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• Neil Peart, Drummer for Rush, Dies at 67

  10-01-2020 22:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Rush had a loyal worldwide fan base and sold millions of records. Mr. Peart, who was also the band’s primary lyricst, was among the most admired drummers in rock.
  
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• Artists Wu Tsang and Boychild Walk in Telfar’s Florence Fashion Show

  10-01-2020 22:41 via artnews.com
  
  The New York-based designer Telfar Clemens debuted his fall/winter collection at the grand Palazzo Corsini in Florence, Italy, on Thursday evening with a runway show staged atop a circular table. Among the models who walked in the glitzy presentation, which was attended by Solange Knowles, among other high-profile figures, were the artists and collaborators Wu Tsang and boychild.
  Tsang, whose practice spans performance, film, and video, wore a teal shirt and green velour pants in the show, and t
  
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• Drawing Found in Viennese Cathedral Could Change How Historians Think About Albrecht Dürer’s Art

  10-01-2020 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  A drawing discovered in a Vienna cathedral may transform art historians’ understanding of a Northern Renaissance artist’s career.
  According to the Art Newspaper, specialists were alerted to a painting found buried beneath centuries of dirt on the wall above the gift shop at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the Austrian capital. After an examination of the painting’s underdrawing, which was determined to have been executed around 1505, they realized the draughtsman may have been
  
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• Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places

  10-01-2020 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A baseball player uses romance novels to help woo his estranged wife, a fake relationship leads to real feelings, and more stories of happily ever after.
  
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• Britain Moves to Regulate Its Art Trade. Bring Your ID.

  10-01-2020 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  New legislation to combat money laundering and terrorism financing will require dealers and auctioneers to establish the identity of buyers and sellers.
  
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• Last-Minute U.K. Law to Stop Money Laundering Frustrates British Art Dealers

  10-01-2020 20:14 via artnews.com
  
  A new European Union directive is forcing the art industry to change sales practices across the continent, leaving some dealers and auction house officials unsure of how the new rules will affect them.EU nations were supposed to adopt the Fifth Money Laundering Directive by January 10, while the United Kingdom, which has the largest art market on the continent, according to the 2019 edition of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, has enacted a stricter set of regulations at the last m
  
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• Review: ‘The Outsider’ Takes a Stephen King Novel and Makes It Darker

  10-01-2020 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The mystery-horror hybrid gets a stylish and extremely moody adaptation from HBO and Richard Price.
  
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• Review: The Philharmonic and a Conductor Get Reacquainted

  10-01-2020 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniel Harding last led the orchestra in 2011, and returned this week for works by Grieg and Strauss.
  
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• An Exhibition of Native Painting Fills a Stubborn Gap in the History of Modernism

  10-01-2020 19:25 via artnews.com
  
  Dick West’s Spatial Whorl (1949–50), a small oil on canvas with a swirl of earthy browns and yellows punctuated by hot pinks, sky blues, and sharp red spines, is the first painting visitors see at “Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting,” a new long-term exhibition at the New York branch of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, featuring works from the institution’s collection. “What is American Indian about this grac
  
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• Sotheby’s Has Hockney’s $39.2 M. ‘Splash’ for London Sales

  10-01-2020 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has announcing that one of the most famous images from David Hockney’s career will be offered with an estimate of £20 million–£30 million ($26.1 million–$39.2 million) during its contemporary art evening sale in London on February 11. The Splash (1966) is a companion work to the Tate Modern museum’s famous A Bigger Splash (1967) which is one of the best known works by Hockney and a key image from the 1960s.
  The Splash previously set a record fo
  
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• Sotheby’s Has Hockney’s $15.3 M. ‘Splash’ for London Sales

  10-01-2020 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has announcing that one of the most famous images from David Hockney’s career will be offered with an estimate of £20 million–£30 million ($15.3 million–$23 million) during its contemporary art evening sale in London on February 11. The Splash (1966) is a companion work to the Tate Modern museum’s famous A Bigger Splash (1967) which is one of the best known works by Hockney and a key image from the 1960s.
  The Splash previously set a record for
  
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• ‘Queens Row’ Review: Richard Maxwell on Life After Doomsday

  10-01-2020 19:09 via nytimes.com
  
  In this stark, eloquent new play, three women reflect on what remains in the aftermath of an American civil war.
  
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• Cecilia Alemani Named Curator of Next Venice Biennale

  10-01-2020 18:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The curator of the High Line will be the first Italian woman to organize the show.
  
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• Justin Bieber’s Flavorless Pivot to R&B, and 10 More New Songs

  10-01-2020 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Alicia Keys, Mac Miller, Michael Stipe and others.
  
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• 24 Years Later, Roberto Alagna Steps Back Into ‘Bohème’ at the Met

  10-01-2020 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The star tenor, now 56, returns to the boyish role of his breathlessly hyped 1996 debut.
  
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• Langdon Graves on Family Myths and Commemorating the Dead

  10-01-2020 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  Virginia-born, New York–based artist Langdon Graves explores belief systems—ranging from ancient Greek mythology to nineteenth-century spiritualism to family ghost stories—and their connection to grief and trauma. While Graves has been probing this set of ideas for years, her latest body of work adds a personal twist. Presented in “Month’s Mind,” her second solo exhibition at Victori + Mo in New York, the delicate sculptures and drawings that evoke familiar ta
  
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• How ‘Just Mercy’ Gets Close to Its Characters

  10-01-2020 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Destin Daniel Cretton narrates a scene from his drama featuring Jamie Foxx as a man on death row who asserts his innocence.
  
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• ‘Just Mercy’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  10-01-2020 16:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Destin Daniel Cretton narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Jamie Foxx and Rob Morgan.
  
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• Venice Biennale Names Cecilia Alemani as Artistic Director for 2021

  10-01-2020 16:34 via artnews.com
  
  The world’s biggest art festival—with an international purview and more than a century of history behind it—has named the person who will helm its 2021 edition. Cecilia Alemani, currently the director and chief curator of the High Line’s art program in New York, has been named artistic director of the 2021 Venice Biennale, which opens in Italy in May of next year. Her appointment makes her one of four women ever to have curated an edition of the biennial, and she is the f
  
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• Venice Biennale Names Cecilia Alemani as Artistic Director for 2021 Edition

  10-01-2020 16:34 via artnews.com
  
  The world’s biggest art festival—with an international purview and more than a century of history behind it—has named the person who will helm its 2021 edition. Cecilia Alemani, currently the director and chief curator of the High Line’s art program in New York, has been named artistic director of the 2021 Venice Biennale, which opens in Italy in May of next year. Her appointment makes her one of five women ever to have been selected to curate an edition of the biennial,
  
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• Where to Go After ‘Mad Men’? A Canadian Dramedy

  10-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our TV critic takes up readers’ burning questions about what to watch.
  
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• Ilana Glazer Is Moved by ‘Slave Play’ and Chanel Miller

  10-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian who recently released her first stand-up special, “The Planet Is Burning,” shares the things she can’t live without.
  
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• Hudson Yards Promised a Park. They Didn’t Mention the Giant Wall.

  10-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For phase two, the developer imagines a 700-foot-long structure overshadowing the High Line. “The last thing New Yorkers need is a wall,” a state senator said.
  
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• Hoffa vs. Hoffa: How Two Actors Found Their Character

  10-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Al Pacino’s portrayal of the union leader in “The Irishman” differs markedly from Jack Nicholson’s take in a 1992 movie.
  
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• Broadway Playwright as High Line Curator

  10-01-2020 15:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Jeremy O. Harris will combine disciplines in a summer festival.
  
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• Complaints Against a Pennsylvania Museum Director, the British Museum’s Controversial Show About the Arctic, and More: Morning Links from January 10, 2020

  10-01-2020 15:07 via artnews.com
  
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  The Times details misconduct complaints leveled against Joshua Helmer, who previously worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and now directs the Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania. [The New York Times]
  The French culture ministry will establish a center for satirical cartoons. Georges Wolinski, who died in the 2015 Charlie H
  
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• Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects

  10-01-2020 11:19 via nytimes.com
  
  A renovation of Cologne’s opera house is running eight years late, and cost estimates have doubled. It’s just one in a long list of public works gone wrong in the country.
  
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• They Were Victorian Dandies Who Made Art. Now They’re On the Outs.

  10-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Peter McGough, of the art duo McDermott & McGough, wrote a memoir on his adventures as a queer artist who drove a Model T.
  
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• They Were Victorian Dandies Who Made Art. Now One Is Broke.

  10-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Peter McGough, of the art duo McDermott & McGough, wrote a memoir on his adventures as a queer artist who drove a Model T.
  
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• He Left a Museum After Women Complained; His Next Job Was Bigger

  10-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A Philadelphia Museum of Art boss who quietly resigned now directs the Erie Art Museum, where a woman also objected to his conduct.
  
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• Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis

  10-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Tightrope,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is a wrenching portrait of rural Yamhill, Ore., Kristof’s hometown and a microcosm for America.
  
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• Call Charles Busch a ‘Drag Legend,’ if We Must Use Labels

  10-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With a gown and love for old Hollywood, Busch stars in his latest zany romp, “The Confession of Lily Dare.”
  
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• Trump and Iran: ‘Worst Throwback Thursday Ever,’ Stephen Colbert Says

  10-01-2020 08:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “George W. Bush respected us enough to put some effort into his lies, remember?” Colbert said, comparing the Iran crisis to the 2003 Iraq invasion.
  
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• Who’s Hosting the Oscars in 2020? No One

  10-01-2020 07:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The 2019 show ran without a host after Kevin Hart stepped down and a series of mini-hosts replaced him.
  
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• What’s on TV Friday: ‘Lincoln Rhyme’ and ‘AJ and the Queen’

  10-01-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A thriller series based on a Jeffery Deaver novel debuts on NBC. And RuPaul stars in a new Netflix comedy series.
  
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• Chhapaak Review: Life and Activism After an Acid Attack

  10-01-2020 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie is based on the life of Laxmi Agarwal, who was burned with acid in New Delhi 2005.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Working’ and ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’

  10-01-2020 06:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Pete Dye, Picasso of Golf Course Design, Is Dead at 94

  10-01-2020 00:38 via nytimes.com
  
  “His courses built for tournaments are hard,” Tiger Woods once said, “ but there’s a good reason for everything.”
  
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