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• Kanye West’s Deal to Buy Parler Unravels

  01-12-2022 23:40 via nytimes.com
  The parent company of Parler, a social media service popular with right-wing audiences, said it had “mutually agreed with Ye” to end the deal.
  
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• Polish Auction House Raided Again in Investigation Into Whether Painting Was Involved in a Crime

  01-12-2022 23:32 via artnews.com
  A painting by the Symbolist artist Jacek Malczewski was the subject of a legal standoff at a Warsaw auction house shortly before a major auction earlier this week. Armed police officers, as well as staff from the country’s National Gallery, went to seize the artwork after prosecutors said the painting may have been involved in a crime. However, they left the DESA Unicum auction house empty-handed for the second time.The 1908 oil painting, titled Rzeczywistość (Reality), was expec
  
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• Decades of Resistance in Haiti’s Streets Are Surveyed in Miami Photography Exhibition

  01-12-2022 23:18 via artnews.com
  In 1995, British photographer and curator Leah Gordon traveled to Jacmel, a port town in Southern Haiti, for the first time. Then as now, the country reeled from unrest, but it did not stop Gordon would from documenting a street tradition that mines the country’s brutal past. She captured Jacmel residents organizing public processions that involved donning masks alluding to various traumas—from colonial debt to foreign interventions— registered during its 200 year-history.Haiti
  
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• Art Brewer, Leading Photographer of Surfers, Is Dead at 71

  01-12-2022 22:55 via nytimes.com
  A surfer from a young age, he began publishing his pictures when he was a teenager and became renowned for both his action shots and his portraits.
  
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• Stream These 13 Movies Before They Leave Netflix This Month

  01-12-2022 22:38 via nytimes.com
  The end of the year brings the end of many licensing agreements for streaming services, so load up your queues now.
  
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• Amber Heard Seeks New Defamation Trial After Losing to Johnny Depp

  01-12-2022 22:25 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Heard’s lawyers argue in their appeal that the trial was held in the wrong state, and that the judge erred in prohibiting evidence they say supports her claims of domestic abuse.
  
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• An Urgent Survey of Cuban Art in Miami Pieces Together a Fragmented History

  01-12-2022 22:16 via artnews.com
  “You Know Who We Are,” at the El Espacio 23 in Miami, is a survey of art from Cuba and its diaspora that, despite its title, proves there are legions left learn on this subject. The co-curators, Anelys Alvarez and Patricia Hanna, chose a thematic approach, rather than a historical one, presenting the canon as a collective drama spanning several generations and thousands of miles. All 100 or so artworks in the show, from sculptures to installations to paintings and everything in-betwe
  
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• 2022: The Year in Atlanta Rap

  01-12-2022 21:48 via nytimes.com
  The country’s most influential hip-hop scene has weathered a period of extraordinary upheaval. A look back at happened, and what’s next.
  
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• ‘Casablanca’ and the Romance of the Refugee

  01-12-2022 21:41 via nytimes.com
  A showcase of memorabilia at the Neue Galerie spotlights the Central European exiles who crafted Hollywood’s great wartime love story.
  
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• At the ICA Miami, a Daring Project Offers Up an Electric Car Like You’ve Never Seen Before

  01-12-2022 21:36 via artnews.com
  One striking thing about this past year’s Super Bowl were the commercials—specifically, the ads for electric vehicles. Since then, there’s been an onslaught of news about the coming fleet of green energy cars. Seldom thought about, however, is the ways in which the design of those cars, termed EVs for short, has come about.In an interesting collaboration with Lexus, and the ICA Miami, architect Suchi Reddy created an installation that attempts to map out the design principles t
  
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• Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More

  01-12-2022 21:30 via nytimes.com
  “Underneath the Skin,” a theater piece by John Kelly, meditates on the life of Samuel Steward, who always lived boldly when others dared not.
  
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• A Guide to NYC Holiday Events: Live Music, Theater, Lights and More

  01-12-2022 21:27 via nytimes.com
  A guide to seasonal events across the city, including music for all ages and the lighting of two 32-foot menorahs.
  
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• ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey

  01-12-2022 21:22 via nytimes.com
  The actor stars in this Civil War-era drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and inspired by a shocking photograph of an enslaved man.
  
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• ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton

  01-12-2022 21:01 via nytimes.com
  The actress astonishes in two roles in Joanna Hogg’s haunting film set in a creaky castle in Wales.
  
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• Art Basel 2022: Masks Off, Wallets Out

  01-12-2022 20:59 via nytimes.com
  On the 20th anniversary of Art Basel Miami Beach, its largest edition yet, the two Miamis — its emerging artists and its big collectors — meet across the gap.
  
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• 1,900-Year-Old Snacks and Animal Bones Found in the Sewers of Rome’s Colosseum

  01-12-2022 20:53 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists have found 1,900-year-old remains of fruits, nuts, and meats in the Colosseum’s drainage system, possibly indicating the types of snacks enjoyed by spectators.Researchers also found the bones of lions, leopards, bears, and small dogs—likely the remains of fights and hunting games held within the ancient arena—as well as the brick stamps of emperors who promoted the construction and restoration of the underground infrastructure.The discoveries were made as part of
  
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• For Bronx Children’s Museum, a Long-Awaited Home

  01-12-2022 20:36 via nytimes.com
  After more than 10 years of busing exhibits across the borough, the museum is opening a permanent space on the Harlem River.
  
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• Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman’ Named Greatest Film of All Time in Sight and Sound Poll

  01-12-2022 20:17 via nytimes.com
  Thedrama is among several by female and Black directors in the respected once-a-decade survey, last conducted in 2012.
  
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• Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism

  01-12-2022 20:16 via nytimes.com
  In “Nine Sinatra Songs,” recently revived at City Center, Tharp captured elusive strains in the country’s DNA.
  
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• ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’: A Guide

  01-12-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  Here’s everything you need to know about the film, including why it’s important and where you can watch.
  
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• ‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t)

  01-12-2022 20:10 via nytimes.com
  Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain bring to life a pair of country music legends (and sing their songs) in a Showtime mini-series.
  
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• Tom Phillips, British Artist and Polymath Who Found Many Admirers, Dies at 85

  01-12-2022 20:08 via artnews.com
  Tom Phillips, a multi-hyphenate British polymath, has died at age 85. His death was first reported by the Guardian earlier this week.Phillips worked as a portrait painter, a musician, a poet, a curator, an art historian, a translator, a filmmaker, and a composer, and also held a 12-year-long position as chairman of the exhibitions committee at the Royal Academy in London. He was perhaps best known, however, as an artist.In his art practice, Phillips worked in a variety different modes, painting
  
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• ‘Jeanne Dielman’ Named Greatest Film of All Time in Sight and Sound Poll

  01-12-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The Chantal Ackerman drama is among several by female and Black directors in the respected once-a-decade survey, last conducted in 2012.
  
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• The Best Booths at NADA Miami 2022

  01-12-2022 19:50 via artnews.com
  There may have been considerable buzz over at Art Basel Miami Beach’s VIP preview on Tuesday for the fair’s 20th Anniversary, but that didn’t detract from the energy at NADA Miami at its opening on Wednesday. The aisles at Ice Palace Films Studios, where the fair was held this year, were packed with dealers and collectors who came to the fair to see offerings from 146 galleries. Returning this year was the Curated Spotlight section, dedicated to eight solo presentations by up-a
  
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• ‘Four Samosas’ Review: A Romp Through Little India

  01-12-2022 19:28 via nytimes.com
  This snappy indie comedy by Ravi Kapoor sees a group of Indian American teenagers hatch a harebrained plan to steal a bag of diamonds.
  
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• ‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Transition, Center Stage

  01-12-2022 19:24 via nytimes.com
  The documentarian Chase Joynt stages re-enactments of midcentury medical interviews with transgender people.
  
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• ‘Darby and the Dead’ Review: Sixteen With a Sixth Sense

  01-12-2022 19:21 via nytimes.com
  A high school junior talks to dead people in this familiar but good-natured tale of adolescent female friendship.
  
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• Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music

  01-12-2022 19:05 via nytimes.com
  Members of the Shchedryk Children’s Choir have emerged from conflict determined to sing, including at Carnegie Hall this weekend.
  
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• Miami’s Crypto-Loving Mayor Visits the Gateway, a Five-Day NFT Festival

  01-12-2022 18:58 via artnews.com
  Last night, Miami mayor Francis Suarez spoke to a small group of crypto and NFT enthusiasts to officially unveil the exhibition “The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis.” It was the second year in a row that the Gateway—a festival put together and funded by by nft now, a web3-focused publication; Mana Commons, a real estate development company owned by billionaire real estate mogul Moishe Mana; and MoonPay, a crypto trading app—had come to Miami, and this time around, the mood was
  
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• ‘The Wiz’ Aims for Broadway After a U.S. Tour

  01-12-2022 18:53 via nytimes.com
  Schele Williams will direct and JaQuel Knight is choreographing a new production of the show, with additional material by Amber Ruffin. It will start its tour in Baltimore.
  
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• ‘Return to Seoul’ Review: Found in Translation

  01-12-2022 18:42 via nytimes.com
  On a whim, a Frenchwoman goes to visit South Korea, the country of her birth, in Davy Chou’s drama.
  
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• ‘Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power’ Review: A Movement That Changed America

  01-12-2022 18:34 via nytimes.com
  With arresting interviews and archival footage, this documentary looks back at a 1960s voting-rights campaign in Alabama that gave rise to a national movement for Black power.
  
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• MoMA Trustee Leon Black Faces Second Rape Allegation

  01-12-2022 18:27 via artnews.com
  Leon Black, a trustee and the former board chair of the Museum of Modern Art, has been accused for a second time of rape, according to Reuters. In lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court on Monday, Cheri Pierson alleges that Black “brutally” raped her 2002 in the Upper East Side home of his financial advisor, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In the suit, Pierson claims that Epstein paid her $300 for a massage on five separate occasions before he enginee
  
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• Beverly McIver: Celebrating a Career in the Arts - Duke Today

  01-12-2022 18:26 via news.google.com
  Beverly McIver: Celebrating a Career in the Arts  Duke Today
  
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• The Real Story of ‘Cocaine Bear’

  01-12-2022 18:20 via nytimes.com
  Nearly 40 years after a 175-pound black bear found and ingested cocaine in a Georgia forest, the drug binge has inspired a movie.
  
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• ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ Review: When Connie Met Ollie

  01-12-2022 17:40 via nytimes.com
  The new Netflix adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s once-controversial novel is both steamy and decorous.
  
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• ‘Farha’ Review: A Most Brutal Coming-of-Age Story

  01-12-2022 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Set in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this drama depicts the upheaval of Palestinian society from a 14-year-old girl’s perspective.
  
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• ‘Scrooge: A Christmas Carol’ Review: Slightly Off Key

  01-12-2022 16:46 via nytimes.com
  Luke Evans, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley lend their voices to this animated musical of the holiday classic.
  
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• Schupf Arts Completes Waterville's Revitalization - news.colby.edu

  01-12-2022 16:01 via news.google.com
  Schupf Arts Completes Waterville's Revitalization  news.colby.edu
  
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• We’re Out of Movie Stars. Whose Fault Is That?

  01-12-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  There are fewer films now that allow an actor to grow a persona and a Tom Cruise level of stardom. It’s a crisis, and the movies know it.
  
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• The Best 2022 Holiday Gifts Under $25 for Artists and Art Lovers

  01-12-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission.Whether you’re a secret Santa, you’re looking for a stocking stuffer for a creative family member, or you’re just feeling a bit pinched this holiday season, we’ve got you covered. Here are 25 gifts for $25 and under for the artists and art lovers on your list.
  
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• ‘2nd Chance’ Review: Just Shoot Me

  01-12-2022 15:29 via nytimes.com
  Ramin Bahrani’s first documentary feature profiles Richard Davis, the irrepressible inventor of a modern bulletproof vest.
  
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• ‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Perfect Strangers Form Family Ties

  01-12-2022 15:26 via nytimes.com
  Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge star in this tear-jerker romance adapted from the memoir by the television journalist Michael Ausiello.
  
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• ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule

  01-12-2022 15:03 via nytimes.com
  Tommy Wirkola’s film tries to pass off sadism as comedy.
  
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• Seeing & Believing: Christian Imagery in Painting Now

  01-12-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  Christian iconography and compositional schemes are deeply ingrained in the history of Western painting. They all but monopolized the medium for about a dozen of its formative centuries—from the Byzantine era through the Renaissance—during which techniques and traditions were being figured out and established. To consider the legacy of this symbolism today, A.i.A. brought together four painters from around the world who grapple with Christian imagery consciously and critically in the
  
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• ‘Tantura’ Review: Unearthing the Past

  01-12-2022 14:53 via nytimes.com
  Revisiting a graduate thesis that caused controversy in Israel two decades ago, this documentary examines evidence of a possible massacre in 1948.
  
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• ‘What Remains’ Review: Murder Thriller Without the Thrills

  01-12-2022 14:13 via nytimes.com
  This film about a small-town pastor hoping to mentor his wife’s killer includes one of the final performances from Anne Heche.
  
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• Phillips Collection Names New Director, Goya Record to Be Smashed, and More: Morning Links for December 1, 2022

  01-12-2022 14:13 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE TOP JOB. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has hired Jonathan Binstock to be its next director, the Washington Post reports. Binstock is coming to the masterpiece-stacked museum (Renoir! Rothko!) from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, which he has led since 2014. (A b
  
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• In Print: The Religion Issue

  01-12-2022 14:12 via artnews.com
  In an interview for the “In the Studio” feature in this issue, artist Shahpour Pouyan perfectly captures the central contradiction of religion: “Belief is the most dangerous thing. And it’s also the most precious thing we have as humans.”Related Articles Abstracting the Political: The 58th Carnegie InternationalFace-to-Face: Diane Arbus at David ZwirnerThe power shared among the artists featured in this issue is their ability to bring religious imagery and allusions
  
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• Hauser & Wirth to Kick Off New West Hollywood Gallery with George Condo Show

  01-12-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  With his work raking in millions of dollars on the auction block, George Condo has been picked to inaugurate Hauser & Wirth’s new West Hollywood gallery, which will open in February.The opening will come as many major galleries expand to Los Angeles. The international art world has taken a new interest in the city, thanks in part to the advent of the Frieze art fair there, and last year, around the time of that event’s third edition, a number of galleries, including Hauser &
  
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