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• ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage

  11-03-2020 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Amy Ryan stars as a mother searching for her daughter in a movie that revisits a spate of unsolved murders on Long Island.
  
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• Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow’s Aquacentric Worldview Gets Tangled in Tech

  11-03-2020 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  View of Marina Zurkow and Sarah Rothberg’s exhibition “Wet Logic,” 2020, at bitforms gallery.
  Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow have used virtual reality, generative video, and other multimedia formats to explore the logistic dimensions of the communications infrastructure and its impact on the natural world. Zurkow’s past projects—Dear Climate (2014–), Flight (2016), and Climoji (2017)—explore, respectively, the potential of instructive posters, digital
  
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• COVID-19 and the Arts: With increased cleaning measures, the shows go on - The Daily Gazette

  11-03-2020 22:55 via dailygazette.com
  
  COVID-19 and the Arts: With increased cleaning measures, the shows go on  The Daily Gazette
  
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• Broadway Usher Tests Positive for Coronavirus

  11-03-2020 22:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The usher worked in recent days at “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Six,” prompting a scramble to inform the public and clean the theaters.
  
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• For local arts organizations, the public gathering restrictions mean the show will not go on - KUOW News and Information

  11-03-2020 22:31 via kuow.org
  
  For local arts organizations, the public gathering restrictions mean the show will not go on  KUOW News and Information
  
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• L.A. Art Book Fair Canceled, Paris Photo New York Postponed as Coronavirus Spreads

  11-03-2020 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  Just hours after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic with more than 120,000 infected by the spreading coronavirus worldwide, two upcoming fairs said they would no longer take place as planned.
  The L.A. Art Book Fair, which was scheduled for April 3–5 at the Geffen Contemporary space of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, was canceled with word of a return in 2021. In a statement, organizers said, “Our annual L.A. Art Book Fair is both a celebration and a cri
  
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• Broadway Usher Said to Test Positive for Coronavirus

  11-03-2020 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The usher worked in recent days at “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Six,” prompting a scramble to inform the public and clean the theaters, according to industry officials briefed on the matter.
  
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• Finding Each Other, and Art, in the City

  11-03-2020 22:04 via nytimes.com
  
  For this couple, collecting was a pursuit discovered together — after they discovered each other in New York. They haven’t looked back.
  
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• Museums in Austria Close Over Coronavirus Concerns

  11-03-2020 21:57 via artnews.com
  
  Austria’s government announced sweeping new restrictions for public gatherings in attempt to stymie the spread of the coronavirus, including banning any indoor gatherings of more than 100 people. As a result, several of the country’s largest museums, which can attract thousands of visitors daily, said they would close, while others said they would allow 100 people at a time.
  In statements posted to their websites, several Vienna institutions—the Albertina, the Kunst Histor
  
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• Peregrine Pollen, Who Livened Up Auctions, Dies at 89

  11-03-2020 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Running Parke-Bernet in New York in the 1960s after a merger with Sotheby’s, Mr. Pollen injected fun into the proceedings while expanding the business.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s Stunning Downfall: 23 Years in Prison

  11-03-2020 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Weinstein, the movie mogul who was convicted of sex crimes, could very well spend the rest of his life behind bars.
  
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• The Complete List Of Boston-Area Arts Closings And Cancellations Due To Coronavirus - wgbh.org

  11-03-2020 20:56 via wgbh.org
  
  The Complete List Of Boston-Area Arts Closings And Cancellations Due To Coronavirus  wgbh.org
  
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• Jared Bowen: How Is The Arts Community Being Affected By Coronavirus? - wgbh.org

  11-03-2020 20:34 via wgbh.org
  
  Jared Bowen: How Is The Arts Community Being Affected By Coronavirus?  wgbh.org
  
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• We’ve Got a Great Audience … at Home

  11-03-2020 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Daytime talk shows like “Live With Kelly and Ryan” and “The View” went without studio audiences on Wednesday, creating an odd dynamic for a format that thrives on enthusiasm.
  
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• Review: Scottish Ballet Plays Dress Up and Dress Down

  11-03-2020 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the company brought an uninspiring program, “This Is My Body …,” to the Joyce Theater.
  
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• Some Paleontologists Seek Halt to Myanmar Amber Fossil Research

  11-03-2020 19:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The substance has driven remarkable discoveries about the prehistoric world, but concerns about its sourcing are growing.
  
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• León Ferrari’s Iconoclastic Work Proved That Only a Theist Can Be a Sinner

  11-03-2020 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  Generally considered a conceptual artist, León Ferrari (1920–2013) might just as aptly be described as an activist. His collages and assemblages eschew allusive subtlety for unambiguously anticlerical and anti-imperialist imagery and brazen juxtapositions. For his notorious 1965 piece La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana (Western and Christian Civilization)—presented here in a 2010 miniature version—Ferrari appended a figure of the crucified Christ to a 6½
  
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• A Big Idea and a Big Donor Bring a New Art Museum to Austria

  11-03-2020 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The Albertina Modern, a satellite of the venerable Vienna institution, aims to highlight overlooked Austrian artists in a newly restored historic building.
  
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• ‘Conscience’ Review: The Woman Who Stared Down the Red Scare

  11-03-2020 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The hero of Joe DiPietro’s new comic drama is Margaret Chase Smith, a U.S. senator who had the rare courage to stand up to McCarthyism.
  
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• Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History

  11-03-2020 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The partnership between the British saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and a group of South African musicians has produced an imaginative second album.
  
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• Barbara Neely, Activist Turned Mystery Writer, Dies at 78

  11-03-2020 19:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Her creation Blanche White was probably the first fictional black maid to solve a murder while working for a wealthy white family.
  
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• A Glitter-Loving Designer Puts Her Craft Skills to the Test

  11-03-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Katie Stout is the latest subject to take our “Make T Something” challenge.
  
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• TEFAF Maastrict to Shut Down Early After Exhibitor Tests Positive for Coronavirus

  11-03-2020 17:49 via artnews.com
  
  With the coronavirus continuing to force biennials, museums, and institutions to postpone or call off programming, a major art fair in Europe has taken a drastic measure of closing early. TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands—which opened last Saturday and had been scheduled to run through March 15—will close on Wednesday after the last visitors leave at 7 p.m., according to an announcement released this afternoon.
  The decision to close came just hours after the Art Newspaper reported
  
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• Gonzalo Casals, Director of Leslie-Lohman Museum, Named Next Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City

  11-03-2020 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  A little less than five months after Tom Finkelpearl unexpectedly announced his resignation, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed a new commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs: Gonzalo Casals. Casals, who has been the executive director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York’s SoHo neighborhood since March 2017, will start in his post on April 13.
  In a statement, de Blasio said, “Art and culture should enrich the lives of all New Yorkers—not just
  
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• Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather was Stalin’s Bodyguard

  11-03-2020 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Young Heroes of the Soviet Union,” by Alex Halberstadt, is a moving and often funny memoir about the author’s family and their history.
  
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• A Bodyguard for Stalin and Others Populate a New Family Memoir

  11-03-2020 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Young Heroes of the Soviet Union,” by Alex Halberstadt, is a moving and often funny memoir about the author’s family and their history.
  
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• California Man Could Face 25 Years in Prison for Selling Faked Basquiats and Warhols

  11-03-2020 17:20 via artnews.com
  
  Philip Righter, a 43-year-old man living in California, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, tax fraud, and identity theft in his efforts to sell fake works he said had been created by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and other artists. He was charged in Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday and could face up to 25 years in prison.
  A report by Courthouse News states that Righter ran a fraudulent art operation from 2016 to 2018, and he faces additional charges in Florida, where,
  
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• ‘Bloodshot’ Review: Shoot to Kill? Good Luck With That.

  11-03-2020 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Vin Diesel brings the right balance of contemplativeness and meatheadedness to this action film.
  
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• Exhibitions of Donald Marron’s Collection and Genoese Art Postponed as Coronavirus Forces Closures Around the World

  11-03-2020 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  With the coronavirus continuing to spread, museums, galleries, fairs, and biennials across the world—from the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy to institutions in China, Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere—have been forced to alter their programming. Now, with more than 1,000 coronavirus cases confirmed in America, U.S. art spaces are beginning to see postponements of their own.
  Two major U.S. exhibitions—one planned to open at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  
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• Here's A List Of Mass. Arts And Culture Events Impacted By Coronavirus - WBUR

  11-03-2020 16:29 via wbur.org
  
  Here's A List Of Mass. Arts And Culture Events Impacted By Coronavirus  WBUR
  
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• Early James Is a Rootsy Throwback in an Uncertain Present

  11-03-2020 16:08 via nytimes.com
  
  On his debut album for Dan Auerbach’s label, the 26-year-old sings about disillusion in styles that glance back to the 1970s and before.
  
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• ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties

  11-03-2020 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Betty Gilpin battles the snowflakes in a bloody satire of polarized America.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Is Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison

  11-03-2020 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The sentence capped a stunning downfall for Mr. Weinstein, a former Hollywood mogul who was convicted of two felony sex crimes.
  
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• Activist Museum Director Named New York Cultural Affairs Commissioner

  11-03-2020 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Gonzalo Casals of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art wants to increase opportunities for people like him, in “immigrant communities, queer communities, Latinx communities.”
  
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• Beneath the Waves, a Warning

  11-03-2020 15:27 via nytimes.com
  
  In Mira Lehr’s art, a celebration of the sea and its creatures and a lament for what lies ahead.
  
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• Following the Civil Rights Trail

  11-03-2020 15:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The time seemed just right for a personal journey to revisit an era of political turmoil in America.
  
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• With the Census Approaching, a Look at Its History and Lore

  11-03-2020 15:18 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society explores how the census has shaped America.
  
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• A list of canceled, changed, or postponed arts events, plus closed venues - The Boston Globe

  11-03-2020 15:10 via bostonglobe.com
  
  A list of canceled, changed, or postponed arts events, plus closed venues  The Boston Globe
  
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• Two Artists, Two Views of the Human Figure

  11-03-2020 15:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Salman Toor’s show in New York and Christina Quarles’s in Chicago reveal the enduring — but continually evolving — style of the centuries-old art form known as figuration.
  
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• ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak

  11-03-2020 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Despite charming performances, a Culture Project production works too hard bringing a delicate novella to the stage.
  
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• At Michigan State, Bold Statements About Big Issues

  11-03-2020 14:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Two exhibitions at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum explore racism as well as social and political movements.
  
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• Visualizing the Refugee Experience

  11-03-2020 14:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The goal of an exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is to underscore the danger of demonizing any human being as an undesirable “other.”
  
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• Willow Smith to Spend 24 Hours in a Box at MOCA L.A., Warhol Fright Wigs Head to U.K. for First Time, and More: Morning Links from March 11, 2020

  11-03-2020 14:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Singer Willow Smith and her collaborator will spend 24 hours in a box at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, where they will cycle through a range of emotions, prolonging each for three hours at a time as part of a new performance. [Los Angeles Times]
  The Cleveland Museum of Art received 100 works of art from the collection of Joseph P. Keithley and Nancy
  
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• Boston's Performing Arts Venues Loosen Ticket Refund Policies, Weigh Options Amid Coronavirus Fears - wgbh.org

  11-03-2020 13:40 via wgbh.org
  
  Boston's Performing Arts Venues Loosen Ticket Refund Policies, Weigh Options Amid Coronavirus Fears  wgbh.org
  
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• The Prado Museum’s Unsung Workers Step Into the Limelight

  11-03-2020 11:27 via nytimes.com
  
  An Instagram video series that puts the artistic insights of guards and moving staff on equal footing with those of curators has become a hit.
  
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• What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld?

  11-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The sci-fi thriller’s new season mostly abandons the western setting. But will sleek new scenery and a new star, Aaron Paul, be enough to win back those put off by the show’s convoluted story?
  
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• These Custom Designs Are Anything but Customary

  11-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A house in the rocks? Something from Versailles? If you have the money, they can make it happen.
  
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• The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings

  11-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Before cabin porn and van life were hashtags, before tiny houses were a movement, Lloyd Kahn was the living embodiment of them.
  
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• Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona

  11-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In James Shapiro’s “Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future,” the historical-tragical constantly muscles out the pastoral-comical.
  
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• How One French Modernist’s Vision Was Finally Realized

  11-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Outside Bordeaux, a Rem Koolhaas-designed villa has become a site for the inventiveness of Pierre Paulin, who dreamed up modular furniture made of foam, resin and fiberglass.
  
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