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• Brush, Pour, Drip, and Airbrush with the Best Fluid Acrylic Paints

  05-05-2021 23:45 via artnews.com
  
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  Fluid acrylics are versatile paints to keep in the studio. Less viscous than standard acrylics, they can be used with a brush for beautiful glazing effects but can also be poured, dripped, and airbrushed. The very best of these use no fillers or extenders in their formulas and offer strong tinting and excellent coverage without sacrificing color. With many high-qual
  
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• Collector Lonti Ebers to Open Brooklyn Space with Focus on Experimental Art in June

  05-05-2021 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  With an eye toward supporting boundary-pushing artists with research-based practices, collector and arts patron Lonti Ebers will launch a new exhibition space and residency program in Brooklyn next month. Initially expected to be inaugurated in 2019, Amant will now open on June 5 with a survey of Berlin-based artist Grada Kilomba, who has never before had a solo show in New York.
  In addition to revealing its opening date, Amant has announced that its artistic director will be Ruth Estévez
  
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• Can’t Find a Ticket to Frieze? Try a Satellite Fair

  05-05-2021 23:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Zürcher Gallery on Bleecker Street shows what fairs are good at: bringing new artists to your attention.
  
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• Johnny Crawford, a Western Hero’s Son on ‘The Rifleman,’ Dies at 75

  05-05-2021 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For five TV seasons he was at the side of Chuck Connors’s widowed sharpshooter. He also had some success as a pop singer, film actor and bandleader.
  
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• Electronic Arts Acquires Metalhead Software, Bringing a Talented Sports Development Team and Baseball Franchise to EA SPORTS - Business Wire

  05-05-2021 22:05 via businesswire.com
  
  Electronic Arts Acquires Metalhead Software, Bringing a Talented Sports Development Team and Baseball Franchise to EA SPORTS  Business Wire
  
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• A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art

  05-05-2021 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  With “Albert and the Whale,” the biographer and critic Philip Hoare trains his mind on the Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, then lets it drift to art history, nature writing and elements of memoir.
  
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• The Best Watercolor Pencils for Painterly Effects

  05-05-2021 20:07 via artnews.com
  
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  They look just like colored pencils, but watercolor pencils are far more versatile. With cores made with a water-soluble binder, these implements can be used dry or with water for a wide range of effects. Artists can dip the tip of a watercolor pencil into water for a velvety, thick line; they can wet their paper and then draw on it; or they can draw dry, opaque line
  
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• James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition

  05-05-2021 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  His new album, “Jesup Wagon,” is a tribute to another polymathic figure who insisted on cutting his own path: George Washington Carver.
  
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• A Rare Peek Inside a Semi-Secret ‘Secret Garden’

  05-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 2018 workshop for a possible revival of the lush musical was never meant to be seen by the public, but will now stream as a benefit this weekend.
  
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• How I Made This: Sarah Oppenheimer’s Interactive Machines of Perception

  05-05-2021 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  Sarah Oppenheimer, an American artist based in New York City, is drawn to the way the human body interacts with objects to change the way space is perceived: “Think about a doorknob,” she said during a recent Zoom call. “When a doorknob begins to turn, you understand that the door will open, someone will enter the room, and the space you are already inhabiting will be completely reconfigured.” 
  A senior critic at the Yale School of Art, Oppenheimer has held recent so
  
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• Review: Walking in Light on the High Line

  05-05-2021 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Okwui Okpokwasili’s processional is a homage and farewell to Simone Leigh’s giant bronze bust, “Brick House.”
  
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• Auction House Veterans Unveil New Data and Private Dealing Platform

  05-05-2021 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  There’s a funny thing that happens in the private art market that really isn’t very funny when it happens to you. Because the best art is rarely for sale publicly—and because art buying is too much like being on a treasure hunt—it isn’t uncommon for someone to approach a collector known to have work by an in-demand artist and claim to have a serious buyer for it. After some blandishments and extravagant promises, the ‘runner,’ as a person in that positio
  
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• Street Art in the Age of Basquiat: Fab 5 Freddy and Lee Quiñones on Curating the MTA for World Domination

  05-05-2021 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  The following is the second part in a series of interviews with key figures in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s downtown New York circle in the 1980s. (Click here for Part One of this interview.) 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, 2021.
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• ¿Cuál es la magia de ‘La Bamba’ después de más de tres décadas?

  05-05-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  El actor Lou Diamond Phillips y el guionista y director Luis Valdez rememoran sus experiencias de hace más de treinta años para ver cómo la película biográfica causó, y a la vez no, sensación en Hollywood.
  
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• Cornerstones of the WNC arts scene navigate distinct reopening obstacles - Mountain Xpress

  05-05-2021 19:00 via mountainx.com
  
  Cornerstones of the WNC arts scene navigate distinct reopening obstacles  Mountain Xpress
  
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• VCS recognizes its champions of the arts | Features | hendersondispatch.com - The Daily Dispatch

  05-05-2021 18:49 via hendersondispatch.com
  VCS recognizes its champions of the arts | Features | hendersondispatch.com  The Daily Dispatch
  
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• How to Learn New Arts in SaGa Frontier Remastered | Screen Rant - Screen Rant

  05-05-2021 18:36 via screenrant.com
  How to Learn New Arts in SaGa Frontier Remastered | Screen Rant  Screen Rant
  
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• What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues

  05-05-2021 18:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Following Alex Trebek’s death, a parade of replacements seem to be battling for the soul of the game — and the state of knowledge itself.
  
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• Dogwood Arts holds first in-person art exhibition since 2020 - WATE 6 On Your Side

  05-05-2021 18:25 via wate.com
  Dogwood Arts holds first in-person art exhibition since 2020  WATE 6 On Your Side
  
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• Broadway Is Reopening. But Not Until September.

  05-05-2021 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Even as New York City begins to reopen this summer, Broadway will not resume performances until Sept. 14. Here’s why.
  
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• City of Longview $192k grants to boost arts organizations - Longview News-Journal

  05-05-2021 18:03 via news-journal.com
  
  City of Longview $192k grants to boost arts organizations  Longview News-Journal
  
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• 7 things to do this week: Milwaukie Porchfest, Washougal arts tour, ‘The Music Man,’ Sherlock Holmes radio pl - OregonLive

  05-05-2021 18:03 via oregonlive.com
  
  7 things to do this week: Milwaukie Porchfest, Washougal arts tour, ‘The Music Man,’ Sherlock Holmes radio pl  OregonLive
  
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• 7 things to do this week: Milwaukie Porchfest, Washougal arts tour, and ‘The Music Man’ - OregonLive

  05-05-2021 18:02 via oregonlive.com
  
  7 things to do this week: Milwaukie Porchfest, Washougal arts tour, and ‘The Music Man’  OregonLive
  
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• Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes

  05-05-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Her obsessions with public policy and pop culture came together in the new Supreme Court thriller “While Justice Sleeps,” the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels.
  
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• A ‘Right Stuff’ for Our Moment of Space Travel

  05-05-2021 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Test Gods,” Nicholas Schmidle tells the story of Virgin Galactic’s space program, with a focus on the astronauts who are charting new frontiers.
  
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• ‘Girls5Eva,’ ‘Rutherford Falls’ and the Nostalgia Trap

  05-05-2021 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Peacock, the streaming platform, relies on must-see reminiscing in two shows that are also warnings about living in the past.
  
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• The NFT’s Promise of Control

  05-05-2021 17:43 via artnews.com
  
  Artists are always looking for ways to make financial and legal systems that usually favor collectors and dealers work better for them. This attitude has led some to experiment with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The technology is a digital “smart contract” encoded on a blockchain, which stipulates the ownership and resale rights for a specific digital artwork that is typically linked in the contract but hosted elsewhere. Artists see potential to ensure royalties for themselves when an
  
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• Creative Arts for Veterans- May Conversation – WBIW - WBIW.com

  05-05-2021 17:34 via wbiw.com
  Creative Arts for Veterans- May Conversation – WBIW  WBIW.com
  
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• The show must go on for the performing arts during COVID-19 - The Clarion

  05-05-2021 17:07 via theonlineclarion.com
  
  The show must go on for the performing arts during COVID-19  The Clarion
  
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• Cinematic arts students tee off production of feature film on Georgia golf course » Liberty News - Liberty News

  05-05-2021 17:00 via liberty.edu
  
  Cinematic arts students tee off production of feature film on Georgia golf course » Liberty News  Liberty News
  
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• Silhouettes and Illuminations: Ray Johnson at David Zwirner

  05-05-2021 16:54 via artnews.com
  
  How do you draw a Ray Johnson? The artist’s contours can be difficult to trace. Johnson had been living in seclusion on Long Island for nearly thirty years, appearing mostly through the art he sent friends and strangers in the mail, before he jumped off a Sag Harbor bridge in January 1995. Yet he was also a queer gadabout whose extensive network—established in person and maintained by post—led his friends in the three-artist collective General Idea to affectionately dub him &ld
  
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• Neosho discusses performing arts center partnership with the school district - KoamNewsNow.com

  05-05-2021 16:52 via koamnewsnow.com
  
  Neosho discusses performing arts center partnership with the school district  KoamNewsNow.com
  
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• Sean-Kierre Lyons’s Flower Warriors and Cracker Flags

  05-05-2021 16:48 via artnews.com
  
  Drop in Water, 2017, crackers, acrylic, and resin.
  If, in the winter of 2017, you had walked along Gates Avenue—which stretches from Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, to Fresh Pond, Queens—you would have found its midpoint conspicuously marked by a version of the Confederate flag. The migratory art gallery Housing, then located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, had recently installed Sean-Kierre Lyons’s Drop in Water (2017) in its storefront window. Like most of Lyons’s works, the flag was a
  
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• Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences | Penn Today - Penn Today

  05-05-2021 16:37 via penntoday.upenn.edu
  Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences | Penn Today  Penn Today
  
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• Top 15 NJ Arts Events of the Week: 'The Future of Montclair Film,' Kelli Rabke, more - njarts.net

  05-05-2021 16:36 via njarts.net
  
  Top 15 NJ Arts Events of the Week: 'The Future of Montclair Film,' Kelli Rabke, more  njarts.net
  
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• ESCC Fine Arts concert, art showcase held virtually - Dothan Eagle

  05-05-2021 16:30 via dothaneagle.com
  ESCC Fine Arts concert, art showcase held virtually  Dothan Eagle
  
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• Celebrating the arts in Fairhope - Gulf Coast News Today

  05-05-2021 16:12 via gulfcoastnewstoday.com
  
  Celebrating the arts in Fairhope  Gulf Coast News Today
  
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• Take a stroll for arts and culture during First Fridays Plymouth - Wicked Local

  05-05-2021 16:03 via wickedlocal.com
  Take a stroll for arts and culture during First Fridays Plymouth  Wicked Local
  
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• Arts Council announces 20201 adult art contest - Shelby Star

  05-05-2021 16:02 via shelbystar.com
  Arts Council announces 20201 adult art contest  Shelby Star
  
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• Youth Arts winners announced | Life | wallowa.com - Wallowa County Chieftain

  05-05-2021 16:00 via wallowa.com
  Youth Arts winners announced | Life | wallowa.com  Wallowa County Chieftain
  
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• Only Connect: Yearning for the Intimacy of a Danced, Onstage World

  05-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Russell Janzen of City Ballet misses the physical and emotional closeness forged onstage, which are lost on Zoom and in socially distanced dancing.
  
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• How the Filipino Brand Aranaz Designed Its Iconic Crab Handbag

  05-05-2021 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The family-owned accessories label Aranaz got so many requests for its crab bag, a wicker handbag in the shape of the crustacean, after it sold out, that the brand decided to reissue it. This was unusual, because Aranaz usually doesn’t bring back bags from its seasonal collections. Even more unusual was that these requests were coming during the pandemic, when the Filipino women asking for the wicker crab minaudieres — the term for a small substitute for an evening bag — didn&r
  
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• For Mother’s Day, Movies All About ‘Mother’

  05-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mom’s the word — the only word — in the titles of these films to stream that celebrate the darker side of motherhood.
  
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• David Oyelowo Fights for Representation in Family Films

  05-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor turned to directing after an eye-opening discussion with his son. He realized he couldn’t rely on Hollywood to find stories he wanted to tell.
  
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• Performing Arts School Annies Playhouse To Open In Mendham - Patch.com

  05-05-2021 15:43 via patch.com
  
  Performing Arts School Annies Playhouse To Open In Mendham  Patch.com
  
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• Daniel Libeskind Will Redesign Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, Art Enters Chernobyl, and More: Morning Links from May 5, 2021

  05-05-2021 15:41 via artnews.com
  
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  ARCHITECT DANIEL LIBESKIND HAS BEEN SELECTED to redesign the campus of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 were killed by a gunman in 2018, the New York Times reports. Libeskind, whose projects have included the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Denver Art Museum, was selected unanimously by
  
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• Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests from North and South

  05-05-2021 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A rare exhibition, at a museum in Switzerland, brings together works that, despite sharing a common cultural tradition, come from different worlds.
  
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• College to Host Virtual Literary Arts Festival | Multimedia | independentnews.com - Livermore Independent

  05-05-2021 15:10 via independentnews.com
  College to Host Virtual Literary Arts Festival | Multimedia | independentnews.com  Livermore Independent
  
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• Rehabilitation Through the Arts Debuts Unlocked – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill - River Journal Staff

  05-05-2021 15:06 via riverjournalonline.com
  Rehabilitation Through the Arts Debuts Unlocked – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill  River Journal Staff
  
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• $8000 in grant funds awarded to McLean County arts groups - The Pantagraph

  05-05-2021 15:00 via pantagraph.com
  $8000 in grant funds awarded to McLean County arts groups  The Pantagraph
  
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