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• TLH Arts gets another shot at funding, as Commissioners vow to renovate Ashmore's with City money instead - WCTV

  25-03-2021 23:31 via wctv.tv
  
  TLH Arts gets another shot at funding, as Commissioners vow to renovate Ashmore's with City money instead  WCTV
  
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• News from the Hattiesburg Arts Council - HubcitySPOKES.com

  25-03-2021 23:04 via hubcityspokes.com
  News from the Hattiesburg Arts Council  HubcitySPOKES.com
  
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• Jay Leno Apologizes for Years of Anti-Asian Jokes

  25-03-2021 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian said it was not “another example of cancel culture but a legitimate wrong that was done on my part.”
  
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• Creator of ‘All Rise’ on CBS Is Fired After Writers’ Complaints

  25-03-2021 22:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Greg Spottiswood had faced numerous complaints over the way issues of race and gender were addressed on the show, a rare prime-time CBS drama with a Black woman as a protagonist.
  
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• As Lucille Bluth, Jessica Walter’s Pictures Said a Thousand Words

  25-03-2021 22:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The late actress had a long career. But her comic precision and delivery as Lucille Bluth made her memorable in the internet’s shortest form.
  
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• Why Jessica Walter’s Pictures Said a Thousand Words

  25-03-2021 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The late actress had a long career. But her comic precision and delivery make her memorable in the internet’s shortest form.
  
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• Dogwood Arts to give out 10,000 art kits for East Tennessee students after large donation - WBIR.com

  25-03-2021 22:32 via wbir.com
  
  Dogwood Arts to give out 10,000 art kits for East Tennessee students after large donation  WBIR.com
  
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• AEMS Arts in Our Schools Expert Panel Talk - MyEasternShoreMD

  25-03-2021 22:24 via myeasternshoremd.com
  AEMS Arts in Our Schools Expert Panel Talk  MyEasternShoreMD
  
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• New philanthropic organization to give $3M to Philadelphia arts - WHYY

  25-03-2021 22:13 via whyy.org
  
  New philanthropic organization to give $3M to Philadelphia arts  WHYY
  
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• Cough study combines liberal arts with cutting edge science - The Sewanee Purple

  25-03-2021 21:50 via thesewaneepurple.org
  
  Cough study combines liberal arts with cutting edge science  The Sewanee Purple
  
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• Jessica Walter, Tart-Tongued Matriarch of ‘Arrested Development,’ Dies at 80

  25-03-2021 21:40 via nytimes.com
  
  In a career that spanned six decades, Ms. Walter found a new audience as Lucille Bluth, the matriarch of the dysfunctional family featured in “Arrested Development,” a cult hit.
  
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• Jessica Walter, ‘Arrested Development’ Matriarch, Dies at 80

  25-03-2021 21:40 via nytimes.com
  
  In a career that spanned six decades, Ms. Walter found a new audience as Lucille Bluth, the matriarch of the dysfunctional family featured in “Arrested Development,” a cult hit.
  
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• Jessica Walter, ‘Arrested Development’ Star, Dies at 80

  25-03-2021 21:12 via nytimes.com
  
  In a career that spanned six decades, Ms. Walter found a new audience as Lucille Bluth, the matriarch of the dysfunctional family featured in “Arrested Development,” a cult hit.
  
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• El Museo Looks to Define ‘Latinx Art’ With a Major Survey

  25-03-2021 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The museum’s first triennial, imperfect but stimulating, has successfully landed.
  
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• Sotheby’s Unveils $35 M. Basquiat Set to Make Auction Debut in May

  25-03-2021 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday, during a sale in London, Sotheby’s auctioneer Oliver Barker unveiled a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat that the house will offer for sale in its New York contemporary art evening sale on May 12. Titled Versus Medici (1982), the painting is expected to fetch a price of $35 million–$50 million. If the work reaches its low estimate, it will be among the most expensive works by the artist ever sold at auction.
  The painting shows influence from Basquiat’s time in
  
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• Rare van Gogh Sells for $15.4 M., Leading Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in Paris

  25-03-2021 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday in Paris, ahead of a marquee cross-category auction, Sotheby’s held an Impressionist and modern art evening sale that brought in a total of €36.5 million with premium ($43 million). Led by auctioneer Aurélie Vandevoorde, Sotheby’s Paris director of the Impressionist and modern art, the auction realized a sell-through rate of 88 percent across 31 lots sold.
  Forty-two percent of the lots sold above the high estimate, 39 percent sold within their estimates, and j
  
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• On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate

  25-03-2021 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The platform’s tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium.
  
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• Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere

  25-03-2021 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  On “Promises,” their new collaborative album, Sanders’s tenor saxophone becomes one with the electronic composer’s web of humming synthesizers.
  
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• American Ballet Theater’s Leader to Step Down After 30 Years

  25-03-2021 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Kevin McKenzie, the company’s artistic director, will leave his job after the 2022 season.
  
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• UNCW Partners with Community Groups for “JUST US” Program Connecting Arts and Resiliency - UNCW News

  25-03-2021 20:07 via uncw.edu
  
  UNCW Partners with Community Groups for “JUST US” Program Connecting Arts and Resiliency  UNCW News
  
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• COVID Reflections: A rollercoaster year for the arts and entertainment sector - Monadnock Ledger Transcript

  25-03-2021 20:04 via ledgertranscript.com
  
  COVID Reflections: A rollercoaster year for the arts and entertainment sector  Monadnock Ledger Transcript
  
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• NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES GRANT OPPORTUNITIES - kroxam.com

  25-03-2021 20:00 via kroxam.com
  
  NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES GRANT OPPORTUNITIES  kroxam.com
  
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• Ragamala Dance moving to expanded Center for Performing Arts in Minneapolis - TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

  25-03-2021 19:56 via twincities.com
  
  Ragamala Dance moving to expanded Center for Performing Arts in Minneapolis  TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
  
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• Dental Arts of Cherry Hills – All-On-4 Dental Implants - FOX31 Denver

  25-03-2021 19:55 via kdvr.com
  Dental Arts of Cherry Hills – All-On-4 Dental Implants  FOX31 Denver
  
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• Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home

  25-03-2021 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Wildfires, refugee camps and the Arab Spring might be her primary sources. But a retrospective at the Whitney affirms she is an abstract painter, first and always.
  
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• Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation Launch Art Works, a New Grant Program to Support Arts and Culture in Greater Philadelphia - The Reporter

  25-03-2021 18:41 via thereporteronline.com
  Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation Launch Art Works, a New Grant Program to Support Arts and Culture in Greater Philadelphia  The Reporter
  
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• Bonzie Longs for a Post-Pandemic ‘Reincarnation’

  25-03-2021 18:25 via nytimes.com
  
  On her third album, the Chicago-based songwriter offers melody, mystery and prized imperfections.
  
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• David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center

  25-03-2021 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist’s earliest conceptual works about racial exclusion could hardly be more relevant today.
  
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• London’s Serpentine Galleries Nixes Sackler Name During ‘Rebranding Process’

  25-03-2021 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  The Serpentine Galleries is now calling the space formerly known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery the Serpentine North Gallery, the Art Newspaper reported on Thursday. The physical building in question—one of two spaces by the London museum used to mount grand contemporary art exhibitions—reportedly still bears the Sackler name.
  The Serpentine said in 2019 that it would no longer accept donations from the Sackler family. That year, as she staged a show at there, artist Hito Steyerl
  
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• The Best Brush Pens for Calligraphy and Ink Painting

  25-03-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Brushes and brush pens are an integral part of Japanese black ink painting, or sumi-e, and Japanese calligraphy, and it’s worth every penny to invest in premium brushes. Natural bristles, such as weasel or sable hair, are springy and responsive, ideal for making fine, thin lines and sweeping thicker marks, but high-quality nylon bristles mimic the excellence of natural bristles and are more durable and affordable. Brush pens are a convenient alternative, combining the best of traditional c
  
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• Bard SummerScape Returns With New Pam Tanowitz Dance

  25-03-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The site-specific collaboration with the composer Jessie Montgomery will be performed outdoors at Bard College’s Montgomery Place campus.
  
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• 'OU Outside the Box,' an outdoor performing arts festival, coming to OU campus - 2021 - School of Music, Theatre and Dance - News - OU Magazine - News at OU

  25-03-2021 17:33 via oakland.edu
  'OU Outside the Box,' an outdoor performing arts festival, coming to OU campus - 2021 - School of Music, Theatre and Dance - News - OU Magazine  News at OU
  
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• Port Townsend fills vacant seat on Arts Commission - Port Townsend Leader

  25-03-2021 16:48 via ptleader.com
  
  Port Townsend fills vacant seat on Arts Commission  Port Townsend Leader
  
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• Coming to Broadway: Vaccinations for New York’s Theater Workers

  25-03-2021 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city would create a vaccination site for theater workers to try to help Broadway shows reopen by the fall.
  
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• The (Way Too Many) Kids Whose Lives Have Been Upended by Gun Violence

  25-03-2021 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Children Under Fire,” by the Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, homes in on the often overlooked suffering of children who have witnessed a shooting or lost a loved one to it.
  
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• The Best Flip Book Kits for Kids Will Bring Drawings To Life

  25-03-2021 16:21 via artnews.com
  
  If the young artists in your life love movies, chances are they’ll love flip books. These books are rest on the foundations of old-school animation, made up simply of sheets of paper whose images appear to move when their pages are riffled at a steady pace. Due to their simplicity, making a flip book is a great activity for creative kids that encourages them to explore their drawing, narrative, and construction skills. Plus, their small size makes them perfect for small hands. For convenie
  
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• Scottish University Becomes First to Repatriate Benin Bronze to Nigeria

  25-03-2021 16:11 via artnews.com
  
  Days after Berlin’s Humboldt Forum museum said it was pursuing the return of its Benin Bronzes, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland said it would repatriate to Nigeria a sculpture from that same cache of artworks, which was looted by British troops during the 19th century and dispersed across Europe.
  The work is one of thousands that were taken in 1897 from the kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, and other similar works have ended up in the collections of august European instituti
  
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• MoMA’s Philip Johnson Problem: How to Address the Architect’s Legacy?

  25-03-2021 16:02 via artnews.com
  
  In 1984, the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated a set of galleries to Philip Johnson, who had served as the institution’s founding architecture department head during the ’30s. He staged some of the museum’s most memorable architecture shows, among them 1932’s influential “International Style” show, which helped pinpoint a mode of modernist design that was cropping up around Europe. He also transformed the institution that housed such pioneering e
  
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• Art Works Gallery holds Community Art Fundraiser to support The Youth Arts Programs at The Center for the Arts - YubaNet

  25-03-2021 15:42 via yubanet.com
  
  Art Works Gallery holds Community Art Fundraiser to support The Youth Arts Programs at The Center for the Arts  YubaNet
  
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• Carolina Performing Arts announces virtual spring season finale events | UNC-Chapel Hill - UNC Chapell Hill

  25-03-2021 15:26 via unc.edu
  
  Carolina Performing Arts announces virtual spring season finale events | UNC-Chapel Hill  UNC Chapell Hill
  
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• Smithsonian Seeks Museum Directors, Patron Donald R. Sobey Dies, and More: Morning Links from March 25, 2021

  25-03-2021 15:02 via artnews.com
  
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  THE SMITHSONIAN IS IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING no fewer than six museum directors, reporter Peggy McGlone notes in her Washington Post story about the stakes of that leadership hunt. The process is in the final stages for the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsoni
  
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• A Portrait of U.S. Linguistic Diversity, in Sound and Sign

  25-03-2021 14:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Ekene Ijeoma has been working on “A Counting,” an art project involving numbers and language, for more than a year. Now, a sign language edition has begun.
  
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• NFT Artwork by Sophia the Robot Sells for Nearly $700,000

  25-03-2021 14:42 via nytimes.com
  
  An artwork that sold for nearly $700,000 was the latest in the frenzied market for digital art — and possibly the first created in part by a non-human.
  
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• His Game Made Beating a Pandemic Fun. Can He Do It for Climate Change?

  25-03-2021 14:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Matt Leacock, the inventor of the hit board game Pandemic, has spent the past year making a game about an even weightier subject.
  
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• A Choreographer Who Bridges the Worlds of Dance and Nursing

  25-03-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Devynn Emory’s “deadbird” — a duet for Emory and a mannequin — deals with grief, envisioning “an ideal care team for a body who’s passing.”
  
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• Springfield College Hosts Arts and Humanities Speaker Series as Culmination of A Day to Confront Racism - Springfield College

  25-03-2021 13:00 via springfield.edu
  Springfield College Hosts Arts and Humanities Speaker Series as Culmination of A Day to Confront Racism  Springfield College
  
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• American Sign Language Finds Its Spotlight

  25-03-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Across all performative mediums, today’s Deaf creatives are celebrating, protecting and sharing their distinct mode of communication.
  
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• 7 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained During Spring Break

  25-03-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Circus classes, kite-flying workshops, escape rooms and other games to occupy your children (as if you haven’t already been doing this for a year) while school’s out.
  
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• 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April

  25-03-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bach two ways, the composer Tania León and a Philip Glass adaptation of Kafka are among the highlights.
  
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• Inside Husavik's Oscar Bid for a 'Eurovision Song Contest' Film Anthem

  25-03-2021 12:02 via nytimes.com
  
  First Husavik was the setting for the Netflix film “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.” Now, a song named after the town is up for an Oscar.
  
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