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• Vallejo arts grants deadline is Nov. 17 - Vallejo Times-Herald

  02-11-2020 23:59
  
  Vallejo arts grants deadline is Nov. 17  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• The 2020 US election: what it means for the arts - Art Newspaper

  02-11-2020 23:56
  
  The 2020 US election: what it means for the arts  Art Newspaper
  
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• Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts receives grant - WNDU

  02-11-2020 23:45
  
  Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts receives grant  WNDU
  
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• The Best Books On Knitting Patterns Will Improve Your Stitching Skills

  02-11-2020 23:03 via artnews.com
  
  Do you love to knit? Are you forever on the hunt for new projects and interesting options? One good source is knitting pattern books, which hold a trove of challenging projects featuring a full range of stitches and skill levels. Most include an introduction to basic knitting skills and materials, with clear, concise instructions teaching a variety of stitches and construction steps. Some also include tips for designing your own knitted pieces. These books are great references even when working
  
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• The Best Hook-and-Loop Tape for Mounting and Fastening Materials

  02-11-2020 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  A great choice for fastening, hemming, and mounting, interlocking fabric fastener tape is a versatile, handy material that serves myriad purposes. In 1941, Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral, the founder of the Velcro company, was inspired to create his now-ubiquitous hook-and-loop fastener system when, while walking in the woods, he noticed burdock seeds clinging to his coat and dog’s fur. In 1955, he patented his invention and subsequently refined the material until its commerci
  
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• Review: A Poet’s Urgent Questions Fuel ‘November’

  02-11-2020 22:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Five Black women narrate a filmed rendition of Claudia Rankine’s heady play, which was rethought after an initial version was shut down by the pandemic.
  
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• Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; arts & crafts festival; Paglen lecture; award for Lewis - theberkshireedge.com

  02-11-2020 22:30
  
  Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; arts & crafts festival; Paglen lecture; award for Lewis  theberkshireedge.com
  
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• The Best Tape Measures for Precise Measurements

  02-11-2020 22:16 via artnews.com
  
  Make accurate measurements. A staple for any home, office, or classroom, a tape measure is a must-have for those of all professions and hobbies. Though the first record of a tape measure–like device dates back to the ancient Romans, who used marked strips of leather, it wasn’t until the early 1900s that the tape measure was first mass produced. This product was called the convex-concave tape, and it was a design upgraded from a previous product called a spring-return pocket tape meas
  
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• The Best Scrapbooking Papers for Everyday Crafting

  02-11-2020 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  Many think of scrapbooking as modern, but it goes back centuries. In 1400s England, “commonplace books” emerged as a way to compile info—recipes, quotations, letters, poems. The 1500s’ “friendship albums” resembled yearbooks, where friends signed, with illustrations, and notes. In 1775, James Granger published a history of England that included blank pages for personalization. Around 1900, young women’s friendship albums began to resemble current scrapbo
  
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• Get into the holidays with virtual paint and sip party - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  02-11-2020 22:07
  Get into the holidays with virtual paint and sip party  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• Celebrating former Arts Alive! members | Courier-Herald - Enumclaw Courier-Herald

  02-11-2020 22:00
  
  Celebrating former Arts Alive! members | Courier-Herald  Enumclaw Courier-Herald
  
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• The Best Grommet Tool Kits for Fabric, Leather, and More

  02-11-2020 21:58 via artnews.com
  
  Replace or add eyelets to tarps, pool covers, tents, awnings, shoes, bags, and more with a grommet tool kit. First used in the 19th century on the lace-up backs of women’s corsets, grommets are metal accessories used to reinforce holes in fabric, leather, or vinyl. Common contemporary applications include shower curtains, belts, and flags. Grommets come in a variety of sizes, and the most common utilitarian size is a half-inch inner diameter. Though eyelet, or grommet, pliers are fine for
  
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• The Best Chalk Pastels for Rich Pigments

  02-11-2020 21:53 via artnews.com
  
  A favorite of Renaissance artists, Old Masters, and Impressionists, chalk pastels have a history as rich as their pigment. Made of powdered pigment and a binder, pastels come in stick form and all colors of the rainbow. First produced in the 1400s, pastels were made popular by da Vinci. By the mid-1800s, French artists Delacroix, Manet, and Millet worked in pastels. A pastels innovator, Degas created many of his iconic dancer portraits with them. In the late 1800s, Whistler and Cassatt populariz
  
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• The Best Lace Yarn for Delicate Textiles and Garments

  02-11-2020 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  Lace yarns are extremely fine yarns with a knitting gauge approximately eight-plus stitches per inch. Usually lace yarn is used with large knitting needles or crochet hooks for open, lacy patterns, ideal for summer wraps and delicate textile art. Lace yarns may be doubled up for patterns recommending finger-weight yarn, and using two different colors creates beautiful effects. These yarns should be treated gently and are ideal for elegant, lacy fiber art.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Kasmin Now Represents George Rickey—and More from November 2, 2020

  02-11-2020 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, November 2
  Kasmin Now Represents George RickeyKasmin gallery in New York now represents American sculptor George Rickey, who died at the age of 95 in 2002. Rickey is best known for his monumental abstract sculptures—“useless machines,” as he called them—whose movements were guided by changes in air currents. The gallery will present two simultaneous exhibitions of work by the artist in fall 2021, starting with the installation of nine large-scale sc
  
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• Review: ‘What a Carve Up!’ Is Wonderful. But Is It Theater?

  02-11-2020 21:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Three British companies reimagine a murder mystery for the virtual stage. Except there’s no stage, and no part of it is live.
  
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• Arts Calendar: Nov. 5 - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com

  02-11-2020 21:40
  
  Arts Calendar: Nov. 5 - Portland Press Herald  pressherald.com
  
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• The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding?

  02-11-2020 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  That’s right. Sunday’s episode of “How To With John Wilson” on HBO managed to make a mundane subject poignant, hilarious and topical all at once.
  
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• Fine Arts Theatres owner: ‘The next six months will be a true test’ - Kansas City Business Journal

  02-11-2020 21:31
  Fine Arts Theatres owner: ‘The next six months will be a true test’  Kansas City Business Journal
  
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• The Best Cling Stamps for Card Making, Scrapbooking, and More

  02-11-2020 21:30 via artnews.com
  
  Say it with a stamp. Channel the German expressionists’ woodcut prints or Andy Warhol’s screen-printed compositions and get to making your own printed designs, with a set of user-friendly cling stamps. Ideal for scrapbooking, printing, and card making, stamps offer a world of crafting possibilities. Though you may have worked with preprinted wooden or rubber stamps, cling stamps are more versatile and easily stored. The designs for cling stamps come on a clear plastic liner, so you j
  
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• Dementia ‘Took its Toll’ on Sean Connery, Wife Says

  02-11-2020 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who died this weekend, struggled with the debilitating condition in his final months, his wife told The Daily Mail.
  
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• Ask a Curator: Francesco Bonami on the Guston Postponement, Deaccessioning, and More

  02-11-2020 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  Francesco Bonami, whose curatorial credits include the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, has returned for the ninth edition of his column, “Ask a Curator,” in which he addresses deaccessioning controversies, the postponement of a Philip Guston retrospective, and online viewing room fatigue. He can be found on Instagram at @thebonamist. If you have queries for him for a future column, please write to [email protected]. —The Editors of AR
  
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• Clothes Make the Spy

  02-11-2020 21:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The yardstick of James Bond’s suavely murderous upper-class style was forever set by Sean Connery.
  
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• 'Fall Back into the Arts' show Friday features The Thorns - New Jersey Hills

  02-11-2020 21:00
  
  'Fall Back into the Arts' show Friday features The Thorns  New Jersey Hills
  
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• Embrace the music: Smith Fine Arts Series auction goes online - Polkio.com

  02-11-2020 20:36
  Embrace the music: Smith Fine Arts Series auction goes online  Polkio.com
  
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• Indoor audiences can see Pasco school sports teams, but not arts groups - Tampa Bay Times

  02-11-2020 20:30
  
  Indoor audiences can see Pasco school sports teams, but not arts groups  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• ISU School of Performing Arts to present “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - Idaho State University

  02-11-2020 20:13
  
  ISU School of Performing Arts to present “A Midsummer Night's Dream”  Idaho State University
  
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• Luke Combs Returns to No. 1 With a Streaming Record for Country Music

  02-11-2020 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  “What You See Ain’t Always What You Get,” a reissued version of his 2019 album, debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart with 70 percent of its sales coming from 102 million streams.
  
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• Stanly Arts Guild announces photography contest winners - The Stanly News & Press - Stanly News & Press

  02-11-2020 19:57
  
  Stanly Arts Guild announces photography contest winners - The Stanly News & Press  Stanly News & Press
  
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• Preparing for the Mayor's Arts Awards livestream - Lincoln Journal Star

  02-11-2020 19:55
  Preparing for the Mayor's Arts Awards livestream  Lincoln Journal Star
  
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• Danville fine arts museum and partners to host open house Nov. 6 - Chatham Star-Tribune

  02-11-2020 19:52
  Danville fine arts museum and partners to host open house Nov. 6  Chatham Star-Tribune
  
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• Anger after Grayson Perry claims Covid will clear arts of 'dead wood' - The Guardian

  02-11-2020 19:48
  
  Anger after Grayson Perry claims Covid will clear arts of 'dead wood'  The Guardian
  
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• The Best Glass Bottle Cutters for Upcycling and Multimedia Projects

  02-11-2020 19:46 via artnews.com
  
  Do you select your favorite beverages based upon the design of their bottles? With bottle cutters, you can upcycle your favorite bottles into glasses, wind chimes, works of art—the possibilities are endless. These sets cut glass safely, with precision. Score the bottle with the glass-bottle cutter, heat the bottle, and then cool with icy water. The thermal shock process of hot then cold over the scored glass cleanly separates the two sections. After all the sharp edges have been smoothed d
  
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• A Golden Team, a Terrible Title and a Show That Vanished

  02-11-2020 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Would you like to see a new musical from the people who brought you “West Side Story”? For better or worse, you probably never will.
  
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• Dancing on Grass and Concrete at New York City Ballet

  02-11-2020 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Using Lincoln Center as a set, the company’s digital New Works Festival features site-specific films by Justin Peck, Jamar Roberts, Pam Tanowitz and others.
  
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• The Best Fingering Yarn for Fiber Arts

  02-11-2020 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  If you’re new to yarns, it’s easy to assume that fingering yarn is for finger weaving or fiber art requiring handwork. The root of the word doesn’t come from the English “finger,” but from the Old French fin grain, which translates as “fine grained.” Fingering yarn is a fine yarn, usually #1 or #2 weight—not as thin as lace yarns—but fine enough for cozy socks, hats, baby blankets, and garments. This yarn is versatile and lightweight: great f
  
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• The Best Fingering Yarn for Fiber Arts - ARTnews

  02-11-2020 19:27
  
  The Best Fingering Yarn for Fiber Arts  ARTnews
  
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• This Year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival Showcases Four LGBTQ films - outsmartmagazine.com

  02-11-2020 19:22
  
  This Year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival Showcases Four LGBTQ films  outsmartmagazine.com
  
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• Expo to host Annual Calico Arts and Crafts Holiday Show - WALB

  02-11-2020 19:21
  
  Expo to host Annual Calico Arts and Crafts Holiday Show  WALB
  
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• Save the arts: Will Oak Cliff's arts organizations survive? - Advocate Media

  02-11-2020 19:06
  
  Save the arts: Will Oak Cliff's arts organizations survive?  Advocate Media
  
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• Second-Wave Museum Closures: Which Institutions Have Shuttered Amid New Lockdowns?

  02-11-2020 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  As a second wave of the coronavirus crisis surges in Europe, countries such as Belgium, Germany, and France have imposed new lockdowns and forced the closure of institutions for a month and, in some cases, potentially longer. Below, a look at some of the major institutions that have planned closures in response. This article will be updated as museums announce their plans.
  Belgium
  As Belgium became the epicenter of the second wave in Europe, the country was the first to announce new lockdown mea
  
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• The Re-Education of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston magazine

  02-11-2020 18:51
  
  The Re-Education of the Museum of Fine Arts  Boston magazine
  
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• Club 365 Sponsor Talks Importance of Supporting the Arts - ArkLaTexHomepage

  02-11-2020 18:48
  Club 365 Sponsor Talks Importance of Supporting the Arts  ArkLaTexHomepage
  
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• City Pages, the Alt-Weekly Where Music Writing Reigned Supreme

  02-11-2020 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The Minneapolis newspaper, which closed last week after four decades, was a home and a launchpad for a generation of pop journalists.
  
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• Electoral Aesthetics

  02-11-2020 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  I remember some of 1996. That election year nearly a quarter century ago is the subject and title of a new collection of essays—a time capsule, even—edited by artist Matt Keegan with interviews edited by writer and oral historian Svetlana Kitto. In 1996, I was either fifteen or sixteen years old, and I lived in New York City, where I took a bus or the subway to high school most days. I wore a lot of polyester clothes sourced from bins and bulging racks downtown. I carried a plastic w
  
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• Alan Rath, Maker of Innovative Kinetic Sculptures Guided by Software, Has Died at 60

  02-11-2020 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  Alan Rath, the influential Bay Area artist known for his pioneering electronic sculptures, died on October 27. He was 60. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that his gallerist Dianne Dec, who curated exhibitions of his work at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, the cause was complications from a rare form of multiple sclerosis.
  Since the early 1980s, Rath has created kinetic sculptures guided by software of his own making. Rath’s robotic structures often feature computer-generated an
  
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• Arts & Draughts going virtual on Nov. 20 - columbiabusinessreport.com

  02-11-2020 18:33
  Arts & Draughts going virtual on Nov. 20  columbiabusinessreport.com
  
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• Recess registration guide: Arts courses you can't miss this spring - Duke Chronicle

  02-11-2020 18:30
  
  Recess registration guide: Arts courses you can't miss this spring  Duke Chronicle
  
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• With New Show, Tschabalala Self Explores Black American Identity

  02-11-2020 18:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The 30-year-old artist is having her first major gallery exhibition in New York City.
  
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• Nottingham martial arts instructor in running for national award - nottinghammd.com

  02-11-2020 17:49
  
  Nottingham martial arts instructor in running for national award  nottinghammd.com
  
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