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• Arts Workshop Aims to Lift Human Spirit in Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara Independent

  22-09-2020 23:53 via independent.com
  
  Arts Workshop Aims to Lift Human Spirit in Santa Barbara  Santa Barbara Independent
  
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• New director of Mississippi Arts Commission named - Winona Times

  22-09-2020 23:50 via winonatimes.com
  
  New director of Mississippi Arts Commission named  Winona Times
  
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• The First Martial Arts Superstar Was Lo Lieh (Not Bruce Lee) - Screen Rant

  22-09-2020 23:47 via screenrant.com
  The First Martial Arts Superstar Was Lo Lieh (Not Bruce Lee)  Screen Rant
  
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• Mural Arts Philadelphia is transforming 200 columns in the Broad Street Concourse - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  22-09-2020 23:45 via inquirer.com
  
  Mural Arts Philadelphia is transforming 200 columns in the Broad Street Concourse  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Imogen Cunningham’s Rise: Why the Proto-Feminist Photographer Has Grown So Popular

  22-09-2020 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  What explains the fact that Imogen Cunningham is still an elusive figure? She was once considered one of the greatest photographers, alongside her contemporaries Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams, and during the 1960s and ’70s, at the height of the women’s liberation movement, many recognized her important contributions as blazing a trail for women who wanted to take up the medium.
  But at some point, her popularity dropped off a bit. Even today, though a few U.S. museums have collecte
  
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• Today’s obituaries: Gary W. Pickard was a developer; supported youth, arts and sports - syracuse.com

  22-09-2020 22:59 via syracuse.com
  
  Today’s obituaries: Gary W. Pickard was a developer; supported youth, arts and sports  syracuse.com
  
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• San Jose Museum of Art gala will showcase South Bay arts groups - The Mercury News

  22-09-2020 22:23 via mercurynews.com
  
  San Jose Museum of Art gala will showcase South Bay arts groups  The Mercury News
  
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• ‘He Never Quit’: Nick Cordero’s Widow on Grief, God and Perseverance

  22-09-2020 22:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Amanda Kloots kept the world informed while her husband, a Broadway actor, lost a battle with Covid. After many grueling months, she’s trying to look ahead.
  
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• Thor Steingraber: What the Arts Can Do to Redress the Past and Reckon with the Future - KCET

  22-09-2020 21:59 via kcet.org
  
  Thor Steingraber: What the Arts Can Do to Redress the Past and Reckon with the Future  KCET
  
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• Clark County Arts Commission seeks new commissioners and honors area maestro - clarkcountytoday.com

  22-09-2020 21:50 via clarkcountytoday.com
  
  Clark County Arts Commission seeks new commissioners and honors area maestro  clarkcountytoday.com
  
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• September 24 Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities - Vallejo Times-Herald

  22-09-2020 21:31 via timesheraldonline.com
  
  September 24 Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Exhibition at New Hope Arts features music-inspired images, virtual performances - New Hope Free Press

  22-09-2020 21:08 via newhopefreepress.com
  
  Exhibition at New Hope Arts features music-inspired images, virtual performances  New Hope Free Press
  
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• It’s a Neorealist World

  22-09-2020 21:06 via artnews.com
  
  “The cinema,” claims screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, the chief theorist of what came to be known as Italian neorealism in the early 1950s, “has always felt the ‘natural’ and practically inevitable necessity of inserting a story into reality in order to make it thrilling and spectacular.”1 For Zavattini’s generation, the thrill of new narratives hewing close to everyday life promised to restructure Italy’s postwar ruins, both physical and political.
  
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• Johnson brothers ARTs of maintenance missions - Robins Rev Up

  22-09-2020 21:04 via afrc.af.mil
  Johnson brothers ARTs of maintenance missions  Robins Rev Up
  
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• Struggling New York Museums Get Rockefeller Bailout Grants for Showcasing Underrepresented Artists

  22-09-2020 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced today $1.5 million in grants to support initiatives at New York City museums dedicated to providing visibility to artists from overlooked and underrepresented groups. The first-round of grant recipients are the Africa Center, the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York, the Queens Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, each of which will receive six-figure grants to develop new projects or furt
  
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• New virtual and drive-in arts events announced for fall - UAB News

  22-09-2020 20:40 via uab.edu
  
  New virtual and drive-in arts events announced for fall  UAB News
  
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• At the Manifesta Biennial, a French City’s Tough Realities Go on Show

  22-09-2020 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The roving international art exhibition is carrying on despite the pandemic. This edition, in Marseille, could be a model for biennials in a changed world.
  
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• New Arts Administration Minor Aligns Program with Arts Industry Career Trends - Meredith College News

  22-09-2020 20:26 via meredith.edu
  New Arts Administration Minor Aligns Program with Arts Industry Career Trends  Meredith College News
  
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• Plans for Picasso Museum in Aix-en-Provence Have Been Halted

  22-09-2020 20:18 via artnews.com
  
  Plans for a museum dedicated to Pablo Picasso and his second wife Jacqueline Roque that was set to open next year in in Aix-en-Provence, France, have been abandoned for the time being. According to a report by the Art Newspaper, the Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso, which would have held some 1,000 paintings by the artist, fell through as a result of a failed negotiation between the French town’s city council and Jacqueline’s daughter and Picasso’s stepdaughter Catherin
  
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• The Collective Community Arts Center in Lafayette holds exhibit that tells story of discrimination - The Daily Camera

  22-09-2020 20:01 via dailycamera.com
  
  The Collective Community Arts Center in Lafayette holds exhibit that tells story of discrimination  The Daily Camera
  
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• UPAF campaign brings in $11.7 million for arts groups - BizTimes - Milwaukee Business News

  22-09-2020 19:34 via biztimes.com
  
  UPAF campaign brings in $11.7 million for arts groups  BizTimes - Milwaukee Business News
  
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• Punching robot designed for mixed martial arts training - New Atlas

  22-09-2020 19:28 via newatlas.com
  
  Punching robot designed for mixed martial arts training  New Atlas
  
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• Plymouth Center for the Arts reopens, reimagined, rebuilt - Enterprise News

  22-09-2020 19:10 via enterprisenews.com
  Plymouth Center for the Arts reopens, reimagined, rebuilt  Enterprise News
  
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• ‘The Humans’ Review: Surviving in a New World and New Medium

  22-09-2020 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Stephen Karam’s celebrated play about economic distress looks very different in 2020 than it did in 2015 — and streaming is only part of the change.
  
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• As a Duluth arts hub goes dark, a call for help - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  22-09-2020 18:38 via startribune.com
  
  As a Duluth arts hub goes dark, a call for help  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
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• Idles Are Throwing a Post-Punk Revolution, and Everyone’s Invited

  22-09-2020 17:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The British band known for blending politics with personal passion is releasing a new album, “Ultra Mono,” that takes aim at faux patriotism, class inequality and sexism.
  
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• British Post-Punk Band Idles Are Throwing a Revolution, and Everyone's Invited

  22-09-2020 17:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The British band known for blending politics with personal passion is releasing a new album, “Ultra Mono,” that takes aim at faux patriotism, class inequality and sexism.
  
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• Folk Arts Rare Records Enlists Artist Celeste Byers For Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mural - KPBS

  22-09-2020 17:47 via kpbs.org
  
  Folk Arts Rare Records Enlists Artist Celeste Byers For Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mural  KPBS
  
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• Arts center adjusts to world of restrictions - Centennial Citizen

  22-09-2020 17:02 via centennialcitizen.net
  
  Arts center adjusts to world of restrictions  Centennial Citizen
  
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• Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’

  22-09-2020 16:25 via nytimes.com
  
  When the anthropologist Hugh Raffles lost two sisters within months, he looked to rocks and stones for a sense of perspective and stability.
  
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• Stage is nearly set for Museum of Fine Arts employees to vote on whether to unionize - The Boston Globe

  22-09-2020 16:10 via bostonglobe.com
  
  Stage is nearly set for Museum of Fine Arts employees to vote on whether to unionize  The Boston Globe
  
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• Two artists featured in 'Down East Meets Southwest' exhibit at River Arts Gallery - The Bethel Citizen

  22-09-2020 16:06 via sunjournal.com
  
  Two artists featured in 'Down East Meets Southwest' exhibit at River Arts Gallery  The Bethel Citizen
  
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• What a U.S. Liberal Arts Education Can Provide International Students - U.S. News & World Report

  22-09-2020 16:05 via usnews.com
  
  What a U.S. Liberal Arts Education Can Provide International Students  U.S. News & World Report
  
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• I Watched ‘Fleabag.’ I Watched ‘Insecure.’ What’s Next?

  22-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our television critic suggests the dramedy “Atlanta,” which has a sense of intimacy and reality.
  
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• Amber Ruffin Has Gone From the Writers’ Room to the Title

  22-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A breakout star from the staff of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” discusses “The Amber Ruffin Show,” her new topical comedy series on Peacock.
  
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• Amber Ruffin Goes From 'Seth Meyers' to Her Own Show on Peacock

  22-09-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A breakout star from the staff of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” discusses “The Amber Ruffin Show,” her new topical comedy series on Peacock.
  
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• ‘Enola Holmes’ Review: She’s Beyond Elementary, and Not Your Dear

  22-09-2020 15:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Millie Bobby Brown stars as a teenager with sleuth skills that rival her famous brother’s in this charming feature.
  
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• Museum Activist Mwazulu Diyabanza Goes to Trial, New York Clock Tracks Climate Change, and More: Morning Links from September 22, 2020

  22-09-2020 15:29 via artnews.com
  
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  Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza has been staging protests that involve attempts to take artworks from institutions in Europe so as to return them to their places of origin. After doing so at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, he will go to trial at the end of this month. [The New York Times]
  Here’s the story of how and why Russian billiona
  
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• We Watched the New York and Toronto Film Festivals From Home

  22-09-2020 14:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Our critics examine the highs, the lows and the oddities of the online versions of events in Toronto and New York.
  
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• We Watched Fall Film Festivals From Home. Here’s How It Went.

  22-09-2020 14:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Our critics examine the highs, the lows and the oddities of the online versions of events in Toronto and New York.
  
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• The arts are ‘who we are.’ Here’s how Wake County will help artists in the pandemic. - Raleigh News & Observer

  22-09-2020 14:41 via newsobserver.com
  
  The arts are ‘who we are.’ Here’s how Wake County will help artists in the pandemic.  Raleigh News & Observer
  
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• Pagosa Arts Initiative working to bring more public art to area - Pagosa Springs Sun

  22-09-2020 13:13 via pagosasun.com
  Pagosa Arts Initiative working to bring more public art to area  Pagosa Springs Sun
  
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• ‘Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story’ Review: A Woman’s Right to Fight

  22-09-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This new documentary is a showcase for stunt performers in Hollywood, but it fails to capture the best of the action.
  
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• ‘Kiss the Ground’ Review: Regenerating Hope for the Climate

  22-09-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An optimistic climate documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson argues for the healing power of soil, which could offer a solution to the climate crisis.
  
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• The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About

  22-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Our Bodies, Their Battlefields,” by Christina Lamb, a British foreign correspondent, provides one of the first exhaustive examinations of rape as a weapon of war.
  
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• The Rivalry That Forged the Cold War

  22-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tim Weiner’s “The Folly and the Glory” traces hostilities between Russia and the United States across 75 years.
  
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• The Freelance Life, but With Superheroes

  22-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The novel “Hench,” by Natalie Zina Walschots, imagines a lost millennial in a Marvel-style war between good and evil.
  
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• The Divisions That Are Destroying the Country

  22-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Divided We Fall,” David French warns that secession movements are a real possibility for the future.
  
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• The Bodega Boys Wrote a Book, You Know the Vibes

  22-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Whether or not you’re from the Bronx, Desus & Mero have some “God-Level Knowledge Darts” to throw at you.
  
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• Pandemic Baking Just Got Weirder

  22-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists are crafting kooky, made-from-scratch cakes to exhibit on Instagram.
  
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