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• Collector Jamie Botín Sentenced to Jail for Smuggling $27.4 M. Picasso Painting Out of Spain

  16-01-2020 23:40 via artnews.com
  
  A Madrid court has sentenced the Spanish businessman Jamie Botín, whose family appears on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, to 18 months in jail for smuggling Head of a Young Woman (1906), a painting by Pablo Picasso, out of Spain. According to a report by the Spanish newspaper El País, the work has been seized by the state, and Botín will be required to pay a €52.4 million (about $58.3 million).
  Botín, who is the head of Grupo Santander, was first accused of
  
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• Collector Jaime Botín Sentenced to Jail for Smuggling $27.4 M. Picasso Painting Out of Spain

  16-01-2020 23:40 via artnews.com
  
  A Madrid court has sentenced the Spanish businessman Jaime Botín, whose family appears on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, to 18 months in jail for smuggling Head of a Young Woman (1906), a painting by Pablo Picasso, out of Spain. According to a report by the Spanish newspaper El País, the work has been seized by the state, and Botín will be required to pay a €52.4 million (about $58.3 million).
  Botín, who is the head of Grupo Santander, was first accused of
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’

  16-01-2020 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Film Forum Asks, What Is the Experience of Black Women in Film

  16-01-2020 23:19 via nytimes.com
  
  With over 60 movies and special events, this series tells the history of how they told their stories, both overtly and subversively.
  
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• How ‘Uncut Gems’ Creates Action Thrills at a School Play

  16-01-2020 23:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Josh and Benny Safdie narrate a sequence from their film, featuring Adam Sandler.
  
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• ‘Uncut Gems’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  16-01-2020 23:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The directors Josh and Benny Safdie narrate a sequence from their film featuring Adam Sandler.
  
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• Fugitive Billionaire Joseph Lau Revealed as Seller of David Hockney’s ‘Splash’: Report

  16-01-2020 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  The anonymous seller of a painting from David Hockney’s iconic swimming pool series is the Hong Kong real-estate tycoon Joseph Lau, according to a report by Katya Kazakina from Bloomberg News. Hockney’s 1966 work A Splash is one of the most expensive offerings to appear in Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in London on February 11, where it is estimated to sell for £20 million–£30 million (around $26.1 million–$39.2 million). It last came to auction i
  
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• Christopher Tolkien, Keeper of His Father’s Legacy, Dies at 95

  16-01-2020 22:05 via nytimes.com
  
  As literary executor of his the estate of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mr. Tolkien compiled and edited works such as “The Silmarillion.”
  
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• When Art Begins at the Scene of a Crime

  16-01-2020 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles makes unflinching art about violent death and its aftermath. Her newest photographs and installations are now in New York City.
  
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• Lorenza Mazzetti, Wartime Survivor and Seminal Filmmaker, Dies at 92

  16-01-2020 21:37 via nytimes.com
  
  She was spared by German soldiers seeking her uncle and protector, a cousin of Albert Einstein. She went on to help start the British New Wave in cinema.
  
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• Christopher Tolkien, Son of J.R.R. Tolkien and Keeper of His Legacy, Dies at 95

  16-01-2020 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  As literary executor of his father’s estate, Mr. Tolkien compiled and edited works such as “The Silmarillion.”
  
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• Exploring the Solar System Anew at the Hayden Planetarium

  16-01-2020 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The American Museum of Natural History’s first new space show since 2013 is a head-spinning adventure that makes a statement about the fragility of Earth.
  
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• Did ‘Marriage Story’ Hit Close to Home? Tell Us Your Story

  16-01-2020 20:54 via nytimes.com
  
  For readers who have watched the movie, we’re curious what the experience was like if you’ve gone through a divorce or if you grew up with divorced parents.
  
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• Leslie Jones Is Ready to Rock the Boat, Hard

  16-01-2020 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of a dynamite new special talks about why she left “S.N.L.,” why she quit performing at the same club as Louis C.K., and how the next “Ghostbusters” is a win for the trolls.
  
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• ‘Distances’ Review: Fumblingly Picking at the Knot of Race

  16-01-2020 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  In this experimental play, a white talk-show host and a black science fiction writer have a challenging conversation. Plus dancing.
  
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• The Battle Between Good and Evil in the Work of Douglas Gordon

  16-01-2020 19:35 via artnews.com
  
  Eleanor Heartney: Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art, Silver Hollow Press, 2019.
  A.i.A. contributing editor Eleanor Heartney’s book Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art, recently published by Silver Hollow Press, considers the various ways contemporary artists have approached the theme of the end of the world, an idea that she describes as “deeply embedded in almost every aspect of Western culture,” including our un
  
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• Roger Scruton, a Provocative Public Intellectual, Dies at 75

  16-01-2020 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A philosopher, author and columnist, he was an outspoken hero to conservatives in Britain and recently at the center of, in his words, a “hate storm.”
  
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• Photographer David Gilbert’s Tableaux Give Studio Detritus an Air of Drama and Glamour

  16-01-2020 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  David Gilbert’s photographs depict arrangements he creates in his studio out of whatever happens to be on hand: scrap paper, found detritus, fabric, string, cardboard, and organic matter like branches and flowers. Photographed in soft natural light, his everyday materials take on a heft and drama they might lack if encountered in person. Like vacant theatrical sets, his compositions are self-contained worlds that hint at possible occupants: if we stare long enough, it seems, something just
  
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• Marion Chesney, a.k.a. Mystery Writer M.C. Beaton, Dies at 83

  16-01-2020 18:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Her popular crime solvers Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin were the focus of dozens of books, as well as TV series.
  
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• Campy Horror in Living Color

  16-01-2020 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Classic films by Roger Corman and Michael Curtiz are part of the MoMA festival of preservation, To Save and Project.
  
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• Review: Gustavo Dudamel Jolts the ‘New World’ Symphony to Life

  16-01-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  This overplayed classic felt fresh in the star conductor’s return to the New York Philharmonic after 11 years.
  
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• A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story

  16-01-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Very Stable Genius,” by the Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s time in office to date.
  
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• ‘Weathering With You’ Review: Letting the Sun Shine In

  16-01-2020 18:20 via nytimes.com
  
  In the latest from the director of the hit anime “Your Name,” two teenagers find mysterious rays of hope amid catastrophe.
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 8 Places in New York to Remember His Legacy

  16-01-2020 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  At events across the city, you can commemorate King’s achievements or follow his example of activism and service.
  
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• Philadelphia Mayor: Museum Should ‘Strengthen’ Sexual Harassment Policy

  16-01-2020 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The mayor’s remarks come after a former Philadelphia Art Museum boss was forced to resign from his Erie Art Museum post following a New York Times report.
  
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• Tschabalala Self Paints a Picture: The Artist Expands the Possibilities of Portraiture

  16-01-2020 16:36 via artnews.com
  
  Two winters ago, a water pipe exploded at Tschabalala Self’s studio on an upper floor of an industrial building in New Haven, Connecticut. “It was like a biblical event!” she says, laughing as she points out where it happened one crisp morning this past fall. “Everything kind of got trashed, but none of my work got destroyed. All of my fabric and materials got drenched. Luckily they’re washable, so I just washed everything.” The things she didn’t wash sh
  
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• Really Seeing Marmee: Oh, How ‘Little Women’s’ Matriarch Has Changed

  16-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In early screen adaptations, the character was so wan, one actress wondered why she was even there. Recent adaptations have looked at the pivotal figure in terms of how society values women.
  
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• Martin Lawrence on Explosions On and Offscreen

  16-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor and comedian, whose new film is “Bad Boys for Life,” looks back on his career.
  
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• A Painter Resurrects Louisiana’s Vanished Creole Culture

  16-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Andrew LaMar Hopkins celebrates the rich contributions of 19th-Century New Orleans in his folk art style (and drag).
  
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• The Overlooked History of Women at Work

  16-01-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A Grolier Club exhibition explores 500 years of women as scientists, midwives, writers, activists, undertakers and more.
  
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• Controversy at Vermont Museum Over Sackler Gift, Frick Collection’s Historic Music Room, and More: Morning Links from January 17, 2020

  16-01-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Philadelphia’s mayor has called on the Philadelphia Museum of Art to overhaul its harassment policies after allegations against a former employee were made public in a New York Times report. [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
  Artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik are launching a new residency program at a former Methodist church in Sag Harbor, New York, and now they’ve selected its director: Sara Cochran, who formerly led the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona. [ARTnews
  
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• New Church Residency Conceived by Artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik Names First Director

  16-01-2020 14:15 via artnews.com
  
  As it prepares to open later this year, the Church—a new residency program and exhibition space being created by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik in a former Methodist church on New York’s Long Island—has a new leader.
  Sara Cochran, the former director and chief curator of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, will serve as the executive director and chief curator of the Church in Sag Harbor. She will oversee the space’s staff and board, and will help
  
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• Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History

  16-01-2020 13:41 via nytimes.com
  
  “Most historians taken seriously are always straight. They wouldn’t know a gay person if they took him to lunch.”
  
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• ‘Party of Five’ and ‘Little America’: Immigrant Stories That Get the Job Done

  16-01-2020 13:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The new series explore the timeliness and timelessness of immigrant experiences.
  
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• ‘VHYes’ Review: Channel Surfing and Self-Soothing

  16-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This visually exhausting parody of 1980s late-night television offers little more than a collage of meaningless nostalgia.
  
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• ‘Troop Zero’ Review: A New Generation of Underdogs

  16-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This film about a makeshift scouting troop hits familiar beats, but is elevated by its cast.
  
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• ‘Intrigo: Death of an Author’ Review: Many Mysteries, Fewer Thrills

  16-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An author and a wannabe meet on a private island in a film based on a tale by Hakan Nesser.
  
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• ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Review: In a Minivan, but Still Riding

  16-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After probably years of high-powered agent, studio and management negotiations, the boys are back.
  
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• After ‘Please Like Me,’ Josh Thomas’s New Show Is All Fiction

  16-01-2020 12:23 via nytimes.com
  
  “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” is not based on the Australian comedian’s life, but his dark, droll humor remains.
  
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• The Obama Bounce Has Real Impact — and It Has Nothing to Do With Basketball

  16-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Here’s what happened when an author’s debut landed on the former president’s list of favorite books.
  
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• In Germany, a Jewish Millennial Argues That the Past Isn’t Past

  16-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Max Czollek, whose first nonfiction book is a rebuttal to calls for integration, believes that his country must face its history with more honesty — and that those who are singled out shouldn’t try to fit in.
  
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• Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward?

  16-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With “Picard,” a spinoff following Patrick Stewart’s Starfleet officer, the franchise is trying to rediscover its place in a universe it effectively invented.
  
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• Feuding Families Take Center Stage

  16-01-2020 09:55 via nytimes.com
  
  From the bloodbath of “The Duchess of Malfi” to the intergenerational confusion of “Snowflake,” family disputes are at the center of three plays in London.
  
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• Colbert on Ukraine Evidence: ‘You Don’t Write the Crime Down, You Dummy’

  16-01-2020 09:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Stephen Colbert reviewed the material handed over by a Rudy Giuliani associate: “It didn’t help that the next note was ‘Leave paper trail of impeachable offenses.’”
  
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• At a Sculptor’s Marrakesh Estate, a Menagerie of Whimsical Artwork

  16-01-2020 09:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-François Fourtou, known for his sculptures of animals, has channeled his creative energy to his 25-acre property in Morocco.
  
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• A Sculptor’s Marrakesh Estate, Filled With Whimsical Artwork

  16-01-2020 09:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-François Fourtou, known for his sculptures of animals, has channeled his creative energy to his 25-acre property in Morocco.
  
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• What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Grace and Frankie’ and ‘Grown-Ish’

  16-01-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda are back in a new season of “Grace and Frankie” on Netflix. And on Freeform, “grown-ish” begins its junior year.
  
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• ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match

  16-01-2020 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Ideally cast as a plain-spoken woman made of quiet steel, she acts the way Elizabeth Strout writes in this compelling adaptation of the 2016 novel.
  
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• Betty Pat Gatliff, 89, Whose Forensic Art Solved Crimes, Dies

  16-01-2020 00:10 via nytimes.com
  
  She used clay to reconstruct the faces of the missing and the murdered, in the hope of helping police departments learn who they were.
  
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