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• Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows

  25-03-2020 22:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The fact that they’re subtitled means they require close attention. Maybe it’s not a bad thing to put down the phone.
  
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• Portland Arts Tax Deadline Pushed To July 15 - OPB News

  25-03-2020 21:49 via opb.org
  
  Portland Arts Tax Deadline Pushed To July 15  OPB News
  
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• 5 Essential Works by Maurice Berger, Late Art Historian Who Made Race a Central Concern

  25-03-2020 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  It is not an understatement to say that, without Maurice Berger, we might not have be having some of the discussions we currently have today in the art world. A tireless advocate for a more diverse museum world, Berger, who died at 63 of coronavirus-related causes on Monday, is considered one of the best thinkers on race, in particular as it relates to photography. To survey his output over the years, below is a guide to five of his most essential works.
  “Are Art Museums Racist?” (19
  
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• UCLA ranked top graduate school for fine arts by US News & World Report - UCLA Newsroom

  25-03-2020 21:46 via newsroom.ucla.edu
  
  UCLA ranked top graduate school for fine arts by US News & World Report  UCLA Newsroom
  
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• Following Global Auction Calendar Shifts, Sotheby’s Moves Marquee Hong Kong Sales to July

  25-03-2020 21:44 via artnews.com
  
  As the impact of the coronavirus’s spread has forced the auction sector to make major changes to its spring calendar, each of the top auction houses has announced sales calendar shifts, with Christie’s and Phillips now holding their leading 20th century week sales at the end of June and consolidating New York and London sales to be held in their Manhattan locations.
  As announced last week, Sotheby’s moved a selection of live mid-spring sales online, and on Wednesday, the house
  
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• São Paulo Biennial Postpones Opening, Cuts Back Ambitious Programming Amid Coronavirus Crisis

  25-03-2020 21:14 via artnews.com
  
  As closures and cancelations related to the ongoing global pandemic of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) have continued to roil the art world, one of Latin America’s biggest biennials said that it would postpone the opening of its upcoming exhibitions.
  The organizers of the Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil said that it would push back the opening of its main group show, which was set to run from September 5 to December 6. The new dates for the biennial, which carries the theme “Thou
  
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• Here's where to find online content from Utah arts groups during the coronavirus shutdown - Salt Lake Tribune

  25-03-2020 21:13 via sltrib.com
  
  Here's where to find online content from Utah arts groups during the coronavirus shutdown  Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• ‘All Is Not Lost’: Art Dubai’s Virtual Global Forum Favored Contemplative Response to Coronavirus

  25-03-2020 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Art Dubai is one of many international art fairs forced to postpone its 2020 edition in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, and like the many museums and galleries that abruptly shuttered in recent weeks, it moved into a new realm of presenting digital initiatives in lieu of physical programming. A scheduled performance program that was to transpire in real time is instead now represented by an online component, and the annual Global Art Forum at the fair was broadcast as a virtual meeting on We
  
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• Tony Awards Postponed Amid Coronavirus Crisis

  25-03-2020 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The 74th annual ceremony and television broadcast won’t happen until Broadway reopens. How shows will be eligible remains to be determined.
  
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• ‘Threshold’ Resurrects the Angry, Ambitious Young Man

  25-03-2020 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In Rob Doyle’s novel, a character of the same name drifts, from Paris to Thailand, Croatia and Sicily, doing drugs, mourning his heroes and avoiding writing.
  
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• ‘The Occupant’ Review: Knock First

  25-03-2020 20:17 via nytimes.com
  
  A once-successful man becomes a stalker in this Netflix thriller.
  
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• Polaroid’s History Through Two Lenses: One Sanitized, One Playful

  25-03-2020 20:15 via artnews.com
  
  The wholesale transition from analog to digital media at the turn of the twentieth century hit the Polaroid company particularly hard, although even after a series of bankruptcies and clumsy corporate restructurings diminished the company, Polaroid remains iconic. Its enduring relevance is reflected in the rise of Instagram, whose very name evokes the development of instant film that is synonymous with Polaroid. The social media platform borrows shamelessly from Polaroid’s aesthetic: the s
  
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• Julia Miles, 90, Dies; Pushed for Gender Parity in the Theater

  25-03-2020 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Concerned that female directors and playwrights were underrepresented in New York theaters, she founded Women’s Project in 1978 to cultivate their work.
  
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• Richard Marek, Editor of Hemingway, Baldwin and Ludlum, Dies at 86

  25-03-2020 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  He shepherded more than 300 books into print, including James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Robert Ludlum’s “The Bourne Identity.”
  
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• Review: ‘Unorthodox,’ a Stunning Escape From Brooklyn

  25-03-2020 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A young Hasidic woman’s flight from her marriage and community makes for a modern-day period piece with a striking star performance.
  
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• A New Clyfford Still Documentary Explores the Life and Work of the Enigmatic Abstract Expressionist

  25-03-2020 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  In 1958, artist, collector, and sugar-fortune heir Alfonso Ossorio received an unannounced visit from Clyfford Still. The men had been arguing over Ossorio’s refusal to return one of Still’s paintings: a large black-and-purple abstraction. The disagreement came to a head when Still, a notoriously cantankerous member of the New York School, decided to take action. With his wife and daughter, Still took a taxi to Ossorio’s East Hampton mansion, burst onto the property, located th
  
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• What Will Art Look Like When We Re-Emerge From Isolation?

  25-03-2020 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic has not only shut down museums and galleries. It has canceled an entire way of life for contemporary artists — and forces a reconsideration of what all that flying was good for.
  
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• 7 New Books to Watch for in April

  25-03-2020 19:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Julia Alvarez’s first new novel in 14 years, an overview of conservative thought, “Notes From an Apocalypse” and more.
  
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• Britain’s Soap Operas Offer Escape From Coronavirus. For Now.

  25-03-2020 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Filming has stopped on shows like ‘EastEnders’ and ‘Coronation Street,’ and episodes will air less frequently. Some fans are worried they’ll run out.
  
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• Albert Uderzo, 92, Co-Creator of French Comic Series Asterix, Dies

  25-03-2020 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  He teamed up with the writer René Goscinny to create the mustachioed Gaul, whose adventures have sold hundreds of millions of comic books worldwide.
  
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• Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time

  25-03-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The 28-year-old musician’s debut album “Before Love Came to Kill Us” is meant to motivate people to think about their mortality. Now she’s releasing it during a pandemic.
  
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• Select Film Festivals and Indie Movies Figure Out Online Access

  25-03-2020 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  They were canceled or postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak, but these ad hoc efforts let you support filmmakers and art houses without going to a theater.
  
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• Dan Attoe’s Show Was Closed by the Coronavirus. He’s Using Art as a Way to Cope.

  25-03-2020 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  With his characteristic passion and sensitivity, Dan Attoe creates the kind of art that may represent a new understanding of life in the time of Covid-19. His solo show at the Hole gallery in New York—closed by the shutdown in the city and now open by appointment only—is named after Glowing River (2020), a paperback-sized oil painting featuring a slender blond girl wearing a white sundress who appears to be wandering toward a neon-blue stream like a plucky protagonist fighting throug
  
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• The Merry-Go-Round Stopped. What Sort of Art Will Emerge?

  25-03-2020 17:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic has not only shut down museums and galleries. It has canceled an entire way of life for contemporary artists — and forces a reconsideration of what all that flying was good for.
  
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• The Activist Star of ‘Crip Camp’ Looks Back at a Life on the Barricades

  25-03-2020 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Judy Heumann, a galvanizing force for disability rights in the new Netflix documentary, explains how summer camp set her path.
  
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• Mister Rogers Song and Dr. Dre Added to National Recording Registry

  25-03-2020 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The Library of Congress designates 25 recordings for preservation, in what it is billing as “the ultimate ‘stay at home’ playlist.”
  
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• Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair.

  25-03-2020 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  We checked in with American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet to see how the companies were keeping dancers fit, and together.
  
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• City arts community needs a rescue plan - Crain's New York Business

  25-03-2020 15:37 via crainsnewyork.com
  
  City arts community needs a rescue plan  Crain's New York Business
  
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• He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not

  25-03-2020 15:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The bassist and singer Stephen Bruner invites listeners into his eccentric world. His new album, “It Is What It Is,” is a vivid portrait of living with uncertainty and grief.
  
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• Stellenbosch Triennale, a Bold Experiment

  25-03-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a South African city emblematic of wealth and privilege, a program of radical art from the whole continent seeks to confront and heal.
  
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• What’s on TV Monday: ‘Freud’ and ‘Crumb’

  25-03-2020 14:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Sigmund Freud is a crime fighter in the new series on Netflix. And a documentary about Robert Crumb by Terry Zwigoff arrives on the Criterion Channel.
  
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• Terrence McNally as Seen By Critics in The New York Times

  25-03-2020 14:52 via nytimes.com
  
  He was furious, despairing, yet inescapably entertaining, often in the same show. And he offered memorable roles to Nathan Lane, Zoe Caldwell and more.
  
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• Eastern Iowa Arts Academy giving out 'art bags' to help kids keep painting - KCRG

  25-03-2020 14:02 via kcrg.com
  
  Eastern Iowa Arts Academy giving out 'art bags' to help kids keep painting  KCRG
  
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• You can still immerse yourself in the arts with these online concerts, shows and more, from Seattle and elsewhere - Seattle Times

  25-03-2020 14:00 via seattletimes.com
  You can still immerse yourself in the arts with these online concerts, shows and more, from Seattle and elsewhere  Seattle Times
  
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• Spanish Arts Groups Ponder Coronavirus Relief Funds, Art Memes in a Time of Crisis, and More: Morning Links from March 25, 2020

  25-03-2020 14:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Representatives from Spanish arts groups have met to discuss how they can offer funds to galleries that are suffering during the country’s coronavirus shutdown. [El País]
  See a concise guide to places offering coronavirus-related financial aid in the form of loans and grants in countries such as the United States, Italy, and elsewhere. [The Ar
  
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• An Artist’s Gothic Townhouse, Filled With Octopus-Shaped Lamps

  25-03-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Adam Wallacavage’s fascinations with period architecture and the sea converge in his maximalist Philadelphia brownstone.
  
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• Broadway Is Shuttered but Its Buildings Sing: A Virtual Tour

  25-03-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Rockwell, the architect and Tony-winning show designer, talks about the stories and history behind his favorite theaters.
  
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• Dr. Dre and Mister Rogers Song Added to National Recording Registry

  25-03-2020 08:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Library of Congress designates 25 recordings for preservation, in what it is billing as “the ultimate ‘stay at home’ playlist.”
  
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• What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’

  25-03-2020 06:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” debuts on Netflix. And “Dark Phoenix” airs on HBO.
  
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• ‘For Life’: How 50 Cent Helped One Man’s Tale of Injustice See Daylight

  25-03-2020 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Convicted on false testimony, Isaac Wright Jr. learned the law and got his life sentence overturned. 50 Cent knew a good story when he heard one.
  
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• Who’s Your Wingman Now? Pushing the Envelope With ‘Top Gun’

  25-03-2020 03:03 via nytimes.com
  
  You all spent some time in quarantine with Maverick, Iceman, Goose and two critics who still feel the need for speed. Here’s what happened.
  
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• Terrence McNally in the Pages of The New York Times

  25-03-2020 00:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Furious, despairing, yet inescapably entertaining, often in the very same show, featuring Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and Zoe Caldwell, to name a few.
  
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