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• The Life’s Work of Boris Mikhailov: Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist

  28-10-2022 23:43 via nytimes.com
  In the largest show of his career, Boris Mikhailov casts a mordant eye over 60 years of Ukraine’s history.
  
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• Stream These 7 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix This Month

  28-10-2022 22:57 via nytimes.com
  The losses for U.S. subscribers aren’t that heavy in November, but a few bona fide greats and quirky favorites are among them.
  
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• Department of Performing Arts presents fall musical 'Head over Heels' Oct. 28-Nov. 4 - Today at Elon

  28-10-2022 22:40 via news.google.com
  Department of Performing Arts presents fall musical 'Head over Heels' Oct. 28-Nov. 4  Today at Elon
  
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• Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage?

  28-10-2022 22:27 via nytimes.com
  In “Unavailable Memory” at Baryshnikov Arts Center, dance artists fill in gaps in the choreographic record, but they don’t all speak fluent Cunningham.
  
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• Music, Science and Healing Intersect in an A.I. Opera

  28-10-2022 22:07 via nytimes.com
  The work-in-progress “Song of the Ambassadors” got a test run at Alice Tully Hall — with Lincoln Center’s artistic director lending her brain.
  
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• ‘The Peripheral’ Isn’t Really About the Future

  28-10-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  Set in 2032 and 2099, the new Amazon series, from the creators of “Westworld” and based on the book by William Gibson, has a lot to say about the present.
  
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• Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’

  28-10-2022 21:04 via nytimes.com
  The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
  
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• International Center of Photography Names Cindy Sherman a Trustee

  28-10-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  She and four others are joining the museum’s board, part of an effort by the institution’s director to expand its reach beyond documentary photography.
  
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• AA Bronson’s Lifetime of Gay Joy and Provocation

  28-10-2022 20:32 via nytimes.com
  With a pair of new shows centered on his influential collective, General Idea, the Berlin-based multimedia artist reflects on his pioneering practice.
  
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• The “Malady” of Impressionism: How Claims of Disability Haunted the Modernist Movement

  28-10-2022 20:25 via artnews.com
  In 1914, the Austrian actress Tilla Durieux was driven from Berlin to Paris some 15 times to sit for a portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the resulting painting, Durieux looks serenely grave, fixing her gaze somewhere outside its shimmer of rose and honeyed tones. Writing years later, she described the severely arthritic artist. As he was wheeled into the room by a nurse, Durieux was “flabbergasted” by Renoir’s hands. His right, she noted, had been frozen by the arthritis in
  
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• In the Midst of Crypto Winter, Pace Hits a Home Run with Random International

  28-10-2022 20:03 via artnews.com
  There hasn’t been much excitement in the NFT world post–crypto crash this past June. But yesterday, an unexpected win took place at Pace Gallery’s Web3 arm, Pace Verso, which sold out all 990 available NFTs from a Random International collection. Those NFTs had been done in collaboration with Danil Krivoruchko, and they were part of a collection called “Life in Our Minds.” They were all gone in less than 24 hours. Sold at .25 ETH each, the collection’s primary
  
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• Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater

  28-10-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  The company continues its fall season with the delight that is “The Dream,” and a Christopher Rudd premiere with an all-Black cast and creative team.
  
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• Late Roman-Era Rooms, Clay Offering Vessels Uncovered in Ancient Christian City of Antioch

  28-10-2022 19:58 via artnews.com
  Late Roman-era chambers and clay offering vessels were unearthed by archaeologists during excavations in southern Turkey’s ancient city of Antioch (now Antakya, the capitol of the Hatay Province). This is the first time archaeological work has ever been conducted within the city’s residential areas.The 12-person team, spearheaded by the local Hatay Archaeology Museum, began excavating around a notable Christian pilgrimage site, the Church of St. Pierre, on October 10.“During th
  
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• Tate Modern Director Frances Morris to Depart in April

  28-10-2022 19:23 via artnews.com
  Frances Morris will depart from her post as Tate Modern’s director at the end of April 2023.Over the course of the last two decades, she served in various role at the London museum, as head of displays and as director of the its international art collection. In 2016, she was appointed as director at Tate Modern, becoming the first women to lead the museum.ArtReview first reported news of her departure.Morris began her tenure at Tate as a curator in 1987, following a stint at Arnolfini gall
  
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• James Gray on ‘Armageddon Time,’ Antisemitism and Racism in 1980s Queens

  28-10-2022 19:16 via nytimes.com
  Fred and Maryanne Trump are characters in the drama, reflecting the director James Gray’s real experiences growing up at a cultural inflection point.
  
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• Steve Keene Made 300,000 Paintings in a Home Full of Easels

  28-10-2022 19:05 via nytimes.com
  The artist’s studio and living space, created with his wife, Starling Keene, an architect, houses a one-man assembly line of affordable art — enough to fill a new book.
  
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• Bates receives $500000 grant to fund major arts and technology project - Bates News

  28-10-2022 19:04 via news.google.com
  Bates receives $500000 grant to fund major arts and technology project  Bates News
  
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• Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87

  28-10-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  With his pounding piano, his impassioned vocals and his incendiary performing style, Mr. Lewis lived up to his nickname, the Killer.
  
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• Kanye West Faces Costly Fallout

  28-10-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  The entertainer has been widely condemned for a series of antisemitic comments. The fallout across industries has been swift.
  
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• 18 Preserved Studios of Famous Female Artists That You Can Visit

  28-10-2022 19:00 via artnews.com
  For centuries in Western art, depictions of the artist’s studio—by artists from Courbet to Matisse to Wolfgang Tillmans—have shown it largely as a masculine environment. But as epitomized in such paintings as Night Studio (2009) by Nicole Eisenman and The Artist in Her Studio (1994) by Paula Rego, it has long been both a testing ground and a sanctuary for women artists as well.For the 18 female artists considered below, including painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, a
  
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• Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach

  28-10-2022 18:42 via nytimes.com
  The harpsichordist Jean Rondeau played the “Goldberg” Variations at Weill Recital Hall with patience and a vibrant yet subtle touch.
  
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• Margo Feiden, Hirschfeld’s Idiosyncratic Gallerist, Dies at 77

  28-10-2022 18:17 via nytimes.com
  She handled the sales of the great caricaturist’s works and told stories of flying Diane Arbus in her plane and encountering the woman who shot Andy Warhol.
  
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• Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Denies Support of BDS Amid Controversy in Germany

  28-10-2022 18:05 via artnews.com
  After some German politicians decried his views on the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung became the subject of controversy this week.Ndikung, who is set to start next year as director of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt museum, quickly spoke out against allegations that he was anti-Israel, telling the German press agency dpa that he did not and does not support BDS. After he did so, Claudia Roth, Germany’s culture ministe
  
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• Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly

  28-10-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  Hollywood has never quite known what to do with her. That’s why she’s relishing her current run of roles in “Call Jane,” “Avatar: The Way of Water” and more.
  
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• Seymour Press, a Behind-the-Scenes Fixture on Broadway, Dies at 98

  28-10-2022 17:59 via nytimes.com
  He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.
  
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• Toshi Ichiyanagi, Avant-Garde Composer and Pianist, Dies at 89

  28-10-2022 17:39 via nytimes.com
  A former protégé of John Cage and once married to Yoko Ono, he was part of a lively experimental music scene in New York and became a leading composer of modern music in Japan.
  
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• Rihanna’s ‘Black Panther’ Ballad, and 8 More New Songs

  28-10-2022 17:38 via nytimes.com
  Hear tracks by Ice Spice, Iggy Pop, SZA and others.
  
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• Lake Highlands Fine Arts Showcase - Richardson Independent School District - Richardson ISD

  28-10-2022 17:19 via news.google.com
  Lake Highlands Fine Arts Showcase - Richardson Independent School District  Richardson ISD
  
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• In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences

  28-10-2022 16:25 via nytimes.com
  As a result of decades of conversation and scholarship, a wave of new public sculptures reflect and honor Black Britons.
  
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• José Martinez Named New Director of Paris Opera Ballet

  28-10-2022 16:24 via nytimes.com
  Martinez, once a member of the company’s troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.
  
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• Spotlight on the Arts festival highlights UGA’s excellence in arts and humanities - University of Georgia

  28-10-2022 15:34 via news.google.com
  Spotlight on the Arts festival highlights UGA’s excellence in arts and humanities  University of Georgia
  
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• ‘Small Packages’ Returns to Arts Center - The City Menus

  28-10-2022 15:34 via news.google.com
  ‘Small Packages’ Returns to Arts Center  The City Menus
  
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• Why Have Artists Who Worked with Kanye West Remained Silent on His Antisemitism?

  28-10-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  Even as recently as a few years ago, it was hard to imagine Kanye West without artists. In 2019 alone, the rapper shot a film of himself performing in James Turrell’s Roden Crater and staged an opera with performance artist Vanessa Beecroft themed around the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. The year afterward, Arthur Jafa directed the music video for West’s song “Wash Us in the Blood,” pairing it with the same rapidly edited visuals seen in his films shown in galleries.
  
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• ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration

  28-10-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  There were egos and clashes, but the choreographer and painter made 16 dances together over more than 50 years, work spotlighted in the Taylor company’s season.
  
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• Rubell Museum DC Brings Contemporary Art to Washington

  28-10-2022 14:57 via nytimes.com
  The Rubells open a new contemporary art museum, extending their reach to the capital with some 200 works and a nod to Marvin Gaye.
  
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• In a German ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ History Has a Starring Role

  28-10-2022 14:19 via nytimes.com
  More gruesome than previous film adaptations of the novel, a new Netflix feature looks to other conflicts past and present.
  
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• Smithsonian IDs Spots for Latino and Women’s Museums in D.C., Paris Monet-Mitchell Blockbuster to Travel, and More: Morning Links for October 28, 2022

  28-10-2022 14:06 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesBREAKING NEWS OUT OF BASEL THIS MORNING. Art-market veteran Noah Horowitz has been named CEO of Art Basel, taking the place of Marc Spiegler, ARTnews reports. Horowitz is a Basel alumnus, having been its director for the Americas from 2015 to 2021, when he decamped to Sotheby’s to be worldwi
  
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• Life Under Franco: Juan Genovés at Marlborough

  28-10-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses,” said Susan Sontag in her 1973 book On Photography. The late Spanish artist Juan Genovés did both in his powerful political paintings that draw on photography and film techniques to point up state atrocities of the Franco era. In “Juan Genovés: Reconsidered,” Marlborough Gallery brought together around 30 works made between 1965 and 1975 that evoke with unsettling freshness the terror of totalitarian regim
  
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• Marc Spiegler Steps Down as Global Director of Art Basel, Noah Horowitz Joins as CEO

  28-10-2022 13:48 via artnews.com
  Just a week after the launch of Art Basel’s first Paris edition, the leading art fair company, which also hosts events in Switzerland, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, has announced a major change in its leadership.Marc Spiegler, who has been with Art Basel for over 15 years, will depart his role, and he will be succeeded in the newly created role of CEO by an Art Basel veteran, Noah Horowitz. The news was first reported by Artnet News.Spiegler will stay on through the end of the year, includin
  
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• Monumental Warhol ‘Car Crash’ Painting to Sell at Sotheby’s for More Than $80 M.

  28-10-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  An Andy Warhol painting from his famed “Death and Disasters” series will be auctioned during Sotheby’s marquee New York sales, where it could become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever publicly sold.Estimated to fetch a price in excess of $80 million, White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times), from 1963, will be sold on November 16 during a contemporary art evening sale. It is headed to auction without a financial guarantee, which means that there is still the po
  
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• The Haunted Past

  28-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives.
  
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• Yu-Gi-Oh! Creator Kazuki Takahashi Died Trying to Save Others

  28-10-2022 09:39 via nytimes.com
  Kazuki Takahashi, creator of the internationally famous Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, was found dead in July. At the time, officials did not disclose the circumstances.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Bans Kanye West From ‘The Late Show’

  28-10-2022 09:17 via nytimes.com
  Colbert said his jurisdiction extended into the northern half of Times Square, and that he was “banning Kanye from coming north of Bubba Gump Shrimp.”
  
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• ‘Peaceful’ Review: A Homage to French Filmmaking

  28-10-2022 06:01 via nytimes.com
  Emmanuelle Bercot’s drama about a man diagnosed with late-stage cancer plays like a eulogy for a nearly bygone era of French cinema and its stars.
  
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• ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past

  28-10-2022 02:30 via nytimes.com
  The Irish actor’s one-man show on Broadway delves into painful and playful memories alike. He even imitates the oddballs of his Dublin boyhood.
  
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• Smithsonian Picks Two Sites for Museums Honoring Latinos and Women

  28-10-2022 02:17 via nytimes.com
  The Smithsonian board did not decide which museum will go where, and will not, until Congress approves the locations on the National Mall.
  
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• In a Marathon of One-Act Plays, Boundaries Are Pushed and Pulled

  28-10-2022 01:05 via nytimes.com
  Ensemble Studio Theater’s 38th Marathon of One-Act Plays showcases what can be accomplished in short-form productions, and how, in some cases, they hem ideas in.
  
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• ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play

  28-10-2022 00:40 via nytimes.com
  At Irish Arts Center, a wry, experimental iteration doesn’t do much to untangle the playwright’s unwieldy early work.
  
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