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• In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See

  21-04-2022 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new Epix drama starring Tom Blyth and Eileen O’Higgins, the legendary 19th-century gunslinger and killer gets a modern origin story.
  
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• The Multifaceted Mingus

  21-04-2022 23:15 via nytimes.com
  
  On the bassist and bandleader’s centennial, 10 jazz musicians discuss his achievements and complexities and pick out a pivotal track from his repertoire.
  
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• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 2, Episode 8 Recap: Mind Melt

  21-04-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Vulcan mind melds have traditionally been depicted as an intimate telepathic linking of minds — but they can erase memories, too.
  
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• The 10 Best National Pavilions at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Ranked

  21-04-2022 22:46 via artnews.com
  
  As usual for the Venice Biennale, this year there are dozens of national pavilions—some housed within the Arsenale and the Giardini, the two main spaces, and many not. It is virtually impossible to see them all, much as one may be tempted to try. That poses a challenge: How does one pick out the most important ones?
  To help out, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 best pavilions at this year’s Biennale.
  
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• ‘Great Comet’ Producer Hasn’t Paid Royalties, Composer Says

  21-04-2022 22:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Dave Malloy has filed a petition seeking the help of an arbitrator in his dispute with Howard Kagan over international productions.
  
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• Do You Skip Intro?

  21-04-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Wesley Morris and Hanif Abdurraqib consider what’s lost when you breeze past the TV theme song.
  
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• John Kane, the First Self-Taught Artist to Be Featured in a U.S. Museum, Gets the Biography Treatment

  21-04-2022 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  These days, the painter John Kane is unfamiliar to many. But it wasn’t always that way.
  In 1927, the New York Daily News ran an article about Kane underneath the headline “Combines Art and Trade!” A photograph that came with the article showed the plainspoken artist at his easel, painting a quaint scene showing Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania city he called home.
  Three years later, when he became the only hometown artist to make the participant list of the Carnegie International,
  
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• At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims

  21-04-2022 21:40 via nytimes.com
  This year’s event is a lopsided affair, with a forceful central exhibition but disappointing national pavilions. Stan Douglas’s packs a punch and Simone Leigh’s stands out for its aspiration.
  
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• New York Hispanic Society Acquires Ten New Works, Including Goya Portrait and Orozco Drawings

  21-04-2022 21:18 via artnews.com
  
  The New York Hispanic Society announced Thursday that they have acquired ten new works, including an allegorical portrait of the painter Francisco Goya by Eugenio Lucas Velazquez.
  These new works join the New York Hispanic Society’s already impressive collection of 750,000 artworks, rare books, and decorative arts from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Founded in 1904 by Archer M.Huntington, the NYHS has a particularly impressive collection of Spanish Old Masters, including works by El G
  
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• The Caretakers of Women’s Pandemic Stories

  21-04-2022 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  For two years, the staff of the National Women’s History Museum has collected journals to capture women’s experiences. Here’s a sliver of the 500 entries.
  
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• Street closures scheduled for Arts Goggle this weekend - City of Fort Worth

  21-04-2022 20:50
  
  Street closures scheduled for Arts Goggle this weekend  City of Fort Worth
  
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• ‘A Very British Scandal’ Review: Claire Foy Gives Up the Crown

  21-04-2022 20:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress known for her young Elizabeth II returns as a noblewoman with a startlingly different story.
  
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• Review: ‘Silent Invasion’ Is Deborah Birx’s Story of Trump’s Covid Response

  21-04-2022 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Silent Invasion” is an insider’s account of an ignorant president whose policies may have cost thousands of lives.
  
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• Jimmy Wang Yu, Seminal Figure in Kung Fu Films, Dies at 79

  21-04-2022 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  He changed the nature of Asian martial arts movies, which had been relying on sword fighting and fantasy, by bringing hand-to-hand combat to the fore.
  
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• M+ Museum Pulls Three Politically Charged Works From Display, Spurring Speculation of Censorship

  21-04-2022 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of its long-awaited reopening, after a pandemic-related closure, Hong Kong’s M+ Museum has removed three politically charged artworks by Chinese contemporary artists from an exhibition dedicated to works amassed by Swiss collector Uli Sigg, whose donation of over 1,400 works helped form the basis of M+’s permanent collection.
  The three works are Wang Xingwei’s New Beijing (2001), Zhou Tiehai’s Press Conference III (1996), and Wang Guangyi’s
  
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• View April's Exhibition at Sertoma Arts Center Through April 28 - RaleighNC.gov

  21-04-2022 20:07
  View April's Exhibition at Sertoma Arts Center Through April 28  RaleighNC.gov
  
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• Palestinian Art and Identity Takes Centerstage in Venice During the Biennale

  21-04-2022 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  At the center of the Palazzo Mora in Venice is a live olive grove strewn with keys. Each key represents a Palestinian displaced during the mass evictions in 1948 and symbolize the intention to return home one day. A historic map of Palestine blankets the gallery floor; overhead, speakers play Palestinian oral histories spliced with traditional music.
  All of this is part of a new exhibition dedicated to Palestinian art. Titled “From Palestine with Art,” the show was organized by the P
  
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• Pissarro Seized by Nazis to Be Sold at Auction After Families Settle

  21-04-2022 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The painting, which had been left behind by a Jewish couple who left Germany as Hitler rose to power, is to be sold in May at Christie’s.
  
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• ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Review: Being Nicolas Cage

  21-04-2022 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage — maybe, kind of, not really — in a comically romantic, buddy-movie thriller that is also an ode to him in all his Caginess.
  
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• ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern

  21-04-2022 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicole Kidman star in Robert Eggers’s bloody Viking revenge saga.
  
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• Brainstorm! In Venice, the Prada Foundation Has Brains on Its Mind During the Biennale

  21-04-2022 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  As the Venice Biennale preview nears its end, I always begins to wonder: Which shows and artworks will stick with me? Why will so much of what I have seen vanish from my memory? And what will my brain actually decide to hold onto?
  A wildly discursive show that just opened at the Prada Foundation in Venice takes up some similar questions, delving into how people have tried to understand, rework, and fix the human brain over thousands of years. Titled “It Begins with an Idea,” the exhi
  
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• ‘Stanleyville’ Review: The Most Senseless Game

  21-04-2022 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  This absurdist farce brings together a cast of odd ducks to compete for an S.U.V.
  
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• Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard: What We Know

  21-04-2022 18:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Depp has sued Ms. Heard, his ex-wife, on grounds that she defamed him in an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post.
  
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• ‘Hit the Road’ Review: Wheels Within Wheels

  21-04-2022 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  A family trip is the occasion for humor and heartbreak in Panah Panahi’s debut feature.
  
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• Postcards From the Biennale

  21-04-2022 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  His paintings travel, but Ha Chong-hyun stays in Korea; Anselm Kiefer melds art and sculpture at the Doges Palace.
  
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• With ‘Waiting for the Sibyl,’ Kentridge Looks Into the Future

  21-04-2022 18:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The South African artist developed a piece about how difficult it is to see around the next corner. Ironically, the work anticipated the uncertainties of pandemic life.
  
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• Will Smith, Before the Slap

  21-04-2022 17:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Plenty has been said about Oscars night. But what about the rapper-turned-actor’s remarkable journey up to that point?
  
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• ‘Charlotte’ Review: An Artist’s Brief Life

  21-04-2022 17:49 via nytimes.com
  
  This animated biopic about the German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon takes faithful inspiration from her life. What if it had taken more energy from her art?
  
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• Archie Comics Brings a Queer Character to Riverdale

  21-04-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new character, Eliza Han, who is biracial, will serve as a rival to Reggie for the affections of Harper Lodge. Drama!
  
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• Bonnie Raitt Faces Mortality With Compassion and Hope

  21-04-2022 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  On her latest album, “Just Like That,” the singer-songwriter brings new depth to songs of love and loss.
  
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• Honoring Genesis P-Orridge’s Legacy of Love, Art and Gender Revolt

  21-04-2022 16:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Genesse P-Orridge celebrates her father in an exhibition that may renew interest in the transgender artist, musician and spirit of eternal flux.
  
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• Kae Tempest’s Music Defies Boundaries. A New LP Demolishes Even More.

  21-04-2022 16:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The prolific British poet and musician’s fourth album, “The Line Is a Curve,” is personal in new ways.
  
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• Russian Artist Stages Protest at Country’s Empty Pavilion in Venice, $35 M. Richter Once Owned by Eric Clapton to Hit the Market, and More: Morning Links from April 21, 2022

  21-04-2022 16:03 via artnews.com
  
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  WITH ALL EYES ON VENICE for this year’s Biennale, here’s a quick round-up of things you might have missed in the deluge of information coming out of La Serenissima. Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine continues to loom large. On Wednesday, artist Vadim Zakharov, who represented Russia at the Biennale in 2013, staged a protest&nb
  
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• Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights

  21-04-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A surprise stay in her native South Korea led the artist, whose work will appear in Berlin this month, to study the paper-cutting rituals of shamans.
  
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• Mexican Artist Bosco Sodi Spent A Month Painting In A 12th Century Palazzo For His Striking Venice Exhibit

  21-04-2022 15:58 via artnews.com
  
  Bosco Sodi’s minimalist, highly textured paintings are intensely place-based. For the 2022 Venice Biennale, the Mexican artist spent spent about a month at the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, a grand 12th century building on Venice’s Grand Canal, producing a small series of paintings made in his particular process: by layering wood dust, cellulose pulp, glue and pigment on canvas and then letting it rest, semi-exposed to the elements.
  The Palazzo, having served as Sodi’s temporary s
  
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• The World Is Not Enough: Anish Kapoor Mounts a Grand, Dread-Inducing Doubleheader in Venice

  21-04-2022 15:53 via artnews.com
  
  “The Milk of Dreams,” the exhilarating and elegant main exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale, features a super majority of artists who are women and gender-nonconforming, with none of the male art stars who have long been the central focus of that affair. But do not worry about them. They are doing fine.
  Georg Baselitz has brought a dozen bright new paintings (and a few dark, deathly sculptures) to the grand Museo di Palazzo Grimani. Sterling Ruby has a wily, understated s
  
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• Long Lines Form for Chilean Pavilion’s Journey to the Center of the Earth

  21-04-2022 15:28 via artnews.com
  
  Attention-grabbing stunts, such as VR and interactive elements, are a double-edged sword—they can be highly entertaining, but they can also feel like a time-waster if the gambit doesn’t pay off. One such example at this year’s Venice Biennale came in the Chilean Pavilion, which boasted queues of 20-plus minutes to get in at the Arsenale. Word on the ground from some had been that the wait wasn’t worth it, though visitors who did persevere got to see a technically complex
  
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• Chiwetel Ejiofor Was Asked to Play a Space Alien. He Knew What to Do.

  21-04-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For the Showtime series “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” the actor mined his own experience to find a voice for a being who must learn to be human.
  
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• Chiwetel Ejiofor Knew How to Play an Alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth

  21-04-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For the Showtime series “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” the actor mined his own experience to find a voice for a being who must learn to be human.
  
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• Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture raises curtain on 2022-23 MIAC Live series - Mercyhurst University

  21-04-2022 14:55
  Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture raises curtain on 2022-23 MIAC Live series  Mercyhurst University
  
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• Robert Morse, Impish Tony-Winning Comedy Star, Is Dead at 90

  21-04-2022 14:25 via nytimes.com
  
  He dazzled as a charming corporate schemer in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” His later triumphs included a memorable role on “Mad Men.”
  
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• ‘Petite Maman’ Review: Into the Woods

  21-04-2022 13:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The French director Céline Sciamma’s enchanting new movie centers on a young girl who discovers a mysterious friend in a storybook forest.
  
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• The Upside of a Lockdown

  21-04-2022 13:07 via nytimes.com
  
  How the pandemic reshaped the careers of design professionals in three different countries.
  
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• Why Libraries May Never Stop Being People Places

  21-04-2022 13:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Redesigned buildings with outdoor gathering areas were underway before Covid hit. Now, they look like 20/20 foresight.
  
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• ‘¿Y Cómo Es Él?’ Review: A Fraught Buddy Comedy

  21-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A jealous man tries to exact revenge on his wife’s lover, but ends up taking a road trip with him instead.
  
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• ‘The Duke’ Review: Suspect’s 61

  21-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This film from the director Roger Michell has a compelling art-thief protagonist, but is weighed down by soggy family drama.
  
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• ‘Sexual Drive’ Review: Best Served Hot and Heavy

  21-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Natto, mapo tofu and fatty ramen become objects of titillation in this intriguing Japanese triptych that centers on sex without ever depicting it.
  
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• ‘Saturday Fiction’ Review: Theater of History

  21-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this period drama set in Shanghai in December 1941, the resplendent Gong Li conveys depths of pain and longing even when the script offers none.
  
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• ‘Marvelous and the Black Hole’ Review: Finding Magic Amid Rage

  21-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A teenager reeling from the loss of her mother discovers an unlikely companion in an older magician.
  
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• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Personal Mementos Up for Auction

  21-04-2022 12:49 via nytimes.com
  
  More than 150 items that belonged to the Supreme Court justice, who died in 2020, will be sold. Proceeds will benefit the Washington National Opera, which she frequently attended.
  
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