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• Barnes & Noble Reverses Course on Redesigned Book Covers

  05-02-2020 23:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The bookseller planned to promote classic novels with covers featuring people of color for Black History Month. Critics accused it of “literary blackface.”
  
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• Draft Executive Order Would Give Trump a New Target: Modern Design

  05-02-2020 23:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The proposed order, called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” favors classical design for buildings in Washington. It has drawn opposition from architects.
  
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• Ivan Kral, Rocker With Patti Smith and Others, Is Dead at 71

  05-02-2020 23:10 via nytimes.com
  
  A key figure in New York’s creative underground of the 1970s, he was also a filmmaker who chronicled the early days of the punk scene.
  
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• Sotheby’s to Offer $10.3 M. David Hockney Sunflower Still Life in Hong Kong

  05-02-2020 23:09 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s is taking advantage of the London crowds viewing contemporary art in advance of the sales next week to unveil a David Hockney painting that will be auctioned in their Hong Kong evening sale of contemporary art to be held on April 6. The large six-foot square painting, 30 Sunflowers, was sold in 2011 long before the run-up in Hockney’s market, at Phillips in New York for $2.5 million. It previously had only one owner. The work is being offered with its estimate upon request&
  
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• The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom

  05-02-2020 22:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The heroine of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” begins to notice what she wants, rather than what her male-dominated society wants her to want.
  
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• Fine for Screening ‘The Lion King’ at a Fund-Raiser? A Third of the Take

  05-02-2020 22:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Two months after a Berkeley, Calif., elementary school showed a privately owned DVD of the film at a movie night, a licensing representative for Disney told the school to pay a $250 fee.
  
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• Weinstein ‘Trapped’ and Assaulted Model in Bathroom, She Testifies

  05-02-2020 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Lauren Young is the sixth and final woman to take the stand against Mr. Weinstein at his rape trial.
  
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• ‘Homeland’ Toasts Its Final Season

  05-02-2020 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  And Sienna Miller drinks to the Writers Guild of America.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Trial: Model Alleges Sexual Assault in Hotel Bathroom

  05-02-2020 21:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Lauren Young will be the sixth and final woman to testify against Mr. Weinstein at his rape trial.
  
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• What I Learned About Filmmaking From These Oscar Nominees

  05-02-2020 21:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The right framing, a certain look, a bit of improvisation and some inspiring music all factor into how some of the season’s most interesting scenes came together.
  
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• How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image

  05-02-2020 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  “Unmaking the Presidency,” by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, situates Trump’s tenure in the history of the executive branch.
  
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• Review: Film Overwhelms Dance in a Mud-Caked Trip to Brazil

  05-02-2020 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker returns to the Joyce Theater with a work inspired by a river.
  
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• Yale Art History Department Addresses Controversial Decision to Eliminate Traditional Survey Course: ‘Art History Is a Global Discipline’

  05-02-2020 20:02 via artnews.com
  
  Last month, Yale University’s undergraduate art history department became an unlikely subject of controversy when the Yale Daily News, a student-run publication, ran an article saying that there would no longer be an introductory survey course focused on Western art. In its place, the department would offer courses with a more global approach. Now, the department has addressed the decision at length.
  In a letter sent to the College Art Association, an organization dedicated to facilitating
  
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• 6 Things I Did While Abroad With the University Arts Award - UVA Today

  05-02-2020 20:00
  
  6 Things I Did While Abroad With the University Arts Award  UVA Today
  
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• Emmet Gowin’s Photographs of the Nevada Test Site Capture a Beauty That Cannot be Domesticated by Art

  05-02-2020 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  In the catalogue for a 2002 exhibition of Emmet Gowin’s aerial photographs of landscapes altered by human activity, Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, recounts that a friend referred to one of the images as “immorally beautiful.” If only things were so simple—if only morality were always staunchly pro- or anti-beauty, and vice versa. Something stranger happens in the photographs of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) that Gowin took in the mid-’90s.
  
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• A Kobe Bryant Joke Goes Wrong, Revealing Comedy’s Troll Side

  05-02-2020 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Comedians have always been tempted to make fun of tragedies, but a new controversy exposes how dark humor has evolved and expanded.
  
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• THURSDAY: 10 local schools, 1 new arts festival - West Seattle Blog

  05-02-2020 19:06
  
  THURSDAY: 10 local schools, 1 new arts festival  West Seattle Blog
  
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• ‘An Editor Can Save You From Yourself’: Remembering Alice Mayhew

  05-02-2020 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Authors describe what it was like to work with the legendary Simon & Schuster editor, who died on Feb. 4.
  
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• Fine Arts Center Idris Goodwin Named Director of the Fine Arts Center - Colorado College News

  05-02-2020 18:52
  
  Fine Arts Center Idris Goodwin Named Director of the Fine Arts Center  Colorado College News
  
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• Histories’ Mysteries: In São Paulo, Curator Adriano Pedrosa Has Started a Revolution—Within a Museum’s Walls

  05-02-2020 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) is located in the heart of Brazil’s most populous city on one of its busiest streets, Avenida Paulista, which takes its name from the term for the city’s residents. More important, the thoroughfare is home to much of São Paulo’s financial industry, and as such it has been the site of social and political actions since the early 20th century. When MASP opened to the public in April 1969, with a building designed by pioneering a
  
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• Celebrated Video and Performance Artist Pilvi Takala Will Represent Finland at 2021 Venice Biennale

  05-02-2020 18:28 via artnews.com
  
  News of the 2021 Venice Biennale continues to roll in, with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and France among the countries that have already named the artists who will represent them at the storied exhibition.
  Now, Finland has announced its pick for the exhibition: artist Pilvi Takala, whose research-based work analyzes and critiques social structures and behavioral norms. The country’s exhibition will be curated by Christina Li, who has served as curator-at-large and director of Spring Wo
  
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• Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking

  05-02-2020 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  The software that emerged as “Presenter” more than thirty years ago, then became PowerPoint and its brethren, has transformed the way we teach and hold meetings and manage relationships and worship.¹ It has turned the vertical surfaces of our built world into substrates for an unending flow of dynamic, didactic messages. And for nearly as long as it has been in existence, slide presentation software has been under attack. In 2003, visualization shaman and statistician Edward Tuf
  
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• A tribute to Tom Petty, The Smithereens at The Arts Place - The Stokes News

  05-02-2020 17:39
  
  A tribute to Tom Petty, The Smithereens at The Arts Place  The Stokes News
  
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• Gil Scott-Heron’s Legacy Is a Work in Progress

  05-02-2020 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A reimagining of his final album by the drummer and producer Makaya McCraven is another step toward a contemporary reckoning with his powerful oeuvre.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Trial: Model to Allege Groping in Hotel Bathroom

  05-02-2020 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Lauren Young will be the sixth and final woman to testify against Mr. Weinstein at his rape trial.
  
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• How ‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ Still Casts a Spell

  05-02-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 1951 movie, which stars Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been digitally restored to sensational effect.
  
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• Savages’ Jehnny Beth Is Going Solo. Don’t Tell Her It’s a Mistake.

  05-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Bowie’s final album reminded her albums outlive artists, so she worked on her new LP “as if I was going to die.”
  
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• Fran Drescher, Millennial Whisperer

  05-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The former “Nanny” is back with a new NBC sitcom, “Indebted,” young fans like Cardi B and an arsenal of GIFs. “I’m kind of an influencer,” she said.
  
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• Edie Falco Can’t Quit CNN, but Jazz and a Dog Park Keep Her Sane

  05-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress, who has returned to television with a CBS police drama, puts CNN, ABC Carpet & Home and her father’s sculptures on her list of essentials.
  
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• Trump’s Reality-TV State of the Union Argues for Another Season

  05-02-2020 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The president’s speech was jammed with engineered moments and sweeps stunts — and then came a cable-drama rip.
  
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• For the Disabled in Hollywood, Report Finds Hints of Progress

  05-02-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On top TV shows, the number of such characters played by actors with disabilities rose from 5 percent in 2016 to 12 percent in 2018. Still, most of the portrayals were negative.
  
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• Post-Brexit Sotheby’s Auction Underperforms, Deutsche Bank Sells Big Richter, and More: Morning Links from February 5, 2020

  05-02-2020 14:57 via artnews.com
  
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  Beijing Gallery Weekend has postponed its 2020 edition as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout China. If conditions don’t improve by March 15, the event could be canceled altogether. [ARTnews]
  Deutsche Bank is shrinking its collection by around 4,000 works. Among the works that have left its holdings are an oversized Gerhard Richter painting th
  
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• As Coronavirus Spreads, Beijing Gallery Weekend Postpones 2020 Edition

  05-02-2020 14:14 via artnews.com
  
  While officials continue to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 500 people in China, according to recent estimates, one of Beijing’s biggest art events has postponed its 2020 edition—and may be forced to cancel it altogether if conditions do not improve.
  On Wednesday, Beijing Gallery Weekend, an event that was scheduled for March, said it would delay its 2020 edition in compliance with safety recommendations from officials in China. If conditions imp
  
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• Sales Take a Dive at Sotheby’s Post-Brexit London Auction

  05-02-2020 11:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The most high-profile works, a Pissarro and two Signacs, had been looted by the Nazis and recently returned to the heirs of the original owner.
  
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• John Michael Kohler Arts Center's new museum to open this fall - BizTimes - Milwaukee Business News

  05-02-2020 11:50
  John Michael Kohler Arts Center's new museum to open this fall  BizTimes - Milwaukee Business News
  
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• Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy.

  05-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  He’s a master of manipulating the news media and the art market. But will he be remembered as a significant artist?
  
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• A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher

  05-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille” deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas about the Harlem Renaissance.
  
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• Late Night on the Iowa Democrats’ Technical Difficulties

  05-02-2020 09:44 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s the only thing that happens in Iowa, and still they didn’t get it right,” Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday.
  
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• What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Lego Masters’ and ‘Expedition Unknown’

  05-02-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A Lego competition series debuts on Fox. And “Expedition Unknown” returns for another season on Discovery Channel.
  
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• ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Review: Four on a Mattress, With Songs

  05-02-2020 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The New Group’s musical adaptation of Paul Mazursky’s 1969 movie, featuring Suzanne Vega, doesn’t smirk but it doesn’t soar, either.
  
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• How Arts Everywhere uses University funding to promote the arts in Emil Kang's absence - The Daily Tar Heel

  05-02-2020 03:33
  
  How Arts Everywhere uses University funding to promote the arts in Emil Kang's absence  The Daily Tar Heel
  
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• Gene Reynolds, an Architect of ‘M*A*S*H,’ Is Dead at 96

  05-02-2020 02:38 via nytimes.com
  
  He also helped bring another acclaimed series, “Lou Grant,” to television.
  
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• Cosmopolitan Changes Course on ‘Bachelor’ Contestant Cover

  05-02-2020 02:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The magazine won’t publish an online cover featuring Victoria Fuller after photos surfaced of her modeling “White Lives Matter” apparel.
  
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• Sotheby’s Post-Brexit London Sale Income Takes a Dive

  05-02-2020 01:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The most high-profile works, a Pissarro and two Signacs, had been looted by the Nazis and recently returned to the heirs of the original owner.
  
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• Dear Oscars, I Love You. But We Need to Talk.

  05-02-2020 00:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The Academy Awards has made mistakes before, writes our critic. But this year’s crop of best-picture nominees may be the breaking point.
  
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• Alice Mayhew, Who Edited a Who’s Who of Writers, Dies at 87

  05-02-2020 00:37 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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