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• Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: fuboTV, Opendoor Technologies, Electronic Arts & more - CNBC

  11-05-2021 23:14
  
  Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: fuboTV, Opendoor Technologies, Electronic Arts & more  CNBC
  
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• As Part of $3 M. Initiative, Researchers Document Ancient Murals at U.S.-Mexico Border

  11-05-2021 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists are working to document ancient artworks at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas that face environmental threats. The Texas-based nonprofit Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center has established a $3 million research effort, called the Alexandria Project, to support the research.
  According to a report by the Art Newspaper, researchers have already recorded over 230 murals that are between 1,500 and 4,200 years old along the Rio Grande. These ancient paintings are foun
  
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• Electronic Arts stock slips following earnings - MarketWatch

  11-05-2021 22:32
  
  Electronic Arts stock slips following earnings  MarketWatch
  
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• How the Museum of Chinese in America Emerged from a Fire and Pandemic Lockdown

  11-05-2021 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  On the evening of January 23, 2020, a five-alarm fire broke out at 70 Mulberry Street in New York, in a historic building in the city’s Chinatown; it housed 85,000 objects in the collection of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), a small institution located a few blocks away. The blaze posed an existential threat to the institution’s 40-year effort to document and preserve the experiences and achievements of people of Chinese descent in the United States, with photographs, textil
  
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• Small-Scale da Vinci Drawing Expected to Set New Auction Record This Summer

  11-05-2021 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  A study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci is poised to break the artist’s auction record for a single drawing. The work, titled Head of a Bear, will be offered in the Exceptional Sale at Christie’s in London on July 8, with an estimate of $11.2 million to $16.9 million.
  Measuring approximately 8 square inches, the drawing is part of a series of small-scale studies of animals that the famous polymath executed around 1480. Da Vinci produced Head of a Bear on paper using a silverpoint
  
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• Illegally Trafficked 2,000-Year-Old Greek Goddess Statue Returned to Libya

  11-05-2021 21:14 via artnews.com
  
  With the aid of the British Museum, a 2,000-year-old funerary statue representing the Greek goddess Persephone will be returned to Libya, according to a report in the Guardian.
  Thought to have been stolen from the ancient city of Cyrene in 2011 during the Libyan civil war, the statue was seized at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2013. Experts from the British Museum were called in to help identify the piece, and in 2015, gave testimony in court regarding the item’s provenance . The judg
  
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• The Best Dowel Rods for a Variety of DIY Projects

  11-05-2021 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  If woodworking is your thing, it’s likely that one of the few pieces you don’t mind buying in prefabricated form is the dowel. These long cylinders can supplement craft projects (for instance, tons of DIY home decor), but they can also serve as the building blocks for your next complex, visionary sculpture. Wooden dowels are generally made with hardwood such as beech and poplar, which makes them reliably strong. We’ve scoured the market to find the best dowel rods of various le
  
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• A Surprising First Live Show, in the Hometown I Once Fled

  11-05-2021 20:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Back in Honduras for the first time in a decade, a critic finds hopefulness in a city’s cultural ferment — including an energetic theater troupe.
  
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• The Biggest Dance Show in Town? At a Brooklyn Nets Game

  11-05-2021 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Since February, the Brooklynettes have performed live at Barclays Center to crowds that are smaller than usual — but huge for dance.
  
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• Come to the Cabaret, Old Chum. Or at Least Stream It.

  11-05-2021 20:09 via nytimes.com
  
  New concerts from Sutton Foster, Jeremy Jordan and Marilyn Maye offer examples of what the most intimate art form can and can’t do.
  
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• Keith Haring’s Refrigerator Door Is on the Auction Block

  11-05-2021 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  A graffiti-tagged refrigerator door served as the artist’s guest register for Madonna, Angel Ortiz and more. Now it’s on the auction block at Guernsey’s.
  
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• The Biggest Dance Show in Town? At a Basketball Game.

  11-05-2021 19:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Since March, the Brooklynettes have performed live at Barclays Center to crowds that are smaller than usual — but huge for dance.
  
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• How the Golden Globes Went From Laughingstock to Power Player

  11-05-2021 19:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The group that was once assailed by the F.C.C. steadily gained influence in Hollywood over the years until scrutiny of its practices and lack of diversity led NBC to say it would not air its show in 2022.
  
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• A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change

  11-05-2021 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “Shattered Glass” at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles has visitors returning, and artists bonding.
  
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• The Best Books on Silkscreening for Learning a Storied Craft

  11-05-2021 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  Although silkscreen printing may not seem like the easiest art form to try your hand at outside a dedicated studio, it is in fact a highly approachable process. It took off in the United States during the mass social movements of the 1960s because it was an inexpensive way to print banners and posters. Andy Warhol’s silkscreens popularized the method in fine art and became his defining style. Today, screen printing is used to apply designs to clothing as well as to create works of art. Whe
  
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• ‘Selling the Family Jewels’: A James Joyce Landmark Is Set to Become a Hostel

  11-05-2021 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A planned overhaul of the Dublin home that was the setting for the writer’s short story “The Dead” was opposed by writers, artists, academics and heritage groups.
  
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• Puppets, Purses and Paintings, Too: An Overlooked Artist With Range

  11-05-2021 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Sophie Taeuber-Arp blurred the boundaries between fine art and applied art, but died early without the recognition she deserved. A major new exhibition aims to fix that.
  
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• Can’s Live Shows Will Be Heard at Last, Thanks to a Bootlegger in Big Pants

  11-05-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A series of concert albums by the influential German band were made possible by Andrew Hall, a fan who followed the group around in the 1970s with a Sony cassette recorder hidden in his trousers.
  
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• Haifaa Al-Mansour Rocks Out to Punk and Cooks With TikTok

  11-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With her movie “The Perfect Candidate” arriving in American theaters, Al-Mansour, the first Saudi Arabian woman to become a feature-length filmmaker, discusses her cultural essentials.
  
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• Il Divo Tenor’s Ex-Wife Sues Him, Citing Sexual and Physical Abuse

  11-05-2021 15:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Sébastien Izambard exerted “coercive control” over Renée Izambard and subjected her to years of psychological abuse and torture, she said.
  
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• Hollywood Might Not Want to Save the Golden Globes

  11-05-2021 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A comeback may prove difficult to mount, and the Critics Choice Awards or the SAGs could take their place.
  
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• Bob Dylan Gets Miami Art Survey, Turner Prize Nominee Slams Tate, and More: Morning Links from May 11, 2021

  11-05-2021 15:32 via artnews.com
  
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  BOB DYLAN FANS, BOOK YOUR TICKETS FOR MIAMI. On November 30, the week of Art Basel Miami Beach, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University will unveil “Retrospectrum,” a survey of Dylan’s artwork that premiered at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai in 201
  
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• A Rare Tiffany Building Owned by a Nonprofit May Be Sold

  11-05-2021 15:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Preservationists fear that the Ayer Mansion, a “national treasure” with landmark status, which has been painstakingly preserved, may be cut off from public access.
  
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• The Sachs Program announces 2021 arts grants | Penn Today - Penn Today

  11-05-2021 14:00
  
  The Sachs Program announces 2021 arts grants | Penn Today  Penn Today
  
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• Finding Some 'Normalcy': Virtual Field Trips Help Sustain Arts Programming In Detroit Schools - Patch.com

  11-05-2021 13:35
  
  Finding Some 'Normalcy': Virtual Field Trips Help Sustain Arts Programming In Detroit Schools  Patch.com
  
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• Fine Arts Signing Day to honor Ashland seniors studying the arts - Ashland Source

  11-05-2021 13:00
  Fine Arts Signing Day to honor Ashland seniors studying the arts  Ashland Source
  
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• 10 small towns with the best arts scenes in the United States - USA TODAY

  11-05-2021 13:00
  10 small towns with the best arts scenes in the United States  USA TODAY
  
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• Two exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg worth checking out - Tampa Bay Times

  11-05-2021 12:47
  
  Two exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg worth checking out  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Arts board leadership program accepting applications - Cincinnati Business Courier - Cincinnati Business Courier

  11-05-2021 12:30
  Arts board leadership program accepting applications - Cincinnati Business Courier  Cincinnati Business Courier
  
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• Taking it to the streets | Uptown Lexington Summer Strolls will kick off with a shoppin' streatery - Lexington Dispatch

  11-05-2021 12:11
  Taking it to the streets | Uptown Lexington Summer Strolls will kick off with a shoppin' streatery  Lexington Dispatch
  
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• Want to help students recover from the pandemic? Try the arts. - Chalkbeat Newark

  11-05-2021 11:45
  
  Want to help students recover from the pandemic? Try the arts.  Chalkbeat Newark
  
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• Community Foundation for the Alleghenies support arts with nearly $200000 - TribDem.com

  11-05-2021 11:30
  Community Foundation for the Alleghenies support arts with nearly $200000  TribDem.com
  
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• The Victorian Women Who Pierced Glass Ceilings by Speaking to the Dead

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Out of the Shadows,” by Emily Midorikawa, features six 19th-century women Spiritualists who defied gender norms to command public attention.
  
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• The French Count Who Turned His Home Into a Museum to Honor His Dead Son

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Letters to Camondo,” by Edmund de Waal, is addressed to a wealthy fin-de-siècle French Jew whose elegant Parisian home is filled with priceless objets d’art — and memories of the family that once lived there.
  
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• The Babysitter Knows All

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Jessica Anya Blau’s debut novel, “Mary Jane,” a 14-year-old receives an education from the family she works for — and delivers one in return.
  
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• Native American culture reflected in new name of performing arts center - Brainerd Dispatch

  11-05-2021 11:00
  
  Native American culture reflected in new name of performing arts center  Brainerd Dispatch
  
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• Krysta With a Y Plays Liza With a Z

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For Krysta Rodriguez, who stars as Liza Minnelli in the new Netflix series ‘Halston,’ acting and decorating aren’t that far apart.
  
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• How Napoleon Became One of History’s Most Rapacious Art Looters

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Plunder,” by Cynthia Saltzman, recounts the French general’s vast thefts of European art and sculpture through the story of a single magnificent painting, Veronese’s “The Wedding Feast at Cana.”
  
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• How Humans Gained an ‘Extra Life’

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Steven Johnson’s latest book, he looks at what he calls “one of the greatest achievements in the history of our species,” that life spans have more than doubled since the mid-19th century.
  
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• From Cape Cod to Martha’s Vineyard to the Caribbean, These Beach Reads Will Whisk You Into Summer

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New novels by Jennifer Weiner, Sunny Hostin and Katherine St. John
  
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• ‘Dedicated’ Makes the Case for Choosing Something and Sticking With It

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pete Davis’s book grew out of a speech he gave to his Harvard Law School class about commitment, which has been viewed more than 30 million times online.
  
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• Book Review: ‘While Justice Sleeps,’ by Stacey Abrams

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “While Justice Sleeps,” the veteran author and voting rights activist takes on the Supreme Court, biotech and blackmail — among other topics.
  
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• An Island Nation With Mighty Clout

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “How Iceland Changed the World,” by Egill Bjarnason, offers a jaunty history of a small country with an outsize influence on global affairs.
  
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• An Anti-Gang Activist, a Shooting and a Community Long Abused and Ignored

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Holly,” by Julian Rubinstein, explores the history of gang violence in a historically Black Denver neighborhood, and the often misguided efforts of law enforcement agencies to reduce it.
  
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• A Piece of Music Will Speak Once More. For 26 Hours.

  11-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I am sitting in a room,” Alvin Lucier’s classic work of sound art, will be performed by 90 artists in honor of his 90th birthday.
  
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• CNY Fiber Arts Fest returning this year: 'It's wonderful to be back' - Utica Observer Dispatch

  11-05-2021 10:35
  CNY Fiber Arts Fest returning this year: 'It's wonderful to be back'  Utica Observer Dispatch
  
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• Year-end Beaux Arts gathering Saturday - UNCSA - UNCSA

  11-05-2021 09:00
  
  Year-end Beaux Arts gathering Saturday - UNCSA  UNCSA
  
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• Year-end Beaux Arts gathering Saturday - UNCSA

  11-05-2021 09:00
  
  Year-end Beaux Arts gathering Saturday  UNCSA
  
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• GREAT PERFORMANCES: The Arts Interrupted - KPBS

  11-05-2021 09:00
  
  GREAT PERFORMANCES: The Arts Interrupted  KPBS
  
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• Farmstead Arts Center in Bernards Township eyes brighter future - New Jersey Hills

  11-05-2021 09:00
  Farmstead Arts Center in Bernards Township eyes brighter future  New Jersey Hills
  
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