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• Abstracting the Political: The 58th Carnegie International

  09-11-2022 23:29 via artnews.com
  The very name “Carnegie International” practically begs for postcolonial institutional critique, as it bears the name of immigrant billionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who in many ways epitomizes the American Dream. And that critique is precisely what Filipino artist Pio Abad delivered for the 58th edition. Above a doorway, the artist inscribed the phrase AMERICANS CANNOT BE GROWN THERE. It’s easy to miss the intervention, because the same font is used for donor names th
  
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• An Ivory Comb With an Ancient Message: Get Rid of Beard Lice.

  09-11-2022 23:15 via nytimes.com
  Archaeologists in Israel unearthed a tiny ivory comb inscribed with the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet that evolved into one we use today.
  
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• Warhol Archive Amassed by Pioneering Dealer Donated to Artist’s Foundation

  09-11-2022 23:04 via artnews.com
  The New York–based Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has received an archive of documents and materials related to Warhol’s legacy that was amassed by the late pioneering dealer Thomas Ammann, who had sold work by Warhol during his lifetime.The origins of the archival trove, which includes photographs and other works pertaining to the artist’s career, dates back to the late 1970s when Zurich-based Amman, who died in 1993, began collecting ephemera around the Pop artist
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: What to Do With the Time We Get

  09-11-2022 22:11 via nytimes.com
  A man with a chronic illness savors the time he has with the ones he loves.
  
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• Books to Kindle Children’s Curiosity About Classical Music

  09-11-2022 22:03 via nytimes.com
  A young Glenn Gould’s passion for the piano and a sensitive boy’s view of “Carmen.”
  
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• 10 things to do in N.H. this weekend: Mini Film Fest, Dartmouth Arts and more - New Hampshire Public Radio

  09-11-2022 21:57 via news.google.com
  10 things to do in N.H. this weekend: Mini Film Fest, Dartmouth Arts and more  New Hampshire Public Radio
  
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• Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Unusual Sculptures, Dies at 91

  09-11-2022 21:21 via nytimes.com
  Her use of what one critic called “a three-dimensional form that was neither painting nor sculpture” earned the kind of praise typically reserved in the 1960s for male art stars.
  
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• Joe Tarsia, an Architect of the Sound of Philadelphia, Dies at 88

  09-11-2022 20:54 via nytimes.com
  His work as an engineer at Sigma Sound Studios left a sonic stamp on R&B hits by the O’Jays, the Delfonics, the Stylistics and many others.
  
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• ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Review: Women on the Home Front

  09-11-2022 20:53 via nytimes.com
  Shadowed by Chadwick Boseman’s death, this sequel focuses King T’Challa’s mother and the women helping her to contend with a slippery new villain.
  
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• In Search of Enheduanna, the Woman Who Was History’s First Named Author

  09-11-2022 20:44 via nytimes.com
  “She Who Wrote,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library, explores the world of an ancient Mesopotamian priestess who wrote with a strikingly personal voice.
  
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• Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of Australia

  09-11-2022 20:27 via artnews.com
  Two climate activists scrawled blue ink across a series of Andy Warhol screen prints at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia this week to raise awareness of the country’s fossil fuel subsidies.Images and video of the protest posted to social media show the two activists also trying to glue their hands to the famous print series titled Campbell’s Soup I, which is framed and under glass. A press release from Stop Fossil Fuels Subsidies, which is part of A22 Network,
  
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• From the Archives: Lee Bontecou—Abstract Sinister

  09-11-2022 20:27 via artnews.com
  Lee Bontecou died on Tuesday, Nov. 8, age 91. This article was published in Art in America in September 1993, on the occasion of her traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. It was the first time her work had been publicly shown since her retreat from the art world in the 1970s. During the early 1960s, Lee Bontecou was hailed as one of the most promising young sculptors of her generation. Her elaborate abstract wall sculptures made of canvas stretched ove
  
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• ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis

  09-11-2022 20:21 via nytimes.com
  The fifth season of the Netflix hit, with a new cast including Imelda Staunton as the queen, depicts the royal family at its lowest point.
  
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• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Final New York Apartment and Studio is Available to Rent for $60,000 Per Month

  09-11-2022 19:36 via artnews.com
  If you ever wanted to live in a building with art historical significance, Andy Warhol’s former New York studio and apartment, where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked from 1983 until his death in 1988, has now hit the rental market. The 57 Great Jones Street property in the Bowery is available for $60,000 per month for a minimum of 10 years.Basquiat rented the second floor space from Warhol shortly after they first met. Today, the real estate agency Meridian Capital Group&nbs
  
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• Lee Bontecou, Groundbreaking Sculptor Who Pushed the Form to Limitless Voids, Dies at 91

  09-11-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  Lee Bontecou, one of the most accomplished sculptors of the postwar generation whose stitched and sutured constructions pushed sculpture to its limits, from the floor to the wall, and then into the void, died on Tuesday at her home in Florida. She was 91. Her death was first reported by the New York Times Tuesday. Bontecou had her artistic breakthrough in 1959, creating an immediately recognizable body of work that was unlike anything the New York art world had seen before or since. Taking soile
  
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• The Long-Awaited Beirut Museum of Art Unveils its Grand Vision to a Packed Room in New York

  09-11-2022 19:00 via artnews.com
  In an impassioned talk Monday night at the Museum of Modern Art, leaders of the long-awaited Beirut Museum of Art revealed details of the project set to transform Lebanon’s cultural landscape. Dubbed BeMA, the institution is set to open in 2026 and it will be the county’s largest modern and contemporary art institution. The panel included architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of the architecture firm WORKac, and BeMA co-directors Juliana Khalaf and Taline Boladian. BeMA Pre
  
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• How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos

  09-11-2022 18:44 via nytimes.com
  Two great but very different series, ending Thursday, decided that the most realistic portrait of America today is a surrealist one.
  
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• Elizabeth Stewart, Champion of Scotland’s Folk Music, Dies at 83

  09-11-2022 18:43 via nytimes.com
  She was part of a musical family of Scottish Travellers that furthered the nation’s folk revival and influenced its American counterpart.
  
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• Arts Focus: Share your feedback on design concepts for temporary outdoor arts space - ARLnow

  09-11-2022 18:30 via news.google.com
  Arts Focus: Share your feedback on design concepts for temporary outdoor arts space  ARLnow
  
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• British Museum Chair Rebukes Calls to ‘Dismantle’ Parthenon Marbles Collection

  09-11-2022 18:03 via artnews.com
  George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, has stated that the Parthenon Marbles will remain in the London institution’s collection under his watch, in a sharp rebuke to growing pressure for the return of the sculptures to Greece.According to the Art Newspaper, Osborne, the former Chancellor of the UK government, commented on the ethical issue of owning looted sculptures at the institution’s annual trustees dinner on November 2.“We hear the voices call
  
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• Dispute Over ‘Java Man’ Raises a Question: Who Owns Prehistory?

  09-11-2022 17:57 via nytimes.com
  An Indonesian claim against a Dutch museum has pushed the debate about restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now.
  
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• Mariah Carey Remix, 25th Anniversary Edition (feat. Theodore Adorno and Lauren Berlant)

  09-11-2022 17:29 via artnews.com
  It’s a shame to be so euphoric and weak …—Mariah Carey, “Heartbreaker”Disability, illness, and dependency—chemical and otherwise—appear remarkably often as metaphors in pop music’s vocabulary of sex, love, and desire. Lyrics like: call the doctor, don’t call the doctor, I get so weak in the knees, I can hardly speak. If there’s a cure for this, I don’t want it. Food and eating do too, giving us a whole lexicon of deliciousness, j
  
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• Mariah Carey Remix, 25th Anniversary Edition (feat. Theodor Adorno and Lauren Berlant)

  09-11-2022 17:29 via artnews.com
  It’s a shame to be so euphoric and weak …—Mariah Carey, “Heartbreaker”Disability, illness, and dependency—chemical and otherwise—appear remarkably often as metaphors in pop music’s vocabulary of sex, love, and desire. Lyrics like: call the doctor, don’t call the doctor, I get so weak in the knees, I can hardly speak. If there’s a cure for this, I don’t want it. Food and eating do too, giving us a whole lexicon of deliciousness, j
  
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• How Peter Asher, a Jack-of-all-Trades in Music, Mastered Them All

  09-11-2022 17:25 via nytimes.com
  The British musician, manager, producer, executive and author known for his work with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, is the subject of a new book exploring his unique run in the industry.
  
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• A Walk Through the ‘Barbarian’ Basement With Zach Cregger

  09-11-2022 17:06 via nytimes.com
  The writer and director of the twisty horror film “Barbarian” discusses its secrets while addressing some of the online chatter.
  
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• Leslie Phillips, Comic Actor Who Voiced ‘Harry Potter’ Hat, Dies at 98

  09-11-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  He made a name for himself in British satires, then late in his career reached a different audience as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies.
  
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• 50 Years of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’

  09-11-2022 16:58 via nytimes.com
  A conversation about the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s studio innovations, and melding of social consciousness and musical creativity.
  
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• Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’

  09-11-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Their new Off Broadway play, a dark comedy about power, inheritance and, of course, witchcraft, is now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater.
  
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• 20 of the Best Art Gifts of 2022 for Artists and Art Collectors Alike

  09-11-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
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  The ARTnews holiday art gift guide has arrived, bursting with art-inspired products for every enthusiast in your circle! Whether you’re shopping for your favorite Lower East Side gallery denizen, your niece in art school, or a jaded mega collector, our list of art gifts has you covered, with everything from art apparel and accessories to artists’ li
  
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• Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Prior Performing Arts Center puts the arts on top - The Architect's Newspaper

  09-11-2022 15:49 via news.google.com
  Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Prior Performing Arts Center puts the arts on top  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Daniel Boone Elementary Becomes Mosaic School Of Fine Arts — But A Nearby Nonprofit Already Has A Similar Name - Block Club Chicago

  09-11-2022 14:57 via news.google.com
  Daniel Boone Elementary Becomes Mosaic School Of Fine Arts — But A Nearby Nonprofit Already Has A Similar Name  Block Club Chicago
  
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• City announces start date for construction, road closures surrounding Arts and Innovation District - WMBF

  09-11-2022 14:38 via news.google.com
  City announces start date for construction, road closures surrounding Arts and Innovation District  WMBF
  
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• Steven Spielberg Gets Personal in ‘The Fabelmans’

  09-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In making his autobiographical film “The Fabelmans,” he confronted some painful family secrets, as well as what it means to be Jewish in America today.
  
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• Read Your Way Through Dublin

  09-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Virtuosity and creativity with language are “everyone’s birthright” in the Irish capital, says Tana French, an award-winning mystery writer who has made it her home.
  
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• Imagining a Monument to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths

  09-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to lose.
  
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• Late Night Goes Live on Election Night

  09-11-2022 08:02 via nytimes.com
  Stephen Colbert said that the midterms looked less like a red wave of Republican victories and more like “a pink trickle.”
  
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• Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91

  09-11-2022 03:43 via nytimes.com
  Her use of what one critic called “a three-dimensional form that was neither painting nor sculpture” earned the kind of praise typically reserved in the 1960s for male art stars.
  
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• Anne Bogart Is Not Entirely Retiring

  09-11-2022 00:08 via nytimes.com
  “I think that the legacy is more how we offer a model for future young companies,” Bogart said of the theater company she leads, which is ending its producing activities.
  
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