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• Billy Porter Cat-Walks His Way Through Hudson Yards

  06-06-2019 23:57 via nytimes.com
  The actor and star of “Pose” goes shopping without gender boundaries at Forty Five Ten.
  
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• Stonewall: When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore

  06-06-2019 23:54 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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• Burbank Arts for All Foundation honored at California Capitol - Los Angeles Times

  06-06-2019 23:35 via latimes.com
  Burbank Arts for All Foundation honored at California Capitol  Los Angeles TimesA year of unparalleled fundraising by the educational nonprofit Burbank Arts for All Foundation was honored this week by a government official in Sacramento.
  
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• Only Connect: Ruth Root Brings Her Delirious, History-Rich Paintings to Pittsburgh

  06-06-2019 23:27 via artnews.com
  The New York–based artist is showing 10 wildly patterned new works at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Read More
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• Finding Mercy in the Wake of the Charleston Massacre

  06-06-2019 23:13 via nytimes.com
  An intimate account of the 2015 hate crime and its aftermath, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” by Jennifer Berry Hawes, explores how those affected struggled to carry on.
  
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• Review: ‘Big Little Lies’ Adjusts to Big Little Truths

  06-06-2019 22:54 via nytimes.com
  Meryl Streep is as stellar as you would expect. But Season 2, while still sharp, feels more like a curtain call than a continuation.
  
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• Security Workers at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum Form Union

  06-06-2019 22:52 via artnews.com
  Low wages and a lack of benefits have been sources of contention at the museum. Read More
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• Is Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) A Good Stock To Buy? - Yahoo Finance

  06-06-2019 22:38 via finance.yahoo.com
  Is Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) A Good Stock To Buy?  Yahoo FinanceIt seems that the masses and most of the financial media hate hedge funds and what they do, but why is this hatred of hedge funds so prominent? At the end of ...
  
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• Pride in Queer Cinema of the Past Might Show Us Our Future

  06-06-2019 22:26 via nytimes.com
  How New York is marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising at the movies.
  
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• Last Call: MoMA’s Closing, and Changing

  06-06-2019 22:19 via nytimes.com
  With the museum shutting down June 15 for a four-month renovation, our critic assesses the challenges that lay ahead.
  
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• Metro budget cuts threaten arts education in Louisville - Courier Journal

  06-06-2019 22:14 via courier-journal.com
  Metro budget cuts threaten arts education in Louisville  Courier JournalWe recognize the challenges faced by the Metro Council in determining the city budget. The city of Louisville has been fortunate to have supportive government ...
  
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• Almine Rech Now Represents Allen Jones in France, Belgium, and China

  06-06-2019 22:06 via artnews.com
  He will have his first solo show with the gallery at its Paris space in October.Read More
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• 5 Books That Shed Light on D-Day

  06-06-2019 22:00 via nytimes.com
  These books — some classics, some published this year — tell the stories of the soldiers and spies who fought to defeat the Axis forces.
  
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• Teppei Kaneuji at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York

  06-06-2019 21:56 via artnews.com
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• Encountering the ‘New Order’ at MoMA

  06-06-2019 21:50 via nytimes.com
  The blind spots and new possibilities of the technologies we love (and hate).
  
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• In Praise of the Great Majority

  06-06-2019 21:36 via nytimes.com
  At MoMA, Honoré Sharrer’s “Workers and Paintings” asks: “What if great art were more accessible?”
  
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• Mondrian Sparked My Love of Painting

  06-06-2019 21:29 via nytimes.com
  Familiarity breeds contentment before MoMA’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie.”
  
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• Will the Renovated MoMA Let Folk Art Back In?

  06-06-2019 21:26 via nytimes.com
  Still mourning the American Folk Art Museum, a critic says, “We, and MoMA, don’t need any more Rauschenbergs, or Richters.” Bring on the outsider artists.
  
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• A Noisy Half-Hour With van Gogh’s Masterpiece

  06-06-2019 21:24 via nytimes.com
  Our critic spent 30 minutes looking — or trying to look — at “Starry Night.” It wasn’t easy.
  
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• ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ Review: Lost in a Dream City

  06-06-2019 21:22 via nytimes.com
  An indelibly beautiful story of love, family and loss in America from two childhood friends turned filmmakers.
  
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• Designing Democracy: The Nut Dish and Other Populist Gems at MoMA

  06-06-2019 21:21 via nytimes.com
  “If most Americans had little patience for Picasso, everybody needed a decent can opener,” our critic writes.
  
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• Remembering Tin House, a Literary Haven for ‘Brilliant Weirdos’

  06-06-2019 20:54 via nytimes.com
  The magazine, which will publish its final issue this month after 20 years, set out to become a home for underrepresented voices in the literary landscape.
  
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• Arts This Week: 'King Lear,' 'Tootsie' And 'Hadestown' - wgbh.org

  06-06-2019 20:49 via wgbh.org
  Arts This Week: 'King Lear,' 'Tootsie' And 'Hadestown'  wgbh.orgThis week, Jared reviews the best of Broadway ahead of the 2019 Tony Awards. “King Lear,” presented at the Cort Theatre on Broadway through June 9.
  
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• ‘The Raft’ Review: A Crew of 10 Set Adrift With a Moody Svengali

  06-06-2019 20:42 via nytimes.com
  A fascinating documentary re-examines a notorious anthropological experiment from the 1970s.
  
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• Three Rivers Arts Festival Celebration May Alter City Traffic Flow - CBS Pittsburgh

  06-06-2019 20:26 via pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
  Three Rivers Arts Festival Celebration May Alter City Traffic Flow  CBS PittsburghPITTSBURGH (KDKA)– The annual Three Rivers Arts Festival is quickly approaching, but guests may have to take a different route to get there. The Pittsburgh ...
  
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• Can a year-round arts scene and a giant model train museum save Western Mass.? - The Boston Globe

  06-06-2019 20:17 via bostonglobe.com
  Can a year-round arts scene and a giant model train museum save Western Mass.?  The Boston GlobeThe creative culture's roots run deep in the Berkshires, where manufacturing once ruled. It may be the ticket forward for the region's economy.
  
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• ‘For Colored Girls’ and ‘Soft Power’ Will Be Part of Public Theater Season

  06-06-2019 20:16 via nytimes.com
  Along with a revival of Ntozake Shange’s “choreopoem” and a new David Henry Hwang musical: work from Tony Kushner, Richard Nelson and Steve Earle.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ ‘The Great Believers’

  06-06-2019 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• A Young Pianist Held Carnegie Hall Rapt in March. She’s Already Back.

  06-06-2019 19:56 via nytimes.com
  Beatrice Rana, 26, has ferocious technique but is distinguished by her musical intelligence.
  
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• Joel Silver and Gagosian Gallery Settle Fight Over $8 M. Koons Sculpture—Acquisition to Move Forward

  06-06-2019 19:23 via artnews.com
  The Die Hard producer will be acquiring the piece after all. Read More
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• ‘Framing John DeLorean’ Review: The Man Who Flew His Car Too Close to the Sun

  06-06-2019 19:10 via nytimes.com
  Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, a new film about the mythic automaker tells a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed.
  
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• Picasso Painting Once the Subject of Nazi-Loot Lawsuit to Appear at Zurich Art Weekend

  06-06-2019 19:09 via artnews.com
  The painting has been loaned to Hauser & Wirth for the exhibition "Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire." Read More
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• Omar Kholeif Named Sharjah Art Foundation’s Director of Collections and Senior Curator

  06-06-2019 19:04 via artnews.com
  He resigned from his position at the MCA Chicago in 2018. Read More
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• How Nuclear Bomb Tests Are Helping to Identify Art Forgeries

  06-06-2019 19:04 via nytimes.com
  Using radiocarbon dating, scientists can uncover counterfeit artworks using smaller than ever samples of canvas and paint chips.
  
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• Officials: Sioux Falls students won't lose fine arts class time in schedule change - Sioux Falls Argus Leader

  06-06-2019 19:02 via argusleader.com
  Officials: Sioux Falls students won't lose fine arts class time in schedule change  Sioux Falls Argus LeaderSioux Falls students will spend less time annually in music, art or P.E. classes next year with changes to elementary school schedules, but there won't be a ...
  
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• Report: MASS MoCA Director to Face Motor Vehicle Homicide Charge After Crash Last Summer

  06-06-2019 18:52 via artnews.com
  The museum's chair said that "board and staff stand with director Joe Thompson while he resolves this deeply unfortunate personal matter." Read More
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• Review: ‘Oscar at the Crown’ Sets the Apocalypse to a Throbbing Dance Beat

  06-06-2019 18:49 via nytimes.com
  Both a dance party and an Oscar Wilde book club, this musical tries to connect the rise of social media to the end of the world.
  
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• ‘Dark Phoenix’ Review: X-Women Power? Nah

  06-06-2019 18:43 via nytimes.com
  The new installment in the long-running franchise has blowouts and Jessica Chastain channeling Tilda Swinton (so it could be worse).
  
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• Romero Britto Makes an Appearance on ‘The Real Housewives of New York’

  06-06-2019 18:24 via artnews.com
  Some lucky cast members received sculptures by the artist reportedly valued at $8,000.Read More
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• ‘The Inheritance,’ an Epic Gay Play, is Coming to Broadway

  06-06-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Matthew Lopez’s drama, inspired by the novel “Howards End” and presented in two parts, won this year’s Olivier Award for best new play.
  
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• New on the Fiction List This Week: ‘Ask Again, Yes’

  06-06-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Mary Beth Keane was researching a historical novel when “real life kept intervening,” so she wrote a contemporary saga of suburban New York instead.
  
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• Susan Meiselas Wins Kering and Rencontres d’Arles’s First Prize for Women Photographers

  06-06-2019 17:39 via artnews.com
  The founding of the award comes after artists demanded that the festival work toward gender parity. Read More
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• Art Critic James Panero Discusses the Metric System with Far-Right Pundit Tucker Carlson

  06-06-2019 17:26 via artnews.com
  The executive editor of the conservative journal the New Criterion said the measurement system is "the product of the French Revolution." Read More
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• ‘It Will Explode with Color’: David Smith Sculpture Survey Comes to England

  06-06-2019 17:24 via artnews.com
  The inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International will play host to nearly 40 works by the artists. Read More
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• ‘Nureyev’ Review: His Life Was High Drama. This Film Could Use More.

  06-06-2019 16:44 via nytimes.com
  A new movie about the superstar ballet dancer has a familiar documentary problem: great story, not-so-great storytelling.
  
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• Hootie & the Blowfish, Great American Rock Band (Yes, Really)

  06-06-2019 16:35 via nytimes.com
  Twenty-five years after the group’s pop supernova “Cracked Rear View,” it’s time for a reassessment.
  
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• A $55 Million Gift Aims to Ensure the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Recovery

  06-06-2019 16:30 via nytimes.com
  The anonymous donation will buttress the endowment of an ensemble still rebuilding from a 2011 bankruptcy.
  
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• At Paul Taylor Dance, a Generation Departs

  06-06-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The company enters a new phase with a new leader — and the loss of some of its best-known dancers.
  
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• Morning Links: Nuclear Fallout Edition

  06-06-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• A Merry Murderess Hangs Up Her ‘Chicago’ Fishnets

  06-06-2019 14:42 via nytimes.com
  After more than 20 years in the musical, Donna Marie Asbury played her final Broadway performance this week.
  
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