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• Düsseldorf Committee Votes to Return Franz Marc Painting to Former Owner’s Heirs

  29-04-2021 23:57 via artnews.com
  
  A Franz Marc painting that has been the subject of a years-long restitution case will be returned to the heirs of its former owner, the Jewish businessman and banker Kurt Grawi, who sold the work during World War II. The German city of Düsseldorf will restitute Marc’s 1913 painting Die Füchse (Foxes) to Grawi’s heirs, according to a report by the German publication Der Spiegel. The city’s art collection has held the painting since 1962.
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• Mariposa County Arts Council Announces Poetry Collections Ready for Arts in Corrections Participants - Sierra Sun Times

  29-04-2021 23:22
  Mariposa County Arts Council Announces Poetry Collections Ready for Arts in Corrections Participants  Sierra Sun Times
  
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• Anthony Powell, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer, Dies at 85

  29-04-2021 23:07 via nytimes.com
  
  He was honored for “Travels With My Aunt,” “Death on the Nile” and “Tess.” He was also renowned for the outlandish outfits he created for Glenn Close as the evil Cruella de Vil.
  
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• Fairhope Arts and Craft festival set to kick off Friday - WKRG News 5

  29-04-2021 23:06
  Fairhope Arts and Craft festival set to kick off Friday  WKRG News 5
  
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• Former PS1 Curator Peter Eleey Joins Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

  29-04-2021 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  Peter Eleey, who stepped down last year as the chief curator of MoMA PS1 in in New York, has joined the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing as curator-at-large. In his new role, Eleey will develop the institution’s exhibitions, programs, and curatorial direction as it expands to Shanghai this year.
  According to a release, “he will also periodically organize exhibitions at UCCA and work to expand the museum’s program and partnerships from his base in New York.” For
  
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• Overlooked No More: Inji Efflatoun, Egyptian Artist of the People

  29-04-2021 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  She was born into the aristrocacy but became an activist for commoners while depicting social injustices in her paintings.
  
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• Germany Commits to Returning Benin Bronzes Starting in 2022

  29-04-2021 22:44 via artnews.com
  
  In a rare and nearly unprecedented step, Germany has promised to begin returning the Benin Bronzes held by state-run institutions in 2022. The push to send back the objects was announced on Thursday by the German culture ministry.
  The Benin Bronzes are a group of thousands of objects that were plundered from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, during a colonial conquest by British troops in 1897. In the more than 120 years since, these objects have been spread around the globe, and are
  
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• Electronic Arts Wraps Up Acquisition of Glu Mobile - Motley Fool

  29-04-2021 22:21
  
  Electronic Arts Wraps Up Acquisition of Glu Mobile  Motley Fool
  
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• The Best Blank Notebooks for Sketching, Note-taking, and More

  29-04-2021 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  Blank notebooks offer a great opportunity for you to express your creativity through writing, sketching, painting, or otherwise. They also serve as a portal into your mind as you flip back through them after they’re done. Some will be better than others, however, depending on the use you have in mind. You might be on the hunt for a journal that travels well, or for one with paper that stands up to your drawing implements, or for one that is attractive and will display nicely. No matter wha
  
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• Hanson, Grafstein elected to arts and sciences academy | Cornell Chronicle - Cornell Chronicle

  29-04-2021 21:44
  
  Hanson, Grafstein elected to arts and sciences academy | Cornell Chronicle  Cornell Chronicle
  
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• The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media

  29-04-2021 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Great examples of photography and editorial design abound at the Jewish Museum. (Catch the catalog, too.)
  
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• William T. Wiley, Influential Bay Area Funk Artist and Educator, Is Dead at 83

  29-04-2021 21:19 via artnews.com
  
  William T. Wiley, a Funk artist whose offbeat art and influential teaching practice have inspired generations of artists in the Bay Area, has died at 83. Los Angeles’s Parker Gallery, which co-represents the artist with Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, said in a newsletter on Thursday that Wiley had died on April 25. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that he had Parkinson’s disease.
  During the 1960s and ’70s, Wiley’s work earned widespread admiration among a rising cr
  
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• New David Hockney Billboards to Brighten 5 Cities in May

  29-04-2021 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  His chrysanthemum-like depictions of the sun will light up digital platforms in New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and Seoul.
  
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• How to Breathe New Life Into Martha Graham’s Dances? Infuse Them With Art.

  29-04-2021 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  As part of GrahamFest95, the choreographer’s dance company celebrates its 95th anniversary with four films pairing dances with works by Hauser & Wirth artists.
  
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• The Best Pop-Up Canopies for Making and Showing Your Art Outdoors

  29-04-2021 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  A canopy can be an invaluable piece of gear for artists called to the outdoors, be it for showing works at an art festival or doing some plein air painting. In temperate climates, it can even be used as an outdoor studio. Pop-up canopies are quick and easy to assemble and provide shade and some protection from rain and wind. When shopping for one, look for a high-quality, UV-reflecting material and a sturdy frame. And if you will need to travel with your canopy, weight and collapsed size will be
  
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• A long road to recovery: Arts and entertainment industry looks forward to gathering again - Summit Daily News

  29-04-2021 19:45
  
  A long road to recovery: Arts and entertainment industry looks forward to gathering again  Summit Daily News
  
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• Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Arts Festival to feature in-person musical performances and artist markets - WTAE Pittsburgh

  29-04-2021 19:41
  Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Arts Festival to feature in-person musical performances and artist markets  WTAE Pittsburgh
  
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• Community School of Music and Arts presents concert of merit scholars - Mountain View Voice

  29-04-2021 19:12
  Community School of Music and Arts presents concert of merit scholars  Mountain View Voice
  
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• Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival returns with all-Alabama lineup - al.com

  29-04-2021 18:54
  
  Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival returns with all-Alabama lineup  al.com
  
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• ‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub.

  29-04-2021 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Set at a Southern barbecue, James Ijames’s hilarious update on Shakespeare sees a recipe for liberation in the story of family disaster.
  
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• Fund for the Arts Awards in the Arts 2021 - Voice Tribune

  29-04-2021 18:45
  
  Fund for the Arts Awards in the Arts 2021  Voice Tribune
  
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• Dawoud Bey's Images at the Whitney Museum Look Deep Into America's Past

  29-04-2021 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Dawoud Bey’s images at the Whitney Museum expose rich histories hidden beneath the surface, how places evolve over time.
  
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• A Photographer Looks Deep Into America’s Past

  29-04-2021 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Dawoud Bey’s images at the Whitney Museum expose rich histories hidden beneath the surface, how places evolve over time.
  
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• Review: A New ‘Mosquito Coast,’ This Time With Narcos

  29-04-2021 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  An Apple TV+ series radically reimagines the Paul Theroux novel, even though it stars his nephew Justin.
  
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• RI arts and culture community receives $754,100 in American Rescue Plan funds - Newport Buzz

  29-04-2021 18:25
  
  RI arts and culture community receives $754,100 in American Rescue Plan funds  Newport Buzz
  
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• Film Preservationist Mark Toscano on Artistic Interpretation and Digital Accessibility

  29-04-2021 18:24 via artnews.com
  
  Portrait of Mark Toscano.
  What does your role as a film preservationist entail?
  Over the last seventeen years, I’ve preserved or restored artist and experimental films, animations, documentaries, and independent features. My job includes technical, curatorial, and research processes, aesthetic evaluation, working with filmmakers or their estates, curating programs, and sometimes collaborating with galleries and distributors. On individual projects, I generally do research, inspection, eval
  
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• Dr. Kimmerer Elected Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences - SUNY-ESF Headlines

  29-04-2021 18:04
  Dr. Kimmerer Elected Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences  SUNY-ESF Headlines
  
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• Metaphysical City: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on How Turin’s Vibrant Art Scene Adapted to a Pandemic

  29-04-2021 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  Let me say it straight off the bat and in feminist, matrixial celebration: I love Turin, and Piedmont as a whole. My mother was from Piedmont and studied philosophy at the University of Turin on Via Po, the same street where Arte Povera artist Giulio Paolini still has his studio today. An archaeologist, she taught me how to read the present by using the keys of the past in a layered sense of co-present temporalities, rather than any notion of linear time.
  As it happens, Paolini was one of the fi
  
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• Star of 'Disaster Girl' Meme Sells Image as an NFT for $500,000

  29-04-2021 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month’s NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity.
  
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• Rare Exhibition of David Hammons’s Basketball, Kool-Aid Works Comes to New York

  29-04-2021 17:52 via artnews.com
  
  New York is experiencing an unprecedented convergence of David Hammons shows, with a survey of the artist’s body prints on view at the Drawing Center and his much-anticipated monumental sculpture to be officially unveiled next month, steps from the Whitney Museum. Now, these two showings will be joined by a third exhibition dedicated to Hammons, shining a light on two series that have never before been surveyed in-depth.
  Hammons’s works made using basketballs and Kool-Aid will form t
  
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• ‘Disaster Girl' Meme NFT Sells for $500,000

  29-04-2021 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month’s NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity.
  
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• The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.

  29-04-2021 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month’s NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity.
  
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• Prescott's YC Visual Arts Awards $19,000 in Scholarships to 14 Yavapai County Residents - Signals AZ

  29-04-2021 17:44
  
  Prescott's YC Visual Arts Awards $19,000 in Scholarships to 14 Yavapai County Residents  Signals AZ
  
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• Departing Pace, Isamu Noguchi Heads to White Cube Gallery

  29-04-2021 17:37 via artnews.com
  
  In a rare instance of an artist’s estate leaving one top gallery for another, Isamu Noguchi has departed Pace Gallery, which had shown the artist since the 1970s, and joined the roster of White Cube, which has spaces in London and Hong Kong. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York will oversee the representation in collaboration with White Cube, whose roster also includes artists such as Damien Hirst, Danh Vo, and Theaster Gates.
  Jay Jopling, the founder and chief execut
  
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• Events, music headliners announced for hybrid 2021 Three Rivers Arts Festival - WPXI Pittsburgh

  29-04-2021 17:21
  
  Events, music headliners announced for hybrid 2021 Three Rivers Arts Festival  WPXI Pittsburgh
  
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• Three Rivers Arts Festival set to return in person, move to the Cultural District this summer - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  29-04-2021 17:14
  
  Three Rivers Arts Festival set to return in person, move to the Cultural District this summer  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• The Best Precision Knives for Hobbyists, Artists, and Graphic Designers

  29-04-2021 17:01 via artnews.com
  
  No matter what kind of art you create, a precision knife can make life in the studio a whole lot easier. Also known as hobby knives, precision knives tend to have thinner blades and smaller handles than utility knives, making them well suited for a range of specialized tasks: cutting mat boards, trimming paper, making stencils, and much more. The challenge is finding one that starts out sharp and stays sharp while providing comfort and safety. Keeping all that in mind, we’ve found the best
  
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• NWCCD creates new visual arts certificate program | Local News | thesheridanpress.com - The Sheridan Press

  29-04-2021 17:00
  NWCCD creates new visual arts certificate program | Local News | thesheridanpress.com  The Sheridan Press
  
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• ‘Marighella’ Review: Battle for Brazil

  29-04-2021 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Wagner Moura’s provocative feature debut chronicles the armed struggle led by Carlos Marighella against Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1960s.
  
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• SUNY Potsdam's 2021 virtual LoKo Arts Festival set for April 29 to May 9 - NNY360

  29-04-2021 16:26
  
  SUNY Potsdam's 2021 virtual LoKo Arts Festival set for April 29 to May 9  NNY360
  
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• Italian Dealers Flee London, Traditional Art Buyers Shun NFTs, and More: Morning Links from April 29, 2021

  29-04-2021 16:13 via artnews.com
  
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  THE AMERICAN ART SCENE HAS LOST A LEGEND. William T. Wiley, an artist of wit and verve, and an art teacher of broad influence, has died at 83, the San Francisco Chronicle reports The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis is at work on a Wiley survey that is scheduled to open in Jan
  
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• Weekly Arts Round Up, April 29, 2021 - Georgetowner

  29-04-2021 16:12
  
  Weekly Arts Round Up, April 29, 2021  Georgetowner
  
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• Shara McCallum, Liberal Arts Professor of English, named Penn State Laureate - Penn State News

  29-04-2021 16:02
  Shara McCallum, Liberal Arts Professor of English, named Penn State Laureate  Penn State News
  
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• UMF graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students present reading of capstone work, April 29 – Daily Bulldog - Daily Bulldog

  29-04-2021 16:01
  
  UMF graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students present reading of capstone work, April 29 – Daily Bulldog  Daily Bulldog
  
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• The arts create wonder — and jobs - The Daily Advocate

  29-04-2021 16:00
  
  The arts create wonder — and jobs  The Daily Advocate
  
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• Patti Harrison Wants to See What She Can Do

  29-04-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for scene-stealing side characters, the comedian and actress is pushing past her limits with her starring role in “Together Together.”
  
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• The Porch: What Is Our Collective Responsibility To Fund The Arts? - BPR / Blue Ridge Public Radio

  29-04-2021 15:52
  
  The Porch: What Is Our Collective Responsibility To Fund The Arts?  BPR / Blue Ridge Public Radio
  
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• Arts & Culture Newsletter: At Lux, Baseera Khan explores identity - The San Diego Union-Tribune

  29-04-2021 15:52
  
  Arts & Culture Newsletter: At Lux, Baseera Khan explores identity  The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Wild Places: Arts Calendar April 30-May 2 - L.A. Weekly

  29-04-2021 15:24
  
  Wild Places: Arts Calendar April 30-May 2  L.A. Weekly
  
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• Sotheby’s and Phillips Announce Departures and Arrivals

  29-04-2021 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The executive turnover in the auction world signals a market shift after the pandemic, an industry expert says.
  
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