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• How Do We See Each Other in a ‘Market Society’?

  02-07-2020 23:24 via nytimes.com
  
  A graphic review of Karl Polanyi’s seminal work “The Great Transformation,” which charted the social effects of capitalism.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘The Yellow House’ and ‘Night Boat to Tangier’

  02-07-2020 23:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• What Keeps America Divided?

  02-07-2020 23:13 via nytimes.com
  
  “Let Them Eat Tweets,” by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, examines the ways in which the wealthy control the Republican Party.
  
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• Freddy Cole, Performer Who Emerged From Nat’s Shadow, Dies at 88

  02-07-2020 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Like his famous older sibling, he played the piano and sang. But he used his music to insist, “I’m Not My Brother, I’m Me.”
  
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• Arts group bringing color, patriotism to Shelley Main Street this holiday weekend - East Idaho News

  02-07-2020 21:34
  
  Arts group bringing color, patriotism to Shelley Main Street this holiday weekend  East Idaho News
  
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• How ‘365 Days’ Became One of Netflix’s Worst-Reviewed Big Hits

  02-07-2020 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Critically panned, the steamy Polish flick is a streaming success thanks to TikTok teenagers and curious fans. But there’s also a growing backlash from those who say it glorifies rape culture.
  
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• Hugh Downs, Perennial Small-Screen Fixture, Is Dead at 99

  02-07-2020 20:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A longtime host of both “Today” and “20/20," he held the Guinness-certified record for most total hours on commercial network television for many years.
  
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• Adding to Action in the Hamptons, Michael Werner Gallery Opens Pop-Up Exhibition Space

  02-07-2020 20:49 via artnews.com
  
  Riding a wave of action that has swelled as New York art dealers and the collectors they court situate themselves for the summer in the Hamptons, Michael Werner Gallery has signed a lease for a new space in Long Island with plans to open next week. What used to be a Warby Parker glasses store in downtown East Hampton will instead play home to artworks in an opening exhibition titled “Polke, Picabia and Friends”—with work by German painter Sigmar Polke, French Dadaist Francis Pi
  
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• From Keith Haring to Dread Scott, a Brief History of Public Art in New York City

  02-07-2020 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  New York City may be home to the world’s premier museums and galleries, but many of the most celebrated and experimental artworks memorably shown in the city debuted outside the walls of those spaces. From the 1960s to the present, public art in New York has undergone huge changes and reinventions by artists, with pieces evolving from interventions in abandoned warehouses to multi-location installations. To trace the history of some of the most important public artworks in the city’s
  
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• TikTok Stars Tati and Devin Will Meet

  02-07-2020 20:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Two rising stars on the app have amassed a huge audience by playing along with their followers’ fantasy of romance.
  
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• Berkshires Museums Announce Reopening Plans Under Phase 3

  02-07-2020 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Mass MoCA, the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Clark Art Institute will reopen this month, with programming changes and social-distancing measures.
  
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• Coldcut + Tony Allen and African Artists = Studio Electricity

  02-07-2020 20:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Keleketla! is a studio assemblage of musicians from four continents, creating thoroughly hybridized music with African voices up front.
  
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• Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’

  02-07-2020 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Richard Nelson’s fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
  
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• What Disabled Artists Can Teach Us About Remote Access, Now and Post-Pandemic

  02-07-2020 19:51 via artnews.com
  
  During the first few weeks of the COVID-19 lockdowns, many people found themselves scrambling to make the everyday things they do—jobs, classes, family gatherings—accessible from remote locations. Disabled people have been practicing, advocating, and innovating alternative ways of showing up and getting together since long before the pandemic—out of necessity, and to accommodate one another. On May 8, I moderated a Zoom panel on remote access with disabled artists and writers K
  
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• Carson City's Brewery Arts Center announces drive-in movie lineup, show dates - Carson Now

  02-07-2020 19:27
  
  Carson City's Brewery Arts Center announces drive-in movie lineup, show dates  Carson Now
  
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• ‘The Truth’ Review: Being Catherine Deneuve

  02-07-2020 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Following his Palme d’Or-winning “Shoplifters,” the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda visits some of the glories of France.
  
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• 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend

  02-07-2020 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Our culture writers offer suggestions for celebrating Independence Day, and what to watch or listen to without leaving your home.
  
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• Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology striving to raise $5 million to benefit Black-owned New Haven businesses - New Haven Register

  02-07-2020 18:47
  
  Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology striving to raise $5 million to benefit Black-owned New Haven businesses  New Haven Register
  
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• Arts Center to exhibit works by clay, photography students in Summer Camps classes - Times Union

  02-07-2020 18:45
  
  Arts Center to exhibit works by clay, photography students in Summer Camps classes  Times Union
  
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• The Gallery Where Stevie Wonder Was a Regular

  02-07-2020 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Linda Goode Bryant discusses her career — from art dealer to urban farmer — with the artist Senga Nengudi.
  
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• After 15 years, public radio program devoted to Cincinnati arts scene going off the air - Cincinnati Business Courier

  02-07-2020 18:39
  After 15 years, public radio program devoted to Cincinnati arts scene going off the air  Cincinnati Business Courier
  
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• Lévy Gorvy Expands to Paris as Blue-Chip Galleries Flock to French Capital

  02-07-2020 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  As some of the world’s top art galleries take up new homes in Paris, another blue-chip enterprise has revealed plans to expand its reach to the French capital. Lévy Gorvy, which currently has locations in New York, London, Zurich, and Hong Kong, will add a Paris gallery to its empire. The new gallery is due to open in the fall, and will be situated in the Marais, one of the prime art districts in the city.
  Dominique Lévy, a cofounder of the gallery, said in a statement, &ldqu
  
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• ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking

  02-07-2020 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Nancy Baker Cahill uses augmented reality to explore the meaning of historical sites from the Rockaways in New York to Selma, Ala. Is public art embellishing our heritage, or defacing it?
  
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• Arts This Week: 'The Age of Innocence' and 'Across Windows' - wgbh.org

  02-07-2020 18:29
  
  Arts This Week: 'The Age of Innocence' and 'Across Windows'  wgbh.org
  
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• Nuffield Southampton Theatres to permanently close as UK arts crisis deepens - The Guardian

  02-07-2020 18:27
  
  Nuffield Southampton Theatres to permanently close as UK arts crisis deepens  The Guardian
  
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• Dallas Arts Industry Loses Nearly $34 Million Due to Coronavirus Pandemic - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

  02-07-2020 18:25
  
  Dallas Arts Industry Loses Nearly $34 Million Due to Coronavirus Pandemic  NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
  
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• Tate Names Winners of $12,500 Awards After Amending Prestigious Turner Prize

  02-07-2020 18:12 via artnews.com
  
  This year’s awarding of the Turner Prize, one of Europe’s premier art awards, became one of the many art events that were altered drastically when Tate, the British museum network that facilitates it, reconstituted the prize in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In lieu of the main £25,000 ($32,200) award, 10 artists and collectives are taking home what are being called Turner Bursaries awards of £10,000 ($12,500).
  Each winner is based in the United Kingdom, and each was
  
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• A Nostalgic Look at Independence Days of Yesteryear

  02-07-2020 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Viewed now in the midst of a pandemic, these archival Independence Day photographs — showing large crowds, close contact and communal celebrations — elicit an added measure of nostalgia.
  
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• Online visual arts competition celebrates the bike - The Augusta Chronicle

  02-07-2020 16:59
  Online visual arts competition celebrates the bike  The Augusta Chronicle
  
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• New York City Budget Cuts Arts Spending By Nearly 11% - Broadway World

  02-07-2020 16:49
  
  New York City Budget Cuts Arts Spending By Nearly 11%  Broadway World
  
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• Arts to the rescue - The Tomahawk

  02-07-2020 16:45
  
  Arts to the rescue  The Tomahawk
  
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• COVID Grants Given to Local Arts Organizations - Memphis Flyer

  02-07-2020 16:38
  
  COVID Grants Given to Local Arts Organizations  Memphis Flyer
  
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• ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Defies and Exceeds Expectations

  02-07-2020 16:27 via nytimes.com
  
  With a fresh voice and a winning cast, this Netflix update of the popular book series is the throwback that 2020 needs.
  
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• Catch The Wayouts concert from Batavia Fine Arts Centre - Kane County Chronicle

  02-07-2020 16:19
  
  Catch The Wayouts concert from Batavia Fine Arts Centre  Kane County Chronicle
  
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• Arts and A/C: New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden free on Sundays in July - WWLTV.com

  02-07-2020 16:17
  Arts and A/C: New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden free on Sundays in July  WWLTV.com
  
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• New Group Strives to Keep Arts Thriving - Geauga Maple Leaf

  02-07-2020 16:09
  
  New Group Strives to Keep Arts Thriving  Geauga Maple Leaf
  
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• Indoor arts and entertainment businesses in Phase 4 - NEWS10 ABC

  02-07-2020 16:08
  Indoor arts and entertainment businesses in Phase 4  NEWS10 ABC
  
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• Queer Kids, Nerds and Sword Fights: It’s the Hot School Play

  02-07-2020 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  “She Kills Monsters” is hugely popular in high schools and colleges. Even in lockdown, performers have found novel ways to make the battles come alive.
  
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• Williams Chosen as Indy Arts Center Executive - Inside INdiana Business

  02-07-2020 16:01
  
  Williams Chosen as Indy Arts Center Executive  Inside INdiana Business
  
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• West Windsor Arts Council names Jyotika Bahree as President of its Board of Trustees - New Jersey Stage

  02-07-2020 16:01
  
  West Windsor Arts Council names Jyotika Bahree as President of its Board of Trustees  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’

  02-07-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Lonnie Bunch, who oversees a host of museums and libraries, says the role of cultural institutions is to make people “feel comfortable with nuance and complexity.”
  
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• Hylton Performing Arts Center plans virtual anniversary celebration - Inside NoVA

  02-07-2020 16:00
  Hylton Performing Arts Center plans virtual anniversary celebration  Inside NoVA
  
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• Carl Kostyál Gallery Launches Sponsorship to Fund Black Students in the Arts | StreetArtNews - StreetArtNews

  02-07-2020 16:00
  
  Carl Kostyál Gallery Launches Sponsorship to Fund Black Students in the Arts | StreetArtNews  StreetArtNews
  
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• State Theatre Center for the Arts holding virtual summer camp - Uniontown Herald Standard

  02-07-2020 15:49
  State Theatre Center for the Arts holding virtual summer camp  Uniontown Herald Standard
  
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• Learn to dance, get crafty: 3 Arizona arts groups have a summer's worth of family fun online - AZCentral

  02-07-2020 15:48
  Learn to dance, get crafty: 3 Arizona arts groups have a summer's worth of family fun online  AZCentral
  
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• 2020 Kresge Arts in Detroit winners announced | The Scene - Detroit Metro Times

  02-07-2020 15:21
  
  2020 Kresge Arts in Detroit winners announced | The Scene  Detroit Metro Times
  
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• New York City Slashes Art Budget, Matthew Wong’s Market Ascends, and More: Morning Links from July 2, 2020

  02-07-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  In an attempt to help close a budget gap, New York City arts spending has been slashed by 11 percent. [The New York Times]
  Could Matthew Wong be a new market sensation? A painting by the artist, who died last year at 35, sold for at auction earlier this week for $1.5 million, over 15 times its pre-sale estimate. [Bloomberg]
  A $1.7 million Camille Pissarro paintin
  
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• Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Thursday, July 2, 2020 - Helena Independent Record

  02-07-2020 15:00
  Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Thursday, July 2, 2020  Helena Independent Record
  
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• The arts communicate - The Daily Advocate

  02-07-2020 14:55
  
  The arts communicate  The Daily Advocate
  
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• Nacogdoches ISD suspends summer workouts, all fine arts activities until July 13 - CBS19.tv KYTX

  02-07-2020 14:47
  Nacogdoches ISD suspends summer workouts, all fine arts activities until July 13  CBS19.tv KYTX
  
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