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    CreditClockwise from top left, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Archives, Banco de México, Fiduciary of the Trust of the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museums; Javier Hinojosa, via V&A Publishing (dress and lipstick); Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20 Century Mexican Art and the Vergel Foundation; Nickolas Muray Photo Archive; Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn Museum

    Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. And So Much More.

    The artist and pop culture icon meticulously built her own image. A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum examines how she did it, and why.

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    CreditJane Evelyn Atwood and David Zwirner; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SAIF, Paris

    Critic’s Notebook

    James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero

    The literary figure is the glowing subject of a group exhibition, curated by the New Yorker critic Hilton Als, that is part personal narrative, part study of his influence on contemporary artists.

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    CreditHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

    An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver

    An exquisite show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art recalls travel before digital maps, when photography was the hottest of new media.

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    CreditJerome Robbins Dance Division/The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York

    For this essential New York choreographer’s centenary, a Public Library exhibition full of the joy and anxiety of postwar Manhattan.

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    CreditLeah Guadagnoli and Asya Geisberg Gallery

    What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week

    Erica Baum’s photographs of sewing patterns; Leah Guadagnoli’s sculptural paintings; Anna Plesset and Fred and Daniel Terna reckon with loss; ‘Make Believe’ takes on the movies.

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    The Week in Arts: Soderbergh’s Latest, Sharon Van Etten, Kronos Quartet

    The director’s new film, “High Flying Bird,” stars André Holland as a fast-talking basketball agent who proposes a bold business move to his rookie client.

    By The New York Times

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    20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend

    Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

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    It’s No Secret That Espionage Is This Collector’s Passion

    When governments are crumbling, H. Keith Melton is knocking on the doors of intelligence agencies with cash in hand to buy devices and memorabilia.

    By Brett Sokol

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    James Turrell Asks MoMA PS1 to Close Installation

    The work, “Meeting,” which intends to offer an uninterrupted view of sky, was closed after media reports of construction marring the view.

    By Gabe Cohn

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    In Taiwan, an Invitation to a ‘Living Room’ for Culture

    The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts has brought world-class performances to a city long derided by Taiwanese as a “cultural desert.”

    By Chris Horton

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    El Museo del Barrio Cancels Jodorowsky Show

    The avant-garde film director and artist is said to have raped a woman in a film.

    By Colin Moynihan

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    ‘DAU’ Has Finally Opened in Paris. Does It Live Up to the Hype?

    The immersive experience, with its frequent problems yet mounting mystique, is beginning to court comparisons with the Fyre Festival.

    By Joshua Barone

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    World Monuments Fund Enlists Selldorf Architects for Forbidden City Project

    Annabelle Selldorf will design an interpretation center at the Qianlong Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

    By Gabe Cohn

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    A Man Walked Into a Moscow Museum, and Walked Out With a $182,000 Painting

    The Tretyakov Gallery, one of Russia’s most important art museums, said it would revisit security arrangements after the brazen theft.

    By Neil MacFarquhar and Alex Marshall

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    Museums Have Grown More Diverse, New Study Says

    A second nationwide survey by the Mellon Foundation found that museums’ staff members are becoming more diverse, but leaders are still largely white.

    By Sara Aridi

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