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• ‘Markie in Milwaukee’ Review: Acknowledging Painful Transitions

  10-03-2021 23:08 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary presents a portrait of a transgender woman’s life, her faith as an Evangelical Christian and her strained relationship with her family.
  
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• Photos of Snowflakes Like You've Never Seen Them Before

  10-03-2021 23:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Whether made with setups using sapphire and carbon fiber or an old mitten and a standard camera, these photographic approaches allow close-ups of the tiny masterpieces formed when snow falls.
  
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• The Shed Plans to Reopen for Covid-Tested Audiences

  10-03-2021 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Renée Fleming, Michelle Wolf, Kelsey Lu and the New York Philharmonic will perform in April for limited audiences.
  
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• Records for Derrick Adams, Elaine de Kooning and Jammie Holmes Set in Christie’s $23 M. Contemporary Auction

  10-03-2021 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, ahead of its upcoming London evening sales scheduled for the end of the month, Christie’s saw a stable performance during its New York mid-season ‘Postwar to Present’ auction, focused on offerings by emerging and mid-career blue-chip artists. Generating a total of $23 million with premium, the sale realized an 86 percent sell-through rate across 120 lots. The total came out to a solid 23 percent above the pre-sale expectation of $18.9 million (with fees.)
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• The Best Straight-Edge Rulers for Artists, Architects, and Craftspeople

  10-03-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
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• Skye Volmar on Maximalism, “Deflowering,” and Black Pubescence

  10-03-2021 22:19 via artnews.com
  
  View of Skye Volmar’s exhibition “flower, child,” 2021, at Deli Gallery, New York.
  Skye Volmar’s solo exhibition “flower, child,” on view at Deli Gallery in Brooklyn through March 21, takes flowers as its central motif, talking back to the images we associate with young girls. In paintings, drawings, and assemblages of varying size (all 2019–21), the LA-based artist confronts her subjects’ simultaneous delicacy and vitality, using bright colors and
  
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• How I Made This: Doan Ly’s Iridescent Flower Photography

  10-03-2021 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  In the still life tradition, flowers and fruit often represent the broad symbolism of life, death, or perhaps a season — the drama of time passing. Floral designer and photographer Doan Ly treats her still-life photographs similarly, using the arrangement of blooms to speak to an expansive theme.
  “When the flower transcends being a flower and becomes this feeling of hope, longing, or sadness, it’s able to become a little larger than life,” Ly said. The artist sees the tro
  
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• I’m So Sorry! Romance Novels, Bad Behavior and Forgiveness

  10-03-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Four new novels bring readers the Happily Ever After they expect — but not in predictable ways.
  
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• Stanley J. Seeger, Radical Collector of Disparate Objects: ‘He Had No Interest in the Investment Potential of Art’

  10-03-2021 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  In 1993, Sotheby’s put 88 works by Pablo Picasso up for sale at once. At the time, Picasso did not have the same market presence. The U.S. had only just begun pulling out of a recession too. The house wondered if they might have a flop on their hands, but Sotheby’s was willing to take the gamble.
  The spread of works—from Cubist experiments to still lifes to ceramics—was vast, attesting to a figure whose output was varied and massively influential. In the end, it turned ou
  
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• Louis Valray Made Only 2 Movies. But Both Are Incredible.

  10-03-2021 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  After “La Belle de Nuit” and “Escale,” the French director went on to become an engineer and died in obscurity. A virtual release gives these moody, sensual films new life.
  
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• In ‘Fulfillment,’ One-Click Shopping Is Cheap, Easy and Economically Unsustainable

  10-03-2021 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The journalist Alec MacGillis argues that Amazon is the engine behind regional inequality that has made parts of the country “incomprehensible to one another.”
  
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• Book Review: ‘In Search of a Kingdom,’ by Laurence Bergreen

  10-03-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Laurence Bergreen’s rollicking “In Search of a Kingdom” looks at the highly profitable relationship between a pirate and the first Queen Elizabeth.
  
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• A New ‘Aida’ Lands in the Middle of France’s Culture Wars

  10-03-2021 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The production, which examines the work’s colonial legacy, opened after the far right accused the Paris Opera of “antiracism gone mad.”
  
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• Arts Focus: Drive-by Video Installation Illuminates Teens' Post-COVID Hopes and Dreams - ARLnow

  10-03-2021 19:15
  
  Arts Focus: Drive-by Video Installation Illuminates Teens' Post-COVID Hopes and Dreams  ARLnow
  
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• Charles Hill, Detective Who Found ‘The Scream,’ Dies at 73

  10-03-2021 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  His investigations, often conducted under cover, led to the recovery of Munch’s masterpiece as well as stolen paintings by Vermeer and Titian.
  
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• Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’

  10-03-2021 19:10 via nytimes.com
  
  An uncanny new play imagines Meghan (and Kate, too) trapped in a nightmare palace where racism reigns.
  
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• Helene Winer on Closing Metro Pictures: The ‘Specter’ of Mega-Galleries Was a Factor

  10-03-2021 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  During the mid-’90s, if four art dealers could help it, Chelsea was not going to be a second SoHo. Barbara Gladstone and the two women who’d founded Metro Pictures gallery—Helene Winer and Janelle Reiring—had been in business in SoHo for 15 years; Matthew Marks, who already had one Chelsea gallery and wanted another, had been around for five years. All of them had seen retail’s decimation of the SoHo scene, with rising rents driving out the galleries that had popula
  
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• What to Expect From the 2021 Oscar Nominations

  10-03-2021 19:05 via nytimes.com
  
  It should be the most diverse Oscar lineup in ages, and history may be made in the best-director category. Still, expect some snubs and controversies.
  
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• Writer Ken Follett Donates Book Proceeds Toward Restoring Famed Cathedral

  10-03-2021 18:37 via artnews.com
  
  A multimillion-dollar project to save a cathedral in France has received a major donation from British author Ken Follett, whose historical fiction has itself often paid homage to medieval architecture. Per a report in the Guardian, he put the proceeds from his book about the fire that ravaged Notre-Dame in 2019 toward a restoration campaign at Brittany’s Saint-Samson de Dol-de-Bretagne. The sum, about €148,000 (£127,000), will go to the Fondation du patrimoine, which will direc
  
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• Head Case

  10-03-2021 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  George Condo hasn’t written many artist’s statements lately, which isn’t a bad thing. Quite the contrary—most artist statements are dull to read, and read as if they were even duller to write; why they exist at all is a timeless riddle. At this point in his career, Condo presumably does very few things he doesn’t want to do. So the fact that “George Condo: Internal Riot,” at Hauser & Wirth, came with a few paragraphs courtesy of the man himself sugge
  
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• Bonifas Arts Center presents 'Youth in Art' - UpperMichigansSource.com

  10-03-2021 18:04
  
  Bonifas Arts Center presents 'Youth in Art'  UpperMichigansSource.com
  
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• He Owns World Famous Stamps and a Prized Coin. Now He’s Selling.

  10-03-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Stuart Weitzman, who made his fortune in shoes, is parting with three of his collecting triumphs, including a block of four “Inverted Jennies.”
  
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• Joann is going public: 5 things to know about the arts-and-crafts retailer - MarketWatch

  10-03-2021 17:53
  
  Joann is going public: 5 things to know about the arts-and-crafts retailer  MarketWatch
  
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• Joann is going public: 5 things to know about the arts-and-crafts retailer ahead of its IPO - MarketWatch

  10-03-2021 17:53
  
  Joann is going public: 5 things to know about the arts-and-crafts retailer ahead of its IPO  MarketWatch
  
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• The MAC & BSCTC to present the Appalachian Arts & Entertainment Awards - WMKY

  10-03-2021 17:52
  
  The MAC & BSCTC to present the Appalachian Arts & Entertainment Awards  WMKY
  
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• SPRING ARTS PREVIEW: Events - Washington Blade

  10-03-2021 17:42
  SPRING ARTS PREVIEW: Events  Washington Blade
  
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• In a Hard Year for the Arts, a 'Big Night In for the Arts' - INDY Week

  10-03-2021 17:39
  
  In a Hard Year for the Arts, a 'Big Night In for the Arts'  INDY Week
  
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• Cain Center/Cornelius Arts Center update - corneliustoday.com

  10-03-2021 17:32
  
  Cain Center/Cornelius Arts Center update  corneliustoday.com
  
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• AHS drama presents drive-in War of the Worlds - North County Outlook

  10-03-2021 17:22
  AHS drama presents drive-in War of the Worlds  North County Outlook
  
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• Covid-to-go with local artists at at Calistoga's Sofie Contemporary Arts - Napa Valley Register

  10-03-2021 17:17
  Covid-to-go with local artists at at Calistoga's Sofie Contemporary Arts  Napa Valley Register
  
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• Jerusalem’s Museum for Islamic Art Pulls Plug on Controversial Collection Sale

  10-03-2021 17:09 via artnews.com
  
  The L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem has canceled its plan to deaccession 268 items from its permanent collection that were set to be sold at Sotheby’s. When the sale was first announced for the end of October, a public outcry ensued, and the auctions of Islamic art and object of vertu, which were set to fetch £5.1 million ($7 million) were subsequently postponed.
  In an unexpected move, the Al Thani Collection Foundation, which holds the vast art collection of the Qat
  
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• Bay Area streaming arts: Hershey Felder, Taj Mahal, ‘Tosca,’ ‘FantasticLand’ - The Mercury News

  10-03-2021 17:00
  
  Bay Area streaming arts: Hershey Felder, Taj Mahal, ‘Tosca,’ ‘FantasticLand’  The Mercury News
  
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• Mayor Fulop Announces NJ's 1st Arts & Culture Trust Fund to Generate $1M Annually for Arts Education and Programming Utilizing Community Input - InsiderNJ

  10-03-2021 16:51
  
  Mayor Fulop Announces NJ's 1st Arts & Culture Trust Fund to Generate $1M Annually for Arts Education and Programming Utilizing Community Input  InsiderNJ
  
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• From martial arts to new caffeine options, here are 8 new businesses in New Braunfels that are now open or coming soon - Community Impact Newspaper

  10-03-2021 16:05
  
  From martial arts to new caffeine options, here are 8 new businesses in New Braunfels that are now open or coming soon  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• 2021 US Bank Celebration of the Arts Exhibition - WKU News

  10-03-2021 15:53
  2021 US Bank Celebration of the Arts Exhibition  WKU News
  
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• Art Workers Pursue Unions, DJ Steve Aoki Has Gone NFT, and More: Morning Links from March 10, 2021

  10-03-2021 15:47 via artnews.com
  
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  THE UNION PUSH IN THE U.S. ART WORLD IS CONTINUING. WBUR reports that workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams have submitted a petition to organize. MASS MoCA, the largest contemporary art museum in the United States, said in a statement, “We are committed to working in good faith to
  
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• Celebrate Women's History Month At ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station - There San Diego

  10-03-2021 15:35
  
  Celebrate Women's History Month At ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station  There San Diego
  
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• Center for Puppetry Arts unveils new flex ticketing in time for spring - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  10-03-2021 15:21
  Center for Puppetry Arts unveils new flex ticketing in time for spring  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• In Australia, Hollywood Stars Have Found an Escape From Covid. Who’s Jealous?

  10-03-2021 15:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Dozens of international film productions have been lured to the country, where cases of the coronavirus are few. In turn, actors have found almost paradise.
  
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• Hoyt Mini Masterpiece competition returns - Ellwood City Ledger

  10-03-2021 15:12
  Hoyt Mini Masterpiece competition returns  Ellwood City Ledger
  
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• East Village's 'wild project' looks to keep the arts going amid the pandemic - amNY

  10-03-2021 15:10
  East Village's 'wild project' looks to keep the arts going amid the pandemic  amNY
  
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• Seasonal classes to start at Hoyt Center for the Arts - Ellwood City Ledger

  10-03-2021 15:01
  Seasonal classes to start at Hoyt Center for the Arts  Ellwood City Ledger
  
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• Language Arts Academy relocates to Kuykendahl Road in Spring - Community Impact Newspaper

  10-03-2021 14:30
  
  Language Arts Academy relocates to Kuykendahl Road in Spring  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• New Arts Nonprofit And Performance Venue Announced For Kendall Square - WBUR

  10-03-2021 14:17
  
  New Arts Nonprofit And Performance Venue Announced For Kendall Square  WBUR
  
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• 585 Arts nonprofit to operate new Kendall Square theater - Boston Business Journal - Boston Business Journal

  10-03-2021 14:00
  585 Arts nonprofit to operate new Kendall Square theater - Boston Business Journal  Boston Business Journal
  
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• Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript?

  10-03-2021 13:43 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1883, a manuscript found near the Dead Sea caused an international sensation. It was denounced as a fake, and soon vanished. But what if it was the only known source text for the Hebrew Bible?
  
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• Pioneer culinary arts teacher whips up tasty dishes with a side of grades | Teacher of the Week - Woodland Daily Democrat

  10-03-2021 13:30
  
  Pioneer culinary arts teacher whips up tasty dishes with a side of grades | Teacher of the Week  Woodland Daily Democrat
  
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• Posted Mar 10, 2021 Spring Art Walk planned, FHSU exhibition underway at Hays Arts Council - hays Post

  10-03-2021 13:15
  Posted Mar 10, 2021 Spring Art Walk planned, FHSU exhibition underway at Hays Arts Council  hays Post
  
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• City Plan for Arts Funding Raises Discussion Over Value of Creativity - qcnerve.com

  10-03-2021 13:08
  City Plan for Arts Funding Raises Discussion Over Value of Creativity  qcnerve.com
  
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• How are the arts’ biggest fans doing after a year without in-person performances? - SF Chronicle Datebook

  10-03-2021 13:05
  How are the arts’ biggest fans doing after a year without in-person performances?  SF Chronicle Datebook
  
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