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• Morning Links: Larry Bell Can’t Be Unrung Edition

  09-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Frieze Abu Dhabi Unveils Exhibitors and Inaugural Curatorial Program

  28-09-2026 14:55 via artnews.com
  
  The inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi will open its doors on November 19 at Manarat Al Saadiyat, a roughly 15,400-square-meter gallery space in the Saadiyat Cultural District, and run through November 22.The art fair will feature more than 80 galleries from 36 countries including Carbon 12, Lawrie Shabibi and The Third Line from the United Arab Emirates; Athr and Hafez Gallery from Saudi Arabia; Experimenter, Galerie Isa, Jhaveri Contemporary, Nature Morte and Project 88 from India; Dastan from Tehran
  
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• Richard Manoogian, Industrialist and Collector of American Art, Has Died at 90

  28-09-2026 14:44 via artnews.com
  
  Richard Manoogian, a Detroit industrialist and avid art collector, died at 90 on Friday. His death was confirmed by Masco Corporation, the company where he was chairman emeritus, that was founded by his Armenian immigrant parents Alex and Marie Manoogian in 1929, famed for selling the single-handle Delta faucet.Richard Manoogian, who appeared on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list six times, including the first edition in 1990, was always engaged in cultural, charitable, and educational init
  
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• British Pop Artist Antony Donaldson Has Died, Rare David Hockney Dog Painting Heads to Christie’s, and More: Morning Links for September 28, 2026

  28-09-2026 14:34 via artnews.com
  
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  The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86.A rare painting from David Hockney’s dog series is headed to Christie’s.Richard Manoogian, a top art collector, philanthropist, and businessman, has died at age 90.The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86, reports the Times of London. Don
  
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• Survivor’s Host And Producer May Work At Paramount, But He’s Not Abandoning Diversity

  28-09-2026 14:30 via variety.com
  
  Jeff Probst doesn’t care about the Trump-loving network owners. Instead, he says, he cares about story. “Our stories are so much more interesting now because we have people from completely different walks of life.” – Variety
  
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• Dolly Parton’s Estate Is In Shambles Over Accusations, Lawsuits, And Restraining Orders

  28-09-2026 14:15 via vulture.com
  
  “While the family appeared to be putting on a united front, behind the scenes, things were far from harmonious. Employees were afraid to come to work and some were allegedly quitting.” Then there was the security guy’s threats. – Vulture
  
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• Meta’s New Surveillance Mascot Looks Like A Toy

  28-09-2026 14:00 via wired.com
  
  It’s supposed to be for adults only, but it looks like a Tamagotchi. Will the cuddliness cause us all to forget the deep, deep creep factor? – Wired
  
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• Rose Tremain Knows Her Generation Of Novelists Is Dying, But She’ll Keep Going As Long As She Can

  28-09-2026 13:45 via theguardian.com
  “Contrary to what publishers hope and expect, serious writers don’t think obsessively about readers, or even about sales, royalties and prizes. What we talk to each other about, what we dream of, what we can’t live without is the work itself.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ashland, Oregon, Is Known For Its Shakespeare Fest, But Now It’s Got A Murder Fest As Well

  28-09-2026 13:30 via orartswatch.org
  
  OK, you could argue that Shakespeare is a murderfest of his own, but “Mystery Fest has given cozy mystery fans a new reason to discover Ashland, attracting readers who might not otherwise have put the city on their travel list.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Beckett Is Only Bleak If You Have No Sense Of Humor

  28-09-2026 13:15 via irishtimes.com
  
  “I think Irish actors and directors have an innate advantage in dealing with Beckett. They get his humour.” – Irish Times
  
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• The Strike Is Over In Cleveland

  28-09-2026 13:00 via nytimes.com
  “In a deal reached late Saturday night and ratified Sunday by the union, the two sides agreed to a three-year contract that includes a 5 percent annual raise for each of the three years, according to the orchestra.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Ragtime Cancellation That Lasted Twelve Hours

  28-09-2026 02:29 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Every hour in Veracruz, the clock tower plays the original “La Bamba,” three centuries older than Ritchie Valens’ hit. Son jarocho, the genre behind it, was dismissed in the 1970s as “the music of drunken people”; now its fandangos draw dancers from Tokyo to Los Angeles, summed up in one word, convivencia — alive together (NPR). In Melbourne, Charles Lai has spent a decade running a free calendar of gallery openings, turning down offers to let gal
  
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• The All-Night Song And Dance Parties Of Veracruz

  27-09-2026 22:00 via npr.org
  
  “This syncopated, jubilant folk music is a melange of European, Caribbean and Indigenous influences. While fandangos — where folks gather to play their instruments, sing and dance — are more than 300 years old, their popularity is now spreading around the world.” – NPR
  
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• In Leipzig, Ousted Boston Symphony Orchestra Director Andris Nelsons Feels The Love

  27-09-2026 21:30 via bostonglobe.com
  
  “When he conducts, he does not think in English or German or Latvian, even if that would be his own. But he thinks directly in music, and this is so direct. … Sometimes in a concert you have suddenly a new gesture never seen before, that everybody understands.” – Boston Globe
  
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• Major Social Media Platforms Are All Turning Down Paid Advertising For The Documentary About Elon Musk

  27-09-2026 21:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  No one will be surprised that X (formerly Twitter) won’t take the ads for Alex Gibney’s award-winning movie, but what’s up with TikTok, YouTube, and Meta? – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Sylvester Stallone Finally Reckons With Decades Of Trauma

  27-09-2026 20:30 via nytimes.com
  “When I look at that footage, I look distorted. I was gone for a few seconds. Sometimes in acting or painting or writing, you just subliminally lose yourself. You do not know where you are. … What was that?” – The New York Times
  
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• An Ohio School District Cancels A Popular Play, And The Fallout Is Ongoing

  27-09-2026 20:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Copley Superintendent Aimee Kirsch said the play was canceled not because of its gay themes but because the proper vetting procedure wasn’t followed.” Unh-hunh. The students cast in the canceled She Kills Monsters were offered parts in the newly approved Alice in Wonderland. – Akron Beacon Journal (Yahoo)
  
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• Action Films Use To End Just As Happily As Any Rom-Com

  27-09-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  Basically, “the heroes are still winning, but it’s costing them a whole lot more.” But why? – The New York Times
  
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• An Art Crawl, By Bike, In Melbourne

  27-09-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  “Even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What The Grammys Usually Get Wrong About K-Pop, And Asian Music In General

  27-09-2026 18:30 via time.com
  
  “If eligibility is determined by musical style, what does language have to do with it? Why should a K-pop act’s music be labeled ‘Asian’ on the basis of language—and if a recording is performed entirely in English, does it somehow cease to be ‘Asian pop’?” – Time
  
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• Milwaukee Museum Returns Enslaved Artist David Drake’s Works To His Descendants

  27-09-2026 18:00 via nytimes.com
  “Drake made and inscribed ambitious stoneware jars while enslaved in South Carolina in the 1800s, despite punishing conditions and anti-literacy laws that prevented teaching enslaved persons to read.” – The New York Times
  
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• The School District That Tried To Cancel ‘Ragtime’ Claimed It Was A Miscommunication, But Emails Reveal A Different Story

  27-09-2026 17:30 via lpm.org
  
  “In emails with members of the public obtained by KyCIR, Duncan repeatedly said the show was never canceled because Balasubramanian ‘went rogue.’” That’s a little different from a miscommunication. – WFPL
  
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• Haitian-Canadian Author’s Book Withdrawn From Goncourt Short List Over Accusations Of AI

  27-09-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “As critics sparred with defenders of Mr. Orélien, who is Black, over whether he was targeted because of his race and his book’s treatment of migrants, he was accused of plagiarism in earlier writings, inflaming the controversy.” – The New York Times
  
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• We Don’t Make People Pay To Access Public Parks

  27-09-2026 16:30 via americantheatre.org
  
  Public parks are widely considered a social good, and we know that because our tax dollars go to maintain them, we don’t have to pay every time we go to a park. What if the same were true for theatre? – American Theatre
  
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• While Some Cleveland Musicians Are On The Picket Line, Others Are Performing Free For The Community

  27-09-2026 16:00 via wkyc.com
  One musician: “This is for our community and for the people who love what we do with our music. …The concert came together very quickly and we have many people who are excited to play chamber music for our fans.” – WKYC
  
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• Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Tech Writing Career?

  27-09-2026 15:30 via wired.com
  
  Maybe it wasn’t one person, or one magazine – maybe it was just the Zeitgeist changing. Right? (Because that’s the way it always goes for “difficult” women.) – Wired
  
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• Let’s Check In On How New York Feels About Dudamel

  27-09-2026 15:00 via vulture.com
  
  Justin Davidson is very, very pleased. “At every moment, you could feel Dudamel’s multilayered control — over the pacing, careening tempo changes, and the complicated sense of spaciousness.” – Vulture
  
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• “From Monet and Manet to Money”: A Berlin Museum Spotlights the Dealer Who Made Impressionism an International Sensation

  27-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Three women greet viewers to “Cassirer: Breakthrough of Impressionism” at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie: Edgar Degas’s Miss La La (1879), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Lise with a Parasol (1867), and Max Slevogt’s 1901 portrait of Cassirer’s own daughter, Suzanne Aimée Cassirer. Two French, one German, all three paintings are connected to Paul Cassirer, the Berlin dealer who is credited with bringing Impressionism to Germany, including many works now in
  
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• Adam Schumaker talks about the impact of $300,000 in prizes at The Gilmore

  26-09-2026 16:43 via artsjournal.com
  Adam Schumaker, Director of Education at The Gilmore, talks about the impact of their $300,000 prizes along with role of The Gilmore Fellowship in the field.
  
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• Paramount Gets Warner Bros., and 140 TV Series

  26-09-2026 16:26 via artsjournal.com
  This Week’s Highlights:Announcing the settlement that clears Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, California attorney general Rob Bonta said, “I don’t think these two companies should merge.” The terms: a five-year production pledge, studio lots kept in Los Angeles, separate editorial boards for CNN and CBS News, and no divestitures unless Paramount breaks its promises (The Hollywood Reporter). Proving it broke them would rely on Paramount&rs
  
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