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• Small New York Galleries and Nonprofits Could Be Eligible for Emergency Coronavirus Funds

  10-03-2020 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  With officials across the world scrambling to help businesses that may suffer because of the coronavirus outbreak, New York City is offering interest-free loans and cash grants to small enterprises that could see a significant decline in sales. The multimillion-dollar initiative comes as the stock market tumbles and the number of infected patients multiplies. For the city’s smaller museums and galleries, the financial buoy could be a lifesaver in a time when fewer people are visiting art s
  
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• Jamey Gambrell Dies at 65; Made Russian Writing Sing, in English

  10-03-2020 22:43 via nytimes.com
  
  A pre-eminent translator of contemporary Russian authors like Tatyana Tolstaya and Vladimir Sorokin, she won a prestigious prize for translation in 2016.
  
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• Nelson Leirner, Brazilian Artist Known for Incisive Critiques of the Art World, Has Died at 88

  10-03-2020 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  Nelson Leirner, a Brazilian artist known for his critiques of art production and consumption, died in Rio de Janeiro on March 7, according to ArtReview, which first reported the news. He was 88.
  Pop culture imagery and canonical works from art history were frequent subjects of Leirner’s painting and collages; think Velázquez’s court ladies swarmed by flies or a football stadium packed with Incredible Hulk cartoons and Power Rangers. Little in the zeitgeist was safe from Leirne
  
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• Allegations Against Plácido Domingo Deemed Credible by L.A. Opera

  10-03-2020 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The company said it had received 10 accusations of “inappropriate conduct” by the opera star, who has begun to face cancellations in Europe as well as America.
  
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• Amid Climate Activists’ Calls for Divestment, London’s Southbank Centre Severs Ties with Shell

  10-03-2020 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  With growing calls by activists for arts institutions to take accountability for their connections to funders with ecologically unfriendly businesses, one major London center has dropped a controversial sponsor. The Southbank Centre, which comprises the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Festival Hall, the National Poetry Library, and other cultural venues, will end its corporate membership deal with Shell. The British Film Institute has also declined to renew its contract with the oil company.
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• With Country on Lockdown Following Coronavirus Outbreak, Italian Gallerists Close Temporarily: ‘We Need to Be Realistic’

  10-03-2020 21:10 via artnews.com
  
  With more than 8,000 cases of the coronavirus documented within its borders, Italy went on lockdown on Monday while officials work to contain the virus’s spread. As Italy’s 60 million citizens continue adjusting to life under quarantine, galleries throughout the country have begun closing to the public temporarily. In statements sent to ARTnews, these galleries said their business could soon be impacted. Some dealers have plans to appear in art fairs in Europe and the Americas next m
  
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• The Artists Are in Charge. Step 1: Upend the Status Quo.

  10-03-2020 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Performance Space New York is operating as an artist-led collective this year. So what are they up to?
  
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• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness

  10-03-2020 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Lily King’s new book, “Writers & Lovers,” features an aspiring novelist coming into her own, artistically and romantically.
  
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• Should I Watch the Prequel to ‘Breaking Bad’ First?

  10-03-2020 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Our television critic answers your questions and offers guidance on what to watch next.
  
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• As I See It: Arts Center needs city's support - Corvallis Gazette Times

  10-03-2020 18:15 via gazettetimes.com
  As I See It: Arts Center needs city's support  Corvallis Gazette Times
  
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• Ask a Curator: Francesco Bonami on Italy and the Coronavirus, Online Viewing Rooms, and More

  10-03-2020 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  Francesco Bonami, whose curatorial credits include the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, has returned for the fifth edition of his column, “Ask a Curator,” in which he addresses Yale University’s new approach to art history, Italy’s response to the coronavirus, and Art Basel Hong Kong’s online viewing rooms. He can be found on Instagram at @thebonamist. If you have queries for him for a future column, please write to [email protected]. —T
  
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• Luther Burbank Center For The Arts To Present Rodney Strong Vineyards' 30th Annual Summer Concert Series - GlobeNewswire

  10-03-2020 18:04 via globenewswire.com
  
  Luther Burbank Center For The Arts To Present Rodney Strong Vineyards' 30th Annual Summer Concert Series  GlobeNewswire
  
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• The Ceramics Designer Inspired by 20th-Century Drawings of Brain Cells

  10-03-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After finding a book of vintage medical illustrations, Eny Lee Parker decided to translate those shapes to clay.
  
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• How to Heal a Sad Body? Dancing Never Hurts

  10-03-2020 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  We talk to Christine and the Queens about her latest movement adventure: “La Vita Nuova,” a film featuring choreography by Ryan Heffington.
  
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• Four Arts cancels two events because of coronavirus concerns - Palm Beach Daily News

  10-03-2020 17:50 via palmbeachdailynews.com
  Four Arts cancels two events because of coronavirus concerns  Palm Beach Daily News
  
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• How Sports, Arts and Social Development fund used its money - Standard Digital

  10-03-2020 17:39 via standardmedia.co.ke
  
  How Sports, Arts and Social Development fund used its money  Standard Digital
  
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• Ideasroom Is the future of the arts female? - Newsroom

  10-03-2020 17:36 via newsroom.co.nz
  
  Ideasroom Is the future of the arts female?  Newsroom
  
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• Chocolate Church Arts Center presents a concert from Max Ater - Lewiston Sun Journal

  10-03-2020 17:30 via sunjournal.com
  
  Chocolate Church Arts Center presents a concert from Max Ater  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT March 11 - The Northwest Florida Daily News

  10-03-2020 17:27 via nwfdailynews.com
  ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT March 11  The Northwest Florida Daily News
  
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• Klopp wary of Atletico’s dark arts with Liverpool in danger - USA TODAY

  10-03-2020 17:22 via usatoday.com
  Klopp wary of Atletico’s dark arts with Liverpool in danger  USA TODAY
  
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• Gavilán Rayna Russom to Launch New Label, Voluminous Arts - Paste Magazine

  10-03-2020 16:44 via pastemagazine.com
  
  Gavilán Rayna Russom to Launch New Label, Voluminous Arts  Paste Magazine
  
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• It’s no longer art for arts’ sake, cultural leaders say - Palm Beach Post

  10-03-2020 16:12 via palmbeachpost.com
  It’s no longer art for arts’ sake, cultural leaders say  Palm Beach Post
  
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• March at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center - The Northwest Florida Daily News

  10-03-2020 16:08 via nwfdailynews.com
  March at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center  The Northwest Florida Daily News
  
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• World’s Top Photography Award Goes to Alfredo Jaar, Maker of Poetic Works Focused on Political Resistance

  10-03-2020 15:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Hasselblad Prize is perhaps the greatest honor a photographer can receive, and winning it often acts as a capstone to a long and pioneering career. Now, the Hasselblad Foundation has revealed the latest winner: Alfredo Jaar, who is known for his incisive conceptual photography focused on globalism and political resistance.
  Jaar will receive the award in October in Gothenburg, Sweden, where the Hasselblad Foundation is based. Through the award, Jaar will receive 1 million Swedish kroner (arou
  
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• New book offers tips on praying successfully for believers - Tahlequah Daily Press

  10-03-2020 15:49 via tahlequahdailypress.com
  New book offers tips on praying successfully for believers  Tahlequah Daily Press
  
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• Chenango Arts Council to host international poet - WIVT - NewsChannel 34

  10-03-2020 15:49 via binghamtonhomepage.com
  Chenango Arts Council to host international poet  WIVT - NewsChannel 34
  
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• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Neurotic Filmmaker’s Life Story

  10-03-2020 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  In his memoir, “Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother,” the director of “Men in Black” and “The Addams Family” tells both hilarious and harrowing stories.
  
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• Pat Passlof’s Abstraction Kept Evolving as New York and Its Art Scene Changed Around Her

  10-03-2020 15:27 via artnews.com
  
  Pat Passloff: AS-Brown, 1959, oil on linen, 50 by 58 inches.
  What tangible or visible traces remain, apart from the surviving artworks sitting in museums or private collections, of the hundreds of thousands of artists who have resided in New York over the last century? As far as I can see, not very much. In most of the neighborhoods they once frequented, from SoHo to Williamsburg, studios have been converted into luxury residential units, or entire buildings that used to house artists have been
  
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• Pat Pasloff’s Abstraction Kept Evolving as New York and Its Art Scene Changed Around Her

  10-03-2020 15:27 via artnews.com
  
  Pat Passloff: AS-Brown, 1959, oil on linen, 50 by 58 inches.
  What tangible or visible traces remain, apart from the surviving artworks sitting in museums or private collections, of the hundreds of thousands of artists who have resided in New York over the last century? As far as I can see, not very much. In most of the neighborhoods they once frequented, from SoHo to Williamsburg, studios have been converted into luxury residential units, or entire buildings that used to house artists have been
  
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• Noah Davis’s Paintings Envisioned an Eerie, Ethereal Decolonized World

  10-03-2020 15:22 via artnews.com
  
  Noah Davis: The Waiting Room, 2008, oil and acrylic on canvas; at David Zwirner.
  In 2013, painter Noah Davis founded the Underground Museum (UM) in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, with his brother, Khalil Joseph, and his wife, Karon Davis. The three aimed to bring museum-quality shows to a historically underserved African American and Latinx neighborhood. Two years later, in August 2015, Davis died of a rare form of cancer at the age of thirty-two. Expertly organized by Helen Molesworth—fo
  
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• Looking to past, present, future through photography at Red Wing Arts - RiverTowns

  10-03-2020 14:49 via rivertowns.net
  
  Looking to past, present, future through photography at Red Wing Arts  RiverTowns
  
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• What Toll Will COVID-19 Take On Europe's Arts? A Letter from Italy - frieze.com

  10-03-2020 14:18 via frieze.com
  
  What Toll Will COVID-19 Take On Europe's Arts? A Letter from Italy  frieze.com
  
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• What to do in Fort Worth in March — Your Performing Arts Must-List - PaperCity Magazine

  10-03-2020 14:11 via papercitymag.com
  
  What to do in Fort Worth in March — Your Performing Arts Must-List  PaperCity Magazine
  
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• Canceled Events Because of Coronavirus List

  10-03-2020 13:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Here’s a look at some major events around the world that have been canceled, postponed or moved because of concerns about the new coronavirus.
  
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• Plattsburgh's downtown revitalization will include an Arts Park - North Country Public Radio

  10-03-2020 13:45 via northcountrypublicradio.org
  
  Plattsburgh's downtown revitalization will include an Arts Park  North Country Public Radio
  
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• Bette Warner resigns as co-leader at Fine Arts Work Center - Wicked Local Provincetown

  10-03-2020 13:34 via provincetown.wickedlocal.com
  Bette Warner resigns as co-leader at Fine Arts Work Center  Wicked Local Provincetown
  
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• ‘Arts for All’ provides art programs at no cost for N.D. children and adults - KX NEWS

  10-03-2020 13:25 via kxnet.com
  ‘Arts for All’ provides art programs at no cost for N.D. children and adults  KX NEWS
  
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• Electronic Arts Statement on NFL Partnership - Yahoo Finance

  10-03-2020 13:03 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Electronic Arts Statement on NFL Partnership  Yahoo Finance
  
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• Arts in Profile: Kenny Cole - Freepress Online

  10-03-2020 12:59 via freepressonline.com
  
  Arts in Profile: Kenny Cole  Freepress Online
  
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• VPM Presents “Full Disclosure” Live at Modlin Center for the Arts - Style Weekly

  10-03-2020 12:54 via styleweekly.com
  
  VPM Presents “Full Disclosure” Live at Modlin Center for the Arts  Style Weekly
  
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• Marshfield student artists on display at North River Arts Society - Wicked Local Marshfield

  10-03-2020 12:50 via marshfield.wickedlocal.com
  Marshfield student artists on display at North River Arts Society  Wicked Local Marshfield
  
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• Pawtucket Arts Festival Set to Return in September - GoLocalProv

  10-03-2020 12:44 via golocalprov.com
  
  Pawtucket Arts Festival Set to Return in September  GoLocalProv
  
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• David Heo | “Honey & Smoke” Solo Show, arts education, and more - WGN Radio - Chicago

  10-03-2020 12:37 via wgnradio.com
  David Heo | “Honey & Smoke” Solo Show, arts education, and more  WGN Radio - Chicago
  
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• Downtown Dallas tower with Arts District view has new funding - The Dallas Morning News

  10-03-2020 12:17 via dallasnews.com
  
  Downtown Dallas tower with Arts District view has new funding  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Free arts program for seniors - wnep.com

  10-03-2020 10:45 via wnep.com
  Free arts program for seniors  wnep.com
  
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• ESO Arts Center awarded $25000 Grant - Shore Daily News

  10-03-2020 10:03 via shoredailynews.com
  
  ESO Arts Center awarded $25000 Grant  Shore Daily News
  
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• When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating

  10-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Therese Anne Fowler’s new novel, “A Good Neighborhood,” explores volatile issues of race and class in a Southern community.
  
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• When ‘Gentefied’ Straddles More Than One Culture, It Feels Real

  10-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  I’m Mexican-American, and with that hyphen comes a pull between tradition and evolution. A new Netflix show nails this perfectly.
  
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• What if Gatsby Worked at a Tech Start-Up?

  10-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The narrator of Kevin Nguyen’s debut novel, “New Waves,” discovers his charismatic work wife was not what she seemed.
  
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• What Happened When a Times Reporter Traded Brooklyn for Dakar

  10-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Frustrated by her stressful city life, Dionne Searcey moved her family to West Africa as the region’s bureau chief. “In Pursuit of Disobedient Women” is her chronicle of what she saw and learned.
  
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