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• American Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People

  31-07-2024 23:43 via artnews.com
  
  The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is repatriating the remains of 124 Native ancestors and 90 Native cultural items. On July 25, AMNH president Sean Decatur sent the museum’s staff a letter on the institution’s repatriation efforts so far. Decatur said in the letter that the AMNH “has held more than 400 consultations, with approximately 50 different stakeholders, including hosting seven visits of Indigenous delegations, and eight completed repatriations.&
  
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• US Tech Company May Have Tried to Exhibit Unauthenticated Basquiat Painting at Major Museums

  31-07-2024 22:44 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.An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution’s permission.Co2Bit privately exhibited another painting
  
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• Heat Waves and Mega Storms Are Creating New Challenges for Art Storage and Logistics

  31-07-2024 22:23 via artnews.com
  
  Unless you’ve been trapped in an air-conditioned room since May, summer this year has been pretty miserable. Temperatures have been so high that the global heat record was set two days in a row. The heat waves start earlier, last longer, and don’t break in the evenings. And now, here comes hurricane season.Fine art storage companies are hyper-aware of extreme temperatures and high humidity levels—not to mention hurricane conditions—due to strict industry standards, new cl
  
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• Colin Jost Will Host the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Pop Culture Spinoff

  31-07-2024 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” is expected to begin production in August and will stream only on Amazon Prime Video.
  
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• Andy Warhol’s Long-Lost Portrait of Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Resurfaces in Delaware

  31-07-2024 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  An Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry that was thought to be lost has resurfaced in rural Delaware. The 1985 portrait, along with a signed disk of 10 digital image files by Warhol, is now being made available for sale, although the New York Post, which first reported the news, did not specify where.When Warhol was a brand ambassador for the now-defunct tech company Commodore, he created the artworks on an early Amiga 1000 home computer as part of a promotion at New York’s
  
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• Review: In ‘Pamela Palmer,’ a Blonde, a Gumshoe and an Existential Mystery

  31-07-2024 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  David Ives’s new play at the Williamstown Theater Festival is less a whodunit than a who done what.
  
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• London’s White Cube Axes Nearly 40 Monitors and Replaces Them with Security Guards

  31-07-2024 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  White Cube has axed 38 monitors and replaced them with security guards. The London gallery said the move was due to “operational processes.”According to the Art Newspaper, most of the monitors, whose primary job was to make sure people didn’t touch exhibited artworks, are students and artists who were on zero-hours contracts. This means White Cube wasn’t obliged to provide any minimum working hours.The gallery informed the workers of its decision in May during a meeting w
  
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• London’s White Cube Axes Nearly 40 Invigilators and Replaces Them With Security Guards

  31-07-2024 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  White Cube has axed 38 invigilators and replaced them with security guards. The London gallery said the move was due to “operational processes.”According to the Art Newspaper, most of the invigilators, whose primary job was to make sure people didn’t touch exhibited artworks, are students and artists who were on zero-hours contracts. This means White Cube wasn’t obliged to provide any minimum working hours.The gallery informed the workers of its decision in May during a m
  
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• A Psychosexual Christina Ramberg Retrospective Surveys Seduction, Masochism, and Shame

  31-07-2024 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  This comprehensive retrospective presents paintings, drawings, and quilts by Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg with unprecedented depth and insight. Trained at the School of the Art Institute, where she later became a professor, Ramberg is celebrated here for her highly original and prodigious output, tragically truncated by her death from a neurodegenerative disease in 1995, at age 49.Ramberg’s preoccupation with psychosexual content was clear from the beginning. Six small paintings from
  
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• Kneecap, Riotous Irish Rappers, Expect Their New Film to Shock

  31-07-2024 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Kneecap’s Irish nationalist rap has drawn ire from pro-British politicians and commentators. A new film dramatizing the group’s story looks set to do the same.
  
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• A Salzburg Festival Tradition Deserves a Wider Audience

  31-07-2024 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Carsen’s take on “Jedermann,” a play staged at the festival every year, stands head and shoulders above other recent stagings of the work.
  
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• Lyric Opera of Chicago Appoints Orchestra Veteran as New Leader

  31-07-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  John Mangum, who helped guide the Houston Symphony through the turmoil of the pandemic, will serve as the company’s next general director.
  
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• Dance Leads the Way as Art Meets Sport at the Cultural Olympiad

  31-07-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A program of arts events shown in conjunction with the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games looks at the relationship between art and sport.
  
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• In Chicago, 3 Shows That Keep the Audience in Mind and Engaged

  31-07-2024 16:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Musical adaptations of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Lord of the Rings” as well as a new Samuel D. Hunter play were on our critic’s itinerary.
  
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• Shahzia Sikander Says She Won’t Repair Beheaded Sculpture in Texas: ‘A Testament to Hatred’

  31-07-2024 16:49 via artnews.com
  
  After a Shahzia Sikander sculpture was beheaded in Houston, Texas, the artist said this week she would not repair it, explaining that the work in its current form speaks to what she called “the hatred and division that permeate our society.”Although Sikander had previously stated that she planned to leave the sculpture as is, she addressed her decision at length on Tuesday in a Washington Post op-ed. She once again called on the work’s exhibitor, the University of Houston, to m
  
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• Warhol Portrait of Debbie Harry Resurfaces, French Artist to Spend 10 Days in a Bottle, Student Buys a ‘Chagall’ for $2, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2024

  31-07-2024 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGENIUS IN A BOTTLE. French artist Abraham Poincheval (b. 1972), who is known for locking himself up in unexpected structures – an armor, a stuffed bear, a rock – has decided to repeat the experience inside a giant bottle, moored to the dock of the Saint-Denis canal, in Paris. Some find the idea genius; others ludicrous, reports Beaux Arts. How
  
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• Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) Receives Outperform Rating from BMO Capital Markets - Defense World

  31-07-2024 11:04 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) Receives Outperform Rating from BMO Capital Markets  Defense World
  
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• Bellefonte Arts and Crafts Fair Returns for 41st Year - Statecollege.com

  31-07-2024 11:04 via news.google.com
  Bellefonte Arts and Crafts Fair Returns for 41st Year  Statecollege.com
  
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• Here’s Why ‘The Matrix’ Is More Relevant Than Ever 25 Years Later

  31-07-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  One scene reflects the themes — A.I., fake news, transgender lives and Gen X — that make the film a classic.
  
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• Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Lily Meyer and Bruna Dantas Lobato on Their Debut Novels

  31-07-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Recognized literary translators — Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bruna Dantas Lobato among them — are making the jump to publishing rosters as authors themselves.
  
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• In Hawaii, Weaving New Life Into a Nearly Vanished Art Form

  31-07-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The age-old practice of turning tree leaves into mats has been revived on the islands. “It teaches you how to weave relationships, past and present,” one master artisan says.
  
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• At Sundance Lab, Movie Economics Can’t Be Ignored This Year

  31-07-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Funding is a perennial problem for the indie filmmakers who workshop their latest works here. But now Sundance itself is feeling the financial pressure.
  
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• “Scissors, Paper, Art” exhibit at Lyndon House Arts Center - Classic City News

  31-07-2024 10:40 via news.google.com
  “Scissors, Paper, Art” exhibit at Lyndon House Arts Center  Classic City News
  
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• Zack Joins Final Fantasy 7's Bring Arts Figure Collection - TheGamer

  31-07-2024 10:14 via news.google.com
  Zack Joins Final Fantasy 7's Bring Arts Figure Collection  TheGamer
  
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• Center For Performing Arts Announces 2024-2025 Event Schedule - Onward State

  31-07-2024 10:13 via news.google.com
  Center For Performing Arts Announces 2024-2025 Event Schedule  Onward State
  
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• Arts Calendar: Aug. 2-9 - Press Herald

  31-07-2024 09:56 via news.google.com
  Arts Calendar: Aug. 2-9  Press Herald
  
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• The Rain on Main stays mainly in Carmel’s Arts & Design District - readthereporter.com

  31-07-2024 08:39 via news.google.com
  The Rain on Main stays mainly in Carmel’s Arts & Design District  readthereporter.com
  
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• The Rain on Main stays mainly in Carmel’s Arts & Design District - Hamilton County Reporter

  31-07-2024 08:39 via news.google.com
  The Rain on Main stays mainly in Carmel’s Arts & Design District  Hamilton County Reporter
  
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• HABcore Partners with Monmouth Arts: “Beyond the Surface” Art Exhibition - TAPinto.net

  31-07-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  HABcore Partners with Monmouth Arts: “Beyond the Surface” Art Exhibition  TAPinto.net
  
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• Best of Santa Fe 2024: Arts & Culture - Santa Fe Reporter

  31-07-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  Best of Santa Fe 2024: Arts & Culture  Santa Fe Reporter
  
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• August arts roundup: Countdown Improv returns - 83degreesmedia

  31-07-2024 07:55 via news.google.com
  August arts roundup: Countdown Improv returns  83degreesmedia
  
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• Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) Hits New 52-Week High After Dividend Announcement - Defense World

  31-07-2024 07:24 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) Hits New 52-Week High After Dividend Announcement  Defense World
  
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• Stanley arts center to host folk music concert - Minot Daily News

  31-07-2024 07:02 via news.google.com
  Stanley arts center to host folk music concert  Minot Daily News
  
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• Central Kentucky Theatre Performing Arts Academy to offer dance classes - pmg-ky2.com

  31-07-2024 07:00 via news.google.com
  Central Kentucky Theatre Performing Arts Academy to offer dance classes  pmg-ky2.com
  
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• Electronic Arts (EA) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript - AOL

  31-07-2024 06:22 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts (EA) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript  AOL
  
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• Enjoy a night out in downtown Waynesville with Art After Dark - The Mountaineer

  31-07-2024 06:15 via news.google.com
  Enjoy a night out in downtown Waynesville with Art After Dark  The Mountaineer
  
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• Celebrate all things Appalachian at Blue Ridge Heritage fest - The Mountaineer

  31-07-2024 06:15 via news.google.com
  Celebrate all things Appalachian at Blue Ridge Heritage fest  The Mountaineer
  
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• Unleash creativity with Creation Classes - The Mountaineer

  31-07-2024 06:00 via news.google.com
  Unleash creativity with Creation Classes  The Mountaineer
  
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• 'On and Off the Wall' exhibition at Toe River Arts Spruce Pine gallery - Avery Journal Times

  31-07-2024 06:00 via news.google.com
  'On and Off the Wall' exhibition at Toe River Arts Spruce Pine gallery  Avery Journal Times
  
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• The journey from teaching art to children to promoting the NOTO Arts District - KSNT News

  31-07-2024 05:59 via news.google.com
  The journey from teaching art to children to promoting the NOTO Arts District  KSNT News
  
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• Chickasaw Joins International Cliff Diving Series - Native News Online

  31-07-2024 05:49 via news.google.com
  Chickasaw Joins International Cliff Diving Series  Native News Online
  
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• Arts Briefs | August 1 edition - Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

  31-07-2024 05:30 via news.google.com
  Arts Briefs | August 1 edition  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
  
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• Arts Council funds four special projects grants with remaining $7,055 - Evanston RoundTable

  31-07-2024 05:29 via news.google.com
  Arts Council funds four special projects grants with remaining $7,055  Evanston RoundTable
  
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• Aug. 1 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Faces and Places - MSN

  31-07-2024 05:22 via news.google.com
  Aug. 1 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Faces and Places  MSN
  
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• Electronic Arts (EA) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript - The Motley Fool

  31-07-2024 05:15 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts (EA) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript  The Motley Fool
  
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• Baltimore Arts and Culture Events 7/31/24-8/14/24 - Baltimore Beat

  31-07-2024 05:00 via news.google.com
  Baltimore Arts and Culture Events 7/31/24-8/14/24  Baltimore Beat
  
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• East End Arts Third Annual Summer Soiree - James Lane Post

  31-07-2024 04:45 via news.google.com
  East End Arts Third Annual Summer Soiree  James Lane Post
  
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• Why you should embrace a liberal arts education - The Michigan Daily

  31-07-2024 03:53 via news.google.com
  Why you should embrace a liberal arts education  The Michigan Daily
  
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• ‘Job’ Review: The Psychopath Will See You Now

  31-07-2024 03:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A patient, a shrink and a gun are the raw ingredients of a chic, sadistic Broadway thriller.
  
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• Gather Recording Artists Wilson Fairchild to Perform at Mountain Arts Center - wklw.com

  31-07-2024 03:12 via news.google.com
  Gather Recording Artists Wilson Fairchild to Perform at Mountain Arts Center  wklw.com
  
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