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• Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble Founder Who Amassed a Major Art Collection, Dies at 83

  27-08-2024 23:56 via artnews.com
  
  Leonard Riggio, the businessman behind Barnes & Noble who made significant forays into the art world, buying key works of Minimalist art and giving millions of dollars to the Dia Art Foundation, has died at 83. He had been battling Alzheimer’s disease, according to an announcement by his family.Riggio was in the rare class of collectors who could claim they had both pioneered an entire industry and transformed at least one high-profile museum. His art collecting, though perhaps less wi
  
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• A Bargain at the Opera: Philadelphia Offers All Seats for as Low as $11

  27-08-2024 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Seeking new audiences, Opera Philadelphia is putting in place a pay-what-you-can model, one of the first of its kind by a major opera company.
  
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• High Line Art Relaunches Its 18th Street Billboard Commission with a Glenn Ligon Work

  27-08-2024 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s High Line Art, the art commissioning platform of the beloved railroad turned pedestrian walkway, is once getting a dedicated billboard. After nearly a decade hiatus, the organization will once again present artworks on 18th Street, near 10th Avenue, in Chelsea. A newly reconstructed billboard there will reinvigorate its Billboard Art series, which places artworks visible from both street level and the elevated park. The 18th Street billboard will rotate every two months. Fo
  
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• Man Charged With Tupac Shakur’s Murder Loses Bid for Release

  27-08-2024 23:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge declined to release Duane Keith Davis, whose trial is scheduled for March, after a dispute over the source of the bail funds.
  
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• Indianapolis Museum of Art Names New Leader Following Diversity Scandal

  27-08-2024 23:13 via artnews.com
  
  The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has named its third president and CEO in four years as it attempts to move past a racism scandal that forced the departure of its longtime leader in 2021. Newfields has tapped Le Monte G. Booker Sr., the chief financial officer of Chicago’s Field Museum, according to a news release from the organization. “I am thrilled to start my next chapter as the CEO of Newfields, which is an outstanding example of a cornerstone cultural insti
  
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• NADA Names Nearly 50 Exhibitors for Inaugural Paris Fair

  27-08-2024 23:10 via artnews.com
  
  The New Art Dealers Alliance will bring together 46 galleries and nonprofit spaces for its inaugural fair in Paris.Organized in partnership with Paris-based art space The Community, the fair, officially called The Salon by NADA and The Community, will run from October 17–20 at 76 Boulevard de Magenta in the city’s 10th arrondissement. The five-floor venue was previously an office and training center for the SNCF, France’s state-owned rail system.Hailing from 18 countries and 24
  
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• How the Politics of the Gaza War Engulfed the Melbourne Symphony

  27-08-2024 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The orchestra faced criticism for canceling a performance by a pianist who spoke about the war. Now a top leader has departed and the ensemble has opened an inquiry.
  
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• Christie’s Will Celebrate Birth Centenary of Francis Newton Souza With Non-Selling Exhibition

  27-08-2024 20:56 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will have its first non-selling exhibition as part of Asia Week New York’s autumn edition.The 26 works by Francis Newton Souza come from the collection of gallerist Navin Kumar and focus on an 18-year-period when the Indian modern artist was based in London. The exhibition of paintings and works on paper will take place at Christie’s New York headquarters from September 13 to 18. “We just saw the response to Souza in Marc
  
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• After Covid-Related Closure, Long Beach’s Compound Charts a New Path Forward with January Parkos Arnall as Director

  27-08-2024 20:34 via artnews.com
  
  Compound, an art and wellness nonprofit in Long Beach, California, has named January Parkos Arnall as its executive director. She begins in the post on September 23.Compound was founded in 2020 by Megan Tagliaferri, a longtime resident of Long Beach, but it closed in 2022 amid a wave of Covid. When it closed, the space’s future was uncertain, but the organization quietly reopened earlier this year and is currently undergoing a leadership transition. Tagliaferri, who served as interim execu
  
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• Guggenheim to Hold Mid-Career Survey for Former Trustee Rashid Johnson

  27-08-2024 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  The Guggenheim Museum in New York will hold a mid-career survey next year for Rashid Johnson, an artist who sat on the institution’s board for seven years. He stepped down from the position last year to avoid a conflict of interest, according to the New York Times.The exhibition, titled “Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” will run from April 18, 2025, to January 18, 2026, and will feature nearly 90 works. Among those slated to be shown are pieces from his 2008 photo ser
  
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• 9 Surprising Songs Sampled in Classic Hip-Hop Tracks

  27-08-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear where moments of Kraftwerk, Enya, Herb Alpert and more ended up in producers’ deft hands.
  
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• New Study Identifies the UNESCO Heritage Sites Imperiled by Climate Change

  27-08-2024 19:56 via artnews.com
  
  A new study has listed the 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites most at risk from climate change, and emphasized the urgent need for the cultural sector to take action.The study, first reported in The Art Newspaper, was conducted by climate risk firm Climate X. Its authors assessed all 1,223 UNESCO sites globally, using modeling to predict how various climate hazards—such as tropical cyclones, extreme heat, and flooding—will impact these sites over the next century.The site most vulnerable
  
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• Oasis Comeback: A Timeline of the Gallagher Brothers’ Feud

  27-08-2024 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  When Liam and Noel Gallagher get together, hide the tambourines.
  
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• Is This the Edinburgh Fringe, or a Wellness Convention?

  27-08-2024 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Grief narratives were in vogue, and psychological maladies, too, at the annual Scottish arts showcase.
  
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• A Pianist Who’s Not Afraid to Improvise on Mozart

  27-08-2024 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Levin has long argued that Mozart would have made up new material while performing, and he follows the master in a series of dazzling recordings.
  
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• Be My AI and ChatGPT-4 Are Revolutionizing How We Interact with Visual Culture

  27-08-2024 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  I first encountered Be My AI last fall, when the app was in beta. Developed by Danish mobile app Be My Eyes and OpenAI, it uses ChatGPT-4’s vision model to provide robust, nearly instantaneous descriptions of any image and facilitate conversations about those images. As a blind artist, I collect image descriptions like others collect photographs. Be My AI has supercharged my interactions with visual culture.Shortly after gaining access to the Be My AI beta last year, I encountered blind ph
  
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• Be My AI and ChatGPT-4 Are Revolutionizing How Blind People Interact with Art

  27-08-2024 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  I first encountered Be My AI last fall, when the app was in beta. Developed by Danish mobile app Be My Eyes and OpenAI, it uses ChatGPT-4’s vision model to provide robust, nearly instantaneous descriptions of any image and facilitate conversations about those images. As a blind artist, I collect image descriptions like others collect photographs. Be My AI has supercharged my interactions with visual culture.Shortly after gaining access to the Be My AI beta last year, I encountered blind ph
  
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• In ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ Michael Cyril Creighton Is Above Suspicion

  27-08-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For years, Michael Cyril Creighton hoped one of his small TV parts would evolve into something more. With “Only Murders,” it finally happened.
  
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• A&L Berg Foundation Launches New Program to Support Early-Career Latinx Art World Professionals

  27-08-2024 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  For seasoned art world professionals, attending the invite-only opening week of the Venice Biennale is par for the course. But for those who are just starting out, being part of the opening week can be unattainable—never mind contributing to the Biennale itself. This past April, however, a group of young Latinx curators not only attended the opening week, but also wrote entries for the Biennale catalog—all as part of a research and networking trip for the first cohort of the Early St
  
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• Is This Massive Attack Concert the Gold Standard for a Green Gig?

  27-08-2024 16:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Coldplay and Billie Eilish have tried to drive down carbon emissions while touring, but the British band Massive Attack has tried to take the efforts even further.
  
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• ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Goes to Hollywood

  27-08-2024 16:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The murder mystery comedy returns with more celebrities than ever but in a winking, self-aware way.
  
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• Untitled Art, Miami Beach Names 171 Exhibitors for 2024 Edition

  27-08-2024 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Untitled Art has announced the 171 exhibitors that it will bring together for its annual art fair on the sands of Miami Beach, slated to run December 4–7, with a VIP preview on December 3.This year’s figure represents the largest gathering for the fair to date, though it is only slightly larger than last year’s iteration, which featured more than 160 galleries.Among the galleries that will take part are Gallery 1957, High Noon, Jane Lombard Gallery, kó, Neon Parc, Southe
  
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• Amanda Ba Details Her Painting on Art in America’s Latest Cover

  27-08-2024 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Amanda Ba, whose painting Bitch and Bull (2023) appears on the cover of Art in America’s Fall 2024 “New Talent” issue, is the subject of a profile in the magazine. From her studio in Brooklyn, New York, Ba told A.i.A. the backstory of the cover image, a detail of a larger work shown here in full.This painting is part of a series from 2021, a galvanizing moment in my career that I’ve developed from since. I graduated the year before, into Covid. Th
  
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• LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection, “Friends” Memorabilia Heads to Auction, a Spotlight on Sister Mary Corita, and More: Morning Links for August 27, 2024

  27-08-2024 15:33 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESHERE COMES THE NUN. As Katy Hessel writes in her Guardian column, the Hollywood-based nun, artist, and teacher Sister Mary Corita (aka Corita Kent) “tackled the brutalities and violence of the Vietnam war – and the racist response to the Watts Uprising in LA.” If Sister Corita was alive today, Hessel asks, what would she think? &ldqu
  
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• Art in America’s Fall “New Talent” Issue Features 20 Artists to Watch Plus Reimagined Monuments, Peter Hujar, and more

  27-08-2024 15:24 via artnews.com
  
  This is a strange and scary time to be making art. Wars continue to rage in Ukraine and Gaza, and a looming United States presidential election could spell the return to power of a charismatic leader with fascist tendencies whose most fervent followers regard him as a kind of savior. These conditions are not so different from those in the late 1920s and ’30s in Europe, when Surrealism flourished as artists labored to process the horrors of World War I and the lead-up to WWII. It just so ha
  
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• Art in America’s “New Talent” Issue Spotlights 20 Artists to Watch

  27-08-2024 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” artists selected by the editors as significant figures to watch. The list draws artists from locations all over the globe and working in all mediums, each of them emerging in their own ways.Art in America‘s fall 2024 issue revisits the magazine’s long-running “New Talent” designation, which was initiated in 1954 and ran regularly in the magazine until 1966
  
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• Art in America’s “New Talent” Issue Names 20 Artists to Watch

  27-08-2024 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” artists selected by the editors as significant figures to watch. The list draws artists from locations all over the globe and working in all mediums, each of them emerging in their own ways.Art in America‘s fall 2024 issue revisits the magazine’s long-running “New Talent” designation, which was initiated in 1954 and ran regularly in the magazine until 1966
  
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• Mariah Carey Says Her Mother and Sister Died on the Same Day

  27-08-2024 14:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Carey, who has spoken and written extensively about her complicated relationship with her family, said the deaths had led to an “impossible time.”
  
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• When Your Child Is an Animal

  27-08-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The charged cultural conversation about pets and children — see “Chimp Crazy,” “childless cat ladies” and more — reveals the hidden contradictions of family life.
  
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• ‘Chimp Crazy,’ ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ and the Fault Lines of Family Life

  27-08-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The charged cultural conversation about pets and children — see “Chimp Crazy,” “childless cat ladies” and more — reveals the hidden contradictions of family life.
  
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• With ‘Empire Records: The Musical,’ Zoe Sarnak Revives a ’90s Cult Classic

  27-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The composer is breaking the rules of musical theater and finding an increasingly warm welcome this year for her rock sound. Next up, “Empire Records: The Musical.”
  
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• Opera Doesn’t Have to Be for Elites. Here’s Why.

  27-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  If opera at its best aspires to a different world, then we need to cultivate an anti-elite approach to how it is created and performed.
  
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• If Liza Minnelli’s Jewelry Could Talk

  27-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Studio 54. Versailles. The Oscars. Some of the pieces worn by Ms. Minnelli have seen a lot.
  
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• Adam Sandler’s ‘Love You’ and Other Netflix Specials to Stream Now

  27-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The star is in fine, filthy form under the direction of Josh Safdie (“Uncut Gems”). Hannah Berner and Langston Kerman also deliver standout hours.
  
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• He Bought a (Miniature) Zoo

  27-08-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The painter Walton Ford has amassed dozens of vintage German animal figurines.
  
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• Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and More Share How ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel Came Together

  27-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and their director, Tim Burton, look back on the first movie, the “Day-O” scene and their ghost comedy’s afterlife.
  
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• Star Wars Outlaws Review: Return of the Ennui

  27-08-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The vast galaxy is filled with well-worn concepts from other open-world games. Finding excitement requires descending to the game’s black markets and gambling dens.
  
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• Revisiting Tom Cruise’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and ‘Magnolia’ Performances From 1999

  27-08-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Twenty-five years ago, the superstar starred in “Eyes Wide Shut” and “Magnolia,” and opened himself up for the camera in ways he rarely has since.
  
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• Oasis Announces Reunion Tour After 15 Years of Brotherly War

  27-08-2024 09:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Liam and Noel Gallagher’s 1990s Britpop band will play dates in Britain and Ireland in 2025.
  
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• AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Japanese sword arts seminar at White Crane - Peninsula Daily News

  27-08-2024 01:30 via news.google.com
  AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Japanese sword arts seminar at White Crane  Peninsula Daily News
  
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• Rudy Franchi, Who Put Movies at the Center of a Technicolor Life, Dies at 85

  27-08-2024 01:22 via nytimes.com
  
  He brought French classics to New York, published a film magazine, worked as a Hollywood publicist and (as seen on “Antiques Roadshow”) thrived selling vintage posters and kitsch.
  
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• San Bernardino County Museum’s annual Summer Arts Festival returns - Hey SoCal. Change is our intention.

  27-08-2024 01:00 via news.google.com
  San Bernardino County Museum’s annual Summer Arts Festival returns  Hey SoCal. Change is our intention.
  
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• Nimbus Arts Center and Bridge Art Gallery Announce New Partnership Featuring Wide-Ranging Gallery Exhibitions and Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations - New Jersey Stage

  27-08-2024 00:33 via news.google.com
  Nimbus Arts Center and Bridge Art Gallery Announce New Partnership Featuring Wide-Ranging Gallery Exhibitions and Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Three LA Museums Plan New Initiative to Share Mohn Collection Focused on Local Artists

  27-08-2024 00:30 via artnews.com
  
  One of the country’s most important collections of art from Southern California will now have a new home—or, technically, three of them. A trio Los Angeles museums—the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art—have agreed to jointly acquire some 350 works from LA collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn. The Mohns, who have appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list several times over the past decade, are known for collecting in t
  
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• National Historic Trails Center to celebrate Native American arts, history with weekend events - Oil City News

  27-08-2024 00:30 via news.google.com
  National Historic Trails Center to celebrate Native American arts, history with weekend events  Oil City News
  
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• Lake City Arts Fest draws crowds - Plattsburgh Press Republican

  27-08-2024 00:20 via news.google.com
  Lake City Arts Fest draws crowds  Plattsburgh Press Republican
  
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• Three Los Angeles Museums Team Up to Acquire Art

  27-08-2024 00:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Hammer, LACMA and MOCA are establishing a joint collection, starting off with a gift of 260 works from the collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn.
  
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