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• ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime

  27-05-2021 23:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Candid testimonies from World War II veterans accompanies vivid archival footage in this immersive documentary that showcases the myths we tell ourselves about war.
  
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• Leader of Americans for the Arts Retires After Workplace Complaints - The New York Times

  27-05-2021 23:35
  
  Leader of Americans for the Arts Retires After Workplace Complaints  The New York Times
  
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• Leader of Americans for the Arts Retires After Workplace Complaints

  27-05-2021 23:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert L. Lynch, the longtime president and chief executive who had been on paid leave since December, retired on Thursday, the organization’s board announced.
  
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• Michael Stipe Talks About His New Book on Pandemic-Era Shows of Strength and Vulnerability

  27-05-2021 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  Michael Stipe, former frontman of the epochal rock band R.E.M. and a multivalent visual artist in the years since, recently released Michael Stipe, a new book of literal and figurative portraits of some of his favorite people in the world. The third in a series of volumes published by Damiani, the new offering follows Volume 1 and Our Interference Times: A Visual Record. Some of the new portraits are photographic—including shots of Tilda Swinton, John Giorno, Kirsten Dunst, and friends and
  
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• Use the Best Tortillons and Blending Stumps for Smudging and Softening

  27-05-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
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  Keep those fingers clean: Pick up a tortillon or a blending stump to blend, soften, and smudge your creative marks. Made of paper that is compacted and shaped into a pencil-like design, these handheld implements look similar but are used for different effects, most commonly with dry media such as charcoal, graphite, and pastel. A tortillon is hollow, features one poi
  
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• NFTs Linked to Nobel Prizes Are Being Auctioned by Berkeley

  27-05-2021 22:10 via nytimes.com
  
  What would you pay for the invention disclosure forms filed by the creators of CRISPR or cancer immunotherapy?
  
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• Salem Arts Festival Returns This Year June 4-6 - nshoremag.com

  27-05-2021 21:45
  
  Salem Arts Festival Returns This Year June 4-6  nshoremag.com
  
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• A Writer’s One-Act Plays Debut, Continuing Her Resurrection

  27-05-2021 21:32 via nytimes.com
  
  By staging Kathleen Collins’s rich psychological portraits of Black women, a theatrical group aims to enlighten, heal and inspire.
  
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• MoMA Built a House. Then It Disappeared. Now It’s Found.

  27-05-2021 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1950, the museum exhibited Gregory Ain’s modernist creation. It’s now nestled in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
  
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• Using Near-Infrared Imaging, Researchers Discover Hidden Figure in Medieval Prayer Book

  27-05-2021 20:34 via artnews.com
  
  New research using near-infrared imaging has revealed hidden paintings of Yolande of Anjou, first wife of Duke Francis I of Brittany, in a medieval prayer book, Live Science reports. Scientists at the University of Cambridge, where the book is held in the collection of the Fitzwilliam museum, noticed a darker area on one of the pages. It ultimately proved to be Yolande’s headdress painted over in azurite, which made it stand out from the surrounding ultramarine blue.
  A book of hours is an
  
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• House of the Week: Arts and Crafts home in West Boylston lists for $849K - Worcester Telegram

  27-05-2021 20:28
  House of the Week: Arts and Crafts home in West Boylston lists for $849K  Worcester Telegram
  
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• ‘Her Man’: A Relic of a Bygone Hollywood, Now Restored

  27-05-2021 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Now streaming, this mildly racy romance, from 1930, arrived before the censorious Production Code. What really sets the film apart is its incredible tracking shots.
  
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• San Diego Weekend Arts Events: 'The Bridge,' 'Pick Me Last,' 'The Great Indian Kitchen,' 'Harawi' And 'Measurements Of Progress' - KPBS

  27-05-2021 20:14
  
  San Diego Weekend Arts Events: 'The Bridge,' 'Pick Me Last,' 'The Great Indian Kitchen,' 'Harawi' And 'Measurements Of Progress'  KPBS
  
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• Hermitage Barcelona to Move Forward with Development, Despite Resistance from City Officials

  27-05-2021 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  The State Hermitage Museum’s long-awaited Barcelona branch has finally been given the green light for development. The port of Barcelona’s board of directors announced on Thursday that a proposal for the Hermitage Barcelona was approved, despite considerable resistance from the city authorities. The building, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Toyo Ito, is slated to open in 2024.
  Like the Russian museum’s older outposts, the Hermitage Amsterdam and the Hermitage
  
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• Mike Faist Isn’t Sure About This Whole Acting Thing

  27-05-2021 19:52 via nytimes.com
  
  “I can’t tell if I hate acting or if I love it too much,” he said ahead of the debut of the Amazon series “Panic.” Coming soon, a major role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” For now, he’s going to Ohio.
  
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• The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2021-22 Fellows - NYU News

  27-05-2021 19:47
  The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2021-22 Fellows  NYU News
  
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• DanceAfrica Turns Its (Virtual) Gaze to Haiti

  27-05-2021 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The festival features a film that shows the light and empowerment of vodou, a tradition of danced communication and communion with ancestors and spirits.
  
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• Up-and-Coming Pawtucket Arts Space & PVD Bookseller Make Summer Plans - Providence Media

  27-05-2021 19:25
  
  Up-and-Coming Pawtucket Arts Space & PVD Bookseller Make Summer Plans  Providence Media
  
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• ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’ Review: China Through Writers’ Eyes

  27-05-2021 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Jia Zhangke’s documentary illuminates a vast and complicated history in a series of intimate conversations.
  
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• ‘Friends: The Reunion’: 5 Things We Learned

  27-05-2021 18:33 via nytimes.com
  
  You might think there’s nothing more to know about the show and its cast, but the reunion special, which premiered Thursday on HBO Max, reveals a few things.
  
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• The Best Professional Gouache Sets for Painterly Experimentations

  27-05-2021 18:21 via artnews.com
  
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  The primary feature of gouache is its opacity. While these paints are similar to watercolor in the way they’re applied to paper, they are formulated so pigments remain near the surface of the paper rather than getting absorbed into its fibers. Like any other paint, gouache comes in a range of grades, and it can get pretty expensive. Pro-grade gouache is typical
  
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• Mafi named interim dean of UNM's College of Arts and Sciences - UNM Newsroom

  27-05-2021 18:16
  
  Mafi named interim dean of UNM's College of Arts and Sciences  UNM Newsroom
  
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• The Game Winner for Disney+? Slapping Down the Sports Clichés.

  27-05-2021 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Ever since “The Bad News Bears,” family sports stories have followed a predictable pattern. Two current series succeed by breaking it.
  
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• Yes, Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel. Don’t Expect to Read It.

  27-05-2021 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree.
  
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• Rescheduled Laurel Hill Arts Festival returning bigger than before - Crestview News Bulletin

  27-05-2021 17:07
  Rescheduled Laurel Hill Arts Festival returning bigger than before  Crestview News Bulletin
  
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• Steinbeck Estate Won't Publish Werewolf Novel

  27-05-2021 16:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate vehemently disagree.
  
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• 8 New Thrillers to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 16:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Alex Michaelides’s long-awaited next novel, “The Maidens,” is finally here, and so are new books from Catherine Steadman, Ben Winters and Geling Yan.
  
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• At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble

  27-05-2021 16:25 via nytimes.com
  
  With a survey in Europe and stark new sculptures in New York, he is bringing to the fore darker, more personal themes. “I’m an undertaker,” he said. “I don’t do the uplift thing.”
  
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• Nina Katchadourian’s Eccentric Existentialism

  27-05-2021 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  In her first show at Pace, an artist driven by curiosity and a penchant for the absurd tries to understand the world. The results are touching and sometimes hilarious.
  
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• Game On! Great New Sports Books

  27-05-2021 16:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Just in time for summer, these titles offer a variety of surprises — like the members of the 1986 Boston Red Sox discussing their famous collapse and Kevin Garnett offering his prescriptions for success.
  
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• New Books About Music to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 16:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Books about everything from Tupac Shakur to Latin music and memoirs by Sinead O’Connor and Rickie Lee Jones offer an answer.
  
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• Howard University Renames College of Fine Arts After Chadwick Boseman - The New York Times

  27-05-2021 16:07
  
  Howard University Renames College of Fine Arts After Chadwick Boseman  The New York Times
  
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• Rescuing Artists of Vision

  27-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The unrivaled Art Preserve in Sheboygan, Wis., opening soon, is collecting and showing artist-built environments found along rural byways, in city lofts — and even at Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel.
  
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• New True Crime Books to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Truth is definitely stranger than fiction in this summer’s crop of true-crime books.
  
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• New Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Six novels feature characters who hunger for connection so strongly that they transform their environments.
  
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• New Historical Fiction to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago.
  
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• New Books About Show Business to Entertain You This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  New titles — about Lorraine Hansberry, “Midnight Cowboy” and more — get to the heart of our enduring obsessions with Hollywood and the performing arts.
  
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• New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  From funny women to Yo-Yo Ma, self-reflection to civil rights, there’s something in the queue for everyone.
  
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• 7 New Romance Novels to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Mainstream publishers are fully embracing queer love stories, our columnist writes: “I would call it an embarrassment of riches but what it really is, of course, is pride.”
  
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• 7 New Cookbooks to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The season’s newest cookbooks celebrate feel-good dishes from around the globe.
  
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• 5 New Horror Novels to Read This Summer

  27-05-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  If your idea of a beach read involves abject terror, we’ve got some new novels to recommend.
  
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• ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ Artist Eric Carle Dies, ‘Vessel’ Returns, and More: Morning Links from May 27, 2021

  27-05-2021 15:42 via artnews.com
  
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  ERIC CARLE, THE REVERED ILLUSTRATOR AND AUTHOR of children’s books, has died at the age of 91. The artist’s audience was huge: He sold more than 170 million copies of his more than 70 reliably charming books, the New York Times reports. His best-known work, 1969’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, did more
  
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• ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Onstage. A Nightmare Off It.

  27-05-2021 15:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Shakespeare’s Globe survived Elizabethan plagues. Today’s version got through the coronavirus pandemic, but tough times lie ahead.
  
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• Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors

  27-05-2021 13:27 via nytimes.com
  
  “The warts-and-all version is almost always a disappointment, and they risk a retroactive taint.”
  
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• ‘Plan B’ Review: A Joy Ride in Search of Emergency Contraception

  27-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two teenagers embark on a madcap road trip to Planned Parenthood in this comedy from Natalie Morales.
  
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• ‘Moby Doc’ Review: He Understands How He’s an Unlikely Pop Star

  27-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie is directed by Robert Gordon Bralver, but it’s a late-life self-realization project for the musician.
  
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• ‘Five Years North’ Review: Opposite Sides of Immigration

  27-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This frustratingly sentimental documentary looks at the parallel lives of an undocumented teenager and an ICE agent in New York.
  
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• ‘Dog Gone Trouble’ Review: New Dog, Same Tricks

  27-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A pampered dog finds himself on the streets in this routine animated comedy.
  
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• ‘Blue Miracle’ Review: Fishing Lessons

  27-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mexican orphans find hope through a fishing tournament in this cloying underdog Netflix drama.
  
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• 'American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally' Review

  27-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Meadow Williams plays Mildred Gillars in this plodding and ultimately infuriatingly noncommittal movie.
  
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