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• George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94

  17-06-2022 23:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Born in Barbados, he was among the last of a generation of writers who traced the Caribbean’s transition to independence.
  
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• 13 Standouts From Salone Del Mobile

  17-06-2022 22:17 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s iteration of the Milan furniture fair brought straw baskets, paper lanterns, color-blocked carpets and more.
  
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• Joel Whitburn, Tireless Researcher of Music Charts, Dies at 82

  17-06-2022 21:41 via nytimes.com
  
  His numerous books delved deeply into the Billboard charts, developing what an admirer called “the de facto history of recorded music.”
  
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• Review: Radiant Artists, With a Percussive Bond

  17-06-2022 21:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Amanda Castro, Brinda Guha and Arielle Rosales come from different traditions but share a reverence for the dancers’ foundation: the ground.
  
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• Summer Horror in the City

  17-06-2022 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  For fans of scary movies, three horror series around New York just may keep you up all night.
  
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• Events for Fans of Horror Films in New York City

  17-06-2022 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  For fans of scary movies, three horror series around New York just may keep you up all night.
  
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• Donald Pippin, Conductor on Broadway and Beyond, Dies at 95

  17-06-2022 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  As music director, he contributed to the success of acclaimed shows including “Oliver!,” “Mame,” “La Cage aux Folles” and “A Chorus Line.”
  
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• Documenta 15 Diary: Beyond Borders

  17-06-2022 20:45 via artnews.com
  
  Work by Atis Rezistans in documenta 15.
  Few of the artists in documenta 15 have savior complexes. Formally speaking, a lot of their work resembles social practice and relational aesthetics, two styles associated with the aughts in which art exists not as objects but as interpersonal exchanges. These absence complexes are a key distinction. This is primarily so because the projects on view are mostly made by members of the communities they are also for, lending them a horizontal, rather than char
  
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• Claude Rutault, Master of the Painted Word, Is Dead at 80

  17-06-2022 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  His paintings were actually instructions for making paintings. One of his signature “protocols” was to paint a canvas the same color as the wall on which it would hang.
  
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• Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise

  17-06-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The orchestra’s power in theatrical music was on display in two concerts at Carnegie Hall led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
  
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• Jean-Louis Trintignant, Star of Celebrated European Films, Dies at 91

  17-06-2022 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  For 50 years, in movies like “A Man and a Woman” and “My Night at Maud’s,” his specialty was playing the flawed Everyman.
  
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• Bartees Strange Ponders Success in Dire Times

  17-06-2022 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  On his second album, “Farm to Table,” the indie-rock singer and songwriter finds no easy comforts in his own ascent.
  
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• How a TV Series Undersells the Danger of the Sex Pistols

  17-06-2022 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  A music critic who teaches college students about the punk movement takes stock of “Pistol,” the new FX drama about the 1970s British punk band.
  
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• In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love

  17-06-2022 18:17 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix series about a star-crossed teenage romance between a bloodsucker and a monster hunter has roots in both “Romeo and Juliet” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
  
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• Watch Bryce Dallas Howard’s Slow Escape in ‘Jurassic World Dominion’

  17-06-2022 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Colin Trevorrow narrates a sequence featuring the actor, a testy Therizinosaurus and a murky pond.
  
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• “Golden Ticket” by Kate Egan

  17-06-2022 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A quiz bowl winner and students at an elite music camp struggle to figure out who they really are in novels by Kate Egan and Mariama J. Lockington.
  
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• ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  17-06-2022 17:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Colin Trevorrow narrates a dinosaur escape sequence featuring Bryce Dallas Howard.
  
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• Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs

  17-06-2022 17:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by beabadoobee, Perfume Genius, the Beths and others.
  
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• Drake Surprise Releases a New Album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

  17-06-2022 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper’s 14-track seventh studio album came out at midnight, about six hours after it was announced on social media.
  
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• Drake Surprises Releases a New Album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

  17-06-2022 16:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper’s 14-track seventh studio album came out at midnight, about six hours after it was announced on social media.
  
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• Meet The Ghanaian-American Artist Helping Ghana Reclaim Its Royal History

  17-06-2022 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  Modern history has most often been written through the Western gaze and, with that power, comes the ability to control and shape narratives.
  For Africans specifically, this gaze has distorted perceptions of the continent’s diverse historical experiences and failed to properly reflect Africans’ true stories. A new generation of Africans, however, are taking ownership of their countries’ histories and, in effect, helping reclaim their narratives.
  Rita Mawuena Benissan, a Ghanaian
  
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• New York Philharmonic Chooses Arts Veteran as Leader

  17-06-2022 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Gary Ginstling, executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, will replace Deborah Borda as the orchestra’s president and chief executive next year.
  
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• Cooper Raiff, Arriving Early to the Party

  17-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At 25, the indie writer, director and actor is making waves in Hollywood. His second feature, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” could start a new career chapter.
  
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• Andy Garcia Is the Father of the Bride in More Ways Than One

  17-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who’s playing the role onscreen and in reality, understands his rigid character: “He’s an amalgamation of everybody I’ve ever known, including myself.”
  
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• Batman Cover Goes for $2.4 M., Walter De Maria Sites Get Upgrades, and More: Morning Links for June 17, 2022

  17-06-2022 14:14 via artnews.com
  
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  CALENDAR CONFIRMATION. The new New York fair from Independent, which will focus on 20th-century art, was just announced in May, but it already has an exhibitor list, and it is 31 galleries strong, Maximilíano Durón reports in ARTnews. Independent 20th Century, as the venture is called, will land at th
  
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• Ukraine Is Ruled Out of Staging Eurovision in 2023.

  17-06-2022 14:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest’s organizers said on Friday that Russia’s invasion meant Ukraine could not stage next year’s event.
  
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• Independent Names 31 Galleries for New 20th-Century Art Fair

  17-06-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Independent, which organizes an annual art fair each spring in New York, has announced the 31 galleries that will participate in its new 20th-century art focused fair, set to have its inaugural edition in September at the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan.
  Among the exhibitors lined up to take part in Independent 20th Century, which will run September 8–11 and coincide with the Armory Show, are Cheim & Read, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Garth Greenan Gallery, Karma, Parker Gallery,
  
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• Audemars Piguet Taps ‘Architect Who Doesn’t Build’ to Make Art for Oscar Niemeyer–Designed Paris Dome

  17-06-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Swiss watch company Audemars Piguet has commissioned artist Andreas Angelidakis to create a monumental artwork that will pay homage to ancient Greek culture.
  Titled the Center for the Critical Appreciation of Antiquity, the new work will be situated inside the Espace Niemeyer, a dome-like structure in Paris that was designed by the Brazilian modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer.
  The piece’s 19-day run will kick off on October 11, and will be viewable during the first edition of Art Basel
  
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• From Animals in Formaldehyde to NFTs, Here Are Five of Damien Hirst’s Most Controversial Works to Date

  17-06-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Damien Hirst, who rose to fame in the ’90s as the enfant terrible of the Young British Artists, is best known for shocking audiences with his art—from dead animals suspended in formaldehyde to floating basketballs to collections of pills—and the high price tags that have now come to accompany his works.
  Hirst’s first came to prominence with his inclusion in the controversial 1988 exhibition “Freeze” that brought together several YBA artists; the show was stage
  
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• $10 M. Worth of Antiquities Repatriated by Manhattan Authorities Fills New Museum in Italy

  17-06-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Italy has established a new museum in Rome dedicated to showcasing more than 200 artifacts that are believed to have been stolen from cultural sites across the country and trafficked in the US.
  211 of the artifacts, the majority of the 260 that make up the new museum’s rotating collection, were recovered during seizures led by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, which estimates the value of the grouping of recovered objects to be worth around $10 million.
  
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• Erin Doherty Shape Shifts in ‘Chloe’

  17-06-2022 11:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress, known for playing Princess Anne in “The Crown,” embodies a working class con woman in a new limited series on Amazon Prime Video.
  
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• She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’

  17-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  We spoke to the veteran actress as she returned to work, preparing for the opening of her new Off Broadway show “Corsicana.”
  
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• New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez

  17-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Chie Hayakawa Imagines a Japan Where the Elderly Volunteer to Die

  17-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The premise for Chie Hayakawa’s film, “Plan 75,” is shocking: a government push to euthanize the elderly. In a rapidly aging society, some also wonder: Is the movie prescient?
  
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• Late Night Delves Into Day 3 of the Jan. 6 Hearings

  17-06-2022 08:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Trevor Noah joked that Donald Trump “lives his entire life as if he is the bad kid in one of those antismoking P.S.A.”
  
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• Review: In High-Tech ‘Orchard,’ It’s Hard to See the Forest for the Trees

  17-06-2022 02:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Jessica Hecht, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chekhov himself too often get overwhelmed by this ambitious Arlekin Players Theater adaptation.
  
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• Phil Tippett’s World in (Stop) Motion

  17-06-2022 01:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The animator and visual effects artist, whose credits include “Jurassic Park” and “The Empire Strikes Back,” has directed his passion project, “Mad God.”
  
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