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• Mellon Foundation Will Give $125 M. to Aid the Recovery of New York’s Arts Sector

  03-06-2021 23:15 via artnews.com
  
  As the New York art world continues to reopen, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation said it would launch of a major statewide philanthropic initiative to aid the arts sector’s recovery from the pandemic. The historic $125 million plan, called Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), aims to provide artists with full-time employment opportunities or a guaranteed income in order to revitalize the city’s cultural workers and venues, which have faced steep losses in income and revenue since th
  
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• Corita Kent’s Former L.A. Studio Named Historic Landmark

  03-06-2021 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  After a campaign was established last summer to save the former studio of artist Corita Kent from demolition, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to designate the building a historic-cultural monument. The news was first reported by Artnet News.
  Located in the city’s Hollywood neighborhood, at 5518 Franklin Avenue, the building, which was most recently host to a dry cleaner, was Kent’s studio from 1960 to 1968. During that time period, Kent was still a nun affiliated with
  
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• Bring Crafts On-the-Go with the Best Travel Art Kits for Kids

  03-06-2021 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  Art kits are a great option for keeping children occupied while traveling, whether on a road trip, flying internationally, or zipping across the country on an Amtrak train. Art-making will not only keep their hands busy but also encourage kids to express themselves and build motor skills in fun and engaging ways. You could purchase supplies piece by piece, but art kits are a cost-effective way to get lots of tools and materials at once. We’ve found the best products when it comes to being
  
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• Greenwood Rising: A Museum of History, a Monument to History

  03-06-2021 21:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Throughout the South, fluid new museums serve as memorial markers too. Greenwood Rising follows a neighborhood’s history into the present.
  
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• On the Future of the Museum

  03-06-2021 21:24 via artnews.com
  
  An Affirmation:The future does not belong to the whims of navel gazers.
  Never more than now, the future belongs to rigor. It belongs to integrity. The future is for expansiveness. The future is specificity. The future is polyphonic. The future is most fertile on the edges of the canon. The future is collectivity. The future is rest. The future is tender. The future is you.
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• N.Y.C. Gallery Commemorating Tulsa Massacre Vandalized

  03-06-2021 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The Black Wall Street Gallery in New York was vandalized three times this week, its owner said. He called on the police to treat it as a hate crime.
  
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• Black Wall Street Gallery in NYC Commemorating Tulsa Massacre Seeks Police Inquiry of Vandalism

  03-06-2021 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The Black Wall Street Gallery in New York was vandalized three times this week, its owner said. He called on the police to treat it as a hate crime.
  
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• Pride Is Coming Back to New York. Check Out These Events.

  03-06-2021 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The march on June 27 will be mostly virtual. But not to worry: There are plenty of in-person events, performances and celebratory exhibitions throughout the city this month.
  
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• N.Y.C. Pride 2021: Check Out These Events

  03-06-2021 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The march on June 27 will be mostly virtual. But not to worry: There are plenty of in-person events, performances and celebratory exhibitions throughout the city this month.
  
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• Amateur Archaeologist Finds Prehistoric Deer Carvings in Scottish Tomb

  03-06-2021 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  An amateur archaeologist discovered depictions of deer dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age in a prehistoric burial tomb, the Historic Environment Scotland (HES) announced in a statement. This is the first time such carvings have been found in the country.
  The rock art, estimated to be around 4,000 or 5,000 years old, was found in Dunchraigaig Cairn in Kilmartin Glen on Scotland’s west coast, a site with a number of prehistoric monuments and burial cairns. Upon exploring the burial
  
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• Hobby Lobby Sues Former Oxford Professor Accused of Stealing Papyrus Fragments

  03-06-2021 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma City–based craft store chain, has sued former Oxford University professor Dirk Obbink, who it is accusing of trying to sell the company ancient papyrus fragments that belonged to the Oxford-affiliated Egypt Exploration Society (EES). In the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in New York’s Eastern District Court, Hobby Lobby said it was seeking more than $7 million—the amount it allegedly paid Obbink for the fragments and other antiquities between 2010 and 2013.
  
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• Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will reopen in September - TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

  03-06-2021 19:45
  
  Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will reopen in September  TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
  
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• Looming Histories: Diedrick Brackens at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

  03-06-2021 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  What is the body capable of expressing in silhouette? Diedrick Brackens highlights this question in a video about “Ark of Bulrushes,” his exhibition of sculptures, photographs, and textiles currently on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Titled after the floating basket that took the infant Moses up the Nile River to safety, the exhibition asks what psychic toll extreme secrecy takes in the midst of an uncertain passage, and how mind and body alike might heal from su
  
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• Georg Baselitz Resigns from German Academy Amid Heated Debate Over Covid Measures

  03-06-2021 19:24 via artnews.com
  
  Painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz will step down from his post at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, a prominent art association in Munich, citing ongoing controversy surrounding remarks about the pandemic from its president, Winfried Nerdinger.
  Nerdinger, who has led the academy since July 2019, has been the focus of recent faculty protests since criticizing the lockdown policy in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 7. During the conversation, Nerdinger said that the government
  
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• Pittsburg Festival of the Arts planned for mid-June - Pittsburg Morning Sun

  03-06-2021 19:16
  Pittsburg Festival of the Arts planned for mid-June  Pittsburg Morning Sun
  
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• Portia Zvavahera, Painter of Spectral Realms, Joins David Zwirner

  03-06-2021 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Portia Zvavahera, who is based in Harare, Zimbabwe, and is known for her paintings of floating figures, has joined David Zwirner, which will represent the artist in collaboration with Stevenson in Johannesburg. Zvavahera’s work was featured in her first European solo show at David Zwirner’s London outpost in September. David Zwirner will present its second solo exhibition of her work in New York in the fall of 2021.
  Often derived from dreams, Zvavahera’s works have drawn
  
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• Like ‘Mommie Dearest’? Stream These Movies for Pride Month

  03-06-2021 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  For lovers of camp cinema, we offer more options than you can shake a wire hanger at.
  
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• The Best Work, Ink Mixing, and Putty Knives for Artistic Pursuits

  03-06-2021 18:37 via artnews.com
  
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  It’s always important to have the right tools for the job, and that applies as much to artist knives as to anything else (no, you can’t just use a butter knife in your studio). These blades can be used for scooping, spreading, mixing, and lifting, whether you’re working with paint, printmaking ink, putty, or even ABS plastic for 3D printing. Knives
  
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• Photo gallery Engaging in the arts at Wheelhouse - University of Wisconsin-Madison

  03-06-2021 18:29
  
  Photo gallery Engaging in the arts at Wheelhouse  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
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• It’s Outside, but Shakespeare in the Park Still Plans Social Distancing

  03-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The free, beloved summer tradition will enjoy an extended run, but currently plans very limited capacity, with masks required.
  
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• Stephen King on Why ‘Lisey’s Story’ Was One He Had to Adapt Himself

  03-06-2021 17:12 via nytimes.com
  
  “I’ve held onto it the way you hold on to something you love,” King said about the novel, which has been reimagined as an eight-part series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen.
  
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• NFT Bubble Deflates, Belgium Returns Nazi-Looted Painting, and More: Morning Links from June 3, 2021

  03-06-2021 16:30 via artnews.com
  
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  BELGIUM SAID THAT IT WILL RETURN A LOVIS CORINTH PAINTING to the heirs of a German Jewish couple who had the work stolen from them as they fled Germany during World War II, the AFP reports. The still life of flowers ended up in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. Corinth has been in the news a lot of late.
  
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• ‘Bad Tales’ Review: Suburban Dysfunction, Italian Style

  03-06-2021 16:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The new film from the D’Innocenzo brothers is stocked with unhappy families and unfortunate haircuts.
  
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• ‘Edge of the World’ Review: The Man Who Agreed to be King

  03-06-2021 16:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays the unlikely ruler of a jungle kingdom in this corny tale.
  
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• A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars

  03-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kyle Marshall’s new works, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Shed, are about “creating something that actually feels joyful.”
  
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• Two Artists’ Divergent Roads to Eros

  03-06-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Hannah Wilke and Eve Hesse, paired at Acquavella Galleries, created art from far different impulses.
  
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• Cannes Film Festival Will Feature Sean Penn, Wes Anderson

  03-06-2021 14:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The Cannes Film Festival announced the movies that will vie for the Palme d’Or in July.
  
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• Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart - Scientific American

  03-06-2021 14:00
  
  Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart  Scientific American
  
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• Colorado Liquid Arts Passport lets you drink at bars for cheap — The Know - The Know

  03-06-2021 14:00
  Colorado Liquid Arts Passport lets you drink at bars for cheap — The Know  The Know
  
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• ‘Undine’ Review: Love In and Out of the Water

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, who made an impression in 2019’s “Transit,” are reunited by the director Christian Petzold for this adaptation of a European myth.
  
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• ‘Under the Stadium Lights’ Review: Friday Night, Lite

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Some sports movies build to inspirational speeches; this one treats platitudes as the main event.
  
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• ‘Tove’ Review: The Life of a Sharp Illustrator in Soft Focus

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This biopic examines the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, but it skimps on artistic insight in favor of unsatisfying romances.
  
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• ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Review: Church, Meet State

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the third “Conjuring” movie, Ed and Lorraine Warren tirelessly work to convince a court of law — thus, the audience — that Satanism exists.
  
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• ‘The Ancient Woods’ Review: Deep in the Forest

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This entrancing nature film shot in Lithuania understands the wonder and the eeriness of a forest, enveloping us in its sights and sounds.
  
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• ‘Spirit Untamed’ Review: Horse Girls Unite

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This spinoff of “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” is a bland, bubbly romp through the Wild West, with a heavy dose of girl power.
  
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• ‘Slow Machine’ Review: What Do Paranoid Actresses Dream Of?

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten craft a mysterious New York thriller with mumblecore sensibilities.
  
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• ‘Grace and Grit’ Review: You Transcend Me

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This mawkish adaptation of the philosopher Ken Wilber’s book wraps tragedy in sugar and New Age sap.
  
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• ‘City of Ali’ Review: A Final Round for a Champ

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary makes for an extremely minor addition to the Muhammad Ali cinematic universe.
  
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• ‘Chasing Wonders’ Review: Divining Secrets of a Past Vintage

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A young man tries to learn why his family left Spain for Australia in this picturesque drama with Edward James Olmos, Paz Vega and Carmen Maura.
  
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• ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers

  03-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Theo Anthony’s new documentary surveys the history and ethics of surveillance.
  
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• Vienna’s Stages Reopen, With Schmaltz and Cynicism

  03-06-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Works by Austrian writers performed in the city’s playhouses run a gamut from sentimental to incomprehensible.
  
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• With ‘In the Heights,’ Anthony Ramos Finds Stardom on His Own Terms

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Teachers urged him to cultivate a more ethnically ambiguous image. He refused, and now he’s having a breakout moment.
  
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• Want the Scoop on Writing and Publishing? Ask Emily Henry.

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The best-selling author of “Beach Read” and “People We Meet on Vacation” is generous with her wisdom on Instagram.
  
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• This Is Your Brain on Edward St. Aubyn

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  St. Aubyn’s new novel, “Double Blind,” examines a wide range of scientific thought, with detours into sex, drugs and venture capital.
  
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• Summer TV 2021: 26 Shows to Watch

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  If you’re still not ready to leave the house, TV has you covered.
  
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• 'Loki,' 'Rick and Morty' and Other Summer Shows to Watch

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  If you’re still not ready to leave the house, TV has you covered.
  
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• ‘Food Is Culture’: Alice Waters on the Cookbook That Changed Her Life

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “All I wanted to do was live like the French.”
  
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• Art Blooms Alongside Nature in Riverside Park

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In an exhibition that sprawls across nearly 100 blocks of park, 24 contemporary artists address literal, metaphoric and poetic ideas of regrowth.
  
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• 26 Summer Shows, No Mask Required

  03-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  If you’re still not ready to leave the house, TV has you covered.
  
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• Free concert set for Friday at arts center - Seymour Tribune

  03-06-2021 08:53
  
  Free concert set for Friday at arts center  Seymour Tribune
  
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