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• Olivia Rodrigo, Courtney Love and the 'Sour Prom' Image

  30-06-2021 23:56 via nytimes.com
  
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• Bill Cosby’s Release Prompts Praise from Phylicia Rashad and Condemnation from #MeToo

  30-06-2021 23:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Phylicia Rashad, who played Mr. Cosby’s wife in “The Cosby Show,” described Bill Cosby’s conviction as a “miscarriage of justice.”
  
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• World Wide Web Code NFT Sells for $5.4 M. at Sotheby’s Auction

  30-06-2021 23:36 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, Sotheby’s auctioned an NFT version of the original source code used to build the World Wide Web for $5.4 million with buyer’s premium. Proceeds from the sale are benefitting unspecified causes supported by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote the code, and his wife Rosemary Leith.
  With bidding starting at $1,000, a total of 51 collectors competed for the NFT during a sale titled “This Changed Everything.” The winning bid was place around 10
  
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• Was Albrecht Dürer a Genius? An Idiosyncratic New Book Searches for Answers

  30-06-2021 23:33 via artnews.com
  
  It is a sad fact that artists’ lives are often nowhere near as interesting as their work. That’s because, in some ways, they’re just like the rest of us. Even the most talented biographers find themselves beleaguered in the face of an artistic giant like, say, Albrecht Dürer, perhaps the most famous artist of the Northern Renaissance. A case in point: In 1913, when critic Robert Fry edited Dürer’s journals, he thought he would obtain grand insights into Dür
  
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• ‘The Legend of the Underground’ Review: Gay Activism in Nigeria

  30-06-2021 22:53 via nytimes.com
  
  In this stylish documentary, young men discuss their country’s laws criminalizing gay sex.
  
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• Agreement with Bruce Castor, Trump Attorney, Is At the Heart of Bill Cosby's Release

  30-06-2021 22:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Bruce Castor assured Bill Cosby he would not be charged in the case that was later taken up by another district attorney.
  
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• Former Disney Star Kyle Massey Charged With Sending Explicit Messages to a Minor

  30-06-2021 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Massey, 29, who starred in “That’s So Raven,” faces a felony charge in connection with accusations that he sent a 13-year-old girl pornographic Snapchat messages.
  
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• The Oldest Museum in New York Is Expanding

  30-06-2021 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The New-York Historical Society is making way for the first L.G.B.T.Q. museum in the city.
  
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• The At Home and Away Summer Playlist

  30-06-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Your soundtrack for the season.
  
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• Bill Cosby Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

  30-06-2021 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The entertainer has been serving a three- to 10-year sentence in a prison outside Philadelphia.
  
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• Bill Cosby Live Updates: Actor Freed After Sexual Assault Conviction Is Overturned

  30-06-2021 21:10 via nytimes.com
  
  A Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that the actor and comedian was denied a fair trial in 2018, when he was convicted of assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee.
  
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• World Wide Web NFT Sells for $5.4 Million

  30-06-2021 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The source code to an early implementation of the web created by Tim Berners-Lee was sold as an NFT by Sotheby’s. Bidders had a week to name their highest price for the source code in an auction called “This Changed Everything.”
  
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• Bill Cosby Released From Prison After Sexual Assault Conviction Overturned

  30-06-2021 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The entertainer has been serving a three- to 10-year sentence in a prison outside Philadelphia.
  
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• The World Wide Web sells for $5.4 million.

  30-06-2021 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The source code to an early implementation of the web created by Tim Berners-Lee was sold as an NFT by Sotheby’s. Bidders had a week to name their highest price for the source code in an auction called “This Changed Everything.”
  
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• Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following.

  30-06-2021 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  New editions of her early films reveal a screenwriter with a deep interest in lives on the margins. That was just one reason the censors couldn’t abide her.
  
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• Large national arts and crafts store coming to Destiny USA - syracuse.com

  30-06-2021 20:28
  
  Large national arts and crafts store coming to Destiny USA  syracuse.com
  
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• One Work: Yannis Tsarouchis’s “Dancing in Real Life and in Theatre”

  30-06-2021 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  Midway through “Dancing in Real Life,” the first major United States retrospective of Greek artist Yannis Tsarouchis (1910–1989), on view at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, hangs the exhibition’s namesake: Dancing in Real Life and in Theatre. Completed in 1968 and inspired by Caravaggio, the panoramic oil painting is an outlier for Tsarouchis. The palette, earthy and muted, with few accents of light, contrasts with that of his buoyant watercolors and gouaches displayed through
  
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• Bennington Banner expands coverage of business and the arts - Bennington Banner

  30-06-2021 19:55
  
  Bennington Banner expands coverage of business and the arts  Bennington Banner
  
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• For the Chocolate Factory Theater, a Scrappy Celebration as It Moves Homes

  30-06-2021 19:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Street performances celebrated the Chocolate Factory Theater, a space that has often seemed inseparable from the work that happens there, as it moved to a new building.
  
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• Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself

  30-06-2021 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  For the stripper tale, the actress was mindful of the real Zola’s voice: “We’re in service of the bigger truth, the way we as Black women go through the world.”
  
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• Dan Schneider Once Reigned Over Children’s TV. What Happened?

  30-06-2021 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Nickelodeon’s longtime hitmaker separated from the company in 2018 and has been trailed by questions about his abrupt departure. Now he is talking about making a return to television.
  
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• Britney Spears’s Father Calls for Inquiry Into Singer’s Control Claims

  30-06-2021 19:13 via nytimes.com
  
  A week after the singer’s impassioned courtroom speech, the man who has long overseen her conservatorship called for an investigation into her claims that she had been abused under it.
  
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• Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

  30-06-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The entertainer has been serving a three-to-10 year sentence in a prison outside Philadelphia.
  
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• When Truth Melds With Fiction: Making ‘I Carry You With Me’

  30-06-2021 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Heidi Ewing directed a film about two of her friends and their love story, both following them in real life and using actors to portray them in narrative moments.
  
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• Springsteen on Broadway: Showing Us How Many Lives We Contain

  30-06-2021 18:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Two critics on the show’s return — a turning point in live theater and another stage in the rock star’s lifelong evolution.
  
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• Stand-Ups Get Experimental in Five Adventurous New Specials

  30-06-2021 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  For these sets, Chris Gethard, Rory Scovel, Carmen Christopher, Josh Johnson and Jessica Watkins borrow from improv, documentary and more.
  
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• Berlin Museum Board Approves Plan to Negotiate Return of Benin Bronzes

  30-06-2021 18:28 via artnews.com
  
  Berlin museums have cleared the final hurdle to begin negotiating for the repatriation of Benin Bronzes in their holdings, potentially allowing numerous artifacts to return to Nigeria more than a century after they were looted from the Kingdom of Benin.
  The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees the collections of museums in the German capital such as the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and the Neue Nationalgalerie, said on Tuesday that it had authorized the Berlin State Museums to
  
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• Whistling as an Art Almost Died Off. Can Molly Lewis Keep It Alive?

  30-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 31-year-old has whistled at tournaments, in the studio for Dr. Dre and at her Los Angeles lounge show, Café Molly. Now she’s releasing her debut EP.
  
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• Braselton seeks input on public arts survey - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  30-06-2021 17:29
  Braselton seeks input on public arts survey  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• The Tampa Arts Alliance wants to unify the city’s arts community. Can it? - Tampa Bay Times

  30-06-2021 17:01
  
  The Tampa Arts Alliance wants to unify the city’s arts community. Can it?  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Newark Arts Awards $50,000 in Grants to 17 Community Groups - New Jersey Stage

  30-06-2021 16:37
  
  Newark Arts Awards $50,000 in Grants to 17 Community Groups  New Jersey Stage
  
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• ‘White on White’ Review: Problematic Images

  30-06-2021 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  This striking, slow-burn portrait of a 19th-century Argentine archipelago considers a photographer’s involvement in the horrors of colonialism.
  
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• Arts Fest to feature live music performances amid virtual festival - The Daily Collegian Online

  30-06-2021 16:25
  Arts Fest to feature live music performances amid virtual festival  The Daily Collegian Online
  
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• Lewis Center for the Arts announces Caroline Hearst Choreographers-in-Residence - centraljersey.com

  30-06-2021 16:10
  
  Lewis Center for the Arts announces Caroline Hearst Choreographers-in-Residence  centraljersey.com
  
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• UGA Performing Arts Center announces in-person 2021-2022 season - Red and Black

  30-06-2021 16:00
  
  UGA Performing Arts Center announces in-person 2021-2022 season  Red and Black
  
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• Turn trash into art at the Hopewell Valley Arts Council's Junkyard - Community News

  30-06-2021 16:00
  Turn trash into art at the Hopewell Valley Arts Council's Junkyard  Community News
  
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• Take a second look: Carnegie Museum of Art gives decorative arts gallery major update - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  30-06-2021 16:00
  
  Take a second look: Carnegie Museum of Art gives decorative arts gallery major update  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Photography and glass media on display at Mooresville Arts - Mooresville Tribune

  30-06-2021 16:00
  Photography and glass media on display at Mooresville Arts  Mooresville Tribune
  
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• ‘It Taunts the Eye’: Footwork’s Fast Moves Loom Over Chicago

  30-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Projected onto the Merchandise Mart, “Footnotes” honors a style that’s become popular around the world but isn’t always given recognition in its hometown.
  
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• Hudson arts festival scheduled in August | Local News | hickoryrecord.com - Hickory Daily Record

  30-06-2021 16:00
  Hudson arts festival scheduled in August | Local News | hickoryrecord.com  Hickory Daily Record
  
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• Entries taken for Festival of the Arts | Life | wallowa.com - Wallowa County Chieftain

  30-06-2021 16:00
  Entries taken for Festival of the Arts | Life | wallowa.com  Wallowa County Chieftain
  
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• Athens Arts Center expansion project moving forward | News | dailypostathenian.com - The Daily Post-Athenian

  30-06-2021 16:00
  
  Athens Arts Center expansion project moving forward | News | dailypostathenian.com  The Daily Post-Athenian
  
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• Seton Hall University Appoints New Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences - Seton Hall University News & Events

  30-06-2021 15:52
  Seton Hall University Appoints New Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences  Seton Hall University News & Events
  
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• Art Collector Joe Berardo Arrested, Catherine Opie to Tackle Student Debt, and More: Morning Links for June 30, 2021

  30-06-2021 15:52 via artnews.com
  
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  THE LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHER CATHERINE OPIE has been named chair of UCLA’s art department, and will not pursue another term on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the city, the L.A. Times reports. Opie is succeeding Andrea Fraser, who has held the position since 2018 (and who recently had a convers
  
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• Inaugural class unveiled for Midtown Heart of the Arts residency program - Atlanta Intown

  30-06-2021 15:50
  
  Inaugural class unveiled for Midtown Heart of the Arts residency program  Atlanta Intown
  
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• Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen

  30-06-2021 15:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Starting in August, the drama school plans to eliminate tuition for returning and future students, removing a barrier to entry for low-income students and those worried about debt.
  
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• Biden appoints four new members to Commission of Fine Arts - Coin World

  30-06-2021 15:02
  
  Biden appoints four new members to Commission of Fine Arts  Coin World
  
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• Commission recommends $575 million investment in Mass. cultural sector - Milford Daily News

  30-06-2021 14:39
  Commission recommends $575 million investment in Mass. cultural sector  Milford Daily News
  
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• Art to Augment 12 Botanical Gardens Around the World

  30-06-2021 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The exhibition “Seeing the Invisible” will feature artists such as Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Sigalit Landau.
  
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• The month of July in the arts - St Pete Catalyst

  30-06-2021 14:23
  
  The month of July in the arts  St Pete Catalyst
  
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