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• Child Scratches Mark Rothko Work in Dutch Museum

  29-04-2025 21:34 via artnews.com
  A prized painting by Mark Rothko on display in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam was damaged by a child who made “small scratches” on its surface. The work, titled Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 (1960), is housed in the Depot, a storage facility that is open to the public and located next to the main building.The incident occurred during an “unguarded moment,” the museum told the Dutch news outlet Algemeen Dagblad, which said the painting was worth as muc
  
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• Mellon Foundation Gives $15 M. in Emergency Funding to State Councils to Remedy NEH Cuts

  29-04-2025 21:31 via artnews.com
  The Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the US, said it would give $15 million in emergency funding to the Federation of State Humanities Councils (FSHC). The funds will be disbursed to state councils in all 50 states and six jurisdictions.The news comes almost a month after the Trump administration said that it would cut $65 million from the budget of the National Endowment of the Humanities, which was earmarked for the funding of these state councils as well as
  
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• Barnes Foundation, Moderna Museet, and More, Awarded Conservation Grants

  29-04-2025 21:17 via artnews.com
  This year’s Bank of America Art Conservation Project grants have been awarded to sixteen cultural institutions, including the Rothko Chapel in Houston, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and Sainte Chapelle in Paris.The conservation project began in 2010 in an effort to help preserve notable works of art, architecture, and archaeological works. Since its founding, more than 275 grants have been awarded in 40 countries to conserve paintings, sculptures, works on paper, manuscr
  
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• The Dubai Collection Tests the Limits of What an ‘Institutional Collection’ Actually Is

  29-04-2025 20:57 via artnews.com
  Earlier this month, attendees of this year’s Art Dubai fair wandering the Madinat Jumeirah resort likely came across an entirely different window into the art of the region, the Dubai Collection.Billed as the emirate’s first institutional collection of modern and contemporary art, the Dubai Collection launched in 2021 under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Dubai. The term collection is being used l
  
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• Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Month Schedule as Organizers ‘Proactively’ Relocate Events

  29-04-2025 20:29 via artnews.com
  The Kennedy Center’s war on the performing arts continues to wage on under the Trump administration as a series of events planned around Pride Month have quietly been canceled or relocated.According to The Associated Press, artists involved with the Kennedy Center’s Tapestry of Pride — scheduled for June 5 to 8 during Washington, D.C.’s World Pride Festival — have been informed that the events have either been canceled entirely or moved to other
  
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• Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million for Humanities Councils

  29-04-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The emergency funding came after the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled most existing grants, part of a pivot toward President Trump’s priorities.
  
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• Jack Black’s ‘Minecraft Movie’ Song, ‘Steve’s Lava Chicken,’ Hits the Charts

  29-04-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  “Steve’s Lava Chicken,” a 34-second song from “A Minecraft Movie,” made the Billboard Hot 100. He charted before with a song from “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
  
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• 6 (Genre-Smashing) New Songs You Should Hear Now

  29-04-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Hit play on Sleep Token, Cortisa Star, Bon Iver and more.
  
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• Top US Universities Form Collective Against Trump Administration

  29-04-2025 19:58 via artnews.com
  Leaders from America’s top universities have formed a private collective in defense against the Trump administration’s attacks on academic independence and research funding, the Wall Street Journal reported.Operating behind the scenes, the collective consists of figureheads such as individual trustees and presidents from roughly 10 ivy league and preeminent private research universities, primarily located in Democrat states.Issues like relinquishing academic independence, including a
  
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• Nike Hit by $5 M. Class Action Lawsuit by Users of Shuttered NFT Platform RTFKT

  29-04-2025 19:15 via artnews.com
  Nike is being hit with a class action lawsuit demanding over $5 million in damages after shutting down its Web3 NFT platformRTFKT in January.A group of RTFKT users filed the lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York on April 25, claiming that they suffered “significant damages” after Nike touted its sneaker-themed NFTs to win investors, before pulling the plug on the platform.Founded in 2020, RTFKT offered shoes and collectibles that could be used by various avatars and application
  
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• ‘Câreme’ Serves Up Satisfaction in the Kitchen and the Bedroom

  29-04-2025 19:08 via nytimes.com
  “Carême,” a new Apple TV+ series, is based on the life of a 19th-century society chef who delighted diners and lovers. It’s very French.
  
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• “All the World’s a Stage” and “Rheology” Are Promising New Productions

  29-04-2025 18:30 via nytimes.com
  Two worlds of promise: “All the World’s a Stage,” a musical by Adam Gwon, and “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s follow-up to “Public Obscenities.”
  
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• ‘Carême’ Is a Sexy Historical Kitchen Drama

  29-04-2025 18:20 via nytimes.com
  The series, about a celebrity chef in Napoleonic France, has a loose relationship to historical facts. But that frees it to be spry and fun.
  
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• Jane Gardam Dead: ‘Old Filth’ Author Was 96

  29-04-2025 18:09 via nytimes.com
  “The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.
  
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• ‘Physically Suffering’ Life Models in Florence Are Threatening Legal Action Over Working Conditions

  29-04-2025 17:55 via artnews.com
  Life models in Florence are threatening court action against the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in a bid to improve working conditions. They have also said they might protest naked in public.Nude models at the fine arts academy, which was founded in 1784, complained to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera about their “exhausting” work. They want more breaks and argue that their renewable annual contracts, which offer 500 hours over 11 months, do not compensate for the mental and
  
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• Minne Atairu Reimagines Looted Artworks Using AI

  29-04-2025 16:53 via artnews.com
  Minne Atairu’s Deshrined Ancestors (2024) is a work of augmented reality, an animated 3D rendering of an ivory bust that oscillates between recognizable features and amorphic forms. Is it alien or human? It’s hard to tell. The virtual sculpture appears smooth and rubberlike. Its primary face has cowrie shells for eyes and ram’s-horn handles on each side of its head. The back of the sculpture features a petite totem of two baby doll heads crowned by a strand of red ribbon and ad
  
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• Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Tour Review; The Star Remixes American History, and Her Own

  29-04-2025 16:15 via nytimes.com
  The superstar’s new stage show turns reclamation, personal and musical, into joyful extravaganza.
  
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• Dutch Municipality Accidentally Disposes of Andy Warhol Print During Town Hall Renovation

  29-04-2025 16:11 via artnews.com
  In a bureaucratic blunder that is as funny as it is tragic, the Dutch municipality of Maashorst appears to have accidentally thrown out a valuable Andy Warhol silk-screen print — along with nearly 50 other artworks.According to an independent investigation commissioned by the municipality first reported by the New York Times, the pieces likely disappeared during a recent town hall renovation. Officials acknowledged the error last week in a letter to the council, though they admitted the in
  
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• Jeff Koons Returns to Gagosian for Frieze New York 2025, Hulk in Tow

  29-04-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Jeff Koons will reunite with Gagosian for a solo presentation at this year’s edition of Frieze New York, less than four years after his closely watched departure from the gallery. The booth will feature three sculptures from his Hulk Elvis series—Hulk (Organ) (2004–14), Hulk (Tubas) (2004–18), and Hulk (Dragon and Turtle) (2004–21)—staged against a custom vinyl backdrop derived from his 2007 painting Triple Hulk Elvis II
  
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• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Had Glitches Galore. Thankfully, They’re Still There.

  29-04-2025 11:04 via nytimes.com
  The acclaimed 2006 role-playing game was known for its wonky artificial intelligence and character dialogue. A visually stunning remaster preserves what made it great.
  
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• Liked ‘Havoc’? Here are Five Movies to Stream Next

  29-04-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Gareth Evan’s action film starring Tom Hardy delivers a fire hose of action. If you want the punches to keep coming, we recommend these five movies.
  
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• Boston Pops’ Keith Lockhart Has the Ear of the Red Sox and Classical Fans

  29-04-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Keith Lockhart, who leads the Boston Pops, is a beloved figure in his city’s musical scene, and 30 years in he still has more to give.
  
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• The Resurrection of Rilo Kiley

  29-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Two-and-a-half decades since the group won the hearts of a young generation — and more than 15 years after calling it quits — the indie-rock heroes are hitting the road.
  
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• Reality TV Wades Into Cross-Generational Dating Pools

  29-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Bravo’s “Love Hotel” and ABC’s “Bachelor in Paradise” are widening the age range of prospective love matches.
  
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• ‘Love Hotel’ and ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Wade Into Cross-Generational Dating Pools

  29-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Bravo’s “Love Hotel” and ABC’s “Bachelor in Paradise” are widening the age range of prospective love matches.
  
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• Who Should Be a Tony Awards Nominee in 2025?

  29-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Our chief theater critic makes his picks.
  
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• How Blondshell Became an Alt-Rock Supernova

  29-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Sabrina Teitelbaum bares it all in her raw, crunchy songs. On her second album, “If You Asked for a Picture,” she’s weighing how much of herself to give away.
  
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• A Ruth Asawa Retrospective Finds the Fun in Her Game-Changing Art

  29-04-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In 1973, during the opening of her first San Francisco Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Ruth Asawa held what she called a “dough-in,” a communal experience that was part baking, part art, and part fun. Asawa’s recipe for a batch of baker’s clay, a white nonedible substance, went something like this: measure out 4 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt, then combine it with 1½ cups of water and hand it over to a group of kids to do the mixing. Some 1,000 parents and chi
  
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• Black Artists in Postwar Paris Get a Blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou

  29-04-2025 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s title, they are Delirium and Peace. Measuring 7.4 by 9.7 feet, Délire et paix (1954) by Georges Coran still packs a punch more than 70 years later.The artist’s daughter, Claude Coran, had lent the work to the Pompidou for the blockbuster exhibition “Paris Noir: Artistic circulati
  
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• Late Night Pokes Fun at Trump’s Dismal Poll Numbers

  29-04-2025 08:51 via nytimes.com
  Seth Meyers called Donald Trump “the most unpopular president since Kevin Spacey.” Even measles is polling better, according to Jimmy Fallon.
  
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• OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning - The Hechinger Report

  29-04-2025 07:32 via news.google.com
  OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning  The Hechinger Report
  
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• Murder Ballads - The Austin Chronicle

  29-04-2025 07:02 via news.google.com
  
  Murder Ballads  The Austin Chronicle
  
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• MCHS students to attend Governor's School for the Arts - The Paducah Sun

  29-04-2025 07:00 via news.google.com
  MCHS students to attend Governor's School for the Arts  The Paducah Sun
  
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• ‘Acting is acting,’ EMA students learn from Richard ‘Mocapman’ Dorton - The Daily Nebraskan

  29-04-2025 07:00 via news.google.com
  ‘Acting is acting,’ EMA students learn from Richard ‘Mocapman’ Dorton  The Daily Nebraskan
  
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• Council Quickies: Arts Funding and Replacing Bokhari - Queen City Nerve

  29-04-2025 05:16 via news.google.com
  
  Council Quickies: Arts Funding and Replacing Bokhari  Queen City Nerve
  
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• April 28, 2025 - Robert Pinsky, arts funding and advocacy, and public art in Kendall Square - WGBH

  29-04-2025 04:11 via news.google.com
  April 28, 2025 - Robert Pinsky, arts funding and advocacy, and public art in Kendall Square  WGBH
  
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• Crookston High School hands out Academics, Arts, and Athletic Awards - KROX

  29-04-2025 04:08 via news.google.com
  
  Crookston High School hands out Academics, Arts, and Athletic Awards  KROX
  
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• Simmons and Lucca headline Arts Foundation showcase - The Record Courier

  29-04-2025 03:32 via news.google.com
  Simmons and Lucca headline Arts Foundation showcase  The Record Courier
  
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• Creativity takes center stage as school district celebrates new fine arts curriculum - The Dakota Scout

  29-04-2025 03:30 via news.google.com
  
  Creativity takes center stage as school district celebrates new fine arts curriculum  The Dakota Scout
  
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• CHAMPIONS OF MAGIC Begins Performances Tomorrow At Fox Performing Arts Center - BroadwayWorld.com

  29-04-2025 03:02 via news.google.com
  CHAMPIONS OF MAGIC Begins Performances Tomorrow At Fox Performing Arts Center  BroadwayWorld.com
  
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• PURPLE RAIN World Premiere Tickets On Sale At Hennepin Arts In May - BroadwayWorld.com

  29-04-2025 02:32 via news.google.com
  PURPLE RAIN World Premiere Tickets On Sale At Hennepin Arts In May  BroadwayWorld.com
  
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• Design the look of the Kimball Arts Festival, T-shirt design contest open for applicants - TownLift, Park City News

  29-04-2025 02:09 via news.google.com
  Design the look of the Kimball Arts Festival, T-shirt design contest open for applicants  TownLift, Park City News
  
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• Supporting San Diego students | Social and emotional learning through the arts - cbs8.com

  29-04-2025 01:56 via news.google.com
  Supporting San Diego students | Social and emotional learning through the arts  cbs8.com
  
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• Brooklyn Borough Prez names Colm Dillane of KidSuper as inaugural ‘Brooklyn Arts Ambassador’ - caribbeanlife.com

  29-04-2025 01:24 via news.google.com
  Brooklyn Borough Prez names Colm Dillane of KidSuper as inaugural ‘Brooklyn Arts Ambassador’  caribbeanlife.com
  
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• Now You Know: Arts org to roast city manager; city seeks applicants - Marco Eagle

  29-04-2025 00:47 via news.google.com
  Now You Know: Arts org to roast city manager; city seeks applicants  Marco Eagle
  
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• 3 To Do: ‘Culture Shock! at Arts Bonita, ‘Famlet’ on Marco, more - Marco Eagle

  29-04-2025 00:28 via news.google.com
  3 To Do: ‘Culture Shock! at Arts Bonita, ‘Famlet’ on Marco, more  Marco Eagle
  
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• Axelrod Performing Arts Center presents "Rock of Ages" - NewJerseyStage.com

  29-04-2025 00:26 via news.google.com
  Axelrod Performing Arts Center presents "Rock of Ages"  NewJerseyStage.com
  
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• SAVE THE DATE: Burien Arts' 'ARTvant-garde VISION 2025' benefit gala will be Saturday, June 28 - B-Town Blog

  29-04-2025 00:23 via news.google.com
  SAVE THE DATE: Burien Arts' 'ARTvant-garde VISION 2025' benefit gala will be Saturday, June 28  B-Town Blog
  
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• Arts Advocates: Gonzales-Day, Mark, Smith named to board - Los Angeles Downtown News

  29-04-2025 00:10 via news.google.com
  Arts Advocates: Gonzales-Day, Mark, Smith named to board  Los Angeles Downtown News
  
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