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• International Center of Photography Wants Your Images of the Pandemic

  31-03-2020 23:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists, both professional and otherwise, can submit their photos on Instagram using the hashtag #ICPConcerned.
  
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• How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic

  31-03-2020 23:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Your partner is a stranger, and the sidewalk is a stage. Our dance critic asks: Will social distancing bring us back to our bodies?
  
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• Jan Howard, Singer and Writer of Country Hits, Dies at 90

  31-03-2020 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  A female star in Nashville when there weren’t many others, she found success as Bill Anderson’s duet partner and as a solo artist singing about the heartache she knew all too well.
  
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• Who Says You Can’t Give Tony Awards in an Abbreviated Season?

  31-03-2020 23:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Our chief theater critics have no nickel-plated medallions to hand out, but they find plenty to celebrate among shut-down Broadway offerings.
  
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• Medieval Artists Depicted Bizarre Monsters and Weird Rituals. Instagram Made Them Famous.

  31-03-2020 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  Instagram is typically given over to selfies and vacation photos—but why not make it a space for medieval art, too? To survey the field, ARTnews has assembled a guide to the best medieval art Instagram accounts. On them, you’ll find a panoply of vibrantly colored beasts, gleaming manuscript pages, and wonderfully flattened, contorted figures enacting many different poses. Below, a look at five of the best medieval art Instagram accounts.
  Damien Kempf (@damien_kempf)With his Instagram
  
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Edward Hopper But Were Afraid to Ask

  31-03-2020 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  Edward Hopper’s paintings—distinctly American, according to many; deeply intriguing, to many more—are full of mysteries. But the questions surrounding Hopper need not be limited to his art alone. How did he get to be famous? What spurred on his most iconic tableaux? A guide that answers these questions—and more—follows below.
  He was interested in states of “moving on.”Hopper’s paintings typically feature people who appear to be standing or sitting
  
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• Canceled Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Frieze New York Gives Exhibitors Full Refunds, Launches Online Viewing Room

  31-03-2020 21:22 via artnews.com
  
  After cancelling an international art fair that had been scheduled for May 7–10 at Randall’s Island Park in New York, the organizers of Frieze New York have informed the nearly 200 planned participants that it would be giving out full refunds for booth fees. As communicated by the fair’s three top executives—Victoria Siddall, Loring Randolph, and Kristell Chadé—in an email sent to exhibitors and reviewed by ARTnews, payment for the refunds will allocated in t
  
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• Seven Comedians to Watch on Instagram and Twitter

  31-03-2020 21:21 via nytimes.com
  
  These funny men and women are especially good at “front-facing camera comedy” on social media.
  
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• National Gallery of Art Returns Picasso Work to Settle Claim

  31-03-2020 21:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The heirs of a Jewish banker said the portrait of a woman was among the works he sold under duress when the Nazis took power
  
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• Chloe Aaron, a Top PBS Executive, Is Dead at 81

  31-03-2020 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  As one of TV’s highest-ranking women in the 1970s, she worked to broaden the audience for public television.
  
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• How ‘Unorthodox’ Captured One Woman’s Flight From Hasidic Brooklyn

  31-03-2020 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Deborah Feldman left her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community for a new life in Berlin. She talked about what it has been like having her autobiography adapted for Netflix.
  
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• The Top Ten Streaming Films About Artists

  31-03-2020 20:23 via artnews.com
  
  Making art is, on the whole, boring. Artworks are interesting, but the process of making them tends to be halting, frustrating, and too tedious for anyone, even the artist, to maintain attention. There are some well-touted exceptions to this rule, but the paint splattering and stunts and gimmicks can seem like compensation for what is basically an unshowy practice, full of big hunks of boredom. As David Lynch said, to do one hour of good painting you need four hours.
  Just as most art-making is b
  
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• The Larger Costs of Closing a Local Museum During Coronavirus

  31-03-2020 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The Underground Museum in Los Angeles has become not only an art destination but a community lifeline.
  
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• The Coronavirus Hasn’t Slowed Classical Music

  31-03-2020 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  As closures give way to a deluge of live streams, performances have never been more accessible.
  
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• Are Art Museums Racist?

  31-03-2020 18:59 via artnews.com
  
  On March 23, critic and curator Maurice Berger died of complications related to COVID-19. Much of his work focused on racial justice in the art world. In 2004, he organized “White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art” at the International Center of Photography in New York,” exploring how artists examined, or exploited, racial privilege. He wrote a column for Lens, a photography blog published by the New York Times, on the social and political contexts of compelling images. H
  
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• ‘An Intellectual Pioneer’: Nayland Blake, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Adrian Piper Remember Maurice Berger

  31-03-2020 18:38 via artnews.com
  
  Art historian and curator Maurice Berger died last week of coronavirus-related causes at the age of 63. Known for his incisive writings on race and photography, Berger was considered a pioneer in his field for his commitment to calling out forms of prejudice in historically white institutions. To learn more about his legacy, ARTnews turned to two artists and one curator who were close to him.
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  The powerful thing about Maurice’s work, from the beginning, was that he said
  
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• Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise

  31-03-2020 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  On a pair of free albums, “Ghosts V: Together” and “Ghosts VI: Locusts,” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s suspenseful sounds feel very much of the moment.
  
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• A Coronavirus Thriller Was Finished Just Before the Shutdown

  31-03-2020 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  A Canadian filmmaker read the headlines, and a few weeks later a shoot was underway on a story addressing xenophobia and the pandemic. Then film festivals were canceled.
  
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• Kelly Wearstler’s Home Is Filled With Hollywood Secrets

  31-03-2020 16:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The designer’s house in Los Angeles abounds with treasures from the city’s cinematic past — and her own equally dramatic creations.
  
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• Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s Would Like to Talk to You About Memes

  31-03-2020 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician’s list of cultural must-haves includes her collection of kitsch, reruns of “The Office” and early punk and hip-hop photographs.
  
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• Has Your Dystopian Play Come in Handy?

  31-03-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These nine playwrights spent years dreaming up cataclysms and plagues. Did that prepare them for the current crisis? Sometimes.
  
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• Animal Crossing Is the Perfect Way to Spend Quarantine

  31-03-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Can’t go outside? The new Switch video game offers a candy-colored substitute for real life.
  
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• Social Media Strategists Shine, Met to Pay Employees into May, and More: Morning Links from March 31, 2020

  31-03-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  As museums look for different ways to engage the public, here’s the story of Adam Koszary, the social media editor for the Royal Academy of Art—”whose flippant, conversational approach to Twitter has gotten him so much attention over the past two years that one of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies briefly lured him away.&rdqu
  
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• Tomie dePaola, ‘Strega Nona’ Author and Illustrator, Dies at 85

  31-03-2020 14:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. dePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 books, including his classic story of a grandma witch and her helper, Big Anthony.
  
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• Watch Artist Antony Gormley Wax Poetic About an Extremely Old Fossil

  31-03-2020 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  What objects serve as inspiration for some the world’s most esteemed artists? International enterprise Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is providing insight into that question in a new video series, and it’s starting with British artist Antony Gormley. Acclaimed for sculptures and public installations which explore the relationship between space, time, and the human body, Gormley is the subject of the first episode of “Artist’s Eye,” a new weekly series debuting from Th
  
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• As Part of Coronavirus Relief Effort, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Gives Artists a New Platform to Sell Their Work

  31-03-2020 13:45 via artnews.com
  
  As the coronavirus crisis continues to escalate across the United States, museums and art organizations have begun rallying to mitigate devastation in the cultural sector and beyond. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other institutions have donated protective equipment to local hospitals, and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has been campaigning for financial relief for galleries.
  The latest art institution to join in the nationwide effort
  
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• Museums Scramble to Document the Pandemic, Even as It Unfolds

  31-03-2020 13:25 via nytimes.com
  
  With photographs, field interviews and mass surveys, institutions are trying to preserve information about everyday life during the crisis for future study.
  
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• You Show Me Your Décor, I Show You Mine

  31-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Peeping at the flaws and flourishes in others’ living spaces is one of the sustaining pleasures of 21st-century self-isolation.
  
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• What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect?

  31-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Callan Wink’s debut novel, “August,” pits brains against brawn in an America far from the literary world.
  
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• Martin, Malcolm and the Fight for Equality

  31-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Peniel E. Joseph’s “The Sword and the Shield” shows that Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had more in common than is generally believed.
  
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• A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty

  31-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Hurricane Season,” by Fernanda Melchor, imagines Mexico’s scourge of violence against women in language that is fierce, profane and marvelously inventive.
  
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• A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession

  31-03-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Rebecca Dinerstein Knight’s “Hex,” an expelled Ph.D. candidate offers a not-so-scientific confession to the mentor she idolizes.
  
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• Late Night Puts Trump’s Ratings Bragging in Perspective

  31-03-2020 09:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Trevor Noah says Trump can’t take credit for so many Americans tuning in to White House virus briefings: “You just happened to be there, dude.”
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Miracle Workers’ and ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

  31-03-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A medieval comedy airs its finale on TBS. And a children’s classic from Ava DuVernay comes to Disney Plus.
  
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• Circus Arts Takes Over the Sailor Circus Arena This Summer - SRQ Daily Mar 31, 2020 - SRQ Magazine

  31-03-2020 06:05
  
  Circus Arts Takes Over the Sailor Circus Arena This Summer - SRQ Daily Mar 31, 2020  SRQ Magazine
  
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• City of Sarasota Suspends Development Permit Expirations and Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Closure Extended Through April 26 - SRQ Daily Mar 31, 2020 - SRQ Magazine

  31-03-2020 06:04
  
  City of Sarasota Suspends Development Permit Expirations and Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Closure Extended Through April 26 - SRQ Daily Mar 31, 2020  SRQ Magazine
  
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• Cincinnati's robust arts community continues amid COVID-19 - Soapbox Cincinnati

  31-03-2020 06:03
  Cincinnati's robust arts community continues amid COVID-19  Soapbox Cincinnati
  
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• Winkie's, an arts and crafts store in Whitefish Bay, offers pick-up and delivery - WTMJ-TV

  31-03-2020 05:27
  
  Winkie's, an arts and crafts store in Whitefish Bay, offers pick-up and delivery  WTMJ-TV
  
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• Maltz Jupiter Theatre Conservatory's Performing Arts Classes Continue Virtually - Broadway World

  31-03-2020 04:29
  
  Maltz Jupiter Theatre Conservatory's Performing Arts Classes Continue Virtually  Broadway World
  
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• ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 5, Episode 7 Recap: Just Make Money

  31-03-2020 04:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Jimmy gets a new motto, a wife and a demanding client. Gus sweet talks a jittery partner. And Los Pollos Hermanos burns some chicken.
  
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• Adventures in the New Humanities: Transitioning the liberal arts - St. Olaf College News

  31-03-2020 04:08
  
  Adventures in the New Humanities: Transitioning the liberal arts  St. Olaf College News
  
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• Non-profit pulls performing arts space from Vista Fields - KEPR 19

  31-03-2020 03:56
  Non-profit pulls performing arts space from Vista Fields  KEPR 19
  
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• HEADLINE: Elm Street Launches Free At-Home Arts Programming - Broadway World

  31-03-2020 03:49
  
  HEADLINE: Elm Street Launches Free At-Home Arts Programming  Broadway World
  
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• William Penn Foundation fast-tracks $6.6 million for the arts, adds $5 million for pre-K, loosens grant restrictions - Reading Eagle

  31-03-2020 03:37
  William Penn Foundation fast-tracks $6.6 million for the arts, adds $5 million for pre-K, loosens grant restrictions  Reading Eagle
  
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• April 2, Arts and Entertainment Source: Obeid scores with Netflix series - Vallejo Times-Herald

  31-03-2020 03:34
  
  April 2, Arts and Entertainment Source: Obeid scores with Netflix series  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• ‘Emergency’ Online Library Draws Ire of Some Authors

  31-03-2020 03:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful “copyright ideology.”
  
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• West Valley Arts Council launches online virtual tour - Your Valley

  31-03-2020 03:18
  
  West Valley Arts Council launches online virtual tour  Your Valley
  
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• Met Museum Tells Staff It Is Extending Pay Until May 2

  31-03-2020 03:11 via nytimes.com
  
  As the institution struggles to address declining revenues, it may look to its $3.6 billion endowment for a measure of relief.
  
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• Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns - Martinsville Bulletin

  31-03-2020 02:55
  Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns  Martinsville Bulletin
  
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• Marblehead Festival of Arts postponed until 2021 - Itemlive - Daily Item

  31-03-2020 02:42
  
  Marblehead Festival of Arts postponed until 2021 - Itemlive  Daily Item
  
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