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• Arts council seek submissions for upcoming 'tiny art' exhibit - Grand Forks Herald

  28-04-2021 23:36 via grandforksherald.com
  
  Arts council seek submissions for upcoming 'tiny art' exhibit  Grand Forks Herald
  
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• Grant funding keeping the arts alive at Montgomery Center for the Arts - St. Albans Messenger

  28-04-2021 23:00 via samessenger.com
  
  Grant funding keeping the arts alive at Montgomery Center for the Arts  St. Albans Messenger
  
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• In ‘Unprecedented’ Find, Stolen Medieval Artifacts Recovered from Sicilian Collector’s Home

  28-04-2021 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  After being stolen more than 30 years ago from a village in Italy’s Tuscany region, a group of stolen medieval artifacts has been located by police in the home of an antiques collector in Sicily. In that house near Catania, the police discovered a pilfered reliquary that dates back to the 13th century, as well as other objects including a copper cross and six chalices.
  The reliquary was taken from the medieval walled town of Monteriggioni in 1989, and is believed to be dedicated to Saint G
  
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• Highland Village celebrates Arts Festival on May 1 - Community Impact Newspaper

  28-04-2021 22:37 via communityimpact.com
  
  Highland Village celebrates Arts Festival on May 1  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• ¡Viva! livestream telethon returns to raise money to support San Antonio arts community - San Antonio Current

  28-04-2021 22:36 via sacurrent.com
  
  ¡Viva! livestream telethon returns to raise money to support San Antonio arts community  San Antonio Current
  
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• The Arts & Adventure Collide in Paradise Coast - Flamingo Magazine

  28-04-2021 22:15 via flamingomag.com
  
  The Arts & Adventure Collide in Paradise Coast  Flamingo Magazine
  
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• 6 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now

  28-04-2021 22:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Daisy May Sheff’s new paintings; Precious Okoyomon’s reimagined ecosystem; Damien Davis’s sculptures; Beverly Buchanan’s “shacks”; and more.
  
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• Thinking About the Intersection Between Human Rights and the Arts - Hyperallergic

  28-04-2021 22:10 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Thinking About the Intersection Between Human Rights and the Arts  Hyperallergic
  
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• The Best Birch Plywood for Art Making and Crafting

  28-04-2021 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  Birch plywood is a popular choice for hobbyists, artists, and crafters when something sturdier than balsa wood is needed. It is strong, durable, and fine grained, yet more affordable than many other wood options. Sold in precut sizes small enough for easy handling, birch plywood sheets for crafting can be sliced with a range of tools, from professional laser cutters to hobbyist machines such as Cricuts. Whether you’re planning to build a scale model, make a desk set, or paint a tondo, this
  
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• Art Notes: News from the Napa arts community - Napa Valley Register

  28-04-2021 21:33 via napavalleyregister.com
  
  Art Notes: News from the Napa arts community  Napa Valley Register
  
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• House panel advances stimulus support for arts and cultural organizations - coloradopolitics.com

  28-04-2021 21:24 via coloradopolitics.com
  
  House panel advances stimulus support for arts and cultural organizations  coloradopolitics.com
  
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• Recapping Arts on Campus for the 2020-2021 Season – The Daily Utah Chronicle - Daily Utah Chronicle

  28-04-2021 21:10 via dailyutahchronicle.com
  
  Recapping Arts on Campus for the 2020-2021 Season – The Daily Utah Chronicle  Daily Utah Chronicle
  
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• ‘Citizen Kane’ Is No ‘Paddington 2,’ Says Rotten Tomatoes

  28-04-2021 20:48 via nytimes.com
  
  After an 80-year-old pan resurfaced, the website Rotten Tomatoes recalculated and found that only 99 percent of critics had praised “Citizen Kane.”
  
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• Pulled Bodies, Fabric Spirits, and Celebration: Senga Nengudi’s Elusive Art Finds Joy in the Everyday

  28-04-2021 20:38 via artnews.com
  
  In 1978, Senga Nengudi, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and other artists—all part of a loose collective known as Studio Z—descended on an area beneath a Los Angeles freeway. Typically frequented by the houseless, the city’s freeway underpasses are also normally filled with urban detritus. On that day, however, for a Nengudi-organized performance known as Ceremony for Freeway Fets, it also played host to clarinetists, drummers, flautists, dancers, and more. Hassinger, who had c
  
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• Memory Work: Levan Mindiashvili at Marisa Newman Projects

  28-04-2021 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  Within the limited space of a modest venue, Levan Mindiashvili manages to convey in this exhibition a complex narrative of his early childhood in Tbilisi, Georgia. The show’s title, “what color is the Black Sea?,” a childish jest, alludes to a family seaside holiday when Mindiashvili was three years old, an occasion that the artist has identified as his first memory. For him, the event marks the beginning of consciousness—and self-consciousness—including the nascent
  
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• Who Needs an Album? Just Keep Remaking the Song!

  28-04-2021 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Recent hits by SpotemGottem and Lil Nas X show the power of extending the life of a single track, album be damned.
  
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• New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup

  28-04-2021 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  For the showcase’s milestone anniversary, organizers have put together an eclectic program paired with a selection of films from past decades.
  
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• Brothers found Arts for a Cause, raising money for homeless - Virginian-Pilot

  28-04-2021 20:08 via pilotonline.com
  Brothers found Arts for a Cause, raising money for homeless  Virginian-Pilot
  
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• The Best Balsa Wood for Model-Building and More

  28-04-2021 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  All model-building fans know that balsa wood is an essential material for their craft. Sourced from the eponymous tree, this wood is lightweight, showcases minimal grain, and is favored for its softness—this is the easiest wood to carve and shape. Its firm-like-butter surface also makes it a great choice for pyrography. Given its widespread use as not only a commercial material but a crafting material, balsa wood is readily available in a range of precut shapes and sizes. From sheets to st
  
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• ‘Taxilandia’ Review: The Mouth is Running, but Not the Meter

  28-04-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Modesto Jimenez, known as Flako, has turned cab theater into a genre, and his latest show takes place on a ride through Bushwick, Brooklyn.
  
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• Stanford Arts Presents a Conversation With Teresita Fernández and Sir David Adjaye - Hyperallergic

  28-04-2021 20:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Stanford Arts Presents a Conversation With Teresita Fernández and Sir David Adjaye  Hyperallergic
  
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• Seniors in the performing arts find new purpose, inspiration despite entering a changed industry - The Brown Daily Herald

  28-04-2021 19:59 via browndailyherald.com
  
  Seniors in the performing arts find new purpose, inspiration despite entering a changed industry  The Brown Daily Herald
  
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• Portsmouth arts leaders say masks will continue to be required - Seacoastonline.com

  28-04-2021 19:41 via seacoastonline.com
  Portsmouth arts leaders say masks will continue to be required  Seacoastonline.com
  
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• Michelangelo Lovelace, Compassionate Painter of Cleveland’s Community, Has Died at 60

  28-04-2021 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  Michelangelo Lovelace Sr., a Cleveland-based artist who created poignant paintings and drawings often focused on issues of injustice in America, has died at age 60. A representative for Lovelace’s gallery, Fort Gansevoort, said that he died after a long illness.
  The subjects of Lovelace’s works, which the artist created over the course of 40 years, range from everyday city life to poverty, war, immigration, and policing. The artist told Ideastream in a 2017 interview, “Wha
  
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• Graduating students in Fine Arts program to present reading of capstone work - Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

  28-04-2021 19:33 via centralmaine.com
  Graduating students in Fine Arts program to present reading of capstone work  Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
  
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• Texas A&M Awards 2021 Arts & Humanities Fellowships To 10 Faculty Members - Texas A&M University Today

  28-04-2021 19:24 via today.tamu.edu
  
  Texas A&M Awards 2021 Arts & Humanities Fellowships To 10 Faculty Members  Texas A&M University Today
  
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• Able ARTS Work Partnership Puts Artists With Disabilities On Radio - Gazette Newspapers

  28-04-2021 19:00 via gazettes.com
  Able ARTS Work Partnership Puts Artists With Disabilities On Radio  Gazette Newspapers
  
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• A Look at Arts Education for the Next Generation of Culture Makers - KCET

  28-04-2021 19:00 via kcet.org
  
  A Look at Arts Education for the Next Generation of Culture Makers  KCET
  
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• Proposed Florida budget provides a 24 percent boost in arts and culture funding - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  28-04-2021 18:47 via heraldtribune.com
  Proposed Florida budget provides a 24 percent boost in arts and culture funding  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• Wayne Peterson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 93

  28-04-2021 18:14 via nytimes.com
  
  His Pulitzer, in 1992, came amid controversy not of his making: A three-member jury had recommended a different work.
  
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• Archeologists Unearth Centuries Old Mosaic in Israel

  28-04-2021 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  A team of archaeologists have uncovered an unusually well-preserved 1,600-year-old mosaic in Yavne, a city in central Israel. Dating from the Byzantine period, the geometric mosaic floor design was discovered during excavations of a bustling industrial zone that likely operated during the 4th and 5th century C.E., according to a press release published Monday from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
  “The pavement may have been part of a splendid residential building in a wealthy neighborhood
  
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• Phillips Taps Former Christie’s Executive as CEO

  28-04-2021 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  After having just announced plans to form an art advisory service, the London-based auction house Phillips has appointed Stephen Brooks as its new CEO. Brooks, who was most recently deputy chief executive officer at Christie’s where he ran the houses’s financial operations, will take over for Ed Dolman, the current CEO of Phillips. Dolman, who has been in the position since 2014, will transition into a new role as executive chairman.
  Brooks, who will look to expand the house’s
  
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• The Five Best Colored Pencil Sets for Aspiring Artists

  28-04-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Has your child stepped up a level from crayons and started seeking something a little more grown-up to color with? A solid colored pencil set is the quickest, most cost-effective way to bring a new world of color to a young artist’s fingertips. We judged a whole bunch of them on variety, creativity, and user-friendliness (that is, how easily they can be erased
  
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• Hot Springs prepares for socially safe Arts & The Park Festival - KARK

  28-04-2021 17:50 via kark.com
  Hot Springs prepares for socially safe Arts & The Park Festival  KARK
  
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• Theater to Stream: A Musical Throwback and ‘The Normal Heart’

  28-04-2021 17:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Highlights include concerts by Melissa Errico and Sutton Foster, and an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves.”
  
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• Review: ‘Yasuke’ Reclaims a Black Samurai From History

  28-04-2021 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Netflix’s new anime of ronin, race and robots is entrancing, if overstuffed with action-genre elements.
  
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• Review: Netflix's 'Yaskuke Reclaims a Black Samurai's History

  28-04-2021 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Netflix’s new anime of ronin, race and robots is entrancing, if overstuffed with action-genre elements.
  
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• Stokes Arts announces scholarship winners - The Stokes News

  28-04-2021 17:08 via thestokesnews.com
  
  Stokes Arts announces scholarship winners  The Stokes News
  
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• Auction Rainmaker Amy Cappellazzo to Depart Sotheby’s

  28-04-2021 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  Amy Cappellazzo, an influential figure within the art market, will leave Sotheby’s, where she is currently chairman of the global fine arts division. Having been at the house for more than five years, she joined it in 2016, when the house acquired her firm, Art Agency, Partners, for $85 million.
  With Cappellazzo’s departure expected for July, the house will reorganize its leadership. Brooke Lampley and Mari-Claudia Jiménez will now lead the global fine arts division, and Gr&ea
  
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• Dancers’ Workshop hosts ‘Tickling the Beast’ visual arts camp - Buckrail

  28-04-2021 16:59 via buckrail.com
  
  Dancers’ Workshop hosts ‘Tickling the Beast’ visual arts camp  Buckrail
  
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• How TV Productions Are Adapting to the Covid-19 Pandemic

  28-04-2021 16:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The unions representing actors and crews are in talks with the studios about extending — and possibly changing — the safety protocols they agreed on in September.
  
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• When the Cellos Play, the Cows Come Home

  28-04-2021 16:10 via nytimes.com
  
  A collaboration between a cattle farmer and a Danish music training program brings regular recitals to pampered livestock.
  
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• Perkinson Arts Center issues call for 'Quarantine Creations' - Chesterfield Observer

  28-04-2021 16:08 via chesterfieldobserver.com
  
  Perkinson Arts Center issues call for 'Quarantine Creations'  Chesterfield Observer
  
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• Samsung Chief’s Art Donated, Egyptian Tombs Found, and More: Morning Links from April 28, 2021

  28-04-2021 16:04 via artnews.com
  
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  TODAY WAS THE BIG DAY. The family of the pioneering Samsung head Lee Kun-hee, who died last year, revealed details about how they plan to deal with his $20 billion estate and the staggering $10.8 billion in taxes they must pay on it. Part of that plan: Give some 23,000 pieces of art that Lee collected to South Kore
  
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• The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time.

  28-04-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Since the heyday of John Fahey, the genre has been seen as the province of white men. A new generation of diverse players is rapidly changing that.
  
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• Picasso’s Portrait of Françoise Gilot to Make Rare Market Appearance at Sotheby’s

  28-04-2021 15:53 via artnews.com
  
  A Pablo Picasso painting from 1952 that depicts one of his muses, artist Françoise Gilot, will be offered at Sotheby’s in an Impressionist and modern art evening auction in New York on May 12. Titled Femme assise en costume vert, the work is now on view at Sotheby’s galleries in London through April 30, and will go to its final location at the house’s New York headquarters on May 1. It is expected to fetch a price of $14 million–$18 million.
  The canvas depicts
  
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• Annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition Opening May 5 - NEC News & Events

  28-04-2021 15:51 via nec.edu
  
  Annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition Opening May 5  NEC News & Events
  
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• ‘Great Gatsby’ Musical Sets Creative Team

  28-04-2021 15:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The production will feature lyrics by Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine and a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok.
  
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• Samsung Family Donates 23,000 Works to S. Korean Museums Amid $11 Billion Tax Bill

  28-04-2021 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  The wait is over.
  Today the family of Lee Kun-hee, the billionaire Samsung chieftain who died last October, began detailing his massive estate, the gargantuan tax they intend to pay on it, and their philanthropic plans, which include gifts of some 23,000 works from his art collection to South Korean museums and hundreds of millions of dollars to medical causes.
  Samsung said in a press release on Wednesday morning that the family would pay more than 12 trillion Korean (about $10.8 billion) on the
  
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• TV Production Adapted to Weather the Pandemic. Now What?

  28-04-2021 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The unions representing actors and crews are in talks with the studios about extending — and possibly changing — the safety protocols they agreed on in September.
  
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