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• Arts Now Foundation donates technology to 300 local students - WRDW-TV

  29-09-2021 23:48 via wrdw.com
  
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• Phillips ‘New Now’ Sale Brings Fierce Competition for Newcomers at the Auction Block

  29-09-2021 23:34 via artnews.com
  
  At Phillips’s latest sale in a series known as “The New Now,” which typically spotlights rising talents, familiar names like KAWS, Keith Haring, and Sterling Ruby dominated. But it was a lineup of newcomers that shined most brightly at the auction, which was held in New York on Tuesday.
  “The New Now” has historically been a way to court competition among buyers looking to collect work by emerging artists. Phillips specialists have been vocal about meeting increased
  
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• Britney Spears Live Updates: Conservatorship Debated in Court Hearing

  29-09-2021 23:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge may consider whether the singer’s father should be removed as conservator, and whether the arrangement, which has controlled her finances and personal life for 13 years, should be ended entirely.
  
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• Why Is Making Plans So Hard Right Now?

  29-09-2021 23:04 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s not enough momentum.
  
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• Britney Spears Live Updates: Conservatorship Hearing Is Underway

  29-09-2021 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge may consider whether the singer’s father should be removed as conservator, and whether the arrangement, which has controlled her finances and personal life for 13 years, should be ended entirely.
  
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• Review: A Choreographer Stakes an Independent Claim

  29-09-2021 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Alejandro Cerrudo’s “It Starts Now” gets its underwhelming debut at the Joyce Theater.
  
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• Book Review: ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now,’ by Stephanie Grisham

  29-09-2021 22:16 via nytimes.com
  
  In “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” the former press secretary under President Trump makes some withering assessments and compares her and the first lady to Thelma and Louise.
  
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• Britney Spears Live Updates: Conservatorship Hearing Set to Begin Soon

  29-09-2021 22:09 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge may consider whether the singer’s father should be removed as conservator, and whether the arrangement should be ended entirely. The hearing is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Eastern in Los Angeles.
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Returns With 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones'

  29-09-2021 21:43 via nytimes.com
  
  With Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the Met came back from its long pandemic shutdown more determined to draw new and more diverse audiences to opera.
  
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• Britney Spears Live Updates: Hearing on Conservatorship Set For This Afternoon

  29-09-2021 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge may consider whether the singer’s father should be removed as conservator, and whether the arrangement should be ended entirely. The hearing is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Eastern in Los Angeles.
  
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• Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback

  29-09-2021 21:23 via nytimes.com
  
  In “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” the former press secretary under President Trump makes some withering assessments and compares her and the first lady to Thelma and Louise.
  
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• Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision

  29-09-2021 21:18 via nytimes.com
  
  “Deep Blue Sea” at the Armory is a colossal undertaking both in subject matter, inspired by “Moby-Dick” and “I Have a Dream,” and theatrical scope.
  
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• Jeff Sonhouse’s Latest Exhibition at the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery

  29-09-2021 21:18 via artnews.com
  
  Jeff Sonhouse’s portraits of Black men exude an aura of mystery tempered by hints of ironic humor. Throughout his paintings, Sonhouse explores how notions of African-American masculinity are constructed, performed, and interpreted within Western culture. His impeccably coiffed figures often sport dapper suits and accessories; but invariably, their lineaments are partly concealed behind masks. These masks, and other elements of costuming, are emphasized by painted and collaged textures that
  
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• Gray Areas: Artists on Jasper Johns

  29-09-2021 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  “It may be a great work of his to have brought doubt into the air that surrounds art.” Jasper Johns wrote these words in A.i.A.’s July/August 1969 issue, for a remembrance of Marcel Duchamp, who had died the previous year. Perhaps the most significant heir to Duchamp’s legacy, Johns took up the doubt in the air around art in his early works of the 1950s and set about working through it. Since then he has continued to devise ways of approaching meanings, materials, and art
  
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• Stephanie Grisham’s Book Details Trump’s ‘Terrifying’ Temper

  29-09-2021 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The former press secretary is reflective in her tell-all: “I should have spoken up more.”
  
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• A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future

  29-09-2021 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  With Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the Met came back from its long pandemic shutdown more determined to draw new and more diverse audiences to opera.
  
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• Will the Court Address the New Britney Spears Documentaries?

  29-09-2021 20:48 via nytimes.com
  
  In recent days, three new documentaries have come forward with revelations about the degree to which the conservatorship has exerted control over Britney Spears’s life.
  
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• Forget the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and Consider the Heroine’s Quest Instead

  29-09-2021 20:47 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Heroine With 1001 Faces,” the folklore scholar Maria Tatar explores woman-centered alternatives to Joseph Campbell’s famous template for myths and legends starring male protagonists.
  
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• Illuminati Hotties’ Wonderfully Warped Punk-Pop

  29-09-2021 20:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Sarah Tudzin started this Los Angeles band to show off her production work and find new clients. It turned into an outlet for her razor-sharp reflections on modern life.
  
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• For Al Franken, a Comeback Attempt Goes Through Comedy Clubs

  29-09-2021 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Onstage, the ex-senator and “S.N.L.” star doesn’t exactly address his fall from grace. But he doesn’t not address it either. Asked if he’ll run again, he is noncommittal.
  
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• Britney Spears Live Updates: What’s at Stake at Today’s Conservatorship Hearing

  29-09-2021 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge may consider whether the singer’s father should be removed as conservator, and whether the arrangement should be ended entirely. The hearing is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Eastern in Los Angeles.
  
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• Review: Tracy Letts Brings Out the Long Knives in Short Plays

  29-09-2021 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  It takes 15 minutes or less in each segment of “Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts” for the bard of male moral decrepitude to skewer his subjects.
  
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• Met Museum to Return Ancient Sculpture to Nepal

  29-09-2021 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Three years after returning two stone sculptures, the museum has decided to give back another artwork to Nepal, this one thought to have been stolen from a temple in the Kathmandu Valley.
  
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• Delmes & Zander, Beloved German Gallery That Championed the Under-Recognized, to Close

  29-09-2021 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  The German gallery Delmes & Zander, which is known for its cutting-edge presentations of self-taught art, will close by the end of October. The Cologne-based outfit had been in business for more than three decades and in that time had developed a cult following for its offbeat exhibitions, many of them focused on artists who have yet to enter the canon.
  “While societal progress is always fragile, times have changed, and we are delighted that the works of our artists have now found thei
  
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• Elvis vs. Lenin: A Superpower Confrontation on Canvas

  29-09-2021 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition in Berlin examines the differences, and surprising confluences, between Cold War-era paintings from the United States and the Soviet Union.
  
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• Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another

  29-09-2021 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The company is performing the terse, original 1869 version of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” for the first time.
  
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• Lost Maya Neighborhood Is a Mini Replica of Teotihuacan Citadel, New Research Finds

  29-09-2021 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have discovered a new neighborhood in the ancient Maya city of Tikal. The site located in present-day Guatemala has been the subject of thorough excavations since the 1950s, but a new study published in Antiquity reveals a crucial lost section of the city.
  Using light detection and ranging software known as lidar, researchers found a previously overlooked complex in what was thought to be an area of naturally occurring hills. To their surprise, the uncovered structures look like a
  
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• How I Made This: Ron Nagle’s New Ceramic Sculptures

  29-09-2021 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  Although Ron Nagle has been among the best-known ceramic artists of the past six decades, the subject of clay technique seems to make him a bit cranky. “I don’t mind talking about the creative process,” he says, “but not when it’s limited to how did you achieve this or that effect, or let’s have a raku party. I mean, that’s all bullshit to me.”
  Of course, anyone looking at his work and its exquisite balance of color, surface, and contour can see he
  
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• ‘No Time to Die’ Review: His Word Is His Bond

  29-09-2021 18:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The 25th episode in the venerable franchise — and Daniel Craig’s last as 007 — finds its hero in a somber mood.
  
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• Breaking the Master’s Tools: Ilana Harris-Babou at the ICA Chattanooga

  29-09-2021 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  “I always make sure I take an ashquavanga [sic] multivitamin, and I wash it down with Pepsi,” a woman says while gazing into her mirror in one of Ilana Harris-Babou’s videos, titled Decision Fatigue (2020). The artist’s works target whitewashed, upper-middle-class aesthetics and sensibilities by coldly skewering influencer culture and aspirational brands—parodying cooking shows, commercials for high-end furniture, and instructional YouTube videos, along with the sti
  
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• French Court Convicts Magazine Over Racist Portrayal of Black Lawmaker

  29-09-2021 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The magazine caused an outcry last year after it published a fictional narrative depicting the legislator as an enslaved African.
  
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• Arts and Entertainment - @UofSC

  29-09-2021 17:33 via sc.edu
  
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• Done With Bond, Daniel Craig Will Play Macbeth on Broadway

  29-09-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ruth Negga will co-star as Lady Macbeth in a production directed by Sam Gold and scheduled to open next April.
  
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• Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga Will Star in 'Macbeth' on Broadway

  29-09-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ruth Negga will co-star as Lady Macbeth in a production directed by Sam Gold and scheduled to open next April.
  
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• Onstage, ‘Designing Women’ Sheds the Shoulder Pads, Not Its Politics

  29-09-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The hit sitcom, which ended in 1993, is back as play, premiering in Arkansas. But how do its laughs land in our more pointed political landscape?
  
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• The Most Expensive Works by Mark Rothko Sold at Auction

  29-09-2021 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  Mark Rothko’s abstractions, recognizable for their rectangularly shaped floating forms and thin washes of color, have been said by critics and historians to invoke the metaphysical. The Russian-American painter relied on these formal elements to imbue his canvases with grand meaning. He famously remarked his works comprise the basic tenets of human feeling: “tragedy, ecstasy, doom.”
  The artist is remembered for his disdain for the art establishment as well. Though Rothko reject
  
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• Federal grants help arts venues stay afloat; here’s who got funding in Oregon and Washington - OregonLive

  29-09-2021 15:02 via oregonlive.com
  
  Federal grants help arts venues stay afloat; here’s who got funding in Oregon and Washington  OregonLive
  
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• A Specialist in Short and Lethal Movie Thrillers Jumps to TV

  29-09-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The French director Julien Leclercq’s action movies are known for their ruthless economy. His new Netflix thriller, “Ganglands,” tests his approach across six episodes.
  
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• How the Animal World Is Adapting to Climate Change

  29-09-2021 14:10 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid,” Thor Hanson looks at the evolutionary shifts already taking place as ecosystems and weather patterns change.
  
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• Muhammad Ali Artworks to Auction, Jeff Koons on His BMW Design, and More: Morning Links for September 29, 2021

  29-09-2021 13:35 via artnews.com
  
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  A WEDNESDAY AUCTION ROUND-UP: A New York judge ruled that Sotheby’s must face a lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general that alleges it helped a collector avoid sales taxes, Reuters reports. In ARTnews, Andy Battaglia looks at how houses are doing increasingly big business in
  
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• The Ancient History and Enduring Appeal of Flying a Kite

  29-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For millenniums, the airborne objects have mesmerized cultures around the world. Now, a new generation of artists is taking their creation to new heights.
  
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• ‘No One Gets Out Alive’ Review: Seeking Shelter, Finding Terror

  29-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this horror movie on Netflix, an immigrant in Cleveland moves into a sinister boardinghouse.
  
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• They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being

  29-09-2021 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new study financed by the Mellon Foundation will help ensure that America’s future monuments honor a broader and more diverse range of stories.
  
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• When the Times Book Review Panned the Classics

  29-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Some of today’s best-loved books — think “Catch-22,” “Tender Is the Night” and even “Anne of Green Gables” — had a rocky reception in our pages.
  
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• The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over

  29-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Of the 37 new emojis approved this year, one has stood out as a visual proxy for our collective malaise.
  
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• Jon Stewart Has a New Talk Show, but He Plans to do More Listening

  29-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Problem With Jon Stewart” will examine social issues through the personal stories of those most affected. “It feels more cathartic than just yelling at the screen,” he said.
  
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• In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress

  29-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Using game theory, behavioral economics and other models, Pinker tries to combat what he sees as rationality’s image problem.
  
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• Britney Spears Conservatorship Hearing: What’s at Stake Now?

  29-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge may take up whether her father should be ousted as her conservator, and whether the arrangement should be ended entirely.
  
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• 14 New Books Coming in October

  29-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Novels from Jonathan Franzen, Amor Towles and Tiphanie Yanique; histories of Black cinema and music in America; and plenty more.
  
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• Late Night Hits Trump With Colonoscopy Jokes

  29-09-2021 10:18 via nytimes.com
  
  A new book by a former White House press secretary said that the former president feared late night hosts would poke fun at him if he went under for the medical procedure.
  
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