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• Pat Martino, Jazz Guitarist Who Overcame Amnesia, Dies at 77

  02-11-2021 23:58 via nytimes.com
  
  He was one of the genre’s most acclaimed players when brain surgery left him with no memory. But he recovered and made music for another three decades.
  
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• ‘Isolation’ Review: Dispatches From a Different Pandemic

  02-11-2021 23:07 via nytimes.com
  
  In an anthology of nine short films made during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, people around the world fight to survive.
  
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• Manuel Neri, Figurative Sculptor With a Modern Twist, Dies at 91

  02-11-2021 22:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Neri was a stalwart of the Bay Area art scene but exhibited widely, known for mixing artistic mediums and styles.
  
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• Spotlight on the Arts is underway - University of Georgia

  02-11-2021 21:29 via news.uga.edu
  
  Spotlight on the Arts is underway  University of Georgia
  
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• Mexico is Trying to Stop Two Auctions of Pre-Columbian Artifacts in Paris

  02-11-2021 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  Mexico’s restitution efforts continue as government officials attempt to stop two auctions of Pre-Columbian artifacts in Paris. Bidding opens today at the French auction house Artcurial for a group of Islamic and Pre-Columbian objects, while a Christie’s auction of Pre-Columbian and Taino objects from a private collection is scheduled for November 10.
  In a statement, the Mexican Embassy in France expressed its “deep concern” about the legality of the sale. In the letter,
  
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• Are You Missing Out on the Metaverse?

  02-11-2021 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Pitches for the future of the internet are banking on an old trick: FOMO.
  
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• As the Monet Market Continues Apace, $40 M. ‘Water Lilies’ Heads to Auction

  02-11-2021 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  As the market for works by Claude Monet continues to see strong demand, Sotheby’s has unveiled a large-scale painting from the Impressionist’s famed “Water Lilies” series that it will auction later this month. That work, titled Coin Le Bassin aux Nymphéas (1918), will hit the block at modern art evening sale in New York on November 16, where it is expected to fetch more than $40 million.
  Monet completed the works during the last decade of his life. They draw inspir
  
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• Culturalyst platform launched to support Louisiana arts - Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

  02-11-2021 20:41 via businessreport.com
  
  Culturalyst platform launched to support Louisiana arts  Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
  
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• At the Radio City Christmas Show, Some Workers Worry About Covid Rules

  02-11-2021 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Employees must all be vaccinated, but some are upset that the upcoming show is not also testing them for the virus, as is done on Broadway and at other major performing venues.
  
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• Anna Uddenberg Creates Bizarre Sculptures for Balenciaga Line of Crocs Shoes

  02-11-2021 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Over the weekend, Balenciaga’s latest creations, a line of Crocs shoes that are lent a decidedly avant-garde touch, went viral on social media, as is perhaps only natural for high-heeled plastic footwear. Most of the attention that the brand’s latest campaign received was devoted not to the shoes themselves but rather to an off-putting blue sculpture that appeared to be wearing them. Positioned with its hands against a cement wall and its legs spread open on the ground, the sculpture
  
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• Millennia-Old Tomb of Treasurer to Ramses II Unveiled in Egypt

  02-11-2021 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  The tomb of a treasurer to the pharaoh Ramses II has been discovered in Egypt. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities unveiled the find on Saturday, allowing the press its first views of the tomb’s richly decorated walls, which are lined with murals that are still partially intact.
  Ramses II is believed to have ruled during the 13th century B.C.E. He was known for being among the most important pharaohs to have presided over Egypt during the New Kingdom period, when the empire wa
  
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• The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic

  02-11-2021 18:26 via nytimes.com
  
  With his plans for a virtual reality metaverse, the Facebook founder pitches himself as a cultural impresario of the internet’s future.
  
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• To Go Big, Sloppy Jane Went Underground

  02-11-2021 18:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Four years ago, Haley Dahl dreamed of taking her band and an orchestra into a cave to record an album. The result, “Madison,” is out Friday.
  
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• Tupac Shakur Touring Exhibition Opens in January

  02-11-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The show, spearheaded by Shakur’s estate, will start out in Los Angeles. It’s “a story about race in America using Tupac as a proxy,” one of its producers said.
  
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• Lawyer for ‘Rust’ Assistant Director Says Checking Gun Was Not His Job

  02-11-2021 17:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The assistant director, Dave Halls, had previously told a detective that he should have more thoroughly checked the gun before Alec Baldwin handled it, according to an affidavit.
  
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• To Cover World War II, These Women Journalists Fought Sexism at Home

  02-11-2021 17:27 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Correspondents,” by Judith Mackrell, is a group portrait of six pioneering female war correspondents, and the considerable challenges they faced.
  
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• Justice Dept. Sues Penguin Random House Over Simon & Schuster Deal

  02-11-2021 16:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The Biden administration’s rejection of the proposed publishing merger reflects a changing atmosphere in Washington toward consolidation.
  
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• Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books

  02-11-2021 16:23 via nytimes.com
  
  In Erdrich’s new novel, a woman dies while reading and then haunts a local bookstore’s employee.
  
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• Is It Possible to Explain How Consciousness Works?

  02-11-2021 16:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio has distilled his theories about consciousness in “Feeling & Knowing,” paring things down and using an accessible style.
  
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• Fathers and Sons: Ai Weiwei’s “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows”

  02-11-2021 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  Given the harrowing experiences that the artist and activist Ai Weiwei has endured over his sixty-four years, it is a bit miraculous to see him exude mordant humor and calm determination throughout his lucid new memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. Even in very dire circumstances, he seems able to engage—maybe even enjoy—one absurdity or another.
  1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei, New York, Crown, 2021; 400pp., $32 hardcover.
  Writing about the eighty-one days he spent in
  
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• How Hong Kong’s Collectors Helped Form M+ Museum’s High-Profile Collection

  02-11-2021 15:20 via artnews.com
  
  I Got Time, a work by Morgan Wong from 2013, will go on view at M+ when the long-awaited visual culture museum premieres in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District this year; it symbolizes the process of such an institution being built, and finally opening its doors. Donated by local collector William Lim, I Got Time is an installation related to a durational performance in which Wong held in his hand a series of plastic cups filled with drying concrete for a total of 24 hours over 20 d
  
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• Ronnie Tutt, Drummer Who Backed Both Elvises, Dies at 83

  02-11-2021 15:13 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a force in Elvis Presley’s TCB band and accompanied other big names like Elvis Costello, Jerry Garcia and Billy Joel.
  
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• 'Big Mouth' and Other Adult-Animation Series Worth Watching

  02-11-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a rising tide of animated series, Netflix’s “Big Mouth,” Funimation’s “Sonny Boy” and HBO Max’s “Ten Year Old Tom” are worth catching.
  
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• How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera

  02-11-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Iphigenia,” an update of the ancient Greek myth eight years in the making and decades in the dreaming, will begin a run of performances this month.
  
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• Dr. Dre, will.i.am, Issa Rae support proposed arts initiative - Los Angeles Times

  02-11-2021 13:30 via latimes.com
  
  Dr. Dre, will.i.am, Issa Rae support proposed arts initiative  Los Angeles Times
  
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• Artists on the Climate Talks, Tomb of Treasurer to Ramses II Found, and More: Morning Links for November 2, 2021

  02-11-2021 13:17 via artnews.com
  
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  THE CLIMATE TALKS BEGIN. World leaders are converging on Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, aka COP26, and artists are participating in various ways. A text piece by Jenny Holzer that quotes activist Greta Thunberg will be projected in the city, the National reports; stre
  
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• The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play.

  02-11-2021 13:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The hit movie’s set was plagued by malfunctioning sharks and drunken feuds — perfect material for a night at the theater.
  
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• When the Nation That Shaped You Is Falling Apart

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Interim,” a novel by Wolfgang Hilbig, a writer is torn between two Germanys as the Cold War begins to thaw.
  
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• Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t.

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Noah Feldman’s “The Broken Constitution” argues that Lincoln had to remake the American Constitution in order to battle slavery.
  
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• The Secret 53-Year-Old British Case That Could Have Legalized Trans Identity

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes,” by Zoë Playdon, investigates a long-suppressed legal case involving an aristocratic Scotsman, who, raised, at least initially, as a girl, went to court to prove his male gender.
  
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• The Reporter, the Stealth Artist and the Shadowman

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A writer shares his journey following the first-time street artist, Nullbureau, who is replicating the work of the ’80s painter Richard Hambleton.
  
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• The Manhattan ‘Madam’ Who Hobnobbed With the City’s Elite

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new biography by Debby Applegate recounts the story of Polly Adler, who arrived in America from Russia at 13 and became New York’s most successful brothel owner, befriending mobsters, policemen, politicians and writers.
  
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• The Century-Old Russian Novel Said to Have Inspired ‘1984’

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “We,” by Yevgeny Zamyatin, transports us to an authoritarian society governed by technological efficiency.
  
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• She Was an Organist for the Ages

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jeanne Demessieux, born 100 years ago, was an astonishing player and a virtuosic composer.
  
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• Locked Down With Friends, Lovers and Rivals, in Gary Shteyngart’s New Novel

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The characters in “Our Country Friends” retreat to a Hudson Valley estate, but the virus and the world are at their heels.
  
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• How Black Performance and Presence Shaped America

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, “Entertaining Race,” compiles decades of his writing about the performance of Blackness and Black performance.
  
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• From a Small Nigerian Tribe to a Big American Publishing House

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Uwem Akpan’s debut novel, “New York, My Village,” a Black African editor traces tribalism at home and abroad.
  
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• Does Life Imitate Art or Is It the Other Way Around?

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new novel, “Still Life,” Sarah Winman delves into four decades’ worth of truth and beauty.
  
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• Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of Showtime’s gruesome hit “Dexter” returns after eight years to the serial killer who never stopped pursuing him.
  
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• Caught Between Worlds? So Are the Characters in These Books.

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three new historical novels introduce us to characters who can’t be in two places at once.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Least of Us,’ by Sam Quinones

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Least of Us,” by Sam Quinones, applies a kaleidoscopic approach to so-called designer drugs and efforts to combat addiction.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Still Life,’ by Sarah Winman

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new novel, “Still Life,” Sarah Winman delves into four decades’ worth of truth and beauty.
  
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• An Artist in Lockdown, Forged by Catastrophe

  02-11-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Sarah Hall’s novel “Burntcoat,” a fictionalized pandemic spurs a sculptor to productive heights.
  
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• Middlebury Receives $10 Million Gift to Enhance the Arts - Middlebury College News and Events

  02-11-2021 08:00 via middlebury.edu
  Middlebury Receives $10 Million Gift to Enhance the Arts  Middlebury College News and Events
  
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• Stephen Colbert: Biden Got the Pope’s Blessing

  02-11-2021 07:20 via nytimes.com
  
  “The pope telling you you’re a good Catholic is like a bear telling you you’re good at pooping in the woods,” Colbert said of President Biden, who visited the Vatican over the weekend.
  
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• Review: Embodying Justice in ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’

  02-11-2021 02:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman play about the aftermath of the Rodney King case gets a cast of five in an updated Off Broadway revival.
  
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• ‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir

  02-11-2021 02:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor talks about his new book, “You Can’t Be Serious,” in which he introduces readers to his fiancé, Josh, and explains his sabbatical from Hollywood to work for the Obama administration.
  
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• Kal Penn on His Book: ‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’

  02-11-2021 02:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor talks about his new book, “You Can’t Be Serious,” in which he introduces readers to his fiancé, Josh, and explains his sabbatical from Hollywood to work for the Obama administration.
  
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• Talking About ‘Attica,’ the Newest Documentary on the Prison Uprising

  02-11-2021 00:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Fifty years after the fact, the filmmakers Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry reflect on the bloody standoff and what it accomplished.
  
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