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• Electronic Arts lays off 5% of workforce, cancels Star Wars shooter game - Polygon

  28-02-2024 23:49
  
  Electronic Arts lays off 5% of workforce, cancels Star Wars shooter game  Polygon
  
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• Venice Biennale Says It Will Disregard Petition to Ban Israel

  28-02-2024 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Thousands of artists, curators and creative professionals had signed an open letter that cited “ongoing atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza.”
  
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• Richard Lewis, Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Actor, Dies at 76

  28-02-2024 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  After rising to prominence for his stand-up act, he became a regular in movies and TV, most recently on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
  
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• ‘Code 8: Part II’ Review: Helping a Child in Danger

  28-02-2024 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In this Netflix sequel, the acting cousins Robbie and Stephen Amell again play gruff men of action — physical and psychic — navigating an urban dystopia.
  
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• Electronic Arts to lay off 5% of workforce, reduce office space - Reuters

  28-02-2024 23:19
  
  Electronic Arts to lay off 5% of workforce, reduce office space  Reuters
  
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• A Boutique Headhunter Specifically for the Art World: Field Recruitment

  28-02-2024 22:46 via artnews.com
  
  While the art world may be full of nepo babies who attained their position at least in part on the strength of their surname, that hasn’t scared off Field Recruitment, a recently launched recruiting and consulting firm that caters specifically to the art world.Field is aiming to help open the art world to aspirants—plebeian and patrician, alike—by matching businesses with people who have the most suitable skills. The company’s founders, Ines de Seroux and Megan Odell, com
  
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• Electronic Arts is laying off 5% of its workforce | VGC - Video Games Chronicle

  28-02-2024 22:33
  
  Electronic Arts is laying off 5% of its workforce | VGC  Video Games Chronicle
  
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• Electronic Arts to Slash About 5% of Workforce - The Wall Street Journal

  28-02-2024 22:32
  
  Electronic Arts to Slash About 5% of Workforce  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Popcast (Deluxe): Is TikTok Done? 4 Crises Holding the App Back

  28-02-2024 22:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Once addictive and effective, TikTok is struggling with commercialization, a shifting relationship with the music industry and more.
  
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• Richard Lewis, Acerbic Comedian and Character Actor, Dies at 76

  28-02-2024 22:17 via nytimes.com
  
  After rising to prominence for his stand-up act, he became a regular in movies and TV, most recently on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
  
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• EA cutting 5% of workforce - GamesIndustry.biz

  28-02-2024 22:10
  
  EA cutting 5% of workforce  GamesIndustry.biz
  
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• eBay Teams Up with Perrotin to Offer Contemporary Art (and Tchotchkes) Online

  28-02-2024 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  On the heels of opening its new Los Angeles gallery, Perrotin has announced a collaboration with eBay in a bid to make contemporary art more accessible. This partnership will see the launch of the Perrotin Store on eBay.fr, featuring a selection of artists’ editions from the gallery’s roster, including those by renowned names like Takashi Murakami and Daniel Arsham.The move reflects an effort to broaden the reach of art beyond traditional galleries and into the digital realm. Laura S
  
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• eBay Teams Up with Perrotin to Offer Contemporary Art (and Tchoktchkes) Online

  28-02-2024 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  On the heels of opening its new Los Angeles gallery, Perrotin has announced a collaboration with eBay in a bid to make contemporary art more accessible. This partnership will see the launch of the Perrotin Store on eBay.fr, featuring a selection of artists’ editions from the gallery’s roster including works by renowned names like Takashi Murakami and Daniel Arsham.The move reflects an effort to broaden the reach of art beyond traditional galleries and into the digital realm. Laura Si
  
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• Review: ‘Behind the South: Dances for Manuel’ by Sankofa Danzafro

  28-02-2024 21:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The Afro-Colombian company Sankofa Danzafro presents “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel” at the Joyce Theater.
  
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• Archaeologists Find Head of ‘Incredibly Rare’ Mercury Figure at Roman Site

  28-02-2024 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  An “incredibly rare” head of a figurine of the god Mercury will go on display at a heritage site in southeastern England today as part of an exhibition of items from a recently discovered Roman settlement, as first reported by Smithsonian Magazine.“Our excavations at Smallhythe revealed previously undiscovered Roman activity, dating from the first – third centuries [CE], where we found tiles stamped with the mark of the Roman fleet (the Classis Britannica), ceramics
  
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• A Survey of Contemporary Sikh Art in Los Angeles Expands South Asian History 

  28-02-2024 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  There have been so few sizable exhibitions of contemporary Sikh art at major US museums, you could nearly count them on two hands. “There have been maybe a dozen exhibitions at large museums,” said Syona Puliady, a curator at Los Angeles’s Fowler Museum of Art who specializes in textiles of the eastern hemisphere.Curated with Sonia Dhami, president of the Art & Tolerance organization and a trustee of the Sikh Foundation, the exhibition, titled “I Will Meet You Yet Aga
  
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• Donna Summer’s Estate Sues Ye for Sampling ‘I Feel Love’

  28-02-2024 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The estate said it had denied a clearance request by Ty Dolla Sign and the rapper once known as Kanye West, who then used the song on their new album, “Vultures 1.”
  
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• Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, German Mail Artist with a Cult Following, Dies at 92

  28-02-2024 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, whose typewritten pieces of mail art have developed a small but growing following among artists, particularly in Germany, has died at 92. Her death was announced on Tuesday by ChertLüdde, her German gallery.Wolf-Rehfeldt received mainstream recognition in the past decade, years after she stopped producing art after she felt she had nothing more to say. She appeared in Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the famed art exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and won the Hannah Hö
  
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• Ruth Wolf-Freheldt, German Mail Artist with a Cult Following, Dies at 92

  28-02-2024 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  Ruth Wolf-Freheldt, whose typewritten pieces of mail art have developed a small but growing following among artists, particularly in Germany, has died at 92. Her death was announced on Tuesday by ChertLüdde, her German gallery.Wolf-Freheldt received mainstream recognition in the past decade, years after she stopped producing art after she felt she had nothing more to say. She appeared in Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the famed art exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and won the Hannah Hö
  
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• Frieze Los Angeles Opens Amid Attention to Asian Artists

  28-02-2024 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Spurred by population growth and new patron support, artists from China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are getting more recognition from museums and the market.
  
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• MoMA Says It Did Not Show ‘Gender-Based Animus’ Toward Nude Performer in Marina Abramovic Piece

  28-02-2024 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Museum of Modern Art responded on Tuesday to claims that it had failed to prevent sexual assaults against an artist who appeared in a Marina Abramović work, saying that it could not be held liable for his allegations.The artist, John Bonafede, sued MoMA earlier this month. In 2010, during a widely seen Abramović retrospective held at MoMA, Bonafede had participated in a version of Imponderabilia (1977), a performance in which he and another performer stood at opposite
  
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• Louis Armstrong Musical ‘A Wonderful World’ Set for Broadway

  28-02-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.
  
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• Seth Cameron, Former Director of Children’s Museum of the Arts, Files Lawsuit Alleging Breach of Contract

  28-02-2024 17:56 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Seth Cameron, the former director of Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA), filed a lawsuit against the New York institution, alleging that it breached his contract when his leadership was abruptly ended in November.Cameron took on the role as executive director of the CMA in February 2020, less than a year after the death of former the museum’s former leader, Barbara Hunt McLanahan, in June 2019. Prior to joining the museum, Cameron helped start the Bruce High Quality
  
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• Painter Sues New York’s Children’s Museum of the Arts, Claiming He Was Abruptly Terminated as Director

  28-02-2024 17:56 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Seth Cameron, the former director of Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA), filed a lawsuit against the New York institution, alleging that it breached his contract when his leadership was abruptly ended in November.Cameron took on the role as executive director of the CMA in February 2020, less than a year after the death of former the museum’s former leader, Barbara Hunt McLanahan, in June 2019. Prior to joining the museum, Cameron helped start the Bruce High Quality
  
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• These Cities Aren’t Banning Meat. They Just Want You to Eat More Plants.

  28-02-2024 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Meat and dairy production are linked to emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
  
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• Sex and Silence: What This Awards Season Tells Us About Hollywood

  28-02-2024 17:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Whether it’s the return of steamy scenes or the lack of political speeches, the road to the Oscars holds a lot of clues about the state of the industry.
  
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• The Standout Booths at This Year’s Spring/Break Los Angeles

  28-02-2024 16:52 via artnews.com
  
  Visitors to this year’s edition of Spring/Break will find a sprawling setting filled with paintings—an unusual experience at a fair known for its installations and performances. Nestled in the Culver City neighborhood of LA, more than 60 exhibitors came together under the theme “interior/exterior,” which was purposefully leftas vague as it sounds. While many works explored a variety of interesting concepts, many booths fell flat and seemed relatively unimpressive; there w
  
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• Student view: Bringing STEM and the arts together - MSUToday

  28-02-2024 16:38
  
  Student view: Bringing STEM and the arts together  MSUToday
  
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• Under-Recognized South Korean Artists Come into Focus at the Hammer Museum

  28-02-2024 16:24 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This article, originally published in September, has been updated to reflect the current run of “Only the Young” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.During the 1960s, a group of young artists working in South Korea emerged from a dark time. The Korean War had taken place less than a decade earlier, and the resulting unrest paved the way for a military coup in 1961 that brought dictator Park Chung Hee to power. Two years later, Park became president. By 1972, the
  
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• Publishers’ Efforts to Diversify an Overwhelmingly White Industry Have Been Slow, Survey Finds

  28-02-2024 16:19 via nytimes.com
  
  A new survey shows that more people of color are working in the book business, but the industry remains overwhelmingly white.
  
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• Chumash Curator Deanna Dartt on Decolonizing Museums and the Autry’s ‘Reclaiming El Camino’ Exhibition

  28-02-2024 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  In early December, the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles opened an ambitious new exhibition, “Reclaiming El Camino: Native Resistance in the Missions and Beyond,” dedicated to exploring the history of the El Camino Real, the 600-mile route connecting 21 Spanish missions from San Francisco to San Diego—from an Indigenous perspective. The new exhibition, guest curated by Coastal Chumash scholar Deanna Dartt, works to recenter Native lives and resistance in the stor
  
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• Chumash Curator Deana Dartt on Decolonizing Museums and the Autry’s ‘Reclaiming El Camino’ Exhibition

  28-02-2024 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  In early December, the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles opened an ambitious new exhibition, “Reclaiming El Camino: Native Resistance in the Missions and Beyond,” dedicated to exploring the history of the El Camino Real, the 600-mile route connecting 21 Spanish missions from San Francisco to San Diego—from an Indigenous perspective. The new exhibition, guest curated by Coastal Chumash scholar Deana Dartt, works to recenter Native lives and resistance in the story
  
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• A K-Pop Star’s Lonely Downward Spiral

  28-02-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Goo Hara’s life was a struggle from the start. She ended it at 28, isolated and harassed online.
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra’s Home to Be Renamed Marian Anderson Hall

  28-02-2024 15:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Because of a $25 million gift, the venue, Verizon Hall, will be renamed to honor Anderson, a pioneering Black opera singer.
  
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• In Her Prismatic Paintings, Joan Semmel Builds Feminist Worlds

  28-02-2024 15:26 via artnews.com
  
  Joan Semmel’s 1974 painting Intimacy-Autonomy shows a man and a woman lying naked in bed side-by-side, presumably post-coital. They’re realistically rendered, though their skin is a grayish green that should feel sickly but doesn’t. Instead, improbably, the figures feel sexy. The blue wall at the end of their foreshortened bodies makes the edge of their peach blanket look like a horizon, the breasts and knees like mountains. The painting is larger than life, bold and assertive,
  
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• How the Met and Other Major US Museums Are Approaching Provenance Research

  28-02-2024 15:07 via artnews.com
  
  By May 2023, after more than a year of repeated seizures of looted or stolen artifacts by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the Metropolitan Museum of Art had apparently had enough. In an internal letter to staff, Max Hollein, Met director and CEO, announced that the museum would create a dedicated four-person provenance research team to proactively identify looted artworks in its encyclopedic collection.Later published on the Met website, the letter read: “The emergence of n
  
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• Disney and Reliance Industries Announce Media Mega Deal in India

  28-02-2024 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries will control what is left of Disney’s grasp at India’s burgeoning media market.
  
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• Ahead of Frieze LA, Perrotin Expands to Los Angeles, in a Historic Theater 

  28-02-2024 14:42 via artnews.com
  
  After more than 30 years in business and more than a decade of opening locations beyond its Paris homebase, Perrotin will inaugurate its latest space this week, in Los Angeles. Coming just before the fifth edition of Frieze LA opens on Thursday, the gallery’s debut in the City of Angels marks yet another significant milestone in its global expansion, underscoring the city’s increasing role as a thriving hub for contemporary art.Located within the former Del Mar Theater on Pico Boulev
  
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• Italy: ‘Venice Biennale Won’t Exclude Israel’, Perrotin Partners with eBay, Berlinale Film Festival Controversy Continues, and More: Morning Links for February 28, 2024

  28-02-2024 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESISRAEL TO STAY AT VENICE BIENNALE. Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, said the Venice Biennale would not exclude Israel’s from participating in the upcoming exhibition, following recent calls for its ouster, which the minister called “shameful,” reports Alex Greenberger for ARTnews. The group&nbs
  
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• Announces 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows | National Endowment for the Arts - National Endowment for the Arts

  28-02-2024 13:00
  
  Announces 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows | National Endowment for the Arts  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• ‘Modern Love Podcast’: Three Powerful Lessons About Love

  28-02-2024 11:06 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s been 20 years since Daniel Jones started Modern Love as a weekly column in The New York Times. Today, he shares what the job has taught him about love.
  
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• In Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise,’ Dance On and Feel It

  28-02-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  This narrative dance musical, set to Sufjan Stevens’s album, is a coming-of-age story and a meditation on death, love, community, politics and zombies.
  
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• In ‘Elsbeth,’ a Quirky Side Character Becomes a Quirky Lead

  28-02-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  This CBS procedural is new, but its star, Carrie Preston, has been playing the central character for almost 14 years.
  
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• Bonnefanten Museum Examines Its Connection to Nazi Looted Art

  28-02-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Bonnefanten museum’s “Art Adrift” exhibition represents the museum’s effort to grapple with its own complex connection to looted art from World War II.
  
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• A Landmark Kandinsky Is in the Spotlight, Again

  28-02-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The abstract work was looted by the Nazis, displayed in a Dutch museum and finally returned to its owners. It’s now the star piece at this year’s TEFAF.
  
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• With ‘Imaginary’ and ‘Lisa Frankenstein,’ Defending PG-13 Horror

  28-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Not everyone needs a scary movie that goes to the darkest extremes. Here’s why milder horror films can still pack a punch.
  
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• Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.

  28-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free.
  
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• Rubens’s Restoration Brings New Life to Extraordinary Artworks

  28-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens undergo restoration at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Belgium.
  
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• James Baldwin’s Best Books

  28-02-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Here’s where to start.
  
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• TEFAF Aims to Prove There’s Nothing Like a Real-Life Fair

  28-02-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  With a tighter schedule, new programming and a multimillion-dollar Kandinsky, the European fine art event looks to remain competitive in a changed world.
  
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