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• Poets Criticize Poetry Foundation’s Statement on Black Lives Matter

  09-06-2020 23:48 via nytimes.com
  
  In an open letter, more than 1,800 people criticized the foundation’s remarks and called on it to dedicate more proceeds from its $250 million endowment to antiracism efforts.
  
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• Soothing Incense, Recommended by T Editors

  09-06-2020 23:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Scented smoke for the good of your space and state of mind.
  
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• ‘The Flash’ Actor and Showrunner React to Hartley Sawyer’s Dismissal

  09-06-2020 22:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Grant Gustin, who plays the Flash, and Eric Wallace, the showrunner, expressed anger over the supporting actor’s tweets. “Words matter,” Gustin said.
  
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• Cynthia Navaretta, Publisher Behind Key Feminist Art Journal, Has Died at 97

  09-06-2020 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  Cynthia Navaretta, the pioneering critic and publisher who championed women artists in a male-centric era, died on May 18. She was 97. 
  Navaretta’s ambitions were so great, she sought to identify every female artist working during the 1980s. She penned the first comprehensive, inclusive directory of women artists in the country, and at the Midmarch Arts Foundation, she pursued similar goals, printing materials related to overlooked female artists. Among the titles published by her pre
  
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• Park City arts fest status hinges on decisions this week - The Park Record

  09-06-2020 22:33
  
  Park City arts fest status hinges on decisions this week  The Park Record
  
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• Manifesta 13 in France Goes Forward with Summer Biennial Plans Amid Pandemic, Reveals Artist List

  09-06-2020 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  The list of major biennials that have postponed their 2020 editions because of the coronavirus pandemic is long. The ranks currently include the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy, the Berlin Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Made in L.A., the Dak’Art Biennale of Contemporary Art in Senegal, the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Latvia, and the Prospect New Orleans triennial. But one biennial set to take place in France is plowing forward, with plans to lau
  
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• Manuel Felguérez, Creator of Expressive Abstractions That Defied Mexican Muralism, Has Died at 91

  09-06-2020 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  Painter, sculptor, and educator Manuel Felguérez, a pioneering artist of the Generación de la Ruptura that broke away from traditional painting in Mexico, has died at age 91. The Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that Covid-19 was the cause of death.
  Felguérez is known for his abstract explorations of geometry and space. Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, Mexico’s minister of culture, acknowledged Felguérez’s death in a tweet on June 8, writing, in part, th
  
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• David Kordansky Gallery Takes on Closely Watched Artists Deana Lawson, Jason Fox

  09-06-2020 21:41 via artnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles–based David Kordansky Gallery has taken on two important artists: photographer Deana Lawson, who in the past several years has established herself as one of the important artists working today, and Jason Fox, a painter whose figurations have earned attention from the New York art scene. Lawson will continue to be represented by her New York gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co., and Fox will be co-represented with New York’s Canada gallery.
  Lawson, who is based in Brookly
  
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• A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’

  09-06-2020 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  As Sanaë Lemoine’s debut novel progresses, its narrator falls increasingly in thrall to the only people who seem interested in her inner life.
  
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• Yo-Yo Ma Tries to Bring Us Comfort and Hope

  09-06-2020 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The renowned cellist, who has soothed us during the pandemic with “Songs of Comfort,” puts Fred Rogers, Pablo Casals and his Benoît Rolland bow on his list of cultural essentials.
  
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• Letter: Support local arts organizations - Hudson Valley One

  09-06-2020 20:46
  
  Letter: Support local arts organizations  Hudson Valley One
  
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• Dancing Bodies That Proclaim: Black Lives Matter

  09-06-2020 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Some came to the streets to dance. Others were moved to dance more spontaneously, and surprised to find themselves seen by millions online.
  
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• The Roles Are L.G.B.T.Q., but the Movies Are Not About Self-Discovery

  09-06-2020 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  After a generation of films about sexual or emotional awakening, these titles showcase lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters in all their wonderful complexity.
  
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• Barry Avrich Talks About His New Knoedler Forgery Documentary, ‘Made You Look’

  09-06-2020 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  
  Artelligence Podcast · Made You Look, Barry Avrich’s New Documentary About the Knoedler Forgeries
  Barry Avrich is a prolific documentary film producer. In 2017, he released Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, about the contemporary art market. Now Avrich as produced Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art about the Knoedler forgery trial that took place in 2016. Avrich talks about how he got former Knoedler director Ann Freedman to participate in the documentary
  
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• Unprecedented Toppling of Monument to Slave Trader Shocks British Art World

  09-06-2020 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  Until his statue was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters on Sunday, few people outside Bristol had heard of Edward Colston. Dramatic images of the protests held in the British city show the bronze sculpture of Colston being torn down and thrown into the harbor of the historic port city. But the felling of the monument to the merchant, whose fortune was earned from the transatlantic slave trade he helped establish in the late 17th century, is just one part of a fierce and reignited debate ab
  
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• Warren Kanders Says He Is Getting Out of the Tear Gas Business

  09-06-2020 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Amid protests in which his company’s products have been used by the police, the ex-Whitney Museum trustee said that the company, Safariland, would sell off its crowd-control products divisions.
  
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• Galleries to Open in the Hamptons. It’s Not Business as Usual.

  09-06-2020 18:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Masks will be required and there will be limited or no staff for some in-person viewing experiences.
  
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• The Gentle, Brilliant Bros of French Baroque Music

  09-06-2020 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The lutenist Thomas Dunford and the harpsichordist Jean Rondeau create their own duo repertory on the album “Barricades.”
  
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• What Happened to the Musical Acts That Defined the Art World in the Aughts?

  09-06-2020 17:09 via artnews.com
  
  Did you know that self-described “Gypsy punk cabaret” band Gogol Bordello was in the 2002 Whitney Biennial? It’s true. So was noise band and art collective Forcefield, from the Fort Thunder artists’ space in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as their predecessors, the Detroit-based group Destroy All Monsters. The 2004 edition included Antony and the Johnsons, which was then the band of musician and visual artist Anohni. Also on the 2004 bill: Tracy + the Plastics (the Oly
  
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• An Unlikely Friendship, All Thanks to Pickles

  09-06-2020 16:22 via nytimes.com
  
  You’ll root for the characters in Jean Kyoung Frazier’s funny and bittersweet debut novel, “Pizza Girl,” which focuses on a pregnant teenager who’s deeply ambivalent about motherhood.
  
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• A Museum Canceled a Show About Police Brutality. Now It Has Regrets.

  09-06-2020 16:22 via nytimes.com
  
  MoCA Cleveland has apologized to the artist Shaun Leonardo, whose charcoal drawings represent victims of police violence.
  
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• Yo-Yo Ma Is Trying to Leave All the Stress Behind Him

  09-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The renowned cellist, who has soothed us during the pandemic with “Songs of Comfort,” also puts Fred Rogers, Pablo Casals and his Benoît Rolland bow on his list of cultural essentials.
  
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• What Should I Watch After I’ve Binged ‘Dead to Me’?

  09-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our television critic answers your questions and offers guidance on what to watch next.
  
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• When Will It Be Safe to Sing Together Again?

  09-06-2020 15:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Choirs have been linked to several coronavirus outbreaks. And some scientists are skeptical about efforts to bring them back with protective measures.
  
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• English Monuments Wobble, Generation Gap Moves the Market, and More: Morning Links from June 9, 2020

  09-06-2020 15:04 via artnews.com
  
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  Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones has a radical idea for a monument to replace the recently fallen statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol, England. [The Guardian]
  London’s mayor vowed to review “the diversity of London’s public landmarks” as a result of protests there. [The Art Newspaper]
  For the morning
  
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• Michael Osterholm on COVID and the arts: 'This is going to be a rough few years' - MinnPost

  09-06-2020 15:01
  
  Michael Osterholm on COVID and the arts: 'This is going to be a rough few years'  MinnPost
  
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• The Quotidian and the Surreal

  09-06-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With large parts of our lives on pause, our relationship to motion, and the world outside of our homes, has been profoundly altered. We asked three photographers to explore movement in their everyday environments.
  
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• Miami Arts Studio 6-12 @ Zelda Glazer Honors Class of 2020 - Patch.com

  09-06-2020 15:00
  
  Miami Arts Studio 6-12 @ Zelda Glazer Honors Class of 2020  Patch.com
  
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• Beatriz Williams at Home in Lyme, Conn.

  09-06-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For the best-selling author Beatriz Williams, home is a 200-year-old house in Lyme, Conn., with lots of bookshelves and antique furniture.
  
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• A Historical Novelist’s Decorating Scheme: ‘Books and Dog Hair’

  09-06-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For the best-selling author Beatriz Williams, home is a 200-year-old house in Lyme, Conn., with lots of bookshelves and antique furniture.
  
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• Statewide Arts Awards Earned By South Windsor High School Seniors - South Windsor, CT Patch

  09-06-2020 14:42
  
  Statewide Arts Awards Earned By South Windsor High School Seniors  South Windsor, CT Patch
  
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• Sun sets on 2020 G. Rapids arts, jazz fest - Sentinel-Tribune

  09-06-2020 14:31
  Sun sets on 2020 G. Rapids arts, jazz fest  Sentinel-Tribune
  
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• Arts All-Star: Abigail Wischerath - WWNY

  09-06-2020 14:20
  
  Arts All-Star: Abigail Wischerath  WWNY
  
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• South Plainfield Cultural Arts - June Meeting - TAPinto.net

  09-06-2020 14:13
  
  South Plainfield Cultural Arts - June Meeting  TAPinto.net
  
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• Harry Potter: The Defense of the Dark Arts Instructor Curse, Explained - CBR - Comic Book Resources

  09-06-2020 14:11
  Harry Potter: The Defense of the Dark Arts Instructor Curse, Explained  CBR - Comic Book Resources
  
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• Bellingham artists find new ways to stay connected, supportive amid coronavirus threat - Bellingham Herald

  09-06-2020 14:04
  
  Bellingham artists find new ways to stay connected, supportive amid coronavirus threat  Bellingham Herald
  
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• Bucking Cancellations, Salzburg Festival Has Plans for August

  09-06-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Classical music and opera’s starriest and most important annual event will go forward, in modified form.
  
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• ‘Born in Evin’ Review: No Place for a Baby, or Anyone Else

  09-06-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her debut as a director, the actress Maryam Zaree explores her birth at an infamous Iranian prison.
  
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• Historical society cancels arts and crafts fair - Kankakee Daily Journal

  09-06-2020 12:59
  Historical society cancels arts and crafts fair  Kankakee Daily Journal
  
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• Floyd Case Forces Arts Groups to Enter the Fray - The New York Times

  09-06-2020 12:51
  
  Floyd Case Forces Arts Groups to Enter the Fray  The New York Times
  
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• WNY Book Arts Center encourages community to 'Keep Pressing On' - WGRZ.com

  09-06-2020 12:12
  WNY Book Arts Center encourages community to 'Keep Pressing On'  WGRZ.com
  
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• Opinion: Proposal to eliminate Philly arts office hurts neighborhoods - WHYY

  09-06-2020 12:01
  
  Opinion: Proposal to eliminate Philly arts office hurts neighborhoods  WHYY
  
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• Theater Artists Decry Racism in Their Industry

  09-06-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  More than 300 sign a letter saying theater is a “house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy.”
  
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• Arts council sponsors visual arts competition | Forest Lake Times - ECM Publishers

  09-06-2020 12:00
  Arts council sponsors visual arts competition | Forest Lake Times  ECM Publishers
  
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• Seven ways to help Orlando arts groups recover from coronavirus shutdown - Orlando Sentinel

  09-06-2020 11:11
  Seven ways to help Orlando arts groups recover from coronavirus shutdown  Orlando Sentinel
  
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• ‘You Don’t Nomi’ Review: How Much Is There to See in ‘Showgirls’?

  09-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary tackles a question that has haunted cinephiles for 25 years.
  
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• What if a Shaman Could Solve All Your Problems, in Three Days?

  09-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Sam Lansky’s “Broken People,” the narrator tries to cure self-doubt through hallucinogens.
  
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• This Book Delivers Humor, Humanity and Hubris

  09-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  ‘Pizza Girl,’ the story of an unlikely friendship, is layered with unexpected twists.
  
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• The True Story of the Texas Rangers

  09-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Doug J. Swanson’s “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” recounts tales of lynchings, massacres and ruthless white supremacy.
  
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• St. Mary's Arts Council Artist Spotlight: Wayne K. Thomas - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

  09-06-2020 11:00
  
  St. Mary's Arts Council Artist Spotlight: Wayne K. Thomas  The Southern Maryland Chronicle
  
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