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• Reimagined Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Will Triple Its Gallery Space

  11-06-2021 23:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The new building, once a Safeway grocery store, is just around the corner from the museum’s current home in Santa Fe, N.M., and is about 47,000 square feet bigger.
  
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• 7,000-Year-Old Stamped Seal Found in Prehistoric Levant Village

  11-06-2021 23:17 via artnews.com
  
  A stamped seal in the ancient village of Tel Tsaf dating to the 5th millennium B.C.E. has been unearthed, according to a study in the journal Levant by archaeologists Michael Freikman and David Ben-Shlomo, of the University of Ariel and Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, respectively.
  Of the nearly 150 seals that have been uncovered at the Tel Tsaf site, this one is the only stamped one. Additionally, it is the oldest stamped seal ever recovered in Israel.
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• Parties Settle in Legal Fight Over Robert Indiana’s Legacy

  11-06-2021 22:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist’s estate, a company that licensed the sale of some of his works and a former caretaker had been fighting in court since the time of the artist’s death in 2018.
  
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• Manhattan District Attorney Returns 27 Looted Artifacts to Cambodia

  11-06-2021 22:18 via artnews.com
  
  More than two dozen looted artifacts were returned to Cambodia by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., on Friday, in a move that officials said was intended to restore cultural heritage to the country. The 27 repatriated artifacts are estimated to be worth $3.8 million.
  Among the objects returned were statues of Shiva and Buddha, as well as artifacts dating back to Cambodia’s Angkor era, which lasted from the 9th to the 15th century.
  In a statement, Vance said, “The repatriatio
  
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• Juilliard Students Protest Tuition Increase With Marches and Music

  11-06-2021 22:08 via nytimes.com
  
  After occupying parts of the school, some students were barred from entering the building. So they took the demonstration outside.
  
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• Review: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown Dances Fit Right In

  11-06-2021 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The “In Plain Site” program, delayed two days by stormy weather, was worth the wait.
  
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• Rare Toulouse-Lautrec Hospital Painting to Sell at Paris Auction

  11-06-2021 21:52 via artnews.com
  
  An 1891 painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that was held in the same collection for more than a century will be auctioned in Paris this month. Coming to the market with an estimate of €600,000–€900,000 ($730,000–$1.09 million), it is scheduled to hit the auction block on June 29 during a modern art sale at Parisian auction house Artcurial.
  Painted with turpentine-thinned pigment on card, Une opération par le Docteur Péan à l’Hôpital Inter
  
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• Review: Christopher Wheeldon Creates a Memorable Realm

  11-06-2021 21:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Wheeldon’s “Curious Kingdom,” on a Pacific Northwest Ballet program with two premieres, achieves moments of exquisite beauty.
  
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• Tania León Wins Music Pulitzer for ‘Stride’

  11-06-2021 21:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York Philharmonic premiered the work, both solemn and celebratory, in February 2020.
  
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• Katori Hall Wins Drama Pulitzer for ‘The Hot Wing King’

  11-06-2021 21:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The play, which had its run cut short because of the pandemic, centers on a kitchen in Memphis, where a man is trying to concoct award-winning chicken wings.
  
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• A Film Tries to Make a Difference for Domestic Violence Survivors

  11-06-2021 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  “And So I Stayed” examines how the courts treat women who kill their abusers. The movie played a role in one case that resulted in freedom after a conviction.
  
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• 'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers - Associated Press

  11-06-2021 20:46
  
  'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers  Associated Press
  
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• There Is More to Us Than Just Our Brains

  11-06-2021 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Extended Mind” Annie Murphy Paul explores all the ways our thinking is shaped by external forces, from physical sensations to the role of other people and their brains.
  
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• Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books

  11-06-2021 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Louise Erdrich won the fiction prize for her novel “The Night Watchman.” Here are the 2021 winners for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history and biography.
  
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• Tomás Llorens, Key Figure in Spain’s Museum World, Has Died at 85

  11-06-2021 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Tomás Llorens, an art historian and curator who became a key figure in the history of several major Spanish institutions, has died at the age of 85. El País reported that Llorens expired after a long illness.
  Llorens was the first director of both the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and later worked at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, also in the Spanish capital, as chief curator. Throughout, Llorens championed modern and contempo
  
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• History’s 10 Dealers Who Changed the Way Art Is Shown and Sold

  11-06-2021 19:24 via artnews.com
  
  Today, cities across the globe, from Berlin to Hong Kong, have bustling gallery ecosystems—but it wasn’t always that way. During the 19th and 20th centuries, as gallery networks were forming in Paris, London, and New York, relatively small groups of dealers worked tirelessly to ensure that their presentations pushed art history forward. In the process, they helped formalize movements, from Impressionism to Cubism to Surrealism, and elevate artists who are now canonical in art history
  
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• ‘Betty’ Skates Into Season 2

  11-06-2021 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The young stars of the HBO skate comedy discuss how pandemic-era New York shaped the new season. “Our show grows with us and changes with our world,” Ajani Russell said.
  
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• Review: Fighting for the Right to Dance Giselle

  11-06-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Katy Pyle’s company, Ballez, performs “Giselle of Loneliness,” a queer reimagining of the classic at the Joyce Theater.
  
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• ‘Worlds Fair Inn’ Review: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like

  11-06-2021 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A lurid story about the serial killer H.H. Holmes gets an absurdist spin at the Axis Theater Company.
  
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• Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’

  11-06-2021 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  As Steven Spielberg’s classic adventure celebrates its 40th anniversary, here are behind-the-scenes stories of dizzy rats, raucous boulders and friendly flies.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Bench,’ by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex

  11-06-2021 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Bench,” the Duchess of Sussex takes on “the special relationship” of fathers and sons, and the daunting challenge of rhyming verse.
  
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• Pleasure by Extraction: Shu Lea Cheang at the Musée Départemental des Arts Asiatiques

  11-06-2021 18:25 via artnews.com
  
  The installation that occupied the entire lower floor of the Musée Départemental des Arts Asiatiques in Nice this spring could be read as an opulent three-dimensional trailer for the feature film that Paris-based Taiwanese artist Shu Lea Cheang is finalizing. That forthcoming work is a sequel to the artist’s pornographic sci-fi I.K.U. (2000), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The first installment dealt with a multinational firm that, by having an army of cyborgs
  
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• Watch Anthony Ramos Perform in ‘In the Heights’

  11-06-2021 18:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Jon. M. Chu narrates a musical sequence from the film.
  
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• ‘In the Heights’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  11-06-2021 18:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Jon M. Chu narrates a sequence from his film featuring Anthony Ramos.
  
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• Rose Byrne and Annie Weisman Get Into ‘Physical’

  11-06-2021 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  In an interview, the star and creator of the new Apple TV+ comedy discuss aerobics, ’80s perms and the dark personal experiences that inspired the show.
  
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• Lorde’s Sunburst, and 10 More New Songs

  11-06-2021 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Ava Max, Clairo, PmBata and others.
  
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• ‘Lupin’ Took the World by Stealth. Part 2 Can’t Be so Sneaky.

  11-06-2021 17:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The French heist thriller was a huge global hit when it debuted on Netflix in January. Even the creator and cast were surprised.
  
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• Arts, Culture & Entertainment - St. Louis Magazine

  11-06-2021 17:21
  
  Arts, Culture & Entertainment  St. Louis Magazine
  
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• They Fought to Make ‘In the Heights’ Both Dreamlike and Authentic

  11-06-2021 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The creative team of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jon M. Chu explain what it took to create a euphoric spectacle that stayed true to its cultural roots.
  
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• Running the Show From the Kitchen Table

  11-06-2021 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  A cartoonist marvels as his wife juggles directing an Oregon theater, and their family, during the pandemic.
  
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• A History of the Hollywood Chronicle in 10 Books

  11-06-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Want to learn more about how the movies were made? These books are a good place to start.
  
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• Fragments of 4,500-Year-Old Neolithic Cabin Discovered in Southwest China

  11-06-2021 16:40 via artnews.com
  
  Six 4,500-year-old bamboo fragments have been discovered on the Chengdu Plain in China’s Sichuan province, reports the China News Service (ECNS). The fragments were found at the Baodun Ancient Town while the Chengdu Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute was excavating the site.
  The carbonized bamboo fragments may have once belonged to a house from the Baodun culture (2700 B.C.E.–1700 B.C.E.), a Neolithic settlement in the Yangtze River area. Because Baodun is the earlies
  
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• Hearing the City, Too, at an Outdoor Berlin Film Festival

  11-06-2021 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie soundtracks are competing with distant techno beats and the subway’s rattle at a coronavirus-proof edition of the annual event.
  
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• The Jabbawockeez Reign in Las Vegas

  11-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Jabbawockeez, with their something-for-everyone approach, proved that an ensemble of anonymous, masked dancers could pull in crowds.
  
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• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ’90s Counterculturalist

  11-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Jamika Ajalon’s “Skye Papers,” a young nomad falls in with a group of artists and bohemians. But not all is as it seems.
  
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• Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind

  11-06-2021 15:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Problematic sections of a work painted on Tate Britain’s walls have caught museum officials between the demands of activists and the policies of the British government.
  
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• Architect Gottfried Böhm Dies, CryptoPunk NFT Brings $11.7 M., and More: Morning Links from June 11, 2021

  11-06-2021 15:27 via artnews.com
  
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  THE RENOWNED GERMAN ARCHITECT GOTTFRIED BÖHM DIED on Wednesday in Cologne at the age of 101, the New York Times reports. Böhm won acclaim for his Brutalist buildings—especially grand churches—with sharp angles and unusual shapes, like his Pilgrimage Church, completed in 1968 in Neviges, Germany. It
  
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• ‘Queen Bees’ Review: Mean Girls on Social Security

  11-06-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine and Ann-Margret rule their senior community in this conventional comedy-drama that doesn’t waste its cast.
  
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• In ‘Blindspotting’ Series, Jasmine Cephas Jones Steps Into Full View

  11-06-2021 14:59 via nytimes.com
  
  After nailing her small role in the 2018 film, the actress takes the lead in a new spinoff Starz series, centered on the people left behind when their loved ones are imprisoned.
  
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• ‘Wish Dragon’ Review: ‘Aladdin’ Goes to Shanghai, Sort Of

  11-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  John Cho, as Long the dragon, does his best Robin Williams impression in this film animation about a teenage boy who releases him from a magic teapot.
  
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• Melancholy Pleasure

  11-06-2021 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Artist in gowns, 2020, charcoal, marker, pen, watercolor, and glitter on paper, 14 by 11 inches.
  The New York–based playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris and the Philadelphia-based painter Jonathan Lyndon Chase are two Black queer artists who resolutely display their imaginations without restraint. On Harris’s stages and Chase’s canvases, the complexity of pleasure and the degradation of trauma are often explored through romantic fabulations that endeavor
  
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• Young Photographers Capture New York City Reopening in May

  11-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For a special project of The Times Magazine, 15 photographers ages 25 and under captured an electric, joyous, anxious city slowly becoming itself again.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Summer’ and ‘The Dragons, the Giant, the Women’

  11-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater

  11-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Bibienas, the focus of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, dominated Baroque theatrical design.
  
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• Bang, Bang, You’re Dead

  11-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Murders abound in new novels from James Ellroy, Joe R. Lansdale, Laura McHugh and Leonardo Padura.
  
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• A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail

  11-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As Marin Alsop leaves the Baltimore Symphony after 14 years, the field is taking a step backward: 25 major American orchestras, no female music directors.
  
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• Trevor Noah Thanks Anti-Vaxxers on Behalf of Other Countries

  11-06-2021 07:46 via nytimes.com
  
  “Seems generous until you remember that Biden can’t get anyone else in America to take them, right?” Noah said of the president’s plan to donate 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to 100 countries.
  
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• The Latest: 2021 Pulitzer Prizes honor journalism, arts - Associated Press

  11-06-2021 07:38
  
  The Latest: 2021 Pulitzer Prizes honor journalism, arts  Associated Press
  
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• Kim Jong-un Calls K-Pop a ‘Vicious Cancer’

  11-06-2021 04:24 via nytimes.com
  
  South Korean music, movies and dramas are winning the hearts of young North Koreans. Their influence is seen as a threat to Mr. Kim’s grip on society.
  
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• The Story of a Famous Covid Widow

  11-06-2021 01:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Amanda Kloots grieved in public when her husband Nick Cordero died. Now she is sharing the rest of her story in “Live Your Life.”
  
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