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• Larry Gagosian Talked the Future with CBS: ‘I’m Not Ready to Pass the Reins’

  24-02-2025 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  CBS Sunday Morning recently aired a profile of gallery owner Larry Gagosian and how the 80-year-old art dealer navigates the “brutal business” while overseeing 18 locations around the world.The seven-minute segment aired on CBS Sunday Morning on February 23. Early on, the newsmagazine features Gagosian placing the record-setting winning bid for Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) for $194 million at Christie’s New York.“That must have been a crazy moment,&rd
  
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• Larry Gagosian Talked the Future with 60 Minutes: ‘I’m Not Ready to Pass the Reins’

  24-02-2025 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  60 Minutes recently aired a profile of gallery owner Larry Gagosian and how the 80-year-old art dealer navigates the “brutal business” while overseeing 18 locations around the world. The seven-minute segment aired on CBS on February 23. Early on, the newsmagazine features Gagosian placing the record-setting winning bid for Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) for $194 million at Christie’s New York. “That must have been a crazy moment,” said CBS corresp
  
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• Egon Schiele Drawing at Center of Restitution Debate Poised to Make $1.9 M. at Auction

  24-02-2025 22:20 via artnews.com
  
  An Egon Schiele watercolor is set to be sold next month at Christie’s after a settlement was reached between its cosigner and the heirs of its original owner, a Viennese cabaret performer and writer who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.The work, Boy in a Sailor Suit (1914), will appear in London on March 5 with a low estimate of $1.3 million as part of Christie’s 20th and 21st centuries auctions. It is one of roughly 80 artworks by Schiele once belonging to Fritz Grünbaum
  
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• College of Fine Arts - UNLV NewsCenter

  24-02-2025 22:00 via news.google.com
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• Archaeologist Who Discovered Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb Believes There Is Another—Possibly Containing a Mummy

  24-02-2025 21:39 via artnews.com
  A week ago, archaeologists announced that they had found the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II near the Valley of the Kings in West Luxor. Now, the expert behind the discovery believes he knows the location of a second tomb.Thutmose II’s tomb is the first royal burial chamber to be discovered since 1922, when King Tutankhamun’s tomb was found by British archaeologist Howard Carter. Though it was unearthed in 2022, Thutmose II’s tomb has been undergoing fu
  
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• Turner Prize–Winning Artist Lubaina Himid to Represent UK at 2026 Venice Biennale

  24-02-2025 21:37 via artnews.com
  
  Lubaina Himid, an artist who quickly became one of the most celebrated British artists working today following her Turner Prize win in 2017, will represent the United Kingdom at the 2026 Venice Biennale.Himid is best known for installations that allude to forms of Black liberation, sometimes with a focus specifically on women. Within England, she is also known for curating exhibitions of Black art, with an Institute of Contemporary Arts London survey this summer set to reflect on the legacy of s
  
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• A Discovery of Lost Pages Brings to Light a ‘Last Great Yiddish Novel’

  24-02-2025 20:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Editors waited decades for the final manuscript of Chaim Grade’s “Sons and Daughters.” Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world.
  
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• Jane Fonda’s SAG Awards Speech: ‘Empathy Is Not Weak or Woke’

  24-02-2025 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  While some stars have been less politically outspoken this awards season, she issued a call to action as she accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.
  
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• Met Museum to Return Griffin Head Donated by Former Trustee to Greece

  24-02-2025 20:26 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art will repatriate a 7th-century bronze head donated by a former trustee head to Greece following a review internally of it’s provenance records The museum’s researchers concluded it was likely illegally removed from the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in the 1930s, though details of the removal aren’t known.The restitution is scheduled to take place on Tuesday in New York, where Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni will officially receive t
  
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• Machu Picchu: A Guide to Peru’s ‘Lost City of the Incas’

  24-02-2025 20:19 via artnews.com
  
  Literally “old mountain” in Quechua, Peru’s dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin meet. Archaeologists believe the Incan citadel was built in the 1420s and abandoned sometime in the mid 1500s, around the time Spanish conquistadors invaded the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu’s virtually untouched state upon its rediscovery in the early 20th century indicates tha
  
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• Artists Protest Against Sabsabi Cancellation, Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Former Aide Accused of Art Fraud, Great Wall of China Older Than First Thought: Morning Links for February 24, 2025

  24-02-2025 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesARTISTS PROTEST SABSABI CANCELATION. Artists who represented Australia at the Venice Biennale have called for the reinstatement of Khaled Sabsabi as the country’s pick for the 2026 event after he was dropped, reports The Guardian. A host of artists signed an open letter to the board and chief executive of Creative Australia, which organizes
  
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• Drake and PartyNextDoor’s ‘Some Sexy Songs 4 U’ Is No. 1

  24-02-2025 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Their collaborative album “Some Sexy Songs 4 U” opens atop the Billboard 200, unseating his foe Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX,” which surged after the Super Bowl halftime show.
  
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• Ayoung Kim Wins the $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

  24-02-2025 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  Seoul-based artist Ayoung Kim has been selected as the third winner of the LG Guggenheim Award, a prize that comes with $100,000 and is part of a five-year, art-and-technology-focused collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Korean electronics company LG.Kim is known for films that have involved generative AI, video game engines, motion capture and animation software, and live-action footage. In her work, she combines mythologies and cosmologies, and draws on Webtoon aesth
  
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• Ayoung Kim Wins the $100,000 Guggenheim LG Award

  24-02-2025 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  Seoul-based artist Ayoung Kim has been selected as the third winner of the LG Guggenheim Award, a prize that comes with $100,000 and is part of a five-year, art-and-technology-focused collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Korean electronics company LG.Kim is known for films that have involved generative AI, video game engines, motion capture and animation software, and live-action footage. In her work, she combines mythologies and cosmologies, and draws on Webtoon aesth
  
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• What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

  24-02-2025 17:48 via artnews.com
  
  The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and ’30s that sought to redefine Black identity through literature, music, painting, photography, and intellectual thought. It was a direct response to negative stereotypical images that proliferated throughout popular culture in the United States in the wake of the Civil War. Well into the 20th century, depictions of Black people as Sambos, mammies, and pickaninnies, appearing on everyday household i
  
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• Roberta Flack’s 11 Essential Songs

  24-02-2025 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  One of the supreme voices of the 1970s and a master of revelatory reinterpretation has died at 88.
  
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• Michael Tilson Thomas, Facing Brain Cancer Recurrence, Scales Back Concerts

  24-02-2025 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Tilson Thomas, who led the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years, said, “Now is the time to wind down my public appearances.”
  
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• Laura Owens’s Latest New York Exhibition Is the Season’s Buzziest Show for a Reason

  24-02-2025 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  “Are you a part of the show?” a woman asked a gallery attendant seated at a desk, cocking an eyebrow as she tried to make sense of the situation. That would have been a stupid question just about anywhere else, but the exhibition was by Laura Owens, a painter with a penchant for trickery, and the venue was Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, whose press release for Owens’s latest outing offered little in the way of explanation. No, the attendant said, he was not an artwork. Then
  
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• Roberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Behind ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88

  24-02-2025 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
  
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• RZA Talks About Wu-Tang Clan’s Final Chamber Tour

  24-02-2025 16:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The pathbreaking New York rap group, which has rarely performed as a full unit, is hitting the road for the last time.
  
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• Luke Thallon Rides the Stormy Seas in a Maritime ‘Hamlet’

  24-02-2025 15:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Luke Thallon expertly blends sincerity and neediness as the embattled prince in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production.
  
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• The Singular Charm of Parker Posey

  24-02-2025 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  For years, the "indie queen” has had trouble finding satisfying work in Hollywood’s shifting landscape. Then, along came “The White Lotus.”
  
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• ‘Zero Day’ Is a Throwback Thriller With Modern Echoes

  24-02-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Netflix series is a contemporary update of a ’70s-style political drama that is even more contemporary than its creators anticipated.
  
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• Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum

  24-02-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later sold on the art market.
  
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• An Oakland Dance Troupe Brings Vertical Choreography to Broadway

  24-02-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  For the Oakland dance troupe Bandaloop every surface is a stage. Now its vertical choreography and environmental ethos have come to Broadway in “Redwood.”
  
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• 100 Years Ago Recording Studios Got a New Tool: Microphones

  24-02-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and how we hear it.
  
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• BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Berkcirque—bringing circus arts to families for more than 30 years - theberkshireedge.com

  24-02-2025 06:30 via news.google.com
  BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Berkcirque—bringing circus arts to families for more than 30 years  theberkshireedge.com
  
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• Sarasota Performing Arts Center - SRQ Magazine

  24-02-2025 06:03 via news.google.com
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• Bruch, Bruckner, and Brahms: What’s Happening in Classic Arts This Week - Playbill

  24-02-2025 06:01 via news.google.com
  Bruch, Bruckner, and Brahms: What’s Happening in Classic Arts This Week  Playbill
  
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• Napoleon Gladney brings a new perspective to Ensemble Arts Philly - Philadelphia Sunday Sun

  24-02-2025 05:27 via news.google.com
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• SAG Awards: Complete List of Winners

  24-02-2025 04:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The thriller about choosing a new pope took home the top film prize, while Demi Moore and Timothée Chalamet won individual honors.
  
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• Stanford Winter Festival showcases performing arts - palyvoice.com

  24-02-2025 04:42 via news.google.com
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• Martial arts instructor stops alleged purse-snatcher in Northern Liberties: ‘Faith in humanity again’ - FOX 29 Philadelphia

  24-02-2025 04:31 via news.google.com
  Martial arts instructor stops alleged purse-snatcher in Northern Liberties: ‘Faith in humanity again’  FOX 29 Philadelphia
  
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• Martial arts instructor stops purse-snatcher in Northern Liberties - FOX 29 Philadelphia

  24-02-2025 04:20 via news.google.com
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• Designing a path for the fine arts - The Trail Blazer

  24-02-2025 04:06 via news.google.com
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• ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap: Who Was That Masked Man?

  24-02-2025 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There are no answers this week — or even hints — to the identity of the dead body in the season premiere, but we do see a robbery.
  
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• Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Pádraig Ó Tuama and Philip Metres - The Tartan

  24-02-2025 03:55 via news.google.com
  Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Pádraig Ó Tuama and Philip Metres  The Tartan
  
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• Community Builders pledges $60,000 to Morris Arts in new three-year commitment - Real Estate NJ

  24-02-2025 03:45 via news.google.com
  Community Builders pledges $60,000 to Morris Arts in new three-year commitment  Real Estate NJ
  
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• Teen and Tween Arts Collectives provide creative space for LGBTQIA+ youth - - The Daily Tar Heel

  24-02-2025 03:39 via news.google.com
  Teen and Tween Arts Collectives provide creative space for LGBTQIA+ youth -  The Daily Tar Heel
  
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• See and support local art and history next Arts Alive March 1 - Redwood News

  24-02-2025 03:32 via news.google.com
  See and support local art and history next Arts Alive March 1  Redwood News
  
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• Edmonds Ballyhoo Theater providing accessible and inclusive arts since 1999 - Lynnwood Times

  24-02-2025 03:32 via news.google.com
  Edmonds Ballyhoo Theater providing accessible and inclusive arts since 1999  Lynnwood Times
  
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• Weekend Break: Riverside Arts Center - AOL

  24-02-2025 03:02 via news.google.com
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• 6 Takeaways From Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s TLC Reality Show

  24-02-2025 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The series begins just before he was scheduled to stand trial in the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust.” The reviews have been somewhat uneasy.
  
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• Lynne Marie Stewart, Miss Yvonne on ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse,’ Dies at 78

  24-02-2025 02:14 via nytimes.com
  
  She was the “most beautiful woman in Puppetland” in the 1980s children’s show starring Paul Reubens, and more recently had a recurring role in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
  
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• ENESS projects bright pixelated prints to large-scale arched entryway for exhibition in dubai - Designboom

  24-02-2025 01:44 via news.google.com
  ENESS projects bright pixelated prints to large-scale arched entryway for exhibition in dubai  Designboom
  
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• ‘Reflections of Resilience’: Art in City Hall exhibition celebrates Black voices - Frederick News Post

  24-02-2025 01:16 via news.google.com
  ‘Reflections of Resilience’: Art in City Hall exhibition celebrates Black voices  Frederick News Post
  
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• Affton High School fine arts teacher celebrates 60 years of educating - First Alert 4

  24-02-2025 01:13 via news.google.com
  Affton High School fine arts teacher celebrates 60 years of educating  First Alert 4
  
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• Weekend Break: Riverside Arts Center - WGN TV Chicago

  24-02-2025 00:45 via news.google.com
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• "Taylor's Story" at the Stafford Township Arts Center on March 1st - TAPinto.net

  24-02-2025 00:40 via news.google.com
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• Los Alamos Author Christine Gallagher Launches Novel of Revenge, Redemption - Noozhawk

  24-02-2025 00:30 via news.google.com
  Los Alamos Author Christine Gallagher Launches Novel of Revenge, Redemption  Noozhawk
  
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