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• Learn Glass and Metal Arts at Studio 34 Creative Arts Center - Spectrum News

  01-03-2021 23:34
  
  Learn Glass and Metal Arts at Studio 34 Creative Arts Center  Spectrum News
  
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• The Depot brings back virtual arts, poetry, music with reboot of "Depot TV" - The Oklahoma Daily

  01-03-2021 22:37
  The Depot brings back virtual arts, poetry, music with reboot of "Depot TV"  The Oklahoma Daily
  
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• Keeping the Irish arts alive | Local | dailyjournalonline.com - Daily Journal Online

  01-03-2021 22:15
  
  Keeping the Irish arts alive | Local | dailyjournalonline.com  Daily Journal Online
  
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• The 10 Most Expensive KAWS Works Ever Sold at Auction

  01-03-2021 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  New Jersey–born artist Brian Donnelly, also known as KAWS, got his start as a street artist in the 1990s, and within the next decade, he went on to become a global sensation in the contemporary art world. Drawing his references from pop culture, KAWS is recognized for the cartoon-like imagery he deploys.
  In the 1980s, Donnelly studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York, later working as a cartoon animator for Disney. By the 1990s, he began experimenting with graffiti, pa
  
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• Fitch Downgrades University of the Arts, PA Revs to 'BB'; Outlook Negative - Fitch Ratings

  01-03-2021 21:38
  Fitch Downgrades University of the Arts, PA Revs to 'BB'; Outlook Negative  Fitch Ratings
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Perrotin Adds Alain Jacquet to Roster—and More from March 1, 2021

  01-03-2021 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, March 1
  Perrotin Adds Alain Jacquet to RosterAlain Jacquet, a French artist involved with the Nouveau Réalisme and the Nouvelle Figuration movements of the 1960s and ’70s, has joined the roster of Perrotin gallery, which has spaces in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Most famous for his painting based on Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1964), in which he has superimposed Ben-Day dots over the figures in Manet’s famed 1862 p
  
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• Six Must-See Exhibitions in Chelsea this Spring

  01-03-2021 21:28 via artnews.com
  
  Here are our picks of the six must-see shows in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood this season, from the Art in America Guide to Chelsea.
  
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• Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt?

  01-03-2021 21:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Under a White Sky,” Elizabeth Kolbert explores the human efforts to confront the effects of climate change, and all their unintended consequences.
  
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• The Best Tangram Shapes Sets for Logic and Math Learning

  01-03-2021 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  Invented in China, the puzzles known as tangrams remain a timeless activity proven to develop logical thinking and math skills—which is why tangram games, which involve piecing together colorful shapes to recreate a pattern, are excellent for kids. Tangram sets can help young ones with color and shape recognition, spatial understanding, and more—but because tasks typically involve assembling cute designs like bugs and robots, the activity can feel very much like playtime. In our book
  
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• Tony Awards Voting Starts Now. And It’s Going to Be Weird.

  01-03-2021 21:16 via nytimes.com
  
  No shows are playing, and no one knows when they will come back. Here are answers to six questions about a process even more idiosyncratic than usual.
  
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• American Accused of Killing Italian Officer Says He Acted in Self-Defense

  01-03-2021 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Finnegan Elder, of San Francisco, told a Rome court that the officer did not identify himself and that he “panicked” and believed the officer would kill him.
  
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• The Best Artist’s Foils and Foil Paper for Varied Crafting

  01-03-2021 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  Foils and foil paper—which is distinct from foil transfer paper—can add a shiny kick to everything from scrapbooking to origami to etching. More and more crafts are incorporating these versatile materials, but before you rush out and buy yours, there are a few properties to consider. No matter what you use it for, you should be looking for something with luster and gorgeous colors. Beyond that, think about the thickness and dimensions of the sheets and whether you need them to be dou
  
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• Morris Arts Awards Grants to 12 Morristown Arts Organizations - TAPinto.net

  01-03-2021 20:58
  
  Morris Arts Awards Grants to 12 Morristown Arts Organizations  TAPinto.net
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Empathy Diaries,’ by Sherry Turkle

  01-03-2021 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  In her memoir, Sherry Turkle evokes her childhood in postwar Brooklyn, the intellectual atmosphere at Radcliffe and Harvard in the late 1960s and much more.
  
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• Grand Canyon National Park launches ‘History Behind the Arts’ video series - KOLD

  01-03-2021 20:42
  
  Grand Canyon National Park launches ‘History Behind the Arts’ video series  KOLD
  
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• The Best Walnut Oils for Your Painting Projects

  01-03-2021 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  If you love how linseed oil makes your paints flow but aren’t keen on how it yellows over time, you might want to replace it with walnut oil. While typically more expensive and slower to dry, walnut oil has less of a tendency to yellow—which means you can use it with light colors without worry. It also has virtually no odor, and it thins paints while blending masterfully with them so their values remain unaltered. You can count among its fans Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da V
  
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• His Books Inspired Lovestruck Teens to Put Locks on Bridges

  01-03-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Federico Moccia, the Italian writer likened to Nicholas Sparks and John Green, is releasing his Rome Novels in English for the first time.
  
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• Long-Missing Jacob Lawrence Painting Comes to Light in New York

  01-03-2021 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  Just months after experts discovered a work from a Jacob Lawrence series that currently forms the basis of a traveling survey, curators have authenticated another painting from that body of work that was long thought to be missing.
  Panel 28 of Lawrence’s 30-work painting series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” has been located in the holdings of a resident in New York’s Upper West Side, the New York Times reports. The work’s owner, a nurse in her
  
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• Scenic City Clay Arts Announces “The Joy of Clay” Virtual Auction - The Chattanoogan

  01-03-2021 19:58
  Scenic City Clay Arts Announces “The Joy of Clay” Virtual Auction  The Chattanoogan
  
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• MASS MoCA Gets 40-Foot-Tall James Turrell ‘Skyspace’ Installation

  01-03-2021 19:48 via artnews.com
  
  The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) will open a new “Skyspace” installation by James Turrell, who is known worldwide for his monumental installations largely composed of light and sculptural elements, on May 29. The work will be part of the museum’s long-term Turrell retrospective, which traces six decades of the artist’s career and, with the addition of the “Skyspace,” will present a major example of every aspect of the artist’s pr
  
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• Changes Are Coming to the NoHo Arts District - noho arts district

  01-03-2021 19:42
  
  Changes Are Coming to the NoHo Arts District  noho arts district
  
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• How Do Influencers Get Jobs? It’s Changing.

  01-03-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  A new service is designed to help formalize relationships that are typically forged through personal connections or cold DMs.
  
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• In a First, Damien Hirst to Accept Cryptocurrency as Payment for New Prints

  01-03-2021 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Damien Hirst has made a foray into the fast-rising crypto art market. The British artist is selling a series of eight prints called “The Virtues,” which depict cherry blossoms in bloom, and for those interested in buying them, he is willing to accept cryptocurrency—an unusual gesture for a blue-chip artist.“It’s hard for any of us to trust anything in this life but somehow we manage it and we even find love and I love art and I love the crypto world and I am happy a
  
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• With Seven Weeks at No. 1, Morgan Wallen Breaks a Chart Record

  01-03-2021 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  With little competition, the singer-songwriter, who was rebuked in January for using a racial slur, is now the first country artist to spend his first seven weeks in the top spot of the Billboard 200.
  
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• Burien Arts Association honors Artist and Volunteer of the Year - The B-Town (Burien) Blog - The B-Town Blog

  01-03-2021 18:39
  Burien Arts Association honors Artist and Volunteer of the Year - The B-Town (Burien) Blog  The B-Town Blog
  
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• Spanish Museum to Return Two Nazi-Looted Paintings to Poland

  01-03-2021 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Pontevedra in northwest Spain will return two paintings that experts said were looted by the Nazis during World War II. El País reports that, before it restitutes the works, the museum has put them on view one last time in a special presentation focused on how the institution resolved the claim that the paintings were looted.
  The two paintings are by the Flemish painter Dieric Bouts, who was active during the second half of the 15th century, and are considered a pair as they
  
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• The Best Mold-Making Kits for Bringing Your Ideas to Life

  01-03-2021 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  If a mold is a world-opening tool—you can use one to make all manner of things, from wax candles to plaster casts to the cookie sandwich you dreamed about one night—then a mold-making kit is a universe-opening one. Hyperbolic? Maybe a little. But with a mold-making kit, you can create a template for almost anything. We’ve searched the marketplace for kits that are easy to use and yield great results. Browse our picks below.
  
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• Golden Globes 2021: Where to Stream the Winners

  01-03-2021 17:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Nearly all of the big winners from the evening are available to stream. Here’s a look at where to find them and what The Times first had to say about them.
  
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• Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces

  01-03-2021 17:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Its owner, a nurse living on the Upper West Side, flagged a worker at the Metropolitan Museum’s information desk. “Listen, nobody calls me back. I have this painting. Who do I need to talk to?”
  
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• The Best Mixed-Media Paper Pads for Ink, Paint, Collage, and More

  01-03-2021 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  Working with different media on the same paper can present problems. To get fine detail and depth of shading with ink and graphite, you need a relatively smooth surface. But to work well with wet media like paint, your sheet should have sufficient tooth, or texture, to hold the pigment. That’s where a great mixed-media paper comes to save the day. The recommendations that follow have the right thickness, tooth, and brightness to stand up to whatever you lay down, and they come in handy pad
  
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• Arizona Citizens For The Arts Partners With Restaurants Statewide - Patch.com

  01-03-2021 17:28
  
  Arizona Citizens For The Arts Partners With Restaurants Statewide  Patch.com
  
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• Explore the Arts workshop series begins in March - Ravalli Republic

  01-03-2021 17:00
  Explore the Arts workshop series begins in March  Ravalli Republic
  
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• GVCA to receive $20000 NEA grant for traditional arts and folklife program - The Daily News Online

  01-03-2021 16:44
  GVCA to receive $20000 NEA grant for traditional arts and folklife program  The Daily News Online
  
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• New Thrillers That Glitter With Malice

  01-03-2021 16:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Tired of winter? All three of these novels are guaranteed to give you a different kind of chill.
  
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• FSU College of Arts and Sciences announces new interdisciplinary data science program - Florida State News

  01-03-2021 16:31
  FSU College of Arts and Sciences announces new interdisciplinary data science program  Florida State News
  
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• Arts Institute of Middlesex County schedules Women's History Month programs - centraljersey.com

  01-03-2021 15:56
  
  Arts Institute of Middlesex County schedules Women's History Month programs  centraljersey.com
  
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• Hard Choices: Do You Still Want to Be an Artist?

  01-03-2021 15:36 via artnews.com
  
  Before the pandemic, you had a burning mission to make attention-grabbing, thought-provoking art that would fly straight off gallery walls into art history. Today, you are at the bottom of the vaccine list and living in your parents’ basement. Your ideas are blocked and the world has drastically changed, but being an artist is all you know how to do.
  Answer these questions and add up the points to see if you still have the fire within to rekindle your smoldering enthusiasm.
   
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• ‘Lamborghini’ Chariot Unearthed in Pompeii, Trump Statue Glows in Orlando, and More: Morning Links from March 1, 2021

  01-03-2021 15:25 via artnews.com
  
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  THE WONDERS JUST KEEP COMING FROM POMPEII, the ancient Roman city buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. Late last year, researchers found an ancient snack bar and the remains of two people there. Now they have uncovered a plush chariot with iron wheels and metal decorations depicting figures like
  
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• Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council offers teaching grants - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  01-03-2021 14:39
  
  Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council offers teaching grants  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• UMaine School of Performing Arts offers 'The Wolves' as an on-demand, virtual production - UMaine News - University of Maine - University of Maine

  01-03-2021 14:31
  
  UMaine School of Performing Arts offers 'The Wolves' as an on-demand, virtual production - UMaine News - University of Maine  University of Maine
  
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• Hello, Golden Globes Red Carpet — We Missed You

  01-03-2021 14:06 via nytimes.com
  
  OK, it was mostly virtual. But watching stars dress up again was actually a whole lot of fun.
  
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• USACFA Accepting Applications for Scholarships in Arts, Other Fields - Cystic Fibrosis News Today

  01-03-2021 14:00
  
  USACFA Accepting Applications for Scholarships in Arts, Other Fields  Cystic Fibrosis News Today
  
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• Tri-County Arts Council announces NYSCA Decentralization Program grants - Bradford Era

  01-03-2021 14:00
  Tri-County Arts Council announces NYSCA Decentralization Program grants  Bradford Era
  
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• LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness

  01-03-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice.
  
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• Surf’s Up. The Temperature Isn’t.

  01-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Growing numbers of surfers are taking to the Great Lakes — even when the weather is well below freezing.
  
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• FKA twigs Is Creating a Martial Arts TV Series - HYPEBEAST

  01-03-2021 10:55
  
  FKA twigs Is Creating a Martial Arts TV Series  HYPEBEAST
  
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• Chloé Zhao becomes the first Asian woman to win the Golden Globe for best director.

  01-03-2021 07:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Zhao also became the first woman to be named best director since Barbra Streisand won for “Yentl” almost 40 years ago.
  
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• Daniel Kaluuya and Chadwick Boseman are both recognized for film roles.

  01-03-2021 07:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniel Kaluuya won for his performance as the Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” while Chadwick Boseman was awarded a posthumous Globe for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soul of a Nation’ and ‘Ghostbusters’

  01-03-2021 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A newsmagazine featuring a look at Black life in America premieres on ABC. And the “Back to the Future” trilogy airs on AMC.
  
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• Chloé Zhao becomes the first Asian-American woman to win the Golden Globe for best director.

  01-03-2021 06:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Zhao also became the first woman to be named best director since Barbra Streisand won for “Yentl” almost 40 years ago.
  
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