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• Aboriginal Art Collective in Australia Responds to Allegations of Interference by White Art Assistants

  27-07-2023 23:58 via artnews.com
  
  A member of the Aboriginal arts group being investigated over the use of white art assistants recently spoke out about the issue to ABC News Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald. The South Australian government has recently appointed a three-person panel to review the APY Art Centre Collective (APYACC)’s governance, management and practices, in response to allegations of interference from non-Indigenous artists.An investigation published in the Australian earlier this year alleged that
  
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• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to Receive Significant Gift of ... - ARTnews

  27-07-2023 23:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to Receive Significant Gift of 19th- and 20th-Century American Art

  27-07-2023 23:10 via artnews.com
  
  Local philanthropists and collectors Bernard A. and Barbro Osher have made a promised gift of 61 important works from their holdings of 19th- and 20th-century American art to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which includes the de Young and Legion of Honor. The de Young will host an exhibition of the gift, accompanied by a catalogue, in summer 2024.Consisting of 50 paintings, nine works on paper, and two sculptures, the donation represents the art of 39 artists. Among those included are we
  
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• Pace Gallery Takes on 27-Year-Old Painter Pam Evelyn, Making Her the Youngest Artist on Its Roster

  27-07-2023 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  The latest artist to join Pace Gallery is now the youngest one in its stable: 27-year-old British painter Pam Evelyn, who will have her first show with the gallery at its London space this September.Only rarely do mega-galleries like Pace take on young artists like Evelyn, who only earned her master’s degree last year. For the most part, Pace’s roster is made up of established artists with cemented market followings, like Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, and Adrian Ghenie.Evelyn works in ab
  
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• Governor Justice announces Arts and Historic Preservation Grant ... - Governor Jim Justice

  27-07-2023 22:24 via news.google.com
  
  Governor Justice announces Arts and Historic Preservation Grant ...  Governor Jim Justice
  
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• ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary

  27-07-2023 22:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Day After Trinity,” made available without a subscription until August, shot to the top of the Criterion Channel’s most-watched films.
  
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• Bill Geddie, a Creator of ‘The View,’ Is Dead at 68

  27-07-2023 21:52 via nytimes.com
  
  His partnership with Barbara Walters began when he produced her prime-time specials. He later helped turn her idea for an all-female talk show into a long-running hit.
  
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• A Less Anxious Edvard Munch at the Clark Art Institute

  27-07-2023 21:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Beyond “The Scream,” there’s a side of the artist that’s long been unexplored in the U.S., as shown by “Trembling Earth” at the Clark Art Institute.
  
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• The Nature Conservancy Announces 2023 Andy Warhol Visual Arts ... - The Nature Conservancy

  27-07-2023 21:41 via news.google.com
  
  The Nature Conservancy Announces 2023 Andy Warhol Visual Arts ...  The Nature Conservancy
  
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• Ancient Glass Workshop Discovered in Czech Republic May Have Hosted Sacred Rituals, Archaeologists Say

  27-07-2023 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  An ancient glass workshop with Celtic coins and glass, sunken huts, and a possible sanctuary have been identified by archaeologists more than 20 years after the initial discovery of an Iron Age settlement at the Němčice site in Moravia in the eastern Czech Republic. According to this latest study, published in Antiquity last month, this is the earliest known glass workshop in Transalpine Europe or present-day France, Belgium, parts of Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The site
  
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• A Guide to Summer Theater Festivals in New York and the Berkshires

  27-07-2023 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  A guide to what’s onstage at theater festivals in upstate New York and the Berkshires.
  
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• Billionaire Collector Leon Black Accused of Rape of Minor in Jeffrey Epstein’s Home

  27-07-2023 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  A federal lawsuit alleges that Leon Black, billionaire and prolific art collector, raped a 16-year-old girl in 2002 at the Manhattan townhouse of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.According to the lawsuit filed in US District Court for Southern New York on Tuesday, the plaintiff, named in court documents as Jane Doe, was trafficked to Black by Epstein and his longtime partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted on sex trafficking charges. The lawsuit identifies the plaintiff, now in her 3
  
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• Sinead O’Connor Was Ireland’s Alternative Moral Compass

  27-07-2023 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In any society, she would have been radical for a pop star. But in Ireland, she was revolutionary.
  
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• British Court Orders London Dealer to Pay $144,000 in Case Over Missing Bosco Sodi Work

  27-07-2023 20:28 via artnews.com
  
  A UK judge has ordered the London-based art dealer Esperanza Koren to pay $144,000 in a case centered around an artwork by the Mexican artist Bosco Sodi that she received as a loan but failed to return, according to a story in the Guardian.The work, Untitled in red 2011, was part of a group of works Koren had been given by Barcelona’s Principal Gallery; she had planned to exhibit and sell them in 2012. According to Central London county court judge Alan Saggerson, the partne
  
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• ‘War Pony’ Review: The Sad Absurdities of Reservation Life

  27-07-2023 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s stellar debut, starring many first-time actors, takes a deadpan look at a Lakota-Sioux reservation in South Dakota.
  
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• Julian Barry, Who Made Lenny Bruce Into ‘Lenny,’ Dies at 92

  27-07-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Barry’s scripts for a hit Broadway play and later a Hollywood movie about that rule-breaking comic helped give Mr. Bruce a lasting place in pop culture lore.
  
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• ‘The Unknown Country’ Review: A Granddaughter’s Road Trip

  27-07-2023 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Lily Gladstone’s achingly measured performance braided with the actual stories from nonprofessional actors makes Morrisa Maltz’s film a memorable road trip.
  
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• Jeffrey Gibson, Indigenous U.S. Artist, Is Selected for Venice Biennale

  27-07-2023 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The multimedia artist is known for incorporating a Native American perspective into legacies of modernism and craft that define today’s cultural foundations.
  
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• Veterans and active older adults heal through the arts at local gallery - KSAT San Antonio

  27-07-2023 19:26 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘Kokomo City’ Review: Dispatches From the Down Low

  27-07-2023 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director D. Smith’s new documentary follows four Black transgender women, who talk about how they got into sex work.
  
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• Alvin Ailey Celebrates Its 65th Season With Tribute to Ailey Women

  27-07-2023 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The winter season at City Center features premieres by Amy Hall Garner and Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, and a program honoring women who shaped the organization.
  
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• Here's What Happened After 3 Colleges Announced Cuts to the ... - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  27-07-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
  Here's What Happened After 3 Colleges Announced Cuts to the ...  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• Sinead O’Connor’s Death Is Not Suspicious, Police Say

  27-07-2023 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The London police force said that the Irish singer was found dead at a home in the city.
  
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• At Soho Rep, Eric Ting and Caleb Hammons to Join Leadership Team

  27-07-2023 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Following the departures of Sarah Benson and Meropi Peponides, the two will join Cynthia Flowers as the company continues its shared leadership model.
  
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• Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’

  27-07-2023 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  This peculiar early Shakespeare comedy gets updated with 10 songs for a youthful alfresco production.
  
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• ‘How To With John Wilson’ Loves All of You Weirdos

  27-07-2023 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The third and final season of the HBO docu-comedy begins this week, finding the universal in the oddball and the mundane.
  
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• Jeffrey Gibson to Represent US at 2024 Venice Biennale, in a Historic First for an Indigenous Artist

  27-07-2023 17:40 via artnews.com
  
  In a historic first, Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale, marking the only time in the American Pavilion’s 75-year history that an Indigenous artist has done it solo.Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and who is also of Cherokee descent, is known for vibrantly colored paintings, sculptures, and more that often incorporate text, some of it appropriated from pop music. At times, the work edges into abstraction, in an attempt to
  
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• Jeffrey Gibson to Become First Indigenous Artist to Represent US Solo at Venice Biennale

  27-07-2023 17:40 via artnews.com
  
  In a historic first, Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale, marking the only time in the American Pavilion’s more-than-90-year history that an Indigenous artist has done it solo.Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and who is also of Cherokee descent, is known for vibrantly colored paintings, sculptures, and more that often incorporate text, some of it appropriated from pop music. At times, the work edges into abstraction, in an
  
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• A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz

  27-07-2023 17:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s new album, “Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning,” is his first on which he doesn’t touch the trumpet. Instead, he extends the legacy of Black masking Indians in New Orleans.
  
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• The Life of Frank Kozik, a Creator of Era-Defining Rock Concert Posters and Collectible Toys

  27-07-2023 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Frank Kozik made his name with his playfully gruesome concert posters for Nirvana, Soundgarden and Butthole Surfers. He added to his underground fame with his boundary-pushing “art toys.”
  
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• Christie’s Fails to Sell $400,000 ‘Lost Robbie’ NFT Weeks After a Similar One Sold on SuperRare

  27-07-2023 17:13 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Earlier this month, artist Robbie Barrat’s digital artwork AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #111 sold for 175 ETH, or approximately $343,761, on NFT marketplace SuperRare. The sale was notable not just for its impressive price tag amid a stagnant digital art market, but beca
  
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• Jeffrey Gibson Will Be First Indigenous U.S. Artist at Venice Biennale

  27-07-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The multimedia artist is known for incorporating a Native American perspective into legacies of modernism and craft that define today’s cultural foundations.
  
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• Climate Protestors Deface Portrait of King Charles III in Scotland’s National Gallery

  27-07-2023 16:55 via artnews.com
  
  A portrait of King Charles III was vandalized by climate activists at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the Herald Scotland reported.The protest was staged by two members of the climate action group This is Rigged. The activists spray-painted This is Rigged’s logo in neon pink across the king’s body, along with the phrase “the people are mightier than a lord.”The quote was borrowed from the historic Highland Land League, who staged rent strikes a
  
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• Three new restaurants at Dallas Arts District's JW Marriott Hotel - The Dallas Morning News

  27-07-2023 16:44 via news.google.com
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• Josh Kline Talks Past, Present, and Future as His Whitney Exhibition Nears Its End

  27-07-2023 16:29 via artnews.com
  
  Since its opening in the spring, Josh Kline’s survey exhibition “Project for a New American Century” at the Whitney Museum of American Art has been the subject of praise and concern—the former for the complexity and purposefulness of the work included, and the latter for the many ways that work has proven prescient about an increasingly troubled and tumultuous world. Dating back to 2014, the sculptures and video work in the exhibition have a not-especially-flattering stor
  
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• This Weekend in the Arts: July 28-30 - Indianapolis Recorder

  27-07-2023 16:15 via news.google.com
  
  This Weekend in the Arts: July 28-30  Indianapolis Recorder
  
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• Local Martial Arts Team Cleans Up at National Tournament - KNSI

  27-07-2023 16:13 via news.google.com
  
  Local Martial Arts Team Cleans Up at National Tournament  KNSI
  
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• Colonial Arts Center offers tours, launches seating fundraiser - WV News

  27-07-2023 16:05 via news.google.com
  
  Colonial Arts Center offers tours, launches seating fundraiser  WV News
  
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• Somaya Critchlow’s Provocative Portraits of Nude Black Women Test Perceptions of Female Sexuality

  27-07-2023 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  When I spoke to Somaya Critchlow in February, she had just moved into a new studio in South London facing the Thames. No paintings to see there yet; for now, she tells me, she’s just drawing as she enjoys the light coming in off the river. The not-yet-30-year-old painter had recently finished the work for her largest American show yet, which opened at the Flag Art Foundation in New York in April, comprising new paintings alongside a selection of highlights from her still-brief but already
  
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• Solon Center for the Arts connects community - Cleveland Jewish News

  27-07-2023 16:00 via news.google.com
  Solon Center for the Arts connects community  Cleveland Jewish News
  
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• Arts Picks | Jul. 28-30 - Jacksonville Today

  27-07-2023 15:38 via news.google.com
  
  Arts Picks | Jul. 28-30  Jacksonville Today
  
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• Theater/Arts: Four days of theater with the Long Beach Shakespeare Company - Long Beach Press Telegram

  27-07-2023 15:31 via news.google.com
  Theater/Arts: Four days of theater with the Long Beach Shakespeare Company  Long Beach Press Telegram
  
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• Af Klint and Mondrian: A Strange, but Elegant, Artistic Match

  27-07-2023 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  On the surface, Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint made very different work. But an exhibition at Tate Modern explores the pair’s shared obsessions, including astrology, X-rays and atoms.
  
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• Springfield arts group to present 'Disney's The Little Mermaid, Jr.' - Springfield News Sun

  27-07-2023 15:26 via news.google.com
  
  Springfield arts group to present 'Disney's The Little Mermaid, Jr.'  Springfield News Sun
  
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• Arts & Flowers Garden Club Yard of the Month - Washington Times Herald

  27-07-2023 15:19 via news.google.com
  
  Arts & Flowers Garden Club Yard of the Month  Washington Times Herald
  
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• Middletown Arts Center exhibiting works by artists in this region - Hamilton Journal News

  27-07-2023 15:12 via news.google.com
  
  Middletown Arts Center exhibiting works by artists in this region  Hamilton Journal News
  
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• Bruce Lee avatar to teach martial arts in the metaverse - Cointelegraph

  27-07-2023 15:10 via news.google.com
  
  Bruce Lee avatar to teach martial arts in the metaverse  Cointelegraph
  
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• Pitch perfect arts: Festival organizer says time is right for Southwest ... - The Columbian

  27-07-2023 15:04 via news.google.com
  
  Pitch perfect arts: Festival organizer says time is right for Southwest ...  The Columbian
  
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• Experts slugfest: Our first 2023 Creative Arts Emmys winner predictions - Gold Derby

  27-07-2023 15:00 via news.google.com
  Experts slugfest: Our first 2023 Creative Arts Emmys winner predictions  Gold Derby
  
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• Krista Franklin's Solo(s) exhibition to visit Fine Arts Center - Colorado Springs Gazette

  27-07-2023 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  Krista Franklin's Solo(s) exhibition to visit Fine Arts Center  Colorado Springs Gazette
  
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