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• Frieze New York Moves Online With Brisk Sales and Blue-Chip Art

  06-05-2020 23:57 via artnews.com
  
  Most major and mid-size dealers are already armed with robust online viewing platforms of their own. Where does that leave a top-tier fair like Frieze New York, typically an essential stop on the global art fair calendar? Having been forced to cancel its 2020 fair because of the coronavirus, Frieze launched its own online viewing rooms this morning for the first of two preview days. (It officially opens to the public on May 8 and runs through May 15.) Early results suggested that the decision to
  
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• East Oakland industrial arts incubator m0xy has started mass-producing PPE - Berkeleyside

  06-05-2020 23:54 via berkeleyside.com
  
  East Oakland industrial arts incubator m0xy has started mass-producing PPE  Berkeleyside
  
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• Kentucky Performing Arts Announces Next Week's #KPAatHome Schedule - Broadway World

  06-05-2020 23:52 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Kentucky Performing Arts Announces Next Week's #KPAatHome Schedule  Broadway World
  
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• Pulitzer Arts Foundation part of new effort to help artists during outbreak - STLtoday.com

  06-05-2020 23:45 via stltoday.com
  Pulitzer Arts Foundation part of new effort to help artists during outbreak  STLtoday.com
  
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• Karrabing Film Collective Tackles the Cultural and Environmental Devastation of Settler Colonialism

  06-05-2020 23:44 via artnews.com
  
  The word “karrabing,” from which the Karrabing Film Collective takes its name, means “tide out” in the Emmiyengal language, invoking the northwest coastline of Australia that connects the members of the collective, an intergenerational group of around thirty artists and filmmakers, most of whom are indigenous to the Northern Territory of Australia. Their use of the word offers an immediate insight into their work. As Karrabing member Natasha Bigfoot Lewis puts it, “
  
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• We're Open: Wonderland Performing Arts sharing virtual classes - KATC Lafayette News

  06-05-2020 23:41 via katc.com
  
  We're Open: Wonderland Performing Arts sharing virtual classes  KATC Lafayette News
  
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• Art Critics and the Pulitzer Prize: How Many Have Won the Sought-After Award?

  06-05-2020 23:40 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, the Pulitzer Center announced that Christopher Knight, an art critic who has written for the Los Angeles Times since 1989, had won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. He is now one of just a few art critics to have ever won the award. To survey the others, ARTnews assembled a guide to the art critics who’ve received the award since it was launched 50 years ago. For this guide, only full-time art critics were surveyed, which means that winners such as Hilton Als and Manuela Hoe
  
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• Rosalind Elias, a Popular American Mezzo-Soprano, Dies at 90

  06-05-2020 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  A Metropolitan Opera mainstay, she sang some 680 performances of more than 50 roles there, often in starry casts. She made her Broadway debut at 82.
  
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• North Dakota Council on the Arts offers relief for artists, cultural organizations - INFORUM

  06-05-2020 23:00 via inforum.com
  
  North Dakota Council on the Arts offers relief for artists, cultural organizations  INFORUM
  
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• Natural History Museum Slashing Staff With Layoffs and Furloughs

  06-05-2020 22:56 via nytimes.com
  
  About 450 employees will be affected by coronavirus cost-savings measures.
  
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• Northeast Newscast Episode 137: Latino Arts Virtual Festival 2020 with Deanna Munoz - northeastnews.net

  06-05-2020 22:45 via northeastnews.net
  
  Northeast Newscast Episode 137: Latino Arts Virtual Festival 2020 with Deanna Munoz  northeastnews.net
  
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• Beyond Meat, Activision rise; Mattel, Electronic Arts fall - Seattle Times

  06-05-2020 22:43 via seattletimes.com
  
  Beyond Meat, Activision rise; Mattel, Electronic Arts fall  Seattle Times
  
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• Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle Speaks Out About Arts Funding: 'Congress Must Do More' - Broadway.com

  06-05-2020 22:40 via broadway.com
  
  Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle Speaks Out About Arts Funding: 'Congress Must Do More'  Broadway.com
  
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• Jean Erdman, a Dancer Moved by Myth, Is Dead at 104

  06-05-2020 22:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Erdman, who first came to wide notice as a choreographer in the 1940s, often focused in her work on the inner lives of women.
  
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• IU Professors Named to Academy of Arts and Sciences - Inside INdiana Business

  06-05-2020 22:14 via insideindianabusiness.com
  
  IU Professors Named to Academy of Arts and Sciences  Inside INdiana Business
  
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• Calendar of arts and cultural offerings in the Wabash Valley - Terre Haute Tribune Star

  06-05-2020 21:59 via tribstar.com
  Calendar of arts and cultural offerings in the Wabash Valley  Terre Haute Tribune Star
  
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• MoMA Slashes Budget, Reduces Staff Ahead of Reopening: Report

  06-05-2020 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  Major museums around the world have been forced to make staff and budget cuts due to closures associated with the pandemic. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, anticipating a $150 million revenue shortfall, has laid off 81 employees, and the Whitney Museum has laid off 76 workers. Now, the Museum of Modern Art, which unveiled its rehang and $450 million expansion in October, has reportedly taken measures to ensure its own preservation after the crisis.
  According to a report by Bloomberg
  
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• MoMA Plans to Slash Budget, Reduce Staff Ahead of Reopening: Report

  06-05-2020 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  Major museums around the world have been forced to make staff and budget cuts due to closures associated with the pandemic. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, anticipating a $150 million revenue shortfall, has laid off 81 employees, and the Whitney Museum has laid off 76 workers. Now, the Museum of Modern Art, which unveiled its rehang and $450 million expansion in October, is reportedly planning measures to ensure its own preservation after the crisis.
  According to a report by Bloombe
  
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• Virginia This Morning Visual Arts Center of Richmond offers virtual courses and take home art kits - wtvr.com

  06-05-2020 21:45 via wtvr.com
  
  Virginia This Morning Visual Arts Center of Richmond offers virtual courses and take home art kits  wtvr.com
  
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• Coronavirus: Springfield Summer Arts Festival cancelled - WHIO

  06-05-2020 21:32 via whio.com
  
  Coronavirus: Springfield Summer Arts Festival cancelled  WHIO
  
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• Florian Schneider, a Co-Founder of Kraftwerk, Is Dead at 73

  06-05-2020 21:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The German band he helped found toyed with ideas about technology and society, leaving a profound mark on rock, dance music and hip-hop.
  
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• Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Hosts Virtual Open House May 29 - TAPinto.net

  06-05-2020 21:20 via tapinto.net
  Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Hosts Virtual Open House May 29  TAPinto.net
  
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• Philip Sweger joins TWCA as first ever Director of Fine Arts - hellowoodlands.com

  06-05-2020 21:18 via hellowoodlands.com
  
  Philip Sweger joins TWCA as first ever Director of Fine Arts  hellowoodlands.com
  
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• 'Bailing out the Titanic' - French arts struggle amid coronavirus - Reuters

  06-05-2020 20:54 via reuters.com
  
  'Bailing out the Titanic' - French arts struggle amid coronavirus  Reuters
  
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• Angelica Kauffman Was One of 18th-Century Europe’s Most Famous Portraitists, But She Was Nearly Forgotten

  06-05-2020 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  You would not know that two of the 34 founders of the Royal Academy of Arts in London were women based on Johan Zoffany’s famed painting of its members. In The Academicians of the Royal Academy (1770–71), Zoffany depicts a vaunted studio with some 30-plus male artists who consort with two nude male models, chat with each other, and admire the artworks on view. Almost unnoticed are two portraits that hang above them and depict the artists Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser, whose images
  
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• Coronado School Of The Arts Now Accepting Applications For 2020-21 - Coronado Eagle and Journal

  06-05-2020 20:41 via coronadonewsca.com
  Coronado School Of The Arts Now Accepting Applications For 2020-21  Coronado Eagle and Journal
  
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• Museum Exhibitions Years in the Making Are Felled by the Virus

  06-05-2020 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  As exhibitions around the world close, or cancel the next stops on their tours, logistical and emotional carnage follow.
  
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• Arts Focus: Arlington's Arts Community Is Streaming With Creative Activities! - ARLnow

  06-05-2020 20:15 via arlnow.com
  
  Arts Focus: Arlington's Arts Community Is Streaming With Creative Activities!  ARLnow
  
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• ‘Becoming’ Review: Michelle Obama’s Lesson in Staying on Script

  06-05-2020 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix documentary shows a familiar, albeit more carefree, former first lady.
  
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• 'Indie Films India' to be available for free online from Walton Arts Center - Fayetteville Flyer

  06-05-2020 19:39 via fayettevilleflyer.com
  
  'Indie Films India' to be available for free online from Walton Arts Center  Fayetteville Flyer
  
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• The Many Sides of Jia Tolentino at City Arts and Lectures - KQED

  06-05-2020 19:38 via kqed.org
  
  The Many Sides of Jia Tolentino at City Arts and Lectures  KQED
  
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• Mike Cloud: Painting Outside the Safe Space

  06-05-2020 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Sheltering at home, the Chicago artist attends to works in progress. As always, he starts with the Star of David.
  
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• Drake Was Isolated (at the Top) Way Before Quarantine

  06-05-2020 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dark Lane Demo Tapes” is a collection of rough drafts about the struggles of success and hints at what his next album might sound like.
  
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• 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' Review: Drake Was Isolated Way Before Quarantine

  06-05-2020 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dark Lane Demo Tapes” is a collection of rough drafts about the struggles of success and hints at what his next album might sound like.
  
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• Florian Schneider, One of the Founders of Kraftwerk, Is Dead at 73

  06-05-2020 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The German band he helped found toyed with ideas about technology and society, leaving a profound mark on rock, dance music and hip-hop.
  
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• Greater Reston Arts Center Announces Digital Exhibit on Print - Reston Now

  06-05-2020 19:15 via restonnow.com
  
  Greater Reston Arts Center Announces Digital Exhibit on Print  Reston Now
  
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• Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Announces 2020 Mentor Artist Fellowship Awards - PR Web

  06-05-2020 19:07 via prweb.com
  Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Announces 2020 Mentor Artist Fellowship Awards  PR Web
  
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• MPAC Performing Arts Company Releases Video 'You Will Be Found' To Spread Message of Hope - The Village Green

  06-05-2020 18:47 via villagegreennj.com
  
  MPAC Performing Arts Company Releases Video 'You Will Be Found' To Spread Message of Hope  The Village Green
  
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• Arts Groups Fight Their Insurers Over Coverage on Virus Losses - The New York Times

  06-05-2020 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Arts Groups Fight Their Insurers Over Coverage on Virus Losses  The New York Times
  
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• Arts Organizations Fight for Virus-Related Payouts from Insurance Companies - Artforum

  06-05-2020 18:30 via artforum.com
  
  Arts Organizations Fight for Virus-Related Payouts from Insurance Companies  Artforum
  
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• With Galleries Closed, a Moment for Net Artists to Shine

  06-05-2020 18:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Shuttered museums are rushing to create meaningful interactions online, but artists have been doing this since the 1990s.
  
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• Bex & Arts Pavilion / Montalba Architects - ArchDaily

  06-05-2020 18:02 via archdaily.com
  
  Bex & Arts Pavilion / Montalba Architects  ArchDaily
  
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• We’ve Found the Best Synthetic Watercolor Brushes for Beginners

  06-05-2020 17:49 via artnews.com
  
  Watercolor is heralded as one of the most accessible painting mediums there is, suitable for any age and skill level. Beloved for their ease of use and portability, watercolors require little in the way of equipment. While the end result is dependent both on happy accidents and on the skill of the artist, a good brush is also part of the equation. Watercolor brushes are traditionally made from natural materials, but there are now many synthetic options available, designed to retain water and eve
  
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• Festival of the Arts seeks band, dance videos for virtual festival - localspins.com

  06-05-2020 17:41 via localspins.com
  Festival of the Arts seeks band, dance videos for virtual festival  localspins.com
  
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• The Museum of Fine Arts has created a diversity fund, a year after racism claims - Boston.com

  06-05-2020 17:37 via boston.com
  
  The Museum of Fine Arts has created a diversity fund, a year after racism claims  Boston.com
  
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• Billie Zangewa, One of Africa’s Most Closely Watched Artists, Gets New York Gallery Representation

  06-05-2020 17:29 via artnews.com
  
  Lehmann Maupin, which has locations in New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul, has added to its roster Billie Zangewa, one of the most closely watched artists working in Africa today. The gallery will offer a work by the artist in its online booth as part of the Frieze New York art fair, which opens today to invited guests, and has a solo exhibition of her work scheduled for September in New York.
  Zangewa creates works that combine different types of fabrics—from raw silk to stain—that she s
  
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• Dunwoody's Spruill Center for the Arts delays reopening to June 21 - Reporter Newspapers

  06-05-2020 17:27 via reporternewspapers.net
  
  Dunwoody's Spruill Center for the Arts delays reopening to June 21  Reporter Newspapers
  
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• We must use arts funding to rewild our cultural landscape after coronavirus - The Guardian

  06-05-2020 17:19 via theguardian.com
  
  We must use arts funding to rewild our cultural landscape after coronavirus  The Guardian
  
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• President Macron declares a 'white year' for the arts - Slipped Disc

  06-05-2020 17:12 via slippedisc.com
  President Macron declares a 'white year' for the arts  Slipped Disc
  
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• Arts and Sciences announces first Humanities Scholars | Cornell Chronicle - Cornell Chronicle

  06-05-2020 17:05 via news.cornell.edu
  
  Arts and Sciences announces first Humanities Scholars | Cornell Chronicle  Cornell Chronicle
  
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