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• How Bookstores Across America Are Taking On Book Bans

  20-09-2024 19:15 via publishersweekly.com
  Perhaps no bookstore in America’s heartland better exemplifies a commitment to the freedom to read than Loudmouth Books, in Indianapolis. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Following a Trail of Banksy Forgeries, Italian Police Uncover $215 M. Pan-European Forgery Network

  11-11-2024 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  38 people across Europe are suspected of involvement in a sweeping scheme to create and sell fake works attributed to Banksy, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, among other marquee 19th, 20th, and 21st century artists, Italian authorities revealed on Monday.The investigation so far spans Italy, Spain, France and Belgium, with suspects under investigation for conspiracy to handle stolen goods, forgery and illegal sale of artworks. News of the investigation was jointly announced by the paramilitary C
  
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• At MASS MoCA, Osman Khan Marries ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ with an AI-Generated Storyteller and Flying Carpet Drones

  11-11-2024 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Drone-operated flying carpets held captive inside a Taj Mahal–shaped cage; a mammoth head of the British colonialist Sir Cyril Radcliffe moonlighting as a djinn in charge of border control; and a robotic Scheherazade narrating AI-generated fantastical immigrant success stories. These are just a few of the many amusing elements in Detroit-based Osman Khan’s exhibition, “Road to Hybridabad,” at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. The Pakistani-born artist’s first
  
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• Pérez Art Museum Miami Gets $10 M. Gift from Kenneth Griffin

  11-11-2024 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  Collector Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, has donated $10 million donation to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which will use the funds to maintain its collection and which will now establish a gallery in his name.Griffin, who appears regularly on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, has been expanding his presence in Miami since relocating Citadel’s headquarters to South Florida in 2022 from Chicago, where the company was originally founded in the 1990s.Alongside news of
  
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• Jadé Fadojutimi Explains Why She Left Her London Gallery for Gagosian: ‘It Was Too Personal’

  11-11-2024 16:40 via artnews.com
  
  In a new profile published this week by the New Yorker, Jadé Fadojutimi, a fast-rising painter, explained her reasons for departing Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the London-based gallery that made her famous, for the mega-gallery Gagosian.The move, she told Rebecca Mead, was meant to ensure she had more resources. Fadojutimi, 31, said she “outgrew” Pippy Houldsworth by the time she inked her Gagosian representation deal in 2022.“It was too personal,” Fadojutimi said.
  
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• South Korea’s Art Market to Benefit from New Laws, Dancer Judith Jamison Dies, Nico Williams Wins 2024 Sobey Art Award, and More: Morning Links for November 11, 2024

  11-11-2024 13:37 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesKOREAN ART MARKET TO BENEFIT FROM EASED REGULATIONS. The South Korean art market is expected to get a welcome boost due to new legislation, observers told The Art Newspaper. The first is a Korean heritage law that eases restrictions on exporting post-war Korean art, and the second is a new Art Promotion Act that ensures greater transparency, while addressi
  
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• You Can Partly Blame TV For The Demise Of Yellowstone National Park

  10-11-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Development – driven in part by remote work and the pandemic, and also by the TV show Yellowstone, is driving development. That is “a grave threat because of how it is carving up an ecosystem that must stay relatively intact to function.” – The New York Times
  
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• Judith Jameson, Who Danced With Ailey And Later Led The Company Out Of Debt, Has Died At 81

  10-11-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “She was a performer of great intelligence, warmth and wit” who became an international star, and later built the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater “into the most successful modern dance company in the country.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Spoils director says film forces art world to confront ‘loaded issue’ of restitution

  10-11-2024 15:41
  
  Documentary shows the fight to recover paintings that Jewish art dealer was forced to sell by the NazisFrom the Benin bronzes to the Parthenon marbles, debates over the restitution of cultural artefacts are now a fact of life in an international art world forced to reckon with the often controversial history of its treasures.Museums around the world are having to consider implications of retaining items many argue were taken from their owners under persecution or duress. Continue reading...
  
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• AI Is Killing Our Curiosity

  10-11-2024 15:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “The rabbit holes and the unexpected obsessions are what’s beautiful about searching the internet; but AI, like the tech companies developing it, is obsessed with efficiency and optimization.” – The Atlantic
  
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• St Thomas Church In Manhattan To Outsource Its Famous Choir School

  10-11-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  “St. Thomas’s leaders warned earlier this year that the church was considering closing the choir school, one of only a few remaining boarding schools for young choristers in the world.” – The New York Times
  
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• Granta’s Editor On Working While In Deep Grief

  10-11-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Sigrid Rausing: “When you’re working on a text there’s always a sense of loss when it’s done. But finishing the translation of a book by my best friend who had just died brought a much greater sense of loss, because I was no longer with her.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A Musical That’s Profitable Before It Even Opens? How?

  10-11-2024 14:30 via msn.com
  Turns out star power helps a lot – and so does having a city own the theatre and fund its costs. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Beatles’ Final Song Was Finished Using AI

  10-11-2024 14:00 via theverge.com
  
  And now it’s up for a Grammy. – The Verge
  
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• What’s It Like To Write A New John Le Carre Novel?

  10-11-2024 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Ask his son, Nick Harkaway. “I had actually decided I wouldn’t do it,” he says. Then his brother stepped in. – The New York Times
  
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• If Britain Wants Cool New Social Housing, It Should Look To The Continent

  10-11-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  “In many of these places, public bodies and architects see their job as doing more than meeting numbers of homes completed.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Dreaming of a pint and a ‘girl’ back home: first world war soldier’s poignant sketches of life in the trenches

  10-11-2024 12:00
  
  Newly unearthed studies by young private Henry Page have been published to mark Remembrance Sunday“Wish I was at home for Christmas,” runs the chorus of Stop the Cavalry, the seasonal anti-war pop song, in a lyric that voices the dreams of serving soldiers down the ages. The same poignant sentiment is illustrated in the rediscovered drawings of the first world war trench artist and cartoonist Henry Page. But Page, who was a young private in the London Regiment, also wishes he could b
  
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• The week in art: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael; Drawing the Italian Renaissance – review

  10-11-2024 10:30
  Royal Academy; King’s Gallery, London
  A trio of Renaissance masters look over each other’s shoulders in Florence 1504, while a parallel show of drawings from the Royal Collection gets to the very heart of their artIt’s 25 January 1504, and so cold in Florence that the Arno river is about to freeze over. Thirty men meet in an icy room to decide where to position a giant statue of a little hero somewhere outdoors in public view. Among them are Botticelli, Leonardo and Filippino L
  
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• The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

  09-11-2024 20:30
  
  Four exhibitions in London this autumn remind us that creativity and imagination are the opposite of authoritarianismThere can rarely have been such a meeting of political jeopardy and artistic genius as in Florence in 1504. After the violent overthrow of the Medici family a decade earlier, and the execution of the zealot Savanorola in 1498, the new Florentine government, beset by ongoing wars with Pisa, was desperate for symbols to help stabilise the city’s fragile republic. To that end,
  
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• Jérémy Jolley talks about the importance of access to performance spaces

  09-11-2024 16:21 via artsjournal.com
  Jérémy Jolley, Senior Director of Education & Community Engagement at the Seattle Symphony, shares how providing access to performance space impacts their partners and community.
  
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• Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?

  09-11-2024 12:55
  
  Ahead of a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, writers make a case for each of Renaissance art’s big three, from the secretive genius of Leonardo and Raphael’s beguiling brilliance, to the space-filling majesty of MichelangeloBy Charles Nicholl, biographer of Leonardo da Vinci Continue reading...
  
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• ‘There’s beauty in contrast’: Tom Baker’s best phone picture

  09-11-2024 11:00
  
  The photography student on embracing monochrome and capturing the unexpectedTom Baker initially set out to photograph the wild rabbits that inhabit the University of Leeds campus, but their skittish nature was proving an issue. Seeking an alternative, he shifted his attention to a solitary crow perched on a car by the university’s Parkinson Building.“Photography is implanted in my life,” says Baker, a final-year photography student at Leeds Arts University, just across the
  
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• Paddington in Peru to Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK

  09-11-2024 07:00
  
  The marmalade-obsessed ursidae goes back to his roots, and we begin the final series of Hilary Mantel’s Mark Rylance-starring Tudor dramaBird
  Out nowOne of the UK’s greatest film-makers, Andrea Arnold, returns. Her latest is is a dreamy, textured film about an adolescent girl (Nykiya Adams) who befriends a mysterious man named Bird (Franz Rogowski) in the Kent neighbourhood where she lives with her dad Bug (Barry Keoghan) and his fiancee Kayleigh (Frankie Box). Continue reading...
  
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• Yemen Signs International Treaty Denouncing Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Artifacts

  08-11-2024 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  Yemen recently agreed to an international treaty on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects. The treaty is aimed at remedying one of the main weaknesses of the 1970 UNESCO Convention against illicit trafficking of cultural artifacts.On October 7, the Republic of Yemen acceded to the UNIDROIT Convention, along with the compulsory declarations. The UNIDROIT Convention seeks to fight the illegal sale and purchase of cultural property by encouraging buyers to do their due diligence during the
  
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• The Importance Of “The Importance Of Being Earnest”

  08-11-2024 21:06 via theguardian.com
  “People have been arguing about the nature of the play ever since its 1895 premiere. Wilde himself described it as ‘a delicate bubble of fancy’, but added: ‘It has its philosophy.’ … What kind of play is it and how do we stage it today? These questions still divide opinion.” – The Guardian
  
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• Popular Glastonbury Tries A New Scheme For Online Ticket Sales After An Increasingly Chaotic Process

  08-11-2024 20:31 via theguardian.com
  This year they will now visit a holding page before the start of the ticket sale, “at least a few minutes before the sale opens” according to organisers. Once the sale begins, each person “will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process”. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Wizard of Oz’ Ruby Slippers Up for Auction for $800,000 Decades After Being Stolen

  08-11-2024 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  Judy Garland’s iconic ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” are being auctioned by Heritage Auctions for over $800,000, years after they were infamously stolen by a mobster from a museum. The slippers were recovered by the FBI thirteen years after they went missing. The auction runs through Dec. 7, with the current bid set at $812,000 and the next minimum amount set to $825,000.  The slippers were taken by ex-mobster Terry Jon Martin from the Judy Garland Museum in 20
  
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• MacArthur “Genius” Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Has Commissioned A Multi-Composer Portrait Of America

  08-11-2024 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The project, titled “This Is America,” is a collection of 28 works Gandelsman has been commissioning, performing and recording since 2020. He gave the composers each a $5,000 fee and a request to compose a piece responding to the times we’re currently living through in the United States. – The New York Times
  
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• Guggenheim Foundation Rebrands With Arabic Typeface as It Prepares to Open Abu Dhabi Branch

  08-11-2024 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation unveiled the new “visual identity” for its growing network of museums, a custom-designed, open-source typeface including both Latin and Arabic characters.The new Sans font is now protocol for the branding of the foundation’s museums in New York, Venice, Bilboa, and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.“Created in collaboration with the renowned design firm Pentagram, the visual identity reinforces the Guggenheim’s po
  
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• Guggenheim Foundation Rebrands and Adopts New Latin and Arabic Typeface as It Prepares to Open Museum in UAE

  08-11-2024 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation unveiled the new “visual identity” for its growing network of museums, a custom-designed, open-source typeface including both Latin and Arabic characters.The new Sans font is now protocol for the branding of the foundation’s museums in New York, Venice, Bilboa, and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.“Created in collaboration with the renowned design firm Pentagram, the visual identity reinforces the Guggenheim’s po
  
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