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• Lynn C. Franklin, Literary Agent and Memoirist on Adoption, Dies at 74

  02-08-2021 23:54 via nytimes.com
  
  She represented Desmond Tutu and Deepak Chopra, but the book closest to her was the one she wrote about giving up her baby and then reuniting with him.
  
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• No, Cormac McCarthy Isn’t on Twitter. Don’t Be Fooled by the Check Mark.

  02-08-2021 23:48 via nytimes.com
  
  An account posing as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road,” “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses” was mistakenly verified by Twitter.
  
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• Pristine Visigoth Sarcophagus Discovered at Ancient Roman Complex in Spain

  02-08-2021 23:36 via artnews.com
  
  A well-preserved Visigoth coffin has been unearthed by archaeologists at Los Villaricos in southeastern Spain. The University of Murcia (UMU) announced the find last month.
  The sandstone sarcophagus was uncovered during a two-week-long excavation last month led by UMU professor Rafael González Fernández, along with fellow researchers Francisco Fernández Matallana, José Antonio Zapata Parra, and José Javier Martínez García.
  The six-and-a-half-foot-
  
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• Workers at New York’s Whitney Museum Vote to Join Union

  02-08-2021 23:29 via artnews.com
  
  Workers at the Whitney Museum in New York voted on Monday to join Local 2110, a division of the United Auto Workers union, carrying on the momentum of a wave of organizing that has swept art institutions across the United States. The 96-1 vote was the culmination of a two-month campaign. The union drive followed two rounds of layoffs at the Whitney since the start of the pandemic in the U.S.
  “We are looking forward to sitting down with Whitney Museum leadership to start the bargaining proc
  
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• Tim Lowke and Jager Loyde named Directors of Fine Arts - Round Rock ISD News

  02-08-2021 23:03 via news.roundrockisd.org
  Tim Lowke and Jager Loyde named Directors of Fine Arts  Round Rock ISD News
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Stephen Friedman Gallery Now Represents Tau Lewis—and More from August 2, 2021

  02-08-2021 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, August 2
  Stephen Friedman Gallery Now Represents Tau LewisStephen Friedman Gallery in London now represents Canadian artist Tau Lewis. A self-taught artist, Lewis employs carving, assemblage, and hand-sewing to construct intricate sculptural portraits and quilts. Referring to her artistic practice as “an upcycling of a circumstance,” she reconfigures found objects as conduits between real and imagined ancestors. She currently has a solo show on view at the
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Husbands,’ by Chandler Baker

  02-08-2021 22:10 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new novel, “The Husbands,” Chandler Baker turns the Stepford formula upside down.
  
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• The Most Expensive Works by Roy Lichtenstein to Sell at Auction

  02-08-2021 21:57 via artnews.com
  
  Andy Warhol, the most preeminent Pop artist, rarely found himself humbled. But, when he came before Roy Lichtenstein’s earliest works, Warhol abandoned his own experiments with images of superheroes taken from comic books. As Warhol told curator Henry Geldzahler, “Roy was doing comics so well.”
  Many others have likewise found themselves impressed by Lichtenstein’s works, which often take the form of comic-like images with Ben-Day dots left visible. On the market, Lichtens
  
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• 'Wicked' Is First Broadway Tour Since Coronavirus Shutdown

  02-08-2021 21:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The production, which starts Tuesday in Dallas, is the first Broadway tour back onstage, a test as American theaters seek to rebound from the pandemic shutdown.
  
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• Three Sharply Observed Books Showcase the Enduring Appeal of Memoirs About Dealing With Disease

  02-08-2021 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Three new books about affliction — Fred D’Aguiar’s “Year of Plagues,” Jan Grue’s “I Live a Life Like Yours” and James Tate Hill’s “Blind Man’s Bluff” — have a lot to say about desire, pain, depression and many other topics.
  
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• Longtime Philadelphia Museum of Art Director Timothy Rub to Retire

  02-08-2021 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  Timothy Rub, the longtime director and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, announced on Friday that he will retire in early 2022.
  During the course of his 13-year tenure, Rub was responsible for overseeing a major renovation project that opened to acclaim earlier this year. Over the past few years, however, workers at the museum have spoken out against Rub, claiming that he mishandled allegations of sexual harassment among his staff and reacted inappropriately to Black Liv
  
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• Anish Kapoor to Convert 18th-Century Venetian Palazzo into Exhibition Space

  02-08-2021 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  The Anish Kapoor Foundation has bought and will be renovating the 18th-century Palazzo Manfrin into a gallery, artist studio, and archival deposit, according to the Art Newspaper. Mario Codognato, Venice native and current director of the Anish Kapoor Foundation, will be leading the new project.
  Kapoor has previously raised concerns about the state of Venice as a city. This past June, Kapoor and 21 other artists signed a letter urging Venetian officials to consider the negative impacts of touris
  
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• DaBaby Apologizes for Homophobic Remarks After More Events Drop Him

  02-08-2021 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper apologized on Monday after being criticized for asking fans at a performance to raise their phones in the air if they didn’t have H.I.V. or AIDS.
  
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• U.K. Judge Overturns Controversial Plan to Build Tunnel Near Stonehenge

  02-08-2021 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  A British court has overturned plans for a $2.4 billion highway project near Stonehenge, saying that the roadway was unlawful because it could damage the World Heritage site. The BBC reported the news on Saturday. 
  The original plan by Highways England was devised to reduce congestion along the A303, a 64-mile highway that runs past Stonehenge, by digging a new road and an underground tunnel. Campaigners from Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS), who hoped to see the project stopped,
  
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• ‘Wicked’ Hits the Road, Carrying the Hopes of Broadway Tours

  02-08-2021 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The production, which starts Tuesday in Dallas, is the first Broadway tour back onstage, a test as American theaters seek to rebound from the pandemic shutdown.
  
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• 'Happier Than Ever': Billie Eilish's Uneasy View From the Top

  02-08-2021 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  On her second album, “Happier Than Ever,” the 19-year-old pop phenomenon takes on new anxieties and adversaries — and debates just how much of herself to reveal.
  
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• Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top

  02-08-2021 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  On her second album, “Happier Than Ever,” the 19-year-old pop phenomenon takes on new anxieties and adversaries — and debates just how much of herself to reveal.
  
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• As Bang on a Can Returns, a New Generation Rises

  02-08-2021 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  After months of livestreamed marathons, the new music collective was back to in-person performance with a two-day festival.
  
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• George Forss, 80, Photographer Discovered on the Street, Dies

  02-08-2021 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  He was peddling his black-and-white photos of New York City’s majesty for $5 each in the 1980s — until a famous photographer came upon them in “astonishment.”
  
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• Future Perfect: “Born in Flames” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

  02-08-2021 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  Outside the exhibition “Born in Flames: Feminist Futures” is a poetic wall text penned by curator Jasmine Wahi: “You are in the tender belly of the beast. // Cocooned in protective silks. . . . Enveloped in swaths of complexity borne out of a Kali-like maternal instinct:: both coddling and deeply-fiercely protective. // This is the first stop on your journey through an untamed and intersecting space where/when many worlds collide.” Rather than begrudgingly perform the wor
  
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• Guggenheim Museum Workers Push to Unionize Amid Wave of Organizing Across U.S. Museums

  02-08-2021 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  After the Guggenheim Museum cut its staff by more than 10 percent last year, workers at the New York institution are pushing to unionize. If their drive is successful, it will be the second union formed at the museum in three years.
  The conservators, curators, digital marketing, educators, visitor service, and administrative staff taking part in this drive are seeking to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. Groups at the New Museum and the Whitney Museum are also part of the UAW.
  The UAW sa
  
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• The Kid Laroi’s Ever-Growing Mixtape Is Now a No. 1 Album

  02-08-2021 17:21 via nytimes.com
  
  By continually adding songs to “____ Love,” the teenage rapper and singer’s label pushed a release that arrived a year ago to the top of the Billboard 200.
  
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• Arts & Heritage Grants | New Braunfels, TX - Official Website - nbtexas.org

  02-08-2021 17:21 via nbtexas.org
  Arts & Heritage Grants | New Braunfels, TX - Official Website  nbtexas.org
  
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• Roman Shipwreck Discovered, Brazilian Film Warehouse Burns, and More: Morning Links for August 2, 2021

  02-08-2021 15:47 via artnews.com
  
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  THE ARCHAEOLOGY BEAT IS BUZZING. Let’s dive right in. A U.K. judge has nixed the government’s approval of a controversial plan to build a highway tunnel near Stonehenge, saying it failed to consider both the possible harm of the project and possible alternatives, the Art Newspaper reports. “We are 
  
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• Submit your events now for Fall Arts Guide 2021 - The Seattle Times

  02-08-2021 15:00 via seattletimes.com
  
  Submit your events now for Fall Arts Guide 2021  The Seattle Times
  
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• Phillips Posts $542 M. in Sales for H1 2021 Led By Strong Asian Buying, Sell-Through & Private Sales

  02-08-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Phillips released its figures for the first half of 2021 this morning and they continue the trend seen in earlier results from larger rivals like Christie’s. Total sales for the first half of the year were $542,680,708 which represents a 25% rise from the occluded sales that took place during the beginning of the global pandemic. Auction results were $452 million, a 15% rise, and private sales grew a heady 107% to $90,673,838.
  Phillips’s CEO, Edward Dolman, attributed the success to
  
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• Led By Strong Asian Buying, Phillips Posts $542 M. in Sales for H1 2021

  02-08-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Phillips released its figures for the first half of 2021 this morning. The data suggests a continuation of a trend seen in earlier results from larger rivals like Christie’s. Total sales for the first half of the year were $542.7 million, representing a 25 percent rise from the occluded sales that took place during the beginning of the global pandemic. Auction results were $452 million, a 15 percent rise, and private sales grew a heady 107 percent to $90.7 million.
  Phillips’s CEO, Ed
  
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• Welcome to His World. And Hers.

  02-08-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a mixed but audacious first season, AMC’s feminist deconstruction of marriage stories made two sets of TV clichés into something bigger.
  
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• The Novel That Inspired Harry Styles and Emma Corrin’s Upcoming Film

  02-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Published in Britain in 2012 but only being released in the United States for the first time now, “My Policeman,” by Bethan Roberts, depicts a passionate love triangle between a married couple and an older gay man in 1950s Brighton.
  
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• The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture

  02-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three architects, three journalists and two designers gathered over Zoom to make a list of the most influential and lasting buildings that have been erected — or cleverly updated — since World War II. Here are the results.
  
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• Start-Ups Are Not Great for Marriages

  02-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New novels by Tahmima Anam and Y.Z. Chin feature South Asian American women facing disadvantages in tech.
  
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• Jay Pickett, Veteran Soap Opera Actor, Dies at 60

  02-08-2021 10:23 via nytimes.com
  
  His credits included “General Hospital,” “Days of Our Lives” and “Port Charles.” He died while filming a western in Idaho, where he was raised.
  
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• Whitewater Arts Fair set Friday, Saturday | Lifestyle | wdtimes.com - Watertown Daily Times

  02-08-2021 10:00 via wdtimes.com
  Whitewater Arts Fair set Friday, Saturday | Lifestyle | wdtimes.com  Watertown Daily Times
  
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• Three (White, Male) Tough Guys Sign Off. Is It a Moment?

  02-08-2021 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Bosch,” “Mr. Inbetween” and “Jack Irish,” dependably good and noticeably old-fashioned, all reach the end of the hard-boiled road.
  
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• Many ways to celebrate the arts in Downtown Walnut Creek during August - Diablo Magazine

  02-08-2021 09:00 via diablomag.com
  Many ways to celebrate the arts in Downtown Walnut Creek during August  Diablo Magazine
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: An Obama Documentary and ‘Shiva Baby’

  02-08-2021 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  HBO debuts a new docuseries about President Barack Obama. And a claustrophobic comedy blends sexual tension, small talk and brined fish.
  
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• Webster Arts First “Chalk Fest” | Webster Kirkwood Times | timesnewspapers.com - Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.

  02-08-2021 07:00 via timesnewspapers.com
  Webster Arts First “Chalk Fest” | Webster Kirkwood Times | timesnewspapers.com  Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.
  
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• Klein Dental Arts sets free dental day in Blount County - Maryville Daily Times

  02-08-2021 05:30 via thedailytimes.com
  Klein Dental Arts sets free dental day in Blount County  Maryville Daily Times
  
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• Old Wayne School renovated; new Erie Center for Arts and Technology ready for students - GoErie.com

  02-08-2021 04:30 via goerie.com
  Old Wayne School renovated; new Erie Center for Arts and Technology ready for students  GoErie.com
  
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• Erie Center for Arts and Technology ready to open in renovated Wayne School - GoErie.com

  02-08-2021 04:30 via goerie.com
  Erie Center for Arts and Technology ready to open in renovated Wayne School  GoErie.com
  
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• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: Top 10 Characters Who Are Skilled In Martial Arts - CBR - Comic Book Resources

  02-08-2021 04:15 via cbr.com
  Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: Top 10 Characters Who Are Skilled In Martial Arts  CBR - Comic Book Resources
  
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• Denmark Arts Center adds three to its board of directors - Lewiston Sun Journal

  02-08-2021 03:32 via sunjournal.com
  
  Denmark Arts Center adds three to its board of directors  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• Artist Jessica Moody celebrated at Teche Center for the Arts - KATC Lafayette News

  02-08-2021 03:11 via katc.com
  
  Artist Jessica Moody celebrated at Teche Center for the Arts  KATC Lafayette News
  
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• Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Laurel Arts collaborate for Sept. 11 commemoration - TribDem.com

  02-08-2021 03:00 via tribdem.com
  
  Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Laurel Arts collaborate for Sept. 11 commemoration  TribDem.com
  
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• Tallman Arts Festival returns to Janesville for 63rd year - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

  02-08-2021 02:55 via channel3000.com
  
  Tallman Arts Festival returns to Janesville for 63rd year  Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3
  
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• Choral Arts Of Chattanooga Hosts Auditions Aug. 24 - The Chattanoogan

  02-08-2021 01:04 via chattanoogan.com
  Choral Arts Of Chattanooga Hosts Auditions Aug. 24  The Chattanoogan
  
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• UAH establishes commercial arts and technology lab - WHNT News 19

  02-08-2021 00:48 via whnt.com
  UAH establishes commercial arts and technology lab  WHNT News 19
  
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• COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: Pike Liberal Arts - Dothan Eagle

  02-08-2021 00:46 via dothaneagle.com
  COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: Pike Liberal Arts  Dothan Eagle
  
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• Spring Hills Arts Gathering Highlights Work Of Formerly Incarcerated Artists In Special Exhibition - Forbes

  02-08-2021 00:44 via forbes.com
  
  Spring Hills Arts Gathering Highlights Work Of Formerly Incarcerated Artists In Special Exhibition  Forbes
  
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