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• How A.I. Has Changed Music, and What’s Coming Next

  30-05-2024 23:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Artificial intelligence has become the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s only getting started.
  
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• Albert S. Ruddy, 94, Dies; Producer’s First Oscar Was for ‘The Godfather’

  30-05-2024 23:20 via nytimes.com
  
  A creator of the sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” he won a second Academy Award for “Million Dollar Baby,” the boxing film starring Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood.
  
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• ‘Ren Faire’ Is ‘Succession’ With Turkey Legs

  30-05-2024 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An engrossing documentary debuting Sunday on HBO, it chronicles a Renaissance festival impresario’s effort to find a worthy heir.
  
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• Dutch Police Recover Two Diamonds Stolen from TEFAF Maastricht

  30-05-2024 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  Authorities have recovered two diamonds stolen from TEFAF Maastricht in 2022 in a brazen daytime heist. That year, in plain view of astounded visitors, several armed and disguised men absconded with jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars, spurring concerns over security at the fair, which is renowned for its luxe spread of art and antiquities. The Netherlands Times reports that, in addition to the recovery of the two diamonds, at least one suspect, a woman, has been linked to the crime, thoug
  
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• Charles Barkley’s Barbs on ‘Inside the NBA’ Infuriate and Fuel Players

  30-05-2024 21:23 via nytimes.com
  
  With the future of “Inside the NBA” in flux, athletes say their respect for Barkley means his unsparing evaluations are a rite of passage.
  
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• Art Collector Ron Perelman’s $410M Insurance Claim Will Head to Trial

  30-05-2024 21:10 via artnews.com
  
  During a summary judgement hearing Wednesday in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen ruled that the case betwen businessman Ron Perelman, who has appeared on ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list several times, and a group of insurance companies will go to trial.During the hearing the judge considered three motions in the lawsuit filed by Perelman, through a holding company called AGP Holdings, against a group of insurers that includes underwriters at Lloyd’s of London and
  
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• ‘Niki’ Review: Charlotte Le Bon Stars in a Pretty but Flimsy Portrait of an Artist Minus Her Art

  30-05-2024 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  It is an ongoing mystery why so many artists’ biopics, though undoubtedly coming from a place of deep admiration, choose to ignore the very thing that makes their subjects extraordinary — their art — in favor of outlining the less extraordinary (however torrid) circumstances of their private lives and loves. The latest example: the attractive but slight directorial debut of French actress Céline Sallette (“House of Tolerance,” “Rust and Bone”). He
  
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• Chanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art Sign Long-term Partnership

  30-05-2024 20:18 via artnews.com
  
  Just in time for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of China-France diplomatic relations and the Year of Cultural and Tourism exchange between the two countries, Chanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art signed a strategic partnership on Monday to restore the museum and enrich its collection and research capacity.The French luxury brand first launched a partnership with PSA in 2021 as a part of the “Next Cultural Producer” initiative. The two-year
  
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• Venice Biennale Artist Jeffrey Gibson On Painting and Paying Tribute to Indigenous Cultural Legacies

  30-05-2024 19:01 via artnews.com
  
  Jeffrey Gibson—who was profiled for the Summer 2024 “Icons” issue of Art in America and whose work features on the issue’s cover—is a painter, sculptor, video artist, and proponent of various forms of craft and performance that pay tribute to his Native American heritage. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and grew up in Germany, New Jersey, South Korea, and Maryland. This year,
  
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• ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: A Foursquare Western From Viggo Mortensen

  30-05-2024 18:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Mortensen gives his film a nested, at times unnecessarily complicated structure, but with performances this good, it’s hard to mind much.
  
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• Tomashi Jackson Probes American Democracy in Her Multilayered Work

  30-05-2024 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  Tomashi Jackson’s midcareer survey “Across the Universe” at the ICA Philadelphia probes the histories of culturally resonant people and places as they relate to sociopolitical issues surrounding matters of race and the state of democracy in the United States. Jackson’s multilayered surfaces feature materials like quarry marble dust and Colorado sand, as well as screen prints from film stills and photographs, which highlight notable historical moments. Her work—
  
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• Tomashi Jackson Probes American Democracy in Her Multi-Layered Work

  30-05-2024 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  Tomashi Jackson’s mid-career survey “Across the Universe” at the ICA Philadelphia probes the histories of culturally resonant people and places as they relate to socio-political issues surrounding matters of race and the state of democracy in the United States. Jackson’s multi-layered surfaces feature materials like quarry marble dust and Colorado sand, as well as screen prints from film stills and photographs, which highlight notable historical moments. Her work&mda
  
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• The World Needs an Action Hero. Enter Twyla Tharp (and Camus).

  30-05-2024 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Leading off the summer season at Little Island in Manhattan, the choreographer presents “How Long Blues,” with T Bone Burnett and David Mansfield.
  
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• After Hack, Christie’s Gives Details of Compromised Client Data

  30-05-2024 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Its disclosure came after RansomHub claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release client data on the dark web.
  
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• After Cyberattack, Christie’s Gives Details of Hacked Client Data

  30-05-2024 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Its disclosure came after RansomHub claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release client data on the dark web.
  
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• What if the Disabled Characters Were Just Going About Their Day?

  30-05-2024 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
  
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• Cleveland Museum of Art to Return a Rare Ancient Icon to Libya

  30-05-2024 16:40 via nytimes.com
  
  A 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, unearthed in the 1930s, is believed to have been stolen in the early 1940s.
  
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• Richard Ellis, 86, Dies; Artist Whose Works Included a Museum’s Whale

  30-05-2024 16:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Once called the “poet laureate” of deep-sea creatures, he melded science with art in paintings, books, and a notable life-size installation.
  
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• In Email, Christie’s Makes Post-Hack Contact with Clients, Says Financial Data Not Stolen

  30-05-2024 15:56 via artnews.com
  
  In email apparently sent from Christie’s to its clients this week, the auction house said that only identification data, and not financial or transaction data, was stolen during the cyber-attack earlier this month.The email was posted to X by Belgian art collector Alain Servais, though Christie’s did not respond to arequest for comment or confirm the email as authentic at the time of publication.The attack, which took place on May 9, was characterized by Christie’s as a “
  
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• Breakthrough in TEFAF Heist Case, Sotheby’s to Layoff Dozens in UK, Cleveland Museum Returns Libyan Artifacts, and More: Morning Links for May 30, 2024

  30-05-2024 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESTEFAF HEIST. Police have recovered two stolen diamonds robbed in plain sight of astounded visitors at TEFAF, Maastricht in 2022, an art fair which sells Old Master, antiquities, and jewelry, reports the Netherlands Times. The armed, disguised suspects, who smashed and grabbed jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars, have now been linked to at least
  
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• Breakthrough in TEFAF Heist Case, Sotheby’s to Lay Off Dozens in UK, Cleveland Museum to Return Libyan Artifact, and More: Morning Links for May 30, 2024

  30-05-2024 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESTEFAF HEIST. Police have recovered two diamonds stolen in 2022 in plain sight of astounded visitors at TEFAF, Maastricht, an art fair that sells Old Masters, antiquities, and jewelry, reports the Netherlands Times. The armed and disguised robbers, who smashed and grabbed jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars, have now been linked to at least one newly
  
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• Breakthrough in TEFAF Heist Case, Sotheby’s to Lay Off Dozens in UK, Cleveland Museum Returns Libyan Artifacts, and More: Morning Links for May 30, 2024

  30-05-2024 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESTEFAF HEIST. Police have recovered two stolen diamonds robbed in plain sight of astounded visitors at TEFAF, Maastricht in 2022, an art fair that sells Old Master, antiquities, and jewelry, reports the Netherlands Times. The armed, disguised suspects, who smashed and grabbed jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars, have now been linked to at least o
  
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• How a Self-Published Book, ‘The Shadow Work Journal,’ Became a Best Seller

  30-05-2024 15:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.
  
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• ‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Review: Fighting Sexism and Rough Waters

  30-05-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Daisy Ridley plays Gertrude Ederle, who persuades her father to pay for swim lessons, and then goes on to be a pioneer.
  
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• Trading Art for Politics, Former Uffizi Chief Runs for Mayor of Florence

  30-05-2024 14:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi Galleries, is facing an uphill battle in his bid to become mayor, but he’s counting on his cultural clout to win.
  
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• ‘The Young Wife’ Review: A Spiraling Bride

  30-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A beleaguered bride spirals on her wedding day in Tayarisha Poe’s stylish but overly familiar comedy-drama.
  
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• Jessica Lange Portrays a Fading First Lady of the American Theater

  30-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jessica Lange is ideally cast as a grande dame of the theater who is facing a reckoning in this well-crafted melodrama by Michael Cristofer.
  
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• ‘In a Violent Nature’ Review: Killing Them Softly

  30-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Chris Nash’s ultraviolent horror movie is an unexpectedly serene, almost dreamlike meditation on a murderous psyche.
  
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• ‘Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle’ Review: Drama on the Court

  30-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This film extends the story told in an anime series about high school volleyball teams.
  
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• ‘Ezra’ Review: This Father Doesn’t Know Best

  30-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This drama centers on a boy with autism and his divorced dad, with a cast featuring Robert De Niro, Rose Byrne, Whoopi Goldberg and Bobby Cannavale.
  
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• ‘Backspot’ Review: Queer Cheer-Squad Drama

  30-05-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This queer high school movie, starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wood, channels an after-school special without the coming-out trauma.
  
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• John Lennon’s Guitar From ‘Help!’ Is Sold for $2.9 Million at Auction

  30-05-2024 12:29 via nytimes.com
  
  After appearing in multiple albums by the Beatles, the instrument was forgotten for more than 50 years before it turned up in the attic of a British countryside home.
  
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• What’s a Banksy Museum Without Banksy?

  30-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Work by the anonymous street artist is hard to find. At a museum devoted to him, it’s even harder.
  
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• The Unknown Ray Johnson Takes the Spotlight

  30-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist you meet in a small, revelatory show is quite different from the one known for mail art and his later gritty samplings of popular culture.
  
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• How Some ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Tips Turned Into $50,000 in Prizes

  30-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The Upshot’s guide helped a New Jersey man, who has some good tips of his own.
  
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• Ernie Barnes Paints What It Feels Like to Move

  30-05-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist, who once played professional football, captured the anatomical and experiential details of bodies in motion in an expansive survey at Ortuzar Projects.
  
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• ‘Robot Dreams’ Review: A Friendship That Is Far From Mechanical

  30-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  This animated film from Pablo Berger is a silent wonder that says everything about love.
  
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• How a Self-Published Book Broke ‘All the Rules’ and Became a Best Seller

  30-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.
  
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• Delays and Allegations Complicate the Dakar Biennale

  30-05-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists are struggling on with side exhibitions despite the postponement of the official biennale in Dakar, Senegal, and the disappearance from view of its champion, Kehinde Wiley.
  
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• ‘Handling the Undead’ Review: When the Dead Don’t Die

  30-05-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A zombie movie is wrapped in a gentle tale of mourning and love.
  
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• Sarah McLachlan Is Resurfacing

  30-05-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Canadian songwriter became a superstar through a series of defiant decisions. After slowing down to be a single mother, she has returned to the stage and studio.
  
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• By the Book Interview: Craig Johnson, Creator of the Longmire Series

  30-05-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Make eye contact, shake their hand, ask them about themselves and then sign their book with a genuine smile,” suggests the author of the Wyoming-set mystery series. The 20th, “First Frost,” is just out.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Playbook,’ by James Shapiro

  30-05-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
  
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