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• ‘The Hunt,’ a Film Turned Lightning Rod, Will Arrive in Theaters in March

  11-02-2020 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The satire, which depicts elite Americans killing “deplorables” for sport, was shelved after mass shootings last year.
  
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• Beleaguered Arts & Science Council seeking $12 million in taxpayer funds - Charlotte Observer

  11-02-2020 23:31
  Beleaguered Arts & Science Council seeking $12 million in taxpayer funds  Charlotte Observer
  
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• Jussie Smollett Is Indicted Again on Charges of Staging a Hate Crime

  11-02-2020 23:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The new charges were announced by a special prosecutor, Dan K. Webb, who was assigned to the case after a judge ruled that the local prosecutor had not properly handled it the first time.
  
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• Rounding Up the Spies of World War II in 4 New Books

  11-02-2020 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Stealing military secrets, plotting a presidential assassination, spreading disinformation: It’s all in a day’s work in these recent titles.
  
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• Arts campus project asks for city funds - Juneau Empire

  11-02-2020 22:00
  
  Arts campus project asks for city funds  Juneau Empire
  
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• Art Rises in the Saudi Desert, Shadowed by Politics

  11-02-2020 21:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Some artists say Desert X AlUla is a step toward changing Saudi society. Critics call the government-funded exhibition “morally corrupt.”
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Wanted to Testify. His Lawyers Stopped Him.

  11-02-2020 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The defense rested its case after a half-hour huddle with Mr. Weinstein to discuss his wish to take the stand in his rape trial.
  
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• New Wave: On Set with Tom Sachs in His Rockaway Beach Surf House

  11-02-2020 19:56 via artnews.com
  
  “STANLEY KUBRICK IS DEAD” reads an etching in Tom Sachs’s familiar childlike script on a measuring tape mounted to a wall at the artist’s oceanside house in New York’s Rockaway Beach. This is secret code, scrutable to sharp-eyed Sachs initiates, as Kubrick, the storied movie director, died in 1999, the same year that Sachs—known for his bricolage sculptures and works in other mediums that play with DIY aesthetics—met the man he would collaborate with on
  
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• Charles Fuller Never Expected Broadway. At 80, He’s Arrived.

  11-02-2020 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The creator of “A Soldier’s Play” has largely written for black theaters. But now he has the chance to remind the biggest audiences: African-Americans served, too.
  
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• ‘Wild’ and ‘Waiting for Giraffes’ Review: Where Survival Is a Struggle

  11-02-2020 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Two documentaries about animals and the Middle East take completely different tacks.
  
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• After Major New York Survey and Prominent Place in MoMA Rehang, Gretchen Bender Estate Heads to Metro Pictures Gallery

  11-02-2020 19:40 via artnews.com
  
  If Gretchen Bender’s pioneering moving-image and photographic works had, to some degree, faded into obscurity, now her art is impossible to ignore. Last year, Bender’s art was surveyed in a solo show at New York’s Red Bull Arts space that became one of 2019’s most lauded shows; months later, a newly restored video installation from the 1980s figured prominently in the Museum of Modern Art’s rehang. Now, with Bender having a posthumous moment, her estate has picked u
  
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• ‘To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ Review: Bliss, for Now

  11-02-2020 19:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The second installment in Netflix’s ’80s-style teen romance trilogy asks the question John Hughes left unanswered.
  
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• Internal and External Worlds Merge in Kristy Luck’s Atmospheric Paintings

  11-02-2020 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  Kristy Luck: Cloud Throat, 2019, oil on linen, 36 by 30 inches; at Philip Martin.
  Nature, the body, and the psyche seem to be one in Kristy Luck’s paintings, but there is nothing saccharine or overtly mystical about her unifying vision. The Los Angeles–based artist depicts fields of color pulsing with the vitality of pressures countering one another and then yielding, as entities appear to emerge, merge, and change. Her works evoke generative and transformative processes that are equ
  
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• ‘Darling Grenadine’ Review: A Retro Cocktail With Little Kick

  11-02-2020 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Roundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
  
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• Ed Clark, Noah Davis Lead Phillips’s ‘New Now’ Sale for Armory Show

  11-02-2020 18:40 via artnews.com
  
  With New York’s Armory Week looming in the horizon, the fairs that will take over the city for the first week in March won’t be the only place for high-priced art transactions. On March 4, Phillips will host the first of its biannual “New Now” sales that will include 196 lots, many of which are recent examples of figurative painting, and carries a pre-sale estimate in excess of $4.3 million.
  Keeping in the register of the fairs where buyers are looking at primary market m
  
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• Detroit schools unveil expanded arts partnership - The Detroit News

  11-02-2020 18:11
  Detroit schools unveil expanded arts partnership  The Detroit News
  
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• Joseph Shabalala, Ladysmith Black Mambazo Founder, Dies at 78

  11-02-2020 18:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Shabalala’s choral group acquired an international following after collaborating with Paul Simon, who produced the group’s first album.
  
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• Adding Razzle-Dazzle to a Gaucho Dance Style

  11-02-2020 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Che Malambo,” a Frenchman has taken a folkloric Argentine form and turned it into grand spectacle.
  
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• Dora Maar’s Surrealist Photography Eclipses her Reputation as a Modernist Muse

  11-02-2020 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  Large-scale retrospective exhibitions at major venues generally serve to cement a leading artist’s place even more firmly in the canon, but they rarely change people’s minds. The recent Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York or the Joan Miró show at the Grand Palais in Paris, for example, basically gave a certain amount of shading and definition to a well-known body of work, while affirming for a wider audience the artists’ ongoing impor
  
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• Arts and business conference, Create Virginia, headed to Lynchburg this month - WSET

  11-02-2020 17:20
  Arts and business conference, Create Virginia, headed to Lynchburg this month  WSET
  
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• A Legless Black Man Comes Into a Windfall in This Biting Satire

  11-02-2020 16:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Claude McKay’s “Romance in Marseille,” published decades after it was written, tackles race and migration in a globally connected world much like our own.
  
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• Out of Prison but Still Not Free

  11-02-2020 16:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Jason Hardy spent four years as a probation and parole officer in New Orleans. In “The Second Chance Club,” he recounts what he learned on the job.
  
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• The Pilot Is Mediocre. Do You Stick With It? Sometimes.

  11-02-2020 16:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Our television critic answers your questions and offers guidance on what to watch next.
  
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• Michael Friedman Left Behind a Musical. They’re Finishing It.

  11-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Unknown Soldier,” one of the last projects the beloved composer and lyricist worked on before he died, is coming to New York.
  
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• Tina Knowles-Lawson Talks Art, Bonhams CEO Departs, Peter Saul Praised, and More: Morning Links from February 11, 2020

  11-02-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Tina Knowles-Lawson, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, talked about her art collecting in an interview that makes one wonder what’s this new project she’s talking about? “My art pieces are like my children. I just lent some of my art pieces to Beyoncé for her new project that she’s doing, and I’m looking at my walls a
  
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• A Sculptor of the Female Gaze

  11-02-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Katharina Fritsch shows familiar objects as they might appear in a dream, bringing the subliminal to light.
  
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• Christie’s to Offer 18th-Century French Decorative Arts From Dalva Brothers - Barron's

  11-02-2020 14:00
  
  Christie’s to Offer 18th-Century French Decorative Arts From Dalva Brothers  Barron's
  
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• ‘The Cordillera of Dreams’ Review: From the Heights to the Depths

  11-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An exiled filmmaker returns to Chile, contemplating fascism and eternity.
  
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• Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jay McInerney on two new accounts of drug addiction in the white-collar world.
  
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• When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniel Kehlmann’s “Tyll” follows an impish entertainer and his merry crew as they navigate the havoc of Europe during the Thirty Years’ War.
  
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• Tiger, Snowplow, Helicopter and Free-Range Parents, Listen Up!

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Madeline Levine’s new book has a message for anyone raising kids: Get squiggly.
  
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• Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret.

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Helen Fremont’s second memoir, “The Escape Artist,” builds on the traumatic discoveries of her first, “After Long Silence.”
  
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• The Myth of the Silent, Sulky, Horny Teenage Boy

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two new books challenge the assumption that it’s impossible to reach that kid with the wispy mustache. In fact, reaching him is more important than ever.
  
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• The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s “Something That May Shock and Discredit You” contains hilarious, transcendent “memoir-adjacent” essays on gender.
  
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• The Future Is Here, and Uncomfortably Close to Home

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Resisters,” Gish Jen’s novel of dystopian America, the have-nots are unemployed and forced to eat food that will kill them. But it’s not all doom and gloom.
  
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• Strangers’ Things: A Journalist Finds Grace in Other People’s Stories

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After he suffered a health crisis, Jeff Sharlet began talking to and photographing the people he met. “This Brilliant Darkness” is the poignant record of those encounters.
  
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• Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Adrienne Miller’s memoir chronicles her tenure as fiction editor of Esquire in the 1990s and her rocky relationship with David Foster Wallace, the era’s iconic novelist.
  
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• Meet ‘the Pablo Escobar of the Falcon Egg Trade’

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new book, “The Falcon Thief,” Joshua Hammer exposes the world’s most notorious wild-bird trafficker.
  
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• If Your Brother Committed a Terrorist Act, Would You Forgive Him?

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The heroine of S.M. Hulse’s second novel, “Eden Mine,” reckons with extremism in her family.
  
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• Highways Through Hell

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Overground Railroad,” by Candacy Taylor, and “Driving While Black,” by Gretchen Sorin, chronicle the dangers for black Americans on the road during Jim Crow, and the travel guides that assisted them.
  
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• Giving Voice to the Victims of Growth

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Carolyn Chute’s “The Recipe for Revolution” is a sprawling tale of impoverished outsiders, rural cults, militia groups and teenage activists.
  
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• A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The King at the Edge of the World,” by Arthur Phillips, a Muslim physician becomes a pawn in a game of international political chess.
  
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• A Novel That Will Get People Talking

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amina Cain’s ‘Indelicacy’ is a cautionary tale and a call to arms.
  
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• A New Book Asks: Just How Machiavellian Was Machiavelli?

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The French historian Patrick Boucheron joins a list of scholars who have been trying to debunk the stereotype of Machiavelli as a fascist enabler and tyrant whisperer.
  
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• A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores

  11-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The romantic adventures of salesladies in 1950s Sydney come alive in Madeleine St. John’s gentle comedy of manners, “The Women in Black.”
  
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• Late Night’s Vote for Best Picture: Trump’s Windswept Tan Line

  11-02-2020 09:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “He looks like Hannibal Lecter when he stole a different person’s face to escape from prison,” Stephen Colbert joked on “The Late Show.”
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Cherish the Day’ and ‘For Life’

  11-02-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new series from Ava DuVernay debuts on OWN, while a legal drama arrives on ABC.
  
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• Review: In ‘Hamlet,’ Ruth Negga Rules as a Player Prince

  11-02-2020 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Yaël Farber’s stunning, Dublin-born interpretation of this eternal classic finds the dizzying layers of performance that rule all our lives.
  
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• Winners announced for Mayor's Arts Awards - Lincoln Journal Star

  11-02-2020 03:00
  Winners announced for Mayor's Arts Awards  Lincoln Journal Star
  
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• Audra McDonald Will Star in ‘Streetcar’ at Williamstown Theater Festival

  11-02-2020 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bobby Cannavale and Carla Gugino will also be in the revival of the Tennessee Williams play, which will be directed by Robert O’Hara.
  
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