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• This ‘Beaux-Arts style’ mega-mansion sets record for priciest listing in Pasadena - The Pasadena Star-News

  14-08-2020 23:59 via pasadenastarnews.com
  
  This ‘Beaux-Arts style’ mega-mansion sets record for priciest listing in Pasadena  The Pasadena Star-News
  
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• Black Mountain Center for the Arts takes shape - Black Mountain News

  14-08-2020 23:56 via blackmountainnews.com
  Black Mountain Center for the Arts takes shape  Black Mountain News
  
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• Hundreds of SAG-AFTRA Members Will No Longer Qualify for Health Insurance

  14-08-2020 23:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The American union for professional film and TV actors told members on Wednesday that it would tighten eligibility requirements and raise premiums. A petition opposing the move has been started.
  
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• Garden fundraisers raise $47,000 for La Plata County arts nonprofits - The Durango Herald

  14-08-2020 23:23 via durangoherald.com
  
  Garden fundraisers raise $47,000 for La Plata County arts nonprofits  The Durango Herald
  
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• Julia Wachtel on Pandemic Screen Culture

  14-08-2020 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  Portrait of Julia Wachtel in her Connecticut studio, 2020.
  Painter Julia Wachtel has spent the last four decades appropriating advertising and popular culture imagery. Wachtel’s compositions tend to highlight wry juxtapositions of visual information: for example, a cartoon mushroom bifurcating a warehouse fully stocked with consumer goods in SuperMushroom (2020). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist began making short videos (all 2020). Culled mainly from television shows an
  
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• Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Silent Witness’

  14-08-2020 22:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Amid the real-life terrors of a pandemic, the writer takes solace in this long-running British crime series, which may be the only TV drama whose title character is a corpse.
  
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• 25th Wildlife Arts Festival schedule announced | Local News - Times-Enterprise

  14-08-2020 21:39 via timesenterprise.com
  25th Wildlife Arts Festival schedule announced | Local News  Times-Enterprise
  
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• Outdoor Medicine for the Play-Starved Soul

  14-08-2020 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Pairing Molière and Millay for a socially distanced audience, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey offers light entertainment just when we need it.
  
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• Utah Museum of Fine Arts sets a reopening date of Aug. 26 - Salt Lake Tribune

  14-08-2020 21:23 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah Museum of Fine Arts sets a reopening date of Aug. 26  Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• Weekend Markets Replacing 24th Annual Arts & Crafts Show - WJON News

  14-08-2020 21:06 via wjon.com
  
  Weekend Markets Replacing 24th Annual Arts & Crafts Show  WJON News
  
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• Plucky Characters? Ugh. Make Mine Prickly and Difficult.

  14-08-2020 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Marilyn Stasio finds much to like in the latest batch of crime novels, filled with abrasive, unpleasant sorts.
  
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• Eusebio Leal Spengler, Who Restored Old Havana, Dies at 77

  14-08-2020 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  His decades-long effort to preserve a capital’s colonial buildings turned a former slum into a tourist destination and capitalist success story.
  
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• Jerry Gogosian, Artist-Oriented Blockchain, and a Media Art Podcast

  14-08-2020 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Yesterday Hilde Lyn Helphenstein, better known by her nom de ‘gram, @jerrygogosian, joined me on Instagram Live for a conversation about using memes to cut through the art world’s vanity fair. She started her popular account while bed-ridden, not expecting it to garner a big following. Helphenstein has used her platform to expose the mechanisms of the art market and speak out about sexism and racism built into the business.
   
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• ‘Ted Lasso’ Review: Jason Sudeikis as America’s Nicest Export

  14-08-2020 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A fish-out-of-water sports comedy on Apple TV+ takes folksiness to a new level of sophistication.
  
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• After Months-Long Closures, New York City Museums Can Reopen on August 24, Governor Says

  14-08-2020 19:46 via artnews.com
  
  After being forced to close temporarily since mid-March as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, museums across New York City can now reopen, beginning Monday, August 24. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the news today, adding that institutions will have to do so with new safety precautions, which include requiring visitors to wear face coverings and controlled traffic flow. “25% occupancy. Timed ticketing required. Pre-set staggered entry,” he tweeted.
  On July 20, all five b
  
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• Julian Bream, Maestro of Guitar and Lute, Dies at 87

  14-08-2020 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  It could be argued that he, even more than Andrés Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument.
  
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• How the Battle for Women’s Suffrage Played Out in the Pages of the Book Review

  14-08-2020 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  What did our critics think of the histories, memoirs and novels that explored the road to the 19th Amendment?
  
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• A Space for Black Dance Artists to Create in the Hudson Valley

  14-08-2020 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  New Dance Alliance announces a residency program and its first three recipients: Angie Pittman, Johnnie Cruise Mercer and Leslie Cuyjet.
  
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• Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis

  14-08-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Roger Moorhouse’s “Poland 1939” looks back at the very beginning of World War II to understand what happened and what might have happened.
  
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• "Arts Alive 2020" finds ways to live virtually - Corvallis Gazette Times

  14-08-2020 19:00 via gazettetimes.com
  "Arts Alive 2020" finds ways to live virtually  Corvallis Gazette Times
  
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• Museums and Other New York Cultural Institutions Can Open Aug. 24

  14-08-2020 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that museums would be allowed to open at 25 percent capacity and with timed ticketing in place.
  
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• Drake’s GIF-a-Thon, and 9 More New Songs

  14-08-2020 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Miley Cyrus, Loyal Lobos, Rico Nasty and others.
  
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• The Brewery Arts Center's Flatbed Concert Series presents Ev and the Electric Soup Saturday - Carson Now

  14-08-2020 17:58 via carsonnow.org
  
  The Brewery Arts Center's Flatbed Concert Series presents Ev and the Electric Soup Saturday  Carson Now
  
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• Luchita Hurtado’s Adventures in Mexico

  14-08-2020 17:31 via artnews.com
  
  When painter Luchita Hurtado, who passed away on August 13 at age 99, was a young woman, she traveled around rural Mexico with her husband, Wolfgang Paalen, and lived in Mexico City with a group of Surrealist artists and writers. 
  I met Wolfgang Paalen in New York, at the opening of a gallery show of his paintings. He invited me to travel with him to Mexico, to see the big heads that had been discovered in Chiapas. He set it up so that I’d take photographs for an article he would writ
  
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• GUEST VIEW: Meridian as Arts Center - Meridian Star

  14-08-2020 17:31 via meridianstar.com
  GUEST VIEW: Meridian as Arts Center  Meridian Star
  
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• Local arts will become next COVID-19 victim without support - Sacramento Bee

  14-08-2020 17:24 via sacbee.com
  
  Local arts will become next COVID-19 victim without support  Sacramento Bee
  
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• Is Bach Better on Harp?

  14-08-2020 17:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Parker Ramsay thinks so. He has arranged the “Goldberg” Variations, a keyboard classic, for the modern pedal harp.
  
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• Luchita Hurtado, Influential Painter Who Created Dizzying Images of Women and Nature, Is Dead at 99

  14-08-2020 17:18 via artnews.com
  
  Luchita Hurtado, a key figurative painter whose perspective-shifting images of female bodies and mysterious landscapes have only recently become known to a larger public, died at 99 at her home in Santa Monica, California, on Thursday. The news was confirmed by a representative for her gallery Hauser & Wirth. 
  “Over the course of 80 years, Hurtado resolutely committed to documenting the interconnectedness of human beings, nature, and terrestrial life,” the gallery said in a
  
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• Local Arts Group Seeks Videos of Artists at Work – During COVID - TAPinto.net

  14-08-2020 17:12 via tapinto.net
  
  Local Arts Group Seeks Videos of Artists at Work – During COVID  TAPinto.net
  
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• ARTS/West closed for remainder of year - Athens NEWS

  14-08-2020 17:12 via athensnews.com
  ARTS/West closed for remainder of year  Athens NEWS
  
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• Trying to Make It Big Online? Getting Signed Isn’t Everything

  14-08-2020 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Young people come to Los Angeles in droves with dreams of fame and fortune. Once they’re discovered, it’s not always sunny.
  
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• Easton's Unwine wine bar and arts and crafts closes - The Morning Call

  14-08-2020 16:18 via mcall.com
  Easton's Unwine wine bar and arts and crafts closes  The Morning Call
  
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• We’ve Found the Best Magnet Kits for Learning

  14-08-2020 16:13 via artnews.com
  
  With the right assortment of magnets in their hands, young ones can open their eyes to a world of wonder. Fun and child-safe magnetic pieces can be used to demonstrate simple physics concepts while providing hands-on learning—and it’s simply fun for kids to experiment with magnetic fields. To encourage your child to investigate these invisible powers, introduce them to a magnet kit. Our picks round up some of the most effective ones out there.
  
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• The Best Mat Cutters for Framing Artworks

  14-08-2020 16:08 via artnews.com
  
  Having a professional frame your artwork is convenient and guarantees good results, but custom framing can quickly get expensive. Acquiring your own mat cutter can be a smart move, especially if you frequently frame your work. While these tools can take time to master, a good mat cutter can achieve neat and accurate results as long as you properly prep your materials. (Pro tip: Use old mat boards for practice cuts first.) Mat cutters run the gamut in terms of size, cost, and quality; get to know
  
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• ‘Project Power’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  14-08-2020 16:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman narrate a scene from their film featuring Jamie Foxx and Colson Baker.
  
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• ‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi

  14-08-2020 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native American and First Nations authors are reshaping its otherworldly (but still often Eurocentric) worlds.
  
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• Taking the Edinburgh Fringe’s Madcap Energy Online

  14-08-2020 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  For the first time in its 73-year history, the hugely influential festival is canceled. Devoted fans and theater makers are finding ways to keep the spirit alive.
  
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• The Best Bead Looms for Intricate and Beautiful Designs

  14-08-2020 16:05 via artnews.com
  
  Beading is an activity with wide appeal. It can bring pleasure both to the beginner tackling the easiest project and to the well-seasoned practitioner undertaking the most intricate artistic endeavor. In either case, the loom that you set up on makes all the difference. Some have structured guides in place, others are more like frames upon which you can weave your own guide threads. There’s a beading loom for every level. Ahead, discover the five best beading looms out there—and why
  
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• How Jamie Foxx Fights a Man on Fire in ‘Project Power’

  14-08-2020 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman narrate a sequence from their Netflix action film.
  
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• The Best Iron Cleaners for Peak Performance

  14-08-2020 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Critical to maintaining a high-functioning iron, an iron cleaner removes grime and buildup from the heated soleplate or steam chamber. Not only does cleaning help your iron smoothly glide over fabric to easily erase wrinkles, but it removes any potential residues that could be transferred to clean clothing. Our picks below will help you find the best iron cleaner for your needs. 
  
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• Cracking Codes With Sanford Biggers

  14-08-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “You don’t have to follow the norms,” says this artist who makes wrenching sculptures transformed by gunfire and radically altered heirloom quilts. A studio visit sheds light on his personal journey.
  
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• The Best Knitting Wools for Warm Creations

  14-08-2020 15:56 via artnews.com
  
  A natural, animal-based fiber known for retaining warmth and wicking moisture, wool is one of the most popular and durable knitting materials available. There are many wool varieties and blends to choose from, and the type of yarn you pick will produce different results in terms of feel, stitch definition, and drape. When selecting wool yarn, consider its fiber content, weight (or strand thickness), yardage, and care instructions. Our picks below will help you find the best wool for your knittin
  
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• The Best Large Art Portfolios for Transporting Work

  14-08-2020 15:52 via artnews.com
  
  Protect your work with an art portfolio. Large art portfolios are designed to hold canvases, drawing boards, and supplies. Many of them are outfitted with both handles and shoulder straps for convenient carrying. In addition to being handy for transporting and storing your work, a large portfolio is a great piece of gear for plein air painting. There are a variety of options to choose from, so do your research before you pick, and browse our selection of the best products below. 
  
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• Paris Hilton is an Art Collector and More: Morning Links from August 14, 2020

  14-08-2020 15:46 via artnews.com
  
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  The New-York Historical Society has unveiled an outdoor exhibition of oral histories and photography of New Yorkers from the coronavirus era. [The New York Times]
  60 leading artists, writers, and filmmakers have signed an open letter condemning a recent Israeli police raid of three Palestinian cultural centers. [Hyperallergic]
  Italian-Americans in
  
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• Paris Hilton Collects Art, Artists Decry Police Raid of Palestinian Arts Centers, and More: Morning Links from August 14, 2020

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  The New-York Historical Society has unveiled an outdoor exhibition of oral histories and photography of New Yorkers from the coronavirus era. [The New York Times]
  60 leading artists, writers, and filmmakers have signed an open letter condemning a recent Israeli police raid of three Palestinian cultural centers. [Hyperallergic]
  Italian-Americans in
  
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• Luchita Hurtado, Artist Who Became a Sensation in Her 90s, Dies at 99

  14-08-2020 15:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Her work depicted bodies — her own, as well as totemic figures — merging with landscapes and interiors. “Everything in this world, I find, I’m related to,” she said.
  
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• The Best Merino Wool for Cozy Creations

  14-08-2020 15:36 via artnews.com
  
  The fleece of Merino sheep is soft and fine, resulting in a wool that’s more pleasant on the skin than regular wool. It’s easy to see why these natural fibers are favored by knitters and crocheters, being an ideal material to turn into cozy, plush, and warm creations. When selecting a merino yarn, you should judge it on how it feels and looks, but also consider its weight and its ply—that is, how many strands are twisted together in the manufacturing process. These will affect
  
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• The virus is doing a number on the arts in Hampton Roads - The Virginian-Pilot - The Virginian-Pilot

  14-08-2020 15:07 via pilotonline.com
  The virus is doing a number on the arts in Hampton Roads - The Virginian-Pilot  The Virginian-Pilot
  
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• Live & online arts/entertainment events for the week of Aug. 16, 2020 - New Haven Register

  14-08-2020 15:00 via nhregister.com
  
  Live & online arts/entertainment events for the week of Aug. 16, 2020  New Haven Register
  
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• Food drive will help out-of-work arts and entertainment - The Virginian-Pilot - The Virginian-Pilot

  14-08-2020 14:47 via pilotonline.com
  Food drive will help out-of-work arts and entertainment - The Virginian-Pilot  The Virginian-Pilot
  
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