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• Morris Arts Offering 2 Merit Based Art Scholarships to Local High School Seniors - TAPinto.net

  17-12-2020 23:59 via tapinto.net
  
  Morris Arts Offering 2 Merit Based Art Scholarships to Local High School Seniors  TAPinto.net
  
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• The Year in Improvised Music: ‘Everything’s Changing. So the Music Should.’

  17-12-2020 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic compressed live music onto screens, and Black Lives Matter protests brought it back to the streets. What will it all look like, and sound like, in 2021?
  
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• Students express themselves through performing arts - Fox 59

  17-12-2020 22:52 via fox59.com
  Students express themselves through performing arts  Fox 59
  
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• New York Judge Dismisses $17 M. Lawsuit Involving Phillips Sale Canceled by Covid

  17-12-2020 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this year, a Rudolf Stingel painting set to be auctioned by Phillips never made it to sale. Instead of heading to the block, it became the subject of a lawsuit between Phillips and the work’s consignor. Now, a New York district court judge has dismissed that consignor’s lawsuit.
  The Stingel painting, which is not further identified in a ruling written by Denise Cote, a judge in New York’s Southern District Court, was part of a two-work deal between Phillips and dealer J
  
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• Get Out There: Local Arts And Cultural Trends Of 2020 - WAMU 88.5

  17-12-2020 22:20 via wamu.org
  
  Get Out There: Local Arts And Cultural Trends Of 2020  WAMU 88.5
  
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• Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Trailblazing Swiss Dadaist, Deserves Her Place in Art History

  17-12-2020 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  In the story of European abstraction, Sophie Taeuber-Arp has often relegated to the footnotes. Though the Swiss artist despised the word “radical,” the term could probably applied to her. She was a progenitor of Dadaism, though her contributions to the movement may have differed greatly from her peers. While artists like Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp (her husband), and others nihilistically created anti-art, she made pure compositions of color and then some. She did it all—textile de
  
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• College of Arts and Sciences dean steps down to return to teaching - @UofSC

  17-12-2020 22:07 via sc.edu
  
  College of Arts and Sciences dean steps down to return to teaching  @UofSC
  
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• Will a Looted Pissarro End Up in Oklahoma, or France?

  17-12-2020 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  A painting by the French Impressionist artist, with a back story of plunder and family tragedy, is at the center of courtroom battles on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
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• The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe

  17-12-2020 21:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Art debuts a transformative acquisition of Soviet, Polish, German and Dutch graphic arts from after World War I.
  
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• Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival is On for 2021 - Reston Now

  17-12-2020 21:30 via restonnow.com
  
  Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival is On for 2021  Reston Now
  
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• Even When the Music Returns, Pandemic Pay Cuts Will Linger

  17-12-2020 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The coronavirus crisis is leading many performing arts unions to agree to concessions, but some fear it could change the balance of power between labor and management.
  
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• MSU College of Arts and Sciences announces 2020 faculty award winners - Mississippi State Newsroom

  17-12-2020 21:18 via msstate.edu
  
  MSU College of Arts and Sciences announces 2020 faculty award winners  Mississippi State Newsroom
  
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• ‘The Stand’: Tracing the Stephen King Epic Through Its Many Mutations

  17-12-2020 21:16 via nytimes.com
  
  King’s post-apocalyptic novel about the aftermath of a deadly pandemic has been adapted into a new mini-series for CBS All Access. But the story has a complex history of its own.
  
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• Send in the Clowns

  17-12-2020 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  What was it with modern artists and the circus? The Impressionists devoted some of their jauntiest canvases to clowns and acrobats; so did Toulouse-Lautrec, Chagall, and Rose-Period Picasso. Calder had a career-long love affair with the iconography of the circus, and for his early masterwork Cirque Calder (1926–31) he built a miniature one, complete with wire sword-swallowers and lion-tamers. This last example suggests why so many radical innovators admired what is basically quaint Europea
  
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• 7 Philadelphia arts organizations receive $1.53M in grants - Philadelphia Business Journal

  17-12-2020 20:58 via bizjournals.com
  
  7 Philadelphia arts organizations receive $1.53M in grants  Philadelphia Business Journal
  
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• Kaley Cuoco Thanks You for Flying With ‘The Flight Attendant’

  17-12-2020 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Cuoco, the star and executive producer of the HBO Max thriller, and the showrunner Steve Yockey discuss Thursday’s finale and their hopes for another season.
  
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• In a Big Year for Video Games, These Players Are Shifting the Culture

  17-12-2020 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Designers, competitors, streamers, voice actors and labor activists have been working to make gaming more inclusive.
  
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• In Making Gavin Brown a Partner, Barbara Gladstone Is Betting That You Can Get Big and Still Think Small

  17-12-2020 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  In 2011, as she was celebrating 30 years in business, Barbara Gladstone told the Wall Street Journal, “there’s a relationship between being an art dealer and raising a family. Being a parent, a mother, means that you’re responsible for helping someone develop to the best of their potential.” She was speaking from experience: she had three children when she opened her gallery at age 40 in 1980. As a gallerist, she had helped artists develop to the best of their potential,
  
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• The President of Americans for the Arts Will Take a Leave of Absence Following Allegations of a Toxic Work Environment - artnet News

  17-12-2020 20:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  The President of Americans for the Arts Will Take a Leave of Absence Following Allegations of a Toxic Work Environment  artnet News
  
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• French National Assembly Rules That Landmark Repatriation of African Artifacts Must Go On

  17-12-2020 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  A potentially history-making repatriation deal that would see France return 27 objects to two African countries was nearly blocked this morning after high-ranking politicians failed to agree on it.
  On Thursday, the French Senate blocked a bill that would bring 26 statues back to Benin and a sword from West Africa to Senegal. Then, the National Assembly, which has the power to rule on matters on which the Senate cannot reach a consensus, decided that the plan must move forward, putting France on
  
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• Artist Bosco Sodi Believes in the Healing Power of Color

  17-12-2020 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  “I have always loved color, I believe in the power of color, I believe in the healing power of color, but I also believe in the healing power of matter of the material work,” artist Bosco Sodi recently told Brooke Jaffe for “ARTnews Live,” our ongoing IGTV series of interviews with a range of creatives, to talk about his predisposition for bold colors and textures, his use of organic materials, and more.
  Sodi’s passion for art began when his mother signed him up for
  
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• Natilee Harren on the Kinder building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Artforum

  17-12-2020 19:12 via artforum.com
  
  Natilee Harren on the Kinder building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  Artforum
  
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• Guillaume Kientz Named Director at Hispanic Society

  17-12-2020 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The former curator at the Louvre in Paris will take on the task of reinvigorating the struggling museum, which has been closed for renovations since 2017.
  
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• Kim Ki-duk, Award-Winning South Korean Filmmaker, Dies at 59

  17-12-2020 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  He was celebrated for movies centered on society’s underbelly, but he was later accused of sexual misconduct. He died of Covid-19.
  
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• San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Short Stories, Christmas Jazz, Tchaikovsky And Americana - KPBS

  17-12-2020 18:41 via kpbs.org
  
  San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Short Stories, Christmas Jazz, Tchaikovsky And Americana  KPBS
  
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• ‘On Pointe’: The Real-Life Adventures of Some Very Young Dancers

  17-12-2020 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  This six-part documentary on Disney+ takes viewers inside the School of American Ballet. You’ll get your “Nutcracker” fix, too.
  
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• Records for Rediscovered de Heem, Ghirlandaio Top Christie’s $30.9 M. Old Masters Auction

  17-12-2020 18:23 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, Christie’s set artist records for new-to-market works during its final Old Masters evening sale of the year. Live-streamed from its London headquarters, the sale brought in £18.7 million on the hammer, or £22.8 million with buyer’s fees ($30.9 million), across 38 lots. That total landed solidly within the pre-sale estimate range of £14 million-£21 million.
  Led by Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkknänen, the evening sale saw a sell-t
  
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• 2020: A Theater of the Absurd for Europe’s Playhouses

  17-12-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The Times’s theater critics in London, Paris and Berlin reflect on a year of closures, reopenings, restrictions and curfews, in which the show somehow went on.
  
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• Harold Budd, Composer of Spaciousness and Calm, Dies at 84

  17-12-2020 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for his collaborations with art-pop artists like Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins, he created a signature sound suspended in reverberation and drone.
  
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• Loudoun’s Arts Groups Go Big with Online Holiday Shows - Loudoun Now

  17-12-2020 17:26 via loudounnow.com
  
  Loudoun’s Arts Groups Go Big with Online Holiday Shows  Loudoun Now
  
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• Roxy Regional Theatre taking students for Spring 2021 School of the Arts - Clarksville Now

  17-12-2020 17:25 via clarksvillenow.com
  
  Roxy Regional Theatre taking students for Spring 2021 School of the Arts  Clarksville Now
  
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• The Arts Matter - Pittsburgh Magazine

  17-12-2020 16:54 via pittsburghmagazine.com
  
  The Arts Matter  Pittsburgh Magazine
  
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• ‘Museum Town’ Review: A Love Letter to Mass MoCA

  17-12-2020 16:49 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary looks at how a contemporary art museum in Western Massachusetts transformed a struggling small town.
  
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• Collection of Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Sell at Sotheby’s

  17-12-2020 16:20 via artnews.com
  
  The collection of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will go up for sale at Sotheby’s Paris headquarters in February. The sale is estimated to fetch a collective $4 million.
  The husband and wife duo was known best for their practice of draping buildings, monuments, and various other public sites, which they called “wrappings.” Among their most famous large-scale installations is Valley Curtain (1974), in which the two suspended a miles-long curtain across a Colorado mountain roa
  
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• To the Rescue This Year: The People Who Put Orchestras Online

  17-12-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Across the country, fall concerts were saved by staff whose work shifted rapidly from promotional videos to high-quality broadcasts.
  
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• Dorothy Gill Barnes, 93, Artist Whose Raw Material Came From Trees, Dies

  17-12-2020 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  She created works from bark, wood and roots, sometimes carving patterns into trees and waiting years to see the scarring. She died of complications of Covid-19.
  
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• Art Dubai Moves Forward With March 2021 Fair—and More: Morning Links from December 17, 2020

  17-12-2020 15:16 via artnews.com
  
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  Kelly Crow reports that the private collection of the late artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, numbering some 400 pieces, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s Paris in February. [The Wall Street Journal]
  Robert Lynch, the president and CEO of Americans for the Arts and a member of the Biden-Harris transition tea
  
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• Healing Arts: Aspen nonprofit partners with WHO, Christie's on art auctions for international COVID-19 relief - Aspen Times

  17-12-2020 15:12 via aspentimes.com
  
  Healing Arts: Aspen nonprofit partners with WHO, Christie's on art auctions for international COVID-19 relief  Aspen Times
  
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• Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 - Helena Independent Record

  17-12-2020 15:00 via helenair.com
  Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020  Helena Independent Record
  
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• $62 million lost across arts and culture groups in San Antonio since pandemic began - KSAT San Antonio

  17-12-2020 14:26 via ksat.com
  
  $62 million lost across arts and culture groups in San Antonio since pandemic began  KSAT San Antonio
  
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• ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing

  17-12-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star in a potent adaptation of August Wilson’s play
  
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• Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs

  17-12-2020 13:54 via nytimes.com
  
  “I get claustrophobic spending too much time in the head of another writer.”
  
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• Billings Gazette arts and entertainment reporter Anna Paige's five favorite stories from 2020 - Billings Gazette

  17-12-2020 13:30 via billingsgazette.com
  Billings Gazette arts and entertainment reporter Anna Paige's five favorite stories from 2020  Billings Gazette
  
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• ‘The Belovs’ Review: Another View of Farm Life

  17-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director of “Gunda” filmed two Russian siblings in the early 1990s.
  
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• ‘Nasrin’ Review: Righting Wrongs in Iran

  17-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Filmed in secret, Jeff Kaufman’s portrait of the Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh captures her ongoing battles for the rights of women, children and minorities.
  
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• ‘Monster Hunter’ Review: Beasts of Boredom

  17-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Milla Jovovich stars as an Army Ranger trapped in an alternate universe in this video game-derived silliness.
  
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• ‘Effigy — Poison and the City’ Review: Death and the Matron

  17-12-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Udo Flohr’s stagy drama follows the investigation of a real-life serial killer in 1820s Germany.
  
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• Humboldt Forum in Berlin Finally Opens (Kind of)

  17-12-2020 12:29 via nytimes.com
  
  A modest ceremony inaugurated the troubled museum, one of the most expensive and ambitious culture projects in Europe. The only thing is, you can’t go in.
  
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• Old Center for the Arts building locked up - Gunnison Country Times

  17-12-2020 12:00 via gunnisontimes.com
  
  Old Center for the Arts building locked up  Gunnison Country Times
  
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• Bing Arts Center in Springfield feels impact of COVID-19 as pandemic nears 11th month - MassLive.com

  17-12-2020 11:55 via masslive.com
  
  Bing Arts Center in Springfield feels impact of COVID-19 as pandemic nears 11th month  MassLive.com
  
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