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• The Barefoot Memoirist: Ina Garten Takes Her Story to a New Publisher

  15-02-2024 23:42 via nytimes.com
  Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.
  
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• Liberal Arts to Train Up to Arkansas Derby - BloodHorse.com

  15-02-2024 23:28
  
  Liberal Arts to Train Up to Arkansas Derby  BloodHorse.com
  
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• Pro-Palestine Demonstrators Protest at Art Gallery of Ontario, Marching Through KAWS Show

  15-02-2024 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  Dozens of pro-Palestine demonstrators protested on Tuesday at Canada’s Art Gallery of Ontario, where they marched through a vast KAWS show that is currently on view.Walking amid the artist’s signature sculptures of cartoonish figures with Xed out eyes, the protestors held signs that referred to the departure of Wanda Nanibush, a curator of Indigenous art who abruptly left the museum last year.Although director Stephan Jost said that Nanibush’s departure was done by “mutua
  
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• Apple Music Removes Ye’s ‘Vultures 1,’ Then Restores It

  15-02-2024 23:16 via nytimes.com
  On Thursday, the streaming platform took down “Vultures 1” after the LP’s distributor, Fuga, said its upload violated a service agreement. The album, which is on pace to hit No. 1, later returned to the service.
  
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• Apple Music Removes Ye’s “Vultures 1” Amid Distributor Dispute

  15-02-2024 23:16 via nytimes.com
  On Thursday, the streaming platform took down “Vultures 1” after the LP’s distributor, Fuga, said its upload violated a service agreement. The album, which is on pace to hit No. 1, later returned to the service.
  
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• A.I. Art That’s More Than a Gimmick? Meet AARON

  15-02-2024 22:47 via nytimes.com
  The British painter Harold Cohen spent over four decades refining his collaborator: an image-generating robot.
  
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• What to Watch This Weekend: An Icy Adventure

  15-02-2024 22:14 via nytimes.com
  The star of “Free Solo” explores Greenland’s imperiled glaciers in the docuseries “Arctic Ascent With Alex Honnold,” now on Hulu.
  
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• Arts Council England Sparks Ire with Guidance on “Political Statements” – Artforum - Artforum

  15-02-2024 21:44
  
  Arts Council England Sparks Ire with Guidance on “Political Statements” – Artforum  Artforum
  
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• Rome’s Basilica Ulpia Gets a Controversial Makeover Thanks to a Russian Oligarch

  15-02-2024 21:30 via artnews.com
  
  A towering section of the storied Basilica Ulpia in Rome has been rebuilt, sparking mixed reactions from historians and causing others to question whether the project’s funding was appropriate.The structure stands more than 75 feet tall and was funded by a €1.5 million ($1.6 million) donation from Alisher Usmanov, a powerful Russian figure with close ties to Putin that the Official Journal of the European Union referred to Usmanov as “one of Vladimir Putin’s favo
  
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• SpaceX Rocket Carrying Jeff Koons’s 125 Moon Sculptures Finally Takes Off

  15-02-2024 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  After many delays, Jeff Koons’s 125 sculptures were finally sent to the moon early this morning from Cape Canaveral at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The initiative, known as “The Moon Phases Project,” was first announced in 2022 and is centered around a collection of NFTs. The original plan was for the physical works to land on the moon in July that year, with NFTs available through Pace Verso, Pace Gallery’s NFT platform. After many fits and starts, Koons
  
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• Tobias Menzies on ‘The Crown’ and His Role in ‘The Hunt’

  15-02-2024 20:29 via nytimes.com
  The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on “The Crown.” And now he brings that stoicism to “The Hunt,” onstage in Brooklyn.
  
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• ‘The Dynasty’ Got the Secretive New England Patriots to Speak

  15-02-2024 19:58 via nytimes.com
  For an Apple TV+ docuseries, the tight-lipped sports franchise provided insight into six Super Bowl victories as well as darker moments.
  
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• UNESCO Reports 341 Cultural Sites in Ukraine Damaged, Puts Recovery Costs at $9 B.

  15-02-2024 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  Last April, UNESCO reported that 248 heritage sites in Ukraine had been damaged amid Russia’s 2022 invasion, and estimated that the total cost of destruction to Ukrainian cultural property was $2.5 billion. Now, two years into the war, the United Nations’ cultural agency has added nearly one hundred landmarks to that toll, and raised its estimate of financial losses to nearly $3.5 billion.341 cultural sites—including 26 religious structures, 150 buildings of historical or
  
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• With $60 Million Gift, San Francisco Ballet Plans Focus on New Works

  15-02-2024 19:40 via nytimes.com
  The transformative contribution, from an anonymous donor, is the largest in the company’s 91-year history and one of the biggest ever to an American dance group.
  
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• Arts Council England to update ‘activist statements’ guidance after backlash - The Guardian

  15-02-2024 19:05
  Arts Council England to update ‘activist statements’ guidance after backlash  The Guardian
  
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• Arts & Culture: The Secret Lives of Books - The Commentator - The Commentator

  15-02-2024 19:00
  
  Arts & Culture: The Secret Lives of Books - The Commentator  The Commentator
  
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• Affordable Art for the Home From $15–$5000

  15-02-2024 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. Given that works of art can fetch millions, tens of millions, and even hundreds of millions of dollars, the average person who wants to brighten up their place with art may well despair that they’ll never be able to own anything other than a cheap repro of Monet waterlilies. But is it really true that good art is beyond the reach of ordinary mortals? Wel
  
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• Jeff Koons Sculptures Hitch Ride on SpaceX Rocket to the Moon

  15-02-2024 18:50 via nytimes.com
  The artist has packed 125 stainless steel sculptures of the moon inside a lunar lander headed into space.
  
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• ‘The Arc of Oblivion’ Review: Trying to Stop a Future Tide

  15-02-2024 18:44 via nytimes.com
  A documentary about building an ark turns into a funny, thoughtful rumination on the nature of human preservation.
  
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• Fire destroys Dancheck’s Extinguisher, mixed martial arts studio - The Times Leader

  15-02-2024 18:24
  Fire destroys Dancheck’s Extinguisher, mixed martial arts studio  The Times Leader
  
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• Sotheby’s New Fee Structure is a Big Gamble

  15-02-2024 17:31 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.Auction math has long been as much alchemy as calculus. So, when Sotheby’s announced a new fee structure set to go into effect after this May’s sale season, the art market’s rumor mill went into overdrive.To recap, the restructure will decrease the buyer’s premium&mdash
  
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• ‘Onlookers’ Review: Portraits of Picture Takers

  15-02-2024 17:21 via nytimes.com
  This experimental nonfiction feature from Kimi Takesue aims to reflect on travel and tourism in Laos, but offers few striking images.
  
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• Following Yoko Ono’s Anarchic Instructions

  15-02-2024 17:16 via nytimes.com
  A major retrospective at Tate Modern instructs visitors to draw their own shadows, shake hands through a canvas and imagine paintings in their heads.
  
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• Some of the British Museum’s Stolen Gems are Now on Display

  15-02-2024 17:09 via nytimes.com
  The British Museum recovered more than 350 ancient artifacts that were looted from its store rooms and is putting some on show.
  
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• Review: ‘I Love You So Much I Could Die,’ an Experiment in Distance

  15-02-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  Mona Pirnot’s crisis-centered play uses all its resources to keep the audience at a physical and emotional remove from her sorrow.
  
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• What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in February

  15-02-2024 16:27 via nytimes.com
  This week, Martha Schwendener covers Astrid Klein’s “photoworks,” the group show “Godzilla,” featuring Asian American artists, David Levine’s hypnotic volumetric projection and Theaster Gates’s first solo at White Cube.
  
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• Review: Twyla Tharp From Three Sides Now

  15-02-2024 16:03 via nytimes.com
  Her program at the Joyce Theater features an extroverted dance from 1975 and two new works: an introspective solo to Jacques Brel and an antic look at a choreographer creating.
  
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• The National Book Awards Opens Up to Writers Who Are Not U.S. Citizens

  15-02-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The awards, which celebrate the best of American literature, are expanding the definition of who qualifies.
  
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• ‘Blind Injustice’ Opera Spotlights Wrongful Imprisonment

  15-02-2024 15:34 via nytimes.com
  “Blind Injustice,” which is being staged at Montclair State University, tells the stories of people freed with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project.
  
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• Jeff Koons Sends Sculptures to Space, Modigliani Restituted Thanks to AI-backed Research, 341 Ukrainian Heritage Sites Damaged, and More: Morning Links for February 15, 2024

  15-02-2024 14:43 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.HEADLINESSLIPPERY SLOPE. The Arts Council England (ACE) is facing criticism over a new, hot-button policy warning UK arts organization it funds, against making “political statements.” On January 28, the government agency updated its policies with a section on “reputational risk,” urging cultural institutions not to voice
  
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• ‘The 2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Small Running Times, Large Themes

  15-02-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Many of this year’s films take a darker turn, but there is some levity among the bunch.
  
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• ‘Monolith’ Review: Friend of the Pod People

  15-02-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Lily Sullivan plays a podcaster investigating a supernatural mystery in this thriller from Matt Vesely.
  
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• ‘God & Country’ Review: One Nation, Under the Cross

  15-02-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Dan Partland’s blunt documentary follows the rise of Christian nationalist voters and argues that they threaten pluralism and democracy.
  
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• ‘Land of Bad’ Review: Tech Ops in the Jungle

  15-02-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Fighters on the ground, assisted by drone pilots, including Russell Crowe, half a world away — in Las Vegas.
  
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• Review: ‘The Vince Staples Show’ Is a Hip-Hop Head Trip

  15-02-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Netflix adds to the rap-comedy canon with five episodes that showcase the star’s absurdist, deadpan sensibility.
  
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• Schubert’s Operas Were Failures. Is Their Music Worth Saving?

  15-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote.
  
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• Stanley Whitney, Trailblazer and Rule-Breaker, Gets a Fabulous Retrospective at Long Last

  15-02-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  By design, grids are cold, ordered, inflexible, unfeeling things. In most cases, their rigorous systems leave little room for creativity. “It is what art looks like when it turns its back on nature,” art historian Rosalind Krauss famously wrote in “Grids,” her 1979 essay about the format.But in the hands of painter Stanley Whitney, the rules of the grid exist to be subverted. Irregular squares of Day-Glo green, neon red, dandelion yellow, cyan blue, and other hues are sta
  
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• Interview: Ed Zwick

  15-02-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel: Tom Suozzi Has ‘Very Big Clown Shoes to Fill’

  15-02-2024 08:25 via nytimes.com
  Kimmel joked that New York’s special House election results had to be verified “to make sure the winner wasn’t George Santos in disguise.”
  
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• At the Berlin Film Festival, Tension Onscreen and Behind the Scenes

  15-02-2024 06:01 via nytimes.com
  The final edition overseen by a pair of once celebrated festival directors starts Thursday. Their successor will face financial headwinds and political hurdles.
  
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• 8,200-Year-Old Rock Art Identified in Patagonia, Argentina

  15-02-2024 04:37 via artnews.com
  
  A remote cave in Argentina, was recently identified as the site of one of the earliest known examples of rock art in Patagonia, which was among the last places on the planet to be settled by humans. The cave art was previously thought to have been made within the last few thousand years.The Cueva Huenul 1 site contains almost 900 paintings of human figures, animals, and abstract designs. One mysterious comblike pattern, a study recently published in Science Advances found, was made roughly 8,200
  
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• Beyoncé Fan’s Radio Request Reignites Country Music Debate

  15-02-2024 03:13 via nytimes.com
  A fan asked his Oklahoma radio station to play a new Beyoncé song. The request was rejected, spurring hundreds of calls and emails about the exclusion of Black musicians from the genre.
  
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• Activists Protest at MoMA on Valentine’s Day Over Donor Henry Kravis

  15-02-2024 02:21 via artnews.com
  
  Activists protested at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Valentine’s Day with demands that the institution cut ties with Henry Kravis, co-founder of investment firm KKR & Co., and his wife Marie-Josée Kravis.In addition to Marie-Josée Kravis’s position as museum board chair, the couple have donated millions of dollars to the institution. In a press release, the activists accused KKR of earning “profits from exploitative business practices and investments
  
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• Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholars Program | Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship - University of Colorado Boulder

  15-02-2024 00:57
  
  Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholars Program | Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship  University of Colorado Boulder
  
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• ‘Bleeding Love’ Review: Ewan and Clara McGregor, on the Road

  15-02-2024 00:21 via nytimes.com
  Ewan McGregor plays father to his real-life daughter Clara McGregor in this indie road-trip movie that’s also a meandering journey to healing.
  
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