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• Local non-profit providing relief for musicians to keep the arts alive - WREX-TV

  04-02-2021 23:44
  
  Local non-profit providing relief for musicians to keep the arts alive  WREX-TV
  
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• Ashley for the Arts announce headliners - WEAU

  04-02-2021 23:33
  
  Ashley for the Arts announce headliners  WEAU
  
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• A look at renovations inside the Strand Center for the Arts - WCAX

  04-02-2021 23:29
  
  A look at renovations inside the Strand Center for the Arts  WCAX
  
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• UIS Visual Arts Gallery – The Journal - The Journal

  04-02-2021 23:07
  
  UIS Visual Arts Gallery – The Journal  The Journal
  
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• Sedona Arts Center welcomes new Executive Director Julie Richard - Sedona Red Rock News

  04-02-2021 22:49
  
  Sedona Arts Center welcomes new Executive Director Julie Richard  Sedona Red Rock News
  
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• Sandie Crisp, ‘Goddess Bunny’ of the Underground Scene, Dies at 61

  04-02-2021 22:48 via nytimes.com
  
  She became a muse among the Hollywood avant-garde, appearing in movies, music videos and photographs. She died of Covid-19.
  
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• Falls Church Arts Gets Crafty with Free Valentine's Card Workshop - Tysons Reporter

  04-02-2021 22:30
  
  Falls Church Arts Gets Crafty with Free Valentine's Card Workshop  Tysons Reporter
  
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• Arts Etc. - February 3, 2021 - The International Examiner

  04-02-2021 22:30
  
  Arts Etc. - February 3, 2021  The International Examiner
  
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• Arts of the Pamlico and Flying Pig Provisions partner for next arts council project - Washington Daily News - thewashingtondailynews.com

  04-02-2021 22:21
  
  Arts of the Pamlico and Flying Pig Provisions partner for next arts council project - Washington Daily News  thewashingtondailynews.com
  
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• New free arts and music events from UAB announced for 2021 - UAB News

  04-02-2021 22:05
  
  New free arts and music events from UAB announced for 2021  UAB News
  
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• Turner, Fragonard, Guardi Buoy Old Master Drawings Sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s

  04-02-2021 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  While Christie’s does not stage Old Master paintings sales in New York in January, it does still go head-to-head with Sotheby’s for drawings. But the record shows the former house trailing. In 2019, it was $15 million to $2.7 million in favor of Sotheby’s, and in 2020, $15.1 million (including a $11.7 million Mantegna) at Sotheby’s compared to $5.4 million at Christie’s.
  Last week, Christie’s opened the latest round with a comfortable $3.9 million for a sale t
  
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• In the Months After a Devastating Blast, Beirut’s Art Scene Searches for New Life

  04-02-2021 21:17 via artnews.com
  
  The first book I pulled out of my library in the aftermath of the devastating Beirut Port explosion in August was Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz), a collection of correspondence written by the artist, poet, writer Etel Adnan between 1990 and 1992. She wrote the letters from different cities and addressed them, as the title suggests, to her friend, Lebanese historian Fawwaz Traboulsi. Adnan’s words surged back to mind more and more during the mournful, exhausting, and angry month
  
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• Eva Coutaz, a Record Label Force for Quality, Dies at 77

  04-02-2021 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  An executive with the respected label Harmonia Mundi, she shaped classical music careers and public tastes in turning out incomparable recordings from a French farmhouse.
  
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• The Weeknd’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Breaks With Tradition

  04-02-2021 21:09 via nytimes.com
  
  This time, the field won’t be swarming with fans crowding the stage. In fact, the stage won’t be on the field at all, but in the stands.
  
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• Paris Hilton Has a Podcast, With a Twist

  04-02-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The aughts fixture and proto-influencer’s new show aims to stake out a middle ground between podcasting and social media.
  
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• Trump Resigns From Screen Actors Guild

  04-02-2021 20:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Top officials at SAG-AFTRA had cited the former president for his role in inciting the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last month. With a disciplinary hearing looming, Mr. Trump made his exit.
  
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• $20 M. Rembrandt Belonging to Met Trustee Sells Privately at Sotheby’s

  04-02-2021 20:41 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, global audiences watched in awe as Sotheby’s sold a rare 15th-century Sandro Botticelli portrait for $92.2 million in New York, making it the second-most expensive Old Masters lot ever auctioned. While the Botticelli went on to over-perform, a minuscule Rembrandt painting poised to be one of the sale’s top works failed to impress—the guaranteed lot was withdrawn in the days before the auction began.
  Now, however, it appears the Rembrandt has found a home after all. T
  
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• Prison, Mall, Web Ring

  04-02-2021 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  Sundance, a festival notorious for creating bidding wars over hothouse indie flowers that die outside Park City, was presented remotely this year, promising a purer, more accessible experience: no need to book a trip to the expensive ski town to take in the program. But experiencing some of the projects presented in New Frontier, the new media/VR program, required special hardware and the skills to use it correctly, which gave it a whiff of 1990s internet culture. Appropriately, the offerings fi
  
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• Metro Arts, Curb Center Awarded $50,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to Relaunch, Expand Racial Equity in Arts Leadership - Nashville.gov

  04-02-2021 20:38
  Metro Arts, Curb Center Awarded $50,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to Relaunch, Expand Racial Equity in Arts Leadership  Nashville.gov
  
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• Nick Cave Prevails in Legal Battle Over Artwork in Upstate New York

  04-02-2021 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  A months-long legal controversy surrounding a 160-foot-long Nick Cave work has reached a conclusion, with a victory for the artist and his gallerist Jack Shainman. On February 2, the zoning board of Kinderhook, New York, voted unanimously in favor of the monumental text piece, acknowledging for the first time that it is indeed an artwork and so protected under the First Amendment. In explaining their decision, the board stated that Cave’s words “were displayed as a political message
  
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• Call for Art from the Arts Center of the Capital Region - Saratoga TODAY Newspaper

  04-02-2021 20:19
  
  Call for Art from the Arts Center of the Capital Region  Saratoga TODAY Newspaper
  
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• NEA awards $1.3 million to Texas arts groups in first round of 2021 funding — Sightlines - Sightlines

  04-02-2021 20:06
  
  NEA awards $1.3 million to Texas arts groups in first round of 2021 funding — Sightlines  Sightlines
  
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• Faced with a pandemic, local arts organizations "roll with the punches" with outdoor performances - WMFE

  04-02-2021 20:06
  
  Faced with a pandemic, local arts organizations "roll with the punches" with outdoor performances  WMFE
  
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• New York City Ballet Dancers to Step Back Onstage

  04-02-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New works by the choreographers Kyle Abraham and Justin Peck will be filmed at the David H. Koch Theater for the coming digital season.
  
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• Bowers Museum receives $110,000 Nicholas Endowment grant supporting its arts outreach programs - Los Angeles Times

  04-02-2021 19:52
  
  Bowers Museum receives $110,000 Nicholas Endowment grant supporting its arts outreach programs  Los Angeles Times
  
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• Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts With Stolen User Names

  04-02-2021 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Accounts operating under rare “O.G. user names” obtained through hacking were banned on Thursday after a monthslong investigation.
  
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• Bee Cave Arts Foundation seeks community feedback regarding arts and culture master plan - Community Impact Newspaper

  04-02-2021 19:25
  
  Bee Cave Arts Foundation seeks community feedback regarding arts and culture master plan  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• Instagram Leads Crackdown on Account Fraud

  04-02-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Hundreds of accounts operating under stolen “O.G. user names” were banned on Thursday after a monthslong investigation.
  
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• ‘The Equalizer’ Review: Queen Latifah on the CBS Assembly Line

  04-02-2021 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  A new series puts a woman in the gun-toting Robin Hood role previously played by Edward Woodward and Denzel Washington, but not much else has changed.
  
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• In Frank Stella’s Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution

  04-02-2021 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition in Connecticut unites two dozen works featuring a single motif, reaffirming the restlessness of this painter’s progress.
  
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• Photography in the Raw

  04-02-2021 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own.
  
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• SAG Awards 2021 Nominations: ‘Minari’ Comes on Strong

  04-02-2021 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  “Da 5 Bloods,” snubbed by the Golden Globes, also advances with multiple nominations. Last year’s winner, “Parasite,” went on to take best picture at the Oscars.
  
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• SAG Award Nominations: ‘Minari’ Comes on Strong, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Revived

  04-02-2021 18:50 via nytimes.com
  
  “Da 5 Bloods,” snubbed by the Golden Globes, also advances with multiple nominations. Last year’s winner, “Parasite,” went on to take best picture at the Oscars.
  
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• Emily Mae Smith, Figurative Painter with Ascendant Market, Joins Petzel Gallery

  04-02-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Emily Mae Smith, whose beguiling figurative, Symbolism-inspired paintings of brooms and women with bangs and eyeglasses have captivated the art world over the last few years, has joined Petzel gallery in New York.
  Her first solo show with the gallery will be in 2022, and the artist will continue to be represented by Perrotin in Paris and Asia and Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. In an email, Smith, whose paintings reliant upon a myriad of art historical references have a distinctly feminist bent, s
  
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• Ogden Contemporary Arts holding grand opening, featuring interactive exhibit - Standard-Examiner

  04-02-2021 17:00
  Ogden Contemporary Arts holding grand opening, featuring interactive exhibit  Standard-Examiner
  
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• Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books

  04-02-2021 16:28 via nytimes.com
  
  “I don’t. Often this is a problem.”
  
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• How the Pandemic Is Coming to Prime Time. (Or Not.)

  04-02-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As series roll out after pandemic delays, they’re trying to predict what audiences want: Television that reflects our shared Covid reality? Or that provides a distraction from it?
  
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• Parrish Art Museum Nabs New Director, First Hilma af Klint Show in Australia, and More: Morning Links from February 4, 2021

  04-02-2021 15:25 via artnews.com
  
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  CURATOR KELLY TAXTER HAS BEEN TAPPED TO BE THE NEXT DIRECTOR of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, the New York Times reports. Taxter is currently a curator of contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York, and before that she was an art dealer. She cofounded the Manhattan gallery Taxter & Spen
  
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• What To Stream This Week From Northeast Ohio Arts Community - ideastream

  04-02-2021 15:00
  
  What To Stream This Week From Northeast Ohio Arts Community  ideastream
  
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• Meet a more diverse Vermont in new Arts Council exhibit - vtdigger.org - vtdigger.org

  04-02-2021 14:41
  
  Meet a more diverse Vermont in new Arts Council exhibit - vtdigger.org  vtdigger.org
  
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• ‘Two of Us’ Review: Thwarted Love

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An older lesbian couple is met with unexpected devastation in this aching romantic drama by Filippo Meneghetti.
  
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• ‘Son of the South’ Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sometimes absorbing, sometimes mortifyingly tone-deaf, the film dramatizes the memoir of the white civil rights figure Bob Zellner.
  
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• ‘Rams’ Review: Ailing Sheep and Quirky Characters

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This comedy-drama starring Sam Neill, Michael Caton and Miranda Richardson depicts a catastrophe for a farming community in Western Australia.
  
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• ‘M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity’ Review: Is It Art?

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A documentary examines the methods and interests of this Dutch printmaker, who felt his work was also indebted to mathematics.
  
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• ‘Malcolm & Marie’ Review: Fight Flub

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A gorgeous Hollywood couple has an extended, exhausting argument in this claustrophobic example of pandemic filmmaking from Netflix.
  
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• ‘Little Fish’ Review: Do You Remember Love?

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This sci-fi romance imagines a world with widespread memory loss through the eyes of one couple.
  
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• ‘Falling’ Review: Father and Son Reunion

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Viggo Mortensen writes, directs and stars in this lacerating drama about a son dealing with his father’s mental decline.
  
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• ‘Bliss’ Review: A High Concept, Under-Designed

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Not even the charisma of Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek could energize this science-fiction film about telekinetic drifters.
  
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• ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation?

  04-02-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary, from the director of “Room 237,” is a lively yet superficial exploration of the theory that our reality is actually a computer simulation.
  
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• Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes

  04-02-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.”
  
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