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• Donald Trump Lost His Battle. The Culture War Goes On.

  14-12-2020 23:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The reality-TV president was a practitioner, and a product, of a style of pop-cultural grievance that will outlast him.
  
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• Massive Former Tobacco Factory in Athens to Become Art Space

  14-12-2020 22:51 via artnews.com
  
  A former tobacco factory will soon host a major art space from one of Greece’s top collectors. NEON, a foundation run by Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will work together with the Hellenic Parliament to help turn the Athens structure into a site for presenting contemporary art exhibitions, making it one of the most notable spaces of its kind in the Greek capital. That venue will open in 2021, to tie in with the 200th anniversary of Greece’s liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
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• ARTnews in Brief: Wexner Center Receives $100,000 for Racial Equity Initiatives—and More from December 14, 2020

  14-12-2020 22:38 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, December 14
  Wexner Center for the Arts Receives $100,000 to Support Learning & Public Practice DepartmentThe Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, has received $100,000 from the Ohio State University Seed Fund for Racial Justice and a matching opportunity through Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme. The funds will go toward the center’s partnerships with schools and teachers as well as new educational initiatives foc
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Names Alyssa Nitchun Executive Director—and More from December 15, 2020 - ARTnews

  14-12-2020 22:38 via artnews.com
  
  ARTnews in Brief: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Names Alyssa Nitchun Executive Director—and More from December 15, 2020  ARTnews
  
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• Leslie-Lohman Museum Announces New Director

  14-12-2020 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The nonprofit executive Alyssa Nitchun will lead the museum after its last director, Gonzalo Casals, became the Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City.
  
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• Biddeford arts organization Engine hires a new director - Press Herald

  14-12-2020 22:14 via pressherald.com
  
  Biddeford arts organization Engine hires a new director  Press Herald
  
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• The Essential John le Carré

  14-12-2020 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The novelist transformed moral ambiguity and the lives of Cold War spies into high art. If you’ve never read any of his thrillers, here are seven we recommend.
  
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• Sanam Khatibi’s Paintings Envision a Fantastical World of Skulls, Poisons, and More

  14-12-2020 21:19 via artnews.com
  
  Sanam Khatibi’s painstakingly detailed paintings come in many forms, from small-scale still lifes that reflect Dutch Golden Age styles to larger canvases with nude figures in forestial settings. Binding them all is an interest in rituals and mysteries of the natural world. The Brussels-based artist, who also creates sculptures, embroideries, and tapestries, is showing new paintings, ceramics, and other objects in a solo exhibition at the city’s Rodolphe Janssen gallery through Januar
  
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• Rise Above Performing Arts Making Itself a New Home - Sarasota

  14-12-2020 21:18 via sarasotamagazine.com
  
  Rise Above Performing Arts Making Itself a New Home  Sarasota
  
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• Curator Destinee Ross-Sutton on Amplifying Black Voices and the Importance of Self-Care

  14-12-2020 21:17 via artnews.com
  
  At just 25 years old, Destinee Ross-Sutton is already being considered an important art-world player. She has curated her own exhibition at Christie’s, and she has said she wants to use her platform to elevate the next generation of Black artists. Ross-Sutton recently sat down with Brooke Jaffe for “ARTnews Live,” our ongoing IGTV series of interviews with a range of creatives.
  Ross-Sutton’s career is on the rise. For the September 2020 cover of InStyle magazine featuring
  
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• Review: This ‘Nutcracker’ Is a Fantasy You Can Enter

  14-12-2020 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Troy Schumacher’s immersive “The Nutcracker at Wethersfield” provides a dreamlike experience.
  
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• Days After Reopening, London Theaters Must Shut

  14-12-2020 20:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical “Six” and a concert version of “Les Miserables” are among the shows that will close because of rising coronavirus cases in the city.
  
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• What Country Music Asked of Charley Pride

  14-12-2020 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer put himself on the line to become the genre’s first Black superstar. He died on Saturday not long after performing at a largely mask-free awards ceremony.
  
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• Review: A World of Cardsharps and Zoom Dupes in ‘The Future’

  14-12-2020 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  In his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
  
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• Kaatsbaan Announces Spring Festival

  14-12-2020 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The Hudson Valley arts organization expands its outdoor dance festival to include concerts and panels at its 153 acre campus in Tivoli, N.Y., in May.
  
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• Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Distributes $12 Million in Relief Aid - Artforum

  14-12-2020 19:29 via artforum.com
  
  Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Distributes $12 Million in Relief Aid  Artforum
  
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• How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive

  14-12-2020 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The HBO documentary “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” traces the decades-long arc of a band that mastered a rare pop skill: adaptation.
  
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• British Archaeologists Unearth ‘Tremendously Exciting’ Ancient Roman Mosaic

  14-12-2020 18:47 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have unearthed a 5th-century Roman mosaic in Britain, marking what experts called a “tremendously exciting” discovery that may upend long-held assumptions about the timeline of the Dark Ages.The mosaic floor was first discovered at the Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, England, in 2017, and underwent extensive radiocarbon dating—a form of testing that measures the level of carbon in charcoal and other organic materials in an object—to determine the
  
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• John le Carré Film and Television Adaptations Available to Stream

  14-12-2020 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  From the beginning, his novels of Cold War espionage and moral ambiguity attracted leading actors and filmmakers. Here are nine that can be streamed.
  
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• Shawn Mendes Hits No. 1 for the Fourth Time

  14-12-2020 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop-rock singer and songwriter’s latest album, “Wonder,” debuted at the top a week before Taylor Swift’s surprise “Evermore” arrives on the chart.
  
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• Owners of House Bearing New Banksy Mural Move Forward With Sale

  14-12-2020 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  The appearance of  a new Banksy mural appeared on a house in Bristol, England, last week had the potential to complicate the planned sale of the property that the street artist chose as his latest canvas. But according to a report by the BBC, the owner of the house, listed for £340,000 (about $453,000), intends to move forward with the sale.
  ITV News West Country and other British outlets had reported that Aileen Makin had pulled the house, which is located on Vale Street, from the ma
  
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• COVID-19 Surge, Vaccine Updates / How The Pandemic Is Impacting The Arts And Culture Community - Capital Public Radio News

  14-12-2020 18:03 via capradio.org
  
  COVID-19 Surge, Vaccine Updates / How The Pandemic Is Impacting The Arts And Culture Community  Capital Public Radio News
  
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• Vintage Furniture Reveals the Legacy of Caribbean Modernism

  14-12-2020 17:23 via artnews.com
  
  “The Jamaica Archives and Records Department is actually very efficient,” Rachael Barrett, a Jamaican fine art consultant and curator told me over the phone from Miami, where she was putting the final touches on the Caribbean Modern podium at Design Miami earlier this month. “If you want to know if Bob Marley picked his toenail at 3 o’clock on a certain Tuesday, they’ll have a record of that. But you won’t find any material about furniture makers.”
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• Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Apologizes and Offers Refund for Game Glitches

  14-12-2020 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The company behind the long-awaited video game pledged to fix the bugs and crashes after complaints from players poured in over the weekend.
  
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• Chocolate Church Arts Center expands board of trustees, adding gallery curator - pressherald.com

  14-12-2020 16:51 via pressherald.com
  
  Chocolate Church Arts Center expands board of trustees, adding gallery curator  pressherald.com
  
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• New Bedford receives $550,000 under new arts and economic development program - SouthCoastToday.com

  14-12-2020 16:19 via southcoasttoday.com
  New Bedford receives $550,000 under new arts and economic development program  SouthCoastToday.com
  
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• John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal

  14-12-2020 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The author, who died on Saturday, “had a knack for language of every variety,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. “His books hum with the flavorful and recondite language of espionage.”
  
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• Big changes are coming to the Arizona Governor's Arts Awards. Here's what you need to know - AZCentral.com

  14-12-2020 15:01 via azcentral.com
  Big changes are coming to the Arizona Governor's Arts Awards. Here's what you need to know  AZCentral.com
  
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• Stephen King Has Thoughts About Stephen King TV Shows

  14-12-2020 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With a new adaptation of “The Stand” arriving Thursday on CBS All Access, the best-selling author looked back at the best and worst adaptations of his stories for television.
  
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• Museum of Latin American Art Defends Sale, Drive-Through Art Shows, and More: Morning Links from December 14, 2020

  14-12-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, has defended deaccessioning 59 works from its permanent collection, saying that it is part of an effort to diversify the museum’s holdings. Chief curator Gabriela Urtiaga said that “acquiring works by Chicanx and Latinx women is the museum’s priority moving forward.” [Los Angeles
  
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• College of the Arts Announces the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Awards - Georgia State University News

  14-12-2020 14:36 via news.gsu.edu
  College of the Arts Announces the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Awards  Georgia State University News
  
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• In Indonesia, a Blurred Boundary Between the Living and the Dead

  14-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Toraja people of southern Sulawesi, one of Indonesia’s largest islands, are known for their elaborate death rituals, which include preserving and exhuming the dead.
  
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• Beethoven's Greatness Is in the Details

  14-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music.
  
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• Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: Here’s Everything You Need to Know

  14-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Explore the music, life and times of the composer who changed culture.
  
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• A Raging Pandemic Inspires Poetry With Little Bite

  14-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Together in a Sudden Strangeness,” edited by Alice Quinn, gathers poems that react to life during the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’ Join National Film Registry

  14-12-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The movies, along with “A Clockwork Orange” and “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” are among 25 selected by the Library of Congress.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Art of Political Murder’ and CBS Specials

  14-12-2020 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary about the murder of the Guatemalan bishop Juan José Gerardi debuts on HBO. And two celebrity benefit shows air on CBS.
  
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• Finding More Than Humbug in Scrooge and Company

  14-12-2020 02:47 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Christmas Carol” is a favorite of Maya Phillips, but this year, she writes, she found in it “a timely study of what it truly means to be a decent person in a community.”
  
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• John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89

  14-12-2020 00:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Graham Greene called “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” featuring the plump, ill-dressed George Smiley, the greatest spy story he had ever read.
  
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• Mentorship program launches to promote performing arts education - WLOS

  14-12-2020 00:13 via wlos.com
  Mentorship program launches to promote performing arts education  WLOS
  
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