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• Cheryl A. Wall, 71, Dies; Champion of Black Literary Women

  21-04-2020 23:46 via nytimes.com
  
  An author and longtime professor at Rutgers, she pressed for the inclusion of black authors in curriculums and was an expert on Zora Neale Hurston.
  
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• Arts pioneer Ellie Schneiderman, founder of ArtCenter/South Florida, dies at 80 - Miami Herald

  21-04-2020 23:29 via miamiherald.com
  
  Arts pioneer Ellie Schneiderman, founder of ArtCenter/South Florida, dies at 80  Miami Herald
  
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• Ann Sullivan, Animator of Disney Hits, Dies at 91

  21-04-2020 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  She contributed to modern favorites like “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” She succumbed to complications of Covid-19.
  
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• Bill de Blasio's Budget for 2021 Significantly Cuts NYC's Arts Funding - Artforum

  21-04-2020 22:33 via artforum.com
  
  Bill de Blasio's Budget for 2021 Significantly Cuts NYC's Arts Funding  Artforum
  
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• Akron Nonprofit Launches T-Shirt Series to Support Local Arts and Culture - Cleveland Scene

  21-04-2020 22:32 via clevescene.com
  
  Akron Nonprofit Launches T-Shirt Series to Support Local Arts and Culture  Cleveland Scene
  
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• Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone Else

  21-04-2020 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Don’t hate the uptight women dumped by rom-com heroes. They’re high-strung, but they’re assertive. Are they monsters just because they know what they want?
  
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• Deirdre Bair, Beckett and Beauvoir Biographer, Dies at 84

  21-04-2020 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  She was an unknown writer with no experience in biographies when she wrote to the elusive Samuel Beckett. To her surprise, he wrote back.
  
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• American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2020 architecture award winners - The Architect's Newspaper

  21-04-2020 21:05 via archpaper.com
  
  American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2020 architecture award winners  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• What’s the Best Painting by van Gogh? Eight Experts Reveal Their Favorite Works

  21-04-2020 20:45 via artnews.com
  
  Vincent van Gogh’s life and work have long been subjects of fascination for art lovers, with books, films, and, more recently, immersive experiences dedicated to the Dutch artist. Van Gogh’s dreamy landscapes and eerie self-portraits have drawn massive crowds at art institutions across the globe, and, with newly authenticated pieces cropping up at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, interest in the world famous artist continues to grow. To survey som
  
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• How the World of ‘Selah and the Spades’ Was Created

  21-04-2020 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer and director Tayarisha Poe discusses the influences behind her boarding school drama streaming on Amazon Prime.
  
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• Cheeto Face Masks and Chocolate Chip Soap: Ilana Harris-Babou’s New Work Parodies Beauty and Wellness Culture

  21-04-2020 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  Ilana Harris-Babou: Decision Fatigue, 2020, video; at Hesse Flatow.
  Ilana Harris-Babou’s videos typically lampoon aspirational lifestyle trends associated with privileged consumer demographics, adopting the forms of instructional how-tos or brand promos—complete with soundtracks of generically upbeat music—on subjects like basement renovations, the “erotics” of cooking, and fictional product lines that betray histories of racial oppression. The home-furnishing store
  
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• A Pandemic Bonus: Catch These TV Shows While They’re Still Free

  21-04-2020 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Networks and streaming services are putting some high-profile series in front of their paywalls to tempt homebound viewers to subscribe.
  
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• Andy Warhol Offered to Sign Cigarettes, Food, Even Money to Make Money

  21-04-2020 20:15 via artnews.com
  
  Years after Valerie Solanas had shot and almost killed him, Andy Warhol recalled his first return to the Union Square studio where the shooting had happened in 1968: “I was confused because I wasn’t painting there and I wasn’t filming there,” he later wrote. “I would just sit in my tiny office and peek out toward the front at Paul [Morrissey] and Fred [Hughes] taking care of business.” Before long, however, it dawned on him that in “taking care of b
  
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• Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is?

  21-04-2020 19:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In “On Vanishing,” Lynn Casteel Harper argues that society needs a better approach to understand and care for people who are suffering cognitive decline.
  
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• A Pandemic Bonus: Catch These Shows While They’re Still Free

  21-04-2020 19:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Networks and streaming services are putting some high-profile series in front of their paywalls to tempt homebound viewers to subscribe.
  
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• Fugitive Dealer Inigo Philbrick Says He’s Not Contacting Kenny Schachter on Instagram

  21-04-2020 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  The author of British GQ‘s story on gallerist Inigo Philbrick, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, has published a postscript to his article online to say that he was contacted by the disgraced dealer via email. Franklin-Wallis tried to pursue many of the outstanding questions surrounding the various court cases against Philbrick.
  According to Franklin-Wallis, the fugitive art dealer only had one thing on his mind. That was making it clear that he is not in contact with his former friend, Kenny Schach
  
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• Times Theater Fans on Their Favorite Musical Cast Albums

  21-04-2020 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Our critics picked their 10 desert island cast albums. Our readers had some thoughts.
  
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• Facing Its ‘Most Serious Financial Crisis’ Ever, MoMA PS1 Furloughs More Than 70 Percent of Workers

  21-04-2020 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  Yet another major New York museum has announced furloughs because of the ongoing coronavirus shutdown. MoMA PS1 in Queens informed its employees on April 13 that there would be widespread furloughs affecting the museum’s workforce. In a letter to the museum’s staff, Kate Fowle, PS1’s director, said that the museum was facing its “most serious financial crisis” ever. “We expect the severe impact of this pandemic will be felt not only in the months ahead but for
  
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• Jaroslava Brychtova, Creator of Monumental Glass Art, Dies at 95

  21-04-2020 18:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Working with her husband, Stanislav Libensky, she made sculptures that pushed the boundaries of glass, winning international acclaim.
  
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• Lucinda Williams Is Raw, Riled Up and Ready to Speak Her Mind

  21-04-2020 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer and songwriter’s 14th studio album, “Good Souls Better Angels,” is stocked with fuzzy guitars and pointed political lyrics.
  
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• Finding the Magic of Cinema in the Tedium of Quarantine

  21-04-2020 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  A Greek festival invited some top art-house filmmakers to create short movies about the lockdown experience. Here are five.
  
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• Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions

  21-04-2020 17:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists and architects may be sheltering at home, but their creativity still flows — and the results surprise even them. Here’s what 10 famous makers are looking at, reading, and sketching now.
  
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• Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be

  21-04-2020 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “I am an artist, not a Satanist,” the performance artist said after an online outcry prompted Microsoft to take down a video of her. It’s not the first time she’s faced the accusation.
  
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• Falling in Love Again With ‘All About Eve’

  21-04-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The magical kingdom of Broadway is shuttered, but our critic returned to it — or rather a version of it that opened his eyes, Bette Davis wide, to New York theater.
  
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• New York’s Dept. of Cultural Affairs Faces Budget Cuts, and More: Morning Links from April 21, 2020

  21-04-2020 15:53 via artnews.com
  
  Happenings
  Facing a significant shortfall in tax revenue, New York officials have proposed budget cuts to the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. [ARTnews]
  Phillips auction house will donate all proceeds from an upcoming sale to the New York-based non-profit Robin Hood Foundation, which supports financially imperiled New Yorkers. [The Art Newspaper]
  The Louvre Abu Dhabi is now offering virtual tours of its collections and exhibitions. [T
  
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• A Certain Uncertainty: Haegue Yang’s Sculpture Takes Unpredictable Paths

  21-04-2020 15:38 via artnews.com
  
  Swirling ocean waters, a tropical storm veering toward the Florida coast, a tempest’s catastrophic impact. Halfway through “In the Cone of Uncertainty,” Haegue Yang’s current exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, visitors confront a large mural whose ominous imagery brings new meaning to Yang’s long-standing themes of precariousness and unpredictable change.Since 2011, the Korean-born, Berlin- and Seoul-based artist has utilized an unusual method of c
  
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• Frantic fundraising, relief that can’t meet demand: Artists and arts groups scramble amid coronavirus crisis - The Seattle Times

  21-04-2020 15:00 via seattletimes.com
  
  Frantic fundraising, relief that can’t meet demand: Artists and arts groups scramble amid coronavirus crisis  The Seattle Times
  
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• Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try

  21-04-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Though Cunningham is known for his tricky coordinations, the solo “50 Looks” is possibly his plainest. And it is being taught online.
  
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• Earth Day’s Gone Digital. Here’s Where to Find It.

  21-04-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New York offers many ways to celebrate online. You can hike, play environmental games, conduct experiments, meet scientists and blast into space — all without leaving home.
  
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• College boosts arts careers in surprising and important ways: report - Vanderbilt University News

  21-04-2020 12:00 via news.vanderbilt.edu
  
  College boosts arts careers in surprising and important ways: report  Vanderbilt University News
  
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• Who Is Really Running the Government?

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With his new book, “In Deep,” David Rohde argues that there is no “deep state,” but that Donald Trump may be creating one of his own.
  
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• Where Lonely Refugees Learn English From Daytime Soaps

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “How to Pronounce Knife,” a debut story collection by Souvankham Thammavongsa, features dislocated characters forced to reinvent their lives in unnamed North American cities.
  
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• In the Canyons of Southern California, a Rocky Coming-of-Age

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kate Milliken’s debut novel, “Kept Animals,” follows the tangled lives of a ranch hand, an equestrienne and a movie star’s daughter in a relationship as fraught as the landscape.
  
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• In a New Collection of Old Stories, Madeleine L’Engle Is Back

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This posthumous collection shows the evolution of one of the world’s most beloved writers.
  
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• From Saigon to the Suburbs, a Vietnamese-American’s Struggle to Assimilate

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Sigh, Gone,” Phuc Tran recalls his coming-of-age in a white world with an Asian face.
  
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• An Unlikely Romance Blooms in a Hospital Room, Then Metastisizes

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The novel “Reproduction,” by Ian Williams, is a bold experiment in form, a love story that grows malignant over time.
  
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• A Museum Devoted to Survivors Now Faces its Own Fight to Live

  21-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Like other small, endangered arts organizations, the Tenement Museum in Manhattan has drastically cut its budget as it tries to weather the pandemic.
  
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• USC Cinematic Arts faculty teach students how to edit online - USC News

  21-04-2020 09:01 via news.usc.edu
  
  USC Cinematic Arts faculty teach students how to edit online  USC News
  
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• Joan (Jody) Kissner, librarian, quilter and needle arts crafter, classical music lover - vtdigger.org

  21-04-2020 08:56 via vtdigger.org
  
  Joan (Jody) Kissner, librarian, quilter and needle arts crafter, classical music lover  vtdigger.org
  
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• Lockdown Protesters Would’ve Wanted Titanic to Sink Sooner, Kimmel Says

  21-04-2020 08:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Trump supporters like the ones calling for an end to stay-at-home orders “seem to fight hardest for the things that will kill them,” Jimmy Kimmel said.
  
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• City braces for cuts to cultural arts funding, citing likely drastic hotel tax drop - Austin Monitor

  21-04-2020 07:08 via austinmonitor.com
  
  City braces for cuts to cultural arts funding, citing likely drastic hotel tax drop  Austin Monitor
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Empire’ and a Tribute Concert

  21-04-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Fox hip-hop drama comes to an abrupt end, and celebrities commemorate Prince in a televised concert.
  
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• ECA announces summer arts enrichment camps - My Edmonds News

  21-04-2020 06:35 via myedmondsnews.com
  
  ECA announces summer arts enrichment camps  My Edmonds News
  
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• Makerspace offers space for crafts lovers | Arts & Entertainment - ECU The East Carolinian

  21-04-2020 06:23 via theeastcarolinian.com
  Makerspace offers space for crafts lovers | Arts & Entertainment  ECU The East Carolinian
  
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• AB 5 and coronavirus equal catastrophe, some arts groups say - Los Angeles Times

  21-04-2020 06:16 via latimes.com
  
  AB 5 and coronavirus equal catastrophe, some arts groups say  Los Angeles Times
  
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• Eleanor Blair: Memories of the Spring Arts Festival - Gainesville Sun

  21-04-2020 06:08 via gainesville.com
  Eleanor Blair: Memories of the Spring Arts Festival  Gainesville Sun
  
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• Continue to support the arts during quarantine - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  21-04-2020 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Continue to support the arts during quarantine  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• New Virtual Offerings Announced From Segerstrom Center For The Arts - Broadway World

  21-04-2020 05:47 via broadwayworld.com
  
  New Virtual Offerings Announced From Segerstrom Center For The Arts  Broadway World
  
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• King Princess' Reign Continues, Even at Home | Arts - Harvard Crimson

  21-04-2020 05:46 via thecrimson.com
  
  King Princess' Reign Continues, Even at Home | Arts  Harvard Crimson
  
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• Miami-Dade Arts Sector Reports $22 Million+ in March Pandemic Losses - Broadway World

  21-04-2020 05:29 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Miami-Dade Arts Sector Reports $22 Million+ in March Pandemic Losses  Broadway World
  
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