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• Nick Gravenites, Mainstay of the San Francisco Rock Scene, Dies at 85

  26-09-2024 23:18 via nytimes.com
  
  A blues devotee from Chicago, he tasted fame in the late 1960s with the Electric Flag, a band that made its debut at Monterey but proved short-lived.
  
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• Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts - Hyperallergic

  26-09-2024 23:11
  Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts  Hyperallergic
  
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• AthFest Educates Announces Grants Awarded to Local Educators for Music and Arts Education - Flagpole Magazine

  26-09-2024 23:05
  AthFest Educates Announces Grants Awarded to Local Educators for Music and Arts Education  Flagpole Magazine
  
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• New Gucci Cruise Campaign Shot by Nan Goldin and Starring Debbie Harry Sets Sail

  26-09-2024 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  MILAN – A year after his first Gucci show as creative director, Sabato De Sarno says he is “as happy as the first day.”De Sarno was appointed to the role in January 2023 and, in an exclusive WWD interview to discuss the launch of his cruise 2025 ad campaign, the designer brimmed with excitement about the unveiling, given his passion for the photographer chosen, Nan Goldin.“Working for Gucci has given me the possibility to work with such
  
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• The Stage Combat Is Verbal in These Off Broadway Plays

  26-09-2024 22:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Belarus Free Theater’s “KS6: Small Forward” and three other shows are reminders that there are many ways to portray conflicts and confrontations onstage.
  
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• Lost Church Identified at Site of 14th-Century Monastery in Bulgaria

  26-09-2024 22:18 via artnews.com
  
  The well-preserved remains of a lost church believed to be part of a Medieval monastery were discovered by archaeologists in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Newsweek reported.The structure is thought to date as far back to the reign of Czar Ivan Alexander in the 14th century, according to historical sources. The czar ruled over the Second Bulgarian Empire between 1331 through 1371. At the height of its power, during the Second Bulgarian Empire, the city served as the capital and was a significant cent
  
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• McLean Project for the Arts Secures New Space and $500,000 in County Support for New Arts and Education Center - TysonsToday

  26-09-2024 22:13
  McLean Project for the Arts Secures New Space and $500,000 in County Support for New Arts and Education Center  TysonsToday
  
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• An Exclusive Look at the Met’s Reimagined Rockefeller Wing

  26-09-2024 21:46 via nytimes.com
  
  With more than 1,800 works from five continents, and new scholarship, refreshed galleries present the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania as three distinct areas.
  
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• Artists Plead For Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Soup At Van Gogh Painting To Avoid Jail

  26-09-2024 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  More than 100 artists, curators, art historians, academics and other art professionals have signed an open letter asking for two Just Stop Oil protestors to avoid being sentenced to jail.In October 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw cans of Heinz tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers and glued their hands to the wall below the painting at the National Gallery in London.While there was no damage to the painting itself, prosecutors said the antique 17th-century Italian frame
  
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• The Met Will Hold Artifacts Recently Returned to Yemen as Part of Ongoing Loan Agreement

  26-09-2024 21:28 via artnews.com
  
  Officials of the Republic of Yemen have placed a group of artifacts recently repatriated from a private collection on a long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Researchers believe that the group of 14 loaned sculptures, estimated to have been created between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE, were used for funerary purposes, among them an incense burner carved out of limestone and a votive made from yellow alabaster. A private collection in New Zealand recently
  
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• Holy Hollywood! Batman Is the First Superhero With a Walk of Fame Star.

  26-09-2024 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The caped crusader, who debuted in 1939, joins other illustrious figures — including Adam West, the actor who played him on TV.
  
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• ‘The Queen of the Villains’ Is a Complex Japanese Wrestling Drama

  26-09-2024 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The five-part Netflix series tells the story of a female wrestler in the 1980s who might have gone a little too deep into character.
  
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• Edmonds Arts Commission Seeks Applicants for Student Representative Position - 425magazine.com

  26-09-2024 20:33
  Edmonds Arts Commission Seeks Applicants for Student Representative Position  425magazine.com
  
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• Lloyd Macklowe, Leading Purveyor of Art Nouveau, Is Dead at 90

  26-09-2024 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  He and his wife began buying pieces to furnish their apartment. They wound up with a museum-quality collection and a pre-eminent retail business.
  
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• LMN Architects completes the Field Arts & Events Hall in northern Washington - The Architect's Newspaper

  26-09-2024 20:29
  LMN Architects completes the Field Arts & Events Hall in northern Washington  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: ‘Light Endures’

  26-09-2024 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Something is wrong with the candles in Celebrimbor’s workshop. Things are even worse outside.
  
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• 5 Moments of Joy From Hoda Kotb’s Run on ‘Today’

  26-09-2024 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The morning show host announced that she’s stepping down after more than 25 years at NBC filled with laughter, tears and the occasional glass of wine.
  
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• Top Collector Adrian Cheng Ousted as CEO from His Family’s Firm, New World Development, After Record Losses

  26-09-2024 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  Top art collector Adrian Cheng has resigned from his position as CEO at his family’s Hong Kong property development firm, New World Development Co., after the company posted its first annual loss in 20 years, a staggering $2.5 billion.Cheng, a regular face on the annual ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, will be replaced by New World’s current Chief Operating Officer, Ma Siu-Cheung, according to a report by Bloomberg. He announced his departure during the New World annual bri
  
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• ‘Megalopolis’ Review: The Fever Dreams of Francis Ford Coppola

  26-09-2024 18:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The director’s latest is a great-man story about an architect, played by Adam Driver, driven by ideals and big plans. It’s a personal statement on an epic scale.
  
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• What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?

  26-09-2024 18:45 via nytimes.com
  
  In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead.
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jhumpa Lahiri Declines Award from Noguchi Museum After Keffiyeh Ban

  26-09-2024 18:41 via artnews.com
  
  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined to accept an award next month from New York’s Noguchi Museum after three of its employees were fired for violating a new internal policy banning keffiyehs, a garment symbolic of Palestinian solidarity.“Jhumpa Lahiri has chosen to withdraw her acceptance of the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in response to our updated dress code policy,” the Long Island City institution said in a statement on Wednesday, as first quoted in the Ne
  
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• How ‘Discoshow’ Spun Las Vegas Into Funkytown

  26-09-2024 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Revisiting 1970s New York, a new theatrical experience is one history lesson that’s all about the good times.
  
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• New Alliance of Major Art Fairs Commits to Slashing Carbon Emissions, Berlin’s Cultural Affairs Official Targeted for Palestine Stance: Morning Links for September 26, 2024

  26-09-2024 18:13 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesFAIR TO GO GREEN? Art Basel, Frieze, and Tefaf are among more than 40 art fairs that have pledged to cut their carbon footprint in half by 2030, as part of a new alliance launched by the London-based Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), reports The Financial Times. Thirteen organizations representing the art fairs, including ARCO and The Armory
  
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• What to See on the West End This Fall

  26-09-2024 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.
  
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• Haena Yoo’s Strange Sculptural Brews

  26-09-2024 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  Haena Yoo’s studio is located on the outskirts of greater Seoul, in one of the so-called Knowledge Industry Centers developed during an investment boom in the pandemic years. While there are hundreds of these high-rise office-factory complexes still under construction across South Korea, those that are already completed exist almost like ghost buildings, sparsely populated and far from the real estate havens they were conceived to be. It is there, in a limbo of liquid capital, that Haena Y
  
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• Review: Philadelphia’s BalletX Shows Variety but Little Depth

  26-09-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The company brought three New York premieres to the Joyce Theater.
  
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• Mauritshuis Director’s Heirs Lay Claim to His Rembrandts

  26-09-2024 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  He ran the Mauritshuis and bequeathed it 25 paintings, but said they must always be on display. Today, only five are on show — so the descendants of his close friend say the artworks should be theirs.
  
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• ‘The Wild Robot’ Review: Wonder and Whimsy That Does Compute

  26-09-2024 17:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Chris Sanders’s movie about a robotic assistant and the gosling she raises is defined by dazzling visuals and frank ideas about the circle of life.
  
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• Will Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Flop?

  26-09-2024 17:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Coppola has spent $120 million on his new movie, “Megalopolis.” Most box office analysts predict that he’ll get far less in return.
  
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• When the Devoted Wife Becomes a Winning Brand

  26-09-2024 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” conservative politics and some corners of social media, a woman’s relationship to the home defines her role in public life.
  
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• ‘Killer Heat’ Review: Mediterranean Mischief

  26-09-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a detective running from his past in a murder mystery that is mostly a stiff slog to get through.
  
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• Yard Art Gets A Closer Look at the ICA Philadelphia

  26-09-2024 16:43 via artnews.com
  
  “Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard” is an act of devotion and confrontation in equal measure. The exhibition features more than 30 works by noted artists such as Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Noah Purifoy, and Wendy Red Star alongside community-taught artists such as the Bridge Way School Recovery Artist-in-Residence Program, Clarke Bedford, and the Painted Screen Society. The dynamic sightlines and interplay among works in the show, curated by artist and art historian Josh T. Fr
  
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• Events calendar: Ormond Beach Live Music and Arts Festival returns to town - Palm Coast Observer and Ormond Beach Observer

  26-09-2024 15:00
  Events calendar: Ormond Beach Live Music and Arts Festival returns to town  Palm Coast Observer and Ormond Beach Observer
  
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• GCC and New Alliance of Art Fairs Including Art Basel, Frieze, and TEFAF Commit to Halving Carbon Emissions by 2030

  26-09-2024 14:10 via artnews.com
  
  A new alliance of major art fairs – including Art Basel, Frieze, and TEFAF – and the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) on Thursday announced a new unified commitment to combatting climate change.The GCC said its Art Fair Co-Commitment Statement and Art Fair Toolkit for Environmental Responsibility “represent an unprecedented inter-fair alliance and roadmap for change.”“United by the understanding that the climate crisis will disrupt the visual arts sector as we know i
  
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• Whitney Museum Celebrates “Edges of Ailey” With Exuberant Art -- and a Few Surprises

  26-09-2024 14:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Music’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium.
  
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• Emerging Artist Li Hei Di Joins Pace Gallery, Becoming the Youngest Artist on Its Roster

  26-09-2024 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Pace Gallery now represents emerging artist Li Hei Di, who at 27 is now the youngest artist that the gallery represents. Li will have their first solo show with Pace in Hong Kong next year and the gallery will offer a new painting by the artist in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach in December.Related ArticlesAuction House Veteran Evelyn Lin Leaves Christie’s for Pace Gallery Sasha Gordon Joins David Zwirner, Making Her the Gallery’s Youngest Artist Pace will represent the
  
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• ‘The Universal Theory’ Review: A Quantum Noir

  26-09-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A physicist becomes embroiled in a conspiracy throughout this German meta-thriller. Shot in black-and-white, the film pays homage to Hollywood classics.
  
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• ‘Rez Ball’ Review: Warriors on the Court

  26-09-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This inspirational sports movie follows a high school basketball team in New Mexico with deep Native American heritage.
  
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• ‘Lee’ Review: A Remarkable Life at War

  26-09-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kate Winslet embodies the tenacity of the photographer Lee Miller, who documented World War II for British Vogue.
  
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• Kansas City arts festival in 18th and Vine is back for second year — and on a mission - Kansas City Star

  26-09-2024 13:00
  Kansas City arts festival in 18th and Vine is back for second year — and on a mission  Kansas City Star
  
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• The Standout Works at the 2024 Biennale de Lyon, From a Giant Swing to Frenzied Pressure Cookers  

  26-09-2024 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time, in 2022, the Biennale de Lyon expanded its footprint, displaying artwork across the France’s third largest city, which brought in 274,225 visitors, with nearly half being under 26. For its 2024 edition, the Biennale has taken its expansion a step further by extending outside the city to the towns of Brioude and Charlieu, alongside nine venues in Lyon. While the traditional Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (macLyon) hosts around a third of the 78 exhibiting
  
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• For His First Solo Museum Show, Bony Ramirez Uses the Cattleya Orchid as a Metaphor for Colonialism

  26-09-2024 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  “I thought about how orchids in general are [like] these beautiful parasites that attach themselves to trees and don’t exactly bring anything positive to them,” artist Bony Ramirez told ARTnews during a recent interview. “They’re just occupying space, which can be closely related to Spanish colonialism and toxic parts of tourism in the Caribbean.”As part of a yearlong residency at the Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey, Ramirez developed a body of work that is
  
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• ‘Nobody Wants This’ Review: Resuscitating the Rom-Com

  26-09-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Kristen Bell and Adam Brody star in a Netflix series whose familiar rhythms and punchlines are exactly the point.
  
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• ‘Nobody Wants This’ Review: Kristen Bell and Adam Brody Resuscitate the Rom-Com

  26-09-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Kristen Bell and Adam Brody star in a Netflix series whose familiar rhythms and punchlines are exactly the point.
  
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• ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ TV’s Least Likely to Succeed, Won by Losing

  26-09-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The high school cringe comedy was the undersung member of the Class of ’99. But its influence is everywhere.
  
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• From Damsel to Hero: How Princess Zelda Grew Up

  26-09-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s been a long road, but the princess in the Nintendo franchise named after her is no longer helpless or simply an assistant.
  
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• ‘Freaks and Geeks’ at 25: ‘It Was Slipping Away the Entire Time’

  26-09-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The beloved high-school sitcom debuted in September 1999 and lasted one season. Paul Feig, Judd Apatow and others look back on the show’s birth, death and long afterlife.
  
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• At the Whitney, a Stunning Ailey Tribute Moves Dance to the Edge

  26-09-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Music’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium.
  
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• ‘Sleep’ Review: Bumps in the Night

  26-09-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A taut and thrilling thriller about sleep issues is also a clever drama about early marriage.
  
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• ‘Saturday Night’ Review: Live TV at Its Mildest

  26-09-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  When it debuted 50 years ago, “S.N.L.” was chaotic, rangy, even offensive. But nothing’s wild or crazy in Jason Reitman’s fictional reimagining of its first episode.
  
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