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• Downbeat 720 Launches Virtually, Providing Supportive Connections for Teens through the Arts - santamonica.gov

  05-10-2020 23:27 via santamonica.gov
  
  Downbeat 720 Launches Virtually, Providing Supportive Connections for Teens through the Arts  santamonica.gov
  
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• Will the show go on for New Jersey's live arts scene? - NJ Spotlight

  05-10-2020 22:42 via njspotlight.com
  
  Will the show go on for New Jersey's live arts scene?  NJ Spotlight
  
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• Arts al fresco: Art, music classes head outdoors - Binghamton University

  05-10-2020 22:39 via binghamton.edu
  
  Arts al fresco: Art, music classes head outdoors  Binghamton University
  
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• ‘The Social Network’ 10 Years Later: A Grim Online Life Foretold

  05-10-2020 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  At the time, the fictional story of Facebook’s founding seemed overdramatic; now it underscores how our connections have changed, especially in the Covid era.
  
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• Linda Givon, Founder of South Africa’s Goodman Gallery, Has Died at Age 84

  05-10-2020 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  Dealer Linda Givon, who founded Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg in 1966, has died at age 84. The South African publication Times Live, which first broke the news, reports that Givon’s death was “unexpected.” Goodman Gallery did not immediately provide ARTnews with Givon’s cause of death.
  In the early years of the gallery, Givon worked with artists including David Goldblatt, Zwelethu Mthethwa, William Kentridge, Sydney Kumalo, Tracey Rose, and Moshekwa Langa, among others.
  
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• Sacramento Kings, Goldman Global Arts and When We All Vote Partner on Digital Art Campaign Encouraging Voter Awareness | Sacramento Kings - Kings.com

  05-10-2020 21:57 via nba.com
  
  Sacramento Kings, Goldman Global Arts and When We All Vote Partner on Digital Art Campaign Encouraging Voter Awareness | Sacramento Kings  Kings.com
  
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• ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Copyright Case Won’t Go to Supreme Court

  05-10-2020 21:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The court’s decision leaves in place an appeals court ruling that Led Zeppelin did not copy part of a 1968 song, ending the long-running dispute.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Company Gallery Now Represents Katherine Hubbard—and More from October 5, 2020

  05-10-2020 21:28 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, October 5
  Company Gallery Now Represents Katherine HubbardCompany Gallery in New York has added Katherine Hubbard to its roster. Hubbard is an interdisciplinary artist whose performances, photographs, and writings consider the relationship between one’s body and images of it. Her work has been featured in shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among elsewhere. She is
  
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• Arts council to celebrate 'Prohibition' anniversary - Port Clinton News Herald

  05-10-2020 21:00 via portclintonnewsherald.com
  Arts council to celebrate 'Prohibition' anniversary  Port Clinton News Herald
  
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• Museum Directors Explain Controversial Decision to Delay Philip Guston Show

  05-10-2020 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  As an outcry continues to mount in response to the four-year pushback of a Philip Guston retrospective, directors of two its host institutions have explained their decision to postpone the show to 2024.
  After issuing a joint statement with the leaders of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, which are among the four institutions scheduled to present the exhibition, the directors of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and Tate Modern in London have said t
  
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• Arts & Entertainment | whig.com - Herald-Whig

  05-10-2020 20:18 via whig.com
  Arts & Entertainment | whig.com  Herald-Whig
  
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• Painter Dana Schutz, Whose Work Set Off Whitney Museum Controversy, Heads to David Zwirner

  05-10-2020 20:15 via artnews.com
  
  Dana Schutz, a painter whose bold figurations have in recent years drawn a mixture of bitter controversy and passionate acclaim, is now represented by the mega-gallery David Zwirner, which has locations in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. Schutz comes to Zwirner from New York’s Petzel gallery, which has represented her since 2011. Prior to that, she showed with New York’s Zach Feuer gallery, which debuted her work in 2002.
  A representative for Petzel confirmed the news, saying
  
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• America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence

  05-10-2020 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Elliott Currie’s “A Peculiar Indifference” traces the history of violence in Black communities and the reasons for it.
  
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• Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy

  05-10-2020 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  With “The Searcher,” French moves away from the Dublin Murder Squad and her usual Dublin setting to drink in the open landscapes of western Ireland.
  
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• Machine Gun Kelly Leads a Shake-Up at the Top of the Billboard Chart

  05-10-2020 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop-punk album “Tickets to My Downfall” debuted at No. 1, followed by LPs from SuperM and Joji.
  
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• Kerry James Marshall, Barkley Hendricks Bring Sotheby’s ‘Contemporary Curated’ Sale to $30.7 M.

  05-10-2020 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  On Friday in New York, Sotheby’s held its highly anticipated fall “Contemporary Curated” auction, a biannual series focused on mid-career and postwar artists. The sale hammered at $24 million, making $30.7 million total with buyer’s premium across 176 lots, and landing within the pre-sale estimate of $23 million–$32.7 million.
  The sell-through rate of 72.7 percent was lower than average. The results came in just under last year’s equivalent sale total of $32.7
  
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• Who Is to Blame?

  05-10-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Elliott Currie’s “A Peculiar Indifference” traces the history of violence in Black communities and the reasons for it.
  
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• Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Italian Art Center Suffers Extensive Damage Following Flood

  05-10-2020 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  The Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto, a museum and research laboratory founded by Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, has suffered extensive damage following a weekend of torrential rain in the Italian city of Biellese.
  According to a statement from the artist and Paolo Naldini, director of the center, the performance space and entire exhibition hall was flooded by the nearby Cervo river. The center occupies the former Trombetta wool mill, a 19th-century factory which has become
  
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• Blood, Passion and Captivity: Gentileschi’s Life Is in Her Paintings

  05-10-2020 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  A new blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery in London shows the artist’s defiant strength, forged in the trials she endured.
  
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• Month of fundraising underway for Tuscarawas County fine arts - Tusco TV

  05-10-2020 17:58 via tusco.tv
  
  Month of fundraising underway for Tuscarawas County fine arts  Tusco TV
  
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• Mellon Foundation Earmarks $250 M. for U.S.-Wide ‘Monuments Project’

  05-10-2020 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  As monuments around the world continue to be the subjects of protests focused on systemic racism and police brutality, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has dedicated $250 million to its new “Monuments Project,” which over the course of five years will fund the creation of new monuments, memorials, and other installations in the United States. The initiative will also support research, educational programs, and relocation efforts related to existing American monuments.
  According to a r
  
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• Race in America: The Arts - Washington Post

  05-10-2020 17:00 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Race in America: The Arts  Washington Post
  
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• Race in America: The Arts - The Washington Post

  05-10-2020 17:00 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Race in America: The Arts  The Washington Post
  
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• Former New Museum Staffers Detail Work Environment at the Institution and More: Morning Links from October 5, 2020

  05-10-2020 15:01 via artnews.com
  
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  Here’s a guide to biennials around the world that have been postponed due to the pandemic, from the Bienal de São Paulo to the Whitney Biennial in New York. [ARTnews]
  The Times has a report on working conditions at the New Museum in New York, which has cut its budget and issued layoffs as a result of the pandemic. [
  
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• Making the Monsters of ‘Lovecraft Country’

  05-10-2020 13:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Grant Walker, who helped create the HBO show’s nightmarish Shoggoth creatures, had “a lot of fun designing the teeth and the mouth and all of the blood.”
  
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• WPI Explores How the Arts and Sciences Can Help the World Heal and Have Hope - WPI News

  05-10-2020 13:07 via wpi.edu
  
  WPI Explores How the Arts and Sciences Can Help the World Heal and Have Hope  WPI News
  
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• Hometown Stories: Abingdon teen pursuing performing arts career in D.C. - Bristol Herald Courier

  05-10-2020 12:00 via heraldcourier.com
  Hometown Stories: Abingdon teen pursuing performing arts career in D.C.  Bristol Herald Courier
  
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• The New Museum Is World-Class, but Many Find It a Tough Place to Work

  05-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Critics acknowledge the success the New Museum in New York has achieved. But they say it has come at the expense of many people who work there.
  
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• London’s Frieze Week Is Still On, Online and Off

  05-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Though crowds won’t fill Regent’s Park for in-person fairs, some galleries remain determined “to show the best of the best during these times.”
  
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• John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue

  05-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Snow” is a classic policier like the novels written under Banville’s pen name, Benjamin Black. But it is a superbly rich and sophisticated one.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Snow,’ by John Banville

  05-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Snow” is a classic policier like the novels written under Banville’s pen name, Benjamin Black. But it is a superbly rich and sophisticated one.
  
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• Art to See in London This Fall

  05-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  During Frieze Week and beyond, museums and galleries are ready to take viewers on a journey through centuries and across genres.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soulmates’ and the Vice-Presidential Debate

  05-10-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new anthology series centers on a futuristic test that can determine a person’s soul mate, Mike Pence and Kamala Harris face off on Wednesday and classic Halloween movies come to Freeform and AMC.
  
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• Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments

  05-10-2020 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The initiative, the largest in the organization’s history, will support the creation of new monuments, as well as the relocation or rethinking of existing ones.
  
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• ‘Fargo’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap: Who’s in Charge?

  05-10-2020 05:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The Italians up the ante after Loy’s attempt to take over the slaughterhouses. But which Fadda brother is really calling the shots?
  
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• Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Actor in Spike Lee Films, Is Killed in Shooting

  05-10-2020 04:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The Tony-nominated actor, 70, was found by police with multiple gunshot wounds early Saturday morning.
  
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• Fate of the Arts - Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

  05-10-2020 00:50 via mspmag.com
  
  Fate of the Arts  Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
  
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