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• 12 Best Things to Do in L.A.'s Arts District: The Neighborhood Guide - Condé Nast Traveler

  02-04-2019 23:53
  12 Best Things to Do in L.A.'s Arts District: The Neighborhood Guide  Condé Nast TravelerOur top recommendations for the best things to do in L.A.'s Arts District, with pictures and travel tips. Find fun things to do, best places to visit, unusual things to ...
  
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• New York’s Drawing Center Names Four New Board Members

  02-04-2019 23:47 via artnews.com
  Dealers Valentina Castellani and Almine Ruiz-Picasso and collectors Harry Tappan Heher and Jean-Edouard van Praet d'Amerloo are coming aboard. Read More
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• Haegue Yang at South London Gallery, United Kingdom

  02-04-2019 23:29 via artnews.com
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• Books of The Times: In ‘Women Talking,’ Miriam Toews Ponders Punishment and Justice After Horrifying Crimes

  02-04-2019 23:04 via nytimes.com
  Toews’s eighth book was inspired by a real-life series of attacks in a Mennonite community.
  
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• Nonfiction: The Cracking of a Cold, Cold Case

  02-04-2019 23:00 via nytimes.com
  In his true-crime epic, “The Last Stone,” Mark Bowden follows detectives as they try to solve the 1975 disappearance of two Maryland sisters.
  
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• Boîte: Winnie’s Karaoke Bar Reopens in Chinatown

  02-04-2019 22:58 via nytimes.com
  “There are old friends and new friends,” the owner said. “Are you going to sing?”
  
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• Poetry: A Poetic Body of Work Grapples With the Physical Body at Risk

  02-04-2019 22:57 via nytimes.com
  In “The Tradition,” Jericho Brown witnesses and celebrates vulnerability and resilience in a country that too often scorns or condemns them.
  
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• Nonfiction: Why Are We Feeling So Bad When Life Is So Good? Two Books Want Us to Accentuate the Positive

  02-04-2019 22:57 via nytimes.com
  “The Right Side of History,” by Ben Shapiro, and “Clear and Present Safety,” by Michael A. Cohen and Micah Zenko, declare current pessimism is totally overblown.
  
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• Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts brings Harold and the Purple Crayon to life with a 19th-century illusion technique - Atlanta Magazine

  02-04-2019 22:34
  Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts brings Harold and the Purple Crayon to life with a 19th-century illusion technique  Atlanta MagazineThe Center for Puppetry Arts's inaugural production of Harold and the Purple Crayon will feel very familiar to anyone who's read the classic children's series by ...
  
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• Veteran American Folk Art Museum Curator Stacy C. Hollander to Step Down

  02-04-2019 22:30 via artnews.com
  She will pursue independent curatorial and writing projects, according to the New York institution. Read More
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• Easton Arts Academy administrator is on leave, CEO confirms - lehighvalleylive.com

  02-04-2019 22:24
  Easton Arts Academy administrator is on leave, CEO confirms  lehighvalleylive.comChief Administrative Officer Shawn Ferrara is on leave.
  
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• Hagerstown announces events for new monthlong 'Imagine' arts, music festival - Herald-Mail Media

  02-04-2019 22:15
  Hagerstown announces events for new monthlong 'Imagine' arts, music festival  Herald-Mail MediaHagerstown's new monthlong arts and music festival is taking shape. The city on Tuesday announced the artist and performer lineup for Imagine Hagerstown, ...
  
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• T. Barton Thurber Named Director of Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

  02-04-2019 22:04 via artnews.com
  He begins at the museum in August. Read More
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• Artsy Appoints Samuel Rozenberg as Vice President of Engineering

  02-04-2019 22:00 via artnews.com
  He had previously been an engineer lead at Instagram and Spotify.Read More
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• Podcast & Carol & Ted & Alice

  02-04-2019 21:59 via nytimes.com
  Couples therapy is now streamable through your earbuds! Ain’t technology grand?
  
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• Extensions of Excellence Performing Arts to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin - Shreveport Times

  02-04-2019 21:28
  Extensions of Excellence Performing Arts to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin  Shreveport TimesVincent Williams credits Aretha Franklin for his love of music. He remembers that as a child he would sing "Chain of Fools" to his cousins at his grandparents' ...
  
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• The Week in Arts: Martha Graham, ‘Ink’ and More

  02-04-2019 21:27 via nytimes.com
  A dance company celebrates the 19th amendment and a play about Rupert Murdoch hits Broadway.
  
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• The Agnès Varda I Knew: Showing Women Their Real Place in Movies

  02-04-2019 21:01 via nytimes.com
  In encounters over the years, our critic met a filmmaker with an acute sense of the oppressed and of her standing in the French New Wave.
  
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• Fiction: A Peerless Chronicler of the 1970s and ’80s Turns Her Gaze on Generation Y

  02-04-2019 20:53 via nytimes.com
  Ann Beattie’s new novel, “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” follows its protagonist from prep school in 2001 into his 30s today.
  
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• The Cracking of a Cold, Cold Case

  02-04-2019 20:41 via nytimes.com
  In his true-crime epic, “The Last Stone,” Mark Bowden follows detectives as they try to solve the 1975 disappearance of two Maryland sisters.
  
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• What They Left Behind: Creative Works by the Recently Departed

  02-04-2019 20:35 via nytimes.com
  Movies, a poem, a photograph, a sandwich: Some gems from the life’s work of people remembered in obituaries.
  
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• What They Left Behind

  02-04-2019 20:35 via nytimes.com
  A sampling of creative works by the recently departed, from their obituaries.
  
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• Van Doren Waxter Now Represents Gareth Nyandoro

  02-04-2019 20:25 via artnews.com
  His next solo show with the New York gallery will be held in 2020.Read More
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: With All-Boy Choirs Up for Debate, an Ensemble Soars

  02-04-2019 20:21 via nytimes.com
  The storied Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, performed for the last time in America under Stephen Cleobury, its leader since 1982.
  
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• Humanities Endowment Announces New Grants Amid Old Threats

  02-04-2019 20:16 via nytimes.com
  The National Endowment for the Humanities announced grants supporting 233 projects around the country, two weeks after the latest effort to close the agency.
  
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• Nonfiction: Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding

  02-04-2019 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Brian Switek’s “Skeleton Keys” takes a close look at our 206 bones and how they allow us to “stomp, fly, swim, slither, dig, run.”
  
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• Arts Award: Keri Dillingham - Broomfield Enterprise

  02-04-2019 19:36
  Arts Award: Keri Dillingham  Broomfield EnterpriseProfiles of winnersThis issue includes the first two of 10 profiles of the annual Heart of Broomfield award winners.
  
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• Lens: Artists of Color as Avatars of Originality

  02-04-2019 19:33 via nytimes.com
  Elia Alba reimagines artists of color as A-list celebrities, giving them a place of honor in a mainstream art world that continues to ignore or downplay their accomplishments.
  
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• Opportunity Zone Buy Means More Apartments in Miami Arts and Entertainment District | Daily Business Review - Law.com

  02-04-2019 19:03
  Opportunity Zone Buy Means More Apartments in Miami Arts and Entertainment District | Daily Business Review  Law.comTwo Miami development companies in the vacant site betting on an opportunity zone fund partnering with them on their planned multifamily tower.
  
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• An Artist Who Creates Joyful, Shimmering Images of West Indian Culture

  02-04-2019 18:51 via nytimes.com
  Ahead of a new solo show, Paul Anthony Smith discusses his intricate, time-intensive process — and his favorite forms of procrastination.
  
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• In a Musical ‘Death in Venice,’ the Author Is Present

  02-04-2019 17:41 via nytimes.com
  A new production by Ivo Van Hove with a live orchestra makes the writer Thomas Mann a character in his most famous creation.
  
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• Neil Patrick Harris will bring the magic — and his new tween book — to Mesa Arts Center - AZCentral

  02-04-2019 17:22
  Neil Patrick Harris will bring the magic — and his new tween book — to Mesa Arts Center  AZCentralNeil Patrick Harris brings his book tour to Mesa in support of "The Magical Misfits." The actor is appearing courtesy of Changing Hands Bookstore.
  
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• From the Boxing Ring to ‘Dumbo’: Michael Buffer Is Still Ready to Rumble

  02-04-2019 17:18 via nytimes.com
  You might not recognize his name, but you definitely recognize his voice. Michael Buffer came up with one of the most recognizable catchphrases in history and has continued cashing in since.
  
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• IU awarded NEH grant to create integrated arts and humanities center - IU Newsroom

  02-04-2019 16:08
  IU awarded NEH grant to create integrated arts and humanities center  IU NewsroomIndiana University has been awarded a $500000 matching NEH grant to fund renovations to Maxwell Hall for the creation of an integrated center for the arts and ...
  
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• Saint Kate arts hotel will have an all-day cafe, pizzeria and Champagne bar - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  02-04-2019 16:00
  Saint Kate arts hotel will have an all-day cafe, pizzeria and Champagne bar  Milwaukee Journal SentinelSaint Kate, the independent arts-themed hotel that Marcus Hotels & Resorts Inc. is opening in the former InterContinental downtown, will have an all-day ...
  
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• Rewind: ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’: An Italian Saga Returns in Full

  02-04-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Francesco Rosi’s adaptation of Carlo Levi’s best-selling memoir, “Christ Stopped at Eboli,” is an absorbing immersion in peasant poverty under Fascism.
  
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• New Art Dealers Alliance to Stage ‘NADA House’ on Governors Island During Frieze New York

  02-04-2019 16:00 via artnews.com
  The exhibition of work by 45 artists will be held in historic houses on the island from May to August.Read More
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• Out Side In: In His Arresting Work, Lyle Ashton Harris Looks to the Recent Past for New Ways Forward

  02-04-2019 15:30 via artnews.com
  At a time when many artists are exploring issues of identity, he is a veteran. Read More
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• Morning Links: Black Dice Edition

  02-04-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• Hundreds turn out for inaugural Holly Hill Arts Festival - Daytona Beach News-Journal

  02-04-2019 15:00
  Hundreds turn out for inaugural Holly Hill Arts Festival  Daytona Beach News-JournalThe festival continues Sunday featuring more than 70 art vendors and crafters, food trucks, must and complimentary shuttle *service*. HOLLY HILL — Linda ...
  
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• Arts program at Santa Ana homeless shelter would give residents a missing voice - OCRegister

  02-04-2019 15:00
  Arts program at Santa Ana homeless shelter would give residents a missing voice  OCRegisterIf art truly is healing, what better place to introduce music, creative writing, drawing and other creative expressions than a homeless shelter? That's the thinking ...
  
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• Odysseys Into Martha Graham World, One Dramatic, the Other Abstract

  02-04-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Two Graham company commissions — by Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith, and by Pam Tanowitz — lean into different sides of Martha the creator.
  
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• Acadiana Center of the Arts Student Art Expo - KATC Lafayette News

  02-04-2019 13:26
  Acadiana Center of the Arts Student Art Expo  KATC Lafayette NewsThe Student Art Expo is happening at the ACA on April 13th from 10 am to 8pm. The Student Arts Expo is an annual event to celebrate and display the art ...
  
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• ‘Wall’ Review: A Writer Reflects on Borders

  02-04-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In the animated feature “Wall,” David Hare meditates on the partition that divides Israel and the West Bank.
  
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• A City Full of Bauhaus Wonder

  02-04-2019 12:42 via nytimes.com
  A restaurateur takes on the task of restoring one of Tel Aviv’s gems.
  
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• Baltimoreans Aim for Black Arts and Culture District Designation - Next City

  02-04-2019 12:00
  Baltimoreans Aim for Black Arts and Culture District Designation  Next City"All I can remember were all these lights and signs and people and stores.”
  
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• Best of Late Night: Stephen Colbert Makes Fun of Joe Biden After Misconduct Claim

  02-04-2019 11:38 via nytimes.com
  The former vice president has been accused of inappropriate touching by a female politician in Nevada. Colbert got into the awkward details of those claims.
  
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• The Shortlist: Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth

  02-04-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  From melting ice to diminishing populations, these books look at the effects of climate change and humans’ shifting relationship with our planet.
  
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• Nonfiction: Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope

  02-04-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In “Horizon,” the eminent environmentalist reconstructs decades’ worth of his observations of the natural world, from the Arctic to Australia.
  
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• How to Be Famous Online, According to Rickey Thompson

  02-04-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The 23-year-old has turned likes into coins. Here is his guide.
  
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