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• Rosmarie Trapp of the ‘Sound of Music’ Family Dies at 93

  18-05-2022 23:30 via nytimes.com
  
  She was the last surviving daughter of the baron and the would-be nun depicted in the stage musical and 1965 film.
  
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• The Best Booths at Frieze New York, From Stabbed Footballs to Twisted Steel Creations

  18-05-2022 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  On a sunny spring Wednesday, the 2022 edition of Frieze New York opened to VIPs at 11 a.m. at the Shed in Hudson Yards. This iteration of Frieze feels a little tighter than past New York editions—there are only 66 exhibitors, as opposed to the nearly 200 that showed at the fair when it was on Randall’s Island. Still, even with fewer galleries, the fair feels more claustrophobic.
  At the VIP opening, dealers reported solid sales. Roaming the aisles were some of the world’s top co
  
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• Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Masterpiece of Existential Angst

  18-05-2022 22:43 via nytimes.com
  
  His moody 2004 film, ‘Distant,’ about an unemployed factory worker in Istanbul, has been revived for a short run at Film Forum in Manhattan.
  
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• Cannes Highlights, Day 2: Festival Celebrates Tom Cruise and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

  18-05-2022 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  On Wednesday, the much-delayed sequel got its premiere. Elsewhere at the festival, the competition for the Palme d’Or began.
  
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• Marsha Pels’s Sculptures About Loss Stun at Frieze’s Section for Young Galleries

  18-05-2022 22:08 via artnews.com
  
  If much of Frieze New York is given over to blue-chip businesses, the “Frame” section for younger galleries contains a much different vibe. Presentations by galleries like Dastan, Hannah Hoffman, Lomex, and more can be found in this section of the fair, which is for galleries that have been in operation for 10 years or less. In “Frame,” edgy work shines, and it can result in artists getting recognition early on.
  “I love what ‘Frame’ can do for young arti
  
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• Albert Oehlen Brings Bizarre ‘Cofftea’ Beverage to Frieze New York

  18-05-2022 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  At Gagosian’s booth at Frieze New York, you can find an array of abstractions by Albert Oehlen, whose works have sold for sums in the low millions at auction. At most fair booths, this would be the main attraction, but here, it was something entirely different that was luring people in the event’s early hours: a functional vending machine plopped down in the center of Gagosian’s space that drew a short line just after 11 a.m.
  On offer is a bunch of bottles containing Kafftee, o
  
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• ARTS Seeks 2023-24 Seattle Civic Poet - Seattle.gov

  18-05-2022 21:39
  ARTS Seeks 2023-24 Seattle Civic Poet  Seattle.gov
  
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• ‘The Ipcress File’ Review: In the Footsteps of Michael Caine

  18-05-2022 20:13 via nytimes.com
  
  A new series on AMC+ remakes a fan-favorite 1960s Cold War thriller, with a “Peaky Blinders” star in the role Caine made famous.
  
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• Veronica Ryan’s Uncanny Objects

  18-05-2022 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  At 65, the British artist based in New York is in the Whitney Biennial and on the Turner Prize shortlist. Her sculptures blend strange and common items to make sense of the world.
  
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• ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents

  18-05-2022 19:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Serhii Plokhy writes about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other disasters, and about the common impulse among governments “to hide information and, later, to spin or distort it.”
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Premieres

  18-05-2022 19:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast hit the red carpet ahead of the film’s screening at the film festival on Wednesday.
  
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• Marty Callner Might Be the Most Influential Comedy Director

  18-05-2022 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Marty Callner made the first modern special, setting the template still in use. (He was also key to hair-metal videos. But that’s another story.)
  
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• He Might Be the Most Influential Director You’ve Never Heard Of

  18-05-2022 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Marty Callner made the first modern special, setting the template still in use. (He was also key to hair-metal videos. But that’s another story.)
  
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• Tom Cruise on ‘Top Gun: Maverick' and Doing His Own Stunts

  18-05-2022 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Cruise spoke at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick.”
  
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• A Band ‘About Being Messy and Chaotic’? Porridge Radio Finds Its Moment.

  18-05-2022 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  On its new album, “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky,” Dana Margolin’s indie-rock band thrives on emotional intensity.
  
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• Archaeologists Have Unearthed the 4,300-Year-Old Tomb of an Ancient Egyptian Dignitary

  18-05-2022 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  The tomb of an ancient Egyptian official who would have been responsible for secret documents in the royal chancellery was discovered in the ancient Egyptian necropolis Saqqara, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw said in a statement last week.
  Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser, a complex built for the late pharaoh who ruled from approximatel
  
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• Archaelogists Have Unearthed The 4,300 Year-Old Tomb of An Ancient Egyptian Dignitary

  18-05-2022 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  The tomb of an ancient Egyptian official who would have been responsible for secret documents in the royal chancellery was discovered in the ancient Egyptian necropolis Saqqara, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw said in a statement last week.
  Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser, a complex built for the late pharaoh who ruled from approximatel
  
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• Educator Colette Pierce Burnette will be the First Black Woman to Lead Indianapolis Museum of Art

  18-05-2022 19:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields announced on Tuesday that educator Colette Pierce Burnette will be its next president and chief executive. She is the first Black woman to lead the institution and will navigate it through a critical chapter in its 139-year-history.
  In March 2021, Charles L. Venable, its president and chief executive of nine years, resigned amid outcry over a job listing seeking a director who would work to maintain its “traditional, core, white art aud
  
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• Broadway Deal Over Rudin Shows Will Limit Nondisclosure Agreements

  18-05-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Performers and stage managers were released from agreements they signed to work on four shows that were produced by Scott Rudin after their union, Actors’ Equity, filed complaints.
  
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• Review: The Stephen Petronio Company Reconnects

  18-05-2022 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The group returns to the Joyce with a program that includes a new work, a Trisha Brown revival and a 2006 Petronio dance.
  
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• Steve Wynn Sued by U.S. State Department Over Alleged Violation of Foreign-Lobbying Law

  18-05-2022 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  The U.S. State Department is suing casino mogul Steve Wynn in connection to his alleged 2017 effort to obtain a diplomatic favor sought by Chinese authorities. The agency claims the business figure made the effort to protect his financial interests in Macau.
  The lawsuit comes nearly a year after the department directed Wynn to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) as a lobbyist for China. The move signaled the government agency would pursue legal action against Wynn if he fai
  
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• The Business of Making ‘Pleasure’

  18-05-2022 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The screenwriter-director Ninja Thyberg and the actor Sofia Kappel discuss creating a porn industry drama through a feminist lens.
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: Stars Walk the Red Carpet

  18-05-2022 18:20 via nytimes.com
  
  “Top Gun: Maverick,” the long-awaited sequel to the film that made Cruise famous, premieres at the film festival on Wednesday.
  
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• Comedian Seth Green Loses Bored Ape NFTs in Hack: “Well frens it happened to me.”

  18-05-2022 17:40 via artnews.com
  
  Comedian and actor Seth Green, known for his roles in movies such as Austin Powers (1997) and Scooby-Doo 2 (2004), announced on Twitter yesterday that he lost four Bored Apes in a phishing attack.
  “Well frens it happened to me. Got phished and had 4NFT stolen,” Green tweeted. He implored the NFT community and his 1.4 million twitter followers to refrain from interacting with the stolen goods, “please don’t buy or trade these while I work to resolve.” Green even
  
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• How 23-Year-Old Daisy Sanchez Went From Tumblr Star to Rising Curator

  18-05-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  I first came across Daisy Sanchez as a teenager when I followed her on Tumblr, where she posted art she had skimmed from online archives, along with pictures of her life in New York, dark musings on her past, and text-posts about artwork she loved. The way Sanchez  communicated about art was ridden with a joyful, infectious enthusiasm that attracted an audience. A trait, I discovered upon meeting her, that translates to how she is in real life — a key aspect of her charm.
  At just 23 y
  
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• Mai-Thu Perret’s Fictional Objects

  18-05-2022 16:18 via artnews.com
  
  MAI-THU PERRET SURPRISED HERSELF recently by producing a quasi-classical statue. Debuting this week at the Frieze Art Fair in New York, it’s a startling object: an updated version of the goddess Diana, standing straight-backed, made in ceramic except for the hands, which are finely cast in bronze. The sleek 5-foot-tall figure wears a sheath dress resembling a tunic, and her feet are clad, incongruously, in sneakers. But the strangest touch is an agglomeration of breast-like lumps around he
  
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• 5 Exhibitions Opening in New York This Week

  18-05-2022 16:15 via artnews.com
  
  A crowded May cultural calendar in New York this year has led to vast array of exhibitions on offer this spring, many of which have been open for a few weeks or opened at the end of last week.
  With Frieze New York opening at the Shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards this year, however, visitors should remember that the fair is just a few blocks north of gallery hub Chelsea, and a short train ride from eclectic offerings further downtown. Several exhibition worth catching are also opening this w
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Flies In

  18-05-2022 16:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The long-awaited sequel will screen at the film festival on Wednesday, with Tom Cruise back in the cockpit and walking the red carpet.
  
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• Tony Awards 2022: Who Will Win (and Who Should)

  18-05-2022 16:09 via nytimes.com
  
  A critic’s picks in a hard-to-predict Broadway year, plus nods to shows from Off Broadway and other, odder corners.
  
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• Critics Review This Broadway Season and Decode Tony Nominations

  18-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Decoding the Tony nominations, our critics review a season of bold productions that met audiences often craving the familiar.
  
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• BMW Brings Digital Art Into Vehicles for the First Time with Cao Fei’s Quantum Garden

  18-05-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  For years, BMW has stationed itself at the intersection of two equally popular worlds: automobiles and high art. That overlap is perhaps most famously embodied by the company’s Art Cars, for which artists collaborate with the German automaker to create a single, one-of-a-kind BMW model. Alexander Calder was the first to take on the challenge in 1975; since then, other participating artists have included Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
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• Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly.

  18-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Decoding the Tony nominations, our critics review a season of bold productions that met audiences often craving the familiar.
  
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• A Neil Diamond Musical Is Coming to Broadway, After a Stop in Boston

  18-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Beautiful Noise” will start at Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston next month and transfer to Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater in November.
  
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• Colin Kaepernick to Publish a Young Adult Memoir

  18-05-2022 15:36 via nytimes.com
  
  “Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game,” an illustrated book, follows a young athlete choosing between baseball, which seems like a sure path, and football, where he feels he can be himself.
  
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• How Gossip Is Remaking Online Hip-Hop Media

  18-05-2022 15:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Actual music can seem like an afterthought as digital coverage of the genre has tilted toward tabloidism. Are there other paths forward?
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: Dissident Russian’s Film Screens on Day 2

  18-05-2022 14:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” is directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, who has long been critical of the Russian government. “Top Gun: Maverick” will premiere later.
  
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• Newfields Names New Director, Otis Graduates Get Loans Paid, and More: Morning Links for May 18, 2022

  18-05-2022 14:13 via artnews.com
  
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  THE AUCTIONS KEEP COMING! In New York on Wednesday night, Sotheby’s rang up $408.5 million in Impressionist and modern art across 58 lots, with 51 finding buyers, Angelica Villa reports in ARTnews. That beat the house’s $339.9 million low estimate for the sale. Milton Avery and Leonora Carring
  
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• Ringling Circus Is Returning. Lions, Tigers and Dumbo Are Not.

  18-05-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Shuttered since 2017, Ringling Brothers will bring back its circus in 2023, but this time there will be no animal acts.
  
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• National Endowment for Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2022 - National Endowment for the Arts

  18-05-2022 14:00
  
  National Endowment for Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2022  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• Cannes Film Festival Impacted by the War in Ukraine

  18-05-2022 13:32 via nytimes.com
  
  At the film festival on the French Riviera, official Russian delegates have been barred from attending and President Volodymyr Zelensky made an appearance.
  
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• Cannes Live Updates: Russian Dissident’s Film Premieres

  18-05-2022 13:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Kirill Serebrennikov, a director who has long been critical of the Russian government, brings his new feature “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” to the second day of the Cannes Film Festival.
  
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• At Cannes Film Festival, a Case for Movies in a TikTok World

  18-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our reporter reflects on his first night at the Cannes Film Festival, an event that can sometimes seem like a throwback to an earlier age.
  
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• The Twisting Trail to the Tonys: ‘Can You Believe That We’re Here?’

  18-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At times it felt like a game of survival. But during a Broadway season unlike any other, productions showed their resourcefulness while learning how to live with Covid.
  
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• Matika Wilbur is Documenting Indigenous Culture, One Photo at a Time

  18-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Matika Wilbur is attempting to photograph every federally recognized tribe in the U.S.
  
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• Matika Wilbur is Celebrating Indigenous Culture, One Photo at a Time

  18-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Matika Wilbur is attempting to photograph every federally recognized tribe in the U.S.
  
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• Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York

  18-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Now guarding trees in Lower Manhattan, the poet and author of “Chelsea Girls” says: “Things that might have once been corny to me don’t feel corny anymore.”
  
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• Colin Kaepernick to Publish a Memoir

  18-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game,” an illustrated book, follows a young athlete choosing between baseball, which seems like a sure path, and football, where he feels he can be himself.
  
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• ‘Bros’ Is a Rom-Com That’s True to 21st-Century Gay Life

  18-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Billy Eichner and the “Bros” team made news by casting queer actors, but they also focused on writing a story that didn’t recycle straight tropes.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Celebrates Sweden and Finland Applying to Join NATO

  18-05-2022 08:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert called the move “good news” based on it being “bad news for Russia.”
  
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• Stephen Colbert Celebrates Sweden and Finland Joining NATO

  18-05-2022 07:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert called the move “good news” based on it being “bad news for Russia.”
  
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