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• Rosanna Carteri, Soprano Who Retired at Her Peak, Dies at 89

  12-11-2020 23:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The graceful singer, celebrated in Verdi and Puccini, was only in her mid-30s when she left the stage to tend to her family.
  
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• A Famous Santa and Rudolph Are Heading to Auction

  12-11-2020 23:30 via nytimes.com
  
  If you can spare $250,000, two stars of the 56-year-old Christmas special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” could be yours.
  
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• Pearl Chin Dies at 71; Her Knitting Store Was a Haven and a Hub

  12-11-2020 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Knitty City was more than a Manhattan supply shop for yarn; it was an urban sanctuary and a springboard for social activism (or, in her word, “craftivism”).
  
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• Holiday arts guide: Where to find some festive fun around St. Louis this season - STLtoday.com

  12-11-2020 22:30
  Holiday arts guide: Where to find some festive fun around St. Louis this season  STLtoday.com
  
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• Still Processing Podcast: Sweet, Sweet Fantasies, Baby

  12-11-2020 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s a difference between our dreams for America — and our fantasies.
  
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• Aileen Passloff, Dancer, Choreographer and Teacher, Dies at 89

  12-11-2020 22:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Ballet, modern, postmodern: She embraced all forms of dance, pushing students to find “the courage,” as one said, to know themselves through movement.
  
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• Greater Cincinnati's arts rank among the most vibrant in the nation - Cincinnati Business Courier - Cincinnati Business Courier

  12-11-2020 22:11
  Greater Cincinnati's arts rank among the most vibrant in the nation - Cincinnati Business Courier  Cincinnati Business Courier
  
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• Aldo Tambellini, Experimental Filmmaker Who Considered Many Meanings of Blackness, Has Died at 90

  12-11-2020 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  Aldo Tambellini, an experimental filmmaker whose innovative works expanded cinema beyond the confines of the theater and mined conceptions of blackness for both formal and political meanings, has died at 90. Various curators who have shown Tambellini’s work posted news of Tambellini’s death on social media on Thursday. ARTnews has reached out to Tambellini’s foundation for details of his passing.
  Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tambellini was embedded with in a group of arti
  
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• Record Setting Purple-Pink Diamond from Russia Sells for $26.6 M. at Sotheby’s

  12-11-2020 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  A 14.83-carat purple-pink fancy vivid diamond sold for $26.6 million with premium and set a record for a stone of its color at Sotheby’s in Geneva this week. Named after a Russian ballet from 1911, the Spirit of the Rose was won by an anonymous buyer over the phone. After just three bids, the jewel hammered at 21 million CFH ($22.9 million), landing below the estimate of CHF 21.1 million–CHF 34.8 million ($23 million–$38 million).
  Before coming to the market, the gem was cut fr
  
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• What are the 10 Best Books of 2020? You Can Find Out First.

  12-11-2020 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Join The Times for a live virtual announcement of this year’s 10 Best Books list, featuring a celebrity guest.
  
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• The Word at MoMA Is ‘Rotation, Rotation, Rotation’

  12-11-2020 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  On Saturday, the museum opens with changes to 20 of its 60 permanent collection galleries. A critic’s guide to the standouts on each floor.
  
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• Iconic Bruce Nauman Sculpture in Germany Removed to Make Way for University Building

  12-11-2020 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  A famed installation by Bruce Nauman will be taken away from its longtime home on the campus of the University of Münster in Germany. Square Depression, a walk-in sculpture Nauman conceived for the school in 1977, was torn down in early November by the university to make space for a new university building.The large-scale sculpture, which measured around 82 feet across, was an inverted pyramid  sunk into the ground. Before its deconstruction Square Depression was a popul
  
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• How George Benson Turned an Early ‘No’ Into a Career of ‘Yes’

  12-11-2020 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The 77-year-old guitarist talks about musicians who shaped him and how he learned to respond to critics as he releases his first live album in 30 years.
  
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• Newton’s 'Principia' Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find

  12-11-2020 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The discovery suggests that “Principia” had a stronger impact on Enlightenment science than previous research suggested.
  
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• ‘The Climb’ Review: The Dudes Abide

  12-11-2020 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Two friends face the challenges of adulthood and the treachery of women in this empty, energetic bromance.
  
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• ‘The Reagans’ Review: Making America Great Again, Round 1

  12-11-2020 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  A four-part Showtime documentary takes a hard look at Ronald Reagan’s presidency and sees a wrong turn.
  
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• A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero?

  12-11-2020 18:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Newspaper columnists and social media users are furious about a new statue dedicated to Mary Wollstonecraft in London. But they’re missing the point.
  
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• Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect.

  12-11-2020 17:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Law of Innocence,” someone has planted a corpse in the trunk of the snazzy lawyer’s famous Lincoln Town Car.
  
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• How Do You Stage a Biennial Now? Jacob Fabricius’s Portrait of Busan

  12-11-2020 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  Even in the best of times, organizing an international biennial—wrangling dozens of far-flung artists and hundreds of works, all while keeping to a budget—is not an easy business. Organizing an international biennial amid a once-in-a-century global health crisis is another matter entirely.
  But at a time when most such shows have been delayed, the curator Jacob Fabricius managed to pull one off in high style. His the Busan Biennale in South Korea opened to the public weeks late,
  
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• ‘Jingle Jangle’ Review: Dancing Through the Snow

  12-11-2020 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix holiday movie offers energetic sequences, charming music and a delightful cast.
  
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• Sacramento Arts Festival - CBS Pittsburgh

  12-11-2020 17:16
  
  Sacramento Arts Festival  CBS Pittsburgh
  
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• ‘Dreamland’ Review: Bang Bang, Blah Blah

  12-11-2020 16:55 via nytimes.com
  
  In this 1930s drama, Margot Robbie plays a bank robber who finds an unlikely partner in crime in Finn Cole’s teenage dreamer.
  
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• CMA Awards Sum Up Country Music’s Upside-Down Year

  12-11-2020 16:55 via nytimes.com
  
  In a show featuring a distanced but unmasked audience, Nashville’s big stars celebrated the power of live music.
  
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• Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos?

  12-11-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Unlike violinists or trumpeters, piano players rarely get to perform on their own instruments and must be adaptable.
  
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• The Maison des Arts Arts Center / Tectoniques Architects - ArchDaily

  12-11-2020 16:00
  
  The Maison des Arts Arts Center / Tectoniques Architects  ArchDaily
  
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• Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road

  12-11-2020 15:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The Indigenous American artist and filmmaker is the subject of two concurrent shows. His work “rivals in visual and linguistic beauty any new art I’ve seen in some time,” our critic says.
  
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• Book Review: ‘A Promised Land,’ by Barack Obama

  12-11-2020 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  This first volume of the former president’s memoirs brims with warmth, humor and introspection.
  
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• A Postmodern Period Piece From a Cinema Titan

  12-11-2020 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Different planes of existence overlap in Manoel de Oliveira’s “Francisca,” a meta-narrative about an enigmatic love triangle in mid-19th-century Portugal.
  
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• A Pledge to Help Artists Becomes a Lucrative Lifeline

  12-11-2020 15:16 via nytimes.com
  
  With galleries and fairs shut, a British painter created a campaign to help others sell their work online during the pandemic. Estimates suggest that millions of dollars in sales have been generated.
  
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• John Waters Gives Collection Baltimore Museum, Made in L.A. Opens, and More: Morning Links from November 12, 2020

  12-11-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Legendary filmmaker and artist John Waters will donate his 372-work collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. His holdings include works by Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Catherine Opie, and many more. [The New York Times]
  The Baltimore Museum of Art initiated a firestorm last month when it attempted to deaccession $65 million in works from its
  
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• ‘Wolfwalkers’ Review: From Ireland, Lupine Lore in Cartoon Style

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This film about enchanted women of the woods is lovely to behold but its story line is lacking.
  
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• ‘The Life Ahead’ Review: Sophia Loren, Directed by Her Son, Shines

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The beloved actress’s new movie, from Edoardo Ponti, is a tidy, not unintelligent tear-jerker about love and tolerance.
  
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• ‘Monsoon’ Review: Clouded Memories of Saigon

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Henry Golding plays a man who returns to the Vietnam of his childhood in Hong Khaou’s thoroughly personal drama “Monsoon.”
  
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• ‘Make Up’ Review: Self-Discovery, an Adolescent Horror

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Claire Oakley demonstrates admirable control in her first feature film, a psychological coming-of-age drama.
  
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• ‘I Am Greta’ Review: Birth of a Climate Warrior

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nathan Grossman alternates truth-to-power moments with quiet ones in his documentary about the young Greta Thunberg.
  
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• ‘Freaky’ Review: The Killer Inside

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vince Vaughn explores his feminine side when his character inhabits the body of a high-school girl in this slasher comedy.
  
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• ‘Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds’ Review: It’s Raining Mysteries

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Apocalyptic comets, complicated math, ancient rituals, eccentric scientists: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s new documentary has it all.
  
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• ‘Fatman’ Review: Ho-Ho-Hum

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mel Gibson plays a glum Saint Nick whose business is on the skids in this grim, tonally confused comedy.
  
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• ‘Ammonite’ Review: Love on the Rocks

  12-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kate Winslet’s fossil hunter and Saoirse Ronan’s convalescent embark on a forbidden seaside romance.
  
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• Where Does Our Consciousness Overlap With an Octopus’s?

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Metazoa,” Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the ocean depths to illuminate how the minds of animals work.
  
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• The ‘Detective Work’ Behind a War Novel

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Maaza Mengiste spent years on “The Shadow King,” not only writing but also learning Italian, living in Rome and amassing an archive of historical photography that informed her book.
  
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• ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The face that launched a thousand tabloid stories — and books and documentaries and Instagram feeds — is taking center stage in the newest season of the Netflix series.
  
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• President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For years, we’ve been living inside a story defined by Donald Trump’s reality-TV worldview. America finally changed the channel.
  
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• How Do You Play Margaret Thatcher? Like This

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the new season of “The Crown,” Gillian Anderson takes on the role of the “Iron Lady.” She’s just the latest in a long line of Thatcher impersonators.
  
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• How ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Influenced Lenny Kravitz’s Memoir

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “It helped me reshuffle things in my head and how I wanted to speak.”
  
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• Christie Tate Wrote a Best Seller About Group Therapy. Fellow Members Approved.

  12-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead.
  
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• For Germany’s Theaters, a Reluctant Intermission

  12-11-2020 10:05 via nytimes.com
  
  A second lockdown has put productions on hold and added extra drama to an already fraught theater season.
  
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• Emily Ratajkowski, Nude Photographs and Justice

  12-11-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Emily Ratajkowski accused the photographer Jonathan Leder of assault and using photos against her wishes. Other women say they have similar experiences.
  
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• Trump’s Legacy Is Already Tarnished, Stephen Colbert Says

  12-11-2020 08:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Late Show” host said President Trump’s refusal to concede the election was the least of his transgressions: “It’s like finding out Jeffrey Dahmer illegally parked in handicapped spots — bad, but the ledger’s pretty full. And so’s the freezer.”
  
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• Israel Horovitz, Playwright Tarnished by Abuse Allegations, Dies at 81

  12-11-2020 01:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Horovitz found success Off Broadway, working with actors who later became household names. But his life took a downturn when women came forward to describe a pattern of sexual misconduct and assault.
  
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