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• One Direction Members Pay Tribute to Liam Payne With Emotional Remembrances

  17-10-2024 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  After hearing the news of Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony, his groupmates, fans and collaborators shared their shock and grief.
  
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• Adam Abeshouse, Prolific Producer of Classical Music, Dies at 63

  17-10-2024 22:21 via nytimes.com
  
  A trained violinist, he found his calling in the studio control room. He also started a foundation to help fund recordings that lack major-label support.
  
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• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Acquires $22 M. Residential Building

  17-10-2024 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has purchased a 62-unit apartment building for $22.8 million, securing the only non-museum property on the block adjacent to its new wing. Located at 14 Palace Road and 11 Tetlow Street in Boston’s Fenway Court, the five-floor residential building now makes the museum, constructed as a 15th-century Venetian palace, a landlord for its tenants.The museum said its acquisition of the building was a move to safeguard the area from potential developm
  
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• Oh La La! Interrupts Regular Programming at Art Basel Paris for Playful Provocation

  17-10-2024 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time since it landed in Paris two years ago, Art Basel has taken up the freshly renovated Grand Palais. On this occasion, the fair has launched a new initiative dubbed Oh La La! As a French woman lucky enough to travel the world, I wondered, ‘why not call the initiative ‘Ooh La La!’, an expression that, though rarely uttered in France, is treated as a quintessential French exclamation abroad.“As a non-French-speaker, I could not say, but I realized that some
  
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• Newly Discovered Rooms in Peru Suggest Ancient Society Was Ruled by Women

  17-10-2024 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  In September, archaeologists in Peru uncovered an elaborate throne room and hall that they believe could indicate that powerful women ruled more than 1,300 years ago.The throne room and hall were found at Pañamarca, an archaeological site that was once a religious and political center of the ancient Moche culture. The hall is decorated with elaborate snake murals, and is even complete with a worn throne.The paintings within the newly discovered chamber show a woman seated on the throne wh
  
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• Bob Yerkes, Bruised but Durable Hollywood Stuntman, Dies at 92

  17-10-2024 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A body double to the stars, he performed sometimes bone-breaking feats in movies like “Return of the Jedi” and “Back to the Future.” And he was still at it in his 80s.
  
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• Art Adviser Lisa Schiff Pleads Guilty to One Count of Wire Fraud

  17-10-2024 20:22 via artnews.com
  
  Lisa Schiff, a prominent art adviser who was accused of swindling her clients out of millions of dollars, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a New York court on Thursday.Schiff was the subject of two lawsuits last year in which collectors accused her of defrauding them. She filed for bankruptcy in January, with nearly $7 million allegedly owed to galleries, storage facilities, and more, according to documents processed at the time.“For years, Lisa Schiff breached the trust of her
  
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• Liam Payne’s Cause of Death, the 911 Call and More: What We Know

  17-10-2024 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  A hotel desk manager called 911 with concerns about Payne, the former One Direction singer, shortly before he fell from a third-floor balcony. The results of toxicology reports are pending.
  
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• Climate Activists Invite UK Museum Leaders to Meet: ‘We’ll Leave the Soup at Home’

  17-10-2024 19:36 via artnews.com
  
  Just Stop Oil, the eco-activist group known for targeting famous artworks in their demonstrations, has invited the National Museum Directors’ Council to a meeting at London’s National Gallery—the site of a recent action by members of its student branch, Youth Demands—with a promise to “leave the soup at home.” The invitation was included in an open letter from Just Stop Oil published today by the Art Newspaper, and is a direct response to a critical missive sh
  
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• Hermitage Artist Retreat in Florida Heavily Damaged by Hurricanes Helene and Milton

  17-10-2024 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  The Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida, experienced huge storm surges due to Hurricane Milton, with repairs and damage estimated at “upwards of $1 million” as well as the cancelation of residencies and other programs for several weeks.On October 9, storm surges of eight to ten feet pushed large amounts of sand into Manasota Key, a thin barrier island off Florida’s west coast, where the retreat is located.“We had already been hit pretty hard by Helene and spent
  
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• Leif Segerstam, Unorthodox Finnish Conductor and Composer, Dies at 80

  17-10-2024 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  In addition to leading Finland’s principal orchestras, he wrote symphonies that were blocks of shifting, unconducted sound, with much left up to the musicians.
  
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• Mitzi Gaynor, Leading Lady of Movie Musicals, Is Dead at 93

  17-10-2024 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  She was best known for starring in the 1958 screen version of “South Pacific.” But her Hollywood career was brief, and she soon shifted her focus to Las Vegas and TV.
  
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• Prosecutors Say Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Can’t ‘Pay His Way Out of Detention’

  17-10-2024 18:33 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new filing, the government said the music mogul, who has proposed a sizable bail package as part of his bid to be released, should remain incarcerated.
  
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• Review: Mercurial Moves Take Over the Stage in a Stark, New Ballet

  17-10-2024 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  American Ballet Theater opened its fall season at Lincoln Center with premieres by Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham in his most accomplished ballet yet.
  
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• ‘Stranger Things’ Star Sadie Sink Returns to Broadway in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’

  17-10-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimberly Belflower’s “John Proctor Is the Villain” will be directed by Danya Taymor, who won a Tony this year for “The Outsiders.”
  
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• Sadie Sink to Star in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ on Broadway

  17-10-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimberly Belflower’s “John Proctor Is the Villain” will be directed by Danya Taymor, who won a Tony this year for “The Outsiders.”
  
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• ‘Anora’ Review: Her Glass Slipper Is a Swarovski Stiletto

  17-10-2024 14:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Mikey Madison gives a career-making performance in a Palme d’Or-winning film about the romance between a sex worker and a rich scion.
  
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• Without A New Approach, Art Fairs Are at Risk of Strangling Galleries

  17-10-2024 14:24 via artnews.com
  
  As the major art fairs Frieze in London and Art Basel in Paris take center stage this month, the pressing question is: How many galleries will continue to struggle in this challenging market climate? Recent months have seen a troubling trend, with more closures in New York City. And on my travels through Europe this summer, I met gallerists who hadn’t sold a single piece all year. Many confided—off the record—about revenue drops exceeding 50% from the previous year. Even indust
  
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• ‘Woman of the Hour’ Review: Who is Bachelor No. 3?

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anna Kendrick’s ably directed drama about a real-life serial killer focuses on his victims instead.
  
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• ‘Woman of the Hour’ Review: Anna Kendrick Stars in and Directs Netflix Drama

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anna Kendrick’s ably directed drama about a real-life serial killer focuses on his victims instead.
  
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• ‘Union’ Review: Amazon Workers Unionize

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As this documentary by Brett Story and Stephen Maing chronicles, the efforts to unionize a warehouse in New York were successful — but also a grind.
  
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• ‘The Line’ Review: Greek Tragedy

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The dark side of college fraternity life comes to light in this harrowing, well-acted campus drama.
  
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• ‘Rumours’ Review: No One Will Save Us

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Cate Blanchette stars as a lusty, preening stateswomen in a geopolitical satire from the experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin.
  
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• ‘Nocturnes’ Review: They Come at Night

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the forests of northeast India, an ecologist tracking moths creates a tiny oasis of light in the darkness.
  
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• ‘High Tide’ Review: Between Two Worlds

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Written and directed by Marco Calvani, this film follows a gay Brazilian man working under the table one summer in Provincetown, Mass.
  
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• ‘Goodrich’ Review: Daddy Lessons

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An art gallery owner (Michael Keaton) gets a shock when his second wife (Laura Benanti) goes to rehab and he has to take care of their twins.
  
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• For Stephanie Temma Hier, Surrealism Is the Only Sane Response to Our Absurd World

  17-10-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Arguably, the anxiety of influence plagues painters more than it does other makers. Or at least they are the ones who complain about it most. This means that plenty of painters prove nerdy about art history, conversing with the dead through a hodgepodge of shared references or trying to find a clever way to break free of the baggage.Stephanie Temma Hier: Hands Made of Heaven, 2024. The best painters do a bit of both, as in work by next-gen star Stephanie Temma Hier. Her colorful still lives are
  
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• ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ Review: A Fraught Reunion

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For his first film, the artist Titus Kaphar delivers an unsentimental and autobiographical gem.
  
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• ‘Brothers’ Review: Two-Bit Criminals

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Moke (Josh Brolin) is a reformed thief who gets roped into one last job with his twin brother, Jady (Peter Dinklage).
  
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• ‘Allswell in New York’ Review: Siblings and Their Struggles

  17-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This overstuffed movie fails to wrap up its myriad professional and domestic dramas, despite a few moments of promise.
  
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• Liam Payne Tributes Pour in From Charlie Puth, the Backstreet Boys and Other Musicians

  17-10-2024 12:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Hours after news broke that Payne had fallen from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, his fans and collaborators shared their shock and grief.
  
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• A Requiem for the River Arts District - Strong Towns

  17-10-2024 12:30 via news.google.com
  A Requiem for the River Arts District  Strong Towns
  
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• Jilly Cooper on Adapting Her Naughty Romance, ‘Rivals,’ for Disney+

  17-10-2024 12:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Jilly Cooper, 87, has written raunchy novels for decades. Adapting her 1988 book “Rivals” for the streaming age meant tweaking some details.
  
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• Liam Payne Remembered by Charlie Puth, the Backstreet Boys and Other Musicians

  17-10-2024 11:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Hours after news broke that Payne had fallen from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, his fans and collaborators shared their shock and grief.
  
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• At Art Basel Paris, Galleries Report Strong Sales on VIP Day

  17-10-2024 11:30 via artnews.com
  
  The talk of Art Basel Paris’s third edition has no doubt been the Grand Palais, the architectural gem custom-built 124 years ago for the Universal Exposition of 1900. After a three-year renovation ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, the venue has never looked better. Its iconic mint paint gleamed in the sunlight, especially during Wednesday’s unseasonably warm VIP Day. (That the Grand Palais, with its vaulted glass-and-iron ceilings, is in essence a greenhouse, means that the fai
  
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• Mikey Madison Finds Common Ground With Her Character in ‘Anora’

  17-10-2024 11:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The soft-spoken actress is winning raves (and Oscar talk) for her turn as a feisty sex worker in the Palme d’Or-winning “Anora.”
  
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• A Pioneer in Metal Furniture Gets a New Exhibition

  17-10-2024 11:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Plus: a seaside hotel in France, a book celebrating Atelier Vime and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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• The Exquisite Fragility of Mark Andre’s Music

  17-10-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Andre’s family history is one of precarity and mutability. His works, vulnerable and intricate, aren’t so different.
  
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• Stettheimer Dollhouse, Cleaned and Buffed, Returns to View

  17-10-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  After a two-year absence, New York’s most glamorous dollhouse returns to the Museum of the City of New York next month.
  
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• Sick of the 21st Century? These Artists Revive the 18th.

  17-10-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history.
  
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• Art Show of the Season? Glow-in-the-Dark ‘Siena’ at the Met Is Revelatory

  17-10-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.
  
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• ‘Smile 2’ Review: A Bigger and Bloodier Spotlight

  17-10-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  In this sequel, the pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is preparing to begin her comeback tour a year after a brutal car accident.
  
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• Hugh Grant on the ‘Freak-Show Era’ of His Career and Being a Family Man

  17-10-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The seemingly droll, breezy star is actually sentimental about his family and utterly serious about his work, including his villainous turn in “Heretic.”
  
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• ‘Anora’ Review: A Pretty Woman From Brooklyn

  17-10-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Mikey Madison gives a career-making performance in a Palme d’Or-winning film about the romance between a sex worker and a rich scion.
  
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• Sex, Horses and Stately Homes: Bringing a Naughty British Romance to TV

  17-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Jilly Cooper, 87, has written raunchy novels for decades. Adapting her 1988 novel “Rivals” for the streaming age meant tweaking some details.
  
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• Randy Newman Is at His Best When America Is at Its Worst

  17-10-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural observers is the subject of a new book.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Slams Trump’s Women-Centered Town Hall

  17-10-2024 08:18 via nytimes.com
  
  “This was the first time Groper Cleveland has been around this many women since they started padlocking the doors at Miss Teen USA,” Kimmel said on Wednesday.
  
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• Third Annual SKY Arts Film Festival is coming this weekend - wnky.com

  17-10-2024 05:49 via news.google.com
  Third Annual SKY Arts Film Festival is coming this weekend  wnky.com
  
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• Michael Ballam announces 'Imagine' fundraising campaign for Utah Festival opera - Cache Valley Daily

  17-10-2024 05:18 via news.google.com
  Michael Ballam announces 'Imagine' fundraising campaign for Utah Festival opera  Cache Valley Daily
  
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• Upper Peninsula Arts & Culture Conference Labeled A Success - Radioresultsnetwork.com

  17-10-2024 05:15 via news.google.com
  Upper Peninsula Arts & Culture Conference Labeled A Success  Radioresultsnetwork.com
  
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