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• Influential Roving Project We Buy Gold Opens Edition Juxtaposing Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons With New Art Stars

  01-08-2023 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  Late in June, art dealer Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels opened the latest iteration of her roving art space, We Buy Gold, with an excellent show featuring both emerging artists like Nandi Loaf and legends like Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons.Titled “SEVEN,” the latest version of We Buy Gold takes the form of two-venue show spread across two galleries in New York’s Chelsea district: Nicola Vassell Gallery and Jack Shainman Gallery, where Bellorado-Samuels serves as director.We
  
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• $30: The Entrance Fee to America’s Museums Keeps Rising

  01-08-2023 23:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Their buildings have expanded and expenses have surged, even as attendance slowed. Art lovers will bear the cost: The Guggenheim is the latest to increase its price of admission to $30 — the new normal.
  
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• ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One' | Anatomy of a Scene

  01-08-2023 22:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher McQuarrie narrates a scene from the film, featuring Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell.
  
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• The Centre Pompidou’s Museum Partnership With Saudi Arabia Just Became Clearer

  01-08-2023 22:20 via artnews.com
  
  New details have emerged about the Centre Pompidou’s landmark agreement with Saudi Arabia over its new open-air museum in the desert region of AlUla. “We are negotiating an agreement that the Pompidou can borrow from our collection and that we can borrow from theirs,” curator Iwona Blazwick told the Art Newspaper, which first reported the news of the partnership deal. “It’s all about reciprocity. We want our collection to be active in lending works, particularly for
  
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• Watch Tom Cruise Roll a Fiat 500 in ‘Mission: Impossible’

  01-08-2023 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Christopher McQuarrie discusses a chase scene involving the star and Hayley Atwell in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’
  
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• Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in August

  01-08-2023 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  We’ve rounded up the best of what’s leaving this month, which includes a lot of favorites, among them two Oscar winners. Catch them while you can.
  
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• Republican Lawmakers Say Centre Pompidou’s Planned Jersey City Museum Is ‘Gross Excess and Waste’

  01-08-2023 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  Republicans in New Jersey are calling for an investigation into the Centre Pompidou’s planned Jersey City outpost, decrying both the museum itself and the structure of its funding.The museum, formally known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, is one of many satellites run by the Parisian art museum, which is due to close in 2025 for a multiyear renovation. Plans for ones in Seoul and Saudi Arabia were recently made official; ones in Brussels, Shanghai, and Málaga, Spain, are alrea
  
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• Venice Recommended for UNESCO’s Endangered Site List

  01-08-2023 20:36 via artnews.com
  
  The United Nations agency UNESCO, which oversees policies related to cultural sites, says it will recommend that Venice be designated to its list of culturally important locations at-risk of being irreparably damaged. The cultural agency says that the historic Italian city faces peril on multiple fronts, including the effects of climate change, mass tourism and urban development.In a document released on Monday, the World Heritage Committee, the body of the UN agency that governs the heritage si
  
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• ‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Review: Rhea Perlman as an Uptown Matriarch

  01-08-2023 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Rhea Perlman stars as a quintessential Upper West Sider in Zarina Shea’s snapshot of affluent, self-flagellating motherhood
  
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• 8 Songs About August

  01-08-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The dog days are over. Here are some tunes to celebrate.
  
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• At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done

  01-08-2023 19:56 via nytimes.com
  
  At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals.
  
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• Rare Roman Gemstone Engraved with Mythological Figure Is Discovered in Italian Lagoon

  01-08-2023 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  In an underwater excavation, archaeologists found a rare engraved Roman gemstone in the village Lio Piccolo, just north of Venice, Italy, Italy 24 Press News reported last week.The cut agate gem is engraved with a mythological figure and is being considered an unusual artifact, particularly in an underwater environment. The quality of the jewelry indicates that wealthy Romans might have visited the area.“In a lagoon environment it is a rather rare find, to date we have news of two other pr
  
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• Hermitage Amsterdam, Soon to be Renamed H’ART Museum, Settles Brand Dispute with HART magazine

  01-08-2023 18:46 via artnews.com
  
  The Hermitage Amsterdam has settled its dispute with Belgium’s HART magazine over the museum’s imminent rebranding to H’ART Museum. The art publication filed a legal objection to the name change after the museum announced the rebranding—which takes effect on September 1—but has since decided in “good consultation” to also change its name, Dutch news outlet AD reports.“The consultation between the parties has led to the art magazine guaran
  
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• David Hallberg’s New Job: Decision Maker

  01-08-2023 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The former American Ballet Theater star now leads the Australian Ballet. “When I am faced with difficulties, I lean into them,” he said.
  
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• Pee-wee Herman Was Exuberant. Paul Reubens Kept Things Quiet.

  01-08-2023 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Speaking with the actor was an entirely different experience than watching him play his career-defining character.
  
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• Therapy for Barbie, Oppenheimer and Other Movie Characters

  01-08-2023 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Two YouTube hosts have built a following by dissecting the psychology of movie characters. Here, they analyze some of this summer’s familiar faces.
  
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• Guggenheim Museum to Raise Admission to $30, Becoming One of the Most Expensive Institutions in the US

  01-08-2023 16:51 via artnews.com
  
  The Guggenheim Museum will raise its admission for adults to $30, making it one of the most expensive art institutions in New York—and one of priciest in the US overall.The move to do so, first reported on Tuesday by the New York Times, came not long after the Whitney Museum made a similar announcement, revealing that it would bump adult ticket prices from $25 to $30 in mid-July. Just one other art museum in New York costs that amount: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where out-of-state vis
  
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• Doris Duke Foundation Welcomes New Arts Program Director ... - dorisduke.org

  01-08-2023 16:03 via news.google.com
  
  Doris Duke Foundation Welcomes New Arts Program Director ...  dorisduke.org
  
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• Doris Duke Foundation Welcomes New Arts Program Director ... - Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

  01-08-2023 16:03 via news.google.com
  
  Doris Duke Foundation Welcomes New Arts Program Director ...  Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  
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• How a Formerly Deserted Waterfront Neighborhood Attracted a Cast of Young Artists to Lower Manhattan in the Mid-20th Century

  01-08-2023 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  How does specificity of place play a role in art, enough to become more figure than ground, less a context than a character? This is one of the larger questions framing art historian Prudence Peiffer’s momentous new survey The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever. The book vividly documents a moment in the 1950s and ’60s when a cast of artists settled, at staggered intervals, in a three-block area around Coenties Slip, a street on Manhattan’s lower t
  
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• ‘The Half-God of Rainfall’ Review: Basketball Under the Heavens

  01-08-2023 15:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Borrowing its powers from Greek and Yoruba mythologies, Inua Ellams’s play tells the story of a demigod who becomes an N.B.A. superstar.
  
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• Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage

  01-08-2023 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  An adaptation of Michael Haneke’s 2012 movie at the Salzburg Festival eschews cinematic realism, instead taking a highly stylized approach.
  
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• The Price of Admission to America’s Museums Keeps Rising

  01-08-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Their buildings have expanded and expenses have surged, even as attendance slowed. Art lovers will bear the cost: The Guggenheim is the latest to increase its entry fee to $30 — the new normal.
  
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• Collector-Philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman Dies at 78, Hermitage Amsterdam Settles Name Dispute , and More: Morning Links for August 1, 2023

  01-08-2023 14:10 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPHILANTHROPIST DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN, who amassed a formidable collection of historical documents, and who sold her ultra-rare copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction in 2021 for $43.3 million, died on July 23 of breast cancer at the age of 78, Sam Roberts reports in the New York Times. Goldman’s late husband, real est
  
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• Researchers Uncover Infrared Image of Magritte Painting Resembling Wife and Muse

  01-08-2023 13:59 via artnews.com
  
  An underpainting of an anonymous model by René Magritte that researchers believe could depict an image of his wife and muse, Georgette, has been discovered by researchers at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) in Brussels.Overseeing the analyses of the artist’s work is Catherine Defeyt, senior researcher at the University of Liège and RMFAB, and Francisca Vandepitte, a senior curator who specializes in modern art at the Brussels museum. The study examines 50 pai
  
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• 3 Young Irish Writers and Their ‘Difficult Second Books’

  01-08-2023 12:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Exciting debuts from Naoise Dolan, Megan Nolan and Nicole Flattery suggested a new direction in Irish literature. Now, where will they take it?
  
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• New Deal Exhibition Looks at Roosevelt’s Legacy

  01-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.
  
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• ‘Here Lies Love’ Star Jose Llana Makes a Home in the Hamptons

  01-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  When he’s not performing in “Here Lies Love,” a musical about the Philippines’s infamous first couple, this Broadway star finds refuge outside the city.
  
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• Book Review: ‘My Name Is Iris,’ by Brando Skyhorse

  01-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Brando Skyhorse’s novel is the subtly dystopian story of a Mexican American woman who realizes that America has become less welcoming to people like her.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Lookback Window,’ by Kyle Dillon Hertz

  01-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Kyle Dillon Hertz’s novel, “The Lookback Window,” a victim of child sexual abuse questions what healing looks like when a law gives him the chance to press charges against his assailants.
  
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• A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State

  01-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A memoir by Tahir Hamut Izgil, a Uyghur intellectual who escaped China, explores the corrosive effect of repression and surveillance on his community.
  
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• New Voices Dominate Booker Prize Nominations

  01-08-2023 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Four of the 13 books that will compete for the prestigious literary award are debuts, in a longlist that the judges said was “defined by its freshness.”
  
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• Angus Cloud, Actor Who Played Fezco on ‘Euphoria,’ Dies at 25

  01-08-2023 09:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The cause of death was not released, but his family said that he had “intensely struggled” after the recent death of his father.
  
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• Paul Reubens Was More Than Pee-wee. Here are 8 Great Performances.

  01-08-2023 03:15 via nytimes.com
  
  He played dozens of memorable roles on big and small screens throughout his career. We’ve rounded up what to watch and where to watch it.
  
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• Institute for the Arts and Humanities Welcome Reception - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  01-08-2023 03:15 via news.google.com
  
  Institute for the Arts and Humanities Welcome Reception  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
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• In Pee-wee Herman, Joy and Fun Got Flat-Out Weird

  01-08-2023 01:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Paul Reubens committed to profound silliness without ever going mean or dark — though some peers were disappointed that he focused on one character.
  
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• Angus Cloud, Actor on ‘Euphoria,’ Dies at 25

  01-08-2023 01:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The cause of death was not released, but his family said that he had “intensely struggled” after the recent death of his father.
  
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