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• Facing Crisis, Arts Groups Push for Their Own Bailout

  24-03-2020 23:17 via nytimes.com
  
  As museums shutter and theaters go dark, cultural institutions are calling for the government’s help. But they recognize they’re not the first priority during a pandemic.
  
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• With Kids Learning From Home, Children’s Publishers See a Spike

  24-03-2020 22:53 via nytimes.com
  
  As schools close during the coronavirus crisis, sales of reading and writing workbooks, flash cards and activity books have skyrocketed.
  
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• Arts Council England Establishes $188 M. Emergency Fund for Art Institutions and Artists

  24-03-2020 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  With the art world facing the possibility of months of financial difficulties because of the coronavirus pandemic, some major American arts organizations demanded that the government do more to support artists, dealers, and others. The New Art Dealers Association launched a petition last week to get New York officials to provide money to struggling galleries, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is calling on Congress to give $4 billion in relief to nonprofits. Now, an initiative in the United Kin
  
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• As New York and California Hospitals Face Critical Equipment Shortages, Museums and Schools Step Into the Breach

  24-03-2020 21:21 via artnews.com
  
  As New York State stares down a rapidly growing number of coronavirus cases, its hospitals face critical shortages in medical equipment such as ventilators for patients and face masks and nitrile gloves for health care staff. Authorities anticipate a crushing wave of patients to come, and doctors and nurses are being required to put themselves at risk by interacting with patients sans protection.
  Help with some of those supplies has come from a perhaps unexpected source: art museums and schools.
  
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• A D.I.Y. Dance for Your Home, From Yvonne Rainer

  24-03-2020 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The venerated choreographer invites you to try “Passing and Jostling While Being Confined to a Small Apartment.”
  
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• Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81

  24-03-2020 20:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. McNally, who died of coronavirus complications, introduced audiences to characters and situations that most mainstream theater had previously shunted into comic asides.
  
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• Livestreaming the Seattle Symphony Became a Source of Connection in Dark Times

  24-03-2020 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The live performance wasn’t really live, but it felt like being there all the same.
  
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• Wolf Kahn, Who Painted Vibrant Landscapes, Is Dead at 92

  24-03-2020 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  He played with color, creating scenes both calming and arresting. He said he wanted his colors “to be surprising to people without being offensive.”
  
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• Maurice Berger, Historian Who Fearlessly Called Out Art-World Racism, Is Dead at 63

  24-03-2020 19:40 via artnews.com
  
  Maurice Berger, an art historian and curator whose areas of focus included whiteness in the art world and the political implications of photography, has died at 63. On Twitter, New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz wrote that Berger died of coronavirus-related causes, but a representative at the University of Maryland’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Catonsville—where Berger was chief curator and a researcher—was unable to state a cause of death.
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• Creative Portland shares relief options for the arts community during COVID-19 pandemic - Lewiston Sun Journal

  24-03-2020 18:57 via sunjournal.com
  
  Creative Portland shares relief options for the arts community during COVID-19 pandemic  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• Hard Cash: A History of Artists Using Money as a Metaphor—and a Medium in Their Work

  24-03-2020 18:52 via artnews.com
  
  As a camera rolled on a dark night on the Scottish island of Jura in August 1994, artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty passed a whiskey bottle back and forth while tossing £1 million into a roaring fire. The sum—more than $1.5 million at the time—was most of what they had earned as the hit music group KLF, and they were making a film. After about an hour, every bill (each a £50 note) was destroyed.
  “We wanted the money,” Drummond told a crowd assembled for a
  
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• When Fashion TV Becomes an Anthropological Treasure

  24-03-2020 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Runway shows are off. Stores are closed. But we still have TV.
  
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• Jean-Jacques Lequeu Channeled Revolutionary Fervor into Fantastical Architecture and Transgressive Erotica

  24-03-2020 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  Something is missing from the Morgan Library & Museum’s showing of the exhibition “Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect”: a suite of ink-wash images in which the eighteenth-century artist and builder manqué renders himself—a fat-faced, saucer-eyed Frenchman—dressed variously as a woman and as a little girl, staring expectantly at the viewer. The absence of Lequeu’s transvestite portraits, which are among the designer-draftsman’s most celeb
  
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• Manu Dibango, Soulful Ambassador of African Music, Dies at 86

  24-03-2020 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  His 1972 hit “Soul Makossa” arrived at the dawn of the disco era and made its way to dance floors across the United States, Europe and Africa.
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Calls on Congress for Financial Relief in Cultural Sector

  24-03-2020 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has planned for the prospect of remaining closed until July while sustaining a $100 million loss as a result of the current coronavirus crisis, has created a new #CongressSaveCulture campaign to demand that federal relief funds for nonprofit cultural institutions be included in the U.S. government’s stimulus package.
  The Met has called on congress to allocate at least $4 billion in government funds for nonprofit organizations facing financi
  
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• San Francisco’s Top Art School Plans Closing After Almost 150 Years

  24-03-2020 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Efforts to save the alma mater of Annie Leibovitz and Kehinde Wiley collapsed as the coronavirus sent the Bay Area on lockdown.
  
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• The ‘Blurred Lines’ Case Scared Songwriters. But Its Time May Be Up.

  24-03-2020 17:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Decisions in copyright cases involving Led Zeppelin and Katy Perry suggest the open season on lawsuits could be coming to a close.
  
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• San Francisco Art Institute, One of America’s Oldest Art Schools, Sees ‘No Clear Path’ Forward as It Prepares to Lay Off Staff

  24-03-2020 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  After nearly 150 years in business, the San Francisco Art Institute—one of America’s most renowned and prestigious art schools—could stop admitting students after its current semester unless financial support from a new partner is secured. In a letter sent to students and faculty on Monday evening, the school’s president, Gordon Knox, and the president of its board, Pam Rorke Levy, said the Institute is facing the prospect of shuttering indefinitely after potential merger
  
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• COVID-19 impacts arts community - Daily Illini

  24-03-2020 17:01 via dailyillini.com
  
  COVID-19 impacts arts community  Daily Illini
  
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• When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back

  24-03-2020 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  N.K. Jemisin’s “The City We Became” is a love letter to the city and its residents, but explicitly welcomes foreignness and plurality.
  
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• When a Great Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back

  24-03-2020 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  N.K. Jemisin’s “The City We Became” is a love letter to the city and its residents, but explicitly welcomes foreignness and plurality.
  
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• Mahawie Performing Arts Center extends closure through May 15 - MassLive.com

  24-03-2020 16:54 via masslive.com
  
  Mahawie Performing Arts Center extends closure through May 15  MassLive.com
  
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• Arts workers: what effect has coronavirus had on your job? - The Guardian

  24-03-2020 16:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Arts workers: what effect has coronavirus had on your job?  The Guardian
  
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• Some San Antonio visual and performing arts groups may not survive coronavirus closures - San Antonio Express-News

  24-03-2020 16:41 via expressnews.com
  
  Some San Antonio visual and performing arts groups may not survive coronavirus closures  San Antonio Express-News
  
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• 'Don't forget about the arts': Sheboygan arts nonprofits have lost at least $60,000 to social distancing - Sheboygan Press

  24-03-2020 16:16 via sheboyganpress.com
  'Don't forget about the arts': Sheboygan arts nonprofits have lost at least $60,000 to social distancing  Sheboygan Press
  
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• South Arts Awarding More Than $160000 To 18 Artists, Including Meredith Goins Of Dunlap - The Chattanoogan

  24-03-2020 16:03 via chattanoogan.com
  South Arts Awarding More Than $160000 To 18 Artists, Including Meredith Goins Of Dunlap  The Chattanoogan
  
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• More Movies Need an Oscar-Winning Actress Reacting Emotionally to Opera

  24-03-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Right now, we may need that, too.
  
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• Francis Alÿs Wins $40000 Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Artforum

  24-03-2020 16:00 via artforum.com
  
  Francis Alÿs Wins $40000 Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts  Artforum
  
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• Arts organizations lose ground in Florida budget - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  24-03-2020 15:59 via heraldtribune.com
  
  Arts organizations lose ground in Florida budget  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• Community/Arts Calendar: March 25 - Press Herald

  24-03-2020 15:53 via pressherald.com
  
  Community/Arts Calendar: March 25  Press Herald
  
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• Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis

  24-03-2020 15:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Books from the past show us how John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confronted the crises they faced.
  
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• Coronavirus NJ: PNC Bank Arts Center testing site almost immediately reaches capacity on second day - Asbury Park Press

  24-03-2020 15:47 via app.com
  Coronavirus NJ: PNC Bank Arts Center testing site almost immediately reaches capacity on second day  Asbury Park Press
  
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• What’s in Democrats’ coronavirus bill? Arts funding, union help and more - Fox News

  24-03-2020 15:26 via foxnews.com
  
  What’s in Democrats’ coronavirus bill? Arts funding, union help and more  Fox News
  
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• Arts Center furloughs most staff in survival step - ABC 36 News - WTVQ

  24-03-2020 15:14 via wtvq.com
  
  Arts Center furloughs most staff in survival step - ABC 36 News  WTVQ
  
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• Janet McTeer Gets a Thrill Out of Watching James Bond. But She Wants to Play Him, Too.

  24-03-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress, whose latest season of “Ozark” arrives on Netflix March 27, says her husband’s poetry and “The Terminator” are essential to her life.
  
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• Coronavirus Delays Come to West Coast Arts Scene as Made in L.A. Biennial Delays Opening

  24-03-2020 14:57 via artnews.com
  
  As museums continue to temporarily shutter and delay major exhibitions as a way to stop the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) around the world, the West Coast’s largest biennial said that it would postpone its summer opening by a month. The 2020 edition of Made in L.A., which the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is co-organizing this year with the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, will now run from July 19–January 3.
  In a joint statement signed b
  
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• Rami George’s Videos Show What It’s Like to Grow Up in a Cult

  24-03-2020 14:48 via artnews.com
  
  Rami George’s early life was spent in a cult called the Samaritan Foundation. The artist’s mother became entangled with the group in the early ’90s, whisking her two kids from Somerville, Massachusetts, to Guthrie, Oklahoma, where they lived for a brief time in the Foundation’s headquarters: a former jail they called the Monastery. After winning a widely publicized custody battle in 1993, George’s father retrieved the children. Since 2014, the artist has been resear
  
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• Rami George’s Videos Show What It’s Like to Be Brought Up in a Cult

  24-03-2020 14:48 via artnews.com
  
  Rami George’s early life was spent in a cult called the Samaritan Foundation. The artist’s mother became entangled with the group in the early ’90s, whisking her two kids from Somerville, Massachusetts, to Guthrie, Oklahoma, where they lived for a brief time in the Foundation’s headquarters: a former jail they called the Monastery. After winning a widely publicized custody battle in 1993, George’s father retrieved the children. Since 2014, the artist has been resear
  
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• McKnight Foundation names arts leader; Brave New Workshop livestreaming comedy - MinnPost

  24-03-2020 14:32 via minnpost.com
  
  McKnight Foundation names arts leader; Brave New Workshop livestreaming comedy  MinnPost
  
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• Thinking about trading options or stock in Electronic Arts, Facebook, Netflix, Roku, or VMware? - Salamanca Press

  24-03-2020 14:31 via salamancapress.com
  Thinking about trading options or stock in Electronic Arts, Facebook, Netflix, Roku, or VMware?  Salamanca Press
  
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• Arts and Entertainment | Subjects - The Nation

  24-03-2020 14:31 via thenation.com
  
  Arts and Entertainment | Subjects  The Nation
  
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• North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) Live Streaming Community Classes - NorthEndWaterfront.com

  24-03-2020 14:25 via northendwaterfront.com
  
  North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) Live Streaming Community Classes  NorthEndWaterfront.com
  
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• ‘Crip Camp’ Review: After Those Summers, Nothing Was the Same

  24-03-2020 14:15 via nytimes.com
  
  This feel-good documentary argues that a Catskills summer camp fed directly into American disability rights activism in the 1970s.
  
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• Arts Madness: Basie invites talent of all ages to virtual championship - Asbury Park Press

  24-03-2020 14:14 via app.com
  Arts Madness: Basie invites talent of all ages to virtual championship  Asbury Park Press
  
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• Soothe Your Soul With An Arts Break . Arts & Life - OPB News

  24-03-2020 14:00 via opb.org
  
  Soothe Your Soul With An Arts Break . Arts & Life  OPB News
  
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• Financial Hardship for Institutions Mounts, Art Dubai Opens Online, and More: Morning Links from March 24, 2020

  24-03-2020 14:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Peggy McGlone and Geoff Edgers surveyed the plight of arts institutions being frozen with costs mounting. “Museums nationwide are losing $33 million a day, according to a letter to Congress from leaders of the American Alliance of Museums and its partner umbrella organizations seeking $4 billion in federal aid. Americans for the Arts, a national advocac
  
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• Electronic Arts (EA) Catches Eye: Stock Jumps 9.8% - Yahoo Finance

  24-03-2020 13:53 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Electronic Arts (EA) Catches Eye: Stock Jumps 9.8%  Yahoo Finance
  
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• Coronavirus cancellations are hitting Utah's arts and culture groups hard - Salt Lake Tribune

  24-03-2020 13:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Coronavirus cancellations are hitting Utah's arts and culture groups hard  Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• Cathy Yan on the Rerelease of ‘Birds of Prey,’ the Harley Quinn Movie

  24-03-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director reflects on her experience making the spinoff, which is getting an accelerated on-demand release amid the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Arts council tries to brighten residents' day with daily dose of art - centraljersey.com

  24-03-2020 12:49 via centraljersey.com
  
  Arts council tries to brighten residents' day with daily dose of art  centraljersey.com
  
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