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• Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty for Role in Sale of Looted Items

  05-10-2021 23:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The dealer, Nancy Wiener, acknowledged in court that she used fake provenances to cover for the murky histories of some items she sold.
  
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• ‘Distancing Socially’ Review: Scenes from a Quarantine

  05-10-2021 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Little happens in this comedy that follows Hollywood players lonely in lockdown.
  
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• Which Wood Stretcher Bars Are the Best Fit?

  05-10-2021 23:22 via artnews.com
  
  Behind every great taut, flat canvas is a set of seriously tough stretcher bars—at least, that’s the hope. Flimsy bars and poor construction can doom an artwork the minute it’s mounted. If you stretch your own canvases, you can avoid that nightmare with our favorite stretcher bars, rounded up below, which all land somewhere on the Venn diagram of quality, ease of assembly, and affordability. Note that a center bar is recommended for canvases with any dimension exceeding 30 inch
  
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• Jury Selection in Jussie Smollett Case to Start in November

  05-10-2021 23:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor is facing disorderly conduct charges related to accusations of lying to the police about a hate crime they say he staged.
  
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• Liberal arts, sciences may face consolidation | News | thebatt.com - Texas A&M The Battalion

  05-10-2021 23:04
  Liberal arts, sciences may face consolidation | News | thebatt.com  Texas A&M The Battalion
  
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• Online Art Investment Platform Masterworks Gets Boost from Investors and $1 B. Valuation

  05-10-2021 22:53 via artnews.com
  
  Masterworks, an online investment platform founded in 2017 that sells shares in blue-chip art, has received $110 million in a first round of funding from New York–based venture fund Left Lane Capital and other investment firms, including Tru Arrow Partners and Galaxy Interactive. With this round of funding, the company said it was now valued at $1 billion, and marks a milestone for the platform, which has seen its member base grow steadily over the past year.
  The members-only platform, whi
  
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• Guadalupe Maravilla Wins $100,000 Lise Wilhelmsen Award, One of the World’s Largest Art Prizes

  05-10-2021 22:46 via artnews.com
  
  The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, one of the world’s largest art prizes, has named Brooklyn-based artist Guadalupe Maravilla as the second-ever winner of its $100,00 purse. As part of winning of the prize, Maravilla will have a solo show next year at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, Norway, which administers the award.
  Marvailla’s interdisciplinary practice looks at how healing—from trauma, displacement, and illness—might be achieved through nature and soun
  
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• Roberto Roena, Salsa Percussionist and Bandleader, Dies at 81

  05-10-2021 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  His albums and performances with Apollo Sound brought new complexity to the genre in the 1970s. His group was still getting the crowds dancing decades later.
  
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• Here are the White House's picks to lead the National Arts and Humanities Endowments - NPR

  05-10-2021 22:02
  Here are the White House's picks to lead the National Arts and Humanities Endowments  NPR
  
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• Russian Actress and Director Successfully Reach the Space Station

  05-10-2021 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The pair arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, aiming to shoot scenes for the first feature film made in orbit.
  
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• My Dad, the Dictator

  05-10-2021 21:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In Chibundu Onuzo’s new novel, “Sankofa,” a British woman discovers her long-lost father is the ex-dictator of a West African country.
  
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• Gabourey Sidibe Wraps Herself in African a Cappella Like a Blanket

  05-10-2021 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Empire” actress talks about her new podcast, “If I Go Missing the Witches Did It,” what Kehinde Wiley taught her about standing out and why a perfect day includes floating in water.
  
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• Gabourey Sidibe on Her New Podcast, 'Hamilton' and More

  05-10-2021 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Empire” actress talks about her new podcast, “If I Go Missing the Witches Did It,” what Kehinde Wiley taught her about standing out and why a perfect day includes floating in water.
  
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• Coloring in Quarantine

  05-10-2021 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  Within days of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 2020 PAUSE Order closing schools and nonessential businesses across New York State, the nonprofit RxArt—an organization that commissions art installations for pediatric medical settings—launched a series of daily online drawing sessions hosted by contemporary artists. Artists working with RxArt transform places fraught with anxiety into immersive, playful environments, among them a suite of inpatient rooms at Cedars-Sinai Medical Cen
  
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• If Passed, Bipartisan Bill Offers $300 M. in Grants for Artists and Public Arts Programming

  05-10-2021 21:33 via artnews.com
  
  The Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA), a new bipartisan bill that was introduced in August and brought before the Senate last Wednesday, will bring $300 million to workers in the creative economy if it is passed. CERA was first conceived of by New Mexico Democrat Representative Teresa Leger Fernández and California Republican Representative Jay Obernolte to address the job losses suffered in the arts and cultural sector.CERA would be enacted through the Department of Labor and th
  
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• The Drawing Cure

  05-10-2021 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  Like essential frontline workers, art therapists have been toiling nonstop during the pandemic. Having usually treated patients in psychiatric hospitals and mental health clinics, they shifted to practicing online, making art virtually with clients marooned at home. In August 2020, the American Art Therapy Association released a coronavirus impact report documenting how Covid-19 had disrupted mental health care at a time when it was desperately needed: 92 percent of the art therapists surveyed s
  
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• The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival

  05-10-2021 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Memory and storytelling are intriguingly intertwined in work by world-class filmmakers that confounds and intrigues.
  
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• 'Build back beautifully': new bill aims to support arts jobs with $300m federal grants and commissions programme - Art Newspaper

  05-10-2021 19:41
  
  'Build back beautifully': new bill aims to support arts jobs with $300m federal grants and commissions programme  Art Newspaper
  
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• Long-Lost Klimt Painting Set to Be Exhibited in Italy for the First Time Following Recovery

  05-10-2021 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  Gustav Klimt’s painting Portrait of a Lady (1917) will be exhibited for the first time following its dramatic discovery within the walls of the gallery from which it was stolen nearly 23 years ago. The painting was found in 2019 when a gardener working for Ricci-Oddi Modern Art Gallery in Piacenza, Italy, removed a metal panel on the venue’s exterior, revealing the Klimt, which had presumably been stowed away in the aborted theft.
  The portrait was initially set to be exhibited at the
  
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• Russian Film Crew Has Arrived at Space Station

  05-10-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The pair arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, aiming to shoot scenes for the first feature film made in orbit.
  
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• City of Austin Supports Austin Veteran Arts Festival - AustinTexas.gov

  05-10-2021 19:01
  City of Austin Supports Austin Veteran Arts Festival  AustinTexas.gov
  
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• Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human

  05-10-2021 18:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer and songwriter’s seventh album, “In These Silent Days,” realizes and polishes her ambitions.
  
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• How White Feminism Threw Its Black Counterpart Under the Bus

  05-10-2021 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Kyla Schuller’s “The Trouble With White Women” exposes the hypocrisies and patriarchal overtones of the mainstream movement for women’s rights.
  
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• Reporters Who Covered R. Kelly on His Trial and Conviction

  05-10-2021 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about the testimony, the meaning of the verdict and the long quest for proper recompense for the singer’s victims.
  
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• Reporters on R. Kelly's Trial and Conviction

  05-10-2021 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about the testimony, the meaning of the verdict and the long quest for proper recompense for the singer’s victims.
  
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• Debby King, 71, Backstage Aide Known as ‘Soul of Carnegie Hall,’ Dies

  05-10-2021 16:49 via nytimes.com
  
  From Sinatra to Isaac Stern to Sting, she attended to the needs of the star performers in the Maestro Suite and helped calm their nerves.
  
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• How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself

  05-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  I thought these middle-grade novels would help me navigate private school. Instead, they immersed me in bullying and materialism.
  
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• Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards

  05-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Five books are now shortlisted for each of the five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. Winners will be named in November.
  
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• How YoungBoy Never Broke Again Hit No. 1 From Jail

  05-10-2021 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The 21-year-old rapper, currently awaiting trial on gun charges, has tallied billions of streams and just scored his fourth chart-topping album despite having little mainstream profile.
  
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• Russian Film Crew Has Arrived at Space Station: Live Updates

  05-10-2021 15:29 via nytimes.com
  
  An actress and a director traveled to the International Space Station, aiming to shoot scenes from the first feature film made in orbit.
  
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• Smithsonian's Arts And Industries Building To Reopen In November With Future-Facing Exhibit - DCist

  05-10-2021 15:16
  
  Smithsonian's Arts And Industries Building To Reopen In November With Future-Facing Exhibit  DCist
  
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• After Shang-Chi, stream Hero, a martial arts epic with Jet Li and Tony Leung - Vox.com

  05-10-2021 15:10
  
  After Shang-Chi, stream Hero, a martial arts epic with Jet Li and Tony Leung  Vox.com
  
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• Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’

  05-10-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Bethany Ball’s new novel, the lives in a wealthy Connecticut town revolve around a school run by a woman with a peculiar approach to education.
  
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• Putting Focus on Emerging Artists, Sotheby’s to Hold New Marquee Contemporary Art Evening Sale

  05-10-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of its main New York sales in November, Sotheby’s is moving to restructure its modern and contemporary art evening sales once again. On Tuesday, the auction house announced that it will do away with the previous format of its marquee sales, and instead now divide its offerings of modern and contemporary art among three evening sales, with one of them devoted specifically to art made by living artists. The first iteration of the series will take place next month at the house’s N
  
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• London’s Tiwani Contemporary to Open Gallery in Nigeria Next Year

  05-10-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  To mark the 10th anniversary of its founding, London’s Tiwani Contemporary, which has established itself as one of the most influential enterprises showcasing the work of African and African diaspora artists, will open a new location in Lagos, Nigeria, in February 2022.
  Tiwani’s Lagos expansion will open in a custom-built 2,000-square-foot space on the city’s Victoria Island, near galleries like Art Twenty One and SMO Contemporary Art. The 2019 edition of the Art X Lagos fair w
  
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• The Pandora Papers and the Art World, Slovenian Art Museum Floods, and More: Morning Links for October 5, 2021

  05-10-2021 14:23 via artnews.com
  
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  PAPER WORKS. As stories run on the so-called Pandora Papers—11.9 million-odd files about the ultra-wealthy’s financial arrangements, leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists—artworks are (unsurprisingly) making some guest appearances. The Washington Post, which was involved in the investiga
  
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• ‘Pharma Bro’ Review: Behind the Smirk

  05-10-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary grasps at straws trying to prove that the former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli might not be as loathsome as his reputation suggests.
  
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• Watch Live: Russia Launches Film Crew to Space -- Time and Video Details

  05-10-2021 11:09 via nytimes.com
  
  An actress and a director will head to the International Space Station, aiming to shoot scenes from the first feature film to rely on scenes shot in orbit.
  
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• When Friends Find Themselves on Opposite Sides of a Tragedy

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “We Are Not Like Them,” Christine Pride and Jo Piazza team up to create a fictional reckoning that channels too-true headlines.
  
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• The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Mirror and the Palette,” by Jennifer Higgie, examines 500 years of women’s self-portraits, tracing a theme of suffering, both physical and emotional, from their lives to their art.
  
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• The Enduring Influence of Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Advocate

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two new biographies, “Walk With Me,” by Kate Clifford Larson, and “Until I Am Free,” by Keisha N. Blain, recount Hamer’s struggle to open up voting to Black people in Mississippi and argue for the continued relevance of her tactics.
  
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• Jonathan Franzen Takes On the Domestic Ills of the 1970s

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Crossroads,” his new novel, follows one family in a Chicago suburb as they navigate a world full of moral dilemmas.
  
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• Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two critics discuss Terence Blanchard’s “Fire,” the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer.
  
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• In Dave Eggers’s New Novel, the Problem With Big Tech Is Us

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Every,” a follow-up to Eggers’s 2013 novel “The Circle,” is meant to scare us straight, sunk as we are in tech complacency.
  
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• ‘Grandma, Do You Think You Were Good in Bed?’ and Other Questions

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The narrator of Elisa Victoria’s debut, “Oldladyvoice,” is wise beyond her years.
  
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• Claire Vaye Watkins’s Urgent, Sweaty Novel About a Woman Who’s a Mess

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness” recounts what happens when a young wife and mother abruptly abandons her husband, her new baby and her life.
  
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• Chibundu Onuzo: Colonialism and Liberation Are Not Black and White

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Onuzo’s new novel, “Sankofa,” a British woman discovers her long-lost father is the ex-dictator of a West African country.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Taking of Jemima Boone,’ by Matthew Pearl

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Lincoln Highway,’ by Amor Towles

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Lincoln Highway” follows young adventure seekers east to a midcentury New York.
  
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• Book Review: ‘A Carnival of Snackery,’ by David Sedaris

  05-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his second collection of diary entries, the popular essayist welcomes readers into the kitchen of his brain.
  
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