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• After #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy Meets Goal to Diversify Membership

  30-06-2020 23:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The number of Oscar voters of color has tripled in the last four years, while the number of women has doubled. Still, the group skews heavily white and male.
  
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• ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Review: A Vital Indictment of Mass Persecution

  30-06-2020 23:35 via nytimes.com
  
  David France’s documentary follows a group of courageous Russian activists working to rescue victims of an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. crackdown.
  
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• A Look Back at the Short-Lived Met Breuer: What Worked and What Didn’t

  30-06-2020 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  When the Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annex for modern and contemporary exhibitions, opened in 2016—on sublease from the Whitney Museum—it was inaugurated with “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible,” a show of artworks left in various states of incompletion (for reasons both intentional and not). Now, in a bitter twist of fate, the Met Breuer itself is going out in an unfinished fashion, shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic and, as of an official annou
  
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• Where to Stream Carl Reiner's Best TV Shows and Movies

  30-06-2020 22:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Reiner, the creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and director of acclaimed comedies with Steve Martin and others, excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators.
  
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• Watch TV For Free

  30-06-2020 22:04 via nytimes.com
  
  If you’re willing to sit through a few ads, or sign up for a library card, you can watch “Sharknado” gratis.
  
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• Dread Scott’s Struggle to Reclaim Collective Memory

  30-06-2020 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  One day this past fall, the usual hubbub of the New Orleans French Quarter was interrupted by the cries of hundreds of people of color, dressed in nineteenth-century clothing, who marched through the city streets like a fired -up militia. They banged drums and shouted “Freedom or death!” and “We’re going to end slavery!” It was a potent intervention that asked onlookers to remember the horrors of slavery and to see its contemporary forms in structural racism.
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• Without MASS MoCA, Tanglewood And Other Attractions, Berkshires' Arts Tourism Is Hurting - WBUR

  30-06-2020 21:57 via wbur.org
  
  Without MASS MoCA, Tanglewood And Other Attractions, Berkshires' Arts Tourism Is Hurting  WBUR
  
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• Carl Reiner Knew TV Like the Back of His Head

  30-06-2020 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  With his creation “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” the comedy legend created a self-referential masterpiece and wrote himself a memorable supporting role.
  
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• Comfort Viewing: Three Reasons I Love ‘The Princess Diaries’

  30-06-2020 21:25 via nytimes.com
  
  In a world upended by a pandemic, the antics of a catastrophe-prone teenage princess reassure me.
  
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• We Asked Four Documentarians: How Does Film Shape the Fight for Racial Justice?

  30-06-2020 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis have all made movies that help explain our nation’s current efforts to face hundreds of years of inequity. Here’s what they said.
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution

  30-06-2020 19:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s founding-father Broadway musical arrives just in time — vital and more challenging than ever.
  
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• Carl Reiner: Where to Stream His Best Work

  30-06-2020 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Reiner, the creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and director of acclaimed comedies with Steve Martin and others, excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators.
  
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• Carl Reiner: Where to Stream His Best TV Shows and Movies

  30-06-2020 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Reiner, the creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and director of acclaimed comedies with Steve Martin and others, excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators.
  
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• The Posadism Adventure: A History of the Bizarre Communist Movement that Embraced UFOs and Nuclear War

  30-06-2020 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  In the 1960s, the Argentine Trotskyist known as J. Posadas led an idiosyncratic socialist movement that embraced science-fictional ideas about nuclear war, UFOs, and interspecies communication. After his death in 1981, Posadism was virtually forgotten. But a few years ago, memes devoted to this obscure advocate of catastrophic communism began proliferating in leftist corners of social media. In one, a white-haired Posadas dons a pair of Morpheus sunglasses, inviting us to take the “gently
  
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• Moving the Haim Way: ‘We Love Feeling in Our Bodies’

  30-06-2020 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The Haim sisters are great at walking. Now, get ready to see them run. The band’s new album, “Women in Music Pt. III,” keeps up the dancing beat.
  
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• ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know About the Original

  30-06-2020 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Born in the ’80s, the series blended cold-case investigations with paranormal legend. It was sensationalistic, a little sleazy and often a lot of fun.
  
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• Joel Thompson Talks About His "The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed"

  30-06-2020 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Joel Thompson’s “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” written in 2014, is finding new listeners in a summer of unrest.
  
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• Kelly-Strayhorn Theater partners with East Liberty arts organizations for virtual fundraiser - TribLIVE

  30-06-2020 17:42 via triblive.com
  
  Kelly-Strayhorn Theater partners with East Liberty arts organizations for virtual fundraiser  TribLIVE
  
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• Before the World Shut Down, a ‘Rite of Spring’ on a Senegal Beach

  30-06-2020 17:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Standouts in dance streaming this week: “Dancing at Dusk,” Olivier Tarpaga, Mark Morris and ballet class with the Cindies.
  
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• Johnny Mandel, 94, Writer of Memorable Movie Scores, Is Dead

  30-06-2020 17:21 via nytimes.com
  
  After composing and arranging for big bands, he gave the world melodies like “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “Emily” and “Suicide Is Painless.”
  
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• Marsalis to New York: Don't cut arts - Slipped Disc

  30-06-2020 17:14 via slippedisc.com
  Marsalis to New York: Don't cut arts  Slipped Disc
  
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• Pop Superfans Are Getting Politically Active. What Happens Next?

  30-06-2020 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  A subset of passionate listeners are asking for more of their heroes than simply music.
  
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• With Books and New Focus, Mellon Foundation to Foster Social Equity

  30-06-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The philanthropy’s new focus on programs that promote social justice will include a plan to provide book collections for 1,000 prisons.
  
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• ‘Four Kids and It’ Review: A Family-Friendly Magical Beach Troll

  30-06-2020 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Andy de Emmony directs this by-the-book adaptation of a children’s novel about a magical creature that can grant wishes.
  
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• Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98

  30-06-2020 16:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Reiner was a gifted comic actor, but he spent most of his career slightly out of the spotlight — writing, directing and letting others get the laughs.
  
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• Artist Arthur Jafa Directed Kanye West’s Searing New Music Video

  30-06-2020 16:22 via artnews.com
  
  Just a day after 13 art institutions around the world banded together to host a stream of his acclaimed video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, artist Arthur Jafa has given us a new work. But that new video was premiered not through an art space, but via rapper Kanye West, whose song “Ultralight Beam” acts as the soundtrack for Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death.
  On Tuesday, as part of an initiative called #WESTDAYEVER that involves the unveiling of various projects i
  
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• Art Auction or Game Show? Sotheby’s Tries Something New

  30-06-2020 16:10 via nytimes.com
  
  With a “multicamera global livestream” in place of its usual New York sale, the auction house tried breathing life back into a pandemic-numbed market.
  
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• Don’t Ask Shaggy to Touch the Mic at a Wedding

  30-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The reggae star, whose latest album, “Hot Shot 2020,” is out July 10, puts roasted yam, street dancing and yacht parties in Jamaica on his list of must-haves.
  
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• 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself

  30-06-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this moment of polarization and racial justice, our critic looks back at Michael Moore’s smash documentary about the Iraq war and ‘The Notebook.’
  
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• Ten Signature Images From Milton Glaser’s Eclectic Career

  30-06-2020 15:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In his graphic designs, he mingled Dürer with de Chirico, Breuer with Klimt, Islamic ornament with African textiles.
  
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• Sotheby’s Scores Big Evening Sale, Patience and Fortitude Don Masks, and More: Morning Links from June 30, 2020

  30-06-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  “The art market reopened last night with a resounding bang as Sotheby’s sold $363.2 million in Modern and Contemporary art through an innovative hybrid sale of a live auction conducted on three continents simultaneously with no direct access to bidders.” Highlights included big sales for Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, a
  
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• ‘Skyman’ Review: Ready for an Alien Reunion

  30-06-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniel Myrick’s mock documentary about a man’s belief in extraterrestrial contact is a subdued and touching outsider portrait.
  
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• Groups saying liberal arts legacy at risk at Illinois Wesleyan University to rally Wednesday - The Pantagraph

  30-06-2020 13:28 via pantagraph.com
  Groups saying liberal arts legacy at risk at Illinois Wesleyan University to rally Wednesday  The Pantagraph
  
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• Studio Gang's Arkansas Arts Center Under Construction - ArchDaily

  30-06-2020 11:35 via archdaily.com
  
  Studio Gang's Arkansas Arts Center Under Construction  ArchDaily
  
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• What is the TikTok subculture Dark Academia?

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  School may be out indefinitely, but on social media there’s a thriving subculture devoted to the aesthetic of all things scholarly.
  
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• 'Unsolved Mysteries' Returns Because 2020 Isn't Scary Enough

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new version of the long-running docu-series, which mixes true-crime stories with more paranormal tales, debuts Wednesday on Netflix.
  
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• Pop Smoke Took Brooklyn Drill Global. Fivio Foreign Is Carrying the Torch.

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our latest episode breaks down “Big Drip,” a defining anthem of the local hip-hop subgenre with roots in Chicago and the United Kingdom. The song is now the soundtrack to a summer of unrest.
  
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• How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Shimer’s “Rigged” provides the history and context behind Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.
  
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• ‘Begin Again’ Calls on James Baldwin to Make Sense of Today

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s book, combining elements of biography, criticism and memoir, looks to Baldwin for instruction and guidance.
  
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• A Search for U.F.O.s Leads to Utopian Dreams in This Debut Novel

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Brian Castleberry’s “Nine Shiny Objects,” a broad cast of characters seek a different way of life in 20th-century America.
  
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• A Novel Asks: What if Women Were Forbidden From Doing It All?

  30-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sophie Mackintosh’s “Blue Ticket” imagines a dystopian world in which a girl’s fate is chosen for her.
  
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• Sotheby’s Global Hybrid Online Evening Sale Soars to $363.2 Million

  30-06-2020 07:19 via artnews.com
  
  The art market reopened last night with a resounding bang as Sotheby’s sold $363.2m in Modern and Contemporary art through an innovative hybrid sale of a live auction conducted on three continents simultaneously with no direct access to bidders. Even with those constraints the demand for art was evident throughout several bidding wars between Sotheby’s staffers manning telephones and the occasional online bidder willing to click in eight-figure bids (a record sum) only to lose the ni
  
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• Sotheby’s Global Hybrid Online Evening Sale Soars to $363.2 M.

  30-06-2020 07:19 via artnews.com
  
  The art market reopened last night with a resounding bang as Sotheby’s sold $363.2 million in modern and contemporary art through an innovative hybrid sale of a live auction conducted on three continents simultaneously with no direct access to bidders. Even with those constraints, the demand for art was evident throughout several bidding wars between Sotheby’s staffers manning telephones and the occasional online bidder willing to click in eight-figure bids (a record sum) only to los
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: George Lopez and ‘Welcome to Chechnya’

  30-06-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor and comedian debuts his first Netflix special, and a documentary on the persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. Chechens airs on HBO.
  
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• Former theater director at Anoka Middle School for the Arts under investigation for sexual assault - TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

  30-06-2020 03:26 via twincities.com
  
  Former theater director at Anoka Middle School for the Arts under investigation for sexual assault  TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
  
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• Francis Bacon Triptych Sells for $84.6 Million

  30-06-2020 02:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Sotheby’s tests a new hybrid auction market with a large-format work by the British painter.
  
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