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• Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting to Fund $10 M. Building Renovation

  20-03-2024 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  The Union League Club of Chicago is selling its prized painting by Claude Monet and a work by Walter Ufer to help pay for a $10 million renovation of its building. The Monet painting, Pommiers en fleurs (1872), shows a French lane with blooming white flowers and bushes. It was purchased in 1895 by club member Judge John Barton Payne and sold to the club for $500. The value of the 23-inch by 29-inch painting rose to $20,000 in the late 1950s, and then its estimated worth ballooned to $900,000 in
  
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• A Third ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Is Coming, One of Its Stars Says

  20-03-2024 22:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Imelda Staunton, who played Queen Mary’s lady-in-waiting in the first two films, told the BBC that the next movie would be the “final” installment in the long-running franchise.
  
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• A Third ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Is Coming, Imelda Staunton Says

  20-03-2024 22:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Imelda Staunton, who played Queen Mary’s lady-in-waiting in the first two films, told the BBC that the next movie would be the “final” installment in the long-running franchise.
  
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• ‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV’: 5 Takeaways

  20-03-2024 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Investigation Discovery documentary takes a look at accounts of a problematic working environment at Nickelodeon.
  
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• Vampire Weekend Did Not Make a ‘Doom and Gloom Record’

  20-03-2024 21:17 via nytimes.com
  
  On its fifth album, suffused with thoughts of 20th-century New York City, indie-rock’s pop maximalists get noisier — but it’s a journey out of negativity into “something a little deeper.”
  
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• ‘Invaluable’ Petroglyphs and Fossilized Footprints Found in Brazil’s ‘Dinosaur Valley’

  20-03-2024 20:48 via artnews.com
  
  A collection of petroglyphs formed in vast, geometric circles have been discovered in Brazil’s Serrote do Letreiro site. However, according to a study published by local archaeologists, the land had more secrets to reveal: the fossilized footsteps of Early Cretaceous creatures—of the two and four-legged reptilian type—trailing alongside the enigmatic abstractions. The Serrote do Letreiro site (meaning “Signpost Hill”) covers roughly 5,000 square meters inside t
  
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• Three Contested Rubens Paintings Must Remain in the Courtauld, UK Advisory Panel Rules

  20-03-2024 20:43 via artnews.com
  
  A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory panel ruled. The works in question are St Gregory the Great with Ss Maurus and Papianus and St. Domitilla with Ss Nereus and Achilleus (1606–07); The Conversion of St. Paul (1610–12); and The Bounty of James 1 Triumphing Over Avarice, for the ceiling in the Banqueting House, Whitehall (ca. 1632). The spoliation ad
  
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• Talking Galleries Conference Launches Second New York Edition

  20-03-2024 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  There is plenty to talk about in the art world this spring. The Whitney Biennial just opened, next week brings Art Basel Hong Kong, and in mid-April comes the Venice Biennale. In between the latter two events comes an opportunity to hash out what it all means, when Barcelona-based nonprofit think tank Talking Galleries launches its second New York edition.The conference, which features 12 sessions on April 8 and 9 at the Spiral’s ZO Clubhouse, is once again organized in collaboration with
  
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• Foundations announce cash infusion for Oregon’s struggling arts organizations - OregonLive

  20-03-2024 20:30 via news.google.com
  Foundations announce cash infusion for Oregon’s struggling arts organizations  OregonLive
  
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• Ramy Youssef Mixes Vibes and Politics in His New Special ‘More Feelings’

  20-03-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “More Feelings” on HBO, the comic takes a nuanced look at his own role as a Muslim celebrity and at the American response to conflict in the Mideast.
  
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• ‘Dead Outlaw,’ a Mummy Musical, Is So Strange It Can Only Be True

  20-03-2024 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The creators of “The Band’s Visit” reunited to tell the story of an outlaw whose body toured carnivals for decades.
  
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• A British Woman Bought a Brooch for 20 Pounds. It Sold for Nearly £10,000.

  20-03-2024 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Flora Steel, an art historian living in Rome, bought the brooch 36 years ago at an antiques fair. She realized its value only last year while watching YouTube.
  
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• Artist Lynthia Edwards Says Deborah Roberts’s Infringement Lawsuit Against Her Is ‘Defamation’

  20-03-2024 17:49 via artnews.com
  
  The artist Lynthia Edwards filed a counterclaim last week in response to a lawsuit brought against her and her gallery, Richard Beavers Gallery, by the collage artist Deborah Roberts, who sued the two in September 2022. In her suit, Roberts claims that Edwards purposefully engaged in “willful copyright infringement” of her distinctive style of collage in order to move in on Roberts’s market and confuse potential collectors. Filed on March 11 in the U.S. District Court
  
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• ‘Breaking,’ ‘Thanksgiving’ and More Streaming Gems

  20-03-2024 17:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Crime thrillers, a crackling slasher and a documentary exploration of a rare Beatles failure are among our recommendations for your streaming subscription services this month.
  
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• Banksy’s Tree Mural in London Defaced Days After its Debut

  20-03-2024 17:13 via artnews.com
  
  Shortly after a new Banksy mural had sprung up on the wall of a residential building in north London, it was defaced with white paint.The artwork features a life-size stencil of a woman holding a pressure washer and spraying bright green paint on the wall behind a pruned cherry tree. The dripping paint resembles the leaves that once appeared on the tree.On March 18, Banksy confirmed credit for the mural after posting images of it on his popular Instagram page (12.3 million followers).Despite bei
  
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• Banksy Tree Mural in London Defaced Days After Its Debut

  20-03-2024 17:13 via artnews.com
  
  Shortly after a new Banksy mural appeared on the wall of a residential building in north London, it was defaced with white paint.The artwork features a life-size stencil of a woman holding a pressure washer and spraying bright green paint on the wall behind a pruned cherry tree. The dripping paint resembles the leaves that once appeared on the tree.On March 18, Banksy confirmed credit for the mural after posting images of it on his popular Instagram page (12.3 million followers).Despite being su
  
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• Yunchan Lim, Jan Lisiecki and Alexander Malofeev at Carnegie

  20-03-2024 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Jan Lisiecki, 28, is the elder statesman alongside Alexander Malofeev and Yunchan Lim in a trio of recent recital debuts at the hall.
  
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• Review: In Charles Busch’s ‘Ibsen’s Ghost,’ a Widow’s Work is Never Done

  20-03-2024 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  In Charles Busch’s satire of Henrik Ibsen’s plays, a widow faces a rather catty fight to save her husband’s legacy.
  
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• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Took the Hard Path. The Music Kept Coming.

  20-03-2024 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  After a tumultuous childhood in an ultraconservative family, River Shook finally heard country music at 23. It prompted a long journey of self-discovery.
  
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• Eric Clapton’s Love Letters to Pattie Boyd Go Up for Sale

  20-03-2024 16:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Eric Clapton’s handwritten messages, being auctioned this week, shed light on how he wooed Pattie Boyd away from George Harrison and on the impassioned songs the affair inspired.
  
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• Damien Hirst Formaldehyde Works Under Scrutiny, Hong Kong Artists Brace for New Security Law, Banksy Mural Vandalized, and More: Morning Links for March 20, 2024

  20-03-2024 16:13 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESAGE AS A CONCEPT. Three of Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde animal sculptures dated to the 1990’s were in fact made in 2017, according an investigation by the Guardian . The backdated works preserve a dove, a shark, and two calves, and have been shown around the world as examples of work from “the early to mid-1990’s,
  
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• Armory Show Director Nicole Berry to Depart Fair for Role at the Hammer Museum

  20-03-2024 14:07 via artnews.com
  
  Nicole Berry, the executive director of the Armory Show, will leave her role at the fair later this month. She will soon join the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as senior director for donor engagement.Berry’s departure is the first major shake-up since the fair’s acquisition, along with that of Expo Chicago, by Frieze, which stages its own fairs in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Seoul. When the acquisition was announced last July, Frieze CEO Simon Fox said that the two fairs would
  
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• Review: ‘3 Body Problem’ Is a Galaxy-Brained Spectacle

  20-03-2024 10:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The Netflix sci-fi adaptation has done its physics homework, even if it sometimes falls short on the humanities.
  
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• Stepping Out From Hillary Clinton’s Onscreen Shadow

  20-03-2024 10:05 via nytimes.com
  
  For the past two decades, female presidential candidates on TV have been made in her image. Finally, that’s beginning to change.
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Liam Cunningham Is Now in ‘3 Body Problem’

  20-03-2024 10:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The loquacious Irish actor has reunited with the creators of “Game of Thrones” for “3 Body Problem,” a science fiction epic on Netflix.
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators on Their New Show, ‘3 Body Problem’

  20-03-2024 10:05 via nytimes.com
  
  In an interview, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo discuss their latest fantastical epic, the alien space saga “3 Body Problem” for Netflix.
  
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• Thaddaeus Ropac Approach for Art Basel Hong Kong is Old Meets New

  20-03-2024 10:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Thaddaeus Ropac is showcasing artists like Heemin Chung, Zadie Xa and Hans Josephsohn.
  
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• ‘Modern Love Podcast’: Why Samin Nosrat Is Now ‘Fully YOLO’

  20-03-2024 10:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The chef and writer is known for bringing people together over delicious food. She reads an essay about the importance of making connections and the most of your time.
  
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• Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

  20-03-2024 10:04 via nytimes.com
  
  A bounteous and playful survey of the artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.
  
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• The Artist Louise Giovanelli on Pop Stars, Religion and the Renaissance

  20-03-2024 10:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Louise Giovanelli’s blend of influences, including pop stars, religion and the Renaissance, will have a solo show in Hong Kong coinciding with Art Basel.
  
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• From Africa to Hong Kong, Gallery 1957’s Influence Grows

  20-03-2024 10:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Gallery 1957, based in Accra, Ghana, and in London, makes its debut at Art Basel Hong Kong.
  
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• Art Basel Hong Kong Roars Back, the Biggest It’s Been Since 2019

  20-03-2024 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The landmark Asian fair is returning to what it calls “prepandemic scale,” with a huge slate of dealers, big-name artists and deep local representation.
  
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• A Queer Chinese Artist Finds Liberation Through Folk Art

  20-03-2024 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Drawing from his life in rural China, the gay artist known as Xiyadie uses a folk art form to tell his coming out story. His show is coming to the Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong.
  
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• A Tiny Weekend Home in a French Fisherman’s Cabin

  20-03-2024 10:01 via nytimes.com
  
  One Parisian couple found a retrofitted house in Marseille, right on the water’s edge.
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Thinks Hiring an Ex-Con Is the Right Move for Trump

  20-03-2024 07:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Employing Paul Manafort, a former campaign adviser who was convicted of fraud, “will make Trump seem less fraudy by comparison,” the “Tonight Show” host reasoned.
  
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• MONA Ladies Lounge Accused of Discriminating by Gender

  20-03-2024 06:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Gender-based discrimination is central to the women-only art installation, in Australia, but one visitor claims it is also illegal.
  
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• Cola Boyy, Indie Singer and Disability Activist, Dies at 34

  20-03-2024 05:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Cola Boyy, whose real name was Matthew Urango, sang and produced his own brand of disco music. Born with spina bifida, he had been a vocal advocate for people with disabilities.
  
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• Review: An Affair to Dismember, in the Gory Musical ‘Teeth’

  20-03-2024 02:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
  
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• This Was Village Life in Britain 3,000 Years Ago

  20-03-2024 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The superbly preserved remains of a Bronze Age settlement offer a glimpse of a “colorful, rich, varied” domestic life circa 850 B.C.
  
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• Jonathan Majors Accused of Assault and Defamation in Lawsuit by Ex-Girlfriend

  20-03-2024 00:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Grace Jabbari alleges several instances of violence by Majors, the former Marvel movie star. Majors’s lawyer said he was preparing a countersuit.
  
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