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• Peter Gelb’s Contract Is Extended at the Metropolitan Opera

  25-11-2019 23:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The company’s general manager since 2006 will continue in his position through at least 2027.
  
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• In ‘Labyrinth,’ a Musician With Amnesia Loses Life’s Rhythm

  25-11-2019 23:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Burhan Sonmez’s new novel asks big questions about individuals and societies: What makes us who we are? And if we can’t remember our past, does it still belong to us?
  
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• Following Outcry, Mexico City’s Museum of Modern Art Issues Apology, Allows Breastfeeding in Galleries

  25-11-2019 22:08 via artnews.com
  
  In the past few years, many activists have begun to look at how institutions regulate an activity that has struck a nerve with some officials: breastfeeding. In 2017, protests dogged the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, which apologized after asking a breastfeeding woman to cover up, and now a museum in Mexico said it would alter its policies about breastfeeding following a public protest.
  A group of women staged an action on Sunday, November 24, at Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Moder
  
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• Your Move: Artist Mariah Dekkenga Uses a Board Game to Rethink Abstract Painting

  25-11-2019 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  In order to visit Mariah Dekkenga’s current show, “Non-Zero Sum,” at Situations on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one has to make a series of choices. What time to leave to make it there? At the subway station, run to make the train? Wait for the walk sign at the crosswalk or jaywalk? Say hello to old friends on the sidewalk?
  Inside the compact gallery are three large, bright abstract paintings and, on a wooden table, a pair of dice and multicolored blocks. Two people are si
  
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• Review: A ‘Crucible’ for the Modern Mob

  25-11-2019 21:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Eric Tucker updates the allegorical play about the Salem witch trials, directly implicating the audience in its examination of mass hysteria.
  
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• Review: ‘¡Guaracha!,’ Jubilantly Reclaiming Its Roots

  25-11-2019 21:45 via nytimes.com
  
  This art form, which stems from a classic genre of protest song, gets a new spin in a musical by Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
  
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• Now Leasing: The Paris Theater, Netflix’s New Single-Screen Space

  25-11-2019 21:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming site’s long-term lease will keep the lights on at the once-shuttered, 71-year-old movie house.
  
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• In This ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ You’re Part of the Debauchery

  25-11-2019 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  An immersive theatrical production, based on the books that inspired the Martin Scorsese film, brings make-your-own mischief to a London hotel.
  
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• Did ‘1917’ Just Enter the Best-Picture Battle?

  25-11-2019 20:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The late-arriving war film, directed by Sam Mendes, appears to be the front-runner for several Oscars.
  
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• David Zwirner Plans First Major New York Show of Artist Noah Davis, Cornerstone of L.A. Art Scene, Since His Death

  25-11-2019 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  When artist Noah Davis died of cancer at the age of 32 in 2015, a key figure in Los Angeles’s art scene was lost. Though his career was short, Davis, who also cofounded the Underground Museum in L.A. with his wife, Karon Davis, in 2012, was influential for many in the city he called home and far beyond it, and now one gallery has plans to boost his legacy on the East Coast, in New York.
  This winter, David Zwirner will host the first major Davis survey in New York since the artist’s d
  
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• ‘Serial’ Podcast Case Is Declined by Supreme Court

  25-11-2019 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The justices left in place a ruling by Maryland’s highest court denying Adnan Syed a new trial in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee.
  
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• Taylor Swift and Four More American Music Awards Moments

  25-11-2019 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Green Day and Billie Eilish brought rock ’n’ roll energy, and Swift recapped a decade of pop dominance.
  
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• Noise Becomes Signal: Michael Stipe’s New Photo Book Peers into Our Glitchy Times

  25-11-2019 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  The taste of Spanish sugar cookies lingered as Michael Stipe lit a stick of incense—a Shoyeido-brand varietal from Japan whose bouquet suits the serenity of its name, “Beckoning Spring”—and held it up to his forehead. Doing so for a moment with your eyes closed, he said, is a good way to send a thought out into the world.
  The occasion was a sort of makeshift ritual to mark the “ascension date” for Jeremy Ayers, an old friend of the former R.E.M. singer an
  
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• John Simon, Wide-Ranging Critic With a Cutting Pen, Dies at 94

  25-11-2019 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape — films, plays, books, art — and saw little that he liked.
  
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• Celine Dion Tops the Chart for the First Time in 17 Years

  25-11-2019 18:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer’s first English-language album since 2013 sold well, while a very busy Taylor Swift saw a surge in activity.
  
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• John Simon, Critic With a Cutting Pen, Dies at 94

  25-11-2019 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape — films, plays, books, art — and saw little that he liked.
  
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• Kristin Scott Thomas on Playing a Different Kind of Part

  25-11-2019 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress is helping to lead the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. But: “I’m not a feminist. I’m not a politician.”
  
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• Expert Urges Christie’s to Cancel Sale of Roman Statue, Citing Potentially Faulty Provenance

  25-11-2019 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s has come under fire for selling a ca. first-century statue of the Greek god Eros that has allegedly passed through the hands of antiquities dealers who may have been involved in illegal trade practices. The piece is featured on the cover of a catalogue for a sale due take place in an antiquities auction in London on December 4, and it is estimated to sell for as much as £800,000 (about $1.03 million).
  Christos Tsirogiannis, a former senior field archaeologist at Cambr
  
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• British Movie Theaters Pull Gang Film After Violence at Screenings

  25-11-2019 18:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Two chains canceled future screenings of “Blue Story” after incidents this weekend. Critics accused the chains of being “cowardly” and “racist,” but the theaters said they were worried about safety.
  
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• ‘Watchmen’ Pulls the Hood on Hooded Justice

  25-11-2019 17:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The HBO series made a bold choice in revealing the mysterious hero’s identity. Our writer examined how the details meshed with the graphic-novel canon.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: María Berrío to Victoria Miro, Performa Prize—and More from November 25, 2019

  25-11-2019 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, November 25
  María Berrío Joins Victoria MiroVictoria Miro, which has galleries in London and Venice, now represents María Berrío, whose work will figure in its presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach next month. Berrío will have a solo exhibition at the gallery’s space in the British capital in June 2020. The artist, who will continue working with Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, is known for her large-scale mixed media works on Japanese paper, which me
  
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• Thieves Steal ‘Priceless’ Centuries-Old Jewels at Royal Palace in Dresden

  25-11-2019 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  Three diamond jewelry sets dating back to the 18th-century were stolen from the Green Vault at Dresden’s Royal Palace on Monday morning, according to a report by the BBC. The Green Vault, which holds some 3,000 precious objects and jewels worth millions, is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen consortium.
  Each set taken reportedly consists of 27 components, and police and museum representatives are still in the process of assessing how much was stolen. The collection in the Green Vault w
  
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• Adnan Syed’s Case, of ‘Serial’ Fame, Is Declined by Supreme Court

  25-11-2019 17:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The justices left in place a ruling by Maryland’s highest court denying Mr. Syed a new trial in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee.
  
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• Saxon Royal Jewels Are Stolen From a German Museum

  25-11-2019 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Artifacts including diamonds, rubies and sapphires, worth millions and said to be of immeasurable historical value, were taken from a display room in Dresden.
  
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• Guggenheim Reveals Works & Process Series Lineup

  25-11-2019 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The Guggenheim’s performing arts series will host Ivo van Hove, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Anthony Roth Costanzo and more during its upcoming season.
  
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• Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t.

  25-11-2019 16:24 via nytimes.com
  
  “Nebuchadnezzar,” presented Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, is a passionate but puzzling work employing the rapper’s latest provocation: his salvation.
  
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• Dreaming Up Disneyland

  25-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Disney’s Land,” Richard Snow explains how Walt Disney turned 240 acres of orange groves into the iconic California theme park.
  
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• Late in his Career, Photographer Duane Michals Has Found a New Creative Outlet as a Filmmaker

  25-11-2019 15:56 via artnews.com
  
  ZIP ZAP ZIP (2018), a short film directed by Duane Michals, begins with what sounds like a plain statement of fact. “I am speaking this sentence,” Michals says, standing before the camera in a mask. “This is the sentence that I am speaking. The sentence says, ‘This is the sentence that I am speaking.’” The statement seems hard to refute, until you consider that Michals isn’t really speaking at all. A machine is playing a recording of his voice. Michals,
  
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• American Music Awards 2019: Five Memorable Moments

  25-11-2019 15:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Green Day and Billie Eilish brought rock ’n’ roll energy, and Taylor Swift recapped a decade of pop dominance.
  
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• Jessye Norman Honored With a Starry Met Opera Memorial

  25-11-2019 15:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Friends, relatives, colleagues and fans gathered at the opera house on Sunday for tribute performances and reminiscences.
  
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• Artifacts Stolen from Dresden Museum, Archaeologist Urges Christie’s to Withdraw Roman Statue from Sale, and More: Morning Links from November 25, 2019

  25-11-2019 15:07 via artnews.com
  
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  While protests in Hong Kong continue to gain momentum, Art Basel has said that its annual fair in the city, which is scheduled to run from March 19 to 21, will go on as planned. Meanwhile, the powerhouse gallery Hauser & Wirth has indefinitely postponed an Annie Leibovitz exhibition that was slated to take place at its Hong Kong space. [A
  
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• American Music Awards 2019: 5 Memorable Moments

  25-11-2019 14:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Green Day and Billie Eilish brought rock ’n’ roll energy, and Taylor Swift recapped a decade of pop dominance.
  
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• Goo Hara, K-Pop Star of the Group Kara, Is Found Dead

  25-11-2019 13:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The 28-year-old singer, known as Hara, was found in her home on Sunday in Seoul, South Korea.
  
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• Artifacts Collected by a Saxon King are Stolen From a German Museum

  25-11-2019 13:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The vault in Dresden contained gold, crystal and diamonds worth millions. The police could not immediately confirm what had been taken.
  
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• From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs

  25-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  François Lebeau’s “Climbing Rock” and Christian Vizl’s “Silent Kingdom” reveal the sublime edges of the earth.
  
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• Dreading Thanksgiving? Pack One of These Books for Moral Support

  25-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sometimes we read for escape. Sometimes we read to be reminded of the obvious: Things could be worse.
  
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• Company Behind ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Goes to Court Over Replicas

  25-11-2019 09:08 via nytimes.com
  
  A statue of a defiant girl was supposed to empower women. But when copies of the artwork appeared around the world, the company that originally purchased it fought back.
  
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• Kristin Scott Thomas Thinks There Must Be a ‘Mistake’ in New Casting

  25-11-2019 08:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress is a little surprised to be helping lead the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society: “I’m not a feminist. I’m not a politician.”
  
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• What’s on TV Monday: ‘Slings & Arrows’ and the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ finale

  25-11-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The second season of the Canadian comedy series is now available. And the dance competition crowns a winner.
  
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• ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: Prisoners

  25-11-2019 05:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As Elliot grapples with last week’s big revelation, paralysis sets in.
  
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• The 10 Most Influential Films of the Decade (and 20 Other Favorites)

  25-11-2019 04:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Our co-chief film critics say these were the films of the 2010s that made a difference in the world of entertainment and beyond.
  
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• Women Writers Give Voice to Their Rage

  25-11-2019 04:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A raft of books, both fiction and nonfiction, examined women’s anger from personal and political angles — and suggested that the fire is just getting started.
  
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• When Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star

  25-11-2019 04:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In the 2010s, celebrity culture was domesticated by a free photo sharing app, and the paparazzi were left stranded on the pavement.
  
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• Rappers Are Singers Now. Thank Drake.

  25-11-2019 04:30 via nytimes.com
  
  He fundamentally rewrote the rules of entry for what it meant to be a rapper in the 2010s. And it seems everyone followed.
  
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• Black Art Has Its Moment, Finally

  25-11-2019 04:30 via nytimes.com
  
  For our art critic, the greatness of black visual culture, past and present, mainstream and outsider, was repeatedly asserted during the 2010s.
  
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• Hooded Justice Revealed: Here’s a Look at That Big ‘Watchmen’ Twist

  25-11-2019 04:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The HBO series made a bold choice in revealing the mysterious hero’s identity. Our writer examined how the details meshed the graphic-novel canon.
  
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• ‘Watchmen’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: Nostalgia

  25-11-2019 04:26 via nytimes.com
  
  This week revealed the identity of a long-mysterious character from the graphic novel. But probably not how you would guess.
  
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• Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’

  25-11-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Read and studied for decades, a key work of the American avant-garde finally returns in a major New York revival.
  
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• Review: A Heartbreaker Returns in ‘The Young Man From Atlanta’

  25-11-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The Signature Theater’s compassionate revival of Horton Foote’s 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a slow route to devastation.
  
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• One of R. Kelly’s Few Defenders Says She Was His Victim, Too

  25-11-2019 00:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Joycelyn Savage, a girlfriend who had supported the singer in court and on television, said in online posts that R. Kelly emotionally and physically abused her.
  
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