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MUSICAL MASTERPIECES. An excellent growth for Frida Kahlo followers: The trailblazing Mexican painter would be the subject of a musical, the Related Press studies. Composer Jaime Lozano is dealing with the music, and playwright Neena Beber is writing the lyrics. The Kahlo household–accredited enterprise is from producer Valentina Berger and BTF Media, which was reported in Could to be at work on a TV series based mostly on the Surrealist legend. In different art-and-music-and-acting crossover information, Ocula studies that singer and actress Maya Hawke, of the TV present Stranger Issues, has released a video for her track “Thérèse,” which responds to Balthus’s 1938 portray Thérèse Dreaming.

ALLURING ACQUISITIONS. A set of Indian artwork owned by the late artist Howard Hodgkin, which was turned down by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, due to worries that some items could have been faraway from the nation illegally, has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, the Artwork Newspaper studies. Of the 122 work and drawings, 38 have unclear provenance; they are going to be on long-term mortgage to the Met whereas nonetheless being owned by the Howard Hodgkin Indian Assortment Belief. In the meantime, the Museum of Effective Arts in Boston has obtained a present of more than 2,000 prints from the late economist Richard E. Caves, the Boston Globe studies. “Although his vocation was economics, Dick’s secret want was to be a print curator,” the MFA’s affiliate curator of prints and drawings, Patrick Murphy, mentioned in a press release.

The Digest

Journalist Zachary Small paid a go to to the House, the 50,000-square-foot studio house in Charleston, South Carolina, that Beeple, the creator of the record-smashing $69 million NFT, makes use of to make make work. “I’m targeted on legacy now,” Beeple informed Small. [Vulture]

Archaeologists working within the northern a part of Bavaria in Germany have unearthed what could also be a 3,000-year-old clay statue of a water goddess from the Hallstatt tradition. It measures about 7 inches tall. [Newsweek]

Youngsters’s e book illustrator Ronni Solbert, who continuously collaborated together with her husband, the author Jean Merrill, on books, together with the 1964 hit The Pushcart Conflict, has died at 96 of most cancers. [The New York Times]

A replica of Shakespeare’s first folio, printed in 1623, seven years after his dying, offered for £2.4 million (about $2 million) at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday. Of the 750 that have been printed, solely 232 are believed to be extant at this time. [BBC News]

TREND ALERT! In terms of outdoor-furniture design, Brutalism is hot, in line with the Wall Road Journal, and Architectural Digest says that Tiffany lamps are back in.

The Kicker

FLOWER POWER. The artist and floral designer Lutfi Janania has created flower preparations for Bergdorf Goodman and an occasion hosted by artist Mickalene Thomas, however in a profile in T: The New York Instances Fashion Journal, he revealed a flower tip for tasks that will have extra modest budgets. “You possibly can create enjoyable, stunning issues with flowers from the bodega,” Janania informed T . His advice is carnations. “They’re seemed down upon, however they’re such a robust flower,” he mentioned. “They stick round for, like, a complete three weeks.” [T: The New York Times Style Magazine]