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• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, and Portland Art Museum Will Receive 550 Japanese Artworks

  17-04-2019 23:47 via artnews.com
  Works from the collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles will be distributed to the institutions over the course of five years. Read More
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• Phillips Auction House Could Reset Mark Bradford Record Again

  17-04-2019 23:45 via artnews.com
  Helter Skelter II is a companion to a painting by Bradford that Phillips sold last year for $12 million. Read More
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• Overlooked No More: Aloha Wanderwell, Explorer and Filmmaker

  17-04-2019 23:28 via nytimes.com
  By 16, she was traveling around the world behind the wheel of a Model T in a life of adventure that was interrupted only by a murder mystery.
  
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• Prescribed Reading: What You Should Read to Understand the Measles Epidemic

  17-04-2019 23:00 via nytimes.com
  In her Prescribed Reading column, Abigail Zuger looks at books exploring the immune system and the tumultuous history of vaccination.
  
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• Jimmie Durham, Cildo Meireles, and Pedro Cabrita Reis at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

  17-04-2019 22:48 via artnews.com
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• A Fan’s Love, Requited at Last: Conan O’Brien Lands Robert Caro

  17-04-2019 22:29 via nytimes.com
  The talk show host’s interview of the acclaimed biographer is a long-awaited win for Team Coco.
  
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• As advocate for the arts, LaLiberty gives back to Waterville community that raised him - Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

  17-04-2019 21:28
  As advocate for the arts, LaLiberty gives back to Waterville community that raised him  Kennebec Journal & Morning SentinelJames M. LaLiberty will receive the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce's award for distinguished community *service* on April 25 at a banquet.
  
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• ‘Time 100’ List Includes Artists David Hockney and Luchita Hurtado

  17-04-2019 20:56 via artnews.com
  Last year brought new milestones in both artists' careers. Read More
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: 100 (or So) Adventures in Attention, Merce Cunningham-Style

  17-04-2019 19:45 via nytimes.com
  “Night of 100 Solos,” danced by non-Cunningham dancers, was a feast of movement invention, even if the master’s hand was sometimes missing.
  
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• New York’s Lubov Gallery Moves to Chinatown, Opens Space in Zurich, Names Olga Generalova Director

  17-04-2019 19:26 via artnews.com
  The gallery has also established a roster of five artists.Read More
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• Critic’s Pick: Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret

  17-04-2019 19:26 via nytimes.com
  On the Kentucky band’s fifth studio album, the fragility of love collides with the personality warp of celebrity. And even rock ’n’ roll can’t relieve despair.
  
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• Kasmin Now Represents Designer Jasper Morrison

  17-04-2019 19:25 via artnews.com
  His first U.S. show will be at the gallery on May 9. Read More
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• Books of The Times: Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’

  17-04-2019 19:11 via nytimes.com
  In her memoir-in-essays, Grace Talusan writes about her experience as an immigrant to the United States, her survival of childhood abuse and returning to visit the Philippines, her native country.
  
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• ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions

  17-04-2019 19:10 via nytimes.com
  A little Hitchcock, a touch of noir, some ’90s indie rock, a few naked women, and yet not much to see.
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: Beyoncé the Creator: ‘Homecoming’ Review

  17-04-2019 19:05 via nytimes.com
  Built around her 2018 Coachella performance, the Netflix documentary is, above all, about Beyoncé, who wrote, directed and executive produced.
  
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• Review: In ‘All Our Children,’ Moral Authority Wades Into Nazi Germany

  17-04-2019 18:59 via nytimes.com
  Stephen Unwin’s play, set in Germany in 1941, explores the reluctant evil perpetrated by people who think of themselves as good.
  
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• Culver City Taco Hit Loqui Brings Big Flour Tortillas to Arts District - Eater LA

  17-04-2019 18:59
  Culver City Taco Hit Loqui Brings Big Flour Tortillas to Arts District  Eater LACulver City taco favorite Loqui is expanding from its current setup at the Platform development, growing into a new space along busy 3rd Street in the Arts District ...
  
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• Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera

  17-04-2019 18:21 via nytimes.com
  The company’s artistic director resigned, just two weeks after he announced his second season.
  
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• Shreveport glassmakers aim to build art community with Sanctuary Glass Studio, Arts School - Shreveport Times

  17-04-2019 18:07
  Shreveport glassmakers aim to build art community with Sanctuary Glass Studio, Arts School  Shreveport TimesGlass artist entrepreneurs Michelle Pennington and Eric Hess are investing in Shreveport's future as an art destination with Sanctuary Glass Studio and Art ...
  
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• Arts Focus: Create With Creatives at the “Make Your Mark!” Festival - ARLnow

  17-04-2019 18:00
  Arts Focus: Create With Creatives at the “Make Your Mark!” Festival  ARLnowIn this weeks Arts Focus discover the Make Your Mark! festival taking place May 18 where you can immerse yourself in a multicultural coming together of artists.
  
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• Show Us Your Wall: An Empire of Bamboo in the Home of Collectors

  17-04-2019 17:56 via nytimes.com
  Diane and Arthur Abbey have around Japanese 300 baskets, a selection of which coexist peacefully with work by Calder, de Kooning and Joseph Cornell.
  
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• Nonfiction: The Remarkable Ben Hecht

  17-04-2019 17:45 via nytimes.com
  Adina Hoffman’s “Ben Hecht” and Julien Gorbach’s “The Notorious Ben Hecht” examine the man’s career as both a screenwriter and a political activist.
  
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• Can a Greek Tragedy Help Heal a Scarred City?

  17-04-2019 17:41 via nytimes.com
  On the ground with the provocative stage director Milo Rau, who brought together European and Iraqi actors for a take on “The Oresteia” set in Mosul.
  
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• Electronic Arts Is On Sale And I'm Buying - Seeking Alpha

  17-04-2019 17:14
  Electronic Arts Is On Sale And I'm Buying  Seeking AlphaEA announced that Star Wars: Fallen Order would not feature micro-transactions and the market was not happy. Given what happened last time they tried this, ...
  
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• 5 Things We Learned About Beyoncé’s Coachella Triumph in ‘Homecoming’

  17-04-2019 16:38 via nytimes.com
  In the Netflix documentary, she reveals her 2017 pregnancy involved a complication and that she had a hand in every detail in the set — down to “every light.”
  
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• ‘Homecoming’ Documentary Comes With a Surprise: A Beyoncé Live Album

  17-04-2019 16:34 via nytimes.com
  The pop superstar paired the release of a Netflix film about her landmark Coachella performance with a recording of the April 2018 event.
  
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• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Names Winners of $3 M. in Grants

  17-04-2019 16:00 via artnews.com
  Funds have been awarded to 111 artists and 12 nonprofit organizations. Read More
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• The Venice Biennale: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know

  17-04-2019 15:49 via artnews.com
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• French Government to Hold Architecture Competition for Notre-Dame Rebuilding

  17-04-2019 15:42 via artnews.com
  French president Emmanuel Macron has promised that the cathedral will be rebuilt in five years. Read More
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• Critic’s Notebook: In Soccer, Power’s Always in Play

  17-04-2019 15:30 via nytimes.com
  A new exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris explores how the game embodies political and social changes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond.
  
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• Morning Links: Ravenous Artists Edition

  17-04-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• Beyoncé Surprises With a Live Album to Go With Her Netflix Documentary

  17-04-2019 14:47 via nytimes.com
  The pop superstar paired the release of a Netflix film about her landmark Coachella performance with a recording of the April 2018 event.
  
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• Liberal arts colleges across the country face 'existential threat' - Fox News

  17-04-2019 14:44
  Liberal arts colleges across the country face 'existential threat'  Fox NewsMARLBORO, Vt. – Economists and higher education experts are warning small liberal arts colleges across the country to brace for the worst. "Their business ...
  
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• Brian Rochefort Will Have Venice Show During Biennale

  17-04-2019 14:15 via artnews.com
  The artist is currently readying an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Read More
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• Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’: 5 Things We Learned About Her Coachella Triumph

  17-04-2019 13:52 via nytimes.com
  In the Netflix documentary, she reveals her 2017 pregnancy involved a complication and that she had a hand in every detail in the set — down to “every light.”
  
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• 12 faculty honored as newest members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Harvard Gazette

  17-04-2019 12:00
  12 faculty honored as newest members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences  Harvard GazetteTwelve Harvard faculty are among the more than 200 individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  
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• Best of Late Night: Kimmel Suggests Bernie Sanders’s Cash-Heavy Campaign Could Spend a Bit on ‘Personal Grooming’

  17-04-2019 11:44 via nytimes.com
  The late-night hosts gave Sanders a light ribbing for his early successes in the presidential campaign.
  
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• Nonfiction: Stories That Explore Africa’s Resilient Spirit

  17-04-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s “Minutes of Glory” tackles the absurdities, injustices and fortitude of people testing new ways against the old.
  
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• Here’s the Shortlist for the $85,000 Prix International d’Art Contemporain

  17-04-2019 10:00 via artnews.com
  The artists with work selected for the prize are Yto Barrada, Arthur Jafa, and Rayyane Tabet. Read More
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• A History of Country-Rap in 29 Songs

  17-04-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Lil Nas X’s viral sensation “Old Town Road” is the latest addition to a hybrid-genre tradition that dates back at least to 1985. Here’s a guide, from Sir Mix-A-Lot to Sam Hunt.
  
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• A Godfather of Country-Rap on His 2000s Hits and Lil Nas X

  17-04-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The producer and executive Shannon Houchins talks about shifting direction with Bubba Sparxxx, breaking ground with Colt Ford and the future of the genre.
  
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• Beyoncé Surprises Again With Unannounced Live Coachella Album ‘Homecoming’

  17-04-2019 09:32 via nytimes.com
  The pop superstar paired the release of a Netflix documentary about her landmark festival performance with a recording of the April 2018 event.
  
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• University of the Arts rejects calls to fire Camille Paglia - Inside Higher Ed

  17-04-2019 09:07
  University of the Arts rejects calls to fire Camille Paglia  Inside Higher EdCamille Paglia has long been a controversial figure in and out of academe -- best known in the world of scholarship for Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence ...
  
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• What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Homecoming’ and ‘Breakthrough’

  17-04-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” hits Netflix. And a new PBS series looks at the history of technological innovations.
  
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• The Notre-Dame Rooster and Other Statues That Escaped the Fire

  17-04-2019 04:39 via nytimes.com
  Sculptures of the Twelve Apostles and four evangelists had been removed from the cathedral for restoration just days before the fire in Paris on Monday.
  
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• Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur

  17-04-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  Michael Stuhlbarg is sublime in the title role of Tim Blake Nelson’s admiring but overlong play, presented as part of the Onassis Festival.
  
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• Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’

  17-04-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  In this imbalanced revival of Lanford Wilson’s play, also starring Keri Russell, Mr. Driver unleashes the full, scorching power of his talent.
  
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• Gagosian Gallery to Stage Notre-Dame Benefit Exhibition

  17-04-2019 02:06 via artnews.com
  Two collectors have already pledged large sums of money in the reconstruction efforts. Read More
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• Arts center to help rebuild Hamilton Hill community - NEWS10 ABC

  17-04-2019 02:03
  Arts center to help rebuild Hamilton Hill community  NEWS10 ABCThe Hamilton Hill Arts Center said it will turn the land across the street into a sculpture park.
  
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• Edinburg Rotary highlights ECISD Fine Arts Program - The Edinburg Review

  17-04-2019 02:02
  Edinburg Rotary highlights ECISD Fine Arts Program  The Edinburg ReviewEDINBURG – The Edinburg Rotary Club recently highlighted the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District's Fine Arts Program during its luncheon ...
  
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