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• This Year’s November Sales in New York Will Take Place in a Very Different Art Market

  25-10-2023 23:56 via artnews.com
  
  With London and Paris auctions behind us, all eyes are on the New York evening sales—the final fall touchstone of the art market—which kick off November 7 with Christie’s 21st century evening sale, led by Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II), which carries an $18 million–25 million estimate. But the sales this year come amid a far different economy and auction market than last year.For even casual art market observers, the phrase “market correct
  
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• New Data ‘Poisoning’ Tool Enables Artists To Fight Back Against Image Generating AI

  25-10-2023 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  Artists now have a new digital tool they can use in the event their work is scraped without permission by an AI training set. The tool, called Nightshade, enables artists to add invisible pixels to their art prior to being uploaded online. These data samples “poison” the massive image sets used to train AI image-generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, destabilizing their outputs in chaotic and unexpected ways as well as disabling “its ability to generate us
  
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• Hundreds of Shadow Puppets Were Stolen. A Bystander Helped Crack the Case.

  25-10-2023 23:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Many of the puppets were still missing, however, after the theft of a U-haul truck in San Francisco holding props for the critically acclaimed Persian epic “Song of the North.”
  
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• Amazon Drought Exposes Ancient Human Faces Carved into Riverbed

  25-10-2023 22:40 via artnews.com
  
  The Amazon waters have dropped to record low levels, exposing ghostly human faces etched into the rocky riverside two millennia ago. The petroglyphs, which also depict animals and flora, were carved into the shores of the Rio Negro, in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon river. The Rio Negro is home to an archaeological site known as the Ponto das Lajes, meaning Place of Slabs. The carvings were previously spotted during the 2010 drought, when water levels fell by 44 feet. The drought hitti
  
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• ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’: A Hit That Initially Unnerved Disney

  25-10-2023 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The filmmakers look back on its 30th anniversary and recall how uncomfortable it made executives. They didn’t expect the celebrations around it today.
  
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• El Museo del Barrio Rejects Artwork Featuring Palestinian Flag

  25-10-2023 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The museum had commissioned the work for its annual Día de los Muertos celebrations, but decided not to display it after the artists included a Palestinian flag in it.
  
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• Art, Books Held by Lisa Schiff Head to Sale as Lawsuits Continue to Pend

  25-10-2023 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  As two lawsuits against adviser Lisa Schiff continue on, a New York judge has given the go-ahead for some of her artworks and her book collection to be sold, paving the way for more pieces to follow.According to an inventory collected by the Winston Art Group earlier this year, Schiff has just under 900 artworks in her possession. That means that these potential sales only apply to just a select few works among many more. And, per another document submitted by that same advisory firm earlier thi
  
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• Rock Brynner, Son of Hollywood Royalty Who Cut His Own Path, Dies at 76

  25-10-2023 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a writer, historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.
  
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• Museum Group Releases Statement About Gaza After Pressure from Israeli Institutions

  25-10-2023 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  The International Council of Museums (ICOM), an industry group that offers recommendations and ethical standards to institutions across the globe, has released its first public statement on the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and the subsequent bombardment of Gaza.The UNESCO-affiliated organization published the statement on its website today, writing, “Icom expresses its deep concern about the current violence affecting Israeli and Palestinian civilians and deplores the significant hu
  
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• Popcast (Deluxe): Britney Spears Tells … Some?

  25-10-2023 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about the week in popular culture, including “The Woman in Me,” the new book by Spears, and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s latest film.
  
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• Taylor Swift’s Rerecording of ’1989’ May Be Her Biggest Yet. Here’s Why.

  25-10-2023 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop superstar’s new version of her 2014 blockbuster is due Friday, following a summer of media saturation and her 10th No. 1 hit.
  
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• Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ May Be Her Biggest Rerecording Yet. Here’s Why.

  25-10-2023 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop superstar’s new version of her 2014 blockbuster is due Friday, following a summer of media saturation and her 10th No. 1 hit.
  
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• K-Pop Band STAYC Wears Wrong Rangers Jerseys at Texas Show

  25-10-2023 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Members of the band STAYC performed in Dallas last week in the jerseys of the Rangers, the Glaswegian soccer club, rather than the Rangers, the World Series-bound Texas baseball team.
  
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• ‘Partnership’ Review: A Lost Tale of Ambition That Resonates

  25-10-2023 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Mint Theater revives Elizabeth Baker’s charming 1917 comedy, which offers a gentle reminder about work-life balance.
  
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• $100,000 Soros Grants Go to Artists Cannupa Hanska Luger, Yto Barrada, Carolina Caycedo, and More

  25-10-2023 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  The Open Society Foundations have named the recipients of the 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships, which supports socially-engaged art. This year, 18 mid-career artists were given $100,000 each to realize projects addressing issues such as the climate crisis, furthering Indigenous knowledge, and sustainability over the next 18 months.“Art and culture are essential drivers for social change,” Tatiana Mouarbes, Open Society’s team manager for culture and art, expression, said in a statem
  
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• Halloween TV: Five Shows That Mix Horror and Humor

  25-10-2023 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  “Creepshow,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and other shows serve up humor with their horror.
  
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• Pierre Soulages Sheds New Light on Darkness

  25-10-2023 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  In his explorations of black, Pierre Soulages found a link to our sorrows, despair, regrets — our deepest selves.
  
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• Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder

  25-10-2023 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Sankai Juku, an all-male Butoh company, returns to New York with a program of greatest hits that too often feels tedious.
  
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• ICA Boston Director Jill Medvedow to Step Down After 25 Years

  25-10-2023 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Jill Medvedow, the longtime director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston who helped transform the institution during her 25-year tenure, will step down from her post in December 2024. The museum’s board of trustees has formed a search committee to find her replacement.“Jill transformed the ICA into an anchor institution in Boston, and one of the leading centers for artistic experimentation and contemporary culture in the country,” board co-chair Steven D. Corkin and bo
  
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• Jill Medvedow, Who Remade ICA Boston, to Depart

  25-10-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  She will leave her post as the Institute of Contemporary Art’s director in 2024, but isn’t sure what’s next. “I don’t think I am capable of real retirement,” Medvedow said.
  
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• 'Eat Your Art Out' dining fundraiser returns in support of the arts - WJER Radio

  25-10-2023 15:17 via news.google.com
  
  'Eat Your Art Out' dining fundraiser returns in support of the arts  WJER Radio
  
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• The Rocky Horror Picture Show returns Halloween Eve to Walton ... - Fayetteville Flyer

  25-10-2023 15:12 via news.google.com
  
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show returns Halloween Eve to Walton ...  Fayetteville Flyer
  
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• Current Students | WVU Mountaineer Week to celebrate all things ... - WVU Students

  25-10-2023 15:00 via news.google.com
  
  Current Students | WVU Mountaineer Week to celebrate all things ...  WVU Students
  
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• An Inside Look at Anish Kapoor's Next Act - Smithsonian Magazine

  25-10-2023 14:13 via news.google.com
  
  An Inside Look at Anish Kapoor's Next Act  Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• More than $1M raised as capital campaign continues for Arts Center ... - Jamestown Sun

  25-10-2023 14:03 via news.google.com
  
  More than $1M raised as capital campaign continues for Arts Center ...  Jamestown Sun
  
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• Hard Choices: Should You Become a Performance Artist?

  25-10-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver a quiz full of hard choices for Art in America readers from far and wide.Your paintings lack dimension, your photos aren’t in focus, and your sculptures can’t stand up on their own. A kind teacher with funny glasses suggests that you might be your own best material. After watching a couple Ron Athey and Linda Montano videos, you wonder: should I m
  
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• DD2 arts educators receive $108K in competitive grants - Charleston Post Courier

  25-10-2023 14:00 via news.google.com
  DD2 arts educators receive $108K in competitive grants  Charleston Post Courier
  
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• As Deal is Nearly Finalized, North Fork Arts Center Expects to Start ... - East End Beacon

  25-10-2023 13:57 via news.google.com
  
  As Deal is Nearly Finalized, North Fork Arts Center Expects to Start ...  East End Beacon
  
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• Bluffton University November 2023 arts and events - Bluffton Icon

  25-10-2023 13:55 via news.google.com
  
  Bluffton University November 2023 arts and events  Bluffton Icon
  
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• Essex County Honors Martial Arts Team From Bloomfield - Patch

  25-10-2023 13:02 via news.google.com
  Essex County Honors Martial Arts Team From Bloomfield  Patch
  
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• Georgia Council for the Arts announces grant funding to support ... - ValdostaToday.com

  25-10-2023 12:58 via news.google.com
  
  Georgia Council for the Arts announces grant funding to support ...  ValdostaToday.com
  
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• In the Arts: Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Dia de Los Muertos family concert - 21 Alive News

  25-10-2023 12:56 via news.google.com
  In the Arts: Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Dia de Los Muertos family concert  21 Alive News
  
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• Coffey Architects references industrial history for London housing ... - Dezeen

  25-10-2023 12:30 via news.google.com
  Coffey Architects references industrial history for London housing ...  Dezeen
  
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• Books & the Arts | Page 600 of 601 - The Nation

  25-10-2023 12:03 via news.google.com
  
  Books & the Arts | Page 600 of 601  The Nation
  
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• Hospice of Knox County and Mount Vernon Players partner on 'He ... - Knox Pages

  25-10-2023 12:02 via news.google.com
  
  Hospice of Knox County and Mount Vernon Players partner on 'He ...  Knox Pages
  
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• The Argyros announces new vision, leadership | Arts & Events ... - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide

  25-10-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
  The Argyros announces new vision, leadership | Arts & Events ...  Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
  
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• South Broad Street improvements aim to draw people back to the arts - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  25-10-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
  South Broad Street improvements aim to draw people back to the arts  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Meet Your Maker Halloween Market, an arts and craft festival with ... - WDRB

  25-10-2023 11:40 via news.google.com
  Meet Your Maker Halloween Market, an arts and craft festival with ...  WDRB
  
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• Day of the Dead concerts at Morris arts center with mariachi symphony - South Bend Tribune

  25-10-2023 11:34 via news.google.com
  
  Day of the Dead concerts at Morris arts center with mariachi symphony  South Bend Tribune
  
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• ‘Modern Love Podcast’: I Wrote This Essay, but Then Changed My Mind

  25-10-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Heather Sellers thought she made peace with her estranged father years ago. But as she’s gotten older, she’s realized that complete forgiveness was never really on the table.
  
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• Margaret Renkl Writes in the Space Between Grief and Hope

  25-10-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  In her most recent book, “The Comfort of Crows,” Renkl puts her admirable powers of perception to use, offering readers respite, and reason for hope, in a turbulent world.
  
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• Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light

  25-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris.
  
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• How ‘Sabbath’s Theater,’ Philip Roth’s Raunchiest Book, Made It to the Stage

  25-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Emperor of Rome,’ by Mary Beard

  25-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales.
  
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• Views of the Empire State Building Are Being Blocked

  25-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Views of the Empire State Building are being obscured by a new 860-foot luxury tower rising just blocks away. Should New York regulate its skyline?
  
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• Designer of Five Nights at Freddy’s Pivoted From Religious Games

  25-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Before creating Five Nights at Freddy’s, whose jump scares will soon target moviegoers, Scott Cawthon was making indie video games like Noah’s Ark and The Pilgrim’s Progress.
  
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• The Best True Crime to Stream: Stories That Are Very Scary, and Real

  25-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Four terrifying, unnerving picks across television, film and podcast.
  
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• Take a Tour of the Gochman Family Collection, Dedicated to Contemporary Indigenous Art

  25-10-2023 11:00 via artnews.com
  Established just shy of three years ago, the Gochman Family Collection, which focuses primarily on contemporary Indigenous art, has already become one of the largest and most important its kind. In this video, collector Becky Gochman, collection director and former gallerist Zach Feuer, and artist-in-residence and co-curator Rachel Martin, give ARTnews a tour of the Upper East Side apartment that houses works by Jeffrey Gibson, Nicholas Galanin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kay WalkingStick, Beau D
  
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• How the Gochman Family Collection Aims to Support Contemporary Indigenous Artists—and Reshape the Mainstream Art World

  25-10-2023 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past year or so, the home of collector Becky Gochman and her family has become a locus of sorts for the New York art world. Any given month might see the 12-room apartment host cocktail receptions for nonprofits, tours for museum curators, visits with artists, and maybe even as the setting for a forthcoming artwork.Located a block from the Guggenheim Museum and boasting views of Central Park, the apartment is filled with work by contemporary Indigenous artists, including a beaded punchi
  
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• Drawn to art? Frame some memories and visit the Ocala Arts Festival - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

  25-10-2023 11:00 via news.google.com
  
  Drawn to art? Frame some memories and visit the Ocala Arts Festival  WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
  
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