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• Ben Johnston, Who Made Microtonal Music Melodic, Dies at 93

  25-07-2019 23:44 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Johnston’s compositions had complex theoretical underpinnings but were also, a former student said, “grounded in the real world.”
  
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• Kimball Arts Fest Making Some Changes For 50th Anniversary - KPCW

  25-07-2019 23:29 via kpcw.org
  Kimball Arts Fest Making Some Changes For 50th Anniversary  KPCWThe Kimball Arts Festival is next week. To mark its 50 th year of existence, it's offering free admission to full-time residents of Summit County. Kimball.
  
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• Independent Art Fair Discontinues Brussels Edition

  25-07-2019 23:23 via artnews.com
  The European satellite of the New York-based fair was launched in 2016.Read More
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• Orlando arts groups worry they’ll be priced out of Dr. Phillips’ new Steinmetz Hall - Orlando Sentinel

  25-07-2019 23:13 via orlandosentinel.com
  Orlando arts groups worry they’ll be priced out of Dr. Phillips’ new Steinmetz Hall  Orlando SentinelAlthough the downtown Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts has long touted itself as the future home of the Orlando Philharmonic, Orlando Ballet and ...
  
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• Yao Li, ‘Silver Voice’ of Shanghai, Dies at 96

  25-07-2019 23:07 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Yao was a celebrated singer in Shanghai and Hong Kong starting in the 1930s. One of her songs appeared on the soundtrack of the film “Crazy Rich Asians.”
  
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• What's Happening in Northern Michigan: Rendezvous in the Sault, Arts Festival, Summer Concerts - 9&10 News

  25-07-2019 23:00 via 9and10news.com
  What's Happening in Northern Michigan: Rendezvous in the Sault, Arts Festival, Summer Concerts  9&10 NewsThere's plenty to do during the summer in Northern Michigan, from learning more about your area's history to enjoying a local festival. Courtney Sheffer with the ...
  
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• 6 New Books We Recommend This Week

  25-07-2019 22:26 via nytimes.com
  Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
  
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• Graphic Novels That Twist Reality This Way and That

  25-07-2019 22:24 via nytimes.com
  In his latest Graphic Content column Ed Park looks at Daria Tessler’s “Cult of the Ibis” and “Tumult,” by John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy — two surreal adventures.
  
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• ‘Honeyland’ Review: The Sting and the Sweetness

  25-07-2019 21:50 via nytimes.com
  A documentary about a Macedonian beekeeper’s conflict with her neighbors becomes a lyrical environmental fable.
  
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• Ahead of Earnings, Buy Activision Blizzard Stock -- but Not Electronic Arts? - Motley Fool

  25-07-2019 21:13 via fool.com
  Ahead of Earnings, Buy Activision Blizzard Stock -- but Not Electronic Arts?  Motley FoolWith both video game specialists set to report earnings, Merrill Lynch picks Activision for the win.
  
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• ‘They Were Exploring a New World’: Arnold Lehman on His Exhibition of Postwar American Women Artists at Phillips

  25-07-2019 20:32 via artnews.com
  The show in New York features 70 works created between 1945 and today. Read More
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• ‘They Were Exploring a New World’: Arnold Lehman On His Exhibition of Post-War American Women Artists at Phillips

  25-07-2019 20:32 via artnews.com
  The show in New York features 70 works created between 1945 and today. Read More
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• Review: Sondheim’s Bumpy ‘Road Show,’ Now at the End of the Line

  25-07-2019 20:10 via nytimes.com
  An Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
  
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• Review: ‘Freddie Falls in Love,’ a Mixtape Dance-ical

  25-07-2019 20:06 via nytimes.com
  In Al Blackstone’s show, the songs are what set the characters on their journey, not the steps.
  
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• Almine Rech Now Represents Closely Watched Painter Vaughn Spann

  25-07-2019 17:44 via artnews.com
  Spann will have a solo exhibition at the gallery in New York in January 2020. Read More
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• Philanthropic Organizations Pay $30 M. for ‘Ebony’ and ‘Jet’ Photo Archive, Plan Donation to Getty, Smithsonian

  25-07-2019 17:21 via artnews.com
  The purchase ensures that the four million images will become accessible to the public. Read More
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• J. Paul Getty Trust Purchases ‘Ebony’ and ‘Jet’ Photo Archive

  25-07-2019 17:21 via artnews.com
  Court documents reveal that it paid $28.5 million at auction. Read More
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• Mural Arts Philadelphia To Unveil Design For Mural Honoring Joe Frazier - CBS Philly

  25-07-2019 16:49 via philadelphia.cbslocal.com
  Mural Arts Philadelphia To Unveil Design For Mural Honoring Joe Frazier  CBS PhillyPHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Mural Arts Philadelphia is unveiling the design for a new mural that will honor well-known Philadelphia boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier on ...
  
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• ‘The Mountain’ Review: Dutiful Minds

  25-07-2019 16:43 via nytimes.com
  Jeff Goldblum plays a genial freelance lobotomist in Rick Alverson’s joyless, yet weirdly beautiful vision of 1950s America.
  
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• Tap Acrobatics in ‘The Black Clown’

  25-07-2019 16:33 via nytimes.com
  In this musical adaptation of Langston Hughes’s poem, Darius Barnes and Evan Tyrone Martin play the electrifying tap duo the Nicholas Brothers.
  
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• Electronic Arts (EA) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in Store? - Yahoo Finance

  25-07-2019 16:32 via finance.yahoo.com
  Electronic Arts (EA) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in Store?  Yahoo FinanceElectronic Arts EA is set to report first-quarter fiscal 2020 results on Jul 30. Notably, the company's earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in the trailing ...
  
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• 18th Street Arts Center debuts Santa Monica Airport space with sleep machines. Here's why - Los Angeles Times

  25-07-2019 16:30 via latimes.com
  18th Street Arts Center debuts Santa Monica Airport space with sleep machines. Here's why  Los Angeles TimesPostcommodity and Guillermo Galindo collaborate on a piece launching 18th Street Arts Center's takeover of the disputed Santa Monica Airport art space.
  
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• Roman Polanski’s New Film Will Compete at Venice Film Festival

  25-07-2019 16:08 via nytimes.com
  The latest movie from the director, who fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for statutory rape, deals with a famous miscarriage of justice, the Dreyfus affair.
  
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• Has Robert Mapplethorpe’s Moment Passed?

  25-07-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The photographer’s once-taboo images have lost their power to shock, and feed into outworn stereotypes, a critic argues.
  
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• ‘Orange Is the New Black’: Jenji Kohan Is Ready to Get Out of Prison

  25-07-2019 15:46 via nytimes.com
  Kohan discusses the end of her groundbreaking ensemble dramedy. The final season arrives on Friday on Netflix.
  
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• The Ellipsis in the Title of Tarantino’s New Film Is Explained … Sort Of

  25-07-2019 15:25 via nytimes.com
  Is it “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” or “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood”? Yes.
  
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• Warren Kanders Resigns as Whitney Trustee After Protests Over Tear Gas

  25-07-2019 15:19 via nytimes.com
  Days after eight artists left the Whitney Biennial, the vice chairman stepped down amid criticism of how his company’s law enforcement supplies are used.
  
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• ASAP Rocky to Stand Trial in Sweden on Assault Charge

  25-07-2019 15:16 via nytimes.com
  The case started as a street brawl, but has ballooned into a diplomatic incident, with Sweden facing accusations of racism and human rights abuses.
  
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• Warren Kanders Resigns from the Whitney, Jay Gorney to Marlborough, and More: Morning Links from July 25, 2019

  25-07-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Glimpsing Our Post-Consumption Future at the Cooper Hewitt

  25-07-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The Design Triennial envisions the possibilities for algae, yeast and other nonpolluting materials. Will they help save the planet?
  
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• After Months of Protests, Warren B. Kanders Resigns from Whitney Board

  25-07-2019 14:32 via artnews.com
  His departure comes just days after eight artists asked that the museum remove their works from the biennial. Read More
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• As Marlborough Gallery Consolidates Operation, Veteran Dealer Jay Gorney Comes Aboard

  25-07-2019 14:15 via artnews.com
  The gallery is currently at work on a major expansion in Chelsea. Read More
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• Susanne Hofer’s Lyrical Projections at Fresh Window Gallery in Brooklyn

  25-07-2019 14:00 via artnews.com
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• Damián Ortega Wins ICA Miami’s Inaugural Sculpture Prize

  25-07-2019 14:00 via artnews.com
  The $15,000 prize will go toward the fabrication of a new commission. Read More
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• It's not too late! Local summer arts camps still open for registration - Press & Sun-Bulletin

  25-07-2019 13:20 via pressconnects.com
  It's not too late! Local summer arts camps still open for registration  Press & Sun-BulletinWe're smack in the middle of of summer, but it's not too late to sign up for two local youth-centered arts camps.
  
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• Even Now, Rutger Hauer’s Performance in ‘Blade Runner’ Is a Marvel

  25-07-2019 13:16 via nytimes.com
  With his combination of menace and anguish, he created an unforgettable character that made the movie the classic it remains today.
  
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• ‘The Ground Beneath My Feet’ Review: A Woman on the Run

  25-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  It’s hard to stand still when you have troublesome co-workers, a mentally ill sister and the need for exercise.
  
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• ‘Skin’ Review: Divide and Prejudice

  25-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  An intense Jamie Bell plays a tormented white supremacist in this blistering study of rage and redemption.
  
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• ‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Review: A Ticktock of a Newsman’s Life

  25-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Presenting the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent with relatively little mediation is a natural way to his story, even as it creates a limitation.
  
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• ‘Jirga’ Review: A Soldier Returns to the Scene of His War Crime

  25-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This film, set almost entirely in Afghanistan, features striking landscapes that are rarely seen onscreen.
  
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• ‘For Sama’ Review: Out of Besieged Aleppo, a Documentary

  25-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A young woman records the city around her and the violence the Syrian government and its allies loosed on civilians who rose against them.
  
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• ASAP Rocky Is Charged With Assault in Sweden

  25-07-2019 12:57 via nytimes.com
  The case started as a street brawl, but has ballooned into a diplomatic incident, with Sweden facing accusations of racism and human rights abuses.
  
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• Whitney Trustee Warren Kanders Resigns After Protests Over His Company’s Sale of Tear Gas

  25-07-2019 12:53 via nytimes.com
  Days after eight artists left the Whitney Biennial, the vice chairman stepped down amid criticism of how his company’s law enforcement supplies are used.
  
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• A Quiet Take on Tennessee Williams

  25-07-2019 12:07 via nytimes.com
  A London production of “The Night of the Iguana” starring Clive Owen asks for the audience’s patience, and rewards it.
  
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• Hope for the arts - Isthmus

  25-07-2019 12:05 via isthmus.com
  Hope for the arts  IsthmusWith slight increases in budget and some marketing schemes in place, there might be hope for renewed arts funding in Wisconsin under Gov. Tony Evers' ...
  
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• BackTrack: The Easy Confidence of Arts and Letters - BloodHorse.com

  25-07-2019 12:01 via bloodhorse.com
  BackTrack: The Easy Confidence of Arts and Letters  BloodHorse.comThis week is a recap of the 1969 Travers Stakes at Saratoga won by Arts and Letters. Written by Kent Hollingsworth, the recap ran in the Aug. 23, 1969 ...
  
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• Megan Rapinoe Scores Again, but This Time It’s a Book Deal

  25-07-2019 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The soccer star will address social justice in two upcoming books.
  
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• Where to Find Native American Culture and a Good Read

  25-07-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Birchbark Books & Native Arts, owned by the novelist Louise Erdrich, provides indigenous-language guides, literature and crafts — and the latest best sellers.
  
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• The Spanish Author Who Doesn’t Believe in Spanish Literature

  25-07-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Important as it is, the language in which you write is secondary,” says Javier Marías, whose new novel is “Berta Isla.” “I myself feel much closer to many foreign authors than to many of my compatriots.”
  
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• Bursting Onto the Stage Like a ‘Bat Out of Hell’

  25-07-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The musical based on the grandiose Meat Loaf album shines a light on its songwriter, Jim Steinman, and the many twists and turns it took to get both projects made.
  
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