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• The ‘Garden-Variety Shit Show’ Of Flooding At Hamptons Art Fair

  23-07-2023 18:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  One gallerist said that “the tents were built over ground-level plywood rather than on above-ground risers, like one would see at other art fairs. Another gallerist … alleged that the gallery walls weren’t flush with the floors either, calling the entire thing ‘a recipe for disaster.'” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Is There A Power Broker In Hollywood Who Can End The Strikes?

  23-07-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Not really. “The studios that now must figure out how to appease actors and writers are wildly different in size and have diverging priorities. They all say they want to resolve the strikes. But some are more willing than others to compromise.” – The New York Times
  
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• And What Are Social Media Influencers Supposed To Do Around The Strikes?

  23-07-2023 17:30 via latimes.com
  
  “SAG-AFTRA has published guidelines for how influencers should operate during the strike, calling on them to not promote struck companies or content unless obligated to do so by an existing contract. Even an unpaid fan post about a studio project” is strongly discouraged. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• So During The Strikes, What’s The Deal With Celebrity Podcasts?

  23-07-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Looks like no one fully knows. “The actors hosting podcasts that recap the TV shows It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, One Tree Hill and Bones, for example, canceled or did special episodes this week,” but similar ones continued just as scheduled. – The New York Times
  
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• Is The Entertainment Industry Collapsing, Or Simply Going Through A Remodel?

  23-07-2023 16:30 via npr.org
  
  “Netflix and all these other streaming services debuted in an environment where shareholders were encouraging them to spend money for growth. Interest rates were low. Borrowing money was cheap.” That era is over, and the reckoning is here. – NPR
  
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• Met Trustee’s Lawyer Claims She Didn’t Knowingly Buy Looted Art

  23-07-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Since February, the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, has returned 29 antiquities from White collection’s to Greece, 12 to Turkey, four to Iraq, two to China and one to Yemen. [Her and her husband’s] collecting has been described as naive or careless.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• New museum on faith in England hopes to buy Henry VIII tapestry from Spain

  23-07-2023 15:34
  
  Work described as ‘birth certificate of the C of E’ could form centrepiece of Faith Museum in County DurhamA campaign has been launched to bring a remarkable 16th-century tapestry commissioned by Henry VIII from Spain to be the centrepiece of a new UK museum dedicated to faith opening in October.Saint Paul Directing the Burning of Heathen Books is “effectively the birth certificate of the Church of England”, according to Jonathan Ruffer, the founder of the Auckland Projec
  
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• Tony Bennett Had A Preternatural Gift Of Coming Back Into Style, Again And Again

  23-07-2023 15:30 via vulture.com
  
  Had Bennett listened to “outside noise instead of his gut, he would’ve missed out on his greatest hits, an enormous second life in his career, and a veritable collection of prolific collaborations.” – Vulture
  
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• Dutch still-life masterpiece on show in UK for first time

  23-07-2023 15:06
  
  ‘Dazzling’ Banquet Still Life by Jan Davidsz de Heem has been loaned to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam MuseumA “dazzling” rare Dutch masterpiece that has always been held in private collections has gone on public display for the first time in its history.Banquet Still Life by Jan Davidsz de Heem will be on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for the next two years. Continue reading...
  
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• Dutch masterpiece on show in UK for first time

  23-07-2023 15:06
  
  ‘Dazzling’ Banquet Still Life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem on loan to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam MuseumA “dazzling” rare Dutch masterpiece that has always been held in private collections has gone on public display for the first time in its history.Banquet Still Life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem will be on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for the next two years. Continue reading...
  
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• In Portland, A Massive Shakeup For Arts Funding Presages Potential Chaos

  23-07-2023 15:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  Portland is taking a huge pot of money from a regional arts council – as “the tri-county area is in the midst of developing a long-term strategy, called Our Creative Future, for regional arts: Presumably, that strategy-in-the-making will have to take a sharp turn.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• This Is Probably The Last Happy Hollywood Weekend For A While

  23-07-2023 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “In the past few weeks, as the ‘Barbenheimer’ hype grew, so did the animosity between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. … With both sides entrenched and the strikes expected to continue into the fall,” the mood in Hollywood is confused. – The New York Times
  
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• Black Venus review – defiantly face to face with the inhuman past

  23-07-2023 14:00
  
  Somerset House, London
  The shocking life of 19th-century ‘Hottentot Venus’ Saartjie Baartman haunts this riveting show in which 18 artists including Sonia Boyce, Kara Walker and Zanele Muholi respond to objectification and Black femininityIn the winter of 1810, a Khoikhoi woman from the Eastern Cape named Saartjie Baartman was exhibited as the Hottentot Venus to a gawping London public. Visitors could watch her move and sing – and suffer their scrutiny – on a platform at
  
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• Barbie Drives A High Weekend Box Office

  23-07-2023 14:00 via variety.com
  
  “Barbie has gone boom. The film was a gambit by Mattel to enter the filmmaking space, costing $145 million to produce, not to mention more spending for a ubiquitous marketing campaign.” And then there’s Oppenheimer. – Variety
  
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• Most People Have No Clue About The ‘Right’ Way To Perform Karaoke

  23-07-2023 13:30 via slate.com
  
  No groups on stage. No quiet, shy performances. And never, ever cut someone off in the middle of a song. – Slate
  
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• The Camelot Star Transmitting Shakespeare Skills Between The Acts

  23-07-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The earliest of Matthews’s Shakespeare workshops for fellow cast members was in 2001, for … Romeo and Juliet in Los Angeles. He also held the classes for the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird and has led them for the Actors Center in New York.” – The New York Times
  
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• Thunderclap by Laura Cumming review – a visionary examination of Dutch golden age art

  23-07-2023 10:00
  
  With time-stopping attention to detail, the Observer’s art critic searches for redemption in the rubble of the catastrophic Delft explosion of 1654 – to miraculous effectFor Laura Cumming, Dutch art is a placid paradise with the countdown to a cataclysm ticking away in the background. The immaculately swept streets and waxed floors in the paintings, the thin ice that supports a crowd of skaters in a frozen winter, the churches that are containers for mellow light and silence –
  
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