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• New Initiative to Build Leaders of Tomorrow through the Arts in Allen County - Your News Now

  18-11-2020 22:58
  New Initiative to Build Leaders of Tomorrow through the Arts in Allen County  Your News Now
  
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• A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction

  18-11-2020 22:54 via nytimes.com
  
  “We Do Not Dream Alone,” the first Asia Society Triennial of contemporary art, is in search of a reason for being.
  
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• Who Will Control Britney Spears’s Future?

  18-11-2020 22:46 via nytimes.com
  
  While her father remains the head of her estate for now, the pop star has signaled she’s ready for change.
  
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• Why Did a Nazi Buy a Fake Vermeer? New Film Dramatizes History’s Greatest Forgery

  18-11-2020 22:44 via artnews.com
  
  Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery, a painting by Vermeer, seemed to stand out among the many great works by the 17th-century Dutch master. It lacked the soft lighting of his other paintings, and it was short on his meticulous attention to detail. But its deficiencies didn’t matter much to Hermann Göring, a top-level Nazi who bought the painting for 1.6 million gilders, making it the most expensive artwork of its time. There was just one problem: It wasn’t an authentic Verm
  
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• Anchored by Picasso Painting, Sotheby’s Adds December Evening Sale to End Fall Season

  18-11-2020 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  Following a night of sales that generated a collective $283 million on October 28, Sotheby’s has added a final evening sale to its fall calendar. The cross-category auction, which will include Impressionist, modern, and contemporary works, will take place on December 8 and will be live-streamed from the house’s New York headquarters. Bids will come in from specialists in New York, London, and Hong Kong, as well through the house’s online platforms.
  Leading the sale will be Pabl
  
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• Salt Lake County Arts & Culture venues, public performances to close amid COVID-19 spike - KUTV 2News

  18-11-2020 22:15
  Salt Lake County Arts & Culture venues, public performances to close amid COVID-19 spike  KUTV 2News
  
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• Arts Organizations Scramble To Make Holiday Performances COVID-Safe - WAMU 88.5

  18-11-2020 22:13
  
  Arts Organizations Scramble To Make Holiday Performances COVID-Safe  WAMU 88.5
  
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• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Cancels All Scheduled Programs Through April 2021 - Playbill.com

  18-11-2020 22:03
  
  Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Cancels All Scheduled Programs Through April 2021  Playbill.com
  
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• Pig Couch on Craigslist: The Full Story

  18-11-2020 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  We did find out where it is, though.
  
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• Arts Organizations Scramble To Make Holiday Performances COVID-Safe - DCist

  18-11-2020 21:56
  
  Arts Organizations Scramble To Make Holiday Performances COVID-Safe  DCist
  
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• Briscoe Western Arts Museum takes annual Yanaguana Indian Arts Celebration online - San Antonio Current

  18-11-2020 21:55
  
  Briscoe Western Arts Museum takes annual Yanaguana Indian Arts Celebration online  San Antonio Current
  
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• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Kinder Building opens this weekend - Chron

  18-11-2020 21:48
  
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Kinder Building opens this weekend  Chron
  
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• ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind

  18-11-2020 21:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Pamela Sneed’s book powerfully recalls the contributions and leadership of lesbians during the height of the AIDS crisis.
  
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• New ways of doing things in the arts – The Sopris Sun - soprissun.com

  18-11-2020 21:29
  
  New ways of doing things in the arts – The Sopris Sun  soprissun.com
  
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• Jersey City Voted to Support the Arts; Now What? - The Hudson Reporter

  18-11-2020 21:11
  
  Jersey City Voted to Support the Arts; Now What?  The Hudson Reporter
  
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• See the Recipients of the 2020 Warhol Arts Writers Grant - Hyperallergic

  18-11-2020 21:05
  
  See the Recipients of the 2020 Warhol Arts Writers Grant  Hyperallergic
  
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• Director of Mass MoCA, Playground for Artists, Moves On

  18-11-2020 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  After three decades, Joseph C. Thompson feels ready to let go (sort of).
  
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• ‘The Crown’ Season 4: What to Watch and Read About Diana

  18-11-2020 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  If Season 4 has fueled your interest in one of royal history’s most glamorous women, you’re in luck. She has inspired many a book, documentary and article.
  
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• Acclaimed Dallas chef closes Bishop Arts restaurant due to illness - CultureMap Dallas

  18-11-2020 19:46
  
  Acclaimed Dallas chef closes Bishop Arts restaurant due to illness  CultureMap Dallas
  
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• Arts Eclectic - KUT

  18-11-2020 19:23
  Arts Eclectic  KUT
  
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• Spike Lee’s Next Project: A Viagra Musical

  18-11-2020 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Lee and Kwame Kwei-Armah will write the movie musical, about the invention of the little blue pill, which will feature music by Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald.
  
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• Theater to Stream: ‘Uncle Vanya’ and an Ayad Akhtar Revival

  18-11-2020 18:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Constance Wu and Samira Wiley star in a Zoom-ified Chekhov play, and Ars Nova punches above its weight with a 24-hour telethon.
  
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• ‘MasterChef Junior’ Star Ben Watkins Dies of Cancer at 14

  18-11-2020 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Ben, who lost his parents in a murder-suicide in 2017, had also worked at his father’s barbecue restaurant selling homemade cookies and brownies.
  
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• Rare Clyfford Still from Artist’s Late Period Expected to Fetch $17 M. at Phillips

  18-11-2020 18:32 via artnews.com
  
  Phillips has announced it will sell a rare Clyfford Still painting that go up for auction during the house’s modern and contemporary art evening sale on December 7 in New York, where it will hit the block alongside a $35 million David Hockney landscape. Still’s large-scale crimson and black abstract canvas PH-407 (1964) is expected to achieve a price of $17 million.
  The seller, a private West Coast collector, purchased the work from Mitchell-Innes Nash in New York. Prior to that it r
  
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• Yesomi Umolu Takes Top Serpentine Galleries Post with Focus on Structural Change

  18-11-2020 18:24 via artnews.com
  
  Yesomi Umolu, the director and curator of Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago, has been named the inaugural director of curatorial affairs and public practice at the Serpentine Galleries in London. The newly formed see Umolu overseeing all curatorial, interpretation, and editorial operations at the museum.Umolu, who has written and lectured on how art institutions can address issues of diversity, will be tasked with fostering a more inclusive audience experience at Serpentine.
  
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• 'The Crown' Season 4: Josh O'Connor Thrives as Prince Charles

  18-11-2020 18:22 via nytimes.com
  
  As Prince Charles on “The Crown,” the self-described liberal left-winger has thrived in a role he never really sought.
  
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• Josh O’Connor Didn’t Care About the Crown Until He Became a Prince

  18-11-2020 18:22 via nytimes.com
  
  As Prince Charles on “The Crown,” the self-described liberal left-winger has thrived in a role he never really sought.
  
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• Capitol Center for the Arts cancels all live performances until next year - WMUR Manchester

  18-11-2020 18:16
  Capitol Center for the Arts cancels all live performances until next year  WMUR Manchester
  
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• Stitched Into Neighborhoods, Dance Studios Battle to Stay Open

  18-11-2020 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Small schools like Dwana Smallwood’s in Bedford-Stuyvesant often give children a way into dance. Now they are struggling to pay rent.
  
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• What Did Europe Smell Like Centuries Ago? Historians Set Out to Recreate Lost Smells

  18-11-2020 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  A project announced this week and funded by the European Union will catalog and recreate the scents of Europe from the 16th century to the early 20th century.
  
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• Jill Paton Walsh, Multigenerational Writer, Dies at 83

  18-11-2020 17:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Her books for young readers had won acclaim when, in 1994, one for adults made the Booker Prize shortlist — but only after she had resorted to publishing it herself.
  
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• Irvington Arts Incubator Lets Artists Test Works On YouTube Channel - Rockland County Business Journal

  18-11-2020 17:16
  Irvington Arts Incubator Lets Artists Test Works On YouTube Channel  Rockland County Business Journal
  
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• Warhol Foundation Writer Grants Go to Jessica Lynne, Amy Taubin, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, More

  18-11-2020 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Twenty-two writers will receive grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program, which this year is awarding $675,000 in funds intended to go toward new writing projects.
  The grants, which range in scale from $15,000 to $50,000, are awarded in to people pursuing articles, books, and short-form writing. Among those set to take home grants for short-form writing this year are Jessica Lynne, a cofounder of the website Arts.Black, who will write about intergenerational histories of
  
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• A Newcomer to Watch at the Latin Grammys: Nathy Peluso

  18-11-2020 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A best new artist nominee from Argentina by way of Spain is a singer and rapper with many voices.
  
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• How Ta-Nehisi Coates's Memoir Went From Page to Stage to HBO

  18-11-2020 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  An all-star cast came together, remotely and in socially distanced shoots, to turn Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir into a vivid amalgam of art, music and performance for HBO.
  
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• ‘Between the World and Me’: From Page to Stage to Screen

  18-11-2020 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  An all-star cast came together, remotely and in socially distanced shoots, to turn Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir into a vivid amalgam of art, music and performance for HBO.
  
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• Miller Forristall learned toughness at dad's martial arts school - 247Sports

  18-11-2020 16:14
  
  Miller Forristall learned toughness at dad's martial arts school  247Sports
  
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• Welcome to Our Museum of Smells

  18-11-2020 15:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Experience how scent and memory are intimately connected.
  
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• One Third of U.S. Museums Have Not Reopened, Survey Says and More: Morning Links from November 18, 2020

  18-11-2020 15:42 via artnews.com
  
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  A survey published by the American Alliance of Museums shows that nearly one third of museums have not reopened since the pandemic’s shutdown in March. “The financial state of U.S. museums is moving from bad to worse,” the organization’s president, Laura Lott, said.  [The New York Times]
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• Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Announces 2020 Grantees - Artforum

  18-11-2020 14:52
  
  Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Announces 2020 Grantees  Artforum
  
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• Vaunted Anonymous Was a Woman Grants Go to Linda Goode Bryant, Chitra Ganesh, and More

  18-11-2020 14:15 via artnews.com
  
  One of the U.S. art world’s most beloved award programs has revealed its 2020 winners. The New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman has announced the 10 winners of this year’s awards, which come with $25,000 each and go annually to women-identifying artists over the age of 40. It is the second batch of grants the organization has given this year, after a round of emergency Covid ones awarded in the spring.
  Among them are Linda Goode Bryant, the founder of New York&rsqu
  
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• South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale Reveals Artist List for Star-Studded 2021 Edition

  18-11-2020 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Gwangju Biennale in South Korea has revealed the full list of artists participating in its 13th edition, slated to run February 26 through May 9, 2021. The exhibition, titled “Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: 13th Gwangju Biennale,” will take place in four venues across the South Korean city—the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju Theater, and the community art space Horanggasy Artpolygon, which is situated on the Yangnim mountain—and is be
  
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• ‘MasterChef Junior’ Star Ben Watkins Dies at 14 From Cancer

  18-11-2020 13:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Ben, who lost his parents in a murder-suicide in 2017, had also worked at his father’s barbecue restaurant selling homemade cookies and brownies.
  
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• ‘Crazy, Not Insane’ Review: Inside the Criminal Mind

  18-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this Alex Gibney documentary, the psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, who has spent decades studying the pathology of violence, explains what makes people murder.
  
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• ‘Cemetery’ Review: Elephant Walk

  18-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this immersive experimental film, an elephant and his guardian take a dangerous jungle journey.
  
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• ‘Born to Be’ Review: A Compassionate Doctor Changing Lives

  18-11-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary follows Dr. Jess Ting in his work at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
  
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• The Best Films and TV Shows to Stream Over the Holidays

  18-11-2020 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Hollywood history (“Mank”), jazz (“Soul”) and romance (“Happiest Season”) all have a chance to shine in your living room as the year comes to an end.
  
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• The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction

  18-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the third installment of “The Americans,” his series on overlooked or under-read writers, A.O. Scott considers the idiosyncratic originality of an author whose influences extend from Hawthorne to Carver but whose imagination is wholly her own.
  
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• Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On.

  18-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexander Neef has taken on one of the most prestigious jobs in culture amid a pandemic, labor strikes and internal unrest.
  
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• Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, a.k.a. Mr. and Mrs. Claus

  18-11-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Together 37 years but rarely paired onscreen, the real-life couple’s new Netflix holiday movie is an indication of how they — and Hollywood — have changed.
  
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