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• Painting Stolen from New York Gallery Ramiken Crucible’s Group Show During Frieze London

  18-10-2022 23:12 via artnews.com
  A historic London hotel, known for its distressed walls and overdue restoration, was the scene of artwork theft last week.On October 12, a burglar stole the oil painting Präparat by German artist Sarah Księska from West London’s Averard Hotel. The work was on display as part of a group exhibition the previous night by Lower East Side, New York gallery Ramiken Crucible, coinciding with London’s Frieze art fair. “It was a burglary,” Mike Egan, the gallery&rsq
  
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• ODU Students Take Over Barry Arts Building with Haunted Exhibition - odu.edu

  18-10-2022 22:06 via news.google.com
  ODU Students Take Over Barry Arts Building with Haunted Exhibition  odu.edu
  
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• ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’: 2 Takes That Shout Subtext

  18-10-2022 21:50 via nytimes.com
  Irreverence can be illuminating. But Bedlam’s energetic productions of classics by Ibsen and Shakespeare lose insight in the process.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Last Chairlift’ by John Irving

  18-10-2022 21:30 via nytimes.com
  At 900 pages, “The Last Chairlift,” his 15th novel, is an overstuffed family saga about a screenwriter very much like the author himself.
  
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• ‘The Ring’ at 20: Millennial Horror That’s Still Infecting Movies Today

  18-10-2022 21:24 via nytimes.com
  The film that kicked off the West’s J-horror fascination was made in the shadow of 9/11. Its influence can be seen in “Smile,” “It Follows” and more.
  
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• The New York Art Book Fair Returned With Fanfare For First Time Since Pandemic

  18-10-2022 21:09 via artnews.com
  The New York Art Book Fair may be overcrowded and visually overwhelming, but I’ve missed it. Where else can a blue-chip art gallery, an antiquarian bookseller and a 22-year-old zinester share space for a sweaty weekend?For this year’s iteration, the fair’s first IRL-undertaking in New York since 2019, organizer Printed Matter has taken the fair out of MoMA PS1 and returned to the site of its first event, which took place all the way back in 2006: 548 West 22nd street in Chelsea
  
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• More than 300 Looted Artifacts Linked to Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor Returned to India

  18-10-2022 20:40 via artnews.com
  More than 300 looted artifacts have been returned to India, the majority of which were seized as part of the investigation into Subhash Kapoor—accused by U.S. authorities of being “one of the most prolific commodities smugglers in the world”—and his associates. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced yesterday that 307 antiquities valued at nearly $4 million were handed off to a representative of the Indian government. Of those, 235 of the ant
  
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• Second Life: James Welling at Regen Projects

  18-10-2022 20:28 via artnews.com
  The subject of James Welling’s Portrait of an Augustan Girl (2022) appears lost in melancholy introspection. She faces the viewer, but her emerald eyes look off to the side and slightly downward. Alarmingly, her nose is smashed and eroded, and a sizable crater occupies the center of her chin, yet without a trace of blood. Furthering the mystery, a round, pinkish form vaguely resembling a nautilus shell sits on her forehead. These strange attributes make sense when one realizes this is not
  
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• 4,600-Year-Old Mesopotamian City Was Made of Marsh Islands, New Study Finds

  18-10-2022 20:27 via artnews.com
  New remote sensing data collected via drone has revealed that the southern ancient Mesopotamian city Lagash, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in present-day Iraq, would have consisted of four marsh islands connected by waterways.Among the world’s earliest settlements, Lagash was founded sometime between 4,900 and 4,600 years ago. Roughly 3,600 years ago, residents abandoned the site now known as Tell al-Hiba. The site was first excavated more than 40 years ago. Drone photos
  
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• Study Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College - Hyperallergic

  18-10-2022 20:02 via news.google.com
  Study Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College  Hyperallergic
  
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• Apollo Theater’s Longtime President Will Step Down

  18-10-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Jonelle Procope, who transformed the Harlem organization from a struggling nonprofit to an internationally recognized cultural center, will leave in June after two decades in the role.
  
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• ‘Documentary Now!’ Review: The Comfort We’ve Been Waiting For

  18-10-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  IFC’s affectionate sendups of famous documentaries return after a three-year hiatus.
  
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• Pam Grier Thinks Richard Pryor and Trevor Noah Would Have Been Best Friends

  18-10-2022 18:31 via nytimes.com
  The actress, whose life is the focus of the TCM podcast “The Plot Thickens,” talks about building her own Harley-Davidson and the necessity of conversion garages.
  
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• The Five Best Booths at Paris Internationale

  18-10-2022 18:00 via artnews.com
  The art world was shaken when the longstanding Parisian art fair FIAC was booted from its space at the Grand Palais Éphémère to make space for Art Basel’s new fair, Paris+. Meanwhile, Paris Internationale (sometimes stylized at Aaaahhh! Paris Internationale), a fair for emerging artists, still thrives. In its eighth year, Internationale opened its first edition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, the former studio of the 20th century photographer Nadar. It was also the
  
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• The 5 Best Booths at Paris Internationale

  18-10-2022 18:00 via artnews.com
  The art world was shaken when the longstanding Parisian art fair FIAC was booted from its space at the Grand Palais Éphémère to make space for Art Basel’s new fair, Paris+. Meanwhile, Paris Internationale (sometimes stylized as Aaaahhh! Paris Internationale), a fair for emerging artists, still thrives. In its eighth year, Internationale opened its first edition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, the former studio of the 20th century photographer Nadar. It was also the
  
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• New UTSA Arts unit will support community arts growth and engagement - utsa.edu

  18-10-2022 17:48 via news.google.com
  New UTSA Arts unit will support community arts growth and engagement  utsa.edu
  
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• New UTSA Arts unit will support community arts growth and engagement - UTSA

  18-10-2022 17:48 via news.google.com
  New UTSA Arts unit will support community arts growth and engagement  UTSA
  
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• Tacoma Art Museum Workers Push to Unionize, Artists Say AI Image Generators Steal Their Work, and More: Morning Links for October 18, 2022

  18-10-2022 17:33 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesRAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. Have you had enough of AI-generated art? Well, so have some artists. Business Insider took a deep dive into the case of artists who claim that their work is being copied by AI image generators. “I feel like something’s happening that I can’t control,” said artist Greg Rutkowski
  
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• ‘Mama’s Boy’ Review: Mother and Son Pave the Way Forward

  18-10-2022 16:49 via nytimes.com
  In this documentary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black looks at how his relationship with his mother motivated his L.G.B.T.Q. activism.
  
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• 6 Podcasts to Help You Get Organized

  18-10-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  These shows are all geared toward helping you to get more done, feel less overwhelmed and reframe the drudgery of housework.
  
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• 5 Works to Know by Rosa Bonheur

  18-10-2022 14:30 via artnews.com
  Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing French artist who was active in the 19th century, is the subject of a major show at the Musée d’Orsay opening Tuesday. The show, which honors the bicentenary of her birth, is in partnership with the Musée des Beaux-Arts, which is located in Bonheur’s native city of Bordeaux. Bonheur was known as an animalier, an artist who focuses on the representation of animals. Her paintings of livestock, predatory cats, and horses launched her into a pla
  
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• Art Basel’s Paris+ Fair Kicks Off with a Tense Press Conference

  18-10-2022 14:11 via artnews.com
  At a somewhat tense press conference this morning at the Centre Pompidou, the leadership of Paris+—the fair’s director, Clément Delépine; Marc Spiegler, Art Basel’s global director; and Annabelle Ténèze, the curator of the fair’s Sites section—kicked off the new fair, which has its VIP preview tomorrow morning. The 40-minute conference, which was conducted in French with an English translation that was at times hard to follow, began
  
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• Jakub Hrusa Set to Lead Royal Opera House

  18-10-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  The young Czech conductor will replace Antonio Pappano, who is heading to the London Symphony Orchestra.
  
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• Performing arts picks for the week of October 17, 2022 - MTPR

  18-10-2022 01:58 via news.google.com
  Performing arts picks for the week of October 17, 2022  MTPR
  
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• London Frieze Week Evening Sales Brings In $210.5 M., $23M. for Francis Bacon Triptych

  18-10-2022 01:19 via artnews.com
  This past week, as Frieze London art fair at Regents Park was underway, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips held mid-season evening sales of modern and contemporary art. Together, the auctions brought in a combined $210.5 million with premium. The three sales hammered just above the combined expected low estimate of £136.1 million ($154 million), marking a solid performance despite looming economic challenges.Christie’s White Glove Sale Delivers ReassuranceAn air of reassu
  
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• Kevin Spacey Calls Initial Apology to Anthony Rapp a Mistake in Civil Trial

  18-10-2022 01:18 via nytimes.com
  Before Mr. Spacey started testifying, a federal judge had thrown 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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• Patti LuPone Says She Resigned From Stage Actors’ Union

  18-10-2022 00:36 via nytimes.com
  The actress left months ago, and revealed her exit on Monday after her name arose during discussion of the errant reprimanding of a “Hadestown” patron who was using a captioning device.
  
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