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• Gun Handed to Alec Baldwin Was Not Thoroughly Checked, Affidavit Says

  27-10-2021 23:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The bullet that killed the cinematographer on the film “Rust” has been recovered, the Santa Fe County Sheriff said, and investigators believe there were more live rounds on the set.
  
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• An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp

  27-10-2021 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  At his Connecticut studio, Peter Halley works among an eclectic collection of furniture and art infused with personal memories.
  
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• Meet the Man Filling Twitter with Art: ‘I Thought It Would Be Interesting If I Could Follow Dead Artists’

  27-10-2021 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  People tend to think of Twitter as a frightening place filled with bad news and aggressive posturing. What if it could also be a a destination for art history? That was the idea Andrei Taraschuk had in mind when he created what he called “art bots,” or accounts intended to drop beautiful works from years past into users’ timelines.
  Taraschuk, who describes himself as “a software engineer by day and an art-bot developer by night,” grew up in Russia surrounded by a fa
  
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• The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has a new president... and $5 tickets to the opera and ballet - WYSO

  27-10-2021 22:37
  
  The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has a new president... and $5 tickets to the opera and ballet  WYSO
  
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• Here Comes Halloween

  27-10-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  And with it, Halloween traditions.
  
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• Gun Handed to Alec Baldwin Not Thoroughly Checked, Affidavit Says

  27-10-2021 21:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Dave Halls, the assistant director, told an investigator that he had not carefully checked the revolver, which was loaded with a live round that killed the cinematographer. Investigators said they believe there were more live rounds on the set.
  
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• 48 LIVE Festival coming in November to Tempe Center for the Arts - Your Valley

  27-10-2021 21:18
  
  48 LIVE Festival coming in November to Tempe Center for the Arts  Your Valley
  
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• Live Updates: Gun Handed to Alec Baldwin Not Thoroughly Checked, Affidavit Says

  27-10-2021 20:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Dave Halls, the assistant director, told an investigator that he had not carefully checked the revolver, which was loaded with a live round that killed the cinematographer. Investigators said they believe there were more live rounds on the set.
  
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• There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl

  27-10-2021 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Before Sahl, who died at 94 on Tuesday, intellectual arguments and controversial stances were off-limits to stand-ups seeking mass acceptance.
  
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• Review: Bent by the Pandemic, the Graham Company Dances On

  27-10-2021 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The Martha Graham Dance Company’s return to the Joyce Theater featured a premiere, classic repertory and an intriguing experiment in reconstruction.
  
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• Review: ‘Colin in Black & White’ Finds Kaepernick Before He Took a Knee

  27-10-2021 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  This inventive Netflix docudrama, created by Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay, is a coming-of-age story in the rearview mirror of an activist adulthood.
  
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• 'Rust' Assistant Director Said He Didn't Thoroughly Check Gun

  27-10-2021 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He had declared the firearm a “cold gun,” according to court documents, indicating that it contained no live rounds and was safe to handle.
  
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• Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy.

  27-10-2021 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  American Ballet Theater’s fall gala featured “ZigZag,” an energetic yet dated premiere by Jessica Lang to songs sung by Tony Bennett.
  
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• Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, Armorer on 'Rust' Set, Told Detective She Checked Rounds

  27-10-2021 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  When the crew took a break for lunch, the ammunition was left out on a cart on the set, Ms. Gutierrez-Reed said.
  
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• Live Updates: Lead Projectile Used in Alec Baldwin Film Set Shooting Recovered, Officials Say

  27-10-2021 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Investigators said they believe they have recovered the gun that fired the shot, as well as about 500 rounds of ammunition, including blanks, dummy rounds and potentially live rounds.
  
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• B.J. Novak’s Face Is on Products Worldwide. He’s Not Sure Why.

  27-10-2021 19:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Someone put his image into the public domain, and now the actor and writer appears on an eclectic mix of products from China to Uruguay. “I am too amused to do anything about it,” he said on Instagram.
  
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• Netflix Series Stirs Debate About the Lives of Ultra-Orthodox Women

  27-10-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The show, “My Unorthodox Life,” tracks the world of Julia Haart, who fled a religious community she found repressive. But some in the community she left say they feel misrepresented.
  
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• Wonders, and Horrors, Drawn From Boyhood in a War Zone

  27-10-2021 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Petrit Halilaj became one of Kosovo’s most acclaimed artists with work that reflects on his country’s past. Now, he’s getting personal.
  
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• Live Updates: Officials Say They Recovered Lead Projectile Used in Alec Baldwin Film Set Shooting

  27-10-2021 18:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Investigators said they believe they have recovered the gun that fired the shot, as well as about 500 rounds of ammunition, including blanks, dummy rounds and potentially live rounds.
  
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• New York Has a New Band of Buzzy Post-Punk Teens: Geese

  27-10-2021 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Brooklyn quintet thought the band would end after high school graduation. Now its debut album, “Projector,” is arriving.
  
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• Gun and Projectile Used in Shooting on Alec Baldwin Film Set Recovered, Officials Say

  27-10-2021 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Investigators believe they have recovered the Colt revolver that fired the shot, as well as about 500 rounds of ammunition including blanks, dummy rounds and potentially live ammunition.
  
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• Review: Wagnerian Comedy Is No Joke in the Met’s ‘Meistersinger’

  27-10-2021 18:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The sprawling opera returned to the Met after seven years, with Antonio Pappano on the podium and an excellent cast.
  
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• Abba revient après 40 ans de silence

  27-10-2021 18:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Le légendaire groupe suédois s’apprête à lancer un nouvel album,“Voyage”, et prépare un spectacle live par hologrammes interposés. Risque-t-il de ternir son héritage musical?
  
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• David DePatie, Producer Behind the Pink Panther, Dies at 91

  27-10-2021 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  He and the animator Friz Freleng created the cool feline character he called “the James Bond of the animation world.” The character’s first cartoon won an Oscar.
  
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• Live Updates: Officials Address Shooting on Alec Baldwin Film Set

  27-10-2021 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The Santa Fe County sheriff, Adan Mendoza, and district attorney, Mary Carmack-Altwies, are discussing the inquiry into how a cinematographer was killed by a gun that was not supposed to contain live ammunition. Watch the livestream here.
  
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• How I Made This: Kris Sowersby’s Typefaces

  27-10-2021 17:58 via artnews.com
  
  It’s likely you’ve seen one of Kris Sowersby’s typefaces and not known it—they’re used on the websites of Norwegian Air, Kinfolk magazine, the South by Southwest festival, and even here on ARTnews (“Editor’s Picks” and “Latest News” on the home page are in his font Domaine Display). Apple has licensed two—Founders Grotesk and Domaine Display—for use on its devices.
  In New Zealand, his home country, Sowersby’s typefaces
  
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• Angel Oak Elementary principal receives Palmetto State Arts Education award - WCBD News 2

  27-10-2021 17:41
  Angel Oak Elementary principal receives Palmetto State Arts Education award  WCBD News 2
  
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• 8 Standouts at the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Poetic Resistance, Barely-There Beings, and More

  27-10-2021 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  The biennial circuit was dealt a blow by the pandemic, which made it nearly impossible to mount enormous editions of recurring showings of contemporary art amid restrictions of all kinds. But art lovers in the U.S. can take pleasure this month in the return of three such notable exhibitions: the Prospect New Orleans triennial in Louisiana, the Greater New York quinquennial at MoMA PS1, and, now, the New Museum Triennial, which opens in New York this Thursday.
  Organized by New Museum curator Marg
  
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• Intergenerational Care: Kang Seung Lee’s Queer Archives

  27-10-2021 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  The works of Kang Seung Lee evoke the intergenerational care required to preserve queer legacies. Using fragile materials—plants that can wilt and die, loose threads that can snag, dried flowers that can disintegrate—the South Korea–born, Los Angeles–based artist captures the precariousness of life and the fleeting nature of memory. In his graphite drawings, Lee laboriously re-creates photographs of queer artists who died from AIDS-related complications, among them Martin
  
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• Martha Henry, Indefatigable Stage Actress, Dies at 83

  27-10-2021 16:59 via nytimes.com
  
  For decades her work at the Stratford Festival in Canada drew acclaim. She gave her last performance in a wheelchair while dying of cancer.
  
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• Live Updates: News Conference Will Address Shooting on Alec Baldwin Film Set

  27-10-2021 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Santa Fe County sheriff, Adan Mendoza, and district attorney, Mary Carmack-Altwies, will discuss their inquiry into how a cinematographer was killed by a gun that was not supposed to contain live ammunition. Watch a livestream here at 12 p.m. Eastern.
  
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• A $550 M. Roman Villa Decorated by Caravaggio Hits the Auction Block

  27-10-2021 16:31 via artnews.com
  
  Always wanted to live like a Renaissance cardinal? Who doesn’t? The palazzos, the artwork, the scheming, the alchemy. If you happen to be a billionaire and feel like blowing a mountain of money on just one pretty incredible Renaissance-era house, you’re in luck. The Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome, otherwise known as Villa Aurora and Casino Del Monte, is going to be auctioned on January 18. The opening bid is a mere €471 million, or about $546 million at curren
  
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• Edgar Wright on ‘Last Night in Soho’ and the Trap of Nostalgia

  27-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Baby Driver” director’s latest film is a thriller that explores the darker side of 1960s London and questions stories that glamorize the era.
  
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• Dutch Court Says Crimean Artifacts Should Go to Ukraine, YSL Dress Soars at Auction, and More: Morning Links for October 27, 2021

  27-10-2021 14:19 via artnews.com
  
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  A WEDNESDAY RESTITUTION ROUNDUP. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has given back to Turkey an ancient Anatolian gold ewer that it believes was looted, ARTnews reports. Meanwhile, a collector has returned a Mayan stone carving to Guatemala, which flagged it as stolen when it was set to appear at au
  
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• Kresge Foundation among first annual City of Detroit arts and culture honorees - Detroit Free Press

  27-10-2021 14:00
  Kresge Foundation among first annual City of Detroit arts and culture honorees  Detroit Free Press
  
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• ‘Hypnotic’ Review: The Doctor Is Dangerous

  27-10-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Netflix’s new thriller, a depressed woman gets more than she bargained for when she starts seeing a charismatic hypnotherapist.
  
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• USF center director lands $8.5 million arts learning grant - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  27-10-2021 12:06
  
  USF center director lands $8.5 million arts learning grant  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History?

  27-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Mark Oppenheimer’s “Squirrel Hill,” he chronicles the aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting and how it affected the tightly knit Pittsburgh Jewish community.
  
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• Tour the Old Steel Town at the Center of ‘Lackawanna Blues’

  27-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his Broadway play, Ruben Santiago-Hudson revisits the Lackawanna, N.Y., of his youth. A lot has changed since the late 1950s and ’60s, reflected here in recent photographs of the area.
  
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• He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find?

  27-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, he instantly gained a wider international audience, something publishers are now scrambling to accommodate.
  
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• Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet

  27-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Our Country Friends,” seven friends and one nemesis gather at an estate in the Hudson Valley to wait out what they’re sure will be a quick blip in their convenient and prosperous lives.
  
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• 5 Abba Lovers on Why the Songs Are Still Pure Gold

  27-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Swedish pop group’s tracks have been the soundtrack for fans including Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, the actor-comedian Lea DeLaria and Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears.
  
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• Quel est votre meilleur souvenir d’Abba?

  27-10-2021 10:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Le mois prochain, le groupe suédois sort son premier album depuis 40 ans. Comment leur musique a-t-elle compté pour vous? Envoyez-nous vos témoignages.
  
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• What Is Your Favorite Abba Memory?

  27-10-2021 10:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Next month the Swedish band will release its first new album in 40 years. We want to hear what its music means to you.
  
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• After 40 Years, Abba Takes a Chance With Its Legacy

  27-10-2021 10:13 via nytimes.com
  
  How one of the biggest pop groups in the world secretly reunited to make a new album and a high-tech stage show featuring digital avatars of themselves — from 1979.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Misses the Old Facebook

  27-10-2021 08:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimmel reminisced about the days when the social media app was “just a safe place to lose your house in a pyramid scheme.”
  
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• Newport Students Have Lead Roles in Arts & Learning Conservatory Production of 'Matilda' - Newport Beach News - Newport Beach Independent Newspaper

  27-10-2021 06:18
  
  Newport Students Have Lead Roles in Arts & Learning Conservatory Production of 'Matilda' - Newport Beach News  Newport Beach Independent Newspaper
  
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• Evanston Arts Council announces 2021 Mayor’s Awards for the Arts recipients - Evanston RoundTable

  27-10-2021 04:48
  
  Evanston Arts Council announces 2021 Mayor’s Awards for the Arts recipients  Evanston RoundTable
  
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• 'Bringing in your own flair': new Interdisciplinary Arts Minor launched - The Stanford Daily

  27-10-2021 04:45
  
  'Bringing in your own flair': new Interdisciplinary Arts Minor launched  The Stanford Daily
  
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• Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again in the Name of Revolution

  27-10-2021 02:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Wooster Group’s production will prompt discussions about the company’s vision for Brecht’s “learning play.”
  
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