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• Lightfoot: $1 million boost for arts in neighborhoods will be powerful - Curbed Chicago

  08-11-2019 23:37 via chicago.curbed.com
  
  Lightfoot: $1 million boost for arts in neighborhoods will be powerful  Curbed Chicago
  
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• "Michigan Now: Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition" | 11/09/2019 - northernexpress.com

  08-11-2019 23:30 via northernexpress.com
  "Michigan Now: Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition" | 11/09/2019  northernexpress.com
  
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• Arts council to present Litchfield Hills Creative Awards Nov. 22 - Torrington Register Citizen

  08-11-2019 23:29 via registercitizen.com
  
  Arts council to present Litchfield Hills Creative Awards Nov. 22  Torrington Register Citizen
  
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• St. Pete leaders add lights to Pinellas Trail throughout the Warehouse Arts District - ABC Action News

  08-11-2019 23:26 via abcactionnews.com
  
  St. Pete leaders add lights to Pinellas Trail throughout the Warehouse Arts District  ABC Action News
  
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• Art summit helps students across the region work to help arts education in schools - WYMT News

  08-11-2019 23:21 via wymt.com
  
  Art summit helps students across the region work to help arts education in schools  WYMT News
  
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• Maria Perego, Topo Gigio’s Creator, Dies at 95

  08-11-2019 23:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The mouse puppet that she made in the late 1950s in Italy became a worldwide phenomenon, with the help of “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
  
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• MSU's College of Arts and Sciences announces 2019 faculty award winners - Mississippi State Newsroom

  08-11-2019 23:08 via msstate.edu
  
  MSU's College of Arts and Sciences announces 2019 faculty award winners  Mississippi State Newsroom
  
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• Wichita's Mark Arts fundraiser helps inspire decorating ideas for the holidays - KWCH

  08-11-2019 23:03 via kwch.com
  
  Wichita's Mark Arts fundraiser helps inspire decorating ideas for the holidays  KWCH
  
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• Savannah Arts Academy dancer lands coveted spot with Radio City Rockettes - WSAV-TV

  08-11-2019 23:00 via wsav.com
  Savannah Arts Academy dancer lands coveted spot with Radio City Rockettes  WSAV-TV
  
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• Detroit Institute of Arts millage renewal could appear on 2020 ballot - Michigan Radio

  08-11-2019 22:33 via michiganradio.org
  
  Detroit Institute of Arts millage renewal could appear on 2020 ballot  Michigan Radio
  
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• Peter Collier, Author and Leading Conservative Voice, Dies at 80

  08-11-2019 22:23 via nytimes.com
  
  He and David Horowitz wrote well-regarded biographies of prominent families. They also drew attention for their ideological shift from left to right.
  
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• SEE: Brooklyn Academy Of Music Opens First Visual Arts Gallery - Fort Greene, NY Patch

  08-11-2019 22:19 via patch.com
  
  SEE: Brooklyn Academy Of Music Opens First Visual Arts Gallery  Fort Greene, NY Patch
  
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• Brookfield East High School Holiday Arts & Craft Fair - Patch.com

  08-11-2019 22:08 via patch.com
  
  Brookfield East High School Holiday Arts & Craft Fair  Patch.com
  
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• Marciano Art Foundation Is Accused of Unfair Labor Practices

  08-11-2019 22:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Employees were laid off after moving to unionize. Now a union is filing a charge at the National Labor Relations Board.
  
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• Following Layoffs, Former Employees Protest at Marciano Art Foundation, Demanding Reopening and Recognition of Union

  08-11-2019 22:06 via artnews.com
  
  "Let us see the Alex Israel!" some workers shouted. Read More
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• Take Five: Arts & events around the U.S. (November 8) - CBS News

  08-11-2019 21:52 via cbsnews.com
  
  Take Five: Arts & events around the U.S. (November 8)  CBS News
  
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• New Ai Weiwei Documentary Champions the Artist as a Global Activist

  08-11-2019 21:12 via artnews.com
  
  The film grew out of his 2014 project on the onetime prison island in San Francisco Bay. Read More
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• Festival of Arts returns for 3-day run - Your Valley

  08-11-2019 21:09 via yourvalley.net
  
  Festival of Arts returns for 3-day run  Your Valley
  
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• The Strange Things You Find on Authors’ Websites

  08-11-2019 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A quick survey of the writers on the fiction best-seller list turned up Spotify playlists, blogs “written” by their dogs, movie reviews and merchandise.
  
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• Gillian Jagger, Sculptor Whose Medium Was Nature, Dies at 88

  08-11-2019 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Her sculptures, which often incorporated tree trunks and animal carcasses, emphasized commonality and connection between humans, animals and the earth.
  
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• New Jersey Was the 1st State to Offer Arts in All Schools - catcountry1073.com

  08-11-2019 20:56 via catcountry1073.com
  
  New Jersey Was the 1st State to Offer Arts in All Schools  catcountry1073.com
  
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• Kusama Arrives. It Is Worth Your Time to Wait in Line?

  08-11-2019 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  You’ll get to spend one minute in the artist’s newest “Infinity Mirrored Room” at David Zwirner in Chelsea. Expect dancing lights to infinity, or as far as your cameraphone allows.
  
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• Arts Playlist: Harrington resident's book digs into Harrington's history - Delaware First Media

  08-11-2019 20:55 via delawarepublic.org
  
  Arts Playlist: Harrington resident's book digs into Harrington's history  Delaware First Media
  
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• From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction

  08-11-2019 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  “Think, Write, Speak” collects Vladimir Nabokov’s interviews and incidental prose. “The Bad Side of Books” collects D.H. Lawrence’s most memorable essays.
  
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• Banksy-Designed Record Cover Sells for $10,000, a New High Mark for Vinyl Marketplace

  08-11-2019 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Discogs, an online record database and marketplace, said that a spray-painted cover created by the artist is the most expensive piece it has ever sold.Read More
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• FKA Twigs Talks Growing Up, Learning Martial Arts in Beats 1 Interview - Rolling Stone

  08-11-2019 20:37 via rollingstone.com
  
  FKA Twigs Talks Growing Up, Learning Martial Arts in Beats 1 Interview  Rolling Stone
  
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• HACC to end long-running "Live at Rose Lehrman" performing arts series - The Burg News

  08-11-2019 20:06 via theburgnews.com
  
  HACC to end long-running "Live at Rose Lehrman" performing arts series  The Burg News
  
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• Arts Organization Decries Denial of Visas to Iraqi Artists in MoMA PS1 Show: 'It Is Unacceptable' - - ARTnews

  08-11-2019 19:53 via artnews.com
  
  Arts Organization Decries Denial of Visas to Iraqi Artists in MoMA PS1 Show: 'It Is Unacceptable' -  ARTnews
  
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• Arts Organization Decries Denial of Visas to Iraqi Artists in MoMA PS1 Show: ‘It Is Unacceptable’

  08-11-2019 19:53 via artnews.com
  
  Their work figures in a survey of art and the Gulf wars between 1991 and 2011. Read More
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• Fall, Arts and Music: Free and Affordable Fun Things to Do in, Around and Outside Philly for Nov. 8 to 10 - NBC 10 Philadelphia

  08-11-2019 19:37 via nbcphiladelphia.com
  
  Fall, Arts and Music: Free and Affordable Fun Things to Do in, Around and Outside Philly for Nov. 8 to 10  NBC 10 Philadelphia
  
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• The Playlist: George Michael’s First Posthumous Music, and 12 More New Songs

  08-11-2019 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Rosalía, Jessie Ware, Mura Masa and others.
  
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• Victoria and Albert Museum Names Leader for East London Outpost

  08-11-2019 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Gus Casely-Hayford, who has served as the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art since 2018, will be the V&A East’s inaugural director.
  
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• Review: A Teenage Virtuoso Prevails in a Liszt Endurance Test

  08-11-2019 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The pianist Maxim Lando, 17, displayed stamina and brilliance in his New York recital debut. But he still has room to grow as an artist.
  
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• Gardner Museum Horticulturalist, Who Cultivated the Institution’s Plant Life for 50 Years, Has Died at 67

  08-11-2019 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  He joined the museum as a 17-year-old intern and became its longest serving head of horticulture.Read More
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• Burning Pianos and Whispering Rivers: A Composer’s Journey

  08-11-2019 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Annea Lockwood, influenced by ecofeminism, will be celebrated at 80 with a Composer Portrait concert at Columbia University.
  
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• Arts & Education Arts and Education: Celebrating Native American culture Lewis Dortch 10:05 AM, Nov - KPAX-TV

  08-11-2019 18:10 via kpax.com
  
  Arts & Education Arts and Education: Celebrating Native American culture Lewis Dortch 10:05 AM, Nov  KPAX-TV
  
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• With a Slave Rebellion Re-enactment, an Artist Revives Forgotten History

  08-11-2019 18:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Dread Scott is organizing a re-enactment in Louisiana that forces people to think about who the real heroes were in the 19th-Century South.
  
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• The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate

  08-11-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fintan O’Toole explains in “The Politics of Pain” that the Brexiteers are devout believers in English exceptionalism.
  
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• Smithsonian’s Gus Casely-Hayford Will Lead Hotly Anticipated New Victoria & Albert Museum Outpost in London

  08-11-2019 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  He will assume the role of director in spring 2020. Read More
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• Pioneering Artist Betye Saar Wins Top Art Prize Amid Late-Career Revival

  08-11-2019 17:53 via artnews.com
  
  She has won the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, which comes with $110,000 and a show at the Museum Ludwig. Read More
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• Mary Poppins Jr. with College Heights Fine Arts - KoamNewsNow.com

  08-11-2019 17:28 via koamnewsnow.com
  
  Mary Poppins Jr. with College Heights Fine Arts  KoamNewsNow.com
  
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• A C.G.I. James Dean? Some in Hollywood See ‘an Awful Precedent’

  08-11-2019 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The directors of “Finding Jack” have been criticized for their plan to feature a computer-generated likeness of the actor, who died in 1955.
  
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• TSTC Culinary Arts: Cooking up success - Valley morning Star

  08-11-2019 17:00 via valleymorningstar.com
  
  TSTC Culinary Arts: Cooking up success  Valley morning Star
  
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• With ‘Shadow Stalker,’ Lynn Hershman Leeson Tackles Internet Surveillance

  08-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She pioneered interactive video and artificial intelligence in art. Now this new-media path-breaker scrutinizes technology’s abuses at the Shed.
  
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• ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now.

  08-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The dancer is inspired by an iconoclastic fiddler in his new show, which rejects the clichés of Irish dance.
  
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• Emma Thompson Can’t Live Without Hannah Gadsby and Potato Scones

  08-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of “Last Christmas” shares the movies, books and baked goods that top her list of essentials.
  
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• Virginia Arts Fest 2020: Performers from 16 countries showcase culture from around the world - Virginian-Pilot

  08-11-2019 15:46 via pilotonline.com
  Virginia Arts Fest 2020: Performers from 16 countries showcase culture from around the world  Virginian-Pilot
  
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• A C.G.I. James Dean? Some See ‘an Awful Precedent’

  08-11-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The directors of “Finding Jack” have been criticized for their plan to feature a computer-generated likeness of the actor, who died in 1955.
  
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• Bloomberg Mulls Presidential Run, Kusama Work Lands in New York, and More: Morning Links from November 8, 2019

  08-11-2019 14:59 via artnews.com
  
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• Plácido Domingo Withdraws From Tokyo Olympics Performances

  08-11-2019 12:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The 78-year-old opera star cited the “complexity” of the planned theatrical project, and made no reference to the sexual harassment allegations he has faced.
  
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