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• “Brandless” Abstractions

  24-03-2021 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of Merlin James’s most admirable traits as a painter is that he never—or almost never—repeats himself. He has no trademark look or “brand,” and his solo exhibitions often feel at first like group shows. Over four decades, the Welsh-born artist has produced mostly small- and medium-size works, including abstractions that range from painterly lyricism to assemblage-like constructions. The majority of the paintings, however, are figurative, with a wide array of sub
  
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• Owner charged after hidden camera discovered in bathroom of N.J. martial arts academy - NJ.com

  24-03-2021 22:16 via nj.com
  
  Owner charged after hidden camera discovered in bathroom of N.J. martial arts academy  NJ.com
  
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• Adam Zagajewski, Poet of the Past’s Presence, Dies at 75

  24-03-2021 22:07 via nytimes.com
  
  A dissident in Communist Poland in the late 1960s — his writing was banned for a time — he found wider fame as an exile in Paris and taught in the U.S.
  
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• Suspect in custody after shooting at MARTA Arts Center station - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  24-03-2021 21:40 via ajc.com
  Suspect in custody after shooting at MARTA Arts Center station  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• Free Downtown Live Arts Festival Will Feature In-Person Performances Around NYC - Playbill.com

  24-03-2021 21:28 via playbill.com
  
  Free Downtown Live Arts Festival Will Feature In-Person Performances Around NYC  Playbill.com
  
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• So You Want to Have a Lucid Dream? Here's How.

  24-03-2021 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The internet is home to all kinds of advice about how to experience consciousness while dreaming. What works?
  
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• So You Want to Have a Lucid Dream?

  24-03-2021 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The internet is home to all kinds of advice about how to experience consciousness while dreaming. What works?
  
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• Monumental William Kentridge Drawing Sets Record in London Auction

  24-03-2021 21:22 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, a large-scale drawing by William Kentridge sold for £682,750 ($935,000) at an auction in London, setting a new record for a drawing by the South African artist.
  Large Typerwriters (2003), a diptych made using charcoal and pastel, depicts two vintage typewriters. 5 bidders competed for the work during a contemporary art sale at Bonhams in London, where it was estimated at £350,000–£550,000 ($480,000–$755,000). It went to a buyer in Asia.
  The result surp
  
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• Daniel Wolf, 65, Dies; Helped Create a Market for Art Photography

  24-03-2021 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1984, he quietly amassed 25,000 photos for the J. Paul Getty Museum, jump-starting collectors’ interest in the medium.
  
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• The Disappointing 3D Animation of Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch

  24-03-2021 20:55 via artnews.com
  
  It is difficult to overstate the legacy of storytelling and artistry that Hayao Miyazaki has built over the years as a director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio. Miyazaki has an incredible ability to manifest the vague, mythic textures of fantasy into the concrete vocabulary of animation. He and his team did with pencil and gouache what Italo Calvino did with words in Invisible Cities — the flash of perfect symbols render worlds so full it’s almost heart
  
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• How Anime Legend Hayao Miyazaki’s Son Squandered Studio Ghibli’s Legacy

  24-03-2021 20:55 via artnews.com
  
  It is difficult to overstate the legacy of storytelling and artistry that Hayao Miyazaki has built over the years as a director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio. Miyazaki has an incredible ability to manifest the vague, mythic textures of fantasy into the concrete vocabulary of animation. He and his team did with pencil and gouache what Italo Calvino did with words in Invisible Cities — the flash of perfect symbols render worlds so full it’s almost heart
  
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• ‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion

  24-03-2021 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Mia Bay’s history recounts how modes of transportation first seen as possible escapes from degradation and danger succumbed to the stubborn forces of segregation.
  
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• Her Film on Sex Assault Depicts Her Own and Fuels a #MeToo Moment

  24-03-2021 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Danijela Stajnfeld included her account of being assaulted in a film that has led to contentious debate in Serbia and prompted other women to come forward to say they were sexually abused.
  
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• Are Online Martial Arts Classes Worth It? - Lifehacker

  24-03-2021 19:30 via lifehacker.com
  
  Are Online Martial Arts Classes Worth It?  Lifehacker
  
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• Watching From a Distance: What Gives a Virtual Dance Life?

  24-03-2021 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexei Ratmansky returns to the stage with a playful Bernstein ballet, while Netta Yerushalmy revives a darker moment in time.
  
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• This Oscar Race Might Be the Hardest to Predict

  24-03-2021 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Though other acting categories appear sewn up, the supporting-actress race is still deliciously chaotic.
  
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• Oscars 2021: Best Supporting Actress Predictions

  24-03-2021 19:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Though other acting categories appear sewn up, the supporting-actress race is still deliciously chaotic.
  
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• Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Promises to Comply with National Security Law Amid Pushback from Pro-Beijing Figures

  24-03-2021 19:09 via artnews.com
  
  After a group of pro-Beijing politicians and newspapers accused Hong Kong’s soon-to-open M+ museum of violating China’s national security law, the institution said that its presentations will comply with the measure. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, Henry Tang Ying-yen, chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong, said that the arts district “will definitely uphold the law, comply with the Basic Law, local laws, and the national s
  
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• Glendale Arts Launches SAVOR in Support of Local Businesses and the Arts - Asbarez Armenian News

  24-03-2021 18:51 via asbarez.com
  
  Glendale Arts Launches SAVOR in Support of Local Businesses and the Arts  Asbarez Armenian News
  
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• In ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’ a Shape-Shifting Protagonist Who’s Up to No Good

  24-03-2021 18:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Patricia Highsmith published the first novel in her series of psychological thrillers in 1955, embedding her own repression, snobbery and sense of chaos into the text.
  
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• Organize Your Life and Livelihood with the Best Toolboxes for Artists

  24-03-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Sometimes the best, quickest remedy for creative block is to organize your studio space, turning it into an uncluttered zone where you can work without distraction. And sometimes the best, quickest way to do that is to invest in a proper art supplies organizer. Whether you’re looking for an industrial-strength toolbox with fold-out trays, or something more akin to a classy jewelry box, there are countless products on the market made specifically for artists. We spotlight just a few great o
  
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• See Works from Collector Agnes Gund’s Prescient Collection

  24-03-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Since joining the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976, Agnes Gund has long held sway over the art world, and she has used her position to support the careers of generations of artists—in particular women artists, artists of color, and queer artists—long before mainstream institutions were paying attention to them. She also felt that it was necessary to advocate for these artists within museums, arguing that sites like MoMA ought to boldly dare to acquire
  
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• Agnes Gund, Patron and Advocate for Underknown Artists: ‘We’ve Caught Up With Aggie to Some Degree’

  24-03-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Decades before it became on trend for museums to collect work by women and artists of color, long sidelined from the canon of art history, Agnes Gund took a genuine interest in meeting little-known artists on studio visits and supporting their work in myriad ways.
  “I was aware of the many artists that have been excluded and didn’t ever think of them as being something I shouldn’t buy,” the 82-year-old philanthropist, collector, and all-around fairy godmother of the art wo
  
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• George Segal, Veteran of Drama and TV Comedy, Is Dead at 87

  24-03-2021 16:53 via nytimes.com
  
  He is best remembered for his Oscar-nominated dramatic role in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and was later a familiar comic actor.
  
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• As People Reflect on Their Bodies, Museums Turn to Artists for Answers

  24-03-2021 16:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic has led to new contemplations of fragility, and sick or disabled artists are using new attention to imagine a more accessible art world.
  
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• The Best Pigment Printers for Striking Photos

  24-03-2021 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  Pigment printers, as their name suggests, run on pigment- rather than dye-based inks. Formulated with solid pigment powder, these inks are more vibrant, more stable, and more archival (albeit also more expensive). Their professional finish makes them an ideal option for artists who often display or sell their works. Pigment inks must be used with pigment printers, which tend to be much larger and, aptly, pricier than run-of-the-mill dye-ink printers usually found in home offices. They can be sma
  
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• Almine Rech Joins Growing Mass of Galleries with Aspen Pop-Ups: ‘We’re Going Where the Collectors Are’

  24-03-2021 16:24 via artnews.com
  
  It started last summer in the Hamptons, then it happened again this past winter in Palm Beach, and now it’s moving on to Aspen: galleries are bringing long-term pop up projects to the locales where their collectors have retreated during the pandemic.
  While the lion’s share of galleries with the means to open pop-ups chose to do so in the Hamptons last summer, Lévy Gorvy and Lehmann Maupin were among the handful giving Aspen a shot. This summer, more are set to join them in the
  
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• How Lonnie Smith Found an Unlikely New Collaborator: Iggy Pop

  24-03-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The soul-jazz organist and the punk frontman worked together on a pair of covers and discovered a musical kinship.
  
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• Doris Ammann, Influential Swiss Art Dealer, Has Died

  24-03-2021 15:44 via artnews.com
  
  Doris Ammann, a Swiss art dealer who has led Zurich’s storied Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG gallery since 1993, has died. A representative for the gallery confirmed Ammann’s death in an email, saying that she was born in 1944, making her either 76 or 77. The spokesperson said that Ammann’s death was “sudden and unexpected,” but declined to confirm an exact cause or age.
  In 1977, she founded Thomas Ammann Fine Art Gallery AG with her brother Thomas, who got his start at
  
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• Bob Odenkirk Is Out for Revenge in ‘Nobody’

  24-03-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The influential comedian and “Better Call Saul” star isn’t kidding about his bid for action-movie stardom, training rigorously for his new thriller.
  
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• Picasso, Banksy, Magritte Top Christie’s $274.8 M. London Sales

  24-03-2021 14:51 via artnews.com
  
  At its Modern British art sale on March 1st Christie’s global president, Jussi Pylkkanen, remarked from the podium in King Street, London, how much he missed being up there, wielding his gavel, albeit just to phone and internet bids. In the previous nine months, he had only conducted four sales, two of which were shared with auctioneers in other locations, including the “ONE” sale in July which he had to
  
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• Banksy Charity Painting Nets $23 M., Warhol Documentarian Dies, and More: Morning Links from March 24, 2021

  24-03-2021 14:24 via artnews.com
  
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  A PAINTING THAT BANKSY CREATED TO HONOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS sold for £16.7 million (about $22.9 million) at Christie’s in London on Tuesday, the Guardian reports, and most of that has been earmarked for charity. That figure shatters the street artist’s previous auction record of £9.
  
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• Voice Mail Art Project Honors People of Color Killed by the Police

  24-03-2021 14:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Through the 1-800 Happy Birthday Project, Mohammad Gorjestani invited callers to leave messages for Black and Latino people who died in encounters with law enforcement.
  
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• Can You Autograph a Playbill Through Your Screen?

  24-03-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When Broadway shut, stage doors found a new way to open — on digital platforms that offer private lessons, birthday videos and meet and greets with stars.
  
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• For a Night at the Theater, Bring a Negative Coronavirus Test

  24-03-2021 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  A pilot program in Berlin is reopening some of the city’s landmark cultural venues, despite surging numbers of infections and toughened restrictions in other areas of life.
  
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• The Black Nerds Redefining the Culture

  24-03-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  By pushing back against centuries-old stereotypes, a historically overlooked community is claiming space it was long denied.
  
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• ‘Seaspiracy’ Review: Got Any Scandals? Go Fish.

  24-03-2021 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A Netflix documentary takes viewers on a voyage around the world rooting out the many causes of ocean life decimation, but its rhetorical methods distract from its revelations.
  
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• What Is Amazon Doing to Our Country?

  24-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Fulfillment,” Alec MacGillis tours America to understand how one company’s culture and capitalistic impulses are seeping into our way of life.
  
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• The Biggest Influencers of the Pandemic May Not Be Who You Assume

  24-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Forget Instagram. Cherchez the costume designers. It’s time they got their due.
  
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• Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story

  24-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress and star of films like “Basic Instinct” and “Casino” writes about her life, upbringing and brushes with death in a new memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice.”
  
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• Mariachis Play On, Their Music Unsilenced by the Virus or the Deaths

  24-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Even as the birthday parties and weddings grew scarce during the pandemic, the musicians were increasingly hired to play at funerals, including those of band members.
  
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• Evils Lurking Beneath a City’s Centuries-Old Canals

  24-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Donna Leon’s 30th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, “Transient Desires,” the setting — Venice — is the most important character of all.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Life’s Edge,’ by Carl Zimmer

  24-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Life’s Edge,” Carl Zimmer examines the many scientific attempts to define what it is that exactly constitutes life.
  
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• How Arts Candidates Are Viewing Admissions Season - Inside Higher Ed

  24-03-2021 08:08 via insidehighered.com
  
  How Arts Candidates Are Viewing Admissions Season  Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Stephen Colbert Suggests Guns Be Regulated Like Cars and Alcohol

  24-03-2021 07:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert said guns should require a license, registration, and insurance: “If you move to a new state, you got to do the whole damn thing all over again. And you can’t go out loaded.”
  
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• TRI-LAKES GUIDE: The 57th annual Black Forest Arts & Crafts Guild spring show will be held April 29-May 2 - Colorado Springs Gazette

  24-03-2021 07:00 via gazette.com
  TRI-LAKES GUIDE: The 57th annual Black Forest Arts & Crafts Guild spring show will be held April 29-May 2  Colorado Springs Gazette
  
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• Check Out Five Arts in Community Resilience Awards, With Many More to Come | Flagpole - Flagpole Magazine

  24-03-2021 05:11 via flagpole.com
  
  Check Out Five Arts in Community Resilience Awards, With Many More to Come | Flagpole  Flagpole Magazine
  
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• Janet Jackson and Kermit the Frog Added to National Recording Registry

  24-03-2021 05:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The Library of Congress has designated 25 recordings, from modern pop hits to one of the earliest recordings of an American voice, as “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time.”
  
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• Fringe Theater to host one-woman play "The Shot" March 24 - KeysNews.com

  24-03-2021 05:00 via keysnews.com
  Fringe Theater to host one-woman play "The Shot" March 24  KeysNews.com
  
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• Concerns raised about pandemic's impact on school arts programming - Brunswick News

  24-03-2021 05:00 via thebrunswicknews.com
  
  Concerns raised about pandemic's impact on school arts programming  Brunswick News
  
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