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• Making College Station more colorful with Rev Up the Arts Mural ... - KBTX

  04-10-2023 23:52 via news.google.com
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Initiates Return of Two Artifacts to Nepal

  04-10-2023 22:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced it had initiated the return of two artifacts from Nepal, a stone sculpture and a delicately carved temple strut.The 13th-century wooden temple strut was purchased by the museum in 1988, and the 11th-century stone image Vishnu flanked by Lakshmi and Garuda, gifted to the Met in 1995. The second item was donated nearly thirty years ago from the personal collection of Steven Kossak, a former curator in the Met’s Asian art department. It was fe
  
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• When Did You Watch Your First Scary Movie? We Want to Know.

  04-10-2023 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Halloween season is here, and we’re asking readers to share their memories of the first scary film that kept them up at night, and how old they were at the time.
  
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• Actress Julia Ormond Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Battery in Lawsuit

  04-10-2023 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Ormond also sued Creative Artists Agency, which represented her at the time, and Disney, which owned Mr. Weinstein’s Miramax.
  
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• A Spike Lee Joint via Movie Posters and Sports Jerseys

  04-10-2023 21:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Lee, the director of “Do the Right Thing” and “Malcolm X,” donated more than 400 items for a Brooklyn Museum exhibition.
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in October

  04-10-2023 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Lupin” returns and the latest literary horror adaptation from Mike Flanagan debuts, just in time for Halloween.
  
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• What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in October

  04-10-2023 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out “Chopped & Screwed” at White Cube on the Upper East Side or see figures by Rita and France-Lise McGurn in TriBeCa. And don’t miss Tetsuya Ishida’s finely rendered nightmares in Chelsea.
  
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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Global Licensing and Partnership Ambitions Are Getting Even Bigger

  04-10-2023 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a brand partnership with Swiss watch company Vacheron Constantin that, along with a residency program and education initiatives, will produce watches based on masterpieces at the museum. While few details have been revealed, the company’s watches
  
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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Global Licensing Ambitions Are Getting Even Bigger

  04-10-2023 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a brand partnership with Swiss watch company Vacheron Constantin that, along with a residency program and education initiatives, will produce watches based on masterpieces at the museum. While few details have been revealed, the company’s watches
  
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• Peter Zumthor on Paring Back a ‘Beautiful Idea’ for LACMA

  04-10-2023 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The Swiss architect of one of the most polarizing museums in the country says his Los Angeles design has been significantly streamlined. So why have costs kept rising?
  
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• Rediscovered Anthony van Dyck Painting May Be Set for Seville Museum

  04-10-2023 20:11 via artnews.com
  
  A newly rediscovered painting by Flemish Master Antony van Dyck seems set for the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville.According to El País, The presentation of the baby Jesus to Saint Barbara hung for several generations at a family home in Jaén, Spain, with none aware that it belonged to one of the most important oeuvres in Flemish art history. To their astonishment, a Madrid art company deemed it a legitimate van Dyck, spurring interest from far flung prospective buyers. However, the
  
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• Brown to kick off yearlong celebration of the arts with Oct. 21 public ... - Brown University

  04-10-2023 20:03 via news.google.com
  
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• Review: This Dance About Refugees Has Flow and a Groove

  04-10-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Olivier Tarpaga’s “Once the dust settles, the flowers bloom” is a subtle work of beauty and mystery.
  
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• The Director of ‘Savior Complex’ on the Perils of ‘White Saviorism’

  04-10-2023 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Jackie Jesko spoke about the subject of her HBO docu-series, a Christian missionary accused of playing doctor with the lives of Ugandan children.
  
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• Robert Gober’s Collection Feels at Home at Demisch Danant

  04-10-2023 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist, displaying his own work along with his idiosyncratic holdings, invites rumination on the state of the nation at Demisch Danant gallery.
  
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• Four Artists Win $800,000 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowships

  04-10-2023 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  Four artists are among this year’s winners of the MacArthur “genius” fellowships, a vaunted group of awards that each come with $800,000 to be paid out over the course of five years: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Raven Chacon, Carolyn Lazard, and Dyani White Hawk.The four artists include alumni of last year’s Venice Biennale and Whitney Biennial, as well as a winner of a 2022 Pulitzer Prize and a subject of a New York survey that will next year travel the nation.Whi
  
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• Introducing Nathan Lane, the Hip New Face of A24

  04-10-2023 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  With roles in “Dicks: The Musical” and “Beau Is Afraid,” the stage star is now a repertory player for the hot film company. “Who would have guessed?” he says.
  
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• ‘Tragic Event’ Involving Fatality Temporarily Shutters London’s Courtauld Gallery

  04-10-2023 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  An event that involved a fatality has moved the Courtauld Gallery in London to shutter its doors for a few days, with plans to reopen later in the week.“Yesterday afternoon, a tragic event occurred at The Courtauld Gallery premises that led to a fatality,” the museum said in a statement on Tuesday. “The police are not treating the event as suspicious. Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased.”Additional information about the incident has not been released.The gall
  
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• Investment Firm Founder’s Trust Seeks Payment for Monet Paintings Burned in Fire

  04-10-2023 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  Four Claude Monet paintings that belonged to an investment firm founder were destroyed in a fire, according to papers that accompany a lawsuit over the works’ insurance that his wife filed last year.The quartet of Monet paintings may have been worth as much as $45 million, per the filing, which seeks repayment from the insurance company Hiscox. At least one of them had even appeared at auction as recently as 2019.The lawsuit pits Julie Schulz Halbower, wife of the private investment firm m
  
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• ‘The Confessions’ Review: A Mother’s Tale, Told With Empathy and Care

  04-10-2023 18:45 via nytimes.com
  
  A new play by Alexander Zeldin recreates his mother’s winding, painful path to a life of her own.
  
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• Echo Brown, Young Adult Author and Performer, Is Dead at 39

  04-10-2023 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.
  
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• James Jorden, Parterre Box Opera Blog Creator, Dies at 69

  04-10-2023 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  With Parterre Box, he brought together high culture, punk aesthetics and gleeful camp in an irreverent source for news, criticism and gossip.
  
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• The Met’s ‘Dead Man Walking’ Goes to Sing Sing

  04-10-2023 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Metropolitan Opera stars joined prisoners for a one-night-only performance of “Dead Man Walking.”
  
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• ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Review: Stormy Seas in Season 2

  04-10-2023 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  An offbeat pirate comedy with a devoted fan base tacks in the direction of romance.
  
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• Garry Hynes Brings Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy to Life

  04-10-2023 18:05 via nytimes.com
  
  At NYU Skirball, Druid’s marathon production depicts the beginning of a free Irish state through the voices of the working class.
  
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• When the Phone Rings and the Voice Says: You’ve Won a MacArthur Award

  04-10-2023 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  On Wednesday, 20 Americans, all anonymously nominated, were recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with $800,000 fellowships often referred to as the “genius” award.
  
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• ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Review: Double the Possession, Half the Fun

  04-10-2023 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Two young girls bring something nasty home from the woods in this too-busy, uninvolving possession movie.
  
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• Maren Morris: The (Deluxe) Interview

  04-10-2023 16:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The country-pop singer discusses her recent decision to step back from country music because of Nashville’s poor track record of tolerance and diversity.
  
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• Temple has unveiled a plan for a new media and performing arts ... - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  04-10-2023 16:24 via news.google.com
  
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• The Moomins Live in the World Tove Jansson Wanted

  04-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new exhibition in Paris explores how Tove Jansson imagined a kind world that reflected her values as a lesbian artist and ardent pacifist.
  
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• Sex, Thugs and Kidneys: ‘Bargain’ Bids to Be the Next ‘Squid Game’

  04-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new Paramount+ thriller depicts a fight for survival amid sex scams, organ auctions and earthquakes. Like other Korean dramas, it is really about class.
  
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• Read Your Way Through Missoula

  04-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.
  
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• Alicia Keys Steps Into a New Spotlight

  04-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Hell’s Kitchen,” a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter’s teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
  
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• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sarah Vaughan

  04-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  All it might take is a second and a half of hearing her sing to make your spine tingle or your heart drop. Opera singers, jazz vocalists, writers and Vaughan’s biographer share their favorites.
  
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• Stevie Nicks Gets the Barbie Treatment

  04-10-2023 10:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The performer worked with Mattel to create a doll in her likeness. She showed it off onstage at Madison Square Garden.
  
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• Dungeons and Dragons: How Youth Use their Love of the Arts to ... - URMC

  04-10-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Dungeons and Dragons: How Youth Use their Love of the Arts to ...  URMC
  
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• Late Night Hosts Roast Kevin McCarthy on His Way Out

  04-10-2023 07:43 via nytimes.com
  
  “Nine months? I’ve been to Phish concerts longer than that,” Jimmy Fallon joked of McCarthy’s tenure as speaker of the House.
  
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• Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Posts From Hospital Bed

  04-10-2023 05:14 via nytimes.com
  
  “Never take life for granted enjoy it while you have it!” the rapper wrote on social media and posted a picture from a hospital, saying he had been in a nine-day fight for his life.
  
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• ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ Review: A Shop Where Everybody Knows Your Mane

  04-10-2023 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
  
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• Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Is Alive and Hospitalized

  04-10-2023 02:59 via nytimes.com
  
  “Never take life for granted enjoy it while you have it!” the rapper wrote on social media after surviving what he described as a nine-day fight for his life.
  
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• Stevie Nicks Unveils a Her Own Barbie at MSG

  04-10-2023 02:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The performer worked with Mattel to create a doll in her likeness, wearing an outfit inspired by the one she wore on the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours.” She showed it off onstage at Madison Square Garden.
  
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• Supervisor Kathryn Barger | Barger Urges Support of Performance ... - Los Angeles County

  04-10-2023 01:37 via news.google.com
  
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• Harriet Pattison, 94, Dies; Landscape Architect With a Tie to Louis Kahn

  04-10-2023 00:51 via nytimes.com
  
  After having a son with the famous architect, she built a career, often collaborating with Mr. Kahn on projects, including a New York memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  
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• 171 arts organizations, 10 in C.O., to share $1.38 million in ... - KTVZ

  04-10-2023 00:34 via news.google.com
  171 arts organizations, 10 in C.O., to share $1.38 million in ...  KTVZ
  
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• Jay-Z and Mother Gloria Carter Honored at Brooklyn Public Library Gala

  04-10-2023 00:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Senator Chuck Schumer, Mayor Eric Adams and other local dignitaries attended the library’s gala on Monday, which honored Jay-Z and his mother, Gloria Carter.
  
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