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• Please, No More Barbie Pink!

  24-07-2023 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Hey Barbie, there is a fine line between reclaiming a color and ruining it.
  
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• Rabkin Prize Announces New Executive Director and 2023 Winners, Including ARTnews Senior Editor Maximilíano Durón

  24-07-2023 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  ARTnews senior editor Maximilíano Durón has been named one of this year’s winners of the Rabkin Prizes for Visual Arts Journalism. The award is given by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation and is worth $50,000 for each of the recipients. The 2023 announcement also noted that executive director Susan C. Larsen will be retiring this fall and that journalist and filmmaker Mary Louise Schumacher will take over the role in October.Prior to her appointment, Larsen was an Arts an
  
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• Thieves Steal Sculptures from Set of ‘Beetlejuice 2’

  24-07-2023 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  Among the range of art crimes, stealing a highly recognizable sculpture from the set of a highly-anticipated sequel seems unwise. But that’s exactly what happened recently with one of the abstract art pieces from the set of Tim Burton’s in-the-works movie Beetlejuice 2.Vermont State Police have asked for the public’s help in solving two crimes on the set of the film in East Corinth, the same location as the original. The first incident was the theft of a large lamppost &ld
  
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• Thieves Make Off With ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Props

  24-07-2023 21:53 via nytimes.com
  
  A 150-pound art sculpture and a decorated lamppost were taken from the movie set in Vermont, the authorities said.
  
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• German Bank Agrees to Return a Kandinsky to Heirs of a Jewish Family

  24-07-2023 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  A German government advisory panel on Nazi-looted art recommended that the bank return the work, which had been exhibited in a Munich museum for decades.
  
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• American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act

  24-07-2023 21:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The company, now run by Susan Jaffe, concludes its season at the Metropolitan Opera House with familiar story ballets — and some important new faces.
  
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• Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Charts at No. 2

  24-07-2023 21:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Try That in a Small Town” went from overlooked to almost topping the charts after a week of controversy.
  
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• Collector Fails to Get Painting De-Listed from Nazi-Era Lost Art Database

  24-07-2023 20:41 via artnews.com
  
  An unnamed collector filed a suit in German federal court to get his painting de-listed from the Lost Art Database, which tracks paintings that were stolen, looted, or otherwise separated from their rightful Jewish owners during the Nazi regime in the hopes of connecting these dispossessed assets to their true heirs. Last week, a judge ruled that the painting would not be de-listed, according to a report by the Associated Press.The painting at the center of the complaint is Calabrian Coast (1861
  
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• US Government-Funded Studies on Native Remains Undermined Repatriation Policy, Report Finds

  24-07-2023 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project,” research focused on the aftermath of a decades-old U.S. repatriation policy, has revealed that government-funded studies on Native American remains in collections at universities and museums across the country undermined a U.S. law passed three decades ago requiring their return to Indigenous officials.The report, published last week as part of an investigation around cultural repatriation of Indigenous remains in the U.S, examined the exten
  
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• Collector Leon Black to Pay $62.5 M. to US Virgin Islands to Settle Jeffrey Epstein–Related Claims

  24-07-2023 20:08 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Black, a trustee and the former board chair of the Museum of Modern Art, agreed to pay $62.5 million to the US Virgin Islands in January, the New York Times reported on Friday. The settlement, which comes following a three-year-long investigation, releases Black from potential claims related to a sex trafficking operation linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.In November, the Virgin Islands reached a $105 million deal with Epstein’s estate. The territory then sued JPMorgan Cha
  
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• The Future of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino Is in Question

  24-07-2023 19:51 via artnews.com
  
  The fate of the Smithsonian Latino Museum is in limbo after the House Appropriations Committee approved a budget bill that bans the federal government from spending any taxpayer money on the project, according to the Hill.Passed on Wednesday, the bill is a major setback for the museum, which was approved by Congress in 2020 with a wide margin, 349-33, and with the caveat that the museum be impartial. The vote to withdraw funding was much less concise.While the museum has been sear
  
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• UNESCO Condemns in ‘the Strongest Terms’ Russia’s Attacks on World Heritage Sites in Odesa

  24-07-2023 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  UNESCO has condemned in “the strongest terms” the recent Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, an attack which has left several beloved cultural sites in shambles. The historic center of the city was declared an endangered World Heritage Site earlier this year. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s director-general, said in a statement: “This outrageous destruction marks an escalation of violence against cultural heritage of Ukraine. I strongly condem
  
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• Teresa Baker’s Brightly-Painted AstroTurf Wall Pieces Honor the “Beautiful Open Spaces” of Her Youth Spent on the Northern Plains

  24-07-2023 19:18 via artnews.com
  
  “I was always searching for the right material,” Teresa Baker said during a recent visit to her studio, located below a dentist’s office in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park. She found it in an unconventional resource: AstroTurf. For someone well-accustomed to actual grass, AstroTurf was especially unusual. Baker was born in North Dakota and grew up in the Midwest, where her father worked for the National Park Service. This took the artist, who is of Mandan and Hida
  
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• Picasso Painting Heads to a Theater Near You, Making a Star Appearance in ‘Oppenheimer’

  24-07-2023 19:18 via artnews.com
  
  In Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic Oppenheimer, there are just as many atomic bomb tests as there are Picasso paintings: one each. But both figure prominently at different moments in this film, which is nested with allusions to elements from J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life that aren’t represented, including a surprising connection to Picasso’s work that dates back to the physicist’s childhood.Early on in the film, Oppenheimer, as played by Cillian Murphy, rises a
  
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• How the Indigo Girls Brought Barbie ‘Closer to Fine’

  24-07-2023 18:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A 1989 song about soul searching has maintained cultural relevance for three decades, but the band has also long been the target of homophobic jokes. Fans are savoring a moment of vindication.
  
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• Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm

  24-07-2023 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  As opera houses rework Puccini’s classic, criticized for stereotypes about women and Japanese culture, artists of Asian descent are playing a central role.
  
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• Larry Gagosian Won’t Sell to Oligarchs Anymore, But He Won’t ‘Be a Moral Judge’ for His Collectors Either

  24-07-2023 17:38 via artnews.com
  
  Monday marked the publication of an epic New Yorker profile of dealer Larry Gagosian by Patrick Radden Keefe, author of an award-winning book about the opioid crisis and the Sackler family, the people whose company are said to have caused it. Across the profile’s 17,000-plus words, there are many revelations about Gagosian’s moral compass—or, according to some quoted, lack thereof.At one point, Keefe puts Gagosian’s record of selling to oligarchs under the microscope. Kee
  
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• Aaron Rodgers Is Now a Jet (and Becoming a New Yorker, Too)

  24-07-2023 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The Jets’ starting quarterback has thrown himself into the culture of his new professional home before he’s thrown a single pass.
  
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• ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Props Are Stolen From Set, Police Say

  24-07-2023 16:13 via nytimes.com
  
  A 150-pound art sculpture and a decorated lamppost were taken from the movie set in Vermont, the authorities said.
  
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• Clearwater Arts Alliance Installs Art Wraps On Signal Boxes - myclearwater.com

  24-07-2023 15:15 via news.google.com
  
  Clearwater Arts Alliance Installs Art Wraps On Signal Boxes  myclearwater.com
  
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• Tony Bennett’s Passion for Painting, Last ‘Monuments Man’ Dies, and More: Morning Links for July 24, 2023

  24-07-2023 14:06 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE DEATH OF SINGER TONY BENNETT on Friday, at 96, “brings the era of the great crooner to an end,” as the Daily Mail writes. Along with being a revered musician, Bennett was also a “a creditable painter,” the New York Times notes, making “landscapes and still lifes in watercolors a
  
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• From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter

  24-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How did a felon and former heroin addict spin her background in canine cremation into a lucrative publishing career?
  
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• Cary Elwes on ‘Mission: Impossible’ and His Favorite Pastimes

  24-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who appears in the latest “Mission: Impossible,” picked up a deep interest in Napoleon’s life from Stanley Kubrick.
  
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• Cary Elwes Is Soothed By Grunge and a Maltese Poodle

  24-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who appears in the latest “Mission: Impossible,” picked up a deep interest in Napoleon’s life from Stanley Kubrick.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ and ‘Heels’

  24-07-2023 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The third season of HBO’s dark comedy comes to an end. And the Starz show about professional wrestlers begins its second season.
  
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• ‘Back to the Future’ on Broadway: Buckle Your (DeLorean) Seatbelt

  24-07-2023 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In adapting a beloved franchise for the stage, the creative team sought to develop the story for new audiences while remaining true to the spirit of the films.
  
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• At Wagner’s Festival, New Technology Reveals a Leadership Rift

  24-07-2023 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The Bayreuth Festival’s production of “Parsifal” will feature augmented reality. Securing the equipment set off a financial and philosophical dispute.
  
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• Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow

  24-07-2023 01:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Stormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers.
  
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• ‘New York, New York’ Will End Its Broadway Run

  24-07-2023 00:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The big-budget musical that tried to position itself as a nostalgic love letter to the city will close after a summer of dropping sales.
  
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