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• South Coast Spring Arts festival comes to Dartmouth | Dartmouth - Dartmouth Week

  04-05-2021 23:45 via dartmouth.theweektoday.com
  
  South Coast Spring Arts festival comes to Dartmouth | Dartmouth  Dartmouth Week
  
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• Go behind the scenes at a School of Dramatic Arts virtual production - USC News

  04-05-2021 23:45 via news.usc.edu
  
  Go behind the scenes at a School of Dramatic Arts virtual production  USC News
  
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• Julião Sarmento, Artist Whose Intimate Work Focused on Desire, Has Died at 72

  04-05-2021 23:21 via artnews.com
  
  Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento, whose films, sculptures, installations, and paintings consider the complexity of desire and intimacy, has died at 72. New York’s Sean Kelly gallery, which had worked with Sarmento since 1989, confirmed the news.
  In a statement to ARTnews, the gallery wrote, “Julião was with the gallery since its inception. He was inspirational, loyal, and much loved by all who knew him. Over the decades we shared many wonderful memories, exhibitions, a
  
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• Colman Domingo joins SDA faculty · School of Dramatic Arts · USC - USC News

  04-05-2021 23:02 via dramaticarts.usc.edu
  Colman Domingo joins SDA faculty · School of Dramatic Arts · USC  USC News
  
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• May 6, Arts and Entertainment Source: Artists, musicians help Vaca farmers - Vallejo Times-Herald

  04-05-2021 22:57 via timesheraldonline.com
  
  May 6, Arts and Entertainment Source: Artists, musicians help Vaca farmers  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Faculty of Arts and Sciences Rule Changes Teaching Awards - Harvard Magazine

  04-05-2021 22:51 via harvardmagazine.com
  
  Faculty of Arts and Sciences Rule Changes Teaching Awards  Harvard Magazine
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors - MarketWatch

  04-05-2021 22:50 via marketwatch.com
  
  Electronic Arts Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors  MarketWatch
  
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• Street Art in the Age of Basquiat: Fab 5 Freddy and Lee Quiñones on Post-Graffiti Pop Soup

  04-05-2021 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  The following is part of a series of interviews with key figures in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s downtown New York circle in the 1980s. The interviews were conducted in February by Museum of Fine Arts Boston curator Liz Munsell and writer and musician Greg Tate, who together curated the exhibition “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation,” on view at the MFA through July 25. ARTnews will publish four interviews from the series each day this week.
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• Josef and Anni Albers Foundation to Open Hospital in Senegal

  04-05-2021 22:38 via artnews.com
  
  The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa, a non-profit serving communities in rural Senegal that was established by the Albers Foundation’s executive director, Nicholas Fox Weber, in 2005, will open a new maternity and pediatric hospital in Tambacounda, Senegal, on May 10. Designed pro bono by Manuel Herz, the two-story, curvilinear structure reflects Josef and Anni Albers’s interest in geometry and patterns, the foundation said.
  With a narrow design will enable natural cool
  
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• A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis

  04-05-2021 22:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show” is a history of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, based on 17 years of interviews with nearly 200 members of the organization.
  
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• College of Arts and Sciences Department of Social Work will host a Telehealth and Wellness Fair - Tuskegee University

  04-05-2021 22:29 via tuskegee.edu
  College of Arts and Sciences Department of Social Work will host a Telehealth and Wellness Fair  Tuskegee University
  
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• Billie Eilish in British Vogue: What the Cover Means

  04-05-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop star known for defying gender stereotypes got a glamour makeover with corset. Not everyone is happy about it.
  
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• Best Practices: Ali Banisadr Looks to History to Create Abstractions for Today

  04-05-2021 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  Perched on a table next to curled tubes of paint and crusty brushes in Ali Banisadr’s homey Brooklyn studio was a copy of an epic poem that, over its thousands of years of history, has been told and retold—including by Banisadr himself. “My wife complains that I can’t stop talking about Gilgamesh,” the artist said, with a laugh, about a storied Mesopotamian text that has consumed him. “I like the idea of something ancient that speaks to our time. I get visions
  
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• Ancient Maya Cave Reveals 1,200-Year-Old Children’s Handprints

  04-05-2021 21:14 via artnews.com
  
  Painted children’s handprints discovered in a cave on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico may provide insight into Maya coming-of-age rituals. According to a report by Reuters, the ancient handprints are thought to be over 1,200 years old.
  The find is located in the Puuc region on the northern Yucatan Peninsula, close to the ancient Maya power centers of Uxmal and Chichen Itza. The cave sits 33 feet below a large ceiba tree, which is considered sacred to the Maya.
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• Publisher to Reissue Stacey Abrams’s First Three Romance Novels

  04-05-2021 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Berkley plans to offer “Rules of Engagement,” “The Art of Desire” and “Power of Persuasion” in 2022.
  
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• 15 Floors of Hot Springs' Medical Arts Building Sell for $1.18M - Arkansas Business Online

  04-05-2021 21:09 via arkansasbusiness.com
  
  15 Floors of Hot Springs' Medical Arts Building Sell for $1.18M  Arkansas Business Online
  
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• Arts Council of the Valley announces Spring 2021 Advancing the Arts grant awards - Augusta Free Press

  04-05-2021 20:54 via augustafreepress.com
  
  Arts Council of the Valley announces Spring 2021 Advancing the Arts grant awards  Augusta Free Press
  
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• Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All

  04-05-2021 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York City Ballet legend, who went on to form National Dance Institute, lived to the fullest — and danced with that same spirit.
  
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• Egon Schiele Work Restituted by Museum Ludwig to Sell at Sotheby’s

  04-05-2021 20:49 via artnews.com
  
  A 1917 watercolor by Egon Schiele that was recently restituted by Colonge’s Museum Ludwig will be sold during Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art evening sale on May 12 in New York. It is expected to fetch a price of $2.5 million–$3.5 million and is being offered with a guarantee.
  Schiele’s Kauernder weiblicher Akt (Crouching Female Nude) depicts a kneeling nude woman, and had been in the collection of the Museum Ludwig since 1976. It was returned to the heirs of Heinr
  
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• Sofia Coppola’s Challenge: To Convey the Feeling of Live Dance

  04-05-2021 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Coppola and Justin Peck talk about how they approached making a film for New York City Ballet’s digital spring gala.
  
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• Academy of the Arts seeking Naperville location for its new full-time school, which could open by 2025 - Chicago Tribune

  04-05-2021 20:34 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Academy of the Arts seeking Naperville location for its new full-time school, which could open by 2025  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Mount Vernon Music & Arts Festival set to return in August - knoxpages.com

  04-05-2021 20:30 via knoxpages.com
  Mount Vernon Music & Arts Festival set to return in August  knoxpages.com
  
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• ‘Pass Over,’ About Black Men Trapped by Dread, Heads to Broadway

  04-05-2021 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The play, by Antoinette Nwandu, has previously been staged at several prominent theaters and filmed by Spike Lee for Amazon.
  
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• Music and Fine Arts - Briar Cliff University News

  04-05-2021 20:14 via briarcliff.edu
  
  Music and Fine Arts  Briar Cliff University News
  
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• Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched

  04-05-2021 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Confessions of an actress seeking reassurance — and sleeves — as she steps before a live concert audience again.
  
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• Were Hedge Funds Right About Electronic Arts (EA)? - Yahoo Finance

  04-05-2021 19:59 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Were Hedge Funds Right About Electronic Arts (EA)?  Yahoo Finance
  
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• U.S. Government Seeks Forfeiture of Roman Statue That Was Allegedly En Route to Kim Kardashian

  04-05-2021 19:40 via artnews.com
  
  A newly filed lawsuit reveals that, in 2016, the U.S. government seized an ancient Roman statue that was allegedly being delivered to Kim Kardashian.
  In the suit, filed on April 30 in the United States District Court of Central California’s Western Division, the U.S. government called for the forfeiture of the “illegally imported” statue, which resembles the lower half of a person draped in fabric. The lawsuit, filed in rem (or against the statue itself), was first reporte
  
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• Dodie Can’t Resist Sharing. It’s Made Her Music Soar.

  04-05-2021 19:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The 26-year-old British singer and songwriter puts all her vulnerability into her songs — and onto YouTube. Her debut album, “Build a Problem,” is due May 7.
  
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• COVID-19 Impacted the Technology & Performing Arts Relationship | - C-Suite Quarterly

  04-05-2021 19:22 via csq.com
  
  COVID-19 Impacted the Technology & Performing Arts Relationship |  C-Suite Quarterly
  
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• Northern Michigan Arts & Culture | Interlochen - Interlochen

  04-05-2021 19:17 via interlochenpublicradio.org
  Northern Michigan Arts & Culture | Interlochen  Interlochen
  
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• May 6, Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something to Celebrate - Vallejo Times-Herald

  04-05-2021 19:15 via timesheraldonline.com
  
  May 6, Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something to Celebrate  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• The Best Hot-Press Watercolor Blocks for Portrait Painting

  04-05-2021 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  Of the three main types of watercolor paper, hot-press paper is the smoothest. This makes it a popular choice of portraitists and other artists who use precise details in their work, even though it takes some practice to get used to. Plein air painters, and anyone who enjoys the convenience of a pre-secured surface, often choose watercolor blocks: pads of paper that are glued on two or all four sides to present a surface that won’t slip or buckle. If a hot-press block sounds good to you, r
  
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• Look to Dance to Understand the Everyday, and Other Lessons From Gia Kourlas

  04-05-2021 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Times’s Culture editor has questions. Our critic has answers.
  
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• Washington Performing Arts presents streaming series ‘Home Delivery Plus!’ - WTOP

  04-05-2021 18:09 via wtop.com
  
  Washington Performing Arts presents streaming series ‘Home Delivery Plus!’  WTOP
  
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• I Will Not Be Taught How to Behave

  04-05-2021 17:57 via artnews.com
  
  It was an especially bright afternoon of a long red summer, the same one in which I began writing a new book on an old topic—becoming the parent of a Black child in the midst of a global catastrophe—when the man who would months later become my son’s godfather put me on to the work of Deborah Roberts. The form of this introduction to Roberts’s work was a single image, followed by a fairly standard opener for our exchanges back then: What do you think about this as a book
  
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• Philadelphia opens applications for $1 million Illuminate the Arts grant program - Philadelphia Business Journal - Philadelphia Business Journal

  04-05-2021 17:28 via bizjournals.com
  Philadelphia opens applications for $1 million Illuminate the Arts grant program - Philadelphia Business Journal  Philadelphia Business Journal
  
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• Heart Of The Arts Initiative Provides A Space For Artists To Create And Showcase Their Works In Midtown | 90.1 FM WABE - WABE 90.1 FM

  04-05-2021 17:15 via wabe.org
  
  Heart Of The Arts Initiative Provides A Space For Artists To Create And Showcase Their Works In Midtown | 90.1 FM WABE  WABE 90.1 FM
  
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• UB Arts Collaboratory opens downtown art space - University at Buffalo The Spectrum

  04-05-2021 17:08 via ubspectrum.com
  UB Arts Collaboratory opens downtown art space  University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ is coming to the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro - WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro

  04-05-2021 17:08 via myfox8.com
  ‘Hamilton’ is coming to the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro  WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro
  
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• McLean sculptor entrusts local arts nonprofit with life's work - Tysons Reporter

  04-05-2021 17:00 via tysonsreporter.com
  
  McLean sculptor entrusts local arts nonprofit with life's work  Tysons Reporter
  
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• Frieze New York Returns Live, Bringing Hope and Precautions

  04-05-2021 16:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Now a hybrid affair, booths at the Shed at Hudson Yards will be home to optimistic dealers and fresh art.
  
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• Sarah Ball’s Simple Portraits Hint at Complex Stories

  04-05-2021 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The British artist’s work will be on display at Frieze New York in her first solo exhibition at a major art fair.
  
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• The Marion Arts & Crafts Fest is Coming Up This Month - khak.com - khak.com

  04-05-2021 16:34 via khak.com
  
  The Marion Arts & Crafts Fest is Coming Up This Month - khak.com  khak.com
  
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• An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Brooklyn Museum - The New York Times

  04-05-2021 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Brooklyn Museum  The New York Times
  
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• An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Brooklyn Museum

  04-05-2021 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Lonti Ebers is opening Amant to help artists create and display their work, not to show her own collection.
  
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• Sculpted in Metal, Stories of History and Identity Take Shape

  04-05-2021 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Works by Melvin Edwards are celebrated in a survey at City Hall Park in Manhattan.
  
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• Hillsborough considers premier of New Tampa Performing Arts Center - Tampa Bay Times

  04-05-2021 16:30 via tampabay.com
  
  Hillsborough considers premier of New Tampa Performing Arts Center  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• An Artist Who Built His Audience by the Side of the Road

  04-05-2021 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Otis Houston Jr. first attracted attention along a Manhattan highway. Now a gallery is showing his work at a major art fair.
  
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• St. Vincent Is Trying to Understand People

  04-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As she releases her sixth album, “Daddy’s Home,” the musician expounds on the lengthy documentaries, Janet Jackson bust and Joni Mitchell album that feed her creativity.
  
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• Food and Wine Classic benefits arts programs | Local News | valdostadailytimes.com - Valdosta Daily Times

  04-05-2021 16:00 via valdostadailytimes.com
  
  Food and Wine Classic benefits arts programs | Local News | valdostadailytimes.com  Valdosta Daily Times
  
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