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• The 50 Best Things to Watch on Disney+ Right Now

  04-09-2020 23:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The Disney streaming platform has hundreds of movie and TV titles, drawing from its own deep reservoir classics and from Star Wars, Marvel and more. These are our favorites.
  
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• Still closed, performing arts venues get creative - WOODTV.com

  04-09-2020 23:09 via woodtv.com
  Still closed, performing arts venues get creative  WOODTV.com
  
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• Gov. Whitmer appoints Marquette, St. Ignace residents to Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs - WLUC

  04-09-2020 23:08 via uppermichiganssource.com
  
  Gov. Whitmer appoints Marquette, St. Ignace residents to Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs  WLUC
  
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• Peninsula Fine Arts Center will close at end of year as CNU takeover enters final stages - Daily Press

  04-09-2020 22:49 via dailypress.com
  Peninsula Fine Arts Center will close at end of year as CNU takeover enters final stages  Daily Press
  
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• Cathy Smith, Who Injected John Belushi With Fatal Drugs, Dies at 73

  04-09-2020 22:21 via nytimes.com
  
  After an interview with The National Enquirer, she was convicted in his overdose death and served time in prison.
  
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• Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’

  04-09-2020 22:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Susan Minot’s new book is her second collection in 30 years. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been busy.
  
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• Memphis Youth Arts Initiative holds grand opening in Whitehaven - WMC

  04-09-2020 22:12 via wmcactionnews5.com
  
  Memphis Youth Arts Initiative holds grand opening in Whitehaven  WMC
  
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• David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59

  04-09-2020 22:11 via nytimes.com
  
  He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
  
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• While Berghain Is Closed, There’s Art on the Dance Floor

  04-09-2020 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The famous Berlin techno club has been repurposed as an exhibition space during the pandemic. It’s a mixing of club culture and visual art reminiscent of the golden days of the 1990s.
  
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• The Community Arts Partnership announces six arts grant programs - The Ithaca Voice

  04-09-2020 21:15 via ithacavoice.com
  
  The Community Arts Partnership announces six arts grant programs  The Ithaca Voice
  
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• SculptureCenter Director Christian Rattemeyer Departs After Less Than a Year

  04-09-2020 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  After just 10 months as director, Christian Rattemeyer has departed New York’s SculptureCenter. Artforum first reported news of his departure on Friday morning.
  According to Artforum, SculptureCenter, which is located in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, did not provide a reason for Rattemeyer’s departure. “I want to thank the incredibly talented staff and leadership at SculptureCenter,” Rattemeyer said in a statement to Artforum. “I have enjoyed being pa
  
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• ‘Deep Concerns’ Abound As Denver Arts And Venues Announces Furloughs, Closes Performance Spaces - CBS Denver

  04-09-2020 21:00 via denver.cbslocal.com
  
  ‘Deep Concerns’ Abound As Denver Arts And Venues Announces Furloughs, Closes Performance Spaces  CBS Denver
  
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• Corpus Christi's Aurora Arts Theatre in Danger - Corpus Christi Business News

  04-09-2020 20:45 via ccbiznews.com
  
  Corpus Christi's Aurora Arts Theatre in Danger  Corpus Christi Business News
  
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• The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery

  04-09-2020 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Marilyn Stasio recommends two recently reissued novels by Seishi Yokomizo, as well as the latest books from Denise Mina and T. Jefferson Parker.
  
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• Review: A Pandemic ‘Othello,’ Socially and Otherwise Distant

  04-09-2020 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The actors quarantined together all summer to produce Shakespeare’s tragedy safely. But they can’t overcome the remove of a camera.
  
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• She Gave Up a Lot to Play Othello

  04-09-2020 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Thrilled for the role, needing a paycheck and confident that the theater was safe, Jessika D. Williams left the actors’ union to take the part.
  
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• ‘The Beats Go On’ -- Arts, Beats & Eats reinvented for the pandemic - WDIV ClickOnDetroit

  04-09-2020 19:04 via clickondetroit.com
  
  ‘The Beats Go On’ -- Arts, Beats & Eats reinvented for the pandemic  WDIV ClickOnDetroit
  
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• Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dark Shadows’

  04-09-2020 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  It was camp; it was scary; it was one of the most popular daytime soaps of its day. And for a gay teenager in the ’80s, it was perfect.
  
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• This Labor Day, These Workers Are Trying to Stay Afloat

  04-09-2020 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has brought various hardships. An artist, bookseller, comedian and five others share their stories of how they are coping with all the uncertainty.
  
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• Venice Film Festival Opens, Defiant but Socially Distanced

  04-09-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Strict measures are in place at the first major international movie event since the coronavirus pandemic began.
  
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• SZA’s Surprise Return, and 10 More New Songs

  04-09-2020 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Ava Max, Tricky, Bill Callahan and others.
  
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• British Museum Acquires 103 Recently Resurfaced, Rarely Seen Hokusai Drawings

  04-09-2020 17:48 via artnews.com
  
  The British Museum in London, which reopened to the public on August 27, has added 103 recently uncovered drawings by the Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai to its collection. The works, which resurfaced for the first time since 1948 in Paris last year, were created in 1829 for an unpublished book titled Great Picture Book of Everything.
  The small-scale works were previously owned by Art Nouveau jeweler Henri Vever, and the museum said in a release that they had been held in a pr
  
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• Tate and Anthony d’Offay, Dealer Accused of Sexual Harassment, Terminate Relationship

  04-09-2020 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  The Tate museum network in England said it has cut ties with Anthony d’Offay, a dealer who was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women in 2018. The museum network has faced pushback from the British art community over the past year after it quietly resumed contact with d’Offay following a brief period in which Tate said it would not work with d’Offay.
  “Tate and Anthony d’Offay have agreed to end their relationship,” Tate and d’Offay said in a stat
  
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• At In-Person Choir Rehearsals, a Balance Between Joyful and Careful

  04-09-2020 17:28 via nytimes.com
  
  With the coronavirus still spreading, many choirs are gathering only online. But one London group is cautiously attempting a way forward.
  
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• Salome Bey, Soulful Singer, Actress and Playwright, Dies at 86

  04-09-2020 17:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Bey, known as “Canada’s first lady of the blues,” broke ground in her adopted country by creating opportunities for Black people in the theater.
  
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• In Dresden Jewelry Heist Investigation, Police Raid Berlin Internet Café, Uncover New Evidence

  04-09-2020 16:47 via artnews.com
  
  Nine months after some 3,000 pieces of jewelry were stolen from Dresden’s Royal Palace, German police are one step closer to locating who might have been responsible for the heist. The German-language publication Monopol reports that, on Wednesday, police raided an internet café in Berlin and the apartment of an employee who works there. The authorities, however, have yet to name any suspects in the investigation.
  According to the Monopol report, police found SIM cards that an emplo
  
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• Mary Weatherford Revisits a 1957 ARTnews Profile of Painter Joan Mitchell

  04-09-2020 16:27 via artnews.com
  
  In 1957, art critic Irving Sandler paid a visit to the studio of painter Joan Mitchell, an Abstract Expressionist known for her brushy images capturing nature. The result of that visit, printed in the October 1957 issue of ARTnews, became one of the most famous essays in this magazine’s “Paints a Picture” series, in which an artist illuminates the process behind one of his or her artworks. With an upcoming traveling retrospective of Mitchell’s work at the Baltimore Museum
  
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• Folk Pottery Show & Arts Festival set for Saturday, Sept. 5 - White County News

  04-09-2020 16:18 via whitecountynews.net
  Folk Pottery Show & Arts Festival set for Saturday, Sept. 5  White County News
  
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• The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven

  04-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  George Bridgetower, the original dedicatee of the “Kreutzer” Sonata, was a charismatic prodigy but faded into history.
  
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• A Tribute to Chadwick Boseman

  04-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For Chadwick Boseman.
  
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• Athens’s Contemporary Art Scene Grows and More: Morning Links from September 4, 2020

  04-09-2020 15:39 via artnews.com
  
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  The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse New York will deaccession Jackson Pollock’s 1946 painting Red Composition, which is valued between $12 million and $18 million, as part of an effort to diversify its collection. [Art Market Monitor]
  Following a pause due to the pandemic, a New York residency for Russian artists is planning
  
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• Jamestown Arts Center focuses on expanding outdoor public art offerings - What'sUpNewp

  04-09-2020 14:52 via whatsupnewp.com
  
  Jamestown Arts Center focuses on expanding outdoor public art offerings  What'sUpNewp
  
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• How ‘Mulan’ Goes to Battle

  04-09-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Niki Caro narrates a sequence from the live-action film streaming on Disney+.
  
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• ‘Mulan’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  04-09-2020 12:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Niki Caro narrates a battle sequence from her film.
  
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• Bringing the Theater Back to Life

  04-09-2020 12:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When the pandemic hit, shows across America went dark. A regional theater in New England thinks it has found a way back.
  
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• For a fun fall arts scene – take it outside - Boston Herald

  04-09-2020 11:32 via bostonherald.com
  
  For a fun fall arts scene – take it outside  Boston Herald
  
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• They’re Stuck at Home, So They’re Making Home a Sanctuary

  04-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With few places to go or reasons to spend, those lucky enough to be employed remotely are upgrading their surroundings. The impulse comes with guilt.
  
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• The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You.

  04-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The sudden absence of live audiences has upended the worlds of sports, comedy and politics. What do we lose when the crowd doesn’t show?
  
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• The Dangerous North Korea

  04-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three new books examine one of the world’s most mysterious countries.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘The Travelers’ and ‘On Fire’

  04-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• ‘Mulan’ 1998: A Moment of Joy and Anxiety for Asian-American Viewers

  04-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Though the original Disney movie was culturally significant, it came out in a film era when people of color were routinely tokenized.
  
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• Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall

  04-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Thanks to the coronavirus shutdown, the networks’ fall schedules are packed with reality competitions and recycled shows. But there are still as many intriguing offerings as ever this season.
  
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• Artist talks, exhibitions tonight at Carbondale Arts’ R2 Gallery - Aspen Daily News

  04-09-2020 11:00 via aspendailynews.com
  Artist talks, exhibitions tonight at Carbondale Arts’ R2 Gallery  Aspen Daily News
  
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• This Fall, Pittsburgh's Performing-Arts Groups Adapt To The Pandemic - 90.5 WESA

  04-09-2020 10:13 via wesa.fm
  
  This Fall, Pittsburgh's Performing-Arts Groups Adapt To The Pandemic  90.5 WESA
  
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• This Labor Day, These Workers Are Trying to Staying Afloat

  04-09-2020 08:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has brought various hardships. An artist, bookseller, comedian and five others share their stories of how they are coping with all the uncertainty.
  
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• Arts center goes retro with drive-in flick | Camarillo Acorn - Camarillo Acorn

  04-09-2020 07:18 via thecamarilloacorn.com
  Arts center goes retro with drive-in flick | Camarillo Acorn  Camarillo Acorn
  
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• Arts Center lights up in red for #WeMakeEvents - Chronicle Independent

  04-09-2020 07:03 via chronicle-independent.com
  
  Arts Center lights up in red for #WeMakeEvents  Chronicle Independent
  
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• Visual and performing arts adapt for remote learning – The Bowdoin Orient - The Bowdoin Orient

  04-09-2020 06:58 via bowdoinorient.com
  
  Visual and performing arts adapt for remote learning – The Bowdoin Orient  The Bowdoin Orient
  
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• What's Happening This Semester? A Sneak Peek at Arts in Unusual Times - Wesleyan Argus

  04-09-2020 06:31 via wesleyanargus.com
  
  What's Happening This Semester? A Sneak Peek at Arts in Unusual Times  Wesleyan Argus
  
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• Art Basel Miami Beach Is Canceled

  04-09-2020 06:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Organizers, concerned at the state of the pandemic in South Florida, put off the event until next year.
  
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