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The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will stop performing at the end of 2027, after 45 years and creating more than 140 works. Jones, nearly 75, says he wants to ask “new questions about how I want to create” (BroadwayWorld).
The Vatican Museums hold about 80,000 objects that missionaries sent to Rome for a 1925 exhibition, and this month is the museum’s centenary. A Vatican source says the plan is to lie low; a McGill art historian says missionaries looted Canadian graves to fill the show (The Guardian).
In September France’s Goncourt prize dropped Haitian-Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien’s best-seller from contention over claims that AI wrote it. Kyle Berlin, a Paris magazine editor, compares it to 1972, when Yambo Ouologuem, the first African winner of the Prix Renaudot, was accused of copying Graham Greene; the writer never published again (The Atlantic).
The Met will stream the sold-out final performance of Lincoln in the Bardo, Missy Mazzoli’s opera, free on YouTube Saturday, asking viewers to donate in the live chat toward its $1.5 billion campaign (Playbill).
Two Italian scholars announced authentication of two early Caravaggios in two days. One, a portrait of a young man, sold at a Vienna auction in 2017 as Tuscan school for €3,810 (Artnet).
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