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• The Met’s Costume Institute Unveils Sensory-Themed Exhibition and Gala for 2024

  09-11-2023 23:22 via artnews.com
  
  Anticipation surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition has come to a close with the reveal of its latest annual theme. A preview held Wednesday morning at the museum featured Andrew Bolton, the curator overseeing the Costume Institute’s extensive fashion collection, as he announced the title for the much-awaited annual showcase: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”The theme, set to serve as the visual centerpiece for the Costume Instit
  
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• Robert De Niro’s Company Is Found Liable for Gender Discrimination

  09-11-2023 23:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Graham Chase Robinson, a former assistant of Mr. De Niro’s, was awarded $1.3 million by a jury. She said she was assigned “stereotypically female” job responsibilities.
  
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• At a Hollywood Screening, Footage of Hamas Killing Israelis

  09-11-2023 22:11 via nytimes.com
  
  After a screening at the Museum of Tolerance aimed to show the brutality of the Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, fights broke out among protesters outside.
  
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• ‘The Taste of Things’ and the Transcendence of a French Meal

  09-11-2023 20:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Taste of Things” is the latest movie to luxuriate in France’s gourmand tradition, a safe way of attracting audiences outside the country.
  
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• Nan Goldin Cancels New York Times Project Over Newspaper’s ‘Complicity with Israel’

  09-11-2023 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  The photographer Nan Goldin said on Thursday that she had called off a project for the New York Times Magazine, accusing the newspaper of a pro-Israel bias in its reporting on Gaza.“Yesterday, I canceled a big job with the New York Times Sunday magazine — a cover shoot of a musician I admire — because of the NYT’s reporting on the war on Gaza, which shows complicity with Israel,” she wrote on Instagram. “For what they report and don’t report, and how the
  
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• ‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death

  09-11-2023 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  L. Frances Henderson’s intricate debut documentary investigates a suicide, raising plenty of questions, including one about its own ethics.
  
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• Young Thug Lyrics Will Be Allowed as Evidence in YSL RICO Trial

  09-11-2023 19:10 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge ruled on Thursday that at least 17 specific sets of lines from the Atlanta rapper and his collaborators could be used by prosecutors in their gang conspiracy case.
  
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• Review: Kyle Marshall’s History Lessons, in Fragments

  09-11-2023 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  His company’s debut program at the Joyce Theater has three New York premieres, including one about the Black roots of rock.
  
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• The Collection of a Discreet Hedge-Funder Has Quietly Become Active Business

  09-11-2023 18:58 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.When financier Arthur Samberg died in July 2020 at 79, he was best known as the founder of Pequot Capital Management, one of the largest US hedge funds in the early 2000s. But court documents reviewed by ARTnews reveal that, behind the scenes, Samberg and his family were quiet major art collectors, owne
  
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• Artworks, Jewelry, and More from Barbara Walters’s Estate Fetch $5 M. at Auction

  09-11-2023 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  Bonhams’s auctions of objects from the collection of Barbara Walters brought in $5 million. Ninety-nine percent of the 135 objects offered at an in-person sale sold, while all of the 238 lots made available online found buyers.The estate toured Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, and Hong Kong before the sale, before landing in New York alongside an exhibition commemorating her career. Art, jewelry, design, and personal objects were among the items made available for auction.Presented at B
  
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• Young Thug Lyrics Will Be Allowed as Evidence at YSL RICO Trial

  09-11-2023 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  A judge ruled on Thursday that at least 17 specific sets of lines from the Atlanta rapper and his collaborators could be used by prosecutors in their gang conspiracy case.
  
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• Matisse and Derain: the ‘Wild Beasts’ of Fauvism

  09-11-2023 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The leaders of a short-lived but consequential art movement that flourished early in the 20th century take center stage at the Met Museum.
  
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• ‘Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey’ Review: A Trilogy’s Bittersweet End

  09-11-2023 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  At Irish Arts Center, the actor delivers the final installment of his solo plays about the cobbler Pat and his eccentric beloved.
  
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• ‘The Curse’ Review: People Who Live in Glass Houses

  09-11-2023 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s breathtaking, uncomfortable series takes home-renovation TV into the heart of darkness.
  
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• ‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before

  09-11-2023 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Brie Larson stars alongside two Disney+ stars in this trope-ridden franchise installment, the 33rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  
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• Bitter Family Feud Revealed in Lawsuit Against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Accuses Board of ‘Grabstract Expressionism’

  09-11-2023 16:41 via artnews.com
  
  A lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York State’s Supreme Court reveals blistering criticisms against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s board members by one of its own, Fredrick Iseman, Frankenthaler’s nephew, who sat on the board for 20 years.In the suit, Iseman claims that other board members, specifically Clifford Ross, also the artist’s nephew, her stepdaughter, Lise Motherwell, and the board’s director Michael Hecht, are taking advantage of the artist’s le
  
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• Painter Sam McKinniss Joins David Kordansky Gallery After JTT’s Closure

  09-11-2023 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Sam McKinniss, a painter best-known for his works based on famed images of celebrities, has joined David Kordansky Gallery, which has spaces in New York and Los Angeles.McKinniss, who is also represented by Almine Rech, had been among the most notable artists represented by JTT, a closely watched New York gallery that made the surprise announcement that it would shutter this past summer after 11 years in business. That gallery’s founder, Jasmin Tsou, has since joined Lisson Gallery as a di
  
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• Pop Music Hits Finding New Listeners as Mexican Norteñas

  09-11-2023 15:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The EZ Band’s blend of norteña music and Top 40 hits offers some Americans a way to connect with their parents’ culture and exposes others to a new sound.
  
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• ‘Dream Scenario’ Review: Nicolas Cage Is Even Weirder Than You Thought

  09-11-2023 13:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicolas Cage plays a mild-mannered professor who inexplicably wanders into others’ dreams in this wonderfully weird dark comedy.
  
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• ‘Youth (Spring)’ Review: Garment Rending

  09-11-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The documentarian Wang Bing examines the cloistered world of young textile workers in China.
  
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• Video Artist Pipilotti Rist on Centering the Body With Dazzling Furniture-Sculpture Hybrids 

  09-11-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  IN HER FIRST YEAR of graduate school, Pipilotti Rist made an iconic and influential video that landed her a debut exhibition invitation after its first screening. In that 5-minute piece, I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), Rist dances around in a low-cut black dress, her breasts at times flopping out of the garment, as she repeats the titular phrase in a singsongy voice that builds into a cathartic crescendo. She recorded, edited, and starred in the piece herself, and the results are
  
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• ‘Manodrome’ Review: The Manosphere Gets a Crude Awakening

  09-11-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An unemployed dad-to-be is seduced by a misogynist group who call themselves “the guys” in this sensationalizing drama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
  
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• ‘Journey to Bethlehem’ Review: No Room at the Inn? Try the Multiplex

  09-11-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s no “Home Alone” or “Jesus Christ Superstar,” but it does have Antonio Banderas as a song-slinging Herod and Lecrae as a quavering Angel Gabriel.
  
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• ‘Dream Scenario’ Review: Space Invader

  09-11-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicolas Cage plays a mild-mannered professor who inexplicably wanders into others’ dreams in this wonderfully weird dark comedy.
  
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• ‘Albert Brooks: Defending My Life’ Review: Revisiting Past Hilarity

  09-11-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This actor, comic, writer and director is seen in a cinematic retrospective that celebrates his talent, but not always in a critically discerning way.
  
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• ‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Grant Them the Serenity

  09-11-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This absorbing documentary follows a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
  
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• Read With Jenna, Who Writes With Barbara

  09-11-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The twin sisters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush published their third picture book this week. They sat down to discuss fighting, writing and chosen family.
  
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• Jenna Bush Hager and Her Sister Barbara Discuss Writing Their New Book

  09-11-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The twin sisters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush published their third picture book this week. They sat down to discuss fighting, writing and chosen family.
  
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• Dawoud Bey, Full Frame: On Richmond’s Trail of the Enslaved

  09-11-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In haunting studies of places charged with Black American history, a photographer celebrated for portraits now lets the land do the talking.
  
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• ‘The Killer’ Review: He’s a Deadly Bore

  09-11-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Fassbender stars as a loquaciously dull hit man in David Fincher’s latest film about bloody exploits.
  
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• Shary Boyle’s Head-Spinning Palace of Wonders

  09-11-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist creates a fun house of a show at the Museum of Arts and Design that explores how we create our identities and present them to others.
  
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• ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Takes a Collective Approach to Joy

  09-11-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The filmmaker Paul B. Preciado shares the title role with 20 trans and nonbinary performers to make a point about the cage of identity.
  
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• Late Night Mocks the GOP Debate

  09-11-2023 08:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimmel called the five candidates in the latest G.O.P. face-off “a Who’s Who of who has no chance to beat Donald Trump.”
  
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• Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Named CMA Awards Song of the Year

  09-11-2023 08:13 via nytimes.com
  
  She is the first Black songwriter to receive the honor from the Country Music Awards. Her 1988 hit reached a new generation of fans as a cover by Luke Combs.
  
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• CMA Awards: Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Named Song of the Year

  09-11-2023 08:13 via nytimes.com
  
  She is the first Black songwriter to receive the honor from the Country Music Awards. Her 1988 hit reached a new generation of fans as a cover by Luke Combs.
  
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• Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Named Song of the Year at 2023 CMAs

  09-11-2023 07:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Chapman is the first Black songwriter to receive the honor from the Country Music Awards. Her 1988 hit reached a new generation of fans thanks to a cover by Luke Combs.
  
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• How the Rollettes Dance Team Created a Sisterhood for Women with Disabilities

  09-11-2023 06:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How Chelsie Hill, the founder of the Rollettes dance team in Los Angeles, created a sisterhood for women and girls with disabilities.
  
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• Sotheby’s White Glove $406 M. Fisher Landau Sale Sets New Benchmarks for Agnes Martin, Mark Tansey

  09-11-2023 03:30 via artnews.com
  
  Second in line launching the fall auction season in New York on Wednesday evening, Sotheby’s highly anticipated sale of works amassed by the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, a former trustee at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, fetched a collective $406 million with fees. The grouping of 31 lots hammered at a collective $351 million, surpassing the $344 million low end of the estimate that Sotheby’s specialists had projected. The sale brought a packed h
  
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• A Mixed Mood as Hollywood Strikes Finally End

  09-11-2023 03:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Celebratory feelings are competing with resentment over the work stoppage and worries about the business era that is coming.
  
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• ‘Watch Night’ Review: For Spacious Skies, for Rancorous Waves of Hate

  09-11-2023 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Conceived in part by Bill T. Jones, this multigenre work at the Perelman Performing Arts Center is interested in homegrown prejudice, but lacks dramatic focus.
  
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• Picasso Sells for $139.4 Million in a Sagging Art Market

  09-11-2023 02:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The blue-chip collection of Emily Fisher Landau sold at Sotheby’s on Wednesday night for a total of $406.4 million.
  
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• SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood Studios Agree to Deal to End Actors’ Strike

  09-11-2023 01:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The agreement all but ends one of the longest labor crises in the history of the entertainment industry. Union members still have to approve the deal.
  
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• Music Executive L.A. Reid Is Accused of Sexual Assault in Lawsuit

  09-11-2023 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The lawsuit, filed by Drew Dixon in federal court in Manhattan under the Adult Survivors Act, says that Mr. Reid’s misconduct cut short her career in music.
  
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• 1932 Picasso from Fisher Landau Estate Sells for $139 M.

  09-11-2023 01:00 via artnews.com
  
  A 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Femme à la montre from the collection of the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, sold on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s during a New York evening sale for $139 million with fees. It marks the second highest price achieved by a work by Picasso at auction.Offered as the tenth lot in the anticipated sale, Sotheby’s auctioneer Olivier Barker opened the bidding at $100 million, with several bids bringing the hammer price for the w
  
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