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• A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’

  17-05-2023 22:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Jibz Cameron, who performs as Dynasty Handbag, is bringing a new multimedia performance to Brooklyn. It might be more epic than the blockbuster movie.
  
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• Kusama Takes On the Infinite With a Sly Wink

  17-05-2023 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The Japanese artist’s new exhibition in Manhattan includes undulating pumpkins and graphic paintings, but her latest Infinity Mirror Room is the star of the show.
  
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• Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation names four finalists for the ... - City of Sarasota

  17-05-2023 21:59
  
  Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation names four finalists for the ...  City of Sarasota
  
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• Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Sells for $38.1 Million

  17-05-2023 20:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late 9th or early 10th century, was bought at Sotheby’s by the American Friends of the ANU — Museum of the Jewish People.
  
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• Silver Sarcophagus of Saint Alexander Nevsky Returned by Hermitage to the Russian Orthodox Church

  17-05-2023 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  A monumental silver sarcophagus of Saint Alexander Nevsky was returned by the Hermitage Museum to the namesake Russian Orthodox church, both in St Petersburg, Russia, reports the Art Newspaper. The sarcophagus is entombed in the largest silver monument in the world. Alexander Nevsky was a 13th-century Russian war hero who was canonized in 1549. Nevsky was chosen by Peter the Great as the patron saint of the capital city and he commissioned the cathedral in Nevsky’s honor. The monument was
  
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• Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Sells for $37.8 Million

  17-05-2023 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late 9th or early 10th century, was bought at Sotheby’s by the American Friends of the ANU, Museum of the Jewish People.
  
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• Damon Lindelhof and Soo Hugh on Encouraging ‘Creative Short Circuits’

  17-05-2023 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Soo Hugh (“Pachinko”) and Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” “Mrs. Davis”) discuss learning from their staffs, wanting to hear “no” and navigating the writers’ strike.
  
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• The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever

  17-05-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  On the rise before the pandemic, Simon has shot to even greater prominence since. His next premiere commemorates the murder of George Floyd.
  
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• Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans

  17-05-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Engravings found in Jordan and Saudi Arabia appeared to match nearby ancient megastructures known as desert kites as seen from above.
  
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• Desert Monoliths Reveal Stone Age Architectural Blueprints

  17-05-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Engravings found in Jordan and Saudi Arabia appeared to match nearby ancient megastructures known as desert kites as seen from above.
  
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• Mad May: 7 Art Fairs in New York City

  17-05-2023 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  A deluge of art arrives in Manhattan this week, with Frieze, NADA and satellite exhibitions spread around the city.
  
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• Kassa Overall Knows Artists Feel Pressure. His New Album Explores It.

  17-05-2023 19:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The drummer whose genre-crossing work has brought acclaim here and abroad returns with “Animals,” an LP of jazz, rap and soul inspired by the struggle to be OK.
  
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• Mad May: 11 Art Fairs in New York City

  17-05-2023 18:57 via nytimes.com
  
  A deluge of art comes to Manhattan this month, with Frieze, NADA and satellite exhibitions spread around the city.
  
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• Brie Larson Did Watch Johnny Depp’s Film, ‘Jeanne du Barry,’ at Cannes

  17-05-2023 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  On Day 1 of the festival, the juror who was active in Hollywood’s #MeToo response was asked if she would view the Johnny Depp film. She answered tersely.
  
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• Raul de Lara’s Rustic “Soft Sculptures” Act as Portraits of Invisible Laborers

  17-05-2023 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  A straw broom leans against the wall, but something is amiss: its wooden handle forms a gentle, downward-sloping arc, as if pulled by gravity toward the floor. Another broom hangs from the wall, its stick twisted over a metal peg like an earring hook fashioned by a giant. Spades, snow shovels, pitchforks, and mops likewise droop from pegs, their ends sometimes looped through handles in impossibly pliable ways. Giving new insight to the phrase “soft sculpture,” Raul de Lara’s so
  
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• Kelly Akashi on Creating “Sublimely Offensive” Sculptures and What Happens When Your Medium Becomes Obsolete

  17-05-2023 17:20 via artnews.com
  
  Wads of chewing gum are stuck to the shiny, smooth surfaces of Kelly Akashi’s elegant glass botanical sculptures, sharply undercutting their preciousness. These sculptures, like casts of various parts of the artist’s body, are littered throughout her current show, “Infinite Body,” on view at Tanya Bonakdar in New York through June 10. Other sculptures—delicate and glassy, hearty and crystalline—sit on plinths that are made of dirt, yet perfectly rectangular. U
  
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• Florida School District Is Sued Over Book Restrictions

  17-05-2023 16:59 via nytimes.com
  
  A free-speech organization and the country’s largest book publisher said the district violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause.
  
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• Brooklyn’s Batcave Reborn as Gotham’s Art Factory

  17-05-2023 16:56 via nytimes.com
  
  A philanthropist spent $180 million to transform a relic of Gowanus’s industrial past into Powerhouse Arts, equipped to produce the art of the future.
  
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• Johnny Depp Responds to Backlash at Cannes

  17-05-2023 16:26 via nytimes.com
  
  At a news conference, the controversial star of the opening-night film used McDonald’s metaphors to answer questions about how he is viewed.
  
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• Stand-Up Comics Are Asking, What’s So Funny About Grief?

  17-05-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new generation of stand-ups is mining the heartbreaking loss of a loved one for ambitious shows. How did we get here?
  
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• ‘Queenmaker’ Review: Society Blogger to Self-Made Celebrity

  17-05-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The chronicler of the post-9/11 New York social whirl who is at the center of this documentary was no Manhattan insider but rather a student in Illinois.
  
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• Wura-Natasha Ogunji Uses a Sewing Machine to Create Dreamy Drawings with Thread

  17-05-2023 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  The title of Nigerian-American artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s current New York show at Fridman Gallery, “Cake,” couldn’t be more perfect. The exhibition was named after a drawing by the artist Youmna Chlala that features a city-like structure partially covered in layers of white. That work is called This is a cake, not a city, and it has now birthed more drawings by Ogunji, an admirer of Chlala.Ogunji’s new works were created using thread, graphite, and ink on tracing
  
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• Wura-Natasha Ogunji Creates Dreamy Drawings with Thread

  17-05-2023 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  The title of Nigerian-American artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s current New York show at Fridman Gallery, “Cake,” couldn’t be more perfect. The exhibition was named after a drawing by the artist Youmna Chlala that features a city-like structure partially covered in layers of white. That work is called This is a cake, not a city, and it has now birthed more drawings by Ogunji, an admirer of Chlala.Ogunji’s new works were created using thread, graphite, and ink on tracing
  
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• Jessica Vaughn Remaps American Life Through the US Postal Service

  17-05-2023 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  After coming home from a long day of work, often before entering our front doors, we check our mailboxes. We examine their contents with some combination of trepidation and joy, and do with them what we will. Most people have a very specific relationship to mail, but it’s one they don’t think about a lot. Artist Jessica Vaughn isn’t one of those people.For this year’s Frieze Artadia commission, Vaughn prods viewers to question the mundane by taking a closer look at the Un
  
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• Can You Spot the Dog Hidden in This Picasso Painting?

  17-05-2023 14:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Recent imaging and restoration of Pablo Picasso’s “Le Moulin de la Galette” revealed a dog that had been painted over.
  
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• Van Gogh’s Cypresses Get the Blockbuster Treatment with a Treasure-Filled Met Show

  17-05-2023 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  What makes a blockbuster art exhibition: size or quality? Back in 1990, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art lured nearly 140 Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings to New York, it seemed that the appeal of a big, expensive survey hinged on the length of its decorated checklist. No surprise, then, that 1.2 million people saw that retrospective, with some even camping out in the summer heat to make it into the show.More than 30 years on, here comes “Van Gogh’s Cypresses,” the Me
  
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• Asante King Calls on British Museum to Return Objects, Tacoma Art Museum Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for May 17, 2023

  17-05-2023 14:06 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesIN THE SALESROOM. The big New York auctions continued last night at Sotheby’s, which pulled in $426 million across a sale of modern art ($303 million) and another devoted to work from the collection of the late music exec Mo Ostin ($123 million), Angelica Villa reports in ARTnews. New records were set for&
  
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• City Launches Arts Alley Fellowship Program - City of Detroit

  17-05-2023 14:00
  
  City Launches Arts Alley Fellowship Program  City of Detroit
  
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• Plex Arts Festival brings experimental art to Burlington’s Old North End - VTDigger

  17-05-2023 12:17
  Plex Arts Festival brings experimental art to Burlington’s Old North End  VTDigger
  
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• ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: The Rich Are Different

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How quickly can a story line end? Very quickly.
  
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• Read Your Way Around Los Angeles

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers.
  
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• Neil Gaiman’s Best Books: A Guide

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The man behind the landmark reboot of “The Sandman” comic (and Netflix series) is going strong after decades of writing in just about every format. Here’s where to get started with his books for adults.
  
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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener on the Absurdity of Everyday Life

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star and director share a sensibility that comes through in their new film, “You Hurt My Feelings,” about a small thing that rocks a marriage.
  
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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener Discuss ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star and director share a sensibility that comes through in their new film, “You Hurt My Feelings,” about a small thing that rocks a marriage.
  
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• In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Levi Holloway on his psychological thriller starring Laurie Metcalf: “It wears the jacket of horror. But I think it’s more heart than horror.”
  
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• Andrew McCarthy Wrote a Book About a Father-Son Pilgrimage. His Son Gets His Say.

  17-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sam McCarthy accompanied his father on the Camino de Santiago and is featured in his father’s new memoir, but what did he think of it? The pair discuss their achievement.
  
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• Ahead of His Centennial, Gagosian Mounts a Major Richard Avedon Exhibition, With Works Chosen By Artists, Celebrities, and More

  17-05-2023 10:45 via artnews.com
  
  The images of Richard Avedon, 100 years on, are still remarkably fresh. Whether it’s his fashion photography for Harper’s Bazaar in the 1940s and ‘50s or his Civil Rights–era images or even his later work for the New Yorker under, these pictures feel as though they could have been made last year. His impact on image-making has been indelible. Just flip through the pages of almost any glossy magazine—Avedon is in there somewhere. To markthe master’s c
  
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• Cultural center on wheels brings the arts closer to working-class ... - Reuters

  17-05-2023 08:59
  
  Cultural center on wheels brings the arts closer to working-class ...  Reuters
  
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• $53 M. Gustav Klimt Leads Sotheby’s $427 M. Two-Part Evening Sales in New York

  17-05-2023 06:42 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday night, Sotheby’s staged a set of evening auctions dedicated to works from the estate of music executive Mo Ostin and another to modern art. Together, the back-to-back sales, held during the marquee sale week in New York, brought in a collective $427 million with buyer’s fees.Fifteen works from the Ostin collection were offered, including works by blue-chip figures like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Joan Mitchell. 14 of those works sold, generating a sum of $123 million, outpac
  
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• $53 M. Gustav Klimt Leads Sotheby’s $426 M. Two-Part Evening Sales in New York

  17-05-2023 06:42 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday night, Sotheby’s staged a set of evening auctions dedicated to works from the estate of music executive Mo Ostin and another to modern art. Together, the back-to-back sales, held during the marquee sale week in New York, brought in a collective $426 million with buyer’s fees.Fifteen works from the Ostin collection were offered, including works by blue-chip figures like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Joan Mitchell. 14 of those works sold, generating a sum of $123 million, outpac
  
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• Fair Warning: Lots of Passes, But Sotheby’s Modern Sales Still Bring In $427 Million

  17-05-2023 04:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The auction house offered nearly 65 paintings and sculptures, including 15 from the late Warner Bros. chairman Mo Ostin, whose Magritte sold for $42.3 million.
  
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• Arts Forecast: Celebrating AAPI Month, hailing the next generation ... - 48 Hills

  17-05-2023 03:02
  
  Arts Forecast: Celebrating AAPI Month, hailing the next generation ...  48 Hills
  
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• ‘King James’ Review: We’ll Always Have LeBron

  17-05-2023 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two men’s kindred obsession with a basketball player is the scaffold for Rajiv Joseph’s examination of male friendship at the Manhattan Theater Club.
  
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• Beck Center for the Arts’ eclectic 90th season features Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carole King and August Wilson - cleveland.com

  17-05-2023 02:30
  Beck Center for the Arts’ eclectic 90th season features Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carole King and August Wilson  cleveland.com
  
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• Oakland School for the Arts students 'reclaim' sidewalk outside their campus through chalk art - KGO-TV

  17-05-2023 02:25
  Oakland School for the Arts students 'reclaim' sidewalk outside their campus through chalk art  KGO-TV
  
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• Arts + Entertainment - New Orleans Magazine

  17-05-2023 02:18
  
  Arts + Entertainment  New Orleans Magazine
  
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• NOBA Continues Free Arts Healing Programming through Oscar J ... - New Orleans Magazine

  17-05-2023 02:02
  
  NOBA Continues Free Arts Healing Programming through Oscar J ...  New Orleans Magazine
  
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• New owner takes over the Huron Physical Arts Center - The Times Herald

  17-05-2023 02:02
  
  New owner takes over the Huron Physical Arts Center  The Times Herald
  
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• Asbury Park Arts Council announces 2023 APin3 film challenge - TAPinto.net

  17-05-2023 01:42
  
  Asbury Park Arts Council announces 2023 APin3 film challenge  TAPinto.net
  
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• Bill Saluga, a Memorable Comedic Wiseguy, Is Dead at 85

  17-05-2023 01:31 via nytimes.com
  
  He played many characters in his career, but he was best known by far for the one who said, “You doesn’t have to call me Johnson.”
  
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