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• Outsider Art Fair Will Spotlight Children’s Artworks from the 1930s at Upcoming New York Edition

  08-01-2020 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  In the years immediately following the Great Depression, Americans of all ages participated in the Federal Art Project, an initiative affiliated with the Works Progress Administration that offered free arts education to the public. Now, 12 works created by children at community art centers in New York City in the 1930s as part of that program are going on view at the Outsider Art Fair in New York, which opens January 16.
  The paintings that will be featured in the fair come from the Kuniyoshi Col
  
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• Rupert Murdoch Turned Passion and Grievance Into Money and Power

  22-09-2023 01:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The retiring Fox leader built a noise-and-propaganda machine by giving his people what they wanted — and sometimes by teaching them what to want.
  
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• ‘Expend4bles’ Review: Band of Meatheads

  22-09-2023 00:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sylvester Stallone leads an all-star mercenary squadron composed of ’80s-to-aughts brutes in the fourth installment of this franchise.
  
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• The Met Transfers Ownership of Two Ancient Stone Sculptures From 3,000 BCE Back to Yemen

  21-09-2023 23:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art is transferring ownership of two stone sculptures dating to the third millennium BCE back to Yemen, but the items will remain on loan to the museum. The institution recently announced the shift in ownership of the marble rectangular mortar and a standing female figure after provenance research by its scholars established their point of origin. In May, the museum announced it had hired a four-person team specifically dedicated to researching items in its collection
  
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• Artist Xaviera Simmons Says Queens Museum Violated Agreement in Reuse of Site-Specific Work for Another Exhibition

  21-09-2023 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, Brooklyn-based artist Xaveria Simmons accused the Queens Museum in an Instagram post of “institutional and curatorial negligence” after the museum repurposed a sculptural work by the artist for a later exhibition.In October 2022, the Queens Museum opened an exhibition by Simmons, with the text-based installation piece, Align, as its centerpiece. Titled “Crisis Makes a Book Club,” the exhibition included a series of new works by Simmons that spanned phot
  
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• ‘9 Kinds of Silence’ Review: A Soldier’s Battle Is Within

  21-09-2023 22:40 via nytimes.com
  
  In Abhishek Majumdar’s tense play at 122CC Theater in Manhattan, every sound underscores what’s left unsaid after a shellshocked veteran’s homecoming.
  
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• Manet and Degas: A Mega-Hit Wonder Opens at the Met

  21-09-2023 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Two titans of modern art face off in New York as the Met explores their enigmatic relationship.
  
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• Designer Files New Lawsuit Against Lizzo and Her Wardrobe Manager

  21-09-2023 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer, who already faces one lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
  
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• Marvin Newman, Sports and Street Photographer, Dies at 95

  21-09-2023 21:46 via nytimes.com
  
  He captured people in shadow on Chicago sidewalks and under storefronts in wintry Coney Island. He also shot athletes like Muhammad Ali and Mickey Mantle.
  
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• Booker Prize Shortlist Reflects the ‘Unease of Our Moment’

  21-09-2023 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Books by Paul Harding, Jonathan Escoffery and Chetna Maroo are among six titles nominated for the prestigious literary award.
  
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• Booker Prize Shortlist Includes Paul Murray, Chetna Maroo and More

  21-09-2023 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Books by Paul Harding, Jonathan Escoffery and Chetna Maroo are among six titles nominated for the prestigious literary award.
  
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• Can You Dig It? Discover 13 Archaeological Sites Off the Beaten Path

  21-09-2023 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  There are many incredible archaeological sites around the world that offer records of the ways of life and beliefs of past civilizations. While a lot of them have become tourist meccas, such as Stonehenge, Pompeii, and Machu Picchu, others are more obscure—and yet, the wealth of information they have to offer is not any less important or fascinating. Below are highlights of a baker’s dozen of incredible sites that haven’t quite gotten their due.
  
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• Remembering Jimmy Buffett, Beach Bum Bard

  21-09-2023 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about how the musician, who died this month at 76, turned a way of life into a song — and that song back into a very profitable way of life.
  
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• Sophie Turner Sues Joe Jonas to Return Their Children to England

  21-09-2023 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Sophie Turner accused Joe Jonas of refusing to give her their two children’s passports, weeks after the couple announced their planned divorce.
  
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• Angus Cloud Died of Accidental Drug Overdose, Coroner Finds

  21-09-2023 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Cloud, who appeared on the HBO show “Euphoria,” had ingested cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and benzodiazepines, according to the coroner’s office.
  
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• Your NFTs Are Totally Worthless

  21-09-2023 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  A team of researchers have crunched the numbers to explain why you don’t see people hawking ugly cartoon apes on the internet as much anymore: NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, once vaunted as a revolution in crypto and digital art, are largely worthless.“Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market” is a new report from dappGambl, a community of experts in finance and blockchain technology. Upon analysis of 73,257 NFT collections, the
  
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• Gita Mehta, Whose Writing Shaped Perspectives of India, Dies at 80

  21-09-2023 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Her novels and nonfiction provided alternatives to the Western- and male-centric views of modern India offered by writers like E.M. Forster.
  
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• 2023 PaykanArtCar Honors the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran

  21-09-2023 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  Since the brutal murder of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of Iran’s morality police, Iran’s women have led a revolution—now known as the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement—against Ayatollah Khamenei. Around the world, women have led protests against the “mandatory hijab” law that requires women to cover their hair. It was Mahsa Amini’s crime of showing a few strands of her hair that led to her murder by the morality police.Building on the aw
  
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• In ‘American Horror Story,’ Kim Kardashian Skims the Surface

  21-09-2023 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  In her debut on Wednesday night, Kardashian seemed to treat the series with the same unblinking resolve she applies to any business venture.
  
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• Review: In Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Dig’, a Plant Shop Nurtures Weary Souls

  21-09-2023 18:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Theresa Rebeck’s play, a Primary Stages production at 59E59 Theaters, is a beautifully acted dramedy exploring the truth and warped perceptions of it.
  
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• ‘Lunar Eclipse’ Review: A Dark, Cloudy Night of the Soul

  21-09-2023 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  In Donald Margulies’s heavy-handed new play, Reed Birney is terrific as a farmer forced by his wife, played by Karen Allen, to face his grief.
  
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• David Kordansky Gallery Now Represents Martha Diamond, Painter of Striking Views of New York City

  21-09-2023 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  David Kordansky Gallery, which has locations in Los Angeles and New York, will now represent New York–based artist Martha Diamond, who is known for her paintings depicting buildings around New York City.The gallery will offer works by the artist in its booth at Paris+ par Art Basel next month and organize a solo show for Diamond at its LA location next March. She will also be the subject of a 60-work survey organized by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Colby College Museum of Ar
  
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• A Tiananmen Square Musical Worries About China’s Glare

  21-09-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The original lead actor and director withdrew from the Phoenix production of a show about the 1989 pro-democracy protests, a topic that China aggressively censors.
  
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• Climate Week in New York City Unfolds With Events and Spectacle

  21-09-2023 16:36 via nytimes.com
  
  From small panel discussions in 2009, Climate Week NYC has ballooned into a weeklong happening of dinners, events, networking and spectacle.
  
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• Art Basel Hires Former Atlantic Publisher for Newly Created Chief Growth Officer

  21-09-2023 14:11 via artnews.com
  
  In what is likely a sign of continued expansion for one of the world’s top art fairs, Art Basel, which stages editions in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and Paris, has made two major hires for its leadership team. Hayley Romer will join Art Basel this month as chief growth officer, a newly created position, while Craig Hepburn will start at the company in October as chief digital officer.Romer, who will be based in New York, was most recently publisher and chief revenue officer of th
  
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• Book Bans Are Rising Sharply in Public Libraries

  21-09-2023 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two years into a surge in book banning efforts across the country, restrictions that were largely happening in school libraries, where they affected children, are now affecting the wider community as well.
  
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• Yvonne Rainer Rewrote the History of Dance to Accommodate Her Misfit Physique

  21-09-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  A few days before we met at her apartment in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, Yvonne Rainer sent me a detailed logistical email. She described the stairs leading up to her place, and offered tips for navigating the subway station—which is set into a cliff up near the Cloisters—via elevator (“NOT through the tunnel”). This kind of access information is familiar to me from the disability community, where none of us wants to assume stairs are OK for everyone.
  
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• ‘The Trial’ Review: Seeking Justice for Argentina

  21-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ulises de la Orden carves a documentary from film of the 1985 prosecution of the military leaders who had seized control of the government.
  
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• ‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’ Review: A Transgressive Producer

  21-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Thomas’s dedication to pushing the envelope of big-screen entertainment is the focus of Mark Cousins’s latest documentary.
  
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• ‘Still Film’ Review: Hollywood on Trial

  21-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s eloquently argued experimental film warns of a contemporary Hollywood dangerously obsessed with the past.
  
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