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• Read Statements from Major U.S. Museums About the George Floyd Protests

  02-06-2020 23:54 via artnews.com
  
  After the killing of George Floyd while in police custody generated protests across the United Sates, many major museums in the country issued statements in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The statements have not been free of controversy—some have alleged that museums did not act fast enough to issue them, and others have claimed that institutions have not been direct enough while discussing Black Lives Matter. Below is a roundup of some museums’ statements.Art Institute
  
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• Major U.S. Museums Criticized for Responses to Ongoing George Floyd Protests

  02-06-2020 23:52 via artnews.com
  
  Major U.S. cities have become sites of protest following the killing of George Floyd by policemen in Minneapolis. As of Tuesday, thousands of protestors have taken to the streets and hundreds have been arrested. As social media flooded with images of civil arrest and police brutality, many museums stayed silent over the weekend, drawing criticism from high-profile activists, curators, and artists.
  Faced with increasing pressure from critics and mounting civil unrest, some museums began issuing s
  
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• 4 The Arts – CBS Denver - CBS Denver

  02-06-2020 23:36
  
  4 The Arts – CBS Denver  CBS Denver
  
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• Coronavirus: June 4 Arts and Entertainment Source: County's mayors judge COVID-19 art contest - Vallejo Times-Herald

  02-06-2020 23:23
  Coronavirus: June 4 Arts and Entertainment Source: County's mayors judge COVID-19 art contest  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Dare County Arts Council Announces a Call For Entries for 23rd Mollie Fearing Memorial Art Show - Island Free Press

  02-06-2020 23:15
  
  Dare County Arts Council Announces a Call For Entries for 23rd Mollie Fearing Memorial Art Show  Island Free Press
  
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• Sculptor Christo Remembered by Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘Spirited, Political, and Profoundly Kind’

  02-06-2020 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence (1972–76) was a temporary environmental artwork that was situated in Northern California and designed in the shape of a fence that extended 24 miles through the undulating landscape of Marin and Sonoma counties. I worked on the project as an associate project director. At the time, I lived in a Motel 6 in Petaluma, rising every morning well before dawn, around 3:30 a.m., to drive Jeanne-Claude and Christo to visit farmers before they milked t
  
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• Make Unseen Joins and Repairs with the Best Invisible Tapes

  02-06-2020 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  Invisible tape is meant to stick on, not stand out. It disappears on artworks and on documents so you can focus on the work rather than on the adhesive. The first waterproof, see-through tape was invented in 1930 by engineer Richard Drew, who later founded the Scotch brand. Scotch introduced transparent tape to the market in 1961. Now produced by a number of manufacturers, invisible tape is transparent, can be written on, and won’t discolor. Gift wrappers should note that invisible tape, w
  
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• Elsa Dorfman, Who Made Art With Giant Polaroids, Dies at 83

  02-06-2020 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  She used a 200-pound camera for her natural portraits of everyday subjects and celebrities — even while Polaroid, outpaced by technology, was fast going out of business.
  
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• The sacrosanct endowment? Not anymore for some arts groups - Chicago Tribune

  02-06-2020 22:43
  
  The sacrosanct endowment? Not anymore for some arts groups  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Robb Forman Dew, Novelist Who Wrote of Families, Dies at 73

  02-06-2020 22:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Her well-regarded books chronicled day-to-day life, spurning fast-paced gimmicks in favor of carefully built portraits.
  
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• Fairmont State University clarifies the rumors in terms of performing arts program - WBOY.com

  02-06-2020 22:37
  Fairmont State University clarifies the rumors in terms of performing arts program  WBOY.com
  
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• Marcel Duchamp’s 18 Most Puzzling Artworks, From Hypnotic Bicycle Wheels to Visions of Robotic Sex

  02-06-2020 22:19 via artnews.com
  
  Everything related to the great artist Marcel Duchamp is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, as Winston Churchill once said of Russia around the start of World War II. While no artist is open to as many different readings as a nation of millions, Duchamp came as close as any over the course of a career that began in the first decade of the 20th century and continued on through his death in 1968.
  Interest in Duchamp has only intensified as his influence has become more inescapable, wi
  
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• Arts in Brief | GO! | wenatcheeworld.com - wenatcheeworld.com

  02-06-2020 22:03
  Arts in Brief | GO! | wenatcheeworld.com  wenatcheeworld.com
  
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• Review: Streaming Consciousness Floods ‘A School for Fools’

  02-06-2020 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The Belarus Free Theater’s livestreaming, mind-bending adaptation of Sasha Sokolov’s poetic novel assumes the bifocal eye-view of a divided self.
  
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• Sedona Arts Center reopens | Kudos AZ - Verde Independent

  02-06-2020 21:22
  
  Sedona Arts Center reopens | Kudos AZ  Verde Independent
  
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• Auction Houses’ Rapid Shift Online Signals Lasting Impact of Pandemic: Report

  02-06-2020 21:18 via artnews.com
  
  With sales postponed and auction houses left closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a rapid shift to the digital marketplace, data from by the Boston-based online secondary market platform Invaluable reveals.
  The online consignment platform, which was founded in 2009, partners with auction houses to host online sales for around 5,000 sellers. The company has released figures showing the move online that swept the market a few months ago came following a sharp decline in total
  
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• Arts notes (6/3/20) - Hudson Valley One

  02-06-2020 20:00
  
  Arts notes (6/3/20)  Hudson Valley One
  
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• Academy of Hawaiian Arts ransacked during riot - Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather - KITV Honolulu

  02-06-2020 20:00
  
  Academy of Hawaiian Arts ransacked during riot - Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather  KITV Honolulu
  
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• How Blackout Tuesday Became a Social Media Moment

  02-06-2020 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  What began as a proposed day of reflection after the death of George Floyd morphed into something broader, leading some to complain that #BlackLivesMatter posts were being silenced.
  
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• #BlackoutTuesday: A Music Industry Protest Becomes a Social Media Moment

  02-06-2020 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  What began as a proposed day of reflection after the death of George Floyd morphed into something broader, leading some to complain that #BlackLivesMatter posts were being silenced.
  
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• The Medical Mask Becomes a Protest Symbol

  02-06-2020 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Commentators on the right have tried to paint the mask as a cowardly affectation. A flood of masked demonstrators tells a different story.
  
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• Performing Arts Center of MetroWest Announces Summer Theatre Program - framinghamsource.com

  02-06-2020 19:22
  
  Performing Arts Center of MetroWest Announces Summer Theatre Program  framinghamsource.com
  
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• Creative Arts Camp hosting another summer of theatrical and performing arts fun for kids - WWAY NewsChannel 3

  02-06-2020 19:06
  
  Creative Arts Camp hosting another summer of theatrical and performing arts fun for kids  WWAY NewsChannel 3
  
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• Cornerstone Center for the Arts to go online - The Daily News

  02-06-2020 18:59
  
  Cornerstone Center for the Arts to go online  The Daily News
  
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• How arts organisations are rewarding their members in lockdown - The Economist

  02-06-2020 18:50
  
  How arts organisations are rewarding their members in lockdown  The Economist
  
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• Judge Gives Carole Baskin the Tiger King’s Zoo

  02-06-2020 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The legal battle between Ms. Baskin, an animal-rights activist, and Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a former roadside zoo owner, played out for more than seven years and on a Netflix special.
  
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• Winthrop Arts Offers Virtual Teen Drawing Class - Osprey Observer

  02-06-2020 18:04
  
  Winthrop Arts Offers Virtual Teen Drawing Class  Osprey Observer
  
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• A Dance About the State of Emergency We’re In

  02-06-2020 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Jamar Roberts’s short video “Cooped” is a powerful artistic response to the Covid-19 crisis, with added resonance after the killing of George Floyd.
  
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• Electronic Arts Joins Others To Delay Game Launches – 1 Release Postponed - Essentially Sports

  02-06-2020 17:02
  
  Electronic Arts Joins Others To Delay Game Launches – 1 Release Postponed  Essentially Sports
  
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• With These Literary Puzzlers, the Game’s Afoot (and in Hand)

  02-06-2020 16:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Need something to occupy your mind and your time? Consider two book-themed diversions that grab your attention using post or pixel.
  
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• Adding up the damage to Twin Cities arts organizations - MinnPost

  02-06-2020 16:01
  
  Adding up the damage to Twin Cities arts organizations  MinnPost
  
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• The Sacrosanct Endowment? Not Anymore for Some Arts Groups

  02-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Some cultural organizations, staggered by the financial upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, are dipping heavily into their endowments. Others are thinking about it.
  
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• Crowds Define Opera. They’re Also Keeping It From Returning.

  02-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As the Metropolitan Opera announces that it will remain closed through the year, our critic reflects on the chorus scenes he will miss the most.
  
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• 10 Things That Keep Norah Jones Grounded

  02-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician shares the movies, podcast, book and music that top her list of cultural essentials.
  
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• The 61st Three Rivers Arts Festival will be like no other - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  02-06-2020 15:55
  
  The 61st Three Rivers Arts Festival will be like no other  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Greenville MAC funds flicker light on Warehouse Theatre's dark stage - Greenville News

  02-06-2020 15:09
  Greenville MAC funds flicker light on Warehouse Theatre's dark stage  Greenville News
  
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• Smithsonian Launches Race-Engaged Online Portal, Artists Remember George Floyd, and More: Morning Links from June 2, 2020

  02-06-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  NewsArtists in Minneapolis are working to remember George Floyd and others whose lives have been cut short by violence. [ARTnews]
  Over the weekend, Dallas-based artist Jammie Holmes staged a work for which airplanes pulled banners through the sky reading “They’re going to kill me”—some of the last words spoken by George Floyd before h
  
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• Denver's arts and culture groups responses to vandalism amid protests - The Know

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  Denver's arts and culture groups responses to vandalism amid protests  The Know
  
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• State freezes $1 million in arts funding to 53 Western Pa. groups - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  02-06-2020 13:01
  
  State freezes $1 million in arts funding to 53 Western Pa. groups  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• When the Price of Freedom Is Detention, Frostbite and Amputation

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Between Everything and Nothing,” by Joe Meno, recounts the harrowing quest by two Ghanaian men to gain asylum in North America.
  
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• Wayétu Moore Escapes a Civil War in Liberia. In America, She Encounters a New Kind of Danger.

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Dragons, the Giant, the Women” is a migration memoir of separations, relocations and reunions.
  
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• The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Ornamental,” by the Colombian writer Juan Cárdenas, smashes together art, science and philosophy in a compact, fast-moving novel.
  
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• The Essential Spike Lee

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From “Do the Right Thing” to “Inside Man,” here is a starter guide to an imposing and eclectic body of work.
  
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• The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1957, Franklin Kameny was fired from a government job for being gay. His bold fight against bias, Eric Cervini shows in “The Deviant’s War,” inspired a movement.
  
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• In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Naoise Dolan’s debut follows a young Irishwoman as she becomes involved in the lives of Hong Kong’s upper crust.
  
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• Birds Do It. People, Too. Is Migration Simply Natural for All Species?

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her latest book, “The Next Great Migration,” the science journalist Sonia Shah traces the global movements of humans today to age-old patterns in other species.
  
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• Late Night Doesn’t Feel Much Like Laughing

  02-06-2020 09:28 via nytimes.com
  
  On Monday night, hosts talked about the protests, police brutality and racism. Jimmy Fallon started by addressing the fact that he’d worn blackface on “Saturday Night Live.”
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fuller House’ and ‘Dirty John’

  02-06-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The fifth and final season of “Fuller House” comes to a close on Netflix, and an anthology crime series returns on USA.
  
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• A Terrorist Attack Sparks the Plot of Megha Majumdar’s Powerful Debut Novel

  02-06-2020 06:37 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Burning” captures the political landscape of modern-day India through the lives of three characters.
  
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• The Best Metallic Markers to Add Shine to Your Creations

  02-06-2020 04:47 via artnews.com
  
  When it comes to drawing, all the colors of the rainbow don’t always cut it. Sometimes you want just a little more. That’s where metallic pens come into play, giving your artwork an eye-catching glint and sheen you just can’t get from regular markers. Some metallic markers are just like regular felt-tip pens, except with metallic ink, while others dispense an ink that is more like paint. All markers, however, should be able to work on almost any surface, be it lightweight
  
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