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• County seeks nominations for arts awards | News | PleasantonWeekly.com | - Pleasanton Weekly

  23-04-2020 23:52 via pleasantonweekly.com
  
  County seeks nominations for arts awards | News | PleasantonWeekly.com |  Pleasanton Weekly
  
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• Collectors’ Toolkit: Should Artworks Be Shipped During a Crisis?

  23-04-2020 23:48 via artnews.com
  
  With the coronavirus shutdown still ongoing, ARTnews has been interviewing experts in diverse fields related to art collecting and the care and of collections, to hear how they are affected by the pandemic.
  There is nothing like shipping and storage to remind collectors of the intransigent objecthood of most artworks. During the coronavirus shutdown, art logistics companies that specialize in shipping, handling, and storage have been facing an unprecedented situation.
  Jonathan Schwartz is t
  
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• From Afar, a Fugitive in the Knoedler Art Fraud Gives His Defense

  23-04-2020 23:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Until now, little has been heard from José Carlos Bergantiños Diaz, who the authorities charged in connection with the sale of $80 million in phony works.
  
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• John Pfahl, Photographer Who Played With Landscapes, Dies at 81

  23-04-2020 23:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Long before Photoshop, he manipulated landscapes with everyday objects, and found beauty in compost piles and other peculiar places.
  
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• Beck Center for the Arts Launches Online Arts Education Program - Cleveland Scene

  23-04-2020 23:23 via clevescene.com
  
  Beck Center for the Arts Launches Online Arts Education Program  Cleveland Scene
  
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• Tina Girouard, Freewheeling Artist of 1970s New York Scene, Is Dead at 73

  23-04-2020 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  Tina Girouard, a key figure of the New York art scene of the 1970s, has died at the age of 73. A representative for Los Angeles’s Anat Ebgi gallery, which shows Girouard’s work, said the artist died of a stroke.
  Girouard was well-connected in SoHo, which in the ’70s was pushing art in new—and weird—directions that placed an special emphasis on time-based gestures and lofty conceptual gambits. Alongside her art stretching across multiple mediums and movements, she he
  
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• Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts awards $125K to support arts and culture in coronavirus pandemic - Fall River Herald News

  23-04-2020 23:15 via heraldnews.com
  Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts awards $125K to support arts and culture in coronavirus pandemic  Fall River Herald News
  
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• Virginia Commission for the Arts offering emergency funding for organizations impacted by coronavirus - The Vi - The Virginian-Pilot

  23-04-2020 23:07 via pilotonline.com
  Virginia Commission for the Arts offering emergency funding for organizations impacted by coronavirus - The Vi  The Virginian-Pilot
  
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• Davenport's Beaux Arts Fair goes virtual next month - Quad City Times

  23-04-2020 23:00 via qctimes.com
  Davenport's Beaux Arts Fair goes virtual next month  Quad City Times
  
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• When Will Museums Reopen? See a List of Institutions Planning to Welcome Visitors Once Again

  23-04-2020 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  After the coronavirus crisis forced museums around the world to shutter so as to mitigate the spread of the virus, some institutions are beginning to make tentative plans to reopen—albeit with some precautions. Some museums in Germany, for example, are requiring that visitors use credit cards instead of cash and that ticketing agents conduct business from behind plexiglass shields, while others in China have been instituting temperature checks for visitors to the museum. And still other in
  
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• Liven Up the Weekend With These Online Arts Events - 27east.com

  23-04-2020 22:36 via 27east.com
  
  Liven Up the Weekend With These Online Arts Events  27east.com
  
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• Jessye Norman School of the Arts engaging with the community through online classes - WJBF-TV

  23-04-2020 22:30 via wjbf.com
  Jessye Norman School of the Arts engaging with the community through online classes  WJBF-TV
  
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• From Mona Lisa to Picasso, the Top 10 Most-Visited Met Exhibits of All Time

  23-04-2020 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been around for 150 years now, and in that time, it has mounted thousands of major shows. But what are the most well-attended ones? To survey the Met’s most widely seen offerings, ARTnews has assembled a list of the top shows ever mounted at the New York museum, ranked by their attendance figures. (All attendance figures are self-reported by the museum.) The numbers don’t lie—Met visitors love fashion, but they have also flocked to surveys tha
  
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• From Ecofuturist Skyscrapers to Committed Criticism, Michael Sorkin Set a Standard for Moral Conviction in Architecture

  23-04-2020 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  Architecture critics are not, as a rule, individuals of uncompromising scruple. This isn’t so much a character judgment as a statement of professional fact. Since architecture lacks anything like true artistic autonomy—constructing a significant building requires capital and capital “P” Power—its critics are always a little wrong-footed, always in danger of amplifying the discipline’s intrinsic flaws. If, as Philip Johnson famously declared, architects are &ld
  
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• When the lively arts go virtual - Chicago Reader

  23-04-2020 22:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the lively arts go virtual  Chicago Reader
  
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• Artist Howardena Pindell Sues Former Gallery, Claiming ‘Misleading’ Information About Sales

  23-04-2020 21:52 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Howardena Pindell is suing her former gallery, alleging that they have not given her accurate information about sales.
  In a lawsuit filed in January in the Southern District Court of New York, Pindell alleges that the N’Namdi family and their associated enterprises—commercial galleries in several American cities—provided “misleading and inaccurate” information about sales of her work in an attempt to serve her former gallery’s “self-interest.&rdqu
  
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• April 23, Arts Etc. - The International Examiner

  23-04-2020 21:48 via iexaminer.org
  
  April 23, Arts Etc.  The International Examiner
  
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• Performers and Artists Turn to Online Video in Pandemic

  23-04-2020 21:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic has disrupted the creative lives of everyday Americans who used to spend untold hours together singing, dancing and making art, sometimes for money, always with love.
  
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• Festival of the Arts ‘Not Ready to Throw Down the Paintbrushes’ - EVENT NEWS

  23-04-2020 21:30 via event-newsenterprise.com
  Festival of the Arts ‘Not Ready to Throw Down the Paintbrushes’  EVENT NEWS
  
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• Class Is in Session Everywhere Now

  23-04-2020 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Around the country, museums, libraries, zoos and even federal agencies are offering lessons, activities and fun for learners of all ages.
  
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• University of Valley Forge hosting Virtual International Fine Arts Event for high schoolers - The Mercury

  23-04-2020 21:21 via pottsmerc.com
  University of Valley Forge hosting Virtual International Fine Arts Event for high schoolers  The Mercury
  
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• Lauren Halsey’s Psychedelic Homage to South Central

  23-04-2020 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  View of Lauren Halsey’s exhibition, 2020, at David Kordansky.
  Lauren Halsey’s exhibition at David Kordansky, her first at the gallery, took the form of a clamoring, abstracted cityscape: a funk apotheosis of South Central—or, as the city and its real estate developers now brand it, South Los Angeles. Rising from the prismatic silver vinyl that lined the gallery floor was a jumble of towering rectangular boxes hand-painted with the emblems of strip mall storefronts, their t
  
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• $800,000 from CARES Act to come on line for arts groups - vtdigger.org

  23-04-2020 20:30 via vtdigger.org
  
  $800,000 from CARES Act to come on line for arts groups  vtdigger.org
  
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• The Virus Won’t Revive F.D.R.’s Arts Jobs Program. Here’s Why. - The New York Times

  23-04-2020 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The Virus Won’t Revive F.D.R.’s Arts Jobs Program. Here’s Why.  The New York Times
  
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• A Cast Album I Love: ‘Hair’

  23-04-2020 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  We continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home.
  
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• Live Blogging a Convening on Equity, Collaboration, and Sustainability in the Arts - Hyperallergic

  23-04-2020 20:12 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Live Blogging a Convening on Equity, Collaboration, and Sustainability in the Arts  Hyperallergic
  
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• Bread And Salt: Supporting Each Other To Support The Arts - KPBS

  23-04-2020 19:56 via kpbs.org
  
  Bread And Salt: Supporting Each Other To Support The Arts  KPBS
  
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• 10 Playwrights Script a Web Series. Is It Theater?

  23-04-2020 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  “Homebound” is one company’s attempt to give structure and meaning to the worries and what-ifs of the strange new present. But these aren’t plays, the artistic director says.
  
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• Review: ‘Defending Jacob’ Asks, Could Our Son Be a Killer?

  23-04-2020 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  An Apple TV Plus mini-series with a stellar cast also raises another question: Does everything need to be this long?
  
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• Los Angeles Dealers Create Their Own Virtual Gallery

  23-04-2020 19:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic leads art dealers to band together as Gallery Association Los Angeles, to help each other out in the short and long term.
  
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• Waterfall Arts offers free online programming for all ages, hosts first virtual Open Call show - Lewiston Sun Journal

  23-04-2020 19:15 via sunjournal.com
  
  Waterfall Arts offers free online programming for all ages, hosts first virtual Open Call show  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• An Inside Look at Kirkwood's New Performing Arts Center - Ladue News

  23-04-2020 19:14 via laduenews.com
  An Inside Look at Kirkwood's New Performing Arts Center  Ladue News
  
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• Now Virtual and in Video, Museum Websites Shake Off the Dust

  23-04-2020 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Homebound and feeling the wanderlust? Our critic’s guide to the best online presentations from the world’s leading art palaces and picture galleries.
  
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• Hopewell Valley Arts Council 'Thinking of You' with colorful cards - Community News Service

  23-04-2020 18:43 via communitynews.org
  
  Hopewell Valley Arts Council 'Thinking of You' with colorful cards  Community News Service
  
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• Around the Town: Arts and entertainment events in the Helena area - Helena Independent Record

  23-04-2020 18:30 via helenair.com
  
  Around the Town: Arts and entertainment events in the Helena area  Helena Independent Record
  
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• This year's Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts has been canceled over coronavirus concerns - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  23-04-2020 18:28 via jsonline.com
  
  This year's Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts has been canceled over coronavirus concerns  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• Madeline Gins’s Cybernetic Poetry and the Radical Language of the 1960s

  23-04-2020 18:22 via artnews.com
  
  Cover of the book “The Saddest Thing is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader,” 2020, Siglio Press.
  The Saddest Thing Is that I have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, out this week from Siglio Press, comprises a selection of poems and experimental prose that Gins (1941–2014) wrote between the 1960s and the mid-1990s, much of which was previously unpublished. Gins, an American artist, architect, and writer, is best known for the long-term project Reversibl
  
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• Video Footage Shows How Thieves Used Sledgehammer to Steal Noted van Gogh Painting

  23-04-2020 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  Newly released security camera footage shows how a painting by Vincent van Gogh was stolen from the the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands in March. Video shared with the Guardian shows an individual breaking through the museum’s glass doors using a sledgehammer and leaving with van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884).
  The painting, which is believed to be worth millions of dollars, had been on loan to the Singer Laren from the Groninger Museum voor S
  
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• ‘Bad Education’ Review: Adding Fraud to the Curriculum

  23-04-2020 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Hugh Jackman is darkly charismatic as the real-life schools superintendent who admitted to stealing $2 million from his Long Island district.
  
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• Nonprofit arts organizations anticipate at least $10.6 million in losses due to coronavirus shutdown - Atlanta Intown

  23-04-2020 17:34 via atlantaintownpaper.com
  
  Nonprofit arts organizations anticipate at least $10.6 million in losses due to coronavirus shutdown  Atlanta Intown
  
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• 'A wow moment': Jackson selected for Arts Institute of Mississippi award - Enterprise-Tocsin

  23-04-2020 17:22 via enterprise-tocsin.com
  'A wow moment': Jackson selected for Arts Institute of Mississippi award  Enterprise-Tocsin
  
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• Arts Notes 04.23.20 - East Hampton Star

  23-04-2020 17:07 via easthamptonstar.com
  Arts Notes 04.23.20  East Hampton Star
  
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• A Glimpse Inside the Secluded World of a Georgian Convent

  23-04-2020 16:49 via nytimes.com
  
  In the latest essay from our visual series, The World Through a Lens, we share a collection of photographs from a nunnery in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia.
  
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• ‘To the Stars’ Review: Rebels in Bobby Socks, Yearning for More

  23-04-2020 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  In a claustrophobic small town in the early 1960s, two teenage girls find friendship and maybe even a way out.
  
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• The Gallery Paul Kasmin Built Continues with William Copley, California Surrealism, Barry Flanagan Exhibitons

  23-04-2020 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The new coronavirus (Covid-19) reached New York, one of the central nodes of the art world, just as galleries were beginning to open their spring exhibitions. As part of ARTnews’s Hop from Home initiative on Instagram that highlights businesses in the art world as they adapt to the pandemic and the temporary closures and social distancing it brough, we spoke to Nick Olney, a director at Kasmin Gallery, which has four locations in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. The conversation appe
  
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• Hospitals Play ‘Songs of Hope’ as Virus Patients Go Home

  23-04-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anthems like “Don’t Stop Believin’,” the “Rocky” theme and “Every Breath You Take” have been adopted by hospitals to celebrate each victory in the battle against coronavirus.
  
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• 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music.

  23-04-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vivian Perlis founded Yale’s Oral History of American Music in 1968. Today, the project continues her mission to record the voices of American composers.
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans Enlists Artists to Make $50 Posters to Support Nightlife Venues, and More: Morning Links from April 23, 2020

  23-04-2020 15:37 via artnews.com
  
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  Wolfgang Tillmans has enlisted a cohort of fellow contemporary artists, including Mark Leckey, Betty Tompkins, Marlene Dumas, and Gillian Wearing, to create $50 posters to support venues “where a lack of audience is causing an existential threat.” [The Guardian]
  The Mauritshuis in The Hague will reveal new insights from a technical analysis it did
  
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• Hollywood Beacons in the Night

  23-04-2020 15:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The great movie palaces of Los Angeles have withstood much upheaval over the decades. Now closed because of the coronavirus, they await their fate in silence.
  
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• 2020 Hilldale Awards honor 4 faculty in arts, sciences - University of Wisconsin-Madison

  23-04-2020 15:01 via news.wisc.edu
  
  2020 Hilldale Awards honor 4 faculty in arts, sciences  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
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