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• UK Crime Agency Issues Alert About Art Storage Prompted by Seizure of 32 Artworks Worth $1.26 M. From Sanctioned Collector

  27-02-2024 23:05 via artnews.com
  
  The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) recently issued an “amber alert” to the art storage industry about the risk of its facilities being used for money laundering, tax evasion, and terrorist financing through its “long-term storage and concealment of high value assets by sanctioned persons”.The first case study in the agency’s 15-page alert highlighted “an investigation into a sanctioned Hezbollah financier identified approximately a million pounds sterl
  
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• New York’s School of American Ballet Celebrates 90th Anniversary

  27-02-2024 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The institution co-founded by George Balanchine celebrated at Lincoln Center on Monday night.
  
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• Criticism of Israel at Berlin Film Festival Stirs Antisemitism Debate

  27-02-2024 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The backlash to some winners’ speeches at the festival shows how polarized and fraught Germany’s culture scene has become.
  
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• Bruce Newman, Leading Man of Antiques, Dies at 94

  27-02-2024 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  He oversaw Newel Galleries and its over-the-top treasures that embellished Broadway and Hollywood sets and the living rooms of movie stars and a first lady.
  
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• Jeffrey Gibson, Jennie C. Jones Awarded 2025 Met Commissions

  27-02-2024 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed the artists selected to take over its Fifth Avenue facade and rooftop garden, two closely watched sites at the institution that host contemporary art commissions. Jeffrey Gibson, a Choctaw-Cherokee known for vibrantly colored abstract works that celebrate queer and Native identities, will be the sixth artist to transform the Met’s facade with new sculptures. He will take over the niches from South Korean sculptor Lee Bul, with plans to exhib
  
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• Italy’s Culture Minister Says Venice Biennale Won’t Exclude Israel, Calls Protest ‘Shameful’

  27-02-2024 21:42 via artnews.com
  
  Italy’s culture minister said on Tuesday that the Venice Biennale would not exclude an Israeli presence this year, even as thousands of artists signed an open letter calling for the festival to do so.That letter called Israel’s presentation at the art festival a “Genocidal Pavilion,” and accused the Biennale of “platforming a genocidal apartheid state.” It also said the Biennale exhibited a “double standard” by commenting on Russia’s invasion
  
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• Meet Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour Openers

  27-02-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 21-year-old pop star wears her influences on her sleeve and, in one particular case, books them for her live show.
  
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• Netflix Becomes a Broadway Producer With Peter Morgan’s ‘Patriots’

  27-02-2024 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The streamer is co-producing a play about Putin’s Russia from the creator of “The Crown” while also developing a screen adaptation.
  
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• Review: ‘Oh, Mary!’ Turns an Unhinged Bit Into Real Theater

  27-02-2024 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Cole Escola’s play, which imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated cabaret singer, surprisingly pulls off stretching a stupid joke to its extremes.
  
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• Eiffel Tower Reopens After Strike, but Losses Mount to Millions

  27-02-2024 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  The Eiffel Tower has reopened its iconic lattice structure to visitors after a six-day strike by employees, marking an end to a tumultuous period marred by demands for changes to the landmark’s business model and concerns over its maintenance. However, the strike has left a financial toll, with losses mounting to as much as 2 million dollars, according to statements from the tower’s operator.The operator, Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE), announced
  
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• Ethiopia Calls for Return of Looted Maqdala Artifact Headed to Sale in the UK

  27-02-2024 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  Ethiopia is calling for the return of a 19th-century shield, taken by British soldiers more than 150 years ago from its original location during a military raid.The engraved shield is part of a vast cache of royal, religious, and military artifacts looted during the Battle of Magdala in 1868, and is now headed to auction in the UK. The battle began when British forces seized a compound of the Coptic Christian Emperor Tewodros II in what was then known as Abyssinia. Released British hostages and
  
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• ‘Mary Poppins’ Gets New Age Rating in Britain for Racist Language

  27-02-2024 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical about a nanny with magical powers had been classified for all audiences since 1964, but the British Board of Film Classification has issued new guidance.
  
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• ‘Saltburn’ Mansion Has Film’s Fans Flocking to the English Countryside

  27-02-2024 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  A popular video on TikTok takes viewers to the site of Drayton House, where much of the movie was filmed.
  
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• Review: Lise Davidsen Cements Her Stardom in Met Opera’s ‘Forza’

  27-02-2024 17:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Lise Davidsen, entering the Italian repertoire at the company, was part of a superb cast as Verdi’s opera returned for the first time since 2006.
  
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• Jaap van Zweden to Lead French Orchestra After New York Philharmonic

  27-02-2024 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The conductor, whose tenure in New York ends this summer, will begin a five-year term at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in 2026.
  
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• Faye Webster Hates Attention. But Her Songs Keep Getting Bigger.

  27-02-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Music that walks the line between indie-rock and country — and her easy access to her emotions — has brought the singer-songwriter a growing fan base.
  
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• Jeff Koons’s ‘Moon Phases’ Sculptures Still Aboard Lunar Lander That May Lose Power

  27-02-2024 16:54 via artnews.com
  
  More than 100 Jeff Koons sculptures are still aboard the Nova C (Odysseus) lunar lander, which is likely to soon lose power and communication with flight control engineers. Nova C landed on the Moon’s surface on its side late last week, but according to Intuitive Machines, the company behind the lander, the craft came down on its side.The botched landing on February 22 came after its two rangefinder lasers were unable to guide the touchdown because their safety switches had been engaged, t
  
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• Painter Emma McIntyre Joins David Zwirner, Becoming the Youngest Artist on Its Roster

  27-02-2024 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Rising New Zealander artist Emma McIntyre has gotten representation with David Zwirner, one of the biggest galleries in the world. The 33-year-old painter is now the youngest artist in David Zwirner’s stable.David Zwirner, which last year mounted a McIntyre solo show in New York, will represent her in collaboration Los Angeles’s Chateau Shatto gallery and France’s Air de Paris gallery. Another David Zwirner exhibition by McIntyre is currently being planned for the gallery&rsquo
  
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• 10 Rising Dealers in Los Angeles to Know as Frieze Comes to Town

  27-02-2024 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  A number of galleries—among them, David Kordansky, Blum (formerly Blum & Poe), Regen Projects, Roberts Projects, Various Small Fires, Night Gallery, and Commonwealth and Council—have been instrumental in building up the city’s commercial scene for the past decade, but the scene is rich.But, as this year’s editions of Frieze Los Angeles at the Santa Monica Airport and Felix Art Fair at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel approaches, ARTnews catches up with ten art dealers to
  
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• French Agency Developing AlUla in Saudi Arabia Facing Internal Audit

  27-02-2024 15:52 via artnews.com
  
  Afalula, the French agency contracted to help Saudi Arabia’s Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) develop the desert region of AlUla into an arts destination, faces an internal audit, Le Monde reported last week. The news comes amidst a moment of uncertainty for the unprecedented cultural project. In January, Amr al-Madani, the former chief executive officer of the RCU, was arrested on charges of “abuse of authority and money laundering“ while in his role prior to leading AlUl
  
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• Curating change: How BIPOC-led arts organizations are reshaping the future of art - fordfoundation.org

  27-02-2024 15:33
  
  Curating change: How BIPOC-led arts organizations are reshaping the future of art  fordfoundation.org
  
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• Curating change: How BIPOC-led arts organizations are reshaping the future of art - Ford Foundation

  27-02-2024 15:33
  
  Curating change: How BIPOC-led arts organizations are reshaping the future of art  Ford Foundation
  
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• Jeffrey Gibson Will Bring Sculptures of Ancestral Spirits to Met Facade

  27-02-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Met named its 2025 art commissions, which include Gibson’s facade sculptures and a roof garden installation by the soundsmith Jennie C. Jones.
  
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• Shame’ on Those Who Silence Artists, Responds Shahzia Sikander, MoMA PS1 Protesters Demand Better Wages, Jacob Rothschild dies and More: Morning Links for February 27, 2024

  27-02-2024 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  THE HEADLINES To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.SILENCED ARTIST SPEAKS. The University of Houston (UH) has canceled an opening celebration and artist talk for the exhibition of two sculptures by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander, after an anti-abortion group said the work, including a golden statue of a woman with ram horn-like braids, was a “satanic abortio
  
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• For LA Artist Ozzie Juarez, Art Is the Vehicle to Create Community

  27-02-2024 14:15 via artnews.com
  
  Rusted metal gates have been reimagined into striking figurative paintings in an earthy shade of orange that juxtapose bold block text with dramatically rendered images of horses on battlefields, flowers, pre-Columbian mythology the Mexican flag emblem of an eagle with a serpent in its beak atop a cactus, and even characters from Dragon Ball-Z. Each canvas is adorned with barbed wire, locks, and hinges in places they don’t belong.These rustic portals bring together a roughness with a softn
  
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• Joan Semmel Details Her Painting on A.i.A.’s Latest Cover

  27-02-2024 14:01 via artnews.com
  
  Joan Semmel, whose painting Couch Diptych (2019) appears on the cover of the Spring 2024
  of Art in America, is profiled in a story by Emily Watlington. From her SoHo studio, Semmel told A.i.A. the backstory of the artwork on the cover, which is a detail of a larger work shown below in full.I use myself as a model, but I don’t think of my works as self-portraits. Portraits talk about characters in more specific ways, whereas I just use myself as the model because it’s convenient, and
  
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• Joan Semmel Describes Her Painting on Our Latest Cover

  27-02-2024 14:01 via artnews.com
  
  Joan Semmel, whose painting Couch Diptych (2019) appears on the cover of the Spring 2024
  of Art in America, is profiled in a story by Emily Watlington. From her SoHo studio, Semmel told A.i.A. the backstory of the artwork on the cover, which is a detail of a larger work shown below in full.I use myself as a model, but I don’t think of my works as self-portraits. Portraits talk about characters in more specific ways, whereas I just use myself as the model because it’s convenient, and
  
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• Spring 2024

  27-02-2024 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  A remarkable moment in Emily Watlington’s profile of Joan Semmel in this issue: it’s 1972, and Semmel has just completed a group of paintings she calls the “Erotic Series,” paintings of men and women who’d agreed to be depicted having sex in her studio. They were not works of pornography but instead an attempt to represent intimacy—still, no dealer would show them. So Semmel took matters into her own hands: she rented a New York storefront, hung her paintings,
  
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• Acclaimed Boston arts company to honor Selma movement heroes at Jubilee - AL.com

  27-02-2024 13:00
  Acclaimed Boston arts company to honor Selma movement heroes at Jubilee  AL.com
  
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• Peoria's Canvas of Dreams: Unveiling Student Talent at the Arts and Cultural Festival - BNN Breaking

  27-02-2024 12:46
  Peoria's Canvas of Dreams: Unveiling Student Talent at the Arts and Cultural Festival  BNN Breaking
  
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• Peoria Arts and Cultural Festival 2024: Art, games, food and more - KTAR.com

  27-02-2024 12:25
  
  Peoria Arts and Cultural Festival 2024: Art, games, food and more  KTAR.com
  
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• Innovation in Compliance – From Martial Arts to Business Success: Ernesto Gerado’s Journey - JD Supra

  27-02-2024 12:03
  
  Innovation in Compliance – From Martial Arts to Business Success: Ernesto Gerado’s Journey  JD Supra
  
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• Hornell aims to boost use of Community Arts Center. Here's how - Hornell Evening Tribune

  27-02-2024 11:28
  
  Hornell aims to boost use of Community Arts Center. Here's how  Hornell Evening Tribune
  
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• In Bloomfield, Families Await Memorials: A Community's Struggle with Austin Memorial Arts - BNN Breaking

  27-02-2024 11:26
  In Bloomfield, Families Await Memorials: A Community's Struggle with Austin Memorial Arts  BNN Breaking
  
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• ‘Shogun’ Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2 Recap

  27-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When an English ship pilot lands in feudal 1600s Japan, five lords must decide whether he’s an enemy or a useful pawn in their quest for power.
  
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• Aaron Lansky, of the Yiddish Book Center, Will Retire as President

  27-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Aaron Lansky spent a lifetime building the Yiddish Book Center, one of the country’s leading Jewish cultural institutions. He’s ready to hand over the reins.
  
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• In ‘The Effect,’ Investigating Love and Other Drugs

  27-02-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s 2012 play, starring Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell, heads to the Shed after a celebrated run at the National Theater, in London.
  
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• How to Create a Cozy Room That Feels Like a Hug

  27-02-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  ‘You can call it different things,’ said one designer, but it ‘all adds up to the same idea: You feel like you want to put your feet up.’
  
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• What if Mom’s Not to Blame?

  27-02-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In a recent crop of films and television shows, grown men are obsessed with their mothers — even if they’re not the monsters audiences expect them to be.
  
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• How Commonwealth and Council Gallery Built a Cult Following

  27-02-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Commonwealth and Council started in a one-bedroom apartment. Now their artists are heading to the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale and museums during Frieze.
  
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• Sargent Claude Johnson, a Major Black Modernist, Emerges Anew in His First Survey in Decades

  27-02-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  There was arguably no Black modernist who received more acclaim in the United States during his lifetime than Sargent Claude Johnson, a sculptor who spent his five-decade career during the early and mid-20th century in the Bay Area, all the way across the country from his contemporaries involved in the Harlem Renaissance movement.Johnson received a prize from the Harmon Foundation, an organization that supported Black American artists before most institutions did so. He was picked to do grand co
  
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• 60 Must-See Exhibitions to Visit This Spring

  27-02-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The big themes of the spring season in the world of museums and biennials are migration and mutation. The former is the loose focus of this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale, the world’s biggest art festival, which will explore artists who live in diaspora. But it is also the subject of a range of retrospectives for artists whose work provides a rebuke to the notion of national borders as fixed, immutable things.Transformation was a core component of Surrealism, an avant-garde th
  
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• Celebrating Black Arts Leaders in Western New York - Buffalo Rising

  27-02-2024 10:53
  
  Celebrating Black Arts Leaders in Western New York  Buffalo Rising
  
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• Linenhall Arts Centre Unveils Diverse March Events: From Visual Arts to Unique Musical Performances - BNN Breaking

  27-02-2024 10:10
  Linenhall Arts Centre Unveils Diverse March Events: From Visual Arts to Unique Musical Performances  BNN Breaking
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) Director Jeff Huber Sells 11872 Shares - AmericanBankingNEWS

  27-02-2024 10:07
  
  Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) Director Jeff Huber Sells 11872 Shares  AmericanBankingNEWS
  
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• Crooked Tree president resigns, takes on new Bay View role - Petoskey News-Review

  27-02-2024 10:03
  
  Crooked Tree president resigns, takes on new Bay View role  Petoskey News-Review
  
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• Organizers announce 'Sea Serpent Arts & Crafts Show' in Perry - The Daily News Online

  27-02-2024 10:00
  
  Organizers announce 'Sea Serpent Arts & Crafts Show' in Perry  The Daily News Online
  
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• Cincinnati's Black arts community is growing - WVXU

  27-02-2024 10:00
  
  Cincinnati's Black arts community is growing  WVXU
  
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• Prairie Arts Center in Princeton to host 2 Easter events - Shaw Local

  27-02-2024 09:45
  
  Prairie Arts Center in Princeton to host 2 Easter events  Shaw Local
  
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• Ariadne auf Naxos: powerful, dramatic singing shines amid dark scenery - South China Morning Post

  27-02-2024 09:45
  Ariadne auf Naxos: powerful, dramatic singing shines amid dark scenery  South China Morning Post
  
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