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• Betty Pat Gatliff, Whose Forensic Art Solved Crimes, Dies at 89

  14-01-2020 23:33 via nytimes.com
  
  She used clay to reconstruct the faces of the missing and murdered, in the hope of helping police departments learn who they were.
  
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• Henry Taylor Now Works With Hauser & Wirth Along with Blum & Poe

  14-01-2020 23:27 via artnews.com
  
  Having quickly risen to prominence over the past decade as one of the finest painters of his generation, Los Angeles–based painter Henry Taylor is headed to one of the world’s four largest galleries, Hauser & Wirth, which currently has locations in eight cities , including New York, London, and Zurich, as well as a planned one for the island of Menorca.
  Hauser & Wirth will work in collaboration with Taylor’s gallery of the past decade, the Los Angeles, New York, and Tok
  
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• Henry Taylor, Celebrated Painter of Shrewd Portraits, Heads to Hauser & Wirth

  14-01-2020 23:27 via artnews.com
  
  Having quickly risen to prominence over the past decade as one of the finest painters of his generation, Los Angeles-based painter Henry Taylor is headed to one of the world’s four largest galleries, Hauser & Wirth, which currently has locations in eight cities , including New York, London, and Zurich, as well as a planned one for the island of Menorca.
  Hauser & Wirth will work in collaboration with Taylor’s gallery of the past decade, the Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo bas
  
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• Postcommodity’s Sound Installation Broadcasts a Luxury Apartment Tower’s Slow Collapse

  14-01-2020 23:19 via artnews.com
  
  San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is sinking. It has been since the 58-story skyscraper opened in 2009, though engineers only became aware of the issue a year later. To date, the tower has sunk 17 inches and tilted another 14 inches to the northwest. Residents fear for their safety, and many have sued Millennium Partners, the developers, for depreciated home values.  (The most visible lawsuit was filed by former 49er Joe Montana, whose tenancy was tied up in an agreement to help market
  
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• Ivan Passer, Noted Czech Director Who Went to Hollywood, Dies at 86

  14-01-2020 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A contemporary and friend of Milos Forman, he was part of the Czech New Wave before resettling in the United States.
  
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• Dance Theater of Harlem Awarded Its Biggest Gift Yet

  14-01-2020 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The $4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will be used to bring on more dancers and grow the support staff.
  
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• The Lewis Prize Awards $1.75 Million for Music Education

  14-01-2020 22:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The new philanthropy awarded prizes to nine organizations across the country focused on bringing music to young people.
  
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• Riz Ahmed and Kahlil Joseph Among New Faces in BAM’s New Season

  14-01-2020 22:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Favorites like Reggie Wilson and Steve Reich will also appear at the arts center in Fort Greene.
  
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• In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself

  14-01-2020 22:08 via nytimes.com
  
  This new book includes the commanding literary critic’s pieces on Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow and others, as well as more personal work about his childhood and his family.
  
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• BTS Announces Global Arts Project Featuring Antony Gormley

  14-01-2020 21:43 via nytimes.com
  
  A new series of projects by international artists will be shown in five cities across the world.
  
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• Review: In a Flat World, a Soprano Conjures Italy

  14-01-2020 21:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Rosa Feola, a fast-rising young singer, presented herself as the exponent of a rich national heritage at the Park Avenue Armory.
  
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• For This Choreographer, the Traditional Is Contemporary

  14-01-2020 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  New York is getting to know the work of Gregory Maqoma, which borrows from Western and South African traditions.
  
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• BTS, Globe-Trotting K-Pop Stars, Fund Artist Projects in Five International Cities

  14-01-2020 20:43 via artnews.com
  
  The K-pop sensation BTS is extending its reach in the art world with CONNECT, BTS, a new contemporary-art initiative that will span five international hubs on four continents. The members of the globe-trotting group were inspired to launch the project as part of an effort to create a “collective, positive message for the world that we value,” as they put it in a statement.
  The independent Korean curator Daehyung Lee serves as a artistic director for the project, which also involves S
  
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• Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ Comes Home

  14-01-2020 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Her copy of the sixth printing of the book, from 1921, has been donated to the library of the Mount, her home in Lenox, Mass.
  
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• Paul P.’s Ghostly Portraits Link Vintage Porn to Art Historical Tradition

  14-01-2020 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  Paul P.’s exhibition at Lulu was his first solo show in Mexico—and his first devoted primarily to portraiture in over a decade. Though the Paris-based Canadian artist is best known for his paintings of lissome young men, he has explored a wider set of interests in recent years, producing abstract paintings composed of soft-edged color blocks, and sculptures and installations that openly flirt with interior design. For the untitled watercolors in this show—most of them closely c
  
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• ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’ Review: Half-Siblings, Whole Family

  14-01-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest from Josh Thomas is a charming variation on the orphans-raising-one-another scenario.
  
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• Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida

  14-01-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher Knowlton’s “Bubble in the Sun” tells a story of fortunes made and lost in Florida real estate.
  
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• ‘Parasite,’ ‘Joker’ and Other 2020 Oscar-Nominated Movies to Stream

  14-01-2020 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Most of the top contenders are available from the comfort of your couch. Here’s a guide to help you get a jump on the field.
  
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• The Heart-Stopping, Nerve-Shredding Race to Be America’s Deadliest Combat Pilot

  14-01-2020 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Race of Aces,” John Bruning’s action-fueled World War II narrative, follows the elite fighter pilots who competed to shoot down the most enemy planes.
  
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• ‘Citizen K’ Review: Trying to Pin Down a Russian Oligarch

  14-01-2020 18:12 via nytimes.com
  
  A detailed documentary on Mikhail Khodorkovsky proves slightly unsatisfying.
  
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• I.C.P. to Reopen at Essex Crossing

  14-01-2020 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  A four-story, 40,000-square-foot space will bring the photography center’s exhibition and education spaces together under the same roof.
  
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• Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books

  14-01-2020 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  What could possibly make this generation of image-bombarded, constantly visually stimulated kids choose books more often? One answer lies in graphic novels.
  
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• Take a Look at These Rarely Seen Andy Warhol Photos

  14-01-2020 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Photography was Andy Warhol’s secret weapon — the architecture of his oeuvre. A new show highlights many of his rarely seen images.
  
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• Andy Warhol Through the Lens

  14-01-2020 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Photography was Andy Warhol’s secret weapon — the architecture of his oeuvre. A new show highlights many of his rarely seen images.
  
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• Two Books about Art History Examine a Discipline in Crisis

  14-01-2020 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  “A discipline enters into a state of self-consciousness, writes its own history, and theorizes its practices when something is unresolved,” the New York University art historian Christopher S. Wood, a preeminent scholar of the German Renaissance, writes in his new book, A History of Art History. His observation refers specifically to the first historiographies of art that emerged in 1920s Germany, once art history had been absorbed into the university and fully professionalized as a
  
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• With M+ Museum, Doryun Chong Plans a ‘Multidisciplinary Contemporary Collection Like No Other’

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  When it opens in late 2020, M+, the new Herzog and de Meuron–designed institution in Hong Kong, will be much more than a contemporary art museum. Situated in the
  
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• Who Will Shape the Art World in 2020?: ARTnews Presents ‘The Deciders’

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  A note from Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, Guest Editor:
  Artists are the gateway to our future. They are agitators and disrupters—constantly challenging us to rethink the world around us and guide us past our limits.
  As an artist myself, I am humbled by this process and how its impact can help create new perspectives. I am even more humbled and inspired by the community that surrounds me and how we collectively push this mission together.
  The art world, the industry, the market, t
  
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• Simon Wang’s Antenna Space Is Redefining Chinese Contemporary Art

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  It’s been six years since Simon Wang opened Antenna Space in the M50 Gallery District in Shanghai and in that time, he has already launched the careers of severa
  
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• Pamela J. Joyner’s ‘Mission-Driven Collection’ of African-American Art Looks to Reframe History

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  Pamela Joyner has some advice for collectors who are just starting out: “Figure out where the vacuum is, where the void is, where the need is. So whatever the vo
  
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• In Their Wide-Ranging Installations and Performances, The New Red Order Presents Serious Jokes

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  During the first Toronto Biennial of Art this fall, there was only one room I really wanted to be in: the New Red Order’s farcical and fantastical installation N
  
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• In Her Films That Bring Underacknowledged Histories to the Fore, Tourmaline Fills in Gaps in the Historical Archive

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  Tourmaline, the artist, filmmaker, and activist, was talking about a project in the works inspired by Mary Jones, a Black, trans sex worker and outlaw who lived in Sen
  
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• In Her Films That Bring Underacknowledged Histories to the Fore, Tourmaline Fill in Gaps in the Historical Archive

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  Tourmaline, the artist, filmmaker, and activist, was talking about a project in the works inspired by Mary Jones, a Black, trans sex worker and outlaw who lived in Sen
  
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• Deborah Willis Writings and Exhibitions Have Shaped Scholarship on African-American Photography

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  In her essential book Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, Deborah Willis, writer, educator, artist, and curator, charted the many way
  
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• At Baltimore Museum of Art, Christopher Bedford Creates a New Kind of Institution

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  Since becoming director of the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2016, Christopher Bedford has set a brutal pace, pursuing what he termed “a rapid, very aggressive, may
  
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• Art Dealer Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels Reflects on Her Influential Project Space

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  In spring 2017, Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels took over an empty storefront in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and made it home to a project independent o
  
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• Art Dealer Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels Reflects on Her Anti-Gentrification Project Space

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  In spring 2017, Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels took over an empty storefront in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and made it home to a project independent o
  
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• 21c Museum Hotels Looks to Create a 24/7 Museum Where All Can See Themselves

  14-01-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
  In the lobby of the 21c Museum Hotel in the heart of downtown Cincinnati, elevated behind the concierge desk, is an epic painting of a young man in a New Era ballcap,
  
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• Soccer Mommy Is Pushing Through the Indie-Rock Growing Pains

  14-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 22-year-old singer and songwriter Sophie Allison made one of the most acclaimed albums of 2018. Then she had to figure out what comes next.
  
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• Museum Director Departs After New York Times Report, Leading French Dealer in Chinese Works of Art Opens in Hong Kong, and More: Morning Links for January 14, 2020

  14-01-2020 15:01 via artnews.com
  
  Me, too
  Erie Art Museum director Joshua Helmer has left his position after the New York Times reported that he engaged in harassment of female employees at his previous job with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  ARTnews
  Dealers
  Enid Tsui profiles French dealer in Chinese works of art Christian Deydier, who at age 70, has just opened a gallery in Hong Kong. “Dealers in Hong Kong were spoiled,” he says. “In the 1980s, the Taiwanese came and bought everything. In the 1990s, so much
  
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• Why ‘Star Wars’ Keeps Bombing in China

  14-01-2020 14:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Despite an aggressive marketing push by Disney, movie after movie has flopped in the world’s second-largest market, where nostalgia for the series has no power over viewers.
  
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• She’s Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer, and She Thinks #MeToo Is ‘Dangerous’

  14-01-2020 11:48 via nytimes.com
  
  “We can’t have movements that strip us of our fundamental rights,” said Donna Rotunno, who has faced criticism from feminists.
  
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• As Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer, She Calls #MeToo ‘Dangerous’

  14-01-2020 11:48 via nytimes.com
  
  “We can’t have movements that strip us of our fundamental rights,” said Donna Rotunno, who has faced criticism from feminists.
  
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• Wealth and Fraud in 1920s Florida

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher Knowlton’s “Bubble in the Sun” tells a story of quick fortunes made and lost in Florida real estate.
  
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• The Union of the Kushners and the Trumps Seems Like Kismet

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new book considers the merging of real estate dynasties and its lasting impact on American democracy.
  
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• The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Imperfect Union,” his double biography of John and Jessie Frémont, the NPR host Steve Inskeep brings to life a 19th-century power couple.
  
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• The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick” collects 21 stories from throughout her career, including eight that illuminate the Great Migration north.
  
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• The Harlem Renaissance, as Viewed by Zora Neale Hurston

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick” collects 21 stories from throughout her career, including eight that illuminate the Great Migration north.
  
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• Tech Bro Uniform Meets Margaret Thatcher. Disruption Ensues.

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new exhibition in San Francisco makes art out of the Patagonia vest, the former prime minister of England and … Salesforce?
  
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• Spike Lee to Head Cannes Film Festival Jury

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director will be the first black person to lead the jury in the festival’s 73-year history.
  
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• Soon a Robot Will Be Writing This Headline

  14-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A World Without Work,” the economist Daniel Susskind argues that, unlike during past technological shifts, machines really are becoming smart enough to take over our jobs.
  
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