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• Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture Sells for $389,000 at New York Auction, New Record for the Trailblazing Artist

  09-10-2019 23:24 via artnews.com
  The late artist's previous auction record, $288,000, was set in 2009 at Swann Auction Galleries. Read More
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• ‘Gemini Man’ Review: That Assassin Looks a Lot Like Will Smith

  09-10-2019 22:57 via nytimes.com
  This globe-trotting action thriller directed by Ang Lee is largely forgettable, except for one co-star.
  
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• Jill Freedman, Photographer Who Lingered in the Margins, Dies at 79

  09-10-2019 22:45 via nytimes.com
  She immersed herself in the rougher precincts of American life for months at a time, portraying their denizens as noble but not necessarily heroic.
  
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• Deborah Marrow, a Getty Leader With Global Reach, Dies at 70

  09-10-2019 22:37 via nytimes.com
  As a top executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust and its only female president, she spread its wealth around the world while promoting multiculturalism.
  
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• Review: Stuck in Maine in ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’

  09-10-2019 22:27 via nytimes.com
  Friends and family about to be left behind when a young man goes to college reckon with a world of narrow choices in Chad Beckim’s play.
  
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• The Museum of Modern Art Expands: Complete Coverage

  09-10-2019 22:22 via artnews.com
  See coverage of the museum's past and future in mind of its resurrection in the present. Read More
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• In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own

  09-10-2019 22:18 via nytimes.com
  “The Man Who Saw Everything,” which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, looks at masculinity through the perspective of a young historian who sneers at “authoritarian old men.”
  
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• What Do Artists Want from the New MoMA? Lawrence Weiner, Howardena Pindell, and More Weigh In

  09-10-2019 21:25 via artnews.com
  After a $450 million renovation, the New York institution will soon meet its critics. Read More
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• Scott Lindroth to Step Down as Vice Provost for the Arts - Duke Today

  09-10-2019 21:00 via today.duke.edu
  Scott Lindroth to Step Down as Vice Provost for the Arts  Duke Today
  
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• Ciaran Carson, Versatile Belfast Poet, Is Dead at 70

  09-10-2019 20:27 via nytimes.com
  In his poetry, as well as in his prose, he conveyed the complexities of his city and his country.
  
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• A Collector’s Favorite: Dark but Strangely Peaceful Beauty

  09-10-2019 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Alain Verzeroli loves photography, and is intrigued by Izima Kaoru’s series of elegantly clad subjects.
  
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• The Real Threat of ‘Joker’ Is Hiding in Plain Sight

  09-10-2019 19:34 via nytimes.com
  What the film wants to say — about mental illness or class divisions in society — is not as interesting as what it accidentally says about whiteness.
  
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• How Rap’s Class of 2019 Lives and Dies by the Meme

  09-10-2019 19:34 via nytimes.com
  The online lives of Teejayx6, DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion and other breakout rappers are as important as their music.
  
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• 7 Key MoMA Shows from the 1970s—and What ARTnews Said at the Time

  09-10-2019 18:30 via artnews.com
  Read responses from critics to "Information," a major Robert Rauschenberg show, and a new kind of photography. Read More
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• Following Censorship Allegations, Aichi Triennale Reopens Controversial Exhibition, Puts Back on View Works Removed by Artists

  09-10-2019 18:11 via artnews.com
  Some 10 artists had demanded that the Japanese triennial remove their work as long as a contested portion of the show remained closed. Read More
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• Rembrandt’s Legendary ‘Night Watch’ Is Being Studied in Front of a Live Audience. What Will Scholars Discover?

  09-10-2019 17:34 via artnews.com
  The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has built multi-pronged programming around its conservation of the 1642 group portrait. Read More
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• Hassan Hajjaj Turns Moroccan Clichés Into London Cool

  09-10-2019 17:25 via nytimes.com
  His photographs, enlivened by friends, subversive wit and a hip-hop swagger, are on show in a major retrospective in Paris.
  
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• Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’

  09-10-2019 16:47 via nytimes.com
  Four years after his son’s fatal accident, the Australian musician has made an eerie, meditative album.
  
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• ‘For Colored Girls’ Is a Choreopoem. What’s a Choreopoem?

  09-10-2019 16:47 via nytimes.com
  This landmark work, “a whole new form of theater,” originated with a poet, Ntozake Shange, dancing.
  
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• In a Suspenseful New Novel From Ruta Sepetys, Franco-Era Spain Is as Repressive as Gilead

  09-10-2019 16:37 via nytimes.com
  A teenage chambermaid living under the rule of Francisco Franco fights for justice, and finds love, in “The Fountains of Silence.”
  
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• Need an Uplifting Show or Another British Mystery? We’ve Got You

  09-10-2019 16:35 via nytimes.com
  Go with “Glow” for the all the feels and “Prime Suspect” for your British crime fix.
  
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• ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ 20 Years Later: For Trans Men, a Divisive Legacy

  09-10-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Was the movie a landmark in representation or distressingly exploitative? It was both and so much more.
  
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• With a $450 Million Expansion, MoMA Is Bigger. Is That Better?

  09-10-2019 15:27 via nytimes.com
  The museum added 47,000 square feet of gallery space, a spiffy new canopy and a restaurant. “It’s smart, surgical, sprawling and slightly soulless,” our critic writes.
  
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• Robert Mnuchin Sells $35 M. de Kooning, Chicago’s ‘Feminist Moment,’ and More: Morning Links from October 9, 2019

  09-10-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Leonardo da Vinci’s Prized ‘Vitruvian Man’ May Not Travel to Paris for Louvre Retrospective After All

  09-10-2019 14:46 via artnews.com
  An Italian court ruled that the work is too fragile to make its way to France. Read More
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• The Green Revolution Spreading Across Our Rooftops

  09-10-2019 11:46 via nytimes.com
  Green roofs can save energy, reduce air pollution and attract residents with their appealing look. Now, cities worldwide are enshrining them into law.
  
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• This Is an Indian House, According to One Architect

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  By turning his gaze backward, Bijoy Jain is creating a new architectural language that acknowledges his country’s precolonial past.
  
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• Scandalized by Ali Wong’s Stand-Up? Brace Yourself for Her Book

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The star of two uproarious Netflix comedy specials is nervous about how people will react to her essay collection. “I hope my siblings don’t get pissed at me,” she says.
  
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• Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In Huelva, the socialite-turned-sculptor created a monumental Christopher Columbus statue. The writer sought her history there.
  
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• Liz Phair Still Doesn’t Care What We Think

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In her bracing new memoir, “Horror Stories,” the rock star focuses on small, intense, un-rock-star moments.
  
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• In New Memoirs, Two Whistle-Blowers Offer Details From Inside Cambridge Analytica

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Christopher Wylie’s “Mind____” and Brittany Kaiser’s “Targeted” tell of how the company harvested data from millions of Facebook users and attempted to influence voter behavior.
  
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• Hating Comic Sans Is Not a Personality

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Even the creator of the font thinks it’s a joke — but he’s tired of the tweets.
  
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• Escaping the Nazis by Way of Iran

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Mikhal Dekel’s “Tehran Children” tells the story of the extraordinarily hazardous journey made by hundreds of Jews from Poland to Iran to Palestine.
  
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• Eddie Murphy’s Latest Look Is Ripe for Appropriation

  09-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The actor’s pimp-styled wardrobe in “Dolemite Is My Name” is likely to inspire a spate of fashion knockoffs.
  
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• MoMA Keeps Getting Bigger. Is That Better?

  09-10-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  In a $450 million expansion, the museum added 47,000 square feet of gallery space, a spiffy new canopy and a restaurant. “It’s smart, surgical, sprawling and slightly soulless,” our critic writes.
  
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• Hyun-derrated: Martial arts don't get the attention they deserve - Daily Trojan Online

  09-10-2019 08:21 via dailytrojan.com
  Hyun-derrated: Martial arts don't get the attention they deserve  Daily Trojan Online
  
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• Trump’s Just Defending His Street Cred, Trevor Noah Says

  09-10-2019 08:15 via nytimes.com
  President Trump stopped an ambassador from testifying in the impeachment inquiry because he was afraid the man would “exonerate him too much,” Noah said.
  
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• Red Wing Arts celebrates emerging artists | RiverTowns - RiverTowns

  09-10-2019 07:11 via rivertowns.net
  Red Wing Arts celebrates emerging artists | RiverTowns  RiverTowns
  
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• What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Nancy Drew’ and ‘Goliath’

  09-10-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  Nancy Drew is reimagined in a new CW series. And a new season of the legal drama “Goliath” is streaming on Amazon.
  
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• State arts commission director speaking at arts district celebration Thursday - Longview News-Journal

  09-10-2019 06:30 via news-journal.com
  State arts commission director speaking at arts district celebration Thursday  Longview News-Journal
  
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• After 21 years leading ‘community jewel,’ Hilton Head arts center president retires - Hilton Head Island Packet

  09-10-2019 06:00 via islandpacket.com
  After 21 years leading ‘community jewel,’ Hilton Head arts center president retires  Hilton Head Island Packet
  
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• 8 Days a Week: Columbia Arts & Entertainment Highlights, Oct. 9-16 - Charleston Post Courier

  09-10-2019 06:00 via postandcourier.com
  8 Days a Week: Columbia Arts & Entertainment Highlights, Oct. 9-16  Charleston Post Courier
  
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• Tuacahn High to update its name - The Spectrum

  09-10-2019 05:33 via thespectrum.com
  Tuacahn High to update its name  The Spectrum
  
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• Final Goodbye: Students from the Jessye Norman School of the Arts prepare to honor her with a touching tribute - WRDW-TV

  09-10-2019 05:29 via wrdw.com
  Final Goodbye: Students from the Jessye Norman School of the Arts prepare to honor her with a touching tribute  WRDW-TV
  
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• Haley’s Martial Arts led by Jackson Jordan’s top finish in Yuba City | Community roundup - Chico Enterprise-Record

  09-10-2019 05:08 via chicoer.com
  Haley’s Martial Arts led by Jackson Jordan’s top finish in Yuba City | Community roundup  Chico Enterprise-Record
  
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• Achieving Dean's List Eases for College of Arts and Sciences Students - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun

  09-10-2019 04:36 via cornellsun.com
  Achieving Dean's List Eases for College of Arts and Sciences Students  Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
  
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• Dark Arts Month and Other Updates - Wizards Unite Hub

  09-10-2019 04:21 via wizardsunitehub.info
  Dark Arts Month and Other Updates  Wizards Unite Hub
  
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• KENKARE | The College of Arts and Crafts - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun

  09-10-2019 03:01 via cornellsun.com
  KENKARE | The College of Arts and Crafts  Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
  
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• How sports and arts can help prevent youth homelessness - AlterNet

  09-10-2019 02:48 via alternet.org
  How sports and arts can help prevent youth homelessness  AlterNet
  
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• Director of arts and culture, voted by council, will look at keeping creative community alive - cambridgeday.com

  09-10-2019 02:25 via cambridgeday.com
  Director of arts and culture, voted by council, will look at keeping creative community alive  cambridgeday.com
  
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