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• Paul McCartney’s Rarely Seen Photography Gets a Big Museum Show in New York

  02-05-2024 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  During the early 1960s, at the height of “Beatlemania,” New York City was taken by storm as The Beatles kicked off their visit to the US. Tens of thousands of fans hurried to the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Fab Four, and band member Paul McCartney was ready to greet them. But McCartney did more than simply posing for pictures—he also shot photographs himself, using his Pentax 35mm film camera.Six decades later, McCartney has returned to New York, where he is now s
  
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• Court Says Italy Is Rightful Owner of Bronze Held by Getty Museum

  02-05-2024 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The European Court of Human Rights has found that Italy’s claims to a contested Greek statue are legitimate. But the museum says its continued possession is appropriate and lawful.
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci to Get the Hollywood Treatment from ‘All of Us Strangers’ Director

  02-05-2024 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  Leonardo da Vinci is coming soon to a movie theater near you. The Renaissance artist will become the latest artist to receive a biopic, Variety reports, in the form of a new film from Andrew Haigh, the director most famous for making last year’s All of Us Strangers.The film will be based on Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed Leonardo biography, though it remains unclear whether it will touch on just one aspect of the artist’s life or the whole thing. It seems likely, however, that Hai
  
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• What to Know About ‘Baby Reindeer,’ Netflix’s True-ish TV Hit

  02-05-2024 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The mini-series, based on the star’s experiences, has viewers wondering how much of it is real. Here’s the back story.
  
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• In Collection Hangs, Major Museums Remix the Classics

  02-05-2024 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  Until it reopened in a $230 million new building this past June, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum was an anomaly among United States institutions: it held a world-class collection of modern and postwar art with nowhere to properly exhibit the bulk of it at once. Now, a 50,000-square-foot space allows masterpieces like Picasso’s 1906 La Toilette to return to view, along with showstoppers from the likes of Chaim Soutine, Andy Warhol, and a whole lot more.The way these pieces are displayed, however
  
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• Frank Wakefield, Who Expanded the Mandolin’s Range, Dies at 89

  02-05-2024 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  A bluegrass innovator, he recorded numerous albums as a leader, and his list of collaborators included both Leonard Bernstein and Jerry Garcia.
  
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• Multimillion-Dollar Frank Auerbach to Be Sold by the UK’s National Crime Agency

  02-05-2024 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by the British artist Frank Auerbach from his lauded “Albert Street” series is slated to hit the auction block after having been recovered by UK authorities from money launderer Lenn Mayhew-Lewis, according to the Guardian.Mayhew-Lewis bought the picture, which the UK’s National Crime Agency says could be worth “millions of pounds,” in 2017 for £1.6 million. Later, another unidentified person used the work as collateral to secure a &p
  
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• Are We Supposed to Believe Maurizio Cattelan Is Sincere Now?

  02-05-2024 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  Maurizio Cattelan is usually “dismissed as a prankster,” per the press release for his new show at Gagosian in New York. That’s because he duct-taped a banana to a wall and sold it for $120,000, made a sculpture of an asteroid hitting the pope, and—for his last New York show, a 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum—dangled his art from the rotunda’s ceiling, making it hard to get a good look and leaving viewers wanting more.The same press release insists
  
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• Standouts at NADA New York, the Fair for Up-and-Comers

  02-05-2024 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The most exciting part of this fair for younger galleries is the chance for viewers to see art from out of town.
  
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• ‘Message in a Bottle’ Review: Sending Out an S.O.S., Dancing to Sting

  02-05-2024 19:09 via nytimes.com
  
  With choreography by Kate Prince and 27 songs by Sting, this story of refugees has impressive dance moments, but handles narrative and emotion tritely.
  
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• At Frieze New York, Young Galleries Reveal Untold Narratives and Spotlight Overlooked Talents

  02-05-2024 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  The most coveted commodity at an art fair, beside the wares themselves, is attention. At a blue-chip bazaar like Frieze New York, where the crowd churns ceaselessly, and every wall aspires to be a show-stopper, a curator can’t leave discovery to chance. You might fear that Focus, the section of Frieze dedicated to enterprises 12 years and younger and to emerging talent, would be swallowed by the din. You’d be wrong. The section, curated by Lumi Tan, is an intergenerational showc
  
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• What to Watch This Weekend: A Supernatural Dramedy

  02-05-2024 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Big Door Prize” returns for another season of charming small-town folks grappling with their fates.
  
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• ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Review: Nature vs. Nurture

  02-05-2024 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up his sublime drama “Drive My Car” with a parable about a rural Japanese village and the resort developer eyeing its land.
  
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• Frieze New York Brings a Rich, Cross-Cultural Mix

  02-05-2024 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The Shed welcomes an international survey of painting, textiles and collage to its galleries. Our critic picks his 23 favorite booths.
  
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• A Challenge for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s New Leaders

  02-05-2024 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic directors have put together a challenging debut season. But many visitors come to Stratford-upon-Avon seeking something more traditional.
  
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• Review: A Conductor Surprises by Embracing the Ordinary

  02-05-2024 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Esa-Pekka Salonen is known for unusual, ambitious projects. But at the New York Philharmonic this week, he succeeded with standard repertory works.
  
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• Palestinian Flags Fly at Protests Worldwide. They Won’t Be at Eurovision.

  02-05-2024 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The organizers of the glitzy singing contest said that attendees would be allowed to wave only the flags of participating nations — including Israel’s.
  
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• How Doodles Brought Petrit Halilaj to the Met Rooftop

  02-05-2024 17:23 via nytimes.com
  
  After a childhood marked by war and exile, Petrit Halilaj has become one of his generation’s great talents.
  
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• The Voice of a Hundred Faces: Dee Bradley Baker’s ‘Star Wars’ Journey

  02-05-2024 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  With “The Bad Batch” ending this week on Disney+, the man who has voiced hundreds of “Star Wars” characters over the past two decades looks back on his run.
  
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• Petrit Halilaj Takes Flight

  02-05-2024 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  After a childhood marked by war and exile, the artist from Kosovo has become one of his generation’s great talents.
  
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• 11 Spring Art Fairs Kick Off for Buyers and Browsers Alike

  02-05-2024 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  With Frieze comes a buffet of art in New York City over two weeks, whether you’re looking for blue-chip galleries or emerging talents.
  
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• Universal Music Artists Will Return to TikTok

  02-05-2024 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The two companies reached a new licensing deal, ending a three-month stalemate that kept some of pop’s biggest stars off the platform.
  
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• Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow to Star in ‘The Roommate’ on Broadway

  02-05-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The production is to begin performances Aug. 29 at the Booth Theater.
  
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• ‘Slow’ Review: We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off

  02-05-2024 15:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The second feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze asks what a relationship looks like when you factor out the sex.
  
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• Tao Siqi’s Baudelaire-Inspired Erotic Paintings Stun at Frieze New York

  02-05-2024 15:40 via artnews.com
  
  A common result of walking through any art fair is realizing that, after two hours, no more than a handful of works remain in your memory. And the ones that are on view at Capsule Shanghai’s Frieze New York booth are likely to be among that handful this time around. In the Focus section for young galleries, Capsule is showing work by Tao Siqi. Upon passing the booth, a double take is almost compulsory. Sensual, violent scenes—bondage, asphyxiation, and other kinky activities&mda
  
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• ‘Jeanne du Barry’ Review: A Versailles Scandal at Its Snooziest

  02-05-2024 15:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Maïwenn wrote, directed and stars in the film, playing opposite Johnny Depp, who is Louis XV. Though he declares he loves her, their chemistry is weak.
  
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• What Is a Song?

  02-05-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Is it simply the music flowing out of your earphones? According to the law, the answer is a bit more complicated.
  
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• Asante ‘Crown Jewels’ Displayed, Biden Forgives $6.1 Billion Art Student Debt, Stolen Frank Auerbach Work to Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 2, 2024

  02-05-2024 14:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGOLDEN DISPLAY. The Asante golden “crown jewels,” looted by British troops have gone on display in Ghana’s Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, to jubilant celebrations, reports the BBC. The 32 items are on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum to the Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for three
  
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• Asante ‘Crown Jewels’ Displayed, Biden Forgives $6.1 Billion Art Student Debt, and More: Morning Links for May 2, 2024

  02-05-2024 14:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGOLDEN DISPLAY. The Asante golden “crown jewels,” looted by British troops have gone on display in Ghana’s Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, to jubilant celebrations, reports the BBC. The 32 items are on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum to the Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for three
  
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• Five Shows to See in Chelsea During Frieze New York 2024

  02-05-2024 14:13 via artnews.com
  
  After the frenzy of the Venice Biennale, the art world will now shift its attention to the Frieze art fair in New York, which opens its doors to VIPs today. It returns to the Shed in Hudson Yards, and will this year have 68 exhibitors.This location means Frieze attendees will be just a 10-minute walk away from the nearby galleries in Chelsea. While the area’s buzziest show might be the one at Gagosian for Maurizio Cattelan, who is fresh off of his participation in the Venice Biennale&rsquo
  
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• 12 Spring Art Fairs Kick Off for Buyers and Browsers Alike

  02-05-2024 14:06 via nytimes.com
  
  With Frieze comes a buffet of art in New York City over two weeks, whether you’re looking for blue-chip galleries or emerging talents.
  
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• ‘Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg’ Review

  02-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Subtitled “The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” this documentary gives the life of the actress and model a thorough downer of a treatment.
  
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• Kelli O’Hara’s Ties to Opera, From ‘The Gilded Age’ to the Met Stage

  02-05-2024 11:06 via nytimes.com
  
  O’Hara is an unusual kind of triple threat: a star of Broadway and television who is appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of “The Hours.”
  
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• Vanessa Williams Releases ‘Legs’ Music Video Featuring Edgy Ensembles

  02-05-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Vanessa Williams’s many ensembles in a music video for her new song, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” evoke her knack for portraying a diva with style.
  
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• Esther, a New Art Fair With a Northern European Style

  02-05-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  At the debut of this alternative fair, dealers from Oslo to Estonia have teamed up, turning a private club into a total work of art.
  
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• ‘Wildcat’ Review: Seeing Flannery O’Connor Through Her Stories

  02-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Ethan Hawke teams up with his daughter, Maya Hawke, for an unconventional and somewhat muddled portrait of a singular author.
  
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• ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ Review: 10 Things I Hate About Germs

  02-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Hannah Marks’s adaptation of John Green’s blockbuster young-adult novel builds a dynamic depiction of a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  
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• ‘The Fall Guy’ Review: Ryan Gosling Goes Pow! Splat! Ouch!

  02-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor charms as a swaggering stunt man, alongside an underused Emily Blunt, in the latest skull-rattling action movie from David Leitch.
  
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• ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Review: How We Used to Escape

  02-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  An outstanding not-quite-horror film about being a fan just before the internet took over.
  
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• A Portrait Artist Fit for a King (but Not a President)

  02-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Jonathan Yeo, about to unveil a major new painting of King Charles III, also counts Hollywood royalty (Nicole Kidman) and prime ministers (Tony Blair) as past subjects. But George W. Bush eluded him.
  
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• ‘The Idea of You’ Review: Surviving Celebrity

  02-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Anne Hathaway headlines a movie that’s got a lot to say about the perils of fame.
  
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• TEFAF New York: Inside the Precise World of Art Fair Booth Design

  02-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  For gallery directors, including those at TEFAF New York, no detail is too trivial, and every millimeter matters.
  
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• Navigating the Fine Line Between Art and Luxury

  02-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The boundaries between art, fashion and luxury seem to be melting away. That’s great for brands, but what about artists — and the art?
  
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• Katt Williams Wants to Show You the Receipts

  02-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  After setting the internet aflame earlier this year when he slammed several other comedians in a viral interview, he plans to say more of what’s on his mind in a rare live special on Netflix.
  
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• In New York, Artists Fill South Street Seaport Building With Textiles

  02-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition in South Street Seaport fills a former warehouse with fiber art and makes its old machinery, including a 12-foot wheel, part of the show.
  
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• At TEFAF New York, the Park Avenue Armory Rooms Come With a View

  02-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The period rooms in the Park Avenue Armory offer benefits, and challenges, to the exhibitors setting up their booths for the art fair.
  
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• Where Are Young Art Collectors and Museum Donors?

  02-05-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The art world is concerned about where the next generation of buyers and supporters is going to come from.
  
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• One Year After Scandoval, What’s Next for ‘Vanderpump Rules’?

  02-05-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The biggest reality television story of 2023 launched spinoffs, a Broadway run and side projects that may cause a halt in production.
  
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• A ‘Skate Migration’ Is Changing How Atlanta Rolls

  02-05-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As Black roller skaters from around the country bring their styles to the city, some locals look for space to preserve the moves Atlanta is known for.
  
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• Seth Meyers Mocks Donald Trump for Falling Asleep in Court Again

  02-05-2024 08:28 via nytimes.com
  
  “Does he even wear suits to court or just footie pajamas and a nightcap?” Meyers joked on Wednesday.
  
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