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• Free Arts New York Is Giving You the Chance to Own a KAWS Piece for $100 - Complex

  30-09-2020 23:59 via complex.com
  
  Free Arts New York Is Giving You the Chance to Own a KAWS Piece for $100  Complex
  
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• Martial arts academy defrauded The Children’s Trust of nearly $300K, prosecutors say - WPLG Local 10

  30-09-2020 23:42 via local10.com
  
  Martial arts academy defrauded The Children’s Trust of nearly $300K, prosecutors say  WPLG Local 10
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Hulu, Amazon and More in October

  30-09-2020 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Every month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for October.
  
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• Kidsburgh: Center For Theater Arts Provides Much-Needed Outlet For Pittsburgh-Area Students - CBS Pittsburgh

  30-09-2020 23:23 via pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
  
  Kidsburgh: Center For Theater Arts Provides Much-Needed Outlet For Pittsburgh-Area Students  CBS Pittsburgh
  
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• Tim Griffin Steps Down as Director of Celebrated New York Art Space with Experimental Tendencies

  30-09-2020 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  Tim Griffin, director and chief curator of the Kitchen, a nonprofit experimental art space in New York, will step down from his position at the end of the year. Griffin joined the Kitchen in 2011, after a tenure as the editor-in-chief and later editor-at-large of Artforum.
  “I can’t imagine a more inspiring or humbling experience among artists than what The Kitchen, and its dedicated staff and board, has offered me over the years,” Griffin said in a statement. “Few places
  
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• Stream These Oscar-Winning Documentaries From the 21st Century

  30-09-2020 22:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Are you craving an evening of truth? Check out one of these Academy Award winners for best documentary feature from the past two decades.
  
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• Hidden Talents at Ballet Theater, and a Way to Keep Moving

  30-09-2020 22:28 via nytimes.com
  
  What to stream: American Ballet Theater’s “Moving Stories,” JoyceStream, Monica Bill Barnes, and a class for all ages and abilities.
  
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• France’s Colonial Legacy Is Being Judged in Trial Over African Art

  30-09-2020 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Activists are being tried in Paris over the attempted theft of an African artwork from the Quai Branly Museum, which they say was a protest of colonial-era practices.
  
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• The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated

  30-09-2020 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  An open letter, signed by nearly 100 artists, curators and critics, accuses four museums of “hiding away” from controversy. A long postponement is an admission these institutions are not up to the job.
  
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• Robert Bechtle, Photorealist Painter of Suburbia, Dies at 88

  30-09-2020 22:07 via nytimes.com
  
  He used photographs to guide his meticulously rendered paintings of everyday American landscapes, finding unexpected beauty.
  
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• What to know about this year’s Jewish Book & Arts Festival in Houston - KPRC Click2Houston

  30-09-2020 21:57 via click2houston.com
  
  What to know about this year’s Jewish Book & Arts Festival in Houston  KPRC Click2Houston
  
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• Peter Anderson Arts Festival collector's shirts for sale - WXXV News 25

  30-09-2020 21:51 via wxxv25.com
  
  Peter Anderson Arts Festival collector's shirts for sale  WXXV News 25
  
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• Citing Pandemic’s Impact, Peter Eleey to Step Down as Chief Curator of New York’s MoMA PS1

  30-09-2020 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  Peter Eleey, the chief curator of MoMA PS1 in New York, will step down from his post at the end of the year. Having joined the museum as a curator in 2010, he has held the institution’s top curatorial job since 2016.
  “The many impacts of the pandemic—on the museum, on the city, and on all of us—have moved me to think about the next chapters in my work and my life, and I have decided to step down as Chief Curator at the end of the year,” Eleey wrote in an emailed let
  
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• Frick Announces Plans for Its Two-Year Stay in Breuer Building

  30-09-2020 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  While its mansion is under renovation, the Frick will show its permanent collection in the Brutalist building owned by the Whitney and recently occupied by the Met.
  
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• Carrie Hope Fletcher: 'The arts aren't viable? See how you feel without them!' - The Guardian

  30-09-2020 20:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Carrie Hope Fletcher: 'The arts aren't viable? See how you feel without them!'  The Guardian
  
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• October guide to the arts at the U - University of Miami

  30-09-2020 20:45 via news.miami.edu
  
  October guide to the arts at the U  University of Miami
  
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• New Stand-Up Specials Give a Snapshot of Life Just Before the Pandemic

  30-09-2020 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Four new specials give us a snapshot of life just as we realized what the pandemic would mean. Each set succeeds, but for different reasons.
  
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• Cracking Jokes Right Before the World Turned Upside Down

  30-09-2020 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Four new specials give us a snapshot of life just as we realized what the pandemic would mean. Each set succeeds, but for different reasons.
  
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• 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming

  30-09-2020 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Since the 1960s, political campaigns have proven irresistible fodder for nonfiction filmmakers. Here are a few rich and informative documentaries about what campaigns used to look and sound like.
  
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• How Bob Woodward's Latest Book 'Rage' Became Yet Another Best Seller

  30-09-2020 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He has covered nine presidents over 50 years, making him perhaps the country’s most enduring chronicler of the Oval Office. His latest is yet another best seller, drawing praise and criticism along the way.
  
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• Arts & Culture - WKSU News

  30-09-2020 20:00 via wksu.org
  Arts & Culture  WKSU News
  
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• The Stockley Gardens Arts festival is going virtual this fall - 13newsnow.com WVEC

  30-09-2020 19:31 via 13newsnow.com
  
  The Stockley Gardens Arts festival is going virtual this fall  13newsnow.com WVEC
  
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• City of Lansing announces new grants for Arts Projects - WILX

  30-09-2020 19:29 via wilx.com
  
  City of Lansing announces new grants for Arts Projects  WILX
  
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• Poet Kevin Young Named Director of National Museum of African American History and Culture

  30-09-2020 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  Kevin Young, the director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has been named the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., according to the Washington Post. He succeeds Lonnie G. Bunch III, who left NMAAHC when was named secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 2019. Young is expected to start in his new role on January 11.
  Young is best-known for his acclaimed poetry, which has collecte
  
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• Beba’s Story Tells of Jewish Life Before the Nazis

  30-09-2020 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition based on the recently found autobiography of Beba Epstein, a fifth grader in Europe in the 1930s, has been posted online by the YIVO Institute.
  
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• Here's why the arts are important in education - Bangor Daily News

  30-09-2020 17:10 via bangordailynews.com
  
  Here's why the arts are important in education  Bangor Daily News
  
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• Kevin Young, Poet and Author, Is Named to Lead African American Museum

  30-09-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The poetry editor of The New Yorker will retain that position while undertaking his new role.
  
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• Cincinnati ranks among top 20 arts-vibrant cities in U.S. for first time, report says - Cincinnati Business Courier

  30-09-2020 16:45 via bizjournals.com
  Cincinnati ranks among top 20 arts-vibrant cities in U.S. for first time, report says  Cincinnati Business Courier
  
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• A Museum Puts Its Fakes on Show

  30-09-2020 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  A German institution found that many of its Russian avant-garde paintings weren’t genuine. A new exhibition puts those works front and center, despite protests from the gallery that sold some of the works.
  
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• Barton Performing Arts presents 'Autumn Arts' concert - GREAT BEND TRIBUNE - Great Bend Tribune

  30-09-2020 16:28 via gbtribune.com
  
  Barton Performing Arts presents 'Autumn Arts' concert - GREAT BEND TRIBUNE  Great Bend Tribune
  
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• Helen Reddy Dies at 78; Sang ‘I Am Woman’

  30-09-2020 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The Australian-born singer’s first No. 1 hit became a feminist anthem and propelled her to international stardom.
  
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• Philip Guston’s KKK Paintings: Why an Abstract Painter Returned to Figuration to Confront Racism

  30-09-2020 16:02 via artnews.com
  
  In 1930, Philip Guston went to work on Conspirators, a tall painting featuring a trio of Ku Klux Klan members clustered in the midst of mysterious architectural elements. Their heads were bowed, and their hands brandished clubs and other weapons. Three years later, the painting went on view in Los Angeles at the Stanley Rose bookshop. But in a cruel twist of fate, people who had donned pointed hoods similar to the ones featured in the work ended up destroying Conspirators and various other works
  
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• Anthony Fantano Is the Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25)

  30-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anthony Fantano reviews albums and songs on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop, bringing an old art to a new medium — and perhaps ensuring it has a future.
  
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• Mac Davis, Pop and Country Singing Star, Is Dead at 78

  30-09-2020 15:54 via nytimes.com
  
  After writing hits for Elvis Presley and others, he became famous in his own right with songs like the No. 1 hit “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me.”
  
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• Kamala Harris Talks Art, Victoria & Albert Museum to Cut 103 Jobs, and More: Morning Links from September 30, 2020

  30-09-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  London’s Victoria & Albert Museum will cut its staff by 10 percent. The 103 roles set to be lost are mainly in the the retail and visitor experience departments. [The Art Newspaper]
  At an event called “Artists for Biden” last night, Kamala Harris addressed her love of contemporary art in a conversation with Catherine Opie, Carrie Mae Weems,
  
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• Donald Trump Burns the First Debate Down

  30-09-2020 14:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The first Trump-Biden face-off was a dumpster fire, and a bullying president lit the match.
  
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• Reps. Maloney and Nadler Introduce Legislation to Deliver Emergency Relief to Arts & Cultural Nonprofit Community - https://maloney.house.gov

  30-09-2020 14:47 via maloney.house.gov
  Reps. Maloney and Nadler Introduce Legislation to Deliver Emergency Relief to Arts & Cultural Nonprofit Community  https://maloney.house.gov
  
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• Southwest Minnesota Arts Council launches new grant programs - Crow River Media

  30-09-2020 13:30 via crowrivermedia.com
  Southwest Minnesota Arts Council launches new grant programs  Crow River Media
  
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• ‘The Glorias’ Review: Hear Them Roar

  30-09-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Various incarnations of Gloria Steinem take to the road in this reverential biopic.
  
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• ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ Review: Tragedy Reconstructed

  30-09-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Watts murders are revisited in this devastating Netflix documentary about marriage, social media and violence against women.
  
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• At the End of the New Pier 26, a Surprise

  30-09-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This environmentally themed project features an unusual design, including soaring walkways that lead to an unexpected destination.
  
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• ‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: How Far Have We Come, Really?

  30-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This provocative work is again revived, now for Netflix with an all-star cast including Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells.
  
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• How the Show ‘Alone’ Sparked a Solo Trip and a Tough Realization

  30-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Had my fiancée and I, like so many of the contestants on the series, reached the end of our endurance?
  
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• How ‘Rage’ Challenged Bob Woodward

  30-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  He has covered nine presidents over 50 years, making him perhaps the country’s most enduring chronicler of the Oval Office. His latest is yet another best seller, drawing praise and criticism along the way.
  
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• 'Panto parade' highlights the plight of arts venues - BBC News

  30-09-2020 09:00 via bbc.com
  
  'Panto parade' highlights the plight of arts venues  BBC News
  
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• Late Night Goes Live for Bruising Presidential Debate

  30-09-2020 08:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon weighed in after President Trump and Joe Biden had their first debate on Tuesday night. “Get ready for democracy to crumble!” Colbert said.
  
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• Fall Guide 2020: Orlando arts and events - Orlando Weekly

  30-09-2020 07:02 via orlandoweekly.com
  
  Fall Guide 2020: Orlando arts and events  Orlando Weekly
  
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• 10 Offbeat Superhero Movies to Stream

  30-09-2020 04:04 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s a class of superhero that’s flawed, self-aware and lovably human, often poking fun at the genre. If you’re feeling some big-budget blockbuster fatigue, try one of these films.
  
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• Helen Reddy, Singer Behind ‘I Am Woman,’ Dies at 78

  30-09-2020 03:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The Australian-born singer’s first No. 1 hit became a feminist anthem and propelled her to international stardom.
  
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• Stream These Family-Friendly Classic Holiday Movies

  30-09-2020 03:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Summon the ghosts of Christmas movies, past and present, for some good cheer. That burning “Yule Log” video keeps visiting friends and family entertained for only so long.
  
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