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• Artist Leslie Wayne on Sculpting Paint and Repairing What Is Broken

  15-06-2021 23:57 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Leslie Wayne molds and manipulates oil paint to create surfaces that blur the confines of painting and sculpture. Wayne found “an approach to [paint] that was very dimensional,” as she told Brooke Jaffe in a recent interview for “ARTnews Live,” our ongoing IGTV series featuring interviews with a range of creatives.
  Wayne, the daughter of a concert pianist and a writer, began painting lessons at the age of 7 and lived in what she describes as a very open and &l
  
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• New Publisher Says It Welcomes Conservative Writers Rejected Elsewhere

  15-06-2021 23:56 via nytimes.com
  
  All Seasons Press, started by former executives from Simon & Schuster and Hachette, plans to publish books by the former Trump officials Mark Meadows and Peter Navarro.
  
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• With His Heartfelt Paintings, Artist Raul Guerrero Searches for His Place in the World

  15-06-2021 23:46 via artnews.com
  
  For much of his life, artist Raul Guerrero has thought about his place in the world. He was born and raised in National City, California, a coastal town that’s part of the San Diego metropolitan region. After a year studying art at a local community college, Guerrero, then only 19, began hitchhiking through Mexico, from Tijuana to the Yucatan Peninsula, hoping that his ancestral homeland might offer some answers.
  “I was looking for myself, you might say,” Guerrero recently reca
  
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• ‘Revolution Rent’ Review: Taking the Show South

  15-06-2021 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  This HBO documentary follows Andy Señor Jr. as he directs a production of “Rent” in Cuba.
  
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• Historians Renew Debate Over Attribution of Possible Dürer Painting in German Church

  15-06-2021 22:49 via artnews.com
  
  An altar in a church in the German city of Crailsheim has once again become the subject of debate after some experts made a renewed push to attribute a painting in it to Albrecht Dürer.
  The painting in question can be found at the Johanneskirche (Church of St. John). The altar was constructed around 1490 in the workshop of Nuremberg-based painter Michael Wolgemut. It’s a massive work: its wings rise several meters high, requiring a team of parishioners to close it. Consequently, the 5
  
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• Washington Center for the Performing Arts Gala Goes Virtual - ThurstonTalk

  15-06-2021 21:58
  
  Washington Center for the Performing Arts Gala Goes Virtual  ThurstonTalk
  
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• Winthrop Arts Mobile Art Factory Unveils New Art Exhibit At Krazy Kup - Osprey Observer

  15-06-2021 21:47
  
  Winthrop Arts Mobile Art Factory Unveils New Art Exhibit At Krazy Kup  Osprey Observer
  
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• June 17 Arts and Entertainment Source: Nothing like getting the ol’ gang back together - Vallejo Times-Herald

  15-06-2021 21:26
  
  June 17 Arts and Entertainment Source: Nothing like getting the ol’ gang back together  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Addresses ‘In the Heights’ Casting Criticism

  15-06-2021 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Since the film’s release last week, there have been complaints about the lack of dark-skinned Afro-Latino actors in prominent roles.
  
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• Colbert Returns to Live Cheers and a Lively Jon Stewart

  15-06-2021 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Late Show” host meets an audience ready to exhale and gets a visit from a ranty old friend.
  
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• Lisa Banes, 'Gone Girl' Actress, Dies at 65 After Hit-and-Run

  15-06-2021 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Banes was a mainstay of the New York stage who also acted in films and on television. She died on Monday, 10 days after she was struck by a scooter as she was crossing a street in Manhattan.
  
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• All Rise: Cameron Rowland at Essex Street

  15-06-2021 19:08 via artnews.com
  
  In spring of 2020, at the tail end of a season when city dwellers, unable to exercise their rights as consumers, fled to far-flung territories typically reserved for vacations, Black insurgents fled inward. Like a flare, the burning of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct served as a signal. A short drive away, a group of volunteers commandeered a Sheraton hotel, whose 136 rooms became sites of nourishment and rest for upward of three hundred unhoused people. Meanwhile, in Se
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction World Wide Web Code as NFT

  15-06-2021 19:03 via artnews.com
  
  British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning the original source code for his most famous creation, the World Wide Web, as an NFT. Set to appear at a Sotheby’s auction called “This Changed Everything” running from June 23 through the end of the month, the work will have a starting bid of $1,000. Sotheby’s has not designated an estimate for the work, though its final sale price is likely to far exceed its starting bid.
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• Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song

  15-06-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At 70, the influential English songwriter is still writing and recording solo, remaining as private as she can and “trying to get really good.”
  
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• A Rare Spotlight on Black Women’s Art Still Shines After 51 Years

  15-06-2021 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  “Sapphire Show,” a groundbreaking Los Angeles pop-up, lasted a mere five days — but it has proved worthy of an examination decades later in New York.
  
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• On ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky Faces the Music

  15-06-2021 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Season 2 of the hip-hop comedy bolsters its raunchy humor with a sharp take on white privilege in a Black art form.
  
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• Arts Advocates to Open New Gallery - Sarasota

  15-06-2021 18:50
  
  Arts Advocates to Open New Gallery  Sarasota
  
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• ‘The Space Between’ Review: Kelsey Grammer Rocks

  15-06-2021 18:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor plays a burnout musician in this drama from Rachel Winter.
  
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• Lisa Banes, 'Gone Girl' Actress, Dies at 65

  15-06-2021 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Banes was a mainstay of the New York stage who also acted in films, including “Gone Girl.” She died on Monday, 10 days after she was struck by a scooter as she was crossing a street in Manhattan.
  
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• Hyannis martial arts champs to compete in Vegas - Barnstable Patriot

  15-06-2021 18:30
  Hyannis martial arts champs to compete in Vegas  Barnstable Patriot
  
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• Renovating Its Hall, New York Philharmonic Plans a Roving Season

  15-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With David Geffen Hall under construction, the orchestra will spend most of 2021-22 at two other Lincoln Center venues.
  
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• Crop Tops for Summer 2021

  15-06-2021 17:26 via nytimes.com
  
  A new, lingerie-inspired take on the midriff for Hot Vax Summer.
  
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• Three New Directors Welcome the Freedoms of Horror

  15-06-2021 17:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The filmmakers Prano Bailey-Bond (“Censor”), S.K. Dale (“Till Death”) and Sean King O’Grady (“We Need to Do Something”) discuss the joys and the fears of having their first features be horror movies.
  
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• ‘The Museum Has Never Been a Neutral Space’: Curator Laura Raicovich Takes Aim at Institutions

  15-06-2021 16:02 via artnews.com
  
  In 2017, Queens Museum director Laura Raicovich began organizing the program Art Space Sanctuaries, which seeks to create a safe environment among art and cultural spaces. The Queens Museum’s board voted against staging the project, allegedly citing concerns that it was too political for the museum. Six months later, Raicovich expressed caution over renting out the Queens Museum’s galleries for a political event hosted by the Mission of Israel to the United Nations that would include
  
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• Notre-Dame Cathedral Seeks More Funding, Obama Portraits Tour, and More: Morning Links from June 15, 2021

  15-06-2021 16:01 via artnews.com
  
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  WHILE BILLIONAIRES AND COMPANIES RUSHED to donate money to rebuild Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral after it burned in 2019, the Catholic diocese is still seeking more funding to restore and upgrade its interior, the AFP reports. The issue: a French law requires that cash raised through the public subscripti
  
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• Lucy Dacus Prefers Weepy Stories, Poet Dogs and Food With Attitude

  15-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer-songwriter details her cultural must-haves as she prepares to release “Home Video,” an album that looks back at her past.
  
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• New Report Paints Bleak Picture of Diversity in the Music Industry

  15-06-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examined 4,060 executives at six types of companies, and found 19.8 percent were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
  
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• Harvey Fierstein Donates $2.5 Million for Public Library Theater Lab

  15-06-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The gift from the writer and performer will help create an educational hub at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
  
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• England’s delayed reopening is a blow to culture and nightlife.

  15-06-2021 12:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Theaters and nightclub owners are having to hastily rearrange and cancel events after the government decided to maintain some restrictions.
  
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• Wilmington arts re-emerge from COVID-19 pandemic, gradually, and then all at once - StarNewsOnline.com

  15-06-2021 12:02
  Wilmington arts re-emerge from COVID-19 pandemic, gradually, and then all at once  StarNewsOnline.com
  
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• Welcome to Barn-Quilt Country

  15-06-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Take a road trip in the Midwest to see a homegrown art form that creatively combines aspects of Americana.
  
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• Why Tribeca is NY's Hottest New Art Gallery District

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s the latest neighborhood offering affordable rents and decent foot traffic to young and emerging galleries? TriBeCa, one of the most expensive ZIP codes in the country.
  
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• The Many Successes of Jimmy Carter — and His Ultimate Failure

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kai Bird’s “The Outlier” takes a close look at the Carter administration and concludes that the 39th president deserves a better reputation.
  
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• New York’s Hottest New Gallery District Looks Familiar

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s the latest neighborhood offering affordable rents and decent foot traffic to young and emerging galleries? TriBeCa, one of the most expensive ZIP codes in the country.
  
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• In ‘Morningside Heights,’ Illness Tests a Mind and a Marriage

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Joshua Henkin’s novel follows a professor dealing with the impacts of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
  
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• How Far Would You Go to Protect Someone You Love?

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  And whom would you trust along the way? These questions are the foundation of Caitlin Wahrer’s suspense novel, “The Damage.”
  
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• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Los Angeles?

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Everything Now,” Rosecrans Baldwin wanders the “city-state” trying to make sense of its vast and varied terrain.
  
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• How America’s Weirdest Guidebooks Were Funded by the Government

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Republic of Detours,” by Scott Borchert, relates the history of the Federal Writers’ Project, which paid thousands of unemployed writers to write idiosyncratic guides to the country.
  
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• Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Hard Like Water,” Yan Lianke’s latest novel to be translated into English, the Cultural Revolution is the backdrop for an illicit romance.
  
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• An Army Officer Navigates Treachery in Kentucky’s ‘Killing Hills’

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Suspicions and family loyalties run deep in Chris Offutt’s new crime novel, which begins with a body found in the woods.
  
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• Alex Da Corte, Puppet Master

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A great and unlikely success story, the artist creates funny and therapeutic works in the hope of easing the “exquisite pain” of modern life.
  
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• A Novel Follows ‘Strange Flowers’ in an Insular Irish Village

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Donal Ryan’s new book features misfits and newcomers in a closed and judgmental community.
  
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• A Civil War Novel Imagines More Racial Kinship Than Horror

  15-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Set in the Deep South just after the war, “The Sweetness of Water,” by Nathan Harris, includes death and violence. But its plotlines suggest a vision of race and sexual relations rarely depicted in fiction about the period.
  
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• $105M available in grants for nonprofit arts, cultural organizations - NEWS10 ABC

  15-06-2021 10:47
  $105M available in grants for nonprofit arts, cultural organizations  NEWS10 ABC
  
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• Updated: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to announce architect for $190M expansion - RichmondBizSense

  15-06-2021 09:54
  
  Updated: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to announce architect for $190M expansion  RichmondBizSense
  
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• Seth Meyers Sums Up Biden’s Time at G7

  15-06-2021 08:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Biden’s message at these meetings has been simple: America is back. You know, like the McRib, America’s back for a limited time only, offer not valid in Florida,” Meyers joked.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Returns to ‘Late Show’ Stage Before Vaccinated Fans

  15-06-2021 05:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In a sign of life going back to normal, a capacity crowd at the Ed Sullivan Theater — face masks optional — roared for the highest-rated late night host.
  
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• Actors' Equity and Producers Clear Major Hurdle to Touring Shows

  15-06-2021 02:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Under the agreement that will pave the way to reopening the shows, touring company members will be required to be fully vaccinated.
  
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• Person of interest identified in River Arts District shooting, police say - WLOS

  15-06-2021 02:07
  
  Person of interest identified in River Arts District shooting, police say  WLOS
  
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• Richard Baron, Who Published Baldwin and Mailer, Dies at 98

  15-06-2021 01:07 via nytimes.com
  
  As the risk-taking publisher of the Dial Press, he also released the satirical hoax “Report From Iron Mountain,” a “leaked” government report on the dangers of peace.
  
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