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• ARTnews Market Brief: Authentic Warhol Sold Among $250 Fakes, Napoleon’s Wife’s Tiaras Head to Auction, and More

  29-10-2021 23:57 via artnews.com
  
  New York Collective Hides Authentic Warhol in Sale of $250 FakesNew York art collective MSCHF is selling nearly 1,000 images of an Andy Warhol drawing—one of which is the original work itself—for $250. The group is selling the stash through a website called the Museum of Forgeries. MSCHF purchased Fairies, the authentic 1954 ballpoint pen drawing, depicting three winged figures; the collective said it is worth $20,000. MSCHF’s 999 copies and Warhol’s drawing are are being
  
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• Simone Leigh Departs Hauser & Wirth Ahead of Venice Biennale Pavilion

  29-10-2021 23:45 via artnews.com
  
  Less than two years after signing on for representation there, Simone Leigh has left Hauser & Wirth, a mega-gallery with more than 15 locations worldwide.
  “I love and respect the people I worked with at Hauser & Wirth,” Leigh said in a statement. “But I do not feel the gallery is the right fit for me in the wider sense. I’m still figuring out what I want from a primary gallery relationship.”
  The news comes as Leigh prepares to represent the United States at
  
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• Bruce Gaston, American Maestro of Thai Music, Dies at 75

  29-10-2021 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  A transplanted Californian and former conscientious objector, he infused Thai music with Western sounds as a prominent composer and performer based in Bangkok.
  
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• Art Basel’s Parent Company Hit with Data Breach, with Personal Data Possibly Accessed

  29-10-2021 23:25 via artnews.com
  
  A little more than a month before its fair in Miami Beach, Art Basel said that its parent company, MCH Group, had been the subject of a data breach last week.
  In an email to those who have previously registered for fair access, the fair wrote that MCH Group was “hit by a criminal cyber-attack using malware.” It said MCH Group had filed a criminal complaint against “the perpetrators unknown to us.”
  Known for bringing together international collectors, celebrities, and roya
  
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• Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel

  29-10-2021 22:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Three new books — Daniel Sokatch’s “Can We Talk About Israel?,” Omri Boehm’s “Haifa Republic” and Ethan Michaeli’s “Twelve Tribes” — explore various dimensions of the Jewish state.
  
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• Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics

  29-10-2021 21:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Theo Von, Roy Wood Jr., Ricky Velez and Jo Firestone each turn in solid hours filled with smart, funny observations.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘The King of Confidence,’ ‘The Cold Millions’ and More

  29-10-2021 21:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Rose Lee Maphis, Early Star of Country Music TV, Dies at 98

  29-10-2021 21:10 via nytimes.com
  
  She and her husband, Joe (“Mr. and Mrs. Country Music”), helped give birth to a West Coast music scene later associated with Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
  
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• Art Houses Want Audiences Back. Can a MoviePass-Style Program Help?

  29-10-2021 21:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Mubi Go, which has debuted in New York, allows cinephiles to watch one movie per week at a theater — and also stream hundreds of handpicked films from home.
  
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• Emily Ratajkowski Is a Work in Progress

  29-10-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With her debut essay collection, “My Body,” the model and influencer takes stock of what she’s gained and lost from selling her image for a living.
  
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• ‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate)

  29-10-2021 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Christopher Williams’s queer reimagining of the Narcissus myth is brilliantly conceived and costumed, though a bit stodgy.
  
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• Review: Choreographic Skeletons From a Lost Pandemic Time

  29-10-2021 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Review,” the choreographer Madeline Hollander reimagines months of unseen dance performances at the Hamilton Fish Pool in Manhattan.
  
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• Two Children’s Books Offer Hope for the Environment

  29-10-2021 19:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “Sea Lions in the Parking Lot,” by Lenora Todaro, and “Tracking Tortoises,” by Kate Messner, show how animals can rebound when humans social distance.
  
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• More Than 200 Looted Objects Connected to Dealer Subhash Kapoor Sent Back to India by U.S.

  29-10-2021 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney’s office said on Thursday that it had returned 248 objects to India. These items, collectively valued at $15 million, were uncovered after a decade of five different criminal investigations. Of the 248 items repatriated yesterday, 235 had been brought in to the country by Subhash Kapoor.
  Once a respected dealer of antiquities in New York, Kapoor is accused of leading a network of international traders to procure and sell looted antiquities from Afghanistan,
  
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• Curator Julieta González Joins One of Brazil’s Biggest Museums Following Surprise Departure from Museo Jumex

  29-10-2021 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  Two years after she left the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Julieta González, a star curator who has held positions at some of Central America’s top institutions, has been appointed the artistic director of Brazil’s Inhotim museum. The announcement of her new post came as part of a larger restructuring of the leadership at Inhotim, a 5,000-acre outdoor art space that was founded by collector Bernardo Paz in 2004.
  González departed the Museo Jumex in 2019, though she contin
  
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• Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties

  29-10-2021 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The performance artist ran a mask-making operation during the pandemic. That inspired her new comedy at New York Theater Workshop.
  
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• George Butler, 78, Bodybuilding Chronicler in Photos and Film, Dies

  29-10-2021 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  In his photographs for the book “Pumping Iron” and his documentary of the same name, Mr. Butler helped set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the road to stardom.
  
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• It’s Time for a Haunted House

  29-10-2021 18:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Grant Snider brings together every classic horror trope in his very spooky, and literary, abode.
  
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• ‘Squid Game’ Halloween Costumes Are Banned by Several New York Schools

  29-10-2021 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Others have issued warnings to parents, citing concerns about the show’s violent content.
  
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• Modern Times Call for Folk Horror

  29-10-2021 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Films like “Antlers,” “Lamb” and other new releases turn rural environments and ancient belief systems into subjects for terror.
  
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• In This House, We List Our Beliefs in the Yard

  29-10-2021 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  How a lawn sign inspired by mom décor became a liberal mantra — and a symbol of a political battle over white womanhood.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Sticks With a Familiar Formula on ‘=’

  29-10-2021 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The British singer-songwriter’s fourth solo studio album reflects major shifts in his personal life that aren’t equally matched by musical growth.
  
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• 23,000-Year-Old Colored Bead Found in Japan

  29-10-2021 17:42 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, the discovery of the oldest known piece of artificially colored jewelry in Japan was unveiled. Although the Mainchi reported that the 23,000-year-old bead was actually unearthed five years ago, the finding was made only made public this month in anticipation of its debut at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha, Japan. The bead, which is considered a prime example of early creative development, is expected to provide valuable information about Paleolithic culture.
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• Alicia Keys’s Hypnotic Love Jam, and 12 More New Songs

  29-10-2021 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Anaïs Mitchell, Hurray for the Riff Raff, ASAP Rocky and others.
  
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• Stanley Whitney Dances With Matisse

  29-10-2021 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  With a new gallery show and a museum retrospective in the works, the New York-based abstract painter has fully arrived. It’s been a long time coming.
  
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• At Performa, Ericka Beckman Offers an Anti-Capitalist Musical Adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk

  29-10-2021 16:57 via artnews.com
  
  Ericka Beckman.
  It felt fitting to catch up with the artist Ericka Beckman in a black box theater, since that’s where the Pictures Generation filmmaker has shot nearly all her films since the 1970s. When we met at the downtown New York venue Performance Space, though, she wasn’t shooting a film, but rehearsing for her first-ever live performance at age 70. Her Performa biennial commission, titled Stalk, premieres Saturday night.
  Beckman was directing six dancers, a choreographer, a p
  
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• Richard Hammer, Who Illuminated the My Lai Massacre, Dies at 93

  29-10-2021 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  His books on that Vietnam episode drew acclaim, and he was an Edgar Award-winning author of nonfiction books about crime in its many manifestations.
  
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• ‘Rust’ Armorer Has ‘No Idea’ How Live Rounds Got on Set, Lawyers Say

  29-10-2021 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was in charge of firearms on the New Mexico film set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer with a gun that was not supposed to contain live ammunition.
  
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• Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted from Nepal

  29-10-2021 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  In just the past year, volunteers working for the Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign have played a role in the return of seven artifacts.
  
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• Nazi-Looted El Greco Painting Comes to Christie’s After Return to Heirs of Original Owner

  29-10-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Three Old Master paintings looted during WWII, including a storied El Greco, will be auctioned at Christie’s in December. All of the paintings formerly belonged to Julius and Camilla Priester; the couple’s heirs received the works within the past several years, more than seven decades after the canvases were seized by the Nazis.
  Julius was a Jewish Austrian industrialist who amassed his wealth in the oil and energy sector. He and his wife amassed a collection of more than 80 Old Mast
  
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• A Filmmaking Life Gets a Sequel

  29-10-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Joanna Hogg is the rare director to be given the greenlight for a two-part drama about finding her own voice. She’s only been thinking about it since 1988.
  
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• Opposites Attract: Paul Auster Meets Stephen Crane

  29-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The dean of American postmodernists has written “Burning Boy,” a biography of one of our least cerebral writers.
  
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• Glimpsing a Soon-to-Vanish Surrealist World in Chelsea

  29-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Their apartment is “a piece of art we created together,” Tom Shivers said. Now the vast collection assembled with his late husband, Neil Zukerman, will help start a museum.
  
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• Fighting Fake News and Salacious Rumors at Versailles

  29-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “In the Shadow of the Empress,” by Nancy Goldstone, examines the ambitious lives of Marie Antoinette, two of her sisters and their mother, the empress Maria Theresa.
  
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• ‘Different Way of Fighting’: Lyrics Are the Weapons of All-Women Roma Band

  29-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many Roma women face pressures to marry young and take on traditional gender roles. Pretty Loud, a hip-hop group from Serbia, wants girls to decide for themselves.
  
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• A Dead Body Was Found in the Basement. The Case Involved a Drag Queen, Drugs and Louisville.

  29-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Dominé’s book “A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City” is part true-crime mystery about a grisly murder, part portrait of Louisville.
  
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• ‘Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin’ Review: Still Recording

  29-10-2021 09:01 via nytimes.com
  
  With this new installment, the found-footage franchise incorporates Covid-19, Amish country and too many cameras.
  
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• Plans for new performing arts center open long-awaited possibilities for the arts at U.Va. - University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily

  29-10-2021 09:00
  Plans for new performing arts center open long-awaited possibilities for the arts at U.Va.  University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
  
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• 2021 National Veterans Local Creative Arts Festival | VA New Jersey Health Care - Veterans Affairs

  29-10-2021 09:00
  2021 National Veterans Local Creative Arts Festival | VA New Jersey Health Care  Veterans Affairs
  
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• Literary series coming to Dorchester Center for the Arts - MyEasternShoreMD

  29-10-2021 08:45
  Literary series coming to Dorchester Center for the Arts  MyEasternShoreMD
  
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• CMS Visual Arts Teen of the Week — Clarissa Francesconi - MyEasternShoreMD

  29-10-2021 08:30
  CMS Visual Arts Teen of the Week — Clarissa Francesconi  MyEasternShoreMD
  
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• Late Night Savors What’s Left of Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Plan

  29-10-2021 07:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Trevor Noah said the excision of family leave meant that “America will remain the only nation in the world where women try to give birth during their lunch break.”
  
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• Leading people into hope through the arts - Muskogee Daily Phoenix

  29-10-2021 07:00
  Leading people into hope through the arts  Muskogee Daily Phoenix
  
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• Claremont’s ‘Village Venture’ ushers in fall with arts, crafts, community - The Student Life

  29-10-2021 06:35
  
  Claremont’s ‘Village Venture’ ushers in fall with arts, crafts, community  The Student Life
  
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• George Butler, Bodybuilding Chronicler in Photos and Film, Dies at 78

  29-10-2021 05:08 via nytimes.com
  
  In his photographs for the book “Pumping Iron” and his documentary of the same name, Mr. Butler helped set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the road to stardom.
  
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• Board of Supervisors to recognize 2021 Arts Champions on Nov. 9 - The Willits News

  29-10-2021 02:43
  
  Board of Supervisors to recognize 2021 Arts Champions on Nov. 9  The Willits News
  
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• FOX 7 Care Force: Austin Veteran Arts Festival - FOX 7 Austin

  29-10-2021 02:25
  
  FOX 7 Care Force: Austin Veteran Arts Festival  FOX 7 Austin
  
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• Kindergarten students learn culinary arts at Fairview Elementary School in Fort Smith - KNWA

  29-10-2021 02:24
  Kindergarten students learn culinary arts at Fairview Elementary School in Fort Smith  KNWA
  
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• Latinx heritage arts n craft workshop - Talon Marks

  29-10-2021 02:13
  
  Latinx heritage arts n craft workshop  Talon Marks
  
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• Looted Treasures Begin a Long Journey Home From France to Benin

  29-10-2021 01:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The return to Benin of 26 ransacked objects will be the first large-scale act of restitution to Africa by a former European colonial power.
  
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