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• Jack Jones, a Suave, Hit-Making and Enduring Crooner, Dies at 86

  24-10-2024 23:58 via nytimes.com
  
  With his smooth voice, he drew crowds to cabarets and music halls for six decades. He also sang the themes for films and TV shows, including “The Love Boat.”
  
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• The Menendez Brothers: How True Crime Is Re-Examining Old Cases

  24-10-2024 23:52 via nytimes.com
  
  A thriving genre built on podcasts and documentaries, coupled with younger generations’ more skeptical worldview, helped revitalize interest in this case and others like it.
  
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• Two Sides to the Art Market: Spending Down 32 Percent in 2023, Report Says, While Total Volume on the Rise

  24-10-2024 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  At the top of the art market dwell collectors. Without them, there’s no one to warrant the countless gallery exhibitions, seasonal day and evening sales, and almost monthly art fairs that batter the art world calendar.According to a report released today by Art Basel and UBS and written by art market soothsayer Dr. Claire McAndrew that digs into the buying habits of more than 3,600 high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) in 14 major markets during 2023 and the first half of 2024, these HNWIs cu
  
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• Lynda Obst, Producer Who Championed Women in Hollywood, Dies at 74

  24-10-2024 22:28 via nytimes.com
  
  She helped make films like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Contact.” She also wrote widely about the industry, for The Times and other publications.
  
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• ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Is Back for Its Final Season

  24-10-2024 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The HBO dramedy about a Kansas woman finding love and community after tragedy returns for its third and final season on Sunday.
  
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• President Biden honors Gainesville photographer Randy Batista with National Medal of Arts - Gainesville Sun

  24-10-2024 21:32 via news.google.com
  President Biden honors Gainesville photographer Randy Batista with National Medal of Arts  Gainesville Sun
  
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• Dare Arts announces additions to their team - OBXToday.com

  24-10-2024 21:31 via news.google.com
  Dare Arts announces additions to their team  OBXToday.com
  
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• ‘Blink,’ But Don’t Sleep On The Arts In Cincinnati - Forbes

  24-10-2024 21:30 via news.google.com
  ‘Blink,’ But Don’t Sleep On The Arts In Cincinnati  Forbes
  
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• Arts Agenda: Photography – October-December 2024 - artsatl.org

  24-10-2024 20:51 via news.google.com
  Arts Agenda: Photography – October-December 2024  artsatl.org
  
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• SCV News | CalArtians Win National Medals of Arts, Honored in White House Ceremony - SCVNEWS.com

  24-10-2024 20:39 via news.google.com
  SCV News | CalArtians Win National Medals of Arts, Honored in White House Ceremony  SCVNEWS.com
  
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• Antonio Skármeta, Who Wrote of Chile’s Tears and Turmoil, Dies at 83

  24-10-2024 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  His literary career traced the arc of his country’s modern political journey in stories about ordinary citizens facing repression and arbitrary government.
  
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• UNC Greensboro, Reeling from Dissent Over Program Cuts, Gets $5 M. Contemporary Art Gift

  24-10-2024 20:38 via artnews.com
  
  The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro will recieve a gift of 270 contemporary artworks and funding worth $5 million from Carole Cole Levin, a North Carolina-based artist and philanthropist.The gifted works represent more than 150 artists, the bulk of whom were born in the U.S. and half of them born before 1950., and will start to be exhibited in spring 2025. The additional funds will also allow the museum to renovate its building and create programming for a
  
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• Endeavor Explores Selling Frieze, Including Its Magazine, Fairs, and London Exhibition Space

  24-10-2024 20:31 via artnews.com
  
  Endeavor Group Holdings, a holding company that owns the namesake talent agency and several other sports and entertainment enterprises, is exploring selling off some of its event assets, including Frieze, the company announced Thursday. The potential sale of assets also covers, but is not limited to, two tennis tournaments, the Miami Open and the Madrid Open, according to a release.The news comes after Silver Lake, a private equity firm based in Menlo Park, California, announced it would take En
  
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• Investigation of Georgia Movie Set Crash Finds No Violations

  24-10-2024 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Eight people were injured, three of them seriously, in a crash on the set of “The Pickup” in April. A federal investigation found no health or safety violations.
  
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• UP Arts and Culture Alliance holds conference - Iron Mountain Daily News

  24-10-2024 20:02 via news.google.com
  UP Arts and Culture Alliance holds conference  Iron Mountain Daily News
  
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• ‘Back to the Future’ to Close on Broadway, Rerouting DeLorean to Germany

  24-10-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical, which opened in London three years ago, is still going strong there and touring North America, while productions are planned in Japan and on a cruise ship.
  
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• ‘Conclave’ Review: Serpents and Doves Amok in the Vatican

  24-10-2024 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the same title, centers on a British cardinal (a sensational Ralph Fiennes), and a campaign for a new pope.
  
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• Marian Goodman Gallery Opens a New Chapter Downtown

  24-10-2024 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  One of the biggest small galleries tips its hat to its conceptual history, while bringing new artists and their market-friendly work into view.
  
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• College of the Arts Completes Construction of Cutting-Edge Visual Arts Complex - CSUF News

  24-10-2024 19:00 via news.google.com
  College of the Arts Completes Construction of Cutting-Edge Visual Arts Complex  CSUF News
  
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• Rosana Paulino Wins Munch Museum’s Inaugural $25,000 Award Celebrating Artistic Freedom

  24-10-2024 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Munch Museum in Oslo will present Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino with its inaugural Munch Award honoring artistic freedom during a ceremony on Thursday. The prize includes $25,000 and “recognizes an artist who has distinguished themselves with courage and integrity throughout their career.”The institution holds the world’s largest collection of works by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, and the award is meant as a tribute to his legacy of upholding “artistic expression
  
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• BYU Arts rebrands to BYU OnStage - Universe.byu.edu

  24-10-2024 18:41 via news.google.com
  BYU Arts rebrands to BYU OnStage  Universe.byu.edu
  
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• Review: The Miraculous Simplicity of Patti Smith’s Childhood

  24-10-2024 18:34 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Baryshnikov Arts Center, an adaptation of Smith’s poem-memoir “Woolgathering” features Smith reciting, others dancing and a surprise guest.
  
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• 2ND CUP: Amarillo Council for Latino Arts to host Texas Panhandle Day of the Dead festival - KFDA

  24-10-2024 18:21 via news.google.com
  2ND CUP: Amarillo Council for Latino Arts to host Texas Panhandle Day of the Dead festival  KFDA
  
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• 2025 Bienal de São Paulo to Take the Title of ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’

  24-10-2024 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the chief curator of 2025 Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the title and curatorial concept of his forthcoming exhibition, sent to open in the Brazilian city next September.Related ArticlesRising Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Casts an International Eye on Berlin and Beyond Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Named Chief Curator of 2025 São Paulo Biennial Titled “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice,&rdqu
  
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• Monique Knowlton, ’60s-Era Model and Provocative Gallerist, Dies at 87

  24-10-2024 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A Vogue cover girl in the early 1960s, she later pivoted to contemporary art, opening a gallery where being “outrageous counts as a plus,” one critic wrote.
  
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• Met Opera and Singer Injured in Onstage Fall Settle Decade-Old Lawsuit

  24-10-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Wendy White, a veteran mezzo-soprano, was performing when she fell in 2011. Her suit, which claimed negligence, had been one of the company’s longest-running court cases.
  
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• Goodman Gallery Opens a New Chapter Downtown

  24-10-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  One of the biggest small galleries tips its hat to its conceptual history, while bringing new artists and their market-friendly work into view.
  
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• Massive Hoard of Silver Pennies From Norman Conquest Valued at $5.6M

  24-10-2024 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at $5.6 million (£4.3 million), making it the highest valued treasure in England.In January 2019, seven people with metal detectors “on a speculative trip to a soggy field” found the 2,584 coins in the Chew Valley area of Bath and North East Somerset. The group spent four to five hours digging up the hoard and were not deterred by a massiv
  
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• Gary Indiana, Gimlet-Eyed Writer and Art Critic, Dies at 74

  24-10-2024 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  Gary Indiana, a writer whose acid musings on gallery shows and artists defined a era in art criticism, has died at 74. Frieze first reported his death on Thursday morning.Indiana wrote novels, essays, and magazine columns, often bridging the gap between literary writing and criticism in the process. Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and art criticism in the decades since, Indiana had by t
  
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• Amid an Uptick in Censorship, a National Coalition Is Helping Artists Fight Back

  24-10-2024 17:08 via artnews.com
  
  THE ARTIST XANDRA IBARRA was caught off guard by a text she received in February 2020. It was a message from a curator she was working with on a group exhibition opening that week at the City of San Antonio’s Centro de Artes gallery. They were informing her that her video in the show had been removed.The 4-minute piece, Spictacle II: La Tortillera (2014), shows Ibarra performing as La Chica Boom, her burlesque stage persona. A minstrelsy of Chicanx gender and racial stereotypes, the piece
  
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• How Artists Are Shaping Tech Today for a Better Tomorrow

  24-10-2024 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  In an era marked by rapid advancements in technology, artists are increasingly becoming trailblazers at the intersection of creativity and innovation. While the future has always held uncertainty for the arts, today’s challenges — from the rise of artificial intelligence to global instability — demand that artists reimagine their work in new and dynamic ways.Related ArticlesArtists and AI: Shaping a Collaborative Future Bridging Art and Technology: Enhancing Human Experience an
  
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• Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math

  24-10-2024 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.
  
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• Far-Right German Politicians Denounce Bauhaus Movement, Calling It ‘The Wrong Path of Modernism’

  24-10-2024 15:02 via artnews.com
  
  Politicians with the far-right Alternative for Germany party have criticized the Bauhaus movement of the early 20th century, claiming that its emphasis on austerity and minimalism led modernism in the wrong direction.According to the German publication Middeldeutsche Zeitung, members of the party, known as AfD for short, have submitted an official motion, titled “The Wrong Path of Modernism,” that calls for a critical reappraisal of Bauhaus. The motion was submitted to German parliam
  
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• Who Was Amedeo Modigliani, and Why Is His Art So Important?

  24-10-2024 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Live fast, die young, and leave behind a beautiful corpse. Such is the legend of Italian 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani. If you generously mark the start of his career at age 14, when he first took art classes, this painter and sculptor was active for just two decades before dying of tubercular meningitis at age 35. But in that time, Modi (as his friends called him) brought a singular vision to his portraits and nudes.Part of what made his work so distinctive was his personal amalgam of o
  
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• Abbas Akhavan to Represent Canada at 2026 Venice Biennale

  24-10-2024 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Abbas Akhavan will represent Canada at the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the pavilion’s commissioner, announced on Thursday. Related ArticlesFor the Canadian Pavilion, Kapwani Kiwanga Considers the Hefty Historical Importance of the Tiny Venetian Seed Bead There She Blows: Geoffrey Farmer Builds a Geyser in the Canadian Pavilion Canada is one of the few countries to announce its representative for the next Biennale, often considere
  
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• Paris Honors Barbara Chase-Riboud Like Nobody Before

  24-10-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Barbara Chase-Riboud hadn’t had a show in her adopted city since 1974. Now she is being celebrated in eight museums, including the Louvre.
  
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• Syracuse Arts Academy breaks ground on new elementary school set to open in 2025 - Standard-Examiner

  24-10-2024 13:03 via news.google.com
  Syracuse Arts Academy breaks ground on new elementary school set to open in 2025  Standard-Examiner
  
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• Review: ‘Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’

  24-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At 75, Springsteen is doggedly committed to live performance. This documentary chronicles how he keeps up on tour, and why.
  
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• New Documentary Marks a Milestone Within the Repatriation Debate

  24-10-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  When she brought the sounds of Sing Sing to the Whitney Museum’s airy fifth floor in 2016, Andrea Fraser said she did so because prisons and art institutions are “two sides of the same coin of inequality.” If that statement seemed provocative eight years ago, it appears only mildly controversial now, at a time when museums are commonly seen as appendages of racist, colonialist, and deeply unfair systems.And that may explain why, in the wonderful, knotty new documentary Dahomey,
  
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• ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’ Review: Director’s Commentary

  24-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A richly detailed essay film imagines Hitchcock commenting on his own oeuvre over a mesmerizing daisy chain of clips.
  
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• ‘Magpie’ Review: An Unhappily Married Woman

  24-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Daisy Ridley plays a time bomb with a simmering fuse in this slow yet gripping adultery thriller.
  
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• ‘La Cocina’ Review: The Melting Pot Boils Over

  24-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This drama by Alonso Ruizpalacios takes a bitter look at the American dream from the perspective of the workers at a fast-paced diner.
  
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• Circe and Muse No Longer: A New Opera Reconsiders Alma Mahler

  24-10-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.
  
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• Erin and Sara Foster Discuss ‘Nobody Wants This’ and Their ‘IVF, Baby’ Shirts

  24-10-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Sara and Erin Foster took a short break to discuss the hit show loosely based on Erin’s life, everyone’s love of Adam Brody and their advocacy for reproductive rights.
  
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• ‘Your Monster’ Review: Beast Intentions

  24-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  An aspiring Broadway musical star (Melissa Barrera) taps into her inner anger with some help from the creature who lives in her closet.
  
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• ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: A Long and Winding Tongue

  24-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Playing both Eddie Brock and the alien parasite who possesses him, Tom Hardy gives another roiling one-man-band of a performance in this third installment of the franchise.
  
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• ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’ Review: More Real Than Reality

  24-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  An unconventional documentary tells the story of a Norwegian gamer — and of how we live life on the internet.
  
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• The Morgan Honors Its ‘Personal Librarian’

  24-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The subject of a bestseller who led a remarkable life as a scholar and cultural force while hiding her Black identity is the focus of an exhibition at the institution she headed.
  
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• The Met Connects Two Artists Who Captured Florida in Images

  24-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades.
  
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• ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Review: Escaping the Spiral

  24-10-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  An animated tragicomedy for adults tells the story of a woman breaking out of her shell.
  
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