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• Australian Museum Installs Toilet as a Loophole to Anti-Discrimination Ruling Against Women-Only Exhibition

  24-06-2024 22:51 via artnews.com
  
  Multiple works by Pablo Picasso are now featured on the walls of a women’s bathroom stall at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia, ABC News reported Monday. The Picasso paintings were originally featured in American artist Kirsha Kaechele’s “Ladies Lounge” installation, which offered an opulent retreat for female guests only, with champagne served by male butlers, and also features some of the museum’s most notable works, by art
  
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• Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91

  24-06-2024 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
  
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• In Booming Bozeman, Montana, Tinworks Art Aims to Reimagine the American West

  24-06-2024 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  One of the many different kinds of development underway in Bozeman, Montana—a small city that since the pandemic began has been a staple of stories about ongoing urban exodus and rampant population growth—is a patch of land grown over with early sprouts of grain. Such a sight might not seem out of place in Big Sky country, where wheat is a leading commodity crop, but this little field evokes a masterpiece from the legacy of Land art—and marks a new beginning for Tinworks Art, a
  
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• Dior Pays Homage to Faith Ringgold in Runway Show at Paris’s Musée Rodin

  24-06-2024 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of including women artists in her runway shows, shining a light on works by Judy Chicago, Joana Vasconcelos, Isabella Ducrot, and others while premiering her newest designs. The latest artist to receive such a treatment is Faith Ringgold, the beloved painter who died earlier this year at 93.Many of Ringgold’s paintings center African American women, whose subjectivities she explored with precision and passion. In her painted quilt
  
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• Dior Pays Homage to Faith Ringgold During Runway Show at Paris’s Musée Rodin

  24-06-2024 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of including women artists in her runway shows, shining a light on works by Judy Chicago, Joana Vasconcelos, Isabella Ducrot, and others while also showing off her newest clothes. The latest artist to receive such a treatment is Faith Ringgold, the beloved painter who died earlier this year at 93.Many of Ringgold’s paintings center African American women, whose subjectivities she explored with precision and passion. In her painted
  
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• Judy Garland Museum Aims To Raise $3.5 M. to Buy Back Dorothy’s Stolen Ruby Slippers At Auction

  24-06-2024 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  In 2005, the Judy Garland Museum lost a pair of ruby red slippers worn by its namesake in the iconic movie The Wizard of Oz. The slippers were stolen by a career burglar after breaking one of the institution’s windows and smashing a display clase.The FBI found them in 2018, but Dorothy Gale’s slippers have never gone back to the museum. The Grand Rapids, Minnesota institution is now trying to bring them back to Garland’s hometown by raising enough money to buy the famous pair o
  
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• ‘The Lion King’ at 30: Jason Weaver Sang for Simba but Few Knew It

  24-06-2024 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor was playing a young Michael Jackson when Elton John spotted him. Three decades later, the new attention to his legacy is “gratifying.”
  
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• Tamayo Perry, Surfer Who Appeared in ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ Dies in Shark Attack

  24-06-2024 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Perry also appeared in television and movies, including roles in “Blue Crush,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
  
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• Naples arts groups' funding cut: What DeSantis veto means - Naples Daily News

  24-06-2024 20:55 via news.google.com
  
  Naples arts groups' funding cut: What DeSantis veto means  Naples Daily News
  
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• Film Academy Chief Gets a Sequel: Bill Kramer’s Contract Is Renewed

  24-06-2024 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.
  
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• Taylor Swift Notches a Ninth Week at No. 1 With New CD Versions

  24-06-2024 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” now has the second-most weeks at No. 1 of any Swift album.
  
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• Mabe Fratti, a Spark in Mexico City’s Experimental Music Scene

  24-06-2024 19:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer, cellist and composer has found inspiration in the city’s flourishing avant-garde. Her new LP, “Sentir Que No Sabes,” wrestles with the idea of progress.
  
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• Sotheby’s Relocates French Headquarters to Former Home of Famed Paris Gallery

  24-06-2024 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will relocate its Paris headquarters to 83 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, which was once the home of the famed Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. That puts the Paris auction house three blocks from its current location. The move is scheduled for mid-October, and is part of a larger strategy to expand Sotheby’s presence in France.The house has previously announced plans to relocate two of its other spaces. In July, it will open a new Hong Kong location, and in 2025, Sotheby&
  
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• Virginia Woolf, but Make It a Polyphonic, Sensory Ballet

  24-06-2024 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  American Ballet Theater brings Wayne McGregor’s “Woolf Works,” which evokes elements of three novels and the writer’s biography, to New York.
  
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• Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ Breakthrough

  24-06-2024 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop songwriter’s sixth album is in some ways her most daring release yet. Improbably, it also yielded her best opening week.
  
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• The Market for South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Keeps Growing

  24-06-2024 17:55 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.When most people talk about the art market, they talk about the pieces by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and others that regularly sell for tens of millions of dollars. What those observers don’t talk about, most of the time, is South Asian art.“Historically, in the larger
  
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• How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion

  24-06-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust.
  
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• Former Uffizi Director Poised to Lose Florence’s Mayoral Election by Large Margin

  24-06-2024 16:58 via artnews.com
  
  Eike Schmidt, a German art historian who once served as the director of the Uffizi Galleries, seems likely to lose his bid to become mayor of Florence.Although the outcome of the election remains uncertain, votes are being currently being counted, and the numbers as they currently stand do not look good for Schmidt. According to La Nazionale, one third of the votes have been assessed, and Schmidt holds just 39.9 percent of them. By contrast, his opponent, Sara Funaro, has around 60 percent of th
  
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• Game Reviews: Escape the Heat by Ascending an Ocean Throne

  24-06-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Crab God is an alluring endeavor that’s instructive about real-world environmental challenges. Riven enters the 3-D era with a remake whose marvels are power hungry.
  
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• Choi Goen Wins Frieze Seoul’s 2024 Artist Award

  24-06-2024 15:23 via artnews.com
  
  Seoul-based artist Choi Geon has won the 2024 Frieze Seoul Artist Award, which goes to an emerging or mid-career artist. The prize comes with a commission that will debut at the fair, slated to run in the Korean capital from September 4 to September 7.Born in 1985, Choi is known for making sculptures using discarded everyday objects. She has had exhibitions at Seoul institutions such as Art Sonje (in 2023), Amado Art Space (2022), and the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2022). At Frieze Seoul, Choi wil
  
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• Rubens Sketch Returns 80 Years After Theft, Ontario Rejects Plan to Build Spa on Modernist Island Complex, and More: Morning Links for June 24, 2024

  24-06-2024 14:57 via artnews.com
  
  The HeadlinesUARTS’S ABRUPT CLOSURE has continued to generate discontent, with union representatives now alleging that the Philadelphia art school doesn’t have the money owed to employees who were abruptly terminated this month, Karen K. Ho reports for ARTnews . The school’s attorney and associate vice president of human resources allegedly didn’t offer union workers any proposals on health insurance, severance, or other benefits, and are reported
  
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• Arts at CERN awarded European Commission's S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovative Collaboration - CERN

  24-06-2024 13:03 via news.google.com
  
  Arts at CERN awarded European Commission's S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovative Collaboration  CERN
  
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• The ARTnews Culture (and Food) Lover’s Guide to Barcelona, Spain

  24-06-2024 13:01 via artnews.com
  
  Barcelona, the crown jewel of the Catalonia region of Spain, is a city that weaves an enchanting tapestry of culture, art, history, and of course food. Nestled along a sun-kissed Mediterranean shore, this vibrant city mesmerizes visitors. I’m admittedly biased, Barcelona having been a favorite city of mine for years thanks to its connection with George Orwell and Picasso, though for many people, the only things that come to mind about Barcelona are the Sagrada Familia and the onetime Barce
  
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• Rose Arts Festival in Norwich CT includes music, artists, food trucks - Norwich Bulletin

  24-06-2024 11:21 via news.google.com
  
  Rose Arts Festival in Norwich CT includes music, artists, food trucks  Norwich Bulletin
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’: Elliott and Luke Tittensor on That Brutal Duel

  24-06-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Episode 2 pit brother against brother, in more ways than one. The two actors, identical twins, talked about the intensity of that climactic fight scene.
  
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• How Netflix’s Corporate Culture Has Changed

  24-06-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.
  
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• A Tense Time for Parks, Libraries and the Arts - The New York Times

  24-06-2024 11:01 via news.google.com
  
  A Tense Time for Parks, Libraries and the Arts  The New York Times
  
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• Tomi Adeyemi’s Books Are Fantasy. What They Taught Her Is Painfully Real.

  24-06-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
  
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• Ivy Karlsgodt’s Victorian Lampshades Are a TikTok Hit

  24-06-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Viewers find Ivy Karlsgodt’s creations beautiful and her process meditative.
  
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• Discord at the Symphony: Losing a Star, San Francisco Weighs Its Future

  24-06-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The struggles of one of the nation’s finest orchestras show the difficulties facing classical music in the United States.
  
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• Bad Bunny, Maluma and More Headline Vogue World in Paris

  24-06-2024 10:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Fashion met fencers and Bad Bunny on Place Vendôme. Enter the era of haute kitsch!
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: The Presidential Debate and CMA Fest

  24-06-2024 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  President Joe Biden and former President Donald J. Trump debate for the first time this campaign cycle. Country artists perform their hit songs.
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Sleep With One Eye Open

  24-06-2024 04:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Aemond knows those assassins got the wrong prince. He says he feels flattered. He had also better watch his back.
  
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• Gabbi Tuft, First Openly Trans Former W.W.E. Star, Returns to Wrestling

  24-06-2024 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Tuft, who retired from the W.W.E. more than a decade ago and came out as transgender in 2021, will return to the ring on Tuesday, she said on social media.
  
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