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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus Will Cap a Week of Starring Roles for 4 Actresses at DNC

  20-08-2020 23:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Louis-Dreyfus is set to be the final television star to guide viewers through the Democratic National Convention, after Kerry Washington, Tracee Ellis Ross and Eva Longoria.
  
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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus Will Cap a Week of Starring Roles for 4 Actresses

  20-08-2020 23:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Louis-Dreyfus is set to be the final television star to guide viewers through the Democratic National Convention, after Kerry Washington, Tracee Ellis Ross and Eva Longoria.
  
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• Gagosian Makes Big Sales in Online ‘Artist Spotlight’ Series as Market Goes Digital

  20-08-2020 23:25 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian has wrapped the inaugural season of its online “Artist Spotlight” series, a weekly showcase of artists from the gallery’s stable with works priced as high as $5 million. That the gallery has seen success on the platform, which features editorial commentary alongside its artworks for sale, is yet another sign that business is booming in the virtual realm. The series ended with the sale of Jenny Saville’s aptly titled new self-portrait Virtual (2020). Gagosian has
  
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• Arts This Week: 'After Spiritualism' And 'How To Move A Landscape' - wgbh.org

  20-08-2020 23:03 via wgbh.org
  
  Arts This Week: 'After Spiritualism' And 'How To Move A Landscape'  wgbh.org
  
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• Philadelphia will let indoor dining, movie theaters, and performing arts venues restart; La Salle moves to vir - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  20-08-2020 22:49 via inquirer.com
  
  Philadelphia will let indoor dining, movie theaters, and performing arts venues restart; La Salle moves to vir  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Developers working on old Legal Arts Building hope to make it into a restaurant - WKBN.com

  20-08-2020 22:48 via wkbn.com
  Developers working on old Legal Arts Building hope to make it into a restaurant  WKBN.com
  
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• At D.N.C., Billie Eilish’s ‘Future’ Meets Jennifer Hudson’s ‘Classic’

  20-08-2020 22:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Hudson is the institution-approved star, Eilish the stylist with the heart of a classicist. Both brought something worth savoring to a different kind of arena.
  
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• Monet’s Famed ‘Impression, Sunrise’ Painting to Travel to Shanghai as Major Loans Resume

  20-08-2020 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  Claude Monet’s 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise, which is held in the collection of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, will head to Shanghai this fall for exhibition at the One Art Museum. According to a report by the French newspaper Le Figaro, the work, along with eight other pieces by the Impressionist artist, will remain on view in Shanghai from September 17 to January 3, 2021.
  Impression, Sunrise depicts grand, spectral ships, small boats, and billowing clouds of sm
  
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• Prominent Singapore Art Space’s Future Cast in Doubt Amid Financial Turmoil

  20-08-2020 21:28 via artnews.com
  
  The future of the NTU Centre Contemporary Art, a Singapore art space with an international following, is uncertain as it reckons with the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The NTU CAA, an exhibition center that also facilitates a closely watched artist residency program, will depart its current building in March of next year. According to ArtAsiaPacific, which first reported the news on Tuesday, the NTU CCA is facing a shortfall amid a financial restructuring.
  A spokesperson for t
  
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• 'Unhinged' Producer Bets on Turnout Despite Pandemic

  20-08-2020 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer Mark Gill was already following a contrarian’s path before he decided to put “Unhinged” in nearly 2,000 theaters during a pandemic.
  
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• MGM Remakes Orion Pictures to Tell More Inclusive Stories

  20-08-2020 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The 36-year-old producer Alana Mayo will lead the division, which will release two or three films a year and focus exclusively on underrepresented filmmakers.
  
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• New Fund launched to Help New Jersey's Arts and Culture Industry Survive COVID-19 - TAPinto.net

  20-08-2020 20:26 via tapinto.net
  
  New Fund launched to Help New Jersey's Arts and Culture Industry Survive COVID-19  TAPinto.net
  
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• Bright Eyes’ Summertime Sadness

  20-08-2020 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Conor Oberst’s band returns with its first new album in nine years, “Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was,” an LP that tempers despair with battered optimism.
  
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• Scary Movies for When the World Is a Fright

  20-08-2020 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  This summer, horror movies are booming. Here’s a guide to the top new scares of the season.
  
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• Does It Matter if a Documentary Is Staged? These Two Films Hold Answers

  20-08-2020 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Nonfiction doesn’t mean completely real. But that’s a debate as old as cinema. “Man of Aran” and “F for Fake” explore the issues in their own ways.
  
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• Action! Despite pandemic, inaugural Loudoun Arts Film Festival is ready to roll - Loudoun Times-Mirror

  20-08-2020 20:04 via loudountimes.com
  
  Action! Despite pandemic, inaugural Loudoun Arts Film Festival is ready to roll  Loudoun Times-Mirror
  
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• The Best Places to Stream for the Best Screams

  20-08-2020 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A survey of the horror offerings on the top streaming platforms.
  
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• ‘The 24th’ Review: The Story Behind a Mutiny

  20-08-2020 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  An African-American regiment revolts against a racist police force in Kevin Willmott’s World War I drama.
  
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• NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL'S ARTS ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR IS BRUCE PIERSOL OF RED LAKE FALLS - kroxam.com

  20-08-2020 19:03 via kroxam.com
  
  NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL'S ARTS ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR IS BRUCE PIERSOL OF RED LAKE FALLS  kroxam.com
  
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• Kenneth Bernard, Convention-Shattering Playwright, Dies at 90

  20-08-2020 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  His experimental works, staged by the Playhouse of the Ridiculous and other groups, challenged audiences and sometimes baffled them.
  
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• From the Archives: Ron Gorchov at Vito Schnabel

  20-08-2020 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  The painter Ron Gorchov died on August 18, at age ninety. In celebration of his work, we are sharing this review of Gorchov’s 2005 solo show at Vito Schnabel, published in our November 2005 issue. —Eds.
  Ron Gorchov, Machpelah, 2005, oil on linen, 78 by 70 inches.
  This exhibition, Ron Gorchov’s first in over a decade, offered an overview of the painter’s work since the 1970s. The 75-year-old Gorchov started his career in New York in the late 1950s, making Abstract Expressi
  
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• Artists selected for MARTA Artbound, Decatur Arts Alliance collaboration - Decaturish.com

  20-08-2020 18:10 via decaturish.com
  
  Artists selected for MARTA Artbound, Decatur Arts Alliance collaboration  Decaturish.com
  
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• Digital arts school looks to sublease Loop home - Crain's Chicago Business

  20-08-2020 18:01 via chicagobusiness.com
  
  Digital arts school looks to sublease Loop home  Crain's Chicago Business
  
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• MoCo Arts stepping carefully back into live classes - The Keene Sentinel

  20-08-2020 18:00 via sentinelsource.com
  MoCo Arts stepping carefully back into live classes  The Keene Sentinel
  
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• Grand Rapids plans a month of arts and culture events - WOODTV.com

  20-08-2020 17:26 via woodtv.com
  Grand Rapids plans a month of arts and culture events  WOODTV.com
  
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• Black Artists Look Beyond ‘Protest Art’ at British Shows

  20-08-2020 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The Turner Contemporary Gallery hosts an exhibit exploring the U.S. civil rights movement, as well as two installations from contemporary Black British artists who find inspiration in the local community.
  
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• Idyllwild Arts Academy introduces virtual gap year program amid pandemic - Desert Sun

  20-08-2020 17:21 via desertsun.com
  Idyllwild Arts Academy introduces virtual gap year program amid pandemic  Desert Sun
  
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• Faculty of Arts and Sciences unveils its anti-racism agenda - Harvard Gazette

  20-08-2020 17:00 via news.harvard.edu
  
  Faculty of Arts and Sciences unveils its anti-racism agenda  Harvard Gazette
  
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• For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape

  20-08-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As the artist shot his cinematically constructed images in the Berkshires, he was afflicted by mysterious maladies. “I felt my body betrayed me,” he said.
  
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• A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood

  20-08-2020 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Our critic chats with the architect David Adjaye about Hotel Theresa, Marcus Garvey Park, the home of Langston Hughes, the Y.M.C.A. and other landmarks.
  
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• Barack Obama Dials the Volume Down and the Urgency Up

  20-08-2020 15:29 via nytimes.com
  
  D.N.C. speeches by the former president and the would-be vice president face the pandemic challenge: How do you bring down an empty house?
  
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• Turner Prize Winners Stand in Solidarity with Tate Workers and More: Morning Links from August 20, 2020

  20-08-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  News
  The Los Angeles Times has been diligently tracking the demolition of four buildings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that are being torn down to make room for a proposed Peter Zumthor–designed building. Here’s the latest. [Los Angeles Times]
  A functioning coal power plant in Helsinki is slated to be decommissioned by 2024 and could be turned into an arts and culture hub similar to Tate Modern, as outlined in a new 10-year
  
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• ‘Watch List’ Review: A Mother Is Forced to Fight in Duterte’s Drug War

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Desperate to stay alive, a single mother joins a force of police-run vigilantes in this thriller set in Manila during President Rodrigo Duterte antidrug campaign.
  
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• ‘Unhinged’ Review: Car Shark

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Russell Crowe bulks up and hunkers down to play a murderous misogynist in Derrick Borte’s road-rage thriller.
  
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• ‘The One and Only Ivan’ Review: A Gorilla With Heart

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Disney+ movie brings a fair amount of heart to a generic story line.
  
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• ‘The Crimes That Bind’ Review: A Mother’s Trying Times

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two murder trials collide with profound consequences for a wealthy Argentine matriarch in Sebastián Schindel’s gloomy melodrama.
  
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• ‘Son of the White Mare’ Review: Vibrant Myths From Hungary

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The film nods to earlier notables of animation: the hallucinatory palette of “Yellow Submarine” and the rich visual storytelling of “Fantasia.”
  
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• ‘Peninsula’ Review: The First Rule of Zombie Club Is Run!

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this follow-up to “Train to Busan,” a soldier turned survivor returns to a ruined country teeming with zombies and worse.
  
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• Empty classrooms, studios and stages: In the covid-19 era, an arts education requires an even greater leap of faith - The Washington Post

  20-08-2020 13:00 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Empty classrooms, studios and stages: In the covid-19 era, an arts education requires an even greater leap of faith  The Washington Post
  
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• ‘Desert One’ Review: The Iranian Hostage Rescue That Wasn’t

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Barbara Kopple’s documentary details the failed mission to free the Americans held in Iran in 1980.
  
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• ‘Cut Throat City’ Review: Desperate Straits in Post-Katrina New Orleans

  20-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With his third feature as director, RZA, who first rose to fame with Wu-Tang Clan, comes into his own as a filmmaker.
  
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• In France, Live Theater Calls for Masked Actors and Creative Solutions

  20-08-2020 12:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The company Les Tréteaux de France has been meeting the challenges of social distancing with a variety of measures, including voice-overs and unusual settings.
  
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• LeBron Wrote a Children’s Book and It’s Selling Really Well

  20-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “I Promise,” LeBron James and the illustrator Nina Mata give hope to kids when they need it most.
  
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• How Yaa Gyasi Found Religion (in Literature)

  20-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “There isn’t much literary fiction that deals with evangelicalism. ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain,’ by James Baldwin, was the first book I read that spoke to that part of my life and it moved me so deeply to see faith rendered on the page with such care and brilliance.”
  
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• He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past

  20-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bruce Pascoe’s book “Dark Emu” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history. Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community.
  
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• Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom

  20-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The D.J. Carl Craig’s basement “club” shows the affinity between minimal art and techno music. It’s an after-party for the Covid age, minus the sweat.
  
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• Late Night Wonders How Trump Is Reacting to the D.N.C. Speeches

  20-08-2020 09:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “Trump’s entire list of enemies” addressed the convention on Wednesday, said Jimmy Fallon. “The White House must have restrained him tonight like he was Hannibal Lecter.”
  
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• Writers Mutiny at ‘All Rise,’ the Rare CBS Show With a Black Female Lead

  20-08-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Five have left the drama, whose white show runner, Greg Spottiswood, had disputes with the staff over its depictions of race and gender. He kept his job after reviews by human resources.
  
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• Smith gives update on Performing Arts Center amid the COVID-19 pandemic - Index-Journal

  20-08-2020 09:00 via indexjournal.com
  Smith gives update on Performing Arts Center amid the COVID-19 pandemic  Index-Journal
  
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• Liberal Arts student-body president prepares for virtual student engagement - Penn State News

  20-08-2020 09:00 via news.psu.edu
  
  Liberal Arts student-body president prepares for virtual student engagement  Penn State News
  
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