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• Alexander Toradze, Idiosyncratic Pianist, Dies at 69

  19-05-2022 22:53 via nytimes.com
  
  A defector to the U.S., he was admired for his prowess in the Russian repertory, but his individualistic approach “was not for everyone — or for all repertoire.”
  
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• ‘Hold Your Fire’ Review: Ending a Siege

  19-05-2022 22:50 via nytimes.com
  
  A new documentary directed by Stefan Forbes centers on a 1973 hostage negotiation led by a police officer known for his pioneering techniques.
  
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• See Sales Highlights from 10 Galleries at This Year’s Frieze New York

  19-05-2022 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  Frieze New York has returned to the Shed in Hudson Yards for its 2022 edition, which had its VIP opening on Wednesday morning. Drawing crowds across the three floors of the arts venue, the scene on Manhattan’s West Side unfolded with its usual fanfare, with mega-dealers such as David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace showcasing work by blue-chip artists on their rosters, which they promptly sold. (Because these sales are self-reported, it can be difficult to independently verify them.)
  
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• Bill Simmons on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Athletes-Turned Actors

  19-05-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s the same thing that goes wrong if you’re going to ask actors to play in the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.,” Bill Simmons says. “It’s a little unrealistic.”
  
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• ‘Cane Fire’ Review: Here Am I, Your Plundered Island

  19-05-2022 21:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Burning resentment at colonial exploitation on Kauai, seen through the veil of history’s smoke.
  
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• Artist Award Roundup: Instituto de Visión’s Tania Candiani Presentation Wins Frieze’s Frame Stand Prize, New $100,000 Prize for Craft Arts, and More

  19-05-2022 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  With the 2022 edition of Frieze New York in full swing this week, the fair has announced the winner of its Frame Stand Prize, which goes to a gallery and artist participating in the “Frame” section, located on the back half of the fourth floor of the Shed in Hudson Yards. For the section, galleries in business for 10 years or fewer create single-artist presentations in their booth; this year’s iteration was advised by gallerists Olivia Barrett (Chatêau Shatto, Los Angeles
  
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• The U.K. and Greece Will Hold Landmark Talks on the Contested Parthenon Marbles

  19-05-2022 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  The United Kingdom will hold formal talks with Greece regarding the potential repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles, which have been in the British Museum since 1816. There are not dates set yet for the meeting, which was proposed by the UK’s minister for arts, Stephen Parkinson, to Greece on April 29. UNESCO announced the landmark agreement on May 17 ahead of International Museum Day.
  Also called the Elgin Marbles, the contested sculptures were stripped from the Acropolis in 1801 by Lord
  
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• Druid City Arts Festival in downtown Tuscaloosa 2022: What to know - Tuscaloosa Magazine

  19-05-2022 21:04
  Druid City Arts Festival in downtown Tuscaloosa 2022: What to know  Tuscaloosa Magazine
  
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• Lorraine Hansberry Statue to Be Unveiled in Times Square

  19-05-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A life-size likeness of the pioneering playwright will be unveiled in June as part of a new initiative to honor her legacy.
  
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• At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off

  19-05-2022 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The world’s largest, most luxurious and hard-to-get-to art fair embraces its new manageable size and accessible location. Thank the art fair gods.
  
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• Cannes Film Festival 2022: Politics Mixed With Moments of Grace

  19-05-2022 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and other movies each get polemical in their own way. But there are scenes of lyrical beauty, as in “Scarlet.”
  
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• Demolition for Jail Can Go Forward, Judge Rules in a Suit Brought by Artists

  19-05-2022 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Two artists, whose works are at risk of being moved and demolished, are seeking an injunction against the city construction, citing the Visual Artists Rights Act.
  
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• Review: Looking for a Hero? Hold on to These Dancers

  19-05-2022 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Donna Uchizono presents “Wings of Iron,” a subtle, virtuosic exploration of the art of perseverance.
  
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• ‘The Valet’ Review: A Crowd Pleasing Buddy Comedy

  19-05-2022 19:36 via nytimes.com
  
  What seems like a standard rom-com takes a spin in a different direction.
  
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• ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at 40: The Plant That Conquered the World

  19-05-2022 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Members of the cast and creative team from the original production, as well as the current Off Broadway revival, look back on how the show came together and discuss its enduring influence.
  
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• 6 Lower East Side Shows to See During Frieze New York

  19-05-2022 19:19 via artnews.com
  
  While big, international galleries flock to neighborhoods like Tribeca, the Lower East Side’s art scene still retains its edge. Here, emerging and mature artists with deep connections to the local art scene work through cutting-edge ideas in offbeat shows held in generally smaller spaces.
  The Frieze Art Fair, which opens at the Shed to VIPs in Hudson Yards today, will draw an international art scene hungry to find the hidden gems in a saturated city. Though the galleries won’t be as
  
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• ‘Torn Hearts’ Review: Sequins and Savagery

  19-05-2022 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In this horror movie with a Southern twang, an aspiring country duo seek guidance from their unhinged icon.
  
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• ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent

  19-05-2022 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Alex Garland’s latest film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman whose peaceful trip to the countryside turns creepy and allegorical.
  
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• At Cannes, Vincent Lindon Still Can’t Believe He’s Jury President

  19-05-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  As the star of a Palme d’Or winner, he’s seen how the award can change lives, so he takes his duties seriously.
  
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• At Frieze New York, Rose Salane Meditatively Investigates the History of Lost Items

  19-05-2022 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  Rose Salane, a Queens native, is known for plucking innocuous materials from obscurity to reveal them as repositories for her hometown’s history. One such project, 60 Detected Rings (1991–2021), is currently on view as part of her presentation at Carlos/Ishikawa’s booth at Frieze New York.
  It’s a new iteration of an earlier project: In 2019, Salane acquired a lot of 94 rings auctioned by the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She undertook a three-pronged
  
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• 6 Art Fairs in NYC This Weekend

  19-05-2022 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Our guide to Frieze New York Weekend, and the satellite art exhibitions from the Lower East Side to Chelsea to Harlem.
  
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• Cajsa von Zeipel’s Baroque Sculptures of Queer Young People Make an Impression at Frieze New York

  19-05-2022 17:57 via artnews.com
  
  There aren’t many provocative works at this year’s Frieze New York, which on the one hand is a reprieve, given that dealers sometimes resort to shock tactics as cheap stunts, and on the other is a disappointment, since business-as-usual can grow boring. Two new sculptures by Cajsa von Zeipel, however, deliever a pleasant jolt at Company Gallery’s booth.
  In recent years, Von Zeipel has developed a following for her silicone sculptures, which often feature übercool young peo
  
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• David Fincher Tries Animation in ‘Love, Death + Robots’

  19-05-2022 17:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The director made his first animated short for the new season of this Netflix anthology. “It was an incredibly freeing, eye-opening, mind-expanding way to interface with a story,” he said.
  
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• ‘Mondocane’ Review: Fractured Friendship, Fractured World

  19-05-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two orphaned boys fall in with a criminal gang in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
  
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• The Bolero Is Timeless. Miguel Zenón Is Giving It a Jazzy Tinge.

  19-05-2022 16:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The saxophonist and his longtime collaborator Luis Perdomo reimagined some of their favorite Latin American ballads for an album that made deep connections during the pandemic.
  
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• With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots

  19-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Omar,” composed by Giddens and Michael Abels, and based on the life a Muslim scholar sold into slavery, premieres at the Spoleto Festival USA.
  
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• Frank Miller to Revisit Ronin and Sin City

  19-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Frank Miller Presents will revisit a couple of comic book creations of his, like Ronin and Sin City, and start a couple of new series.
  
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• Broadway Set Designers on Their Appealing Sets

  19-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Live theater summons energy no digital performance can match. Set designers for five of this season’s plays explain how they built eye-catching environments that crackle with it.
  
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• Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards

  19-05-2022 15:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A new film about the celebrated graphic designer follows his career as the scale of his projects goes from small to extra large to global.
  
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• $24.3 M. Michelangelo Sells at Christie’s Paris, Denmark’s ARKEN Museum Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for May 19, 2022

  19-05-2022 14:04 via artnews.com
  
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  THE BEAT GOES ON. Despite the absolute slaughterhouse in the stock market on Wednesday, Phillips held an evening auction of 20th-century and contemporary art in Manhattan that saw all 36 lots sell (one was withdrawn presale), including an $85 million Jean-Michel Basquiat. That all rang up a record total for the firm: $2
  
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• $24.3 M. Michelangelo Sells at Christie’s in Paris, Denmark’s ARKEN Museum Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for May 19, 2022

  19-05-2022 14:04 via artnews.com
  
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  THE BEAT GOES ON. Despite the absolute slaughterhouse in the stock market on Wednesday, Phillips held an evening auction of 20th-century and contemporary art in Manhattan that saw all 36 lots sell (one was withdrawn pre-sale), including an $85 million Jean-Michel Basquiat. That all rang up a record total for the firm: $
  
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• Black Belt Arts Initiative supports 20 nonprofits in underfunded areas - Montgomery Advertiser

  19-05-2022 13:01
  Black Belt Arts Initiative supports 20 nonprofits in underfunded areas  Montgomery Advertiser
  
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• ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vinamrata Rai plays a rural Indian woman driven to the edge by family pressures in Ajitpal Singh’s tough and generous first feature.
  
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• ‘Emergency’ Review: Party Over

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A celebratory evening takes a turn when college friends find a young woman passed out in their house.
  
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• ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ Review: Gilded, Aged

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest entry in the “Downton Abbey” franchise is amiable enough — though despite its subtitle, it rests most of its extravagant weight on cozy familiarity.
  
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• ‘Digger’ Review: A Man Defends the Land Against Development

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Greek filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis takes an elemental theme and layers it with family conflict.
  
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• ‘Deception’ Review: Verbal Fetishism

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Arnaud Desplechin’s sly adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1990 novel, a middle-aged writer draws inspiration for his next book from discussions with his mistress.
  
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• ‘Cordelia’ Review: Going Underground

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A traumatized young woman and a strange musician form an unsettling connection in this disquieting psychodrama.
  
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• ‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review: Remember Them? (No?)

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This Disney reboot combines animation and live-action comedy with an irreverent, self-referential attitude.
  
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• ‘A New Old Play’ Review: Even the Clown Show Must Go On

  19-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Qiu Jiongjiong’s absurdist epic of 20th century China is both a movie and a play, both tragedy and farce.
  
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• Meat Loaf, Britney and a ‘Cancel Culture’ Musical

  19-05-2022 11:32 via nytimes.com
  
  At Theatertreffen, an annual celebration of the best in German-language performance, music plays a profound, and intelligent, role.
  
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• Things to Do in Los Angeles 2022: Restaurants, Museums and Festivals

  19-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The city has a lot more to offer than the obvious, with new genre-bending restaurants and bars, and happenings galore. Its comeback story is well underway.
  
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• Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’

  19-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The vocalist, pianist and composer interviewed roughly 100 people of color who had experienced “structural violence” and created the Healing Project, a three-part interdisciplinary work.
  
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• Myles Frost Stars as Michael Jackson in ‘MJ’ on Broadway

  19-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Just five years after he performed as Michael Jackson at a high school talent show, Myles Frost is making his debut in a Broadway musical about the King of Pop.
  
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• Seth Meyers: Madison Cawthorn Is Gone, but Soon Forgotten

  19-05-2022 09:19 via nytimes.com
  
  “Hopefully, he’ll learn his lesson: Next time you get invited to a cocaine orgy, just go,” Meyers joked.
  
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• In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest

  19-05-2022 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Honesty, respectability, sincerity — the clothes make the argument.
  
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• City of Detroit Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship partners with Motor City Sings on Community Songwriting Project - City of Detroit

  19-05-2022 09:00
  City of Detroit Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship partners with Motor City Sings on Community Songwriting Project  City of Detroit
  
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• Ernie Barnes Estate Gets Gallery Representation Following Auction Surprise

  19-05-2022 06:01 via artnews.com
  
  One week after a painting by Ernie Barnes became a surprise hit at a Christie’s auction, the artist’s estate has inked a representation deal with the New York galleries Andrew Kreps and Ortuzar Projects.
  At a Christie’s contemporary art sale last week, Barnes’s 1976 painting The Sugar Shack, a rollicking nightclub scene that appeared in the opening credits of the TV series Good Times and on the cover of a Marvin Gaye album, sold for $15.3 million, outpacing its $150,000 l
  
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• $85 M. Basquiat Makes Bullish Return, Bringing Phillips Evening Sale to Record $226 M.

  19-05-2022 04:20 via artnews.com
  
  While this year’s edition of Frieze New York may have drawn crowds to The Shed on Wednesday, Phillips joined the action staging an evening sale dedicated to 20th century and contemporary art that brought in a collective $226 million—marking the largest total in the company’s history.
  That figure was nearly double last year’s equivalent sale total of $118 million.
  Of the 36 works offered, 9 lots, including those by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cecily Brown, were
  
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• Basquiat Tops Phillips Contemporary Sale at $85 Million

  19-05-2022 03:38 via nytimes.com
  
  “Basquiat is not just an artist; for a lot of the people out there, he’s a religion,” one dealer said. But Wednesday there were plenty of newcomers to watch.
  
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