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• How the Hollywood Fix Cornered the Influencer Paparazzi Market

  25-08-2020 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Fletcher Greene, 38, used to photograph all sorts of celebrities. But when the pandemic hit, the A-listers hid while Gen Z’s rising stars stayed in plain sight.
  
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• Whitney Cancels Show That Included Works Bought at Fund-Raisers

  25-08-2020 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Black artists objected after they discovered their work had been acquired by the museum through discounted sales meant to benefit charities.
  
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• In a Pandemic First, 3 American Theaters Will Do Indoor Shows

  25-08-2020 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The venues, all small nonprofits in New England, will be permitted by Actors’ Equity to put on work with union actors.
  
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• Istvan Rabovsky, Ballet Dancer Who Defected From Hungary, Dies at 90

  25-08-2020 23:06 via nytimes.com
  
  A powerful dancer, he and his first wife, the ballerina Nora Kovach, were among the first highly-publicized defectors from the Soviet Bloc.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Lying Life of Adults,’ by Elena Ferrante

  25-08-2020 22:27 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Lying Life of Adults,” a woman remembers rebelling against her family and befriending a long-estranged aunt.
  
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• Google Toasts Sculptor Barbara Hepworth With New Doodle

  25-08-2020 22:16 via artnews.com
  
  To mark the anniversary of English artist Barbara Hepworth’s 1939 move to the coastal town of St. Ives in Cornwall, where she would set up a studio and live for nearly 40 years, Google has released an animated doodle of the sculptor at work on one of her celebrated abstract sculptures. Hepworth, who died in 1975, is widely considered one of the most important and prolific modernist sculptors, having gained international fame for dynamic works that often examine duality and balance.
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• Whitney Museum Cancels Show of Mutual Aid Art After Artists Decry It as ‘Predatory’

  25-08-2020 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Amid an outcry from artists involved, the Whitney Museum in New York has canceled a show that was to feature works being sold to support mutual aid funds associated with the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Titled “Collective Actions: Artist Interventions in a Time of Change,” the show was due to open on September 17 and was set to feature digital files, photographs, posters, and prints that were created this year.
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• NYC martial arts teacher gets 7 years for raping 12-year-old student - New York Post

  25-08-2020 21:17 via nypost.com
  
  NYC martial arts teacher gets 7 years for raping 12-year-old student  New York Post
  
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• Gail Sheehy’s Books Helped Readers Define Their Lives

  25-08-2020 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Sheehy, a journalist, mapped out the crises one experiences in adult life, offering advice that was both tough and wise.
  
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• Tupac’s Love Letters, Biggie’s Crown Come to First Sotheby’s Auction Dedicated to Hip Hop

  25-08-2020 20:56 via artnews.com
  
  In a first, Sotheby’s will auction a trove of hip-hop memorabilia in a dedicated live sale on September 15 in New York. An exhibition showcasing the sale’s various highlights will be on view from September 11 to 15 at the house’s New York headquarters.
  Dating from the 1970s through the current day, 120 items ranging in media—photography, street wear, jewelry, and publications—will go on offer in September. Among the top lots is a prop crown worn by Biggie Smalls, a.
  
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• Pandit Jasraj, Master Indian Vocalist, Is Dead at 90

  25-08-2020 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for his soulful voice and multi-octave range, he was one of the most famous performers in Hindustani classical music.
  
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• How ‘I May Destroy You’ Imagines a Path Back From Sexual Assault

  25-08-2020 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  In Monday’s season finale, Michaela Coel’s summer breakout hit offered some of the most cathartic moments of television I have ever seen.
  
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• Heinz Frank, Viennese Artist with a Late-Career Rise to Fame in Europe, Has Died at 81

  25-08-2020 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  Heinz Frank, who is best known for his ineffable installations of madcap sculptures, objects, and furnishings, died at age 81 in Vienna on Sunday. The artist’s gallery, LambdaLambdaLambda, confirmed the news.
  The last sculpture realized during Frank’s life currently figures in the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Latvia, and his work was exhibited last year at various international institutions, including the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, the Centre Pompidou in
  
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• Google Arts & Culture brings the museum to you with new augmented reality exhibits - Android Police

  25-08-2020 20:27 via androidpolice.com
  
  Google Arts & Culture brings the museum to you with new augmented reality exhibits  Android Police
  
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• Speck Mellencamp takes over as executive director of Seymour arts center - The Republic

  25-08-2020 20:25 via therepublic.com
  
  Speck Mellencamp takes over as executive director of Seymour arts center  The Republic
  
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• Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style

  25-08-2020 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  What to watch this week: a celebratory film by Dance Theater of Harlem; “Sonic Gatherings,” inspired by Merce Cunningham Events; and a Mark Morris masterpiece.
  
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• Hot 97 Fires Rap Radio Veteran for Ties to Yusuf Hawkins Killing

  25-08-2020 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Employees of the radio station said they were shocked to see a colleague known as Paddy Duke in a new HBO documentary about the racist murder of a Brooklyn teenager in 1989.
  
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• Jordan Casteel and Kerry James Marshall Paint Covers for Vogue’s September Issue 

  25-08-2020 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Casteel are the latest to people to join a storied list of artists—including Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, and John Currin—that have been invited to create covers for the vaunted September issue of Vogue. According to the magazine, the celebrated portraitists were given total creative freedom in the choice of cover star, real or imaginary, as long as the subject was painted wearing one of four couture outfits selected by the Vogue team
  
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• Joe Segal, Impresario of Live Jazz for 70 Years, Dies at 94

  25-08-2020 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  His Jazz Showcase was a staple in Chicago since 1947, presenting a who’s who of artists, from Charlie Parker to Dee Dee Bridgewater. To the N.E.A., he was a Jazz Master.
  
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• The Met Is Reopening: Grab Your Timed Ticket and View Jacob Lawrence

  25-08-2020 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  With fewer people and more protocols, the country’s largest museum is ready to welcome visitors again.
  
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• Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83

  25-08-2020 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  In a raft of books, notably “Passages,” she examined cultural transformations as well as the interior lives of public figures.
  
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• ‘Lingua Franca’ Review: Lives Under Stress

  25-08-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A transgender migrant and a recovering alcoholic form a connection in this modest working-class drama.
  
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• Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising

  25-08-2020 16:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Programming works involving improvisation would be one way to encourage ensembles to make classical music more inclusive.
  
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• City unveils concept for 'arts-infused' 4th Avenue Cultural Corridor - My Edmonds News

  25-08-2020 16:16 via myedmondsnews.com
  
  City unveils concept for 'arts-infused' 4th Avenue Cultural Corridor  My Edmonds News
  
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• Emmys 2020: Sterling K. Brown and Andre Braugher’s Lives Keep Intersecting

  25-08-2020 16:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The two actors are Emmy competitors this year, just one example of “so many parallels” between them, Brown said. In a conversation, they discussed cop shows and the pressures of representation.
  
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• Samantha Bee Stays Grounded With ‘The Great British Bake Off’

  25-08-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The host of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” also puts Carol Burnett and octopus videos on her list of essentials.
  
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• ‘Soul!’ Brought Black Culture to TV in 1968. A New Doc Tells Its Story.

  25-08-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mr. Soul!” spotlights Ellis Haizlip, the host of a show that gave Stevie Wonder, Wilson Picket and James Baldwin a platform.
  
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• British Museum Removes Bust of Hans Sloane, Shaun Leonardo Show Goes to MASS MoCA, and More: Morning Links for August 25, 2020

  25-08-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  “Officials at the British Museum have moved a bust of the institution’s founding collector, Hans Sloane, from a pedestal to a nearby cabinet in the Enlightenment Gallery because of his links to the slave trade.” [The Art Newspaper]
  After turmoil has continued to mount over issues dealing with leadership, Graham Bowley reports on a timely qu
  
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• R.N.C. Begins, Masks (and Sometimes Facts) Optional

  25-08-2020 14:07 via nytimes.com
  
  With an imperious backdrop of columns and flags, the first night played loudly to the base, and to the nominee’s TV tastes.
  
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• ‘Nomad’ Review: Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’

  25-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Herzog honors the writer and explorer Bruce Chatwin in this stimulating and visually overwhelming documentary.
  
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• ‘I May Destroy You’ Imagines a Path Back From Sexual Assault

  25-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Monday’s season finale, Michaela Coel’s summer breakout hit offered some of the most cathartic moments of television I have ever seen.
  
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• What It Took to Get El Chapo Behind Bars for Life

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “El Jefe,” by the New York Times reporter Alan Feuer, tells the incredible story of how the legendarily elusive drug trafficker was finally captured for good.
  
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• The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Saddest Words,” by the scholar Michael Gorra, argues that America’s troubled racial past is the central, if often unspoken, theme at the heart of Faulkner’s work.
  
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• The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Harold Holzer’s “The Presidents vs. the Press” argues that conflicts between chief executives and journalists go back to the start of the Republic.
  
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• ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new novel, by Daisy Johnson, features a pair of troubled siblings, an isolated house in the country and a mysterious, dark deed.
  
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• Paul Theroux on a Globetrotting Novel Inspired by a Real Adventurer

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Héctor Tobar’s “The Last Great Road Bum” follows the restless Joe Sanderson, who dashed from country to country in pursuit of adventure.
  
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• Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Doug Leen has made it his life’s work to discover, restore and reproduce W.P.A. renderings of America’s threatened public lands.
  
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• Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man

  25-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Meacham’s “His Truth Is Marching On” tells the story of the young John Lewis up to the time he entered Congress.
  
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• Delta Community selects Backstreet Community Arts for grant - Newnan Times-Herald

  25-08-2020 09:00 via times-herald.com
  
  Delta Community selects Backstreet Community Arts for grant  Newnan Times-Herald
  
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• Stephen Colbert Says Republicans Have Gone Full Cult for Trump

  25-08-2020 08:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “Welcome to the convention, everybody,” Colbert said on Monday in an imitation of the president. “Take off your masks and put on your matching Nikes and your MAGA hats. Then drink up our bleach-flavored Kool-Aid.”
  
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• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trinkets’ and ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’

  25-08-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The three shoplifting friends return for a final season. And the OWN drama, based on Tyler Perry’s play, is back with new episodes.
  
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• Arts impact survey shows $18.7 million in losses for Buncombe businesses since March - WLOS

  25-08-2020 05:07 via wlos.com
  Arts impact survey shows $18.7 million in losses for Buncombe businesses since March  WLOS
  
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• COVID-19 relief funding going to Bangor area arts organizations - WABI

  25-08-2020 03:51 via wabi.tv
  
  COVID-19 relief funding going to Bangor area arts organizations  WABI
  
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• Among Friends

  25-08-2020 03:32 via artnews.com
  
  Ault + Beck (2019) by James Benning is a simple wooden sign bearing the Joshua Tree, California, address of his artist friends Julie Ault and Martin Beck (in better times, Benning often visits them). When their old house sign grew too weathered, the two asked Benning to replace it. He lettered the sign in the blocky, born-again style of “outsider” artist Jesse Howard, even including Psalm 148:8, a line about storms and hail. (The next day, it snowed—a desert miracle.) The sign
  
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• Owasso Puts Marching Band Rehearsals On Hold, Modifies Fine Arts Programs - News On 6

  25-08-2020 03:28 via newson6.com
  
  Owasso Puts Marching Band Rehearsals On Hold, Modifies Fine Arts Programs  News On 6
  
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• Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces 2020 -2021 Jazz Touring Network Engagements - New Jersey Stage

  25-08-2020 03:24 via newjerseystage.com
  
  Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces 2020 -2021 Jazz Touring Network Engagements  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Class registration ongoing at Southern Dance and Performing Arts Company (with class schedule) - Daily Home Online

  25-08-2020 02:59 via annistonstar.com
  Class registration ongoing at Southern Dance and Performing Arts Company (with class schedule)  Daily Home Online
  
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• Newburgh Works On Arts And Culture Study - WAMC

  25-08-2020 02:56 via wamc.org
  
  Newburgh Works On Arts And Culture Study  WAMC
  
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• Falcons Fighting for the Arts pickets at West Virginia's Fairmont State University - WV News

  25-08-2020 02:50 via wvnews.com
  Falcons Fighting for the Arts pickets at West Virginia's Fairmont State University  WV News
  
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• The Arts Series: Jasmine Johnson and Musical Theater - UNR The Nevada Sagebrush

  25-08-2020 02:16 via nevadasagebrush.com
  
  The Arts Series: Jasmine Johnson and Musical Theater  UNR The Nevada Sagebrush
  
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