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• Mustapha Matura, Caribbean Playwright in London, Dies at 79

  19-11-2019 23:47 via nytimes.com
  
  His often satirical plays spoke for an alienated West Indian population in postwar Britain and for the people he left behind in Trinidad and Tobago.
  
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• An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas

  19-11-2019 23:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Ahead of a new solo show, Suzanne Jackson talks about her creative routine, her love of jazz music and the worst studio she ever had.
  
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• ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope

  19-11-2019 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Thant Myint-U’s new book offers a deeper understanding of the country’s history and of the trajectory of its de facto political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
  
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• When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original

  19-11-2019 22:14 via nytimes.com
  
  A new coffee table book revisits the publishing histories of novels like Pride & Prejudice, Emma and Sense & Sensibility.
  
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• The Man Who Was American Music

  19-11-2019 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  James Kaplan’s “Irving Berlin” traces a celebrated life that extended over 100 years.
  
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• Songs of Survival and Rebellion

  19-11-2019 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Their music spans genres and generations, but six iconic performers strike a similar chord in their new memoirs. The dominant note? Honesty.
  
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• Trying to Trademark a Meme? OK Boomer

  19-11-2019 21:45 via nytimes.com
  
  At least five trademark applications are pending for the retort, according to a database for the federal patent office, including one by Fox Media, which hopes to use it for a possible television series.
  
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• 6 Pounds and 1,600 Pages of Art Writing! New Calvin Tomkins Collection Chronicles Postwar Art in Intimate, Albeit Incomplete, Fashion

  19-11-2019 21:15 via artnews.com
  
  Marking the 60th anniversary of his meeting with Marcel Duchamp, the volume includes pieces on Jean Tinguely, John Cage, Jennifer Barltett, and many more. Read More
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• What Tweets and Emojis Did to the Novel

  19-11-2019 21:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The digital age ushered in new ways of reading — and revived old ones (the scroll and the ideogram). Could it also explain the rise of autofiction? Charles Finch considers.
  
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• Roman Polanski’s French Film Industry Support May Be Waning

  19-11-2019 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The director’s latest movie is topping the French box office, but a trade association is looking to suspend his membership.
  
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• Study of TV Directors Finds Record Level of Diversity

  19-11-2019 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  According to a Directors Guild of America report, 50 percent of episodes were directed by women or people of color, a huge increase from five years ago. Still, there were gaps.
  
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• UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing Cancels Exhibition Amid Fraught Relations Between U.S. and China

  19-11-2019 19:24 via artnews.com
  
  It was not immediately clear why Liu's work was denied an import permit. Read More
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• My ‘Face Is My Voice’: A Deaf Dancer Lands Her Dream Role

  19-11-2019 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexandria Wailes deftly weaves choreography and American Sign Language in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls.”
  
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• A Last Dance for Leonard Cohen

  19-11-2019 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician and poet released “You Want It Darker” 19 days before his death in 2016. His son, Adam, finished more songs from those sessions for a posthumous album.
  
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• Sotheby’s Withdraws Banksy Sculpture After Rival Artist Claims It Was Stolen from Him

  19-11-2019 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  The work had been estimated to sell for £750,000 to £1 million. Read More
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• The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’

  19-11-2019 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  He has written around 30, depending how you count. Listen to some highlights.
  
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• The New ‘Cats’ Trailer Is Here, Now With More Idris Elba

  19-11-2019 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  With longer longs at co-stars and a bigger emphasis on plot, the clipleaves out mention of behind-the-scenes personnel like Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  
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• Hugo Boss Prize, One of the World’s Top Art Awards, Names Shortlist for 2020

  19-11-2019 17:06 via artnews.com
  
  The winner will receive $100,000 and a solo show at the Guggenheim in 2021. Read More
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• Instead of a New Album, Rihanna Drops a Book

  19-11-2019 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A large-scale memoir-in-images, simply titled “Rihanna,” is the latest in the musician-turned-mogul’s luxury offerings.
  
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• Review: In ‘Love in Hate Nation,’ the Revolution Will Not Be Scrutinized

  19-11-2019 16:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Joe Iconis’s new musical celebrates women’s prison flicks and girl group harmonies. But his teen rebels could use a cause.
  
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• Design That’s Got Users in Mind

  19-11-2019 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In “User Friendly,” Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant recount America’s long history of making products that take people’s needs into account.
  
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• The Other Charles Manson Movie Has a Lot to Say

  19-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  One of the best movies of 2019, Mary Harron’s “Charlie Says,” evokes counterculture of the late ’60s with relevance for today.
  
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• The Kids Who Love ‘Frozen’ and the Parents Who Love Them

  19-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  We asked families about life with “Let It Go.” Whether playing it 91 times or blocking their ears, they all agree it has taken over their worlds.
  
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• How Do I Fill the ‘Succession’-Size Hole in My Sunday?

  19-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A TV critic offers a suggestion, as well as answers to other questions from readers.
  
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• Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars

  19-11-2019 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Corner That Held Them,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, and “Medieval Bodies,” by Jack Hartnell, consider the pleasures and perils of life in the Middle Ages.
  
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• KAWS Pays $17 M. for Brooklyn Building, Contested Banksy Sculpture Withdrawn from Auction, and More: Morning Links from November 19, 2019

  19-11-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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• Why Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot are Tweeting #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

  19-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Their superhero film “Justice League” was a critical flop, but the stars want the original director’s vision restored.
  
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• The Mister Rogers No One Saw

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
  
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• Meet the Levy Family. Their History Is Our History.

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan.
  
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• It’s 1468. Why Does the Village Priest Have an iPhone?

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At first glance, Robert Harris’s new novel, “The Second Sleep,” appears to be set in 15th-century Britain. Then things get tricky.
  
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• Endangered Crafts and the Destinations Keeping Them Alive

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many indigenous crafts worldwide are in danger of becoming extinct, but in some places, efforts to rescue them are underway.
  
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• ‘Broke’ Chronicles a City Out of Cash and Awash in Desperation

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new book by Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven residents of bankrupt Detroit, exposing the effects of decades of disinvestment and failed urban policy.
  
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• Birthing Bunnies: An 18th-Century Woman’s Bizarre Medical Hoax

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Dexter Palmer’s novel “Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen” spins an actual case of scientific fraud into a cracking tale about the nature of belief.
  
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• Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus: What Shows Are Worth Watching?

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The initial lineups of original shows on the two streaming services are hit-and-miss. But here are five worth checking out.
  
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• 6 Classic TV Series Left Out of the Streaming Boom

  19-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Some of best shows in history, like “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Thirtysomething,” can’t be streamed.
  
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• ‘The Crown’: The History Behind Season 3 on Netflix

  19-11-2019 10:58 via nytimes.com
  
  As in past seasons, the latest installment of Netflix’s show about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II melds fact and fiction. Here’s how The Times covered events depicted this season.
  
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• Late Night Has a Physical Reaction to Trump’s Hospital Visit

  19-11-2019 08:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Trevor Noah joked of President Trump’s unannounced visit: “Was it a health emergency or did he need to get a marble removed from his nose again?”
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Sorry for Your Loss’ and ‘For Sama’

  19-11-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The finale of Elizabeth Olsen’s show about grief hits Facebook Watch, and a harrowing documentary on the conflict in Syria premieres on PBS.
  
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• Arts Playlist: Songs to Crank if You're Nervous About Handling the Aux Cord | Arts - Harvard Crimson

  19-11-2019 04:13 via thecrimson.com
  
  Arts Playlist: Songs to Crank if You're Nervous About Handling the Aux Cord | Arts  Harvard Crimson
  
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• Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia

  19-11-2019 04:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Two plays based on the autobiographical novels of Édouard Louis put the problem of violence against gay men in a larger social context.
  
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• Why the Newest Works by Amy Sherald Focus on Ordinary People - Smithsonian.com

  19-11-2019 03:52 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Why the Newest Works by Amy Sherald Focus on Ordinary People  Smithsonian.com
  
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• Heidi Schreck's Riveting Play Deconstructs the U.S. Constitution - Smithsonian.com

  19-11-2019 03:52 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Heidi Schreck's Riveting Play Deconstructs the U.S. Constitution  Smithsonian.com
  
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• How Lil Nas X and 'Old Town Road' Defy Categorization - Smithsonian.com

  19-11-2019 03:51 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  How Lil Nas X and 'Old Town Road' Defy Categorization  Smithsonian.com
  
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• Bennington's Hurley earns martial arts award - Bennington Banner

  19-11-2019 03:30 via benningtonbanner.com
  
  Bennington's Hurley earns martial arts award  Bennington Banner
  
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• This Year in Arts, 1989: The Currents of Change Fill the Air | Arts - Harvard Crimson

  19-11-2019 02:51 via thecrimson.com
  
  This Year in Arts, 1989: The Currents of Change Fill the Air | Arts  Harvard Crimson
  
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• 'Disaster!' the musical strikes the King Fine Arts Center, Burley - Twin Falls Times-News

  19-11-2019 02:36 via magicvalley.com
  'Disaster!' the musical strikes the King Fine Arts Center, Burley  Twin Falls Times-News
  
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• 'Not your parents' Swan Lake': Carolina Performing Arts hosts Loch na hEala - The Daily Tar Heel

  19-11-2019 01:59 via dailytarheel.com
  
  'Not your parents' Swan Lake': Carolina Performing Arts hosts Loch na hEala  The Daily Tar Heel
  
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• Gingerbread Homes for the Arts kicks off Christmas - wnky.com

  19-11-2019 01:17 via wnky.com
  
  Gingerbread Homes for the Arts kicks off Christmas  wnky.com
  
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• Fine arts gallery showcases seniors - KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper

  19-11-2019 00:58 via ksusentinel.com
  
  Fine arts gallery showcases seniors  KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper
  
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• Kehinde Lijadu, 71, Outspoken Nigerian Songwriter, Is Dead

  19-11-2019 00:44 via nytimes.com
  
  As the Lijadu Sisters, she and her identical twin, Taiwo, sang about injustice and hope and had a string of hit records in the 1970s.
  
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