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• Hachette Workers Protest Woody Allen Book With a Walkout

  05-03-2020 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The publisher’s announcement that it will publish the filmmaker’s memoir has drawn criticism, this time from its own employees.
  
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• An Artist Whose Buddhist and Painting Practices Converge

  05-03-2020 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Leidy Churchman’s latest show encourages a focused, joyful kind of looking that feels deliberately at odds with our increasingly distracted world.
  
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• Independent, the Small-Scale Art Fair Antidote to the Armory Show, Stages a Soothing Opening in New York

  05-03-2020 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The Independent art fair, a calming cup of fine herbal tea to the Armory Show’s mixologist-concocted Red Bull and vodka, opened its 11th edition in New York on Thursday with a serene spirit suited to its downtown home. A crowd notably less fixated on talk of a certain virus wreaking havoc around the globe assembled when the fair opened its doors in Tribeca, and the day proceeded with an air of tranquility as sun poured through Spring Studios’ enormous windows onto art from more than
  
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• The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs

  05-03-2020 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Spring/Break doesn’t feel like a fair so much as a crowded, exhilarating, madcap art extravaganza. Volta offers playful abstraction.
  
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• Music lineup set for Ashley for the Arts - WXOW.com

  05-03-2020 22:57 via wxow.com
  
  Music lineup set for Ashley for the Arts  WXOW.com
  
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• A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair

  05-03-2020 22:54 via nytimes.com
  
  In this year’s whimsical edition, the 11-year-old art fair looks back to lesser-known work from the 1960s.
  
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• A Hot New Sushi Hand Roll Bar Arrives Soon in the Arts District - Eater LA

  05-03-2020 22:53 via la.eater.com
  
  A Hot New Sushi Hand Roll Bar Arrives Soon in the Arts District  Eater LA
  
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• With Coronavirus Fears Still Looming, International Art Fairs Continue on As Planned—With Increased Health Precautions

  05-03-2020 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  Although the coronavirus is continuing to spread across Asia and Europe, some in the art market seem unafraid that the uncertainty surrounding the outbreak will have a long-lasting impact—exhibitors at the Armory Show said that, at the fair’s opening on Wednesday, they saw business as usual. The Armory Show made few changes in response to the coronavirus, and now, other art fairs around the world with editions taking place between now and April have said they will follow suit.
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• Griselda Pollock Becomes First Art Historian to Win Esteemed $646,000 Holberg Prize

  05-03-2020 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time ever, the Holberg Prize—one of the world’s biggest awards for contributions to the humanities, social sciences, law, theology, and the arts—has gone to an art historian. Its 2020 winner is Griselda Pollock, who is best known for her writings on the place of women artists in society over the centuries. Through the award, which is given out by the Norwegian government, Pollock will win 6 million kroner, or about $646,000—a sum larger, even, than the one t
  
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• Joyce Gordon, Who Broke the Glasses Ceiling on TV, Dies at 90

  05-03-2020 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  As a bespectacled pitchwoman she defied a stereotype. She was also a screen actors’ labor leader and a familiar voice (“the number you have reached is no longer in service”).
  
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• Philly musicians to band together at benefit concert to ‘resurrect’ arts venue PhilaMOCA - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  05-03-2020 22:21 via inquirer.com
  
  Philly musicians to band together at benefit concert to ‘resurrect’ arts venue PhilaMOCA  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• The Armory Show: Playing It Safe During an Unsettled Time

  05-03-2020 22:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Another year, another crisis: The Armory Show proves resilient again as it opens amid the coronavirus outbreak. Our critic surveys the fair’s many welcoming entry points.
  
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• The lineup is complete for Ashley for the Arts - News8000.com - WKBT

  05-03-2020 22:03 via news8000.com
  
  The lineup is complete for Ashley for the Arts  News8000.com - WKBT
  
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• You Think You Know Robin? Which One?

  05-03-2020 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Batman’s sidekick turns 80 on Friday. Many people have worn Robin’s costume over the years — and they were not all boy wonders.
  
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• Marin School of the Arts singer makes solo debut with the Lobby Loungers - Marin Independent Journal

  05-03-2020 21:02 via marinij.com
  
  Marin School of the Arts singer makes solo debut with the Lobby Loungers  Marin Independent Journal
  
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• Peeking Into the World of Rare Books

  05-03-2020 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new documentary “The Booksellers” looks at the esoteric world of the antiquarian trade, and the passionate, eclectic and endangered characters who make it hum.
  
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• Juggling, circus arts fest returns to Panther Valley - tnonline.com

  05-03-2020 20:50 via tnonline.com
  Juggling, circus arts fest returns to Panther Valley  tnonline.com
  
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• Ribbon-Cutting for the Buffalo School of Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management - Buffalo Rising

  05-03-2020 20:47 via buffalorising.com
  
  Ribbon-Cutting for the Buffalo School of Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management  Buffalo Rising
  
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• Italy’s Museums Reopen With Coronavirus Rule: Stay a Meter Apart

  05-03-2020 20:41 via nytimes.com
  
  But reduced attendance means it’s not hard to enforce the new regulations.
  
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• Yoshua Okon’s Work Proposes That We Burn It All Down—But Maybe Not All of It

  05-03-2020 20:18 via artnews.com
  
  Neoliberalism is trending in Mexico right now. When questioned recently about the government’s inadequate response to the increasing rates of feminicidios (murders of women), President López Obrador said that his administration was attacking the root causes, that neoliberalism had not only brought misery to huge swaths of the population but had also sparked the social decay that led to violence. Though the president was perhaps not entirely wrong, the very next night he was tweeting
  
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• Arts & Culture: A Blast from the Past - Physics

  05-03-2020 20:18 via physics.aps.org
  
  Arts & Culture: A Blast from the Past  Physics
  
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• On the Arts: Classical music concerts are just too long - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  05-03-2020 19:43 via post-gazette.com
  
  On the Arts: Classical music concerts are just too long  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt

  05-03-2020 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The Met Breuer closes with an exhibition of the 88-year-old German painter, likely to be the final major show of his lifetime.
  
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• Colby College receives $16 million gift for financial aid, the arts, health and wellness - Press Herald

  05-03-2020 19:34 via pressherald.com
  
  Colby College receives $16 million gift for financial aid, the arts, health and wellness  Press Herald
  
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• Review: Who Will Save the World? This Dance Leaves It to the Kids

  05-03-2020 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  In Kimberly Bartosik’s new piece, three dancers power through a storm with the help of a younger, wiser generation.
  
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• Missing ‘Gomorrah’? Watch This

  05-03-2020 18:55 via nytimes.com
  
  While we wait for new seasons of TV’s best mafia drama, Amazon Prime Video offers a reasonable facsimile with the globe-trotting thriller “Zerozerozero.”
  
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• Art about Amazon Expresses Vulnerable Humanity in the Face of a Ubiquitous Behemoth

  05-03-2020 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  In a novelized Account of her time working in an Amazon warehouse in Leipzig, Germany, Heike Geissler writes: “You ought to prove to your employer you’re alive.” Her narrator fantasizes about disrupting the warehouse where she receives inbound units and enters them into the computer. She could “conceal products from others and thus remove them from the commodities cycle.” She could “sprinkle dust inside the books (only the bad books and the badly made ones).&r
  
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• Art Historian Griselda Pollock Wins Holberg Prize

  05-03-2020 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Pollock pioneered the introduction of feminist thought in art history. The prize comes with an award of 6 million Norwegian kroner, or about $650,000.
  
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• 2020 Art Basel Global Market Report Reveals Leveled Growth, with Emerging Collectors a New Focus

  05-03-2020 18:28 via artnews.com
  
  As the mid-season contemporary auctions and the Armory Show in New York carry on, Art Basel and the Swiss bank UBS released its annual Global Art Market Report. The analysis revealed a strong plateau in overall growth of the international art market, highlighting key contributing factors in the global dynamics of the industry for the year of 2019. The report also focused its analysis on the transactional behaviors of high-net-worth collectors sector, an area of heightened concentration amid stab
  
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• Artists to Transform La Guardia Airport

  05-03-2020 18:12 via nytimes.com
  
  A partnership with the Public Art Fund brings permanent installations by world-class artists to the new Terminal B.
  
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• ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town

  05-03-2020 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In this sensational genre whatsit, a town finds itself fighting for its very existence. (Good thing Sônia Braga lives there.)
  
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• New York’s Museums Are Cautiously Preparing for the Coronavirus

  05-03-2020 17:40 via artnews.com
  
  As cases of coronavirus mount in and around New York, the city’s museums are increasingly faced with the possibility of closure if the epidemic worsens, as has happened with a number of institutions in Milan, Italy, as well as the Louvre in Paris.
  Health officials looking to stop the highly contagious new coronavirus (Covid-19) from spreading further are recommending that employers exercise an abundance of caution, routinely disinfecting their offices and sending sick workers home. But as
  
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• Review: In ‘Mr. Toole,’ Trying to Remember Teacher

  05-03-2020 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Vivian Neuwirth’s play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic “A Confederacy of Dunces” was published.
  
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• ‘The Plot Against America’ Imagines the Rise of an Intolerant Demagogue

  05-03-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Simon has translated Philip Roth’s 2004 alternate history novel into a HBO mini-series, Simon’s first literary adaptation.
  
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• Zara Steiner, Historian Who Explored World War I’s Roots, Dies at 91

  05-03-2020 15:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Following history’s paper trail, she wrote about the failures of diplomacy and the period between the world wars.
  
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• Global Art Market Down in 2019, Musée d’Orsay Gets Anonymous $22.3 M. Gift, and More: Morning Links from March 5, 2020

  05-03-2020 14:56 via artnews.com
  
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  The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has received $22.3 million from an anonymous American donor that will see its administrative spaces converted into galleries and education areas. [The New York Times]
  According to the Global Art Market Report, published by Art Basel and UBS, the global art market dipped 5 percent in 2019, though private sales were up a
  
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• ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This film is dark and moody like the old classics, but the director Diao Yinan has created a very contemporary crime drama.
  
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• ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ Review: Modern Art, Misogyny and Murder

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mick Jagger returns to the big screen in his first non-cameo feature role in almost 20 years in this Giuseppe Capotondi film.
  
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• ‘The Booksellers’ Review: They Like Big Books and They Cannot Lie

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Eccentricity and charm abound in this documentary about the rare book world.
  
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• ‘Swallow’ Review: Objects in Stomach May Be Sharper Than They Appear

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Haley Bennett plays a woman whose dangerous new habit is presented as a way to gain control over her life.
  
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• ‘Run This Town’ Review: What Happens When the Mayor Smokes Crack?

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A Canadian scandal is the inspiration for this film about a struggling young journalist and aspiring political operatives.
  
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• ‘Only’ Review: A Desperate Dystopia Where Women Are Erased

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A pandemic, quarantines and the death of half the population. Is Eva the only surviving woman in the world?
  
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• ‘Hope Gap’ Review: A Thin Line Between Love and War

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Annette Bening and Bill Nighy play a couple that has lost its way after 29 years of marriage.
  
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• ‘Go Back to China’ Review: Making Toys and Growing Up

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After living in Los Angeles, a young woman returns to China to work in her father’s factory.
  
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• ‘Extra Ordinary’ Review: A Reluctant Ghostbuster in Ireland

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Maeve Higgins and Will Forte star in this supernatural comedy that includes requests for exorcisms and, yes, even some ectoplasm.
  
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• ‘Devs’: How the Universe Brought Alex Garland and Nick Offerman Together

  05-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There was a phone call, sure. But as their new FX techno-thriller suggests, their creative partnership may have started with the Big Bang.
  
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• Why Watch Video in a Museum? Let Steve McQueen Show You

  05-03-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Oscar-winning filmmaker never abandoned his first career as a fine artist. His meticulously staged Tate Modern exhibition puts his commitment on display.
  
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• Musée d’Orsay to Expand Spaces for Exhibitions and Education

  05-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A project receives a $22.3 million gift from an anonymous American donor.
  
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• In Post-9/11 New York, a Newlywed Reckons With Her Own Lost Past

  05-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s debut novel, “The Exhibition of Persephone Q,” features a woman who is unwittingly the central subject of a photography show.
  
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• For 30 Years, He Assumed the Identity of His Dead Friend. Now He’s Coming Clean.

  05-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Maisy Card’s debut novel, “These Ghosts Are Family,” a Jamaican immigrant reckons with a decades-old lie in 21st-century Harlem.
  
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