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• San Antonio City Attorney Removed Video Work by Queer Chicana Artist, Calling It ‘Obscene’

  21-02-2020 23:48 via artnews.com
  
  In a move that some have said harkens back to the culture wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a city official has pulled an artwork from an exhibition on the grounds that it is “obscene.” San Antonio City Attorney Andy Segovia made the decision to remove a video work by Oakland-based artist Xandra Ibarra from an exhibition of contemporary Chicanx art at the Centro de Artes, which is under the control San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture.
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• Art in America at Frieze Los Angeles, Highlighting AI and Generative Art

  21-02-2020 23:39 via artnews.com
  
  During Frieze L.A. week, the Peninsula Hotels celebrated a cultural partnership with Art in America by hosting a series of events and festivities. The week kicked off with the second annual dinner for the Swiss Institute at the Terrace at the Belvedere, the signature restaurant in the Peninsula Beverly Hills. As part of the hotel’s commitment to contemporary art, The Peninsula New York has supported the organization since 2019, most recently partnering on the 2019 Swiss Institute benefit a
  
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• CAFE 541: Oregon Arts Commission’s Arts Build Communities grants to support Delgani, the Eugene Symphony and Lane Arts Council among other area arts organizations - The Register-Guard

  21-02-2020 23:36 via registerguard.com
  CAFE 541: Oregon Arts Commission’s Arts Build Communities grants to support Delgani, the Eugene Symphony and Lane Arts Council among other area arts organizations  The Register-Guard
  
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• Comedy writer comes back to UB to share experiences with Arts students - WIVB.com - News 4

  21-02-2020 23:29 via wivb.com
  Comedy writer comes back to UB to share experiences with Arts students  WIVB.com - News 4
  
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• Upcoming Performances at the Hylton Performing Arts Center - Prince William Living

  21-02-2020 23:16 via princewilliamliving.com
  
  Upcoming Performances at the Hylton Performing Arts Center  Prince William Living
  
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• San Diego's Top Weekend Arts Events: From Women In Art To New Composers - KPBS

  21-02-2020 23:09 via kpbs.org
  
  San Diego's Top Weekend Arts Events: From Women In Art To New Composers  KPBS
  
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• Jack Youngerman, Painter Who Was Central to 1950s New York Art Scene, Is Dead at 93

  21-02-2020 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  Jack Youngerman, whose innovative paintings pushed abstraction in new directions in 1950s New York, has died at 93. The New York Times, which first reported the news, said he died of complications related to a fall.
  Working in the years after Abstract Expressionism first took hold, Youngerman began crafting abstractions that resembled blooms of color or explosions. At the time he was making them, he and his colleagues, among them Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, were sorting through formalist i
  
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• The Momentary aims to be a living room for visual arts - talkbusiness.net

  21-02-2020 22:39 via talkbusiness.net
  
  The Momentary aims to be a living room for visual arts  talkbusiness.net
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Trial: Jury Suggests It Is Split on 2 Most Serious Charges

  21-02-2020 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The judge told jurors to keep deliberating after they sent a note asking if they could be deadlocked on the top counts, but unanimous on others.
  
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• A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong?

  21-02-2020 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Amanda Eyre Ward’s new novel, “The Jetsetters,” follows a dysfunctional family out to sea.
  
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• ARTnews Presents: At Frieze Los Angeles, Conversations About Collecting for Diversity’s Sake

  21-02-2020 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  To kick off the second Frieze Los Angeles art fair, ARTnews Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas interviewed Los Angeles collectors Ric Whitney and Tina Perry-Whitney at the Four Seasons Los Angeles hotel, launching a two-part conversation series exploring ways to begin collecting art.Since 2012, the couple—Ric is a music publishing and talent management entrepreneur, and Tina is president of Oprah Winfrey Network—have been building a collection that is diverse not only in terms of the arti
  
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• Here are Detroit's top 4 performing arts spots - WDIV ClickOnDetroit

  21-02-2020 22:08 via clickondetroit.com
  
  Here are Detroit's top 4 performing arts spots  WDIV ClickOnDetroit
  
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• Arts group changes name to The Cumberland Arts Collective - Times Tribune of Corbin

  21-02-2020 22:00 via thetimestribune.com
  Arts group changes name to The Cumberland Arts Collective  Times Tribune of Corbin
  
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• Jason Hirata on the Art of Assisting Other Artists

  21-02-2020 21:58 via artnews.com
  
  View of Jason Hirata’s exhibition “Sometimes You’re Both,” 2019-20, at 80 Washington Square East.
  Jason Hirata’s solo show “Sometimes You’re Both,” on view at New York University’s 80 Washington Square East gallery (80WSE) through February 23, comprises six video works loaned to Hirata by other artists and collectives—Hannah Black, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Trajal Harrell, Carissa Rodriguez, Hito Steyerl, and New Red Order. All the lo
  
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• New York Collector Sues Princeton University After $1 M. Sale Falls Through

  21-02-2020 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  Collector Vincent Fay, who lives on New York’s Upper East Side and works as a lawyer, filed a suit against Princeton University in U.S. District Court on February 20 after the New Jersey institution allegedly pulled out of a $1 million art sale. According to the initial complaint, Fay claims that Princeton agreed to purchase 17 artworks from him for a total of $945,000, alleging that the institution has failed to pay the second of two $472,500 payments, which was due in July 2018.
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• Inside arts: Sage to teach acting class in March - Estes Park Trail-Gazette

  21-02-2020 21:48 via eptrail.com
  
  Inside arts: Sage to teach acting class in March  Estes Park Trail-Gazette
  
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• Amazingly Immersive Offerings at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts - Patch.com

  21-02-2020 21:34 via patch.com
  
  Amazingly Immersive Offerings at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts  Patch.com
  
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• Arts in full Spring in Melrose - Patch.com

  21-02-2020 21:20 via patch.com
  
  Arts in full Spring in Melrose  Patch.com
  
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• Andrew Weatherall, D.J. Who Broke Down Genre Barriers, Dies at 56

  21-02-2020 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Also a record producer, he shaped London’s fertile club scene in the late 1980s and ’90s and helped meld rock and dance music.
  
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• Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character

  21-02-2020 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  In its final U.S. appearance, the company displayed its virtues: luxuriant dancing allied to courtly music.
  
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• Island Arts Presents First Ever Blues Concert on Anderson Island - The Suburban Times

  21-02-2020 21:08 via thesubtimes.com
  
  Island Arts Presents First Ever Blues Concert on Anderson Island  The Suburban Times
  
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• Arts Council of Greater Lansing announces $157500 in grants - City Pulse

  21-02-2020 21:07 via lansingcitypulse.com
  
  Arts Council of Greater Lansing announces $157500 in grants  City Pulse
  
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• Reinbert de Leeuw, Dutch Champion of Contemporary Music, Dies at 81

  21-02-2020 20:53 via nytimes.com
  
  He pushed conservative institutions to program the new, and was a noted conductor of major avant-garde works.
  
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• A Supreme Court for the Rich

  21-02-2020 20:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Adam Cohen’s “Supreme Inequality” shows that for 50 years the decisions of the Supreme Court have favored the wealthy.
  
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• CELEBRATE COMMUNITY: Okaloosa Public Arts funds scholarship - The Northwest Florida Daily News

  21-02-2020 20:51 via nwfdailynews.com
  CELEBRATE COMMUNITY: Okaloosa Public Arts funds scholarship  The Northwest Florida Daily News
  
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• VSU Fine Arts Gallery Presents Bearing Witness: Installations by Margi Weir - Valdosta State University News

  21-02-2020 20:47 via valdosta.edu
  VSU Fine Arts Gallery Presents Bearing Witness: Installations by Margi Weir  Valdosta State University News
  
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• Liberal Arts to host launch event for yearlong theme on women's activism - Penn State News

  21-02-2020 20:38 via news.psu.edu
  
  Liberal Arts to host launch event for yearlong theme on women's activism  Penn State News
  
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• Review: As ‘Better Call Saul’ Returns, ‘Breaking Bad’ Comes Into View

  21-02-2020 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In the fifth season of AMC’s esteemed drama, Jimmy McGill completes his transformation into Saul Goodman and the show’s separate story lines also start to converge.
  
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• How the Arabic Alphabet Inspired Abstract Art

  21-02-2020 20:25 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing.
  
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• Band directors honored at Arts Education Day | Thestar - KPCnews.com

  21-02-2020 20:21 via kpcnews.com
  Band directors honored at Arts Education Day | Thestar  KPCnews.com
  
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• Flower City Arts director to step down - Rochester Business Journal

  21-02-2020 20:16 via rbj.net
  
  Flower City Arts director to step down  Rochester Business Journal
  
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• Around Town tours the Fine Arts Building - WGN TV Chicago

  21-02-2020 20:09 via wgntv.com
  Around Town tours the Fine Arts Building  WGN TV Chicago
  
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• Pamela Adlon Fuels Her Hectic Life With Fosse and ‘Fame’

  21-02-2020 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress, whose FX series returns on March 5, puts “All That Jazz,” A Tribe Called Quest and Norman Lear’s comedies on her list of must-haves.
  
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• A Spinning Top in ‘Rodeo’

  21-02-2020 19:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht’s solo in this Justin Peck ballet is all about momentum — and clarity.
  
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• Copyright Enforcement in the Arts Gets Aid From New CASE Act | The Legal Intelligencer - Law.com

  21-02-2020 19:42 via law.com
  
  Copyright Enforcement in the Arts Gets Aid From New CASE Act | The Legal Intelligencer  Law.com
  
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• A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages.

  21-02-2020 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  You’re no Beethoven, to say the least. But you have take the risk.
  
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• Tobi Tobias, Longtime Dance Critic, Dies at 81

  21-02-2020 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  She wrote for New York and Dance magazines, pulling no punches. She was also the author of a number of children’s books.
  
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• Alanis Morissette’s Agonized Ballad, and 10 More New Songs

  21-02-2020 19:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Waxahatchee, Kyle, Arca and others.
  
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• Letter: Support arts and humanities in at ConVal - Monadnock Ledger Transcript

  21-02-2020 19:18 via ledgertranscript.com
  
  Letter: Support arts and humanities in at ConVal  Monadnock Ledger Transcript
  
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• The Umbrella Academy Has a Spinoff: You Look Like Death

  21-02-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The flashback story will feature Séance, one of the misfit heroes, and an adventure in Hollywood.
  
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• Murray Arts Council hosts local artists show - chatsworthtimes

  21-02-2020 18:49 via chatsworthtimes.com
  Murray Arts Council hosts local artists show  chatsworthtimes
  
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• Canada Council for the Arts Announces Visual and Media Arts Award Winners - Artforum

  21-02-2020 18:35 via artforum.com
  
  Canada Council for the Arts Announces Visual and Media Arts Award Winners  Artforum
  
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• Why Diego Luna Took Convincing to Play a Kingpin in ‘Narcos: Mexico’

  21-02-2020 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Following the Season 2 debut, the actor opened up about his character’s rise and fall and his memories of Mexico City during the height of the drug war.
  
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• Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World

  21-02-2020 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Jaap van Zweden led an evening of Renée Fleming in songs by Björk, and a premiere by the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Reid.
  
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• Paseo Arts District announces community event for first Fridays of every month - KOKH FOX25

  21-02-2020 18:27 via okcfox.com
  Paseo Arts District announces community event for first Fridays of every month  KOKH FOX25
  
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• The Artist Beneath the Art Forger

  21-02-2020 18:21 via nytimes.com
  
  A show of portraits by Elmyr de Hory is a celebration of the man as an artist as well as a forger. Will it bring a recognition that eluded him in his lifetime?
  
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• Loved ‘Parasite’? Manohla Dargis Recommends Other South Korean Movies

  21-02-2020 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The Times’s Culture editor has questions. Our critic has answers.
  
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• Darien Festival Celebrates Arts & Sciences On March 7 - Patch.com

  21-02-2020 18:03 via patch.com
  
  Darien Festival Celebrates Arts & Sciences On March 7  Patch.com
  
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• ‘Sabbath Girl’ Review: A Meet-Cute with Art and Knishes

  21-02-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Cary Gitter’s throwback romantic comedy, about an Orthodox Jew and his Italian-American neighbor, is kind of sweet and kind of clunky.
  
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• With Her Artful Documentaries and Sculptural Arrays, Ja’Tovia Gary Places Black Women at the Center

  21-02-2020 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  When Ja’Tovia Gary studied filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she realized her interests differed from those of many around her. Her taste for social documentaries led to classes in cinéma vérité, a style through which canonical directors—most of them white males—made their subjects and viewers aware that a film was being made without necessarily seeming to understand their own role in the power dynamics at play. Camera rigs were frequentl
  
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