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• An Artist Who Is Always Heading for Home

  20-04-2021 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Azikiwe Mohammed celebrates everyday heroes and small acts of care in his installations.
  
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• Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery

  20-04-2021 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  State and federal officials announced on Tuesday that they had located the site of the Maryland cabin where the Underground Railroad conductor lived as a young adult.
  
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• Chicago officials announce Arts 77, major arts funding initiative - Chicago Sun-Times

  20-04-2021 23:31 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  Chicago officials announce Arts 77, major arts funding initiative  Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• The Best Splash-Resistant Keyboards for Art Studios and Photo Labs

  20-04-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  Love to drink coffee while at your computer? Protect your tech from accidental spillage by upgrading your keyboard to a waterproof, or at least a water-resistant one. A splash-proof keyboard is nice for general use, but it can be especially worthwhile to have if your computer or laptop is in a studio with loads of art materials. For instance, painters who keep their devices on their work surfaces can worry less about the occasional drip; those who work in photo process labs can type away with we
  
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• MOCA L.A. Senior Curator Resigns Over Museum’s Handling of Diversity Initiatives

  20-04-2021 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  One of the country’s most closely watched curators has resigned from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, accusing its leadership of being resistant to adhering to its commitment to diversity.
  Mia Locks, who joined MOCA in July 2019 as senior curator and head of new initiatives, resigned from the institution late last month, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
  One of the initiatives that Locks began at MOCA shortly after her appointment began was one devoted to IDEA,
  
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• ‘Spite’ Looks on the Bright Side of a Dark Feeling

  20-04-2021 22:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones writes about the different varieties of spite, and argues that the emotion “can be a force for good,” if deployed strategically.
  
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• Crypto Mogul Aims to Register High-Value Art on Blockchain Via NFT Investment Fund

  20-04-2021 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  In March, Justin Sun, CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Tron, revealed that he had established an NFT investment fund focused on acquisitions of blue-chip art. Now, Sun’s recent purchases of works by Picasso and Warhol worth $22 million will be among the first pieces of art to be digitally registered on the blockchain via the new fund, titled JUST NFT, via a process known as tokenization.
  In an open letter to the company’s constituents released by Tron Foundation on March 28, Sun st
  
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• How the Artists Behind ‘Shtisel’ Brought Akiva’s Journey to Life

  20-04-2021 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  To capture the tensions faced by a young ultra-Orthodox artist, the creative team behind the hit Israeli TV show hired two painters who understood the stakes.
  
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• Looted Artifacts Worth $1.8 M. Returned to Afghanistan

  20-04-2021 21:12 via artnews.com
  
  Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. revealed on Monday that 33 objects valued at $1.8 million will be returned to Afghanistan. The news was announced at a repatriation ceremony attended by Roya Rahmani, Afghan ambassador to the United States, and Eric Silverman, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations acting assistant special agent-in-charge.
  According to a release on the Manhattan D.A.’s website, the repatriated objects were recovered from the collection of Subhash Kapoor, who for yea
  
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• Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley Leaving Searchlight Pictures

  20-04-2021 21:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the top of Searchlight Pictures for more than two decades, shaping the film industry with hits like “12 Years a Slave,” “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland.”
  
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• Felix Silla, Cousin Itt on ‘The Addams Family’ Dies at 84

  20-04-2021 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  He made a strong impression in his best-known role, even though his face wasn’t seen and his voice wasn’t heard.
  
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• Bradley Whitford Finds Inspiration in the Theater (and Dog Park)

  20-04-2021 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of “The Handmaid’s Tale” talks about the magic sauce of Yo-Yo Ma and Aretha Franklin, and is ready to do some Ken Burns voice-overs.
  
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• Black History, Continued: How Do We Learn to Dream

  20-04-2021 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  We explore the enduring power of dreams, and the people who dare to follow them, with Nikki Giovanni, Estelle, Peter Ramsey, N. K. Jemisin and more.
  
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• The Best Camera Microphones for Field or Studio Recording

  20-04-2021 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  Whether you’re making a documentary, producing a piece of video art with sound, or narrating a gallery crawl, you’re going to need a decent microphone. While there’s a little mic built into your camera, it cannot compete with a full-sized device. To get the best sound clarity and quality for your projects, upgrade to a shotgun microphone, which can be attached directly to your camera and has a streamlined design that can be aimed at your audio source for enhanced pickup. Below,
  
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• 2021 Corn Hill Arts Festival canceled due to COVID-19 - RochesterFirst

  20-04-2021 19:38 via rochesterfirst.com
  2021 Corn Hill Arts Festival canceled due to COVID-19  RochesterFirst
  
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• The Huntington Gets Hip

  20-04-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  “Made in L.A.” represents an effort by the Huntington to expand its contemporary art programming and present more artists of color.
  
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• One Work: Rosalie Smith’s “My Mother’s Last Garden”

  20-04-2021 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  I write this in spring; dead flowers bloom at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. They belong to Rosalie Smith’s My Mother’s Last Garden (2019), a palliative repurposing of the bouquets the artist’s mother received following her diagnosis with terminal cancer, up until her death.
  The piece is an aberration in context, on view as part of the exhibition “Make America What America Must Become,” in which Southern artists pan our capitalist, carceral, colonial h
  
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• Justice Delayed: “Make America What America Must Become” at the CAC New Orleans

  20-04-2021 19:21 via artnews.com
  
  “Make America What America Must Become” takes its title from a line in James Baldwin’s “A Letter to My Nephew.” Originally published as an article in 1962, it would later be renamed “My Dungeon Shook,” appearing as the first of two missives that constitute Baldwin’s seminal work The Fire Next Time (1963). The Contemporary Arts Center exhibition, mounted in response to what the curatorial statement calls a summer of “electoral consternation,&r
  
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• Looted Statue Returned to Nepal with Help of Art Institute of Chicago

  20-04-2021 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  A looted sculpture of a Hindu deity has been sent back to Nepal with the help of the Art Institute of Chicago. The work, known as a linga, is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva with four faces. Also called a caturmukhalinga, the schist sculpture dates back to the 6th century.
  The linga had been in the hands of a private collector, and the Art Institute of Chicago assisted in helping Nepal recover the sculpture, a spokesperson for the museum said in a statement to ARTnews. According to the
  
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• Jeremiah Trusty, Singer, Model, Actor, Dies at 38

  20-04-2021 17:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Of all his endeavors, singing was the most important. He had recently recorded a song that he hoped would be his breakthrough. He died of Covid-19.
  
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• Mayor Lightfoot, DCASE, and Chicago Park District Announce “Arts 77” - chicago.gov

  20-04-2021 17:18 via chicago.gov
  
  Mayor Lightfoot, DCASE, and Chicago Park District Announce “Arts 77”  chicago.gov
  
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• Art Lasts, Markets Pass: Can NFTs Finally Make Art an Asset Class?

  20-04-2021 17:16 via artnews.com
  
  “People have long used art to store value,” Miami-based NFT investor Robert Rodriguez-Frail told Business Insider after he sold a Beeple NFT for a lot of money in March. “Crypto extends easily into digital art. This is just a more modern approach to investing in art and using it like someone would use gold or bitcoin.”
  Rodriguez-Frail had originally bought his Beeple five months earlier for $67,000; he sold it for $6.6 million. That kind of 100-fold return isn’t rea
  
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• ‘Peter Grimes’ Sails on Choppy Seas of Brexit and the Pandemic

  20-04-2021 16:59 via nytimes.com
  
  A production of Benjamin Britten’s opera at the Teatro Real in Madrid highlights the difficult new conditions for British artists working in the European Union.
  
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• Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens

  20-04-2021 16:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Brace yourself for a hearty dose of fatalism in “Terminal Boredom,” a dystopian story collection by Izumi Suzuki.
  
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• Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens

  20-04-2021 16:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Brace yourself for a hearty dose of fatalism in “Terminal Boredom,” a dystopian story collection by Izumi Suzuki.
  
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• Arts 77: Arts for every Chicago community - chicago.gov

  20-04-2021 16:07 via chicago.gov
  
  Arts 77: Arts for every Chicago community  chicago.gov
  
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• Abu Dhabi Art Dealer Allegedly Hawks Covid-19 Vaccines, Morán Morán to Mexico City, and More: Morning Links from April 20, 2021

  20-04-2021 15:47 via artnews.com
  
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  MUSEUMS ARE CONTINUING TO DEACCESSION WORKS and send them to the auction block to help improve their balance sheets. The New-York Historical Society is parting with a Childe Hassam flag painting, with a low estimate of $12 million, at Sotheby’s next month, Katya Kazakina reports for Artnet
  
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• Ephrat Asherie, Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial

  20-04-2021 14:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Our recommendations for dance to stream online, whether from your couch or your yoga mat.
  
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• ‘The Marijuana Conspiracy’ Review: Grass Fed

  20-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Five young women find that getting paid to get high isn’t quite as much fun as they imagined.
  
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• ‘Red Moon Tide’ Review: A Village Paralyzed in Grief

  20-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Subjects stand frozen against majestic landscapes in Lois Patiño’s meditation on how Galician mythology intersects with a village’s search for souls lost at sea.
  
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• Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Women’s Musical Genius Onscreen?

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Oscar-nominated performances this season put the emphasis on the trauma, not the artistry, of Billie Holiday and Ma Rainey. The most insightful movie might just be “Soul.”
  
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• What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.
  
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• They Always Had Paris — So He Went Back There Without Her

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Gregory Curtis’s memoir, he looks back on his marriage and the city that saved him after his wife died of cancer.
  
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• The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?,” by the British critic and novelist who died in 2016, features essays originally published in The London Review of Books that showcase her keen wit, incisive observations and intimate voice.
  
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• Spanning Centuries and Continents, Novels of Our Common Humanity

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As much as cultures have changed over the years, we still share traits with the flawed, searching characters between these covers.
  
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• Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.
  
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• Richard Wright’s Newly Restored Novel Is a Tale for Today

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Some 80 years after Wright finished it, “The Man Who Lived Underground” is still an urgent chronicle of the Black experience in America.
  
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• ‘As Africans We Must Uplift Each Other’: A Memoir of Humanitarianism

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “I Am a Girl From Africa,” the former U.N. adviser Elizabeth Nyamayaro retraces her life story from childhood starvation to NGOs.
  
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• Artist's Illustrations Help Explain Climate Change to Kids

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  To help explain to children the urgency of a warmer planet, a visual journalist created artwork with a playful approach.
  
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• A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her magical new novel, “Popisho,” Leone Ross transforms humanity’s worn-out suffering into something new and astonishing.
  
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• A London Teeming With Bodies, Buildings, Desire and Greed

  20-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The British author Fiona Mozley’s new novel, “Hot Stew,” features sex workers fighting an eviction order from a real-estate heiress and a host of other Londoners vying for control over their lives, careers and possessions.
  
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• Chicago's Arts 77 plan has $60 million for arts recovery - Chicago Tribune

  20-04-2021 09:00 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Chicago's Arts 77 plan has $60 million for arts recovery  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Arts77: Arts for every Chicago community - chicago.gov

  20-04-2021 09:00 via chicago.gov
  
  Arts77: Arts for every Chicago community  chicago.gov
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel to Mike Lindell: The Obsession Is Mutual

  20-04-2021 08:52 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mike Lindell doesn’t seem to understand I’m his biggest fan,” Kimmel said of the MyPillow C.E.O. “I have no idea what he is doing, but I love it.”
  
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• Richard Rush, Who Directed ‘The Stunt Man,’ Dies at 91

  20-04-2021 04:19 via nytimes.com
  
  He was nominated for an Oscar for the movie, about filmmaking stunts, perception and reality. His earlier films were aimed at the teenage market.
  
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• The Best Acrylic Matte Mediums for Artists and Hobbyists

  20-04-2021 03:30 via artnews.com
  
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  Acrylic medium is a versatile product for use with acrylic paint and in mixed-media projects. A liquid that’s milky when wet and translucent when dry, it can be added to acrylic to increase fluidity; the more you add, the thinner and more transparent the color will become. This makes it particularly handy for glazes and blending. It can also be used to create
  
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• As the Chauvin Trial Closes, Will Seeing Be Believing?

  20-04-2021 01:26 via nytimes.com
  
  A case that began with video that shook the world ends with arguments over what story those images told.
  
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• Richard Rush, Who Directed ‘The Stunt Man,’ Dies as 91

  20-04-2021 00:43 via nytimes.com
  
  He was nominated for an Oscar for the movie, about filmmaking stunts, perception and reality. His earlier films were aimed at the teenage market.
  
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