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• Park Seo-Bo, Whose Quiet Paintings Trumpeted Korean Art, Dies at 91

  23-10-2023 23:58 via nytimes.com
  
  With monochromatic works and the instincts of an avid self-promoter, he helped introduce his country’s art to the world, but not without personal struggle.
  
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• Israeli Museum Directors Call for ICOM to Denounce Hamas

  23-10-2023 23:07 via artnews.com
  
  A group of Israeli museum directors have called on the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to condemn the October 7 Hamas attack.The call was circulated in an open letter that was dated October 21 and signed by more than 20 museum leaders who oversee cultural institutions in Israel. Among the letter’s signatories are ICOM Israel’s leader, Raz Samira, as well as Israel Museum director Suzanne Landau, Tel Aviv Museum of Art director Tania Coen-Uzzielli, and Haifa Museums director Y
  
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• 92NY Halts Literary Series After Pulling Author Critical of Israel

  23-10-2023 22:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The organization put the series on pause after several writers withdrew from events to protest its decision not to hold a reading last week with an author who had criticized Israel.
  
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• Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94

  23-10-2023 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.
  
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• Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival.

  23-10-2023 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer got his start in the 2010s connecting underground electronic sounds and hip-hop. His first album, “Revanchist,” embraces a long-derided genre of dance music.
  
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• Evian Christ Is Proudly Part of Trance Music’s Revival

  23-10-2023 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer got his start in the 2010s connecting underground electronic sounds and hip-hop. His first album, “Revanchist,” embraces a long-derided genre of dance music.
  
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• 92NY Halts Reading Series After Pulling Author Critical of Israel

  23-10-2023 22:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The organization put its literary series on pause after several writers said they would withdraw from events to protest the Y’s decision not to hold an event last week with an author who had criticized Israel.
  
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• Studio Museum in Harlem Director Thelma Golden Wins $250,000 Prize

  23-10-2023 22:23 via artnews.com
  
  Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, has won the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with $250,000 and recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to the arts.Golden has led the Studio Museum since 2005 and has in that time vastly expanded the institution. It is only continuing to physically grow and is currently in the process of moving into a new home on West 125th Street.Prior to joining the Studio Museum, she
  
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• From New York to Dubai, Museums Weigh in on Violence in Gaza and Israel

  23-10-2023 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  As Israel continues to launch airstrikes on Gaza following an attack by the militant group Hamas, a growing number of arts institutions, organizations, and prominent arts professionals are weighing in on the conflict.On October 7, Hamas led on an attack on Israel that involved killing 1,400 citizens were murdered, wounding 3,500 more, and taking more than 200 hostages. (Just a few have been released.) Israel’s military responded by cutting off food, water, and electricity, and launched sus
  
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• The Rock’s Wax Figure Will Get Redo, Museum Says

  23-10-2023 22:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The Grévin Museum in Paris said it is “improving” a likeness of Dwayne Johnson that one online critic called “melanin deficient.”
  
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• Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald begins a new chapter - The Seattle Times

  23-10-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
  Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald begins a new chapter  The Seattle Times
  
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• REX's transformative design application shines at Lindemann ... - The Architect's Newspaper

  23-10-2023 21:49 via news.google.com
  REX's transformative design application shines at Lindemann ...  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Original Version of Censored Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Makes Its Debut

  23-10-2023 21:41 via artnews.com
  
  A new exhibit is showing the original version of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Allegory of the Inclination after it was censored for its nudity more than 300 years ago. The Italian Baroque artist was first commissioned by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, the nephew of Renaissance master, in 1618 to contribute a work to Casa Buonarroti. The portrait of the female nude holding a compass was installed on the ceiling of the palace in Florence, Gentileschi’s first commission in the
  
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• Who Is Jackson Mahomes and Why Are Taylor Swift’s Fans Concerned?

  23-10-2023 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Taylor Swift spent Sunday’s game in Kansas City, Mo., in a suite with Mr. Mahomes, an influencer known for problematic behavior and a sexual battery arrest.
  
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• Review: These Art-Historical Nudes Become Bodies in Time

  23-10-2023 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Spare and simple, “Aging Prelude” at the Chocolate Factory is a new beginning for the choreographic duo Chameckilerner.
  
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• Human and Animal Sculptures Unearthed in Turkey are the Earliest Examples of Prehistoric Art

  23-10-2023 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists in Turkey have found some of the earliest examples of sculptures at prehistoric sites that may be connected to the bible, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which oversaw the excavations,announced late last month.At the Karahan Tepe site in southeastern Turkey, experts found a human effigy measuring over seven feet tall. Dubbed “one of the most realistic sculptures of the period” by the ministry, the sculpture depicts a man with realistic facial expressions,
  
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• Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer’ Hits No. 1 after Four Years

  23-10-2023 19:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The song from Swift’s 2019 album, “Lover,” is a fan favorite that took on new life during her record-breaking Eras Tour. On the album chart, Bad Bunny debuts at the top.
  
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• Swiss Museum Reaches Last-Minute Restitution Agreement Over Cézanne Painting Headed to Christie’s

  23-10-2023 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  Museum Langmatt announced last month that it would be selling up to three Paul Cézanne masterworks in its collection at Christie’s upcoming 20th Century evening sale in New York in November. But, on Monday, the museum said that presale provenance research found evidence that the sale’s star lot Fruits et pot de gingembre (1890-1893) may have been sold to the institution under duress.The Baden, Switzerland-based institution said it has since reached out to the heirs of Jacob Go
  
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• Cézanne Masterpiece to be Offered During Christie’s Fall Evening Sale Subject to Last Minute Restitution Agreement

  23-10-2023 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  Museum Langmatt announced last month that it would be selling up to three Paul Cézanne masterworks in its collection at Christie’s upcoming 20th Century evening sale in New York in November. But, on Monday, the museum said that presale provenance research found evidence that the sale’s star lot Fruits et pot de gingembre (1890-1893) may have been sold to the institution under duress.The Baden, Switzerland-based institution said it has since reached out to the heirs of Jacob Go
  
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• Review: Years Late, a Young Pianist Finally Gets to Carnegie

  23-10-2023 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexandre Kantorow made his Carnegie Hall recital debut after winning both the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Gilmore Artist Award.
  
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• The Top 75 Art Professionals

  23-10-2023 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  The art industry comprises an incredibly diverse tapestry of experts in all sorts of professions. There are artists who conceive the work, fabricators who help them execute it, dealers who sell it, advisers who guide collectors, lawyers who draw up contracts, shippers who cart artworks around the world, insurers who secure the work, conservators who repair the works when damaged, and many others.Once a collector amasses holdings of a certain volume, say, more than they can display in their big-c
  
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• Thelma Golden Wins Gish Prize

  23-10-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The annual prize is given to someone who has “pushed the boundaries of an art form.” Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, said it was a “total surprise.”
  
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• Review: The Great Emerson String Quartet Takes Its Final Bow

  23-10-2023 17:57 via nytimes.com
  
  A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String Quintet.
  
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• Flight of the Drones Lights Up Central Park

  23-10-2023 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The Drift collaborative orchestrated a performance art piece with light-emitting drones that mimic swarming starlings or fish — but mostly slow-motion fireworks.
  
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• The Doyenne of Classical Publicists Takes on a Final Client: Herself

  23-10-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mary Lou Falcone is stepping out of the background to raise awareness of Lewy body dementia, the neurodegenerative disease that claimed her husband.
  
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• Stolen Painting Missing Since 1945 Recovered by FBI in Chicago and Returned to Bavarian Museum

  23-10-2023 16:23 via artnews.com
  
  The Bavarian State Painting Collections recently recovered a landscape painting that had been missing since 1945 through the assistance of the FBI. Originally part of the collection of the New Bayreuth Palace, Landscape of Italian Character by Viennese artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer was reported as a war loss after the Second World War. The artwork had been in the publicly-accessible Lost Art database of the German Lost Art Foundation since 2012. Research and recovery work by the specialis
  
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• On-campus festival celebrates the arts - University of Georgia

  23-10-2023 14:58 via news.google.com
  
  On-campus festival celebrates the arts  University of Georgia
  
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• Dobbins Airman Shares Wanderlust and Dreams of Digital Arts - Minuteman

  23-10-2023 14:35 via news.google.com
  
  Dobbins Airman Shares Wanderlust and Dreams of Digital Arts  Minuteman
  
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• National Council on the Arts to Host Public Meeting on October 27 ... - National Endowment for the Arts

  23-10-2023 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  National Council on the Arts to Host Public Meeting on October 27 ...  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• To Make ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love

  23-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The new drama, which follows a gay romance over several decades, is the first TV series created by the Oscar-winning writer of “Philadelphia."
  
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• Tourism Commission wants more transparency on hotel tax funding ... - Austin Monitor

  23-10-2023 07:04 via news.google.com
  
  Tourism Commission wants more transparency on hotel tax funding ...  Austin Monitor
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Fellow Travelers’ and ‘Winter House’

  23-10-2023 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Showtime premieres a new show about a romance in the 1950s. The Bravo reality show is back with a new cast.
  
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• ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic

  23-10-2023 05:59 via nytimes.com
  
  This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
  
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