundraising, as Alex Greenberger reported in ARTnews. Riot police and demonstrators were
  
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• Painter Jammie Holmes Wrestles with What It Means to Belong

  17-02-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  The people in Jammie Holmes’s paintings are ones he knows well. They come from his inner circle, and are pictured in settings that shift between safe havens and sites for grieving. In some scenes, Holmes may depict friends convening. In others, his figures may appear in darker contexts—carrying the weight of a casket, for instance.In a recent interview, Holmes, 38, said his work draws on his coming of age in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The town is haunted by history: it was the site of a B
  
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• Milo Ventimiglia on the ‘Honest Deception’ of ‘The Company You Keep’

  17-02-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his first regular TV role since the hit series “This is Us,” the actor plays a character who is himself a kind of actor: a charming con man.
  
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• Arts Playlist: Rehoboth Art League's concertina sketchbook class - Delaware First Media

  17-02-2023 13:00 via news.google.com
  Arts Playlist: Rehoboth Art League's concertina sketchbook class  Delaware First Media
  
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• Arts & Entertainment Calendar | 260 Connection | paysonroundup.com - Payson Roundup

  17-02-2023 13:00 via news.google.com
  
  Arts & Entertainment Calendar | 260 Connection | paysonroundup.com  Payson Roundup
  
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• Review: Play Inc. Arts lands 'Big Fish' | Local News ... - ECM Publishers

  17-02-2023 12:45 via news.google.com
  
  Review: Play Inc. Arts lands 'Big Fish' | Local News ...  ECM Publishers
  
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• Ampersand International Arts Festival Returns to William & Mary in ... - WYDaily

  17-02-2023 12:30 via news.google.com
  
  Ampersand International Arts Festival Returns to William & Mary in ...  WYDaily
  
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• The News Journal Fine Arts Association presenting special concert ... - The News Journal

  17-02-2023 12:27 via news.google.com
  
  The News Journal Fine Arts Association presenting special concert ...  The News Journal
  
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• Proposed budget includes 'significant' funding boost for arts and ... - WXPR

  17-02-2023 12:23 via news.google.com
  Proposed budget includes 'significant' funding boost for arts and ...  WXPR
  
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• Letter to the editor: Vermont College of Fine Arts plan is baffling - VTDigger

  17-02-2023 12:10 via news.google.com
  Letter to the editor: Vermont College of Fine Arts plan is baffling  VTDigger
  
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• Lord Sugar fires Southampton martial arts Apprentice candidate - BBC

  17-02-2023 12:02 via news.google.com
  
  Lord Sugar fires Southampton martial arts Apprentice candidate  BBC
  
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• Abdu Ali sees beyond music and Baltimore with national arts grant - The Baltimore Banner

  17-02-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
  Abdu Ali sees beyond music and Baltimore with national arts grant  The Baltimore Banner
  
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• LCC Announces its Cultural and Performing Arts Series for 2023 ... - Neuse News

  17-02-2023 11:56 via news.google.com
  
  LCC Announces its Cultural and Performing Arts Series for 2023 ...  Neuse News
  
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• Medina County Arts Council recognizes Service to the Arts awards ... - The Gazette

  17-02-2023 11:14 via news.google.com
  
  Medina County Arts Council recognizes Service to the Arts awards ...  The Gazette
  
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• Where Culture Flows Along London’s River Thames

  17-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Southbank Center, the host of this year’s British Academy Film Awards, has become a focal point of the city’s arts and culture scene.
  
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• Thaddeus Mosley Never Stopped Working

  17-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Pittsburgh sculptor, who started carving wood in the early 1950s, is enjoying a long-overdue moment in the sun.
  
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• BAFTAs Make Changes for Better Representation Among Nominees

  17-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three years after an all-white lineup of actors was nominated, this year’s group is more diverse.
  
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• 6 Y.A. Novels That Showcase the Power of Teenage Friendship

  17-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Phil Stamper, the author of “The Gravity of Us,” “Small Town Pride” and the Golden Boys series, recommends a few of his favorite Y.A. novels about friendship.
  
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• Town seeking applicants for open position on Friday Harbor Arts ... - Journal of the San Juan Islands

  17-02-2023 10:30 via news.google.com
  
  Town seeking applicants for open position on Friday Harbor Arts ...  Journal of the San Juan Islands
  
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• Grand Inspired owners discuss Stoughton as arts enclave - Madison.com

  17-02-2023 09:30 via news.google.com
  
  Grand Inspired owners discuss Stoughton as arts enclave  Madison.com
  
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• KIHS Visual Arts Teen of the Week — Jackson Powell - MyEasternShoreMD

  17-02-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  KIHS Visual Arts Teen of the Week — Jackson Powell  MyEasternShoreMD
  
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• Late Night Weighs in on President Biden’s Annual Physical

  17-02-2023 08:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Jimmy Fallon joked that Vice President Kamala Harris “seemed a little too eager to hear the results.”
  
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• Festival of Fine Arts & Crafts next weekend - Fountain Hills Times

  17-02-2023 08:00 via news.google.com
  
  Festival of Fine Arts & Crafts next weekend  Fountain Hills Times
  
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• Arts R Alive joins Sculpture One art consortium - The Freeman Journal

  17-02-2023 07:00 via news.google.com
  
  Arts R Alive joins Sculpture One art consortium  The Freeman Journal
  
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