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• In ‘Secret Invasion,’ Ben Mendelsohn Faces a Turning Point

  17-07-2023 23:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In an interview, the Australian actor discusses his character’s big moment in the most recent episode and his role as ally to Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury.
  
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• Demolition of 300-Year-Old Minaret in Iraq Spurs Anger Among Heritage Officials

  17-07-2023 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  Locals and cultural officials are angered by the demolition of a 300-year-old minaret, a move they say is tantamount to “the destruction of Iraqi cultural history,” the Art Newspaper reports.The minaret, a nearly 40-foot tower made of brown mud bricks attached to a mosque, was demolished to make way for a road expansion by at the behest of Basra’s governor, Assad Al Eidani, who claimed it was a public safety hazard and was in danger of collapsing. However, the Su
  
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• 72 Artworks Stashed by Disgraced Australian Dealer Tristian Koenig Have Been Finally Returned

  17-07-2023 23:07 via artnews.com
  
  Last summer, disgraced Australian art dealer Tristian Koenig vanished. At the time of his disappearance, the Melbourne-based dealer had been accused of defrauding artists and collectors out of tens of thousands of dollars in cash and artworks. A civil lawsuit had been filed against him by collectors who claimed to have never recieved purchased works and an arrest warrant was issued after he failed to show for a related court hearing.Lost in the shuffle between Koenig’s apparent disapp
  
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• What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

  17-07-2023 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Long before there were Benjamins in circulation, the founding father was all about experimenting with printing techniques as he worked on securing colonial printed currency.
  
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  17-07-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Review: ‘Silver Nitrate,’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  17-07-2023 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “Silver Nitrate,” is about friends whose attempt to lift an old curse unleashes something even more terrifying.
  
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• Painter Leon Polk Smith Turned to Abstraction to Explore Notions of Identity and Race

  17-07-2023 20:41 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Polk Smith’s position in postwar art has always been ambiguous. One reason may be the myth that New York in the 1950s had no room for anything but Abstract Expressionism; as a contemporary of Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, his work could seem an anomaly on the postwar American art scene. Smith, who died in 1996 and is currently the subject of a retrospective at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, seems ripe for reconsideration. While he has always been filed under the rubric of hard-edge
  
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• ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Is Back

  17-07-2023 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Timothy Olyphant returns in a sequel to the Kentucky crime drama “Justified,” and he’s still the coolest lawman in town, even if the town is now Detroit.
  
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• Manhattan District Attorney Returns Two Antiquities Worth $1.26 M to Libya

  17-07-2023 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Friday it had returned two antiquities worth $1.26 million to Libya that had previoulsy been smuggled and held by the British art dealer Robin Symes.According to a press release, Marble Face of a Ptolemaic Queen and Female Bust were looted from the ancient city of Cyrene and acquired by Symes for his personal collection. They were stored in a storage unit in New York for more than 20 years. Female Bust would have been part of an important
  
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• Why You Should See ‘Oppenheimer’ in IMAX 70-Millimeter

  17-07-2023 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The IMAX 70-millimeter format is usually associated with action. But Christopher Nolan says his biopic benefited from the tall image.
  
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• City Approves Design for Shirley Chisholm Monument in Prospect Park

  17-07-2023 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  It took officials more than four years to say yes to the towering lattice steel statue by Amanda Williams and Olalekan B. Jeyifous.
  
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• UK Hits $2.9 M. Alberto Giacometti Chandelier With Export Ban in Effort to Keep it Within England

  17-07-2023 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  The United Kingdom has issued a temporary export ban on a rare chandelier by Alberto Giacometti in the hopes that a local institution can match its £2.4 million ($2.9 million) purchase price, keeping it within British borders. The lighting fixtures made headlines earlier this year for its incredible provenance: English painter John Craxton first bought the chandelier from an antique in London for a mere $700 and displayed it in his home in Hampstead, London, for 50 years.  Accord
  
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• ‘Unknown: Cave of Bones’ Review: Making Us Human

  17-07-2023 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix documentary chronicles archaeological discoveries that shed light on an ancient human relative.
  
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• Photography Dealer Pleads Guilty to Swindling ‘Scheme’ Involving $1.6 M. in Art

  17-07-2023 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  A Michigan photography dealer has pled guilty to swindling at least 10 clients who had relied upon her to sell $1.6 million in art, according to federal officials.The US Attorney’s Office said on Thursday that Wendy Halstead Beard had pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud related to “a multi-year scheme.” That scheme allegedly involved buying artworks on consignment and then defrauding her clients, keeping them out of the loop about the sales and then, when pressed for info
  
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• Harry G. Frankfurt, Philosopher With a Surprise Best Seller, Dies at 94

  17-07-2023 18:26 via nytimes.com
  
  He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying.
  
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• What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision

  17-07-2023 17:49 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people
  
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• Controversial Tunnel Near Stonehenge Gets the Green Light, Distressing Cultural Heritage Groups

  17-07-2023 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  A controversial tunnel will officially be built near Stonehenge, despite opposition from heritage groups, the BBC reports. The tunnel is part of a larger road redevelopment project meant to decrease traffic near the iconic archaeological site and boost tourism. The plan is projected to cost around £1.7 billion ($2.25 billion), completely overhauling a road that connects London to South West England. After years of delays, the project was given approval by Transport Secretary Mark Harper ov
  
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• After Finding Success Abroad, Amoako Boafo Is Using His Star Power to Support Ghana’s Art Scene

  17-07-2023 17:26 via artnews.com
  
  For Amoako Boafo, the best part of success is sharing it with his community, those who inspire him, and bringing along as many people as he can on his journey.This past March, the Ghanaian artist had his New York solo debut with the mega-gallery Gagosian. Boafo, who is known for finger-dipped paintings depicting himself and Black people from Africa and its diaspora, said he’d received praise for the show, but he came out of the experience feeling as though something was missing.“I wa
  
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• The sixth annual Tattoo Arts Festival is in Denver this weekend - Denverite

  17-07-2023 17:22 via news.google.com
  
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• Why Basketball Is So Popular Off Broadway

  17-07-2023 16:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Basketball is central to the plot in new shows, including “Flex” and “The Half-God of Rainfall.”
  
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• Taylor Swift Now Has More No. 1 Albums Than Any Woman in History

  17-07-2023 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop superstar’s “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” debuts at No. 1 this week as the year’s biggest new album, and three of her other titles also made the Top 10.
  
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• David Zwirner to Represent Choreographer Sarah Michelson, With Plans to Start a Dance Residency

  17-07-2023 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The latest person to join the roster of mega-gallery David Zwirner is neither a painter nor a sculptor with a well-established market but a choreographer who has earned her bona fides in the world of dance and performance art.Dancer Sarah Michelson has inked representation with David Zwirner, which has plans to show new work by her at its newly inaugurated Los Angeles location in 2024. It will be the second time the gallery has mounted work by Michelson, after her piece Oh No Game Over appeared
  
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• The Arts at Carolina and in Chapel Hill | UNC-Chapel Hill - unc.edu

  17-07-2023 15:56 via news.google.com
  
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• The Arts at Carolina and in Chapel Hill | UNC-Chapel Hill - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  17-07-2023 15:56 via news.google.com
  
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• Elton John Testifies at Kevin Spacey’s Sexual Assault Trial

  17-07-2023 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The British singer and his husband, David Furnish, appeared via video link to give evidence for the defense in the actor’s ongoing British trial.
  
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• A Fossil Dream as Big as Texas

  17-07-2023 15:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Andre LuJan’s ambition is to build a public museum focused on displaying the Lone Star State’s paleontological plenty.
  
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• The Jazzy Tune You Heard on Hold? This Part-Time Musician Made It.

  17-07-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Meet Harriet Goldberg, a late bloomer who went from a career in social work to the queen of hold music with her 2011 song “My Time to Fly.”
  
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• Five Black Women Artists Consider An Alternative Telling of the Atlantic Slave Trade

  17-07-2023 14:25 via artnews.com
  
  The origin story of Drexciya is a fictional coda to the history of the Atlantic slave trade, during which at least 1.8 million people from Africa died on slave ships and were thrown, unnamed and unrecorded, into the ocean. The Afrofuturistic narrative conceives this same ocean as a liberatory device for pregnant African women who, according to the myth, jumped or were flung alive off slave ships while being transported from Africa to the New World.The Drexciyan mythos proposes that the unborn ch
  
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• Michigan Dealer Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Shelburne Museum Nixes David Adjaye Collaboration, and More: Morning Links for July 17, 2023

  17-07-2023 14:12 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesIN THE COURTROOM. Michigan art dealer Wendy Halsted Beard—who was accused of stealing some $1.6 million from clients—pleaded guilty to wire fraud in federal court, Charles E. Ramirez reports in the Detroit News. Beard could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. Earlier this year, the New York Times re
  
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• At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities.

  17-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Shelby White has given the museum generous gifts and 33 years of service as a trustee. But investigators recently seized many of her ancient artifacts, including 17 that were on loan to the Met.
  
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• After Raids and Seizures, the Met Faces Questions About a Loyal Trustee

  17-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Shelby White has given the museum generous gifts and 33 years of service as a trustee. But investigators recently seized many of her ancient artifacts, including 17 that were on loan to the Met.
  
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• Labor Day Looms as Crisis Point in Hollywood Stalemate

  17-07-2023 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ongoing strikes could disrupt the entertainment industry in fundamental ways, putting the 2024 box office and the fall broadcast lineup in jeopardy.
  
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• Hollywood Strikes: Labor Day Looms as Crisis Point

  17-07-2023 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ongoing strikes could disrupt the entertainment industry in fundamental ways, putting the 2024 box office and the fall broadcast lineup in jeopardy.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Below Deck’ and FIFA Women’s World Cup

  17-07-2023 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  One “Below Deck” spinoff wraps up its season, as another begins on Bravo. And Fox begins coverage of the women’s soccer championship.
  
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• Tim Baltz on B.J.’s Test in ‘The Righteous Gemstones’

  17-07-2023 04:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Sunday’s episode was a test for Baltz’s character, but B.J. seized the moment. Still, his victory came at a price.
  
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• Jane Birkin: Made in England, Forged in France

  17-07-2023 00:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Birkin had a thriving career as a singer and an actress, in both communicating a seemingly nonchalant demeanor that camouflaged a melancholy core.
  
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