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• CMS parent concerned about omission of Black History in language arts class - WBTV

  21-08-2020 23:43 via wbtv.com
  
  CMS parent concerned about omission of Black History in language arts class  WBTV
  
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• New Safety Standards for Moviegoing as U.S. Theaters Reopen

  21-08-2020 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The nation’s major multiplex chains are selling tickets again, and they have announced uniform health protocols to make patrons feel safer.
  
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• Brewery Arts Center's Flatbed Concert Series to bring Country, folk music to Schulz Ranch neighborhood - Carson Now

  21-08-2020 23:21 via carsonnow.org
  
  Brewery Arts Center's Flatbed Concert Series to bring Country, folk music to Schulz Ranch neighborhood  Carson Now
  
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• New fund aims to provide support to struggling arts organizations - NJTV News

  21-08-2020 23:06 via njtvonline.org
  
  New fund aims to provide support to struggling arts organizations  NJTV News
  
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• A Portrait of a Man Named Jonathan

  21-08-2020 23:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Erica Deeman’s thoughtful pictures of members of the African diaspora highlight her subjects’ humanity.
  
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• Britney Spears Conservatorship to Remain As Is Until 2021

  21-08-2020 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer has called for changes to the legal arrangement that controls her life and finances, but the guardianship was extended through Feb. 1.
  
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• Longtime MASS MoCA Director Steps Down After 32 Years at the Helm

  21-08-2020 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  After 32 years, Joe Thompson will step down as the director of MASS MoCA, a museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, that counts among the state’s most important contemporary art institutions, known for its venturesome, large-scale installations. Thompson’s last day on the job will be October 29. Tracy Moore, who is currently the museum’s deputy director and chief operating officer, will become interim director, and Thompson will act as special counsel to the board of trustees for
  
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• Achilles Wheel celebrates live album release at The Center for the Arts - The Union of Grass Valley

  21-08-2020 22:29 via theunion.com
  
  Achilles Wheel celebrates live album release at The Center for the Arts  The Union of Grass Valley
  
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• Show must go on: Pandemic does not halt opening of SPS arts magnet school - News-Leader

  21-08-2020 22:15 via news-leader.com
  Show must go on: Pandemic does not halt opening of SPS arts magnet school  News-Leader
  
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• San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Mary Corse, SummerFest, Border Murals And Disney At The Drive-In (KPBS Midday Edition Segments) - KPBS

  21-08-2020 22:01 via kpbs.org
  
  San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Mary Corse, SummerFest, Border Murals And Disney At The Drive-In (KPBS Midday Edition Segments)  KPBS
  
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• MASS MoCA’s Founding Director to Step Down

  21-08-2020 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Joseph C. Thompson, who started in the position in 1988, spent his first 11 years working just to open the museum, in a former industrial complex.
  
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• From Ai Weiwei, a Portrait of Wuhan’s Draconian Covid Lockdown

  21-08-2020 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Ai said the documentary film “Coronation,” which he directed remotely from Europe, “is trying to reflect what ordinary Chinese people went through.”
  
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• Emerging Dealers See Swift Sales at an Online-Only Edition of Hauser & Wirth’s June Art Fair

  21-08-2020 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  With most major art fairs canceled, mega-galleries have stepped in to launch platforms meant to help their emerging colleagues. But even before the pandemic, Hauser & Wirth had begun undertaking these initiatives, launching the June Art Fair as an event meant to uphold young galleries last year. The first edition took place last year in a bunker in Basel, Switzerland, and with most major art events having gone digital, the June Art Fair has moved online, too.
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• How Ruth Asawa’s Pioneering Sculptures Ended Up on U.S. Stamps

  21-08-2020 21:17 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this month, the United States Post Office issued new stamps featuring artist and educator Ruth Asawa’s airy wire sculptures. Whether because of a new amount of attention being directed at the USPS in light of current events or a revival in interest in Asawa (the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis recently held a major show of her work, and Modern Art Oxford in the U.K. has a forthcoming survey), the stamps have been a hit, both within the art world and beyond. On the occasion of
  
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• Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open

  21-08-2020 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Among the performances you can catch online are a one-woman show about sexual assault and riffs on “Heart of Darkness” and “Rocky.”
  
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• What Would You Include in the Criterion Collection?

  21-08-2020 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The prestigious Blu-ray/DVD archive is overwhelmingly white. We want to hear your suggestions.
  
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• Answering the Many Questions About ‘The One and Only Ivan’

  21-08-2020 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Disney+ film about a talented gorilla might leave you wondering about the real great ape that inspired the story. We have answers.
  
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• From the Archives: Ron Gorchov at Fischbach Gallery

  21-08-2020 20:15 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 1975 solo show at Fischbach Gallery by Edit deAk, published in our September–October 1975 issue. —Eds.
  The recurring elements in Ron Gorchov’s shaped canvases are two marks in the center of a color field. The marks are symmetrical and vertical, and they reflect each other as the two sides of the human body do. The paintings themselves are
  
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• Arts Council accepting applications for Artist Relief Fund - Las Cruces Bulletin

  21-08-2020 20:10 via lascrucesbulletin.com
  
  Arts Council accepting applications for Artist Relief Fund  Las Cruces Bulletin
  
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• New Mexico Arts awards $32543 to local arts projects - Las Cruces Bulletin

  21-08-2020 19:59 via lascrucesbulletin.com
  
  New Mexico Arts awards $32543 to local arts projects  Las Cruces Bulletin
  
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• Inaugural Loudoun Arts Film Festival coming, pandemic or not - WTOP

  21-08-2020 19:53 via wtop.com
  
  Inaugural Loudoun Arts Film Festival coming, pandemic or not  WTOP
  
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• Art Basel Plans Two Online Viewing Rooms for Fall After Cancelation of Swiss Fair

  21-08-2020 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  With its Hong Kong and Basel editions canceled, Art Basel has moved most of its offerings for 2020 online. Having held online viewing rooms in place of its Hong Kong edition this past March, the fair will go even bigger in the fall. Art Basel has now unveiled plans for two new online viewing room events this September and October, which organizers have described as “freestanding, thematic editions.”
  Previously, exhibitors who would have shown at Art Basel’s physical fair w
  
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• Netflix, Accused of Sexualizing Girls, Pulls Artwork for ‘Cuties’

  21-08-2020 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Conspiracy theorists and concerned parents complained about the image associated with “Cuties,” a French film that examines how children are encouraged to be sexualized.
  
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• Nomination Period Now Open For 2020 Moscow Mayor's Arts Awards - bigcountrynewsconnection.com

  21-08-2020 19:28 via bigcountrynewsconnection.com
  Nomination Period Now Open For 2020 Moscow Mayor's Arts Awards  bigcountrynewsconnection.com
  
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• Flagler Auditorium Hopes to Re-Ignite Arts Support, and Concert-Going, with Outdoors Hayfire Concert - FlaglerLive.com

  21-08-2020 19:14 via flaglerlive.com
  
  Flagler Auditorium Hopes to Re-Ignite Arts Support, and Concert-Going, with Outdoors Hayfire Concert  FlaglerLive.com
  
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• TPAC announces free virtual salon series to explore Nashville's arts and culture community - Main Street Nashville

  21-08-2020 19:00 via mainstreet-nashville.com
  TPAC announces free virtual salon series to explore Nashville's arts and culture community  Main Street Nashville
  
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• ‘Comfort Viewing’: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Melrose Place’

  21-08-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When did everything get so serious? This ’90s prime-time soap was sensational in every sense.
  
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• We Heard Our First Live Music in Months. Nothing Beats It.

  21-08-2020 18:59 via nytimes.com
  
  In-person concerts are cautiously re-emerging. So two of our critics took in a quartet performance in a parking lot.
  
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• Steve Grossman, Hired as a Teenager by Miles Davis, Dies at 69

  21-08-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  He was just 18 when Davis recruited him to play saxophone in his band. He went on to play with Elvin Jones, and to lead his own groups.
  
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• Princeton Group To Host Fund For State Arts And Culture Industry - Princeton, NJ Patch

  21-08-2020 18:48 via patch.com
  
  Princeton Group To Host Fund For State Arts And Culture Industry  Princeton, NJ Patch
  
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• Steve Grossman, Saxophonist Picked by Miles Davis, Dies at 69

  21-08-2020 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  He was 18 when Davis recruited him for his band. He went on to play with Elvin Jones, and to lead his own groups.
  
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• Get Caught Up in GHS Arts - Gulfport Gabber

  21-08-2020 18:10 via thegabber.com
  
  Get Caught Up in GHS Arts  Gulfport Gabber
  
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• ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond

  21-08-2020 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  John David Washington stars as an unnamed, uncreased C.I.A. agent in a spectacle full of scenes running backward and forward.
  
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• Fall Virtual Art & Music Classes at the Adler Arts Center - Chicago Daily Herald

  21-08-2020 18:09 via dailyherald.com
  
  Fall Virtual Art & Music Classes at the Adler Arts Center  Chicago Daily Herald
  
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• Circus arts school reopens | Local News | sentinelsource.com - The Keene Sentinel

  21-08-2020 18:00 via sentinelsource.com
  
  Circus arts school reopens | Local News | sentinelsource.com  The Keene Sentinel
  
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• Inside Arts: RMNP worker turns experience into art - Estes Park Trail-Gazette

  21-08-2020 17:58 via eptrail.com
  
  Inside Arts: RMNP worker turns experience into art  Estes Park Trail-Gazette
  
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• Mariah Carey Calls for Action, and 12 More New Songs

  21-08-2020 17:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Phoenix, Angel Olsen, Bebel Gilberto and others.
  
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• Museum of Arts and Design Director Steps Down, Continuing Series of Departures

  21-08-2020 17:39 via artnews.com
  
  Christopher Scoates, the director of Museum of Arts and Design, stepped down from his post on Friday, making him the fourth leader at the venerable New York institution to leave the institution’s job top in the past decade. Scoates had been the museum’s director since 2018.
  “I would like to thank the staff and board for their great work in making MAD such an innovative and vibrant institution,” Scoates said in a statement. “Now that we have successfully navigated th
  
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• Museum of Arts and Design Director Steps Down, Continuing Series of Departures - ARTnews

  21-08-2020 17:39 via artnews.com
  
  Museum of Arts and Design Director Steps Down, Continuing Series of Departures  ARTnews
  
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• The Creator of ‘Terminal Lance’ on His New Graphic Novel

  21-08-2020 17:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The comic strip illustrator Maximilian Uriarte released his second graphic novel this month — a narrative based in the mountains of Afghanistan and imbued with ideas about racism and loss.
  
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• Tony Awards Ceremony Will Go Ahead, Online

  21-08-2020 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Decision comes after months of uncertainty following a Broadway shutdown that kept many shows from opening.
  
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• The Creation of a Collaborative Video Changed Shirin Neshat’s Life and Career

  21-08-2020 17:10 via artnews.com
  
  This was the premiere of Turbulent, one of the first videos I ever made. We were at the Whitney Museum’s Philip Morris space in October 1998; Eugenie Tsai curated the show. The photo marks the beginning of what would become a long collaboration and friendship among all of us in the picture. The video went on to be very successful—it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1999. For every one of us, life changed after we made this video together.
  The man on the far right is the
  
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• Arts at Home: August 22-23 and More - L.A. Weekly

  21-08-2020 17:10 via laweekly.com
  Arts at Home: August 22-23 and More  L.A. Weekly
  
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• Cal State San Bernardino graduate finds home in the arts on campus - Press-Enterprise

  21-08-2020 17:00 via pe.com
  
  Cal State San Bernardino graduate finds home in the arts on campus  Press-Enterprise
  
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• Hans Ulrich Obrist Remembers Luchita Hurtado: ‘More Urgent Today Than Ever’

  21-08-2020 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  “I never said no to life. I have a responsibility to the world, to my planet.”—Luchita Hurtado1
  These words, spoken to me by artist Luchita Hurtado, capture her innate sensitivity to the ever-changing world around her. Her vision of the human body as a part of the world—not separate from nature—is more urgent today than ever. Hurtado’s exceptional oeuvre offers an extraordinary perspective that draws attention to the edges of our bodies and the language that w
  
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• The State of the Arts - WSHU

  21-08-2020 16:32 via wshu.org
  
  The State of the Arts  WSHU
  
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• National Endowment for the Arts Honors Centennial of Women's Right to Vote with New Book - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

  21-08-2020 16:00 via southernmarylandchronicle.com
  
  National Endowment for the Arts Honors Centennial of Women's Right to Vote with New Book  The Southern Maryland Chronicle
  
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• BYU Arts cancels in-person events for Fall Semester, announces digital performances - Universe.byu.edu

  21-08-2020 16:00 via universe.byu.edu
  
  BYU Arts cancels in-person events for Fall Semester, announces digital performances  Universe.byu.edu
  
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• Ai Weiwei Releases Documentary About Wuhan Lockdown, Buckingham Palace’s Art Collection to be Displayed for First Time and More: Morning Links from August 21, 2020

  21-08-2020 15:56 via artnews.com
  
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  65 works from Buckingham Palace’s art collection, including a Rembrandt, a Vermeer and a Titian, will go on view in public for the first time. [Smithsonian Magazine]
  Amid financial turmoil, the prominent NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore will end operation at the Gillman Barracks arts complex next year. [ARTnews]
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• Relief Funding For Local Arts, Cultural Organizations – WBIW - WBIW.com

  21-08-2020 15:46 via wbiw.com
  Relief Funding For Local Arts, Cultural Organizations – WBIW  WBIW.com
  
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