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• 'Shogun' wins record-breaking 14 Emmys at Creative Arts ceremony as Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first - Waco Tribune-Herald

  09-09-2024 07:20 via news.google.com
  'Shogun' wins record-breaking 14 Emmys at Creative Arts ceremony as Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first  Waco Tribune-Herald
  
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• Mona Lisa Will Be Moved to Its Own Exhibition Space at Louvre

  28-01-2025 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  French president Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece and one of the most iconic artworks in the world, would soon be moved to a new exhibition space. The move is a part of a larger renovation plan to overhaul the Louvre museum in Paris, France’s most famous museum which welcomes around nine million visitors every year. The announcement comesjust one week after a memo, written by Louvre director Laurence de Cars, was leaked to the Le P
  
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• Author Imani Perry Shares Her Top Five Recent Obsessions

  28-01-2025 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  Imani Perry is the author of Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, published by Harper Collins this month. Below, she discusses Black excellence and interdisciplinary presentations of history.
  
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• ‘Paradise’ Is a Wild-Ride Political Thriller

  28-01-2025 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Hulu series, starring Sterling K. Brown, is exhilarating in all the right ways, even if it sometimes tips over into ridiculousness.
  
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• At the Louvre, the Mona Lisa Will Get Her Own Room as Museum Expands

  28-01-2025 17:55 via nytimes.com
  
  President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from outside the European Union.
  
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• Marek Janowski Debuts With the New York Philharmonic at 85

  28-01-2025 17:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The renowned conductor Marek Janowski long ago gave up hope that he might conduct the New York Philharmonic. Then the orchestra came knocking.
  
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• Mona Lisa Will Move to Her Own Room at the Louvre

  28-01-2025 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  President Emanuel Macron announced sweeping plans to renovate the Paris museum and alleviate overcrowding.
  
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• Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. Biennial Names 27 Artists for Upcoming Edition in October

  28-01-2025 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has named the 27 artists who will participate in its closely watched Made in L.A. biennial, which will open in October. The exhibition focuses on artists who work in the greater LA area.Well-known artists like Carl Cheng, John Knight, Patrick Martinez, Will Rawls, Amanda Ross-Ho, Leilah Weinraub, and Pat O’Neill, the oldest artist in the show, will show their work alongside rising ones like Widline Cadet, Gabriela Ruiz, Peter Tomka, Freddy Villalobos, and A
  
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• Trump Presses Pause on Federal Loans and Grants, One Billion Euros to Fix the Louvre? Pace and Galerie Judin to Open in Berlin: Morning Links for January 28, 2025

  28-01-2025 15:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTRUMP PAUSES ALL FEDERAL LOANS AND GRANTS. On Monday, the White House budget office ordered a pause in all federal grants, loans, and other federal financial assistance, potentially paralyzing a large number of non-profit programs, including those of arts and cultural organizations, according to news reports. It was not immediately clear how and
  
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• A Charlie Chaplin Movie Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

  28-01-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Art has worked on a meticulous restoration of Chaplin’s 1918 film “Shoulder Arms,” screening on Thursday, that likely differs in every frame from what viewers have seen.
  
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• With Fires Burning, the Grammys Made a Choice: On With the Show

  28-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Sunday’s event has high-profile contests featuring Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan. But the big question may be whether the show strikes the right tone.
  
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• With Fires Burning Across L.A., the Grammys Made a Choice: On With the Show

  28-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Sunday’s event has high-profile contests featuring Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan. But the big question may be whether the show strikes the right tone.
  
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• Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books

  28-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
  
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• Idina Menzel Played Elphaba and Elsa. Now She’s Back on Broadway.

  28-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Menzel, a fan favorite since “Rent,” is back on Broadway in “Redwood,” and this time she’s climbing conifers.
  
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• Edmond Dédé’s Opera ‘Morgiane’ to Be Staged for the First Time

  28-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time.
  
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• Pace, Galerie Judin to Open New Gallery in a 1950s Gas Station in Berlin

  28-01-2025 10:45 via artnews.com
  
  Pace Gallery is joining forces with Berlin’s Galerie Judin to launch a new space in the German capital this spring. Opening May 1, it will be set in a restored 1950s gas station in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood and will include offices for the galleries, a café, and a bookshop run by the publishing group Die Zeit.Pace and Galerie Judin will present the first show together. After that, they will take turns showing artists throughout the year. Pace will host two shows a
  
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• Pace and Galerie Judin Are Opening a New Gallery in a 1950s Gas Station in Berlin This Spring

  28-01-2025 10:45 via artnews.com
  
  Mega-gallery Pace is joining forces with Berlin’s Galerie Judin to launch a new joint space in the German capital this spring. Opening May 1, it will be in a restored 1950s gas station in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood and will include offices for the galleries, a café, and a bookshop run by the publishing group Die ZEIT.Pace and Galerie Judin will present the first show together. After that, they will take turns showing artists throughout the year. Pace will host two s
  
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• Jon Stewart Can’t Keep Up With the Purges

  28-01-2025 09:46 via nytimes.com
  
  As many as 17 inspectors general were fired by President Trump. “That only leaves — no one knows how many left,” Stewart said. “I have no idea.”
  
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• RISD’s Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal

  27-01-2025 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  On January 9, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)’s board of trustees voted to reject a a proposal to divest its $396 million endowment from companies linked to Israel.The decision followed months of on-campus demonstrations by pro-Palestinian student-activists at the art school, including a three-day building occupation in early May last year, leading to calls for transparency on RISD’s investments, divestment from groups allegedly supporting “Israel apartheid,” and
  
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• Einstein Love Letters and Old Masters at Center of Swiss Collector’s $100 M. Suit Against Christie’s

  27-01-2025 22:57 via artnews.com
  
  Jacob “Jacqui” Safra, a Swiss financier, collector, and scion of the illustrious Syrian Jewish banking family, has launched a legal salvo against Christie’s, accusing the auction house of bad faith and fiduciary breaches in handling his multimillion dollar art collection. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court on January 17, alleges that the house declared Safra in default on a consignment agreement without due cause, leading to suboptimal sales, devalued assets, an
  
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• Romanian Artifacts of ‘Incalculable Value’ Stolen in Heist at a Dutch Museum

  27-01-2025 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  A collection of artifacts from Romania were stolen in a heist at the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands on Saturday.At roughly 3:45 in the morning, three hooded figures broke into the Dutch museum using explosives to open a locked door. Once inside, it took the thieves about three minutes to steal the Romanian objects and flee the museum. Dutch police are still investigating the heist in conjunction with a nearby car fire. They believe the thieves likely set the car ablaze before escaping i
  
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• British Museum Partly Shutters After Security Breach by Ex-Employee

  27-01-2025 21:19 via artnews.com
  
  The British Museum was partially closed over the weekend after an ex-employee allegedly shut down its security and IT systems.According to a public statement from a museum spokesperson, the trespasser was an IT contractor fired earlier this month. He returned on Thursday to breach the museum’s systems, the institution said, and was arrested by Metropolitan police that same day. He has since been released on bail “pending further enquiries,” per authorities.The security breached
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Leader to Step Down, Adding to Uncertainty

  27-01-2025 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center’s president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for a new board chair while navigating a second Trump term.
  
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• Man Finds 2,000-Year-Old Decapitated Greek Statue in Trash Can

  27-01-2025 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  When a man in a suburb of the Greek city of Thessaloniki found an almost meter-tall decapitated body wrapped in a bag in a trash can, he was probably relieved it was made of marble. It turns out the statue is likely to be more than 2,000 years old, local police said last week.The man handed the headless female statue over to the local authorities in the town of Neoi Epivates, who asked archaeologists to check it over. They believe it dates to the Hellenistic era, which lasted from the death of&n
  
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• Newsmakers: American Artist on Seeing the Patterns of the Climate Crisis as LA Fires Rage

  27-01-2025 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Earlier this month, as wildfires swept through Los Angeles, American Artist was busy installing their latest exhibition 2,500 miles away, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Their show, “Shaper of God,” examines the life and work of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, who most famously wrote Parable of the Sower,
  
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• Italy Offers to Take Mona Lisa, Drents Museum’s Doors Blown Open and Golden Treasures Stolen: Morning Links for January 27, 2025

  27-01-2025 15:59 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHIEVES WITH A SHORT FUSE. Early on Saturday morning, thieves blew open the door of the Drents Museum in the Netherlands and stole priceless gold artifacts, including an ancient, crown-like helmet on loan from a Bucharest museum for a traveling exhibit, reports NL Times. “This is a dark day for the Drents Museum in Assen and the National Hi
  
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• Comic Book Publisher Drops Neil Gaiman Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations

  27-01-2025 14:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Dark Horse Comics announced it would no longer publish the author and canceled further publication of his “Anansi Boys” series.
  
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• The Africa Center’s New Leader Focuses on Connection

  27-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat, said his past work positions him to build on the Africa Center’s diverse programming that goes beyond art.
  
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• Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

  27-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor and creator tried something much less weepy this time: a sci-fi thriller. Still it was “a homecoming on so many levels,” Brown said.
  
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• In ‘Eureka Day,’ a Scene About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously

  27-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Eureka Day,” changes were made to a scene because “the laughter was so robust backstage, they couldn’t hear the cues.”
  
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