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• Is Dallas Big Enough for Two Art Fairs?

  03-04-2024 23:51 via artnews.com
  
  This Thursday, the Dallas Art Fair (DAF), which was launched in 2009, will welcome VIPs to its 2024 edition. The same day, and just across the street, the newer Dallas Invitational will open its second edition at the Fairmont Hotel. The Invitational, which features just 14 exhibiting galleries (versus DAF’s 91), is the latest boutique art event to stake a claim abutting a major fair. As such, it is billing itself as having been “created from conversations between
  
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• Meet the Studio Museum's 2024 Arts Leadership Cohort - Hyperallergic

  03-04-2024 22:36 via news.google.com
  
  Meet the Studio Museum's 2024 Arts Leadership Cohort  Hyperallergic
  
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• Popcast (Deluxe): Listening to Beyoncé & Future (and the Discourse)

  03-04-2024 21:43 via nytimes.com
  
  How conversation about very specific aspects of the new albums “Cowboy Carter” and “We Don’t Trust You” can obscure talk of their musical quality.
  
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• Forger Sentenced for Swindling Collectors with Woodcuts Attributed to German Renaissance Masters

  03-04-2024 21:19 via artnews.com
  
  A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for selling 15th century European woodcuts falsely attributed to Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer, among other famous artists, Department of Justice officials announced Tuesday.According to a federal indictment filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, within the last decade Earl Marshawn Washington, 61, swindled French and American collectors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with such replicas.Washington, with the help of his then-
  
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• Demetri Martin’s Netflix Comedy Special Confronts His Veteran Career

  03-04-2024 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new Netflix special, “Demetri Deconstructed,” he tries a more conceptual approach than the simplicity he was known for.
  
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• Lizzo Says She Is Not Leaving Music Industry After ‘I Quit’ Post

  03-04-2024 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Lizzo clarified that she was not quitting music after writing on Instagram last week that she was “starting to feel like the world doesn’t want me in it.”
  
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• Ukrainian Museum Has Identified 100 Looted Artworks in Russian ‘Propaganda’ Video

  03-04-2024 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Ukraine’s Kherson Art Museum has identified 100 works allegedly looted from its collection by Russian forces thanks to a “propaganda video” shot in a Crimean museum.“Looters document their crimes with their own hands, and this allows us to determine the whereabouts of at least some of the stolen art,” the museum wrote on social media. According to a Facebook post by the Kherson Art Museum, the video was recorded in Crimea’s Central Museum of Tavrida and aired
  
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• Whitney Museum Promotes Kim Conaty to Chief Curator

  03-04-2024 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  The Whitney Museum in New York has promoted Kim Conaty to the role of Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, beginning April 8. She succeeds Scott Rothkopf in the role, who was promoted to serve as the director of the Whitney, a post he has held since November.Conaty, who joins the museum’s senior leadership team, has worked at the Whitney since 2017, serving as a curator of drawing and prints. During her tenure there, she has organized several popular exhibitions, including the 2022
  
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• Met Opera Chooses Tilman Michael as Next Chorus Master

  03-04-2024 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tilman Michael, who leads the Frankfurt Opera’s chorus, will succeed the veteran conductor Donald Palumbo, who steps down this season after 17 years.
  
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• Catchy tunes and characteristic dry British wit in 'My Fair Lady' - Bulletin

  03-04-2024 18:54 via news.google.com
  Catchy tunes and characteristic dry British wit in 'My Fair Lady'  Bulletin
  
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• Eli Noyes, Animator Who Turned Clay and Sand Into Art, Dies at 81

  03-04-2024 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  His innovative stop-motion animation influenced a generation of filmmakers, including the creators of Wallace and Gromit.
  
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• At New Directors/New Films, the Kids Are Not All Right (Nobody Really Is)

  03-04-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  This year’s edition of the festival tends toward familiar art-house fare, but there are standouts in which characters young and old grapple with childhood.
  
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• A New Way of Looking at the Nude

  03-04-2024 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age.
  
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• As ‘Ripley’ Revives the ‘Talented’ Con Man, Here Are Earlier Versions

  03-04-2024 18:12 via nytimes.com
  
  “Ripley” on Netflix is the latest riff on the con-artist character the author Patricia Highsmith invented in the 1950s. Here’s a look at the earlier versions.
  
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• Review: Jonathan Tetelman Arrives at the Met in ‘La Rondine’

  03-04-2024 18:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The tenor sang the role of Ruggero in a revival of Puccini’s opera that was performed with such restraint, it verged on overly careful.
  
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• For Len Cariou, Dying Onstage Each Night Has Been ‘Invigorating’

  03-04-2024 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’”
  
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• Julia Stiles, 25 Years After “10 Things I Hate About You”

  03-04-2024 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Twenty-five years after “10 Things I Hate About You” made her stand out among a generation of young stars, she’s stayed true to the ideals of her most famous character.
  
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• #MeToo Stalled in France. Judith Godrèche Might Be Changing That.

  03-04-2024 17:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Judith Godrèche says the abuse of children and women is stitched into the fabric of the French movie industry. This time, the country seems to be listening more closely.
  
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• She’s Shaking Up Classical Music While Confronting Illness

  03-04-2024 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The pianist Alice Sara Ott, who makes her New York Philharmonic debut this week, is upending concert culture — and defying stereotypes about multiple sclerosis.
  
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• Whitney Museum Names Chief Curator

  03-04-2024 16:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Kim Conaty will steer exhibitions and the permanent collection, saying she will pay close attention to work by Latino and Indigenous artists.
  
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• Christopher Durang, the Surrealist of Snark

  03-04-2024 15:24 via nytimes.com
  
  In works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.
  
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• Christopher Durang, Playwright Who Mixed High Art and Low Humor, Dies at 75

  03-04-2024 14:43 via nytimes.com
  
  In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.
  
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• Dev Patel's Journey from Real Martial Arts Medalist to Monkey Man Badass - Den of Geek

  03-04-2024 14:42 via news.google.com
  
  Dev Patel's Journey from Real Martial Arts Medalist to Monkey Man Badass  Den of Geek
  
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• CERN and the Swiss Arts Council announce the artists selected for the sixth edition of Connect - CERN

  03-04-2024 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  CERN and the Swiss Arts Council announce the artists selected for the sixth edition of Connect  CERN
  
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• Two Shakespearean Triumphs in Paris, or a Plague on Both Their Houses?

  03-04-2024 11:09 via nytimes.com
  
  New productions of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet” follow a French tradition of adapting familiar works. The results are innovative, and sometimes cryptic.
  
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• Rebel Wilson Talks About Her Memoir, ‘Rebel Rising’

  03-04-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress, known for roles in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising.”
  
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• How to Elevate Your Garden With Ceramics (And Not Just Flower Pots)

  03-04-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  An imposing work of pottery can be as important to the design of a landscape as any well-placed plant. And no, we’re not talking about flower pots.
  
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• When Latin America Became the Seat of Modernity

  03-04-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A new MoMA exhibition looks at design from six countries, spanning 1940 to 1980. Some beautiful chairs tell the tale.
  
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• ‘Modern Love Podcast’: The Second Best Way to Get Divorced, According to Maya Hawke

  03-04-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Stranger Things” actor reads an essay about a “nobody-moves-out” breakup and reflects on her own experience growing up with divorced parents.
  
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• Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph Just Want You to Like Them

  03-04-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Good friends and “Saturday Night Live” alumnae, the actresses are each headlining an Apple TV+ comedy of wealth and status.
  
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• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Shirley Horn

  03-04-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The pianist and vocalist was at once magnetically powerful and laid-back, glamorous and understated. A mix of musicians, writers and radio personalities share their favorites.
  
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• Alice Randall Made Country History. Black Women Are Helping Tell Hers.

  03-04-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.
  
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• Film, Master of Fine Arts | The City College of New York - The City College of New York News

  03-04-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Film, Master of Fine Arts | The City College of New York  The City College of New York News
  
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• Stephen Colbert Chides Trump for Ignoring Expanded Gag Order

  03-04-2024 08:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert said that after the order was amended, the former president “paused, listened to his critics and launched another attack on the judge’s daughter, this time with photos.”
  
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• Knight Foundation’s Catalyst Forum Explores Digital Evolution in the Arts

  03-04-2024 06:01 via artnews.com
  
  The inaugural event, held in Miami Beach brought together visionary leaders to navigate opportunities and challenges in the digital age.Related ArticlesKnight Foundation Invests $435,000 in Digital Art Projects Knight Foundation Plans $5 M. Art-Tech Initiative in Philadelphia Knight Foundation’s Catalyst Forum brought together leaders in the arts from various cities and disciplines to Miami Beach, Fla., on Dec. 4, 2023. This inaugural event, titled Catalyst: Digital Transformation in the A
  
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• Maryse Condé, ‘Grande Dame’ of Francophone Literature, Dies at 90

  03-04-2024 01:13 via nytimes.com
  
  She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
  
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• John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at 93

  03-04-2024 01:07 via nytimes.com
  
  His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.
  
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• George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast

  03-04-2024 00:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin’s work.
  
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