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Former US President Bill Clinton, 78, hospitalized and undergoing testingThe Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has announced its 2024 grantees. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $945,000 to thirty writers working across three categories—Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing. Each will receive between $15,000 and $50,000. The grant program is aimed at sustaining critical writing about contemporary art and at ensuring that such writing remains a valued way of engaging with the visual arts. “The thirty writers receiving support this year are working on projects asking urgent questions about art’s place in the world today,” said Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant director Pradeep Dalal in a statement. “Exploring topics including art’s relationship to fossil fuel extraction, Native art and activism, migration and questions of visibility, internationalist solidarity networks, DIY publishing, and LGBTQ comic artist communities, and covering artists working in Chile, Columbia, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela, this year’s grantee projects actively expand our understanding of contemporary art. . . . Despite the severe contraction of available venues for publishing in the arts, these writers continue to enrich and expand the academic disciplinary frameworks of both art criticism and art history.” Among the grantees in the Articles category is longtime Artforum contributor Catherine Quan Damman, who was recognized for “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism,” situating the painter’s work within lineages of Afro-Asian solidarities and Black internationalist feminism. T. Lax, another veteran Artforum contributor, received funding for A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums , an experimental book centering projects relying on crip theory, Black studies, and queer motherhood, while Marci Kwon received support for her volume Making San Francisco Chinatown , the first-ever book-length study of artists living and working in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the wake of the powerful 1906 earthquake that rocked that city. In the Short-Form category, Camila Palomino was awarded funding for a forthcoming series of texts focused on artists and architects whose subversive large-scale urban interventions, murals, and graffiti respond to and represent interconnected social struggles. A full list of 2024 grantees is below. Articles Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres , “Beyond Worlds: The Art and Life of Hong Xian” Anne Marie Butler , “Deviance, Penetration, and the Erotic in Aïcha Snoussi’s Drawing Installations” Catherine Quan Damman , “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism” Heather Davis , “Human Energy: Oil Erotics, Violence, and Queer Desire” Carina del Valle Schorske , “Monte Adentro” Ilegvak , “Water Protectors: Indigenous Art as Reimagination from the No Dakota Access Pipeline NoDAPL Movement” Elize Mazadiego , “‘Somos Libres?!’: Alternative Art Networks and Latin American Queer Diasporas in 1970s Amsterdam” Hande Sever , “Kuzgun Acar: Forms of Defiance” Isaiah Matthew Wooden , “Out of Water and Dirt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kiyan Williams’ Monumental Acts of Refiguration” Books Katie Brewer Ball , Unsettling Art Criticism: Alaska Native Art After 1960 Margaret Galvan , Comics in Movement Che Gossett , Marlon Riggs and the Black Queer Cinematic Anna Indych-López , Mexico City: Spatial Politics in Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Marci Kwon , Making San Francisco Chinatown T. Lax , A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums Sean Nesselrode , Moncada Maruja Rolando: On-Site Nizan Shaked , Art Against the System Edward A. Vazquez , Finish Line: V.I.S.U.A.L. Among the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde, 1975–1981 Short-Form Writing Rosa Boshier González Kerry Cardoza Tyler Coburn Alexandra Martinez Tris McCall Carolina Miranda Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi Camila Palomino Kristina Kay Robinson Caroline Tracey Jasmine Weber Christopher Whitfield
So who’s next? What’s next? And where? In 2006 the nation was stood on its head prompted by a knee-jerk media working off a claim by a young, maladjusted woman with a story that reporters, columnists, TV essayists, The New York Times, politicians, black and social activists and racial fire alarm-pullers chose to believe, facts be damned. And so Crystal Mangum, a young, self-employed black stripper accused three white Duke lacrosse players — all immediately condemned as “sons of white privilege” — were indicted and simultaneously sentenced to revulsion and expulsion, pariahs on their own campus. Her original claim, according to police reports, was that she was raped by 20 Duke players, before reducing the number to three. Her co-stripper denied that there was a single rape.No persecution of minorities, Hindu leader arrested on specific charges: Bangladesh tells UN forum
Bill Clinton hospitalized with fever, in 'good spirits': Spokesperson
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose Monday, with those benefiting the most from lower interest rates and a stronger economy leading the way. The Standard & Poor’s 500 climbed 0.3% to pull closer to its all-time high set two weeks ago. The Dow Jones industrial average added 1% to its own record set on Friday, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%. Treasury yields also eased in the bond market amid what some analysts called a “Bessent bounce” after President-elect Donald Trump said he wants Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, to be his Treasury secretary. Bessent has argued for reducing the U.S. government’s deficit, which is how much more it spends than it takes in through taxes and other revenue. Such an approach could soothe worries on Wall Street that Trump’s policies may lead to a much bigger deficit, which in turn would put upward pressure on Treasury yields. After climbing above 4.44% immediately after Trump’s election, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell back to 4.26% Monday, down from 4.41% late Friday. That’s a notable move, and lower yields make it cheaper for all kinds of companies and households to borrow money. They also give a boost to prices for stocks and other investments. That helped stocks of smaller companies lead the way, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks jumped 1.5%. It finished just shy of its all-time high, which was set three years ago. Smaller companies can feel bigger boosts from lower borrowing costs because of the need for many to borrow to grow. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks the market’s expectations for what the Federal Reserve will do with overnight interest rates, also eased sharply. The Fed began cutting its main interest rate just a couple of months ago from a two-decade high, hoping to keep the job market humming after bringing inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. But immediately after Trump’s victory, traders had reduced bets for how many cuts the Fed may deliver next year. They were worried Trump’s preference for lower tax rates and higher spending on the border would balloon the national debt. A report coming Wednesday could influence how much the Fed cuts rates. Economists expect it to show that an underlying inflation trend the Fed prefers to use accelerated to 2.8% last month from 2.7% in September. Higher inflation would make the Fed more reluctant to cut rates as deeply or as quickly as it would otherwise. Goldman Sachs economist David Mericle expects that to slow by the end of next year to 2.4%, but he said inflation would be even lower if not for expected tariff increases on imports from China and autos favored by Trump. In the stock market, Bath & Body Works jumped 16.5% after delivering stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The seller of personal care products and home fragrances also raised its financial forecasts for the full year, even though it still sees a “volatile retail environment” and a shorter holiday shopping season this year. Much focus has been on how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain, given high prices across the economy and still-high interest rates. Last week, two major retailers sent mixed messages. Target tumbled after giving a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season. It followed Walmart, which gave a much more encouraging outlook. Another big retailer, Macy’s, said Monday that its sales for the latest quarter were in line with its expectations, but that it will delay the release of its full financial results. It found an employee had intentionally hid up to $154 million in delivery expenses, and it needs more time to complete its investigation. Macy’s stock fell 2.2%. Among the market’s leaders were several companies related to the housing industry. Monday’s drop in Treasury yields could translate into easier mortgage rates, which could spur activity for housing. Builders FirstSource, a supplier or building materials, rose 5.9%. Home builders D.R. Horton, PulteGroup and Lennar all rose at least 5.6%. All told, the S&P 500 rose 18.03 points to 5,987.37. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 440.06 points to 44,736.57, and the Nasdaq composite gained 51.18 points to 19,054.84. In stock markets abroad, indexes moved modestly across much of Europe after finishing mixed in Asia. In the crypto market, bitcoin was trading below $95,000 after threatening to hit $100,000 late last week for the first time. Choe writes for the Associated Press. AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.Forgotten Canucks prospect Klimovich having red-hot start
INDIANA STATE 83, IONA 80Your Secret Weapon This Holiday Shopping Season Could Be... ChatGPT?Chicago forward Torrey Craig crashed into a camera on the baseline while pursuing a rebound during the Bulls' loss at Milwaukee on Wednesday. "I got a little blood on my elbow, a little blood on my nose. My ankle," Craig said. "I like games like that." With injuries opening a spot for Craig in the starting lineup, the bump-and-shove looks to continue for the Bulls, who hope the frontcourt veteran's energetic influence rubs off. Chicago has lost eight of 11 entering Friday's visit from the Atlanta Hawks. Starting in place of Patrick Williams, who's expected to miss at least a week with left foot inflammation, Craig scored 15 points while snagging six rebounds in a 122-106 loss to the Bucks, matching Nikola Vucevic for the team high on the glass. "It's no secret; you've just got to want the ball," Craig said. "I'm a competitor. The ball's up, I try to compete for it." Craig missed Chicago's Nov. 9 game at Atlanta due to illness. The Bulls won 125-113 behind 19 points from Ayo Dosunmu and Vucevic's 18-point, 12-rebound double-double. Coby White and Zach LaVine also scored 18 points. Bulls coach Billy Donovan said LaVine "carried us" against the Bucks, who closed the game on an 18-4 run. LaVine scored 20 of his 27 points before halftime and shot 9 of 15 for the game, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range. "I've seen his shot-making; it's been incredible," Donovan said. "He has the ability to get on a roll." Atlanta is eyeing a split of a four-game road trip that has sandwiched losses at Portland and Golden State around a one-point victory in Sacramento. The Hawks lost 120-97 at Golden State on Wednesday, scoring just four points more than their season low. "I didn't think that we talked enough tonight," said Atlanta coach Quin Snyder, whose team shot 33.3 percent, including just 26.7 percent (12 of 45) from deep. "And sometimes that happens when you're not making shots and it's actually when you need each other, and even more. "Regardless of who's in the game, how long they play, we can run. You can run. You can see that there's a corner and it's empty and you can fill it, and you can see where the ball is and you can space, and doing that gives us a chance to get connected." Atlanta played with its full rotation against the Warriors. After missing the Sacramento game with left leg inflammation, Jalen Johnson posted a double-double of 15 points and 14 rebounds to lead six Hawks in double-figure scoring. Trae Young (12 points, 11 assists) and Clint Capela (11 points, 10 rebounds) also contributed double-doubles. Friday marks the resumption of NBA Cup play. Atlanta is seeking a 3-0 start in East Group C after previous victories at Boston and against Washington. The Bulls lost their lone group play contest to date, at Cleveland. Group play will continue on Tuesdays and Fridays through Dec. 3 to determine an elimination bracket later in the month. The winner of each group plus one wild card from each conference will advance to the knockout rounds. Chicago has won six of 10 against Atlanta. LaVine has shot 53.6 percent while averaging 25.4 points in his past 10 games against the Hawks. This article first appeared on Field Level Media and was syndicated with permission.

Former US President Bill Clinton, 78, hospitalized and undergoing testingThe Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has announced its 2024 grantees. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $945,000 to thirty writers working across three categories—Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing. Each will receive between $15,000 and $50,000. The grant program is aimed at sustaining critical writing about contemporary art and at ensuring that such writing remains a valued way of engaging with the visual arts. “The thirty writers receiving support this year are working on projects asking urgent questions about art’s place in the world today,” said Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant director Pradeep Dalal in a statement. “Exploring topics including art’s relationship to fossil fuel extraction, Native art and activism, migration and questions of visibility, internationalist solidarity networks, DIY publishing, and LGBTQ comic artist communities, and covering artists working in Chile, Columbia, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela, this year’s grantee projects actively expand our understanding of contemporary art. . . . Despite the severe contraction of available venues for publishing in the arts, these writers continue to enrich and expand the academic disciplinary frameworks of both art criticism and art history.” Among the grantees in the Articles category is longtime Artforum contributor Catherine Quan Damman, who was recognized for “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism,” situating the painter’s work within lineages of Afro-Asian solidarities and Black internationalist feminism. T. Lax, another veteran Artforum contributor, received funding for A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums , an experimental book centering projects relying on crip theory, Black studies, and queer motherhood, while Marci Kwon received support for her volume Making San Francisco Chinatown , the first-ever book-length study of artists living and working in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the wake of the powerful 1906 earthquake that rocked that city. In the Short-Form category, Camila Palomino was awarded funding for a forthcoming series of texts focused on artists and architects whose subversive large-scale urban interventions, murals, and graffiti respond to and represent interconnected social struggles. A full list of 2024 grantees is below. Articles Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres , “Beyond Worlds: The Art and Life of Hong Xian” Anne Marie Butler , “Deviance, Penetration, and the Erotic in Aïcha Snoussi’s Drawing Installations” Catherine Quan Damman , “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism” Heather Davis , “Human Energy: Oil Erotics, Violence, and Queer Desire” Carina del Valle Schorske , “Monte Adentro” Ilegvak , “Water Protectors: Indigenous Art as Reimagination from the No Dakota Access Pipeline NoDAPL Movement” Elize Mazadiego , “‘Somos Libres?!’: Alternative Art Networks and Latin American Queer Diasporas in 1970s Amsterdam” Hande Sever , “Kuzgun Acar: Forms of Defiance” Isaiah Matthew Wooden , “Out of Water and Dirt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kiyan Williams’ Monumental Acts of Refiguration” Books Katie Brewer Ball , Unsettling Art Criticism: Alaska Native Art After 1960 Margaret Galvan , Comics in Movement Che Gossett , Marlon Riggs and the Black Queer Cinematic Anna Indych-López , Mexico City: Spatial Politics in Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Marci Kwon , Making San Francisco Chinatown T. Lax , A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums Sean Nesselrode , Moncada Maruja Rolando: On-Site Nizan Shaked , Art Against the System Edward A. Vazquez , Finish Line: V.I.S.U.A.L. Among the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde, 1975–1981 Short-Form Writing Rosa Boshier González Kerry Cardoza Tyler Coburn Alexandra Martinez Tris McCall Carolina Miranda Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi Camila Palomino Kristina Kay Robinson Caroline Tracey Jasmine Weber Christopher Whitfield
So who’s next? What’s next? And where? In 2006 the nation was stood on its head prompted by a knee-jerk media working off a claim by a young, maladjusted woman with a story that reporters, columnists, TV essayists, The New York Times, politicians, black and social activists and racial fire alarm-pullers chose to believe, facts be damned. And so Crystal Mangum, a young, self-employed black stripper accused three white Duke lacrosse players — all immediately condemned as “sons of white privilege” — were indicted and simultaneously sentenced to revulsion and expulsion, pariahs on their own campus. Her original claim, according to police reports, was that she was raped by 20 Duke players, before reducing the number to three. Her co-stripper denied that there was a single rape.No persecution of minorities, Hindu leader arrested on specific charges: Bangladesh tells UN forum
Bill Clinton hospitalized with fever, in 'good spirits': Spokesperson
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose Monday, with those benefiting the most from lower interest rates and a stronger economy leading the way. The Standard & Poor’s 500 climbed 0.3% to pull closer to its all-time high set two weeks ago. The Dow Jones industrial average added 1% to its own record set on Friday, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%. Treasury yields also eased in the bond market amid what some analysts called a “Bessent bounce” after President-elect Donald Trump said he wants Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, to be his Treasury secretary. Bessent has argued for reducing the U.S. government’s deficit, which is how much more it spends than it takes in through taxes and other revenue. Such an approach could soothe worries on Wall Street that Trump’s policies may lead to a much bigger deficit, which in turn would put upward pressure on Treasury yields. After climbing above 4.44% immediately after Trump’s election, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell back to 4.26% Monday, down from 4.41% late Friday. That’s a notable move, and lower yields make it cheaper for all kinds of companies and households to borrow money. They also give a boost to prices for stocks and other investments. That helped stocks of smaller companies lead the way, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks jumped 1.5%. It finished just shy of its all-time high, which was set three years ago. Smaller companies can feel bigger boosts from lower borrowing costs because of the need for many to borrow to grow. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks the market’s expectations for what the Federal Reserve will do with overnight interest rates, also eased sharply. The Fed began cutting its main interest rate just a couple of months ago from a two-decade high, hoping to keep the job market humming after bringing inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. But immediately after Trump’s victory, traders had reduced bets for how many cuts the Fed may deliver next year. They were worried Trump’s preference for lower tax rates and higher spending on the border would balloon the national debt. A report coming Wednesday could influence how much the Fed cuts rates. Economists expect it to show that an underlying inflation trend the Fed prefers to use accelerated to 2.8% last month from 2.7% in September. Higher inflation would make the Fed more reluctant to cut rates as deeply or as quickly as it would otherwise. Goldman Sachs economist David Mericle expects that to slow by the end of next year to 2.4%, but he said inflation would be even lower if not for expected tariff increases on imports from China and autos favored by Trump. In the stock market, Bath & Body Works jumped 16.5% after delivering stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The seller of personal care products and home fragrances also raised its financial forecasts for the full year, even though it still sees a “volatile retail environment” and a shorter holiday shopping season this year. Much focus has been on how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain, given high prices across the economy and still-high interest rates. Last week, two major retailers sent mixed messages. Target tumbled after giving a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season. It followed Walmart, which gave a much more encouraging outlook. Another big retailer, Macy’s, said Monday that its sales for the latest quarter were in line with its expectations, but that it will delay the release of its full financial results. It found an employee had intentionally hid up to $154 million in delivery expenses, and it needs more time to complete its investigation. Macy’s stock fell 2.2%. Among the market’s leaders were several companies related to the housing industry. Monday’s drop in Treasury yields could translate into easier mortgage rates, which could spur activity for housing. Builders FirstSource, a supplier or building materials, rose 5.9%. Home builders D.R. Horton, PulteGroup and Lennar all rose at least 5.6%. All told, the S&P 500 rose 18.03 points to 5,987.37. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 440.06 points to 44,736.57, and the Nasdaq composite gained 51.18 points to 19,054.84. In stock markets abroad, indexes moved modestly across much of Europe after finishing mixed in Asia. In the crypto market, bitcoin was trading below $95,000 after threatening to hit $100,000 late last week for the first time. Choe writes for the Associated Press. AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.Forgotten Canucks prospect Klimovich having red-hot start
INDIANA STATE 83, IONA 80Your Secret Weapon This Holiday Shopping Season Could Be... ChatGPT?Chicago forward Torrey Craig crashed into a camera on the baseline while pursuing a rebound during the Bulls' loss at Milwaukee on Wednesday. "I got a little blood on my elbow, a little blood on my nose. My ankle," Craig said. "I like games like that." With injuries opening a spot for Craig in the starting lineup, the bump-and-shove looks to continue for the Bulls, who hope the frontcourt veteran's energetic influence rubs off. Chicago has lost eight of 11 entering Friday's visit from the Atlanta Hawks. Starting in place of Patrick Williams, who's expected to miss at least a week with left foot inflammation, Craig scored 15 points while snagging six rebounds in a 122-106 loss to the Bucks, matching Nikola Vucevic for the team high on the glass. "It's no secret; you've just got to want the ball," Craig said. "I'm a competitor. The ball's up, I try to compete for it." Craig missed Chicago's Nov. 9 game at Atlanta due to illness. The Bulls won 125-113 behind 19 points from Ayo Dosunmu and Vucevic's 18-point, 12-rebound double-double. Coby White and Zach LaVine also scored 18 points. Bulls coach Billy Donovan said LaVine "carried us" against the Bucks, who closed the game on an 18-4 run. LaVine scored 20 of his 27 points before halftime and shot 9 of 15 for the game, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range. "I've seen his shot-making; it's been incredible," Donovan said. "He has the ability to get on a roll." Atlanta is eyeing a split of a four-game road trip that has sandwiched losses at Portland and Golden State around a one-point victory in Sacramento. The Hawks lost 120-97 at Golden State on Wednesday, scoring just four points more than their season low. "I didn't think that we talked enough tonight," said Atlanta coach Quin Snyder, whose team shot 33.3 percent, including just 26.7 percent (12 of 45) from deep. "And sometimes that happens when you're not making shots and it's actually when you need each other, and even more. "Regardless of who's in the game, how long they play, we can run. You can run. You can see that there's a corner and it's empty and you can fill it, and you can see where the ball is and you can space, and doing that gives us a chance to get connected." Atlanta played with its full rotation against the Warriors. After missing the Sacramento game with left leg inflammation, Jalen Johnson posted a double-double of 15 points and 14 rebounds to lead six Hawks in double-figure scoring. Trae Young (12 points, 11 assists) and Clint Capela (11 points, 10 rebounds) also contributed double-doubles. Friday marks the resumption of NBA Cup play. Atlanta is seeking a 3-0 start in East Group C after previous victories at Boston and against Washington. The Bulls lost their lone group play contest to date, at Cleveland. Group play will continue on Tuesdays and Fridays through Dec. 3 to determine an elimination bracket later in the month. The winner of each group plus one wild card from each conference will advance to the knockout rounds. Chicago has won six of 10 against Atlanta. LaVine has shot 53.6 percent while averaging 25.4 points in his past 10 games against the Hawks. This article first appeared on Field Level Media and was syndicated with permission.