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• Rupert Hine, Synth-Pop Music Producer, Dies at 72

  15-06-2020 23:59 via nytimes.com
  
  He was behind Tina Turner’s “Better Be Good to Me” and hits by the Fixx and Howard Jones. He also made a dozen albums of his own songs.
  
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• Asian Art Museum to Remove Bust of Patron. That’s Just a Start.

  15-06-2020 23:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The museum will also hold public programs to examine Avery Brundage’s legacy, as well as questions around restitution, and work on “decolonizing’’ the museum.
  
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• Watch This: ‘America to Me’

  15-06-2020 23:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The layered, nuanced 10-part documentary, which examines race and coming-of-age at a Chicago-area high school is now streaming free.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Mary Bauermeister Awarded Germany’s Highest Honor—and More from June 16, 2020

  15-06-2020 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Tuesday, June 16
  Mary Bauermeister Awarded Germany’s Highest HonorMary Bauermeister has been awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit, the highest honor that can be bestowed on any German individual by the nation. The accolade is awarded in recognition of achievements in the political, economic, humanitarian, and cultural realms. Bauermeister, whose practice spans drawing, installation, sculpture, and music, was selected for her significant contributions to Ge
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Kenny Scharf Joins Almine Rech—and More from June 15, 2020

  15-06-2020 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, June 15
  Kenny Scharf Joins Almine RechAlmine Rech gallery has added American painter and graffiti artist Kenny Scharf to its roster. Scharf, who describes his fantastical paintings and installations as “pop-surrealism,” first gained notoriety in the 1980s East Village art scene. His work was featured in the 1985 Whitney Biennial and has since been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Queens Museum in 
  
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• Francis Alÿs, Artist with a Timely Interest in Borders, Will Represent Belgium at 2022 Venice Biennale

  15-06-2020 22:53 via artnews.com
  
  The Venice Biennale has been pushed back a year, from next year to 2022, but that has not stopped Belgium—which has often presented one of the most talked-about pavilions at the biennial—from revealing its plans. Artist Francis Alÿs has been selected to represent Belgium for the forthcoming edition, according to the Belgian publication De Tijd. Hilde Teerlinck, a curator at the Han Nefkens Foundation in Barcelona, will oversee the pavilion.
  The 2022 Belgian Pavilion will not be
  
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• Robert Irwin’s 9 Most Invisible Artworks, From Dots That Disappear to Scrims That Veil Secret Worlds

  15-06-2020 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  Now in his 90s, Robert Irwin has been jousting with physical and metaphysical aspects of art since the beginning of his career. He was associated early on with the Light and Space movement in California, which found confluences with Minimalism but also sometimes exhibited such minimal tendencies as to barely exist in material terms. (“Light” and “space” are all around us, but we don’t tend to think of such ethereal matters as entities on their own.)
  A big part of Ir
  
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• The Statues Were Toppled. What Happens to Them Now?

  15-06-2020 22:02 via nytimes.com
  
  What city leaders, museum officials and historians decide will have implications for how we remember the history the statues were designed to represent, as well as our current moment.
  
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• After A.L.S. Diagnosis, Rebecca Luker Is ‘Proud I Can Still Sing’

  15-06-2020 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway soprano can no longer walk. But by propping herself up on the arms of her wheelchair, she can deliver a song. And on Wednesday night, she will.
  
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• Chen Ronghui’s Photographs Depict Home As Both Confining and Comforting

  15-06-2020 21:58 via artnews.com
  
  Shanghai-based photographer Chen Ronghui’s principal theme—feeling displaced while still in place—resonates in unanticipated ways for today’s mid-pandemic viewers. In 2016, the young artist, who was born in 1989 and earned a BA in journalism from Nanchang University in 2011, found the subjects for his best-known series, “Freezing Land” (2016-19), by acting on a strain of domestic exoticism. Like many compatriots from more temperate climes, he had a fascination
  
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• Trump’s Niece, Mary Trump, to Publish Book With ‘Harrowing’ Revelations

  15-06-2020 21:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Mary Trump will say that she was a source of The New York Times’s coverage of the president’s tax returns. The Times declined to comment on the claim.
  
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• The Only West End Show Still Standing

  15-06-2020 21:28 via nytimes.com
  
  “Horrible Histories” was meant to be in the West End next month. It’s still happening, just in a castle parking lot 200 miles away.
  
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• Trump’s Niece to Publish Book With ‘Harrowing’ Revelations

  15-06-2020 21:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Mary Trump will say that she was a source of The New York Times’s coverage of the president’s tax returns. The Times declined to comment on the claim.
  
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• Challenged by A.L.S., Rebecca Luker Is ‘Proud I Can Still Sing’

  15-06-2020 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway soprano can no longer walk. But by propping herself up on the arms of her wheelchair, she can deliver a song. And on Wednesday night, she will.
  
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• Rising Star Salman Toor Joins Luhring Augustine Ahead of Whitney Museum Show

  15-06-2020 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  With a Whitney Museum show in the pipeline, the New York–based painter Salman Toor has joined the roster of Luhring Augustine gallery, which maintains spaces in Chelsea, Tribeca, and Bushwick, Brooklyn. Curated by Christopher Lew and Ambika Trasi, the artist’s Whitney show—his first-ever solo exhibition at a museum anywhere—was postponed following the institution’s coronavirus-related closure in March.
  Toor’s figurative works depict the lives of brown, queer m
  
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• Now playing at the Long Center for Performing Arts: Jury selection - Journal & Courier

  15-06-2020 20:22
  Now playing at the Long Center for Performing Arts: Jury selection  Journal & Courier
  
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• Lil Baby Returns to Top Chart With ‘My Turn’

  15-06-2020 19:27 via nytimes.com
  
  #BlackoutTuesday and a delay of some of that week's new releases helped pave the way for a No. 1 with the equivalent of just 65,000 sales in the United States.
  
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• Alleging Racism, Sole Permanently Employed Black Staff Member of Goldsmiths Art Department ‘Withdraws Labor’

  15-06-2020 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  A controversy over the uneven racial demographics of the faculty at London’s top art school has reached a head, with the only permanently employed Black member of its art department’s academic staff protesting the university’s allegedly racist practices and work environment.
  On Monday, artist Evan Ifekoya issued a letter addressed to their colleagues at Goldsmiths, University of London in which they revealed that they were “withdrawing” from the art department amid
  
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• Museums Embrace Art Therapy Techniques for Unsettled Times

  15-06-2020 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Several institutions are preparing to reopen with an awareness of a new mission as people struggle with loss and unrest.
  
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• Review: ‘Frontline’ Traces the Footsteps of Covid-19

  15-06-2020 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Its new report, “The Virus: What Went Wrong?,” recounts the progress of the disease and asks what America missed.
  
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• Ralph Caplan, Design Critic Big on Sit-Ins but Not Chairs, Dies at 95

  15-06-2020 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A writer, editor and consultant, his views on American product design allowed him to stray into a wide range of cultural issues, including the battle for civil rights.
  
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• Photographer Nicolas Krief Records the Labor Behind the Glamour of Museum Displays in Paris

  15-06-2020 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  In his ongoing series “Accrochages” (Hangings), Paris-based photographer Nicolas Krief studies the behind-the-scenes logistics that enable museumgoers to experience art in hallowed institutions. “Accrochages” depicts art handlers hoisting and arranging works to execute curators’ visions. The images show us art outside the impeccable context we have come to expect for its public consumption.
  The series at once highlights and dismantles “our almost religious rel
  
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• Activists Face Trial After Attempt to Seize African Artifact from Paris’s Quai Branly Museum as Protest

  15-06-2020 18:37 via artnews.com
  
  On Friday, amid Black Lives Matter protests in the French capital, activists attempted to seize a 19th-century African funeral pole from the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac in Paris because “most of the works were taken during colonialism and we want justice.” The group was arrested by security before it could leave the building, and the activists will appear in Paris court this September.
  The demonstration was led by African activist Mwazulu Diyabanza
  
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• Diversity-Inspired Museum Fellowships Are Noble—But Do They Lead to Success?

  15-06-2020 18:34 via artnews.com
  
  This “Perspectives” column was written in April and appears in the Summer 2020 issue of ARTnews.
  Over the past few years there has been much discussion about the art world’s pipeline problem: that there are not enough paths to professional success and achievement for people of diverse backgrounds. This has galvanized efforts by numerous foundations to create curatorial fellowships at museums and institutions in order to diversify their curatorial ranks.
  It was this ki
  
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• Former Hamilton fine arts leader remembered for legacy of kindness - Hamilton Journal News

  15-06-2020 16:52
  
  Former Hamilton fine arts leader remembered for legacy of kindness  Hamilton Journal News
  
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• ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now

  15-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Houston trio’s third album adds a new chapter to the band’s improbable story.
  
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• Marc Spiegler On Fairs Going Digital, L.A. Museums Mull Reopening, and More: Morning Links from June 15, 2020

  15-06-2020 15:16 via artnews.com
  
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  Marc Spiegler, the global director of Art Basel, penned a piece for the Financial Times about the pandemic’s impact on the art market and some of the limitations of digital fairs and sales. “An Amazon art world sounds more like hell than heaven,” he writes. “It is a world with no power to move our souls.” [F
  
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• The Long, Complicated History of ‘Urban’ Music

  15-06-2020 14:54 via nytimes.com
  
  As the music industry reckons with racial inequality, one of the first old structures to fall has been a term that dates back to the 1970s.
  
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• Trump’s Niece to Publish Book With ‘Harrowing’ Revelations, Report Says

  15-06-2020 14:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The Daily Beast reported that Mary Trump will also say that she was a source of The New York Times’s coverage of the president’s tax returns. The Times declined to comment on the claim.
  
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• Roundup: Supreme Court LGBTQ ruling / Daylight saving time / Louisiana Arts Summit - Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

  15-06-2020 12:02
  
  Roundup: Supreme Court LGBTQ ruling / Daylight saving time / Louisiana Arts Summit  Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
  
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• Portraits of Everyday Life in the Indian State of Gujarat

  15-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In India’s westernmost state, philosophies of asceticism live side-by-side with those of raw capitalism.
  
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• Flagstaff Arts Council urges Ducey to reinstate $2 million to statewide arts budget, add $2 million more - Arizona Daily Sun

  15-06-2020 08:35
  
  Flagstaff Arts Council urges Ducey to reinstate $2 million to statewide arts budget, add $2 million more  Arizona Daily Sun
  
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• Fine Arts Logistics Market Trends, Present, History, Future and Forecast 2025 | Agility, Atelier 4, DHL, Iron Mountain (Crozier), Crown, DB Schenker, Aetna - Surfacing Magazine

  15-06-2020 08:05
  Fine Arts Logistics Market Trends, Present, History, Future and Forecast 2025 | Agility, Atelier 4, DHL, Iron Mountain (Crozier), Crown, DB Schenker, Aetna  Surfacing Magazine
  
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• Pikes Pick: New film by Youth Documentary Academy founder - Colorado Springs Gazette

  15-06-2020 08:00
  Pikes Pick: New film by Youth Documentary Academy founder  Colorado Springs Gazette
  
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• Arts And Crafts Tools Market 2020 Business Opportunities – Crayola, FILA Group, Office Depot, Newell Brands - Cole of Duty

  15-06-2020 07:33
  Arts And Crafts Tools Market 2020 Business Opportunities – Crayola, FILA Group, Office Depot, Newell Brands  Cole of Duty
  
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• What’s on TV Monday: ‘Original Cast Album: Company’ and ‘Songland’

  15-06-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A behind-the-scenes documentary by D.A. Pennebaker drops on the Criterion Channel. And Usher closes out the second season of a songwriting competition show.
  
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• Middletown Arts Center & Pasquale's Pizzeria III Dine to Donate Fundraiser - TAPinto.net

  15-06-2020 06:51
  
  Middletown Arts Center & Pasquale's Pizzeria III Dine to Donate Fundraiser  TAPinto.net
  
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• Glynn Visual Arts to host summer camps in July - Brunswick News

  15-06-2020 06:00
  Glynn Visual Arts to host summer camps in July  Brunswick News
  
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• Glynn Visual Arts summer classes resuming | Community Life - Brunswick News

  15-06-2020 06:00
  Glynn Visual Arts summer classes resuming | Community Life  Brunswick News
  
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• Jun 16 | 2020 Arts Awards Virtual Ceremony | Nyack, NY Patch - Patch.com

  15-06-2020 05:58
  
  Jun 16 | 2020 Arts Awards Virtual Ceremony | Nyack, NY Patch  Patch.com
  
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• City Arts Nashua has heART! Expressing life with COVID through creativity and art auction - Manchester Ink Link

  15-06-2020 05:36
  
  City Arts Nashua has heART! Expressing life with COVID through creativity and art auction  Manchester Ink Link
  
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• How the Millikin theater community is adapting amid COVID-19 - Herald & Review

  15-06-2020 04:30
  How the Millikin theater community is adapting amid COVID-19  Herald & Review
  
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• Dogwood Arts unveils new sculptures - WBIR.com

  15-06-2020 04:30
  Dogwood Arts unveils new sculptures  WBIR.com
  
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• ‘Billions’ Season 5, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Inconvenience

  15-06-2020 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the midseason finale, Chuck tests the limits of his own conscience as Bobby tests the same limits of a rival.
  
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• Arts & Cultural Commission Launches Ferndale Art Census 2020 - Oakland County 115 News

  15-06-2020 02:53
  
  Arts & Cultural Commission Launches Ferndale Art Census 2020  Oakland County 115 News
  
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• Musicians, authors and artists unite to help those facing housing insecurity - Madison.com

  15-06-2020 02:31
  
  Musicians, authors and artists unite to help those facing housing insecurity  Madison.com
  
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• Delaware Div. of the Arts hands out COVID-19 relief funding - Delaware First Media

  15-06-2020 02:11
  
  Delaware Div. of the Arts hands out COVID-19 relief funding  Delaware First Media
  
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• Upright Citizens Brigade to Overhaul Its Leadership

  15-06-2020 01:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Amy Poehler other founders of this struggling bicoastal comedy incubator say they want to hand over its theaters to a diverse board that would address issues of systemic racism and inequality.
  
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• UPAF Ride for the Arts goes virtual this year - WISN Milwaukee

  15-06-2020 01:33
  UPAF Ride for the Arts goes virtual this year  WISN Milwaukee
  
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• Anyone can do art – so why fund the Arts? - ArtsHub

  15-06-2020 01:24
  
  Anyone can do art – so why fund the Arts?  ArtsHub
  
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