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• Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million to Put Songkick Criminal Case to Rest

  30-12-2020 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The concert giant has agreed to pay the fine to resolve charges that it intruded into the computer system of one of its competitors.
  
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• National Gallery of Art Acquires 40 Works by Black Southern Artists

  30-12-2020 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The acquisition adds paintings, quilts and sculptures by more than 20 African-American artists, many of them self-taught, into the collection.
  
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• In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices

  30-12-2020 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
  
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• The entertainment and arts figures in the New Year Honours 2021 - BBC News

  30-12-2020 23:30 via bbc.com
  
  The entertainment and arts figures in the New Year Honours 2021  BBC News
  
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• San Antonio arts presenters, venues hopeful they can crawl out of the COVID-19 rubble in 2021 - San Antonio Express-News

  30-12-2020 23:30 via expressnews.com
  
  San Antonio arts presenters, venues hopeful they can crawl out of the COVID-19 rubble in 2021  San Antonio Express-News
  
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• Plumas Arts welcomes the New Year with a new director - Plumas County Newspapers

  30-12-2020 23:18 via plumasnews.com
  
  Plumas Arts welcomes the New Year with a new director  Plumas County Newspapers
  
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• Southwest Arts Festival in Indio canceled for 2021 due to COVID-19 - Desert Sun

  30-12-2020 23:17 via desertsun.com
  Southwest Arts Festival in Indio canceled for 2021 due to COVID-19  Desert Sun
  
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• Former Cleveland Museum Of Art Director Evan Hopkins Turner Dies - ideastream

  30-12-2020 23:06 via ideastream.org
  
  Former Cleveland Museum Of Art Director Evan Hopkins Turner Dies  ideastream
  
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• Create Appalachia releases Arts Work schedule for January through June 2021 - Johnson City Press (subscription)

  30-12-2020 23:00 via johnsoncitypress.com
  Create Appalachia releases Arts Work schedule for January through June 2021  Johnson City Press (subscription)
  
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• 74 Facts for 2020

  30-12-2020 22:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Each day, our editors collect the most interesting, striking or delightful facts to appear in articles throughout the paper. Here are 74 from the past year that were the most revealing.
  
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• Wyoming Arts Council announces financial assistance recipients | Rocketminer - Wyoming Tribune

  30-12-2020 21:36 via wyomingnews.com
  Wyoming Arts Council announces financial assistance recipients | Rocketminer  Wyoming Tribune
  
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• Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby

  30-12-2020 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Our critic considers why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic inspires and withstands so much interpretation.
  
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• Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ Dies at 82

  30-12-2020 21:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Her character on the hit 1960s sitcom radiated all-American wholesomeness and a youthful charm. After her TV career cooled down, she focused on theater acting.
  
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• Yadkin Arts Council Artist Member (Art-Me) Showcase to start Jan. 7 - Winston-Salem Journal

  30-12-2020 21:00 via journalnow.com
  Yadkin Arts Council Artist Member (Art-Me) Showcase to start Jan. 7  Winston-Salem Journal
  
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• How the Networks Will Fill Airtime on a Quiet New Year’s Eve

  30-12-2020 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  In a typical year, shots of raucous parties from around the world dominate news programming. This year, the networks had to get more creative.
  
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• This Year Was a Disaster. We Hope the Sequel Is Better.

  30-12-2020 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  We streamed, we watched, we worried. We also wondered what the catastrophe called 2020 will mean for movies.
  
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• ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Review: A Raw, Ragged Study of a Loss

  30-12-2020 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Vanessa Kirby gives an intensely physical performance as a woman whose life and marriage is upended by the death of a child.
  
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• Local arts organizations receive relief funding - Norwich Bulletin

  30-12-2020 19:29 via norwichbulletin.com
  Local arts organizations receive relief funding  Norwich Bulletin
  
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• The Evanston Performing Arts Collective kicks off with "A New World" on New Year's - Chicago Reader

  30-12-2020 19:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Evanston Performing Arts Collective kicks off with "A New World" on New Year's  Chicago Reader
  
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• Joe Clark, Tough Principal at New Jersey High School, Dies at 82

  30-12-2020 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Bullhorn in hand, he roamed the hallways, imposing discipline, expelling ‘“miscreants” and restoring order. Morgan Freeman portrayed him in “Lean on Me.”
  
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• Hilaria Baldwin Talks About Her Heritage, Spain, Boston, Alec and Instagram

  30-12-2020 18:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Accused of a “decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,” the entrepreneur and spouse of Alec Baldwin talks about Spain, Boston, her children, Instagram and more.
  
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• Fine arts teachers help the show go on during the pandemic - STLtoday.com

  30-12-2020 18:15 via stltoday.com
  
  Fine arts teachers help the show go on during the pandemic  STLtoday.com
  
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• Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco

  30-12-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  He brought dance music to the Empire Rollerdrome in Brooklyn, and taught generations of skaters how to roll, bounce and be jammas.
  
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• Arts adapt to new performance scene | | dailyastorian.com - Daily Astorian

  30-12-2020 18:00 via dailyastorian.com
  Arts adapt to new performance scene | | dailyastorian.com  Daily Astorian
  
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• The Most-Read ARTnews Stories of 2020: From Artist Anthony Hopkins to Pantone’s 2021 Colors and Beyond

  30-12-2020 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  This year was not short on tumult. There was a global pandemic, a sweeping push for the recognition of systemic racism and its abolition, a nail-biter of a Presidential election in the U.S., and a whole lot more. All of these things played out in the art world, which saw some early signs of change in museums and the loss of major figures who helped shape art history into what it is today. A list of the most-read stories on ARTnews.com from 2020 follows below.
  
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• Arts: Bill Cook Jr. - Knoxville City View

  30-12-2020 17:41 via cityviewmag.com
  
  Arts: Bill Cook Jr.  Knoxville City View
  
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• Moynihan Train Hall Brings Art to Penn Station

  30-12-2020 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The expansion of Penn Station’s concourse has an acre of glass that lets the sun pour down, and installations by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. Here’s a first look.
  
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• 4 Young Adult Crossover Novels

  30-12-2020 17:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest fiction from Nic Stone, Elizabeth Wein, David Yoon and Arvin Ahmadi.
  
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• Plans for Freeman Arts Pavilion move forward - CapeGazette.com

  30-12-2020 17:04 via capegazette.com
  
  Plans for Freeman Arts Pavilion move forward  CapeGazette.com
  
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• When Is a Comedy Special Also a Corporate Synergy Message?

  30-12-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two year-end shows from Amazon and Netflix deliver some laughs, yes, but also serve as veiled ads for the streaming services themselves.
  
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• How to Stream New Year’s Eve: 25 Shows From Pop, Jazz and Beyond

  30-12-2020 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It isn’t too late to make (cheap!) plans to welcome 2021 with music. A host of concerts will be streaming around the globe and major stars will take the stage on TV.
  
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• Staunton arts visionary Mary Tuck Echols dies at age 95 - The News Leader

  30-12-2020 16:54 via newsleader.com
  Staunton arts visionary Mary Tuck Echols dies at age 95  The News Leader
  
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• From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell

  30-12-2020 16:06 via nytimes.com
  
  We know remarkably little about John Sheppard and his “Media vita.” But it has become a cult favorite of early music.
  
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• Tusculum Arts Program Receives Grants | ACCENT | greenevillesun.com - Greeneville Sun

  30-12-2020 16:00 via greenevillesun.com
  Tusculum Arts Program Receives Grants | ACCENT | greenevillesun.com  Greeneville Sun
  
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• The State of the Arts on the East End in 2020 - Dan's Papers

  30-12-2020 16:00 via danspapers.com
  
  The State of the Arts on the East End in 2020  Dan's Papers
  
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• The Bruce Willis Journey From In Demand to On Demand

  30-12-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An assessment of the actor’s late-career B-movie filmography, including his most recent entry, “Breach.”
  
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• How a Covert Archive of Erotic Images Inspired Taro Masushio’s Bracing New Photos

  30-12-2020 15:59 via artnews.com
  
  One recent morning in Hong Kong, while in the last hours of his quarantine, the New York–based artist Taro Masushio recounted a visit he made to a vast, little-seen archive of homoerotic photographs by Jun’ichi En’ya, who had worked as a photo-technician in Osaka, Japan. “I had just never seen anything like it,” Masushio said on a video call, as he recalled flipping through hundreds and hundreds of En’ya’s analog prints. “It was this very surreal a
  
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• Going viral: Covid and the St. Pete arts scene in 2020 - St Pete Catalyst

  30-12-2020 15:49 via stpetecatalyst.com
  
  Going viral: Covid and the St. Pete arts scene in 2020  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Silver Linings: San Antonio’s arts community weighs in on the positive side effects of quarantine - San Antonio Current

  30-12-2020 15:15 via sacurrent.com
  
  Silver Linings: San Antonio’s arts community weighs in on the positive side effects of quarantine  San Antonio Current
  
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• Lincoln Monument in Boston Comes Down, Breonna Taylor Sculpture Stolen in California, and More: Morning Links from December 30, 2020

  30-12-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  After it was smashed, a sculpture of Breonna Taylor that had been on view in Oakland, California, was stolen. [Los Angeles Times]
  A statue of Abraham Lincoln with an emancipated slave at his feet in Boston has been removed amid an outcry. [Associated Press]
  Zdenka Badovinac has been fired by the Slovenian government as the director of the Moderna Galerija in Ljub
  
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• Watch 8 Classic TV Episodes About New Year’s Eves Gone Awry

  30-12-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Are your plans feeling particularly lackluster this year? Take heart: These are a reminder that Dec. 31 isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.
  
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• She’s Starring Opposite Tom Hanks. She’d Never Heard of Him.

  30-12-2020 13:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Helena Zengel is a giggly, chatty 12-year-old, whose movie roles take her into psychological territory that even adults would find tough.
  
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• Barstool Sports founder helps local arts studio with financial assistance to stay afloat amid pandemic - WPVI-TV

  30-12-2020 12:38 via 6abc.com
  
  Barstool Sports founder helps local arts studio with financial assistance to stay afloat amid pandemic  WPVI-TV
  
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• 5 Dance Picture Books

  30-12-2020 12:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Children of all abilities glide from page to stage with the likes of American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet pros.
  
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• Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More

  30-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer’s debut novel, “The Prophets,” is the Black queer love story he longed to read.
  
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• Hilaria Baldwin Talks Spain, Boston, Alec and Instagram

  30-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Accused of a “decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,” the entrepreneur (and spouse of Alec Baldwin) talks about being the main character in this last week of 2020.
  
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• A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived

  30-12-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On Jan. 4, 1981, the effects-heavy production opened and closed on the same night. Forty years later, the creators revisit a very expensive Broadway flop.
  
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• This year was devastating for the arts and culture community, but there was brilliance among the wreckage - Pacific Northwest Inlander

  30-12-2020 10:38 via inlander.com
  
  This year was devastating for the arts and culture community, but there was brilliance among the wreckage  Pacific Northwest Inlander
  
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• Morning Brief: 2020's Best Of Arts - LAist

  30-12-2020 10:00 via laist.com
  
  Morning Brief: 2020's Best Of Arts  LAist
  
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• Middletown Arts Center In-Person Winter Classes! Register Today! Support Local Arts, Donate to Your MAC! - TAPinto.net

  30-12-2020 06:56 via tapinto.net
  
  Middletown Arts Center In-Person Winter Classes! Register Today! Support Local Arts, Donate to Your MAC!  TAPinto.net
  
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