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• Holy Cross Confers 707 Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Virtual Celebration | Newsroom | College of - Holy Cross News

  22-05-2020 23:39 via news.holycross.edu
  Holy Cross Confers 707 Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Virtual Celebration | Newsroom | College of  Holy Cross News
  
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• Phil May, British Rocker of Unbridled Energy, Is Dead at 75

  22-05-2020 23:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. May’s snarling vocals and rebellious persona helped make his band, the Pretty Things, an influential part of the 1960s British scene.
  
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• With Museums Closed, Coffee-Table Books Bring the Art to You

  22-05-2020 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The catalogs meant to accompany the spring’s biggest exhibitions are now the exhibitions themselves.
  
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• The Best Films of 2020 (So Far), and They’re All Streaming

  22-05-2020 21:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Yes, it’s been a weird year for movies, but our chief critics have still found plenty of gems. Here are their top picks.
  
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• Walter Dallas, ‘Heartbeat’ of Philadelphia Theater, Dies at 73

  22-05-2020 20:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A man of many talents, he led Freedom Theater, one of the nation’s top African-American companies, for more than a decade.
  
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• How the Ecological Art Practices of Today Were Born in 1970s Feminism

  22-05-2020 19:56 via artnews.com
  
  From the perspective of 2020, the 1970s glimmer with lost opportunity. In a decade of scandal, stagflation, and political turmoil, an ecological consciousness awakened in tandem with critiques of patriarchy, militarism, and industrialization. Together, these issues prompted discussions about the limits of growth, the dangers of reckless technological development, and the potential for environmental disaster—concerns that still resonate today.
  Both the environmental movement of the 1970s an
  
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• Celebrated Egyptian Sculptor Adam Henein Has Died at 91

  22-05-2020 19:53 via artnews.com
  
  Egyptian artist Adam Henein, whose acclaimed sculptures and paintings united modernist abstraction with pharaonic iconography, died on Friday at 91. Essam Darwish, the deputy director of Henein’s foundation, told the Associated Press that the artist died of “age-related complications” at a hospital in Cairo. 
  Henein counts among the most influential Arab artists of his generation, with a practice that centered Egypt’s working-class citizens and their natural surround
  
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• 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t)

  22-05-2020 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  About now the festival jury would be weighing its choices. So our critics singled out highlights from more than 70 years of festival glory, as well as a few less-than-stellar prizewinners.
  
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• A Philip Glass Score Was Lost. 50 Years Later, Here It Is.

  22-05-2020 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  “Music in Eight Parts” has finally been reconstructed and recorded.
  
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• Ashland Arts Center closing - KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2

  22-05-2020 19:19 via kobi5.com
  
  Ashland Arts Center closing  KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2
  
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• Biden’s Online Campaign Is Still Loading

  22-05-2020 19:13 via nytimes.com
  
  As Trump hogs the cameras, the homebound presumptive nominee’s video presence is a limbo of “virtual rallies,” glitches and … birds.
  
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• Ask a Curator: Francesco Bonami on Marina Abramović, the Venice Biennale’s Postponement, and More

  22-05-2020 17:44 via artnews.com
  
  Francesco Bonami, whose curatorial credits include the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, has returned for the seventh edition of his column, “Ask a Curator,” in which he addresses the allegations that Marina Abramović is a Satanist and the Venice Biennale’s postponement. He can be found on Instagram at @thebonamist. If you have queries for him for a future column, please write to [email protected]. —The Editors of ARTnews
  The jet-setting curator
  
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• Interracial Romance, With Black Women as the Stars

  22-05-2020 17:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world.
  
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• Carly Rae Jepsen’s Summery Throwback, and 11 More New Songs

  22-05-2020 17:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Phoebe Bridgers, Polo G, Neil Young and others.
  
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• New York’s Iconic ‘Charging Bull’ Sculpture Becomes Subject of Fierce Debate Among Politicians

  22-05-2020 17:04 via artnews.com
  
  Faced with a volatile stock market and plummeting economic prospects owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Wall Street could use a mascot to burnish its once bullish reputation. But a planned symbol of the sort is not coming anytime soon, after a meeting that was supposed to launch a privately financed initiative to relocate Charging Bull—a famous 1989 sculpture by artist Arturo Di Modica—a few blocks from its current site in Lower Manhattan to the steps of the New York Stock Exchange i
  
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• A No. 1 Hit Vanished From Poland’s Charts. It’s Not Going Quietly.

  22-05-2020 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  In a furor over censorship, prominent broadcasters resigned and artists asked for the state-run radio station at the center of the controversy to stop playing their music.
  
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• U.S. Museums Are Reopening: To See Monet, Don a Mask

  22-05-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As museums around the country prepare to reopen, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is going first with safety protocols in place.
  
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• The Pandemic Ad Salutes You

  22-05-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In coronavirus-themed commercials, consumption is reframed as a public service performed by heroes, for heroes.
  
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• Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani on the Real Challenge of ‘The Lovebirds’

  22-05-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actors say their new Netflix movie, which starts where most rom-coms end, needed to acknowledge their characters were people of color.
  
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• Gallerist Adam Lindemann Is Suing Real Estate Mogul Aby Rosen, and More: Morning Links from May 22, 2020

  22-05-2020 15:48 via artnews.com
  
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  Adam Lindemann, owner of New York’s Venus over Manhattan gallery, is withholding rent paymentsand suing real estate mogul Aby Rosen to break his lease. [The Art Newspaper]
  In April, a flood damaged Boston’s SoWa gallery district. Now, just as the city attempts to reopen, the district faces millions in repair costs. [Boston Globe]
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• In Grayson Perry’s ‘Art Club,’ an Exhibition of Britain’s Lockdown Dreams

  22-05-2020 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Grayson Perry talks about his latest TV series, “Grayson’s Art Club,” which showcases art made by a British public trapped at home.
  
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• Updated: Black Swamp Arts Fest canceled; tractor pull still undecided - Sentinel-Tribune

  22-05-2020 15:28 via sent-trib.com
  
  Updated: Black Swamp Arts Fest canceled; tractor pull still undecided  Sentinel-Tribune
  
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• Owner of martial arts business plans to defy Gov. Cooper's order and reopen - WRAL.com

  22-05-2020 15:22 via wral.com
  
  Owner of martial arts business plans to defy Gov. Cooper's order and reopen  WRAL.com
  
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• Susan Rothenberg’s Rugged Paintings Made Her One of Today’s Most Fearless Artists

  22-05-2020 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  In an interview a few years ago, the artist Susan Rothenberg said she had just read that a group of ravens is called an unkindness. She thought it an unfair characterization because ravens, to her mind, were “great. They do somersaults in the air. They play. They chase hawks away. They do so many things.” She and her husband, the artist Bruce Nauman, regularly saw those famously fickle creatures at their ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, and they’d earned enough of the birds&rsquo
  
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• How Orange County's Visual Arts World is Coping with the Coronavirus - VoiceofOC

  22-05-2020 15:00 via voiceofoc.org
  
  How Orange County's Visual Arts World is Coping with the Coronavirus  VoiceofOC
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction Storied Ginny Williams Collection in June, Featuring Leading Women Artists Mitchell, Krasner

  22-05-2020 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The top offerings for the upcoming marquee auctions are beginning to be unveiled. Sotheby’s has announced it will bring selections from the collection of dealer Ginny Williams to the auction block on June 29 in New York.
  Sotheby’s plans to offer the collection of more than 450 lots across a series of sales that will take place over the course of the year. The first selection of which will be scheduled to go on the auction block in a dedicated sale directly following the contemporary
  
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• CIM Group Tops Out Mixed-Use Development in Wynwood Arts District - GlobeSt.com

  22-05-2020 12:54 via globest.com
  
  CIM Group Tops Out Mixed-Use Development in Wynwood Arts District  GlobeSt.com
  
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• What are the characteristics of a Bachelor of Arts degree? - Study International

  22-05-2020 12:04 via studyinternational.com
  
  What are the characteristics of a Bachelor of Arts degree?  Study International
  
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• Art Therapists Adapt As Anxiety Increases During Pandemic - ideastream

  22-05-2020 12:00 via ideastream.org
  
  Art Therapists Adapt As Anxiety Increases During Pandemic  ideastream
  
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• Australia's arts festivals have been cut off from the world. It's an opportunity to take stock - The Guardian

  22-05-2020 11:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Australia's arts festivals have been cut off from the world. It's an opportunity to take stock  The Guardian
  
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• Piedmont Arts issues update, plans reopening - Henry County Enterprise

  22-05-2020 11:22 via henrycountyenterprise.com
  
  Piedmont Arts issues update, plans reopening  Henry County Enterprise
  
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• First Inklings of Fame

  22-05-2020 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The class of 2020 has no idea what the future holds — and neither do we. Here’s a look back at some icons starting on their paths to renown.
  
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• Why a ‘Strange and Nerdy’ Book About Eels Is Making Waves

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Patrik Svensson mixed natural history with memoir for his debut, which has become a surprise best seller and award winner in his native Sweden.
  
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• The Circus Came to Town, Then It Couldn’t Leave

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  One of Italy’s famed family-owned circuses has been sitting out the coronavirus pandemic in a field outside Rome.
  
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• Steve Carell Charts a Return to TV Comedy With ‘Space Force’

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Carell plays a capable, take-charge military leader in the new Netflix show, which is both his first comedy series since “The Office” and a window into the elusive star as an actor and a creator.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Inland’ and ‘Becoming Dr. Seuss’

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Looking at War Across 2,500 Years

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Thomas E. Ricks considers books from ancient China down to the war in Afghanistan.
  
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• How to See, in Four Minutes

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An assignment for all of us to help capture an extraordinary time.
  
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• Can You Gather With God Over Zoom?

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Quakerism goes virtual, offering an intimate window into silent worship.
  
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• Brazil’s First Indigenous Curator: ‘We’re Not Afraid Anymore’

  22-05-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sandra Benites, of the Guaraní Ñandeva people, is using art to bring new visions and voices to the museum world.
  
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• Acansa cancels September arts fest - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  22-05-2020 09:45 via arkansasonline.com
  
  Acansa cancels September arts fest  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  
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• Poetry: 'A Menagerie' | Arts And Leisure | dailyuw.com - Dailyuw

  22-05-2020 09:15 via dailyuw.com
  
  Poetry: 'A Menagerie' | Arts And Leisure | dailyuw.com  Dailyuw
  
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• Seth Meyers Likens Trump to a Bad Houseguest

  22-05-2020 09:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Meyers said wearing a mask was the polite thing to do, like removing your shoes when asked: “You don’t make a big show of leaving them on and tracking mud everywhere.”
  
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• Carpenter Performing Arts Center Awarded California Arts Council Wins Grant For Third Year In A Row - Gazette Newspapers

  22-05-2020 09:00 via gazettes.com
  Carpenter Performing Arts Center Awarded California Arts Council Wins Grant For Third Year In A Row  Gazette Newspapers
  
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• NKU School of the Arts offering two online art studio workshops for adults this summer - User-generated content

  22-05-2020 07:45 via nkytribune.com
  NKU School of the Arts offering two online art studio workshops for adults this summer  User-generated content
  
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• What’s on TV Friday: ‘Homecoming’ and ‘AKA Jane Roe’

  22-05-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Janelle Monáe stars in the second season of Amazon’s “Homecoming.” And a documentary about Norma McCorvey debuts on FX.
  
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• Performing Arts in Limbo as Governor Abbott ‘Reopens’ Texas - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

  22-05-2020 06:35 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Performing Arts in Limbo as Governor Abbott ‘Reopens’ Texas  NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
  
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• Coronavirus in Texas: COVID-19 impact on Austin performing arts - KVUE.com

  22-05-2020 06:27 via kvue.com
  Coronavirus in Texas: COVID-19 impact on Austin performing arts  KVUE.com
  
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• Arts Visalia's First Friday exhibition in July - Valley Voice

  22-05-2020 06:27 via ourvalleyvoice.com
  Arts Visalia's First Friday exhibition in July  Valley Voice
  
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• Moundsville to Create Arts and Culture Commission | News, Sports, Jobs - Wheeling Intelligencer

  22-05-2020 06:21 via theintelligencer.net
  Moundsville to Create Arts and Culture Commission | News, Sports, Jobs  Wheeling Intelligencer
  
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