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• An Artist Who Collaborates With Her 11-Year-Old Daughter

  06-02-2020 23:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Susan Cianciolo’s intuitive, craft-oriented practice has encompassed everything from handmade clothing to an alternative currency.
  
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• Netflix Users Rejoice: Goodbye, Autoplay

  06-02-2020 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming service responded to complaints about its built-in autoplay feature by giving subscribers the option to remove it.
  
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• For The Community, By The Community Podcast: Arts for All of Northern Michigan - 9&10 News

  06-02-2020 23:23
  
  For The Community, By The Community Podcast: Arts for All of Northern Michigan  9&10 News
  
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• Arts calendar published Feb. 6, 2020 - West Central Tribune

  06-02-2020 23:17
  
  Arts calendar published Feb. 6, 2020  West Central Tribune
  
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• Lawsuit accuses Chicago police officer of using dangerous ‘mixed martial arts’ tactics on man who allegedly sp - Chicago Tribune

  06-02-2020 23:14
  Lawsuit accuses Chicago police officer of using dangerous ‘mixed martial arts’ tactics on man who allegedly sp  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Mayor Andy Schor gives priority to the arts in 2020 - WILX-TV

  06-02-2020 23:03
  
  Mayor Andy Schor gives priority to the arts in 2020  WILX-TV
  
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• Barbara Kruger’s Biggest Exhibition in 20 Years to Open at Art Institute of Chicago in November

  06-02-2020 22:51 via artnews.com
  
  Barbara Kruger, who is known internationally for her text-based works that convey aphorisms about consumer culture and political issues in bolded lettering, made headlines last year when she joined the mega-gallery David Zwirner. Now, after heading to one of the world’s biggest galleries, she’s going to have one of the largest shows of her career.
  On November 1, a major survey of Kruger’s work will open at the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Thinking of You. I Mean Me.
  
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• Spady Museum, Arts Garage Host Historic Florida's African American 'Highwaymen' Painters for Black History Month - The Boca Raton Tribune

  06-02-2020 22:46
  
  Spady Museum, Arts Garage Host Historic Florida's African American 'Highwaymen' Painters for Black History Month  The Boca Raton Tribune
  
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• California Arts Council Offer Non-Profit Arts Groups Big Money To Come Up With Community Projects - Capital Public Radio News

  06-02-2020 22:45
  
  California Arts Council Offer Non-Profit Arts Groups Big Money To Come Up With Community Projects  Capital Public Radio News
  
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• CMU announces all performing arts free for students - CMUnow

  06-02-2020 22:43
  
  CMU announces all performing arts free for students  CMUnow
  
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• Exploding Out of Shapes

  06-02-2020 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Trusnovec dances part of a solo in “Episodes” that George Balanchine made for Paul Taylor.
  
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• As Long as There’s Been an Envelope, Oscar Parties Have Pushed It

  06-02-2020 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The night’s star-studded soirees are always more entertaining than the show itself.
  
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• Noah Davis Is Gone; His Paintings Continue to Hypnotize

  06-02-2020 22:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The first large exhibition of paintings by the young Los Angeles-based artist, who died in 2015, impresses on several fronts.
  
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• Review: A ‘Paradise Lost’ More Dutiful Than Divine

  06-02-2020 22:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In Tom Dulack’s take on Milton, the devils get the best lines and costumes, while Adam and Eve are a snooze.
  
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• Amid Coronavirus Scare and Ongoing Protests, Art Basel Cancels Hong Kong Fair

  06-02-2020 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  After a tumultuous period in Hong Kong marked by continuing protests and fears of a coronavirus outbreak, Art Basel has called off its fair in the city. The fair had been due to run from March 19 to 21. In a release about the fair’s cancelation, MCH Group, the holding company that owns Art Basel, said that the coronavirus and “severe logistical challenges” limiting travel were among the “numerous factors” that had influenced the decision. The ongoing protests were n
  
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• Royal Oak's public arts program draws more volunteers, projects - The Daily Tribune

  06-02-2020 21:52
  Royal Oak's public arts program draws more volunteers, projects  The Daily Tribune
  
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• Ashley for the Arts announces another performer - News8000.com - WKBT

  06-02-2020 21:35
  
  Ashley for the Arts announces another performer  News8000.com - WKBT
  
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• ‘Cane River’ Review: A Lost Treasure of Independent Cinema

  06-02-2020 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Horace B. Jenkins’s tale of forbidden romance in Louisiana, completed in 1982, opens at last.
  
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• City proposes new tax to fund the arts - The Hudson Reporter

  06-02-2020 21:20
  
  City proposes new tax to fund the arts  The Hudson Reporter
  
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• Joseph Sterling’s Mastery of Midcentury Photographic Innovations Was Both a Strength and a Weakness

  06-02-2020 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  Joseph Sterling has been consigned to the bush league of midcentury Chicago photographers, whether justly or not. He died in 2010, at age seventy-four, having never received the sort of blue-chip retrospective that helped canonize Ray Metzker and Kenneth Josephson, his contemporaries and fellow students at the city’s legendary Institute of Design. Nor did he have the unusual biography that has made Vivian Maier, a longtime Chicago nanny who took street portraits in her spare time, so irres
  
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• Oscars 2020 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress

  06-02-2020 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Our expert has been closely tracking the awards races all season. Here are the movies and stars he expects to win.
  
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• North River Arts Society silent auction to benefit G.A.R. Hall - Wicked Local Marshfield

  06-02-2020 20:09
  North River Arts Society silent auction to benefit G.A.R. Hall  Wicked Local Marshfield
  
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• Arts This Week: 'Gloria: A Life,' 'Detroit Red,' And 'Mean Girls' - wgbh.org

  06-02-2020 20:09
  
  Arts This Week: 'Gloria: A Life,' 'Detroit Red,' And 'Mean Girls'  wgbh.org
  
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• Nello Santi, Conductor With His Heart in Italian Opera, Dies at 88

  06-02-2020 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Santi, who led hundreds of performances at the Metropolitan Opera, was a renowned interpreter of Puccini and, especially, Verdi.
  
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• ‘Is Shakespeare Fake News?’: Artist Hito Steyerl Ponders Tough Questions in an Interview About Experimental Filmmaker Harun Farocki

  06-02-2020 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  When filmmaker Harun Farocki died in 2014 at age 70, his loss was felt deeply throughout the art world—and far beyond it. But perhaps no one responded with more passion to his passing than artist Hito Steyerl, who has described the German filmmaker as her mentor. In an e-flux essay called “Beginnings” that she dedicated to him, she wrote, “From Berlin to Beirut to Kolkata, Mexico, Gwangju, and wherever airlines and wi-fi travel, Harun’s work struck a chord and broug
  
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• 7 Ways to Support Education & The Arts in Brooklyn During Black History Month - BKLYNER

  06-02-2020 19:48
  
  7 Ways to Support Education & The Arts in Brooklyn During Black History Month  BKLYNER
  
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• Key Question in Weinstein Trial: ‘Do You Believe the Women?’

  06-02-2020 19:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The defense is focusing on the relationships some of the women maintained with Harvey Weinstein after alleged assaults, presenting a challenge for prosecutors.
  
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• Visual arts: Frieze Los Angeles forges its identity - LA Daily News

  06-02-2020 19:29
  
  Visual arts: Frieze Los Angeles forges its identity  LA Daily News
  
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• Suspects Arrested for Theft of Banksy Work in Paris

  06-02-2020 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  The elusive street artist Banksy continues to make waves in the art world. In October, Sotheby’s withdrew a sculpture by the artist from a London sale when the British artist Andy Link claimed it was stolen from him. Now, two men, who are 35 and 32 years old, respectively, have been taken into custody in Paris for the September 2019 theft of a stencil work by Banksy that had been on view near the Centre Pompidou.
  The French publication Le Monde reports that during searches police seiz
  
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• Disney Chairman Apologizes to P.T.A. Asked to Pay Fee After ‘Lion King’ Screening

  06-02-2020 19:20 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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• Stars Dance for the Arts slated for Friday - Kinston Free Press

  06-02-2020 19:14
  Stars Dance for the Arts slated for Friday  Kinston Free Press
  
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• Disney Chairman Apologizes to P.T.A. Asked to Pay Fine After ‘Lion King’ Screening

  06-02-2020 19:05 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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• Fast-Rising Market Star Julie Curtiss Heads to White Cube

  06-02-2020 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  The race to build a robust roster of artists, including some of the world’s most promising young talents, continues apace. Julie Curtiss, who has recently seen her star rise in the art world, is now represented by White Cube gallery, which has locations in London and Hong Kong. Curtiss will continue to work with her New York gallery Anton Kern.
  Curtiss, who was included in a group exhibition at White Cube in 2017, is best known for her paintings that offer surreal close-ups of hair, often
  
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• ‘Birds of Prey’ Review: Nihilism for Fun and Profit

  06-02-2020 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Margot Robbie stars as the cosplay favorite Harley Quinn in a movie that plays at provocation but declines to provoke anything like a thought.
  
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• Review: 19 Female Composers Start to Mark a Century of Suffrage

  06-02-2020 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York Philharmonic’s multiyear Project 19 initiative began this week with a premiere by Nina C. Young.
  
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• ‘Urban Legend’ or Authentic Trump Autograph? Either Way, It Sells

  06-02-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The Trump campaign is skeptical that president signed this document, but authenticators disagree. At least one expert thinks the document could bring six figures at auction.
  
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• ‘Homeland’ Gives the Long War a Long Goodbye

  06-02-2020 18:19 via nytimes.com
  
  After a run of ups and downs, the terrorism thriller’s final season sends Carrie and Saul on a peace mission.
  
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• Review: From a Veteran Singer to a Newcomer, a Note of Welcome

  06-02-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Susan Graham sang a Lincoln Center recital the night before Marianne Crebassa made her Met Opera debut.
  
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• Metal Arts of Wisconsin Making Freedom Cabinets - WDIO

  06-02-2020 18:00
  
  Metal Arts of Wisconsin Making Freedom Cabinets  WDIO
  
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• China’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Postpones Three Exhibitions as Coronavirus Spreads

  06-02-2020 17:23 via artnews.com
  
  As the coronavirus death count in China surges past 500 people, yet another major museum has been forced to delay planned programming for the coming couple months. The UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, which has multiple locations in China, said on Thursday, February 6, that it would postpone three shows planned for two of its locations—two exhibitions at its main space in Beijing, and one at its UCCA Dune museum in Qinhuangdao, a coastal city about 185 miles from the capital—amid sa
  
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• Taylor Swift’s Next Big Deal Is for Her Songwriting

  06-02-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star singer-songwriter is leaving Sony/ATV, the home of her music publishing rights since age 14, for a new agreement with Universal.
  
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• Taylor Swift Signs Songwriting Deal With Universal

  06-02-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star singer-songwriter is leaving Sony/ATV, the home of her music publishing rights since age 14, for a new agreement with Universal.
  
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• Why aristocrats are flocking to the creative arts - The Economist

  06-02-2020 16:51
  
  Why aristocrats are flocking to the creative arts  The Economist
  
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• Rangeley Friends of the Arts can always use help from community volunteers - Lewiston Sun Journal

  06-02-2020 16:26
  
  Rangeley Friends of the Arts can always use help from community volunteers  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• #OscarsSoWhite: An Oral History of the Movement That Upended Hollywood

  06-02-2020 16:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Five years ago, one Twitter hashtag changed the narrative in an industry with entrenched disparities. Here, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and other insiders tell the story as they lived it.
  
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• Skylar Brandt: A Ballerina Invests in Herself

  06-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The American Ballet Theater soloist secured a coveted role, Giselle, and finds time for extra coaching sessions.
  
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• Best Coast Almost Had No Future. Now Everything Has Changed.

  06-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The indie rocker Bethany Cosentino got sober, broke her writer’s block and made a powerful new album, “Always Tomorrow.”
  
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• ‘Cheer’: What to Read and Listen to After Seeing This Netflix Hit

  06-02-2020 15:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The docu-series about Navarro College’s competitive cheerleading team has taken over the internet. Here’s the best of the conversation to dive into next.
  
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• Arts Previews: Exhibit at William Baczek Fine Arts, Samuel Minot Awards in Amherst, #Local Gallery in Easthampton - Amherst Bulletin

  06-02-2020 15:23
  
  Arts Previews: Exhibit at William Baczek Fine Arts, Samuel Minot Awards in Amherst, #Local Gallery in Easthampton  Amherst Bulletin
  
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• Australia Bars Chinese Performance Artists from Entering Country, Daniel Sundheim’s Collecting Strategies, and More: Morning Links from February 6, 2020

  06-02-2020 15:02 via artnews.com
  
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  Australia has barred two Chinese performance artists from entering the country, over fears of the coronavirus. Dancers Xiao Ke and Zi Han were scheduled to participate in the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts. [The Art Newspaper]
  Last night, Christie’s London netted £107 million, or about $138 million,&n
  
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