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• Posthumous Revivals and Emerging Artists Top Sales at Frieze New York’s 2023 Edition

  18-05-2023 23:40 via artnews.com
  
  The 11th edition of Frieze New York returned to the Shed in Hudson Yards this week, opening on Wednesday for VIP fairgoers and running until Sunday. Hosting 68 galleries this year, the fair’s opening hours were buzzing, likely a showing of strength for New York’s art market over that of London and Hong Kong. On the opening day, sales were brisk, with mega-dealers disclosing seven-figure deals and smaller gallery’s seeing investments in newer names. Among the fair’s top sa
  
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Andy Warhol in Prince Photo Copyright Case

  18-05-2023 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The justices considered whether the artist was free to use elements of a rock photographer’s portrait of the musician Prince.
  
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• ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Review: Bouncing Off the Rim

  18-05-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Even the trash talk in a remake of the 1992 street ball comedy has no spark, despite the best efforts of Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow.
  
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• With ‘Primo,’ Shea Serrano Points His Gleeful Pen Homeward

  18-05-2023 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  For his first TV series, the best-selling sports and pop culture writer joined with Michael Schur to tell a story based on his adolescence in San Antonio.
  
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• ‘Master Gardener’ Review: Paul Schrader’s Solitary Man

  18-05-2023 22:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The director’s latest movie completes a trilogy about men in search of grace in a brutal world — usually by way of women, but thankfully they are vivid, too.
  
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• Arbutus Arts Festival to mark 50 years - wmar2news.com

  18-05-2023 21:40 via news.google.com
  
  Arbutus Arts Festival to mark 50 years  wmar2news.com
  
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• ‘Museum of the Revolution’ Review: Sheltering in an Abandoned Utopia

  18-05-2023 21:21 via nytimes.com
  
  This quiet documentary observes three unhoused women from different generations who live among the remains of an unfinished museum in Belgrade.
  
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• ‘Fast X’ Review: Drivers Wanted. Again.

  18-05-2023 21:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Twenty-two years and nine sequels in, the “Fast and Furious” franchise is finding it hard to keep the thrill alive.
  
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• ‘The Taking’ Review: This Land Is Not Your Land

  18-05-2023 20:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Monument Valley embodies the Old West. But the fantasies presented in Westerns obscure its darker history and the lives of the Navajo people who inhabit it.
  
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• World’s Oldest-Known Plans for Hunting Traps Identified in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, New Study Reports

  18-05-2023 20:28 via artnews.com
  
  The world’s oldest-known architectural plans, dating back more than 9,000 years, have been discovered by archaeologists in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, according to a new study published in the scientific journal PLOS One.These “extremely precise depictions” of Stone Age hunting traps, called kites because of their shape, were engraved on stone slabs. These structures would have been used to lure wild animals into enclosed herds, where they would have then been slaughtered.Massive
  
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• Subway Ad Showing Michelangelo’s ‘David’ Pulled Due to Nudity

  18-05-2023 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  Michelangelo’s iconic sculpture David is in hot water again. An image of the 14-foot marble Renaissance icon in Florence was deemed inappropriate for the subway system in Glasgow, Scotland, due to the statue’s nudity. The famous statue recently made headlines after parents complained about its inclusion in the curriculum of a conservative charter school in Florida.The advertisement was for the Barolo restaurant in the city center of Glasgow, part of the DRG Group of hospitality estab
  
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• Saluda Arts Festival returns downtown, with 95 artists, craftsmen, live music, activities - WLOS

  18-05-2023 20:17 via news.google.com
  Saluda Arts Festival returns downtown, with 95 artists, craftsmen, live music, activities  WLOS
  
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• Read Your Way Through Los Angeles

  18-05-2023 20:01 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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• ‘The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future’ Review: Mother Resurrected

  18-05-2023 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  This lyrical debut feature from Francisca Alegría is a slow-burning parable about our relationship to each other and to the living world.
  
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• A Band’s First U.S. Tour Starts With a Robbery

  18-05-2023 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Forests, an emo band from Singapore, ended its tour in New York in high spirits, two weeks after being robbed in California.
  
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• ‘Stay Awake’ Review: Becoming Their Mother’s Caretakers

  18-05-2023 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  This story of a small-town family impacted by addiction succeeds in humanizing its characters but falters when it tries to include a coming-of-age tale.
  
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• Paul Simon Confronts Death, Profoundly, on ‘Seven Psalms’

  18-05-2023 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The 81-year-old songwriter ruminates on mortality, faith and meaning in an album that could be a farewell.
  
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• ‘Butterfly Vision’ Review: A Ukrainian Soldier’s Lonely Struggle

  18-05-2023 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  A traumatized woman returns home from eastern Ukraine after being held captive by Russian separatists.
  
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• Review: Gibney Mines a Too-Familiar Contemporary Dance Mode

  18-05-2023 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  With a premiere by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond at the Joyce, Gibney Company builds on its repertoire but doesn’t enhance it.
  
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• Scenes From Cannes: Vigilant Steve McQueen, Misguided Maïwenn

  18-05-2023 19:12 via nytimes.com
  
  “Occupied City,” a documentary from the “12 Years a Slave” filmmaker, proves ambitious. “Jeanne du Barry,” with Johnny Depp, was an unfortunate kickoff.
  
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• US Supreme Court Rules Against Warhol Foundation in Closely Watched Copyright Case

  18-05-2023 19:01 via artnews.com
  
  The US Supreme Court ruled against the Andy Warhol foundation in the closely-watched copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the photographer Lynn Goldsmith, a decision that could set a precedent for cases involving the fair use doctrine.The Justices ruled 7 to 2 in Goldsmith’s favor, in the decision released Thursday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority opinion that the photographer’s “original works, like those of other photographers, are entitled to copyright
  
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• How Seattle-area arts organizations are trying to be more accessible - The Seattle Times

  18-05-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
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• Eugenie Tsai, Esteemed Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, to Depart After 15 Years

  18-05-2023 17:15 via artnews.com
  
  Eugenie Tsai, senior curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum and architect of numerous notable shows, will step down from her position after 15 years, she announced on Instagram today. Her last day in the role is set for June 30.“All institutions are flawed, but I can’t think of another museum where I would rather have spent the last 15 years,” she wrote. “I love my colleagues, the artists I’ve had the privilege of working with, and the wonderful audience
  
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• Why the Catwalk Is Coming to Cannes

  18-05-2023 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The next Indiana Jones movie isn’t the only big premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Chopard is unveiling a full couture line, and Versace is showing a Dua Lipa collaboration.
  
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• ‘Sanctuary’ Review: Who’s the Boss?

  18-05-2023 16:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A wealthy heir and his longtime employee vie for control over their uncommon relationship in this twisty duet.
  
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• ‘The Night of the 12th’ Review: When a Case Doesn’t Close

  18-05-2023 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  This refreshingly grounded French crime procedural portrays what happens when a brutal murder case eludes the diligent efforts of a by-the-book investigator.
  
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• The 1-54 Art Fair Brings Africa and Its Diaspora Into the Global Mainstream

  18-05-2023 15:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Talking with Touria El Glaoui, its founder, about making a real difference in the careers of African artists.
  
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• ‘The Blog Era’ Podcast Resurrects Rap Media History

  18-05-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new podcast from the brothers Eric and Jeff Rosenthal explores what made hip-hop blogs matter — and why they faded away.
  
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• At MoMA, Latin American Artists Look Back to the Past in Order to Plot Their Future

  18-05-2023 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  In 2016, ARTnews Top 200 collectors Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros made headlines when they announced they would donate 102 works from their esteemed collection of Latin American art to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and provide funds to establish a research center for Latin American art. In 2019, Inéz Katzenstein, MoMA’s curator of Latin American Art, mounted the museum’s first exhibition drawing from gift. Titled “Sur moderno: Journeys of Abs
  
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• Tribeca Fixture Ortuzar Projects to Triple its Size with New Location

  18-05-2023 14:46 via artnews.com
  
  Ortuzar Projects, the Manhattan gallery known for its stellar revivals of 20th and 21st art historical figures, will significantly expand its operations, with a new space triple the size of its former Tribeca lodgings.Ortuzar Projects, a venture launched in Tribeca in 2018 by former David Zwirner partner Ales Ortuzar, is focused on “international artists that have played critical roles” in the canon “but have not received recent exposure in the United States,” according t
  
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• Hebrew Bible Sells for $38.1 M. at Sotheby’s, Art Films Soar at Cannes, and More: Morning Links for May 18, 2023

  18-05-2023 14:07 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesUNDER THE HAMMER, PART I. Five new artist records were set Wednesday night at Christie’s in New York during the house’s fairly tepid 65-lot sale of work from the collection of the late Boston real-estate maven Gerald Fineberg, Karen K. Ho reports in ARTnews. Barkley L. Hendricks’s new high
  
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• ‘White Building’ Review: Coming of Age in Cambodia

  18-05-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kavich Neang’s lush feature tells a largely autobiographical tale of growing up in a building whose often painful history is a microcosm of his country’s.
  
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• ‘Moon Garden’ Review: Malice in Wonderland

  18-05-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Ryan Stevens Harris brings a young girl’s subconscious to eerie life in this unnerving feature.
  
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• ‘Come Out Fighting’ Review: The Battle of the Budget

  18-05-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A veteran cast attempts to fend off a deluge of clichés in this cheap-looking, pleasingly scrappy war film.
  
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• At Frieze, Artist ektor garcia Refashions Previous Works for an Installation Referencing La Llorona

  18-05-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Artist ektor garcia’s piece la llorona is installed at the Shed now that Frieze has opened its doors, but when garcia got on the phone with ARTnews last Thursday, all he had ready was a suitcase full of materials and a few ideas. While the prospect of creating a work in five days might provoke panic in another artist, garcia was feeling calm and upbeat about what was to come. “I have plenty of ideas but I don’t like to plan anything,” said garcia in a phone call shortly a
  
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• This ‘Magic Flute’ Has Ringtones, Bird Tracks and a Foley Artist

  18-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Simon McBurney creates a magical sound world in his theatrical production of Mozart’s classic at the Metropolitan Opera.
  
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• Killer Mike, Atlanta’s Rap Journeyman, Is at the Peak of His Powers

  18-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  More than 20 years into an idiosyncratic career, the musician and activist is finally opening up for real on “Michael,” his first solo album in more than a decade.
  
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• A Centuries-Old Mystery: Did This Elusive Viking City Exist?

  18-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Was a “medieval New York” called Jomsborg a literary fantasy or a historical reality? New archaeological discoveries may provide a clue.
  
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• Marie Bukowski named dean of WSU College of Fine Arts - Wichita State University

  18-05-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Marie Bukowski named dean of WSU College of Fine Arts  Wichita State University
  
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• The Best Booths at Frieze New York 2023, From a Jack Whitten Tribute to a Lament for Roe v. Wade’s Overturning

  18-05-2023 02:45 via artnews.com
  
  As Frieze New York opened to VIPs this Wednesday, midway through the second week of fairs the city has seen in a row, a line stretched toward 11th Avenue. Everyone seemed buzzed with excitement, and the energy continued to be felt inside, where thrumming crowds were packed into the aisles. By the day’s end, several dealers reported robust sales.Among those in attendance were collectors like Lonti Ebers, Maja Hoffmann, Estrellita Brodsky, Komal Shah, Pamela Joyner, and Ricard Agakawa, as we
  
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• Jessie Ware Is Dancing Into Her Second Act

  18-05-2023 00:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about the British musician’s journey to her lush neo-disco manifesto “That! Feels Good!”
  
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• ‘Rust’ Prosecutors Seek Further Tests on Gun Handled by Alec Baldwin

  18-05-2023 00:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The prosecutors, who dropped criminal charges against Mr. Baldwin after learning that the gun he was rehearsing with might have been modified, are sending the gun to a forensic specialist.
  
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• ‘Digital Twin’ of the Titanic Shows the Shipwreck in Stunning Detail

  18-05-2023 00:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Researchers hope new 3-D images will provide clues about what happened to the ocean liner when it sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.
  
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