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• Bobby Shmurda Eligible for Release From Prison in February

  04-01-2021 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Brooklyn rapper, whose viral ascent was cut short by gang conspiracy charges, may serve the remainder of his seven-year sentence on parole, thanks to good behavior.
  
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• I.R.S. Says Prince’s Estate Worth Twice What Administrators Reported

  04-01-2021 23:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The federal government is seeking nearly $39 million in taxes and fees based on a valuation of Prince’s assets that his estate disputes.
  
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• Plans to Raze Louis Kahn-Designed Dorms in India Are on Hold

  04-01-2021 22:48 via nytimes.com
  
  After an outcry from preservationists and architects, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad said that it would reconvene to consider the dorms’ future.
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: The Center Names Inaugural Activists-in-Residence—and More from January 5, 2021

  04-01-2021 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  Tuesday, January 5
  The Center Names Inaugural Activists-in-ResidenceThe Center in New York has announced the inaugural fellows of its Activist-in-Residence Fellowship Program, both of whom are based in Brooklyn: Dominic Bradley, a nonbinary artist and educator whose work spans visual art, writing, and performance, and Joshua Allen, a nonbinary artist and founder of the Black Excellence Collective, a gathering space for Black LGBTQI+ young people. Each recipient will receive b
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Six Philadelphia Cultural Institutions Announce 2021 Reopening Dates—and More from January 4, 2021

  04-01-2021 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, January 4
  Six Philadelphia Cultural Institutions Announce 2021 Reopening DatesFollowing temporary closures that have been in effect just before the Thanksgiving holiday, six institutions in Philadelphia have made plans to reopen in 2021. The Franklin Institute will reopen to the public January 6, and the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Academy of Natural Sciences will reopen January 8. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts&nb
  
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• Pullman project combines historic preservation, promotion of the arts in one project - Chicago Tribune

  04-01-2021 22:23 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Pullman project combines historic preservation, promotion of the arts in one project  Chicago Tribune
  
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• For Head Start students, the arts endure | Pandemic 2020 - Rutland Herald

  04-01-2021 22:23 via rutlandherald.com
  For Head Start students, the arts endure | Pandemic 2020  Rutland Herald
  
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• Listen to Rudolph: A New Year Is Both a Comfort and a Fiction

  04-01-2021 22:06 via nytimes.com
  
  A 1976 TV movie that imagined years as people is a helpful reminder that a new page on the calendar is an arbitrary creation.
  
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• The Top 10 Columbus Arts Organizations - ColumbusUnderground.com - columbusunderground

  04-01-2021 21:33 via columbusunderground.com
  
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• COVID In Colorado: Final Week To Apply For Colorado Arts Relief Fund - CBS Denver

  04-01-2021 21:04 via denver.cbslocal.com
  
  COVID In Colorado: Final Week To Apply For Colorado Arts Relief Fund  CBS Denver
  
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• Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice

  04-01-2021 20:40 via nytimes.com
  
  A contentious publishing experience left Laymon unsatisfied with his 2013 collection, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.” Now he’s back with Take 2.
  
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• ‘Spiral’ Review: A Peerless Policier Takes On Its Final Case

  04-01-2021 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  France’s answer to “The Wire” and “Law & Order” begins its final season on MHz Choice.
  
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• Now Is the Time to Address Issues of Accessibility for Artists and Institutions

  04-01-2021 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  This past summer, even as it was becoming clear that 2020 would be remembered for the abrupt funneling of social and professional life onto virtual platforms, I came to think it might also be the year that we once and for all expanded our notions of accessibility in physical space. The impetus for this came when artist Carmen Papalia and I got together for a talk to examine how “access”—a term used loosely in the cultural sector to encapsulate everything from disability rights
  
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• Playboi Carti’s Quiet Christmas Release Is His First No. 1

  04-01-2021 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper’s “Whole Lotta Red” was largely unreviewed by the music press (though it led to a Twitter hubbub), and was streamed 126 million times in its opening week.
  
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• An art campus 'under one roof': CREATE Center for the Arts moves into larger building in Palm Desert - Desert Sun

  04-01-2021 18:39 via desertsun.com
  
  An art campus 'under one roof': CREATE Center for the Arts moves into larger building in Palm Desert  Desert Sun
  
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• St. Helena arts nonprofit Nimbus Arts looks back on 15 years - Napa Valley Register

  04-01-2021 18:15 via napavalleyregister.com
  St. Helena arts nonprofit Nimbus Arts looks back on 15 years  Napa Valley Register
  
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• Previously Unknown El Greco Painting Comes to Light in Spain

  04-01-2021 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  A small-scale painting of Jesus Christ wearing the crown of thorns and carrying the cross has been authenticated as a work by the Renaissance painter El Greco. According to a report by the Spanish newspaper El País, the work, which is owned by a private collector, was attributed to El Greco after it was studied at the Center d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM) at the University of Lleida in Spain.
  Ximo Company, professor of art history and director of CAEM, worked with the lat
  
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• Oversight of Antiquities Trade, Gagosian AWOL from San Francisco, and More: Morning Links from January 4, 2021

  04-01-2021 16:41 via artnews.com
  
  Good morning! Happy New Year!We are back. We are glad that you are, too. Below, a quick rundown of how 2021 is beginning in the art world: new antiquities regulations are on deck, the shape of the Gagosian empire is changing, and a boatload of new public art is in the offing.
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  THE BIG NEWS OUT OF WASHINGTON is President Trump’s attempt
  
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• Kerry Vincent, co-founder of Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show and Food Network star, dies - Tulsa World

  04-01-2021 16:32 via tulsaworld.com
  Kerry Vincent, co-founder of Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show and Food Network star, dies  Tulsa World
  
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• The View from Inside

  04-01-2021 15:57 via artnews.com
  
  One reason Peter Zumthor’s design of a new flagship building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has drawn so much fire is that it forgoes galleries designed to group works of art by period and nation, in the classic style of the encyclopedic museum. Instead, the new LACMA will stage intimate encounters with art in an atmospheric space that appeals to gut feeling rather than historical knowledge. Zumthor hopes there won’t be labels. LACMA Director Michael Govan said he wanted &l
  
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• The Blockbuster Avant-Garde

  04-01-2021 15:57 via artnews.com
  
  Visitors to teamLab Planets, an art venue in Tokyo run by the eponymous art collective, can wade in a knee-deep pool of water, where images of koi fish projected onto the water’s surface dart around their legs, leaving trails of multicolored light in their wakes. Reach down to cup a koi, and it bursts into flowers—cherry blossoms in the spring, sunflowers in the summer—that scatter in the pool. The artwork, as teamLab understands it, is not the structure of the pool or the proj
  
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• Arts Center of Saint Peter offers online "art dates" - Southernminn.com

  04-01-2021 15:39 via southernminn.com
  Arts Center of Saint Peter offers online "art dates"  Southernminn.com
  
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• Playing the ‘Green Lottery’: Life Inside Colombia’s Emerald Mines

  04-01-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For many of the men who hunt for the country’s prized gems, the mines are like casinos in the middle of the Andes: One stone could change it all.
  
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• John Thompson Was More — Much More — Than a Basketball Coach

  04-01-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his autobiography, “I Came as a Shadow,” Thompson recalls his childhood in segregated Washington, D.C., and his decades as both an athletic and a cultural force.
  
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• As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken

  04-01-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Kill Switch,” Adam Jentleson explains how the Senate has become a place where ambitious legislation goes to die.
  
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• The Top 10 Columbus Arts Organizations - columbusunderground

  04-01-2021 09:00 via columbusunderground.com
  
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• The Top 10 Arts & Culture Institutions in Columbus - columbusunderground

  04-01-2021 09:00 via columbusunderground.com
  
  The Top 10 Arts & Culture Institutions in Columbus  columbusunderground
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Mr. Mayor’ and ‘Tiger’

  04-01-2021 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ted Danson plays a Los Angeles mayor in a new NBC sitcom. And HBO debuts the first part of a documentary about Tiger Woods.
  
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• Ruth Houghton, crash victim, was dynamo for arts groups and longtime Fresh Air Fund board member - Berkshire Eagle

  04-01-2021 00:00 via berkshireeagle.com
  
  Ruth Houghton, crash victim, was dynamo for arts groups and longtime Fresh Air Fund board member  Berkshire Eagle
  
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