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• Coming Soon on Disney+: A Whole Lot of ‘Star Wars’

  10-12-2020 23:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The company is working on 10 series from the “Star Wars” universe for its streaming service, which now has 87 million subscribers.
  
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• End of ‘One Day at a Time’ Removes One of TV’s Few Latino Families

  10-12-2020 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  After being canceled last year by Netflix, the sitcom, a reboot of a Norman Lear classic, found a new but short-lived home on cable.
  
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• Community/Arts Calendar: Dec. 16-26 - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com

  10-12-2020 22:48
  
  Community/Arts Calendar: Dec. 16-26 - Portland Press Herald  pressherald.com
  
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• Upcoming arts, music, Christmas events in Chattanooga area - Chattanooga Times Free Press

  10-12-2020 22:44
  
  Upcoming arts, music, Christmas events in Chattanooga area  Chattanooga Times Free Press
  
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• Teresita Fernández’s Powerful Art Lays Bare Ongoing Histories of Colonial Violence in the Caribbean

  10-12-2020 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Some artists train their eye on the small things of life. Teresita Fernández isn’t one of them. Her art, she said, is driven by a desire to know more about the human condition and the ways in which the past continues to impact the present. “I’m curious always just for myself: Where am I? What is this place? So many of us don’t even know our own history,” she said.
  Over the course of her career, Fernández, who was born in Miami to Cuban parents in exile
  
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• Jackson School of the Arts passes on Masonic Temple, buys Vermeulen’s building instead - MLive.com

  10-12-2020 21:41
  
  Jackson School of the Arts passes on Masonic Temple, buys Vermeulen’s building instead  MLive.com
  
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• Arts Cleveland distributes $1.3 million in federal CARES Act pandemic aid to artists, cultural businesses - cleveland.com

  10-12-2020 21:12
  
  Arts Cleveland distributes $1.3 million in federal CARES Act pandemic aid to artists, cultural businesses  cleveland.com
  
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• Banksy Reveals Sneeze-Themed Artwork in United Kingdom

  10-12-2020 20:49 via artnews.com
  
  Banksy has revealed a flurry of new projects in recent months. The street artist has made headlines for painting a mural of a hula-hooping girl in Nottingham, England, funding a rescue boat intended to carry refugees across the Mediterranean Sea, weighing in on systemic racism, and covering a bathroom with his signature rat stencils. On the auction front, the artist’s painting Show Me the Monet (2005) sold for a whopping $9.8 million at Sotheby’s this fall.
  Now, the artist has painte
  
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• One of Korea’s Greatest Painters Is Little-Known Internationally. Finally, Yoo Youngkuk Is Coming Into Focus.

  10-12-2020 20:43 via artnews.com
  
  Any artist going through a rough patch—working a day job, not making art, unhappy with their career—should take a huge dose of solace from the remarkable life of Yoo Youngsuk.
  In 1943, after eight years in Japan, where he learned art and made abstract wood pieces while moving in avant-garde circles, Yoo quit the country in the face of new repressive measures. Then in his late 20s, he returned to the village of his birth, Uljin, on Korea’s east coast, followed by the Tokkō
  
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• Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots

  10-12-2020 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist has gone from painting subway cars to the runways of Comme des Garçons. After a hiatus, his two exhibitions are his first in his hometown in 30 years.
  
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• UC Irvine Law Dean to Lead Colorado Liberal Arts College | The Recorder - Law.com

  10-12-2020 20:24
  
  UC Irvine Law Dean to Lead Colorado Liberal Arts College | The Recorder  Law.com
  
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• ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World

  10-12-2020 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  This astonishing documentary offers an intimate look at the lives of a sow, her rambunctious piglets, a one-legged chicken and a herd of cows.
  
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• Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now).

  10-12-2020 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Sanford Biggers, Félix Fénéon and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history of itself are some of the exhibitions that remain open to the public.
  
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• 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays

  10-12-2020 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Standards? Sure! But a crop of seasonal records from Dolly Parton, Tinashe and others introduce fresh original songs, too.
  
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• The Best Thrillers of 2020

  10-12-2020 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Which books proved most spine-tingling in this momentous nail-biter of a year?
  
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• UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS HANDMADE HOLIDAY CANCELED - kqennewsradio.com

  10-12-2020 19:16
  
  UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS HANDMADE HOLIDAY CANCELED  kqennewsradio.com
  
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• Painting Boredom

  10-12-2020 18:46 via artnews.com
  
  Henni Alftan, Classroom, 2020, oil on canvas, 28 3/4 by 23 2/3 inches; at Karma.
  At a time when events seem to accumulate rather than unfold, when news is always breaking, and boredom alleviated with the tap of a finger, it is hard not to appreciate the slow and absorbing canvases of Henni Alftan. In the nineteen paintings on view in Alftan’s first US solo show, held in both of Karma’s Lower East Side spaces, the Finnish-born painter, based in Paris since the late 1990s, lavishes att
  
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• Vienna’s Belvedere Museum to Open Branch in Salzburg

  10-12-2020 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  Vienna’s Belvedere Museum is moving forward with plans to open a new branch in the Salzburg Museum. Earlier this year, the Belvedere’s board of trustees and the Salzburg Museum’s supervisory board announced that the Salzburg would construct a new exhibition area to display pieces from the the Belvedere’s permanent holdings which span the Middle Ages through today. The collection in Salzburg will remain a stand-alone presentation, per a report in the German outlet Monopol,
  
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• Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Receives Donation of Key Works from Collectors William and Lavina Lim

  10-12-2020 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  Though the M+ Museum in Hong Kong was forced to postpone its hotly anticipated opening until fall 2021, the institution announced a major gift of artworks that will play an important role in its collection. The museum has received a donation of 90 artworks by 53 international artists, as well as the project PAWN SHOP by 46 artists, from Hong Kong-based collectors William and Lavina Lim.
  The gift from the Lims’ so-called “Living Collection,” one of the largest private holdings f
  
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• Four Protesters Charged for Toppling Bristol Monument During Black Lives Matter Protest

  10-12-2020 18:15 via artnews.com
  
  Four people involved in the widely discussed dismantling of a monument in Bristol, England, have been charged with criminal damage.
  Seven months after a statue of 18th-century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters, Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Jake Skuse, and Sage Willoughby will appear in January before a Bristol court, where they will face criminal proceedings. What happens next will be closely watched, as the events surrounding the Colston statue rank among
  
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• Under the Mask, the Next Batman Will Be Black

  10-12-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new comic written by John Ridley, who wrote “12 Years a Slave,” the new Batman will be revealed as Tim Fox, the son of a business associate of Bruce Wayne.
  
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• ‘Finding Yingying’ Review: Vanishing Point

  10-12-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary about the search for a missing student in Illinois takes a compassionate approach to grim material.
  
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• Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip

  10-12-2020 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mural,” his largest painting, is back in New York for the first time in 20 years, at the Guggenheim.
  
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• Your weekend arts forecast: Holiday hits, safely performed - St Pete Catalyst

  10-12-2020 17:45
  
  Your weekend arts forecast: Holiday hits, safely performed  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• With Paris Theaters Closed, Church Is the Only Show in Town

  10-12-2020 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Coronavirus restrictions have shut playhouses and concert halls. So our critic went to Mass to get her fix of music, choreography and drama.
  
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• ‘Small Axe’ Review: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Black British Lives

  10-12-2020 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Steve McQueen’s anthology of five films is a revelatory look at Afro-Caribbean neighborhoods in Britain from the 1960s to the ’80s.
  
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• Arts, Beats & Eats raises $431,000 for metro Detroit musicians in alternative fest - Detroit Free Press

  10-12-2020 16:15
  Arts, Beats & Eats raises $431,000 for metro Detroit musicians in alternative fest  Detroit Free Press
  
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• Anderson Ranch Arts Center raises banner art in downtown Aspen - Aspen Times

  10-12-2020 16:08
  
  Anderson Ranch Arts Center raises banner art in downtown Aspen  Aspen Times
  
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• Taylor Swift Announces Second Surprise Album of 2020, ‘Evermore’

  10-12-2020 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The “sister record” to her Grammy-nominated “Folklore” again features Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff and Justin Vernon, along with new collaborators.
  
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• Politicians Look to Rename Paris’s Musée d’Orsay and More: Morning Links from December 13, 2020

  10-12-2020 15:44 via artnews.com
  
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  The Smithsonian has joined forces with Berlin’s museums to create “an international network of provenance researchers” that will focus on Asian art. [The Art Newspaper]
  William and Lavina Lim, a noted collecting couple in Hong Kong, have made a substantial donation of 90 works to their
  
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• Johns Hopkins Reveals That Its Founder Owned Slaves

  10-12-2020 15:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The university and its medical system have long celebrated their founding benefactor as a staunch abolitionist. But newly surfaced documents tell a different story.
  
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• New Pivot Center for arts, social services aims to change story of Seymour Avenue, Clark-Fulton neighborhood - cleveland.com

  10-12-2020 15:20
  
  New Pivot Center for arts, social services aims to change story of Seymour Avenue, Clark-Fulton neighborhood  cleveland.com
  
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• Taylor Swift Announces Second Surprise Quarantine Album, ‘Evermore’

  10-12-2020 15:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The “sister record” to her Grammy-nominated “Folklore” again features Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff and Justin Vernon, along with new collaborators.
  
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• Fargo accountant purchases Prairie Fiber Arts Studio after deal to sell to employees falls through - INFORUM

  10-12-2020 15:00
  
  Fargo accountant purchases Prairie Fiber Arts Studio after deal to sell to employees falls through  INFORUM
  
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• ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Review: Finding Love Down on the Farm

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  John Patrick Shanley adapts his play “Outside Mullingar” into a movie. (Don’t worry about the accents.)
  
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• ‘Through the Night’ Review: Tucking In Children When Their Parents Can’t

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new documentary looks at a 24-hour day care center a couple runs in their home.
  
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• ‘The Weasels’ Tale’ Review: House Hunting

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Argentine showbiz stars in a remote mansion battle with two real estate hustlers in Juan José Campanella’s crowd-pleasing comedy.
  
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• ‘The Prom’ Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ryan Murphy takes on the Broadway hit “The Prom,” with help from Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Keegan-Michael Key.
  
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• How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Is Inspiring Women to Take Up Chess

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fans of the Netflix series, including teenagers and the actress Beth Behrs, are flocking to the game because “women can be rock stars” in chess.
  
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• ‘Funny Boy’ Review: Coming Out During Civil War

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Deepa Mehta’s sprawling coming-of-age drama follows a boy who realizes he is gay in a country that criminalizes homosexuality.
  
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• ‘Assassins’ Review: Duped Into an International Murder Plot

  10-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary tries to explain how two women were able to cause the death of the North Korean leader’s half brother.
  
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• Let Cassandra Campbell Tell You a Story. She’s a Pro.

  10-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The voice behind hundred of audiobooks speaks out about what inspires her.
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld Rarely Laughs While He’s Reading

  10-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The written word is tough.”
  
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• ‘Farewell Amor’ Review: Alone Together

  10-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ekwa Msangi’s tender drama shows us that goodbyes haunt immigrants wherever they go.
  
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• The Salzburg Festival, Reduced This Year, Roars Back in 2021

  10-12-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Classical music’s most storied annual event announces plans to return to pre-pandemic scale next summer.
  
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• The Once and Future Handbag

  10-12-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Predictions that 2020 would bring the end of the bag have been greatly exaggerated.
  
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• Trevor Noah: Trump Takes Another ‘L’ Trying to ‘Unlose’ the Election

  10-12-2020 07:52 via nytimes.com
  
  “Not only did they shut this case down, but they shut it down in just 34 minutes,” Noah said of the Supreme Court. “They didn’t even pretend that they were going to consider it.”
  
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• Waco arts organizations welcome holiday giving | Local News - Waco Tribune-Herald

  10-12-2020 03:00
  Waco arts organizations welcome holiday giving | Local News  Waco Tribune-Herald
  
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• San Diego's Top Holiday Arts Events: 2020 Edition - KPBS

  10-12-2020 02:22
  
  San Diego's Top Holiday Arts Events: 2020 Edition  KPBS
  
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• Bay Area arts: Smiun, ODC, TheatreWorks debut new holiday shows - The Mercury News

  10-12-2020 00:06
  
  Bay Area arts: Smiun, ODC, TheatreWorks debut new holiday shows  The Mercury News
  
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