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• Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself

  25-10-2022 23:41 via nytimes.com
  After years of recording homages to Latin American greats, the Mexican singer-songwriter re-emerges with an LP that features new collaborators, including Marc Ribot.
  
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• Q&A With James Cameron and the cast of ‘Avatar’ 2

  25-10-2022 22:41 via nytimes.com
  The original was the biggest hit ever, but the sequel still took a long time to come together. How will it resonate in a different era of moviegoing?
  
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• Q&A With James Cameron and the cast of ‘Avatar' 2

  25-10-2022 22:41 via nytimes.com
  The original was the biggest hit ever, but the sequel still took a long time to come together. How will it resonate in a different era of moviegoing?
  
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• She Knew the Cello. The Acting She Learned With Cate Blanchett.

  25-10-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  Sophie Kauer was a cellist studying for a degree when a friend urged her to audition for “Tár.” She watched Michael Caine videos on acting and dove right in.
  
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• How a Pro-Nazi Camp on Long Island Inspired a New Play

  25-10-2022 21:33 via nytimes.com
  Bess Wohl sees “Camp Siegfried,” which opens on Broadway in November, as a “deeply American play” about seduction.
  
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• Painting Damaged by Beirut Explosion Is a Long-Lost Gentileschi

  25-10-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  A painting that was scarred by the 2020 blast in Beirut is now attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi, the great 17th-century Italian painter known for her depiction of strong women.
  
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• Damaged by an Explosion, the Canvas Emerged a Gentileschi

  25-10-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  A painting that was scarred by the 2020 blast in Beirut is now attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi, the great 17th-century Italian painter known for her depiction of strong women.
  
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• Bloomberg‘s Massive Crypto Article Derides NFTs as Nothing More Than a Ponzi Scheme

  25-10-2022 20:57 via artnews.com
  Bloomberg published a massive 40,000 word story about crypto Tuesday by veteran finance journalist Matt Levine. In the piece, Levine writes derisively about NFTs, likening them and the majority of the crypto space to a Ponzi scheme. “The bad way to put this is that every web3 project is simultaneously a Ponzi [scheme],” Levine wrote, asserting that most tokens are bought with the express purpose of offloading them onto others for more money. “Why do you think someone else will
  
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• Bard College Announces New Maya Lin-Designed Building

  25-10-2022 19:45 via nytimes.com
  The 25,000-square-foot space will allow for more rehearsal space and an amphitheater for public performances. Groundbreaking will be in the spring.
  
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• How ‘Terrifier 2’ Slashed Its Way to Box Office Success

  25-10-2022 19:14 via nytimes.com
  The low-budget, ultraviolent, no-stars, killer-clown horror film has been in the Top 10 since it was released theatrically earlier this month.
  
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• How Rollerblading Propelled Maxwell Alexandre’s Art Career

  25-10-2022 19:08 via nytimes.com
  An Afro- Brazilian artist from a Rio favela is having his U.S. debut at the Shed this week.
  
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• Japan’s Art Market Could Soon Rapidly Expand—But Only If a New Art Fair Planned for Next Year Is a Success

  25-10-2022 19:06 via artnews.com
  This past June, Art Assembly, a company known for running major art fairs across Asia-Pacific, announced ambitious plans to launch a whole new international fair in Japan. Known as Tokyo Gendai, it is set to kick off in July 2023 with 80 to 100 international art galleries.Tokyo Gendai is hardly the only new art fair to launch in the region since the start of the pandemic. With the hope of reaching some of the world’s most rapidly expanding economies, Frieze Seoul held its inaugural edition
  
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• 1,700-Year-Old Roman Villa Complex Identified By Archaeologists Using Google Earth Images in England

  25-10-2022 18:55 via artnews.com
  Using Google Earth images, archaeologists identified a Roman villa complex—complete with a bathhouse and central heating system—in Kent, England last month. Crop markings captured by Google outlined the linear features of the site.The wall foundations of the main villa, in addition to a pillar from the partially intact hypocaust, or Roman central heating system, was excavated by the Kent Archaeological Society with volunteers from the local community. The hypocaust system would have
  
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• James Cameron and the Cast of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Hold Their Breath

  25-10-2022 18:47 via nytimes.com
  The original was the biggest hit ever, but the sequel still took a long time to come together. How will it resonate in a different era of moviegoing?
  
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• National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. Mounted A Massive Feminist Installation On Its Facade

  25-10-2022 18:36 via artnews.com
  A large-scale installation deriving from a project that centers around feminist ideas by Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka has been installed on the facade of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.Cibulka’s work, a white-mesh hanging spanning 7,000 square-feet is currently draped on the museum’s exterior walls. It is part of an ongoing project titled “SOLANGE” by Cibulka, in which she has transformed public construction sites into textual displays th
  
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• An Oil Tycoon Heiress Has Donated $1 Million To Climate Activists Behind Van Gogh Tomato Soup Protest

  25-10-2022 18:30 via artnews.com
  The co-founder of non-profit Climate Emergency Fund, an organization which financially supported several climate protests in the UK including the throwing of tomato soup at van Gogh’s Sunflowers, is an heir to a major US oil tycoon.The co-founder, Aileen Getty, is the granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, who founded Getty Oil, an American oil marketing company. At his death in 1976, the elder Getty was worth approximately $6 billion (or over $30 billion in 2022 dollars). Texaco purchased the co
  
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• James Wan Prefers Peter Jackson’s Gory Horror Comedies

  25-10-2022 18:15 via nytimes.com
  The director of 21st-century horror blockbusters (and “Aquaman”) on the movies, food and trading cards that get him through the Halloween season (and beyond).
  
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• Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’: Let’s Discuss

  25-10-2022 18:08 via nytimes.com
  The blockbuster singer-songwriter’s 10th studio album finds her at a crossroads: Will she continue to reckon with her past, or forge another new path forward?
  
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• Investigations into New York Financier Michael Steinhardt Reveal Delicate Politics Waged in the Cultural Sphere

  25-10-2022 17:15 via artnews.com
  A clean break in the neck was one red flag, a sign that the artifact—a marble head of a woman believed to have come from a Libyan burial ground dating back to 350 BCE—had passed through the hands of looters and smugglers on its way to the vast art collection of Michael Steinhardt, the noted New York hedge funder and prolific antiquities collector. The marble head was just one of 180 objects Steinhardt surrendered to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office last year. Estimates
  
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• James Corden and the Dangers of Likability

  25-10-2022 16:18 via nytimes.com
  No one knows what an egg yolk omelet is, but we all know that TV hosts should be relatable. Or should they? That didn’t do Ellen DeGeneres any favors.
  
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• ‘Tell the Story Every Way You Can’: Bess Wohl on ‘Camp Siegfried’

  25-10-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  How a real-life pro-Nazi summer camp on Long Island inspired a “deeply American play” about seduction.
  
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• Nathan Lane to Return to Broadway This Winter in ‘Pictures From Home’

  25-10-2022 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The play, written by Sharr White and directed by Bartlett Sher, will also star Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker.
  
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• Face-to-Face: Diane Arbus at David Zwirner

  25-10-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  Much has been written about Diane Arbus—the person and the images—in the 50 years since the Museum of Modern Art mounted its posthumous landmark retrospective of her photographs in November 1972. A recent restaging of that exhibition at David Zwirner, co-organized with Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, made visitors acutely aware of the work’s public reception even before entering the exhibition: An introductory note on the gallery windows recounted how the MoMA exhibition &ld
  
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• Storied Archaeologist Shi Xingbang Dies at 99, Climate Protestors Hit Madame Tussauds, and More: Morning Links for October 25, 2022

  25-10-2022 14:09 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesFOLLOWING THE PASSING last week of art critic Peter Schjeldahl—“whose exuberant prose and perceptive mind made him one of the most widely read art critics in the U.S.,” as Alex Greenberger wrote in ARTnews—friends and colleagues have been filing remembrances. In the latest issue of the New Yorker, where
  
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• Another Miranda at the Public Theater: Luis A. Miranda Jr., New Board Chair

  25-10-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Luis A. Miranda Jr., a political consultant and activist whose son, Lin-Manuel Miranda, composed one of the Public’s biggest hits, “Hamilton,” was named chair of the theater’s board.
  
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• Paul Mescal Has Been Working Things Out

  25-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The actor, who became a sudden sex symbol with Hulu’s “Normal People,” stars as another psychologically complex character in the A24 feature “Aftersun.”
  
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• James Corden Addresses His Restaurant Ban

  25-10-2022 09:00 via nytimes.com
  The “Late Late Show” host said he shouldn’t have been rude to a server at Balthazar in New York. “I hope I’m allowed in again one day,” he said.
  
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• COMMENTARY: Arts education is a right, not a privilege - EdSource

  25-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  COMMENTARY: Arts education is a right, not a privilege  EdSource
  
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• Hello Cruel World: Julie Speed’s Paintings of Dark Imaginings

  25-10-2022 01:50 via artnews.com
  The figures in paintings by Julie Speed are often entwined, teetering and contorting with grimaced faces as they wrestle in compositions tinged with threats of calamity. The artist obsessively catalogues disaster scenes, both natural and man-made. She keeps binders of evidence against humanity for all our crimes; she even once showed me a stash of thimble-like forms that she refers to as the tips of decommissioned nuclear warheads. A survey of her voluminous paintings confirms our common fears a
  
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