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• Looted Artifacts, Returned to Yemen, Will Stay at Smithsonian for Now

  21-02-2023 23:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Under an agreement, ownership of 77 objects seized from a New York art dealer reverted to Yemen. They will be returned when the violent conflict there subsides.
  
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• Alice Walton’s Art Bridges Foundation Is Buyer of $4.5 M. Robert Colescott Painting Auctioned by Bonhams Last Week

  21-02-2023 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  A 1980 painting by iconic American artist Robert Colescott sold for $4.5 million at Bonhams during a postwar and contemporary art auction at its Los Angeles saleroom on February 17. Shortly after the auction, Bonhams revealed that the work was purchased by Art Bridges Foundation, a nonprofit founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collector and Walmart heir Alice Walton.Completed in 1980, Miss Liberty shows an African American woman as Lady Liberty, dressed in a gown of red, blue, and yellow, with a sash of
  
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• Art Exhibit Cancelled After State College of Florida Wants Words ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Banned

  21-02-2023 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  Embracing Our Differences, an arts and education non-profit, announced this week that it cancelled a scheduled art exhibit due to be staged on the Manatee-Sarasota campus of the State College of Florida this April.Since 2003, the organization has put on an annual exhibit in Sarasota’s Bayfront Park and, for the non-profit’s 20th anniversary this year, their annual exhibition was going to travel for the first time. Its third stop on tour would be to SCF, which began talks with the org
  
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• Art Exhibit Canceled After State College of Florida Wants Words ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Banned

  21-02-2023 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  Embracing Our Differences, an arts and education non-profit, announced this week that it cancelled a scheduled art exhibit due to be staged on the Manatee-Sarasota campus of the State College of Florida this April.Since 2003, the organization has put on an annual exhibit in Sarasota’s Bayfront Park and, for the non-profit’s 20th anniversary this year, their annual exhibition was going to travel for the first time. Its third stop on tour would be to SCF, which began talks with the org
  
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• Cambodia Receives Over 70 Rare Gold Artifacts in Deal with Estate of Disagraced Antiquities Dealer

  21-02-2023 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  A group of more than 70 gold relics linked to Cambodian royalty that once passed through the hands of disgraced antiquities dealer Douglas A.J. Latchford, who was accused of trafficking looted artifacts and died in 2020, have been returned to the country, the New York Times reported Monday.The items, previously stored in London, were returned under an agreement with Latchford’s estate, the Times reported. The estate, overseen by the late dealer’s daughter and legal heir Nawapan Krian
  
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• ‘The First Fallen’ Review: A Remembrance of Those Passed

  21-02-2023 21:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A director crafts an elegiac tribute set during the dawn of the AIDS crisis in Brazil.
  
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• Jesse Treviño, Prominent Chicano Painter Who Made His Mark on San Antonio, Has Died at 76 

  21-02-2023 21:26 via artnews.com
  
  Jesus “Jesse” Treviño, a pioneering Chicano painter and cherished fixture of San Antonio’s art community, died on February 13. He was 76. Treviño was celebrated for his photorealistic celebrations of Mexican American life, which he captured in towering murals around San Antonio and delicate portraits now housed in major art institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the San Antonio Museum of Art.San Antonio, where the Treviño family moved
  
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• BAMPFA Makes Three Major Curatorial Hires, Including Margot Norton as Chief Curator

  21-02-2023 21:06 via artnews.com
  
  The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has made three major curatorial hires for senior positions: Margot Norton will join as chief curator on May 1, while Victoria Sung and Anthony Graham will become senior curators on March 1 and March 20, respectively.Norton, who is currently a senior curator at the New Museum in New York, is among the most closely watched curators working today. Having spent 12 years at the New Museum in various roles, she is known for mounting major exhib
  
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• Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live

  21-02-2023 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Reich, a comedian and writer, transforms into the avatar of Gen Z disaffection in his taut, biting solo show at Greenwich House Theater.
  
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• Iris DeMent Is Worried About the World. So She Made Another Album.

  21-02-2023 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer and songwriter, 62, takes her time between releases, making sure she has something to say in her music. She has found inspiration once again.
  
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• Unionized HarperCollins Employees Are Back to Work After a 3-Month Strike

  21-02-2023 20:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The return, after an agreement that brought a raise in pay for the lowest earners at the publisher, represented a victory to many of the more than 250 workers involved.
  
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• 2,000-Year-Old Phallic Object May Be the First Known Ancient Roman Sex Toy, New Study Finds

  21-02-2023 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  A 2,000-year-old phallic object, found by archaeologists in a ditch among the farthest northern fringes of the Roman Empire in England, maybe be the only known life-size Roman dildo. It is the first known example of a disembodied wood phallus recovered from the Roman world.When the object was discovered at the Vindolanda Roman fort in Northumberland in 1992, it was catalogued as a tool used for sewing. A new study, published in the journal Antiquity on Monday, revisits the object with
  
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• Archaeologists Discover Remains of 4,500-Year-Old Lost Ancient Palace in Iraq

  21-02-2023 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have discovered the 4,500-year-old remains of a lost palace from the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq.Researchers from The Girsu Project used technology and drone photography to identify the subsurface remains of a previously unknown large complex at the archaeology site Tablet Hill in the modern Iraqi city of Tello. Tablet Hill had been damaged by excavations during the 19th century and conflict in the 20th century. During a press conference at the Iraq embassy in
  
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• Rubens from Met Trustee’s Collection Expected to Fetch $20 M.

  21-02-2023 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will sell a painting by Peter Paul Rubens from the collection of a prominent Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee in May, where the work is expected to sell for over $20 million, the auction house announced in a press release Tuesday.Rubens produced the work, Portrait of a Man as the God Mars, which depicts an anonymous donning armor, around 1620 while the artist was at the height of his career, Sotheby’s said. It will be offered during an evening sale of modern art scheduled
  
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• Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Maestro, Meets New York

  21-02-2023 18:55 via nytimes.com
  
  On his first visit to the city since being named the New York Philharmonic’s next music director, he eagerly played the role of celebrity conductor.
  
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• Texas Mental Health Creative Arts Contest Seeking Entries | Texas ... - Texas Health and Human Services |

  21-02-2023 18:17 via news.google.com
  
  Texas Mental Health Creative Arts Contest Seeking Entries | Texas ...  Texas Health and Human Services |
  
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• Joan Mitchell Foundation Claims Vuitton Ads Infringe on Painter’s Copyright

  21-02-2023 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist’s organization said it rejected requests from the fashion company to use the artworks in handbag ads, but the luxury brand used them anyway.
  
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• Chase Stokes Turned Down ‘Outer Banks.’ He’s Glad He Reconsidered.

  21-02-2023 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor plays John B. in the hit Netflix drama, which returns for its third season on Thursday.
  
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• We Regret the Fossil Error. It Wasn’t the First.

  21-02-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A recent announcement that a fossil discovery in India was just residue from a bee’s nest was a reminder of the importance of science correcting itself.
  
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• Laurie Metcalf to Return to Broadway in a Horror Story, ‘Grey House’

  21-02-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The play, directed by Joe Mantello and also starring Tatiana Maslany, had a well-reviewed debut in Chicago. It begins performances in April.
  
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• SZA Makes It Nine Weeks at No. 1, and Rihanna Returns to Top 10

  21-02-2023 17:20 via nytimes.com
  
  “SOS” is now the longest-running No. 1 album by a woman since Adele’s “25” seven years ago.
  
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• How the ‘Naatu Naatu’ Sequence in ‘RRR’ Came Together

  21-02-2023 16:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The composers and choreographer explain how they created the propulsive sequence that is nominated for best song.
  
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• Yoko Ono at 90

  21-02-2023 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  She has made it long past the days when she was vilified. In a ’60s-style happening in Central Park, fans sang and danced for an artist whose critical reputation is on the rise.
  
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• ‘The Last of Us,’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: The Ties That Bind

  21-02-2023 14:12 via nytimes.com
  
  This week, Joel and Ellie encounter a safer and more social way of life, but it’s not clear whether they want any part of it.
  
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• Leonardo’s Gravity Studies Revealed, Painter Jesse Treviño Dies at 76, and More: Morning Links for February 21, 2023

  21-02-2023 14:12 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesRENAISSANCE REVELATIONS. It may be time to add one more achievement to Leonardo da Vinci’s long list of them. It seems that the artist-architect-scientist-inventor conducted trailblazing, previously unknown experiments on gravity, according to a new paper in the journal Leonardo, the New York Times reports. Morteza Ghari
  
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• When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much

  21-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In upcoming musical revivals, world leaders both real (Imelda Marcos, Eva Perón) and folkloric (King Arthur) get an image makeover they may not deserve.
  
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• Book Review: ‘We Should Not Be Friends,’ by Will Schwalbe

  21-02-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new memoir, Will Schwalbe — theater nerd and bookworm — describes the bond he continues to share with a former Navy SEAL turned eco-warrior.
  
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• Arts education funding in California: How will Proposition 28 roll out? - EdSource

  21-02-2023 09:02 via news.google.com
  Arts education funding in California: How will Proposition 28 roll out?  EdSource
  
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• WVU Today | Working in service: WVU takes the arts into Mountain ... - WVU Today

  21-02-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  WVU Today | Working in service: WVU takes the arts into Mountain ...  WVU Today
  
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• TN Arts Commission March Public Meeting Notice - tn.gov

  21-02-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  TN Arts Commission March Public Meeting Notice  tn.gov
  
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• Cocaine Bear, Meet Cannabis Raccoon and McFlurry Skunk

  21-02-2023 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Wild animals eat the strangest things. That can be a problem, for them and for us.
  
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