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• Claude Picasso, Longtime Administrator of the Picasso Estate, Dies at 76

  24-08-2023 23:58 via artnews.com
  
  Claude Picasso, one of Pablo Picasso’s four children, has died at 76. The news was first reported on Thursday by Agence France-Presse, which did not provide a cause of death.He died within months of his mother, the artist Françoise Gilot, who passed away in June at 101, and during the 50th anniversary commemorations of the death of his father, whose work is the subject of numerous museum exhibitions around the world right now. (Among their survivors are Gilot’s daughter, Palom
  
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• Combining Drew University's Liberal Arts Education With a Degree ... - Drew Today

  24-08-2023 23:56 via news.google.com
  
  Combining Drew University's Liberal Arts Education With a Degree ...  Drew Today
  
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• Leader of national group joins Chellie Pingree for tour of Maine arts ... - Maine Public

  24-08-2023 23:27 via news.google.com
  
  Leader of national group joins Chellie Pingree for tour of Maine arts ...  Maine Public
  
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• Summer Interns Reflect on their Time at ARTS - Art Beat - artbeat.seattle.gov

  24-08-2023 23:17 via news.google.com
  
  Summer Interns Reflect on their Time at ARTS - Art Beat  artbeat.seattle.gov
  
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• Nigeria Renews Call for Return of Benin Bronzes Following British Museum Thefts

  24-08-2023 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  Nigerian officials have renewed called for the repatriation of Benin Bronzes held in the British Museum collection following news of missing, stolen, and damaged items within the institution. “It’s shocking to hear that the countries and museums that have been telling us that the Benin Bronzes would not be secure in Nigeria, have thefts happening there,” the director of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abba Isa Tijani, told Sky News. On August 16,
  
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• Uffizi Director Calls for ‘Hard Fist of the Law’ in Case of Vasari Corridor Vandalism

  24-08-2023 23:03 via artnews.com
  
  In the latest attack on Italian cultural landmarks, a tourist defaced the cherished Vasari Corridor, an act that the director of Florence’s Uffizi Galleries says should be dealt with a firm hand, according to the Associated Press.The exterior columns of the Corridor, a nearly 500-year-old passageway along the river Arno between the Uffizi’s Palazzo Vecchio and the Palazzo Pitti, was tagged with graffiti related to the Munich soccer club in the early morning hours of August 23. A
  
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• Radiocarbon Dating of Borneo Cave Art Tells a Hidden History of Centuries-Old Indigenous Resistance

  24-08-2023 22:59 via artnews.com
  
  Recent radiocarbon dating of rock art in Malaysia’s Gua Sireh cave complex is offering unprecedented insight into a generations-spanning saga of Indigenous resistance to hostile civilizations.A team of Australian scientists used radiocarbon dating to conduct what they have hailed as the first chronometric age study of Malaysian rock art. Their findings were first reported on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed science and medical journal PLOS One.The study helps illuminate “the socia
  
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• Local photographer provides images of hope at the Alliance for the ... - WGCU

  24-08-2023 22:48 via news.google.com
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• You Can Keep Your Final DVDs, Netflix Says

  24-08-2023 22:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The company is shuttering its rental-by-mail service in September, more than 25 years after it launched.
  
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• ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2 Finale Recap: On the Verge

  24-08-2023 20:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Carrie gets an unexpected phone call. Aidan has some unexpected news.
  
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• Celebrating the return of the Healing Arts Collaborative | LMH ... - LMH Health

  24-08-2023 20:34 via news.google.com
  
  Celebrating the return of the Healing Arts Collaborative | LMH ...  LMH Health
  
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• Wilcox named dean for Trine's Jannen School of Arts and Sciences - Trine University

  24-08-2023 20:19 via news.google.com
  
  Wilcox named dean for Trine's Jannen School of Arts and Sciences  Trine University
  
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• Paint the town orange and blue with upcoming arts events - University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily

  24-08-2023 19:02 via news.google.com
  
  Paint the town orange and blue with upcoming arts events  University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
  
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• Meet Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Breakout Clown

  24-08-2023 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The breakout star of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe is Julia Masli, a performer with a graveyard time slot who sets out to solve her audience’s problems.
  
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• For Alison Foundation continues bringing the joy of the arts to Southside kids and youth - WDBJ

  24-08-2023 18:18 via news.google.com
  For Alison Foundation continues bringing the joy of the arts to Southside kids and youth  WDBJ
  
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• The First Republican Debate Starred Eight Candidates and a Ghost

  24-08-2023 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  A strange evening on Fox News was most passionate when it involved the contestant who didn’t show up.
  
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• At GOP Debate, an Absent Trump Was Still a Presence

  24-08-2023 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  A strange evening on Fox News was most passionate when it involved the contestant who didn’t show up.
  
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• ‘Our Father, the Devil’ Review: Wash Away Your Sins

  24-08-2023 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  In this absorbing psychological thriller, a Guinean refugee living in France is rattled by the appearance of a menacing figure from her past.
  
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• In Finale of ‘And Just Like That,’ Samantha Jones Makes a Quick Cameo

  24-08-2023 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Kim Cattrall made a much-anticipated, if brief, appearance in the Season 2 finale of the “Sex and the City” sequel series, which debuted early Thursday morning on Max.
  
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• More than 500 Performing Arts Scholars added to RIT's cast of ... - rit.edu

  24-08-2023 17:41 via news.google.com
  
  More than 500 Performing Arts Scholars added to RIT's cast of ...  rit.edu
  
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• An Asian Imports Store, Not a Museum, Is the Site of the Summer’s Most Surprising Art Show

  24-08-2023 17:29 via artnews.com
  
  Most galleries have closed their doors for the summer, leaving a more unconventional venue as the surprising site of one of the most exciting shows on view right now: a 50-year-old mainstay for Asian imports in SoHo.In the backroom of Pearl River Mart, the exhibition “Just Between Us: From the Archives of Arlan Huang” is showcasing a selection of artworks and ephemera from the collection of Arlan Huang. An artist and founder of the framing business Squid Frames, Huang was involved in
  
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• Review: Is William Finn’s ‘A New Brain’ a Stroke of Genius?

  24-08-2023 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Barrington Stage Company’s revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter’s near-death experience.
  
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• Former OpenSea Executive Sentenced to Three Months in Prison on Insider Trading Charges

  24-08-2023 17:23 via artnews.com
  
  A former executive at the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea was sentenced to three months in prison in connection with a case revolving around insider trading.In addition to serving prison time, Nathaniel Chastain, who previously served as a product manager for OpenSea, now must also pay a fine of $50,000 and give up 15.98 ETH, or roughly $26,500.Chastain had already been charged with one count of money laundering and one count of wire fraud. He had been accused of purchasing NFTs with the knowled
  
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• Warner Bros. Discovery to Add CNN Channel to Max Streaming Service

  24-08-2023 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The new channel, which will start Sept. 27, will feature distinct programming and, in an usual move, live programming from the cable network.
  
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• UTA Adds Harrison Tenzer to Lead New York Fine Arts (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

  24-08-2023 17:00 via news.google.com
  UTA Adds Harrison Tenzer to Lead New York Fine Arts (EXCLUSIVE)  Variety
  
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• Aziz Isham to Lead Museum of the Moving Image

  24-08-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  He arrives as the Queens museum redesigns its core exhibition to include more nods to video games and social media.
  
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• The Maestro John Eliot Gardiner, Accused of Hitting Singer, Apologies

  24-08-2023 16:39 via nytimes.com
  
  John Eliot Gardiner expressed regret after he was accused of lashing out at a singer after a concert in France, and he withdrew from the rest of a planned tour.
  
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• Maestro Accused of Striking Singer at Performance Apologizes

  24-08-2023 16:39 via nytimes.com
  
  John Eliot Gardiner expressed regret after he was accused of lashing out at a singer after a concert in France, and he withdrew from the rest of a planned tour.
  
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• Bruce Davidson Digs Deep and Finds Gems He Had Overlooked

  24-08-2023 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  In the exhibition “The Way Back,” the photographer presents unseen outtakes from his nearly 70-year career as a chronicler of American life.
  
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• Bucktown Arts Fest Will Feature Almost 200 Artists This Weekend - Block Club Chicago

  24-08-2023 14:33 via news.google.com
  
  Bucktown Arts Fest Will Feature Almost 200 Artists This Weekend  Block Club Chicago
  
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• Florence’s Vasari Corridor Vandalized, OpenSea Exec Sentenced for Insider Trading, and More: Morning Links for August 24, 2023

  24-08-2023 14:21 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTOURISTS ALLEGEDLY BEHAVING BADLY. Columns along the Vasari Corridor, which connects the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, with the Boboli Gardens, were hit with graffiti, the Associated Press reports, and two vacationing Germans have been accused of doing it. The Uffizi’s director, Eike Schmidt, issued
  
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• Jacobite Hero Bonnie Prince Charlie Gets a Fresh Face, Acne and All

  24-08-2023 14:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The prince, Charles Edward Stuart, led a Jacobite uprising in the Scottish Highlands in 1745. A new recreation of his face seeks to humanize the man behind the legend.
  
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• ‘Piaffe’ Review: A Sound Obsession

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this beautiful and beguiling tale of transformation, a young woman’s altered body unlocks her true self.
  
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• ‘Perpetrator’ Review: Campy, Creepy and Buckets of Blood

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  High school horror gets a supernatural twist in this ultragory feature.
  
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• ‘Before, Now & Then’ Review: Love and War

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Set amid the upheaval of 1960s Indonesia, this drama tells the story of a woman caught in an unhappy marriage and haunted by the traumas of war.
  
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• ‘Golda’ Review: Chain-Smoking Through the Guilt

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Helen Mirren, under heavy prosthetics, channels the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in this wartime biopic.
  
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• ‘Brief Encounters’ and ‘The Long Farewell’ Review: Kira Muratova’s Soulful Soviet Dramas

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A pair of newly restored films from Kira Muratova about restless, disaffected women hold a special, subversive power.
  
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• ‘Bottoms’ Review: Physical Education

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this buddy comedy, senior outcasts played by Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri attempt to woo two cheerleaders through a fight club.
  
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• ‘Blue Box’ Review: Grappling With an Ancestor’s Impact

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this documentary, Michal Weits tries to process her ideas about her great-grandfather Joseph Weits, who was regarded as the father of Israeli forests.
  
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• ‘Bank of Dave’ Review: A Dave and Goliath Story

  24-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This sometimes sleepy feel-good drama follows the story of a working-class man’s battle against London’s financial elite.
  
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• A ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘And Just Like That ...’ Fan Reflects

  24-08-2023 11:25 via nytimes.com
  
  An unexpected fan of “Sex and the City” reflects on the impact the series and its sequel “And Just Like That …” had on his life and, ultimately, his move to New York City.
  
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• Honey, I Blew Up the Family Film

  24-08-2023 11:24 via nytimes.com
  
  What ever happened to the live-action adventures and G-rated titles adults and children could watch together in the theater?
  
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• Mobile industry expo connects community with leaders in creative arts - Alabama Public Radio

  24-08-2023 11:05 via news.google.com
  Mobile industry expo connects community with leaders in creative arts  Alabama Public Radio
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo Goes Into Rock Star Mode with ‘Guts’

  24-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  After the blockbuster success of her debut LP, “Sour,” and its smash “Drivers License,” the 20-year-old cranks up the volume and digs deep for its powerful follow-up, “Guts.”
  
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• James McBride Doesn’t Read Reviews. Here’s Why.

  24-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His latest novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” has received a number of raves, but the veteran novelist will respectfully avoid them.
  
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• Jaimie Branch Adds to a Brilliant Legacy With Fly or Die’s Final LP

  24-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The trumpeter, who died a year ago at 39, recorded “Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War))” with her quartet in April 2022.
  
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• Imprinted by Belief: An Essay Series on American Literature and Faith

  24-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An essay series on American literature and faith.
  
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• ‘Gran Turismo’ Review: Once Upon a Pair of Sticks

  24-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A popular racing video game series gets turned into an underdog sports drama in this big-screen adaptation.
  
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• Face of Jacobite Hero ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ Recreated From Death Masks

  24-08-2023 10:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The prince, Charles Edward Stuart, led a Jacobite rising in the Scottish Highlands in 1745. A new recreation of his face seeks to humanize the man behind the legend.
  
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• Moss Arts Center hosts free community celebration; more ... - Cardinal News

  24-08-2023 09:45 via news.google.com
  
  Moss Arts Center hosts free community celebration; more ...  Cardinal News
  
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