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• Inside The Arts: Stogie Kenyatta's One Man Show Highlights America's First Black Renaissance Man - WWNO

  21-01-2021 23:52
  
  Inside The Arts: Stogie Kenyatta's One Man Show Highlights America's First Black Renaissance Man  WWNO
  
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• CVCC liberal arts program to be absorbed by general studies pathway - WSET

  21-01-2021 23:40
  CVCC liberal arts program to be absorbed by general studies pathway  WSET
  
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• A Literary Trailblazer’s Solitary Death: Charles Saunders, 73

  21-01-2021 23:32 via nytimes.com
  
  His speculative fiction was built on Black heroes and African themes. He died alone and unrecognized, but friends are trying to make amends.
  
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• Jump-Starting an Arts Revival - The Wall Street Journal

  21-01-2021 23:18
  
  Jump-Starting an Arts Revival  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• He Called His Song ‘American Anthem.’ It Actually Became One.

  21-01-2021 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When President Biden quoted Gene Scheer’s song in his inaugural address, it solidified its transformation from art song to Norah Jones tune on a Ken Burns soundtrack to patriotic hymn.
  
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• Elijah Moshinsky, Favored Met Opera Director, Dies at 75

  21-01-2021 22:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Moshinsky, known for mixing traditional staging ideas with modern touches, also created productions for the Royal Opera and Opera Australia. He died of Covid-19.
  
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• School of Visual Arts to kick off Anderson Lecture Series on Feb. 1 | Penn State University - Penn State News

  21-01-2021 22:03
  
  School of Visual Arts to kick off Anderson Lecture Series on Feb. 1 | Penn State University  Penn State News
  
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• Several local artists receive top award and $4K in funding from Ohio Arts Council - dayton.com

  21-01-2021 22:02
  Several local artists receive top award and $4K in funding from Ohio Arts Council  dayton.com
  
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• Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self

  21-01-2021 21:42 via nytimes.com
  
  “I Am the Object” proves that, whether through sculpture or painting, the artist’s primary concern was capturing the essence of Black life and communal memory.
  
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• State Arts Council awards $750,192 in grants to 120 arts and culture programs, educators, and folk artists - What'sUpNewp

  21-01-2021 21:14
  
  State Arts Council awards $750,192 in grants to 120 arts and culture programs, educators, and folk artists  What'sUpNewp
  
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• Several local artists receive top award and $4K in funding from Ohio Arts Council - Hamilton Journal News

  21-01-2021 21:11
  Several local artists receive top award and $4K in funding from Ohio Arts Council  Hamilton Journal News
  
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• Epicenter for the Arts relocates to Gateway Plaza in Southlake - Community Impact Newspaper

  21-01-2021 20:38
  
  Epicenter for the Arts relocates to Gateway Plaza in Southlake  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• It's Time to Learn to Be an Arts Advocate — Sightlines - Sightlines

  21-01-2021 20:15
  
  It's Time to Learn to Be an Arts Advocate — Sightlines  Sightlines
  
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• Looking for a Great Courtroom Drama? Start Here

  21-01-2021 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  “Anatomy of a Murder,” starring Jimmy Stewart, is a legal drama that trusts audiences to dwell in gray areas.
  
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• Review: One Belfast Landmark Inspires Five Irish Monologues

  21-01-2021 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The excellent program of short audioplays commissioned for “Under the Albert Clock” imagines the world in 2050.
  
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• Lewis-Clark State Center For Arts & History to Open Two Exhibits on Friday, January 22 - bigcountrynewsconnection.com

  21-01-2021 19:54
  Lewis-Clark State Center For Arts & History to Open Two Exhibits on Friday, January 22  bigcountrynewsconnection.com
  
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• 'Heroes and Villains' exhibit scheduled at arts center - Daily American Online

  21-01-2021 19:45
  'Heroes and Villains' exhibit scheduled at arts center  Daily American Online
  
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• Glastonbury Festival Canceled for a Second Year Due to Pandemic

  21-01-2021 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Britain’s biggest music event won’t take place for a second year in a row. The decision has sent shock waves across Europe, where festivals have already been asking politicians for help.
  
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• Glastonbury Canceled Again, Casting Doubt Over Europe’s Music Festivals

  21-01-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Britain’s biggest music event won’t taken place for a second year in a row. The decision has sent shock waves across Europe, where festivals have already been asking politicians for help.
  
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• John Collins leaving St. Petersburg Arts Alliance - St Pete Catalyst

  21-01-2021 18:59
  
  John Collins leaving St. Petersburg Arts Alliance  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez Led a Musically Earnest Inauguration

  21-01-2021 18:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists including Bruce Springsteen, Demi Lovato and John Legend tried to bring together an America that couldn’t gather in person, and irony and bombast were banished.
  
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• Critic Antwaun Sargent Joins Gagosian as Director and Curator

  21-01-2021 18:40 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, one of the world’s biggest galleries, with over a dozen locations, has named Antwaun Sargent a director and curator, according to the New York Times. The 32-year-old writer plans to dedicate his time to artists whose practices examine prescient issues of identity and representation. He will be based in New York City as one of around 30 directors working across the gallery’s sprawling operation.
  For about a decade, Sargent has written about and curated exhibitions devoted to
  
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• Art Basel, Swiss Centerpiece of the Trade’s Year, Is Postponed

  21-01-2021 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Dealers were looking to the event as a bellwether for a return to normality in the art world.
  
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• Steps from George Floyd Square, this arts center was forged in community - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  21-01-2021 18:21
  
  Steps from George Floyd Square, this arts center was forged in community  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
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• The Terrifying Cynicism of Teeter-Totter Wall

  21-01-2021 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  On the morning of July 28, 2019, the architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello drove up to an 18-foot-tall barrier of rusted slats that cuts through the desert between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, marking the US-Mexico border. There, just about five miles from the nearest checkpoint, they installed Teeter-Totter Wall: three pink seesaws that extend to both sides of the wall. They publicized their intervention with an Instagram post that included a drone-shot video of smiling children
  
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• Get Pristine Images with the Best Printers for Photos

  21-01-2021 18:15 via artnews.com
  
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  It’s almost impossible to find a printer that is easy to set up, works as it should, and produces perfect results. That challenge is even more difficult when it comes to printing photographs, since so many factors are at work, from an image’s resolution to its color. Whether you’re printing ph
  
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• How an Astrophysicist and a Painter Stared Down Black Holes

  21-01-2021 18:12 via artnews.com
  
  The prospect of travel into (but definitely not out of) black holes may be uncommon subject matter for artist commissions, but it makes sense in the world of Janna Levin. The author of a new book that counts as her second focused on black holes, Levin is also a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University as well as the founding director of the science studios at Pioneer Works, an interdisciplinary arts space in Brooklyn. It was there that she first worked closely with Lia Halloran,
  
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• Grant to boost arts programs at NEO | News | joplinglobe.com - Joplin Globe

  21-01-2021 18:08
  Grant to boost arts programs at NEO | News | joplinglobe.com  Joplin Globe
  
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• Bernie Sanders Stars in Art History’s Greatest Artworks in New Viral Meme

  21-01-2021 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  In art history courses, Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs (1965) is a staple. It is, to some degree, exactly what it sounds like—a piece of furniture rendered three different ways, as a physical object, a photograph of it, and a text with its dictionary definition. Typically, you can’t enjoy the comfort of being in Kosuth’s chair, but on Twitter, in one viral post from yesterday, the work finally got an unexpected sitter: Bernie Sanders.
  No, the beloved Vermont senator
  
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• Local study will explore how arts can help reduce loneliness - The Keene Sentinel

  21-01-2021 18:00
  Local study will explore how arts can help reduce loneliness  The Keene Sentinel
  
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• Do Museums Need a Shopping Network for Art Donations?

  21-01-2021 17:57 via nytimes.com
  
  A new venture suggests it will help art institutions find works of art that collectors have decided they want to give away as gifts.
  
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• A TV Grand Tour, in Time for the Weekend

  21-01-2021 17:56 via nytimes.com
  
  A jam-packed itinerary of premieres includes France (“Call My Agent!”), Italy (“Gomorrah”), Israel (“Losing Alice”) and Britain (“Flack” and “The Sister”).
  
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• The Gloopy Glory of Frank Auerbach’s Portraits

  21-01-2021 17:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist’s industrious paintings and drawings, made across four decades, are now on view at Luhring Augustine.
  
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• Palberta Blend Big-Tent Pop and Art-Rock on ‘Palberta5000’

  21-01-2021 17:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York trio remains gleefully odd on an album recorded in just four days.
  
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• Gagosian Names a New Director and Curator

  21-01-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Antwaun Sargent, a critic and author, plans to work with artists who are thinking about contemporary issues around identity, desire and representation.
  
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• Weekly Arts Round Up, January 21, 2021 - Georgetowner

  21-01-2021 16:59
  
  Weekly Arts Round Up, January 21, 2021  Georgetowner
  
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• At the Inauguration, Amanda Gorman Wove History and the Future Into a Stirring Melody

  21-01-2021 16:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Gorman’s reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” on Wednesday combined the personal and political.
  
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• At the Inauguration, Amanda Gorman Weaved History and the Future Into a Stirring Melody

  21-01-2021 16:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Gorman’s reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” on Wednesday combined the personal and political.
  
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• Longtime UL College of the Arts dean announces retirement, interim leadership named - KATC Lafayette News

  21-01-2021 16:47
  
  Longtime UL College of the Arts dean announces retirement, interim leadership named  KATC Lafayette News
  
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• President Biden Picks Oval Office Art, Inauguration Spotlights Paintings, and More: Morning Links from January 21, 2021

  21-01-2021 16:31 via artnews.com
  
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  PERFORMERS WERE THE STARS OF YESTERDAY’S INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES, with singers like Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi, and Bruce Springsteen participating in the celebration of President Biden and Vice President Harris, and poet Amanda Gorman delivering an address that stole the show, but visual art is
  
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• Wood Gaylor, Quietly Dazzling, Helped an Art World Invent Itself

  21-01-2021 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Two shows introduce a forgotten innovator who fused modernism, folk art and documentary to portray his beloved New York scene.
  
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• Red Arts Capital acquires Canadian 3PL Radius Logistics - FreightWaves

  21-01-2021 16:29
  
  Red Arts Capital acquires Canadian 3PL Radius Logistics  FreightWaves
  
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• A Free Arts Center Is Coming To The West Side, Along With Therapeutic Art Programs For Youth - Block Club Chicago

  21-01-2021 16:05
  
  A Free Arts Center Is Coming To The West Side, Along With Therapeutic Art Programs For Youth  Block Club Chicago
  
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• Playing Bach, Was He a Pioneer or a Reactionary?

  21-01-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The conductor and keyboardist Karl Richter’s legacy can be explored anew with a 100-disc box set.
  
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• Lawmakers Push for ‘Selena’ to Be Added to National Film Registry

  21-01-2021 15:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Lawmakers and experts hope that by adding the film to the National Film Registry, more doors could open for Latinos in movies and television.
  
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• Citing International Travel Restrictions, Art Basel Delays Marquee Swiss Fair Until September

  21-01-2021 15:37 via artnews.com
  
  With the pandemic still raging on and the art world’s social calendar still in flux, the world’s largest fair said that it would delay its in-person gathering from summer to fall.
  Art Basel will postpone its June fair in Switzerland until September 23–26, with two preview days beginning September 21, citing the ongoing pandemic and international travel restrictions. In its announcement, the fair said that, though Covid-19 vaccination programs have begun in many countries around
  
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• An inside look at G-E-T's new Performing Arts Center - WXOW.com

  21-01-2021 15:34
  
  An inside look at G-E-T's new Performing Arts Center  WXOW.com
  
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• Moynihan Train Hall Becomes a Destination: ‘This Gives Us Hope’

  21-01-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pandemic-weary visitors are finding uplift in the new station, with its soaring expanses of glass and light. “Perfect quarantine activity,” one says.
  
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• Moynihan Train Hall Becomes a Destination For New Yorkers

  21-01-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pandemic-weary visitors are finding uplift in the new station, with its soaring expanses of glass and light. “Perfect quarantine activity,” one says.
  
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• 5 Online Arts Options For Northeast Ohio Jan. 21-27 | Arts & Culture | ideastream - ideastream

  21-01-2021 15:00
  
  5 Online Arts Options For Northeast Ohio Jan. 21-27 | Arts & Culture | ideastream  ideastream
  
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