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• A Look into $18.5 M. New York Townhouse Decorated by Julian Schnabel and His Former Wife

  13-12-2019 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the i
  
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• See Inside $18.5 M. New York Townhouse Decorated by Julian Schnabel and His Former Wife

  13-12-2019 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the i
  
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• Don McDonagh, Dance Critic and Author, Dies at 87

  13-12-2019 22:22 via nytimes.com
  
  In his reviews in The New York Times, he championed experimental choreographers emerging in the 1960s and ’70s.
  
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• Elisabeth Sifton, Editor and Tamer of Literary Lions, Dies at 80

  13-12-2019 22:18 via nytimes.com
  
  She was also a publisher and an author whose memoir affirmed that her father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, had popularized the Serenity Prayer.
  
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• Elisabeth Sifton, Editor and Tamer of Literary Lions, Dies at 78

  13-12-2019 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  She was also a publisher and an author whose memoir affirmed that her father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, had popularized the Serenity Prayer.
  
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• New York’s Newest Private Museum Is Tucked Away in Brooklyn

  13-12-2019 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  First he took Copenhagen and Beijing. Now, Danish dealer-turned-philanthropist Jens Faurschou is debuting his blue-chip collection in the borough’s Greenpoint section.
  
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• Saskia Noor van Imhoff on Materials with Contradictory Functions

  13-12-2019 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  Saskia Noor van Imhoff is an Amsterdam-based artist whose photographs and sculptures explore systems of perception. She often takes apart familiar objects and recontextualizes them, always building on her own previous works. Her show of new pieces at Grimm gallery in New York, titled “#+40.00,” incorporates colored plexiglass, neon tubing, plaster molds, and aluminum casts, as well as parts of a museum climate control system. These last components are from the humidifier van Imhoff u
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Has a New Favorite Crowd: Kids

  13-12-2019 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The new author has so enjoyed the warm reception to his book, “sometimes I wish I had nothing but children in my audience at the show.”
  
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• U.S. Places Sanctions on Art Collector Said to Finance Hezbollah

  13-12-2019 20:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The Treasury Department said the collector used art to hide assets and a gallery business to launder money.
  
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• Dancing to (and Around) Bach

  13-12-2019 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Watch a portion of “New Work for Goldberg Variations,” a collaboration between Pam Tanowitz and Simone Dinnerstein.
  
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• Review: Gandini Juggling’s Drab ‘Spring’ Mixes It Up With Dancers

  13-12-2019 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The troupe, buzzed about in “Akhnaten” at the Met, delights with its juggling. Too bad about the contemporary dancers.
  
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• Who Is Jerry Vale and Why Does Martin Scorsese Love Him So?

  13-12-2019 19:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer’s easy-listening hits were fixtures in the director’s household growing up and have figured in several of his movies, including “The Irishman.”
  
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• Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds

  13-12-2019 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Every day, members of the Cloud Appreciation Society post photos of the sky from around the world. This is why they stop to look up.
  
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• Scorched Silence, Fragile Rebirth, Award-Winning Music

  13-12-2019 19:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Lei Liang’s “A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams,” about fragile environments, won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award.
  
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• These Stand-Ups Are in an Escapist Mood, Much Like Their Audience

  13-12-2019 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  In several new and recent specials, Seth Meyers, Tiffany Haddish and others largely ignore politics in favor of the personal or just plain silly.
  
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• Hallmark and Lifetime Do Hanukkah. Oy.

  13-12-2019 18:25 via nytimes.com
  
  And just when you thought made-for-TV Christmas movies couldn’t get any cheesier.
  
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• Danny Aiello, Actor in ‘Do the Right Thing,’ Dies at 86

  13-12-2019 17:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A memorable character actor on stage and screen, Mr. Aiello won an Academy Award nomination for his role in Spike Lee’s 1989 film.
  
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• Brent Wadden’s Abstract Weavings Are Equal Parts Anni and Josef Albers

  13-12-2019 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  Anni and Josef Albers did not have children. If they had, the kids might have grown up to make work like Brent Wadden’s. The Canadian artist uses Anni’s medium, weaving, to create abstract “paintings” whose color interactions would have made Josef proud.
  Wadden trained as a painter, but he has been working exclusively as a weaver for almost a decade now, producing textiles by hand. Ten new examples were on view in his recent exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, &ldquo
  
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• Review: Five Pieces From ‘Nine,’ and Plenty More From Its Composer

  13-12-2019 17:43 via nytimes.com
  
  “Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston” is an old-fashioned revue that ably showcases the Tony-winning songwriter.
  
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• ‘Bombshell’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  13-12-2019 17:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Jay Roach narrates a sequence featuring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
  
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• The Playlist: Kesha Simmers, and 9 More New Songs

  13-12-2019 17:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Usher, Kaytranada, Martha Wash and others.
  
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• ‘The Straights’ Review: On the Road With No Sense of Direction

  13-12-2019 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Amusing monologues and oddball encounters enliven T. Adamson’s overstuffed play that follows two friends on a very long car ride.
  
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• How the Investigation Into Richard Jewell Unfolded

  13-12-2019 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, and is now the subject of Clint Eastwood’s new film. A look back on our reporting to understand the story.
  
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• Theaters in Hungary Feel the Chill of Viktor Orban’s Culture War

  13-12-2019 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, prompting an outcry in Budapest.
  
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• He Wanted to Be Pope. He Settled for Conducting the Metropolitan Opera.

  13-12-2019 16:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The Quebec-born music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has soared to the peak of his profession thanks to his precocious talent and a belief in “smiles and optimism.”
  
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• How ‘Bombshell’ Takes an Uncomfortable Elevator Ride

  13-12-2019 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Jay Roach narrates a scene from his film about harassment at Fox News, featuring Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman.
  
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• Juice WRLD and the Crisis of SoundCloud Rap-Era Fame

  13-12-2019 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Success is coming faster than ever for a new generation of musicians. But at what price?
  
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• On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles

  13-12-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The global mushrooming of fairs has reached Congo’s remote but resilient mining hub, where politics find its way into artists’ work.
  
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• Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon

  13-12-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our TV critic helps readers find the shows they seek.
  
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• ‘Marriage Story’: Noah Baumbach’s First Feel-Good Movie

  13-12-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Yes, it’s about an excruciating divorce. But it is also Baumbach’s most hopeful treatment of the subject, in a long history of films that make it a central theme.
  
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• A Big Change Comes to Billboard’s Album Chart: YouTube Streams

  13-12-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Starting Jan. 3, official video plays will count toward the tallies on the trade publication’s flagship weekly chart, the Billboard 200.
  
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• 50 Art Collectors to Watch, Schnabel-Designed Home Lists for $18.5 M., and More: Morning Links from December 13, 2019

  13-12-2019 14:57 via artnews.com
  
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  Sotheby’s New York will stage an auction of contemporary Indigenous art today, marking the first such sale outside of Australia and Europe by a major international house.The Sydney Morning Herald
  A Greenwich Village townhouse designed by Julian Schnabel and his former wife, Jacqueline Schnabel, is on the market.The Wall Street Journal
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• 50 Art Collectors to Watch, Onetime Schnabel Home Lists for $18.5 M., and More: Morning Links from December 13, 2019

  13-12-2019 14:57 via artnews.com
  
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  Sotheby’s New York will stage an auction of contemporary Indigenous art today, marking the first such sale outside of Australia and Europe by a major international house.The Sydney Morning Herald
  A Greenwich Village townhouse once home to the Schnabel family has listed for $18.5 million. Property records show its current owner is Julian Schnabel&r
  
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• 50 Art Collectors to Watch

  13-12-2019 14:10 via artnews.com
  
  Looking to the future of collecting, ARTnews consulted our expert sources—top dealers, curators, auction house specialists, collectors, and other art-world players—to round up the 50 most promising, up-and-coming collections being built today around the world. (For more on the field of art collecting, view our 30th-anniversary Top 200 list.)
  Alireza Abrishamchi
  LondonTelecom and investmentsOld Masters; postwar and contemporary art
  Troy CarterLos AngelesEntertainmentContemporary art,
  
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• The Best TV Episodes of 2019

  13-12-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Shrill” pool party. The “David Makes Man” pilot. The quietest installment of the final “Game of Thrones” season. These are the episodes that stuck with us this year.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Invisible’ and ‘Little Faith.’

  13-12-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• A New ‘Christmas Carol’ Explores the Roots of Scrooge’s Scorn

  13-12-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new TV adaptation by Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) presents a portrait of the miser as a (relatively) young man.
  
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• ‘6 Underground’ Review: Action by the Numbers

  13-12-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ryan Reynolds plays a billionaire who’s part Deadpool, part Elon Musk and all Michael Bay hero in this relentless action movie.
  
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• Trevor Noah on Trump vs. Greta: Like F.D.R. Bullying Shirley Temple

  13-12-2019 08:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Commenting on the president’s latest Twitter feud, Noah said he had “no right to tell anybody to chill, all right? He is the least chill human being of all time.”
  
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• Molière’s Still Funny (Even in German)

  13-12-2019 08:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two Berlin productions find different types of comedy in the great 17th-century playwright’s works.
  
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• What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bumblebee’ and ‘Mel Brooks: Unwrapped’

  13-12-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A “Transformers” prequel hits Amazon and Hulu. And a documentary about Mel Brooks airs on HBO.
  
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• Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’

  13-12-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Lucas Hnath’s cunning new ghost story, about a psychic and her client, is a twisty yarn that won’t unravel.
  
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• ‘Black Christmas’ Review: Horror for a New Era of Campus Debates

  13-12-2019 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sophia Takal’s film isn’t particularly scary, but it has plenty on its mind.
  
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• Richard Easton, Stage Veteran and Tony Winner, Dies at 86

  13-12-2019 00:14 via nytimes.com
  
  He won theater’s top prize for his performance in “The Invention of Love,” one of numerous Broadway roles.
  
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