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• Carol Serling, Rod’s Wife and Tender of ‘Twilight Zone’ Flame, Dies at 90

  23-01-2020 23:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Rod Serling, who created “The Twilight Zone,” died in 1975. His wife — in publishing, academic and screen ventures — helped keep his spirit alive.
  
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• A Show of Artists Galvanized by the Abortion Debate

  23-01-2020 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  “Abortion Is Normal” is the kind of exhibition that energizes supporters and upsets opponents. But it’s exciting for just being a good art show.
  
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• Worlds Within Worlds Mix It Up at the Winter Show

  23-01-2020 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The venerable fair may have changed its name, but it has not forsaken its passion for quality.
  
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• Balanchine Turns 116 This Week. His Ballets Never Get Old.

  23-01-2020 20:53 via nytimes.com
  
  New York City Ballet returns to Lincoln Center with transcendent programs, and dancers like Megan Fairchild and Teresa Reichlen leading the way.
  
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• Daddy Issues: Mike Kelley’s Rebellion Against His Painterly Forefathers

  23-01-2020 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  Hans Hofmann hung over this exhibition of Mike Kelley’s paintings like an oppressive father figure to rebel against. Epitomizing painting with a capital “P,” the early Abstract Expressionist’s work heavily impacted the curriculum taught at the University of Michigan when Kelley attended school there, in the 1970s. Kelley chafed at the formal, painterly, and, above all, academic version of art that his teachers espoused, calling his education “a form of mental abuse,
  
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• Jonas Mekas’s Debut Is an Artifact of Beat-Era New York

  23-01-2020 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Newly restored, his first feature, “Guns of the Trees” documents the city’s bohemian youth with gloom and gusto.
  
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• How the Grammys and Deborah Dugan Went From Hello to War in 5 Months

  23-01-2020 19:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Accusations of harassment, favoritism and bullying have overshadowed Sunday’s show and pitted the Recording Academy against its suspended chief executive.
  
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• The Mummy Speaks! Hear Sounds From the Voice of an Ancient Egyptian Priest

  23-01-2020 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Scientists used a 3-D printer, a loudspeaker and computer software to recreate a part of the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy.
  
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• The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood

  23-01-2020 19:46 via nytimes.com
  
  “Arte del Mar,” an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, shows that the West Indies were a meeting point of cultures long before the European arrival.
  
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• ‘John Henry’ Review: Hammer Time

  23-01-2020 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Terry Crews stars as an ex-gang member reluctant to take revenge in Will Forbes’s over-the-top action flick.
  
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• The Making of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Was as Far Out as the Movie

  23-01-2020 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  A jumble of memorabilia, storyboards and props, an exhibit illustrates the whirl of influences behind Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking 1968 film.
  
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• The Boys Return to Their Comic Book Roots

  23-01-2020 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A new story will reveal more about the characters before the Amazon Prime TV superhero series returns this year.
  
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• Will Lizzo Rule the Grammys Like She Owned 2019?

  23-01-2020 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  She has eight nominations Sunday night, a performance slot and the devotion of fiercely loyal fans. What’s behind this Lizzo momentum? Let’s discuss.
  
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• Amid Calls from Activists Across U.S., Washington, D.C. Officials Look to Diversify Public Monuments

  23-01-2020 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  As major urban centers across America undertake the process of rethinking—and, in some cases, removing—monuments to potentially problematic figures, two bills have been proposed that would focus on controversial statues in Washington, D.C., while also calling for the construction of new public artworks honoring women and minorities.
  Last week, city councilmembers in the nation’s capital met to discuss the proposed legislation, which would jumpstart a monuments-building process
  
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• Fundraising Campaign Launched to Save Legendary Filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Cottage

  23-01-2020 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  Actors, artists, and art institutions have united in a bid to save the home of the late visionary British filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman. On Wednesday, the Art Fund, a British fundraising charity for art, launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £3.5 million (about $4.5 million) necessary to purchase the property. The house, known as Prospect Cottage, has faced the possibility of a private sale since the death in 2018 of Jarman’s partner Keith Collins, to whom Jarman bequea
  
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• Artist Oswald Oberhuber, Key Figure of Austria’s Art Scene, Is Dead at 88

  23-01-2020 18:37 via artnews.com
  
  The artist Oswald Oberhuber, whose multifarious practice spanned painting, collage, sculpture, installation, and assemblage, has died at age 88. Since the 1960s, Oberhuber has been a powerful force in the Austrian art world, and he served as a rector at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
  Oberhuber’s sons, Nikolaus and Raphael Oberhuber, currently serve as directors of the gallery KOW, which maintains spaces in Berlin and Madrid. The news was confirmed on the homepage of KOW’s web
  
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• Florida Court Temporarily Forbids Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Mirror Room’ at Center of Inigo Philbrick Suit from Leaving Miami-Dade County

  23-01-2020 18:28 via artnews.com
  
  With various claims to ownership currently being litigated, a large Yayoi Kusama work on view in Miami through the city’s Institute of Contemporary Art cannot leave Miami-Dade County for now, a Florida court said.
  The work, a 2016 “Infinity Mirror Room” work called All the Eternal Love I Have for Pumpkins, is one of the core pieces in a lawsuit brought by the German art firm Fine Art Partners against dealer Inigo Philbrick, who has been accused of illegally withholding millions
  
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• ‘I Wish I Knew’ Review: A Melancholy Master’s Portrait of a City

  23-01-2020 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  In this elegiac documentary, the director Jia Zhangke explores Shanghai through its people, stories and soaring cranes.
  
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• ‘The Turning’ Review: Taking a Dusty Book Off the Shelf

  23-01-2020 17:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Henry James’s 19th-century novella “The Turn of the Screw” receives an update in this film that has the hallmarks of horror but few real terrors.
  
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• Sneakerheads Are the Targets of a New Million-Dollar Category for Auction Houses. Can a Shoe Be a Work of Art?

  23-01-2020 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  This past July, Sotheby’s sold 100 pairs of old sneakers at auction for $1.29 million, including 1972 Nike track cleats that more than doubled the previous record for a pair of athletic shoes. The buyer, a Canadian investor named Miles Nadal, said he planned to display the shoes in his private museum in Toronto. He told Sotheby’s, “I think sneaker culture and collecting is on the verge of a breakout moment.”
  Virgil Abloh, the designer-artist-DJ and creative director of Of
  
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• The Mummy Speaks! Hear Sounds From the Voice an Ancient Egyptian Priest

  23-01-2020 17:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Scientists used a 3-D printer, a loudspeaker and computer software to recreate a part of the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy.
  
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• Overlooked No More: Judee Sill, Singer Whose Life Was Tragically Cut Short

  23-01-2020 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The story that runs parallel to Sill’s rising stardom was one of misfortune and adversity that culminated in her death at the age of 35.
  
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• Reagan Arthur Named Publisher at Knopf

  23-01-2020 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Arthur, previously the publisher at Little, Brown, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died late last year.
  
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• A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell

  23-01-2020 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In video projections onto historical statuary in Manhattan, the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko claims public spaces for marginalized viewpoints.
  
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• Acclaimed Obama Portraits to Travel to Five American Museums Starting in 2021

  23-01-2020 16:38 via artnews.com
  
  The celebrated portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, brought more than a million visitors to the National Portrait Gallery during their first year in Washington, D.C. And now millions more can see them when they set out to tour America.
  Between June 2021 and May 2022, the Obama portraits will reportedly travel to five U.S. museums. The tour will kick off with a stop at the Art Institute of Chicago, and from there they will visit the Brooklyn Museu
  
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• Bots vs. AI: Two Kinds of Software Art Take Different Approaches to the Digital Commons

  23-01-2020 16:10 via artnews.com
  
  “AI: More than Human,” an exhibition that appeared at London’s Barbican Art Gallery this past summer and can now be seen at the Forum in Groningen, the Netherlands, mirrors the muddled zeitgeist of artificial intelligence. It seeks to bring together the various elements of art, research, and commerce, displaying interactive installations as well as projects applying AI in fields as diverse as agriculture and neuroscience. Rather than untangle these distinct areas, Barbican cura
  
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• Six Angels Singing the ‘Blues’

  23-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Harlem-set “Blues for an Alabama Sky” finally arrives in New York, with a juicy role that has attracted African-American actresses across the country.
  
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• Animation That Broke the Rules

  23-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The great Japanese animator Satoshi Kon died young in 2010 but his work continues to dazzle on the internet.
  
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• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Premiere Recap: Back From Retirement

  23-01-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Patrick Stewart returns in an energetic stand-alone series about the “Next Generation” hero Jean-Luc Picard. So much for the admiral’s quiet life at the chateau.
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Director Offers Apologies, Returning the Benin Bronzes, and More: Morning Links from January 23, 2020

  23-01-2020 14:39 via artnews.com
  
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  At a town hall meeting, Philadelphia Museum of Art director, Timothy Rub, offered an apology to employees over the recent allegations of sexual harassment against former manager Joshua Helmer. Some in attendance felt that the meeting did not offer plans for substantive change. [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
  The complex tale of the arduous process to return the loote
  
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• Obama Portraits to Tour the Nation

  23-01-2020 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The works by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald will make their way to five cities from June 2021 through May 2022, including a stop at the Brooklyn Museum.
  
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• ‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo

  23-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new film about a schoolgirl’s erotic obsession examines the social hierarchies of midcentury Haiti and present-day France.
  
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• ‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero

  23-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This fact-based story directed by Todd Robinson follows the quest to get a Medal of Honor for a pararescue medic who died in Vietnam.
  
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• ‘Quezon’s Game’ Review: In the Philippines, a Refuge From the Nazis

  23-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The real challenge wasn’t getting the Jews out of Nazi Germany, but rather persuading the United States to grant them visas to the Philippines.
  
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• These Artifacts Were Stolen. Why Is It So Hard to Get Them Back?

  23-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted over 120 years ago. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them.
  
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• In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation

  23-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jessica Stern’s new book recounts her series of meetings with Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who is serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
  
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• Charles Yu Loves Reading With His Children. Don’t Tell Them.

  23-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I try not to smile too hard — if they ever realized how happy it makes me, they might start feeling like they’re being duped.”
  
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• Before Michael B. Jordan Played Him in ‘Just Mercy,’ Bryan Stevenson Was a Kid Who Loved to Read

  23-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The best-selling author and public interest lawyer comes from a family in which words mattered. A lot.
  
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• Vienna’s Ambitious Burgtheater Tours the Ruins of Europe

  23-01-2020 10:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Under a new artistic director, this season at Austria’s main playhouse includes 30 premieres, ranging from classical dramas to brand-new works.
  
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• Review: ‘Picard’ Is, Finally, ‘Star Trek: Peak TV’

  23-01-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The seventh live-action “Star Trek” series offers some fan service for franchise nostalgists, but Patrick Stewart is just about the only thing that hasn’t changed.
  
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• Senators Aren’t Losing Sleep Over Trump’s Impeachment Trial, Noah Says

  23-01-2020 08:53 via nytimes.com
  
  “You know you’ve been sleeping for a long time when an artist has time to sketch your portrait,” Trevor Noah said on Wednesday of napping senators.
  
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• What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ and ‘Station 19'

  23-01-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Patrick Stewart returns to “Star Trek” in a new streaming show. And a “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff begins its third season on ABC.
  
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• ‘Color Out of Space’ Review: Bother From Another Planet

  23-01-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicolas Cage and Joely Richardson face an evil shade of lilac in this inventive sci-fi horror film directed by Richard Stanley.
  
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• Museum CEO Apologizes for Mistakes in Dealing With Former Manager

  23-01-2020 04:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The apology to the staff from the Philadelphia Museum of Art executive involved an employee who was the subject of employee complaints.
  
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• Juice WRLD Cause of Death: Autopsy Shows Rapper Died of Accidental Overdose

  23-01-2020 01:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The 21-year-old artist, whose real name was Jarad A. Higgins, went into convulsions during a drug raid at Midway Airport in Chicago.
  
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• Museum CEO Apologizes for Handling of Staff Complaints

  23-01-2020 01:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The head of the Philadelphia Museum of Art made the apology at a meeting about how the museum had responded to sexual harassment accusations against a former manager.
  
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• Hollywood Women Push Directors Guild for Better Parental Benefits

  23-01-2020 01:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Taking leave can result in lost coverage, as one female director discovered after giving birth. She’s enlisted Amy Schumer, Amy Poehler and others in her effort to get the rules revised.
  
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• ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys, Sometimes With Guns

  23-01-2020 00:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Guy Ritchie makes a very Guy Ritchie movie, this time with Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant and Charlie Hunnam.
  
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