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• Bob Porter, Jazz Producer and Broadcaster, Dies at 80

  22-04-2021 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Hundreds of albums bore his name, notably reissues of classic material. And he helped make WBGO the biggest jazz radio station in the New York area.
  
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• Restituted Cranach Leads Christie’s $18 M. Old Masters Sale Dominated by Familiar Names

  22-04-2021 23:52 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday morning, Christie’s staged an Old Masters sale in New York that brought in $14.6 million on the hammer, or $18 million with buyer’s fees. The total came in below the pre-sale estimate range of $15.6 million–$24.4 million.
  Led by Christie’s chairman and global head of private sales Adrien Meyer, the 64-lot sale saw a below-average sell-through rate of 59 percent, with just 33 works finding buyers. An equivalent New York live sale in October 2020 made $24 millio
  
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• The Unstoppable Rose Wylie

  22-04-2021 23:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Left alone and unconstrained, the British artist has painted throughout the pandemic.
  
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• Explore an Age-Old Medium with the Best Brushes for Ink Painting

  22-04-2021 23:30 via artnews.com
  
  Given the fluidity of ink painting, it’s imperative that painters be armed with trouble-free brushes. Whether used for ink-and-wash painting (sumi-e in Japanese) or calligraphy, these brushes typically have relatively long bristles that respond well to the artist’s hand, moving pigment with little drag. Traditionally, there are two main types of East Asian ink painting brushes. White “goat’s hair” brushes, made from sheep’s wool, goat hair, and sometimes the h
  
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• Foundation for Arts and Music in Education hosts virtual FAME festival - WANE

  22-04-2021 22:50 via wane.com
  Foundation for Arts and Music in Education hosts virtual FAME festival  WANE
  
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• 20 Curators Who Changed the Way We See Art

  22-04-2021 22:24 via artnews.com
  
  Today, the word “curator” conjures an erudite, jet-setting figure who attends biennials around the world, but the job wasn’t always a glamorous one, and during the mid-20th century, a group of figures helped define the profession as we know it today by working tirelessly behind the scenes. In most cases, their names weren’t household ones at the time, but their impact is far-reaching, shaping the way contemporary art was seen in the years to come through groundbreaki
  
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• The Best Cold Press Watercolor Blocks for Achieving Vintage Effects

  22-04-2021 21:36 via artnews.com
  
  One of three standard textures of watercolor paper (the other two being hot press and rough), cold press paper features a slightly rough texture that will showcase your brushstrokes to dramatic effect. One convenient way to use cold press paper is to purchase sheets in block form. The papers come pre-glued together on all four sides so there’s no need to tape them down to stretch them before use, although you should have a small knife on hand to separate the top paper cleanly once dry. Ide
  
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• The Best Cold Press Watercolor Blocks for Achieving Dramatic Effects

  22-04-2021 21:36 via artnews.com
  
  One of three standard textures of watercolor paper (the other two being hot press and rough), cold press paper features a slightly rough texture that will showcase your brushstrokes to dramatic effect. One convenient way to use cold press paper is to purchase sheets in block form. The papers come pre-glued together on all four sides so there’s no need to tape them down to stretch them before use, although you should have a small knife on hand to separate the top paper cleanly once dry. Ide
  
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• An Acorn Jelly That Brings Michelle Zauner Back

  22-04-2021 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician and memoirist rediscovered this favorite from her childhood while on a recent trip to Seoul.
  
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• Oscars 2021 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress?

  22-04-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our expert is here to help you catch up to one of the strangest awards seasons on record. Here is what he thinks will win.
  
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• Overlooked No More: Bhanu Athaiya, Who Won India Its First Oscar

  22-04-2021 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Athaiya, a costume designer on more than 100 films, won the award in 1983 for her work on “Gandhi.”
  
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• UMass Fine Arts Center Concludes the 2020-21 Season with Virtual Concert Caravan on Thursday, April 29 - UMass News and Media Relations

  22-04-2021 20:36 via umass.edu
  
  UMass Fine Arts Center Concludes the 2020-21 Season with Virtual Concert Caravan on Thursday, April 29  UMass News and Media Relations
  
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• Dean and Three Senior Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Duke Today

  22-04-2021 20:30 via today.duke.edu
  
  Dean and Three Senior Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences  Duke Today
  
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• YSU Summer Festival of the Arts accepting artist applications - WKBN.com

  22-04-2021 19:53 via wkbn.com
  YSU Summer Festival of the Arts accepting artist applications  WKBN.com
  
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• Five from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2021 - MIT News

  22-04-2021 19:30 via news.mit.edu
  
  Five from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2021  MIT News
  
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• One of the U.S.’s Oldest Museums Hires Lynda Roscoe Hartigan As Its First Female Director

  22-04-2021 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, one of the oldest institutions in the U.S., has its first female director in its 221-year history.
  Lynda Roscoe Hartigan is set to take the reins at the Peabody Essex Museum this August. Currently the deputy director for collections and research and chief innovation officer at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the appointment marks a homecoming for Hartigan, who has formerly served in senior roles at the Peabody Essex Museum.
  In 2003, Hartigan
  
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• Imaginative Resources

  22-04-2021 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  Descriptions of Tony Cokes’s videos often start with what isn’t in them. Over the past two decades, he has eschewed representational imagery in favor of white text, excerpted from journalistic sources, presented on monochromatic screens, typically red or blue. The videos could be mistaken for examples of some strain of minimalist cinema or artifacts from the heyday of stripped-down Conceptual art. Yet in Cokes’s hands, text-driven videos are remarkably expansive in the topics t
  
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• Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ Cut in Half and Twice as Good

  22-04-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley star as the star-crossed lovers in a compelling stage-film hybrid adaptation.
  
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• Arts become a tool for climate action in the hands of USC students - USC News

  22-04-2021 19:00 via news.usc.edu
  
  Arts become a tool for climate action in the hands of USC students  USC News
  
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• New greenway opens in Asheville's River Arts District - WLOS

  22-04-2021 18:45 via wlos.com
  New greenway opens in Asheville's River Arts District  WLOS
  
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• Staatsballett Berlin and Dancer Reach Settlement Over Bias Allegations

  22-04-2021 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The dancer, Chloé Lopes Gomes, spoke out about racism last year after her contract was not renewed, and she will stay on, after arbitration.
  
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• Laura Aguilar Turned Her Searing Lens on Herself, and Shaped the Future

  22-04-2021 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  A powerful voice for marginalized groups, Laura Aguilar frankly and poetically portrayed Latino and lesbian communities.
  
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• Review: In ‘Philly D.A.,’ a Reformer Prosecutes the System

  22-04-2021 18:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The gripping PBS documentary series is a richly detailed look at what happens when an idealist gets actual power.
  
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• Sotheby’s to Sell Prized Porcelain Collection Restituted by Dutch Government

  22-04-2021 18:13 via artnews.com
  
  Around 100 pieces from the collection of Franz Oppenheimer, a Jewish businessman whose early 18th-century Meissen porcelain was seized by the Nazis, is headed to Sotheby’s in New York this September. Oppenheimer’s collection, valued at more than $2 million, includes items once owned by nobility such pieces from the holdings of Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony and the King of Poland, who established Europe’s first porcelain factory in 1710.
  Oppenheimer’s collecti
  
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• French Authors Lead International Booker Prize Shortlist

  22-04-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Éric Vuillard and David Diop are among the authors contending for the prestigious award for translated literature.
  
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• Documentary Celebrates Women in Electronic Music

  22-04-2021 16:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Lisa Rovner’s “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines” spotlights the pioneers who harnessed technology to do more than “push around dead white men’s notes.”
  
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• She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here.

  22-04-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The British musician has had several brushes with death in her 74 years. But Covid-19 and its long-haul symptoms didn’t derail her latest project: a spoken-word tribute to the Romantic poets.
  
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• Burning Man Mulls Vax Rule, Olafur Eliasson Floods Museum, and More: Morning Links from April 22, 2021

  22-04-2021 15:38 via artnews.com
  
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  THE FATE OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT ART COLLECTIONS is coming into focus. Since the Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee died last October in Seoul, there has been vigorous speculation about what would become of his art holdings, which could be worth more than $2 billion. Hints have trickled out recently, and now Yonhap&
  
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• The Best Epoxy for a Secure Bond

  22-04-2021 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  It’s never a bad idea to keep epoxy in your home or studio. However, choosing the right epoxy can be complicated.  The most common consumer-grade epoxies are two-part epoxies, which keep the resin and hardener separate until it’s time to use them. They range from fast-setting options that dry in minutes, to ultrastrong epoxies that take hours to set, to products that fall somewhere in the middle. Curing time, or how long it takes for the bond to reach full strength, is usually 2
  
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• The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later

  22-04-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Philadelphia musician’s only album as a bandleader was long thought lost in a fire. Now his legacy could undergo a reassessment.
  
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• New York Boosts Funding for Nonprofit Arts Groups - The Wall Street Journal

  22-04-2021 15:00 via wsj.com
  
  New York Boosts Funding for Nonprofit Arts Groups  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Hollywood Journalist Prepares for a Surreal Oscar Night

  22-04-2021 14:35 via nytimes.com
  
  A Times journalist gives a sneak preview of the Academy Awards on Sunday and offers insights on a changing film industry.
  
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• Rival Art Storage Firms Crozier and UOVO Announce Separate Expansions

  22-04-2021 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  The art storage and services industry may be at the beginning of a major consolidation phase if this week’s news is any indication—and the industry roll-up is being led by two firms grounded in New York. London’s Martinspeed announced yesterday that it would be acquired by Crozier. Today, Queens-based UOVO, Crozier’s outer-borough rival, announces that it has purchased Museo Vault in Miami.
  Museo Vault’s 90,000 square feet of storage split between two facilities in
  
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• ‘Wet Season’ Review: Teacher’s Pet

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An immigrant schoolteacher finds solace in a relationship with one of her students in this suggestive drama from Singapore.
  
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• ‘Tu Me Manques’ Review: Traces of a Lost Love

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A conservative father who could not accept his son’s sexuality is led on a contemplative tour of queer life in New York in this Bolivian film.
  
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• ‘Together Together’ Review: A Conceivable Plan

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A man and his surrogate navigate a bumpy road to fatherhood in this endearing dramatic comedy.
  
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• ‘Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street’ Review: Making of a Sunny Day

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Even nostalgia-resistant viewers can learn something from this documentary version of a book on the making of the show.
  
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• ‘Stowaway’ Review: An Outer-Space Drama, Lacking Gravity

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix film pushes a crew of space explorers to moral and physical extremes when an unexpected passenger accidentally compromises their oxygen supply.
  
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• ‘Sisters With Transistors’ Review: How Women Pioneered Electronic Music

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This far-reaching documentary from Lisa Rovner looks back at the female composers and artists who shaped modern music.
  
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• ‘Paris Calligrammes’ Review: Recalling the 1960s With Fondness and Passion

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The German artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger takes us on an unhurried journey through her past.
  
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• ‘My Wonderful Wanda’ Review: The Secret Life of a Caretaker

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer/director Bettina Oberli weaves a satirical family drama knotted with infidelity, among other complications.
  
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• ‘8 Billion Angels’ Review: Giving Earth Top Billing

  22-04-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary about climate injustice feels defanged by its unfocused structure.
  
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• 'Living Newspaper' at the Royal Court Theater Stirs Up Stories of Our Time

  22-04-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Tired of reading the headlines? You can watch artistic interpretations of the stories of our era by trailing actors in a Living Newspaper production, section by section.
  
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• Jake Paul Promised Them Fame. Was It Worth the Price?

  22-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A look behind the scenes at life in the Team 10 house.
  
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• ‘I Wish I Got Pregnant in March!’ Inside the Dance Baby Boom.

  22-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many dancers have taken advantage of a byproduct of the pandemic — time away from performing — to try out a new role: motherhood.
  
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• Erin French Dishes About Writing, Survival and Takeout

  22-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The chef, author and Magnolia Network star is making it through the pandemic just like the rest of us: one meal at a time.
  
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• Chris Bohjalian Can Read for Hours in the Bath

  22-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I also loved to read in swimming pools, pre-Covid, when vacations were a thing.”
  
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• 50 Things You Can Do for the Earth Right Now

  22-04-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Climate Diet,” Paul Greenberg offers some suggestions for combating climate change, from switching out your light bulbs to asking your municipality to think about where it gets its energy.
  
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• Best arts and entertainment in the Capital Region | Best of 2021 winners - Albany Times Union

  22-04-2021 09:00 via timesunion.com
  
  Best arts and entertainment in the Capital Region | Best of 2021 winners  Albany Times Union
  
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• 4 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - UC Davis

  22-04-2021 09:00 via ucdavis.edu
  
  4 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences  UC Davis
  
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