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• Latham tapped to lead Hiddenite Arts - Taylorsville Times

  02-03-2020 23:57 via taylorsvilletimes.com
  Latham tapped to lead Hiddenite Arts  Taylorsville Times
  
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• Live Nation to Book Philadelphia's Mann Center for the Performing Arts - Billboard

  02-03-2020 23:56 via billboard.com
  
  Live Nation to Book Philadelphia's Mann Center for the Performing Arts  Billboard
  
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• Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker Spend the Night Together

  02-03-2020 23:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite,” they are playing three different couples — and are seeing more of one another than ever.
  
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• 2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment

  02-03-2020 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  When the fifth edition of the Prospect New Orleans triennial opens to the public on October 24, the 2020 elections will be only 10 days away. That looming date was very much on the minds of the exhibition’s two curators, Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi, when they began thinking about selecting the 51 artists and collectives that will participate in the sprawling city-wide triennial, which has become one of the country’s biggest art events.
  Keith, who is vice president of education and
  
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• Arts and Crafts Style Explained: What It Is and Why It's Trending 120 Years Later - Realtor.com News

  02-03-2020 23:02 via realtor.com
  
  Arts and Crafts Style Explained: What It Is and Why It's Trending 120 Years Later  Realtor.com News
  
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• Peter Dreher, Influential German Painter Known for His Observational Style, Has Died at 87

  02-03-2020 22:59 via artnews.com
  
  Peter Dreher, the German postwar painter best known for his sprawling observational series of a single empty glass, died on February 18, according to a report in the German-language outlet Neuste Nachrichten. He was 87 years old. The cause of death was not stated.
  Dreher came of age in the twilight days of World War II, and his lifelong practice was guided by themes of mortality, repetition, and the passage of time. Though often described by critics as operating somewhere between conceptual and
  
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• Sheriff's office getting ready for Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival - WPTV.com

  02-03-2020 22:48 via wptv.com
  
  Sheriff's office getting ready for Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival  WPTV.com
  
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• Union Official Resigns Over Handling of Plácido Domingo Inquiry

  02-03-2020 22:40 via nytimes.com
  
  A vice president of the union said he saw a quid pro quo in a potential settlement with the opera star. But the union said the secrecy was to protect the witnesses.
  
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• Ousted Grammys Chief Deborah Dugan Is Fired

  02-03-2020 22:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The Recording Academy took action on Monday after weeks of internal turmoil, including her removal 10 days before the Grammys.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Pritzker Prize Goes to Yvonne Farrell, Shirley McNamara—and More from March 3, 2020 

  02-03-2020 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Tuesday, March 3
  2020 Pritzker Prize Goes to Two Women For the First TimeThe Pritzer Prize, the world’s biggest award for architecture, has this year gone to Yvonne Farrell and Shirley McNamara, who together operate the Dublin-based architectural firm Grafton Architects. In a statement, the jury recognized them for designing buildings that act as “good neighbors” with their surroundings. Their firm previously won the Silver Lion award at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale in
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Longtime Baltimore Museum of Art Curator to Retire—and More from March 2, 2020 

  02-03-2020 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, March 2
  Longtime Baltimore Museum of Art Curator to Retire Jay McKean Fisher, a longtime curator and the inaugural director of the Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies at the Baltimore Museum of Art, will retire later this month after 45 years at the institution. During his tenure at BAM, he oversaw major acquisitions for the museum’s collection, including the George A. Lucas Collection of 19th-century French art, the Gallagher/Dalsheimer collection of American photo
  
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• St. Paul theater attempts to rebound with next season and new arts leaders - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  02-03-2020 22:28 via startribune.com
  
  St. Paul theater attempts to rebound with next season and new arts leaders  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
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• James Lipton, ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ Host, Dies at 93

  02-03-2020 21:39 via nytimes.com
  
  His in-depth conversations with celebrities on the program focused on craft, not gossip, and made the show a hit on Bravo.
  
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• Dorothea Lange’s Photography Captured the Despair of a Country Divided by Inequality

  02-03-2020 21:11 via artnews.com
  
  Near the entrance to this exhibition of work by trailblazing twentieth-century documentary photographer Dorothea Lange we confront the image of a migratory cotton picker, whose calloused palm hides his mouth from our view, as though to signal his reticence. The image dovetails with a nearby wall text, in which Lange conveys her desire to photograph the underprivileged without taking their privacy and dignity from them. But it also suits an exhibition that contains less words than one might expec
  
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• Review: The Body Is Also a Percussive Instrument

  02-03-2020 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Drumfolk,” Step Afrika! performs dances rooted in African-American history. “They took the drums away, but they could not stop the beat!”
  
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• Artist Ali Yass on MoMA PS1’s Removal of His Work from Gulf Wars Show: ‘I Thought I Would Have My Voice Heard’

  02-03-2020 20:52 via artnews.com
  
  Sunday marked the closing of “Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011,” an exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York that, from its opening in November, had been riddled with controversy. It also occasioned one final protest—this one focused on work included in the show by artist Ali Yass.
  On Saturday, Yass issued a statement calling for protesters to tear up drawings of his in the exhibition, which focused on the effects of American interventions in Iraq. Yass, who was b
  
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• Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat

  02-03-2020 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra recreated the composer’s famous Akademie program of 1808, a marathon that included a staggering four premieres.
  
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• ‘Tumacho’ Review: The Strange Delights of a Supernatural Horse Opera

  02-03-2020 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Ethan Lipton’s delirious Western comedy features a pigtailed gunslinger, a soul-sucking demon and singing puppet cactuses, among other inspired flights of fancy.
  
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• Ulay, Boundary-Pushing Performance Artist, Dies at 76

  02-03-2020 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  He made his name during a 12-year creative and romantic partnership with Marina Abramovic.
  
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• James Lipton, Interviewer Who Let Stars Shine, Dies at 93

  02-03-2020 19:25 via nytimes.com
  
  His in-depth conversations with celebrities on “Inside the Actors Studio” focused on craft, not gossip, and made the show a hit on Bravo.
  
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• Midsize Galleries Have Been Struggling for Years. One Gallerist Has Ideas on How to Survive.

  02-03-2020 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  I opened my New York gallery, On Stellar Rays, in September 2008, around the same time as other promising upstarts—Invisible-Exports, 11R, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Bureau, Lisa Cooley, James Fuentes, Laurel Gitlen, Simon Preston, Rachel Uffner, Kate Werble—run by dealers who would become my colleagues during a vibrant and remarkably collaborative moment in the history of the city’s art scene. Opening on the brink of global financial crisis might have seemed inauspicious
  
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• In ‘Fiebre Tropical,’ a Colombian Teenager Moves to Miami and Comes of Age

  02-03-2020 19:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The narrator of Juli Delgado Lopera’s energetic novel closely observes the women in her family while dealing with the emergence of her own beliefs and sexuality.
  
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• ‘Judge Judy’ Will Rule Only in Reruns After Next Season

  02-03-2020 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Judy Sheindlin’s hit courtroom television program will stop taping new episodes, but in apparent challenge to CBS, she said she was starting a new show, “Judy Justice.”
  
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• Beck Center for the Arts announces first capital campaign, schedules ‘Raise the Roof’ rally - cleveland.com

  02-03-2020 18:07 via cleveland.com
  
  Beck Center for the Arts announces first capital campaign, schedules ‘Raise the Roof’ rally  cleveland.com
  
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• Former U.K. Prime Minister Reportedly Rejected Prominent Classicist Mary Beard for Spot on British Museum Board

  02-03-2020 17:57 via artnews.com
  
  After the United Kingdom left the European Union on January 31, fallout from before and after Brexit continues to be revealed. According to a report by the Guardian, the famed British classicist and University of Cambridge professor Mary Beard was blocked last year from a seat on the board of the British Museum by the office of former Prime Minister Theresa May. The publication reports that Beard, who had voiced support for the U.K. remaining in the E.U., was rejected for the position on account
  
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• Lynn Evans Mand, 95, Dies; a Voice on ‘Mr. Sandman’ and ‘Lollipop’

  02-03-2020 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  With Ms. Mand on lead vocals, the Chordettes reached the top of the pop charts in the 1950s
  
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• A Global Survey of Women in Architecture Rethinks How We Attribute Buildings

  02-03-2020 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  Jane Hall’s book Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women, London, Phaidon, 2019; 224 pages, 190 illustrations, $49.95 hardcover.
  From modernism’s chain of stylistic ruptures to recent discontinuities caused by so-called smart city design, architecture’s history has long been predicated on schisms and fractures, often created for disruption’s sake. Today, however, a new wave of  feminists is producing a welcome correction to masculinist values in architecture. In
  
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• Coming of Age, Whether She’s Ready or Not

  02-03-2020 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  In Lily King’s novel, a young woman searches for meaning.
  
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• Ulay, Daring Performance Artist Who Channeled Postwar Europe’s Anxieties, Is Dead at 76

  02-03-2020 16:51 via artnews.com
  
  Ulay, whose boundary-pushing performances tapped into the tensions that pervaded postwar Europe—often through scenarios that seemed as though they could at any moment erupt into violence—has died at 76. He had been diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
  Since the early 1970s, Ulay created performances and photographs that made frequent use of his own body. Having worked collaboratively for more than a decade with Marina Abramović, his former partner and currently the world’s mos
  
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• Coppell flexes its muscles in the arts by opening the Coppell Arts Center. Hello, Kristin Chenoweth! - The Dallas Morning News

  02-03-2020 15:40 via dallasnews.com
  
  Coppell flexes its muscles in the arts by opening the Coppell Arts Center. Hello, Kristin Chenoweth!  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Louvre Closes Temporarily, Hunter Biden’s Art Practice, and More: Morning Links from March 2, 2020

  02-03-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  The Louvre suddenly closed to the public on Sunday while its staff met to discuss the spread of the Coronavirus, 100 cases of which have been confirmed in France. [ARTnews]
  Mark Rothko’s 1957 painting No. 22 (reds), which was held in the estate of the late collector and financier Donald Marron, has sold for $70 million. It was
  
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• Georgetown Steam Plant to become an innovative arts and science hub - Crosscut

  02-03-2020 14:01 via crosscut.com
  
  Georgetown Steam Plant to become an innovative arts and science hub  Crosscut
  
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• Survey shows arts attendance is on top in North Dakota and the Upper Midwest - INFORUM

  02-03-2020 14:00 via inforum.com
  
  Survey shows arts attendance is on top in North Dakota and the Upper Midwest  INFORUM
  
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• Summer at Bard: Nadia Boulanger, Music’s ‘One-Woman Graduate School’

  02-03-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The pathbreaking composer, conductor and teacher of some of the 20th century’s most important composers will be the focus of the Bard Music Festival.
  
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• I’m a Grown Man, and ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Me Scream

  02-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A disorienting scene midway through the film shocked even a seasoned horror fan. Here are five more films that took gruesome detours down the right path.
  
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• The Architect Making Conceptual Art Out of Buildings

  02-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In exploring the contradictions between private and public, interior and exterior, constructed and natural, Sou Fujimoto has offered his own definition for what design should be.
  
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• Lil Dicky the Rapper Makes Way for Dave the TV Star

  02-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Dave Burd, better known as the comic rapper Lil Dicky, fictionalizes his hip-hop rise in the new FXX series “Dave.”
  
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• How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’

  02-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tweaks to dialogue, costumes and lighting cues came daily, as the cast and crew of Richard Greenberg’s new play prepared for opening night.
  
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• Logan Square's Aloft Circus School Becomes City's First Circus Performing Arts Venue - Block Club Chicago

  02-03-2020 10:40 via blockclubchicago.org
  
  Logan Square's Aloft Circus School Becomes City's First Circus Performing Arts Venue  Block Club Chicago
  
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• What’s on TV Monday: ‘Breeders’ and ‘Notes on a Scandal’

  02-03-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new comedy series debuts on FX. And the psychological drama is new to Hulu.
  
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• Special Needs Students Show Off Creativity During Annual Arts Festival at Brevard Zoo | - SpaceCoastDaily.com

  02-03-2020 06:08 via spacecoastdaily.com
  
  Special Needs Students Show Off Creativity During Annual Arts Festival at Brevard Zoo |  SpaceCoastDaily.com
  
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• Review: In ‘The Hot Wing King,’ a New Recipe for a Family

  02-03-2020 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Katori Hall’s genial play, built around a cooking contest in Memphis, uses a sitcom structure to explore black masculinity.
  
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• St. Cloud arts center seeking historical items, stories for centennial celebration - Minnesota Public Radio News

  02-03-2020 01:44 via mprnews.org
  
  St. Cloud arts center seeking historical items, stories for centennial celebration  Minnesota Public Radio News
  
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