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• Artists Call for Boycott After Artforum Fires Its Top Editor

  27-10-2023 23:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Nan Goldin and Nicole Eisenman say they will stop working with the magazine after its response to an open letter that called for Palestinian liberation and a cease-fire.
  
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• Ida Applebroog, Whose Art Confronted Relationships, Dies at 93

  27-10-2023 23:24 via nytimes.com
  
  She developed a varied but recognizable style in multiple mediums, characterized by the raw, mordant humor of a woman under no illusions.
  
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• ‘Covenant’ Review: When Inner Turmoil Is Its Own Ghost Story

  27-10-2023 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The playwright York Walker makes a promising New York debut at Roundabout Underground.
  
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• Climate Protestors Spray Orange Cornstarch on Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s Natural History Museum

  27-10-2023 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  Two climate activists were recently arrested at the Natural History Museum in London after spraying a dinosaur skeleton reproduction with orange cornstarch while demanding the UK government halt oil and gas projects. Gastroenterologist Dr. Will Stableforth and physiotherapist Steve Fay sprayed the museum’s reproduction of the 26-foot-tall Patagotitan mayorum skeleton at approximately 1:50 pm on October 26, according to a press release from the organization Just Stop Oil. The two also unfur
  
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• 2,700-Year-Old Guardian Deity Found in Iraq: ‘I’ve Never Unearthed Anything This Big’

  27-10-2023 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  A 2,700-year-old Assyrian lamassu—a protective deity sculpture—was recently re-excavated in Iraq, astounding experts with its size and condition. The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) announced yesterday that the figure, depicting a human head and a body akin to bull or lion with wings like a bird, had survived the two millennia with relatively limited damage. The alabaster sculpture weighs roughly 19 tons and measures around 12 and a half feet long.The re-exc
  
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• Artist Ryder Ripps Ordered to Pay $1.6 M. to Bored Ape Yacht Club Creator Yuga Labs, Ending Copyright Battle

  27-10-2023 21:27 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Ryder Ripps and Ripps’ business partner, Jeremy Cahen, have been ordered to pay Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs roughly $1.6 million, concluding the protracted court battle over copyright infringement. Per CoinTelegraph, John F. Walter, U.S. District Judge of Central California, ruled Wednesday that the pair must pay for “disgorgement and damages”, in addition to legal fees. Walter awarded Yuga Labs $1.38 million after concluding the company was entitled to a
  
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• How Truths Are Told at a Liquor Store in ‘The Holdovers’

  27-10-2023 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Alexander Payne narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa.
  
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• Two Forums Discuss the Future of Arts and Sciences - Dartmouth News

  27-10-2023 20:33 via news.google.com
  
  Two Forums Discuss the Future of Arts and Sciences  Dartmouth News
  
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• ‘The Holdovers’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  27-10-2023 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexander Payne narrates a sequence from his film featuring Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa.
  
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• Alessandra Ferri’s Next Act: Running the Vienna State Ballet

  27-10-2023 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school.
  
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• 15 Great Songs From 1989 (the Year, Not the Album)

  27-10-2023 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  A playlist celebrating a staggeringly great year in music: Pixies, Janet Jackson, De La Soul, Madonna, Indigo Girls and more.
  
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• Taylor Swift’s ’1989’ Vault Song ‘“Slut!”’ Revisits Her Evolution as a Pop Star Feminist

  27-10-2023 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The bonus track from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” revisits a moment when she was carefully calibrating her public transition into adulthood and superstardom.
  
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• Right Wing Intellectual and Journalist, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, May Be the Next President of the Venice Biennale

  27-10-2023 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  Right wing journalist Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has been nominated to replace Roberto Cicutto as president of the prestigious Venice Biennale, according to multiple English and Italian news outlets.Buttafuoco is a close friend of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and a supporter of her far-right Brothers of Italy party. He began his career as a writer for several right wing Italian newspapers and magazines and was once the leader of the Fronte della Giovent&ug
  
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• Updates coming to Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center - lexingtonky.gov

  27-10-2023 19:01 via news.google.com
  
  Updates coming to Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center  lexingtonky.gov
  
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• From ‘The Exorcist’ to ‘Bambi,’ These Movies Messed Us Up as Kids

  27-10-2023 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our first horror movie is often a memory imprinted on our brain and, for some of us, our heart.
  
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• Art Collaboration Kyoto Aims to Create a New Model for Art Fairs, Where Dealers Are Friends Not Foes

  27-10-2023 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Contemporary art fairs have been proliferating across Asia lately, as they did a decade or so ago in the United States and Europe. Frieze Seoul arrived in 2022, Art SG in Singapore in January, and Tokyo Gendai in July. Art Basel Hong Kong is still the dominant player in the Asian art market, but it is gaining competitors fast. Remember complaints about “fairtigue” prior to the pandemic? That seems like long ago. The argument put forward by fair organizers has been that these economic
  
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• Review: An Unexpectedly Relevant Oratorio at the Philharmonic

  27-10-2023 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Planned over a year ago, Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” was presented while the Israel-Hamas war unfolds in the Middle East.
  
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• Sofia Coppola Makes It Look Easy. It Isn’t.

  27-10-2023 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Young women let the director know how influential she is. But it’s still a battle to make films like her acclaimed “Priscilla.”
  
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• Who Is Troye Sivan Now?

  27-10-2023 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about the pop star’s evolution on his new album, “Something to Give Each Other,” and the ceilings he may still face as an openly gay male performer.
  
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• (La)Horde: Dancing Out Primal Impulses and Resistance

  27-10-2023 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In two programs, (La)Horde and the Ballet National de Marseille introduced New York to work that taps into a youthful, rebellious spirit.
  
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• West End Theatergoers Grumble as Prices for the Best Seats Surge

  27-10-2023 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Concern is growing that a night at the theater in London is becoming unaffordable, especially when a production has starry names, like Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear.”
  
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• Yoko Ono and the Women of Fluxus Changed the Rules in Art and Life

  27-10-2023 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  A show at the Japan Society focuses on four innovators who created a blueprint for a new society with postcards, scissors, chess sets and instructions.
  
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• Student Groups at Hunter Call for Firing of Israeli Performance Artist After ‘Dear Hamas’ Video

  27-10-2023 17:29 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, Israeli performance artist Tamy Ben-Tor posted a video to Instagram and YouTube titled “Dear Hamas…” In the video, Ben-Tor dons a mask resembling an old woman’s face and a wig of black hair, and embodies a character that might best be described as a caricature of an elite liberal academic. “I’d like to utter support for your freedom fight,” says Ben-Tor in the video. “I’m still on the fence about the massacre of the babies. O
  
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• Mr Eazi’s Anthem of Gratitude, and 12 More New Songs

  27-10-2023 17:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Silvana Estrada, Old Dominion, Nadine Shah and others.
  
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• What Is John Eliot Gardiner’s Musical Empire Without Him?

  27-10-2023 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The conductor is taking a break after being accused of striking a singer. But the groups he founded continue to tour with a substitute at the podium.
  
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• Martin and Francesca Scorsese, TikTok’s Dynamic Duo

  27-10-2023 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The acclaimed director’s daughter, a filmmaker herself, has been peppering her feed with videos of her father, showing a rarely seen side of him.
  
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• Taylor Swift’s ‘“Slut!”’ and the Evolution of a Pop Star Feminist

  27-10-2023 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The bonus track from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” revisits a moment when she was carefully calibrating her public transition into adulthood and superstardom.
  
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• Berlusconi Bequeaths a Warehouse of Art Befitting the Man

  27-10-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Italian media mogul bought up some 25,000 paintings, many on TV shopping binges, before he died this year. Now no one knows what to do with them.
  
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• A Biennial in Ireland Shows What True Engagement with a Local Community Looks Like

  27-10-2023 15:56 via artnews.com
  
  Now in its 40th year, the EVA International, in Limerick, Ireland, is more transient than other biennials like it. Rather than opening all at once, its exhibitions, events, and interventions are taking place gradually, at different points throughout the show’s run, through late October. This removes the need to see it all at once—and also enables the show to more thoroughly dialogue with the city and its history.Guest curator Sebastian Cichocki has themed his program, “The Glea
  
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• Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ to Return to Broadway Next Fall

  27-10-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A new production, directed by Kenny Leon, will feature a diverse cast and will aim to speak to contemporary America.
  
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• Celine Dion ‘Siren Battles’ Prompt Complaints in New Zealand City

  27-10-2023 15:07 via nytimes.com
  
  A subculture has developed among Pacific Islander communities based on who can blast music — often Ms. Dion’s songs — the loudest. Some call it too disruptive.
  
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• Artforum Fires Editor David Velasco After Publication of Letter About Ceasefire in Gaza

  27-10-2023 14:38 via artnews.com
  
  After a call for a ceasefire in Gaza signed by thousands of artists appeared on its website, Artforum has fired its top editor, David Velasco, claiming that the publication of the letter did not meet its editorial standards. His firing was first reported by the New York Times.The letter, which went live on October 19, also appeared in e-flux and Hyperallergic, and had circulated as a Google document before it was published on those websites and Artforum. Velasco, along with several other members
  
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• National Museum of Women in the Arts Reopens, Expanding Its Galleries and the Canon

  27-10-2023 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. closed in August 2021 for renovations and an expansion, and has now reopened to a very different country. In that two-year interval, abortion rights were severely curtailed, murder rates for trans women have shot up, and fears of a Handmaid’s Tale–like future have become pervasive. Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor got right to the point when she wrote, in the New Yorker, “Without the ability to control when, where, how, and i
  
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• A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age

  27-10-2023 12:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The British director Horace Ové struggled to get his 1975 film, “Pressure,” made and released. Now, weeks after his death, a new restoration is celebrated in New York and London.
  
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• What Is a Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library Doing in North Dakota?

  27-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The $333 million project rising in a tiny badlands town wants to showcase the 26th president and his visionary environmental record — without ignoring his flaws.
  
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• It Might Be Time to Consider Timisoara

  27-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  OK, “Little Vienna” might be a stretch, but the Romanian city is a genuine, livable and multicultural place that offers just enough for visitors to fill two or three days.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Calls Out Mike Johnson’s First Fail

  27-10-2023 08:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Late Show” host chided the new House speaker for offering little more than thoughts and prayers to survivors of the Maine shooting on his first day in office.
  
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• Fidel García’s Otherworldly Figures Swirl Into Being

  27-10-2023 06:01 via artnews.com
  
  The familiar and the fantastic collide vibrantly in the work of Fidel García. The painter fuses the visceral and the ethereal, juxtaposing the human body, photorealistically rendered, with colorful abstract expressionist forms. Sometimes, his nude figures—usually women, at times winged—melt from bold washes of color. Other times, they seem to square off against them in a spectacular ballet of light and shadow. Several of his works even incorporate yet another dichotomy, betwee
  
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• ‘Boy Parts,’ the Play, Is a Winking Pastiche of Trauma Tropes

  27-10-2023 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A London production adapted from Eliza Clark’s debut novel refuses to justify its unreliable narrator’s violence, but lacks narrative depth and complexity.
  
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• Artforum Fires Top Editor After Its Open Letter on Israel-Hamas War

  27-10-2023 05:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Velasco was removed after the magazine’s publishers said there was a flawed editorial process behind the publication of a letter that supported Palestinian liberation.
  
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• Hasan Minhaj Addresses Embellished Stories Detailed by The New Yorker

  27-10-2023 00:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The stand-up comedian said he thought “the lines between truth and fiction were allowed to be a bit more blurry” in his personal storytelling.
  
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• Anthony Holden, Royal Chronicler Who Ruffled the Palace, Dies at 76

  27-10-2023 00:21 via nytimes.com
  
  A prolific journalist and author, he ignited an uproar with a less-than-flattering portrait of Charles and Diana’s marriage. “The most reviled man in Britain,” one newspaper called him.
  
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