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• Top Art Institutions and Leaders Condemn Trump’s Threat to Strike Iran’s Cultural Sites

  06-01-2020 23:43 via artnews.com
  
  Tensions have rapidly escalated between America and Iran following an airstrike in Iraq on Friday which killed Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s top security and intelligence commander and the nation’s second-most powerful figure. On Twitter on Saturday night, President Trump threatened military strikes against 52 Iranian sites—which he described as being “at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture”—if any Americans or American assets i
  
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• These Composers Are Maestros of Menace

  06-01-2020 23:04 via nytimes.com
  
  They call themselves the Newton Brothers, and they create deeply creepy scores for horror flicks like “The Grudge” and “Doctor Sleep.”
  
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• Reimagining Old Friends at the National Theater in London

  06-01-2020 21:22 via nytimes.com
  
  New takes on beloved works by Elena Ferrante, Anton Chekhov and Neil Gaiman testify to the pleasures and perils of adaptation.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Ken Lum Wins $50,000 Artist Prize from Art Gallery of Ontario—and More from January 7, 2020

  06-01-2020 20:39 via artnews.com
  
  Tuesday, January 7
  Ken Lum Wins $50,000 Artist Prize from Art Gallery of OntarioThe Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has named Ken Lum the winner of its 2019 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, which comes with a $50,000 purse and a solo exhibition at the museum. The award, which is administered by the late Canadian artist’s eponymous foundation, is presented annually to a Canadian artist. Lum is best known for his canvases that pair images with text and his reconfigurations of motel and mini-mall si
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Establishes New Painting Prize Named for Helen Frankenthaler—and More from January 6, 2020

  06-01-2020 20:39 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, January 6
  Foundation for Contemporary Arts Establishes New Painting PrizeThe New York–based Foundation for Contemporary Arts has named artist Kerstin Brätsch as the recipient of its inaugural Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, which comes with $40,000. The award is underwritten by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and administered through the FCA’s Grants to Artists program. Brätsch, whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New Mu
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Is Charged With Rape in Los Angeles

  06-01-2020 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The new case in California against the Hollywood producer was disclosed just as his sexual assault trial began in New York.
  
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• Behind the ‘Lightning Thief’ Twitter Curtain: A Tony Winner

  06-01-2020 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ashlee Latimer fostered a young online community through the musical’s social media. Fans know her better as Mx. Thief.
  
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• Writers Guild Nominations: ‘Parasite,’ ‘Marriage Story,’ ‘Joker’ and More

  06-01-2020 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  But where is the Golden Globe winner Quentin Tarantino? Not eligible, it turns out.
  
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• The Role of a Career in ‘Fiddler,’ and He Might Even Keep the Beard

  06-01-2020 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Steven Skybell was finally the right age for Tevye. Little did he know that when the time came, the show would be in Yiddish, and for a surprisingly long run that ended Sunday.
  
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• Golden Globes 2020: Where to Stream the Winners

  06-01-2020 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Most of the big winners from the evening are streaming. Here’s a look at where find them and what The Times first had to say about them.
  
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• A Plane Goes Down, Killing 191. Only a 12-Year-Old Survives.

  06-01-2020 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dear Edward,” Ann Napolitano’s powerful new novel, follows a boy struggling in the wake of a plane crash that has killed the rest of his family.
  
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• Travis Scott’s JackBoys Hit No. 1 Before New Bundling Rule Begins

  06-01-2020 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  A tweak to the Billboard album chart is designed to curtail the effects of record sales tied to merchandise.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Said to Be Indicted in Los Angeles on Sex Crimes Charges

  06-01-2020 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The new case in California against the Hollywood producer was disclosed just as his sexual assault trial began in New York.
  
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• Michelle Williams Tells Women to Vote for Their Rights at Golden Globes

  06-01-2020 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Patricia Arquette, Joaquin Phoenix and other winners took the opportunity to speak directly about some pressing events as well.
  
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• MIT Art Center Hires Natalie Bell, Rising New York Curator, to Oversee Exhibitions Program

  06-01-2020 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  After its last curator, Henriette Huldisch, departed to take a top position at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, a closely watched art space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has picked a significant figure in New York to fill the role.
  Natalie Bell, who has worked as an associate curator at the New Museum in New York, will be the MIT List Visual Arts Center’s new exhibitions curator. She starts in her new post on January 15.
  Bell has been with the New Museu
  
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• Setback for Weinstein, as Judge Rules Disgraced Detective Cannot Testify

  06-01-2020 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Protesters met the movie producer as he hobbled with a walker into state court in Manhattan to face rape charges.
  
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• Judge Deals Setback to Weinstein, Ruling Disgraced Detective Cannot Testify

  06-01-2020 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Protesters met the movie producer as he hobbled with a walker into state court in Manhattan to face rape charges.
  
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• Inside the Golden Globes After-Parties

  06-01-2020 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  And, what Olivia Colman, Brian Cox and other stars thought of the vegan dinner.
  
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• When He Was Good, He Was Breathtaking

  06-01-2020 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The mesmerizing, frustrating world of Félix Vallotton, now at the Metropolitan Museum.
  
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• John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Wit, Is Dead at 88

  06-01-2020 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Through his hybrid works and teaching, he helped build the Los Angeles art scene, mentoring a who’s who of contemporary artists.
  
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• As Fires Rage in Australia, National Gallery Shutters Due to Deteriorating Air Quality in Capital

  06-01-2020 18:28 via artnews.com
  
  As devastating brushfires rage across Australia, burning more than 14.7 million acres of land as of Monday, museums have begun closing due to dangerously smoky air. The Art Newspaper reports that the National Gallery of Australia in the capital city of Canberra shut its doors on Sunday as a precautionary measure for visitors, staff members, and artworks at the institution.
  In a statement posted to Twitter, the museum said that it closed “to mitigate any risk to the public, staff, and works
  
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• It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It

  06-01-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pop music isn’t made in a vacuum. Copying isn’t always bad. And a new trend pulling more pop stars into courtrooms is a dangerous one.
  
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• Muses: B-52’s Singer Fred Schneider on Kurt Schwitters, Nonsense Poetry, and Rauschenberg’s Slap-Happy Hand

  06-01-2020 17:03 via artnews.com
  
  “Muses” is a column for which creators from different disciplines reveal sources of artistic inspiration and instigation. 
  Fred Schneider is a singer in the B-52’s, one of the truly singular rock bands to spring up out of the postmodern cultural firmament of America in the 1970s and ’80s. After starting out in Athens, Georgia, the group located to New York and traveled a path through the art-rock underground to the top of the pop charts, with a long list of hits incl
  
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• Trigger Warnings as a Provocateur Puts Suicide Onstage

  06-01-2020 16:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Milo Rau’s latest work is inspired by a French family whose members took their own lives.
  
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• The Best and the Worst of the Golden Globes

  06-01-2020 16:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The night veered from snarky to earnest, from climate change to … eyebrows? Yep, it got weird.
  
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• National Gallery of Australia Closes, Johnson Publishing to Auction 100 Artworks, and More: Morning Links from January 6, 2020

  06-01-2020 15:09 via artnews.com
  
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  The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari has died at age 88. [ARTnews]
  The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where an exhibition of works by Matisse and Picasso is currently on view, closed on Sunday due to smoky air caused by raging brushfires. [The Art Newspaper]
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  Later this month, the Chicago-based compa
  
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• A MoMA PS1 Exhibition Examines the Living Legacy of the Gulf Wars

  06-01-2020 14:50 via artnews.com
  
  In January 1991, armed forces led by the United States commenced combat against Iraq. Including a military build-up that started the prior year in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War lasted just shy of seven months. In “Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011,” at MoMA PS1 through March 1, the conflict’s shadow extends over two decades of artistic production. The show is big, filling three floors with over three hundred works by some eighty ar
  
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• This Golden Globes Red Carpet Was Not Harvey Weinstein’s Red Carpet

  06-01-2020 14:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The 2020s may be the decade when awards show fashion finally breaks free.
  
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• The Coolest Architecture on Earth Is in Antarctica

  06-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Who said a polar research base had to be ugly? Gradually, designers are rethinking how to build for the world’s harshest environment.
  
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• Larry Kramer Leaves No Score Unsettled in an Epic’s Finale

  06-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The American People, Volume 2” is a sprawling, angry, intimate book about the dawn of the AIDS crisis and the carnage and neglect that ensued.
  
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• 6 Books You Can Read Between Episodes of ‘The Bachelor’

  06-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These fictional accounts of reality TV aren’t here to make friends. But they might keep you distracted while you wait for the next rose ceremony.
  
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• Awkwafina Becomes First Asian-American to Win Best Actress at Golden Globes

  06-01-2020 10:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Awkwafina’s award for her role in “The Farewell” was the film’s only win of the night.
  
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• ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ and ‘1917’ Win Top Awards at Golden Globes

  06-01-2020 07:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the lead acting prizes for film, while “Fleabag” and “Succession” each took home two TV awards.
  
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• What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Family Farm’

  06-01-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 24th season of the dating show begins. And a reality series about families adapting to farm life arrives on Acorn TV.
  
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• Women’s Rights, Australia Fires and Iran Hang Over Golden Globes

  06-01-2020 06:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Michelle Williams, Patricia Arquette, Joaquin Phoenix and other winners took the opportunity to speak directly about some pressing events.
  
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• Tom Hanks at the Golden Globes: Don’t Be Late

  06-01-2020 06:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award, spent his speech offering some advice.
  
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• Golden Globes: Awkwafina Becomes First Asian-American to Win Best Actress

  06-01-2020 05:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Awkwafina’s award for her role in “The Farewell” was the film’s only win of the night.
  
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• Hollywood Sheds Its Cares at the Golden Globes, but Not All of Them

  06-01-2020 05:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Ricky Gervais’s nihilism-by-the-numbers returned to the Golden Globes, along with podium passion and the usual bubbles.
  
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• Golden Globes 2020: ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ and ‘1917’ Win Top Awards

  06-01-2020 05:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the top film acting prizes, while “Fleabag” and “Succession” each took home two TV awards.
  
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• Golden Globe Winners 2020: The Complete List

  06-01-2020 05:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Here are the winning films, TV shows, actors and production teams at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards.
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres at the Golden Globes: Moving Moments Amid Jokes

  06-01-2020 04:54 via nytimes.com
  
  “There is no greater feeling than when someone tells me that I’ve made their day better with my show,” the comedian said in her acceptance speech Sunday night.
  
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• Kate McKinnon Opens Up About Being Gay During Golden Globes

  06-01-2020 04:25 via nytimes.com
  
  In an emotional speech, the comedian says the only thing that made being a lesbian less scary when she was younger was seeing Ellen DeGeneres on TV.
  
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• Golden Globe Winners: See the List of 2020 Awards

  06-01-2020 04:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Here are the winning films, TV shows, actors and production teams at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards.
  
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• In Golden Globes Monologue, Ricky Gervais Gets Bleeped, Twice

  06-01-2020 03:57 via nytimes.com
  
  During jokes about “Cats” and the Golden Globes ceremony as a whole, Gervais, the host, used expletives that NBC had to censor.
  
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• Golden Globes 2020: Live Updates

  06-01-2020 03:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Ricky Gervais delivered a cutting opening monologue, HBO’s “Succession” took home two awards, and “Parasite” won best foreign film.
  
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• Golden Globe Award Winners 2020: The List

  06-01-2020 02:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Here are the winning films, TV shows, actors and production teams at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards.
  
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• 2020 Golden Globes: Live Updates From the 77th Annual Awards Show

  06-01-2020 02:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The awards are underway, with “The Irishman,” “Marriage Story” and “Fleabag” among the top contenders.
  
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• 2020 Golden Globes: Ricky Gervais Starts the Show

  06-01-2020 02:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The awards are underway, with “The Irishman,” “Marriage Story” and “Fleabag” among the top contenders.
  
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• 2020 Golden Globes Red Carpet: Fashion at the Awards

  06-01-2020 02:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Have a look at Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt, Cynthia Erivo, Laura Dern, Tiffany Haddish and many more of the night’s stars.
  
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• What Is Baby Yoda’s Real Name? Taika Waititi Knows

  06-01-2020 01:58 via nytimes.com
  
  But the “Jojo Rabbit” director, who also directed the finale of Disney Plus’s “The Mandalorian,” featuring a certain pint-size character, isn’t saying anything more.
  
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