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• Oppressed by Jim Crow laws, Black students created Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts - WBAL TV Baltimore

  17-02-2021 23:56
  Oppressed by Jim Crow laws, Black students created Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts  WBAL TV Baltimore
  
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• Connecticut has eased some COVID restrictions for performing arts venues, but Infinity Hall, others say reopening is still months away - Hartford Courant

  17-02-2021 23:42
  Connecticut has eased some COVID restrictions for performing arts venues, but Infinity Hall, others say reopening is still months away  Hartford Courant
  
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• Live from the Performing Arts Center: Pianist Xiangsheng "Johnson" Qu Feb. 19 - UNLV NewsCenter

  17-02-2021 23:40
  
  Live from the Performing Arts Center: Pianist Xiangsheng "Johnson" Qu Feb. 19  UNLV NewsCenter
  
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• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Sotheby’s Sale Outperforms Expectations in First Half

  17-02-2021 23:29 via artnews.com
  
  The first segment of Sotheby’s two-part sale of works from the collection of Christo and Jeanne-Claude concluded today in Paris, netting €8 million ($9.8 million) across 28 lots. With only one lot withdrawn before the auction’s start, the first half of the sale more than doubled its pre-sale low estimate of €3.1 million ($3.7 million), with each work offered finding a buyer.
  Christo and Jeanne-Claude were recognized for their temporary monumental wrappings of public sites,
  
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• How I Made This: Oh de Laval’s Censored Album Cover

  17-02-2021 23:23 via artnews.com
  
  “I have this thing with checking my DMs before I go to sleep,” says Warsaw-born painter Oh de Laval from her studio in Manchester, where she’s lived for the past two years. “I interact with people from all over the world. When I go to sleep, it’s early in America, so I check it at midnight.”
  It’s no surprise that a rigorous DM routine would be such an important part of de Laval’s schedule: her Instagram feed is an addictive, hypnotic flow of pastel
  
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• Lawmakers restore arts funding | Greene County | hudsonvalley360.com - Hudson Valley 360

  17-02-2021 23:15
  
  Lawmakers restore arts funding | Greene County | hudsonvalley360.com  Hudson Valley 360
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitors despite daily gains - MarketWatch

  17-02-2021 23:08
  
  Electronic Arts Inc. stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitors despite daily gains  MarketWatch
  
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• TLH Arts Could Get More Time To Redraft A Proposal For New Center - WFSU

  17-02-2021 23:06
  
  TLH Arts Could Get More Time To Redraft A Proposal For New Center  WFSU
  
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• Alban Arts Center to stream production of 'Anne Frank' - Charleston Gazette-Mail

  17-02-2021 23:00
  
  Alban Arts Center to stream production of 'Anne Frank'  Charleston Gazette-Mail
  
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• ‘Live From Mount Olympus’ Review: Oh My Godsss, Who Am I?

  17-02-2021 22:54 via nytimes.com
  
  This audio series translates the Greek myth of Perseus for teens, making its hero a young man still figuring out his destiny.
  
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• Pike Liberal Arts wins first AISA state championship, topples Tuscaloosa Academy 55-51 - Montgomery Advertiser

  17-02-2021 22:51
  Pike Liberal Arts wins first AISA state championship, topples Tuscaloosa Academy 55-51  Montgomery Advertiser
  
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• Performing arts professor focuses on changing the world one class at a time - Wichita State Sunflower

  17-02-2021 22:50
  
  Performing arts professor focuses on changing the world one class at a time  Wichita State Sunflower
  
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• Art Dubai Halves Exhibitor List in Last-Minute Change to In-Person March Edition

  17-02-2021 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  As much of the world continues to delay large-scale gatherings, the organizers of Art Dubai announced in an email blast that it would tweak its in-person fair for this year, which is currently set to open in March.
  The main change is that the fair will now take place 12 days later than originally scheduled and run for two extra days, from March 29 to April 3, instead of from March 17 to March 20. For the upcoming iteration, Art Dubai will also change venues, moving from the hotel Madinat Jumeira
  
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• Oregon Arts Commission awards small grants to arts groups - Bend Bulletin

  17-02-2021 22:30
  Oregon Arts Commission awards small grants to arts groups  Bend Bulletin
  
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• Arts gala features Kermit Oliver scarves auction - Waco Tribune-Herald

  17-02-2021 22:12
  
  Arts gala features Kermit Oliver scarves auction  Waco Tribune-Herald
  
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• Capitol awarded grant to support, celebrate arts and culture - Rome Sentinel

  17-02-2021 22:00
  
  Capitol awarded grant to support, celebrate arts and culture  Rome Sentinel
  
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• Art Notes: News from the Napa Valley arts community and beyond - Napa Valley Register

  17-02-2021 21:54
  
  Art Notes: News from the Napa Valley arts community and beyond  Napa Valley Register
  
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• Indianapolis Museum of Art President Resigns Following Job Posting Centering ‘White Art Audience’

  17-02-2021 21:50 via artnews.com
  
  After the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields faced controversy over a job listing seeking a director who could maintain its “traditional, core, white art audience,” the institution’s president, Charles Venable, has resigned.
  “We are sorry. We have made mistakes. We have let you down,” the museum’s board of trustees and board of governors wrote in a notice posted to the museum’s website. “We are ashamed of Newfields’ leadership and of our
  
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• Tiger Bay panelists compare arts, culture, opportunity and equity - St Pete Catalyst

  17-02-2021 21:35
  
  Tiger Bay panelists compare arts, culture, opportunity and equity  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Charles Venable Resigns as Head of Indianapolis Museum of Art

  17-02-2021 21:28 via nytimes.com
  
  His departure comes in the wake of an insensitive job posting that appeared on a recruiting website, which the museum has since edited and apologized for.
  
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• Sotheby’s Christo Auction, Part 1, Nets $9.8 Million

  17-02-2021 21:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The 28 most valuable works the couple collected were offered in a live auction on Wednesday; a timed online sale of another 347 lots will end on Thursday.
  
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• The Dentists at Creekwood Dental Arts Attend the TDA Legislative Day to Improve Oral Health in Waco, TX - WFMZ Allentown

  17-02-2021 21:00
  The Dentists at Creekwood Dental Arts Attend the TDA Legislative Day to Improve Oral Health in Waco, TX  WFMZ Allentown
  
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• African American Theater Arts Troupe celebrates 30 years with live online performance - Santa Cruz Sentinel

  17-02-2021 21:00
  
  African American Theater Arts Troupe celebrates 30 years with live online performance  Santa Cruz Sentinel
  
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• Aerial arts studio opens permanent location in College Point following COVID-19 challenges – QNS.com - QNS.com

  17-02-2021 21:00
  Aerial arts studio opens permanent location in College Point following COVID-19 challenges – QNS.com  QNS.com
  
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• Bethany Lutheran College adds first Master of Arts program - KEYC

  17-02-2021 20:57
  
  Bethany Lutheran College adds first Master of Arts program  KEYC
  
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• Hearing on contentious Arts District food truck lot postponed - Las Vegas Review-Journal

  17-02-2021 20:52
  
  Hearing on contentious Arts District food truck lot postponed  Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
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• Funders Unite to Support Los Angeles Arts Nonprofits - The NonProfit Times

  17-02-2021 20:46
  
  Funders Unite to Support Los Angeles Arts Nonprofits  The NonProfit Times
  
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• MoMA Receives Women-Focused Photography Gift Intended to ‘Unfix the Canon’

  17-02-2021 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  As the Museum of Modern Art continues to mull new ways of presenting its holdings, the New York institution has received a donation of 100 photographs that it hopes will aid in canonizing under-recognized female artists.
  Helen Kornblum, a psychotherapist and collector who has sat on MoMA’s photography committee since 2014, has given the museum a group of works from her own holdings rich in art by women. An exhibition devoted to the gift, which includes work by 76 artists ranging from Dora
  
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• Music and Arts: Priscella Brown - KSN-TV

  17-02-2021 20:24
  Music and Arts: Priscella Brown  KSN-TV
  
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• Bridges Arts Council Featuring Singer Joe DeMasi Feb. 20 - newsdakota.com

  17-02-2021 20:17
  
  Bridges Arts Council Featuring Singer Joe DeMasi Feb. 20  newsdakota.com
  
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• Community: Floyd Center for the Arts has two new exhibits open - Roanoke Times

  17-02-2021 20:15
  Community: Floyd Center for the Arts has two new exhibits open  Roanoke Times
  
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• TikTok Is Behind Your Favorite Pop Star Remix. Here's How.

  17-02-2021 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  After a song by an unknown gains attention on the app, a trend-hopping remix with a superstar usually isn’t far behind.
  
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• How Do Pop Stars Come to TikTok? Hat in Hand, Grasping at Buzz

  17-02-2021 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  After a song by an unknown gains attention on the app, a trend-hopping remix with a superstar usually isn’t far behind.
  
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• Gasparilla Festival Of The Arts Goes Virtual For 51st Event - Patch.com

  17-02-2021 20:07
  
  Gasparilla Festival Of The Arts Goes Virtual For 51st Event  Patch.com
  
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• Dominique Fishback Gave Her Heart to ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

  17-02-2021 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Cast opposite Daniel Kaluuya, the actress was given a Black Panther love story that she had been manifesting for a really long time.
  
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• Pierre Paulin’s Otherworldly Couches Fit for Pop Stars

  17-02-2021 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  There is an image that bounces around certain design-centric corners of the Internet with increasing frequency. It is a photo of a man lounging on a sprawling, low-slung teal sofa in a sun-drenched living room, his face shielded into anonymity. The man is the elusive musician and overall tastemaker Frank Ocean, and the photo feels like catnip for decor-minded millennial men. Ocean initially posted the photo to his personal Instagram account in October of 2019 and it continues to have legs some y
  
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• From Lagos to Los Angeles, an African Art Gallery Arrives

  17-02-2021 19:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Adenrele Sonariwo has brought her Nigerian sensibility to Melrose Avenue, with a show focusing on women.
  
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• African Art, Firsthand, in Los Angeles

  17-02-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Adenrele Sonariwo has brought her Lagos gallery to Melrose Avenue, with a show focusing on new stories told by women.
  
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• Cuesta College Performing Arts Center Now Providing COVID-19 Vaccines • Paso Robles Press - The Paso Robles Press

  17-02-2021 19:20
  
  Cuesta College Performing Arts Center Now Providing COVID-19 Vaccines • Paso Robles Press  The Paso Robles Press
  
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• Tenille Arts performed live for “Galentine's Day” - Talk Radio 1210 WPHT

  17-02-2021 19:08
  Tenille Arts performed live for “Galentine's Day”  Talk Radio 1210 WPHT
  
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• Arts Focus: Partnership Between Arlington Transit and Arlington Arts Has Placed Poetry in Motion for 22 Years - ARLnow

  17-02-2021 19:00
  
  Arts Focus: Partnership Between Arlington Transit and Arlington Arts Has Placed Poetry in Motion for 22 Years  ARLnow
  
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• Brattleboro resident made trustee of Vermont Arts Council - Brattleboro Reformer

  17-02-2021 18:44
  
  Brattleboro resident made trustee of Vermont Arts Council  Brattleboro Reformer
  
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• The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc

  17-02-2021 18:33 via nytimes.com
  
  With live performances still largely shut down, the group Klangforum Wien has released a five-album set of solos and premieres.
  
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• How to Stop Moths? Blickling Hall Tries Bringing in Wasps

  17-02-2021 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Blickling Hall, a centuries-old building in England, is trying to protect its priceless tapestries, carpets and furniture with thousands and thousands of microscopic wasps.
  
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• Review: ‘It’s a Sin’ Tells the Stories That Were and Could Have Been

  17-02-2021 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The Russell T. Davies series about young gay men at the onset of AIDS is heartbreaking but also full of life.
  
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• UCF takes steps to expand performing arts complex in Orlando - Orlando - Orlando Business Journal

  17-02-2021 18:03
  UCF takes steps to expand performing arts complex in Orlando - Orlando  Orlando Business Journal
  
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• Sierra Arts Foundation Grant Helps Local Dance Company - KTVN

  17-02-2021 18:01
  
  Sierra Arts Foundation Grant Helps Local Dance Company  KTVN
  
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• UCSB Arts & Lectures Serves Up Chefs in Conversation - Noozhawk

  17-02-2021 18:00
  
  UCSB Arts & Lectures Serves Up Chefs in Conversation  Noozhawk
  
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• Arts Council Annual Meeting set for March 2, 2021 - Gettysburg Connection

  17-02-2021 17:52
  
  Arts Council Annual Meeting set for March 2, 2021  Gettysburg Connection
  
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• Maria Eichhorn, Quick-Witted Conceptual Artist, to Represent Germany at 2022 Venice Biennale

  17-02-2021 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  For its national pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale in Italy, Germany has picked Maria Eichhorn, a mainstay at European biennials whose work frequently deals with the knotty relationships between money, politics, art, and institutions. Yilmaz Dziewior, director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, will curate the pavilion.
  Eichhorn, who is based in Berlin, is widely known in the European art circuit for her deft conceptual artworks that largely take the form of behind-the-scenes transactions and t
  
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