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• Enrico Navarra, Collector and Author of Key Basquiat Book, Has Died at Age 67

  21-07-2020 23:44 via artnews.com
  
  Enrico Navarra, a prominent collector of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, has died at age 67. The news was confirmed by Christophe Van de Weghe, who runs a namesake gallery that has sold work by Basquiat. According to Van de Weghe, Navarra had been suffering from severe lung problems for a number of years.
  In 2000, Navarra and dealer Tony Shafrazi co-authored a three-volume publication focused on Basquiat. The book, which features essays by Navarra, Jean-Louis Prat, Achille Bonito Oliva, Johnny Dep
  
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• Invitation from the Arts Endowment, Forward Into Light - TAPinto.net

  21-07-2020 23:42 via tapinto.net
  
  Invitation from the Arts Endowment, Forward Into Light  TAPinto.net
  
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• Tony Oursler Adapts Magical Thinking Into a New Instagram Filter

  21-07-2020 23:36 via artnews.com
  
  Tony Oursler is interested in magical thinking—a belief in the causality of unrelated phenomena despite the lack of proof. Or, the idea that random occurrences aren’t really random, but connected in some unknowable way. He’s had time to consider this notion while quarantined in New York, andhas adapted this preoccupation into a new body of work that looks at the interplay between viewer and interface.
  The culmination is an online exhibition presented by his New York gallery Leh
  
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• Sundance omitted from Park City arts district materials, but says it remains involved - The Park Record

  21-07-2020 23:30 via parkrecord.com
  
  Sundance omitted from Park City arts district materials, but says it remains involved  The Park Record
  
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• Paul Fusco, Photographer on a Funeral Train, Dies at 89

  21-07-2020 23:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The images he shot after Robert Kennedy’s assassination are among many of his photographs that captured the human side of important events.
  
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• German Arts Advocate Kidnapped in Baghdad - The New York Times

  21-07-2020 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  German Arts Advocate Kidnapped in Baghdad  The New York Times
  
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• Hylton Performing Arts Center raises $200250 with virtual gala - Inside NoVA

  21-07-2020 22:11 via insidenova.com
  Hylton Performing Arts Center raises $200250 with virtual gala  Inside NoVA
  
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• In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question

  21-07-2020 20:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The longtime “Jeopardy!” host writes about his struggle with pancreatic cancer in “The Answer Is...,” but saves most of the room for gratitude and enthusiasms.
  
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• Review: Reliving ‘Private Lives,’ This Time Mostly Women’s

  21-07-2020 20:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Eight short plays take cues from the 1930 Noël Coward comedy — but now the stakes are different.
  
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• Salon series featuring Black artists kicks off new Black Arts Initiative - University of Illinois News

  21-07-2020 20:24 via news.illinois.edu
  Salon series featuring Black artists kicks off new Black Arts Initiative  University of Illinois News
  
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• Cosmas Magaya, Musician and Teacher of African Traditions, Dies at 66

  21-07-2020 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preservewisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19.
  
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• The Kusama Industrial Complex: How Yayoi Kusama Came to Captivate the World, Fueling Museums and the Market

  21-07-2020 19:53 via artnews.com
  
  In mid-April, 91-year-old artist Yayoi Kusama had words for the coronavirus. The pandemic had caused numerous disruptions to her world. The psychiatric hospital where she lives in Tokyo was on lockdown, preventing her from going to work at her nearby studio. Her corporation, KUSAMA YAYOI Co., Ltd., was forced to suspend authentication and registration of artworks. But her statement ignored these inconveniences. Citing her role as “Revolutionist of the world by the Art,” Kusama rallie
  
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• Arts Council awards 103 grants to nonprofit art groups - talkbusiness.net

  21-07-2020 19:01 via talkbusiness.net
  
  Arts Council awards 103 grants to nonprofit art groups  talkbusiness.net
  
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• A Land Art Pioneer’s Adventures in Time and Space

  21-07-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nearly 50 years after Charles Ross began working on “Star Axis,” the artist’s gargantuan work in the New Mexico desert is nearing completion.
  
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• An Oregon Arts Nonprofit Will Transfer Its Land to a Native-Led Cultural Organization - Hyperallergic

  21-07-2020 18:48 via hyperallergic.com
  
  An Oregon Arts Nonprofit Will Transfer Its Land to a Native-Led Cultural Organization  Hyperallergic
  
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• Works by Sir John Richardson’s Many Friends in Sotheby’s Sale

  21-07-2020 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The art historian and Picasso biographer John Richardson collected art by his pals Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol. The works will be sold in New York and London in the fall.
  
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• They’re Used to Tapping. Now They’re Talking.

  21-07-2020 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  In Ayodele Casel’s video series, “Diary of a Tap Dancer, v. 6: Us,” performers talk about what’s on their minds — and dance a little, too.
  
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• Zizi Jeanmaire, French Star of Ballet, Cabaret and Film, Dies at 96

  21-07-2020 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  She was celebrated for her artistic range, androgynous sexiness and husky-voiced charm.
  
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• Opera Foundation Removes Trustee Over Offensive Comments

  21-07-2020 16:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The Richard Tucker Music Foundation, which gives prestigious awards to young singers, removed Richard Tucker’s son from its board.
  
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• Grand Rapids arts center brings people together with drive-ins, boat-ins and 'polka pods' - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  21-07-2020 16:15 via startribune.com
  
  Grand Rapids arts center brings people together with drive-ins, boat-ins and 'polka pods'  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
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• Trump’s Briefings, ‘The Apprentice’ and the Perils of the Second Season

  21-07-2020 15:42 via nytimes.com
  
  President Trump seems to think there’s no such thing as too much of him on TV. He’s been wrong about that before.
  
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• The Rembrandt Self-Portrait That Has Long Captivated Pat Steir

  21-07-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When she lived in Amsterdam, the New York-based artist went to see this painting at least once a week.
  
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• National Gallery Reopens, Gavin Brown Partners with Barbara Gladstone, and More: Morning Links from July 21, 2020

  21-07-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  The National Gallery of Art reopened on Monday in Washington, D.C., greeting visitors for the first time since locking down in the spring. “There’s an old saying, ‘Life without art doesn’t make much sense,’” one attendee said. [The Washington Post]
  Influential gallerist Gavin Brown is shutting down Gavi
  
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• Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance

  21-07-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With supple guitar and a freewheeling voice, the English songwriter delves into matters of the heart on her self-titled third album.
  
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• Arts organization Yale Union transfers its land and building to Native ownership - Seattle Times

  21-07-2020 15:00 via seattletimes.com
  
  Arts organization Yale Union transfers its land and building to Native ownership  Seattle Times
  
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• 12 Artists On: The Financial Crisis

  21-07-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As the pandemic continues to derail the global economy, artists share works that reflect on uncertainty, capitalism and racial injustice.
  
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• A More Inclusive View of MoMA’s Sculpture Garden

  21-07-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Carrie Mae Weems, known for her powerful images of African-American identity, shares a piece from her new project.
  
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• ‘The Grand Unified Theory of Howard Bloom’ Review: A Career Rewritten

  21-07-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary looks inside the life of a high-powered music publicist who became a techno-age philosopher.
  
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• Why Is Women’s Work Still Undervalued and Unacknowledged?

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Double X Economy,” Linda Scott sums up years of research on the vast shadow economy of female workers and ways to change it.
  
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• Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Waiting for an Echo,” Christine Montross, a psychiatrist who works in prisons, catalogs the devastating effects of incarceration on the mentally ill.
  
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• Two Syrian Brothers, One Longing to Stay, the Other Determined to Leave

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Road From Raqqa,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, retraces the divergent paths of two siblings through Syria’s civil war.
  
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• The Consolations of Jane Austen

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Through the trials of new motherhood and the loss of a parent, Rachel Cohen read the English novelist exclusively. “Austen Years” is her memoir of the experience.
  
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• Remembering the Time Meat Fell From the Sky

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Unidentified,” Colin Dickey looks at phenomena that science seems unable to explain, and at the cults that have developed around them.
  
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• Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s lost when audiences can’t be close to musicians, applause is virtual and over-the-top artists are crammed into screens? So much.
  
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• Erykah Badu Is Blazing a New Trail (From Badubotron)

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When the Covid-19 shutdown hit the music industry, an artist who has never taken the conventional route started rethinking how she’d produce, play and interact with fans at concerts.
  
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• Don’t Believe History Repeats Itself? Read This Book

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Emma Donoghue’s “The Pull of the Stars” takes readers inside an ill-equipped Dublin hospital during a viral pandemic — in 1918.
  
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• Did America Use Bioweapons in Korea? Nicholson Baker Tried to Find Out

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Baseless,” the novelist’s new work of nonfiction, is the record of a frustrated investigation and an indictment of government secrecy.
  
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• Concerts Aren’t Back. Livestreams Are Ubiquitous. Can They Do the Job?

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With no return date for shows in sight, fans and artists are adapting to a new way of experiencing music together. Whether it’ll keep everyone satisfied — and paid — is still unclear.
  
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• An Unidentifiable Stranger Plunges a Community Into Crisis in ‘Pew’

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new novel by Catherine Lacey features a narrator of no discernible gender, race or past and a Christian town whose tolerant posture is sorely tested.
  
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• An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Beauty of Living,” the scholar J. Alison Rosenblitt delves into E.E. Cummings’s formative experiences as an ambulance driver and prisoner during World War I.
  
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• 10 Best Quarantine Concerts Online

  21-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With in-person shows still mostly on hold, musicians are finding new ways to insert life into livestreams.
  
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• Trevor Noah Praises Fox News Host for Actually Questioning Trump

  21-07-2020 09:12 via nytimes.com
  
  “Chris Wallace did two things right there that Trump absolutely hates: He proved him wrong, and he made him do homework,” Noah said of the president’s “Fox News Sunday” interview.
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Landless’ and ‘Frontline’

  21-07-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Camila Freitas’s documentary embeds with Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement. And the latest “Frontline” installment examines a lack of coronavirus protections of agricultural workers.
  
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• Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone

  21-07-2020 04:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The British art dealer will become a partner in Gladstone Gallery, which will now represent 10 of his artists.
  
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• How Michaela Coel Shaped ‘I May Destroy You’

  21-07-2020 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Drawing on her own experiences, Coel also took cues from Russian movies, a book about the prison system and perfume ads to create her HBO show.
  
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• 'It's crippling us': Arts left out of Ohio's coronavirus reopening plan - Cincinnati.com

  21-07-2020 03:34 via cincinnati.com
  'It's crippling us': Arts left out of Ohio's coronavirus reopening plan  Cincinnati.com
  
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• SF's vacant storefronts could become temporary homes for arts, nonprofits or COVID-19 services - San Francisco Examiner

  21-07-2020 02:40 via sfexaminer.com
  
  SF's vacant storefronts could become temporary homes for arts, nonprofits or COVID-19 services  San Francisco Examiner
  
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• What Ecofeminist Artists Learned from Indigenous Cultures

  21-07-2020 01:31 via artnews.com
  
  Tellingly titled “ecofeminism(s),” the group show now accessible online and in person at Thomas Erben Gallery stresses the ongoing diversity of ecologically centered art by women. Organized by independent curator Monika Fabijanska, the exhibition has some clear similarities to Eleanor Heartney’s recent six-artist roundup for this magazine. The period covered is roughly the same, from the 1970s to the present, and three of the artists overlap: Agnes Denes, Aviva Rahmani, and Bet
  
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• Emitt Rhodes, 70, Dies; Singer-Songwriter Vanished After a Splash

  21-07-2020 01:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He resurfaced a decade ago, after having built a fan base that compared him to Paul McCartney.
  
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• Ailey II Drops Director, Citing ‘Inappropriate’ Communications

  21-07-2020 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Troy Powell, who has led the dance company as artistic director since 2012, was let go after an inquiry by an outside investigator hired by the organization.
  
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