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• Ghenady Meirson, voice coach with the Academy of Vocal Arts and the Curtis Institute, dies at 63 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  26-05-2021 23:51
  
  Ghenady Meirson, voice coach with the Academy of Vocal Arts and the Curtis Institute, dies at 63  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Detroit Institute of Arts extends 'Detroit style' car exhibition until January 2022 - The Detroit News

  26-05-2021 23:40
  Detroit Institute of Arts extends 'Detroit style' car exhibition until January 2022  The Detroit News
  
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• The Effervescent Everyday: Mindy Rose Schwartz at Interstate Projects

  26-05-2021 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  Small, visibly handmade sculptures comprising crafty materials—polymer clay, store-bought felt, fake pearls—are having a moment: see works by emerging artists like Em Kettner, Sean-Kierre Lyons, and Jenine Marsh. This past year, many artists were working in their bedrooms instead of their studios, and some told me this brought them back to more childlike materials and methods. Mindy Rose Schwartz, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is something of the progenit
  
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• Rediscovering the Joy of Drawing During the Pandemic

  26-05-2021 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  A month or two in to the pandemic in 2020, when the spring was breaking into an anxious summer and the weather made it blessedly easier to be outside, I took up a hobby. Or maybe I revived a long-lost part of myself: I started drawing every day, which I hadn’t done since high school, the better part of two decades ago. Back then I attended figure-drawing classes and loitered in the school’s art rooms — I even painted a mural that still hangs in the school. But my commitment fad
  
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• Arts educators receive classroom mini-grants - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press - Stanly News & Press

  26-05-2021 22:01
  
  Arts educators receive classroom mini-grants - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press  Stanly News & Press
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: Meet Cute at Zero Years Old

  26-05-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These two stories will make you audibly gasp.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Other Black Girl,’ by Zakiya Dalila Harris

  26-05-2021 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Zakiya Dalila Harris places her readers in the shoes of one of two Black employees at a New York City publishing company.
  
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• 'ARTs + Change' a formula for transformation : NewsCenter - University of Rochester

  26-05-2021 21:19
  
  'ARTs + Change' a formula for transformation : NewsCenter  University of Rochester
  
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• Anna Halprin, Dancer Who Nurtured Generations of Artists, Has Died at 100

  26-05-2021 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  Anna Halprin, an acclaimed dancer whose performances of the 1950s and ’60s inspired multiple generations of artists, has died at 100. Her daughter, Daria Halprin, confirmed the news in a Facebook post, writing, “All who have danced with her, studied with her, and supported her work have blessed her life and will continue to bless her spirit.”
  Based in the Bay Area in Northern California, Halprin made her name with work developed during a transitional period after the height of
  
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• ‘Cruella’ Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

  26-05-2021 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Emma Stone plays a notorious Disney villain in this spotty origin story.
  
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• Space Station May Host Wave of TV Shows and Films

  26-05-2021 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  A Discovery reality TV competition, a Russian medical thriller and more productions could be heading to the orbital outpost in the next year.
  
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• Anna Halprin Dies at 100; Choreographer Committed to Experimenting

  26-05-2021 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Her work, which stressed improvisation, attracted students, disciples and enthusiasts fascinated by the creative issues she explored and the way she explored them.
  
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• For a New Troupe, Going Digital Has Been Easier Than Returning Live

  26-05-2021 20:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Molière in the Park garnered praise for Zoom productions of “Tartuffe” and other plays. Putting on an outdoor show in Brooklyn has been another matter.
  
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• Stanford launches search for the next vice president for the arts - Stanford Today - Stanford University News

  26-05-2021 20:30
  
  Stanford launches search for the next vice president for the arts - Stanford Today  Stanford University News
  
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• A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre

  26-05-2021 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Scott Ellsworth’s “The Ground Breaking” is about the 1921 massacre and all that has happened since, from silence and cover-up to sustained attempts to learn the full history.
  
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• NC artist and Trump appointee ousted from arts panel - Charlotte Observer

  26-05-2021 20:11
  
  NC artist and Trump appointee ousted from arts panel  Charlotte Observer
  
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• Astronauts on Set: Space Station May Host Wave of TV Shows and Films

  26-05-2021 19:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A Discovery reality TV competition, a Russian medical thriller and more productions could be heading to the orbital outpost in the next year.
  
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• Norfolk Public Arts, Elizabeth River Project receive $75K Our Town Grant - WAVY.com

  26-05-2021 19:24
  Norfolk Public Arts, Elizabeth River Project receive $75K Our Town Grant  WAVY.com
  
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• A Label Reissued a Dead Brazilian Artist’s Album. He Was Still Alive.

  26-05-2021 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  José Mauro’s first LP, originally released in 1970, became a cult classic. Far Out Recordings is now putting out its follow-up under very different circumstances.
  
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• Anna Halprin, Choreographer Committed to Experimenting, Dies at 100

  26-05-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Her work, which stressed improvisation, attracted students, disciples and enthusiasts fascinated by the creative issues she explored and the way she explored them.
  
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• Allison Glenn, Curator of Acclaimed Breonna Taylor Show, to Join Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

  26-05-2021 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  Allison Glenn, an associate curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has been named senior curator and director of public art at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The senior curator position was most recently held by Valerie Cassel Oliver, who left the CAMH in 2017 for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Glenn will join the Texas institution on August 1.
  Glenn is best known for the widely acclaimed exhibition “Promise, Witness, Remembrance,” c
  
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• ‘Friends’ Reunion: The One With the ‘Remember the One With … ?’

  26-05-2021 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  A long, emotional get-together is best when it gets out of its cast’s way.
  
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• Howard University Names Its Fine Arts College For Chadwick Boseman - NPR

  26-05-2021 18:37
  Howard University Names Its Fine Arts College For Chadwick Boseman  NPR
  
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• Smithsonian Museums Set to Reopen by September

  26-05-2021 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Cooper Hewitt will be the first, opening its doors on June 10. Others will follow through August.
  
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• Medieval Chapel Discovered Beneath 17th-Century Maltese Church

  26-05-2021 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  Underneath the floors of Madonna Tal-Ħniena Church in Qrendi, a village in Malta, archaeologists discovered the remnants of a chapel dating to the late Medieval period. The discovery announced by Malta’s Superintendence of Cultural Heritage came as the team completed the first phase of an archaeological study in partnership with the Restoration Directorate.
  Madonna Tal-Ħniena (Our Lady of Mercy) was built in Qrendi in 1650 C.E. After falling into disrepair, it was fully restored
  
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• 'Nero: The Man Behind the Myth' at the British Museum

  26-05-2021 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  He is known as a cruel tyrant who played his lyre while Rome burned. That’s exactly what his enemies wanted you to think, the curators of a new exhibition argue.
  
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• Broadway’s Tony Awards, Delayed by Pandemic, Set for September

  26-05-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Most of the prizes will be announced on the Paramount+ streaming service, followed by a starry concert celebrating Broadway on CBS television.
  
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• After Transforming Classics, an Opera Company Tries a Premiere

  26-05-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Heartbeat Opera, known for radically adapting Bizet and Beethoven, is preparing to unveil its first original work: “The Extinctionist.”
  
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• A New Safe Space for Santa Barbara Arts & Crafts - Independent - Santa Barbara Independent

  26-05-2021 17:55
  
  A New Safe Space for Santa Barbara Arts & Crafts - Independent  Santa Barbara Independent
  
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• Manual Arts' Jay'len Carter chose valedictorian over basketball - Los Angeles Times

  26-05-2021 17:27
  
  Manual Arts' Jay'len Carter chose valedictorian over basketball  Los Angeles Times
  
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• Ultimate Queen Celebration starring Marc Martel coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center Saturday, October 23 - What'sUpNewp

  26-05-2021 17:26
  
  Ultimate Queen Celebration starring Marc Martel coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center Saturday, October 23  What'sUpNewp
  
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• Karimah Ashadu’s Films Honor the Everyday Labor of African Workers

  26-05-2021 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  Anything can serve as a support for Karimah Ashadu’s camera. The artist and filmmaker attaches her device to bodies and machines, granting viewers unconventional perspectives. Most of her shorts depict African laborers. The nine-minute Lagos Sand Merchants (2013) is shot from the strictly limited vantage point of machinery that advances in a Ferris-wheel-like motion. We’re disoriented as we watch the otherwise rhythmic and monotonous labor of the workers unearthing sand from the Lago
  
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• Where to Find an Arts Experience Near You - KCET

  26-05-2021 17:14
  
  Where to Find an Arts Experience Near You  KCET
  
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• Objet: Jordan Fine’s ‘90s-Inspired Glass Vessels, for Drinking and Social Good 

  26-05-2021 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  Just before the start of the pandemic, the artist Jordan Fine felt drawn to the idea of making hand-blown glass cups. Fine, who is based in Cleveland, Ohio, had been producing glass jewelry and pipes for years, but felt the urge to branch out right around the time their grandmother — one of their greatest champions — passed away, in February of 2020. Surrounded at home by their grandmother’s art, and fresh from a tarot reading that indicated she would continue to have a major i
  
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• Visual Arts - May 26 - Brainerd Dispatch

  26-05-2021 17:00
  
  Visual Arts - May 26  Brainerd Dispatch
  
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• James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM

  26-05-2021 16:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, while diminished, commanded a premium price, with Amazon seeking to bolster its crucial Prime membership offering.
  
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• Theater to Stream: Concert Sets and Reimagined Classics

  26-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Highlights include “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare’s Globe, the rising stars of LaGuardia High School and “Uncle Vanya” on PBS.
  
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• Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France

  26-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ten years after his death, Petit is still considered an important figure in France, though his works haven’t been performed with great regularity.
  
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• Laurence des Cars to Become First Woman to Direct Louvre

  26-05-2021 15:58 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time in its 228-year history, the Louvre will be directed by a woman. Laurence des Cars, the current leader of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, has been picked by French president Emmanuel Macron as the next leader of the Louvre. Des Cars succeeds Jean-Luc Martinez, who has been the museum’s president since 2013, and she begins on September 1.
  “She will create a dialogue between ancient art and the modern world one of he
  
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• Biden Revamps Architecture Panel, Artist Jackie Matisse Dies, and More: Morning Links from May 26, 2021

  26-05-2021 15:46 via artnews.com
  
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  PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS NOMINATED FOUR PEOPLE to the Commission of Fine Arts, which advises on the design of federal buildings in Washington, D.C., NPR reports. The move, which will diversify its membership, comes a day after the president pushed out four members appointed by President Trump. Trump’s appointments
  
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• Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, a shiny new venue for homegrown arts groups, rises in Taylorsville - Salt Lake Tribune

  26-05-2021 14:00
  
  Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, a shiny new venue for homegrown arts groups, rises in Taylorsville  Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’ Review: Dribbling Through a Career

  26-05-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This biopic of the Italian soccer player Roberto Baggio is a botched effort.
  
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• Louvre Gets Its First Female Leader in 228 Years

  26-05-2021 12:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Laurence des Cars, the current head of the Musée d’Orsay, will become the president of the world’s most visited museum in September.
  
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• With most Trump appointees off the fine arts commission, Biden can put a progressive stamp on federal architecture - The Washington Post

  26-05-2021 12:00
  
  With most Trump appointees off the fine arts commission, Biden can put a progressive stamp on federal architecture  The Washington Post
  
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• They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now. - The New York Times

  26-05-2021 11:00
  
  They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now.  The New York Times
  
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• They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now.

  26-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Moving quickly in the pandemic, a wealthy money manager underwrote performances via a new foundation, with a little help from a violin-obsessed adviser.
  
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• Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic

  26-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Roxane Gay Books will focus on underrepresented fiction, nonfiction and memoir writers, with or without agents.
  
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• 15 New Books Coming in June

  26-05-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This month brings new ways of thinking about American history, from slavery to the Alamo to same-sex marriage, as well as fiction from Rivka Galchen and Brandon Taylor, and a second thriller by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel and Ted Cruz Rekindle an Old Feud

  26-05-2021 07:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimmel wouldn’t let Senator Cruz call the military “woke” and “emasculated,” so the Texas Republican reminded the comedian of his loss in their 2018 basketball game.
  
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• With Art Basel Hong Kong and Eurovision in the same weekend, the global arts scene signals a return - CNBC

  26-05-2021 07:53
  
  With Art Basel Hong Kong and Eurovision in the same weekend, the global arts scene signals a return  CNBC
  
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