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• Accused Art Trafficker’s Daughter Forfeits $12 Million to End Case

  22-06-2023 23:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The payment will settle a civil suit brought by U.S. officials who accused Douglas A.J. Latchford of being a major dealer of looted antiquities.
  
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• With ‘Glamorous,’ Miss Benny Gets a Platform Makeover

  22-06-2023 23:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, singer and YouTube makeup expert joins Kim Cattrall to play a makeup expert on Netflix.
  
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• 4,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-like Sanctuary Unearthed in the Netherlands

  22-06-2023 22:16 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious sanctuary in the central Netherlands made of burial mounds and ancient offerings of human and animal bones that has striking similarities to Stonehenge.The 4,000-year-old site was discovered in the town of Tiel and, like prehistoric stone circle Stonehenge, tracked the position of the sun on the solstices.“The largest mound served as a sun calendar, similar to the famous stones of Stonehenge in England,” the municipality of Tiel said in a st
  
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• Share Your Favorite Hip-Hop Lyrics

  22-06-2023 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  As The New York Times prepares to pay tribute to the genre on its 50th anniversary, we want to hear about the lines that have stuck in your heads and shaped your musical lives.
  
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• Peso Pluma Is Helping Mexican Music Find More Ears

  22-06-2023 21:24 via nytimes.com
  
  An alternative to nearly all the other best-selling 2020s pop is surging, as acts including Grupo Firme and Natanael Cano present corridos with fresh perspectives.
  
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• ‘I’ll Show You Mine’ Review: Couch Trip

  22-06-2023 21:11 via nytimes.com
  
  This drama, directed by Megan Griffiths, explores abuse and trauma through a potent and prickly series of conversations.
  
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• ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: When It Comes to Love, They’re Outsiders

  22-06-2023 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  A meet-cute on an Italian excursion sends a mother and daughter on parallel journeys of self-discovery in an Encores! staging of the 2005 musical.
  
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• Kesha and Dr. Luke Settle Defamation Lawsuit

  22-06-2023 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer and pop singer had been involved in a nearly decade-long legal saga that began with a contract disagreement.
  
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• Henry Shum’s Atmospheric Oil Paintings Glow With A Mysterious Inner Light

  22-06-2023 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  Henry Shum paints under dim overhead light in his childhood bedroom. His parents’ home, where he started painting at age 14, is in the eastern New Territories of Hong Kong. He left the island for a few years to study at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, then returned in 2020 as the pandemic broke out. Given the subdued radiance of his paintings, the poorly lit studio is surprising. But Shum likes it this way, reasoning that “if you can see the painting well in a harsh environmen
  
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• Louvre Uses French Patrimony Laws to Snag a $2.8M. Terracotta Sculpture After it Sold at Auction

  22-06-2023 20:12 via artnews.com
  
  A rarely used legal statue in France allowed the Louvre to halt the sale of a 17th-century terracotta funerary monument by the French artist François Anguier and scoop the sculpture up for itself, reports The Art Newspaper.The French law of preemption, also known as the droit de préemption, allows government-run entities like museums to buy goods of cultural significance before they are sold to the general public. The caveat here is that, because public bodies like t
  
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• Lefferts Historic House Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too

  22-06-2023 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Reopening after years of restoration, the Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn now also acknowledges the enslaved people who lived and worked there.
  
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• ‘Rust’ Armorer Transferred Narcotics on Day of Shooting, Prosecutor Says

  22-06-2023 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  A new charge of evidence tampering was announced as a departing investigator accused the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office of “reprehensible and unprofessional” conduct.
  
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• 57,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Markings Identified in a Sealed French Cave, New Research Finds

  22-06-2023 20:05 via artnews.com
  
  Along the walls of a cave in central France are the oldest identified markings made by Neanderthals more than 57,000 years ago, according to a recent study published in the scientific journal Plos One.Scientists analyzed hundreds of wavy lines, dots, and faint striations—known as finger flutings—left on the longest and most even wall of an ancient cave in La Roche-Cotard in the Loire Valley.In 1846, the cave’s entrance was uncovered during nearby quarrying work. In 1912, animal
  
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• Plot Twist at Turner Classic Movies Upsets Film Fans

  22-06-2023 19:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The network’s owner, Warner Bros. Discovery, promised there would be little to no change for viewers despite budget cuts behind the scenes.
  
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• Five questions: FSU’s College of Fine Arts and The Ringling ... - Florida State News

  22-06-2023 18:49
  Five questions: FSU’s College of Fine Arts and The Ringling ...  Florida State News
  
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• Arts & Culture Board Awards Over $719K to Artists and Creative ... - charlottenc.gov

  22-06-2023 18:38
  
  Arts & Culture Board Awards Over $719K to Artists and Creative ...  charlottenc.gov
  
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• Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60

  22-06-2023 18:21 via nytimes.com
  
  A drummer for the audacious Texas band Butthole Surfers, she helped define the image of an aimless generation with her role in the 1990 film “Slacker.”
  
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• Ancient UNESCO Site Threatened By Planned Israeli Settlement

  22-06-2023 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  Battir is a flourishing, ancient agricultural site which is stewarded by Palestinians to this day, yet a planned settlement by Israel’s far-right government could threaten this precious, UNESCO designated village, according to the Associated Press.Part of the reason that Battir is a UNESCO site is because of an ancient irrigation system that feeds the lush valley defined by aqueducts, terraces, and an abundance of prized olives and eggplants.“The water distribution system used by the
  
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• New Jason Robert Brown Musical Highlights MCC Theater Season

  22-06-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A honky-tonk lesbian romance and a new musical by Gavin Creel are also slated for the Off Broadway theater’s 2023-24 lineup.
  
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• Digital Liberal Arts - Wittenberg University

  22-06-2023 17:37
  
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• Design Collective to Close Exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre After ‘Anti-Palestinian Censorship’

  22-06-2023 17:20 via artnews.com
  
  Following a controversy over what it called “anti-Palestinian censorship,” the Resolve Collective will deinstall its exhibition currently on view at London’s Barbican Centre.The collective’s exhibition, titled “Them’s the Breaks,” spans 295 feet and includes a library, a workshop, a stage, and more. In the British press, the show had received praise for the way it imploded the boundaries between art and design in service of community engagement.“It
  
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• ‘The Country Club’ Review: Who’s Your Caddy?

  22-06-2023 16:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The sisters Fiona and Sophia Robert wrote and star in this broad, pastel-colored golf comedy.
  
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• ‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some

  22-06-2023 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean Eustache’s digitally restored 1973 film, now at Lincoln Center, is part of a full retrospective of his work.
  
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• ‘The Stroll’ Review: Telling Their Own Stories

  22-06-2023 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  In this documentary, transgender sex workers speak for themselves without sanitizing or sensationalizing their experiences.
  
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• For a Good Cause: These nonprofits help support the arts in Long Beach - Long Beach Press Telegram

  22-06-2023 16:17
  For a Good Cause: These nonprofits help support the arts in Long Beach  Long Beach Press Telegram
  
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• Review: ‘I’m a Virgo’ Goes Big

  22-06-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Boots Riley’s surreal satire about a teenage giant and an authoritarian superhero is a larger-than-life achievement.
  
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• Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook

  22-06-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “My Neighbor’s Garden,” an installation at Madison Square Park, Sheila Pepe uses the humble art of crochet to shape space and build community.
  
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• Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells to Reunite in ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’

  22-06-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The pair, who were the original co-stars of “The Book of Mormon,” will return to Broadway this fall in a two-man musical comedy.
  
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• Arts Center of the Capital Region's 2023 Gala - Times Union

  22-06-2023 14:30
  
  Arts Center of the Capital Region's 2023 Gala  Times Union
  
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• Venice Biennale’s 2024 Edition to Celebrate Diasporas Under the Title ‘Foreigners Everywhere’

  22-06-2023 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  The 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale, the world’s most important recurring art festival, will focus on outsiders, foreigners, and more, highlighting artists who have traveled at various points in their careers.Its curator, Museu de Arte de São Paulo artistic director Adriano Pedrosa, revealed the biennial’s theme at a press conference held Thursday morning. With that announcement, there are fewer than 10 months to go before the Venice Biennale opens in Italy on April 20, 20
  
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• Stonehenge-Style Site Found in the Netherlands, Unusual Roman Amphora Discovered, and More: Morning Links for June 22, 2023

  22-06-2023 14:04 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE DIGGERS. Archaeologists at work in the central Netherlands said that they have found a sanctuary that recalls Stonehenge, the Reuters reports. Built from wood and soil, the place dates back around 4,000 years, with elements positioned to align with the solstices. Good announcement timing: the summer solstice was yesterday.
  
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• Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick and Barry Gibb Win Kennedy Center Honors

  22-06-2023 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick and Renée Fleming will be recognized, along with Billy Crystal and Barry Gibb.
  
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• Flora Yukhnovich, Whose Modern Spin on Rococo Made a Market Splash, Joins Hauser & Wirth

  22-06-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Rococo references bubble and churn beneath the abstractions of Flora Yukhnovich—lush pastel color, dramatic brushwork—but never take form. Rather, art history, and the men who made its hierarchies, are indentured to modern preoccupations, like the insidious, gendered assumptions of femininity and power that still inform interpretations of form, color, and intention. It’s a neat mission that has earned Yukhnovich seven-figure sales and critical attention—and now, new galle
  
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• ADAA Names Exhibitors for 35th Anniversary Art Show in November

  22-06-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has lined up 78 exhibitors from its membership for the 35th edition of its annual Art Show, scheduled to run November 2–5 at the Park Avenue Armory. The fair opens to VIPs with its evening benefit preview on November 1, which benefits the Henry Street Settlement.As is typical at the ADAA Art Show, the majority of the fair’s booths will be dedicated to single-artist presentations, among them Kiki Smith at Pace Gallery, Tavares Strachan at
  
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• Supporting Military Service Member and Veteran Well-Being ... - Nation's Cities Weekly

  22-06-2023 13:29
  
  Supporting Military Service Member and Veteran Well-Being ...  Nation's Cities Weekly
  
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• To See or Not to See: Zwirner’s LA Debut and the Art World’s Fast Fashion Era

  22-06-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Welcome to “To See or Not to See,” a recurring column covering a handful of exceptional Los Angeles gallery and museum exhibitions—the good, the bad, and the criminally overrated—in easily digestible, bite-size pieces.As you may have heard, galleries won’t stop opening in Los Angeles. Fueled by the boom in e-commerce that erupted during lockdown, the commercial art world is now in its Manifest Destiny era, marked by a mantra of endless expansion and countless galler
  
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• ‘Here. Is. Better.’ Review: A Glimmer of Hope

  22-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Four military veterans go through PTSD treatments in this understated documentary.
  
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• ‘God Is a Bullet’ Review: Cult, but Not Classic

  22-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A kidnapping cult regrets making off with a detective’s daughter in this wearyingly unsavory movie.
  
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• ‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ Review

  22-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary examines how the winner for best picture of 1969 captured shifts in American life.
  
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• ‘2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Films’ Review: Small Bites’

  22-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From animated partygoers to real families embracing a name, this basket of goodies includes seven titles, among them comedy, tragedy and documentary.
  
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• Rialto Center for the Arts Announces 2023-24 Rialto Series, 'Holding ... - Georgia State University News

  22-06-2023 12:42
  
  Rialto Center for the Arts Announces 2023-24 Rialto Series, 'Holding ...  Georgia State University News
  
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• Simmons may cut liberal arts departments - Inside Higher Ed

  22-06-2023 12:18
  
  Simmons may cut liberal arts departments  Inside Higher Ed
  
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• The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature

  22-06-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.
  
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• ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory

  22-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Alice Winocour’s taut film, a woman survives a terrorist and tries to piece together what happened that day and how it changed her.
  
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• How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World

  22-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The MFA Boston shows how one of the greatest printmakers, from Edo Japan, inspired a tidal wave of followers, from Gauguin to Lichtenstein.
  
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• Bookforum is Returning, Months After its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World

  22-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The literary magazine will be back in print in August, with a new publishing partner: The Nation.
  
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• ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Relationship Place

  22-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The first two episodes make clear from the start that this will not be another sullen season.
  
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• ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: Relationship Place

  22-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The first two episodes make clear from the start that this will not be another sullen season.
  
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• California Arts Council Seeks Arts Providers at State Correctional ... - California Arts Council

  22-06-2023 09:00
  
  California Arts Council Seeks Arts Providers at State Correctional ...  California Arts Council
  
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• ‘Rock & Roll Man’ Review: An Alan Freed Biography

  22-06-2023 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A bio-show about the radio D.J. Alan Freed, one of rock music’s early popularizers, dutifully plays the hits.
  
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