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• Photographer and Journalist Corky Lee Featured in Google Doodle for AAPI Heritage Month

  05-05-2023 23:40 via artnews.com
  
  The late photographer, journalist, and activist Young Kwok “Corky” Lee was featured in a Google Doodle on Friday to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The homepage illustration featured the lifelong New Yorker, who died in 2021, holding his Nikon camera, surrounded by various scenes of Asian Americans that he aimed his lens, often with a feeling of special care to a community that has historically been marginalized.For some six decades, Lee’s photography
  
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• On the Eve of King Charles’s Coronation, South Africans Call for the Return of the Cullinan I Diamond

  05-05-2023 23:22 via artnews.com
  
  As last-minute preparations for King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday are underway, some South Africans are demanding that the Star of Africa, which is set in the Sovereign’s Scepter and is the world’s largest cut diamond, be returned to South Africa where it was unearthed over 100 years ago, according to a report by Reuters.Also known as Cullinan I, the Star of Africa is a 530-carat white diamond cut from the Cullinan diamond, a 3,100-carat stone that was mined near P
  
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• Review: A Choreographer in Conversation With James Joyce

  05-05-2023 22:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Yes and Yes,” at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to “Ulysses,” true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one.
  
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• Nataki Garrett to Step Down at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

  05-05-2023 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Garrett began her tenure at the organization in August 2019, and plans to depart at the end of this month.
  
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• Arts Briefs: A rare screening of a Minnesota heavy metal documentary - MPR News

  05-05-2023 21:37 via news.google.com
  
  Arts Briefs: A rare screening of a Minnesota heavy metal documentary  MPR News
  
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• Museum Leaders in Sudan Protest Looting, Damage of Cultural Heritage by Clashing Forces

  05-05-2023 21:21 via artnews.com
  
  Factional violence has engulfed Sudan, and the country’s museums are caught in the crossfires, prompting calls from artists and museum professionals to safeguard its imperiled cultural heritage.Last week, the International Council of Museums published a report from Sara Abdalla Khidir Saeed, director of the Sudan Natural History Museum, detailing the dire circumstances of numerous institutions.“Museums are now without guard to protect them from looting and vandalism,” Saeed sai
  
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• Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87

  05-05-2023 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, he lampooned the rich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland — or, as he put it, “looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.”
  
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• A 1,000-Year-Old Viking Buckle Was Found in Norway

  05-05-2023 20:51 via artnews.com
  
  An ancient Viking treasure was found inside a lump of soil in eastern Norway during a 2021 archaeological excavation, the Miami Herald reported Thursday. Norway’s museum of cultural history issued a news release about the artifact in March.Upon X-raying the lump, experts identified gold and bronze metals. After cleaning away the dirt, they found an intricate piece of metal jewelry that they determined was once a buckle or possibly a brooch.The buckle features a series of interconnected loo
  
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• Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New

  05-05-2023 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The spring gala featured premieres by the veteran Christopher Wheeldon and a newcomer, Alysa Pires. The surprise was the lack of contrast and risk.
  
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• Bruce McCall, 87, Dies; Satirical Illustrator Conjured a ‘Retrofuture’

  05-05-2023 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, he lampooned the rich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland — or, as he put it, “looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.”
  
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• ‘Yellowstone,’ TV’s Hit Western, Will End Its Run After This Season

  05-05-2023 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The fifth season of the series, which stars Kevin Costner, will be its last, Paramount said. But a new sequel is in the works.
  
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• Review: Dancers Fighting for Their Place in a Dystopian World

  05-05-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez presents the New York premiere of “I as another,” a duet with Laila Franklin, at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
  
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• Did the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Gasp) Get It Right?

  05-05-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear songs from the class of 2023’s seven inductees, including Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott and Willie Nelson.
  
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• Watch Joaquin Phoenix Make a Run for It in ‘Beau Is Afraid’

  05-05-2023 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer and director Ari Aster narrates a sequence from his film, in which the lead character navigates his chaotic neighborhood.
  
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• ‘Beau Is Afraid’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  05-05-2023 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Ari Aster narrates a sequence from his film, starring Joaquin Phoenix.
  
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• Laura Pels, Devoted Supporter of Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 92

  05-05-2023 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  She led a foundation that underwrote productions for numerous theater groups, as well as playwrights like Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller.
  
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• John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95

  05-05-2023 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The last surviving member of a generation that defined his country’s modern art, he painted exuberant landscapes that changed the way Australia saw its environment.
  
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• Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist

  05-05-2023 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Without interplay from the musicians, Leonidas Kavakos found tension in his own playing in Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto.
  
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• Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs

  05-05-2023 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Bethany Cosentino, Avalon Emerson, Q and others.
  
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• Review: In ‘Dimanche,’ a Climate Emergency Comes to Stay

  05-05-2023 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Tornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home.
  
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• ‘Yellowjackets’: How Sophie Nélisse Managed That Harrowing Birth Scene

  05-05-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress talked about the intense experience of shooting Episode 6 and how her childhood was a bit like Shauna’s, cannibalism notwithstanding.
  
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• PHOTOS: Arts in the Park featuring hundreds of artists from across the nation in Richmond - WRIC ABC 8News

  05-05-2023 17:35 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: Arts in the Park featuring hundreds of artists from across the nation in Richmond  WRIC ABC 8News
  
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• City of Arts | City of Norfolk, Virginia - Official Website - norfolk.gov

  05-05-2023 16:50 via news.google.com
  
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• City of Arts | City of Norfolk, Virginia - Official Website - Norfolk (.gov)

  05-05-2023 16:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Man Painted Out of Famed Vermeer Painting Receives New Focus from Conservators

  05-05-2023 16:44 via artnews.com
  
  Conservators have begun to focus anew on Johannes Vermeer’s A Maid Asleep (ca. 1656–57), a painting of a napping that woman that once contained a man alongside her.That there was a male figure in the painting was previously known. Who he was and what he was doing in the scene has largely remained a mystery, however, and now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York institution that owns the work, has conducted further research on the work.Word of these new studies was first repor
  
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• The Art World Redefines Ownership

  05-05-2023 16:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Seizures of looted art have made potential buyers and sellers of antiquities apprehensive, and even reluctant.
  
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• Artists Are Suing Artificial Intelligence Companies and the Lawsuit Could Upend Legal Precedents Around Art

  05-05-2023 16:37 via artnews.com
  
  Mike Winkelmann is used to being stolen from. Before he became Beeple, the world’s third most-expensive living artist with the $69.3 million sale of Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, he was a run-of-the-mill digital artist, picking up freelance gigs from musicians and video game studios while building a social media following by posting his artwork incessantly. Whereas fame and fortune in the art world come from restricting access to an elite few, making it as a digital creator is ab
  
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• 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case

  05-05-2023 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop star was found not liable for copying Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic for his own “Thinking Out Loud” in the music industry’s highest-profile copyright case in years.
  
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• Review: ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ Uneven Yet a Powerful Draw

  05-05-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan revisit Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 play on Broadway, following its sold-out run in Brooklyn.
  
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• NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts Announces Two Joint ... - New York University

  05-05-2023 15:54 via news.google.com
  
  NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts Announces Two Joint ...  New York University
  
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• Vermeer Painting May Conceal Self-Portrait, Archibald Prize Winner Named, and More: Morning Links for May 5, 2023

  05-05-2023 14:07 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesWINNER’S CIRCLE. Down in Australia on Friday, the Art Gallery of New South Wales announced the 2023 winner of the prestigious Archibald Prize, an open competition with a purse of AU$100,000 (about US$67,300). That lucky artist is 29-year-old Julia Gutman, who is the 13th woman to take the crown since the start of th
  
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• Drew Barrymore Drops Out of Hosting MTV Awards Show Over Writers’ Strike

  05-05-2023 14:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Just days before the show was scheduled to air, the actress and talk-show host said she would pick up her hosting duties next year.
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Names The House of AWT Project Its 2023 Charitable Partner

  05-05-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles location has named The House of AWT Project (Artists Working Together), the iconic ballroom house that is the longest running one on the West Coast, as its 2023 Charitable Partner of the Year.As part of the initiative, Hauser & Wirth will give The House of AWT Project a $10,000 grant that will aid in the organization’s goal of achieving nonprofit status and its mission of supporting and empowering at-risk Black and Brown LGBTQIA+ youth and young a
  
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• For Bispo do Rosario, Art Could Only Be a Divine Calling

  05-05-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The first U.S. retrospective of a 20th-century self-taught Brazilian artist adds another name to the “outsider” canon and renders it moot.
  
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• Royal Reads: 6 Books About British Monarchs and Coronations

  05-05-2023 12:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Gold lace, gold orbs, gold spoons: The coronation of King Charles III may inspire you to learn more about the lavish history of British coronations, or about the monarchy itself.
  
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• Why You Should Forget What You Think You Know About Housing in L.A.

  05-05-2023 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Los Angeles, a city known for its conventional single-family homes, may offer some of today’s most innovative solutions for multifamily housing.
  
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• The Broadway Producer Aiming to ‘Sharpie Women Into History’

  05-05-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Jenna Segal set out to collect works by every artist shown in Peggy Guggenheim’s “Exhibition of 31 Women.” This May, she’ll share their art with the world.
  
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• TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche

  05-05-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The event, which kicks off the busy spring art season, boasts a strong slate of New York galleries — along with head-turning works.
  
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• Exploring a Transformational Period in Korean Art

  05-05-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Four artists of the Dansaekhwa movement, known for its monochrome abstract paintings, will be featured by the PKM Gallery at TEFAF New York.
  
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• ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Little One

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Teen Shauna goes into labor. Adult Shauna goes into the police interrogation room.
  
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• When Culture Is Threatened, They Come to the Rescue

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Cultural Emergency Response, an “ambulance” for the world, is dedicated to saving treasures from all kinds of natural and man-made disasters.
  
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• Park Avenue Armory Is a Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Park Avenue Armory, “one of the holy places of New York,” is about to host the latest edition of TEFAF New York.
  
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• Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The beloved author of children’s books is experimenting with new forms, alongside starry collaborators, at the Kennedy Center.
  
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• Immersive Art Exhibitions: Spellbinding, or Forgettable?

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Experiential art spaces are cropping up worldwide. Critics pan them, audiences love them and they have the attention of the art world.
  
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• For This Artist’s Bar, It Wasn’t Last Call After All

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In 2009, Jorge Pardo created a bar used for an arts school in Los Angeles. Now, it will be a gallery’s centerpiece at TEFAF New York.
  
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• Bronze Beasts Blur Line Between Furniture’s Wild Side and High Art

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At TEFAF New York, Galerie Mitterrand will show these nature-inspired sculptural pieces by the French artists François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne.
  
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• Book Review: ‘African Studies,’ by Edward Burtynsky

  05-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A large-format photo book reveals the toll of industrialization on the landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa.
  
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• ‘shadow/land’ Review: What the Storm Washes Away

  05-05-2023 02:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In the play, at the Public Theater, a mother and daughter endure the devastation of Hurricane Katrina inside the bar that connects them to their pasts.
  
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• Mid-Michigan to welcome new performing arts center - WILX

  05-05-2023 01:18 via news.google.com
  Mid-Michigan to welcome new performing arts center  WILX
  
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• Rapid City Arts Council receives grant for arts education - SDPB Radio

  05-05-2023 01:11 via news.google.com
  
  Rapid City Arts Council receives grant for arts education  SDPB Radio
  
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