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• Howard University names actress and alumna Phylicia Rashad as dean of College of Fine Arts - The Washington Post

  12-05-2021 23:34
  
  Howard University names actress and alumna Phylicia Rashad as dean of College of Fine Arts  The Washington Post
  
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• WBUR To Receive $20,000 Grant From The National Endowment For The Arts - WBUR

  12-05-2021 23:32
  
  WBUR To Receive $20,000 Grant From The National Endowment For The Arts  WBUR
  
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• Standout Student: Perpich Arts High School Boasts National Gold Medal Artist - ccxmedia.org

  12-05-2021 23:14
  Standout Student: Perpich Arts High School Boasts National Gold Medal Artist  ccxmedia.org
  
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• Early Kusama Works Fetch $15.2 M. at Auction, Nearly Doubling Expectations

  12-05-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  A group of 11 early works by Yayoi Kusama from the late 1950s and early ’60s that have been in private hands for six decades sold on Wednesday for a collective $15.2 million—almost double the pre-sale expectation of $8.8 million—at Bonhams during a postwar and contemporary art sale in New York.
  The trove consists of three paintings and eight works on paper that Kusama gifted to the late Japanese cardiovascular surgeon Teruo Hirose in exchange for medical care. Bidders from Chin
  
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• The Best Heavy-Duty Staplers for Big Stacks

  12-05-2021 22:35 via artnews.com
  
  Sometimes that desktop stapler just doesn’t do the job. Maybe you’re trying to staple a thick written project , or perhaps you’re a teacher who often must bind dozens of handouts at a time and wants to do so effortlessly. Or maybe you’re a mixed-media artist who needs something with a little more oomph to drive those metal fasteners into a surface that’s a lot tougher than printer paper. What you need is something heavy-duty. There are many options out there; we&rsq
  
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• How I Made This: Joshua David McKenney’s Fashionable Pidgin Art Dolls

  12-05-2021 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  If you associate fashion dolls with Barbies, Bratz, Monster Dolls, or any similarly commercial brand, you’ll be as delighted to discover the world of “art dolls”: real one-of-a-kind objets that sell for thousands of dollars, who have more than seven points of articulation, and whose garments reference either haute couture or the creator’s artistic sensibility. While the most energetic art-doll market can be found across Asia and Eastern Europe, in the United States,
  
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• Three Rivers Arts Festival returning to Point State Park in boost to Downtown - NEXTpittsburgh

  12-05-2021 22:08
  
  Three Rivers Arts Festival returning to Point State Park in boost to Downtown  NEXTpittsburgh
  
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• A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women

  12-05-2021 22:07 via nytimes.com
  
  In “On Violence and On Violence Against Women,” Jacqueline Rose roves widely to consider sexual harassment, Harvey Weinstein, political power, contemporary fiction and more.
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: ‘Why Do People Get Married?’

  12-05-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Watching his grandmother enter her third marriage, Jake Maynard wondered if marriage was about care, convention — or something else entirely.
  
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• A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape - The New York Times

  12-05-2021 22:00
  
  A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape  The New York Times
  
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• Secretary Bullock Announces Retirement of Arts Division Director Paul Weagraff - State of Delaware News - news.delaware.gov

  12-05-2021 21:47
  Secretary Bullock Announces Retirement of Arts Division Director Paul Weagraff - State of Delaware News  news.delaware.gov
  
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• Richard Nonas, Experimental Sculptor Who Pushed the Medium to New Frontiers, Has Died at 85

  12-05-2021 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Richard Nonas, who is known for a sculpture practice that examines notions of place, space, and time, has died at age 85. The news was confirmed by the artist’s gallery Fergus McCaffrey, which did not provide a cause of death.
  Over a career spanning six decades, Nonas became a major figure of the Post-Minimalist generation. Following a 10-year stint as an anthropologist working across North America, Nonas began working in sculpture in the mid-1960s. During that time, he developed a minimal
  
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• Eleanor Ray Shows Painting’s Power to Capture the Passage of Time in Space

  12-05-2021 21:26 via artnews.com
  
  Looking at the Brooklyn-based painter Eleanor Ray’s paintings is like recalling a glimpse caught while traveling to a new place or those moments when the world suddenly seems in harmony with itself: a sense of calm, everyday aesthetic grace. Ray maintains a focused set of themes. Her small oil paintings on board, each not much larger than a book page, depict austere architectural spaces; places of art-world pilgrimage like Marfa, Texas, and Spiral Jetty; and natural landscapes, sometimes i
  
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• 'America on Fire' Explores the Roots of Black Rebellion

  12-05-2021 21:22 via nytimes.com
  
  In “America on Fire,” Elizabeth Hinton explores the long, semi-forgotten history of resistance to police violence.
  
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• Downtown Lafayette to hold "Local Palooza" event celebrating arts and culture - KATC Lafayette News

  12-05-2021 21:13
  
  Downtown Lafayette to hold "Local Palooza" event celebrating arts and culture  KATC Lafayette News
  
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• Three Rivers Arts Festival expanding plans in response to lifting of covid restrictions - TribLIVE

  12-05-2021 21:09
  
  Three Rivers Arts Festival expanding plans in response to lifting of covid restrictions  TribLIVE
  
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• Children and the Arts committee brings lite version to downtown Peterborough - Monadnock Ledger Transcript

  12-05-2021 21:04
  
  Children and the Arts committee brings lite version to downtown Peterborough  Monadnock Ledger Transcript
  
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• Bob Dylan Center, Featuring Archival Materials, to Open in 2022

  12-05-2021 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Following the acquisition of the singer-songwriter’s once-secret archives in 2016, a Tulsa-based foundation will put lyrics, photos and films on display in Oklahoma.
  
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• Dublin students' pandemic stories included in arts council's time-capsule project - ThisWeek Community News

  12-05-2021 20:10
  Dublin students' pandemic stories included in arts council's time-capsule project  ThisWeek Community News
  
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• Hannah Einbinder: Portrait of a Young Comic on the Cusp

  12-05-2021 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  As the daughter of Laraine Newman, she has an understanding of the ups and downs of early success. Will those lessons be helpful for her first series, “Hacks”?
  
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• Best Embossing Folders for Unique Designs and Patterns

  12-05-2021 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  If you’re looking for a simple way to emboss a small area, consider using an embossing folder. This slender accessory is similar to a template and features one side with raised details, which you can use to press designs into paper and other malleable materials like foil. An embossing folder is meant to be run through an embossing machine, like a Cricut or Sizzix, although you can use one by simply applying pressure with your hands and rubbing it from edge to edge to transfer the pattern.
  
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• ‘Oxygen’ Review: The Thrill of Claustrophobia

  12-05-2021 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Trapped in a cryogenic chamber with oxygen levels dwindling, a woman must learn how to team up with the machine in order to escape.
  
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• Phylicia Rashad Named Howard University College Of Fine Arts Dean - Deadline

  12-05-2021 18:29
  
  Phylicia Rashad Named Howard University College Of Fine Arts Dean  Deadline
  
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• ‘The Upshaws’ Is a Throwback Sitcom With Modern Views

  12-05-2021 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Netflix series harkens back to classic Black family comedies but has contemporary concerns, with difficult conversations about love, marriage and sexuality.
  
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• Met Opera Announces Its First Live Concerts Since Shutdown

  12-05-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Despite ongoing labor tensions, members of the company’s orchestra and chorus will perform with soloists and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
  
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• The Creation of “Women”: Zanele Muholi at Tate Modern

  12-05-2021 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  In her 1997 book The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oyeronke Oyewumi, a US-based Nigerian theorist, contests the conventional assumption that gender is a fundamental social category in all cultures—an organizing principle that requires the marginalization of those deemed women. Instead, in pre-British Yoruba society, “anafemales, like the anamales, had multiple identities that were not based on their anatomy. The creation of ‘women&rsq
  
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• With a Larger Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery Expands to San Francisco’s Chinatown

  12-05-2021 17:09 via artnews.com
  
  The last exhibition that San Francisco dealer Jessica Silverman presented was a solo show of work by artist Isaac Julien. It was open for exactly one day, March 13, 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic forced the United States and much of the world into a lockdown. Now, over a year later, Silverman is ready to open her next show, this time at a brand-new and much larger space in the city’s historic Chinatown neighborhood.
  Now in its thirteenth year in business, Jessica Silverman Gallery has
  
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• Rockport Center for the Arts looks to future - Corpus Christi Business News

  12-05-2021 17:02
  
  Rockport Center for the Arts looks to future  Corpus Christi Business News
  
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• A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape

  12-05-2021 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Its cultural institutions, buffeted by the pandemic, will have to recover without the help of Eli Broad, the transformational benefactor who died last month.
  
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• Norman Lloyd, Associate of Welles, Hitchcock and Others, Dies at 106

  12-05-2021 16:37 via nytimes.com
  
  He was seen in movies and on TV shows like “St. Elsewhere” and worked with some of the biggest names in show business, even though his own name was little known.
  
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• Manuel Mathieu’s Paintings of Trauma and Desire

  12-05-2021 16:35 via artnews.com
  
  Pareidolia, the brain’s tendency to find familiar patterns or images in the visual world, wasn’t always understood as a natural cognitive function: finding a human face in the passing clouds was once considered a sign of losing your mind. Staring at the work of the Haitian-Canadian painter Manuel Mathieu, who lives and works mostly in Montreal, is often like having that instinct teased. What at first appears to be a haunting field of steamrolled, amorphous shapes resolves into images
  
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• Audition for RIT & NTID Performing Arts present: Angels in America | Events | RIT - RIT News

  12-05-2021 16:29
  
  Audition for RIT & NTID Performing Arts present: Angels in America | Events | RIT  RIT News
  
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• Roundup: Tech Park Academy / Google / Arts Council - Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

  12-05-2021 16:19
  
  Roundup: Tech Park Academy / Google / Arts Council  Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
  
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• Keith Haring Fridge Door to Auction, Enigmatic English Hill Figure Dated, and More: Morning Links from May 12, 2021

  12-05-2021 16:14 via artnews.com
  
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  THE ORIGINS OF A ROUGHLY 180-FOOT-TALL DRAWING OF A MAN on a hill near Dorset, England, are finally coming into focus. While scholars have theorized that the Cerne Abbas Giant could date to prehistoric times, or the ancient Roman era, or the 1600s, “everyone was wrong,” geoarchaeologist Mike Allen told 
  
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• Macon requests more funds for the arts - Smoky Mountain News

  12-05-2021 16:07
  
  Macon requests more funds for the arts  Smoky Mountain News
  
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• Theater to Stream: Stars Gather for ‘Miscast’ and More

  12-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Other highlights include a new show by Kristina Wong, Joshua Harmon’s “Bad Jews” and “Broadway by the Year.”
  
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• Los Angeles’s Soaring Arts Scene Confronts a Changing Landscape

  12-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Its cultural institutions, buffeted by the pandemic, will have to recover without the help of Eli Broad, the transformational benefactor who died last month.
  
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• From the Lindy Hop to Hip-Hop in One Improvising Body

  12-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  To watch LaTasha Barnes dance is to watch historical distance collapse.
  
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• $93 M. Basquiat Leads Christie’s 21st C. Evening Sale, $17 M. Cryptopunks Among Trending Talent

  12-05-2021 15:33 via artnews.com
  
  This evening Christie’s launched its new 21st century sale category (1980s to now) with a 39-lot sale estimated to fetch over $145 million. Timed an hour later than normal, it ate into America’s dining schedules and Europe’s deep sleep time. And to say that was all about Asia would be an exaggeration as barely 7 or 8 lots attracted bidding from Hong Kong. Still, after 2 hours of remote bidding and eleven record prices, the sale totaled a very healthy $210.5 million realizing a
  
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• 3 Questions: Nadia Christidi on the arts and the future of water - MIT News

  12-05-2021 15:00
  
  3 Questions: Nadia Christidi on the arts and the future of water  MIT News
  
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• Tina Turner and Jay-Z Lead Rock Hall of Fame’s 2021 Inductees

  12-05-2021 14:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Foo Fighters, the Go-Go’s, Carole King and Todd Rundgren were also voted in, meaning nearly half of the 15 individuals in this year’s class are women.
  
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• Jay-Z and Tina Turner Lead Rock Hall of Fame’s 2021 Inductees

  12-05-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Foo Fighters, the Go-Go’s, Carole King and Todd Rundgren were also voted in, meaning nearly half of the 15 individuals in this year’s class are women.
  
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• Acrisure Backs 'Arts Marketplace' to Support Women and Minority-Owned Artisans - Business Wire

  12-05-2021 14:00
  
  Acrisure Backs 'Arts Marketplace' to Support Women and Minority-Owned Artisans  Business Wire
  
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• She Used a Male Doll in a Joke. Now She’s Accused of Sexual Harassment in South Korea

  12-05-2021 13:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Male critics in South Korea say they were offended by Park Na-rae’s comedy on YouTube. Her supporters say she’s a victim of double standards. The police say they are investigating.
  
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• She Used a Male Doll in a Joke. Now She’s Accused of Sexual Harassment.

  12-05-2021 13:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Male critics in South Korea say they were offended by Park Na-rae’s comedy on YouTube. Her supporters say she’s a victim of double standards. The police say they are investigating.
  
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• Everything Was Canceled in 2020. What About 2021?

  12-05-2021 12:15 via nytimes.com
  
  From the French Open and the Tokyo Olympics to New York Pride, a look at which global events are canceled, postponed or moving ahead (with altered plans) in 2021.
  
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• For West End’s Return, Cleansing Spirits and an Aching for Change

  12-05-2021 11:11 via nytimes.com
  
  On May 17, after two failed tries, London’s theaters hope to reopen for good. Meet a director, a producer, an actor and a costumer, nervously raring to go.
  
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• When Covid Dropped the Curtain on Broadway Actors, TV Kept the Lights On

  12-05-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  New and returning TV series like “The Gilded Age” and “The Good Fight” have been a lifeline for celebrated theater actors during the pandemic. Will TV, or theater, ever look the same?
  
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• The Essential Elin Hilderbrand

  12-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She’s the bard of Nantucket and the doyenne of flip-flops, outdoor showers and pink sunsets. Haven’t read her books? Start here.
  
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• The Best Elin Hilderbrand Books

  12-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She’s the bard of Nantucket and the doyenne of flip-flops, outdoor showers and pink sunsets. Haven’t read her books? Start here.
  
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