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• ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon

  13-10-2020 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The Showtime mini-series is the latest work to take up the question of whether the 19th century abolitionist was a martyr or a madman. The answers tend to break along racial lines.
  
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• Conchata Ferrell, Memorable Maid on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ Dies at 77

  13-10-2020 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  She first achieved acclaim on the stage. But she was best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Berta, Charlie Sheen’s gruff housekeeper.
  
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• How a Medusa Sculpture From a Decade Ago Became #MeToo Art

  13-10-2020 23:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Some criticized the fact that the artist behind the work, which was unveiled on Tuesday, was a man. One backer says men need to be in the conversation.
  
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• Rising Stars, Rare Old Masters, and More: What the World’s Top Collectors Bought During a Pandemic

  13-10-2020 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  As much of the world went into lockdown in mid-March, the art world came momentarily came to a standstill, accompanied by a flurry of cancelations of art fairs, exhibitions at galleries and museums, speaking engagements, and more. It would have seemed that there would be very few opportunities to buy new art this year. But artists, galleries, and auction houses soon adapted and began to more their wares online.
  Each summer, ARTnews surveys its Top 200 Collectors to find out what has entered thei
  
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• DeWine hopes to put Ohio’s remaining coronavirus aid toward arts, small businesses, rent assistance - cleveland.com

  13-10-2020 22:07
  
  DeWine hopes to put Ohio’s remaining coronavirus aid toward arts, small businesses, rent assistance  cleveland.com
  
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• Volunteers help build outdoor classroom for Backstreet Arts - Newnan Times-Herald

  13-10-2020 22:01
  
  Volunteers help build outdoor classroom for Backstreet Arts  Newnan Times-Herald
  
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• Proposal to add apartments, shop, restaurant and townhomes in Allied Arts moves forward - The Almanac Online

  13-10-2020 21:03
  
  Proposal to add apartments, shop, restaurant and townhomes in Allied Arts moves forward  The Almanac Online
  
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• Judge rules against Parcells in case filed by state healing arts board - WIBW

  13-10-2020 20:58
  
  Judge rules against Parcells in case filed by state healing arts board  WIBW
  
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• Dutch Museums Voice Support for Government’s Proposed Repatriation Initiative

  13-10-2020 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  With France having taken steps to return looted artifacts to Benin and Senegal by 2021, the Netherlands is now establishing processes to identify and repatriate plundered objects that reside in the country’s museums. According to a report by the Guardian, the directors of the Rijksmuseum and Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam have voiced support for the proposed creation of a legal apparatus that would manage the return of an estimated 100,000 objects. The proposal comes from a new report by the Du
  
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• ‘Carolyn Bryant’ Review: Reliving a Lie That Never Goes Away

  13-10-2020 20:16 via nytimes.com
  
  This stylized, two-character play finds the woman whose false accusation led to the lynching of Emmett Till bound to him, and to racist myths, forever.
  
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• Amazon Prime Day Discounts on Art Supplies for Children

  13-10-2020 20:05 via artnews.com
  
  On its annual Prime Day, which started at 3:00 a.m. Eastern this morning and runs through 3:00 a.m. Eastern October 15, Amazon is offering thousands of deals across all shopping categories.
  As you have to be an Amazon Prime member to have access to any Prime Day offers, you might want to join the club. Amazon Prime costs $12.99 per month (or $119 per year) and not only offers faster shipping, discounts at stores like Whole Foods, and access to Amazon Video, but—you guessed it—you can
  
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• 2 UP artists found Shape and Sound Arts Academy - WLUC

  13-10-2020 20:00
  
  2 UP artists found Shape and Sound Arts Academy  WLUC
  
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• Leonardo’s ‘Lost Masterpiece’ Can’t Be Found Because It Was Never Painted, Experts Claim

  13-10-2020 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  Scholars have been trying to find Leonardo’s “lost masterpiece” for years—and now, some experts are saying the search will never be complete because the work doesn’t exist at all.
  At a roundtable held by the Uffizi Galleries in Florence on October 8, art historians Roberta Barsanti, Giancula Belli, Emanuela Ferrretti, and Cecilia Frosinini presented research that they said attests to the fact that the Leonardo work is not behind a wall in Florence’s centuries-
  
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• Seeking Pandemic Theater? Your Call Will Be Answered Shortly

  13-10-2020 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Two immersive audio pieces, in the form of an automated phone system and a play told as recordings from a grim future, talk about trying and failing to connect with others.
  
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• ‘Spotlight on Plays’ Adds Four Readings of Work by Women

  13-10-2020 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  After criticism over gender parity, Pearl Cleage, Larissa FastHorse, Adrienne Kennedy and Sarah Ruhl will be featured in the spring.
  
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• Which is more creative, the arts or the sciences? - Science Daily

  13-10-2020 19:02
  
  Which is more creative, the arts or the sciences?  Science Daily
  
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• New York Philharmonic Cancels the Rest of Its Season

  13-10-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There is a growing sense that the resumption of large-scale performing arts in New York, and throughout much of the nation, is still almost a year away.
  
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• Which U.K. Art Spaces Received Money from England’s $333 M. Culture Recovery Fund?

  13-10-2020 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  More than 1,300 arts venues across the U.K, including London’s Whitechapel Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, will soon receive a share of £257 million (roughly $333.4 million) in culture recovery funds from England’s Arts Council.
  On Monday, the program released data for the first round of funding to be received by cultural organization that applied for less than £1 million in aid. According the Arts Council site, the funds are intended to allow venues to begin reopen
  
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• Brandon Cronenberg Will Now Perform an Interview

  13-10-2020 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The director of the provocative horror film “Possessor Uncut” argues that none of us are ever truly ourselves: “There’s an internal performance that we all engage with.”
  
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• Mobile arts festival goes on, with changes - NewsChannel 3-12 - KEYT

  13-10-2020 18:27
  
  Mobile arts festival goes on, with changes - NewsChannel 3-12  KEYT
  
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• Autechre Worked in Isolation for Decades. Now It’s Unintentionally Timely.

  13-10-2020 18:21 via nytimes.com
  
  In a rare interview, the British duo discuss the making of “SIGN” and infusing electronic music with a full spectrum of emotions.
  
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• The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times

  13-10-2020 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A Lover’s Discourse,” by Xiaolu Guo, and “Just Like You,” by Nick Hornby, characters couple up as Britain makes a break.
  
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• In Shows Like ‘Social Distance,’ TV Learns to Work From Home

  13-10-2020 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  New series made in and about the pandemic are fascinating first drafts of pop history — even if they’re mixed as entertainment.
  
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• Jimmy O. Yang’s Week: Watching Rom-Coms as ‘Homework’

  13-10-2020 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian is entering new territory as the romantic lead in “Love Hard.” So he watched “Notting Hill” and “The Kissing Booth 2” to prepare.
  
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• A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight

  13-10-2020 17:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Brandon Patrick George, a member of the adventurous Imani Winds, releases his debut recording.
  
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• More Amazon Prime Day Sales on Studio Basics

  13-10-2020 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  On its annual Prime Day, which started at 3:00 a.m. Eastern this morning and runs through 3:00 a.m. Eastern October 15 (ok, so it’s really two days, not one…), Amazon is offering thousands of deals across all shopping categories.
  As you have to be an Amazon Prime member to have access to any Prime Day offers, you might want to join the club. Amazon Prime costs $12.99 per month (or $119 per year) and not only offers faster shipping, discounts at stores like Whole Foods, and access to
  
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• 'I worked in horror films. Now I'm an undertaker': arts workers who had to find new jobs - The Guardian

  13-10-2020 17:09
  
  'I worked in horror films. Now I'm an undertaker': arts workers who had to find new jobs  The Guardian
  
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• PBS Pledge Drive: A History

  13-10-2020 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The interruptions to regular programming in favor of a hard sell and programming of dubious merit have infuriated viewers for decades. But stations find it hard to quit them.
  
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• A New Meaning for “We the People”

  13-10-2020 16:11 via artnews.com
  
  I used to look forward eagerly to election night, when I was a kid. My parents, not normally ones for throwing parties, opened up our house every four years. It didn’t matter to me who won, I just loved the decorations, especially the board of old election pins whose obscure slogans—Give ‘Em Hell Harry, I Like Ike, All the Way with LBJ—seemed to me like ancient runes. I think back on these events, today, as we hurtle toward a presidential election of unusual significance,
  
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• What’s Next for a ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Fan?

  13-10-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our television critic suggests some sci-fi shows that feel grounded in reality.
  
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• Sci-Fi Shows for People Who Don't Usually Like Sci-Fi

  13-10-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our television critic suggests some sci-fi shows that feel grounded in reality.
  
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• The Palace Theatre's new livestream system will bring arts into homes - TribLIVE

  13-10-2020 15:59
  
  The Palace Theatre's new livestream system will bring arts into homes  TribLIVE
  
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• Pandemic presents an opportunity for small liberal arts colleges to change - The Conversation US

  13-10-2020 15:25
  
  Pandemic presents an opportunity for small liberal arts colleges to change  The Conversation US
  
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• Museums in Crisis, Art Spaces Lobby New York State, and More: Morning Links from October 13, 2020

  13-10-2020 15:18 via artnews.com
  
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  Peggy McGlone and Sebastian Smee report “America’s great art museums are in crisis. And only some of the distress can be blamed on the Covid-19 pandemic.” [The Washington Post]
  Peter Schjeldahl weighed in on the Philip Guston controversy and suggests “the debate surrounding the postponement of a show containing depictions of Klan
  
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• The Problem of Wartime Guilt and Its Long Life Span

  13-10-2020 15:10 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Wind Traveler,” by Alonso Cueto, a man haunted by a terrible act he committed as a soldier faces the fallout years later.
  
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• Ben Brantley Looks Back on His 27 Years of Theater Criticism

  13-10-2020 14:38 via nytimes.com
  
  After 27 years and more than 2,500 reviews, The Times’s co-chief theater critic reviews his own tenure and talks about why he’s (quietly) making an exit.
  
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• Using Photogrammetry, They Create Stories You Can Walk Through

  13-10-2020 14:18 via nytimes.com
  
  An immersive 3-D image process lets readers peek inside a California home for gamers, part of a new Times series that showcases visual storytelling techniques.
  
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• Why I’ll Never Stop Being a Theater Critic

  13-10-2020 13:59 via nytimes.com
  
  After 27 years on the job, the writer Ben Brantley bids farewell with one last recommendation: Watch a show as if you were a reviewer.
  
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• Marc Jacobs Has a Very Busy Personal Assistant

  13-10-2020 13:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Among the many tasks of Nick Newbold, the designer’s personal assistant? Shooting a documentary about their lives during all of … this.
  
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• Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her

  13-10-2020 13:20 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write,” the longtime novelist explores her development as a writer.
  
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• The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself

  13-10-2020 13:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing” looks at how America has shifted from common purpose to individualism, to the greater detriment.
  
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• In Shaping Her Own Story, She Upends a National Epic

  13-10-2020 13:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s novel “The Adventures of China Iron” spotlights a female character relegated to a bare mention in an Argentine classic.
  
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• ‘Totally Under Control’ Review: In the Middle of a Pandemic Response

  13-10-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Alex Gibney’s film arrives early in an inevitable wave of Covid-19 documentaries.
  
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• ‘Nocturne’ Review: On a Low Note

  13-10-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Contrivances are par for the course in the horror genre, but this film lacks the stylistic flair to make them fun.
  
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• ‘Evil Eye’ Review: The Man of a Mother’s Dreams May Not Be Mr. Right

  13-10-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Is there something sinister about the well-heeled suitor of a faraway daughter in New Orleans?
  
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• Book Review: ’150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ by Craig Brown

  13-10-2020 12:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Craig Brown follows up the best-selling “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret” with a book about John, Paul, George and Ringo.
  
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• Why We Turned to PBS: 50 Reasons Over 50 Years

  13-10-2020 11:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Over the past five decades, we have invited Monty Python, Julia Child, Barney, William F. Buckley Jr. and Carl Sagan into our living rooms. Sound eclectic? It’s called the Public Broadcasting Service.
  
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• PBS Showed TV the Future. But What Does Its Own Look Like?

  13-10-2020 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  It created the blueprint for what TV has become. And, while networks and streaming services reap the benefits of PBS’s successes, it is still struggling to survive.
  
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• PBS Is Still TV’s Best Path to Better Citizenship

  13-10-2020 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Long before it was fashionable, PBS educated us about the realities of American life, and spoke some truth to power along the way.
  
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• ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else

  13-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new book by Adrian Daub, a Stanford professor of comparative literature, brings a skeptical eye to Silicon Valley mythology.
  
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