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• What Comes After a Storm? From Twyla Tharp, a Softer World

  17-10-2022 22:53 via nytimes.com
  The prolific choreographer tells a new story with two classic works at New York City Center: “In the Upper Room” and “Nine Sinatra Songs.” In that order.
  
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• Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’

  17-10-2022 22:52 via nytimes.com
  The Sri Lankan writer received the award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, for his second novel, which examines the trauma of his country’s decades-long civil war.
  
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• Mimosa Echard, Artist Who Creates Dreamy Worlds Where Plants and Humans Coexist, Wins France’s Top Art Prize

  17-10-2022 22:02 via artnews.com
  This year’s Marcel Duchamp Prize, France’s top art award, has gone to Mimosa Echard, whose multidisciplinary practice bridges the surreal, mechanical, and terrestrial in pursuit of plant and human symbiosis. The annual award carries a prize of €35,000 ($41,000) and is administered in partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris.Echard has a research-led practice that spans assemblage, painting, ceramics, and video games. Her projects often plunge the viewer into richly ima
  
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• France Returned 24 Skulls to Algeria. They Weren’t What They Seemed.

  17-10-2022 21:46 via nytimes.com
  The restitution of the remains, said to belong to 19th-century freedom fighters, was hailed as a symbol of reconciliation, but papers obtained by The Times reveal a gesture muddled by politics.
  
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• World Jewish Congress Vice President Condemns Documenta Over Alleged Anti-Semitism

  17-10-2022 20:42 via artnews.com
  Maram Stern, the vice president of the World Jewish Congress, an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations, condemned this year’s edition of the Kassel art exhibition documenta, which ended in September after a drawn-out controversy over allegations of anti-Semitism.In an opinion piece published in the German outlet Rheinische Post and first reported by Monopol, Stern described the recently closed quinquennial exhibition as “one of the most serious cases of ant
  
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• Rich, Famous and Then Forgotten: The Art of Rosa Bonheur

  17-10-2022 20:33 via nytimes.com
  An exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay will be the first major Paris show in over 100 years for a painter who defied gender expectations in her personal as well as in her professional life.
  
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• K-Pop’s Stray Kids Land Second No. 1 Album This Year

  17-10-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  “Maxident” is the latest release to top Billboard’s album chart on the strength of CD or vinyl sales, rather than streams.
  
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• Electronic Music, ‘Ear Witnessing,’ and More Sound-Forward Work to Appear in MoMA’s Permanent Collection Galleries

  17-10-2022 19:56 via artnews.com
  Alongside paintings and sculptures by postwar masters, visitors to New York’s Museum of Modern Art next year will be able to see—and hear—a range of sound-focused works by a few of today’s most cutting-edge artists, some of which will be on hand to perform live in the galleries.These works will appear at the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, a space for experimental performance art, video art, film, dance, and music that has now revealed its 2023 program.The spac
  
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• Kevin Spacey Begins Testimony in Civil Trial Brought by Anthony Rapp

  17-10-2022 19:53 via nytimes.com
  Before Mr. Spacey started testifying, a federal judge threw out a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress. Mr. Rapp says he was 14 when Mr. Spacey made a sexual advance.
  
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• City of Eagle dissolves Arts Commission with no notice to volunteer board - boisedev.com

  17-10-2022 19:40 via news.google.com
  City of Eagle dissolves Arts Commission with no notice to volunteer board  boisedev.com
  
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• 2,700-Year-Old Assyrian Carvings Unveiled as Part of New Archaeological Park in Iraq

  17-10-2022 19:27 via artnews.com
  An archaeological park with 2,700-year-old Assyrian carvings was revealed at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Sunday. The 13 rock-carved bas-reliefs were cut into the walls of an irrigation canal spanning six miles.Measuring 16 feet wide and 6-and-a-half feet tall, the carvings date from the reigns of Sargon II (721 BCE–705 BCE) and his son Sennacherib (705 BCE–681 BCE). They include depictions of kings praying to the gods. Archaeologists from Kurdistan and Italy’s University of
  
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• In New York, Masks Will Not Be Required at the Opera or Ballet

  17-10-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Many arts groups, worried about alienating older patrons, have maintained strict rules. Now “the time has come to move on,” one leader said.
  
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• 5 Exhibitions to See During Paris+ 2022

  17-10-2022 18:46 via artnews.com
  Paris+, the new art fair that has shaken up the Parisian and international art scene, opens to VIPs this Wednesday at the Grand Palais Éphémère, the temporary venue of the space that used to host France’s premier art fair FIAC. After Brexit, some of the art world lost faith in the London scene. Post-pandemic, post-Brexit, and with Paris+ in the mix, the French capital could become the center of the European art world once again. Accordingly, a spate of exhibitions acro
  
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• Why Be Normal?: Disability & Design Now

  17-10-2022 18:19 via artnews.com
  What is design? Is it a professional pursuit, confined to specialties such as product design, graphic design, user-experience design, or architectural design? Or should we think of it more broadly, as a way to understand and transform our physical surroundings, as an act of world-building and world-changing? In either view, design happens when attention is paid to how things are used, how they look, and how they change some aspect of human experience.
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• The Animalier’s Paradox: Rosa Bonheur at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

  17-10-2022 17:47 via artnews.com
  It is tempting to exalt Rosa Bonheur as a proto-ecofeminist icon. In the 19th century, the French painter blazed trails for women in the arts. Bonheur was the first of our gender to win both the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle. A leading animalier, she received a special cross-dressing permit (since the practice was illegal), ostensibly to observe certain scenes—horse fairs, slaughterhouses—where a woman’s presence might
  
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• Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars

  17-10-2022 17:40 via nytimes.com
  Allan Clayton brings pathos and terror, along with energy where it’s often missing, to a revival of Britten’s “Peter Grimes.”
  
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• Dealer Johann König Shutters Vienna Gallery Amid Reported Allegations of Sexual Harassment

  17-10-2022 17:38 via artnews.com
  After just a year, dealer Johann König will close his space in Vienna, which his gallery is now billing as a temporary venue.The German publication Der Standard reported news of the Vienna closure earlier this month. The closure came several weeks after Die Zeit published an investigation that detailed multiple women’s allegations that König had sexually harassed them.The women quoted in the Die Zeit report, some of whom were not named, accused König of having made lewd comm
  
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• How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rappers

  17-10-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  The city is home to one of the world’s most important musical ecosystems, and the 27-year-old is one of its biggest new stars.
  
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• From fabric arts to human waste: Student Biennial projects transcend | Cornell Chronicle - Cornell Chronicle

  17-10-2022 16:52 via news.google.com
  From fabric arts to human waste: Student Biennial projects transcend | Cornell Chronicle  Cornell Chronicle
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Fabien Frankel on Playing Kingmaker

  17-10-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The man who placed the crown on the new King of Westeros’s head is still not quite sure how he got there.
  
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• Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Embrace the Heel Again in ‘Black Adam’

  17-10-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In his wrestling days, he played the baddie. Now the action star is known for good-guy roles. He explains why he pushed so hard to play the DC antihero.
  
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• ‘Done on the Sly’: France’s Flawed Return of Skulls to Algeria

  17-10-2022 15:50 via nytimes.com
  The restitution of the remains, said to belong to 19th-century freedom fighters, was hailed as a symbol of reconciliation, but papers obtained by The Times reveal a gesture muddled by politics.
  
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• Soup-Splashed Van Gogh Goes Back on View, Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn to Be Sold, and More: Morning Links for October 17, 2022

  17-10-2022 14:55 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHOT TOMATO. Having recently been splashed with what appeared to be a can of Heinz tomato soup, Vincent van Gogh’s famed painting Sunflowers has officially gone back on view at London’s National Gallery, BBC News reports. As ARTnews previously reported, activists with the climate change
  
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• Philadelphia Museum of Art and Union Agree To Three-Year Contract After 19-Day Strike

  17-10-2022 14:34 via artnews.com
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the PMA Union, an affiliate of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, District Council 47, reached a three-year agreement, union leaders and PMA museum director Sasha Suda announced Friday.The PMA’s board of trustees and the union’s executive committee approved the deal’s terms on Friday. The union’s 180-worker membership voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract on Sunday. The vote was 99% in favor.“I fe
  
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• Ralph Macchio Will Always Be ‘The Karate Kid.’ He’s Finally Fine With That.

  17-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  His new memoir, “Waxing On,” sees the ’80s star making peace with the role that has brought him back into circulation thanks to “Cobra Kai.”
  
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• Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive?

  17-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar.
  
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• French Dealers Cast Doubt on FIAC’s Future as Art Basel’s Paris Fair Takes the Spotlight

  17-10-2022 11:00 via artnews.com
  The French art world has been astir for months about the future of FIAC, which used to be the biggest art fair held regularly in Paris.Earlier this year, Art Basel revealed plans to launch a new fair, Paris+. In the process, it kicked FIAC out of its longtime partnership with the Grand Palais and its October slot. Anne-Claude Coric, executive director of Paris’s Galerie Templon, told ARTnews, “We have been participating in FIAC since 1974 and Art Basel since 1978, so the replace
  
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• Book Review: ‘Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman’

  17-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Madly, Deeply” recounts the English actor’s greatest years of fame.
  
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• Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos on His Decision to Donate His Collection to Four Museums

  17-10-2022 10:00 via artnews.com
  A fixture on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list until he stopped acquiring art three years ago, businessman and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos recently decided the future of his art collection, gifting more than 350 works by 142 artists to four institutions: 140 pieces will go to the Greek National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST); some 100 of them will be jointly owned by the Guggenheim and MCA Chicago; and 110 are headed to Tate. Daskalopoulos, who started collecting in 1994, has long s
  
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• In Richmond, extra money for arts education is an equity issue - KPBS

  17-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  In Richmond, extra money for arts education is an equity issue  KPBS
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Vow’ and ‘American Horror Story’

  17-10-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  HBO airs a second season of the documentary on the Nxivm cult and Ryan Murphy’s show begins its 11th season, set in New York City.
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: A Convenient Mistake

  17-10-2022 04:03 via nytimes.com
  This week’s episode focused on the immediate aftermath of the king’s death and on the misunderstanding that helped shape the consequences.
  
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• ‘My Window’ Review: An Out-and-Proud Trailblazer Finds Her Way

  17-10-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Melissa Etheridge’s limited run at New World Stages is a celebration of its smoky-voiced 61-year-old star, and contains some confessions, along with her hits.
  
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