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• The Story of ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ Coolio’s Biggest Hit

  29-09-2022 23:21 via nytimes.com
  The 1995 song changed the rapper’s life, bringing a rush of stardom — along with a new level of success that he was unable to match again.
  
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• Which Artists Are Most In-Demand at Auction? Phillips’s ‘New Now’ Sale Offers Some Clues

  29-09-2022 21:55 via artnews.com
  Each season, Phillips generates records for rising talent during its New York “New Now” sale, which is mainly devoted to in-demand emerging artists. This week, new benchmarks were set for 32 artists, including Amanda Baldwin, Ángeles Agrela, Alteronce Gumby, and Raelis Vasquez, with bidding dominated primarily by European and U.S. collectors. Together, the sales brought in a collective $8.4 million with buyer’s premium across 222 lots. Without premium, the sale failed to
  
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• The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake

  29-09-2022 21:24 via nytimes.com
  In “Tár,” “Showing Up” and other selections, the annual event makes the case for big-screen aesthetics and large-scale ambitions.
  
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• As 125 Newbury Opens, Pace Founder Arne Glimcher Surveys A Changing Art World

  29-09-2022 21:01 via artnews.com
  Even in retirement, Arne Glimcher, at 84, is a busy man. With his son, Marc, now fully in charge of Pace, the mega-gallery Glimcher founded as a small Boston storefront in 1960, Glimcher opens a new gallery in downtown Manhattan this week, a kind of project space that will both host exhibitions and represent a modest number of artists. The space is called 125 Newbury, which makes for something like a Marx Brothers routine. Pace Gallery was born at 125 Newbury Street, in Boston, but now has its e
  
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• Nefertiti’s Undiscovered Tomb May Be Near Tutankhamun’s Burial Place, Former British Museum Curator Says

  29-09-2022 20:49 via artnews.com
  The site of Nefertiti’s tomb, one of the longest-running archaeological mysteries, has left experts puzzling for centuries. But this week, a former British Museum curator argued that he may have found a clue that could eventually lead to its discovery.Speaking to the Guardian, Nicholas Reeves, who formerly worked in that London institution’s Egyptian antiquities department, argued that Nefertiti may have buried in a hidden area near the burial chamber of her stepson Tutankhamun. His
  
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• NFT Trading Volume Is Reportedly Down 97 Percent Since January

  29-09-2022 20:37 via artnews.com
  NFT trading volume is down a whopping 97 percent since its peak in January, according to Bloomberg.In January 2022, $17.2 billion was traded on the NFT market, a stunning high the eclipsed 2021’s NFT mania, which at its peak saw $4.2 billion traded in August. But since the start of this year, the market has slowed down significantly, and experts have dropped the NFT market’s value by more than $2 trillion. In September, the trading volume was just as $466.9 million.This slump has fol
  
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• Strike at Philadelphia Museum of Art Is Window Into Broader Unrest

  29-09-2022 19:58 via nytimes.com
  During a period of labor organizing in museums across the country, workers in Philadelphia are now outside carrying picket signs. They’re frustrated with lengthy wage negotiations.
  
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• Morris Hirshfield Rises Again

  29-09-2022 19:55 via nytimes.com
  The paintings of this self-taught artist slipped from view after his death in 1946. A lavish exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum speeds his return.
  
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• Closely Watched Curators Chrissie Iles, Meg Onli to Organize 2024 Whitney Biennial

  29-09-2022 19:27 via artnews.com
  Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli will curate the 2024 edition of the Whitney Biennial, a taste-making survey of the U.S. art scene as it stands right now that is held once every two years at the Whitney Museum in New York.Both Iles and Onli have earned widespread attention for their cutting-edge shows, which have upheld the kind of conceptual art and heady ideas that most curators tend to shy away from. A theme for their Whitney Biennial, which will open in the spring of 2024, was not yet announced.Il
  
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• Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown

  29-09-2022 19:21 via nytimes.com
  With music by Solange and ballets by Kyle Abraham, Gianna Reisen and Justin Peck, the company’s annual fashion gala prizes costumes over dancing.
  
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• Sotheby’s Inaugural Impact Gala Raises $1 M for Climate Change

  29-09-2022 19:20 via artnews.com
  Wednesday night, Sotheby’s debuted its new Impact Gala in New York, featuring three separate auctions, one live, whose proceeds will help fund Instituto Terra, a rewilding project in Brazil led by photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado. The event was co-chaired by Annie Leibovitz, championed by Charles Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of Sotheby’s, and his wife Caterina, and sponsored by Morgan Stanley. Guests were invited for cocktails
  
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• Review: In Lea Michele, ‘Funny Girl’ Has Finally Found Its Fanny

  29-09-2022 18:54 via nytimes.com
  The “Glee” star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.
  
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• The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus in ‘Blonde’

  29-09-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  “Blonde” pretends to imagine how Monroe would have felt about her pregnancies. Instead, it jarringly shoves a C.G.I. fetus into her midcentury mind.
  
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• The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus

  29-09-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  “Blonde” pretends to imagine how Monroe would have felt about her pregnancies. Instead, it jarringly shoves a C.G.I. fetus into her midcentury mind.
  
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• ‘Ten Tricks’ Review: Trying to Drum Up Some Magic

  29-09-2022 18:33 via nytimes.com
  In Richard Pagano’s indie comedy, Lea Thompson plays a brothel’s business-savvy madam with a ticking biological clock.
  
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• ‘Bros’ Review: Boy Meets Boy Meets Multiplex

  29-09-2022 18:28 via nytimes.com
  Billy Eichner plays a moody podcaster who has sworn off relationships, but just might find himself in one anyway, in this gay romantic comedy.
  
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• Curators for the 2024 Whitney Biennial Are Announced

  29-09-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Chrissie Iles, a longtime veteran of the museum, and Meg Onli, an important emerging voice in the art world, will organize the 81st edition of the show.
  
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• ‘The Rings of Power’: Diverse Casting Opens Up Fantasy TV Series

  29-09-2022 17:58 via nytimes.com
  Diversely casting fantasy series like “The Rings of Power” isn’t a betrayal of the story. It’s also just one step in opening up the genre.
  
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• Zelensky’s Answer to Escalating Russian Threats: Defiance

  29-09-2022 17:50 via nytimes.com
  In a nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told Russian soldiers: ‘If you want to live, run.’
  
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• On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe

  29-09-2022 17:48 via nytimes.com
  The Icelandic visionary’s 10th studio album can be thorny and intense, but it finds hope across generations.
  
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• ‘God’s Creatures’ Review: A Crisis of Conscience

  29-09-2022 17:34 via nytimes.com
  Emily Watson is terrific at telegraphing how a mother’s love grinds against her moral code in this atmospheric seaside drama.
  
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• ‘Argentina, 1985’ Review: All the Prosecutor’s Men

  29-09-2022 17:29 via nytimes.com
  Santiago Mitre’s impassioned dramatization of the Trial of the Juntas benefits from a gentle evocation of collective memory.
  
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• ‘Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done

  29-09-2022 17:19 via nytimes.com
  Walter Hill’s lean, mean shoot-’em-up is a master class in B-movie craft.
  
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• ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Review: Still Spelling Trouble

  29-09-2022 16:30 via nytimes.com
  The Sanderson sisters return, bringing the same spooky humor with some modern twists.
  
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• Andersonville Arts Weekend Will Turn Neighborhood Into 'Walkable Art Gallery,' Including New Outdoor Market - Block Club Chicago

  29-09-2022 16:16 via blockclubchicago.org
  Andersonville Arts Weekend Will Turn Neighborhood Into 'Walkable Art Gallery,' Including New Outdoor Market  Block Club Chicago
  
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• Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance

  29-09-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  With more than a half-century of work behind her, Rainer goes out swinging with “Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?,” which takes on themes of race and resistance.
  
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• Trigger Warning: You Might Be Sensitive to the Content of a Feminist Revolution in Iran

  29-09-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This essay is published under a pseudonym to protect the author, who is an artist born and raised in Iran and now living in the United States.  Jina (Mahsa) Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish woman visiting Tehran with her family when she was arrested by Iran’s Morality Police (Gashte Ershad) for wearing “improper” hijab on September 13. Every word in the above sentence probably needs unpacking: what is “Morality Police,” what is &ld
  
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• In Jumana Manna’s Film, a Wild Plant Crosses the Political Line

  29-09-2022 15:15 via nytimes.com
  A Palestinian artist explores how Israel’s ban on foraging a spiny vegetable reverberated beyond the kitchen.
  
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• Great River Arts Festival: Vancouver culture, history depicted in 14 downtown murals - The Columbian

  29-09-2022 15:07 via columbian.com
  Great River Arts Festival: Vancouver culture, history depicted in 14 downtown murals  The Columbian
  
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• Book Review: “When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe

  29-09-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by the Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, argues that the legendary firm has accrued an inordinate amount of influence chasing profits at the expense of moral principle.
  
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• Dealers Michael Rosenfeld and halley k harrisburg Have Long Collected Artists Who Are Only Now Gaining Mainstream Recognition

  29-09-2022 14:30 via artnews.com
  In 2004, dealer Michael Rosenfeld and artist Betye Saar came across a discovery at an antiques fair in New York that seemed too good to be true: a work by Lee Bontecou priced at just $850. Bontecou is now known for her pioneering abstractions made during the postwar era—but it wasn’t always that way. Like many female artists of her time, she had been sidelined in favor of her male contemporaries, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, whose pieces were selling for eight figure
  
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• Photographer Sonia Handelman Meyer Dies at 102, Data Shows Huge NFT Drop, and More: Morning Links for September 29, 2022

  29-09-2022 14:09 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHAMMER TIME. The big-ticket fall auctions of modern and contemporary art in New York are approaching, and today Sotheby’s uncorked news of one of its choice offerings: 90 works from the collection of David Solinger, the lawyer and Whitney Museum president who died in 1996. It is estimated to haul in $100 million. An
  
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• ‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Review: Escape From New Orleans

  29-09-2022 14:04 via nytimes.com
  This hyper-stylized quasi-superhero movie by Ana Lily Amirpour follows a mental hospital patient with supernatural abilities; it looks a lot more fun than it actually is.
  
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• Frieze London, Deutsche Bank Partner with Artist Ibrahim Mahama to Support Emerging Curators Fellowship

  29-09-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  Frieze London, in partnership with Deutsche Bank, will partner with artist Ibrahim Mahama to support the fourth iteration of its Emerging Curators Fellowship, an initiative aimed at supporting emerging curators who identify as Black or people of color and are based in the U.K.The latest fellowship will see the chosen curator working at two arts spaces in Manchester, England, the Whitworth and the Manchester City Art Gallery. Both will launch an open-call application for it next year.In
  
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• Allison Katz Heads to Hauser & Wirth After Showing in Venice Biennale

  29-09-2022 13:36 via artnews.com
  After showing her work at the Venice Biennale in Italy, painter Allison Katz has new representation with Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest galleries in the world. She will leave her New York gallery, Luhring Augustine, though she will continue with her other representatives, Antenna Space, Giò Marconi, and dépendance.Katz will have her first show with Hauser & Wirth in 2023 at its Los Angeles gallery, one of 16 that the enterprise has worldwide. The London-based artist wil
  
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• Niagara Arts Guild meeting features Julie Goodman's 'Paper Art' Oct. 14 - Niagara Frontier Publications

  29-09-2022 13:01 via wnypapers.com
  Niagara Arts Guild meeting features Julie Goodman's 'Paper Art' Oct. 14  Niagara Frontier Publications
  
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• ‘What We Leave Behind’ Review: A Father’s Final Project

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  At 89, Julián Moreno began building a home in Mexico for his children who had immigrated to the U.S. His granddaughter made the poignant documentary “What We Leave Behind.”
  
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• ‘Vesper’ Review: Seeds of Hope

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This elegantly visualized dystopian fantasy envelops us in the world of a gifted girl fending for survival with her sickly father.
  
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• Top Theater & Performing Arts Events in Houston: October 2022 - 365 Things to Do in Houston

  29-09-2022 13:00 via 365thingsinhouston.com
  Top Theater & Performing Arts Events in Houston: October 2022  365 Things to Do in Houston
  
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• ‘The Justice of Bunny King’ Review: No Way Out

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this unsteady drama from New Zealand, Bunny, a chronic rule-bender, wants to pay a birthday visit to her daughter, but first she needs a house.
  
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• ‘The Good House’ Review: Expending Emotional Real Estate

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline star in a film that hides a story about alcoholism inside a soft focus romance.
  
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• ‘Smile’ Review: Grab and Grin

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A young psychiatrist believes she’s being pursued by a malevolent force in this impressive horror feature debut.
  
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• ‘Sirens’ Review: The Risk in Rocking Out in Beirut

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A documentary about an all-female metal group in Lebanon shows the difficulties of asserting complex identities in a repressive environment.
  
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• ‘InHospitable’ Review: Fight for Survival

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Patients push back on a medical behemoth in this persuasive health care documentary.
  
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• ‘I Didn’t See You There’ Review: A View From His Seat

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The filmmaker Reid Davenport, by turns pensive and irritated, takes viewers inside his life as a disabled person through footage shot entirely from his perspective.
  
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• ‘From the Hood to the Holler’ Review: A Race to Galvanize the Poor

  29-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary revisits the former Kentucky state representative Charles Booker’s 2020 campaign to unseat Mitch McConnell in the Senate.
  
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• Small Stones Festival of Arts bringing creativity back to Gra_on – Millbury Sutton Chronicle - Millbury-Sutton Chronicle

  29-09-2022 12:33 via millburysutton.com
  Small Stones Festival of Arts bringing creativity back to Gra_on – Millbury Sutton Chronicle  Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
  
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• Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall

  29-09-2022 12:27 via nytimes.com
  Artist-made jewelry is no longer an outlier as wearable pieces head to auction — and to museum collections.
  
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• Rhode Island Latino Arts encourages Latino stories to be told year-round - Valley Breeze

  29-09-2022 12:00 via valleybreeze.com
  Rhode Island Latino Arts encourages Latino stories to be told year-round  Valley Breeze
  
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• $100 M. Collection of Former Whitney Museum President David Solinger To be Auctioned at Sotheby’s in November

  29-09-2022 12:00 via artnews.com
  Works from the collection of David Solinger, a lawyer and former president of the Whitney Museum who died in 1996 at the age of 90, will be offered by the collector’s family at Sotheby’s this fall. A group of 90 paintings and sculptures by the likes of Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffetm and others will be sold across sales in New York and Paris. A tranche of the top lots will be offered during a dedicated evening sale on November 14 at Sotheby’s New Yo
  
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