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Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Found Dead in Brazil
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According to news reports, his body was found with stab wounds in his residence in Rio de Janeiro.
https://hyperallergic.com/866495/art-dealer-brent-sikkema-found-dead-in-brazil/
Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: January 2024
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A hint for the first mini art crossword of the new year: 2- and 3-Down are both too damn high.
https://hyperallergic.com/866374/hyperallergic-mini-art-crossword-january-2024/
Two Views of a Family Breakfast
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Twenty years after creating his pastel “Lavergne Family Breakfast,” Jean-Etienne Liotard recreated it in oil, and it is astonishing to see how close the two versions are.
Good Riddance to NFT Avatars on X
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Let’s face it, if Jimmy Fallon is the poster child for your situation, you’re pretty much doomed.
https://hyperallergic.com/866330/good-riddance-to-nft-avatars-on-x/
Open Call: The Noguchi Museum’s Artist Banners 2024
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NYC-based artists who identify as AAPI are invited to submit outdoor banner designs for the museum. The winner will receive a $3,500 honorarium.
https://hyperallergic.com/866046/open-call-the-noguchi-museum-artist-banners-2024/
Artists Pledge to Boycott German Institutions Over Stifling of Pro-Palestine Speech
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Hundreds of cultural figures have decried the nation’s “McCarthyist policies” equating criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.
Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity
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The artist-poet’s drawings tell the story of someone entangled with his own demons and his work to overcome them.
https://hyperallergic.com/865944/stephane-mandelbaum-drawings-of-human-depravity/
Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity
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The artist-poet’s drawings tell the story of someone entangled with his own demons and his work to overcome them.
https://hyperallergic.com/865944/stephane-mandelbaum-drawings-of-human-depravity/
The Neuberger Museum of Art Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
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One of the most respected academic museums in the US kicks off a yearlong celebration to commemorate this milestone and its commitment to visual arts education.
https://hyperallergic.com/865575/neuberger-museum-of-art-celebrates-50th-anniversary/
Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition
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Supporters are calling on the school to reinstate what would have been 87-year-old artist's first retrospective in the US.
Street Artists Launch Poster Campaign for Gaza
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Unmute Gaza features downloadable prints based on the work of Gaza-based photojournalists.
https://hyperallergic.com/865761/street-artists-launch-poster-campaign-for-gaza/
The Ephemeral Geography of the Eternal City
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How Romans altered the very geography of their city throughout the centuries.
https://hyperallergic.com/865506/the-ephemeral-geography-of-the-eternal-city/
Lost Early Footage of the Amazon Rediscovered in Czech Archive
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Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo (1918) highlights the 20th-century rubber boom and enslavement of Indigenous people through a propagandic lens.
https://hyperallergic.com/865466/lost-early-footage-of-the-amazon-rediscovered-in-czech-archive/
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents David Michalek
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Michalek’s installation for the company’s 75th Anniversary Season, “SlowDancing/NYCB,” will be on view at three special performances in February.
https://hyperallergic.com/864951/new-york-city-ballet-art-series-presents-david-michalek/
10 Art Shows to See in New York This January
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This month: Kelly Sinnaph Mary, Cynthia Lahti, the Met Museum’s rehung galleries, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/865061/10-art-shows-to-see-in-new-york-january-2024/
Musée de la Villa les Camélias Presents Four Decades of Painting by Mitchell Johnson
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La révélation de Meyreuil explores the relationship between the artist’s early work from Europe with recent paintings made in the US.
https://hyperallergic.com/864886/musee-de-la-villa-les-camelias-presents-paintings-mitchell-johnson/
7 Art Books to Start the New Year
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From an artist’s moving children’s book to an index of Indigenous North American type, add these art titles to your 2024 reading list.
https://hyperallergic.com/864641/7-art-books-to-start-the-new-year-january-2024/
Required Reading
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This week, a futuristic bookstore, social media and art amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, ancient Greek napkins made of dough, Claudine Gay’s resignation, and more.
Art Collectors and Patrons Named in Unsealed Epstein Documents
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Among those mentioned are Thomas Pritzker, former chairman of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MoMA trustee Glenn Dubin.
https://hyperallergic.com/865062/art-collectors-patrons-named-in-unsealed-epstein-documents/
Mickey Mouse Is Copyright-Free and the Internet Is Making the Most of It
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People are wasting no time reimagining Steamboat Willie (1928) with often terrifying results.