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• Ronni Solbert, Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 96

  21-07-2022 23:59 via nytimes.com
  
  She did the artwork for dozens of books, notably “The Pushcart War,” a parable about overcoming bullies, written by her partner, Jean Merrill.
  
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• How to Make Floral Arrangements That Last and Last

  21-07-2022 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  For the botanical artist Lutfi Janania, a lush plant isn’t always the right one.
  
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• ‘The Last Movie Stars’ Review: The Complicated Story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

  21-07-2022 23:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Ethan Hawke’s HBO Max documentary “The Last Movie Stars” examines two great actors in their own, and many of their friends’, words.
  
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• Review: Newman and Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Movie Star

  21-07-2022 23:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Ethan Hawke’s HBO Max documentary “The Last Movie Stars” examines two great actors in their own, and many of their friends’, words.
  
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• ‘Best Foot Forward’ Is a Story About, and By, People With Disabilities

  21-07-2022 22:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The Apple TV+ series, based loosely on a memoir by Josh Sundquist, prioritized disability representation on both sides of the camera.
  
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• When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital

  21-07-2022 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad Magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum.
  
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• To Illuminate History, an Artist Turns Out the Lights

  21-07-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  At the New Museum, Kapwani Kiwanga explores light as a form of surveillance, from 18th-century “lantern laws” to the N.Y.P.D.’s 21st-century strategies.
  
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• Amanda Shires Isn’t Letting Nashville, or Her Marriage, Off the Hook

  21-07-2022 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer, songwriter and fiddler found comfort with an unexpected collaborator and plumbed new depths on her latest album, “Take It Like a Man.”
  
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• Jewish Art Space Shuts Down ‘Rumors’ It Was Disinvited from Documenta Amid Anti-Semitism Controversy

  21-07-2022 17:59 via artnews.com
  
  A São Paulo–based Jewish art space disputed a report by a prominent German publication that it was disinvited from Documenta, calling the claims “rumors.”
  Casa do Povo — a center that says it “revisits and reinvents notions of culture, community and memory,” according to its website — took to the publishing platform e-flux yesterday to hit back at an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine  The space positioned the article as one attempt o
  
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• Michelle Obama Will Publish a New Book, ‘The Light We Carry,’ This Fall

  21-07-2022 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Light We Carry,” the former first lady will share her approaches to dealing with challenging times. Her 2018 memoir, “Becoming,” was one of the best-selling books of all time.
  
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• Hong Kong Collector Adrian Cheng Expands to Mainland China with $1.4 B. Seaside Cultural Complex 

  21-07-2022 17:38 via artnews.com
  
  Adrian Cheng, Hong Kong mega-collector and real estate tycoon, has announced the first foray of his K11 culture-meets-commerce empire into mainland China.
  A massive cultural-retail complex is planned for the Shenzhen waterfront, home to one of the country’s rapidly growing luxury regions. Dubbed K11 Ecoast, it will be located in Prince Bay in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district.
  It’s set to span more than 2.4 million square feet and include a multi-purpose art space, office building, a
  
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• ‘Alone Together’ Review: Finding Love in a Pandemic Retreat

  21-07-2022 17:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Katie Holmes writes, directs and stars in this minor-key rom-com set in 2020.
  
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• New York DA Returns Antiquities Recovered from Steinhardt Investigation to Italy

  21-07-2022 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney’s office returned 142 antiquities valued at an estimated $14 million to the Italian government, the office said in a press release Wednesday. 48 artifacts from the grouping were recovered during a criminal investigation into retired hedge-funder and art collector Michael Steinhardt.
  “These artifacts deserve a place in their homeland,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement, calling their cultural value to Italy “immeasu
  
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• New York DA Returns $14 M. Worth Of Antiquities Recovered from Steinhardt Investigation to Italy

  21-07-2022 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney’s office returned 142 antiquities valued at an estimated $14 million to the Italian government, the office said in a press release Wednesday. 48 artifacts from the grouping were recovered during a criminal investigation into retired hedge-funder and art collector Michael Steinhardt.
  “These artifacts deserve a place in their homeland,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement, calling their cultural value to Italy “immeasu
  
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• At Christie’s Art + Tech Summit, Web3ers Sell Each Other On Mass Data And Mass Adoption

  21-07-2022 17:34 via artnews.com
  
  The 2022 Christie’s Art + Tech Summit rounded up VCs, VPs, CEOs, COOs, CSOs, brand heads, founders and all the other executive titles you can imagine from a variety of start-ups and established tech companies to provide their insight on a vitally important question: what will the future of art look like?
  Here’s a preview: lots of data harvesting and self-measurement, increasing ease-of-purchase online and, of course, more opportunities to “add value” for the consumer.
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• ‘Oh, the Places You Will (Virtually) Go,’ courtesy of Google Arts and Culture - The Mercury News

  21-07-2022 15:45
  
  ‘Oh, the Places You Will (Virtually) Go,’ courtesy of Google Arts and Culture  The Mercury News
  
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• ‘Art of Love’ Review: An Erotic Male Fantasy in Puerto Rico

  21-07-2022 15:21 via nytimes.com
  
  A disillusioned college professor develops a relationship with a young Chinese woman, in a familiar and worn-out narrative.
  
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• Smoke Rises: A Jazz Room Returns on the Upper West Side

  21-07-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This storefront club that’s been mostly shuttered since spring 2020 has long been home to small-group jazz steeped in tradition. Now, it reopens, with some renovations.
  
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• Kennedy Center to Honor Gladys Knight, George Clooney, U2 and Others

  21-07-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  They will be recognized at the 45th ceremony in December along with the composer Tania León and the singer-songwriter Amy Grant.
  
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• ‘The Wheel’ Review: Songs of Love and Hate

  21-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this marriage drama, a young couple heads to the countryside to break out of a toxic cycle.
  
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• ‘The Reverend’ Review: A Beer With a Music Chaser

  21-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Get out of his way. With two decades of sharing worship and making music at a Brooklyn bar, the Rev. Vince Anderson appears to be unstoppable.
  
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• ‘Skies of Lebanon’ Review: A Beautiful Life, for a While

  21-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A woman’s journey to Beirut leads to a storybook romance in the debut feature from the director Chloé Mazlo.
  
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• ‘My Old School’ Review: An Impostor Makes the Honor Roll

  21-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary uses animation and professional actors to tell the story of a once-notorious hoax.
  
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• ‘My Donkey, My Lover & I’ Review: Three’s a Crowd

  21-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this idiosyncratic comedy from France, a besotted schoolteacher crashes her married lover’s hiking trip and befriends a deeply opinionated donkey.
  
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• ‘Anything’s Possible’ Review: Teenagers’ Romance Flowers

  21-07-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Self-preservation and allyship are also wrapped up in this sweet young adult romantic comedy, which is Billy Porter’s feature film directorial debut.
  
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• Why the Tossed Lawsuit Over Authorship of Maurizio Cattelan Works Sets a New Legal Precedent in France

  21-07-2022 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Artists have long worked with assistants, who often go uncredited, to make their works. Since the ’60s, with the advent of Minimal and Conceptual art, contemporary artists have pushed this even further, contracting fabricators to create works to their technical specifications.
  The art world has long recognized that the sole author of the work to be the mastermind behind its conceptual and intellectual underpinnings. A recent French lawsuit involving Maurizio Cattelan works has effectively
  
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• Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier

  21-07-2022 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jonathon Heyward is the first person of color to be the orchestra’s music director in its 106-year history.
  
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• She Wants to Heal the World Through Second Line

  21-07-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Michelle N. Gibson brings her one-woman show exploring the origins of New Orleans second line, “Takin’ It to the Roots,” to Jacob’s Pillow.
  
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• Review: ‘Fish Swimming in Dappled Water,’ by Riku Onda

  21-07-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Riku Onda’s “Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight,” set over a single night, explores the role a couple may have played in the death of their hiking guide.
  
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• Review: ‘Dirt Creek,’ by Hayley Scrivenor and ‘Wake,’ by Shelley Burr

  21-07-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two new novels, “Dirt Creek” and “Wake,” are set in remote towns hours from anywhere and on the road to nowhere.
  
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• Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

  21-07-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who love language.”
  
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• Memberships Open for Exclusive Group Supporting WT Arts Programs | WTAMU - West Texas A&M University

  21-07-2022 10:51
  Memberships Open for Exclusive Group Supporting WT Arts Programs | WTAMU  West Texas A&M University
  
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• Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair

  21-07-2022 09:57 via nytimes.com
  
  In London, a new play about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and a revival of “The Seagull” explore undercurrents of pain.
  
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• Carla Freeman selected as interim dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences - Emory News Center

  21-07-2022 09:00
  
  Carla Freeman selected as interim dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences  Emory News Center
  
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• Board of Trustees approves plan for Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building - psu.edu

  21-07-2022 09:00
  
  Board of Trustees approves plan for Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building  psu.edu
  
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• Board of Trustees approves plan for Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building - Pennsylvania State University

  21-07-2022 09:00
  
  Board of Trustees approves plan for Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Arts For Healing - WGRZ.com

  21-07-2022 09:00
  
  Arts For Healing  WGRZ.com
  
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• Trevor Noah Still Doesn’t See Any Good Arguments Against Gay Marriage

  21-07-2022 07:42 via nytimes.com
  
  “The House has officially passed a bill legalizing gay and interracial marriage, which is a great victory for 1995,” Noah joked on Wednesday.
  
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• A guide to the Evanston Arts Council - Evanston RoundTable

  21-07-2022 03:56
  
  A guide to the Evanston Arts Council  Evanston RoundTable
  
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• Review: Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Gets a Hell Yes

  21-07-2022 02:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Jordan Peele’s genre-melting third feature stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as brother-and-sister horse wranglers defending the family ranch from an extraterrestrial threat.
  
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