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• ‘Casa Susanna’ Documentary Revisits Haven for Cross-Dressing

  27-06-2023 23:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The documentary “Casa Susanna” explores the Catskills boardinghouse community that allowed denizens to express their identity when that was taboo.
  
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• ‘Hijack,’ With Idris Elba, Is a Throwback Thriller

  27-06-2023 23:50 via nytimes.com
  
  This Apple TV+ series aims to subvert expectations while delivering the reliable fun of a tense action drama. “It’s really well-done escapism,” Elba said.
  
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• Tate Senior Curator Yasufumi Nakamori Named Director of Asia Society’s Museum

  27-06-2023 23:15 via artnews.com
  
  The Asia Society has the appointed Yasufumi Nakamori as its new museum director and vice president of arts and culture. Nakamori will oversee the museum’s exhibitions and collection, as well as the organization’s arts and culture programming. He will join the organization in August.The position has been vacant since June of last year, when Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe left to become the executive director of the Katonah Museum of Art. The Asia Society was founded by John D. Rockefe
  
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• Julian Sands Dies at 65; Actor Played Shelley, a Warlock and a King

  27-06-2023 23:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Over a 40-year screen career, the instantly recognizable Mr. Sands displayed great versatility onscreen. He died while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains.
  
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• Julian Sands, Who Played Shelley, a Warlock and a King, Dies at 65

  27-06-2023 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Over a 40-year screen career, the instantly recognizable Mr. Sands displayed great versatility onscreen. He died while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains.
  
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• New York’s Silverlens Bets Big with an Ambitious Group Show That’s Luring Filipino Americans

  27-06-2023 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo brought their Manila-based gallery Silverlens to New York City last September, riding out the success they had found during the pandemic. Collectors flocked to the gallery, seeking to buy works, and institutional curators reached out, looking to acquire Southeast Asian art that had long been missing from their holdings. Once they landed in Chelsea, Lorenzo and Rillo got to work, putting together shows that would help critics, institutions, and the public understand a
  
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• Sarasota artist and arts advocate Peppi Elona dies at 86 - Your Observer

  27-06-2023 21:45
  
  Sarasota artist and arts advocate Peppi Elona dies at 86  Your Observer
  
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• Klimt’s ‘Lady With a Fan’ Brings $108.4 Million, Auction Record for the Artist

  27-06-2023 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The price was the highest for a public sale in Europe, beating the $104.3 million that a Giacometti sculpture brought in 2010.
  
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• 2023 Circle of Excellence in the Arts Award Winner - James Madison University

  27-06-2023 21:16
  
  2023 Circle of Excellence in the Arts Award Winner  James Madison University
  
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• Review: An All-Female ‘Richard III’ Makes for an Evening of Discontent

  27-06-2023 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York Classical Theater adaptation, playing in New York’s city parks, feints toward novelty but offers little in the way of originality.
  
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• Frederic Forrest, 86, Dies; Actor Known for ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘The Rose’

  27-06-2023 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  He appeared in a string of films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and his performance as Bette Midler’s love interest earned him an Oscar nomination.
  
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• Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67

  27-06-2023 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  As part of the influential Bang on a Can All-Stars, he helped popularize experimental music through international tours and well-regarded albums.
  
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• Angela Bassett and Mel Brooks Are Among Those to Receive Honorary Oscars

  27-06-2023 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The Sundance Institute executive Michelle Satter and the film editor Carol Littleton will also get prizes at the Governors Awards ceremony in November.
  
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• How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician

  27-06-2023 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Born with a rare genetic disorder, the multi-instrumentalist felt like a permanent outsider as a child. He now wields those lessons as one of music’s most coveted collaborators.
  
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• 6 Odes to Ohio

  27-06-2023 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The state has inspired memorable songs by Randy Newman, R.E.M., King Princess and more.
  
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• Klimt’s Final Masterpiece Sells for $94.3 M., Achieving European Auction Record

  27-06-2023 19:43 via artnews.com
  
  Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) (1917-18) became the most expensive painting to ever sell in at an auction in Europe during Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, after it hammered for an astounding £74 million ($94.3 million).With fees, the total price achieved was over £85.3 million ($108 million). The previous high-sale record for a European auction was held by Alberto Giacometti’s s Walking Man I, which sold for $
  
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• Klimt’s Final Masterpiece Sells for $108 M., Achieving European Auction Record

  27-06-2023 19:43 via artnews.com
  
  Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), 1917–18, became the most expensive painting ever to sell at auction in Europe during the Sotheby’s London Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, after it hammered at an astounding £74 million ($94.3 million).With fees, the total price achieved exceeded £85.3 million ($108 million). Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man I held the previous record for a European auction, selling for $104.3 million at
  
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• Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon?

  27-06-2023 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Adult Swim series, from the acclaimed animator Genndy Tartakovsky, wraps up its first season this week. Our critic breaks down his other shows.
  
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• London’s National Portrait Gallery Reopens After a $53 M. Refurbishment with an Updated Vision of Its Collection

  27-06-2023 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  If you had been a regular, you might be confused. The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery in London is no longer on St Martin’s Place—that’s now the way out—but on Ross Place, where an imposing statue of Victorian stage actor Henry Irving stands. At this new entrance, three windows have been converted into three-panel doors covered in 45 bronze low reliefs featuring “every woman, throughout time,” a commission by Tracey Emin.This is the first time the Na
  
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• How ‘Swagger’ Raised Its Game

  27-06-2023 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The cast and crew of the kinetic basketball drama explain how they built on a solid foundation to make a more ambitious second season.
  
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• The Movie ‘Out of Sight,’ 25 Years Later

  27-06-2023 18:14 via nytimes.com
  
  This adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel broke a losing streak for Steven Soderbergh and gave George Clooney a boost up the movie star ladder.
  
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• Delaware Division of the Arts Launches Refreshed Delaware Artist ... - news.delaware.gov

  27-06-2023 18:05
  
  Delaware Division of the Arts Launches Refreshed Delaware Artist ...  news.delaware.gov
  
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• Bronzeville Center for the Arts seeks public input for development - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  27-06-2023 17:20
  
  Bronzeville Center for the Arts seeks public input for development  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• How an Art-Obsessed Frenchman Stole Museums’ Treasures and Stored Them in His Attic

  27-06-2023 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  Despite its title, journalist Michael Finkel’s new book The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Knopf) isn’t only about art crime. It’s also about addiction, the compulsion to continue doing things that you know are bad for you. Surrounding yourself with art, it turns out, can be one of them.The book’s protagonist, Stéphane Breitwieser, was hooked on visiting regional museums in his native France and in Switzerland. His souvenirs were
  
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• Kylie Minogue’s ‘Padam Padam’ and the Queer Club-Pop Canon

  27-06-2023 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The global star’s single has become the soundtrack of Pride this year, opening fresh conversations about pop divas and their gay fans.
  
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• Hermitage Amsterdam Rebrands with New Name After Split from Russian Flagship

  27-06-2023 16:14 via artnews.com
  
  The Hermitage Amsterdam has rebranded following its split from St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum in support of war-torn Ukraine. The Dutch institution announced on Monday that it will now becalled H’ART Museum and that it had forged new partnerships with the British Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.The changes will take effect in September, per a statement from the H’ART Museum. “It&rsquo
  
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• Diagnosed With Tourette’s, Lewis Capaldi Takes a Break From Touring

  27-06-2023 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  After performing at Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, Capaldi, the popular Scottish singer-songwriter, said he would stop touring “for the foreseeable future.”
  
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• Asia Society Museum Gets New Director, Hermitage Amsterdam Retools, and More: Morning Links for June 27, 2023

  27-06-2023 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesCOMING ACROSS THE POND. Asia Society in New York tapped Yasufumi Nakamori to be its museum director and vice president of arts and culture. Nakamori, a former corporate lawyer, is coming from Tate Modern in London, where he has been a senior curator of international art focusing on photography since 2018. He organized a s
  
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• ‘Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ Review: Wish You Were There

  27-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Only 650 people got to experience one of the 21st century’s artistic feats, until this documentary. Unfortunately, it misses some of the performance’s key aspects.
  
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• ‘Sin La Habana’ Review: A Long Way From Home

  27-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Kaveh Nabatian’s new drama, an Afro-Cuban dancer tries to bring his girlfriend to Canada through a sham marriage.
  
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• Anohni on Her New Album

  27-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three decades into her career, the art-pop musician is still embracing new sounds, carrying stories from the past and interrogating all kinds of power.
  
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• ‘Just for Us’ Review: A Jew and 16 ‘Nerf Nazis’ Meet Cute

  27-06-2023 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Is it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman’s look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
  
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