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• California Arts Council Announces Grantees for Final Round of 2022 ... - California Arts Council

  19-05-2023 23:45
  
  California Arts Council Announces Grantees for Final Round of 2022 ...  California Arts Council
  
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• NADA Art Fair Takes Chelsea With High Energy

  19-05-2023 23:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The New Art Dealers Alliance offers the chance to scout for treasures from Vancouver to Tokyo without actually leaving Manhattan.
  
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• Artazan's Celebration of the Arts & Crafts Movement Opens Saturday - Pasadena Now

  19-05-2023 22:37
  
  Artazan's Celebration of the Arts & Crafts Movement Opens Saturday  Pasadena Now
  
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• Donna Summer’s Bedazzled Closet and Ephemera Will Go Up for Auction

  19-05-2023 22:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Eleven years after her death, the disco legend’s family has combed through her possessions, deciding to sell many of her glittering dresses, manuscripts and paintings.
  
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• Police Seeking Thieves After ‘Irreplaceable’ Artifacts Were Stolen from UK Museum

  19-05-2023 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Police are searching for 12 metalworking artifacts from the Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield, UK after they were stolen during a “carefully planned” early morning heist on May 14. A statement from the South Yorkshire police said the theft took place at 6:45 a.m. on May 14 after“unknown offenders forced entry to the museum and caused damage to display cases”. The items taken include a variety of decorated and multi-blade knives, four animal sculptures made out of stainles
  
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• Sotheby’s Provenance Disputed in Claim by Heirs for Art Lost in Nazi Era

  19-05-2023 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The relatives of a Jewish gallery owner who left a Tiepolo painting behind when he fled Austria say the auction house posted a misleading history of the work during a 2019 sale.
  
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• Arts Briefs: Miniature golf, Elvis and puppets - MPR News

  19-05-2023 21:05
  
  Arts Briefs: Miniature golf, Elvis and puppets  MPR News
  
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• ‘The Fears’ Review: Group Therapy Was Never More Triggering

  19-05-2023 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  For the fragile souls in this new play, presented by Steven Soderbergh, a Buddhist group that once offered them solace loses its way.
  
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• The flaws in Nicholas Hytner’s plan to save the performing arts - The Guardian

  19-05-2023 20:49
  The flaws in Nicholas Hytner’s plan to save the performing arts  The Guardian
  
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• Putin Orders Return of Famous Russian Icon to Church, Prompting Protests from Conservators

  19-05-2023 20:43 via artnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the State Tretyakov Gallery to return one of the country’s most precious religious icons, Andrei Rublev’s 15th-century Trinity, to the Russian Orthodox Church, as art experts worldwide warn that the artifact is too fragile for travel. “All professional restorers unanimously say that the condition of the Trinity plaque is such that any movement of it, even for a short distance, is fraught with danger and the icon may simply
  
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• ‘Happy Valley’ Review: The End of the Hero’s Journey

  19-05-2023 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Sarah Lancashire returns in the long-delayed final season of one of the best, and most human, crime dramas on TV.
  
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• Supreme Court Warhol Ruling Shouldn’t Hurt Artists. But It Might.

  19-05-2023 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The Supreme Court decision over Andy Warhol’s use of Lynn Goldsmith’s Prince photograph was decided on the narrow grounds of a licensing issue. But it could still have a chilling effect.
  
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• Bad Bunny’s ‘Where She Goes,’ and 9 More New Songs

  19-05-2023 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Bad Bunny, Sparks, Anohni and the Johnsons and others.
  
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• An Ambient Playlist to Create a Bubble of Tranquillity

  19-05-2023 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Listen to 8 airy, cumulous songs (keeping in mind that not all ambient music sounds like this).
  
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• Blur Surprises With a Reflection on Fame, and 9 More New Songs

  19-05-2023 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Bad Bunny, Sparks, Anohni and the Johnsons and others.
  
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• Behind the Scenes of Collector Komal Shah’s Book Launch Honoring Women Artists

  19-05-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  A red dot sticker at an art fair means an artwork has been sold. At a book launch party at the Bowery Terrace on Thursday night, an orange dot meant you were an artist. And not just any artist—an artist who appears in a new book, Making Their Mark, devoted to women artists in the collection of Komal Shah, who has ranked on the ARTnews Top 200 since 2018. And there were a lot of orange dots—some 40 of them.Over the past 10 years, Shah, an SFMOMA board member, has built up a
  
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• Jimmy Buffett, Hospitalized After Bahamas Trip, Cancels Show

  19-05-2023 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The 76-year-old performer canceled a Saturday performance in Charleston, S.C., for unspecified health reasons. He had resumed touring this year after canceling a series of shows in October.
  
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• Cameron Rowland Is Loaning an Acre of Land in South Carolina to Dia—But You Can’t Visit It

  19-05-2023 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  Cameron Rowland, an acclaimed artist known for conceptual projects involving bureaucratic structures, ready-made objects, and more, has found an institutional home—for now, at least—for one of their biggest projects to date.In its most basic form, the work, Depreciation (2018), constitutes an acre of land on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that is now being placed on extended loan to the Dia Art Foundation, which is known for its deep holdings of Minimalist and Conceptualist art. But
  
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• Exhibit features Center for Arts and Crafts artists and instructors - Pennsylvania State University

  19-05-2023 18:42
  
  Exhibit features Center for Arts and Crafts artists and instructors  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Robin Guenther, Architect of Healthy Hospitals, Dies at 68

  19-05-2023 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Supporting the use of nontoxic construction materials, she co-wrote the first guide to building green health care facilities and designed them to be less austere.
  
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• Five Shows to Catch in Tribeca This Weekend

  19-05-2023 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  Much has been written about the recent mass influx of galleries to Tribeca over the past several years, but what about the art? I’m happy to report that there are a lot of great shows to see in the neighborhood this spring, with some galleries mounting their best shows this year so far.Below, a look at five of the finest shows on view in the neighborhood.
  
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• After Withdrawal, Ten Records Anchor Sotheby’s $204 M. Contemporary Sales

  19-05-2023 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday night, Sotheby’s held two consecutive evening sales at its Upper Manhattan headquarters that brought in a collective $204.7 million. The sales hammered at $183 million, below the expectation of $169 million.The first portion of the night during Sotheby’s ‘Now’ evening that is dedicated to in-demand works made within the last five years brought in $37.2 million. The following section of the night, the Contemporary evening sale, generated a total of $167.5 milli
  
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• After Withdrawal, Ten Records Anchor Sotheby’s $183 M. Contemporary Sales

  19-05-2023 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday night, Sotheby’s held two consecutive evening sales at its Upper Manhattan headquarters that brought in a collective $183 million.The first portion of the night during Sotheby’s ‘Now’ evening that is dedicated to in-demand works made within the last five years brought in $37.2 million. The following section of the night, the Contemporary evening sale, generated a total of $167.5 million. That sale hammered at $145.8 million, below its $154.9 million low estima
  
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• After Withdrawal, Six Records Anchor Sotheby’s $183 M. Contemporary Sales

  19-05-2023 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday night, Sotheby’s held two consecutive evening sales at its Upper Manhattan headquarters that brought in a collective $183 million.The first portion of the night during Sotheby’s ‘Now’ evening that is dedicated to in-demand works made within the last five years brought in $37.2 million. The following section of the night, the Contemporary evening sale, generated a total of $167.5 million. That sale hammered at $145.8 million, below its $154.9 million low estima
  
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• After Withdrawal, Records Anchor Sotheby’s $204 M. Contemporary Sales

  19-05-2023 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday night, Sotheby’s held two consecutive evening sales at its Upper Manhattan headquarters that brought in a collective $204.7 million. The sales hammered at $175 million, above the $169 million estimate that was adjusted after some lots were withdrawn.The first portion of the night during Sotheby’s ‘Now’ evening that is dedicated to in-demand works made within the last five years brought in $37.2 million. The following section of the night, the Contemporary even
  
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• ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ Onstage, Lacks Some Intensity

  19-05-2023 16:41 via nytimes.com
  
  A new West End adaptation, starring Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist, recasts Annie Proulx’s 1997 short story as a memory play.
  
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• Blacksmithing Is Alive and Well in Kentucky

  19-05-2023 16:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The “functional art” of Craig Kaviar, including transforming guns into garden tools, is part of a revival of the ancient craft.
  
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• Georgia O’Keeffe Made These Works After Going Blind

  19-05-2023 16:24 via artnews.com
  
  When I saw the title of latest big Georgia O’Keeffe show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art— “To See Takes Time”—I got excited. Finally, I thought to myself, we are going to talk about her blindness. In the 1970s, O’Keeffe’s macular degeneration prompted her to pivot briefly from painting to sculpture: she began working with her hands, with clay, before eventually finding ways to work on paper again.Mostly, I guessed wrong about the show. The exhib
  
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• Arts Playlist: Nonviolent Seaford's upcoming “Visionary Peace Youth ... - Delaware First Media

  19-05-2023 16:18
  
  Arts Playlist: Nonviolent Seaford's upcoming “Visionary Peace Youth ...  Delaware First Media
  
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• At Cannes, Harrison Ford Bids a Teary Goodbye to Indiana Jones

  19-05-2023 16:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The star was happy with the new film’s de-aging effect but “I don’t look back and say I wish I was that guy again, because I don’t. I’m real happy with age.”
  
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• The Bennett Prize RISING VOICES Touring Exhibition Soars to New Heights

  19-05-2023 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  On May 18, 2023, an artist’s life changed overnight. The Bennett Prize’s “Rising Voices 3” touring exhibition opened and named Shiqing Deng, of Brooklyn, New York, the winner of the prestigious 2023 Bennett Prize. She was awarded $50,000, giving her the opportunity to create new work in a figurative realist style for a solo show that will travel the country.The biennial Bennett Prize is granted exclusively to women painters, addressing a stark institutional disparity in t
  
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• Andy Rourke, Bassist for the Smiths, Dies at 59

  19-05-2023 15:20 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a key, if habitually unsung, part of the influential British band’s success, playing on all of its most well-known songs.
  
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• How Will the Greek Election Affect the Parthenon Marbles?

  19-05-2023 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  For months, Athens and the British Museum have been holding talks about the return from London of the treasures also known as the Elgin Marbles.
  
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• Why the Original ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Is Timeless

  19-05-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Unlike most sports films, the original tale of streetball adversaries, played by Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes, wasn’t about winning or losing.
  
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• MMSD integrates Summer Arts Academy into summer semester - The Capital Times

  19-05-2023 14:30
  
  MMSD integrates Summer Arts Academy into summer semester  The Capital Times
  
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• Artist Stephanie Dinkins Wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award, Collector Sam Zell Dies at 91, and More: Morning Links for May 19, 2023

  19-05-2023 14:12 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesAWARDS SEASON. Brooklyn artist Stephanie Dinkins has won the inaugural LG Guggenheim Award, a prize for tech-focused art that comes with a $100,000 purse, the Art Newspaper reports. Dinkins’s “artistic range, engagement with socio-cultural values, and leading AI explorations are crucial reflections of the evol
  
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• At Frieze, Dastan Gallery Presents an Intergenerational Grouping of Female Iranian Artists Spanning 100 Years

  19-05-2023 13:15 via artnews.com
  
  Feminism and women’s rights have been taken up by artists for several decades now, but they have additional significance at the moment when taken up by artists from Iran. For months, women and girls have protested in the country for their rights after a 22-year-old woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, was killed in September by Iran’s so-called morality police. For this year’s Frieze New York, Tehran-based Dastan Gallery brought work from an intergenerational group of five female artists
  
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• Detroit's arts weekend: Juilliard quartet, Pulitzer-winning play - Detroit Free Press

  19-05-2023 13:01
  
  Detroit's arts weekend: Juilliard quartet, Pulitzer-winning play  Detroit Free Press
  
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• The Best Booths at NADA New York 2023

  19-05-2023 12:45 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday, with one of the busiest weeks in New York’s art world nearing its close, the New Art Dealers Alliance opened its ninth edition of NADA New York at a new location, the 40,000-square-foot former Dia building, at 548 West 22nd Street.Conveniently located in the heart of the Chelsea—next door to Hauser & Wirth’s magnificent Mark Bradford solo exhibition—NADA was bustling throughout the day. Though, at 88 exhibitors, it was slightly smaller than last year&rsqu
  
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• Autumn Knight’s Tricky Performances Turn Doing Nothing into an Art Form

  19-05-2023 12:15 via artnews.com
  
  On a recent Friday evening at Performance Space New York, a group of hiply dressed New Yorkers sauntered into a smoky room where, at its center, stood a table, some seats, and some citruses. Many wandered over to the bar, where free tequila cocktails were on offer. It seemed to be the start of the weekend as usual. Then came the artist Autumn Knight, shouting as she rode inside on a bike wearing all white.Around and around she rode, speeding up with each loop. She pedaled perilously close to oth
  
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• The Best Booths at 1-54 New York’s 2023 Edition

  19-05-2023 11:45 via artnews.com
  
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to New York for its 2023 edition, which runs until Sunday at 439 West 127th Street in Harlem (the space formerly occupied by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise). Bringing together 26 exhibitors, this tightly curated fair has a lot of gems and exceptional art on view across four floors, showing the diversity of art from Africa and its diaspora, which this fair has been instrumental in showcasing for a decade now.Below, a look at the best booths at t
  
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• Old York FOE lodge, now Marketview Arts, offers artist symbol of ... - York Daily Record

  19-05-2023 11:11
  
  Old York FOE lodge, now Marketview Arts, offers artist symbol of ...  York Daily Record
  
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• ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 8 Recap: The Wilderness Gets Choosy

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Yellowjackets are outsourcing a lot of their decisions to “the wilderness” lately. Too bad for its latest victim.
  
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• ‘The Offbeat Sari’ Exhibit Opens at London’s Design Museum

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Offbeat Sari” explores the influence and evolution of the traditional South Asian garment.
  
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• The ‘Naked Comedy Show’ Is Selling Out in New York

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Do you wear shoes onstage? What’s it like to bomb while nude? And, ahem, where do you keep your notes? But the shows often sell out.
  
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• ‘Movie Theaters Are the Marketplace of Free Ideas’

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  John Fithian spent nearly three decades as the top lobbyist for movie theaters. He says their future is bright, despite the power of streaming.
  
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• Live Wire: Northampton’s ‘Performance 33’ to raise funds for arts - MassLive.com

  19-05-2023 11:00
  Live Wire: Northampton’s ‘Performance 33’ to raise funds for arts  MassLive.com
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda’s San Juan, Puerto Rico

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The multi-hyphenate writer and performer spent his childhood summers on the Caribbean Island and offers a non-tourist’s take on the U.S. territory and its capital.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Sing Her Down,’ by Ivy Pochoda

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Ivy Pochoda’s new thriller, “Sing Her Down,” two recently released prison inmates migrate from Arizona to Los Angeles, leaving a string of grisly scenes in their wake.
  
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• Book Review: ‘American Childhood,’ by Todd Brewster

  19-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From the 19th century to the present, the photos collected in Todd Brewster’s latest book offer glimpses into the lives of our nation’s youngest members.
  
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