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• Anne Marion, Founder of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in New Mexico, Has Died at 81

  13-02-2020 23:36 via artnews.com
  
  Oil and ranching heiress Anne Marion, a major patron of the arts who founded the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, died on Tuesday. She was 81.
  Marion was a particularly pivotal force in the American Southwest, as the primary benefactor of the Modern Art Museum in her native Fort Worth, Texas. In the early 1980s, Marion noticed the museum’s cramped building only allowed for a small fraction of its holdings to be displayed. “I remember thinking, ‘W
  
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• A Beloved Neighbor Leaves the Building

  13-02-2020 22:41 via nytimes.com
  
  An Illinois farm boy who came to New York to be a singer left an indelible mark on the Upper West Side co-op where he lived for more than six decades.
  
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• Arts This Week: Matthew Broderick And Sarah Jessica Parker, 'Sweat' And 'Vanity Fair' - wgbh.org

  13-02-2020 22:15 via wgbh.org
  
  Arts This Week: Matthew Broderick And Sarah Jessica Parker, 'Sweat' And 'Vanity Fair'  wgbh.org
  
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• Music Training Center rebranding as Plymouth Performing Arts Center and moving to Plymouth Meeting Mall - morethanthecurve.com

  13-02-2020 21:58 via morethanthecurve.com
  
  Music Training Center rebranding as Plymouth Performing Arts Center and moving to Plymouth Meeting Mall  morethanthecurve.com
  
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• ‘The Photograph’ Review: An Unabashedly Old-School Love Story

  13-02-2020 21:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Issa Rae and a terrific Lakeith Stanfield play a New York couple whose romance sends them and the story into the past.
  
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• Review: Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ Is a Cool Cover, but It Misses Some Notes

  13-02-2020 21:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Zoë Kravitz is great in this gender-flipped version of the book and film, but the show itself offers only superficial pleasures.
  
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• Dyanne Thorne, 83, Star of Scandalous ‘Ilsa’ Films, Is Dead

  13-02-2020 21:41 via nytimes.com
  
  She was a sadistic Nazi doctor in “Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS,” a 1975 sexploitation movie that has achieved cult status, then returned in several sequels.
  
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• Ancient to the Future: Nicholas Galanin Aims to Change How Indigenous Art Is Understood

  13-02-2020 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Years ago, onto the surface of the earth, Nicholas Galanin painted a petroglyph of the kind found on rocks and mesas in expansive landscapes around the globe. It tapped into a lineage of ancient artworks whose meanings can be simple and complex in ways that take ages to reveal themselves in full. But the pattern of this petroglyph was unique—in the form of the word “Indians” as styled slightly cartoonishly by the Cleveland Indians baseball team. And the expansive landscape was
  
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• Review: ‘High Fidelity’ Is a Cool Cover, but It Misses Some Notes

  13-02-2020 21:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Zoë Kravitz is great in this gender-flipped version of the book and film, but the show itself offers only superficial pleasures.
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Arts, and Science - The New York Times

  13-02-2020 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Arts, and Science  The New York Times
  
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• Hilton Head leaders reschedule referendum on $65M parks and arts tax. Here’s why - Hilton Head Island Packet

  13-02-2020 21:02 via islandpacket.com
  Hilton Head leaders reschedule referendum on $65M parks and arts tax. Here’s why  Hilton Head Island Packet
  
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• Ashley for the Arts adds to their Saturday lineup - News8000.com - WKBT

  13-02-2020 21:00 via news8000.com
  
  Ashley for the Arts adds to their Saturday lineup  News8000.com - WKBT
  
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• Celebrating Art Beyond the Classroom at Crooked Tree Arts Center - 9&10 News

  13-02-2020 20:59 via 9and10news.com
  
  Celebrating Art Beyond the Classroom at Crooked Tree Arts Center  9&10 News
  
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• Inside the Funhouse Action Scene From ‘Birds of Prey’

  13-02-2020 20:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Cathy Yan discusses a sequence from her film.
  
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• ‘Birds of Prey’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  13-02-2020 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Cathy Yan narrates a sequence from her film starring Margot Robbie.
  
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• ‘Unmasked’ Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber Reveals and Remembers

  13-02-2020 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  This multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
  
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• The Wild, Anti-Authoritarian Art of Peter Saul

  13-02-2020 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The painter’s biting critiques shape his five-decade retrospective at the New Museum.
  
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• ‘Beautiful Project’ at the Met: Stories of Southern Black Girlhood

  13-02-2020 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition opens up important conversations about gender, race and the authority of the photographic gaze.
  
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• Love Saves the Day Turns 50: Hear 12 of the Loft’s Essential Songs

  13-02-2020 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  On Valentine’s Day in 1970, David Mancuso hosted a private party that turned his downtown loft into a crucial part of dance-music history.
  
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• MSU students showcase artistic excellence at 2020 Mississippi Collegiate Arts Competition - Mississippi State Newsroom

  13-02-2020 19:47 via msstate.edu
  
  MSU students showcase artistic excellence at 2020 Mississippi Collegiate Arts Competition  Mississippi State Newsroom
  
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• Weinstein’s Lawyer Says Accusers ‘Had a Choice’ in Sexual Encounters

  13-02-2020 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  During closing arguments, the defense said that Mr. Weinstein was a victim of “overzealous prosecution” and that women had used him to advance their careers.
  
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• Elisabeth Wild, Maker of Intimate, Disorienting Colorful Collages Who Came to Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 98

  13-02-2020 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  Elisabeth Wild, whose colorful collages disorient notions of perspective and architecture and were among the many surprises of Documenta 14 in 2017, has died at home in Guatemala. She had turned 98 earlier this month.
  Wild is best known for her collages, which she began exhibiting internationally in 2014 as part of a midcareer survey for her daughter, artist Vivian Suter, at the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland. She participated in the show at Suter’s invitation. Wild had fully dedicated he
  
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• The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See

  13-02-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Yannick Nézet-Séguin era begins in earnest, with the company’s music director leading six productions.
  
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• Ogden City Council removes nonprofit requirement for certain arts funding - Standard-Examiner

  13-02-2020 19:00 via standard.net
  Ogden City Council removes nonprofit requirement for certain arts funding  Standard-Examiner
  
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• Julije Knifer’s Anti-Paintings Make a Virtue of Monotony

  13-02-2020 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  When Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union in 1948, it jettisoned Socialist Realism in favor of its ostensible antithesis, modernist abstraction. The de facto state style of the 1950s and ’60s was what the literary critic Sveta Lukić called “socialist aestheticism”: an art-for-art’s-sake modernism that stressed formal experimentation above all else, projecting an image of enlightened liberalism as a counterpoint to Soviet dogmatism. Croatian artist Julije Knifer (19
  
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• In Trippy Times, Bill Graham Took Care of Reality

  13-02-2020 18:47 via nytimes.com
  
  America’s best-known rock promoter brought local acts like the Grateful Dead to the national stage. A new exhibition in Manhattan shows how he did it.
  
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• Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange

  13-02-2020 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Her indelible images came to represent the Great Depression. Now a revelatory exhibition at MoMA confirms her place in the pantheon of American photographers.
  
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• School of Theatre Arts Presents "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" - Illinois Wesleyan University

  13-02-2020 18:35 via iwu.edu
  School of Theatre Arts Presents "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"  Illinois Wesleyan University
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Says Accusers Lacked ‘Common Sense’

  13-02-2020 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  During closing arguments, the defense said that Mr. Weinstein was a victim of “overzealous prosecution” and that women had used him to advance their careers.
  
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• Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey

  13-02-2020 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  After seven decades of experimentation, the artist produces “Unlights,” a confounding wonder — and possibly “my swan song.”
  
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• New Page-area Arts Group (GCA) on City Council Agenda Feb 26 - lakepowelllife

  13-02-2020 18:12 via lakepowelllife.com
  New Page-area Arts Group (GCA) on City Council Agenda Feb 26  lakepowelllife
  
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• Tate Modern to Stage Year-Long Yayoi Kusama Exhibition with Two ‘Infinity Mirror Rooms’

  13-02-2020 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  In 2019 alone, Yayoi Kusama, had a solo show at David Zwirner in New York, along with presentations at the Toledo Art Museum in Ohio and the Westport Arts Center in Connecticut, among other locations. This year will be no different for Kusama, who is enjoying a late-career period of success, with the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. having announced a forthcoming exhibition of the artist’s highly coveted installations and the Gropius Bau in Berlin planning a major retrospective for her
  
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• Trump Can’t Make Architecture Great Again Without an Infrastructure Plan

  13-02-2020 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  A week ago, the draft of a provocative new executive order was leaked to the media—a putative fatwa on modern design, proposing that all future federal buildings be constructed in “classical and traditional architecture styles.” Appearing under the snappy title “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” the as-yet unsigned proposal is the work of the National Civic Art Society (NCAS), an independent advocacy group that holds some sway in Washington, its leadership ha
  
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• The Arts: Week of February 14 | The Arts - Cleveland Jewish News

  13-02-2020 18:00 via clevelandjewishnews.com
  The Arts: Week of February 14 | The Arts  Cleveland Jewish News
  
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• Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Board Adds Kristine Pacheco-Bernt - Noozhawk

  13-02-2020 18:00 via noozhawk.com
  
  Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Board Adds Kristine Pacheco-Bernt  Noozhawk
  
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• Gerald Carpenter: Westmont College Throws a Valentine’s Day Fest - Noozhawk

  13-02-2020 18:00 via noozhawk.com
  
  Gerald Carpenter: Westmont College Throws a Valentine’s Day Fest  Noozhawk
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Lawyer: Accusers Lacked ‘Common Sense’

  13-02-2020 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  During closing arguments, the defense said that Mr. Weinstein was a victim of “overzealous prosecution” and that women had used him to advance their careers.
  
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• Former Sotheby’s Top Lawyers Open Firm—Form Alliance with Elusive London Attorney Joe Hage

  13-02-2020 17:47 via artnews.com
  
  The restructuring of Sotheby’s under its new owner, Patrick Drahi, is having a cascading effect on the legal community that underpins the art market. Late last year, the long-serving General Counsel of the auction house, Jonathan Olsoff, left along with John Cahill, former General Counsel of Phillips who was in private practice for a number of years before taking a commercial role as Sotheby’s top deal maker.
  Today, the pair announced the formation of Olsoff | Cahill | Cossu LLP, a b
  
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• Former Sotheby’s Top Lawyers Open Firm, Form Alliance with Elusive London Attorney Joe Hage

  13-02-2020 17:47 via artnews.com
  
  The restructuring of Sotheby’s under its new owner, Patrick Drahi, is having a cascading effect on the legal community that underpins the art market. Late last year, the long-serving General Counsel of the auction house, Jonathan Olsoff, left along with John Cahill, former General Counsel of Phillips who was in private practice for a number of years before taking a commercial role as Sotheby’s top deal maker.
  Today, the pair announced the formation of Olsoff | Cahill | Cossu LLP, a b
  
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• Frederick Koch, Who Spurned Family Business, Dies at 86

  13-02-2020 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The oldest of four boys, he had little interest in his brothers’ conglomerate or politics. Instead, he collected art and restored manor houses.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Is Victim of ‘Overzealous Prosecution,’ Lawyer Says

  13-02-2020 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  During closing arguments, the defense told jurors that Mr. Weinstein’s accusers had used him to advance their careers.
  
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• Digital photography class offered at arts center - Darien Times

  13-02-2020 17:15 via darientimes.com
  Digital photography class offered at arts center  Darien Times
  
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• The Delaware Division of the Arts to Host 2020 Poetry Out Loud State Competition - news.delaware.gov

  13-02-2020 17:02 via news.delaware.gov
  The Delaware Division of the Arts to Host 2020 Poetry Out Loud State Competition  news.delaware.gov
  
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• Open Arts Alliance Students Put the Heart in Valentine's Day at River House - Greenwich Free Press

  13-02-2020 16:52 via greenwichfreepress.com
  
  Open Arts Alliance Students Put the Heart in Valentine's Day at River House  Greenwich Free Press
  
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• Rutgers Appoints New Dean for Mason Gross School of the Arts - TAPinto.net

  13-02-2020 16:45 via tapinto.net
  
  Rutgers Appoints New Dean for Mason Gross School of the Arts  TAPinto.net
  
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• Erie Arts & Culture announces new contemporary arts residency program funded through the Erie Community Foundation - YourErie

  13-02-2020 16:35 via yourerie.com
  Erie Arts & Culture announces new contemporary arts residency program funded through the Erie Community Foundation  YourErie
  
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• Out On the Town: DC arts & entertainment highlights — February 13-19 - Metro Weekly

  13-02-2020 16:31 via metroweekly.com
  
  Out On the Town: DC arts & entertainment highlights — February 13-19  Metro Weekly
  
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• Dingle Elementary teacher and class win arts grant - Woodland Daily Democrat

  13-02-2020 16:26 via dailydemocrat.com
  
  Dingle Elementary teacher and class win arts grant  Woodland Daily Democrat
  
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• Traffic detours announced ahead of Coconut Grove Arts Festival - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

  13-02-2020 16:16 via wsvn.com
  
  Traffic detours announced ahead of Coconut Grove Arts Festival  WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
  
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• How ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Sees Power in Two Women in Love

  13-02-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The film finds equality between its female characters by embracing the power dynamics that are possible when centuries of romantic road maps don’t easily apply.
  
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