At the Portland Museum of Art and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, respectively, see ‘obstreperous’ Surrealists, who proposed upending all art, and John Walker, who finds beauty, and meaning, in mud.
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Rapper-actor Common will make his Broadway debut in November
He starred in ‘Selma’ and co-wrote with John Legend the song, ‘Glory.’
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How to win an Ig Nobel prize? Design a crash-test moose dummy.
The sex lives of constipated scorpions and cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics also inspired the winners of this year’s prizes for comical scientific achievement.
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Greece’s Irene Papas, who earned Hollywood fame, dies at 93
Papas acted alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas.
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Gift of $5 million will establish new arts lab at Colby College
The gift from 1985 graduate John Lyons, a film editor, and his wife, Susannah Gray, a retired pharmaceutical executive, was announced this week. The lab opens this fall for students.
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CNN revamping morning show with Lemon, Harlow and Collins
CNN says it is scrapping its ‘New Day’ morning show for a revamped program, set to debut later this year.
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Pedro Almodovar steps away from his 1st English-language feature film
The Oscar winner for original screenplay for 2002’s ‘Talk to Her’ says it was a ‘painful decision’ to leave the helm of ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women.’
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Jury convicts R. Kelly of sex crimes, acquits him of trial fixing
R. Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.
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Jury gets R. Kelly’s child pornography and trial-fixing case
If convicted, more time could be tacked on to the 30-year prison sentence he was given in a separate federal trial in June.
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Jean-Luc Godard, deeply influential French New Wave filmmaker, dies at 91
The French news outlet Liberation, citing an unnamed family member, said Godard died by assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland.