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• Phillips Has a Tradition of Spotting Where the Market Is Going, Says CEO Ed Dolman

  01-06-2021 23:50 via artnews.com
  
  “I think the younger art collectors,” Phillips CEO Ed Dolman says in the this ARTnews Live with Leaders interview (watch the interview on YouTube or listen to a podcast version in the player above), “found the transition to digital space and the ability to buy and transact online much easier than in others.” Since Phillips has a tradition of developing markets for emerging artists (who tend to be younger), the auction house has a strong following among younger collectors
  
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• Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment

  01-06-2021 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Using cinematic tools other comics overlook, the star (who is also the director, editor and cameraman) trains a glaring spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.
  
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• New Lowell schools’ Afternoons in the Arts program seeks to provide greater equity - Lowell Sun

  01-06-2021 23:36
  
  New Lowell schools’ Afternoons in the Arts program seeks to provide greater equity  Lowell Sun
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Asia Pacific Triennial Announces First Batch of Participants—and More from June 1, 2021

  01-06-2021 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  Tuesday, June 1
  Asia Pacific Triennial Announces First Batch of ParticipantsThe Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art has revealed the first group of artist and projects to feature in its 10th iteration, slated to run from December 4 through April 25, 2022 at the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art in Australia. This edition will feature 69 projects with new and recent work by more than 100 emerging and established artists, collectives, and filmmakers from more than 30
  
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• Festival of the Arts returns but with different options - WOODTV.com

  01-06-2021 23:18
  Festival of the Arts returns but with different options  WOODTV.com
  
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• Three downtown businesses hit by graffiti within 'Arts Alley' - WYMT News

  01-06-2021 23:06
  
  Three downtown businesses hit by graffiti within 'Arts Alley'  WYMT News
  
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• Whitney Museum Voluntarily Recognizes Union

  01-06-2021 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  After workers at the Whitney Museum announced plans to unionize, the New York art institution said it would recognize their group—a rare gesture for a major U.S. museum. Jacobin first reported the news of the museum’s recognition of the union on Friday.
  “We respect the desire of our colleagues to engage in a dialogue about collective bargaining, as is their legal right, and we remain committed to supporting all staff, regardless of affiliation,” a Whitney spokesperson sai
  
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• Sotheby’s First Women-Only Sale Delivers Mixed Results

  01-06-2021 22:59 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, Sotheby’s held its first sale devoted solely to women artists. Titled “(Women) Artists,” the sale featured works spanning the 17th to the 21st centuries brought a hammer total of or £3.66 million ($5.2 million), or £4.6 million ($6.5 million) with premium, landing well above the £2.6 million ($3.7 million) low estimate. The sale realized an 82 percent sell-through rate across 57 lots.
  Emphasizing work by women artist has been a new area of focus for
  
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• Lensic Performing Arts Center to Reopen June 17 | News - Santa Fe Reporter

  01-06-2021 22:48
  
  Lensic Performing Arts Center to Reopen June 17 | News  Santa Fe Reporter
  
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• The Best Window Cling Art Materials for Decorating Your Space

  01-06-2021 22:22 via artnews.com
  
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  The most obvious place to put up art in your home is on the walls, but don’t leave those windows neglected. A simple piece of window art can brighten up a space and give your passing neighbors something to smile at. To create window artworks without permanently giving up your view, pick up materials designed to cling to glass while still being temporary for cle
  
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• With Keene arts corridor stalled, local organizers move forward on own effort - The Keene Sentinel

  01-06-2021 22:00
  
  With Keene arts corridor stalled, local organizers move forward on own effort  The Keene Sentinel
  
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• French Heir Gives Pissarro Stolen by the Nazis to University of Oklahoma

  01-06-2021 21:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The painting, long the subject of an ownership dispute, will be given to the University of Oklahoma with plans for title to be transferred later, likely to a French institution.
  
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• The Yadkin Arts Council presents Annual Stephen G. Lyons Celebration on June 26, 2021 - featuring wine, food, and the music of “Phatt City” - Yes! Weekly

  01-06-2021 21:31
  The Yadkin Arts Council presents Annual Stephen G. Lyons Celebration on June 26, 2021 - featuring wine, food, and the music of “Phatt City”  Yes! Weekly
  
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• A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory

  01-06-2021 21:10 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A Sense of Self,” the psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane flashes narrative skill in exploring the science and mystery of memory.
  
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• Where Wilde Once Slept (in Prison Garb)

  01-06-2021 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Activists are trying to preserve the prison he was sent to after his conviction for “indecency,” saying his life is an important part of Britain’s history.
  
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• Where Oscar Wilde Once Slept (in Prison Garb)

  01-06-2021 21:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Activists are trying to preserve the prison he was sent to after his conviction for “indecency,” saying his life is an important part of Britain’s history.
  
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• New Louvre Director to Resurrect Plans for Long-Debated Byzantine and Coptic Art Department

  01-06-2021 20:52 via artnews.com
  
  In one of her first moves as the newly appointed president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars plans to formally launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic art at the Paris museum. If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre’s current president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary, and a willingness to expand the ways the museum presents religious art.
  “It is a magnificent collection that deserves a department in its ow
  
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• In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists

  01-06-2021 20:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Between 1969 and 1975, the Communicative Arts Academy was a vital hub for a community largely excluded from Los Angeles’s cultural institutions.
  
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• German State Returns 19th-Century Painting Looted by Nazis 

  01-06-2021 20:43 via artnews.com
  
  The Bavarian State Painting Collections have restituted a painting by 19th-century Austrian painter Joseph Wopfner looted by the Nazis.
  Munich’s Neue Pinakothek, one of Bavaria’s state-run galleries, told the German press agency dpa that the painting, Fischerboote bei Frauenchiemsee (1884), was bought by Nazi Party leader Martin Bormann in 1924 for the Reich’s Munich headquarters. Bormann, Hitler’s functionary, was among the highest-profile war criminals arraigned at
  
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• AFL-CIO’s Department For Professional Employees Praises Biden Administration’s Proposed Funding For The Arts & Humanities - Deadline

  01-06-2021 20:40
  
  AFL-CIO’s Department For Professional Employees Praises Biden Administration’s Proposed Funding For The Arts & Humanities  Deadline
  
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• Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center announces lineup and membership program - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  01-06-2021 20:30
  Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center announces lineup and membership program  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• Gwangju Biennale Foundation President to Depart Amid Dispute with Labor Union

  01-06-2021 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  Sunjung Kim, who has served as president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation since 2017, will leave her post at the organization that runs South Korea’s most notable biennial when her contract expires at the end of June. According to a report by ArtAsiaPacific, the decision to replace Kim follows her alleged misconduct detailed by the Gwangju Biennale Labor Union in April. The foundation is creating a committee to lead the search for its next president.
  In a statement to the Korean newspape
  
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• Confronting Erasure: “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” at the Speed Art Museum

  01-06-2021 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” had me shaken up before I had even set foot in the city, the museum, or the galleries that house it. The exhibition honors Breonna Taylor, who was murdered in March 2020 by members of the Louisville Metro Police Department while resting in her home. It also addresses the larger fight for racial justice that intensified after her death, amid unrelenting state violence against Black people. The curator, Allison Glenn, worked with Taylor’s family, a
  
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• French Heir Gives Pissarro Stolen by the Nazis to a U.S. University

  01-06-2021 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The painting, long the subject of an ownership dispute, will be given to the University of Oklahoma with plans for title to be transferred later, likely to a French institution.
  
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• Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel

  01-06-2021 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic.
  
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• How Julie Mehretu Creates Her Deeply Layered Abstractions Referencing Today’s Most Pressing Issues

  01-06-2021 19:33 via artnews.com
  
  In Julie Mehretu’s spacious studio in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, her sprawling, intricate abstract paintings hold center stage, along with the tools one would expect in the making of them: brushes, paints in a daunting array of colors, and a cherry picker that keeps her elevated at a painting’s height as she works to the music of Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, and Julius Eastman. A less visible tool that sits largely in the background, however, has made all the diffe
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Engagement,’ by Sasha Issenberg

  01-06-2021 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  A detailed history of the fight for same-sex marriage, Sasha Issenberg’s “The Engagement” casts fresh light on the role of conservative churches in compelling gay rights activists to embrace the issue as a cause.
  
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• Book Review: ‘How the Word Is Passed,’ by Clint Smith

  01-06-2021 19:25 via nytimes.com
  
  In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Somebody’s Daughter,’ by Ashley C. Ford

  01-06-2021 19:20 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Somebody’s Daughter,” the author learns the father she’s barely known is finally coming home, after 25 years in prison.
  
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• Sandy Springs reopening City Hall, Performing Arts Center - Reporter Newspapers

  01-06-2021 18:02
  
  Sandy Springs reopening City Hall, Performing Arts Center  Reporter Newspapers
  
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• Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’

  01-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ballet’s strict gender norms put pressure on women to conform. But dancers who don’t are finding they’re not alone.
  
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• ‘Port Authority’ Review: Two Outsiders Searching for a Place

  01-06-2021 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A Pittsburgh runaway and a star of a Harlem vogueing ballroom connect in Danielle Lessovitz’s drama.
  
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• Frisco approves partnership for performing arts center at Hall Park - Community Impact Newspaper

  01-06-2021 17:34
  
  Frisco approves partnership for performing arts center at Hall Park  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• Garbage’s Shirley Manson Thrives on Unapologetic Heroines

  01-06-2021 17:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician chats about weeping to Patti Smith, getting goose bumps from Yoko Ono and freeing her mind via Louise Bourgeois as her band releases its seventh album.
  
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• A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us

  01-06-2021 16:07 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Ghost in the Throat,” by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, is part memoir, part literary investigation of a 250-year-old poem.
  
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• Three New Memoirs Reveal the ‘Vertigo’ of Life in the Diaspora

  01-06-2021 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Reflections on the languages of migration, from Claudio Lomnitz, Michelle Zauner and Quiara Alegría Hudes.
  
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• Arts Calendar: June 3 - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com - pressherald.com

  01-06-2021 16:04
  
  Arts Calendar: June 3 - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com  pressherald.com
  
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• Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own.

  01-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician’s albums reveal an intriguing if uneasy dialogue with her own pop persona. Her fifth LP, “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land,” is a firm statement of self.
  
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• Raid Halts Teotihuacán Construction, Frank Lloyd Wright Home for Sale, and More: Morning Links from June 1, 2021

  01-06-2021 15:51 via artnews.com
  
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  SINCE MARCH, MEXICAN AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR a halt to construction on the edge of Teotihuacán, saying that it threatened at least 25 structures at the pre-Hispanic site, according to the Associated Press. However, their stop-work orders were ignored. On Monday, officials sent in 250 National Guard
  
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• Broadway’s Rebound Advances Again: ‘Pass Over’ Is to Start in August

  01-06-2021 15:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The acclaimed drama by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu is planning to start performances nearly a month before the big musicals begin.
  
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• New director of Division of the Arts named - University of Wisconsin-Madison

  01-06-2021 15:04
  
  New director of Division of the Arts named  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
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• ‘Bueno para el alma’: los muralistas de São Paulo apuestan por convertir a su ciudad en un lienzo

  01-06-2021 14:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Los funcionarios de esa ciudad brasileña antes acosaban a los artistas del graffiti y los muralistas, tratándolos como vándalos. Ahora el gobierno incluso financia esas expresiones artísticas que hacen de la metrópolis una galería al aire libre.
  
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• Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival, Chalk Howard Street Return To Rogers Park This Summer - Block Club Chicago

  01-06-2021 14:21
  
  Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival, Chalk Howard Street Return To Rogers Park This Summer  Block Club Chicago
  
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• 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride

  01-06-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Romance, self-discovery and a celebration of identity: Magic is in the air in these comic books and graphic novels, out now through September.
  
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• Who Can You Count On? And Other Unanswerable but Alluring Questions.

  01-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “One Two Three,” Laurie Frankel takes readers to a small town ravaged by chemicals and into the lives of triplets whose lives are far from normal.
  
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• The Young Activist and the Atlanta Bar That Shaped Queer History

  01-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head,” Martin Padgett follows the L.G.B.T.Q. activist Bill Smith and the drag queen John Greenwell to chronicle 1970s queer history.
  
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• The Fantasy of a Cotswolds Country Home Meets Reality in Westchester

  01-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The plan was to do a quick cosmetic update. Then a couple found out the plumbing, electrical and septic systems were shot. And the house was sinking.
  
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• Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage

  01-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.
  
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• Nicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in Love

  01-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.
  
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• Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother

  01-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in “Pure Flame” the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings a cleareyed approach to her relationship with her mother, an ambitious businesswoman.
  
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