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• William Kraft, Percussionist and Force in New Music, Dies at 98

  23-03-2022 22:42 via nytimes.com
  
  A mainstay of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he also composed music that elevated overlooked instruments like the timpani.
  
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• Christie’s Nabs Former Sotheby’s Old Masters Specialist as Category Sees Comeback

  23-03-2022 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Several months after announcing his departure from Sotheby’s in May, Andrew Fletcher has been appointed as Christie’s global head of the house’s Old Masters department. He will be based in London.
  “After 20 years there, it was time for something new,” Fletcher told ARTnews.
  Fletcher joins Christie’s after nearly two decades at Sotheby’s, where he most recently served as head of the Old Masters painting department in Europe. During his tenure there, he al
  
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• Rachel Zegler, ‘West Side Story’ Star, Is Invited to the Oscars After All

  23-03-2022 22:25 via nytimes.com
  
  On Sunday she revealed on Instagram that she had not been invited to the ceremony, prompting an outcry. She has since been added as a presenter.
  
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• Kahlil Robert Irving Roves Across Millenniums at MoMA

  23-03-2022 22:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist presents a vision of the contemporary in clay as a present-day Pompeii buried under an explosion of too much information.
  
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• The Many Worlds of Rosalía

  23-03-2022 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The Spanish phenom’s music takes in a host of global influences, making her one of the most sonically ambitious and critically dissected pop artists today.
  
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• The U.S. Arts Industry Shrank at Nearly Half the Rate of the National Economy at the Start of the Pandemic: NEA Report

  23-03-2022 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  A recent report from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) shows how the arts industry was disproportionately affected by the coronavirus when compared to the overall U.S. economy.
  According to the report, the arts industry shrank at nearly twice the rate of the country’s GDP between 2019 and 2020. Amid the rise of the highly contagious virus, museums, galleries, and entertainment venues were shuttered nationwide, leaving almost 1.4 million art
  
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• Hard Truths: Can Shady Art Dealers Escape Blockchain Armageddon?

  23-03-2022 21:26 via artnews.com
  
  You know what? Blockchain is going to destroy my gallery’s business. There, I said it. Nobody else will. Anyone with a midsize gallery knows that cash flow is a problem. When I do manage to sell work, the money often goes toward paying outstanding debts. Practically speaking, this means artists may have to wait a little to get their checks. In the end, the lights stay on and artists get what they are owed. From what I understand, blockchain makes things instantaneous. When a collector pays
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: Confessions of a Late Bloomer

  23-03-2022 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  As a closeted teen, he turned to romantic comedies for connection. Over a decade later, he still feels he’s lagging behind.
  
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• Record-Breaking $32 M. Dinosaur Skeleton Heads to New Abu Dhabi Museum

  23-03-2022 21:11 via artnews.com
  
  A $32 million Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that sold at Christie’s in 2020 will become the centerpiece of a new museum in Abu Dhabi set to be completed in 2025.
  The 67-million-year-old skeleton is nicknamed “Stan,” and it set a record price for a fossil when an anonymous bidder on the phone with a Christie’s London specialist bought it for a hammer price of $27.5 million. With premium, its final price increased to $32 million, making it more expensive than many works by con
  
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• Baltimore Museum Guards Take Seats at the Curators’ Table

  23-03-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A diverse and kaleidoscopic art exhibition, curated by 17 members of its security staff, spotlights the perspectives of employees typically seen but rarely heard.
  
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• Mystery Solved: Stan, the T. Rex, Went to Abu Dhabi

  23-03-2022 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as “Stan” that drew a record price at auction in 2020 — $31.8 million — will be part of a new natural history museum in the United Arab Emirates.
  
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• Review: ‘Little Girl Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime

  23-03-2022 20:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Laiona Michelle’s tribute show, now at New World Stages, is more an impressionistic portrait for those familiar with the singer’s life and career.
  
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• Tom Moody, Pioneering Net Artist and Critic, Dies from Covid-Related Complications

  23-03-2022 20:09 via artnews.com
  
  Tom Moody, a net artist, musician, blogger, and art critic, died this past Saturday morning from Covid-related complications and pneumonia, according to his gallery, And/Or in Pasadena, California. Moody was in his 60s.
  Moody was committed to lo-fi internet aesthetics through the use of old software, sometimes termed abandonware, like MSPaintbrush. He was involved in many early net art groups, sometimes termed surfing clubs, that have been considered widely influential.
  Through these clubs, in p
  
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• Rare Work by Paris Salon’s First Female History Painter Is Acquired by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

  23-03-2022 20:08 via artnews.com
  
  In 1791, Marie-Guillemine Benoist became the first woman to show a history painting at the prestigious Paris Salon with Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell, a masterwork of the genre that was squirreled away for centuries after its creation—until now.
  The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has announced the acquisition of the Benoist work, making it just one of three paintings by the artist currently held in U.S. collections. It will be exhibited for the first time since the 1791 exhib
  
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• Disgraced Billionaire Michael Steinhardt Has Surrendered 39 Stolen Artifacts To Israel

  23-03-2022 20:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has repatriated nearly 40 objects worth $5 million from a cache of looted artifacts once owned by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt to Israel.
  The repatriation comes after Steinhardt “forfeited” 180 objects that were valued at $70 million last December, though not all of those objects have been recovered. He was subsequently banned from buying more artifacts—a rare embargo that is rarely placed on collectors of any kind.
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• Anna Delvey Will Have a Solo Show in April: ‘People Are Just Fascinated by Her’

  23-03-2022 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Scammer Anna Sorokin—or Anna Delvey, as she is more commonly known—will make her art debut this April.
  Delvey, who was imprisoned for swindling art-world types in New York out of more than $200,000, will show new drawings at an unannounced space in early April. The works were made in the ICE detention center where Delvey is currently being held as she awaits deportation to Germany.
  “I would consider her style kind of a crossover between fashion sketches and satirical comics,&rd
  
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• Danny Glover on Acting, Activism and His Honorary Oscar

  23-03-2022 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor and producer is receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars. Here, he discusses a history in movies and in social justice.
  
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• Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology

  23-03-2022 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Michel van der Aa’s work, a seamless interweaving of opera, film and motion-capture performance, arrives at the Park Avenue Armory.
  
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• Review: Michel van der Aa’s ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology

  23-03-2022 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Michel van der Aa’s work, a seamless interweaving of opera, film and motion-capture performance, arrives at the Park Avenue Armory.
  
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• Review: Ronald K. Brown’s Messages of Resilience

  23-03-2022 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  In a program at the Joyce Theater, Brown’s company, Evidence, presented three dances that aren’t new but seem newly meaningful.
  
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• Basel’s Edgier Art Fair Is Returning with More Ukrainian Art

  23-03-2022 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  Liste, a fair that spotlights younger galleries, has revealed the 82 exhibitors that will participate in this year’s edition, set to run concurrently with Art Basel in the Swiss city from June 13–19. Among the exhibitors are two Ukrainian galleries showing at Liste for the first time.
  The two spaces, the Naked Room and Voloshyn, gained their spots after two Russian galleries, Fragment and Osnova, forfeited their spots last month in response to the war in Ukraine. The Naked Room and V
  
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• 8 Essential Monographs on African American Painters Working Today

  23-03-2022 18:28 via artnews.com
  
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  For centuries, art history was almost exclusively the domain of white men. Artists of color were largely excised from the record, and those who were acknowledged were relegated to a secondary role within the art-historical narrative. Once New York became the world center for art production in the middle of the 20th century, the number of African American artist
  
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• ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers

  23-03-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Barney Platts-Mills’s 1969 feature about aimless East End teenagers in love comes to Film Forum after a cinematic rediscovery.
  
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• Review: ‘Atlanta’ Is Back and as Surprising as Ever

  23-03-2022 17:37 via nytimes.com
  
  After four long years, the Season 3 premiere goes to strange places with a familiar confidence.
  
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• ‘CODA’ Is Being Developed Into a Stage Musical by Deaf West

  23-03-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The theater plans to work with the Oscar-nominated film’s producers to adapt the story of a teenager torn between helping her deaf family and singing.
  
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• Tech Start-Up Aims to Get Artists Royalties for Resale

  23-03-2022 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Fairchain generates digital contracts and certificates of title and authenticity, allowing artists to track their work and share in secondary market proceeds.
  
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• New Musical ‘Bhangin’ It’ Explores Identity Through Bhangra

  23-03-2022 16:41 via nytimes.com
  
  “Bhangin’ It” explores complex identity issues through an intensely competitive North American dance scene.
  
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• Camp Cope Is OK With Getting Big, If Fans Still ‘Cry and Lose Their Minds’

  23-03-2022 15:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The charming, confessional Australian indie-rock band is releasing its third album and, later this year, arriving for a stateside tour. It hopes not too much changes in the process.
  
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• Can Land and Water Be Archives? A Pandemic-Era Toronto Biennial Mines the Histories Beneath Our Feet

  23-03-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  There are hundreds of biennials in the world, and with each edition, a new curator is picked to take the reins. That makes the Toronto Biennial of Art, whose second edition opens on March 26, unlike its colleagues. For the second edition in a row, the same curatorial team has taken the helm, allowing some artists to create work over the course of four years instead of just two.
  At its first edition, in 2019, the Toronto Biennial explored the hidden, buried, and intentionally erased histories of
  
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• Gianni Jetzer to Head Swiss Museum, Zaha Hadid Architects Designs Libertarian City in Metaverse, and More: Morning Links for March 23, 2022

  23-03-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  
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  THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR: EUROPEAN DISPATCH. Curator Gianni Jetzer, who has served as curator-at-large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., since 2014, has been tapped to be director of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in Switzerland, ArtReview reports. From 2001 to 2006, the Zuri
  
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• Whitney Biennial Curators Seek American Art on the Border

  23-03-2022 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  As they put the final touches to the influential survey of American art, two curators went on the road to test their hunches, and found value in stepping outside.
  
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• My Artist Ghost

  23-03-2022 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nearly 30 years ago, Denyse Thomasos forged a form of abstraction that depicted the unspeakable and unimaginable confinement in slave ships and prisons. Her work had to be seen at the Biennial.
  
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• Debra Messing Masters Baking for ‘Birthday Candles’

  23-03-2022 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An actress with an obsessive work ethic, Messing is learning to make a cake onstage in “Birthday Candles” on Broadway.
  
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• Debra Messing Can Age Easily in ‘Birthday Candles.’ It’s Baking That’s Hard.

  23-03-2022 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An actress with an obsessive work ethic, Messing is learning to make a cake onstage in “Birthday Candles” on Broadway.
  
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• Late Night Sees Through Republican Questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson

  23-03-2022 06:49 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s funny listening to the same people who let the president get away with trying to overthrow the government call anyone ‘soft on crime,’ but that’s how it goes,” Jimmy Kimmel said.
  
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