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• Hawaii health officials warn of clusters involving luaus, performing arts - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

  14-05-2021 23:53
  
  Hawaii health officials warn of clusters involving luaus, performing arts  Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
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• Curtis Fuller, a Powerful Voice on Jazz Trombone, Dies at 88

  14-05-2021 23:45 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a fixture on the New York jazz scene since shortly after his arrival in 1957. He also made his mark as a composer.
  
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• Southwest Michigan launches game exploring local arts and culture - ABC 57 News

  14-05-2021 23:19
  
  Southwest Michigan launches game exploring local arts and culture  ABC 57 News
  
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• How Sir Peter Blake Became Britain’s Preeminent Pop Art Star

  14-05-2021 23:12 via artnews.com
  
  Peter Blake, whose storied six-decade career continues to evolve, is one of Great Britain’s foremost artists. Known as Sir Peter Blake since being knighted in 2002, he helped establish Pop art in England, where the movement took on distinctive qualities of its own while coinciding with the rise of American Pop in the 1960s. And as befits a Pop pioneer of his stature, Blake ranks in an uncommon class of artists whose notoriety has roamed beyond the confines of fine art—most notably in
  
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• Glens Falls arts trail moving forward - Glens Falls Post-Star

  14-05-2021 22:55
  Glens Falls arts trail moving forward  Glens Falls Post-Star
  
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• Family Friday: Fishing, arts, and food trucks this weekend - WFSB

  14-05-2021 22:49
  Family Friday: Fishing, arts, and food trucks this weekend  WFSB
  
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• Heirs File Suit to Recover Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting

  14-05-2021 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  Fifteen heirs to a German collecting couple are seeking to restitute a Camille Pissarro painting. The heirs brought the lawsuit in the Federal District Court in Atlanta, claiming that a family in the Georgia city owns the work. The new was first reported by the New York Times.
  The work in question is Pissarro’s 1903 harbor scene painting The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre, painted in the final year of the artist’s life. According to the suit, the work was purchased by German collector Lu
  
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• Sponsor spotlight: Edmonds Arts Festival opens virtual poster shop - My Edmonds News

  14-05-2021 22:29
  
  Sponsor spotlight: Edmonds Arts Festival opens virtual poster shop  My Edmonds News
  
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• SPLASH Youth Arts To Offer Weekly Virtual Arts Workshop - The Chattanoogan

  14-05-2021 22:26
  SPLASH Youth Arts To Offer Weekly Virtual Arts Workshop  The Chattanoogan
  
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• Vendors, visitors happy about return of Fine Arts Fiesta in Wilkes-Barre - WNEP Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

  14-05-2021 22:25
  
  Vendors, visitors happy about return of Fine Arts Fiesta in Wilkes-Barre  WNEP Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
  
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• Carlito Carvalhosa, Artist at the Forefront of Brazilian Scene, Has Died at 59

  14-05-2021 22:06 via artnews.com
  
  Carlito Carvalhosa, a Brazilian artist with a loyal following in his home country, has died at 59. Folha de S.Paulo reported that Carvalhosa died on May 13 of intestinal cancer.
  In a statement, Galeria Nara Roesler, which represents the artist, wrote, “Brazilian art has lost a fundamental figure of the period between centuries, but the world gains an immeasurable artistic legacy that it is our responsibility to keep alive, to continue interpreting, and to place on the international level t
  
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• RCSD hosts livestreamed fundraiser festival for ‘Arts for All’ scholarship - RochesterFirst

  14-05-2021 21:45
  RCSD hosts livestreamed fundraiser festival for ‘Arts for All’ scholarship  RochesterFirst
  
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• Making its premiere: Visitors get first look at Columbia County Performing Arts Center - The Augusta Chronicle

  14-05-2021 21:45
  Making its premiere: Visitors get first look at Columbia County Performing Arts Center  The Augusta Chronicle
  
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• Spelman Names Arts Center After Samuel L. Jackson and His Wife LaTanya Richardson - Black Enterprise

  14-05-2021 21:30
  
  Spelman Names Arts Center After Samuel L. Jackson and His Wife LaTanya Richardson  Black Enterprise
  
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• Newark Symphony Hall to Join Leading Arts Organizations in Support of Artists of Color - TAPinto.net

  14-05-2021 21:20
  
  Newark Symphony Hall to Join Leading Arts Organizations in Support of Artists of Color  TAPinto.net
  
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• Fan Arts Stroll - richmondmagazine.com - Richmond magazine

  14-05-2021 21:04
  
  Fan Arts Stroll - richmondmagazine.com  Richmond magazine
  
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• Windsor Town Council renews discussion of forming arts council - Hartford Courant

  14-05-2021 21:00
  Windsor Town Council renews discussion of forming arts council  Hartford Courant
  
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• Cain Center for the Arts in Cornelius to open in December 2022 - Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte Business Journal

  14-05-2021 21:00
  Cain Center for the Arts in Cornelius to open in December 2022 - Charlotte Business Journal  Charlotte Business Journal
  
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• RAAC awards local artists $43551 in Mitchell Arts Fund grants - Rappahannock News

  14-05-2021 20:27
  RAAC awards local artists $43551 in Mitchell Arts Fund grants  Rappahannock News
  
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• One Work: Joan Semmel’s “Waiting”

  14-05-2021 20:13 via artnews.com
  
  The woman is nude and seated, her torso leaning forward. Her right hand rests on her left thigh, while her left arm supports her from behind. She looks out a large window, the light warming her naked flesh, streaking her breasts with creamy bands of sunshine. The title of this painting, Waiting (2020), informs us that the sitter is expecting something or someone—but what or whom is left unstated. Her mood is similarly inscrutable; her eyes, which might provide a glimpse into her psyche, ar
  
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• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences inducts 38 students into Phi Beta Kappa - The Den

  14-05-2021 20:00
  
  College of Liberal Arts and Sciences inducts 38 students into Phi Beta Kappa  The Den
  
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• The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design Presents NEXT 2021 - Hyperallergic

  14-05-2021 19:58
  
  The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design Presents NEXT 2021  Hyperallergic
  
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• Met Opera Protest: Union Rallies Against Proposed Pay Cuts

  14-05-2021 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The Metropolitan Opera hopes to reopen in September after its long pandemic closure, but simmering labor tensions have called that date into question.
  
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• Set Piece: Sandra Mujinga at The Approach

  14-05-2021 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  A green room is where performers stand by before going onstage: an in-between room, a place to wait before the action begins. Sandra Mujinga’s exhibition “Spectral Keepers” is a green room too, drenched in acid-green light. Four towering skeletal figures occupy the floor, decked in elaborate hooded coveralls fashioned from a light netted fabric of the same lime green. Each is paired with a mysterious, empty, cone-shaped basket that sits at the figure’s feet on the floor.
  
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• Pervis Staples, Who Harmonized With the Staple Singers, Dies at 85

  14-05-2021 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  He sang alongside his father and sisters as his family’s gospel group achieved renown in the late 1950s and ’60s.
  
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• Ancient Egyptian Rock-Cut Tombs Discovered at Al-Hamidiyah Necropolis

  14-05-2021 18:37 via artnews.com
  
  A series of rock-cut tombs have been discovered by archaeologists east of Sohag, in southern Egypt. Carved into the side of a mountain, the more than 300 tombs are thought to belong to leaders and officials from the city of Akhmim, one of the most important administrative centers in Ancient Egypt, Ahram Online reports.
  The tombs span a variety of styles and different time periods, with single and multiple burial shafts and sloped corridors, according to the secretary general of the Supreme Counc
  
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• Handmade Wear Meets Art: How Slow Fashion Is Inspiring Today’s Cutting-Edge Artists

  14-05-2021 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  These days, brands such as H&M, Zara, Uniqlo, and others dominate the market with low-priced takes on designer wear. Because these lines allegedly rely on sweatshops, manufacture garments not meant to last, and base their business on quickly fading trends, their offerings have been termed fast fashion. In response, another movement has developed: slow fashion, which makes use of craft techniques, aspires toward a more ethical form of production, and is intended to have greater longevity. The
  
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• DOH investigating COVID clusters on Oahu, Maui tied performing arts - Hawaii News Now

  14-05-2021 18:35
  
  DOH investigating COVID clusters on Oahu, Maui tied performing arts  Hawaii News Now
  
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• Emma Pryde on the Aesthetics of Innocence

  14-05-2021 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  The female figures in Emma Pryde’s paintings—on view in her exhibition “Counterplayer” at King’s Leap in New York through June 13—look like crossovers between angels and aliens. They have greenish skin; spindly fingers; small chins; and, sometimes, broad wings. “Counterplayer” comprises seven 20-by-16-inch paintings (all 2021) hung in a row along three walls. On the floor in the center of the gallery sits a small sculpture: a resin lamb with a swor
  
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• Curtis Fuller, Powerful Voice on Jazz Trombone, Is Dead at 88

  14-05-2021 17:17 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a fixture on the New York jazz scene since shortly after his arrival in 1957. He also made his mark as a composer.
  
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• Nicki Minaj Reunites With Lil Wayne and Drake, and 13 More New Songs

  14-05-2021 17:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Olivia Rodrigo, Tony Allen, L’Rain and others.
  
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• Stream These 5 Action Films Now

  14-05-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s picks include the animated “New Gods: Nezha Reborn,” the neo-western “Pixie” and the fantastical “Super Me,” the crime thriller “Adverse” and the comic “Get the Goat.”
  
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• On Spotify, an Arranged Marriage Between Music and Podcasts

  14-05-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Music-filled — and Spotify-exclusive — shows like “Black Girl Songbook” and “60 Songs That Explain the ’90s” dance around copyright constraints.
  
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• Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘The Nanny’

  14-05-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The ’90s sitcom starring Fran Drescher has caused a sartorial sensation since all six seasons arrived on HBO Max. It is also, the writer argues, a delightful show that unlike some of its contemporaries, still feels fresh.
  
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• Change at the National Gallery of Art, Beijing’s X Museum Adds Mexico City Satellite, and More: Morning Links from May 14, 2021

  14-05-2021 16:31 via artnews.com
  
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  THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART REOPENS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., TODAY, and it has gone on a full-court media press. The big news is that it has hired a chief curator, E. Carmen Ramos, who will be the first woman and the first person of color to hold the position. A Latinx art expert, Ramos is coming from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
  
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• A Kevin Spacey Accuser Tried to Sue Anonymously. A Judge Said No.

  14-05-2021 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  As sexual assault cases proliferate, judges must weigh accusers’ requests for anonymity against the tradition of open courts and fairness toward defendants.
  
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• Newsroom | Arts Transcending Borders Receives $30,000 Grant From the National Endowment for the Arts - Holy Cross News

  14-05-2021 16:19
  Newsroom | Arts Transcending Borders Receives $30,000 Grant From the National Endowment for the Arts  Holy Cross News
  
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• The Best Washi Tape for Artful Accents

  14-05-2021 16:15 via artnews.com
  
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  Washi tape is one of those things you don’t think you need . . . until it proves to be an essential and addictive addition to your stationery stash. Traditional Japanese rolls of this pretty adhesive embellishment are made of fibers from the bark of shrubs such as mulberry, or kozo, but recently many Western manufacturers have latched on to the decorative tape
  
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• Alex Armbruster's Junior Jazz Recital and the need to support the arts post-covid | The Retriever - The Retriever

  14-05-2021 16:08
  
  Alex Armbruster's Junior Jazz Recital and the need to support the arts post-covid | The Retriever  The Retriever
  
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• The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape

  14-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Toting a loaded gun on the podium, Artur Rodzinski turned ensembles into technical marvels in the 1930s and ’40s.
  
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• Sarah Colt on Why 2021 Is the Right Time for a Film About Billy Graham

  14-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director’s new two-hour installment of “American Experience,” on PBS, examines the rise of the man who was arguably most responsible for the power of modern evangelism in the United States.
  
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• Review: A Choreographer Looks Back on His Pandemic Year

  14-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Stephen Petronio’s virtual program, presented by the Joyce Theater, explores isolation, longing and legacy, but doesn’t take those issues to a deeper place.
  
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• Can $5 Million County Relief Fund Help OC Arts Get Back in Shape? - Voice of OC

  14-05-2021 15:42
  
  Can $5 Million County Relief Fund Help OC Arts Get Back in Shape?  Voice of OC
  
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• The Beatific Re-emergence of Beverly Glenn-Copeland

  14-05-2021 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about his winding path to a receptive, ready audience — and how music can be a bulwark against cynicism and trauma.
  
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• Electronic Arts Earnings: 3 Numbers to Know - Motley Fool

  14-05-2021 14:42
  
  Electronic Arts Earnings: 3 Numbers to Know  Motley Fool
  
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• A look inside the new Kiel Performing Arts Center - Fox11online.com

  14-05-2021 14:26
  
  A look inside the new Kiel Performing Arts Center  Fox11online.com
  
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• What Would George Washington Look Like Today? A Pandemic Creation Draws Attention.

  14-05-2021 13:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A bored musician used Photoshop to depict a modern version the first president. A Washington biographer and an impersonator had thoughts on its accuracy.
  
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• Modern Portrait of George Washington Draws Attention

  14-05-2021 13:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A bored musician used Photoshop to depict a modern version the first president. A Washington biographer and an impersonator had thoughts on its accuracy.
  
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• What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise

  14-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Not sure if the new horror movie “Spiral: From the Book of Saw” is for you? Our primer will help you decide.
  
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• The Arts Empowerment Project Awarded A 2021 Women's Impact Fund Grant - The Baytown Sun

  14-05-2021 13:00
  The Arts Empowerment Project Awarded A 2021 Women's Impact Fund Grant  The Baytown Sun
  
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