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• Christie’s to Auction $17 M. Bellotto Landscape Poised to Break Record

  07-05-2021 23:51 via artnews.com
  
  As the market for Old Master paintings continues to prove fertile, Christie’s will auction a potentially record-breaking landscape by Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto during it’s July 8 evening sale in London dedicated to the category. The 18th-century painting, View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi (ca. 1745-47) depicts a view of a canal in the Italian city. Coming to auction after 50 years in private hands and secured with a guarantee, it is expected to fetch a price of £1
  
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• Here's What's Going On In Indian Country | Arts & Entertainment - nativenewsonline.net

  07-05-2021 23:49 via nativenewsonline.net
  Here's What's Going On In Indian Country | Arts & Entertainment  nativenewsonline.net
  
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• Anita Lane, Rocker Who Was More Than a Muse, Is Dead at 61

  07-05-2021 23:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Lane was Nick Cave’s collaborator and girlfriend during his formative period and helped define his sound. She also made records of her own.
  
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• Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts welcomes back indoor guests - WRAL.com

  07-05-2021 23:37 via wral.com
  
  Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts welcomes back indoor guests  WRAL.com
  
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• Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts manager pleads guilty to battery - Bloomington Pantagraph

  07-05-2021 23:34 via pantagraph.com
  Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts manager pleads guilty to battery  Bloomington Pantagraph
  
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• Top Award for Renaissance Arts Academy in Glassell Park - Boulevard Sentinel

  07-05-2021 23:21 via boulevardsentinel.com
  
  Top Award for Renaissance Arts Academy in Glassell Park  Boulevard Sentinel
  
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• Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever

  07-05-2021 23:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo star as Beckett’s tragicomic tramps — minus the comic part.
  
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• With a Focus on Artist Collectives, Tate Names Turner Prize Shortlist

  07-05-2021 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  Tate Britain has announced another update to its esteemed Turner Prize, which has undergone changes over the past two years and is considered the most prestigious art award in the United Kingdom.
  Typically, the museum shortlists four individual artists. This year, it has instead shortlisted five artist collectives: Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works.
  As part of the Turner Prize, each nominated collective will present work in a j
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. stock rises Friday, outperforms market - MarketWatch

  07-05-2021 22:50 via marketwatch.com
  
  Electronic Arts Inc. stock rises Friday, outperforms market  MarketWatch
  
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• Task Force Issues Recommendations For Future Of Waldron Arts Center - Indiana Public Media

  07-05-2021 22:45 via indianapublicmedia.org
  
  Task Force Issues Recommendations For Future Of Waldron Arts Center  Indiana Public Media
  
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• Rarely Seen Catherine de’ Medici Portrait to Go On View in London

  07-05-2021 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  The last surviving contemporary portrait of Catherine de’ Medici, queen consort and wife of king Henry II of France, will return to its former home in London. According to a report by the Guardian, the rarely seen painting, which dates to 1561 and shows Catherine with four of her children, will go on view at Strawberry Hill House in the British capital, where it once hung with other works in the storied collection of the 18th-century writer and politician Horace Walpole.
  The portrait, whic
  
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• Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights - The New York Times

  07-05-2021 22:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights  The New York Times
  
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• Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights

  07-05-2021 22:39 via nytimes.com
  
  She immersed herself in New York’s creative underground, then shifted to globe-trotting activism for decades as the founder of Tribal Link.
  
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• Circus Arts Conservatory seeks lease extension from School Board - YourObserver.com

  07-05-2021 22:35 via yourobserver.com
  Circus Arts Conservatory seeks lease extension from School Board  YourObserver.com
  
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• Elon Musk and Memes: A Controversy Over Giving Creators Credit

  07-05-2021 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The billionaire has been posting content creators’ work without credit. Some are frustrated; others, simply puzzled.
  
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• San Diego Rep's Jewish Arts Festival goes global - The San Diego Union-Tribune

  07-05-2021 22:19 via sandiegouniontribune.com
  
  San Diego Rep's Jewish Arts Festival goes global  The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Hylton Center Announces Gift Supporting Arts Alliance - Prince William Living

  07-05-2021 22:19 via princewilliamliving.com
  
  Hylton Center Announces Gift Supporting Arts Alliance  Prince William Living
  
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• After a Year of Isolation, Frieze New York Strikes Notes of Normalcy as Uncertainty Remains

  07-05-2021 22:16 via artnews.com
  
  The experience of going to an art fair after a year of few in-person experiences of any kind turns out to be extremely strange before it turns slightly less strange and then not strange at all over the course of just three hours. The scene at the entrance of Frieze New York on Wednesday was a bit scattered and manic, as fairgoers fumbled to show proof of vaccination or negative coronavirus tests with more than a little anxiety in the air.
  Once you got inside, though, with some time to calibrate,
  
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• Street Art in the Age of Basquiat: Rammellzee is Not a Name, But an Equation

  07-05-2021 22:14 via artnews.com
  
  The following is part four 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 has published all four interviews from the series this week.
  In 19
  
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• Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas

  07-05-2021 22:09 via nytimes.com
  
  With “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed recalls integrating her town’s school, and explains why she thinks back fondly on her native state.
  
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• Paulo Gustavo, Comedian Who Lampooned Brazilian Mothers, Dies at 42

  07-05-2021 22:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Weeks before falling ill, he urged his countrymen to consider laughter “an act of resistance.” One of the country’s most beloved actors, he died of complications of Covid-19.
  
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• Chenango Arts Council announces the winners of its 2021 CASA Student Art Show - WIVT - NewsChannel 34

  07-05-2021 22:02 via binghamtonhomepage.com
  Chenango Arts Council announces the winners of its 2021 CASA Student Art Show  WIVT - NewsChannel 34
  
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• AnR Loves: Pilot’s Varsity Disposable Fountain Pen

  07-05-2021 22:00 via artnews.com
  
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  To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi describing the lightsaber to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, the fountain pen is an elegant writing implement for a more civilized age. Ballpoints, felt tips, and gel pens all have their uses, but none of them can match the fountain pen’s expressive line and analog warmth.
  The first pen with an internal reservoir for ink is thought to
  
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• Survey: Dallas has the third-best arts district in the nation - The Dallas Morning News

  07-05-2021 21:43 via dallasnews.com
  
  Survey: Dallas has the third-best arts district in the nation  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Godzilla, the Asian American Arts Network, Teaches Us That Critique Is Essential - Artsy

  07-05-2021 21:38 via artsy.net
  
  Godzilla, the Asian American Arts Network, Teaches Us That Critique Is Essential  Artsy
  
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• Boulder Arts In The Park: Upcoming Events - Patch.com

  07-05-2021 21:38 via patch.com
  
  Boulder Arts In The Park: Upcoming Events  Patch.com
  
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• Antwaun Sargent’s Vision for the New Talent Issue

  07-05-2021 21:36 via artnews.com
  
  In a new video interview about the New Talent issue, Antwaun Sargent reflects that even “as things have grown more diverse, as our idea of the artist has expanded, our notions of who gets to write about art have not.” Sargent took the opportunity as guest editor to cultivate rigorous yet accessible writing about art. As he details in his editor’s letter, many types of art criticism already exist “in comments sections of social media posts, DMs, group chats”—no
  
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• Sixteen Ways to Structure Your Novel

  07-05-2021 21:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Liana Finck gets from A to B to C in many more ways than you could imagine.
  
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• Inside the Arts: Downtown Atlanta's enduring Folk Art Park - Atlanta Intown

  07-05-2021 21:26 via atlantaintownpaper.com
  
  Inside the Arts: Downtown Atlanta's enduring Folk Art Park  Atlanta Intown
  
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• An Anthem About Hugging Your Friends Again, and 10 More New Songs

  07-05-2021 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Rostam, Marcellus Juvann, Gogo Penguin and others.
  
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• Jersey City council to form committee for Arts and Culture Trust Fund - The Hudson Reporter

  07-05-2021 21:17 via hudsonreporter.com
  
  Jersey City council to form committee for Arts and Culture Trust Fund  The Hudson Reporter
  
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• Meals On Wheels Of Tampa And Winthrop Arts Come Together To Provide Meals And Art To Recipients - Osprey Observer

  07-05-2021 20:46 via ospreyobserver.com
  
  Meals On Wheels Of Tampa And Winthrop Arts Come Together To Provide Meals And Art To Recipients  Osprey Observer
  
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• A Look at a Year of Adaptation and Innovation in the Arts - Davidson News

  07-05-2021 20:30 via davidson.edu
  
  A Look at a Year of Adaptation and Innovation in the Arts  Davidson News
  
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• Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s

  07-05-2021 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  A selection of 79 drawings from the collection recasts the most celebrated decade in American art as less American.
  
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• CSM Arts Program Returns With End-Of-Season Performance Series - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

  07-05-2021 20:00 via southernmarylandchronicle.com
  
  CSM Arts Program Returns With End-Of-Season Performance Series  The Southern Maryland Chronicle
  
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• Spirits Welcome: Beverly Buchanan at Andrew Edlin

  07-05-2021 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  During the six years since Beverly Buchanan’s first solo show at Andrew Edlin (she died in 2015, just after her debut there), the artist’s work has been folded into broader discourses about outsider art and resistance politics, largely thanks to her showing at the Brooklyn Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her second solo exhibition at the gallery, “Shacks and Legends, 1985–2011,” offers an opportunity to revisit her renderings of houses—inspired by thos
  
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• Review: Mark Morris Live(ish) Seems Almost Like Old Times

  07-05-2021 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The Mark Morris Dance Group livestreamed a performance that featured a new work of substance, set to Brahms waltzes.
  
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• FSU MANCC receives renewed funding from Sustainable Arts Foundation to support working parent artists - Florida State News

  07-05-2021 19:33 via news.fsu.edu
  
  FSU MANCC receives renewed funding from Sustainable Arts Foundation to support working parent artists  Florida State News
  
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• Boca Ice & Fine Arts breaks ground - South Florida - South Florida Business Journal

  07-05-2021 19:23 via bizjournals.com
  Boca Ice & Fine Arts breaks ground - South Florida  South Florida Business Journal
  
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• The Modern Love Podcast is Back for a New Season: Subscribe

  07-05-2021 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Tune in May 12 for a new season of stories from the complicated love lives of real people.
  
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• Michelangelo Lovelace, Artist of Street Life in Cleveland, Dies at 60

  07-05-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His vibrant paintings of the urban Black experience, and his sketches of nursing home residents he cared for as an aide, drew increasing notice in his last years.
  
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• Arts Beat: The magic of live performance | Community | dailypostathenian.com - The Daily Post-Athenian

  07-05-2021 19:00 via dailypostathenian.com
  Arts Beat: The magic of live performance | Community | dailypostathenian.com  The Daily Post-Athenian
  
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• Burien Arts looking for submissions for its June 25 Art Market - The B-Town (Burien) Blog - The B-Town Blog

  07-05-2021 18:24 via b-townblog.com
  Burien Arts looking for submissions for its June 25 Art Market - The B-Town (Burien) Blog  The B-Town Blog
  
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• Review: Going Home to Iowa With the Queen of Meth

  07-05-2021 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The story of Lori Arnold, drug queenpin and sister to Tom Arnold, is a complicated lesson in Midwestern values.
  
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• University Circle named best arts district in the country in USA Today contest - cleveland.com

  07-05-2021 18:03 via cleveland.com
  
  University Circle named best arts district in the country in USA Today contest  cleveland.com
  
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• From street art to sculpture parks, here is the best of the 2021 arts scene - USA Today 10Best

  07-05-2021 18:00 via 10best.com
  
  From street art to sculpture parks, here is the best of the 2021 arts scene  USA Today 10Best
  
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• An Anthem About Hugging Your Friends Again, and 9 More New Songs

  07-05-2021 17:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Rostam, Marcellus Juvann, Gogo Penguin and others.
  
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• Don’t underestimate the value of arts degrees - The Guardian

  07-05-2021 17:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Don’t underestimate the value of arts degrees  The Guardian
  
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• Gold for the Gods: Rare 1,500-Year-Old Pendants Found in Norse Ritual Hoard

  07-05-2021 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  Beneath clay soil in a field in southeastern Norway, archaeologists have uncovered seven gold pendants known as bracteates, Science Norway reports. It is the only such find in the last 70 years, and is an “incredibly rare” votive hoard, according to the three archaeologists heading the project: Jessica Leigh McGraw, Margrete Figenschou Simonsen, and Magne Samdal, all from the University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History.
  Only the wealthiest and highest-status individuals would be ab
  
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• Karl Wirsum, Hairy Who Artist with Eccentric Style, Has Died at 81

  07-05-2021 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  Karl Wirsum, a member of Chicago’s Hairy Who group of the 1960s whose art envisioned a madcap universe unto itself, has died at 81. Dealer Derek Eller, whose New York gallery represents Wirsum alongside Chicago’s Corbett vs. Dempsey, said that he died of cardiac arrest.
  “It has been an enormous privilege to work with such a talented, important, and influential artist,” the gallery wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.
  Wirsum was part of a crop of Chicago artists that
  
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