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• Winston Groom, Author of ‘Forrest Gump,’ Dies at 77

  18-09-2020 23:48 via nytimes.com
  
  He wrote the 1986 novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks. Another book was a finalist for a Pulitzer.
  
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• New Orange County Arts Committee Dedicated To Diversity - WMFE

  18-09-2020 23:44 via wmfe.org
  
  New Orange County Arts Committee Dedicated To Diversity  WMFE
  
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• Best of the Best: The Martial Arts Movie Series Ranked - Screen Rant

  18-09-2020 23:37 via screenrant.com
  Best of the Best: The Martial Arts Movie Series Ranked  Screen Rant
  
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• Broadway, Arts Industry Fight For Emergency Aid As Theater Closures Stretch On - Forbes

  18-09-2020 23:20 via forbes.com
  
  Broadway, Arts Industry Fight For Emergency Aid As Theater Closures Stretch On  Forbes
  
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• Christian Liaigre, Minimalist Interior Designer, Dies at 77

  18-09-2020 21:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for his muscular and clean-lined furniture, Mr. Liaigre designed the influential Mercer hotel in SoHo, as well as the homes of Rupert Murdoch and others.
  
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• Gwinnett starting admissions process for new performing arts school opening in 2021 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  18-09-2020 21:36 via ajc.com
  Gwinnett starting admissions process for new performing arts school opening in 2021  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• Arkansas Arts Council announces $4,000 Artist Fellowship awards - Arkansas Online

  18-09-2020 21:35 via arkansasonline.com
  
  Arkansas Arts Council announces $4,000 Artist Fellowship awards  Arkansas Online
  
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• Bay Area Galleries Band Together to Launch Communal Online Platform

  18-09-2020 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  In the spring, in response to pandemic-related restrictions and closures of public spaces, a group of Los Angeles galleries banded together to form Gallery Platform L.A., an online home for virtual viewing rooms and curated projects presented by local art enterprises on a weekly basis. Now, a set of Bay Area galleries is joining forces as part of a similar effort called 8-bridges, a virtual platform launching on October 1 and named for the eight bridges that connect the San Francisco Bay.
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• Brewery Arts Center to bring last Flatbed Concert of the season Saturday to the west side, pending air quality - Carson Now

  18-09-2020 21:23 via carsonnow.org
  
  Brewery Arts Center to bring last Flatbed Concert of the season Saturday to the west side, pending air quality  Carson Now
  
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• Virtual Arts In Central Park starts - Herald & Review

  18-09-2020 20:57 via herald-review.com
  Virtual Arts In Central Park starts  Herald & Review
  
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• ‘Static Apnea’ Review: Breathing Together, Remaining Apart

  18-09-2020 20:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In this brief but eerie installation, one viewer and one performer, separated by glass, share the feeling of being trapped underwater.
  
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• An Occasion for the Arts still happening this year, albeit virtually - WYDaily

  18-09-2020 20:17 via wydaily.com
  
  An Occasion for the Arts still happening this year, albeit virtually  WYDaily
  
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• Missing Arts in the Heart? Go online for the alternative - WRDW

  18-09-2020 20:07 via wrdw.com
  
  Missing Arts in the Heart? Go online for the alternative  WRDW
  
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• Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Derry Girls’

  18-09-2020 19:57 via nytimes.com
  
  A smart sitcom set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, its characters are richly detailed, its understanding of teenage awkwardness profound.
  
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• All The Internet’s A Stage: Here Are The Louisville Arts & Culture Groups Offering Online Shows, Seasons - 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

  18-09-2020 19:48 via wfpl.org
  
  All The Internet’s A Stage: Here Are The Louisville Arts & Culture Groups Offering Online Shows, Seasons  89.3 WFPL News Louisville
  
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• New York City Center to Revive a Pair of Musicals About Black Lives

  18-09-2020 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Life” and “The Tap Dance Kid,” which focus on people of color in Manhattan, are planned for the 2020-2021 season of Encores!, the center’s popular series.
  
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• New York City Center to Revive a Pair of Black Musicals

  18-09-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Life” and “The Tap Dance Kid,” which focus on people of color in Manhattan, are planned for the 2020-2021 season of Encores!, the center’s popular series.
  
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• The Most Famous People in America

  18-09-2020 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  We’re a media company, standing in front of a readership, asking them to tell us what they think about fame.
  
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• A Stained-Glass Gift, From God and Gerhard Richter

  18-09-2020 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The monks of a German abbey hope new windows by the renowned artist will draw visitors and secure the community’s future.
  
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• Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs

  18-09-2020 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Sam Smith, Salem, Steve Arrington and others.
  
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• São Paulo’s Cutting-Edge Galeria Jaqueline Martins Expands to Brussels

  18-09-2020 16:55 via artnews.com
  
  As economic uncertainty continues to make the future of many art galleries unclear, one Brazilian enterprise has decided to move forward with plans to open an outpost in Europe. Galeria Jaqueline Martins, which has over the last nine years established itself as one of São Paulo most cutting-edge galleries by helping to revive the careers of many overlooked and underknown Brazilian artists, will open a new space in Brussels next month.
  The new location, which measures around 750 square-fee
  
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• Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires Its First Sound Installation

  18-09-2020 16:33 via artnews.com
  
  One year after she appeared in the Whitney Biennial, two pieces by artist Christine Sun Kim are joining the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., marking the institution’s first acquisition of a sound installation. The news was announced Wednesday in an Instagram post by Los Angeles’s François Ghebaly gallery, which represents Kim. The acquired works by Kim, One Week of Lullabies for Roux (2018) and Close Readings (2015), will de
  
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• ‘The Devil All the Time’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  18-09-2020 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Antonio Campos discusses a scene from his drama featuring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson.
  
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• How Tom Holland Seeks Revenge in ‘The Devil All the Time’

  18-09-2020 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Antonio Campos narrates a look at his period drama featuring Holland and Robert Pattinson.
  
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• National Book Awards Names 2020 Nominees

  18-09-2020 16:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Fiction contenders include Brit Bennett, the author of “The Vanishing Half”; Randall Kenan, a beloved writer who died in August; and Douglas Stuart, a debut novelist who is also a Booker Prize finalist.
  
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• The Spy Movie That Upset the American Dream

  18-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” a 1973 parable about institutional racism, was pulled from theaters after only a few weeks. The New York Film Festival is giving new life to the cult film.
  
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• New York Film Festival Gives New Life to 'The Spook Who Sat by the Door'

  18-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” a 1973 parable about institutional racism, was pulled from theaters after only a few weeks. The New York Film Festival is giving new life to the cult film.
  
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• From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album

  18-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Marc-André Hamelin’s recording features fantasias on Italian opera by Franz Liszt and Sigismond Thalberg, who faced off onstage in 1837.
  
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• Artists Release Open Letter to Whitney Asking for Reform, LACMA Reveals Plans for its New Building and More: Morning Links from September 18, 2020

  18-09-2020 15:46 via artnews.com
  
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  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has finally revealed updated interior views of its controversial new building after facing criticism for not making the renderings public. [ARTnews]
  On Thursday, the planned opening date of the Whitney’s cancelled exhibition, “Collective Actions”, a group of artists selected for the s
  
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• Warner Music Group's Arts Music & Warner Chappell Music Partner With Skyship Entertainment's Children's Brand - Billboard

  18-09-2020 15:00 via billboard.com
  
  Warner Music Group's Arts Music & Warner Chappell Music Partner With Skyship Entertainment's Children's Brand  Billboard
  
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• Carole Baskin of ‘Tiger King’ Gets Her Own Show

  18-09-2020 14:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The unscripted series will follow Ms. Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, as “they work to expose” animal abuse, a production company said.
  
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• In His Hands, a Love Song Becomes a Requiem for Plague Times

  18-09-2020 13:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Ragnar Kjartansson has built his reputation around endurance works, and a Milanese church will host his latest: the same romantic tune repeated hour after hour, day after day, for a month.
  
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• State Arts Council awards nearly $831000 to support arts development - Grand Forks Herald

  18-09-2020 13:00 via grandforksherald.com
  
  State Arts Council awards nearly $831000 to support arts development  Grand Forks Herald
  
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• ‘PEN15’ Is No Longer an Underdog, and That Feels Weird

  18-09-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a joint interview, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle discussed the new season, the destabilizing effect of their show’s success and why the smallest slights are the most devastating.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’

  18-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• It’s a Banana. It’s Art. And Now It’s the Guggenheim’s Problem.

  18-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ephemeral works of art, like Maurizio Cattelan’s creation out of fruit, can often pose conservation challenges for the museums that have them.
  
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• All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash

  18-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three new collections explore the abuses, hypocrisies and awkwardnesses of living in this country today.
  
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• A Candlelit Proposal for a Couple Used to the Spotlight

  18-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ben Chase and Rachel Schur, both actors, got engaged sitting in an audience.
  
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• The Nigerian-British Writer Putting Black Joy on Stage and Screen

  18-09-2020 10:38 via nytimes.com
  
  “There’s so much more that comes with being Black apart from dealing with racism,” says Theresa Ikoko, a Londoner whose movie “Rocks” opened this week.
  
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• College of Arts and Architecture continues Sustainability Roundtables in 2020-21 - Penn State News

  18-09-2020 09:00 via news.psu.edu
  
  College of Arts and Architecture continues Sustainability Roundtables in 2020-21  Penn State News
  
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• Seth Meyers Defends Blue States Against ‘President Caligula’

  18-09-2020 08:53 via nytimes.com
  
  After President Trump seemed to blame liberal states for the Covid-19 death toll, Meyers said he’d done a great job “if you just take out all the people that died.”
  
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• All the Winners From Night 4 of the Creative Arts Emmys - Vulture

  18-09-2020 08:29 via vulture.com
  
  All the Winners From Night 4 of the Creative Arts Emmys  Vulture
  
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• Can a Book Capture the Magic of Birding?

  18-09-2020 06:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Delving into the many tomes that try to distill the fascination that makes so many want to stare up through their binoculars.
  
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• LACMA Unveils New Interior Views of Controversial Zumthor Building

  18-09-2020 02:00 via artnews.com
  
  The wait is finally over. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has at last unveiled updated interior views of its planned building on the east side of the museum’s campus designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. They come after after months of heated debate between local activists, art and architecture critics, movie stars, and the museum, which has divided much of the L.A. art world.
  That the museum took so long to unveil these renderings has been a source of contention for activists. I
  
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• Santa Clarita Arts Calendar: ARTober, Calls for Artists, SOS Theatre Festival - SCVNEWS.com

  18-09-2020 00:47 via scvnews.com
  
  Santa Clarita Arts Calendar: ARTober, Calls for Artists, SOS Theatre Festival  SCVNEWS.com
  
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• Ann Getty, Publisher and Bicoastal Arts Patron, Is Dead at 79

  18-09-2020 00:07 via nytimes.com
  
  She married into one of the world’s richest families but refused to let herself be marginalized as a socialite.
  
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• Ann Getty, Publisher and Bicoastal Arts Patron, Is Dead at 79 - The New York Times

  18-09-2020 00:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Ann Getty, Publisher and Bicoastal Arts Patron, Is Dead at 79  The New York Times
  
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