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• Nicola Pagett, ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ Actress, Dies at 75

  16-03-2021 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  She preferred the stage, but she won praise for her work on television as the rebellious and thoroughly spoiled Elizabeth Bellamy, and later as Anna Karenina.
  
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• How Honest Can Demi Lovato Be? She Opens Up About Her Overdose and ‘Dancing With the Devil’

  16-03-2021 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer is opening up about her queerness, her near fatal overdose and her journey to living her truth. “I’m ready to feel like myself,” she said.
  
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• Demi Lovato Opens Up About ‘Dancing With the Devil’ and Her Overdose

  16-03-2021 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer is opening up about her queerness, her near fatal overdose and her journey to living her truth. “I’m ready to feel like myself,” she said.
  
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• Essential Books: 7 Exhibition Catalogs for Your Reference Library

  16-03-2021 22:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Ars longa, vita brevis, the old saying goes, though it’s worth noting that a principal tool for disseminating our knowledge of art—the exhibition—is as transitory as life itself. Shows open, then close, and even major traveling surveys are usually around for only a year or so. If you aren’t a globe-trotting art professional, or you somehow mis
  
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• Gerhard Richter Permanently Loans 100 Works to Berlin Museum

  16-03-2021 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  Although Gerhard Richter’s blockbuster exhibition at the Met Breuer in New York closed after just nine days at the start of the pandemic, fans of the artists might be interested to learn that 100 of his works—including ones on view in that survey—will get a permanent home at a not-yet-built Berlin museum.
  On Monday, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, a consortium of museums in the German capital, revealed that the artist’s foundation plans to permanently loan the works to t
  
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• Book Review: ’100 Boyfriends,’ by Brontez Purnell

  16-03-2021 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In Brontez Purnell’s new book, a rotating cast of narrators share their experiences of erotic adventure and emotional need.
  
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• The Best Plastic Drawing Templates for Precise Shapes and Lines

  16-03-2021 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  Yes, you can achieve perfection. A drawing template enables you to create exact circles, squares, lines, arcs, and more without reaching for a compass, ruler, or protractor. It’s a necessary tool for executing clean-lined blueprints, sketches that demand precision, or crisp compositions for bullet journals. But which should you buy? Although templates are available in metal, we’re partial to classic plastic—their translucency lets you know exactly where you’re placing the
  
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• When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers

  16-03-2021 19:56 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Arik Kershenbaum uses his knowledge of the various species here on Earth to speculate about what might exist out there.
  
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• How the Pandemic May Impact Bay Area Performing Arts for Years to Come - KQED

  16-03-2021 19:51
  
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• Mysterious Artist Pak to Collaborate with Sotheby’s for NFT Sale

  16-03-2021 19:28 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, amid the crypto art craze that has taken hold of the market, Sotheby’s announced it will collaborate with the anonymous digital artist Pak for a sale this April.
  The auction house’s CEO Charles Stewart said in an interview with CNBC that the sale will include both individual works of art as well as “open edition” NFTs, where multiple buyers can purchase minted tokens for the same work.
  The announcement continues the NFT mayhem spurred by Christie’s sale
  
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• Records for Ed Clark, Firelei Báez Bring Sotheby’s Mid-Season Contemporary Sale to $24 M.

  16-03-2021 19:21 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, ahead of its upcoming London 20th century art evening sales, Sotheby’s saw its New York mid-season “Contemporary Curated” auction achieve a hammer total of $19.3 million ($24.3 million with buyer’s premium). The result was just above the $18.1 million pre-sale low estimate, realizing an 87 percent sell-through rate across 110 lots.
  The sale offered a mix of works by emerging and mid-career blue-chip artists, and its total was below the equivalent March 2020 sal
  
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• Showing What Has Been Forgotten

  16-03-2021 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  I first encountered Buzz Spector’s work in 1996 at the now defunct Roy Boyd Gallery in Chicago. The centerpiece of that show was Marcel Broodthaers’s catalogue raisonné transformed by Spector’s signature method of tearing each page in successive, jagged-edged vertical strips, from the centerfold outward. In this work he also painted the pages in white gesso. The knowledge-bearing resource becomes a perpetually open but unreadable object, richly symbolic but illegible in
  
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• The Best Printing Blocks for Creating Your Own Designs

  16-03-2021 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’d like to make your own prints out of blocks you carve yourself, you’ll find no shortage of options. You’ll just have to decide what material you want to carve. Block printing—the process of etching a design into a flat surface, then coating the relief with ink and stamping it onto blank paper or fabric—is said to have originated in China before 220 A.D. By the 12th century it was widely used in India, then gradually spread around the globe. Long before block
  
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• New Banksy Mural on British Prison Tagged With Rival Artist’s Name

  16-03-2021 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  A recently created mural by Banksy has been tagged with a reference to a rival street artist. According to a report by the National, Banksy’s painting atop the wall of a former prison in Reading, England, which the artist made earlier this month, has been tagged with the words “Team Robbo” in an apparent nod to the late graffiti artist King Robbo.
  Banksy’s mural depicts a prisoner scaling the wall using a sheet tied to a typewriter, which was covered up with red paint as
  
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• What It Means to Break Free: A Tale of Detention, Told in Dance

  16-03-2021 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Jeremy McQueen’s film “Wild: Act 1” seeks to give voice to young men caught in the criminal justice system.
  
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• The Best Binders’ Boards for Bookmaking

  16-03-2021 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  The foundation of every handmade book is its bookbinders’ boards—those essential front and back covers that protect a book’s pages. The first hardcover books had vellum pages and covers made from wood, but after the adoption of paper and the invention of the printing press, it became standard to use pasteboard (an early cardboard) for covers. We’ve come quite a way since then. Today, if you’re creating your own book covers, not just any cardboard will do; the boards
  
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• Klauss Dörr Quits Volksbühne Over Sexual Harassment Allegations

  16-03-2021 17:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Klauss Dörr resigned as head of the Volksbühne after 10 women accused him of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.
  
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• The Grammys, Improbably, Made It Work

  16-03-2021 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The show navigated a year of crisis, minted a new generation of stars and didn’t fixate on boomers.
  
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• How the Harp Got Hip

  16-03-2021 16:45 via nytimes.com
  
  An instrument long associated with angels and virtue surfaces across musical genres, on TikTok and even in pornography.
  
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• So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks

  16-03-2021 16:40 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mona,” a novel by the Argentine writer Pola Oloixarac, is a sharp study of a writer’s vanity, insecurity and hidden trauma.
  
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• ‘Mank’ Leads 2021 Oscar Nominations and Chloé Zhao Makes History

  16-03-2021 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The Netflix film earned 10 nods on Monday, and for the first time, two women were recognized for directing: Emerald Fennell and Zhao, the first woman of color in the category.
  
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• New Dead Sea Scrolls Portions Discovered, Marking First Major Find in 60 Years

  16-03-2021 16:04 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have found new fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a grouping of ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that date back to between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the 1st century C.E. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said that the new portions were discovered while surveying the Judean Desert, east of Jerusalem, in an area known as the “Cave of Horror” that has been named as such because of the skeletons previously discovered there.
  The Dead Sea
  
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• Artist Charles Gaines on How a Fellowship at CalArts Could Be a Model for Art Schools in Need of Change

  16-03-2021 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  If you want to diversify the art world, you need to begin by diversifying the art schools. During my 30 years teaching at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the absence of race-based scholarships made that goal impossible. Minority applicants were less likely to be able to attend an expensive private art school without scholarship support, and we lost many applicants primarily because we were unable to provide sufficient financial aid.
  In the early 1990s, I had my biggest recruitmen
  
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• STATE: North Carolina Arts Council releases grant guidelines - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press - Stanly News & Press

  16-03-2021 15:40
  
  STATE: North Carolina Arts Council releases grant guidelines - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press  Stanly News & Press
  
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• The Arts Are Coming Back This Summer. Just Step Outside. - The New York Times

  16-03-2021 15:02
  
  The Arts Are Coming Back This Summer. Just Step Outside.  The New York Times
  
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• The Arts Are Coming Back This Summer. Just Step Outside

  16-03-2021 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The return of Shakespeare to Central Park is among the most visible signs that theaters, orchestras and opera companies aim to return to the stage — outdoors.
  
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• This Is Your Brain on Peloton

  16-03-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The exercise bike company’s virtual classes represent an intense new genre of content: a total curation of the mind.
  
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• Instant Artifacts of a Disconnected Time (and Lots of Hugh Dancy)

  16-03-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  During the pandemic, writers and actors have taken on an “adrenalizing” challenge: creating video monologues, more than 400 so far, in 24 hours.
  
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• Alex Newell Finds Inspiration in Whitney Houston, Billy Porter and ‘Dreamgirls’

  16-03-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” star talked about the performers he recognizes himself in, coming full circle with Mariah Carey and his signature banana pudding.
  
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• Affordable Housing Earns French Couple the Pritzker Prize

  16-03-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After more than 30 years of designing affordable new spaces out of existing structures, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have won architecture’s highest honor.
  
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• A Look at the Art Market’s Troubles, NFT Mayhem Mounts, and More: Morning Links from March 16, 2021

  16-03-2021 14:16 via artnews.com
  
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  THIS WHOLE NFT ART THING IS CERTAINLY GOING SMOOTHLY. Some users of the NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway reported that artworks had been stolen from their accounts, Business Insider reports. Also, the tokens are perhaps not so great for the environment, The Verge notes. And artworks are being commodified as NFTs&
  
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• Art Market Shrank 22 Percent in Pandemic Year, Study Says

  16-03-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The author of the UBS and Art Basel report says she doesn’t expect a return to anything resembling normalcy soon. The coming period will be “another transitional year,” she said.
  
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• We Don’t Know How Much Art Has Gone Missing From Museums

  16-03-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Museums are doing a better job of accounting for missing inventory than years ago, when they would sometimes not report thefts out of embarrassment and fear of exposing security weaknesses.
  
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• In Dorset, Jasper Conran’s Garden Runs Wild

  16-03-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Set against the lush English countryside, the designer’s 17th-century home and its riotous plantings of magnificent blooms both defy and inspire his restrained elegance.
  
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• ‘Martha: A Picture Story’ Review: Snapshots of a Career

  16-03-2021 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary recounts the work of Martha Cooper, a photographer instrumental in establishing the validity of street art.
  
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• When a Nation’s Torturous Past Resembles ‘The Twilight Zone’

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Named after the classic TV series, a new novel by Nona Fernández mines Chile’s dark history and shifts restlessly between genres.
  
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• The ‘Sentimental Excess’ of Sarah Stiles

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who stars in the Netflix series ‘The Crew’ and is a regular on ‘Billions,’ is like a slightly goofy sitcom neighbor with an otherworldly home.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Performance,’ by Claire Thomas

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Performance,” Claire Thomas raises the curtain on the lives of three women who attend the same play on a hot summer night.
  
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• Book Review: ‘New York, New York,’ by Thomas Dyja

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Thomas Dyja’s “New York, New York, New York” describes the city’s revival in recent years, and the problems it will face in the future.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Festival Days,’ by Jo Ann Beard

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The author’s forceful new collection, “Festival Days,” features characters, mostly drawn from life, often confronting illness, loss, violence and death.
  
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• Beneath Her Decorous Demeanor, ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ Was a Political Force

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new biography, by Julia Sweig, shows the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson to have been ahead of her time (and possibly her husband) on women’s rights, racial disparities and other issues.
  
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• A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust

  16-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Plunder,” a memoir by Menachem Kaiser, the author tries to repossess a building owned by his grandfather before the war and discovers a history he knew nothing about.
  
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• Yaphet Kotto, James Bond Villain and ‘Alien’ Star, Dies at 81

  16-03-2021 09:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who descended from Cameroonian royalty, was known for his roles in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  
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• Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’ Star, Dies at 81

  16-03-2021 09:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who descended from Cameroonian royalty, was known for his roles in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  
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• 2021 Art Basel Global Market Report Reveals 22 Percent Drop in 2020 Sales to $50 Billion

  16-03-2021 08:00 via artnews.com
  
  Across the international art market, sales of fine art and antiques generated an estimated $50.1 billion in 2020, down 22% from the 2019 total of $64.1 billion, according to the 2021 annual Global Art Market Report sponsored by Art Basel and UBS and written by art economist Clare McAndrew. The result is an even greater fall of 27 percent from the $67.4 billion achieved in 2018. Online sales of art and antiques reached a record high of $12.4 billion, doubling in value over 2019 and accounting for
  
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• 2021 Art Basel Global Market Report Reveals 22% Drop in 2020 Sales to $50 Billion

  16-03-2021 08:00 via artnews.com
  
  Across the international art market, sales of fine art and antiques generated an estimated $50.1 billion in 2020, down 22% from the 2019 total of $64.1 billion, according to the 2021 annual Global Art Market Report sponsored by Art Basel and UBS and written by art economist Clare McAndrew. The result is an even greater fall of 27 percent from the $67.4 billion achieved in 2018. Online sales of art and antiques reached a record high of $12.4 billion, doubling in value over 2019 and accounting for
  
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• Trevor Noah: Andrew Cuomo Is ‘the Only Person Who Wishes It Was Still 2020’

  16-03-2021 07:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “At some point we’re going to find out the Statue of Liberty only holds that torch so she can fend him off,” Noah said Monday of sexual misconduct allegations against the New York governor.
  
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• William and Harry Aren’t the First Royals to Chafe Against Their Roles

  16-03-2021 02:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Elizabeth and Margaret,” Andrew Morton hows how the queen and her sister struggled in their relationship.
  
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