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• Meredith Tax, Feminist Author, Historian and Activist, Dies at 80

  06-10-2022 23:23 via nytimes.com
  An uncompromising voice in the women’s movement’s second wave, she focused on working-class women and later on women’s rights around the world.
  
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• A Dinner With Drama, and a Special Soundtrack for Dessert

  06-10-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  Known for his richly imaginative lighting and furniture, the designer Gabriel Hendifar is an equally inventive host.
  
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• Hammer Museum to Open Joan Didion Exhibit in Los Angeles

  06-10-2022 22:58 via nytimes.com
  The Hammer Museum won the claim on Didion’s legacy, with its expansive new show on the poet of California.
  
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• That Oscar Levant Play Had an Earlier Version. Its Writer Is Unhappy.

  06-10-2022 22:35 via nytimes.com
  The actor Sean Hayes is planning to come to Broadway next spring in “Good Night, Oscar,” written by Doug Wright. But another playwright, David Adjmi, is not pleased with the way his earlier script was handled.
  
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• ‘Battleground’ Review: A Look at the Anti-Abortion Movement

  06-10-2022 22:16 via nytimes.com
  Months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, this documentary provides, if nothing else, a glimpse into the minds of the mobilized minority leading the anti-abortion charge.
  
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• Netflix’s ‘Knives Out’ Sequel Headed to Theaters Before Streaming

  06-10-2022 21:25 via nytimes.com
  “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” will receive a weeklong release in about 600 theaters in the United States a month before it becomes available on Netflix.
  
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• Q&A: Getting To Know New Arts & Sciences Dean Christa Davis Acampora - UVA Today

  06-10-2022 21:24 via news.virginia.edu
  Q&A: Getting To Know New Arts & Sciences Dean Christa Davis Acampora  UVA Today
  
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• 1,000-Work Mallin Collection to Fetch $50 M. at Sotheby’s

  06-10-2022 21:00 via artnews.com
  Collectors Sherry and Joel Mallin are selling around 1,000 artworks they’ve bought over the decades. Their holdings will be sold starting later this year at Sotheby’s, where they are expected to fetch a collective sum in excess of $50 million. Their collection is expected to be one of the largest grouping of artworks from a single owner ever to come to auction. Still, the collection as a whole is much lower in value than other, smaller groupings of artworks from single owners li
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: 'Little Shop of Horrors,' Kumeyaay art, Beethoven's 5th and more - KPBS

  06-10-2022 20:43 via kpbs.org
  San Diego weekend arts events: 'Little Shop of Horrors,' Kumeyaay art, Beethoven's 5th and more  KPBS
  
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• Review: Yvonne Rainer’s Swan Song Is Not Quite a Grand Finale

  06-10-2022 20:27 via nytimes.com
  Rainer, who has said “Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?,” will be her last dance, tackles race, if at a puzzling remove.
  
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• What to Know About Kevin Spacey’s Civil Trial

  06-10-2022 20:23 via nytimes.com
  In a lawsuit, the actor Anthony Rapp said Mr. Spacey made a sexual advance when Mr. Rapp was 14. Mr. Spacey is accused of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
  
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• ‘Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’ Review: Following Orders, for Decades

  06-10-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  Arthur Harari's film dramatizes the true story of a Japanese officer who continued the fight for 29 years after the Imperial Army’s surrender in World War II.
  
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• Annie Ernaux Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

  06-10-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  Ernaux’s writing has spoken particularly to women and to others who, like her, come from a working class seldom depicted with such clarity in literature.
  
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• ‘Amsterdam’ Review: A Madcap Mystery With Many Whirring Parts

  06-10-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington lead a crowded cast of zanies in David O. Russell’s latest screwball outing.
  
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• JAM, a Gate-Crashing Gallery, Expanded the Idea of Blackness

  06-10-2022 20:12 via nytimes.com
  In the hardscrabble New York of the ‘70s, Just Above Midtown Gallery created a model for an art world to come. At MoMA, that experiment has plenty of life.
  
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• Kim Jung Gi, Famed Illustrator Known for Densely Populated Scenes Drawn in Front of Dedicated Fans, Dead at 47

  06-10-2022 20:06 via artnews.com
  Kim Jung Gi, the famed South Korean illustrator, died on October 3 in Paris at age 47. He was beset with sharp chest pains on his way to the airport to attend New York Comic Con, according to a post on his Instagram page. He died in the hospital soon after. Renowned for his ability to draw sprawling, densely populated landscapes full of people, tanks, buildings, superheroes and animals, all without use of references, Kim toured the world drawing live in front of audiences. He had just finished u
  
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• ‘The Swimmer’ Review: Tough Competition, In and Out of the Pool

  06-10-2022 20:03 via nytimes.com
  The writer-director Adam Kalderon renders his film with style and rich psychology.
  
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• Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan to Star in Hansberry Revival

  06-10-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” a rarely revived play by Lorraine Hansberry, will be presented at BAM starting in February.
  
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• American Tourist Smashes Ancient Statues at the Vatican After Being Denied a Meeting with the Pope

  06-10-2022 19:35 via artnews.com
  An American tourist smashed two 2,000-year-old statues after his request to speak with Pope Francis while visiting the Vatican’s Chiaramonti Museum was denied. The disgruntled man directed his anger toward an ancient bust, which toppled to the floor. While fleeing the scene, he also damaged another sculpture. The incident occurred earlier around 12 p.m. noon on Thursday in Rome.“The person who knocked down the statues was stopped by the Vatican police and has been handed over to the
  
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• A Rare $50 M. Piet Mondrian is Poised to Break Auction Records at Sotheby’s Next Month

  06-10-2022 19:34 via artnews.com
  Piet Mondrian, the groundbreaking Dutch Modernist, is having a moment this fall.  A new biography, Piet Mondrian: A Life, was released to rave reviews last month, and a retrospective marking the 150th anniversary of his birth is up—at least for a few more days— at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland.Now, Sotheby’s has just announced a star lot by the artist that will feature in its modern art evening sale in New York on November 14. That work will be Mon
  
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• In New Film, Actress Michelle Williams Captivates as an Unsure Portland Artist Who Makes Beguiling Clay Figurines

  06-10-2022 19:30 via artnews.com
  Clay figurines set in expressive poses capture the wistful spirit of a struggling artist in Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, which had its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival this week. Michelle Williams gives an emotionally rich performance in her fourth collaboration with the director, in a comedy-drama set at the (now defunct) Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC). Students, faculty, and alumni mark their days in a creative milieu, with Williams as Lizzy, and Hong Chau (
  
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• ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

  06-10-2022 19:12 via nytimes.com
  Ruben Ostlund won the top prize at Cannes for this preening, obvious satire of contemporary hypocrisy.
  
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• Didier Eribon on Ernaux: She captured ‘in one sentence what I couldn’t say in a page.’

  06-10-2022 19:09 via nytimes.com
  The French philosopher and sociologist said that Ernaux had always been “a great personal inspiration.”
  
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• Christie’s ‘Art Handler’ Shirts Draw Criticism Online from Cultural Workers

  06-10-2022 19:09 via artnews.com
  A new clothing collaboration between Christie’s and Highsnobiety is drawing criticism from an art handlers organization who see the joint retail project as exploitative.The clothing line, which has been released jointly by Christie’s and the online fashion publisher, includessweatshirts, t-shirts, and tote bags reading “art handler” — priced between $50 and $125. A marketing campaign advertising the line depicts models donning the garb brandishing Christie’s l
  
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• Second City to Open Its First New York Outpost

  06-10-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Long a staple of Chicago, the improv and sketch company plans to open a theater and training center in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn next year.
  
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• Joan Didion and the Western Spirit

  06-10-2022 18:31 via nytimes.com
  The Hammer Museum won the claim on Didion’s legacy, with its expansive new show on the poet of California.
  
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• ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ Review: Bopping to the Crocodile Rock

  06-10-2022 18:24 via nytimes.com
  A singing, dancing reptile with charm to spare is put to meager use in this live-action musical.
  
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• ‘Complicity’ Review: A Muddled #MeToo Drama

  06-10-2022 18:17 via nytimes.com
  A new play by Diane Davis at the New Ohio Theater addresses the topic head-on, but clumsily, our critic writes.
  
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• Things To Do in New York: Halloween Events and Activities

  06-10-2022 18:16 via nytimes.com
  Haunt the streets at Halloween parades. Dance at a “Zombie Prom.” Or find your way through a corn maze. We’ve got you covered on how to celebrate.
  
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• Grand Palais’s Director Departs for Fondation Cartier Ahead of First Art Basel Fair in Paris

  06-10-2022 18:14 via artnews.com
  Chris Dercon, the head of the Grand Palais in Paris, will depart his post to become director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, a contemporary art space created by the eponymous French luxury goods company.Dercon’s departure comes ahead of the first edition of Paris+, par Art Basel, which will open later this month and is the latest in a series of art fairs operated by the prominent Swiss company. Paris+ will take place in the Grand Palais Éphémère
  
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• Delaware Division of the Arts Director Jessica Ball Named to Mid Atlantic Arts Board of Directors - State of Delaware News - news.delaware.gov

  06-10-2022 18:07 via news.delaware.gov
  Delaware Division of the Arts Director Jessica Ball Named to Mid Atlantic Arts Board of Directors - State of Delaware News  news.delaware.gov
  
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• Review: The War in Ukraine Looms Over an Orchestra’s Debut

  06-10-2022 17:54 via nytimes.com
  Utopia is the latest project from Teodor Currentzis, whose home ensemble has faced scrutiny over its ties to Russian state funding.
  
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• ‘Derry Girls’: And Now Their Troubles Are Ended

  06-10-2022 17:47 via nytimes.com
  Netflix’s riotous comedy brings its coming-of-age story to a close, along with a chapter in Northern Ireland’s history.
  
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• The Facts and Fictions of Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’

  06-10-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  The 1934 opera, revived this season at the Metropolitan Opera, stoked the ire of the Soviet state, or so the story goes. But archives tell a more interesting tale.
  
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• ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music

  06-10-2022 17:27 via nytimes.com
  Cate Blanchett stars as a world-famous conductor heading for a fall in Todd Field’s chilly, timely backstage drama.
  
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• Anna Delvey, Notorious Scam Artist Turned Fine Artist, Has Been Released from Jail  

  06-10-2022 17:22 via artnews.com
  Anna Sorokin, the notorious scammer who talked her way into high society as the “heiress” Anna Delvey, has been released from jail — under the condition she forgo social media, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Sorokin, who assumed the invented identity of a German heiress, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for 17 months for overstaying her visa.An immigration judge ruled on Wednesday that she could be released from a facility in Orange County, N
  
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• ‘Piggy’ Review: A Bullied Teenager Gets an Unexpected Assist

  06-10-2022 17:21 via nytimes.com
  As violent as it is thoughtful, this Spanish movie dissects the webs of shame and secrecy that bullying breeds.
  
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• Ways of Not Seeing

  06-10-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  In her influential 2017 study More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, Georgina Kleege, a blind writer and UC Berkeley professor, visits the Museum of Modern Art in New York to look at some paintings. When she rents an audio tour, the little handheld device that MoMA provides presents Kleege with three options: there is one program produced for mainstream visitors, another for blind visitors, and a third for children. Like a blind art-loving Goldilocks, Kleege decides to try all th
  
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• ‘The Visitor’ Review: Let the Wrong One In

  06-10-2022 16:37 via nytimes.com
  A young husband discovers that a series of old paintings holds a sinister secret in this derivative creeper.
  
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• ‘Hinterland’ Review: Murderers Among Us

  06-10-2022 16:31 via nytimes.com
  Stefan Ruzowitzky’s film sets a serial-killer mystery in Vienna after the ravages of World War I and employs some dazzling blue-screen backdrops.
  
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• ‘Last Flight Home’ Review: An Intimate Memorial

  06-10-2022 16:26 via nytimes.com
  The director Ondi Timoner creates an account of her father’s final days.
  
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• Lisa McGee Found it Hard to Say Goodbye to Her ‘Derry Girls’

  06-10-2022 16:23 via nytimes.com
  The Northern Irish writer said that she had never felt so close to a group of characters. Now, the show’s third and final season is arriving on Netflix.
  
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• Two Recently Opened French Private Museums Look to Bring Art to All

  06-10-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  France is hardly immune to the private museum phenomenon. In recent years, collectors have been opening spaces to showcase their treasures and share their interest in a certain area of art or their commitment to a cause. In May, Korean artist Lee Ufan opened a museum for his art in Arles. Art critic Alexia Guggémos, who focuses on smiles throughout art history, is preparing for the inauguration of her Musée du sourire (Smile Museum), in a former Sergent-Major quill pen factory in t
  
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• From Her Algerian Family’s Living Room to the Dance Stage

  06-10-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Esraa Warda, who grew up in Brooklyn, takes the North African dances she learned as a child and brings them to the stage and dance studio.
  
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• Live Updates: Nobel Prize in Literature Is Awarded to Annie Ernaux

  06-10-2022 15:42 via nytimes.com
  The Swedish Academy, which decides the prize, lauded “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”
  
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• Your weekend arts forecast: The Florida Orchestra returns - St Pete Catalyst

  06-10-2022 15:32 via stpetecatalyst.com
  Your weekend arts forecast: The Florida Orchestra returns  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Numerica Performing Arts Center | VISITOR'S GUIDE | wenatcheeworld.com - wenatcheeworld.com

  06-10-2022 15:30 via wenatcheeworld.com
  Numerica Performing Arts Center | VISITOR'S GUIDE | wenatcheeworld.com  wenatcheeworld.com
  
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• In West Africa, a Budding Gallery Scene and a Thriving Fair Nurture Collectors

  06-10-2022 15:30 via artnews.com
  West Africa is now home to one of the most exciting art scenes on the continent—and with its rise comes that of a number of collectors based there. From Ghana to Nigeria to Senegal, these collectors actively support artists in their respective countries and invest in the local art ecosystem. What is most impressive about the area’s art-buying culture is the pace of its progress: there were not many active collectors of note there until recently.Some date the beginnings of that vibran
  
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• Icicle Creek Center for the Arts | VISITOR'S GUIDE | wenatcheeworld.com - wenatcheeworld.com

  06-10-2022 15:30 via wenatcheeworld.com
  Icicle Creek Center for the Arts | VISITOR'S GUIDE | wenatcheeworld.com  wenatcheeworld.com
  
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• Arts Center opens 'Honoring Life: Love and Remembrance' - Petaluma Argus Courier

  06-10-2022 15:30 via petaluma360.com
  Arts Center opens 'Honoring Life: Love and Remembrance'  Petaluma Argus Courier
  
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