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• Lucy Jarvis, Who Took TV Viewers Far and Wide, Dies at 102

  04-02-2020 23:13 via nytimes.com
  
  In an era when few if any producers were women, she got access to the Kremlin, China and more.
  
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• Ask a Curator: Francesco Bonami on His Worst Studio Visit, Environmentalism and the Art World, and the Ghent Altarpiece Lamb

  04-02-2020 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  Francesco Bonami, whose curatorial credits include the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, has returned for the fourth edition of his column, “Ask a Curator,” in which he addresses the problem with museum wall text, the worst studio visit he ever endured, and the craziest thing he saw on Instagram this month. He can be found on Instagram at @thebonamist. If you have queries for him for a future column, please write to [email protected]. —The Editor
  
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• Netflix Spent Big on Oscar-Worthy Films. That May Not Be Enough.

  04-02-2020 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming giant has a leading 24 nominations, but forecasters don’t expect it to win many Academy Awards on Sunday.
  
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• The Metropolitan Opera’s Fill-In Dutchman: Evgeny Nikitin

  04-02-2020 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bryn Terfel, the original star of a new production of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer,” broke his ankle and withdrew.
  
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• In Hollywood, Stories About People of Color Are Still Rare. These Y.A. Fantasy Novels Pick Up the Slack.

  04-02-2020 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Echo Brown’s ‘Black Girl Unlimited,’ Anna-Marie McLemore’s ‘Dark and Deepest Red’ and Adam Silvera’s ‘Infinity Son’ expand the possibilities for teenage heroes.
  
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• Félix Marcilhac, French Collector with a Passion for Art Deco and Art Nouveau, Is Dead at 78

  04-02-2020 21:24 via artnews.com
  
  Félix Marcilhac, the Parisian art historian and dealer renowned for his prestigious Art Deco and Art Nouveau collection, died on January 29 at 78, according to the French-language newspaper Le Figaro. Marcilhac was an early champion ofArt Nouveau and Art Deco on the international art market, with an eye for exceptional decorative arts pieces that were often undervalued or overlooked during the 20th century.Marcilhac was born November 20, 1941. He earned degrees in
  
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• Evolutionary Solutions: A New Orleans Environmental Planner Makes Art to Prepare for Climate Disaster

  04-02-2020 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  If you walk up Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans, cross the former swampland of Bayou Road, and look to your left, you may see a 15-foot fish suspended from the trees. If it’s nowhere in sight, you can expect bad weather ahead.
  The giant fiberglass fish—modeled on a marlin—is one of the many sculptures that inhabit the garden of the artist, urbanist, and environmental planner Robert Tannen. With its soaring columns and wedding-cake pediment, the house behind it is as ornate as an
  
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• Artist Eleanor Antin, Curator Denise Murell Win College Art Association’s Vaunted Awards for Distinction

  04-02-2020 20:02 via artnews.com
  
  Each year, the College Art Association, an esteemed New York–based organization that promotes the study of art history, gives out awards to artists, curators, and scholars. Receiving one of the CAA’s mentions can be a major honor, and on Tuesday, the organization revealed who has received this year’s awards for distinction.
  Artist Eleanor Antin, who is best known for her Conceptual works from the early 1970s, has won the CAA’s lifetime achievement award. Antin is widely a
  
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• A Show at Tom, Joe, and Rick Potts’s Plumbing Store–Turned-Gallery Highlights Their Eclectic Art

  04-02-2020 19:01 via artnews.com
  
  In 2016, Potts Plumbing Parts in Alhambra, California, stopped selling pipes and started showing art. The shift came naturally: brothers Tom, Joe, and Rick Potts—who took over the store, which their grandfather opened in 1939, from their parents—are themselves artists. (They’re also founding members of the legendary 1970s fringe-rock collective Los Angeles Free Music Society.) When they decided to hang up their wrenches, as it were, they handed off the storefront to a group of
  
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• Judge Increases Jaime Botín’s Fine for Smuggling Picasso Painting to $101.2 M.

  04-02-2020 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  In January, the art world looked on as Spanish collector and banker Jaime Botín was sentenced to 18 months in jail for smuggling Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Young Woman (1906) out of Spain. But now it seems that Botín will face even greater consequences, as a Spanish judge has prolonged his jail sentence and upped the fine he will have to pay.
  Botín, who had previously been ordered to pay a €52.4 million (about $58.3 million) fine, will now face a €91.7 million
  
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• 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon

  04-02-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time, while commuting, cooking dinner and putting away laundry.
  
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• Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance.

  04-02-2020 18:49 via nytimes.com
  
  New York City Ballet restores a solo George Balanchine made for Paul Taylor, with two dancers sharing the part.
  
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• Review: Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ Blurs Lines

  04-02-2020 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  This work of documentary theater feels like a master class. But what is it meant to teach?
  
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• Alice Mayhew, Editor of a Who’s Who of Writers, Dies at 87

  04-02-2020 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  At Simon & Schuster, best sellers were her stock in trade. She popularized the nonfiction political page turner, starting with “All the President’s Men.”
  
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• Carla Gugino Has Range, From ‘Spy Kids’ to Experimental Theater

  04-02-2020 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Hollywood has long cast her as a bombshell (“Sin City,” “Karen Sisco”), but the actress has found an entirely different track onstage. Next up: “Anatomy of a Suicide.”
  
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• Ranky Tanky Brings Contemporized Gullah Music to Clemens Fine Arts Center - WKMS

  04-02-2020 18:32 via wkms.org
  
  Ranky Tanky Brings Contemporized Gullah Music to Clemens Fine Arts Center  WKMS
  
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• BreckCreate awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant - Summit Daily News

  04-02-2020 18:30 via summitdaily.com
  
  BreckCreate awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant  Summit Daily News
  
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• Rockin' rhythm: Festival of the Arts continues with Harmonicas in Class - The Pioneer

  04-02-2020 18:22 via bigrapidsnews.com
  
  Rockin' rhythm: Festival of the Arts continues with Harmonicas in Class  The Pioneer
  
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• Collins Center for the Arts Presents Septura Brass Septet - Maine Public

  04-02-2020 18:19 via mainepublic.org
  
  Collins Center for the Arts Presents Septura Brass Septet  Maine Public
  
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• Walk-On’s in Texarkana opens; partners with culinary arts program - KSLA

  04-02-2020 18:10 via ksla.com
  
  Walk-On’s in Texarkana opens; partners with culinary arts program  KSLA
  
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• Hired to Tame Horses, She Bonded With the People, Too

  04-02-2020 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Half Broke,” Ginger Gaffney recounts the a year and a half she spent helping a ranch managed by prison inmates.
  
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• MoCo Arts to host acting workshop series for high schoolers - The Keene Sentinel

  04-02-2020 18:00 via sentinelsource.com
  MoCo Arts to host acting workshop series for high schoolers  The Keene Sentinel
  
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• 'Heart of Art' at River Arts - Boothbay Register

  04-02-2020 18:00 via boothbayregister.com
  
  'Heart of Art' at River Arts  Boothbay Register
  
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• Hard Truths: How to Be Gentle with an Artist’s Overinflated Ego

  04-02-2020 17:42 via artnews.com
  
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, seasoned creative consultants bring hard truths to our readers.
  I have an artist friend who’s smart, witty, and overall very fun, despite being a total narcissist. To be honest, his work is pretty terrible, and, what’s worse, he continually talks about all his “masterpieces.” I am OK with art people being brash and egotistical if it’s an intentional attack on bourgeois taste, but my friend is clueless
  
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• Judy Linn on Bohemia, Suburbia, and Composing a Memorable Photograph

  04-02-2020 17:37 via artnews.com
  
  Judy Linn is a real photographer, not—to use that dubious epithet—an “artist who uses photography.” She engages the world with an uncomplicated camera, shoots what she sees, and prints her images straight. Best known for the pictures she took of Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and other New York bohemians between 1969 and 1976, when they were all just kids, she has since produced a body of work that is greatly varied, subtle, and complex.
  Judy Linn: Esopus Flood, 2006,
  
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• College of Liberal Arts to celebrate fifth Love Liberal Arts week - Purdue News Service

  04-02-2020 17:33 via purdue.edu
  
  College of Liberal Arts to celebrate fifth Love Liberal Arts week  Purdue News Service
  
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• Review: Wait, Wait … I Want to Tell You.

  04-02-2020 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Adam Linder’s often tiresome “Shelf Life” at MoMA is half of the inaugural commission for the Kravis Studio.
  
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• Museum of Fine Arts celebrates 150th birthday - WCVB Boston

  04-02-2020 17:21 via wcvb.com
  Museum of Fine Arts celebrates 150th birthday  WCVB Boston
  
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• BHS students host fine arts booster event - Beatrice Daily Sun

  04-02-2020 17:18 via beatricedailysun.com
  BHS students host fine arts booster event  Beatrice Daily Sun
  
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• Moorestown FEP Music, Arts And Dance Fundraiser March 22 - Moorestown, NJ Patch

  04-02-2020 17:12 via patch.com
  
  Moorestown FEP Music, Arts And Dance Fundraiser March 22  Moorestown, NJ Patch
  
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• ‘Into the Woods’ takes the main stage at Arts Center of the Ozarks - KNWA

  04-02-2020 17:03 via nwahomepage.com
  ‘Into the Woods’ takes the main stage at Arts Center of the Ozarks  KNWA
  
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• Aladdin at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts - FOX 35 Orlando

  04-02-2020 16:59 via fox35orlando.com
  
  Aladdin at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts  FOX 35 Orlando
  
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• Gallery Reception Friday At Thompson Park Creative Arts Center - Middletown, NJ Patch

  04-02-2020 16:47 via patch.com
  
  Gallery Reception Friday At Thompson Park Creative Arts Center  Middletown, NJ Patch
  
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• The Theatre Arts Program at North Carolina A&T State University presents This One Girl's Story, book and lyrics by Bil Wright, music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney - Yes! Weekly

  04-02-2020 16:34 via yesweekly.com
  
  The Theatre Arts Program at North Carolina A&T State University presents This One Girl's Story, book and lyrics by Bil Wright, music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney  Yes! Weekly
  
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• Stanly Arts Guild presents Members Show - The Stanly News & Press - Stanly News & Press

  04-02-2020 16:10 via thesnaponline.com
  Stanly Arts Guild presents Members Show - The Stanly News & Press  Stanly News & Press
  
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• Levitate Music & Arts Festival Confirms 2020 Lineup - JamBase

  04-02-2020 16:00 via jambase.com
  
  Levitate Music & Arts Festival Confirms 2020 Lineup  JamBase
  
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• Arts Council Host Free Movie Nights Featuring Dynamic Duos - The Evening Sun

  04-02-2020 15:25 via evesun.com
  
  Arts Council Host Free Movie Nights Featuring Dynamic Duos  The Evening Sun
  
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• Arts Huntsville accepting performer, vendor applications for Concerts in the Park - WHNT News 19

  04-02-2020 15:03 via whnt.com
  Arts Huntsville accepting performer, vendor applications for Concerts in the Park  WHNT News 19
  
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• Venice Flood Damage Totals $397.7 M., Baghdad Protest Art Abounds, and More: Morning Links from February 4, 2020

  04-02-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  A survey of the damage done by epic recent flooding in Venice amounts to €360 million (around $397.7 million), according to representatives of the city’s mayor. [The Art Newspaper]
  From the Middle East, Alissa J. Rubin reports on how “painters, sculptors and musicians are rallying to Baghdad’s protests, and the capital is overflowing with p
  
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• Heart of Art at River Arts - Rockland - Camden - Knox - Courier-Gazette - Camden Herald - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald

  04-02-2020 14:01 via knox.villagesoup.com
  
  Heart of Art at River Arts - Rockland - Camden - Knox - Courier-Gazette - Camden Herald  Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald
  
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• Arts education should be embraced, not sidelined - Arab News

  04-02-2020 13:42 via arabnews.com
  
  Arts education should be embraced, not sidelined  Arab News
  
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• Feb 11 | Auction for the Arts | West Roxbury, MA - Patch.com

  04-02-2020 13:03 via patch.com
  
  Feb 11 | Auction for the Arts | West Roxbury, MA  Patch.com
  
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• Applications available for Wyoming Arts Council Community Support Grant - Wyoming Tribune

  04-02-2020 13:00 via wyomingnews.com
  Applications available for Wyoming Arts Council Community Support Grant  Wyoming Tribune
  
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• Picturing 150 years: Happy anniversary to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts - The Boston Globe

  04-02-2020 12:03 via bostonglobe.com
  
  Picturing 150 years: Happy anniversary to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts  The Boston Globe
  
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• In the Know: Big Arts theater sounds perfect on Sanibel, Chico's flees Bell Tower - News-Press

  04-02-2020 12:00 via news-press.com
  In the Know: Big Arts theater sounds perfect on Sanibel, Chico's flees Bell Tower  News-Press
  
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• ‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair

  04-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Heathcliff Redux,” the novella at the heart of Lily Tuck’s new collection, an unnamed narrator becomes obsessed with her own Heathcliff.
  
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• Vivian Gornick Can’t Stop Rereading

  04-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader,” the revered memoirist makes an urgent argument for the value of returning to a book you’ve already read.
  
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• The True Story of a Medieval Romeo and Juliet

  04-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Stefan Hertmans’s novel “The Convert” reimagines an 11th-century romance.
  
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• The Journalist and the Murderers

  04-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Race Against Time,” the Mississippi journalist Jerry Mitchell chronicles four key cases of racist violence from the 1960s and his role in unearthing damning new evidence.
  
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• She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself.

  04-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers,” Jenn Shapland describes how studying the novelist, who died in 1967, helped her reckon with her own identity.
  
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