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• Painting Missing for Decades Found Hanging in an Upper West Side Apartment

  21-10-2020 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The panel by the renowned Black artist, part of his “Struggle” series, was last seen in 1960. But someone had a hunch where it was.
  
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• Meet the Next Generation of Cabaret Showstoppers

  21-10-2020 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Teens competing during the New York Cabaret Convention are proving that young people are invested in the Great American Songbook.
  
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• How Jacob Lawrence Used Painting to Powerfully Tell the Histories of Black Americans

  21-10-2020 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  Jacob Lawrence, who is known for his vibrant figurative paintings focused on Black Americans’ experiences, daily life in Harlem, and events from U.S. history, is one of the most celebrated painters of the 20th century. He once said that his works “express my life and experience. I paint the things I know about and the things I have experienced.” With Lawrence’s series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
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• Our Town: A delicate dance between arts and science – The Sopris Sun - soprissun.com

  21-10-2020 22:50
  
  Our Town: A delicate dance between arts and science – The Sopris Sun  soprissun.com
  
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• Mondrian Heirs Sue German Museum, Seeking Recovery of Paintings Worth $200 M.

  21-10-2020 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  As part of an ongoing, yearslong effort to recover ownership rights of several paintings created by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian in his signature style in the 1920s, the late artist’s heirs filed a lawsuit against a German museum in U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. The suit states that the works in question are estimated to be valued in excess of $200 million and are calling for a jury trial after their attempts for the works to be returned were declined by the museum.
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• Arts council to host 'Day of the Dead' exhibit - HubcitySPOKES.com

  21-10-2020 22:19
  
  Arts council to host 'Day of the Dead' exhibit  HubcitySPOKES.com
  
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• Vandals Deface Dozens of Artworks in Berlin Museums

  21-10-2020 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The Berlin police are asking visitors to the Museum Island for help figuring out who defaced 63 objects, but declined to comment on the possible role of a German conspiracy theorist.
  
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• 2 Murders 3 Decades Ago. A Podcaster and a TV Producer Dig In.

  21-10-2020 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  An unlikely collaboration yields two productions that try to untangle a mystery in Michigan.
  
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• ‘Shuffle Along’ and Insurer Drop Pregnancy-Prompted Lawsuit

  21-10-2020 21:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Scott Rudin, the lead producer, and Lloyd’s of London settled a lawsuit that arose from the production’s decision to shut down a Broadway musical when its star became pregnant.
  
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• Performing Arts Series presents two days of contemporary dance through performance, conversation and workshops - Nevada Today

  21-10-2020 21:21
  
  Performing Arts Series presents two days of contemporary dance through performance, conversation and workshops  Nevada Today
  
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• Fund for the Arts announces grant recipients - Louisville Business First

  21-10-2020 21:15
  Fund for the Arts announces grant recipients  Louisville Business First
  
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• Steven Holl Architects's scalloped Winter Visual Arts Building showcases the first-ever two layer, u-plank facade - The Architect's Newspaper

  21-10-2020 21:07
  
  Steven Holl Architects's scalloped Winter Visual Arts Building showcases the first-ever two layer, u-plank facade  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Theater to Stream: Cabaret Lives Online and Zombies Walk the Stage

  21-10-2020 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  New York cabaret houses beef up there digital offerings, and two theater adaptations of “Night of the Living Dead” arrive in time for Halloween.
  
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• Tony Todd on the Joy of ‘Candyman,’ and the Role of Black Horror

  21-10-2020 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Frightening movies help fans gain a “new understanding,” says the veteran star of scary stories, including the new “Tales From the Hood 3.”
  
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• Two New York Neighborhoods Set the Stage for Decadence and Loss

  21-10-2020 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Performers share fragmented reveries in “Electric Feeling Maybe,” while “Voyeur” brings a touch of Paris to the West Village.
  
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• ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings

  21-10-2020 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s an amusingly harebrained scheme, but there’s nothing in this moviefilm that matches the elegant social experiment of the first.
  
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• ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Review: Coming of Age, One Move at a Time

  21-10-2020 19:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Anya Taylor-Joy plays a brilliant and troubled young woman who medicates herself with chess in Scott Frank’s mini-series for Netflix.
  
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• Duolingo unveils community-inspired mural and pledges $150,000 for a public arts initiative - NEXTpittsburgh

  21-10-2020 19:52
  Duolingo unveils community-inspired mural and pledges $150,000 for a public arts initiative  NEXTpittsburgh
  
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• Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage

  21-10-2020 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  In Detroit, “Twilight: Gods” joins other recent performances that offer a path forward for the arts amid the pandemic.
  
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• Keshet Dance and Center for Arts holds virtual events in celebration of 25th anniversary - NMLiving

  21-10-2020 19:32
  
  Keshet Dance and Center for Arts holds virtual events in celebration of 25th anniversary  NMLiving
  
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• Ruth Falcon, Soprano Turned Master Teacher, Dies at 77

  21-10-2020 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Falcon had a career singing at major opera houses before becoming a much sought-after teacher. Her students included Deborah Voigt and Nadine Sierra.
  
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• After Delay, Ticket Holders Are Getting Refunds for Two Concerts

  21-10-2020 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  People who had planned to see Tool and Judas Priest at Nassau Coliseum are getting payments, after a holdup involving a billionaire Russian investor.
  
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• How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms

  21-10-2020 18:43 via nytimes.com
  
  On a new album with his quintet, Good Vibes, the musician, 25, asks a big question: What should swing rhythm sound like in the 21st century?
  
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• Dozen of Artworks Vandalized on Berlin’s Museum Island in Mysterious Attack

  21-10-2020 18:23 via artnews.com
  
  Weeks after its discovery, a startling case of vandalism at Berlin’s most popular museums remains without an explanation or a suspect. On Tuesday night, German authorities released details confirming local media reports that more than 70 artworks and artifacts on Berlin’s Museum Island—which includes the Pergamon Museum, the Neues Museum, and the Alte Nationalgalerie—had been sprayed with an oily substance.
  Per the outlet Deutsche Welle, authorities have since faced criti
  
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• Jacob Lawrence Painting, Missing for Decades, Is Found by Met Visitor

  21-10-2020 18:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The panel by the renowned Black artist, part of his “American Struggle” series, was last seen in 1960. But someone had a hunch where it was.
  
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• Martine Syms, Sondra Perry, and More Shortlisted for Rolls-Royce Commission

  21-10-2020 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Rolls-Royce’s art program, Muse, has named the four artists shortlisted for its first-ever Moving-Image Dream Commission, a biennial prize “awarded to inspire greatness and foster creativity in the media of moving-image,” according to a release. The shortlisted artists are Sondra Perry, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Martine Syms, and Zhou Tao, all of whom have created a concept work for a moving-image piece focused on dreams.
  In spring 2021, one of the four artists will receiv
  
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• Sotheby’s to Offer $90 M. Giacometti Sculpture in Hybrid ‘Sealed Bid’ Sale

  21-10-2020 17:37 via artnews.com
  
  In advance of its New York modern and contemporary art evening sales next week on October 28, Sotheby’s has secured a valuable Alberto Giacometti sculpture for a private sale titled “In Confidence: A Masterpiece by Alberto Giacometti.” Grande femme I (cast in 1960) will be sold via confidential bidding starting on October 20. The work is valued at $90 million.
  Standing at nine feet tall, Grande femme I is from a series of five monumental female figures, each made by the Swiss a
  
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• Taste of EPCOT International Festival of the Arts Set for January - Bay News 9

  21-10-2020 17:22
  
  Taste of EPCOT International Festival of the Arts Set for January  Bay News 9
  
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• Robert DeMora Dies at 85; Helped Make Bette Midler Look Divine

  21-10-2020 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  His outlandish costumes embellished Ms. Midler’s elaborate extravaganzas. He also contributed to films like “Risky Business” and “The Birdcage.”
  
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• MFA Houston Director Defends Guston Postponement, Korean Art Comes to U.S., and More: Morning Links from October 21, 2020

  21-10-2020 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Gary Tinterow, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, has defended the delay of a Philip Guston retrospective, saying, “The vehement response, to me, corroborates that rational discourse is more difficult in this moment.” [Texas Monthly]
  A new organization known as the Friday Foundation has given $9 million to Seattle-based arts organization
  
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• Growing Scenes for London Artists: Towns and Suburbs

  21-10-2020 14:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic has accelerated a creative exodus.
  
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• COCA awards grant funding to 12 local arts teachers - Tallahassee Democrat

  21-10-2020 14:37
  COCA awards grant funding to 12 local arts teachers  Tallahassee Democrat
  
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• Library cuts will have ‘irreversible’ impact, heads of PSU’s College of Liberal Arts say - Centre Daily Times

  21-10-2020 13:54
  
  Library cuts will have ‘irreversible’ impact, heads of PSU’s College of Liberal Arts say  Centre Daily Times
  
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• ‘White Noise’ Review: Hearing Dog Whistles Loud and Clear

  21-10-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This feature documentary from The Atlantic profiles three figures associated with the alt-right.
  
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• ‘Rebecca’ Review: A Classic Tale, but There’s Only One Hitch

  21-10-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Armie Hammer, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas and a lot of nice clothes star in a new adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel.
  
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• Jamestown Arts Center to offer Day Of The Dead Workshop - What'sUpNewp

  21-10-2020 11:21
  
  Jamestown Arts Center to offer Day Of The Dead Workshop  What'sUpNewp
  
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• The Little-Known Women Behind Some Well-Known Landscapes

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Women have literally shaped the American landscape and continue to today, but their names and contributions are largely unknown.”
  
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• Placing Women on a Different Sort of Pedestal

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Public monuments, and the artists who create them, are beginning to represent women and their achievements.
  
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• Museums Are Back, but Different: A Visitor’s Guide

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The visitors may be masked, but the art is gradually coming into full view.
  
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• Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The pathbreaking musician reveals the health issues that make it unlikely he will ever again perform in public.
  
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• ‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a National Book Award finalist for “The Undocumented Americans,” talks immigration, her unconventional approach to nonfiction and why impostor syndrome doesn’t faze her.
  
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• From 2 Artists, 2 Ways to Tell Stories of Black America

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Works by Bisa Butler and Barbara Earl Thomas are featured in major museum shows in Chicago and Seattle. It’s a star turn that many feel is long overdue.
  
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• Casting a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Sue Coe proudly labels her own work propaganda, whether she’s taking on factory farming or current events.
  
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• ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ Recounts WeWork’s Big Dreams and Its Harsh Wake-Up Call

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Reeves Wiedeman writes about the WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann and what the company represents about the last decade.
  
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• At the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, All Athletes Are Equal

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new museum in Colorado Springs is based on the idea that a wheelchair basketball player trains just as hard as any other basketball player.
  
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• 50 States, 50 Scares

  21-10-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Before you pick up one of these hair-raising, shiver-inducing novels, you’re going to want to close the curtains and check the locks (twice).
  
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• Late Night Doesn’t Think It’s Possible to Mute Trump

  21-10-2020 08:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “He’s just going to shout or, even worse, he’ll just walk over to Biden and use his mic,” Trevor Noah predicted of the upcoming debate. “He’ll probably lick it, too.”
  
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• ‘We Cannot Kill That Little Chihuahua’: How Jean-Claude Van Damme Helped Save a Puppy

  21-10-2020 07:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The action movie star intervened to save a Bulgarian dog from euthanasia after Norway said it had been imported on a fake passport.
  
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• Jean-Claude Van Damme Helped Save a Puppy

  21-10-2020 07:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The action movie star intervened to save a Bulgarian dog from euthanasia after Norway said it had been imported on a fake passport.
  
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• Orange County School of the Arts might push back start date for back-to-campus plan - OCRegister

  21-10-2020 04:08
  
  Orange County School of the Arts might push back start date for back-to-campus plan  OCRegister
  
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