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• When the End of Life Seems Endless

  10-06-2021 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A married couple makes a suicide pact in Lionel Shriver’s new novel, “Should We Stay or Should We Go.”
  
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• The government vows to fix a plagued relief program for live-event businesses.

  10-06-2021 22:19 via nytimes.com
  
  More than six weeks after the long-delayed program started taking applications, 14,000 businesses have applied for a Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. Only 90 have been awarded one.
  
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• David Hockney ‘California Dreaming’ Painting Could Fetch $12 M. at Auction

  10-06-2021 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  Phillips’s upcoming modern and contemporary art evening sale in New York will feature a painting of a Californian home by David Hockney with a $12 million–$18 million estimate. It will be among the top lots to be offered in the sale, which is scheduled to take place on June 23 at the auction house’s new Park Avenue headquarters.
  A Neat Lawn, made in 1967 as part of Hockney’s “California Dreaming” series, depicts a manicured green lawn in front of a concrete re
  
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• Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Long-Lost Indigenous Settlement in Florida

  10-06-2021 21:06 via artnews.com
  
  A team of archaeologists is “fairly confident” that they have discovered the location of a lost Indigenous community that once lived in northeast Florida. Mention of the Saraby settlement appears in French and Spanish historical documents as far back as the 1560s, but until now, its location had eluded researchers.
  According to the report published by the University of North Florida, whose archaeology lab worked on the find, the type of Indigenous pottery, combined with European arti
  
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• Why America Needs a 1% Federal Art Sales Tax

  10-06-2021 20:38 via artnews.com
  
  Daniel Sallick is board chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and a founding partner of Subject Matter, a creative advocacy firm based in the city. The views expressed here are his own.
  The art world has been invigorated in the past year by the notion that equity and inclusion should be mandates rather than mere abstract concepts. But while we’re good at hashtags, putting on fundraisers, and lifting up what we believe should be ideals, it’s time to w
  
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• UNCW's Office of the Arts to Receive $95000 from the National Endowment for the Arts - UNCW News

  10-06-2021 20:36
  
  UNCW's Office of the Arts to Receive $95000 from the National Endowment for the Arts  UNCW News
  
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• No Broadway Shows? No Problem. Walking Tours Fill a Void.

  10-06-2021 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Tim Dolan of Broadway Up Close and his crew of tour guides are back on the sidewalks, catering to a growing number of visitors.
  
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• In the ’80s, Post-Punk Filled New York Clubs. Their Videos Captured It.

  10-06-2021 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York documents a brief moment when rogue videographers shot an influential sliver of the music scene.
  
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• Eye of the Storm: Allora & Calzadilla at the Menil Collection

  10-06-2021 19:19 via artnews.com
  
  In February, a calamitous winter storm left Houston, like much of Texas, without power for days. Though the timing was unusual, the city is no stranger to storms: Houston is often ravaged by hurricanes in the summer and fall, much like San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the artist duo Allora & Calzadilla is based. The two cities’ vulnerability to extreme weather is one of several themes in the artists’ exhibition “Specters of Noon” at the Menil Collection (on view through J
  
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• ‘Sublet’ Review: A Less-Than-Intrepid Traveler

  10-06-2021 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  A strait-laced fictional New York Times writer meets a freewheeling younger man in this low-key gay romance from Israel.
  
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• Gottfried Böhm, Master Architect in Concrete, Dies at 101

  10-06-2021 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  A recipient of his field’s highest award, he was known for his Brutalist designs, of churches in particular, in a postwar Germany trying to rebuild itself.
  
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• Violetta Elvin, Glamorous Royal Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 97

  10-06-2021 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Celebrated for her strong technique and natural grandeur, she was a star soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet before finding a new audience in London.
  
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• Nintendo Museum to Open in a Defunct Kyoto Factory

  10-06-2021 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Japanese electronics and video game company Nintendo plans to convert one of its factories into the world’s first Nintendo museum, according to a statement.The Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto, which is to be the site of the new museum, is one of Nintendo’s older factories. Constructed in 1969, the Uji Ogura Plant was used to make playing cards and hanafuda cards, a traditional game played in Japan and throughout Asia that is sometimes referred to as “the battle of the flo
  
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• How One Actress Is Reshaping the Story of Anne Boleyn

  10-06-2021 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Jodie Turner-Smith portrays the ill-fated wife of Henry VIII in a new mini-series. The show has stirred debate in Britain, which is sort of the point.
  
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• How Jodie Turner-Smith Is Reshaping Anne Boleyn's Story

  10-06-2021 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Jodie Turner-Smith portrays the ill-fated wife of Henry VIII in a new mini-series. The show has stirred debate in Britain, which is sort of the point.
  
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• Cornelia Oberlander, a Farsighted Landscape Architect, Dies at 99

  10-06-2021 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Her acclaimed modernist but naturalist designs recognized the fragility of the climate and the social effects of parks and playgrounds.
  
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• ‘Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway’ Review: Rabbit Redux

  10-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This sassy sequel, with James Corden as the voice of Peter Rabbit, snarks at itself while also snarking at viewers.
  
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• After Half a Century, White Columns Still Surprises

  10-06-2021 17:35 via nytimes.com
  
  New York’s longest running alternative art space celebrates its own near-mythic history — as well as the twists and turns of the city’s cultural scene.
  
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• Medieval martial arts teacher who slapped French leader gets jail time - CBS News

  10-06-2021 17:32
  
  Medieval martial arts teacher who slapped French leader gets jail time  CBS News
  
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• ‘In the Heights’ Premiere Celebrates the Neighborhood That Started It All

  10-06-2021 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  As throngs of residents watched, the stars of the movie, set in Washington Heights, walked a sunny yellow carpet outside the United Palace.
  
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• ‘The People That Are Within These Frames’: A Community Offers Self-Portraits

  10-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York Times asked photography students at the Bronx Documentary Center to show us how they see themselves.
  
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• Menstrual Cups in Museums? It’s Time.

  10-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Objects designed for birth, fertility and parenthood have long been neglected by institutions. A new book and exhibition series aims to change that.
  
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• Shenzhen to Host Art Fair, Storied Show Designer Dies, and More: Morning Links from June 10, 2021

  10-06-2021 15:42 via artnews.com
  
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  MORE BENIN BRONZES ARE GETTING REPATRIATED. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York said that it will return two 16th-century bronze plaques from Benin City to Nigeria, the New York Times reports. The pieces were once held by the British Museum, which transferred them to the National Museum in Lagos ar
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Two Benin Bronzes, Signaling a Major Shift

  10-06-2021 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has held one of the largest collections in the U.S. of Benin Bronzes, a group of objects looted by British soldiers in 1897 from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria. Now, the museum said it is planning to return to Nigeria two such objects in its holdings, along with a third work, a brass head produced in the ancient Yoruba city of Ife in Nigeria.
  Sending back the two Benin Bronzes is a relatively minor step with potentially major implications.
  
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• Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys

  10-06-2021 13:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A fan of crime novels, the former police commissioner loves Michael Connelly’s hero Harry Bosch — but adds, “I don’t have a favorite villain.”
  
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• ‘The Misfits’ Review: Blood and Sand

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pierce Brosnan leads a band of quirky thieves in this hopelessly fumbled heist movie.
  
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• ‘Rogue Hostage’ Review: Everything Must Go

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this film from Jon Keeyes, violent men take over a giant store. Nearly all the major hostages are connected, but nothing makes sense.
  
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• ‘La Dosis’ Review: Dictating Death

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this Argentine drama, a nurse who euthanizes patients grapples with a co-worker who would rather kill for fun.
  
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• Jeff Daniels to Return to Broadway in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The production also has a new management team to replace Scott Rudin, who stepped aside after allegations of abusive behavior.
  
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• ‘Infinite’ Review: Stuck in a Loop

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Antoine Fuqua’s formulaic reincarnation thriller is weighed down by déjà vu.
  
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• ‘Holler’ Review: Escaping a Life of Scraps

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Nicole Riegel’s feature debut, Jessica Barden stars as an Ohio teenager who strips buildings of metal to earn cash.
  
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• ‘Domino: Battle of the Bones’ Review: Juicing Up the Game

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This comedy tries to turn the humble pastime of dominoes into an action-packed championship sport.
  
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• ‘Censor’ Review: Dirty Work

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A 1980s film censor loses her grip on reality in this VHS-inspired horror movie.
  
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• ‘Asia’ Review: Tough Love and an Indecent Proposal

  10-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This drama about a young single mother and a terminally ill daughter avoids sentimentalism but indulges heavily in dourness.
  
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• John Green is Not Writing in Code

  10-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The author of “The Fault in Our Stars” is back on the best seller list with his first book for adults. This time, he’s telling readers who he is.
  
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• In Covid’s Early Days, Her Loss Resonated. She Hopes Her Hope Does, Too.

  10-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amanda Kloots grieved in public when her husband Nick Cordero died. Now she is sharing the rest of her story in “Live Your Life.”
  
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• Headliners and Headdresses Return to Las Vegas. Will Tourists Follow?

  10-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The first shows to reopen face a challenge: It is hard to draw audiences without tourists, but hard to draw tourists without shows.
  
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• Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them.

  10-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On the heels of winning his second Grammy, and on the verge of publishing a memoir, the singer, guitarist and harmonica player is enjoying a long-delayed moment of recognition.
  
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• Free of Protesters, Paris Theaters Reopen With Little Imagination

  10-06-2021 10:30 via nytimes.com
  
  After more than two months of occupation by arts workers, the Odéon Theater returned to business with a prepandemic production that feels out of step with the current moment.
  
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• What Is "Ships of the Northern Fleet"?

  10-06-2021 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How “Ships of the Northern Fleet,” a crowdsourced sci-fi project, navigated from TikTok all the way to the convention circuit.
  
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• Thursday's Arts in the Park entertainment is hip-hop band Rhymer Educator - What's New LaPorte?

  10-06-2021 08:19
  Thursday's Arts in the Park entertainment is hip-hop band Rhymer Educator  What's New LaPorte?
  
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• Stephen Colbert Thinks President Biden Can Win Europe Back

  10-06-2021 07:41 via nytimes.com
  
  “Come on, Europe, you can’t judge us. You had fascists; we had fascists. You have rulers that marry their cousins; we have Rudy, who married his cousin,” Colbert joked.
  
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• Carpinteria Arts Center hosts joyful Sunday event | News | coastalview.com - Coastal View News

  10-06-2021 06:58
  Carpinteria Arts Center hosts joyful Sunday event | News | coastalview.com  Coastal View News
  
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• Museum to Create a National Archives of Game Show History

  10-06-2021 04:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., will house the archives, which it hopes will include set pieces, audience tickets, press photos and other memorabilia.
  
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• Columbia Festival of the Arts and the Columbia Film Festival return - Baltimore Sun

  10-06-2021 04:15
  Columbia Festival of the Arts and the Columbia Film Festival return  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Awards ceremony celebrates comeback of the arts at MRPAC following pandemic - The Sun Chronicle

  10-06-2021 04:00
  
  Awards ceremony celebrates comeback of the arts at MRPAC following pandemic  The Sun Chronicle
  
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• Comfort Zones: AcA's new exhibit captures local artists lifework finding humor in life's discomfort - Daily Advertiser

  10-06-2021 03:00
  Comfort Zones: AcA's new exhibit captures local artists lifework finding humor in life's discomfort  Daily Advertiser
  
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• Governor’s School for the Arts’ student in Norfolk recognized in nationwide challenge - WAVY.com

  10-06-2021 02:37
  Governor’s School for the Arts’ student in Norfolk recognized in nationwide challenge  WAVY.com
  
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• Parents divided after Durham School of Arts cuts ties with principal - WRAL.com

  10-06-2021 02:12
  
  Parents divided after Durham School of Arts cuts ties with principal  WRAL.com
  
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• Superior Arts Youth Theater to hold summer camps and shows - UpperMichigansSource.com

  10-06-2021 02:02
  
  Superior Arts Youth Theater to hold summer camps and shows  UpperMichigansSource.com
  
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