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• UMass Fine Arts Center Presents 'Riffing the Reality: Women, Gender and Jazz,' a Virtual Conversation and Concert - UMass News and Media Relations

  02-03-2021 23:46
  
  UMass Fine Arts Center Presents 'Riffing the Reality: Women, Gender and Jazz,' a Virtual Conversation and Concert  UMass News and Media Relations
  
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• How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture

  02-03-2021 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Emily Mortimer, who grew up with a prominent free-speech advocate before becoming an actress and screenwriter, has some ideas.
  
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• Tapestries on display at Ludington Area Center for the Arts - Manistee News Advocate

  02-03-2021 23:38
  
  Tapestries on display at Ludington Area Center for the Arts  Manistee News Advocate
  
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• Hundreds of Arts and Restaurant Workers Rally to Save Historic Chinatown Banquet Hall - Hyperallergic

  02-03-2021 23:30
  
  Hundreds of Arts and Restaurant Workers Rally to Save Historic Chinatown Banquet Hall  Hyperallergic
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. stock outperforms market despite losses on the day - MarketWatch

  02-03-2021 23:08
  
  Electronic Arts Inc. stock outperforms market despite losses on the day  MarketWatch
  
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• The Best Embossing Heat Guns for Multi-Media Projects

  02-03-2021 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  Embossing projects are not the place to cut corners. While popular hacks include using a hairdryer or even an oven to set embossing powder into paper, neither of these options work as well as the real deal. A proper heat gun gets the job done right, as a hairdryer can blow the embossing powder away, and an oven can scorch the paper. Heat guns aren’t just for embossing projects: use these tools to shrink-wrap plastic, apply shrink tubing to wire, and remove hard-to-peel stickers. With plent
  
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• 13 Kumpf Middle School Students Accepted into Union County Arts Program - TAPinto.net

  02-03-2021 22:52
  
  13 Kumpf Middle School Students Accepted into Union County Arts Program  TAPinto.net
  
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• Margaret Maron, Acclaimed Mystery Writer, Dies at 82

  02-03-2021 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  She was known for two book series centered on complex female characters, and for stories that illuminated her native North Carolina.
  
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• Rare Van Gogh Portrait Brings Christie’s London Drawings Auction to $25 M.

  02-03-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  In a strong start to its 20th century art sales launched at its London and New York headquarters on Monday, Christie’s sold a group of eight drawings from the family collection of London dealer Thomas Gibson for a collective $25.3 million, well above its estimate of $15.8 million.
  Across the several sales held at the house’s New York and London salesrooms beginning on March 1, Christie’s reported a net total of $61 million, realizing a combined sell-through rate of 98 percent.
  
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• Meditations on the History of the Present

  02-03-2021 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  I seem to get my best political ideas when looking for aesthetic solutions.—Lorraine O’Grady
  The form of my work has proven to me to be more important than the content. If you had told me when I started forty years ago that I would be saying that, I would probably have laughed. But the diptych has always been, in a sense, my primary form, even in the performances. For me, the diptych can only be both/ and. When you put two things that are related and yet totally dissimilar in a posit
  
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• MCCC - Arts News @ MCCC - MCCC News

  02-03-2021 22:25
  MCCC - Arts News @ MCCC  MCCC News
  
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• Sherman Park Arts Festival returns virtually - Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle - The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

  02-03-2021 22:24
  Sherman Park Arts Festival returns virtually - Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle  The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
  
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• Duke Receives $3.75 Million To Support Next Phase of The Arts - Duke Today

  02-03-2021 22:21
  
  Duke Receives $3.75 Million To Support Next Phase of The Arts  Duke Today
  
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• A New Exhibition on Printmaking by Chicanx Artists Looks to Expand Who Tells U.S. History

  02-03-2021 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  Printmaking has long been an essential component of social activism around the world and in particular in the United States, conveying political messages to both local communities and the world at large. One current exhibition looks at the ways in Chicano, Chicana, and Chicanx artists have been essential in the struggle for equal rights for Chicanx and Latinx people in this country since the 1960s, and how their innovations within the graphic arts have been influential beyond Chicanx communities
  
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• Alton Brown at Mesa Arts Center Nov. 11 - Your Valley

  02-03-2021 22:18
  
  Alton Brown at Mesa Arts Center Nov. 11  Your Valley
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Amazon, HBO, Hulu and More in March

  02-03-2021 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Every month, streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for March.
  
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• Best Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Hulu, Disney in March

  02-03-2021 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Every month, streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for March.
  
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• Woody Allen, Mia Farrow and What Popular Culture Wants to Believe

  02-03-2021 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The new HBO documentary revisits a 1990s scandal. What viewers take away from it may depend on the stories they trust about women and why.
  
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• Tsurumi Pump helps bring arts building to life in Massachusetts - WaterWorld

  02-03-2021 21:21
  Tsurumi Pump helps bring arts building to life in Massachusetts  WaterWorld
  
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• Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge announces Arts Ambassadors Program - The Advocate

  02-03-2021 21:02
  
  Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge announces Arts Ambassadors Program  The Advocate
  
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• Three Rivers Arts Festival will return in 2021 with some, limited live events - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  02-03-2021 20:59
  
  Three Rivers Arts Festival will return in 2021 with some, limited live events  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• MoMA Temporarily Covers Philip Johnson’s Name Amid Protests Over His Fascist Views

  02-03-2021 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  Amid protests over racist and white supremacist views espoused by the late architect Philip Johnson, the Museum of Modern Art has temporarily covered Johnson’s name on wall signage in the New York institution’s architecture galleries. Johnson, who died in 2005, worked at MoMA in its architecture department during 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, and designed its sculpture garden in 1953.
  According to Hyperallergic, which first reported the news, the obfuscation of a wall sign beari
  
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• Mural Possibly Created By Bansky Appears on Prison Wall in England

  02-03-2021 20:52 via artnews.com
  
  An artwork atop the wall of a former prison in Reading, England, may be have been created by none other than Banksy, the elusive street artist whose work has attracted a mass following. According to a report by the BBC, a mural that has appeared on the defunct Reading Prison, where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated from 1895 to 1897, is possibly attributable to Banksy, making it one of several works by him to have appeared over the past year.
  The work depicts a prisoner scaling the prison’s imp
  
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• Mural Possibly Created By Banksy Appears on Prison Wall in England

  02-03-2021 20:52 via artnews.com
  
  An artwork atop the wall of a former prison in Reading, England, may be have been created by none other than Banksy, the elusive street artist whose work has attracted a mass following. According to a report by the BBC, a mural that has appeared on the defunct Reading Prison, where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated from 1895 to 1897, is possibly attributable to Banksy, making it one of several works by him to have appeared over the past year.
  The work depicts a prisoner scaling the prison’s imp
  
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• Side Street Studio Arts celebrates 8th anniversary with 'You Are Not the Boss of My Art' - Chicago Daily Herald

  02-03-2021 20:27
  
  Side Street Studio Arts celebrates 8th anniversary with 'You Are Not the Boss of My Art'  Chicago Daily Herald
  
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• Alan Bowness, Tate Director Who Launched Turner Prize, Has Died at 93

  02-03-2021 20:26 via artnews.com
  
  Alan Bowness, a leading writer, curator, and philanthropist in the British art world who helped establish the prestigious Turner Prize, has died at the age of 93. According to a statement shared by his family, Bowness died of natural causes at his home in London.
  The internationally renowned scholar was the first trained art historian to become director of London’s Tate Gallery, a position he held from 1980 to 1988. During his tenure, he spearheaded the creation of a ‘Tate of the Nor
  
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• NYS Council on the Arts awards $40 million to support arts & culture across state - Niagara Frontier Publications

  02-03-2021 20:22
  
  NYS Council on the Arts awards $40 million to support arts & culture across state  Niagara Frontier Publications
  
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• Walton Arts Center announces more 'In the Atrium' performances - Fayetteville Flyer

  02-03-2021 20:21
  
  Walton Arts Center announces more 'In the Atrium' performances  Fayetteville Flyer
  
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• Scottsdale Arts Board of Trustees adds four new members - Your Valley

  02-03-2021 20:08
  
  Scottsdale Arts Board of Trustees adds four new members  Your Valley
  
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• Angelina Jolie's Churchill Painting Fetches $11.5 Million

  02-03-2021 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The painting, “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” was a gift to Jolie by Brad Pitt and is believed to be Churchill’s only World War II-era landscape.
  
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• The Joyce Theater Announces Its First Full Digital Season

  02-03-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Several performances this spring, including a new work by Ayodele Casel, will be recorded onstage at this dance dedicated theater.
  
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• Dozens of area groups get $3.5M in state arts grants - Times Union

  02-03-2021 20:00
  
  Dozens of area groups get $3.5M in state arts grants  Times Union
  
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• Update: We're Still Destroying the Arts - Book and Film Globe

  02-03-2021 19:45
  
  Update: We're Still Destroying the Arts  Book and Film Globe
  
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• For Many Golden Globe Winners, the London Stage Came First

  02-03-2021 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  At Sunday’s ceremony, a whole host of British winners and nominees got their training in the theater before they made it to the screen.
  
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• Minotaur by ‘Persian Picasso’ to Sell in London in Market-Defining Moment for Iranian Modernist

  02-03-2021 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has unveiled a painting by Iranian postwar artist Bahman Mohassess that will be offered at auction this month. The painting will be sold during the house’s upcoming cross-category London sale titled “Modern Renaissance,” alongside works by Edvard Munch, David Hockney, and Arshile Gorky.
  Minotauro sulla riva del mare (1977) is now coming to the market for the first time under the joint-ownership of the artist’s estate, run by his heirs Leyla and Rooja Mohas
  
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• ATEC Kudos - February 2021 | School of Arts Technology and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at UT Dallas - University of Texas at Dallas

  02-03-2021 19:30
  
  ATEC Kudos - February 2021 | School of Arts Technology and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at UT Dallas  University of Texas at Dallas
  
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• 65th Otero Arts Festival online registrations open - La Junta Tribune Democrat

  02-03-2021 19:17
  65th Otero Arts Festival online registrations open  La Junta Tribune Democrat
  
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• More Hockey (Please), Back in Black (Again), Kane's Legacy, Arts and Crafts, and Other Blackhawks Bullets - bleachernation.com

  02-03-2021 19:15
  
  More Hockey (Please), Back in Black (Again), Kane's Legacy, Arts and Crafts, and Other Blackhawks Bullets  bleachernation.com
  
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• Arts and Cultural Affairs Director, fayemi shakur, Elected Board Chair at Newark Symphony Hall « American Songwriter - American Songwriter

  02-03-2021 19:15
  
  Arts and Cultural Affairs Director, fayemi shakur, Elected Board Chair at Newark Symphony Hall « American Songwriter  American Songwriter
  
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• Man Ray Trust Claims Christie’s Auction Contains Works ‘Stolen’ from Artist’s Estate

  02-03-2021 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  The Man Ray Trust, the organization overseeing the Surrealist artist’s estate, has claimed that a Christie’s sale of Surrealist art from the collection of the artist’s former assistant contains stolen work.
  The sale, which takes place today in Paris, comprises 188 works, including Man Ray’s portraits of socialites, muses, and artists, as well as readymades by his friend Marcel Duchamp. The group of works once belonged to Lucien Treillard, Man Ray’s former assistant,
  
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• City Official, Arts Advocate, fayemi shakur, Elected Board Chair at Newark Symphony Hall - New Jersey Stage

  02-03-2021 19:08
  
  City Official, Arts Advocate, fayemi shakur, Elected Board Chair at Newark Symphony Hall  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Leeds Public House raising funds for Lubeznik Center for the Arts - nwitimes.com

  02-03-2021 19:00
  Leeds Public House raising funds for Lubeznik Center for the Arts  nwitimes.com
  
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• When Process Becomes Form

  02-03-2021 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  The parking lot of Perfect Bodies, a former auto repair shop in Red Hook, hosted an identically titled exhibition by the Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi. Presented by the nearby Brooklyn nonprofit Pioneer Works and curated by Dakin Hart, senior curator of the Noguchi Museum and Sculpture Garden in Long Island City, it stopped viewers in their tracks. The show was visible anytime through a chain-link fence, but open to the public only on weekends, or by appointment: pandemic rules. But either way,
  
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• Spacing Out(side): Jamestown Arts Center seeking sculpture and installation proposals for new outdoor exhibition - What'sUpNewp

  02-03-2021 18:55
  
  Spacing Out(side): Jamestown Arts Center seeking sculpture and installation proposals for new outdoor exhibition  What'sUpNewp
  
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• Olsen named Wyoming's Heart of the Arts nominee - The Sheridan Press

  02-03-2021 18:45
  Olsen named Wyoming's Heart of the Arts nominee  The Sheridan Press
  
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• Inside the Mind of an Islamic Extremist

  02-03-2021 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  With the novel “Khalil,” the former Algerian Army officer who writes as Yasmina Khadra examines the roots of radicalization.
  
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• 25th Annual Young People's Fine Arts Festival Opens Friday - Southern Pines Pilot

  02-03-2021 18:38
  
  25th Annual Young People's Fine Arts Festival Opens Friday  Southern Pines Pilot
  
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• Tracy and Ted McCourtney renew commitment to liberal arts with a $2 million gift - Penn State News

  02-03-2021 18:34
  
  Tracy and Ted McCourtney renew commitment to liberal arts with a $2 million gift  Penn State News
  
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• Wesley Chu’s ‘War Arts Saga’ Martial Arts Fantasy Novels To Get TV Series Adaptation By Jason Ning, Uta Briesewitz, Original Film & Sony TV - Deadline

  02-03-2021 18:31
  
  Wesley Chu’s ‘War Arts Saga’ Martial Arts Fantasy Novels To Get TV Series Adaptation By Jason Ning, Uta Briesewitz, Original Film & Sony TV  Deadline
  
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• From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between

  02-03-2021 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  New audiobooks from Ibram X. Kendi, George Saunders, Charles Yu and more.
  
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