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• The Moody Fund for the Arts gives Dallas’ small arts companies the thing they need the most right now: money - The Dallas Morning News

  19-05-2021 23:45
  
  The Moody Fund for the Arts gives Dallas’ small arts companies the thing they need the most right now: money  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• After Multiple Postponements, TEFAF Maastricht Cancels 2021 In-Person Fair

  19-05-2021 23:19 via artnews.com
  
  As events like Frieze New York and Art Basel Hong Kong mount in-person editions, TEFAF Maastrict said it won’t mount a physical exposition in 2021 after delaying this year’s multiple times. The fair, initially expected to open in the fall in the Dutch city of Maastricht, said in a statement on Wednesday that it had called off this year’s edition following “careful consideration of current global circumstances.”
  The Dutch art fair was originally slated to open in Mar
  
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• The Best Construction Paper for Children’s Art Projects and More

  19-05-2021 22:15 via artnews.com
  
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  Valued for its bright color and inexpensive price point, colored construction paper is such an essential part of children’s art and crafts that the creators of the kids’ TV show Blue’s Clues used construction paper shapes as key visual elements. But construction paper isn’t just for kids; heavier than copy paper, these fibrous sheets are tough
  
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• New Advisory Firm Sets Sights on Asia’s Rising Class of Collectors

  19-05-2021 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  As the Asian art market continues to grow, two young collectors and longtime friends, Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung, have launched an advisory firm as a way to tap into a rapidly expanding millennial collector base in Asia. Based in New York and Hong Kong, the five-month old Art-Bureau could prove to be a formidable force in the area.
  Having worked in different positions in the contemporary art departments of all three major auction houses by the time he turned 30, Tang, who is currently based in
  
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• Frescoes Stolen from Ancient Roman Villas Returned to Pompeii

  19-05-2021 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  The archaeological park at Pompeii is celebrating the return of six Roman frescoes that have been recovered following an investigation by the Italy’s cultural heritage protection unit, the Guardian reports.
  Three of the frescoes were removed in the 1970s from the walls of Villa Arianna and Villa San Marco in the ancient city of Stabiae. After being smuggled out of the country, they were bought in the 1990s by antique dealers in Britain, Switzerland, and the United States.
  One of six recove
  
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• Solve Your Shelving Problems with Room & Board’s Bookcases

  19-05-2021 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  Storage is an almost impossible task, especially when dealing with city apartments that don’t have basements, or perhaps even closets. Moving out of the pandemic, we also might find ourselves with more stuff cluttering our spaces than in early 2020 — results of quarantine consumerism. Shelving is vital, but the question becomes, what kind of shelving do you actually need?
  Modular shelving systems, like Vitsoe’s sleek metal arrangements or the millennial brand Floyd’s
  
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• Zwirner May Disrupt Art Gallery Model With Click-to-Buy Business

  19-05-2021 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Platform, which debuts Thursday, will sell 100 works of art a month online through smaller galleries, for $2,500 to $50,000.
  
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• UC Santa Cruz names Celine Parreñas Shimizu new dean of Arts Division - UC Santa Cruz

  19-05-2021 21:06
  
  UC Santa Cruz names Celine Parreñas Shimizu new dean of Arts Division  UC Santa Cruz
  
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• On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary

  19-05-2021 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The Royal Ballet’s program, “21st Century Choreographers,” featured a new work by Kyle Abraham.
  
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• Sale of Museum Paintings Helps Conclude Strong Auction Season

  19-05-2021 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The deaccessioning of 15 works by museums, including an important Thomas Cole painting, helped raise Sotheby’s total art sales over the last week to more than $715 million.
  
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• The Art of the Sneaker

  19-05-2021 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  A new exhibition in London charts the rise of global sneaker culture, from performance shoe to cult collector item. But do they belong in the museum?
  
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• Esteban Jefferson’s Portraits of the Petit Palais

  19-05-2021 20:24 via artnews.com
  
  When New York–based artist Esteban Jefferson first visited the Petit Palais in Paris, in 2014, it was neither the nineteenth-century French paintings nor the Etruscan vases that caught his eye, but two mysterious portrait busts of anonymous Black figures placed behind the information and ticket desk. While most of the other artworks on display at the museum were accompanied by extensively researched wall texts, these sculptures, carved from polychrome marble, had no attribution and were si
  
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• Franco Battiato, Pop Singer and Versatile Composer, Dies at 76

  19-05-2021 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted.
  
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• ‘Zappa,’ ‘Trust Me’ and More Streaming Gems

  19-05-2021 20:16 via nytimes.com
  
  We comb through the streaming services to find some options you might have missed.
  
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• ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate

  19-05-2021 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Dobbs’s new book mostly covers the first hundred days after Nixon’s second inauguration, when the president appeared triumphant.
  
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• How I Made This: Pacifico Silano’s Obliquely Erotic Vintage Magazine Collages

  19-05-2021 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  The artist Pacifico Silano has boxes and boxes of vintage gay erotica — he thinks he has around 300 magazines. He has owned some of it for a decade, dating back to his time at the School of Visual Arts, when he started his practice of incorporating them into collages. Right now, however, the whole collection is literally in a closet — though sometimes it’s a storage unit.
  These days, Silano buys the magazines primarily online. Often, he has to judge the book by its cover,
  
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• The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The famed institution — and others — are reaching out to audiences who cannot connect to art in typical ways.
  
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• The Broad Museum Reopens With a Celebration of Basquiat

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A presentation of all 13 works in the collection, together for the first time and delayed by the pandemic shutdown, attests to the Broads’ early and abiding interest in the artist.
  
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• Talking Across the Centuries to the Medici Family

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  If anyone understood the power of art to influence the course of history, the Renaissance-boosters did.
  
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• Louise Bourgeois Shares Her Deepest Secrets

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Writings by the artist, exhibited for the first time in the United States, reveal the psychological trauma that fueled her creativity.
  
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• In New York and More, Public Art Is Taking on Thorny Social Issues

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Supported by government programs and private donors, art is proliferating in the public square.
  
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• Examining Katharine Graham’s Groundbreaking Life

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Cover Story,” at the New-York Historical Society, illustrates the Washington Post publisher’s courage and tenacity as the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
  
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• A New York Museum Staple Gets a New Glimmer

  19-05-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At the redesigned Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals, which opens June 12, the evolution of minerals is front and center.
  
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• Paul Mooney, Trailblazing Comedian, Dies at 79

  19-05-2021 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Mooney, a comic writer and performer known for his work with Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, his publicist said.
  
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• Georgia Anne Muldrow Builds a Musical World of Her Own

  19-05-2021 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The prolific and proudly woke songwriter and producer has made 21 albums in 15 years. Her latest, “Vweto III,” is due on Friday.
  
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• Silk Sonic or J. Cole Has the No. 1 Song, Depending on the Chart

  19-05-2021 19:12 via nytimes.com
  
  In a rare but not unheard-of discrepancy, Billboard and Rolling Stone named two different singles as the week’s biggest.
  
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• Dr. Aaron Stern, Who Enforced the Movie Ratings Code, Dies at 96

  19-05-2021 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a New York psychiatrist who went to Hollywood to help lay down guidelines for sex and violence in films. Not everyone was pleased.
  
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• The Best Glue Guns for Easy, Mess-Free Adhering

  19-05-2021 18:07 via artnews.com
  
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  Your old hot glue gun is a tacky, encrusted, unreliable mess, and you’re looking for another to stick with for the long haul. We sympathize; we’ve been there too. These devices can be finicky—it’s challenging to find a fast-acting, safety-forward model that really works, so you can finally use up all those replacement glue sticks rolling aroun
  
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• Their Fascination With ‘Real Housewives’ Is Anything but Fake

  19-05-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A cadre of Yale drama graduates have followed up a first streaming hit with “This American Wife,” a reality-blurring look at the long-running reality TV franchise.
  
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• Billy Porter Reveals He Has Been H.I.V. Positive for 14 Years

  19-05-2021 17:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor told The Hollywood Reporter that he had feared disclosing it would give “another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession.”
  
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• Teton Arts brightens studio experience | Free September E-Edition Access | tetonvalleynews.net - Teton Valley News

  19-05-2021 16:36
  Teton Arts brightens studio experience | Free September E-Edition Access | tetonvalleynews.net  Teton Valley News
  
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• Community shows support for arts education - Smoky Mountain News

  19-05-2021 16:18
  
  Community shows support for arts education  Smoky Mountain News
  
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• Next Up at the Home of ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’? A Circus, of Course.

  19-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The San Francisco theater where the musical revue ran for decades will get a new show in the fall by the 7 Fingers, a Montreal circus collective.
  
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• John Krasinski and the Tense Wait for ‘A Quiet Place Part II’

  19-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s been more than a year since the film he wrote and directed was originally set for release. Now, as the sequel to the 2018 hit reaches theaters, Hollywood is holding its breath.
  
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• Drama Book Shop, Backed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, to Open in June

  19-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The quirky bookstore, which sells scripts and other theater-related work, was acquired by a team of “Hamilton” alumni after years of struggle.
  
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• Arrest in Epic Dresden Museum Heist, Curator Terence Riley Dies, and More: Morning Links from May 19, 2021

  19-05-2021 15:56 via artnews.com
  
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  GERMAN INVESTIGATORS MADE A FIFTH ARREST on Monday in the 2019 theft of jewels from the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, the Associated Press reports. Four others (including the twin brother of the latest suspect to be detained) were picked up late last year for allegedly making off with diamonds, rubies, and other items&
  
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• 'Fear Street' Trilogy Is Netflix's Bet on Movies to Binge

  19-05-2021 15:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The streamer hopes that by turning adaptations of the R.L. Stine series into weekly film events, audiences will stay glued to the screen.
  
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• John le Carré Fans Are Getting One More Novel

  19-05-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Viking plans to release “Silverview,” a spy novel set in an English seaside town, nearly a year after the famed writer’s death.
  
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• Binge-Viewing Movies? Netflix Bets on ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy

  19-05-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The streamer hopes that by turning adaptations of the R.L. Stine series into weekly film events, audiences will stay glued to the screen.
  
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• EA Studio Chief Laura Miele on Getting Gamers to Love Electronic Arts Again - Bloomberg

  19-05-2021 12:00
  EA Studio Chief Laura Miele on Getting Gamers to Love Electronic Arts Again  Bloomberg
  
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• Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book.

  19-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  You have your sunscreen and beach chairs. Once you pick up any of these 24 books, summer can really begin.
  
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• ‘In Treatment’ Is Back. How Does That Make You Feel?

  19-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pandemic tensions led HBO to make a new version of the therapy drama, which stars Uzo Aduba and aims to reduce stigmas about mental health care.
  
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• How a Review Changed Both Sarah Silverman and Our Critic

  19-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A.O. Scott critiqued her approach to comedy in a 2005 movie. Now they sit down to talk about what he got right and wrong, and why owning up to mistakes is freeing.
  
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• Did the Pandemic Change Summer Reading for Good? I Hope So

  19-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With our calendars cleared last year, many of us found more time to lose ourselves in books. Let’s hold onto that vibe this year.
  
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• Trevor Noah Wonders if America Is Ready for a Giuliani Dynasty

  19-05-2021 08:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew, announced his candidacy for governor of New York on Tuesday. The “Daily Show” host is surprised that he wants the job.
  
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• Ypsi-based youth program addresses housing justice through the arts - Concentrate - Concentrate

  19-05-2021 06:01
  
  Ypsi-based youth program addresses housing justice through the arts - Concentrate  Concentrate
  
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• To-Do List: Columbia arts and entertainment picks (May 19-26) - Charleston Post Courier

  19-05-2021 06:00
  To-Do List: Columbia arts and entertainment picks (May 19-26)  Charleston Post Courier
  
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• Spring arts, crafts show to feature local artisans Friday, Saturday - Maryville Daily Times

  19-05-2021 05:30
  Spring arts, crafts show to feature local artisans Friday, Saturday  Maryville Daily Times
  
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• Commissioners pass city budget, despite concerns over public arts funding increase - Enid News & Eagle

  19-05-2021 05:11
  Commissioners pass city budget, despite concerns over public arts funding increase  Enid News & Eagle
  
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• There's power in the arts for thinking and doing - Galveston County Daily News

  19-05-2021 05:00
  
  There's power in the arts for thinking and doing  Galveston County Daily News
  
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