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• What role should county have in filling an arts funding hole? Commissioners disagree. - Charlotte Observer

  30-01-2020 23:41
  What role should county have in filling an arts funding hole? Commissioners disagree.  Charlotte Observer
  
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• Wes Wilson, Psychedelic Poster Pioneer, Dies at 82

  30-01-2020 23:40 via nytimes.com
  
  His work announced concerts by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and more — to those who could read them.
  
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• Star Wars Game Helps Lift Sales, Profit at Electronic Arts - The Wall Street Journal

  30-01-2020 23:33
  
  Star Wars Game Helps Lift Sales, Profit at Electronic Arts  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Iranian Rapper Detained in Turkey Faces Deportation

  30-01-2020 23:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Iran has put out a red notice with Interpol for the arrest of one of its most popular rappers after he began criticizing the government
  
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• Arts This Week: Jacob Lawrence, 'Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives' And 'Bright Half Life' - wgbh.org

  30-01-2020 22:48
  
  Arts This Week: Jacob Lawrence, 'Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives' And 'Bright Half Life'  wgbh.org
  
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• The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away?

  30-01-2020 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The halftime show, the ads, the parties: The Super Bowl is more than a game, and 100 million of us tune in despite the sport’s uglier controversies. Our culture journalists discussed the reasons and implications.
  
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• Complex Rhythms but No Music

  30-01-2020 22:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Watch a portion of Melinda Ring’s “Strange Engagements,” created from improvisations.
  
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• Electronic Arts shares fall after revenue beat - MarketWatch

  30-01-2020 22:16
  
  Electronic Arts shares fall after revenue beat  MarketWatch
  
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• Electronic Arts’ Forecast for Quarter Misses Estimates - Bloomberg

  30-01-2020 22:08
  Electronic Arts’ Forecast for Quarter Misses Estimates  Bloomberg
  
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• Jodie Foster to Direct Film Based on Infamous 1911 ‘Mona Lisa’ Theft

  30-01-2020 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  In the early hours of August 21, 1911, a handyman walked out of the Louvre with a bundle concealed under his white worker’s smock. He was in a hurry, having just stripped the Mona Lisa from its protective glass case and wooden frame. The man entered the nearby Quai d’Orsay train station and boarded the an express train out of Paris. More than a day passed before anyone noticed the blank wall space.
  That dramatic chapter of art history will be adapted into a film helmed by O
  
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• Desert Empires: Wonders to Behold

  30-01-2020 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Two hundred rare objects at the Metropolitan Museum trace the remarkable history and cultural heritage of kingdoms on the shores of the Sahara.
  
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• Ahead of WHO Declaring Public Health Emergency, Art Basel Pens Letter to Anxious Hong Kong Exhibitors: ‘This Is a Challenging Time for All of Us’

  30-01-2020 21:11 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, Bloomberg ran a report on dealers calling on Art Basel to cancel the eighth edition of the fair over fears of the coronavirus, which has now affected more than 7,000 people and led to 170 deaths. Today, the fair sent out a letter to dealers telling them their team is “working hard to review all possible options.” Earlier this week, Hong Kong closed museums and schools, and earlier today, just hours after Basel sent out its letter, the World Health Organization declared
  
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• Harlan Coben Exposes the Secrets of ‘The Stranger’

  30-01-2020 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The author of dozens of best-selling thrillers talked about his latest Netflix adaptation and why the most gripping stories are rooted in everyday life.
  
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• Ashley for the Arts reveals Saturday headliner - News8000.com - WKBT

  30-01-2020 21:00
  
  Ashley for the Arts reveals Saturday headliner  News8000.com - WKBT
  
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• After the Oscar Glare, These Filmmakers Went Their Own Way

  30-01-2020 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Benh Zeitlin (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) and Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”) each found that the awards machine distracted from the real work.
  
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• ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone

  30-01-2020 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Self-critical, grown up and ready, perhaps, to deliver a message beyond the music.
  
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• Free Shakespeare in the Park: ‘Richard II’ and ‘As You Like It’

  30-01-2020 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Public Theater’s summer lineup includes a serious tale of political rebellion and a musical take on a comedy.
  
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• Does Affirmative Action Work?

  30-01-2020 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Affirmative Action Puzzle,” Melvin I. Urofsky looks at over a century of efforts to combat racial injustice in America.
  
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• Affirmative Action: The Uniquely American Experiment

  30-01-2020 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Affirmative Action Puzzle,” Melvin I. Urofsky looks at over a century of efforts to combat racial injustice in America.
  
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• A Gorgeous Center for Photography, Far From Picture Perfect

  30-01-2020 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Fotografiska, the New York outpost of the quirky Swedish institution, is an “architectural gem,” but the exhibited photographs don’t live up to the décor.
  
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• National Asian American Theater Partners With Regional Companies

  30-01-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The initiative, with New York Theater Workshop, Soho Rep and others, aims to foster inclusion of Asian-American theater artists, technicians and administrators.
  
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• In Robert Indiana Lawsuit, Judge Dismisses Most Counterclaims Against Artist’s Longtime Representative

  30-01-2020 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  In a case centering on the late artist Robert Indiana‘s work, a majority of counterclaims leveled against the Morgan Art Foundation, which long represented the artist, by Indiana’s estate have been tossed out in a New York district court. The ruling by Judge Barbara Moses dismissed the estate’s claims that the Morgan Art Foundation did not pay the artist royalties owed to him and that the foundation did not have the right to reproduce some of Indiana’s work, including his
  
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• Royal Ballet Suspends Choreographer Over Sexual Misconduct Claims

  30-01-2020 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Liam Scarlett is accused of inappropriate conduct with students at the company’s school.
  
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• ‘Gretel & Hansel’ Review: Brother’s Keeper

  30-01-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this eerie yet underdeveloped take on the well-known fairy tale, two siblings find food and sorcery deep in the woods.
  
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• Lincoln Center’s Next Season: ‘Elektra,’ Cleveland, Rouse

  30-01-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 2020-21 Great Performers series includes visiting orchestras, chamber ensembles and recitals.
  
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• International Center of Photography Refocuses in a New Home

  30-01-2020 17:43 via nytimes.com
  
  When images are everywhere, what is the role of a photography museum?
  
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• Franz Mazura, 95, Opera Singer Whose Specialty Was Villains, Dies

  30-01-2020 17:35 via nytimes.com
  
  An imposing Austrian bass-baritone, his first major international appearance came in his early 40s. He continued to perform nearly until the end.
  
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• Jennifer Lopez at the Super Bowl? It’s the Role She Was Born to Play

  30-01-2020 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The halftime show demands a pop unicorn. Twenty-one years into a music career that doesn’t always get enough credit, J. Lo is ready to take center stage.
  
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• An Uncommon Bond: The Influential L.A. Gallery Commonwealth and Council Favors Camaraderie Over Business as Usual

  30-01-2020 16:45 via artnews.com
  
  The first time that Young Chung, director and founder of L.A.’s Commonwealth and Council gallery, saw his artist Beatriz Cortez’s Piercing Garden—a kinetic sculpture from 2018 described as a sort of indigenous “garden in motion”—he had a pressing question: could plants feel pain? In the artwork, seedlings grew inside a row of metal cups perched atop slender motorized steel rods that were made to rattle against one another and cause an appropriately ear-piercin
  
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• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Recap: Out in the Cold

  30-01-2020 16:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Picard is running out of time, as he discovers in the season’s second episode. But he’s also just getting started.
  
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• She Painted With the Hairy Who. Now She’s Going Big, at 79.

  30-01-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Gladys Nilsson, a bold watercolorist rooted in Chicago’s surrealist ’60s art group, on finally finding solo success.
  
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• 7 Questions With Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’

  30-01-2020 15:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Her transition has been documented in the public eye for more than a decade. The newest season of her reality show began this week.
  
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• ‘The Good Place’ and ‘BoJack Horseman’ Took Us to Hell and Back

  30-01-2020 15:52 via nytimes.com
  
  TV’s two great moral comedies, both ending this week, showed us that doing the right thing in a fallen world is a group effort.
  
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• As Coronavirus Spreads, Beijing Triennial with Star-Studded Artist List Postpones Inaugural Edition

  30-01-2020 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  China’s art institutions have faced unlikely odds this week, as the coronavirus, the cause of a deadly illness that has killed 170 so far, continues to spread across the country. Some museums closed indefinitely earlier this week while officials attempt to contain the virus, and now a major exhibition that had been due to take place next month has been postponed.
  Beijing’s CAFAM Techne Triennial, which had been slated to open on February 20 at the CAFA Art Museum, has been called off
  
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• Tate’s ‘Head of Coffee’ Controversy, Inside Bettina Korek’s Home, and More: Morning Links from January 30, 2020

  30-01-2020 14:52 via artnews.com
  
  News
  When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, thousands died in the buried towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which were perfectly preserved. Now, a new study reports that the brain of one victim turned into glass because of the intense heat of the eruption.The Art Newspaper
  In an article titled “Next steps for the Erie Art Museum,” journalist Liz Allen reports on the hiring process of the museum’s ousted director, Joshua Helmer.Eri
  
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• Tate Britain’s ‘Head of Coffee’ Controversy, Inside Bettina Korek’s Home, and More: Morning Links from January 30, 2020

  30-01-2020 14:52 via artnews.com
  
  News
  When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, thousands died in the buried towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which were perfectly preserved. Now, a new study reports that the brain of one victim turned into glass because of the intense heat of the eruption.The Art Newspaper
  In an article titled “Next steps for the Erie Art Museum,” journalist Liz Allen reports on the hiring process of the museum’s ousted director, Joshua Helmer.Eri
  
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• ‘The Rhythm Section’ Review: The Semi-Reluctant Assassin

  30-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Blake Lively plays a woman who loses her family and finds a new beat.
  
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• ‘The Assistant’ Review: Screaming on the Inside

  30-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Julia Garner is magnificent as a conflicted staffer to a serial sexual predator in this powerfully muted drama.
  
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• ‘Incitement’ Review: A Tense, Angry Reckoning With an Assassination

  30-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Yaron Zilberman’s film presents a discomfortingly close-range depiction of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin in the period leading up to the killing.
  
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• ‘Created Equal’ Review: A Justice of Few Words Finds His Voice

  30-01-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Clarence Thomas is usually silent on the Supreme Court, but he had plenty to say to some friendly filmmakers.
  
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• Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The money will help the organization fund its program for poets laureate in cities and communities around the United States.
  
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• Laurie Anderson Needs Your Help Finding an Image From Balzac

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “As the wind passes through windows and slips under doors we meet the characters in the book. If any Times readers know which Balzac book this wind is in — please let me know.”
  
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• ‘José’ Review: Coming of Age Gay in Guatemala

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A teenager uses online romantic connections to escape the oppression of his hometown.
  
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• Isabel Allende Sings the Praises of Process, Peace and Pups

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She has her writing routine down to a science. What never gets old is hearing from readers.
  
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• How #MeToo Is Smashing the Casting Couch

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Detailed nudity riders. Meetings in hotel lobbies, not rooms. In Harvey Weinstein’s wake, Hollywood is trying to end a history of sexual exploitation.
  
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• Brad Pitt and the Beauty Trap

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Male stars face a double standard, too, and ever since he bared his chest in “Thelma & Louise,” his work has been undervalued. But look closer and he explores masculinity in complex ways.
  
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• Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’

  30-01-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Matthew Bourne’s all-male “Swan Lake” helped inspire a generation of dancers to put on ballet slippers.
  
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• When Every Player Gets a Moment

  30-01-2020 10:33 via nytimes.com
  
  In three London productions with great ensemble casts, all the actors receive their due.
  
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• United Arts Council to receive National Endowment for the Arts grant - Florida Weekly

  30-01-2020 10:19
  
  United Arts Council to receive National Endowment for the Arts grant  Florida Weekly
  
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• MilkBoy was a unique arts venue in College Park. It deserves a successor. - The Diamondback

  30-01-2020 10:18
  
  MilkBoy was a unique arts venue in College Park. It deserves a successor.  The Diamondback
  
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