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• Students, parents advocate for arts classes in wake of Indiana's high school diploma overhaul - WFYI

  22-07-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
  
  Students, parents advocate for arts classes in wake of Indiana's high school diploma overhaul  WFYI
  
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• ‘Two American Families’ Is a Knockout Documentary

  22-07-2024 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This latest installment in a long-term Frontline series is an intimate look at two American families, who work hard but struggle to make ends meet.
  
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• Dominick Di Meo, Artist of Chicago’s Monster Roster with a Cult Following, Dies at 97

  22-07-2024 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  Dominick Di Meo, an artist who shook up Chicago’s art scene in the 1960s with surreal paintings and collages, only to gain a following far beyond the city late in his career, has died at 97. His death was announced on Sunday by his Chicago gallery, Corbett vs. Dempsey.Di Meo was among the Chicagoan artists who during the ’60s plotted a new, off-kilter course of art-making that shared little in common with the Pop art and Minimalism emerging from New York. Neither totally abstract nor
  
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• Paris Olympics Force Galleries to Close, Leaving Dealers in a Tough Spot

  22-07-2024 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Many galleries in Paris’s Saint Germain des Près area, one of the city’s major art hubs, were unexpectedly forced to close on Thursday, due to security measures put in place for the upcoming Olympic Games’s opening ceremony taking place next week.Interviewed by ARTnews, dealers said that clients had no way of getting to these spaces and that the public could not see shows that were expected to be on view. With no clients able to come in, many galleries in the area have c
  
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• Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee and Other Stars Endorse Harris

  22-07-2024 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert De Niro thanked President Biden, Aaron Sorkin backed Vice President Kamala Harris (not Mitt Romney) as his replacement and George Clooney is keeping quiet.
  
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• British-Israeli Activists at Tate Modern Protest Len Blavatnik: ‘Don’t Mess with Freedom of the Press’

  22-07-2024 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  At Tate Modern in London on Sunday, activists protested museum patron and billionaire Len Blavatnik. Members of the British-Israeli group WeDemocracy called on Blavatnik to “stop the attack on the free press,” a reference to allegations of censorship at Channel 13, an Israeli broadcaster owned by the Ukrainian-born businessman.A video posted on WeDemocracy’s Instagram page depicts protestors gathered in front of a Tate building named after Blavatnik. The building opened in
  
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• Duke Fakir, Last Surviving Member of the Four Tops, Dies at 88

  22-07-2024 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  He sang tenor on hits like “Standing in the Shadow of Love,” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch).”
  
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• St. Tikhon’s Monastery releases short film about Orthodox Arts Programs - Orthodox Church in America

  22-07-2024 19:56 via news.google.com
  
  St. Tikhon’s Monastery releases short film about Orthodox Arts Programs  Orthodox Church in America
  
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• Pop Stars and Musicians Show Support For Kamala Harris on Social Media

  22-07-2024 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Charli XCX, John Legend and other musicians posted messages supporting the vice president’s nomination, while fans remixed an old speech into pop hits on TikTok.
  
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• Charli XCX and Other Musicians Show Support for Kamala Harris on Social Media

  22-07-2024 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Charli XCX, John Legend and other musicians posted messages supporting the vice president’s nomination, while fans remixed an old speech into pop hits on TikTok.
  
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• Darren Walker, Who Reoriented the Ford Foundation, Will Step Down

  22-07-2024 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.
  
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• Venice Entrance Fee Leads to Mixed Results and Political Turmoil Amid Efforts to Curb Overtourism

  22-07-2024 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  While Luigi Brugnaro, the mayor of Venice, recently declared that the city’s new five-euro entrance fee was a “great success,” city officials said at a news conference Friday that more data analysis is needed to confirm the fee’s effectiveness, the New York Times reported.The entrance fee, launched earlier this year, was meant to curb the constant flow of “day-tripping” tourists entering the city at peak times. According to city data, the fee was applied on 29
  
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• Photofairs Will Launch Hong Kong Edition in 2025 After Canceling New York Fair for 2024

  22-07-2024 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  Photofairs, the contemporary art fair focused on photography, digital art, and new media, recently announced the launch of an edition in Hong Kong for next March. The inaugural edition will take place at the Central Harbourfront event space from March 26 to March 30, with its VIP day on March 26.Photofairs Shanghai director Fan Ni will also head the new edition, which will take place during Hong Kong Art Week. Prior to joining Photofairs Shanghai in 2019, Fan Ni was associate publisher of Art Re
  
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• Trellis Art Fund Names 12 Winners of $100,000 Artist Awards, Including Two Working Parents

  22-07-2024 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Twelve artists have won the first batch of the Trellis Art Fund’s $100,000 awards, with Lorraine O’Grady, Candida Alvarez, and American Artist among the inaugural winners.The Trellis Art Fund, a New York–based private foundation, said it had specifically awarded two of the awards to working parents in recognition of the challenges they often face.“Making a grant unrestricted is akin to funding basic science research,” Corina Larkin, Trellis’s executive di
  
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• Darren Walker, Who Reoriented the Ford Foundation, to Step Down

  22-07-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.
  
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• International Trafficking Operation Leads to 85 Arrests and the Recovery of Thousands of Artworks and Artifacts

  22-07-2024 17:22 via artnews.com
  
  Pandora VIII, an annual joint operation between customs and law enforcement authorities from 25 countries against international art trafficking, led by the Spanish Guardia Civil and supported by Europol and INTERPOL, led to 85 arrests and the recovery of more than 6,400 cultural goods.According to INTERPOL, the operation involved several thousand checks at airports, ports, border crossings, auction houses, museums, and private residences. Law enforcement also conducted 6,000 online checks, leadi
  
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• ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Will Finally Be Available to Stream

  22-07-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The celebrated 1990s police procedural is coming to Peacock in August.
  
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• Marcel Proust Museum Reopens, Art Social Media Experts on the Rise, John Lennon Glasses Go to Auction, and More: Morning Links for July 22, 2024

  22-07-2024 16:46 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESIN SEARCH OF LOST TIME. Apart from the recreation of Marcel Proust’s bedroom at Paris’s Musée Carnavalet and from La Villa du temps retrouvé in Cabourg, Normandy, there are in France very few places dedicated to the memory of the French author, famous for writing In Search of Lost Time. The house of his aunt Elisabeth Amiot, which
  
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• Eminem Ends Taylor Swift’s Chart Run With His 11th No. 1 Album

  22-07-2024 16:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper’s “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” replaced the pop superstar’s “The Tortured Poets Department” after 12 weeks of dominance at the top.
  
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• ‘Barbie’ Was Supposed to Change Hollywood for Women. Why Didn’t It?

  22-07-2024 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The film was a global phenomenon and seemed to herald a new era of embracing stories by, about and for women.
  
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• Biden’s Exit From the Election Confirms TV is Still a Big Political Arena

  22-07-2024 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  President Biden’s decision to bow out after a disastrous debate confirms that in a TikTok era, TV is still the biggest political arena.
  
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• Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Reflection on the Intersection of Arts and Health - National Endowment for the Arts

  22-07-2024 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Reflection on the Intersection of Arts and Health  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• New Art's Bakery location to host grand opening Wednesday. Owners hope to draw eastsiders - GoErie.com

  22-07-2024 13:50 via news.google.com
  
  New Art's Bakery location to host grand opening Wednesday. Owners hope to draw eastsiders  GoErie.com
  
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• In the 1960s, Fred Eversley Left His NASA Job to Become an Artist. Now, He’s Realizing Ideas 50 years in the Making

  22-07-2024 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  FRED EVERSLEY HAS dedicated his life to making artworks based on the parabola, a shape so ubiquitous that its magic is taken for granted. The ideal physical contour for both concentrating and reflecting many forms of energy—light, sound, radio waves—a parabola is a U-shaped, mirror-symmetrical plane curve. Your eye is a parabola that focuses light, funneling it to your brain. On car headlights, a parabolic surface reflects light back out toward the road. Parabola-shaped TV satellites
  
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• ‘Barbie’ Was Supposed to Change Hollywood. Many See ‘No Effect.’

  22-07-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The film was a global phenomenon and seemed to herald a new era of embracing stories by, about and for women. What happened?
  
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• How a Ballroom ‘Cats,’ a Gay Kiss and a Black Marine Reclaimed Old Musicals

  22-07-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  How a Black lieutenant, a gay kiss and a catless ballroom are helping reclaim Broadway classics.
  
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• A New Era for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Begins

  22-07-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  As a comic book series to honor the Turtles’ 40th anniversary debuts, here’s a look back at their milestones.
  
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• When Sports Games Feel Like Casinos, Players Rarely Win

  22-07-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Popular franchises like NBA 2K, FC and Madden entice players to keep spending. Critics say it’s ruining the games.
  
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• What’s the Matter With Madden?

  22-07-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After ESPN NFL 2K5 came out swinging in a battle of revered football video games, Madden scored an exclusive N.F.L. license. Twenty years later, its ratings are dismal.
  
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• Readers Share Their Favorite Sports Video Games (Boomshakalaka!)

  22-07-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  NHL ’94 and MVP Baseball 2005 live on decades later. So do the arcade-style games NBA Jam and Mario Tennis.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: The Olympics and ‘Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets’

  22-07-2024 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The opening ceremony airs on NBC. MTV reboots a reality show.
  
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• Esta TerBlanche, ‘All My Children’ Star, Dies at 51

  22-07-2024 04:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. TerBlanche played Gillian Andrassy, a Hungarian princess whose story line was beloved by fans.
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Black Queen’s Gambit

  22-07-2024 04:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Rhaenyra sends a gift to the small folk. There may be some strings attached.
  
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