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• Leonard Abrams, 68, Chronicler of 1980s East Village Art Boom, Dies

  13-04-2023 23:51 via nytimes.com
  
  His newspaper, the East Village Eye, was as scrappy and iconoclastic as the young maverick stars its pages brought to life.
  
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• Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer Who Aided a Defection, Dies at 91

  13-04-2023 23:43 via nytimes.com
  
  He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris, and he witnessed Nureyev’s headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War.
  
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• New Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative to invest in innovative ... - Emory News Center

  13-04-2023 23:26
  
  New Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative to invest in innovative ...  Emory News Center
  
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• UM College of Fine Arts Presents World-Fire: A Project Invitation - University of Montevallo News

  13-04-2023 22:55
  
  UM College of Fine Arts Presents World-Fire: A Project Invitation  University of Montevallo News
  
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• Meir Shalev, Whose Novels Found Humor in Israeli Life, Dies at 74

  13-04-2023 22:45 via nytimes.com
  
  He focused mostly on the half century before Israeli independence, finding the plight of the early Zionists ripe for affectionate satire.
  
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• Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77

  13-04-2023 22:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Her science fiction writing won awards. Her tarot books won her a devoted following. And she created DC Comics’ first transgender superhero.
  
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• Lady Gaga, Shonda Rhimes and More Named to Restored Arts Commission

  13-04-2023 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, disbanded during the Trump administration, mixes scholars with boldface names from the entertainment world.
  
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• Review: In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare Becomes Soap Opera

  13-04-2023 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit 2020 novel is elegant and tasteful — but also formulaic and sentimental.
  
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• ‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only’ Review: New York Droll

  13-04-2023 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  David Johansen, once the lead singer for the New York Dolls, proves a first-rate raconteur in this documentary co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi.
  
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• Broadway Show “Shucked” Celebrates Corn in Every Way Possible

  13-04-2023 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  “Shucked” is the first Broadway show in which the breakout star is a vegetable, served up in a cornucopia of puns.
  
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• ‘Renfield’ Review: Dracula, Worst Boss Ever

  13-04-2023 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicholas Hoult stars as the long-suffering servant to Nicolas Cage’s Count Dracula in this highly absurd, entertaining comedy.
  
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• Former Art Institute of Chicago Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $2 M. from Museum

  13-04-2023 20:54 via artnews.com
  
  A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago plead guilty in federal court this week after he was indicted in January on several fraud charges for stealing more than $2 million from the museum over 13 years.The written plea agreement states that Michael Maurello redirected payments from the museum’s payroll system into his personal bank account at JP Morgan Chase between 2007 and 2020. ARTnews has reached out to the Art Institute of Chicago for comment on Maurello’s
  
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• I Was Wrong About Cecily Brown

  13-04-2023 20:41 via nytimes.com
  
  After panning an artist’s work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to “Death and the Maid” at the Met.
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans, Simone Leigh, and El Anatsui Make Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ List

  13-04-2023 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  Time magazine has released its 2023 list of the 100 “Most Influential” people, which this year features art-world stars Simone Leigh, Wolfgang Tillmans, and El Anatsui alongside noteworthy actors, politicians, and personalities.As always, the roundup is categorized by artists, innovators, titans, leaders, icons, and pioneers. Previous winners were invited to pen short essays honoring the impact of the 2023 recipients. Simone Leigh was honored by Venus Williams, who described in her c
  
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• ‘Television’ Review: Small-Screen Dreams

  13-04-2023 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  A new show at the Wild Project in Manhattan imagines how a small 1950s community weathers the arrival of the mass media age.
  
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• ‘Hilma’ Review: An Artist With Spirit

  13-04-2023 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The film gets off to a rough start, but the director wins the audience back with his sincere connection to the artist Hilma af Klint.
  
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• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 9 Recap: A Familiar Home

  13-04-2023 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Home is where the ship is. In this week’s episode of “Picard,” the crew goes home.
  
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• When Is a Chair a Work of Art? A Bushwick Gallery Weighs In

  13-04-2023 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  In a furniture store, it’s a chair. In an art gallery, it’s a sculpture. But at International Objects in Brooklyn, it could be either, neither or both.
  
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• ‘Suzume’ Review: Gods, Spells and Instagram Posts

  13-04-2023 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Makoto Shinkai’s latest animated film, about a girl who accidentally unleashes chaos over Japan, is at once mythical and thoroughly modern.
  
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• ‘Passion’ Review: Friends Fall Apart

  13-04-2023 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Belatedly making its U.S. debut, a 2008 film from Ryusuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Car”) offers new insights into his abiding themes and sensibilities.
  
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• ‘Wild Life’ Review: Their Land Is Our Land

  13-04-2023 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary looks at the efforts of Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and Douglas Tompkins to preserve stretches of land in Argentina and Chile.
  
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• Spotlighting Lady Macbeth’s Anguish: Can What’s Done Be Undone?

  13-04-2023 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  With radical adaptations of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Puccini’s “Tosca,” Heartbeat Opera shows why it’s so vital to New York’s music scene.
  
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• Cecily Brown and a Critic’s Change of Mind

  13-04-2023 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  After panning an artist’s work 23 years ago, our veteran writer altered her assessment following three visits to “Death and the Maid” at the Met.
  
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• Art or Porn? A Closer Look at Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ the Sculpture Behind the Florida Charter School Controversy

  13-04-2023 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  A charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, recently became news after parents complained about the inclusion of a famed sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo in a sixth-grade art-history course. As a result, in late March, the school’s principal resigned from an institution that is, ironically, dedicated to classical education.Related Articles Michigan College Cuts Ties with Florida Charter School After Principal Resigns Over 'David' Sculpture School Board Chair Responds to P
  
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• Art or Porn? A Closer Look at Michelangelo’s 16th-Century ‘David’ Sculpture Behind Florida Charter School Controversy

  13-04-2023 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  A charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, recently became news after parents complained about the inclusion of a famed sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo in a sixth-grade art-history course. As a result, in late March, the school’s principal resigned from an institution that is, ironically, dedicated to classical education.The sculpture depicts the biblical David holding the sling with which he will kill Goliath. At issue here was its heroic full frontality, which unapolo
  
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• Art or Porn? A Closer Look at Michelangelo’s David, the Sculpture Behind the Florida Charter School Controversy

  13-04-2023 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  A charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, recently became news after parents complained about the inclusion of a famed sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo in a sixth-grade art-history course. As a result, in late March, the school’s principal resigned from an institution that is, ironically, dedicated to classical education.Related Articles Michigan College Cuts Ties with Florida Charter School After Principal Resigns Over 'David' Sculpture School Board Chair Responds to P
  
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• From the Archives: The Dream World of Salvador Dali

  13-04-2023 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  To any student of modern trends in art it is readily apparent that Salvador Dali’s present position is at best a most ambiguous one. The “experts” and “critics” have consistently refused to assign him any lasting or consecutive place. They still seem to regard his influence as unimportant upon anything except possibly advertising art, and – as has been facetiously said – himself! And yet it is well known that during the ten years, 1930-1940, Salvado
  
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• From the Archives: The Dream World of Salvador Dalí

  13-04-2023 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  “Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears” in on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through June 12, 2023. Below is an article from Art in America‘s July 1945 issue, published before Dalí was the blockbuster artist he is today. The article discusses the Surrealist’s paintings from the 1930s, the same decade that is the focus on the AIC exhibition.To any student of modern trends in art it is readily apparent that Salvador Dali’s present position is at best
  
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• Gerhard Richter’s Premier Color Field Painting Goes to Auction

  13-04-2023 18:06 via artnews.com
  
  Gerhard Richter’s iconic painting 4096 Farben is set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in New York on May 18, with an estimated value of $18-25 million. That work was the culmination of his color field paintings, which were famously inspired by a trip to the hardware store in the mid-1960s. LIke many, he was beguiled by the paint samples there, seeing them as perfect readymades for painting. In 1966, he gestured toward these paint samples in his first color fi
  
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• Inspired by Jane Goodall, Onscreen and in Real Life

  13-04-2023 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  “Jane,” a new Apple TV+ series, tries to deliver Goodall’s environmental message through a young protagonist with insatiable curiosity.
  
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• ‘Honorable Men’ Review: The Trials of a Prime Minister

  13-04-2023 17:57 via nytimes.com
  
  It would take an eight- or 10-hour mini-series to deal with all the issues this documentary raises about the legal travails of Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel.
  
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• Museum Offers $25K for Pieces of Meteorite—If You Can Find Them

  13-04-2023 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, a meteor burned through the sky above the Northeastern United States at such a speed that it broke the sound barrier. According to NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Lab, the space rock was large enough to create a fireball that could be clearly seen entering the atmosphere, despite the fact that it fell to earth just before noon.Now, the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum is offering $25,000 to whomever brings in a piece of the meteorite th
  
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• Buffalo AKG Art Museum Unveils Four Years of Acquisitions, Including a Wealth of Computer Art

  13-04-2023 17:03 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of its reopening in June, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in New York has revealed the 518 works it has acquired since 2019, the year it closed to add more than 50,000 square feet to its campus.
  In the past four years, the museum has significantly bulked up its holdings of computer art—a kind of work that many institutions do not often collect—while also amassing the largest collection of Marisol in the world, with roughly 200 works by her added to its holdings.
  The Marisol gift and
  
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• On Feist’s ‘Multitudes,’ Tranquillity Is Shadowed by Disquiet

  13-04-2023 16:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The Canadian songwriter’s most intimate-sounding album is also her most ambitious statement.
  
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• The Back Room of This Artist’s Studio Is Called the Abattoir

  13-04-2023 16:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Max Hooper Schneider’s work space in Los Angeles is a cabinet of curiosities, complete with fish tanks, plastic mushrooms and Nerds candy.
  
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• ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ Review: The Life Aquatic

  13-04-2023 16:25 via nytimes.com
  
  This contribution to slow cinema observes the quiet routines of a captain and her crew as they sail a small boat across the Mediterranean.
  
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• ‘Everything Went Fine’ Review: To Be or Not to Be?

  13-04-2023 16:18 via nytimes.com
  
  This French drama about a woman whose father wants a medically assisted death is both bracingly unsentimental and a touch inert.
  
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• ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ Expands Reese Witherspoon’s TV Universe

  13-04-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Last Thing He Told Me” and “Tiny Beautiful Things,” both executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, tell mother-daughter stories in very different ways.
  
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• Expanding the Witherspoon Television Universe

  13-04-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Last Thing He Told Me” and “Tiny Beautiful Things,” both executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, tell mother-daughter stories in very different ways.
  
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• ‘Rare Objects’ Review: A Woman Under the Influence

  13-04-2023 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Actors are given a long and generous leash in this sometimes compelling, sometimes tepid drama about mental illness from Katie Holmes.
  
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• ‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of

  13-04-2023 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  This eye-opening film from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor immerses us in the landscapes and textures of the human body, as encountered in French hospitals.
  
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• Collector Ken Griffin Gives $300 M. to Harvard, $25 M. Gerhard Richter Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links for April 13, 2023

  13-04-2023 14:16 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE COLLECTING CLASS. Good news for collector Bernard Arnault (and those hoping to sell him art): There were robust sales at LVMH, the luxury firm he founded, in the first quarter, Bloomberg reports. Its fashion division reported an 18-percent climb in sales (twice what analysts expected), helped along by renewed dem
  
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• Gagosian Takes on Rising Painter Cy Gavin After Mounting a Solo Show Earlier This Year

  13-04-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian now represents Cy Gavin, a rising painter whose recent landscape paintings have aided in redefining the genre. In February, ahead of the formal representation deal, Gagosian mounted a solo show of Gavin’s new work in New York; the artist will have his next show at the gallery’s Rome space this fall.In that last Gagosian show, working in a primarily abstract mode, Gavin focused on the recent relocation of his studio to the Hudson Valley, where he moved permanently in 2016. Ga
  
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• A New Exhibition Explores the Competing Visions at the Center of Africa’s Tumultuous 1960s 

  13-04-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  For Americans, the 1960s typically conjure up romantic images of hippies, protest, and the Vietnam War. But, across Africa, the era was even more tied up with social and cultural upheavals, as resistance, independence and revolution were the order of the day. 1960 was dubbed “the Year of Africa” by media and politicians at the time due to the fact that 17 African nations became independent that year. Throughout the decade, over a dozen more countries followed. Meanwhile, in Sout
  
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• Cannes Film Festival 2023 Lineup Includes Wes Anderson and Todd Haynes Movies

  13-04-2023 13:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Over 50 movies will be screened at the event, including Johnny Depp’s first major film since a defamation trial and Martin Scorsese’s latest epic.
  
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• ‘Harry Potter’ to Become a TV Series

  13-04-2023 13:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The author J.K. Rowling is expected to executive produce the show, which will appear on Max, the streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery.
  
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• ‘The Lost Weekend: A Love Story’ Review: When John Lennon Strayed

  13-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s not much Lennon music heard in this doc about his affair with May Pang, and given how much Pang trashes his wife, Yoko Ono, it’s no surprise it was withheld.
  
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• stanley brouwn, Art History’s Most Elusive Artist, Is Coming Into Focus

  13-04-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Conceptual art was always a tricky business. During the ’60s, Robert Barry photographed gases you couldn’t actually see. Piero Mazoni produced a series of tins called Artist’s Shit that may or may not have contained his fecal matter; the only way to know was to open them, and they’ve always remained shut (per the artist’s instructions). Sol Lewitt once placed a cube in a hole, then left it buried forever, totally out of the view of others.But of all the tricky Conce
  
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• ‘One True Loves’ Review: A Romance Lost at Sea

  13-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A film adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel has potential for drama, but it stumbles on stock melodrama.
  
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• ‘Mafia Mamma’ Review: An Offer You Can Refuse

  13-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Toni Collette has no chance of saving this jumble of Mob clichés and female empowerment.
  
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