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• Museum of Modern Art Apologizes to Artist Heather Agyepong after Ejection from ‘Black Power Naps’ Installation

  29-03-2023 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Art has issued an apology to artist Heather Agyepong after she was ejected from an event intended to highlight how often sleep and rest are luxuries for Black people in the United States.In a statement to the Art Newspaper, which first reported the news, a MoMA spokesperson said the museum would do more to “protect the experiences of Black visitors and visitors from Indigenous communities and communities of color” in response to what happened to Agyepong—an
  
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• Annual 2023 Arts & Literacy Festival Invites Families to Virginia ... - santamonica.gov

  29-03-2023 23:06 via news.google.com
  
  Annual 2023 Arts & Literacy Festival Invites Families to Virginia ...  santamonica.gov
  
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• Prosecutor Behind ‘Rust’ Charges Steps Aside, Appointing Replacements

  29-03-2023 22:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin has suffered setbacks, and now the district attorney has withdrawn from the case and named two special prosecutors.
  
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• Game-Changing Art Collector Myriam Ullens Reportedly Dead at 70 After Being Shot

  29-03-2023 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  Myriam Ullens, a key art collector who, with her husband Guy, transformed the Chinese art scene, died at 70 on Wednesday, after reportedly being shot outside her apartment in Lasne, Belgium.Multiple Belgian publications have reported Ullens’s stepson Nicholas is the alleged shooter. An investigation is being conducted, and a motive has not yet been determined.According to VRT, Ullens was already dead by the time emergency services arrived at the scene.Within the international art world, th
  
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• Game-Changing Art Collector Myriam Ullens Dead at 70 After Being Shot

  29-03-2023 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  Myriam Ullens, a key art collector who, with her husband Guy, transformed the Chinese art scene, died at 70 on Wednesday, after reportedly being shot outside her apartment in Lasne, Belgium.Multiple Belgian publications have reported Ullens’s stepson Nicholas is the alleged shooter. An investigation is being conducted, and a motive has not yet been determined.According to VRT, Ullens was already dead by the time emergency services arrived at the scene.Within the international art world, th
  
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• Game-Changing Art Collector Myriam Ullens Dead at 70 After Being Shot by Stepson

  29-03-2023 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  Myriam Ullens, a key art collector who, with her husband Guy, transformed the Chinese art scene, died at 70 on Wednesday after being shot outside her apartment in Lasne, Belgium.Multiple Belgian publications have reported on Wednesday that Ullens’s stepson Nicolas was alleged shooter. An investigation was being conducted when those reports emerged.According to VRT, Ullens was already dead in her car by the time emergency services arrived at the scene. Guy was also injured during the incide
  
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• New York's BIPOC-Led Arts Orgs Are Grossly Underfunded - Hyperallergic

  29-03-2023 22:19 via news.google.com
  
  New York's BIPOC-Led Arts Orgs Are Grossly Underfunded  Hyperallergic
  
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• Electronic Arts Says It Is Laying Off 6% of Workforce - The Wall Street Journal

  29-03-2023 22:05 via news.google.com
  
  Electronic Arts Says It Is Laying Off 6% of Workforce  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Healing Power of Love (Island)

  29-03-2023 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As it turns out, the TV version of romance feels particularly relevant when life seems uncertain.
  
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• Emily Fisher Landau, Art Patron Who Had Her Own Museum, Dies at 102

  29-03-2023 21:52 via nytimes.com
  
  A jewelry heist in her Manhattan home spurred her to start one of America’s premier collections of contemporary art, shown for years in a converted factory in Queens.
  
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• Julie Anne Peters, Whose Young-Adult Books Caused a Stir, Dies at 71

  29-03-2023 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Her 2004 novel, “Luna,” broke new ground by having a transgender teenager as a main character. That book and others she wrote have been targets of conservatives.
  
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• Artist Alia Farid Receives $100,000 After Winning One of the World’s Biggest Art Awards

  29-03-2023 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  Alia Farid, a rising star within the international art circuit, has won one of the biggest art prizes in the world: a $100,000 award given out by the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo.In addition to its sizable purse, the prize, which is officially titled the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, includes an exhibition at the art center, as well as an acquisition budget for her work. Her exhibition will open at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in 2024.Born in Kuwait and based between there and Puerto Rico, Fari
  
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• At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes

  29-03-2023 20:54 via nytimes.com
  
  “Earth Mama,” “Tótem” and other strong entries offer proof that the art form is flourishing regardless of what’s happening in Hollywood.
  
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• Union Workers at Hispanic Society Begin Strike Over Stalled Contract Negotiations

  29-03-2023 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, staff of the Hispanic Society h and Library began striking after negotiations between their union representatives at UAW Local 2110 and the Hispanic Society’s leadership crumbled after a tumultuous year of negotiations. The strike was provoked by the museum leadership’s offer of a contract that removed healthcare coverage and pension fees that were once covered, without an increase in wage to offset the new expenses. According to the union, workers already accept
  
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• D.M. Thomas, 88, Dies; His ‘White Hotel’ Was a Surprise Best Seller

  29-03-2023 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  A former English teacher with a modest writing career in Britain, he found fame in 1981 with an inventive story of an opera singer, Freud and the Holocaust.
  
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• Old Masters Purposefully Mixed Oil and Egg Yolk to Create Their Masterpieces, New Study Finds

  29-03-2023 20:11 via artnews.com
  
  Old Masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, and Rembrandt van Rijn may have mixed oil and proteins like egg yolk in their paintings, a new study published in the journal Nature Communications revealed on Tuesday.While it was known that many artists from their eras relied on fast-drying egg tempera for their art, it was largely thought that these artists primarily dedicated themselves to oil, which does not use protein as a binder and which sets much slower than tempera. The new stu
  
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• ‘I’m an Electric Lampshade’ Review: My Accountant, the Pop Star

  29-03-2023 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  A 60-year-old retiree travels to the Philippines to follow his dreams of stardom in this documentary.
  
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• John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music

  29-03-2023 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The composer has long been inspired by nature without sending an explicit political message. But his latest work takes on a newly urgent tone.
  
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• Berlin’s Pergamon Museum Closes for Major Renovations, Will Fully Reopen in 14 Years

  29-03-2023 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  The Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island will completely close for three and half years for a long-term renovation project starting this October. Renovations are already underway in the northern and central part of the museum, however its southern wing will not reopen until 2037.According to the German outlet Deutsche Welle, a portion of the early 20th century building is in “poor structural condition,” that has rendered it unfit for visitors and exhibitions. The restorati
  
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• ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Yo Ho Ho

  29-03-2023 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  This week’s chapter is unusually disjointed even by the standards of this season, in which nearly every episode has sometimes bounced awkwardly between multiple plotlines.
  
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• Scotland Pauses Participation in Venice Biennale, Citing Financial Situation

  29-03-2023 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  Due to funding concerns, Scotland will not have a pavilion at the 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most prestigious exhibition of contemporary art.Scotland + Venice, the arts organization that oversees the Scottish presentation at the event, stressed in a statement that this was not a withdrawal from La Biennale, but rather a “pause” to “allow for a period of reflection and review.” “We anticipate the review process to be underway in
  
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• An Unopened 2007 iPhone Can Be Yours (for $32,000 or More)

  29-03-2023 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  A first-generation Apple smartphone is going up for auction.
  
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• Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration

  29-03-2023 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  It takes two venues to contain diverse work from 50 years, connecting sexuality, childhood and her relationships with famous friends embedded in her art.
  
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• A John Wick Action Scene, Step by Step

  29-03-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Look behind the scenes at the climactic sequence in “John Wick: Chapter 4,” set on 222 steps leading up to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris.
  
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• ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe

  29-03-2023 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A well-meaning Apple TV+ series is the latest story to struggle with making an environmental wake-up call into good drama.
  
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• French Auction House Calls Mexico’s Effort to Stop Sale of Pre-Columbian Artifacts ‘Nationalist Opportunism’

  29-03-2023 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  Less than two weeks before an auction of pre-Columbian art is due to open at the Paris-based auction house Millon, the Mexican government has demanded that the sale be called off, claiming 83 of the 148 lots are protected under law as part of Mexico’s cultural heritage.However, the auction house told ARTnews it plans to move ahead with the sale, adding that the Mexican state’s requests for restitution are “often unsuccessful because they are based on unfound
  
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• Vivan Sundaram, Pioneering Installation Artist Who Transformed India’s Art Scene, Dies at 79

  29-03-2023 17:34 via artnews.com
  
  Vivan Sundaram, an influential artist whose installations have been credited with opening new possibilities for his Indian compatriots, died on Thursday at 79. His death was announced by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), an arts organization that Sundaram cofounded.Sundaram’s art in many mediums is seen as key within the development of the Indian art scene of the past few decades. In India, he is considered to be among those who helped solidify installation art as a veritable arti
  
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• Beeple: China’s Deji Art Museum Seems Like ‘Great Stewards’ For S.2122 Sculpture

  29-03-2023 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Nanjing, China’s Deji Art Museum has acquired Beeple’s sculpture S.2122 (2023), the artist confirmed with ARTnews Wednesday.“It was a crazy, exciting time [at Art Basel Hong Kong],” Beeple said in a recent interview. “We were talking to the Museum all week because they really wanted to understand the piece, its motivations and capabilities. They just seem like great stewards for this piece, so genuinely interested in this new form of storytelling”The work was
  
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• Beeple: China’s Deji Art Museum Seem Like ‘Great Stewards’ For S.2122 Sculpture

  29-03-2023 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Nanjing, China’s Deji Art Museum has acquired Beeple’s sculpture S.2122 (2023), the artist confirmed with ARTnews Wednesday.“It was a crazy, exciting time [at Art Basel Hong Kong],” Beeple said in a recent interview. “We were talking to the Museum all week because they really wanted to understand the piece, its motivations and capabilities. They just seem like great stewards for this piece, so genuinely interested in this new form of storytelling”The work was
  
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• Review: ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ in London

  29-03-2023 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The British experimental theater company Complicité turns the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” into a thought-provoking, entertaining spectacle.
  
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• Photographer Nan Goldin Joins Gagosian, Departs Marian Goodman Gallery

  29-03-2023 17:03 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, arguably the world’s largest and most prominent gallery, today announced global representation Nan Goldin, one of the most influential artists of her time. The move will see Goldin leave Marian Goodman Gallery, making her the second artist to leave that enterprise in the last six months. In December the painter Gerhardt Richter departed Marian Goodman, who had represented him for 30 years, for David Zwirner.“We were proud to support Goldin’s work and activis
  
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• The Best Watercolor Sticks and Water-Soluble Pastels for Ethereal Effects

  29-03-2023 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. Watercolor sticks are a great tool for artists who want to add watercolor effects to sketches and drawings. They are somewhere between a watercolor and a pastel, with a good amount of variation among brands. Apply them in a range of ways: draw dry on dry and then wet your surface with a brush, dip the stick in water as you work, apply dry to wet paper, or even
  
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• ‘Spin Me Round,’ ‘Small Town Crime’ and More Streaming Gems

  29-03-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s recommended viewing includes a pair of unconventional rom-coms, genre titles with a lot on their minds and two must-see docs for music lovers.
  
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• Art Historian Robert Storr Gives Vast Archive to Bard College

  29-03-2023 16:08 via artnews.com
  
  Curator and critic Robert Storr has gifted his library and archive to the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.Spanning 25,000 volumes, the archive of the former Yale School of Art dean includes literature covering topics in 20th-century art history. Artist monographs, periodicals, and exhibition catalogues—some of are “rare,” according to Bard—are part of the vast gift.The archive also spans a collection of studies produced by ar
  
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• Cathy Josefowitz, Who Dismantled the Border of Painting and Dance, Makes Posthumous Debut With Hauser & Wirth

  29-03-2023 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The luminous portraits of the late, undersung artist Cathy Josefowitz are set to have a second life. Hauser & Wirth, with locations across six countries, is now the global representative of Josefowitz and will reintroduce her vision this May with her inaugural solo exhibition in New York.The Swiss-born, American-raised artist died in 2014, leaving behind a body of work that deconstructed the boundaries between drawing, painting, and performance. Over decades and disparate
  
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• Art Patron Emily Fisher Landau Dies at 102, Heidi Horten’s $150 M. Jewelry Collection Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links for March 29, 2023

  29-03-2023 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesEMILY FISHER LANDAU, the influential art collector and patron, died on Monday at the age of 102, Joseph Giovannini reports in the New York Times. Landau famously got her start as an art buyer after thieves broke into her Manhattan apartment and made off with a trove of jewelry. She plowed the insurance funds into art, acquiring key
  
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• ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Zava Superstar

  29-03-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What will the signing of a world-class striker mean for AFC Richmond?
  
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• In This ‘Peter Pan,’ Something Always Goes Awry. That’s the Plan.

  29-03-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Broadway’s slapstick comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is full of daring sequences. What does it take? Countless rehearsals (and bruises).
  
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• In ‘Public Obscenities,’ Tashnuva Anan Makes Her New York Debut

  29-03-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who became her country’s first transgender news anchor in 2021, is performing in “Public Obscenities” at Soho Rep.
  
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• How Should Gwyneth Paltrow Dress for Court?

  29-03-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At the celebrity ski trial of the century, Ms. Paltrow can’t deny her own profile, but she can’t fully lean into it either.
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Trial Style, Explained

  29-03-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At the celebrity ski trial of the century, Ms. Paltrow can’t deny her own profile, but she can’t fully lean into it either.
  
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• For $18,500 (and Up), You, Too, Can Travel Like James Bond

  29-03-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When the (real) world is not enough, new luxury tours offer fans a chance to engage with their favorite film and TV worlds.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Calls Nashville Shooting ‘Horrible and Familiar’

  29-03-2023 08:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Not doing anything about this is an insane dereliction of our collective humanity,” Colbert said on Tuesday.
  
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• In Wang Tuo’s Incisive Hong Kong Show, Radical Histories Collide in a Fraught Present

  29-03-2023 07:00 via artnews.com
  
  Henri Matisse was a court administrator before pursuing art, and Jeff Koons famously sold commodities. After Wang Tuo graduated from Northeast Normal University in his hometown of Changchun, China, in 2007, with a degree in biology, he spent some time working in an environmental science lab. But, after a couple years, he found himself questioning his career path. “Why am I living a life like this?” Wang wondered. “This life is, day after day, it’s the same. It’s rep
  
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• Community: SPHERE gala, Ridgefield Arts Council grant, more news - The Ridgefield Press

  29-03-2023 02:06 via news.google.com
  
  Community: SPHERE gala, Ridgefield Arts Council grant, more news  The Ridgefield Press
  
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• ‘According to the Chorus’ Review: Backstage Truths

  29-03-2023 02:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Arlene Hutton’s play at 59E59 Theaters, the members of a Broadway cast reveal their hopes and fears tucked away in a quick-change room.
  
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• In Focus: SWCC’s Festival of the Arts Offers Free Events - WVVA

  29-03-2023 01:29 via news.google.com
  In Focus: SWCC’s Festival of the Arts Offers Free Events  WVVA
  
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• Performing arts nonprofits struggle to get audiences back - Crain's Detroit Business

  29-03-2023 00:55 via news.google.com
  
  Performing arts nonprofits struggle to get audiences back  Crain's Detroit Business
  
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• Opinion | The Decline of Liberal Arts and Humanities - The Wall Street Journal

  29-03-2023 00:47 via news.google.com
  Opinion | The Decline of Liberal Arts and Humanities  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY SHOW IN APRIL ... - Tillamook County Pioneer

  29-03-2023 00:32 via news.google.com
  HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY SHOW IN APRIL ...  Tillamook County Pioneer
  
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