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• The Best Installations at Paris+ par Art Basel’s Tuileries Garden Outdoor Art Exhibition

  18-10-2023 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  Before the Grand Palais reopens in 2024, Paris + par Art Basel is being held for the second year at the Grand Palais éphémère, an artificial building designed by Belgian architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte.With big crowds expected at the fair, if you feel hemmed in, head outside. Stretching across the Tuileries Garden, from the Louvre to Place de la Concorde, the open-air exhibition “La Cinquième Saison” (The Fifth Season) presents the garden in a new light &md
  
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• Stephen Rubin, 81, ‘Quintessential Hitmaker’ of the Book World, Dies

  18-10-2023 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”
  
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• British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection at a Cost of $12.1 M. in Response to Thefts

  18-10-2023 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  British Museum has announced plans to digitize its entire collection in order to increase security and public access, as well as ward off calls for the repatriation of items. The project will require 2.4 million records to upload or upgrade and is estimated to take five years to complete. The museum’s announcement on October 18 came after the news 2,000 items had been stolen from the institution by a former staff member, identified in news reports as former curator Peter Higgs. About 350 h
  
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• The Passion of Adèle Haenel, an Artist of Fierce Political Conviction

  18-10-2023 21:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Haenel, working with the choreographer-director Gisèle Vienne in “L’Étang,” is trying to “pierce through the surface of things.”
  
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• Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin to Retire After 25 Years at the Helm

  18-10-2023 20:51 via artnews.com
  
  Ann Philbin, a force within the Los Angeles art scene, will retire from her longtime post as director of the Hammer Museum after more than two decades in the position, leaving the institution with far more clout than it held before she took up leadership in 1999.“It has been the privilege of a lifetime to lead the Hammer Museum for more than two decades, working closely with our supremely dedicated boards and brilliant staff to make this institution everything that Los Angeles and our wide
  
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• $9 M. Kerry James Marshall, Jenny Saville from Long Museum Founder’s Collection to be Sold

  18-10-2023 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  Paintings by Kerry James Marshall and Jenny Saville that once held the American and British artists’ public auction records will be sold from the collection of Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, the founders of Shanghai’s Long Museum. The two works will be offered as part of Sotheby’s “Now” evening sale dedicated to contemporary art this November in New York. The paintings are each estimated to fetch prices between $9 million to $12 million, respectively, Sotheby’s conf
  
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• Artists and Writers Condemn Cancellation of Award Ceremony for Palestinian Author Adania Shibli at Frankfurt Book Fair

  18-10-2023 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  Visual artists, writers, and publishers have released statements of solidarity with Palestinian author Adania Shibli, who was until this week set to receive an award at the Frankfurt Book Fair.On October 13, the organizers of the prize, Litprom, which is sponsored partly by the German government and the Frankfurt Book Fair, released a statement saying that they were seeking alternatives to hosting the ceremony at the event.“Due to the war started by Hamas, under which millions of peo
  
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• Ann Philbin, Who Remade L.A.’s Hammer Museum, to Step Down

  18-10-2023 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In nearly 25 years at the helm, Philbin helped transform the museum and elevate its reputation, and left a mark on the cultural landscape of Los Angeles.
  
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• ‘Helen.’ Review: A Restless Heroine Tired of Abiding by Gender Roles

  18-10-2023 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  At La MaMa, Caitlin George’s new play uses comedy to counter the legend of Helen of Troy.
  
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• ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ Is This Season’s Most-Staged Play

  18-10-2023 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Heidi Schreck’s play will have at least 16 productions around the country; last season’s most-produced play, “Clyde’s,” came in second.
  
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• The Best Booths at the Second Edition of Art Basel’s Paris+, From Subversive Installations to a Decked-Out Car

  18-10-2023 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  If attendees at the second edition of Art Basel’s Paris+ fair had any anxiety leading into the event, their fears appeared to have been assuaged during the first VIP preview day on Wednesday. The aisles were jam-packed throughout the day, and dealers reported a bevy of sales during the fair’s opening hours.Among them were four works, sold for over $1 million each, at Hauser & Wirth and several pieces at Pace Gallery’s Rothko-dedicated booth, including a $65,000 sculpture by
  
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• Stephen Rubin, ‘Quintessential Hitmaker’ of the Book World, Dies at 81

  18-10-2023 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”
  
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• Review: Kate Lindsey Brings Women’s Tales to the Armory

  18-10-2023 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Kate Lindsey, accompanied by the pianist Justina Lee, programmed cycles of life, love and creation by Schumann and Fauré.
  
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• Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Back to Having a Good Time

  18-10-2023 18:51 via nytimes.com
  
  With the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit.
  
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• The Women of ‘Groundswell’ Challenge the Land-Art Canon

  18-10-2023 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Revisiting the land artists at the Nasher Sculpture Center, a critic finds their work was never more relevant than it is today.
  
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• British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts

  18-10-2023 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually documented.
  
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• Steven Lutvak, Whose Darkly Comic Show Won a Tony, Dies at 64

  18-10-2023 18:10 via nytimes.com
  
  He wrote several musicals without attracting much notice. Then he struck Broadway gold with “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”
  
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• 10 Can’t-Miss Works in a Massive Picasso Drawings Show at the Centre Pompidou

  18-10-2023 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  As visitors flock to France for the art fair Paris+, many museums and galleries are mounting must-see exhibitions. Alongside a Rothko blockbuster at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and a vast Sophie Calle project for the Musée Picasso, one such exhibition is “Picasso: Endlessly Drawing,” a massive survey of works in that medium at the Centre Pompidou that opens on Wednesday.
  The exhibition showcases the famed Spanish painter’s drawings and engravings, including graphic work
  
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• The Best Booths at Paris Internationale, Where Cutting-Edge Art by Emerging Stars Takes Center Stage

  18-10-2023 17:56 via artnews.com
  
  Returning for its ninth edition, Paris Internationale has brought together 70 exhibitors at the Central téléphonique Le Cœur, an iconic building in Paris’s 9th arrondissement that is now a dusty and somewhat dilapidated raw space. Focusing on younger galleries from across Europe, the US, and Asia, the fair largely stands in opposition to Paris+ par Art Basel, with few well-known names on view here.Below, a look at some of the best work at Paris Internationale, which run
  
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• Popcast (Deluxe): Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Movie + Bad Bunny Returns

  18-10-2023 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about Swift’s concert film documenting her summer stadium sojourn. Plus: The new album “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana.”
  
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• Fed Up With Chaos, Van Gogh Museum Scraps Free Pokémon Card Initiative

  18-10-2023 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  An unlikely collaboration between the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and Japanese media giant Pokémon has ended, according to the BBC, after a “small group of individuals” swarmed the gift shop creating what the museum described as an “undesirable situation.”Pokémon-hungry crowds descended upon the museum for the van Gogh–inspired merchandise that placed the brand’s most popular creatures in the context of van Gogh’s most
  
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• Review: ‘Scavengers Reign’ Is a Gorgeous, Hypnotic Space Trip

  18-10-2023 17:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Max’s animated sci-fi saga imagines a bizarre ecosystem in which humans are the invasive species.
  
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• Marie NDiaye Raises Questions She Has No Intention of Answering

  18-10-2023 17:10 via nytimes.com
  
  She published her first book at 17 and has since become one of France’s best-known novelists. NDiaye is not interested in easy — and she expects her readers to work, too.
  
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• Camaraderie and Visibility: A Festival for Black Classical Musicians

  18-10-2023 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  “You feel like you’re home,” a bassoonist said of the Gateways Music Festival, which for 30 years has provided Black musicians with performing opportunities.
  
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• Still Mourning Takeoff’s Death, Quavo Steps Out Alone

  18-10-2023 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper, whose Migos group mate and nephew was killed last November, has released a solo album as he struggles to process the loss and prevent further gun violence.
  
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• Hauser & Wirth’s Paris Location Opens with a Superb Henry Taylor Exhibition

  18-10-2023 15:56 via artnews.com
  
  Hauser & Wirth’s newest location—its 17th worldwide—has finally opened in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, on the outskirt’s of the neighborhood’s concentration of galleries on Avenue Montaigne north of the Champs Élysées. Even though it’s not much of a walk, this new location stands out as being in an island of its own—that’s a good thing. The first show mounted at the mega-gallery’s first Parisian space makes it worth the
  
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• ‘Suffs’ Heads to Broadway With Hillary Clinton as a Producer

  18-10-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical, about early-20th-century efforts to win the right to vote for women, will open in April at the Music Box Theater.
  
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• Russian Artist Joins Ukrainian Army, Satellite Fairs During Paris +, Rodin Sculpture ‘Unlocated’, and More: Morning Links from October 18, 2023

  18-10-2023 14:44 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesJEFF KOONS: YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO NEXT. The much-loved, much-reviled artist has left David Zwirner and Gagosian to be represented by another mega-dealer, the Pace Gallery . Currently the record holder for the most expensive living artist at auction, Koons will present a show of a single work at Pace&
  
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• Inside the UK’s new $292 million arts center - CNN

  18-10-2023 14:31 via news.google.com
  
  Inside the UK’s new $292 million arts center  CNN
  
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• New Data Reveal How Adults Participated in the Arts During COVID ... - National Endowment for the Arts

  18-10-2023 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  New Data Reveal How Adults Participated in the Arts During COVID ...  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• For its 10th Anniversary Edition, Fog Art Fair Launches an Invitational Platform: Fog Focus

  18-10-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  San Francisco’s Fog Design+Art fair has announced that its tenth edition will include an invitational platform, Fog Focus, designed to bring much needed attention to young and underrepresented artists.Fog Focus will present nine artists in solo booths in Fort Mason Center’s Pier 2 building, which was once the home to the San Francisco Arts Institute. In keeping with the spirit of supporting artists who perhaps have not yet garnered the reputation they deserve, exhibition space for Fo
  
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• ‘The Delinquents’ Review: Money for Nothing

  18-10-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A bank worker asks a colleague to watch the cash he has stolen in this low-key Argentine feature from Rodrigo Moreno.
  
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• At NY Dog and Cat Film Festivals, Love, Licks and Looniness

  18-10-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Collections of short films, both documentary and fiction, make their annual visit to Manhattan, followed by tours around the country and Canada.
  
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• Restitution Is Moving Quickly. The Pergamon Museum Is Taking It Slow.

  18-10-2023 12:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The Berlin institution with a spectacular, but disputed, centerpiece closes next week for a refurbishment that won’t be complete until 2037.
  
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• DRIFT to Stage Massive 1,000-Drone Performance in New York’s Central Park in October

  18-10-2023 11:30 via artnews.com
  
  Studio DRIFT, the moniker for artist duo Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn, will stage a performance of Franchise Freedom, their famed drone performance, in New York City’s Central Park later this month, the artists told ARTnews.“From the beginning, it has been a dream to fly [Franchise Freedom] in Central Park. New York is such an amazing city, with all of these different cultures living together in harmony, growing and learning from one another,” Nauta told ARTnews. “Cent
  
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• ‘Modern Love Podcast’: What Does It Mean to Be a Kept Woman?

  18-10-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  He wanted to pay for everything. Why couldn’t Deanna Fei accept his offer?
  
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• Danny DeVito, His Daughter and a Lot of Baggage (Onstage)

  18-10-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The pair, starring in Theresa Rebeck’s Broadway comedy “I Need That,” have a chemistry that “comes with playfulness, love and a history of irritations.”
  
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• Museum Shows Explore the Global South

  18-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Shows in New York, Cleveland and Los Angeles aim to educate the public about less-understood parts of the world.
  
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• Colorado Museum Takes a New Look at the Sand Creek Massacre

  18-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A revised exhibit about the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado drew heavily on the views of members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
  
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• At the de Young, a Rousing Showcase for Bay Area Artists

  18-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A call for art went out. Almost 8,000 pieces were submitted. The 883 chosen works make up a dizzying, bursting-at-the-seams extravaganza of an exhibition.
  
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• American Museum of Natural History Makes Connections With the Unseen

  18-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  At the American Museum of Natural History, “Invisible Worlds” immerses visitors in systems and experiences hidden from the human eye.
  
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• ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Casts Blind Actresses

  18-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new Netflix mini-series, the two actresses playing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel’s protagonist, are blind, just like the character.
  
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• Texas Museum Uses Art Exhibition to Consider Climate Change

  18-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A show at the Blanton Museum of Art set out to consider a world where greenhouse gasses turn the sky orange. Then a burning planet made it a reality.
  
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• Museums and Galleries to See This Winter

  18-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Across the nation, art exhibitions offer a look at the impact artists have on one another, their subjects and their communities.
  
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• A Photographer’s House of Shadows

  18-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In his home and studio, as in his art, Bill Henson plays with the balance of light and dark.
  
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• Minneapolis Museum of Russian Art Stands Up for Ukraine

  18-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Since the invasion in 2022, the Minneapolis institution has faced immense pressure. It has responded by curating bold antiwar exhibitions.
  
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• Boston Museum Showcases the Power of Women in Renaissance Italy

  18-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examines how women faced barriers to equality but often overcame them to contribute to the culture of the era.
  
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• At an All-Ages Playground in St. Louis, an Art Collection Grows

  18-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  City Museum in St. Louis, where visitors are invited to explore and get lost, is acquiring contemporary art and architectural works to offer them more.
  
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• In ‘Re/Sisters,’ Gender Meets Climate Activism. It’s a Lot.

  18-10-2023 10:25 via nytimes.com
  
  A sprawling show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London presents works under the banner of “ecofeminism,” linking women’s oppression with humanity’s destruction of nature.
  
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• As Paris+ Opens, France’s Art Market Thrums With Excitement

  18-10-2023 10:00 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.As the Paris art market prepares for its busiest season with the opening today of the second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel, the local scene is basking in the warm autumn glow of the international art world’s good favor. This, despite the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza, France’s rais
  
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