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• Indiana University Of Pennsylvania To Close 5 Fine Arts Programs - CBS Pittsburgh

  29-10-2020 23:35
  
  Indiana University Of Pennsylvania To Close 5 Fine Arts Programs  CBS Pittsburgh
  
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• These artists, advocates, businesses earned Governors Arts Awards - AZ Big Media

  29-10-2020 22:45
  
  These artists, advocates, businesses earned Governors Arts Awards  AZ Big Media
  
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• Arts organizations need support, fund drive organizers say - Greensboro News & Record

  29-10-2020 22:36
  Arts organizations need support, fund drive organizers say  Greensboro News & Record
  
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• Art Basel’s 20th-Century Online Fair Sees Slow Sales in First Days

  29-10-2020 22:35 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, Art Basel launched the second iteration of its revamped digital fair, “OVR,” which features six-work presentations from 100 galleries. In its first wholly digital endeavor, the fair placed a focus on work made in 2020. For this edition, named “OVR:20c,” Art Basel has spotlighted art made in the 20th century.
  “Art Basel, as an entity within the art world, is known not just for contemporary work but also for historical work,” Marc Spiegler, Art Bas
  
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• Family Martial Arts Center Karate Expands Into Fanwood - TAPinto.net

  29-10-2020 22:00
  
  Family Martial Arts Center Karate Expands Into Fanwood  TAPinto.net
  
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• Billy Joe Shaver, Outlaw Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 81

  29-10-2020 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Waylon Jennings put him on the musical map. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded his material. Bob Dylan sang admiringly of listening to his music.
  
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• How Antoni Gaudí’s Eccentric Style Changed the Face of Modernist Architecture

  29-10-2020 21:02 via artnews.com
  
  With his extravagant, shapeshifting structures that drew on a variety of sources, from the Arts and Crafts movement of the 19th century to Islamic and Asian architecture to traditional Catalan forms and beyond, Antoni Gaudí became one of the most famous architects of the first half of the 20th-century. He remains a pioneering figure of Art Nouveau and modernisme, or Catalan Modernism. Gaudí is best known for his intricate structures throughout Barcelona, with the storied Basí
  
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• Electronic Arts faces €10 million fine over FIFA loot boxes in the Netherlands - PC Gamer

  29-10-2020 20:48
  
  Electronic Arts faces €10 million fine over FIFA loot boxes in the Netherlands  PC Gamer
  
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• Spooky San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Halloween Theater, Día De Los Muertos, Wearable Art And Dead Man's Party - KPBS

  29-10-2020 20:31
  
  Spooky San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Halloween Theater, Día De Los Muertos, Wearable Art And Dead Man's Party  KPBS
  
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• Zoe Lister-Jones on ‘The Craft’ and Women’s Power

  29-10-2020 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  An outsider herself as a young woman, the director and actress wants teenage girls to relish a sense of community.
  
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• 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend

  29-10-2020 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City.
  
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• Remarkable Records of Joni Mitchell’s Changes

  29-10-2020 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A five-disc archival collection traces the beginnings of one of the most daring trajectories in popular music.
  
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• New Joni Mitchell Collection Captures Her Early Career Transformation

  29-10-2020 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A five-disc archival collection traces the beginnings of one of the most daring trajectories in popular music.
  
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• Parks, Arts, and Recreation Commission - yumaaz.gov

  29-10-2020 19:45
  Parks, Arts, and Recreation Commission  yumaaz.gov
  
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• Mohamed Melehi, Moroccan Modernist Whose Influence Loomed Large, Has Died at 84 of Covid-19

  29-10-2020 19:41 via artnews.com
  
  Mohamed Melehi, a painter of vibrantly hued abstractions that helped spur an artistic renaissance in his home country of Morocco, has died at 84. According to Abu Dhabi–based, English-language publication the National, the artist died in a Paris hospital of complications related to Covid-19.
  Melehi’s colorful paintings featuring undulating wave-like forms aided in the development of modernism in Morocco during the 1960s. Working alongside artists such as Farid Belkahia and Mohammed C
  
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• Bob Biggs, Los Angeles Punk-Rock Entrepreneur, Dies at 74

  29-10-2020 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Slash Records, which Mr. Biggs founded in 1979, became one of the most successful independent record labels of its era.
  
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• Viterbo launching performing arts conservatory next fall - News8000.com - WKBT

  29-10-2020 18:28
  
  Viterbo launching performing arts conservatory next fall  News8000.com - WKBT
  
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• Arts This Week: Activist Photographers And 'Listen, To The Cry Of Your Fellow Man' - wgbh.org

  29-10-2020 18:15
  
  Arts This Week: Activist Photographers And 'Listen, To The Cry Of Your Fellow Man'  wgbh.org
  
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• Yes, We Liked the Berkshires Shows. Here’s $2 Million.

  29-10-2020 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  This summer, a woman went to outdoor shows at two beloved theaters in Massachusetts. She and her brother are now helping them to cover their costs and survive this winter.
  
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• What Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Record on Arts Funding? - Hyperallergic

  29-10-2020 17:27
  
  What Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Record on Arts Funding?  Hyperallergic
  
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• ‘South Park’ Creators Break Down 'Sassy Justice,' Their Deepfake Video

  29-10-2020 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In an interview, Trey Parker, Matt Stone and their collaborator Peter Serafinowicz discuss the back story of “Sassy Justice,” their deepfake video that used images of President Trump and others.
  
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• At the Queens Museum, Home and the World

  29-10-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In three post-lockdown exhibitions, the museum stakes out its role in the life of its neighborhood’s multiethnic citizens.
  
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• Covid-19 is forcing the arts in Europe back into the arms of government - The Economist

  29-10-2020 16:53
  
  Covid-19 is forcing the arts in Europe back into the arms of government  The Economist
  
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• David Guillod, Hollywood Executive, Arrested Again After Assault Report

  29-10-2020 16:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Guillod was out on bail after he was charged earlier this year with sexually assaulting four women.
  
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• German and French Museums Face Second Lockdown Amid Surging Coronavirus Cases

  29-10-2020 16:36 via artnews.com
  
  As a second wave of coronavirus cases surge in Europe, cultural institutions in Germany and France once again face the possibility of extended closures. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a new round of restrictions on public spaces in their respective countries that led to the shuttering of some major institutions.
  In a bid to curb the spread of the virus in France, where daily cases surpassed 50,000 over the weekend, Macron reimposed a
  
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• MoMA PS1 Board Shifts Leadership, with Longtime Chair Agnes Gund Now Leading DEI Committee

  29-10-2020 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  The board of MoMA PS1 in New York will undergo a regime change, as its chair of the past 10 years vacates the position to take on a new role within the institution. Agnes Gund, who has chaired the board from 2010 to 2020, will step down from her post to become the chair of PS1’s diversity, equity, and inclusion committee. Sarah Arison, formerly the board’s co–vice chair, will become the chair of the museum’s board.
  Gund, who is also a board member at PS1’s sister in
  
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• Governor Raimondo announces $20 million Hotel, Arts, & Tourism Industry Relief Program - What'sUpNewp

  29-10-2020 15:41
  
  Governor Raimondo announces $20 million Hotel, Arts, & Tourism Industry Relief Program  What'sUpNewp
  
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• Bridging the Gap Between Arts and Activism | Harvard Graduate School of Education - Harvard Graduate School of Education

  29-10-2020 15:37
  
  Bridging the Gap Between Arts and Activism | Harvard Graduate School of Education  Harvard Graduate School of Education
  
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• Quad City Arts Offering Online Educational Materials - KWQC-TV6

  29-10-2020 15:31
  
  Quad City Arts Offering Online Educational Materials  KWQC-TV6
  
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• ‘There Are Tons of Brown Faces Missing’: Publishers Step Up Diversity Efforts

  29-10-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The push in book publishing for more authors and workers of color hasn’t abated, and companies are increasingly making lasting changes to the way they do business.
  
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• MEET Digital Arts Center / Carlo Ratti Associati - ArchDaily

  29-10-2020 15:00
  
  MEET Digital Arts Center / Carlo Ratti Associati  ArchDaily
  
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• A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid

  29-10-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway marquee was up, but this crowd-pleasing musical never made it out of Seattle. Among the creative differences: How fat should Falstaff be?
  
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• Evening Sale at Sotheby’s Brings in $284 M., Ghana Appoints New Museum Committee, and More: Morning Links from October 29, 2020

  29-10-2020 14:25 via artnews.com
  
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  In a dramatic turn of events just two hours before they were supposed to go on the block, the Baltimore Museum of Art paused its plans to auction off two paintings from its collection (and sell another privately) through Sotheby’s in New York. The move followed “a private conversation between the BMA’s leadership and the Associati
  
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• ‘The True Adventures of Wolfboy’ Review: A Hirsute Teen Drama

  29-10-2020 12:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A 13-year-old boy, his body covered in hair, searches for the mother he never knew.
  
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• Welcome to His World: Bela Tarr’s First Meteorological Event

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Damnation,” an atmospheric tale of erotic obsession, is the movie with which the Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr came into his own as a stylist.
  
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• ‘Us Kids’ Review: They’re Not All Right

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary by Kim A. Snyder asks difficult questions about what it means to grow up in an America where gun violence is far too common.
  
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• ‘The Donut King’ Review: Sweet Dreams

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary traces the mercurial journey of a Cambodian refugee who became a doughnut mogul in California.
  
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• ‘Spell’ Review: Occult Reprogramming

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Omari Hardwick plays a lawyer who gets trapped in the superstition-laden enclave of Appalachia where he was raised.
  
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• ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979 - The New York Times

  29-10-2020 12:00
  
  ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979  The New York Times
  
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• ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This recently restored film by King Hu is a spectacular, exhilarating entertainment.
  
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• ‘Madre’ Review: A Tense Depiction of a Mother Undone

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s feature about a mother in Spain whose son disappears is a compelling and unsettling character study.
  
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• Halloween for Kids: Different This Year, but Still Delightful

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In New York, trick-or-treating has been curtailed, and parades called off. But there are plenty of ways to please and spook the little ones.
  
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• ‘Fire Will Come’ Review: An Arsonist Returns Home to the Forest

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Oliver Laxe gives us the story of humans and nature in crisis in Galicia, with nonactors playing the roles.
  
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• ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller

  29-10-2020 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Jacob Chase’s film, a monster from another realm invades ours through phone screens and tablets.
  
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• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Are Back With 'Truth Seekers'

  29-10-2020 10:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Truth Seekers,” the comedy duo’s first TV collaboration in two decades, is rooted in their own ghost hunting exploits.
  
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• They Scream! We Scream!

  29-10-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s more fundamental to scary movies than the bone-chilling shriek? But delivering a terrifying wail isn’t easy. It’s an entire art with a history and a world of its own.
  
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• Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre

  29-10-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Bookstores could easily have only two sections, ‘Riveting’ and ‘Kinda Boring.’”
  
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• Smile, Dad: In a Photo Session With Matthew McConaughey, His Kids Did the Shooting

  29-10-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How could I capture, remotely, intimate portraits of the actor from my New Jersey home? By recruiting two sweet, capable assistants.
  
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• ‘It’s Going Away’: A Small Movie Theater Struggles to Survive

  29-10-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic has staggered the industry and left independent operations like the Park Plaza Cinema in Hilton Head Island, S.C., fighting to stay afloat.
  
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• Getting Lost Helped V.E. Schwab Find the Idea for Her 20th Book

  29-10-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ took 10 years to write. The fantasy author describes the process as a ‘very, very long labor of love.’
  
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