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• Elizabeth de Cuevas, Sculptor With a Flair for the Monumental, Dies at 94

  06-04-2023 23:50 via nytimes.com
  
  A Rockefeller heiress who was inspired by the monuments of Europe, she fashioned towering metal creations that channeled the cosmic.
  
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• Perpich Arts High School Senior Inspired by Family Tragedy ... - ccxmedia.org

  06-04-2023 23:14 via news.google.com
  
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• Tokyo Gendai Lines Up 79 Exhibitors for Inaugural Edition in July

  06-04-2023 22:37 via artnews.com
  
  Japan’s newest art fair Tokyo Gendai has announced the 79 galleries that will participate in its first edition, which is scheduled to run July 7–9, with a preview day on July 6, at the Pacifico Yokohama.Though the fair is among the most anticipated new ones launching this year, it is noticeably missing all of the mega-galleries that are traditionally present at the world’s top art fairs (Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner), as well as some blue-chip galleries tha
  
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• The Friendship Harmonies of boygenius

  06-04-2023 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  How Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus’s side project has become a major part of their music — and their lore.
  
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• In Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum’s 20-Year Makeover Ends on a Subtle Note

  06-04-2023 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  In the grand scheme of big-budget, Southern California museum transformations—on the order of Peter Zumthor’s forthcoming LACMA building, for example, or Annabelle Selldorf’s recent addition to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego—architect Michael Maltzan’s interventions to the Hammer Museum are decidedly modest. After nearly a year of construction, the scaffolding came down at the end of March, revealing the addition of an outdoor sculpture terrace, the yet un
  
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• UNESCO Director Pledges $10 M. Toward Rebuilding Ukraine’s Devastated Culture Sector

  06-04-2023 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  The director general of UNESCO has pledged more than $10 million towards efforts to rebuild Ukraine’s devastated arts landscape after a tour of the embattled country this week. A new report from UNESCO, however, has put the dollar number needed to properly rehabilitate Ukraine’s culture and heritage at $6.9 billion. Audrey Azoulay spent two days visiting the cities of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Odesa with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reaffirming “the organization
  
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• NYC's Downtown Urban Arts Festival Lineup Announced - American Theatre

  06-04-2023 20:51 via news.google.com
  
  NYC's Downtown Urban Arts Festival Lineup Announced  American Theatre
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: MSG, photography and so many ... - KPBS

  06-04-2023 20:44 via news.google.com
  
  San Diego weekend arts events: MSG, photography and so many ...  KPBS
  
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• ‘Joyland’ Review: A Target of Gossip

  06-04-2023 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Saim Sadiq’s melodrama, about a husband’s affair with a transgender dancer, was briefly banned in Pakistan.
  
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• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Consequences Abound

  06-04-2023 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-Luc breaks Data in case of emergency. Vadic makes a move.
  
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• Sarah Sze and the Art of Tracking Time

  06-04-2023 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist plants her gravity-defying installations in the uppermost nest of the Guggenheim Museum.
  
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• ‘Showing Up’ Review: Making Art in All Its Everyday Glory

  06-04-2023 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In their latest movie together, Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt paint a portrait of an artist who’s a real and wonderful piece of work.
  
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• Cryptic Mosaics Depicting Medusa Discovered in Ancient Roman Villa

  06-04-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists excavating an ancient villa once used by the Antonian emperors of Rome uncovered two mosaics that feature one of the most infamous characters in Greek mythology, the beautiful, but deadly, Medusa, according to Live Science.The murals were found in the Villa of the Antonines, a site named after the dynasty of emperors that include Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Veras, and the emperor Commodus who was most famous for taking part in gladiator battles in the Col
  
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• Review: Laughing, and Crying, in the Face of ‘Grief’

  06-04-2023 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In his solo show about the death of his teenage children, Colin Campbell recounts his calamitous relationship with the darkest of emotions.
  
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• With Festival of the Arts launch, student-made map will lead to Sac ... - Sacramento State University

  06-04-2023 19:20 via news.google.com
  
  With Festival of the Arts launch, student-made map will lead to Sac ...  Sacramento State University
  
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• ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ Review: Faith as Flight Insurance

  06-04-2023 18:55 via nytimes.com
  
  A family receives impromptu flight lessons when their pilot dies in the middle of a chartered flight in this spiritually insincere action film.
  
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• Why Do Pace, Gagosian, and the Other Mega-Galleries Keep Taking on So Many Artists?

  06-04-2023 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, ARTnews’s newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Does it feel to you as though every month brings another announcement that Pace, one of the biggest galleries in the world, has taken on a new artist? To some extent, you’d be right. In roughly the past year, Pace has taken on more than a dozen artists, the latest of whom, Grada Kilomba, was made public Tues
  
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• Jeremy Renner Recounts Difficult Recovery After Snow Plow Accident

  06-04-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor told ABC News that he almost died after a 14,000-pound plow ran him over in January.
  
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• Documentary in Production About Pop Art Sensation Romero Britto, ‘the Most Collected and Licensed Artist in History’

  06-04-2023 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Muse Storytelling is in production on a documentary about Romero Britto, one of the most popular artists in the world and the founder of the Happy Art Movement.Patrick Moreau (The New Hustle, Our Journey Home) is directing The Britto Doc, which will examine a creative force who grew up in poverty in Brazil and rose to extraordinary heights as the originator of an iconic visual style that has been embraced on a global scale. He is considered “the mos
  
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• Hammershøi Painting to Be Sold at Sotheby’s with Highest-Ever Estimate Given to His Work

  06-04-2023 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi is headed to auction at a Sotheby’s modern art evening sale in New York this May with the highest-ever estimate given to the artist’s work.Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30 (1907) depicts the kind of serene scene typical of Hammershøi. A piano abuts a wall with white trimmed wainscoting; a little picture is hung above it. A violin rests on a plain chair, and a cello leans against the piano. Natural light comes in through a window.
  
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• Hammershøi Painting to Be Sold at Sotheby’s Has Highest-Ever Estimate for Artist

  06-04-2023 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi is headed to auction at a Sotheby’s modern art evening sale in New York this May with the highest-ever estimate given the artist’s work.Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30 (1907) depicts the kind of serene scene typical of Hammershøi. A piano abuts a wall with white-trimmed wainscoting; a picture hangs above it. A violin rests on a wooden chair, and a cello leans against the piano. Natural light comes in through a window. This interi
  
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• Bernard Arnault Is Again the Richest Man in the World

  06-04-2023 17:17 via artnews.com
  
  Bernard Arnault’s wealth just reached staggering new heights. On Tuesday, the French tycoon behind luxury conglomerate LVMH (and ARTnews Top 200 collector) took the top spot on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index with a total net worth of $201 billion. It’s the first time Arnault has achieved the milestone and makes him just one of three people ever to surpass the $200 billion mark. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have also reached, and fallen back from, this threshold, but
  
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• Gwangju Biennale’s First $100,000 Prize Goes to a Project About Elephants Without Trunks

  06-04-2023 17:09 via artnews.com
  
  South Korea’s just-opened Gwangju Biennale, arguably Asia’s top art festival, has awarded its first $100,000 prize to the Seoul-based artist Oum Jeongsoon.The prize, officially titled the Park Seo-bo Award, after the famed painter whose foundation endowed it, went to Oum for Elephant without Trunk (2023), a new work that furthered the artist’s prior pieces about the history of these titular animals.Previously, Oum followed the journey of one elephant species that had come to Ko
  
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• Small Arts Spaces in LA Get a Boost From the Mike Kelley Foundation - Hyperallergic

  06-04-2023 17:07 via news.google.com
  
  Small Arts Spaces in LA Get a Boost From the Mike Kelley Foundation  Hyperallergic
  
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• Two New Colleges to Emerge from UNCW College of Arts and ... - UNCW News

  06-04-2023 15:09 via news.google.com
  
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• Gift reflects a love for the arts - The Oxford Eagle - Oxford Eagle

  06-04-2023 15:02 via news.google.com
  
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• Steve McQueen’s Latest Gets Raves in London, UNESCO Pledges Support for Ukraine, and More: Morning Links for April 6, 2023

  06-04-2023 14:13 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE WAR IN UKRAINE. As the conflict continues on, UNESCO has once again thrown its support behind Ukraine. The organization’s leader, Audrey Azoulay, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week, and told him that it will be “necessary to invest $6.9 billion in the cultural sector in Ukraine over the next ten years,&rdqu
  
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• ‘What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace’ Review: An Israeli Leader’s History

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak discusses his career in power in this lifeless, often confusing documentary.
  
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• ‘Sam Now’ Review: When Mom Leaves

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sensitive and surprising, Reed Harkness’s documentary follows the reverberations in his family after their mother abruptly departs.
  
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• ‘Ride On’ Review: Jackie Chan, Back on the Horse

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Chan, playing a former stuntman, has a few good trademark fight scenes, but the film is too busy stuffing sentimental elements into its lowbrow comedy premise.
  
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• ‘Praise This’ Review: An Unlikely Savior

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The R&B singer-songwriter Chloe Bailey stars in this musical comedy about an aspiring pop singer who lands in a scrappy competitive gospel group.
  
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• ‘Paint’ Review: Watch It Dry

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Owen Wilson plays a Bob Ross-inspired painter in this dated, mildly amusing parody of male privilege.
  
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• ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Different Kind of Oil Boom

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A book that proposed violent action in response to the climate crisis becomes a propulsive heist thriller.
  
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• ‘Chupa’ Review: A Terrifying Myth Made Cuddly

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On a trip to his grandfather’s ranch in Mexico, a boy makes an astonishing discovery that turns into a family adventure.
  
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• ‘Alan Pakula: Going for Truth’ Review: A Hollywood Memorial for a Friend

  06-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A heartfelt documentary about the director of such celebrated films as “All the President’s Men” has the feel of an A-list memorial service.
  
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• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts recognizes Alabama quiltmaker in ... - Alabama Public Radio

  06-04-2023 12:07 via news.google.com
  
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• Why Was Picasso Considered a ‘Danger’ to France? A New Book Surveys a Rarely Seen Side of the Artist’s Life

  06-04-2023 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  On June 18, 1901, Pablo Picasso started taking on a new identity—without ever realizing he had done so. He had begun the process of becoming “foreigner number 74.664,” a label given to him by the French police, who would go on to assign him the status of “un Fiché S.,” an alien who had been put under surveillance by the state.Picasso, who had been born more than 20 years earlier in Málaga, Spain, had aroused the suspicion of authorities because he had
  
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• On the Circuit: Daybreak Arts' Illuminate Art Gala - NFocus Magazine

  06-04-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
  On the Circuit: Daybreak Arts' Illuminate Art Gala  NFocus Magazine
  
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• Dallas' biggest arts groups face a post-pandemic reality: '70 is the ... - The Dallas Morning News

  06-04-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
  Dallas' biggest arts groups face a post-pandemic reality: '70 is the ...  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Dallas’ biggest arts groups face a post-pandemic reality: ‘70 is the new 100′ - The Dallas Morning News

  06-04-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  Dallas’ biggest arts groups face a post-pandemic reality: ‘70 is the new 100′  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Teacher of the Week: Amber Garrison, language arts, St. Joseph ... - news-gazette.com

  06-04-2023 11:45 via news.google.com
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• Inuyasha's Rumiko Takahashi Receives Knight of the Order of Arts ... - Anime Trending News

  06-04-2023 11:41 via news.google.com
  
  Inuyasha's Rumiko Takahashi Receives Knight of the Order of Arts ...  Anime Trending News
  
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• Horror fans will love what the Arts District's Nightmare Cafe is ... - Las Vegas Weekly

  06-04-2023 11:01 via news.google.com
  
  Horror fans will love what the Arts District's Nightmare Cafe is ...  Las Vegas Weekly
  
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• The Enduring Appeal of ‘Wagatha,’ Now on Stage and Screen

  06-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A dramatization of the trial between the wives of two soccer stars is returning to the West End in London, joining TV shows, podcasts and documentaries about the high-profile spat.
  
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• 6 Picasso Shows to See This Year

  06-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fifty years after his death, the Cubist painter will be featured in art exhibitions in New York, Paris and Madrid.
  
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• 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence

  06-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Beyond simple hero and villain stories, Picasso is a fact of life 50 years after his death. We all swim in a visual world he helped constitute.
  
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• Arts Calendar: April 6 - Portland Press Herald - Press Herald

  06-04-2023 09:47 via news.google.com
  
  Arts Calendar: April 6 - Portland Press Herald  Press Herald
  
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• Two Colleges Emerge from College of Arts and Sciences - UNCW News

  06-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Two Colleges Emerge from College of Arts and Sciences  UNCW News
  
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• Long Live the Arts: Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition funds reach ... - Pasadena Weekly

  06-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  Long Live the Arts: Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition funds reach ...  Pasadena Weekly
  
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• Arts and entertainment events - Daily Inter Lake

  06-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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