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• Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women

  14-01-2021 23:09 via nytimes.com
  
  After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
  
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• Naomi Beckwith Named Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Guggenheim Museum

  14-01-2021 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  After its longtime chief curator unexpectedly left last year, the Guggenheim Museum in New York has found a replacement in Naomi Beckwith, currently the senior curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Beckwith will start as the Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator in June.
  Beckwith has been at the MCA Chicago since 2011. During that time, she organized a number of celebrated shows, including most notably a Howardena Pindell retrospective that opened in 2018 and later tr
  
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• Six Must-See Exhibitions in Chelsea this Winter

  14-01-2021 22:06 via artnews.com
  
  Here are our picks of the six must-see shows in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood this season, from the Art in America Guide to Chelsea.
  
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• Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 82; Anthropologist on Lives of Women

  14-01-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
  
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• Guggenheim Names First Black Deputy Director and Chief Curator

  14-01-2021 21:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Naomi Beckwith, who succeeds Nancy Spector, sees herself as a “partner” in healing and will help the museum work toward a more equitable work environment.
  
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• Nick Cave’s ‘Truth Be Told’ Moving to Brooklyn Museum

  14-01-2021 21:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum’s director, shows solidarity with “Truth Be Told,” three words in vinyl that address racial injustice.
  
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• As Coronavirus Pandemic Rages On, Frieze New York Reveals Participants for In-Person May Fair

  14-01-2021 21:20 via artnews.com
  
  As new cases of the coronavirus continue to grow in number, one art fair is moving forward with its plan to host an in-person event in New York in the spring.
  Frieze New York has announced the 66 galleries that will participate in its upcoming edition, scheduled to take place May 5–9 at the arts venue the Shed, in the Hudson Yards development. Pre-pandemic iterations of the fair have hosted close to 200 galleries in a specially created tent on Randall’s Island in the East River; this
  
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• Governors propose ambitious plans to bring the arts back to California and New York - Art Newspaper

  14-01-2021 20:49 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Governors propose ambitious plans to bring the arts back to California and New York  Art Newspaper
  
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• Like Clockwork

  14-01-2021 20:44 via artnews.com
  
  Joseph Kosuth’s recent exhibition “‘Existential Time’” (all works 2020), his first US solo in five years, was originally scheduled to open at Sean Kelly in late March 2020, but was postponed until September due to the pandemic. Ironically, the delay added another level of meaning to the show, which combined images and objects with the ruminations of various noted writers on the nature of time.
  A pioneer of Conceptualism and installation art, Kosuth, who lives in New
  
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• ‘Acasa, My Home’ Review: Civilization and Its Malcontents

  14-01-2021 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A family’s dispossession to make way for a nature park is the subject of this Romanian documentary.
  
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• ‘WandaVision’ Review: That’s Why They Became the Disney+ Bunch

  14-01-2021 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  A new TV era for Marvel’s roster of superheroes begins with — a high-concept salute to classic sitcoms?
  
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• PPAC Community Outreach Committee Announces ARTS Scholarships 2021 - What'sUpNewp

  14-01-2021 20:25 via whatsupnewp.com
  
  PPAC Community Outreach Committee Announces ARTS Scholarships 2021  What'sUpNewp
  
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• ‘MLK/FBI’ Review: King, Hoover and the Tale of the Tape

  14-01-2021 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Sam Pollard’s fascinating documentary chronicles the F.B.I. director’s obsession with the private life and political affiliations of the civil rights leader.
  
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• What Happens Now to Michael Apted’s Lifelong Project ‘Up’?

  14-01-2021 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  His documentary series chronicled the lives of its subjects every seven years since 1964. Now the participants ponder whether it can carry on without him.
  
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• What MF Doom's 'Operations: Doomsday' Contributed to Hip-Hop

  14-01-2021 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  With his 1999 debut album, “Operation: Doomsday,” the masked rapper blurred the line between present and past.
  
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• MF Doom, Magician of Memory

  14-01-2021 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  With his 1999 debut album, “Operation: Doomsday,” the masked rapper blurred the line between present and past.
  
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• Howard Johnson, 79, Dies; Elevated the Tuba in Jazz and Beyond

  14-01-2021 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Fluent and graceful on a notoriously cumbersome instrument, he helped to find it a new role in a wide range of musical settings.
  
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• National Gallery Hires Kanitra Fletcher as Its First Curator of African American Art

  14-01-2021 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  Kanitra Fletcher, an associate curator at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Texas, has been hired as the first-ever curator of African American art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She will start as the museum’s associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic art on February 1, and will oversee how Black art is presented at the museum.
  At the MFA Houston, Fletcher oversaw that museum’s presentations of two critically acclaimed shows—“Soul of a
  
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• ‘There Has Been Change’: Artist Howardena Pindell on a 1989 Article About U.S. Museums’ Exclusion of Black Artists

  14-01-2021 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past several years, museums and galleries have made concerted efforts to show work by Black artists, responding to growing calls for equity. The protests have gotten louder, but the cause is not a new one, as evidenced by Patricia Failing’s article “Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion,” in the March 1989 issue of ARTnews. One of the artists Failing interviewed was Howardena Pindell, who had surveyed institutions and galleries, and found that their offerings were s
  
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• How Top U.S. Art Museums Excluded Black Artists During the 1980s: From the Archives

  14-01-2021 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  The following article first appeared in the March 1989 issue of ARTnews under the headline “Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion.” It is reprinted below in full with the author’s permission.
  Addressing a 1985 symposium, black artist Beverly Buchanan, a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships winner, recalled an encounter with a New York gallery in the early ’70s. “I walked into one gallery in SoHo and asked, ‘Are you looking at work?&rsq
  
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• President Donald J. Trump Awarded the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal - Whitehouse.gov

  14-01-2021 19:04 via whitehouse.gov
  
  President Donald J. Trump Awarded the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal  Whitehouse.gov
  
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• A Racial Equity Monument, From Hank Willis Thomas, Is Set for Boston

  14-01-2021 18:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The memorial, called “The Embrace” and designed by Thomas and architects at MASS Design Group, will honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
  
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• Biden Inauguration: Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez Will Perform

  14-01-2021 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony, which will feature a performance by Jennifer Lopez.
  
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• L.G.B.T.Q. TV Representation Falls for First Time in 5 Years, Glaad Finds

  14-01-2021 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  An annual report found that 9.1 percent of characters scheduled to appear on prime-time broadcast series identified as L.G.B.T.Q. in the 2020-21 season, down from 10.2 percent.
  
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• Baryshnikov Arts Announces Digital Season

  14-01-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New work by Kyle Marshall, Bijayini Satpathy, Justin Hicks and others will debut throughout the spring.
  
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• Uniqlo Unveils New Collection Inspired by Keith Haring’s Work in Tokyo

  14-01-2021 17:57 via artnews.com
  
  After Dr. Martens revealed its new line of shoes featuring illustrations by Keith Haring, another fashion brand has unveiled more merchandise paying homage to the famed artist. Uniqlo has launched a new UNIQLO UT x Keith Haring collection of T-shirts and hoodies inspired by the artist’s relationship to Tokyo, where he presented his work and opened an outpost of his Pop Shop in the 1980s.
  Uniqlo’s new Haring collection features 10 styles ranging in price from $19.90 to $29.90. Va
  
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• Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez to Sing at Biden’s Inauguration

  14-01-2021 17:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony, which will feature a performance by Jennifer Lopez.
  
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• In ‘Lupin,’ Omar Sy Puts a New Twist on a Classic French Tale

  14-01-2021 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  In the international hit from Netflix, the actor plays a modern gentleman thief, inspired by the charming rapscallion Arsène Lupin.
  
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• Popular Ice Cream Shop Plans Move To Cheshire Arts Center: Report - Cheshire, CT Patch

  14-01-2021 17:14 via patch.com
  
  Popular Ice Cream Shop Plans Move To Cheshire Arts Center: Report  Cheshire, CT Patch
  
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• The Lusty Creativity of Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

  14-01-2021 17:07 via nytimes.com
  
  A lesser-known Dutch master with a penchant for male backsides created some of the greatest homoerotic paintings of all time.
  
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• Fabricator Charles Mathis on Making Work for Other Artists

  14-01-2021 16:01 via artnews.com
  
  Q&A with Charles Mathis, Los Angeles-based art fabricator.
  How did you get into art fabrication?It’s always been very word of mouth. A few different artists hired me while I was working on my MFA at MassArt in Boston; I was into making molds at the time. Later, I moved to Switzerland and got another master’s in industrial design, thinking I’d distance myself from the art world. But I kept getting pulled back into fabrication. I moved from Switzerland to LA and started worki
  
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• Rape-Revenge Tales: Cathartic? Maybe. Incomplete? Definitely.

  14-01-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Films like “Promising Young Woman” should be especially urgent in the wake of #MeToo. Instead, they sell female characters short.
  
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• Meet Kidd G, Country Music’s Next Emo-Rap Star

  14-01-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A 17-year-old from a small Georgia town built an audience as a rapper on TikTok and SoundCloud before pivoting to country music and inching his way into a notoriously cloistered industry.
  
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• ‘Don’t Tell a Soul’ Review: Brothers in Crime Harbor a Secret

  14-01-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s not every day you get to see Rainn Wilson at the bottom of a well, and that’s just the half of it.
  
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• Siegfried & Roy: Magician Siegfried Fischbacher Dead at 81

  14-01-2021 15:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Fischbacher’s partner, Roy Horn, died last May of complications of Covid-19. “There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried,” Mr. Fischbacher said at the time.
  
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• Siegfried Fischbacher, Magician of Siegfried & Roy, Dies at 81

  14-01-2021 15:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Fischbacher’s partner, Roy Horn, died last May of complications of Covid-19. “There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried,” Mr. Fischbacher said after his death.
  
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• Celebrity Wax Sculptures Are Internet Sensation, Will Documenta Open in 2022?, and More: Morning Links from January 14, 2021

  14-01-2021 15:44 via artnews.com
  
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  WAX SCULPTURES BY THE BRAZILIAN ARTIST ARLINDO ARMACOLLO of people like Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, and Marilyn Monroe have been generating a great deal of attention—much of it not so kind—online recently, five years after he first exhibited them in the town of Rolândia. (It’s a “Brazilian horro
  
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• Mike D Sells Hester Diamond's Art at Auction

  14-01-2021 15:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Out with the (very) old at Sotheby’s.
  
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• The ‘Great Gatsby’ Glut

  14-01-2021 15:14 via nytimes.com
  
  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel about America and aspiration is now in the public domain, so new editions, as well as a graphic novel and a zombie adaptation, have gotten the green light.
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 9 Ways to Honor His Legacy

  14-01-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Marches and parades are on pause this year. But streamed events and exhibitions are still commemorating King’s achievements.
  
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• ‘The Marksman’ Review: In Need of a Mission

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Liam Neeson plays the reluctant protector of an undocumented Mexican boy in this dusty drama.
  
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• ‘Some Kind of Heaven’ Review: Hardly an Idle Retirement

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary co-produced by The New York Times visits a retirement community the size of a small city.
  
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• 'One Night in Miami' Review: Regina King Directs and Leslie Odom Jr. Stars

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A 1964 meeting of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown is the subject of Regina King’s riveting directorial debut.
  
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• ‘One Night in Miami’ Review: After the Big Fight, a War of Words

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A 1964 meeting of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown is the subject of Regina King’s riveting directorial debut.
  
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• ‘My Little Sister’ Review: Sibling Dependency

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A cancer diagnosis only strengthens the bond between adult twins in this perceptive Swiss drama.
  
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• ‘Locked Down’ Review: In Quarantine, Misery Hates Company

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a couple sheltering in their London brownstone over the early weeks of the pandemic in this irritating heist comedy.
  
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• ‘Hunted’ Review: Catch Me if You Can

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Riffing on “Little Red Riding Hood,” this sadistic chase movie sends a young woman and two attackers into the deep, dark woods.
  
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• ‘Film About a Father Who’ Review: Family Secrets by Omission

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new documentary, Lynne Sachs assesses her relationship with her father, Ira Sachs Sr., who fathered children with multiple women.
  
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• ‘Bloody Hell’ Review: An Acrid Thriller Bites Off Too Much

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Cannibals and comedy are mixed in this deranged ride from the director Alister Grierson.
  
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• ‘American Skin’ Review: Out for Justice

  14-01-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Nate Parker’s film, a father takes matters into his own hands to hold a police officer to account for shooting down his son.
  
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