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• Flowers' paintings featured at Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center - Statesville Record & Landmark

  27-02-2019 23:52
  Flowers' paintings featured at Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center  Statesville Record & LandmarkDuring the months of March and April, the Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center's Emerging Artists Wall exhibit space will feature paintings by Betty Flowers of ...
  
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• Kelly Akashi at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

  27-02-2019 23:13 via artnews.com
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• Grossmont High School Breaks Ground on $26M Performing Arts Center - NBC 7 San Diego

  27-02-2019 23:10
  Grossmont High School Breaks Ground on $26M Performing Arts Center  NBC 7 San DiegoThe oldest school in San Diego's East County is getting a major upgrade: a $26 million complex that will house performing arts programs including dance, ...
  
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• Texas Medal of Arts Awards honors Texan leaders in creative fields - KXAN.com

  27-02-2019 23:06
  Texas Medal of Arts Awards honors Texan leaders in creative fields  KXAN.comThe 2019 Texas Medal of Arts Awards are being held Wednesday and several homegrown artists and pioneers are being honored, including Texan Matthew ...
  
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• Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again

  27-02-2019 23:02 via nytimes.com
  The self-dubbed “modern blues woman” collaborated with the National’s Aaron Dessner on “Silences,” an album that takes on love, death, the devil and a woman’s self-determination.
  
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• Overlooked No More: The Underground Graffiti Adventures of Dondi

  27-02-2019 22:46 via nytimes.com
  Donald Joseph White, considered a legend before “street art” became popular, turned New York City’s subways into rolling canvases of color, humor and social commentary.
  
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• #SpeakingInDance: Practice Makes Less Impossible

  27-02-2019 22:03 via nytimes.com
  “It’s pretty scary”: Melissa Toogood and American Ballet Theater’s Calvin Royal III dance a difficult duet from Merce Cunningham’s “Scenario.”
  
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• Art Dealer Arrested by French Authorities Amid Restitution Case Surrounding 18th-Century Painting

  27-02-2019 21:01 via artnews.com
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• He Lives to Provoke. What Happens When His Film Isn’t Hated?

  27-02-2019 20:26 via nytimes.com
  Gaspar Noé has had to make his peace with the reaction to his newest film, “Climax.” Then again, it’s the first of his movies with a happy part.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Apollo 11’ Review: The 1969 Moon Mission Still Has the Power to Thrill

  27-02-2019 20:25 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary uses previously unseen archival footage to show how astronauts first walked on the moon. It’s awe-inspiring.
  
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• Amazon HQ2 and Cincinnati's arts - Cincinnati Business Courier - Cincinnati Business Courier

  27-02-2019 20:08
  Amazon HQ2 and Cincinnati's arts - Cincinnati Business Courier  Cincinnati Business CourierWhatever you might think about Amazon's strategy for choosing its second headquarters, there's something in common among the top-ranked cities that you ...
  
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• Album Review: Gunna Delivers Soothing Songs About the Fast Life on ‘Drip or Drown 2’

  27-02-2019 20:07 via nytimes.com
  The Georgia rapper’s new album elevates mumbling to an art form as he blurs and bends words in fever dreams of excess and bravado.
  
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• Fiction: A Heroine Who Lives at Once in Elizabethan England and 21st-Century New York

  27-02-2019 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Sandra Newman’s novel “The Heavens” explores notions of time travel, romance and mental stability.
  
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• ‘Eat the Devil’ Review: Sex Dolls, Wormholes and a Stand for Nihilism

  27-02-2019 19:32 via nytimes.com
  This gleefully but fatally overloaded play riffs on sci-fi, time-travel and airplane-disaster movies, while sending up our screen-obsessed culture.
  
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• ‘Tension Sculptures’ Explore Limits, Political and Physical

  27-02-2019 18:58 via nytimes.com
  Five massive yellow sculptures made of durable rubber stretched to its limits are coming to Park Avenue next week.
  
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• Pace Gallery ‘Pondering’ Further Experimentation with Admission Prices to Experiential Art Shows

  27-02-2019 18:50 via artnews.com
  Marc Glimcher, the gallery's CEO, discussed the matter at a talk at Frieze Los Angeles. Read More
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• Michael Cohen to Congress: Trump Used His Foundation’s Funds to Acquire $60,000 Portrait

  27-02-2019 18:39 via artnews.com
  The president's former "fixer" alleged that a fake bidder was secured to acquire the piece. Read More
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• Books of The Times: How the Mind-Body Connection is Rewiring Our Politics

  27-02-2019 18:33 via nytimes.com
  In “Nervous States,” William Davies says profound uncertainty and heightened alertness have encouraged us to approach politics as a matter of instinct rather than rationality.
  
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• Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Comcast make bids to buy Nexon - VentureBeat

  27-02-2019 18:20
  Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Comcast make bids to buy Nexon  VentureBeatElectronic Arts, Amazon, and Comcast have joined the bidding to buy South Korean online gaming firm Nexon.
  
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• Show Us Your Wall: A Collector Juxtaposes the Erotic and the Familiar

  27-02-2019 18:08 via nytimes.com
  “Gay and lesbian artists have been marginalized in the canon,” Brian Phillips says. As a collector, he’s doing what he can to change that.
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ to Start Offering Classes

  27-02-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The Freestyle Love Supreme Academy plans to begin offering classes in New York, starting with foundations of freestyle.
  
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• Arts scene: Things to do in March in Vermont - BurlingtonFreePress.com

  27-02-2019 17:56
  Arts scene: Things to do in March in Vermont  BurlingtonFreePress.comThe month begins with two shows by popular comic Jim Gaffigan, plus movie music for kids and adults and the latest production by Vermont Stage.
  
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• Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago. Why He Matters Today.

  27-02-2019 17:55 via nytimes.com
  Exhibitions around the world to commemorate the anniversary are celebrating the painter as one of art’s great rebels. But it wasn’t always so.
  
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• Philippe Vergne Named Director Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal

  27-02-2019 17:54 via artnews.com
  He previously led the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for four years. Read More
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• Philippe Vergne Named Director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal

  27-02-2019 17:54 via artnews.com
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: The Grand, Exhausting Life of Pamela Adlon’s ‘Better Things’

  27-02-2019 17:50 via nytimes.com
  The impressionistic family comedy on FX captures the labor of love better than ever in its third season.
  
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• Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits

  27-02-2019 17:49 via nytimes.com
  Taking on works of intense difficulty, Jason Hardink played a pianistic endurance test at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday.
  
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• Activist Group Decolonize This Place Plans ‘Nine Weeks of Art and Action’ in Run-Up to Whitney Biennial

  27-02-2019 17:19 via artnews.com
  "It is important to note that Warren Kanders is just the start of the crisis at the Whitney," the group said. Read More
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• Degrees of Mystery: B. Wurtz on Exhibitions Around New York

  27-02-2019 17:11 via artnews.com
  On Lorraine O’Grady, Tauba Auerbach, Christine Rebet, Seth Price, Michael Krebber, and more Read More
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• L.A.'s Arts District Has Become an Around-the-Clock Movie Set—and Not Everyone's a Fan - LA Magazine

  27-02-2019 16:53
  L.A.'s Arts District Has Become an Around-the-Clock Movie Set—and Not Everyone's a Fan  LA MagazineA black matte Porsche Cayenne carrying a giant swooping camera is purring alongside a red-brick condo that looks like Gentrified Anytown, USA. On the corner ...
  
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• What’s happening in art: Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Festivale 50 - Tampa Bay Times

  27-02-2019 16:49
  What’s happening in art: Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Festivale 50  Tampa Bay TimesGrowing Again: Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. Perhaps you've heard that the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts will move to the new, larger Julian B. Lane Waterfront ...
  
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• Masterpiece or Mistake? A Hawaii Museum’s $7.5 Million Question

  27-02-2019 16:47 via nytimes.com
  Christie’s said a Hawaiian sculpture that it sold in 2017 was about 200 years old. But some experts aren’t convinced.
  
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• Could Apex Be Electronic Arts' Big Break? - Seeking Alpha

  27-02-2019 16:16
  Could Apex Be Electronic Arts' Big Break?  Seeking AlphaThe company launched a new game without previous warning or publicity. Stock price strongly reacted to positive feedback from the gamers' community; Could ...
  
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• 21 Savage’s Still-Bumpy Path to Freedom

  27-02-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  With the rapper out on bond after he was charged with overstaying his visa, his legal team is underscoring the political dimension to his plight while fighting to keep him in the United States.
  
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• The arts are alive in Richmond County Schools - Richmond County Daily Journal

  27-02-2019 15:50
  The arts are alive in Richmond County Schools  Richmond County Daily JournalHAMLET — Artwork, music and singing will fill the Richmond Community College Cole Auditorium over the next few days for Richmond County School's annual ...
  
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• Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council announces April 1 grant application deadline - Austin Daily Herald - Austin Herald

  27-02-2019 15:49
  Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council announces April 1 grant application deadline - Austin Daily Herald  Austin HeraldYou have read 1 of 10 articles. Log In or Subscribe. The Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) is accepting proposals in three categories: Arts and ...
  
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• Alternative arts theatre inks 10-year lease in Clinton Hill - The Real Deal

  27-02-2019 15:40
  Alternative arts theatre inks 10-year lease in Clinton Hill  The Real DealAn alternative arts theatre and community center has defied the challenges of fundraising, and secured a lease at 18 Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn.
  
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• Few states recognize the arts as part of their ESSA accountability plans - Education Dive

  27-02-2019 15:18
  Few states recognize the arts as part of their ESSA accountability plans  Education DiveIllinois, Connecticut and Kentucky, however, are examples of how states are using the law's broader definition of student success to emphasize the arts.
  
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• Rothko Chapel to Be Seen in New Light

  27-02-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  In a first phase of a restoration and campus expansion, the chapel’s ceiling apparatus will be replaced with a new skylight.
  
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• Morning Links: Ellsworth Kelly in the Mail Edition

  27-02-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Volusia Schools buying elementary school math books, considering language arts - Daytona Beach News-Journal

  27-02-2019 14:59
  Volusia Schools buying elementary school math books, considering language arts  Daytona Beach News-JournalIn hopes of boosting student achievement and relieving long-suffering teachers, the Volusia County School Board is moving forward with the purchase of new ...
  
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• Introducing Ruby City, San Antonio’s David Adjaye–Designed Arts Center - The Wall Street Journal

  27-02-2019 14:58
  Introducing Ruby City, San Antonio’s David Adjaye–Designed Arts Center  The Wall Street JournalDreams played an outsize role in the life of artist, collector and philanthropist Linda Pace. A food company heiress in San Antonio, Texas, Pace began having ...
  
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• Where Should You Buy Electronic Arts Stock Now? - Investorplace.com

  27-02-2019 14:34
  Where Should You Buy Electronic Arts Stock Now?  Investorplace.comAfter a recent hit-and-run incident on the price in Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA), traders now find themselves entering a bullish phase in EA stock … Let me ...
  
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• Integrity Academy of Martial Arts offers free Taekwondo class - WSBT-TV

  27-02-2019 12:36
  Integrity Academy of Martial Arts offers free Taekwondo class  WSBT-TVIt doesn't matter who you are. Come in. You know, we are here for you. We want to reach out to all of the community,” said Chip Dean, Integrity Academy of ...
  
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• Alejandro González Iñárritu to Lead Cannes Film Festival Jury

  27-02-2019 11:27 via nytimes.com
  The director, who made is directorial debut at Cannes in 2000 with “Amores Perros,” is the first Mexican to take the role in the festival’s long history.
  
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• Best of Late Night: Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump Arrived in Vietnam ‘About 50 Years Late’

  27-02-2019 11:02 via nytimes.com
  President Trump is preparing to meet with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, in Vietnam. Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien offered commentary.
  
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• Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud

  27-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  No one had spotted a new painting by the Dutch master for four decades — until the scion of a storied Amsterdam family found two.
  
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• Nonfiction: An Economist’s Argument for Preserving Communities

  27-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Raghuram Rajan’s “The Third Pillar” contends that economic growth is not enough to ensure a nation’s health.
  
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• Amazon, Comcast, Electronic Arts submit bids for Nexon holding firm-Maeil report - Reuters

  27-02-2019 10:47
  Amazon, Comcast, Electronic Arts submit bids for Nexon holding firm-Maeil report  ReutersAmazon.com Inc, Comcast Corp and Electronic Arts Inc submitted initial bids for the holding firm of South Korea's biggest gaming firm Nexon, Maeil Business ...
  
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• A ‘Tradition’ Omission: I Had Never Seen ‘Fiddler’ Until Now.

  27-02-2019 09:16 via nytimes.com
  Growing up in a traditional Jewish household made the legendary musical a piece to resent, not embrace. So much has changed since.
  
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