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• ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny, Whose Music Melded Genres, Dies at 75

  23-12-2020 23:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A creator of modern music as a teenager, he later juggled a breezy pop sensibility with conceptual rigor. He was an important collaborator with the composer Robert Ashley.
  
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• Arts & Entertainments Listings for the week of Dec. 24, 2020 - Wicked Local

  23-12-2020 23:52 via wickedlocal.com
  Arts & Entertainments Listings for the week of Dec. 24, 2020  Wicked Local
  
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• Essential Books: Art in America Staff Picks to Read (or Reread) Now

  23-12-2020 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  With the pandemic hard upon us, what better time to settle in with a few of those art books you’ve always meant to read but never quite got to? Below, the editors of Art in America suggest a mix of their personal favorites. The recommendations, some old and some new, range from scholarly classics to provocative critical studies to essential catalogues to of-the-moment reflections on topics such as social justice, the psychology of color, and disability and art. (Price and availability curr
  
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• Jack Lenor Larsen, Innovative Textile Designer, Dies at 93

  23-12-2020 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  He blended ancient techniques and modern technology to weave fabrics that are in the collections of MoMA and the Louvre, which gave him a one-man retrospective.
  
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• Walton Arts Center screening the Polar Express tonight for free - KNWA

  23-12-2020 22:15 via nwahomepage.com
  Walton Arts Center screening the Polar Express tonight for free  KNWA
  
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• Lee's Summit Resident Honored With Missouri Arts Council 2021 Award - lstribune

  23-12-2020 22:08 via lstribune.net
  Lee's Summit Resident Honored With Missouri Arts Council 2021 Award  lstribune
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: What the Silence Said

  23-12-2020 22:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Two marriages dissolve without a sound.
  
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• Arts remain unbound during COVID pandemic | Canyoncourier.com - Canyon Courier

  23-12-2020 22:03 via canyoncourier.com
  
  Arts remain unbound during COVID pandemic | Canyoncourier.com  Canyon Courier
  
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• John Outterbridge, Sculptor Who Broke Down Barriers Between Life and Art, Has Died at 87

  23-12-2020 21:39 via artnews.com
  
  John Outterbridge, a sculptor who made the stuff of everyday life his medium, crafting found objects into assemblages imbued with history, has died at 87, according to New York’s Tilton Gallery, which represents him. No cause of death was given.
  Outterbridge’s sculptures often feature objects scavenged from the streets of Los Angeles’s South Central region, where he was long based—worn-down rags, dirtied pieces of wood, and other scrapped objects. In bringing the everyday
  
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• Podcast: Dawn Williams Boyd’s visual arts show at Atlanta Contemporary - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  23-12-2020 21:38 via ajc.com
  Podcast: Dawn Williams Boyd’s visual arts show at Atlanta Contemporary  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• Area arts groups make the most of 2020, look to future - Lansing State Journal

  23-12-2020 21:35 via lansingstatejournal.com
  Area arts groups make the most of 2020, look to future  Lansing State Journal
  
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• DADA starts new collective in the Arts District, seeking artists and craftsmen - Winston-Salem Journal

  23-12-2020 21:30 via journalnow.com
  
  DADA starts new collective in the Arts District, seeking artists and craftsmen  Winston-Salem Journal
  
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• Introducing our virtual winter Cultural Arts Classes and Speakers - Western Queens Gazette

  23-12-2020 21:29 via qgazette.com
  Introducing our virtual winter Cultural Arts Classes and Speakers  Western Queens Gazette
  
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• Theater and Performing Arts Charities Need Our Support Right Now - TownandCountrymag.com

  23-12-2020 21:02 via townandcountrymag.com
  
  Theater and Performing Arts Charities Need Our Support Right Now  TownandCountrymag.com
  
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• 13 New Books to Watch For in January

  23-12-2020 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Essays from Joan Didion, George Saunders on why fiction matters and plenty more.
  
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• Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds

  23-12-2020 20:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A brilliant debut at the Whitney Museum by the artist — born in Pakistan and based in New York — refreshes figurative painting by using it as a means to explore identity.
  
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• A New Pinocchio Film Returns to the Tale’s Dark Origins

  23-12-2020 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The Italian director Matteo Garrone hopes to surprise audiences this Christmas with a very literal retelling of the children’s classic.
  
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• Review: ‘Bridgerton’ Is a Sparkly Period Piece With a Difference

  23-12-2020 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The first Netflix series from Shonda Rhimes’s company updates the genre with modern race and gender attitudes (and lots of skin).
  
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• How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets

  23-12-2020 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Reissues and deluxe editions of albums by PJ Harvey, Lil Peep, Charles Mingus and others provide fresh looks at familiar works, and the creative processes that birthed them.
  
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• New Executive Director at Webster Arts - Suburban Journals

  23-12-2020 20:07 via stltoday.com
  New Executive Director at Webster Arts  Suburban Journals
  
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• Independent music and arts organizers applaud national Save Our Stages Act - KTVB.com

  23-12-2020 19:48 via ktvb.com
  
  Independent music and arts organizers applaud national Save Our Stages Act  KTVB.com
  
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• George Clooney on ‘The Midnight Sky’ and Donald Trump

  23-12-2020 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  His new movie is on Netflix, but the actor-director says theaters won’t go away and Hollywood will be fine. He’s not so sure about Washington.
  
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• Glad tidings from Dane Arts - Isthmus

  23-12-2020 19:33 via isthmus.com
  
  Glad tidings from Dane Arts  Isthmus
  
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• Local arts and music make journalism more joyous - Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard

  23-12-2020 19:19 via niemanlab.org
  
  Local arts and music make journalism more joyous  Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
  
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• Cambridge Community Foundation, City of Cambridge award $257500 in grants to arts and culture organizations, hard-hit by the pandemic - the City of Cambridge

  23-12-2020 19:19 via cambridgema.gov
  
  Cambridge Community Foundation, City of Cambridge award $257500 in grants to arts and culture organizations, hard-hit by the pandemic  the City of Cambridge
  
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• What the Newly-Passed COVID-19 Relief Bill Means for Theater and the Visual Arts - GalleristNY

  23-12-2020 19:17 via observer.com
  
  What the Newly-Passed COVID-19 Relief Bill Means for Theater and the Visual Arts  GalleristNY
  
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• With a Beloved Cafe Threatened, Broadway Stars Put on a Show

  23-12-2020 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Fans in the theater world, including Matthew Broderick and Debra Messing, will appear in a Christmas Day telethon to try to save the West Bank Cafe.
  
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• Carroll High School’s new fine arts complex is set to premiere in January - The Dallas Morning News

  23-12-2020 18:55 via dallasnews.com
  
  Carroll High School’s new fine arts complex is set to premiere in January  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Port Huron launching arts and crafts program for seniors - The Times Herald

  23-12-2020 18:52 via thetimesherald.com
  Port Huron launching arts and crafts program for seniors  The Times Herald
  
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• Supporting the arts - St Pete Catalyst

  23-12-2020 18:44 via stpetecatalyst.com
  
  Supporting the arts  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• What We Know About Clubhouse's App Influencer Program

  23-12-2020 18:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Tech investors have warmed to the idea that being a content creator is a legitimate form of business.
  
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• Clubhouse App Influencer Program: What We Know

  23-12-2020 18:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Tech investors have warmed to the idea that being a content creator is a legitimate form of business.
  
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• A Car Drove Into the Atlas Performing Arts Center Last Night - Washingtonian

  23-12-2020 18:10 via washingtonian.com
  
  A Car Drove Into the Atlas Performing Arts Center Last Night  Washingtonian
  
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• 2020 Popcast Listener Mailbag: Taylor, Dua, MGK and More

  23-12-2020 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Answering your questions about the year’s biggest stars, and also some of its curious flops.
  
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• Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year

  23-12-2020 17:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Listen as nine performers guide you through the emotional arc of Handel’s classic, from comfort to grief to jubilation.
  
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• Rebecca Luker, a Broadway Star for Three Decades, Dies at 59

  23-12-2020 17:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Her Broadway career, fueled by her crystal-clear operatic soprano, brought her Tony Award nominations for “Showboat,” “The Music Man” and “Mary Poppins.”
  
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• The Yadkin Arts Council presents an Artist Member (Art-Me) Showcase in the Welborn Gallery this January - February of 2021 - Yes! Weekly

  23-12-2020 17:27 via yesweekly.com
  
  The Yadkin Arts Council presents an Artist Member (Art-Me) Showcase in the Welborn Gallery this January - February of 2021  Yes! Weekly
  
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• Grant helps Black Swamp Arts Fest expand | News | sent-trib.com - Sentinel-Tribune

  23-12-2020 17:17 via sent-trib.com
  Grant helps Black Swamp Arts Fest expand | News | sent-trib.com  Sentinel-Tribune
  
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• Cory Walsh's favorite arts stories of 2020 | Local News | missoulian.com - Missoulian

  23-12-2020 17:00 via missoulian.com
  Cory Walsh's favorite arts stories of 2020 | Local News | missoulian.com  Missoulian
  
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• Ask a Curator: Francesco Bonami on a Tumultuous 2020 and Pantone’s Colors of the Year

  23-12-2020 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  Francesco Bonami, whose curatorial credits include the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, has returned for the tenth edition of his column, “Ask a Curator,” in which he looks back on 2020 and addresses Pantone’s colors of the year for 2021. 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 ARTnews
  It is safe to say that 2020 has been a t
  
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• Advocating and Agitating, Connecting and Inventing

  23-12-2020 16:40 via nytimes.com
  
  With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
  
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• Best of Late Night in 2020: The Show Must Go Home

  23-12-2020 16:23 via nytimes.com
  
  This year late-night hosts took their shows remote during the pandemic, got serious about America’s biggest problems and prepared to say goodbye to President Trump (eventually).
  
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• The Defining Auction Records of 2020: Young Talents Rise, Old Masters Seen Anew, and More

  23-12-2020 16:04 via artnews.com
  
  With the pandemic upending most aspects of the art world this year, top auction houses adapted their marquee sales to a new virtual format, ushering in an era of live-streamed mega-auctions. In the process, records were notched for artists with rising markets.
  At Sotheby’s, in the house’s debut live-streamed auction in June, a key work by Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler from the collection of dealer Ginny Williams sparked a bidding war, eventually selling for a reco
  
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• Local arts supported through $3.405 million in relief grants statewide - KXRO Newsradio

  23-12-2020 16:04 via kxro.com
  Local arts supported through $3.405 million in relief grants statewide  KXRO Newsradio
  
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• Artistic Director Hunter Foster Exits Redhouse Arts Center as Theatre Pauses Operations - Playbill.com

  23-12-2020 16:03 via playbill.com
  
  Artistic Director Hunter Foster Exits Redhouse Arts Center as Theatre Pauses Operations  Playbill.com
  
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• ‘It’s More Money Than I Imagined.’ So He’s Giving Some of It Away.

  23-12-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How Jeremy O. Harris has turned his good fortune into grants, commissions and donations to other playwrights, and to libraries in need.
  
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• An Online Show that Runs and Runs (and Runs)

  23-12-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Stars in the House,” a variety show and fund-raiser, started just after the Broadway shutdown. Some 250 episodes later, its creators won’t quit.
  
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• Actors and Writers and Now, Congressional Lobbyists

  23-12-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Be an #ArtsHero started with a failed effort to extend unemployment benefits. It’s gone on to be a prime proponent of the message: Cultural work is labor.
  
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• ‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: It’s the End of the World, in the Arctic

  23-12-2020 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  George Clooney takes on his biggest challenge, as both actor and director, yet: Saving humanity itself.
  
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• The Artist-Son of South Korea’s President Was Criticized for Funding His Latest Show with Corona Relief. How’s the Actual Art?

  23-12-2020 15:44 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday afternoon in Seoul, a dozen people waited outside the Keumsan Gallery to see a solo exhibition that has become a flashpoint of controversy, while a couple protesters waved flags nearby on the sidewalk. The issue at hand: the artist responsible staging the show, Moon Joon-yong (문준용), the son of South Korean president Moon Jae-in (문재인), had received a grant from a government relief fund set up to aid artists affected by the economic fallout fr
  
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