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• A Black Nurse Saved Lives. Today She May Save Art.

  11-08-2020 23:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Once a slave, Biddy Mason went on to a life of extraordinary accomplishments. The fact that she figures in W.P.A. murals in San Francisco may save them from destruction.
  
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• Classical Music Livestreams Worth Paying For

  11-08-2020 22:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Performances by Renée Fleming, Daniil Trifonov and Sandbox Percussion are among those that have asked viewers to purchase tickets.
  
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• Study Finds That Abstractions Don’t Elicit Universal Emotional Responses Among Viewers

  11-08-2020 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  In Goethe’s 1810 treatise on color he wrote, “red-yellow gives an impression of warmth and gladness.” He added that “the feelings they excite are quick, lively, aspiring.” His idea that visual attributes, like color and form, cause universal responses in viewers has influenced art theory ever since.
  But a study published earlier this year in the PLOS ONE journal contested the idea that everyone experiences the same emotions when viewing abstractions. To test that th
  
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• From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition

  11-08-2020 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  A combination of biography, cultural commentary and personal reflection, Annik LaFarge’s “Chasing Chopin” radiates out from the “Funeral March.”
  
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• In Two Renditions, ‘Dutchman’ Speaks to the Moment

  11-08-2020 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  A Seeing Place Theater production and a Play-PerView reunion reading by the 2007 Cherry Lane Theater cast bring out different aspects of Amiri Baraka’s famous play.
  
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• Leading Artists, Art Organizations Aid Beirut Relief Efforts Following Two Deadly Explosions

  11-08-2020 20:31 via artnews.com
  
  Two explosions in Beirut on August 4 left parts of the city severely damaged and killed over 200 people, according to a report by the BBC on August 10. The event’s impact on the Beirut’s art community has also been widely felt, with artists displaced from their homes or studios and institutions, and with key galleries and museums, including the Sursock Museum and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, having weathered serious structural harm. In response, a number of artists and institutions have est
  
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• Happily Ever After? Harry and Meghan Will Settle for Normal

  11-08-2020 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Finding Freedom,” the veteran reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand show how the British royal family’s fairy tale turned into a cautionary one.
  
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• Kurt Andersen Asks: What Is the Future of America?

  11-08-2020 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  “Evil Geniuses” diagnoses the troubling changes that have taken place in America over the last several decades, and how to fix them.
  
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• In ‘Zo,’ Love Must Overcome Class Difference and Disaster

  11-08-2020 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Xander Miller’s debut novel asks how we can stay together when the world is coming apart.
  
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• How I Got My Kids Into Theater: Online Shows That Put Them to Work (and Play)

  11-08-2020 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Immersive productions — from a wizardly treasure hunt to tall tales by phone or email — keep a young audience both entertained and active.
  
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• Hugh Hayden Crafts the Legacy of the African Diaspora

  11-08-2020 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Hugh Hayden: America, 2018, sculpted mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) on plywood, 42 by 81 by 81 inches.
  You could be forgiven for mistaking Hugh Hayden’s exhibition “American Food,” recently on view at Lisson Gallery in London, as a response to the tumult of 2020. The largest works, three full-size picnic tables, bristle with surrealistic outgrowths: branches left in their natural state or trimmed and smoothed off, or tapered. In the most striking example, titled Honorary Native
  
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• With Art Basel Canceled, Liste Art Fair Calls Off 2020 Edition, Too

  11-08-2020 19:36 via artnews.com
  
  As the art world’s fall calendar continues to shift amid restrictions put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic, yet another major fair’s 2020 edition has been called off. Liste, an art fair in Switzerland that focuses on younger galleries and typically coincides with the city’s Art Basel in June, has canceled its 2020 edition, which had been re-dated for September.
  Liste’s cancelation comes after Art Basel nixed its 2020 fair, which had also been moved to Septembe
  
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• Hard Truths: Fight at the Museum

  11-08-2020 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  I am social media director at an art museum with well over one million Instagram and Facebook followers. Our account went awkwardly silent for a full week in June when the BLM protests erupted because the museum administration was undecided about their response. I convinced the director that we should participate in national Black Out Tuesday by posting a simple black square with #BLM. What a mistake. The post unleashed armies of trolls who immediately began bombing every post with harsh comment
  
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• New York Comic Con Is Going Online

  11-08-2020 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The show is partnering with YouTube for the con, which is usually at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
  
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• Harrisonburg's Larkin Arts set to close - WHSV

  11-08-2020 19:11 via whsv.com
  
  Harrisonburg's Larkin Arts set to close  WHSV
  
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• When Railroads Controlled the Country

  11-08-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Hiltzik’s “Iron Empires” describes how 19th-century robber barons created and destroyed wealth on an unprecedented scale.
  
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• Why Kathleen Edwards Had to Quit Music (and Open a Coffee Shop)

  11-08-2020 18:33 via nytimes.com
  
  When the Canadian musician was in a dark spot, a friend jokingly suggested she change paths. It ended up being the detour she needed to find her way back to songwriting.
  
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• ‘The Erratics’ Remembers a Mother With a Monstrous Talent for Twisting Reality

  11-08-2020 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  In her memoir, Vicki Laveau-Harvie writes about returning home to take care of her aging parents, one of whom manipulated people and facts with ease and pleasure.
  
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• Cue Up the Shirelles: Cousin Brucie Is Back at WABC-AM Radio

  11-08-2020 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Bruce Morrow, who some fans thought would retire after leaving SiriusXM this month, is returning, at age 84, to the station where he worked in the 1960s.
  
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• See Six Actors Who’ve Played Andy Warhol, From David Bowie to Bill Hader

  11-08-2020 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  On Friday, a day after Andy Warhol’s birthday, actor Jared Leto confirmed that he was cast as the iconic artist in an upcoming biopic. In an Instagram post he wrote, “Yes it’s true I will be playing Andy Warhol in an upcoming film,” adding that he was “so grateful and excited about the opportunity.” The script will be penned by Wolf of Wall Street writer Terence Winter, but further details have yet to be revealed. For now, it’s a mystery what approach L
  
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• Making a Connection Between Movement and Social Movements

  11-08-2020 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  “People protest in many different ways,” a young activist in the Bay Area says. For her and others in her performance group, one way is dance.
  
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• Gloria Estefan Wants to Get Inside Your Head

  11-08-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Latin-pop innovator studied psychology and never gave up her fascination with the mind. She shared her list of cultural must-haves while preparing to release her 14th solo album.
  
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• Deep Read of Toyin Ojih Odutola, National Museum of China Stages Covid-19 Show, and More: Morning Links from August 11, 2020

  11-08-2020 15:09 via artnews.com
  
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  Zadie Smith went long and deep on artist Toyin Ojih Odutola in a current “cultural moment of radical countervailing, perhaps as potent as that experienced in the sixties.” [The New Yorker]
  Sonya Clark, Ja’Tovia Gary, Aiko Hachisuka, and Juliana Huxtable are among the artists who join others from the worlds of design, fashion,
  
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• Re:Create Arts to close end of August, entirety of prices marked down - LebTown

  11-08-2020 13:36 via lebtown.com
  
  Re:Create Arts to close end of August, entirety of prices marked down  LebTown
  
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• Museum’s Future Clouded by Chance Discovery: Swastika Hiding in Plain Sight

  11-08-2020 12:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The discovery of a Nazi symbol in the mosaic floor of a German museum has prompted bitter debate about its creator’s past and the institution’s role.
  
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• Tear Down That Will: An East German Guide to Breaking the Spirit

  11-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Jennifer Hofmann’s debut novel, “The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures,” an aging Berliner loses his sense of self.
  
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• In This Novel, a Grisly Discovery Leads to Self-Discovery

  11-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The three siblings at the center of “The Boy in the Field,” by Margot Livesey, find an unconscious child. Their lives are never the same.
  
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• Disaster May Upend Reality, but What Is ‘Real’ Anyway?

  11-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Unreality of Memory,” the poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert considers our psychological relationship to calamity.
  
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• Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments

  11-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Natural History,” “Avoid the Day,” “Crossings” and “Little Scratch” offer literary puzzle boxes and formal feats.
  
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• Indiana to give $10 million to arts, culture and tourism groups reeling from coronavirus - IndyStar

  11-08-2020 09:00 via indystar.com
  Indiana to give $10 million to arts, culture and tourism groups reeling from coronavirus  IndyStar
  
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• Trevor Noah Agrees With Putting Trump on Mount Rushmore

  11-08-2020 08:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Noah said he’d be happy to see the president not just carved on Mount Rushmore, but also sent there himself. “No phone, no internet, problem solved,” he joked on Monday night’s “Daily Show.”
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: Will Smith and ‘She Dies Tomorrow’

  11-08-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor swims with sharks in a new special, “Off the Deep End.” And a woman spreads an unsettling, seemingly contagious thought in “She Dies Tomorrow.”
  
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• Camino takes helm at Center for the Arts - Jackson Hole News&Guide

  11-08-2020 01:03 via jhnewsandguide.com
  Camino takes helm at Center for the Arts  Jackson Hole News&Guide
  
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• Beckley Art Center to introduce "Journeys," a fiber arts exhibition that portrays one West Virginia artist's voyage through life and art and the lessons learned along the way - Beckley Register-Herald

  11-08-2020 00:51 via register-herald.com
  Beckley Art Center to introduce "Journeys," a fiber arts exhibition that portrays one West Virginia artist's voyage through life and art and the lessons learned along the way  Beckley Register-Herald
  
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• Wayne Fontana, Hitmaker With ‘The Game of Love,’ Dies at 74

  11-08-2020 00:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The song brought him and his British invasion band, The Mindbenders, a bit of success in the mid-1960s. Then he went solo, and the hits did not keep coming.
  
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• Spectra Names Jeffrey Goldenberg As General Manager Of The Carteret Performing Arts Center - CelebrityAccess ENCORE

  11-08-2020 00:48 via celebrityaccess.com
  
  Spectra Names Jeffrey Goldenberg As General Manager Of The Carteret Performing Arts Center  CelebrityAccess ENCORE
  
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• Winners of Rowayton Arts Center's 'PHotography and Sculpture' Exhibit Announced - darienite.com

  11-08-2020 00:44 via darienite.com
  
  Winners of Rowayton Arts Center's 'PHotography and Sculpture' Exhibit Announced  darienite.com
  
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• Hometown Hero: Members of the “Inclusive Arts Movement” in York - ABC27

  11-08-2020 00:40 via abc27.com
  Hometown Hero: Members of the “Inclusive Arts Movement” in York  ABC27
  
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• SF School District to have tiered system for athletics, fine arts - KELOLAND.com

  11-08-2020 00:06 via keloland.com
  SF School District to have tiered system for athletics, fine arts  KELOLAND.com
  
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