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• ARTEFFECT Ambassadors Visual Arts Online Fellowship 2024-2025 Application - FortScott.Biz

  03-09-2024 23:49 via news.google.com
  ARTEFFECT Ambassadors Visual Arts Online Fellowship 2024-2025 Application  FortScott.Biz
  
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• National Museum of Sudan Reportedly Looted Amid Civil War

  03-09-2024 22:35 via artnews.com
  
  The National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum has reportedly been looted by members of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid an ongoing civil war in the country. On Sunday, the SBC, Sudan’s national broadcaster, reported that the museum was targeted by “a large-scale looting and smuggling operation” and that some pieces from its collection had been trafficked outside the nation’s southern border. “Satellite images have confirmed that trucks loaded with i
  
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• New Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in September: ‘The Perfect Couple’ and More

  03-09-2024 22:27 via nytimes.com
  
  A glitzy mystery starring Nicole Kidman arrives early this month; later, a new true-crime series tells the troubling tale of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
  
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• Yusaku Maezawa Suggests DIC Museum Should Sell Works to Japanese Collectors First: ‘I Will Be Waiting’

  03-09-2024 22:03 via artnews.com
  
  Yusaku Maezawa, who appeared on ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list last year,posted a series of comments on the social media network X on Monday, regarding the closure of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, expressing his desire as an art lover to prevent the outflow of works in the museum’s collection overseas.Last week, ARTnews‘ George Nelson reported that chemical company DIC Corporation was reevaluating the future of Kawamura amid pressure from activist inve
  
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• James Darren, Actor, Singer and ‘Gidget’ Heartthrob, Dies at 88

  03-09-2024 21:27 via nytimes.com
  
  His role as a surfer in that trendsetting hit movie led to success on television shows like “The Time Tunnel” and “T.J. Hooker,” and on the pop charts.
  
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• Sotheby’s Earnings Fell by 88 Percent During the First Half of 2024, Report Says

  03-09-2024 20:31 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s reported a sharp decline in its financials, with core earnings down 88 percent and auction sales falling by 25 percent in the first half of 2024, according to the Financial Times.Sotheby’s annual first-half results, revealed via an internal document distributed to investors and reviewed by the FT, show that the company encountered fiscal challenges before securing an investment deal with Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund (ADQ). The agreement was announced last month.L
  
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• Ease Into Fall With 7 Songs for September

  03-09-2024 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Listen to tracks inspired by this month of transitions and memories from Green Day, Barry White, Fiona Apple and more.
  
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• Sabrina Carpenter Beats Travis Scott to No. 1 by a Hair

  03-09-2024 19:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop singer and songwriter’s “Short n’ Sweet” debuts atop the Billboard 200 with the equivalent of 362,000, the third-best opening of the year.
  
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• Daniel Craig Gets Explicit in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’

  03-09-2024 19:20 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Venice Film Festival, the star said he embraced the scenes with sexual encounters: ‘If I wasn’t in the movie and saw this movie, I’d want to be in it.’
  
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• Textile exhibit at Pacific Textile Arts Gallery showcases the forests of the Pacific Northwest - The Mendocino Voice

  03-09-2024 19:05 via news.google.com
  Textile exhibit at Pacific Textile Arts Gallery showcases the forests of the Pacific Northwest  The Mendocino Voice
  
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• Human Remains Trafficked to New York as Art Have Been Returned to Pacific Island of Vanuatu by the FBI

  03-09-2024 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  After an eight-year investigation by the FBI, human remains that were trafficked to New York as art have finally been repatriated on the Pacific island of Vanuatu.The Vanuatu Cultural Center, the island’s national museum, received a crate last week—escorted by US intelligence and security agents—containing the skull of a man from an Indigenous Malakula hill tribe.Kami, a curator at the museum, told NBC News that he knew what it was instantly. “By looking at it, I knew str
  
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• Jackie Winsor, Artist Whose Labor-Intensive Sculptures Inspire Mystery and Awe, Dies at 82

  03-09-2024 18:40 via artnews.com
  
  Jackie Winsor, a sculptor whose painstakingly crafted pieces made of bricks, wood, copper, and cement feel like riddles that are impossible to unravel, has died at 82. Her sisters, Maxine Holmberg and Gloria Christie, and her extended family confirmed her death on Tuesday, saying that she died of a stroke.Winsor rose to fame in New York alongside the Minimalists during the 1970s. Her art, with its repetitive forms and the challenging processes used to craft them, even seemed at times to resemble
  
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• Gao Zhen, of the Artist Duo Gao Brothers, Arrested in China on Slander Charges

  03-09-2024 17:48 via artnews.com
  
  Chinese artist Gao Zhen, who gained fame and recognition for creating politically charged artworks with his brother Gao Qiang, was arrested in China, the New York Times reported Monday.Qiang told the Times in an email that Zhen, who has lived in the US since 2022, was in China visiting family recently when police in Sanhe City, a city in Hebei near Beijing, arrested him on “suspicion of slandering China’s heroes and martyrs.”In early 2021, China passed a law making it a crimina
  
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• Seeing Dances of the Harlem Renaissance, in Vivid Color

  03-09-2024 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  An immersive article spotlights choreographers who are carrying forward the legacy of Black dance forms that flourished 100 years ago.
  
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• The Spies of ‘Slow Horses’ Are ‘as Useless as Everyone Else’

  03-09-2024 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Will Smith, the showrunner, discusses the comic spy thriller, which returns for its fourth season on Wednesday and is up for nine Emmy Awards later this month.
  
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• From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’

  03-09-2024 16:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.
  
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• ‘The Notebook’ Will End Its Broadway Run in December. A Tour Is Next.

  03-09-2024 15:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The show, nominated for three Tony Awards, opened March 14 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. It will go on a national tour starting next September.
  
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• Deutsche Bank Unveils Art Commissions in London, Artists Rally for Kamala Harris, National Museum of Sudan Looted, and More: Morning Links for September 3, 2024

  03-09-2024 15:55 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESBIG FRIEZE TO THAW? The third edition of Frieze Seoul has kicked off against a backdrop of economic and political challenges in South Korea. The country’s GDP is expected to grow by 2.5 percent this year, a recovery from last year’s 1.7 percent growth. However, President Yoon Suk Yeol faces corruption allegations, with over a million South Kore
  
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• Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Executive Council Hosts a “B.O.L.D” Celebration - The Hilltop Online

  03-09-2024 15:07 via news.google.com
  Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Executive Council Hosts a “B.O.L.D” Celebration  The Hilltop Online
  
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• Helen Pashgian, a Pioneer of California’s Light and Space Movement, Continues to Produce Work that Astounds

  03-09-2024 15:05 via artnews.com
  
  It wasn’t until I walked through the faded-blue door to Helen Pashgian’s Pasadena studio and she told me to put away my recorder and notebook that I understood this would not be a conventional interview. “People keep rewriting my words more elegantly but not addressing the work itself or their own experience of it,” the California native told me as I followed her into the spacious 100-year-old warehouse she’s occupied since the ‘70s. “I’d like for
  
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• Presenters Announced for Saturday 76th Creative Arts Emmys - Television Academy

  03-09-2024 14:45 via news.google.com
  Presenters Announced for Saturday 76th Creative Arts Emmys  Television Academy
  
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• Sabrina Carpenter and Pop’s Next Gen Have a Secret Weapon: Amy Allen

  03-09-2024 14:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The songwriter behind the summer smashes “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” is helping drive a moment of idiosyncrasy in Top 40 hits.
  
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• Alabama student scores in English Language Arts have improved, says report - Alabama Reflector

  03-09-2024 14:13 via news.google.com
  Alabama student scores in English Language Arts have improved, says report  Alabama Reflector
  
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• Artist-Surfer Simon Benjamin Explores How Black People Relate to the Sea

  03-09-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Of all the songs that played during my hours-long visit to Simon Benjamin’s Brooklyn studio, “The West” by Althea and Donna echoed in my head the most—partly because it’s catchy, and partly because its refrain (“the West is gonna perish”) complements Benjamin’s current question: “how productive is nationalism right now?”Benjamin is a multidisciplinary artist driven by curiosity. Previously an avid surfer, he’d travel to coastal re
  
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• Uzbekistan to Get a New Biennial, Set to Be One of Central Asia’s Biggest Shows

  03-09-2024 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Into the crowded field of biennials joins yet one more—this one in Central Asia, a region that generally lacks exhibitions with international visibility.In 2025, the Bukhara Biennial will launch in Uzbekistan, in what is billed as one of the largest exhibitions of its kind in Central Asia. Set to open on September 5 of that year, the show will be curated by Diana Campbell, the Los Angeles–based curator who serves as artistic director of the Samdani Art Foundation in Bangladesh.Campeb
  
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• Ryan Preciado Is Marrying Sculpture, Design, and Conceptual Art—And Finding a Wide Audience

  03-09-2024 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family who runs the shop. When the store got busy, Preciado started browsing its wares, “picking up little things I thought were pretty sculptural,” he said during an interview at his studio this past summer. “I’d bring them over to the owner, and we’d talk about them a bit in S
  
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• What if Orchestras Were More Like Netflix?

  03-09-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  As subscriptions face an uncertain future, classical music could look to the membership models of streaming services and gyms for inspiration.
  
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• In Colombia, a Festival Celebrates Humpback Whales and Local Culture

  03-09-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Every year, as thousands of humpbacks return to their breeding grounds near a protected bay, locals gather on the beach to greet them with stories, dancing and music.
  
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• This Couple Built Their Dream Home on the Russian River on a Budget

  03-09-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Getting there required buying something far worse than the typical fixer-upper: “It was like excavating in Pompeii.”
  
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• Alvin Ailey, the Man and the Mind Behind the Unapologetic Sparkle

  03-09-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Edges of Ailey,” a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the choreographer takes center stage. It’s another revelation.
  
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• Arts Building improvements underway - University of California, Riverside

  03-09-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Arts Building improvements underway  University of California, Riverside
  
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• Smoky Mountains Arts and Crafts Village in Gatlinburg damaged by flash flooding - WATE 6 On Your Side

  03-09-2024 05:31 via news.google.com
  Smoky Mountains Arts and Crafts Village in Gatlinburg damaged by flash flooding  WATE 6 On Your Side
  
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