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ArtCurious News This Week: February 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023

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Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! Jennifer here with your short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. This is ArtCurious News this Week and I’m ready to roll. Today is Friday, February 17, 2023.

This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Vermeer Retrospective Sells Out All Tickets Within Days of Opening

The Art Newspaper: Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs

The Art Newspaper: Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to LACMA

ArtNews: New Valentine’s Day Mural by Banksy in British Town Is Partly Removed Hours After Going on View

ArtNews: Four Foundations Commit $5 M. to Create Latinx Art Curatorial Positions at 10 US Art Institutions

ArtNews: Indiana School Proposes Sale of $15 M. Georgia O’Keeffe Painting, Triggering Bitter Pushback

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Author Interview: Julia Voss and "Hilma af Klint, a Biography" Feb 13, 2023

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I’ve got a great interview for you today— this time, I’m featuring a conversation with Julia Voss on her fascinating book, Hilma af Klint, a Biography, which was released recently in its English translation.

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe.

But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female artist, she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting, af Klint studied Theosophy, which holds that science, art, and religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be harnessed through meditation, study, and experimentation. Well before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich declared themselves the inventors of abstraction, af Klint was working in a nonrepresentational mode, producing a powerful visual language that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the history of the institution.

Despite her enormous popularity, there has not yet been a biography of af Klint—until now.

Please enjoy this bonus episode, featuring my discussion with Julia Voss. Buy Hilma af Klint, a Biography here!

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ArtCurious News This Week: February 10, 2023 Feb 10, 2023

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This week’s stories:

The Art Newspaper: Huge earthquakes in Turkey and Syria devastate heritage sites including 2,000-year-old castle

The Art Newspaper: Artefacts in Swiss museums were looted from the Kingdom of Benin, new report says

The New York Times: Is Nazi Loot Amid His 6,000 Oils, Some Grenades and Napoleon’s Toothbrush?

ArtNews: Hobbyist Finds Renaissance-Era Pendant Connected to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

AP News: Visitors can see famed Florence baptistry’s mosaics up close

AP News: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

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BONUS: Listen to "Who ARTed" Feb 08, 2023

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Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’m sharing an episode of the fun, all-ages art podcast, Who ARTed. Who ARTed is a show created by an art teacher with the goal of making art history fun and interesting for listeners of any age, so if you're looking for a show that you can enjoy with the kids, Kyle shares fun facts about everything from Mona Lisa to Mario. Today I’m sharing his recent mini-episode about Salvador Dalí, but be sure to check out Who ARTed’s daily mini-episodes this season, which are covering 64 diverse artists in anticipation of their annual Arts Madness Tournament. Listeners can vote for their favorite artworks in a bracketed tournament where every matchup simply asks "Which is better?" This can spark some great conversations about how we evaluate art.

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ArtCurious News This Week: February 3, 2023 Feb 03, 2023

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Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, February 3, 2023.

This week’s stories:

BBC: Mystery portrait likely to be Raphael masterpiece

The Guardian: Archaeologist hails possibly oldest mummy yet found in Egypt

The Daily Mail: Don't use the word 'MUMMY'... it's offensive to ancient Egyptians: Museums stop using age-old expression out of 'respect' for 3,000-year-old dead

ArtNews: Christie’s Ordered to Return Painting That Was Confiscated During World War II to Proust Heirs

The Art Newspaper: Musée d’Orsay acquires Caillebotte masterpiece thanks to €43m donation from LVMH

The Daily Mail: 'Don't take spell check for granite!' NYC officials are left red-faced by typo misspelling the name of artist Georgia O'Keeffe on plaque at Grand Central's newly unveiled $11B LIRR terminal

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ArtCurious News This Week: January 27, 2023 Jan 27, 2023

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This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Heirs Sue Guggenheim to Recover Storied Picasso Painting, Citing ‘Wrongful Possession’

WESH Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art placed on probation by American Alliance of Museums

The Guardian: Frederick McCubbin painting defaced with Woodside logo in protest at Art Gallery of Western Australia

ArtNews : Mexican Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Pre-Hispanic Mayan Settlement

ArtNews: A Mass Burial of Decapitated Roman Remains Discovered in England

ArtNews: Gilded Warrior’s Tomb Discovered During Construction of an Expressway in Romania

ArtNews: Archaeologists Uncover Intact 52-Foot-Long Ancient Papyrus from 50 BCE

Smithsonian: Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Mummified Crocodiles

ArtNews: 1,800-Year-Old Roman City Unearthed in Luxor, Egypt

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Episode #107: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Plautilla Nelli (Season 12, Episode 8) Jan 23, 2023

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For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Another day, another nun! But Plautilla Nelli’s story is an interesting one, involving a great lost-and-found twist, and the opportunity to discuss how some artists can be “forgotten” and then rediscovered. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Plautilla Nelli: Lost and Found.”

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ArtCurious News This Week: January 20, 2023 Jan 20, 2023

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This week’s stories:

New York Times: After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments

Chicago Sun-Times: Ex-Art Institute payroll manager stole more than $2 million from museum: indictment

New York Times: After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks

The Guardian via YouTube: French mayor asks Madonna for loan of painting that once hung in city's museum

Le Figaro: Amiens : la maire supplie Madonna de lui prêter un de ses tableaux

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ArtCurious News This Week: January 13, 2023 Jan 13, 2023

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Happy Friday, and Happy New Year, listeners! Welcome back to with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, January 13, 2023.

This week’s stories:

New York Times: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.

New York Times: Opinion + Letters: Fired by a College for Showing a Painting of Muhammad

The Art Newspaper: New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman

The Art Newspaper: Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening

Financial Times: Marina Abramović on Anne Imhof

ARTnews: Viral TikTok Joke About the Mona Lisa Being Stolen Generates Mass Confusion

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Episode #106: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Properzia de’ Rossi (Season 12, Episode 7) Jan 09, 2023

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For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today’s subject is a major one: Properzia de’ Rossi, a Renaissance sculptor who was (gasp!) female. Why was this a big deal, why was de’ Rossi a rarity? We dig into the details and learn about the highly masculinized world of sculpture. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Properzia de’ Rossi: The “Rare Female Sculptor.”

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