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• The Documentary Aleksei Navalny Knew We’d Watch After His Death

  16-02-2024 23:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The Oscar-winning film followed the dissident after an attempt on his life. It played like a thriller at the time; today it feels even more chilling.
  
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• Investec Cape Town Art Fair Opens Its 11th Edition, With an Emphasis on Highlighting South Africa’s Local Art Scene

  16-02-2024 23:45 via artnews.com
  
  “Let’s keep in touch,” reads an inscription on a pink ceramic vessel by Cape Town–based sculptor Githan Coopoo that has been placed near the entrance to the Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Coopoo’s optimistic sentiment was palpable in the Cape Town International Convention Centre during the VIP preview on Thursday for the fair’s 11th edition, which includes more than 100 exhibitors from 24 countries. The energy had actually started a few days earlier as the Mothe
  
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• Investec Cape Town Art Fair Opens 11th Edition, with an Emphasis on Highlighting South Africa’s Local Art Scene

  16-02-2024 23:45 via artnews.com
  
  “Let’s keep in touch,” reads an inscription on a pink ceramic vessel by Cape Town–based sculptor Githan Coopoo that has been placed near the entrance to the Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Coopoo’s optimistic sentiment was palpable in the Cape Town International Convention Centre during the VIP preview on Thursday for the fair’s 11th edition, which includes more than 100 exhibitors from 24 countries. The energy had actually started a few days earlier as the Mothe
  
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• Bored Ape Yacht Club Creator Yuga Labs Acquires Rival NFT Company Proof

  16-02-2024 23:29 via artnews.com
  
  Yuga Labs, the web3 and lifestyle company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, recently announced it had acquired rival non-fungible token creator Proof. Proof is best known for Moonbirds, a collection of NFT profile pics known as PFPs. The Proof acquisition includes its team, intellectual property, and artistic portfolio, including the Oddities NFTs, Mythics PFPs, and Grails exhibition series. In addition to Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs is known creating the metaverse game Otherside, blockchain
  
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• 'Arts Every Day' students share art as part of MICA partnership - WBAL TV Baltimore

  16-02-2024 23:03
  
  'Arts Every Day' students share art as part of MICA partnership  WBAL TV Baltimore
  
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• ‘Feud’ Creates Nostalgia for Old-School Museum Galas, Where the Rich and Famous Partied

  16-02-2024 22:48 via artnews.com
  
  Collectors, fashion designers, and more gathered at these events, which were essential to forming New York's social scene.
  
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• What Exactly Is Jennifer Lopez’s “This Is Me ... Now: A Love Story?”

  16-02-2024 22:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Yes, Ben Affleck is in it, as are many of J. Lo’s famous friends. Here’s what to know about “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.”
  
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• The ARTnews Guide to a Great Day at Frieze LA

  16-02-2024 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  In a little over a week, Frieze Los Angeles returns for its fifth edition, and its second at the Santa Monica Airport. With its move further west from its previous outings in Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Frieze LA is now much closer to LA’s westside neighborhoods, like Brentwood and Venice, and not that far from the beach. Use this handy guide as a cheat sheet not just for highlights of the art on view, but for where to go before and after a day at the fair, which opens to VIPs on February
  
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• Cache Valley performing arts groups join forces as new Tri-Theatre Alliance - Cache Valley Daily

  16-02-2024 22:01
  
  Cache Valley performing arts groups join forces as new Tri-Theatre Alliance  Cache Valley Daily
  
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• Celebrating arts and culture in Santa Monica - santamonica.gov

  16-02-2024 21:49
  
  Celebrating arts and culture in Santa Monica  santamonica.gov
  
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• Brian Wilson’s Family Seeks Conservatorship for a Beach Boys Founder

  16-02-2024 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Wilson, whose musical genius powered the Beach Boys, has dementia, according to his publicist. His wife, Melinda, died last month.
  
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• Applications for Wyoming Arts Council Folk and Traditional Arts Mentoring Project Grant - Wyoming News Now

  16-02-2024 21:42
  Applications for Wyoming Arts Council Folk and Traditional Arts Mentoring Project Grant  Wyoming News Now
  
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• Calendar: Every Major Art Fair Taking Place in 2024

  16-02-2024 21:30 via artnews.com
  
  Last year saw the art world reach a new peak in art fair saturation with the introduction of two major fairs in Asia, ART SG in Singapore and Tokyo Gendai in Yokohama. 2024 promises to be just as packed, with Frieze increasingly integrating its new acquisitions—the Armory Show and EXPO Chicago—into its overall strategy.Below, a look at the most important fairs taking place this year.
  
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• Meet Tyamica Mabry, the 2024 Eno Arts Mill BIPOC Artist in Residence - Chapelboro.com

  16-02-2024 21:18
  
  Meet Tyamica Mabry, the 2024 Eno Arts Mill BIPOC Artist in Residence  Chapelboro.com
  
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• Former Poet Laureate Reflects on Arts, Life in Norfolk - VisitNorfolk - VisitNorfolk

  16-02-2024 21:15
  
  Former Poet Laureate Reflects on Arts, Life in Norfolk - VisitNorfolk  VisitNorfolk
  
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• Auriea Harvey Has Been Breaking the Internet for Three Decades

  16-02-2024 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  As digital art has consistently made headlines over the last few years—from the onslaught of NFTs to revisiting pioneers in the field to showcasing tech artists—it has taken the art world by storm. Given this recent upswing in interest, there’s still much to discover, particularly the artists who have been quietly pushing the bounds and formats of the medium for decades. Auriea Harvey is one such exemplar. If you’ve never heard of her, you’re probably not alone.Harv
  
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• From Sketch to Finish at SAGE Community Arts - Sheridan Media

  16-02-2024 20:16
  
  From Sketch to Finish at SAGE Community Arts  Sheridan Media
  
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• Diane Willcox announces retirement from Midland Center for the Arts - Midland Daily News

  16-02-2024 20:04
  
  Diane Willcox announces retirement from Midland Center for the Arts  Midland Daily News
  
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• Review: A Former ‘Riverdance’ Star Reclaims Irish Heritage

  16-02-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean Butler’s “What We Hold,” at the Irish Arts Center, is an installation-like work that seeks restrained classicism in a post-“Riverdance” world.
  
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• 7 Stellar Songs for a Saturn Return

  16-02-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Inspired by Kacey Musgraves’s latest single, hear tracks by No Doubt, Stevie Wonder, R.E.M. and more.
  
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• Brian Wilson’s Family Seeks a Conservatorship

  16-02-2024 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Wilson, whose musical genius powered the Beach Boys, has “a major neurocognitive disorder,” according to court records. His wife, Melinda, died last month.
  
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• Music education, support networks, and continuity are key factors regulating adolescents' arts participation, says study - Phys.org

  16-02-2024 19:50
  
  Music education, support networks, and continuity are key factors regulating adolescents' arts participation, says study  Phys.org
  
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• Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale in London

  16-02-2024 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s big 20th and 21st century art sales in London this year will be led by two landscapes: a dynamic and passionate Francis Bacon and a wistful Monet, both of which have not been seen at auction in quite some time.The Bacon, Landscape near Malabata, Tangier (1963), is estimated at £15 million-£20 million. It was painted as a tribute to Peter Lacy, with whom the artist had a years-long passionate, and often abusive, relationship. Bacon made the paintin
  
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• Which Oscar Snubs Still Make You Mad? We Want to Know.

  16-02-2024 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Greta Gerwig wasn’t the first omission to tick us off. Are you still stewing over “Pulp Fiction” losing to “Forrest Gump” or Marilyn Monroe never getting a nod? Tell us more.
  
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• Beyoncé Rolls Into Her Country Era, and 10 More New Songs

  16-02-2024 19:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Vampire Weekend, Pearl Jam, Saya Gray and others.
  
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• Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority May Soon Run out of Funding

  16-02-2024 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA), an arts hub in Hong Kong which operates the M+ museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum, will run out of funding next March and may need to acquire additional loans if a new finance plan is not approved by the city’s government. That was the warning from WKCDA CEO Betty Fung on February 14 in regard to the status of the hub’s HK$21.6 billion (approximately USD$2.75 billion) funding, endowed by the city’s legislature in 2008. F
  
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• Young Artists Make Back-to-Back Debuts at the Philharmonic

  16-02-2024 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s two-week Philharmonic residency included the arrivals of the violinist Esther Yoo and the pianist Bruce Liu.
  
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• How Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar Was Found Five Decades Later

  16-02-2024 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The Höfner violin bass that accompanied the Beatles to fame went missing more than 50 years ago. Two journalists and a Höfner expert were determined to find it.
  
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• Review: Sarah Snook Is a Darkly Funny Dorian Gray

  16-02-2024 18:05 via nytimes.com
  
  In a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Snook plays all the characters — with the help of screens.
  
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• Martin Scorsese Narrates a Scene From ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

  16-02-2024 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The director narrates a “circular ballet” sequence where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Ernest Burkhart, is taken in for questioning.
  
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• ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  16-02-2024 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Martin Scorsese narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.
  
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• Bellevue Arts Museum Seeks Support from Community Amid Financial Crisis - Downtown Bellevue Network

  16-02-2024 17:51
  
  Bellevue Arts Museum Seeks Support from Community Amid Financial Crisis  Downtown Bellevue Network
  
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• Alexei Ratmansky Unleashes the Pain of the War in Ukraine at NYC Ballet

  16-02-2024 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Solitude,” a stellar, haunting work that had its premiere on Thursday, New York City Ballet’s artist in residence brings a photograph to life.
  
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• Portland Museum of Art to Cut 13 Positions, Citing Pandemic Fallout

  16-02-2024 17:20 via artnews.com
  
  The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine is cutting 13 positions due to the lingering finance impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, local news outlets report. The layoffs will include salaried and part-time employees, as museum management is seeking to reduce the nearly 70 percent of its operating budget dedicated to wages. “The museum was fortunate to receive ERC credits and PPP loans to maintain staffing and programmatic growth during unprecedented times, but the multi-year positiv
  
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• Mrvan honors African Americans and the arts during Black History Month - The Chicago Cusader

  16-02-2024 17:11
  
  Mrvan honors African Americans and the arts during Black History Month  The Chicago Cusader
  
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• 8 Documentaries About True Love and Relationships

  16-02-2024 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  These movies go beyond examining a relationship to reveal the glories, discontents and more about romance.
  
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• Arts Playlist: Comedian Dan Bell's Dream Big Performing Arts Center sees early success in Delmar - Delaware First Media

  16-02-2024 15:50
  
  Arts Playlist: Comedian Dan Bell's Dream Big Performing Arts Center sees early success in Delmar  Delaware First Media
  
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• 10 Martial Arts Stars Who Are Surprisingly Good At Comedy - Screen Rant

  16-02-2024 15:45
  
  10 Martial Arts Stars Who Are Surprisingly Good At Comedy  Screen Rant
  
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• Met Names Co-Chairs for 2024 Gala ‘The Garden of Time’

  16-02-2024 15:38 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Thursday its co-chairs for the 2024 Met Gala. Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth will join Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour as co-chairs for this year’s Costume Institute Benefit, which will have “The Garden of Time” as its theme.   The theme is inspired by the upcoming “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” spring exhibition, which will open to the public on May 10. As
  
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• Does LACMA Have a Looted Art Problem?

  16-02-2024 15:32 via artnews.com
  
  Michael Phillips — producer of The Sting, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — learned in early January 2023 that a Buddha sculpture he owned was plundered. An anonymous online activist collective, Lost Arts of Nepal, had publicized a previously published photo of the object, residing on a low glass table in his Beverly Hills living room, alongside another, older picture revealing it ensconced at the base of a temple monument in Bungamati, a t
  
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• Bellevue Arts Museum faces 'dire' financial crisis - The Seattle Times

  16-02-2024 15:00
  
  Bellevue Arts Museum faces 'dire' financial crisis  The Seattle Times
  
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• Arts All-Star: Sophia Gondek - WWNY

  16-02-2024 14:49
  
  Arts All-Star: Sophia Gondek  WWNY
  
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• Arts Alive! podcast: Bryan J. Hughes - St Pete Catalyst

  16-02-2024 14:49
  
  Arts Alive! podcast: Bryan J. Hughes  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Insurer Says Selfie ‘Pandemic’ Threatens Artworks, Met Names Gala Co-Chairs, Arts Council England to Revise Controversial Warning, and More: Morning Links for February 16, 2024

  16-02-2024 14:46 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.HEADLINESBACK TO DRAWING BOARD. The Arts Council England is backtracking, and has announced it will revise its recently updated, controversial guidelines for funding arts institutions, which had warned against making “overtly political or activist” statements. Their announcement comes following backlash to the new policy, which has been
  
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• The Center for the Arts announces Penntucky Country Music Series series at Penn Valley Rodeo Grounds - YubaNet

  16-02-2024 14:04
  
  The Center for the Arts announces Penntucky Country Music Series series at Penn Valley Rodeo Grounds  YubaNet
  
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• As 'fresh' as ever, Coconut Grove Arts Festival celebrates 60 years in Miami - WLRN

  16-02-2024 14:00
  
  As 'fresh' as ever, Coconut Grove Arts Festival celebrates 60 years in Miami  WLRN
  
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• Class Act: Students at Newark Arts High School determined to chase their dreams - CBS New York

  16-02-2024 13:17
  
  Class Act: Students at Newark Arts High School determined to chase their dreams  CBS New York
  
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• Roots Music Project and Boulder Arts Commission Offer Rent-Free Music Performance Space to Community Groups - City of Boulder

  16-02-2024 13:00
  
  Roots Music Project and Boulder Arts Commission Offer Rent-Free Music Performance Space to Community Groups  City of Boulder
  
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• Chicanx Artists rafa esparza and Guadalupe Rosales Reflect on Their Relationships to Mexico

  16-02-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  After a visit to Mexico, I often return to the immortal words of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, whose groundbreaking 1998 essay-memoir-poetry collection Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza articulated what it means to be Chicanx and live on the US-side of the US-Mexico border. “Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them,” she wrote nearly three decades ago. While a border serves as “a dividing line,” a borderland is &ldq
  
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• Class Act: Students call Newark Arts High School a "blessing" and "dream come true" - CBS New York

  16-02-2024 12:50
  
  Class Act: Students call Newark Arts High School a "blessing" and "dream come true"  CBS New York
  
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