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• Arts This Week: 'John Akomfrah: Purple,' 'Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 At Fifty' And 'Harlem: In Situ' - wgbh.org

  30-05-2019 23:56
  Arts This Week: 'John Akomfrah: Purple,' 'Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 At Fifty' And 'Harlem: In Situ'  wgbh.orgThis week, WGBH News' Arts Editor Jared Bowen reviews three free exhibitions in Massachusetts. “John Akomfrah: Purple,” on view for free at the ICA ...
  
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• New Sexual Assault Charges Filed Against R. Kelly

  30-05-2019 23:46 via nytimes.com
  The R&B singer was charged with 11 more counts including aggravated criminal sexual assault against a minor.
  
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• Blue Man Group Coming To Walton Arts Center - KFSM 5Newsonline

  30-05-2019 23:43
  Blue Man Group Coming To Walton Arts Center  KFSM 5NewsonlineFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KFSM) — Blue Man Group is bringing their new tour to Northwest Arkansas this Fall. The group, owned by Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, announced the launch of their new tour, Speechless. The tour will kick off at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville on September 12. The Speechless tour will continue on to more than 50 cities in its first season around North America. Under the helm of visionar
  
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• When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore

  30-05-2019 23:30 via nytimes.com
  New York City museums and public spaces celebrate Stonewall and the movement’s charismatic personalities in a handful of timely shows.
  
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• His Novel’s Hero Is a Middle-Aged Canadian Catholic Professor. And a Suicide Bomber.

  30-05-2019 22:43 via nytimes.com
  Randy Boyagoda’s satirical novel “Original Prin” is an antic account of one man’s journey from a college in Toronto to the war-torn Middle East.
  
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• Apple ad partner TBWAMedia Arts Lab assigns new directors to iPhone, Services - AppleInsider

  30-05-2019 22:41
  Apple ad partner TBWAMedia Arts Lab assigns new directors to iPhone, Services  AppleInsiderApple's decades-long ad partner, TBWAMedia Arts Lab, has reportedly brought in two new creative directors to handle iPhones and Apple's subscription services. Geoff Edwards on the left, Chuck Monn on the right. The pair, Chuck Monn and Geoff Edwards, are operating out of Media Arts Lab's flagship Los Angeles offices, Adweek said. Monn has been assigned to iPhone projects, while Edwards will tackl
  
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• Monster Drawing Rally To Raise Money For The Arts - KPCW

  30-05-2019 21:53
  Monster Drawing Rally To Raise Money For The Arts  KPCWIf you're interested in updating your art collection or curious to see the creative process at work, you'll want to check out the 3rd annual Monster Drawing Rally at ...
  
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• Phoebe Berglund at Lubov, New York

  30-05-2019 21:51 via artnews.com
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• New in Paperback: ‘Bruce Lee,’ ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’

  30-05-2019 21:41 via nytimes.com
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Buckland Arts celebrating grand opening - Fremont News Messenger

  30-05-2019 21:20
  Buckland Arts celebrating grand opening  Fremont News MessengerBuckland Arts cooperative is hosting a grand opening this weekend in Fremont.
  
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• New Saint Kate Arts Hotel edges closer toward launch - OnMilwaukee.com

  30-05-2019 21:02
  New Saint Kate Arts Hotel edges closer toward launch  OnMilwaukee.comThe Saint Kate Arts Hotel, which replaces the InterContinental Milwaukee at 139 E. Kilbourn Ave., has been edging closer to its June 4 opening day.
  
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• Queer Muslims Are Still Rare on TV. One Writer Wants to Change That.

  30-05-2019 20:42 via nytimes.com
  A recent episode of the CBS drama “The Red Line” featured a gay romance involving a Muslim character. Fawzia Mirza, the episode’s writer, discusses how it came to be.
  
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• Yale dean of humanities appointed head of Arts and Sciences - CU Columbia Spectator

  30-05-2019 20:24
  Yale dean of humanities appointed head of Arts and Sciences  CU Columbia SpectatorUniversity President Lee Bollinger named Amy Hungerford, current Dean of Humanities at Yale, executive vice president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and ...
  
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• Josh Smith’s Paintings: A Ranking

  30-05-2019 20:07 via artnews.com
  On the occasion of the artist's grand show at David Zwirner in New York, here's a look back at some of his subjects. Read More
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• 9 New Books We Recommend This Week

  30-05-2019 19:57 via nytimes.com
  Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
  
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• ‘Deadwood’: What to Remember for the HBO Movie

  30-05-2019 19:45 via nytimes.com
  David Milch’s long-awaited coda for his beloved western has its debut on Friday on HBO. Here’s where we left off.
  
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• Two Transgender Activists Are Getting a Monument in New York

  30-05-2019 19:41 via nytimes.com
  Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, both key figures in the gay liberation movement, will be honored with a permanent installation in Greenwich Village.
  
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• Displacement Fears: Arts Funders and the Dilemma of Urban Gentrification - Inside Philanthropy

  30-05-2019 19:39
  Displacement Fears: Arts Funders and the Dilemma of Urban Gentrification  Inside PhilanthropyWith housing costs rising, long-term urban residents often perceive artists as the first wave of gentrification that will eventually displace them. How are arts ...
  
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• Queen Victoria, Smiling and in Sunglasses, Is Found Anew on Film

  30-05-2019 19:38 via nytimes.com
  A high-quality film showing the 19th century British monarch smiling and waving to the public in Ireland challenges history’s depiction of her as sullen and irritable.
  
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• ‘When They See Us’ Transforms Its Victims Into Heroes

  30-05-2019 19:29 via nytimes.com
  Ava DuVernay’s mini-series depicts the excruciating toll that persecution and incarceration had on the teenage boys known as the Central Park Five.
  
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• Review: ‘Enter Laughing’ Delights. (Except if You’re Greta Garbo.)

  30-05-2019 19:24 via nytimes.com
  Set in the 1930s, this musical comedy about a young man striving for stardom lands most of its jokes in song.
  
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• Welcome to Galaxy’s Edge

  30-05-2019 19:15 via nytimes.com
  Disneyland’s “Star Wars” expansion is the biggest in the park’s history, and a bet that Wookiees and Stormtroopers will draw visitors as well as princesses.
  
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• Why Robert Mueller Should Testify on TV

  30-05-2019 18:59 via nytimes.com
  The special counsel really doesn’t want to talk to Congress about his report. That makes him the best person to do it.
  
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• Arts District’s Creative Neighborhood Bao Shop Opens Next Week - Eater LA

  30-05-2019 18:59
  Arts District’s Creative Neighborhood Bao Shop Opens Next Week  Eater LABao from Bao Hiroo Bao Hiroo Here’s what to expect from Bao Hiroo Great news for Arts District diners looking to keep things casual: Bao Hiroo arrives next week. Whereas much of the white-hot Arts District’s dining scene has focused around big, flashy, celebrity-fueled openings and anticipations, Bao Hiroo aims in a different direction. The 1,600 square foot Barling Construction-built space sits o
  
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• ‘XY Chelsea’ Review: A Whistleblower Out of Focus

  30-05-2019 18:45 via nytimes.com
  This hazy profile of Chelsea Manning features more glamour shots than psychological insights.
  
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• Electronic Arts sends media account to m/Six - AdAge.com

  30-05-2019 18:25
  Electronic Arts sends media account to m/Six  AdAge.comVideo game company Electronic Arts, while still handling a majority of its media duties in-house, has selected GroupM's m/Six as its global strategic external ...
  
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• ‘We Are So Secretive’: How Nicole Dennis-Benn Depicts Working-Class Life

  30-05-2019 18:20 via nytimes.com
  In her new novel, “Patsy,” the writer tells an immigration story that defies conventions of motherhood and sexuality.
  
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• ‘Too Late to Die Young’ Review: Big Changes, Quietly Observed

  30-05-2019 18:02 via nytimes.com
  Dominga Sotomayor’s new film is set among artists vacationing in Chile in 1990.
  
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• Bridgewater arts festival set for Saturday - Entertainment & Life - The Times - Beaver, PA - The Times

  30-05-2019 18:00
  Bridgewater arts festival set for Saturday - Entertainment & Life - The Times - Beaver, PA  The TimesBRIDGEWATER — The fourth annual Bridgewater Spring Arts Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.Set up in Riverside Park behind Stone Point Landing, ...
  
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• Arts council to hand out annual awards to two nonprofits - Denton Record Chronicle

  30-05-2019 18:00
  Arts council to hand out annual awards to two nonprofits  Denton Record ChronicleThe Greater Denton Arts Council will give two local nonprofits its annual Community Arts Recognition Award at 7 p.m. Friday at the Patterson-Appleton Arts ...
  
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• Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play

  30-05-2019 17:58 via nytimes.com
  With John Malkovich playing a Harvey Weinstein-style character, the play already has people talking — and speculating.
  
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• Arts and Sciences faculty honored for advising, teaching - Cornell Chronicle

  30-05-2019 17:54
  Arts and Sciences faculty honored for advising, teaching  Cornell ChronicleThree members of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences were presented awards for teaching and advising at a May 25 trustee-faculty dinner ...
  
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• This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race

  30-05-2019 17:51 via nytimes.com
  “The Central Park Five” is now an opera. Other new works explore the Black Lives Matter era, identity and more issues long ignored by the art form.
  
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• The Broken Saucers in Alan Faena’s House Are Purely Aesthetic

  30-05-2019 17:41 via nytimes.com
  This real-estate developer has a definite personal color scheme, but his eye for art isn’t limited to a particular medium or motif.
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows New on Netflix Canada in June

  30-05-2019 17:36 via nytimes.com
  Every month, Netflix Canada adds a batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here are the titles we think are most interesting for June.
  
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• For 5 Years, Our ‘Game of Thrones’ Recapper Went to Bed Way Too Late, His Daughter Way Too Early

  30-05-2019 17:13 via nytimes.com
  When a photo Jeremy Egner took in 2014 resurfaced recently, what struck him was how long “this baroquely violent and fantastical melodrama” had been a part of his family’s life.
  
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• ‘If I Am Not Offending People, There Is Something Wrong’: Artist Natalie White on Using Her Art to Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment

  30-05-2019 17:05 via artnews.com
  In works and protests involving public nudity, she and her collaborators have regularly risked legal consequences. Read More
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• Marianne Boesky Gallery Appoints Bradford Waywell as Senior Director of Sales and Acquisitions

  30-05-2019 17:00 via artnews.com
  He worked with the enterprise as a sales director from 2011 to 2012.Read More
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• How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five

  30-05-2019 16:49 via nytimes.com
  With a new Netflix series revisiting the case of the wrongfully convicted teenage boys, a writer who covered the original trial looks back on a warped time, and the warping of truth.
  
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• Were You at Woodstock 1969?

  30-05-2019 16:39 via nytimes.com
  We want to see your photographs and keepsakes for a future project.
  
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• The Central Park Five: ‘We Were Just Baby Boys’

  30-05-2019 16:38 via nytimes.com
  The men, whose story will be brought to life in Netflix’s “When They See Us,” discuss the mini-series with their onscreen counterparts.
  
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• ‘For the Birds’ Review: From an Overcrowded Chicken Coop Springs Unusual Life

  30-05-2019 16:31 via nytimes.com
  What makes the film stand out is its editing, which carefully builds a story from multiple perspectives.
  
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• Kids' Arts Fest kicks off Schenectady ArtsWeek - The Daily Gazette

  30-05-2019 15:13
  Kids' Arts Fest kicks off Schenectady ArtsWeek  The Daily GazetteIf you're out and about in downtown Schenectady on Saturday, you just might catch a glimpse of a few giant rolling animals and insects. They don't bite or sting; ...
  
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• Morning Links: The Goldfinch Edition

  30-05-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Lévy Gorvy Names Sharis Alexandrian Senior Director

  30-05-2019 14:30 via artnews.com
  She joins the gallery following seven years as director at White Cube.Read More
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• In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive

  30-05-2019 14:23 via nytimes.com
  Before cellphones, Turkish “bird language” allowed farmers to communicate across long distances in the Pontic Mountains.
  
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• New images offer closer look at Ohio State's Arts District - The Ohio State University News

  30-05-2019 14:01
  New images offer closer look at Ohio State's Arts District  The Ohio State University NewsThe Ohio State University Board of Trustees will see the newest vision of the university's planned Arts District at a meeting of the Master Planning and Facilities ...
  
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• ‘Yomeddine’ Review: A Leprosy Survivor’s Journey Under the Desert Sun

  30-05-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A.B. Shawky’s empathetic feature film follows a former leper through Egypt as he searches for the family who abandoned him.
  
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• ‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’ Review: Play Ball, Fight Nazis

  30-05-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A documentary tells the story of Moe Berg, a major-league catcher who went undercover during World War II.
  
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• ‘The Russian Five’ Review: Out of the Iron Curtain, Onto the Ice

  30-05-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A documentary looks at the Detroit Red Wings and the hockey players they recruited from the Soviet Union.
  
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