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• Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller

  07-04-2022 23:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “My ego says: ‘You’re better than this,’” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. “And my id says: ‘Not today. Deal with it.’”
  
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• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Recap: This Is a Musical Now

  07-04-2022 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  An uneven episode leaves more questions than answers about the direction of the season.
  
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• White Cube Will Open a New York Gallery, Its First in the U.S.

  07-04-2022 23:26 via artnews.com
  
  White Cube, one of the most important galleries of the British art scene, will expand its reach further with plans to open a New York gallery in the spring of 2023.
  The inauguration of the New York space will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the founding of White Cube, which has helped launch art stars like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. News of the expansion was first reported by the Baer Faxt, a market-oriented industry newsletter.
  The gallery also represents figures such as Juliet Curtiss
  
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• Brazil’s Mendes Wood DM Is the Latest Gallery to Open in New York’s Tribeca Neighborhood

  07-04-2022 23:17 via artnews.com
  
  Mendes Wood DM will opening a 7,000-square-foot gallery in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood early next month. Its new Walker Street location includes three gallery spaces.
  Founded by Felipe Dmab, Matthew Wood, and Pedro Mendes in São Paulo in 2010, the gallery maintains a presence in São Paulo and Brussels, and previously operated on the Upper East Side in New York through early 2021. The founders plan to use this expansion to continue showcasing work by Brazilian artists.
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• Finland Seizes $46 M. in Art Bound for Russia, Citing E.U. Sanctions

  07-04-2022 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  Three shipments of art bound for Russia have been seized by Finnish Customs, according to a statement from the government agency. The art seized was worth a collective $46 million.
  “It is important that the enforcement of sanctions works effectively,” Sami Rakshit, the director of Finnish Customs’ enforcement department, said in a statement. He added, “The enforcement of sanctions is part of our normal operations and we always direct our controls based on risks.”
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• Joseph Kalichstein, Pianist of Subtlety and Refinement, Dies at 76

  07-04-2022 22:55 via nytimes.com
  
  An acclaimed exponent of Schumann, Brahms and Mendelssohn, he was best known for his work as a member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.
  
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• Sarah Jessica Parker Tests Positive for Coronavirus

  07-04-2022 22:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Parker’s co-star, Matthew Broderick, who is also her husband, had tested positive earlier this week, and has been out of the show since Tuesday.
  
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• Product Spotlight: Mandi Masden’s Apostrophe Puzzles

  07-04-2022 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  As a child, Brooklyn-based actress Mandi Masden loved doing puzzles. But as she got older, the joys of jigsawing were largely forgotten—that is, until one night in 2019, when she mentioned puzzling while performing a spoken-word piece at a friend’s art salon.
  Not long after, her friend, who’d been unaware till that moment how important jigsaw puzzles had once been to Masden, gifted her a special birthday present: a custom puzzle depicting a painting Masden had once seen and dre
  
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• From Dalí to Picasso, a Museum With a Masterpiece Collection Partially Reopens

  07-04-2022 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Caracas’s Museum of Modern Art, a symbol of a westernized Venezuela, was dismantled by the Socialist governments. Its modest recovery offers hope to the troubled nation.
  
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• Penn State alumnus channels liberal arts education in startup work - Pennsylvania State University

  07-04-2022 22:21
  
  Penn State alumnus channels liberal arts education in startup work  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• 'I did my homework': How The Arts Council's newest director aims to connect North Georgians with the arts - Gainesville Times

  07-04-2022 22:19
  'I did my homework': How The Arts Council's newest director aims to connect North Georgians with the arts  Gainesville Times
  
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• Surrealism & Politics

  07-04-2022 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution: this is the project around which Surrealism circles in all its books and enterprises. This it may call its most particular task.—Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”
  SURREALISM PERSISTS IN THE POPULAR imagination as a predominantly visual phenomenon. Almost a century after its founding, the name remains virtually interchangeable with the work of its most prominent painterly expon
  
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• Picasso Portrait of Sleeping Muse Could Fetch $60 M. at Auction

  07-04-2022 22:08 via artnews.com
  
  A 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting one of his lovers could sell for $60 million in May during a Sotheby’s modern art evening sale in New York.
  Femme nue couchée, which shows Marie-Thérèse Walter in repose, will hit the auction block on May 17. The sale will mark the first time the painting has ever been sold at auction. The current anonymous seller has owned the work since 2008.
  Walter was only 17 when she met the middle-aged Spanish painter. Picasso carried ou
  
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• A New Season of ‘Still Processing’

  07-04-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Hosts Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham catch up before their spring season — which is going to sound a little different.
  
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• Hew Locke to Create Artworks for Met Museum Facade

  07-04-2022 21:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures shaped into whole and fragmented trophies that reference historical works in the museum’s collection.
  
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• Introducing WordleBot, the Upshot’s Daily Wordle Companion

  07-04-2022 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  It will tell you how efficient and lucky you were, and it could help improve your results.
  
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• NFTs Take Center Stage at São Paulo’s SP-Arte Fair, With Varying Degrees of Success

  07-04-2022 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  “Every fair is doing NFTs now,” quipped Fernanda Feitosa, the director of São Paulo’s SP-Arte. “It’s good to have, for educational purposes.”
  At that fair, there were three booths focusing on NFTs, by the gallery Kogan Amaro Digital Art and the initiatives Aura.NFT and Tropix. All three booths featured Latin American artists from a range of backgrounds, from longtime net artists to newcomer crypto artists to artists with traditional art careers.
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• Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham

  07-04-2022 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Martha Graham Dance Company brings two premieres and a classic to the City Center Dance Festival. The best new work? A soulful score by Jason Moran.
  
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• Arts This Week: An American classic takes the stage - GBH News

  07-04-2022 19:37
  
  Arts This Week: An American classic takes the stage  GBH News
  
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• Metro Art 2022 Call to Arts and Cultural Organizations - metro.net

  07-04-2022 19:31
  
  Metro Art 2022 Call to Arts and Cultural Organizations  metro.net
  
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• Using the Arts to Take a Deep Dive into the Sea - UCF

  07-04-2022 19:30
  
  Using the Arts to Take a Deep Dive into the Sea  UCF
  
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• ‘The Wanderer’ Review: A Dion Musical Hits All the Familiar Notes

  07-04-2022 19:25 via nytimes.com
  
  A new production about the 1960s doo-wop idol follows the usual rise-and-fall formula. Still, the songs are wonderful, as is the angel-voiced ensemble.
  
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• Pasadena's Lineage Performing Arts Center presents premiere of new play, Mother Places | The South Pasadenan - The South Pasadenan

  07-04-2022 19:03
  Pasadena's Lineage Performing Arts Center presents premiere of new play, Mother Places | The South Pasadenan  The South Pasadenan
  
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• ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel

  07-04-2022 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Sergei Loznitsa’s film, completed in 2018, presents an absurd, horrific tableau of cruelty and corruption.
  
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• FABRIC Arts Festival to bring big ‘Festa’ to Fall River May 12-14 - Fall River Herald News

  07-04-2022 18:44
  
  FABRIC Arts Festival to bring big ‘Festa’ to Fall River May 12-14  Fall River Herald News
  
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• Restitution’s First Wave: Bénédicte Savoy’s Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

  07-04-2022 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of
  Postcolonial Defeat by Bénédicte Savoy, Princeton University Press, 2022, 240 pages, 11 color and 6 blackand-white illustrations, $29.95 hardcover.
  “FOR APPROXIMATELY SIX YEARS, a spectre has been haunting European museums,” began a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung news article in May 1979. That specter, which still haunts today, was the question—and eventually, the slow-moving process—of restitution that had rec
  
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• Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist

  07-04-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  A show of masterworks at the Met snaps into sharp focus the great American artist’s contemporary relevance.
  
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• New National Endowment for the Arts chair visits Chicago - Chicago Tribune

  07-04-2022 18:15
  
  New National Endowment for the Arts chair visits Chicago  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Top Ten Booths at Brazil’s SP Arte, A Fair That is Doing It All

  07-04-2022 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  SP-Arte, the Sao Paulo, Brazil-based event and arguably Latin America’s most important art fair, kicked off this week with a multifaceted display of art, collaborations, and new initiatives.
  Though this is not the first SP-Arte since the beginning of the pandemic – they had a fair in October at a different location with only 70 galleries – this year’s edition feels like the rebirth as SP Arte settled into its traditional location at the Niemeyer-designed Fundaç&ati
  
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• Mira Calix, Iconoclastic Composer and Artist, Dies at 52

  07-04-2022 17:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Her work spanned albums, public art installations, music for Shakespeare plays and touring with Radiohead.
  
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• J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist

  07-04-2022 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Britain’s commander of the churning waves was also a painter of technology and industry. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston shows how he reshaped an art form.
  
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• A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe

  07-04-2022 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Candoco, a British dance company that has disabled and non-disabled dancers, makes its New York debut with Brown’s “Set and Reset/Reset” at BAM.
  
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• Can a Brazilian Pop Star Crack the U.S. Market? Anitta Says Yes.

  07-04-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the past decade, the singer has earned fame and the respect of some of Brazil’s most lauded musical elders. Now she’s taking aim at new audiences but hoping to hold on to her roots.
  
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• Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Divide Between Decorative Art and Painting in Chicago Show

  07-04-2022 15:38 via artnews.com
  
  When he is in the midst of planning a new exhibition, Brooklyn-based artist Kamrooz Aram aims to respond to the space in which his art will be displayed. That is especially true with his latest show, “Privacy, An Exhibition,” now on view at the Arts Club of Chicago.
  “The architecture is always something that informs the work—art informing architecture, architecture working with art,” he said on Wednesday night during a talk with Janine Mileaf, the Arts Club’s
  
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• ‘Kinky Boots’ Sets Summer Return Off Broadway

  07-04-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A revival of the Tony-winning Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein collaboration will begin performances at Stage 42 in July.
  
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• Guadalupe Maravilla as Artist and Healer

  07-04-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Guadalupe Maravilla’s sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA explore the trauma caused by war, migration and family separation.
  
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• ‘Cow’ Review: Dairy Cogs in the Machine

  07-04-2022 14:52 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary from Andrea Arnold takes an immersive approach to capturing the plight of industrial dairy cows.
  
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• Four Gallery Shows to See in the Windy City During Expo Chicago

  07-04-2022 14:46 via artnews.com
  
  The Expo Chicago art fair returns this week to the city’s Navy Pier after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
  As with most art fairs, the local art scene puts on some of its best offerings for the year to draw out-of-town visitors to the homegrown talent that makes a city like Chicago the site of a major international art fair.
  Take a look at five of the best art offerings Chicago has to offer this week:
  
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• Perry named executive director of Hancher, Office of Performing Arts and Engagement - Iowa Now

  07-04-2022 14:34
  Perry named executive director of Hancher, Office of Performing Arts and Engagement  Iowa Now
  
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• Una joya artística en declive que simboliza las brechas de Venezuela podría ayudar a sanar al país

  07-04-2022 14:17 via nytimes.com
  
  El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, emblema de una Venezuela moderna, fue desmantelado por los gobiernos socialistas. Su modesta reactivación ofrece esperanza a una nación atribulada.
  
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• Stanford’s Cantor Center Names Director, Finland Detains Art En Route to Russia, and More: Morning Links for April 7, 2022

  07-04-2022 14:04 via artnews.com
  
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  THE GOLDEN STATE JOB MARKET continues to hum. Earlier this week, the Getty Trust announced it had hired Katherine E. Fleming as its next president and CEO. Now Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center has selected Veronica Roberts as its next director. Roberts, a veteran curator, comes to
  
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• At the FIND Festival, Different Ways of Staging the Real

  07-04-2022 14:01 via nytimes.com
  
  At Berlin’s FIND festival of new international drama, several productions use transcripts to explore questions of state power and identity.
  
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• Firelei Báez Brings an Afrofuturist Empire in the Atlantic to the MCA Chicago

  07-04-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  In another world, within the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, is Drexciya, a civilization that would rival the lost city of Atlantis. It’s populated by peaceful amphibian people, the descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard from slave ships to drown during the Middle Passage. Rather than succumb to death, the women were adopted by the water and their babies were born swimming.
  Drexciya was introduced in 1992 by the Detroit Afrofuturist techno duo of the same name. (Its members, J
  
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• Arts and entertainment events happening April 7th-April 10th across the Mid-Ohio Valley - WTAP

  07-04-2022 13:59
  
  Arts and entertainment events happening April 7th-April 10th across the Mid-Ohio Valley  WTAP
  
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• ‘El patrimonio no tiene precio’: una joya artística en declive que simboliza las brechas de Venezuela podría ayudar a sanar al país

  07-04-2022 13:34 via nytimes.com
  
  El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, emblema de una Venezuela moderna, fue desmantelado por los gobiernos socialistas. Su modesta reactivación ofrece esperanza a una nación atribulada.
  
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• ‘¡Viva Maestro!’ Review: A Documentary in Need of a Conductor

  07-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A wunderkind conductor attempts to keep young Venezuelan musicians working despite political strife at home in this film from Ted Braun.
  
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• ‘The Girl and the Spider’ Review: Where Did I Put That Thing?

  07-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The twin brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher have created a wonderfully discombobulating feature about an apartment move.
  
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• ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ Review: Keep Up! Bada-Brrring!

  07-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jim Carrey’s reprised role as a villainous weirdo helps this fast-paced, family-friendly video-game-movie sequel maintain a refreshing silliness.
  
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• Review: The Director Lloyd Kaufman Returns With a Shakespeare Spoof

  07-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kaufman, the king of lowbrow, is back with this lusty parody.
  
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• ‘Return to Space’ Review: Eyes on the Skies

  07-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Platitudes prevail in this overlong documentary about the partnership between NASA and SpaceX.
  
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