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• Movie Producer Is A Title With No Defined Meaning, But Winners Get An Oscar Speech

  05-01-2025 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Since producers — genuine producers — have such all-encompassing responsibilities on films, maintaining faith even as doors slam in their faces (and working without much remuneration until relatively late in the process), their claim on the Oscar for best picture is a strong one.” – The New York Times
  
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• Getty Villa Catches Fire as Pacific Palisades Blaze Continues

  08-01-2025 03:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Getty Villa caught fire on Tuesday as a blaze continued tearing through the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. The museum and its staff were not harmed, according to a statement issued today by the Getty, which said that the Getty Villa will remain closed through January 13.“Irrigation was immediately deployed throughout the grounds Tuesday morning,” the statement said. “Museum galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke by state-of-the-art ai
  
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• DAG Foundation Launches $20,000 Prize for Mid-Career Visual Artists Living in the US

  07-01-2025 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  The DAG Foundation has created a new, annual $20,000 award aimed at supporting mid-career visual artists working in the United States.“We wanted to try to fill a gap by reaching artists that are at a point where they’ve established themselves and they’re hard-working, but they might not have the resources to reach the next level, and they’re certainly not at the same level yet where everything’s easy and cushy,” DAG Foundation co-founder Alyssa Graham told ART
  
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• DAG Foundation Launches $20,000 Prize for Early Career Visual Artists Living in the US

  07-01-2025 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  The DAG Foundation has created a new, annual $20,000 award aimed at supporting early and mid-career visual artists working in the United States.“We wanted to try to fill a gap by reaching artists that are at a point where they’ve established themselves and they’re hard-working, but they might not have the resources to reach the next level, and they’re certainly not at the same level yet where everything’s easy and cushy,” DAG Foundation co-founder Alyssa Graha
  
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• Archaeologists Unearth Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor and ‘Magician’

  07-01-2025 21:42 via artnews.com
  
  The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of an “engraved and beautifully painted” tomb of a royal doctor from the Sixth Dynasty by a French-Swiss joint archaeological mission.The discovery was of a Mustaba tomb, a rectangular mud-brick structure with a flat roof and sloping sides. “Mastaba” is the Arabic word for “bench,” which is what these tombs resembled, according to the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University.The t
  
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• Former Art Basel Director to Teach Course on ‘Understanding Today’s Art World’

  07-01-2025 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Since the early 2000s, there has been a significant growth in education around the art world, and specifically in the art market, with courses at universities and programs at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Marc Spiegler, the former director of Art Basel, the world’s most important fair for modern and contemporary art, chalks that up to the professionalization of the field.“The art world is, on the one hand, bigger, on the other hand, more professionalized,” Spiegler said
  
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• Centuries-Old Monastery Unharmed by Powerful Earthquake in Tibet

  07-01-2025 20:04 via artnews.com
  
  A 15th-century monastery in Tibet is still intact after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northern foothills of Mount Everest.The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s most historic cities, earlier today. At least 126 people were reported dead, with an additional 188 injured. More than 1,000 houses in the area were also damaged close to the Himalayan border with Nepal. There were several additional aftershocks.It is unclear how many will be left homeless as a
  
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• Getty Images and Shutterstock Are Merging

  07-01-2025 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  Two of the world’s biggest visual content marketplaces, Getty Images and Shutterstock, are merging. The companies jointly announced Tuesday the creation of a new $3.7 billion firm, which claims to offer its customers an expanded portfolio of visual content and music.“With the rapid rise in demand for compelling visual content across industries, there has never been a better time for our two businesses to come together,” Getty Images CEO Craig Peters said in a statement.Peters w
  
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• Rare Artwork by Prominent Black Artist Unearthed at a Thrift Shop in a Philly Suburb

  07-01-2025 19:49 via artnews.com
  
  A watercolor painting by 19th-century Philadelphia artist William H. Dorsey is now on display at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania after it was plucked from the depths of a Glenside, Pennsylvania thrift store—and potential obscurity.The untitled landscape, which dates to 1864, is thought to be Dorsey’s only surviving painting, according to Philadelphia’s WHYY. Dorsey, who was part of a prominent Black family in Philadelphia, was known primarily for his exten
  
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• An age-old problem for Hollywood stars | Brief letters

  07-01-2025 17:56
  
  Golden Globes | Snowed in | Early abstract act | Dinosaur tracks | Creme EggA caveat to any good news about roles for older women (Demi, Jodie and Nicole: is Hollywood finally ready to recognise complex female characters over 40?, 6 January), the Golden Globes were a depressing line-up of emaciated women with plastic faces. How can we celebrate a 50-year-old actor if she is not allowed to look 50?
  Helen Clutton
  Bristol• I can’t think of a better place to be incarcerated than Tan
  
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• ‘I was drenched in painting’: how Jake Grewal’s nudes in nature caused a sensation

  07-01-2025 17:14
  
  His dreamy, mysterious landscapes populated by naked figures have made him a rising star of the art world. But the young artist says he’s still figuring things outWhen Luca Guadagnino began thinking about posters for his latest film Queer, in which Daniel Craig plays an American expat picking up men in Mexico City, one artist immediately sprang to mind. The director had been following Jake Grewal for several years, quite taken with his intensely personal romanticism. Grewal, in turn, had b
  
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• The most exciting US art exhibitions in 2025

  07-01-2025 16:02
  
  The next 12 months offers a wide range of challenging and unusual exhibitions from artists such as Ruth Asawa and Rashid JohnsonWith threats of global instability, ongoing economic uncertainty, and looming battles for America’s political heart and soul, you’ll probably need a good art exhibition more than ever in 2025. Here are a number that can offer space for rest, respite and the return of some amount of optimism in spite of what may come this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Dog x-rays, art history and a ‘never say never’ attitude: the surprising toolbox of professional conservators

  07-01-2025 15:00
  
  Restoration demands a marriage of scientific and technical expertise withknowledge of art and incredible patienceWhen Cecilia Giménez noticed a flaking and faded painting on the wall of her local church in 2012, her decision to pick up a paintbrush would result in one of the world’s most infamous cases of art restoration.The Spanish octogenarian’s Mr Bean-like job on the 20th century fresco, done “spontaneously and with good intentions”, turned Jesus into something
  
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• Frieze’s Potential Sale Comes Into Sharp Focus, Police Probe Sally Mann Photos Over ‘Child Porn’ Complaints: Morning Links for January 6, 2025

  07-01-2025 14:38 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesFRIEZE FOR SALE. As the next edition of the Frieze art fair in Los Angeles approaches, from February 20 to 23, the big story is the brand’s potential sale by its parent company, Endeavor. While Endeavor and Frieze declined to comment to The Art Newspaper, readers have been brought up to speed on a few key developments in the story. For
  
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• Texas Officials File Complaint Over Controversial Sally Mann Photographs

  06-01-2025 21:14 via artnews.com
  
  Photographs by Sally Mann on view in a group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas have been decried by locals and elected officials as containing what they have deemed as inappropriate depictions of children.Sally Mann has spurred controversy for years over her photographs of her rural Lexington, Virginia, home, which include nude depictions of her underage children. In 1992, the New York Times Magazine cover article, “The Disturbing Photography of Sally Mann,&rd
  
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• Andrea Carlson’s Frenetic Landscapes Channel Disjointed Histories and Deep Time

  06-01-2025 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  Andrea Carlson’s fascination with landscapes began with a painting her parents hung in her bedroom when she was a child. She describes it as “cheesy” and “syrupy,” the kind of deer-gazing-at-mountains scene that numbs the eye. But the painting’s atmosphere—its intimation of something ineffable just over the hill—would lull her into a meditative state, and she’d fall asleep imagining herself in that unreal valley. “I’m wondering if
  
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• Nick Cave’s $1 M. Airport Art Grounded Over Safety Concerns After Part Falls to the Floor

  06-01-2025 20:24 via artnews.com
  
  A kinetic sculpture by Nick Cave formerly installed at the Kansas City International Airport’s new terminal may be permanently grounded after its spinner broke off and fell to the floor in October. A subsequent engineering report found that thought the $1 million artwork did not injure anyone during the incident, the spinners’ connectors cannot support the work’s weight and movement over time, posing a risk of future failures. City officials later removed the sculpture, which f
  
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• Video Art Giant Steina Gets a Mind-Altering Retrospective

  06-01-2025 19:25 via artnews.com
  
  I can think of just one artist who has bragged about making her viewers throw up, and that artist is Steina, a giant of video art history whose survey at Cambridge’s MIT List Visual Arts Center is now in its final days. A friend of the artist viewed her 1993 installation Borealis and had to dart away as a result, feeling the sudden urge to vomit, Steina once recalled. The reasons why are obvious: Borealis, like many other works by Steina, utilizes video technology’s perception-alteri
  
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• Newsmakers: Arushi Kapoor Discusses Why the Luxury Real Estate Industry Needs More Art Advisers

  06-01-2025 18:59 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.On the first day of the November marquee auctions in New York, art dealer and adviser Arushi Kapoor announced a new strategic partnership with the global real estate brokerage The Agency. The partnership, dubbed the Agency Art House, offers art advisory services for clients who recently bought a new luxury home, are looki
  
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• Turkish Farmer Unearths Massive Roman Mosaic While Planting Cherry Trees

  06-01-2025 17:08 via artnews.com
  
  At the end of last year, a farmer in eastern Turkey discovered a rare, largely intact late Roman mosaic while planting a cherry orchard. Spanning almost 1,000 square feet, the mosaic is thought by archaeologists to be the largest example of its kind unearthed in the country.Hidden for hundreds of years under 50 cm of loose topsoil in the village of Salkaya in Elazığ province, 300 miles east of Turkey’s capital Ankara, the mosaic is believed to have been laid in the late 3rd centu
  
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• Canadian Artist and AIDS Activist Joe Average Dies, New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission Wants to Landmark Sotheby’s New Building: Morning Links for January 6, 2025

  06-01-2025 15:29 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesIN MEMORIAM. ANYTHING BUT AVERAGE. The Canadian artist and AIDS activist known as Joe Average has died aged 67 in his home in Vancouver, reports The Art Newspaper. Despite the name he took on, there was little that was average about the artist born as Brock David Tebbutt. Diagnosed with AIDS in 1987, he dedicated his life to art and to
  
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• Santa Monica Post Office, a New Boutique Art Fair, Launches in Los Angeles

  06-01-2025 15:28 via artnews.com
  
  While the art world has felt bleak amid a buckling market, a new art fair is gracing Los Angeles this year. Named for its location, Santa Monica Post Office, will run concurrently with Frieze LA and Felix art fair in February.The new boutique art fair may be small in size, but it is expected to pack a big punch. The LA fair was born from the earlier and smaller project Place des Vosges in Paris, also named for its location, for which a limited number of notable international galleries staged a s
  
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• ‘It’s all just very grimy and filthy’: Gregory Nolan’s photos of the 00s indie scene

  06-01-2025 09:00
  
  The photographer gathered 6,000 images he took at the era’s centre, which offer a hedonistic window into a pre-smartphone era that remains relatively undocumented“I literally got into this by accident,” says Gregory Nolan. “One night in 2004, I accidentally poured a beer over a girl and I got chatting to the guy she was with, who was starting a new club night that very weekend.” The guy in question was Jay McAllister, AKA the indie-folk artist Beans on Toast, w
  
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• The ‘dollar princesses’: Sargent portraits of US women who married into British high society come to UK

  06-01-2025 06:00
  
  Kenwood exhibition seeks to tell fuller story of wealthy American women who crossed the Atlantic for a husbandMargaret “Daisy” Leiter was just 19 when in 1898 she was painted by the most celebrated society portraitist of the age, John Singer Sargent. Leiter, the youngest daughter of an American retail magnate, was a celebrated beauty who was said to have “the loveliest eyes in Washington”.Sargent’s resulting portrait, in which Leiter stands full length, exuberantly
  
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• Welsh art already has a home – let’s develop that instead of building another | Letter

  05-01-2025 18:15
  
  Rosslyn Morgan responds to a call for a new national gallery for Welsh artClearly “no Welsh art” was an absurd and unfounded statement, as Peter Lord says (Exhibition debunks ‘no Welsh art’ myth amid calls for permanent national gallery, 26 December). It seems to me, however, that Lord and others may be conveniently forgetting the fact that since 2011, the National Museum Cardiff has been designated as the national art gallery for Wales – “of an international
  
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• Let’s get a heat pump into every new home | Brief letters

  05-01-2025 18:15
  
  Environmental nudge | A mad world | The B-word | Abstract artists | Pushing AIRather than wasting time and money on “nudge units” to boost the take-up of heat pumps (Report, 1 January), the government just needs to order housebuilders to install them at the time of construction (ditto solar panels) – gaining cost benefits from economies of scale too. Sadly, MPs don’t seem to have any guts.Norman Miller
  Brighton, East Sussex• Re the existential threat of nuclear war (
  
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• Georgia O’Keeffe, When She Was At Home

  05-01-2025 18:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  Photographer Todd Webb chronicled much of the artist’s private life. For instance, “O’Keeffe kept a series of Chow dogs, which she loved for their loyalty and dignity, their massive beauty. Their coats were so thick that she had a shawl made from the sheddings.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Editorial Staff At An Academic Journal Resign En Masse

  05-01-2025 17:30 via wired.com
  
  At Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution, what with the mass use of AI in production, high charges to authors, and a unilateral restructuring of editorial staff and duties, the editorial board decided the time was right to get out – and to start working on a new, independent journal. – Wired
  
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• Screenwriter And Film Director Jeff Baena Has Died At 47

  05-01-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The co-writer of I Heart Huckabees and the director of Life After Beth, which starred his wife, Aubrey Plaza, Baena “often elevated dark thematic elements with humor in his works.” – The New York Times
  
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• Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer And Village Voice Critic, 85

  05-01-2025 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Johnson provided a national readership with access to performances that might be attended by only a dozen listeners, and possibly never heard again. He saw himself as a participant within the scene, and he provided such generous coverage that he became known among composers as ‘Saint Tom.’” – The New York Times
  
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