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• Lawmakers Criticize Ticketmaster After Taylor Swift Presale Snags

  16-11-2022 23:52 via nytimes.com
  Several Democratic House members said the company has become too much of a monopoly since its merger with Live Nation in 2010.
  
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• Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory

  16-11-2022 23:46 via nytimes.com
  Gerard and Kelly reverse the message of a 19th-century frieze in ‘Panorama,’ a video of emancipation at Marian Goodman Gallery.
  
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• HISD Fine Arts students unite for unique exhibition supported by local arts organizations - News Blog - News Blog

  16-11-2022 23:23 via news.google.com
  HISD Fine Arts students unite for unique exhibition supported by local arts organizations - News Blog  News Blog
  
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• Two Leading Producers

  16-11-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Jason Blum and James Wan are in advanced talks to merge their companies and create a massive horror film factory.
  
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• Two Leading Horror Movie Producers Will Soon Join Forces

  16-11-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Jason Blum and James Wan are in advanced talks to merge their companies and create a massive horror film factory.
  
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• Hollywood Horror Blockbuster: Two Leading Producers Will Soon Join Forces

  16-11-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Jason Blum and James Wan are in advanced talks to merge their companies and create a massive horror film factory.
  
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• ‘She Said’ Review: A Quiet Thriller That Speaks Volumes

  16-11-2022 22:53 via nytimes.com
  Maria Schrader directs this adaptation of the book about reporters’ efforts to document sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• In Andy Warhol’s ‘My Hustler,’ Love Is for Sale

  16-11-2022 22:48 via nytimes.com
  The artist’s scurrilously satirical treatment of male prostitution proved an underground hit after it premiered in 1966.
  
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• A New Focus on Jona Ostiglio, a Jewish Artist Who Broke Barriers

  16-11-2022 22:31 via nytimes.com
  Fresh research into the life of Jona Ostiglio, a hitherto unknown 17th-century Jewish artist, reveals a unique painter who lived outside set boundaries.
  
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• Falling for Your Sperm Donor

  16-11-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  Nearing 40, Katharine Dion separated the idea of getting pregnant from finding love.
  
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• Tenoch Huerta Mejía and the Beauty of Representation in ‘Wakanda Forever’

  16-11-2022 21:18 via nytimes.com
  The Mexican actor’s breakthrough moment playing Namor in the “Black Panther” sequel is especially gratifying for the antiracism activist.
  
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• U.S. Museums Have ‘Moderately’ Increased Diversity Among Staff, According to Two New Studies 

  16-11-2022 20:56 via artnews.com
  Since 2020, art museums worldwide have faced mounting pressure to remedy inequity in their institutions, starting with plans to increase diversity and throughout their operations. According to two studies released today (one by the Mellon Foundation and the other by the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums), U.S. museum staff has diversified—though likely not to the degree most demonstrators had hoped. Produced in partnership with the American Alliance of Museums and the&n
  
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• Lawmakers Criticize Ticketmaster After Taylor Swift Presale Snafus

  16-11-2022 20:31 via nytimes.com
  Several Democratic House members said the company has become too much of a monopoly since its merger with Live Nation in 2010.
  
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• Without Heirs, Larry Gagosian Finally Plans for Succession

  16-11-2022 20:03 via nytimes.com
  The global gallery owner has assembled a board of prominent advisers to help him chart a course for the future.
  
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• Gagosian Forms Star-Studded Board of Directors, Offering a Glimpse at the Gallery’s Future

  16-11-2022 20:00 via artnews.com
  Larry Gagosian, the founder of one of the biggest galleries in the world, revealed on Wednesday that he had formed a board of directors in late 2021, with the first of two annual meetings having taken place in May. The board is comprised of members from seemingly disparate industries, from real estate to tech to film and television industry, that will provide “strategic insight and guidance for the gallery,” according to a press release.The most prevalent member, at least for those w
  
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• Bad Bunny Anchors a Year of Explosive Growth for Latin Music

  16-11-2022 19:40 via nytimes.com
  The most nominated artist at the Latin Grammys has earned blockbuster numbers on streaming and on tour in 2022. He’s far from the only Spanish-language artist finding fresh listeners.
  
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• Archaeologists Discover Pre-Roman Etruscan Temple in Italy

  16-11-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists recently discovered an Etruscan temple in the ancient city of Vulci in what is now Italy. Researchers estimated the temple was constructed in either 5th or 6th century BCE, and is roughly the same size as the nearby Tempio Grande, a building excavated in the 1950s. “This duplication of monumental buildings in an Etruscan city is rare, and indicates an exceptional finding,” the University of Mainz archaeologist Paul P. Pasieka told the University of Freiburg‘s com
  
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• Review: Two Years Later, Garth Fagan Dances Out His Company’s 50th

  16-11-2022 19:22 via nytimes.com
  The “Lion King” choreographer brings his company to the Joyce Theater in programs that feature his work and dances by the talented Norwood Pennewell.
  
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• Banksy Comes Out On Top in EU Trademark Challenge, Allowing Him To Stay Anonymous

  16-11-2022 18:45 via artnews.com
  A months-long challenge to Banksy’s trademark on his well-known image of an ape has ended. A European Union board of appeals has overruled a decision by the EU’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) which pronounced the shadowy British artist’s EU trademark on the spray painted monkey to be “invalid in its entirety,” The Art Newspaper reported Wednesday.The kerfuffle began when the greeting card company Full Colour Black formally opposed the trademark in Novemb
  
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• 2,100-Year-Old Text By Previously Thought to Be Illiterate Spanish Tribe Found On Bronze Relic

  16-11-2022 18:30 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists in Spain have made a stunning discovery that could prove a previously thought to be illiterate Spanish tribe had a written language, El Pais reported Monday.In June 2021, a research team from the Spain-based Aranzadi Science Society uncovereda metal hand-shaped symbol with a hole by the palm while excavating a site in Northern Spain known as Irulegi. The bronze relic was initially thought to be a simple charm hung on a door until this year, when restoration of the piece revealed e
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Workers Rally at Thierry Mugler VIP Gala to Call Out Stalled Contract Negotiations

  16-11-2022 18:06 via artnews.com
  Last night, while invited guests of the Brooklyn Museum viewed its new Thierry Mugler exhibition, unionized workers of the institution rallied outside its main entrance on Eastern Parkway to call attention to contract negotiations that had stalled between the union and museum leadership.A cold drizzle graduated to a downpour as museum employees and their supporters lined the museum entryway, brandishing signs (“Fair Wages are So Chic!”) and chanting “ancient art, not ancie
  
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• Meta Layoffs Reportedly Target Arts Team as Thousands Are Let Go

  16-11-2022 18:05 via artnews.com
  A large part of Meta’s Open Arts team was reportedly let go in the mass layoffs at Meta last week that saw 11,000 people cut from the company, according to Artnet News.Because Meta has not responded to requests for comment, it is unclear how much of the team has been cut, but there is confirmation of at least seven layoffs. “You may have heard that Meta laid off 11,000 people last week. I was unfortunately one of them,” wrote Matthew Israel, former Commissions Lead at Open Arts
  
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• Meta Layoffs Reportedly Target Arts Team as Thousands Are Let Go - ARTnews

  16-11-2022 18:05 via news.google.com
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• A Benefit Show of Ukrainian Art in New York Is Funding Efforts Across the Besieged Country

  16-11-2022 18:01 via artnews.com
  Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine by Russia began in February, artists, auction houses, and galleries have rallied in support of the besieged nation, often through fundraising efforts. The latest initiative is Sonya, a pop-up exhibition in Manhattan’s East Village which features works from 10 contemporary Ukrainian artists, some of whom are at the front lines of this battle. The show benefits the Sunflower Network, which to date has delivered more than $1 million in humanitarian a
  
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• Ballet Theater to Bring ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ to Met Stage

  16-11-2022 17:45 via nytimes.com
  The company’s four-week summer season at the Metropolitan Opera will feature this Christopher Wheeldon ballet, the most complicated work it has staged.
  
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• In the Gallery Race, Shainman Expands Beyond Chelsea to TriBeCa Landmark

  16-11-2022 17:27 via nytimes.com
  The new Jack Shainman Gallery will make its home in the Clock Tower Building and debut with Nick Cave.
  
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• Charisse Pearlina Westons’s Glass Sculptures Challenge Beliefs About Transparency

  16-11-2022 16:11 via artnews.com
  Though typically a material that disappears before the viewer, glass takes on a commanding presence in Charisse Pearlina Weston’s sculptures. Layered, warped, tinted, and folded, her sculptural panels distort and obfuscate far more than they clarify, turning glass into a surface to look at more than through. The artist amalgamates texts and images derived from popular culture, archives, and her own practice, etching and firing them onto glass, or sandwiching them between layered sheets. Ye
  
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• Charisse Pearlina Weston’s Glass Sculptures Challenge Beliefs About Transparency

  16-11-2022 16:11 via artnews.com
  Though typically a material that disappears before the viewer, glass takes on a commanding presence in Charisse Pearlina Weston’s sculptures. Layered, warped, tinted, and folded, her sculptural panels distort and obfuscate far more than they clarify, turning glass into a surface to look at more than through. The artist amalgamates texts and images derived from popular culture, archives, and her own practice, etching and firing them onto glass, or sandwiching them between layered sheets. Ye
  
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• ArtPrize’s Board Disbands, German Government Buys Back Hamburger Bahnhof’s Building, and More: Morning Links for November 16, 2022

  16-11-2022 16:11 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesRISING STARS dominated at last night’s Phillips auction of modern and contemporary art in New York, Angelica Villa and Daniel Cassady report in ARTnews. A María Berrío painting went for more than double its estimate, selling for $1.6 million with fees, and a Lucy Bull abst
  
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• Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film

  16-11-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” tells a complex story of personal trauma and protest. But first the collaborators needed to reach an agreement.
  
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• How ‘The Crown’ Casts Its Royals

  16-11-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Over five seasons and three casts, the casting director Robert Sterne has helped turn the hit drama into a clearinghouse for some of Britain’s biggest stars.
  
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• Mapping the Past: Tiffany Chung at Davidson Gallery

  16-11-2022 15:21 via artnews.com
  Tiffany Chung, who was born in Vietnam in 1969 and came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee, has long used mapmaking as a part of her rigorous research, analysis, and fieldwork, evincing a personal drive to process history. The works in “Terra Rouge: Circles, Traces of Time, Rebellious Solitude,” one of two bodies of work recently on view at Davidson Gallery in New York in collaboration with Tyler Rollins Fine Art, presented maps of a kind, centered on the Bình Long&ndas
  
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• Separating Big Business and Bad Behavior in ‘Tár’

  16-11-2022 15:12 via nytimes.com
  The film about a renowned and embattled conductor puts a fresh spin on conversations about art, power and misdeeds.
  
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• With ‘Echo 3,’ Mark Boal Stays in His Comfort Zone: Danger Abroad

  16-11-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The Oscar-winning writer of “The Hurt Locker” makes his first excursion into television with a harrowing rescue tale set in the Colombian jungle.
  
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• Performing Arts presents It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play - Hesston College News and Sports

  16-11-2022 14:47 via news.google.com
  Performing Arts presents It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play  Hesston College News and Sports
  
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• Who Was Andy Warhol, and Why Was He So Important?

  16-11-2022 14:35 via artnews.com
  The number of artists who are household names is vanishingly small. But near the top of this list is a first-generation American born in Pittsburgh to a blue-collar family of Slovakian immigrants: Andrew Warhola, aka Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Warhol was a prime mover of Pop Art, and though he didn’t invent the genre, he possessed a unique insight into its implications, due partly to his own story.Warhol came of age just as the WASP elite that had held the country in its grip since the
  
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• Remembering Joe Brainard, Poet and Painter of Miniature Works

  16-11-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The prodigious artist Joe Brainard reveled in making small-scale works, but as a new show reminds us, exemplified the soaring spirit of collaboration between painters and poets in the ’60s.
  
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• Jessica Chastain to Star in New Broadway ‘A Doll’s House’

  16-11-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The Academy Award-winning actress will lead a spring revival of the classic Henrik Ibsen play, revised by Amy Herzog and directed by Jamie Lloyd.
  
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• Anonymous Was a Woman Picks Most Diverse Group of Winners to Date for Beloved Artist Grant Program

  16-11-2022 13:30 via artnews.com
  Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization founded by Susan Unterberg, has revealed the 2022 winners of its vaunted grants, which go to women-identifying artists over the age of 40 who are at “a critical junction in their career.”Each of the 15 winners will receive $25,000. Those winners include Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an 82-year-old painter set to receive a Whitney Museum retrospective in 2023, and Abigail DeVille, a 40-year-old sculptor whose work is being surveyed right
  
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• Google Arts & Culture features Cleveland's art, history, food and more - ideastream

  16-11-2022 13:03 via news.google.com
  Google Arts & Culture features Cleveland's art, history, food and more  ideastream
  
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• ‘Memories of My Father’ Review: Death of a Patriarch

  16-11-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Directed by Fernando Trueba, this treacly melodrama focuses on the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince’s coming-of-age as shaped by his father, the doctor and human rights leader Héctor Abad Gómez.
  
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• ‘In Her Hands’ Review: A Young Woman’s Resolve as Life Unravels

  16-11-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Hillary and Chelsea Clinton executive produced this documentary, which follows a young Afghan mayor as she navigates upheavals wrought by the Taliban’s return to power.
  
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• Kevin Spacey Faces New Sexual Assault Charges in U.K.

  16-11-2022 12:18 via nytimes.com
  The authorities authorized seven new counts against the actor, including three for sexual assault. Mr. Spacey was already facing a criminal trial in Britain.
  
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• Activists in India and Africa Are Leading the Global Push to Repatriate Looted Artifacts

  16-11-2022 12:00 via artnews.com
  Sixty-two years ago, the small Indian town of Thanjavur woke up to devastating news. A 2,000-year-old temple in the city had been looted, and its much-loved deity was missing. Police in India say that the centuries-old statue of the dancing Hindu god Shiva (Natarajar) now resides over 2,000 miles away, within the walls of the Asia Society and Museum in New York.All across museums in the U.S. and Europe live gods that have been “deshrined,” as the poet Niyi Osundare once put it while
  
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• How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far)

  16-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A surprising collaboration between an entertainment giant (Disney) and an avant-garde artist (Julie Taymor) birthed the most successful musical in history.
  
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• How Do You Write Plays For a Divided Country? Listen Carefully.

  16-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  His plays challenge us to slow down, even when dealing with the pressures of political and social division.
  
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• Dressing Wakanda

  16-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter decodes her five favorite outfits.
  
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• Beneath Its Pink Cover, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Offers a Story About Power

  16-11-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The best-selling debut author Bonnie Garmus created Elizabeth Zott, a chemist battling a sexist 1950s establishment, as the role model she craved — and found that readers wanted the same.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel: Trump News Is ‘the Moment None of Us Have Been Waiting For’

  16-11-2022 07:33 via nytimes.com
  Trump made his 2024 campaign announcement at Mar-a-Lago, where Kimmel joked that he was “surrounded by dozens of his closest friends and thousands of classified documents.”
  
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• Despite Solid Sales for Emerging Artists, Phillips’s $138.9 M. Contemporary Sale Hampered by ‘Tentative’ Market

  16-11-2022 04:46 via artnews.com
  Phillips’s modern and contemporary sale, held at its Park Avenue headquarters in New York on Tuesday night, garnered $138.9 million with fees, though its hammer total of $115 million only barely surpassed the house’s $114 million presale expectation.Despite a strong sell-through rate with only one of the 44 not finding a buyer, Phillips, along with its competitor Sotheby’s on Monday night, faced a road bump in maintaining the frenzied buying seen last week at Christie’s w
  
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