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☆ Explainer: How Japan plans to release Fukushima water into the ocean
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The water was distilled after being contaminated from contact with fuel rods at the reactor, destroyed in a 2011 earthquake. Tanks on the site now hold about 1.3 million tonnes of radioactive water - enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Tepco will dilute the water until tritium levels fall below regulatory limits before pumping it into the ocean from the coastal site. Water containing tritium is routinely released from nuclear plants around the world, and regulatory authorities support dealing with the Fukushima water in this way. Fishing unions in Fukushima have urged the government for years not to release the water, arguing it would undo work to restore the damaged reputation of their fisheries.

Persons: Gerry Doyle Organizations: Tanks, Electric Power Company, Tepco, Tokyo, Thomson Locations: TOKYO, Japan, Fukushima, China

☆ BMW taps abstract artist Julie Mehretu to paint its latest Art Car
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Now, Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu, known for her work in abstract painting, has been chosen to create the company’s next Art Car. The first BMW Art Car was painted in 1975 by the American sculptor Alexander Calder after French racing driver Hervé Poulain brought the idea to BMW. The first woman to take on a BMW Art Car was South African artist Esther Mahlangu, who in 1991 painted a 525i sedan. Esther Mahlangu's Art Car featured the bold colors and geometric patterns used in the traditional arts and crafts of the Southern Ndebele people. Enes Kucevic/BMWMehretu’s will be the 20th BMW Art Car.

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☆ The Vietnamese American Artists Searching for Identity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Joshua Glass | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

An-My Lê can barely recall the Hawaiian shirt that the blond American wore when he put her into a black cargo van. When dawn broke, she took one last glance at the landscape through the windows of the American C-130 aircraft as it disappeared into the clouds. Complicated emotions of uncertainty and anger, guilt and abandonment all intersect for artists from Lê’s generation; those who are not fully Vietnamese in Vietnam nor American in America. Shrouded in war, these Vietnam-born American artists use their memories not so much as a political protest as an emotional inquiry, through the generational traumas that have plagued their families since the day they left home. And only now are Western institutions finally giving these displaced artists room to engage with these traumas.

Persons: Nam, Lê Organizations: Communist, Western Bloc, Air Base Locations: Saigon, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Việt Nam, United States, Republic of Vietnam, Vietnam, America

☆ Diversity takes center stage at the new National Portrait Gallery in London
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Nicole Mowbray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

London CNN —When The National Portrait Gallery opened its doors to the public in London on Thursday, it was the first time in three years it has done so. The National Portrait Gallery was officially opened by Catherine, Princess of Wales, seen standing in front of Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (Omai). Why would the National Portrait Gallery commit to taking this work they wouldn’t see until it’s finished, 90% of which is created by non-artists? What did she do?” Haworth told the National Portrait Gallery about the figure. Some art critics have been scathing of the gallery’s rework, with Jonathan Jones at the Guardian dubbing it “the same old cocktail party.” His review begins: “The National Portrait Gallery has been closed for three years.

Persons: Princess Catherine of Wales, ”, Jamie Fobert, Purcell, The Mary Weston, David Parry, Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor Johnson’s, David Beckham, Zadie Smith, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Sir Michael Eavis, Peter Blake, Ada Lovelace, Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Catherine , Princess of, Joshua Reynolds ’, Mai, Paul Grover, Jann Haworth, Liberty Blake, Boudicca, Elizabeth I, Mary Beard, Beatrix Potter, Agatha Christie, Nicola Adams, Pepper’s, Haworth, ” Blake, “, ” Jann Haworth, Toby Hancock, Blake, “ It’s, ’ It’s, it’s, ” Haworth, Oliver Hess, Jonathan Jones, Nicholas Cullinan, You’ll Organizations: London CNN, Jamie Fobert Architects, Getty, Chanel Culture Fund, Olympic, Beatles, Art, CNN, Guardian Locations: London, United Kingdom, Britain, The, Nigerian American, Glastonbury, British, Catherine , Princess of Wales, AFP, Salt Lake City

☆ A Hot New Tater Tot Casserole
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Please reach out to us if you’re having a hard time with our technology: cookingcare@nytimes.com. Or you can write to me if you want say hello or lodge a complaint: foodeditor@nytimes.com. Now, it’s nothing to do with albóndigas or xanthan gum, but the “Killed” podcast, from Justine Harman, may be of interest to journalism nerds. It’s about stories that were written, edited, vetted and then … put on a spike for various reasons, some of them bad, some of them good, all of them complicated. Finally, here’s a new song from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, “King of Oklahoma,” off the band’s “Weathervanes,” out earlier this month.

Persons: you’re, Justine Harman, …, Shane McCrae, “, ” Here’s Holland Cotter, Jason Isbell, King, ”, I’ll Organizations: The New York, The Times, Museum of Modern Art Locations: The, New York, Oklahoma

☆ The Great Bob Thompson, in Two Parts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Thompson never doubted his talent and had a voracious appetite for culture in many forms: He consorted with New York’s Beat poets and its free jazz musicians as well as a broad range of artists. His career lasted barely eight years, but he left behind several hundred paintings, drawings and oil studies — a fabulous horde whose magnitude is still not well known. Some works are fairly true to the originals in their composition; elsewhere Thompson took liberties of all kinds. Frequent additions include large silhouettes of monstrous birds that protect, threaten or attack — either physically or spiritually. Sometimes the human figures grasp the birds by their feet, holding them aloft, like trophies or weapons.

Persons: Bob Thompson, Thompson, Giotto, Manet Organizations: York’s Locations: Louisville, Ky, Rome

☆ In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water, Dancers Find Their Flow
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In “Ouroboros: Gs," the flood mitigation system at the Whitney Museum of American Art became the subject for her movement research; “Heads/Tails,” her first exhibition without people, focused on elements related to traffic flow. And for “Hydro Parade,” she attended classes for tour guides to learn about the history of water in New York City. Certain galleries were off limits, but “Hydro Parade” surges around many of the museum’s water features in uninterrupted movement. At times the dancers slow down; at others, it’s as if they were on water skis. Last Saturday, on June 10, some viewers lost sight of the dancers, prompting one to say, “They should have flags like at Trader Joe’s.”

Persons: ” Hollander, ” Organizations: Whitney Museum of American Art, “ Hydro Locations: Bronx, New York, New York City, Dendur

☆ ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“The great American art form isn’t music or film or television,” says a podcast host in “Based on a True Story,” a new dark comedy on Peacock. “The great American art form is murder. Forget the surfeit of murder podcasts that “Based on a True Story” satirizes, however fitfully. “Based on True Story” is not even the first TV comedy about a fictional murder podcast. (Steve Martin and Martin Short would like a word.)

Persons: ”, “, Steve Martin, Martin, Craig Rosenberg, Kaley, Nathan, Chris Messina, sleuths, Matt, Tom Bateman, Peacock, it’s Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Frenchette Bakery to Move Into the Whitney Museum
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Florence Fabricant | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A flagship location for Frenchette Bakery will open in the Whitney Museum of American Art, replacing the Danny Meyer restaurant Untitled, which closed at the start of the pandemic. In a statement, the museum said it was “reimagining its food and beverage program” for its ground-floor restaurant space. Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson, who own the restaurants Frenchette and Le Rock, opened their first Frenchette Bakery in TriBeCa in 2020, taking over the former Arcade Bakery. Since then, Frenchette Bakery has turned out breads, viennoiserie, sandwiches and pizzettes. The menu at the Whitney location will include both sweet and savory fare, breakfast, lunch, takeaway food and assorted beverages.

Persons: Danny Meyer, Riad Nasr, Lee Hanson, Whitney Organizations: Whitney Museum of American, Whitney Locations: TriBeCa, meatpacking

☆ Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The land of the brave and home of the free has always been bearish about borders, about who gets in, who stays out. And it’s always been evident culturally in, for example, the kind of art our museums have brought through the door. The Museum of Modern Art’s long but sporadic pattern of collecting 20th century Latin American art offers a constructive gauge. Art markets went bust. And in the confusion, walls began to come down as the permission-giving shake-up called multiculturalism — pro-diversity, anti-essentialist — arrived.

Persons: essentialist — Organizations: MoMA

☆ Giant Louise Bourgeois spider sculpture sells for record $32.8 million at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A 10-foot-high bronze spider has set a new auction record for a sculpture by a woman artist, Sotheby’s announced Friday. Louise Bourgeois’ 1996 “Spider,” which stands at over 10 feet tall and more than 18 feet across, sold for $32.8 million including fees at a sale in New York on Thursday evening. The sale also set a new auction record for a work by Bourgeois. In May 2019, another sold for $32.1 million with fees at Christie’s in New York. The sculpture sold on Thursday evening was previously owned by Brazil’s Fundação Itaú.

☆ The Artists Depicting the Power and Strangeness of Breasts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Zoë Lescaze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Not all artists painting breasts are interested in them as sexual objects, but their erotic associations can be difficult to shake. “Or people just like sex.” Frustrated, she took a temporary break from breasts to focus on ankles and hands. Image In oil paintings such as “Figure and Monstera” (2022), Somaya Critchlow imbues her subjects with a sense of interiority and unapologetic sensuality. Credit... © Somaya Critchlow. Endowing them with exaggerated breasts is a provocation to the viewer to move past the obvious.

☆ After Seizures, the Met Sets a Plan to Scour Collections for Looted Art
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | Graham Bowley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Cambodian officials have said in recent years that at least 45 artifacts at the Met were stolen from ancient sites there. Instead, the Met has requested evidence from Cambodia demonstrating that the works were stolen. The British Museum has been in talks with Greek officials, who have long sought the return of the Parthenon marbles. The Vatican announced last year that it would give fragments of the Parthenon that were long held in the Vatican Museum to the Greek Orthodox Church. Some critics want museums to do far more than simply ensure that ancient objects were not stolen.

☆ Billy Corgan Loves an Old-Fashioned American Story
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Hank Shteamer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And then I called her back and said, “No, I changed my mind …” And she said, “You don’t want to go? It was this weird sentimental thing of, well, she got me to Graceland eventually, but it was sadly upon her death. Part of what makes that architecture really interesting is they had no idea what was coming, including World War II. 9Madame ZuZu’s Chocolate Pu-erh TeaThe guy we work with, Rod Markus, is a total genius; he’s like a tea sommelier. He travels the world and puts these crazy things together.

☆ Tate Modern Finds Its New Director in Norway
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Karin Hindsbo, the director of Norway’s recently opened National Museum, was on Friday named the new director of Tate Modern in London, one of the world’s most popular museums. Hindsbo, a Danish-born art historian, will take on the role in September, replacing Frances Morris, who has led Tate Modern since 2016. Last October, Morris announced she was leaving to focus on curatorial projects, and to work on addressing the art world’s climate impacts. The directorship of Tate Modern is one of the European art world’s highest-profile roles, with the museum expected to regularly stage blockbuster exhibitions of contemporary and modern art. Under Morris’s leadership, it’s hosted acclaimed shows including a sold-out Cézanne retrospective, a career-spanning exhibition of the British artist Steve McQueen’s video pieces and an exploration of work by African American artists during the civil rights era.

☆ A New Show Celebrates the Guitar and Its Symbolism
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Tanya Mohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. Guitarists and their music — from folk singers to rock ’n’ roll stars and protest songs — figure prominently in American history and culture, but the instrument has a notable heritage of its own. “The guitar itself can have meaning, other than simply being beautiful or making music,” said Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, where “Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art,” on view from May 26 to Aug. 13, will explore the guitar’s symbolism in American art, from late 18th-century parlor rooms to today’s concert halls. On display will be more than 165 works: paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, illustrations, videos, music in multimedia presentations and musical instruments, including a rare cittern, a popular string instrument in the 18th and 19th centuries, and seminal guitars by Fender, Gibson and C.F. Martin & Company.

☆ How representation of Black artists in galleries, museums is changing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"There's a lot more support for Black artists that kind of came out of George Floyd's murder and institutions realizing that they need to do more," Peterson said. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesThe market for work by Black American artists grew by nearly 400% between 2008 and 2021, according to a recent report from art market website ArtNet. Acquisitions of work by Black American artists peaked in 2015, two years after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. "My impression is there are vastly increased number of solo shows and group shows dedicated to Black artists in London, in Paris, in New York, across the United States," Elliott said. Works from established artists like Kerry James Marshall that depict Black figures are influencing the work of new artists and creating a lineage, Elliott noted.

☆ Bad Bunny's 'Un Verano Sin Ti' wins IFPI 2022 Global Album Award
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny took the 2022 IFPI Global Album Award for "Un Verano Sin Ti" on Friday, becoming the first Latin American artist to win a Global Chart Award from the recorded music industry representative body. The all-Spanish, 23-track "Un Verano Sin Ti" was released in May to critical acclaim and topped the Billboard 200 album chart for 13 weeks. "We are incredibly excited to award Bad Bunny, the first Latin American artist to win an IFPI Global Award, with the Album of the Year Award," IFPI Chief Executive Frances Moore said in a statement. "His unique sound, encapsulated in his award-winning album 'Un Verano Sin Ti', has captured the world’s attention on a remarkable scale over the last 12 months." On Thursday, Styles won the IFPI Global Single of the Year Award 2022 for his hit "As It Was".

☆ Thomas H. Lee, pioneer of leveraged buyouts, is dead at 78
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Thomas H. Lee, a private equity financier who pioneered the use of leveraged buyouts that helped to reshape corporate America, has passed away, according to a notice from his former firm that still bears his name. “We are profoundly saddened by the unexpected passing of our good friend and former partner, Thomas H. Lee,” said THL in a statement. “Tom was an iconic figure in private equity. One of Thomas Lee’s most famous, and lucrative, leveraged buyouts was his purchase of Snapple for $135 million in 1992. Lee left THL in 2006 and started another private equity firm, Lee Equity Partners.

☆ Louis Vuitton Pressured to Pull Ads With Joan Mitchell Paintings
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Nick Kostov | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Louis Vuitton has long cultivated art-world connections to generate cultural cache for its products. PARIS—The Joan Mitchell Foundation has sent Louis Vuitton a letter demanding it pull advertisements for its handbags featuring paintings by the late American artist, saying the ad campaign was shot without the foundation’s permission. The cease-and-desist letter—which was sent Tuesday by the foundation’s lawyers to Louis Vuitton CEO Pietro Beccari and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal—alleges that Louis Vuitton illegally reproduced and used at least three works by artist Joan Mitchell for the promotion of its commercial goods.

This is their third trip to the NFL title game in four years and Kansas City fans can be heard throughout Phoenix singing the "tomahawk chop" chant. It is a jarring contrast to the displays of Native American culture and pride that Super Bowl hosts have invited to participate in the days leading up to the game. Chiefs fans are all but assured to perform the "tomahawk chop" cheer loudly in the minutes before kickoff, as they did prior to the game in their previous two Super Bowl appearances. And it's tone deaf," said Rhonda LeValdo, an Acoma Pueblo journalist who founded the Not in our Honor coalition in 2005, to advocate against the use of Native American imagery in sports. "I don't even understand what you guys are saying and you have the Chiefs logo and you guys are doing the chop."

The ban is expected to apply to some investments tied to chip production, two of the sources said. China hawks in Washington blame American investors for transferring capital and valuable know-how to Chinese tech companies that could help advance Beijing's military capabilities. The White House declined to comment and the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. That could include the long-awaited outbound investment order. Efforts to incorporate an outbound investment screening plan in legislation failed last year in Congress.

☆ Snow go: New York City's winter is missing the white stuff
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Christine Kiernan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A woman walks by the sculpture "Witness," installed by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander, in Madison Square Park in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonNEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Winter is well under way in New York City and the holiday celebrations are fading into the distance - but there has still not been a proper snowfall. Although an epic blizzard hit western New York state just after Christmas, the Big Apple itself has gone 230 days without snow, according to the National Weather Service. It is now approaching the record latest snow for the city - Jan. 29, which dates back to 1973. "February is actually our snowiest month here in New York City, here in Central Park," Kruczkiewicz said.

Bad Bunny continues to break barriers seemingly every other week — and rightfully so. He is now the first Latin American artist and the first Spanish-language musician to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Blackpink perform at Sahara Tent during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, in Indio, Calif., on April 19, 2019. Other notable performers at Coachella this year include Rosalía, Calvin Harris, Gorillaz, Pusha T, Bjork, Becky G, SG Lewis, Burna Boy, EarthGang, Labrinth and Chemical Brothers. Bad Bunny is expected to perform on both Fridays, Blackpink will go on both Saturdays, and Frank Ocean will close out both Sundays.

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