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White, large and occasionally cracked, Jeff Koons’s plaster sculptures of Greek gods and heroes crowd David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea. Men in black guard the works.
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Margarethe von Trotta’s “Hannah Arendt” confines itself to the period in the early 1960s, when the German-born thinker covered the trial of Nazi chief Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker magazine and weathered the firestorm that followed.
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Hip-hop and fashion mogul Russell Simmons has a musical message for those in the Middle East conflict: “Bury the beef.”
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Tom Hooper’s last movie was about a man who got help from a speech coach. His new movie features a cast that had help from a voice coach.
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Your $400 date at Carbone doesn’t begin with anything fancy. No caviar, no foie gras.
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<p>Theaster Gates's latest canvas is neighborhoods given up for dead. "I decided I could actively participate in how the neighborhood is perceived," Gates explained. "I call it mission-based living. I can paint, mow the lawn, but also make a public and visible effort that's contagious." Gates raises money and works to improve places like the Washington Park Arts Incubator, the Dorchester Projects and the 1923 Illinois State Bank.</p> Source: Photograph by Kavi Gupta/Chicago | Berlin via Bloomberg
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Christie’s International will hold a sale in Shanghai in the autumn of 2013, making it the first international auction house to hold its own branded events in mainland China.
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Visitors to Krasnaya Polyana, a skiing area in southern Russia that will host the Sochi Winter Olympics next year, could be forgiven for feeling like they’ve been stranded in a building site.
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Venture capitalist Alan Patricof delayed a trip to St. Barts last week to be honored by Trickle Up at Cipriani Wall Street. Last night, he was back at the catering hall to be honored by the Opportunity Network.
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A German government panel said a museum in Cologne should return a portrait by Oskar Kokoschka valued at 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis.
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