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• With $130 million from Mike Bloomberg and $75 million from Ronald Perelman, a performing arts center opens at Ground Zero - Fortune

  07-09-2023 23:39 via news.google.com
  With $130 million from Mike Bloomberg and $75 million from Ronald Perelman, a performing arts center opens at Ground Zero  Fortune
  
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• Arleen Sorkin, Soap Opera Star With a Claim to Batman Fame, Dies at 67

  07-09-2023 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Her “Days of Our Lives” character provided a rare burst of daytime-drama comedy. She was later the voice of Harley Quinn, the Joker’s henchwoman.
  
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• ‘The Nun II’ Review: Back in the Habit

  07-09-2023 23:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest installment in the “Conjuring” franchise continues a formula of frights with a splash of religious world building.
  
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• 5 Art Fairs to See in N.Y.C.: Photos, Paper and Wild Cards

  07-09-2023 22:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Fall art fair season has arrived, with the Armory Show, the Independent 20th Century and satellite exhibitions on display across the city.
  
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• The Deadpan Laureate of American Art

  07-09-2023 22:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Ed Ruscha, intrepid explorer of language and image, prefigured a digital culture of words on the move. A retrospective at MoMA shines new light on his groundbreaking career: the books, the paintings, the room made of chocolate.
  
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• ‘Ed Ruscha/Now Then’ Review: American Art’s Deadpan Laureate

  07-09-2023 22:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Ed Ruscha, intrepid explorer of language and image, prefigured a digital culture of words on the move. A retrospective at MoMA shines new light on his groundbreaking career: the books, the paintings, the room made of chocolate.
  
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• Renzo Piano selected to design Boca Raton's Center for Arts and ... - The Architect's Newspaper

  07-09-2023 22:34 via news.google.com
  Renzo Piano selected to design Boca Raton's Center for Arts and ...  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 10 new ... - MIT News

  07-09-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 10 new ...  MIT News
  
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• Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes

  07-09-2023 21:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The “That ’70s Show” actor was found guilty in May of raping two women in the early 2000s.
  
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• The Armory Show, in a Back-to-School Edition

  07-09-2023 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Art fairs come early, tailoring their calendars to compete with the city’s big fall gallery and museum exhibitions. A critic’s 11 favorite booths.
  
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• Uncertainty and Unanswered Questions Are Swirling Around the Armory Show Opening After Frieze Acquisition

  07-09-2023 20:54 via artnews.com
  
  In mid-July, when Frieze announced they had bought the Armory Show in New York, the acquisition seemed aimed at leveling up the company to Art Basel – which remains the arbiter of art world success. But the move raised one uncomfortable question that remains unanswered:  how would Frieze juggle both the Armory Show and Frieze Seoul, which run concurrently, in an already over-saturated art world calendar. And that’s, of course, leaving aside the fact that Frieze already hosts a f
  
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• At Venice Film Festival, Trapped Women and Controlling Men

  07-09-2023 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  This year’s lineup includes films from Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos and Bradley Cooper in which female characters squirm under the thumbs of egocentric men.
  
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• Independent Art Fair Brings Unseen Masterpieces to New York

  07-09-2023 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  In its second edition, the boutique fair’s 20th-century focus brings unseen masterpieces to New York.
  
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• 81st Street Studio, a Garden of Artful Delight

  07-09-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The 3-to-11-year-old crowd can sample music, rest on scented pillows, make digital woodblock prints and study Met museum objects at this new drop-in center.
  
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• The National Arts Club Presents “In a New Light: American ... - Hyperallergic

  07-09-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in September

  07-09-2023 19:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of September’s most promising new titles.
  
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• ‘Tiny Toons Looniversity’ Sends Babs and Buster Bunny to College

  07-09-2023 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  In the reboot “Tiny Toons Looniversity,” Babs, Buster and the others from the original 1990s series head to college to learn how to be funny in 2023.
  
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• They’re Tiny, They’re Toony, They’re Packing Off to Uni

  07-09-2023 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  In the reboot “Tiny Toons Looniversity,” Babs, Buster and the others from the original 1990s series head to college to learn how to be funny in 2023.
  
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• The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Returns. But Not as You Knew It.

  07-09-2023 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The lingerie brand introduces a feature-length film meant to be the final piece of its reinvention.
  
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• Charles Busch, Drag Legend, Tells All in His New Memoir

  07-09-2023 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Leading Lady,” a mosaic of reminiscence and self-analysis, explores the ascent of a man who’s really good at playing women.
  
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• Massive 2,000-Year-Old Plaza from Mysterious Roman City Unearthed in Spain

  07-09-2023 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  The ruins of a massive 2,000-year-old Roman plaza have been found at La Cabañeta archaeological site in Spain. It is the oldest-known public square uncovered in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula, according to a release from the University of Zaragoza.Located along the banks of the Ebro River in northeastern Spain, the city was founded around 200 BCE. The city was destroyed during the Sertorian War, a civil war that occurred roughly a century after its founding around 70 BCE; however,
  
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• ‘The First Year’ Review: Allende’s Rule in Chile

  07-09-2023 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The French-language version of a 1971 documentary by Patricio Guzmán is an extraordinary document of a nation in transition.
  
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• Warner Bros. Suspends Deals With Top Show Creators

  07-09-2023 16:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The move, which affected star writers like Mindy Kaling and J.J. Abrams, is an escalation of the standoff between Hollywood studios and the Writers Guild of America.
  
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• Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2023-24 Fellows - New York University

  07-09-2023 16:58 via news.google.com
  
  Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2023-24 Fellows  New York University
  
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• Somerville Arts Council Board Meeting - City of Somerville

  07-09-2023 16:56 via news.google.com
  
  Somerville Arts Council Board Meeting  City of Somerville
  
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• Jiab Prachakul’s New Show On Identity Pushes Representation Forward

  07-09-2023 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Notions of identity are a constant theme in Thai-French artist Jiab Prachakul’s intimate portraits of herself, her family, and her close friends. After growing up in Thailand and living in several European cities, the figurative painter has ruminated a lot on how a person’s identity shifts over time, as well as what can and can’t be intimated from their appearance. “It doesn’t feel special at first to be different. But then I noticed it made me special,” she t
  
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• Arts and Culture Plan Steering Group Meeting - charlottenc.gov

  07-09-2023 15:47 via news.google.com
  
  Arts and Culture Plan Steering Group Meeting  charlottenc.gov
  
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• ULM VAPA welcomes high school students for Arts on the Bayou ... - ULM

  07-09-2023 15:36 via news.google.com
  
  ULM VAPA welcomes high school students for Arts on the Bayou ...  ULM
  
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• Ed Ruscha’s Endlessly Amusing MoMA Mega-Retrospective Puts His Oddball Humor Front and Center

  07-09-2023 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  The best way to approach an Ed Ruscha work like his 2016 painting Really Old is to laugh. It’s an awkward, shaped canvas that starts out as a rectangle and culminates in a pinched triangle. “REALLY OLD,” it says at the top, in its widest part, before narrowing until it reaches its darkened bottom. At its tip, the painting reads “BRAND NEW.”What’s truly new, Ruscha seems to say, occupies very little of our attention. What’s really old tends to hog the spo
  
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• Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Returns for 2023 - National Endowment for the Arts

  07-09-2023 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Returns for 2023  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• ‘Rotting in the Sun’ Review: Instagram, Real

  07-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sebastián Silva’s satirical thriller blurs the line between reality and illusion that fuels social media.
  
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• Remedios Varo’s First-Rate Surrealist Storytelling Gets its Due in A Stunning Chicago Survey

  07-09-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  On the afternoon of February 20, 1943, a volcano suddenly appeared in a cornfield near the remote village of Parícutin, Mexico. The field’s owner—a farmer named Dionisio Pulido—later recalled how a crack in the earth widened and swelled, belching sulfurous fumes as the newborn cone thrust skyward. Over the next several months, the volcano continued to grow. Dunes of ash drifted across the land. That June, Parícutin finally erupted in earnest. Two towns were evacua
  
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• ‘Joyce Carol Oates’ Review: What’s She Thinking?

  07-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This generic documentary, subtitled “A Body in the Service of Mind,” is so fixated on canonizing its subject that it skirts around what makes her so intriguing: her peculiar and provocative ideas.
  
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• ‘Hello Dankness’ Review: Through the Looking Glass

  07-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The video artists known as Soda Jerk explore life in the United States from 2016 onward with an oddball assemblage of pop culture clips.
  
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• ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’ Review

  07-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The film “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” a gay teen romance set in 1980s Texas and adapted from Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s novel, is tenderhearted but meandering.
  
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• ‘Amerikatsi’ Review: From America to Soviet Armenia

  07-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor-director Michael Goorjian explores the urge to reconnect with one’s roots in this movie about an American who moves to Soviet Armenia.
  
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• What Would Strikes Do to Oscar Season?

  07-09-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The delay of some big titles, like “Dune: Part Two,” has ramifications for coming releases like “May December” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
  
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• ‘Swing State’ Playwright Wants to Sound an Alarm for a World in Trouble

  07-09-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In her Off Broadway drama, which had an acclaimed run in Chicago, the playwright looks for hope to outweigh despair in a fractious, anxious time.
  
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• This Artist’s Next Project Has Her ‘Terrified.’ That’s the Point.

  07-09-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An upcoming exhibition at the New Museum by Jade Kuriki-Olivo, also known as Puppies Puppies, puts a microscope on her experience as a trans woman.
  
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• The Fashion Designer Making Art Out of Offcuts

  07-09-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tomo Koizumi, known for his voluminous ruffled dresses, ventures into a new creative arena: painting.
  
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• France Offers Support for Woody Allen, Johnny Depp and Louis C.K.

  07-09-2023 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Under fire in America, Mr. Allen made his 50th film in and around Paris, where he was able to secure a deal, despite the sexual abuse accusations against him.
  
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• New, expanded roles announced for Arts Initiative leadership | The ... - The University Record

  07-09-2023 08:03 via news.google.com
  
  New, expanded roles announced for Arts Initiative leadership | The ...  The University Record
  
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• Bruce Springsteen Postpones Shows for Treatment of Peptic Ulcer Disease Symptoms

  07-09-2023 04:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The 73-year-old singer’s medical advisers made the decision to postpone the shows, according to the announcement.
  
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• Hillary Clinton returning to the White House for an arts event next week - ABC News

  07-09-2023 01:18 via news.google.com
  
  Hillary Clinton returning to the White House for an arts event next week  ABC News
  
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• Hillary Clinton to speak at White House event for international arts ... - The Hill

  07-09-2023 01:11 via news.google.com
  
  Hillary Clinton to speak at White House event for international arts ...  The Hill
  
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• Vermilion Arts Guild to host fall show starting Sept. 9 - The Morning Journal

  07-09-2023 01:02 via news.google.com
  
  Vermilion Arts Guild to host fall show starting Sept. 9  The Morning Journal
  
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• Arts on the Millrace returns Saturday for 10th year - Goshen News

  07-09-2023 01:00 via news.google.com
  
  Arts on the Millrace returns Saturday for 10th year  Goshen News
  
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• Nairy Baghramian Breaks Through With Metropolitan Museum Facade Commission

  07-09-2023 00:58 via nytimes.com
  
  With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
  
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• A Black arts center committed to preserving community - Marketplace

  07-09-2023 00:57 via news.google.com
  
  A Black arts center committed to preserving community  Marketplace
  
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• Terence Blanchard, Pushing Jazz Forward From a New Perch

  07-09-2023 00:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The trumpeter and composer follows the premiere of two Met operas with an appointment as executive artistic director of SFJazz in San Francisco and a Jazz Masters honor.
  
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