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• Keith Haring Mural in Barcelona Faces Uncertain Future

  08-06-2021 23:53 via artnews.com
  
  A little known mural created by Keith Haring in a Barcelona club in 1989 is at risk of being demolished to make way for an elder care facility, according to a report by the Guardian.
  The red mural in Haring’s signature style, depicting a figure with a flower for a head, was a tribute to the acid house music scene of the time. After the club’s closing in 1993, the venue became a billiards hall. The owners revealed that they were planning to demolish the building—and, with it, th
  
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• A Keith Haring Mural in Barcelona with an Uncertain Future

  08-06-2021 23:53 via artnews.com
  
  A little known mural created by Keith Haring in a Barcelona club in 1989 is at risk of being demolished to make way for an elder care facility, according to a report by the Guardian.
  The red mural in Haring’s signature style, depicting a figure with a flower for a head, was a tribute to the acid house music scene of the time. After the club’s closing in 1993, the venue became a billiards hall. The owners revealed that they were planning to demolish the building—and, with it, th
  
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• Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts faces uncertain future - ECM Publishers

  08-06-2021 23:35
  Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts faces uncertain future  ECM Publishers
  
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• Ammon Arts Community Theater to stage 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - East Idaho News

  08-06-2021 23:26
  
  Ammon Arts Community Theater to stage 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'  East Idaho News
  
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• Phillips-Poly Sale in Hong Kong Nets $63.8 M., With Records for Salman Toor, Loie Hollowell

  08-06-2021 23:24 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday night, Phillips held a modern and contemporary art sale in Hong Kong that brought in a hammer total of HKD 405 million ($52.2 million), or HKD 492 with premium ($63.8 million). Staged in collaboration with the Chinese auction house Poly, it well exceeded its pre-sale low estimate of HKD 284 million ($36.6 million), which is calculated without the buyer’s premium.
  The white-glove sale saw all 37 works sell, with just two lots withdrawn before the start of the sale. The strong res
  
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• Thomas Cole Painting Controversially Sold by Newark Museum Heads to Philadelphia

  08-06-2021 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  A masterwork by Thomas Cole that was at the center of a deaccessioning controversy last spring has found a new home at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  The work, titled Arch of Nero (1846), was among a group of works sold by New Jersey’s Newark Museum of Art at Sotheby’s to raise funds for the care of its collection. It was purchased from the auction by the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation, a St. Louis–based organization whose aim is to “carefully researc
  
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• Chelsea Arts Initiative Strengthens Its Community - thesuntimesnews.com

  08-06-2021 23:12
  
  Chelsea Arts Initiative Strengthens Its Community  thesuntimesnews.com
  
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• RIT's College of Liberal Arts, NTID Performing Arts announce 2021-2022 theatrical season | National Technical Institute for the Deaf | RIT - RIT News

  08-06-2021 22:43
  RIT's College of Liberal Arts, NTID Performing Arts announce 2021-2022 theatrical season | National Technical Institute for the Deaf | RIT  RIT News
  
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• Judd Architecture Office in Marfa Severely Damaged in Fire

  08-06-2021 22:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Donald Judd’s two-story office in Texas was in the final stages of a renovation that was set to finish July 3.
  
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• Douglas Cramer, Producer of TV Hits and Art Aficionado, Dies at 89

  08-06-2021 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  He had a hand in some of the biggest shows of the 20th century, including “Dynasty” and “The Love Boat.”
  
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• Book Review: ‘The President’s Daughter,’ by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

  08-06-2021 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “The President’s Daughter” is set in motion with a kidnapping, and then a paramilitary operation is put together in response.
  
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• Schoodic Arts for All hires new director - The Ellsworth American

  08-06-2021 22:27
  
  Schoodic Arts for All hires new director  The Ellsworth American
  
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• Robert Hollander, Who Led Readers Into ‘The Inferno,’ Dies at 87

  08-06-2021 22:04 via nytimes.com
  
  He and his wife wrote an admired translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” and he began an innovative project to digitize centuries of scholarly commentary.
  
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• $5M sale of Warehouse Arts District space garners attention for multiple tenants - St Pete Catalyst

  08-06-2021 21:52
  
  $5M sale of Warehouse Arts District space garners attention for multiple tenants  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Chris Harrison Has Officially Left ‘The Bachelor’

  08-06-2021 21:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The longtime host permanently parted ways with the reality franchise after stepping back in February.
  
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• Toppled Statue of Slave Trader Goes On View in Bristol, Generating Controversy

  08-06-2021 20:48 via artnews.com
  
  The display of a toppled statue of a 17th-century slave trader at a Bristol museum has renewed controversy over monuments to problematic figures in the United Kingdom. The statue in question, a monument to Edward Colston, was toppled and thrown into a harbor last summer by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, where it had been on public view since 1895. It has now gone on view at the M Shed museum, an institution dedicated to the city’s history.
  According to a report by the Guardian,
  
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• Stuart Weitzman's Treasures Set Records at Sotheby's

  08-06-2021 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The proceeds from Stuart Weitzman’s “Inverted Jennies,” a 1933 gold piece known as the double eagle and the One-Cent Magenta stamp will go to charitable ventures.
  
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• A Collector’s Rare Treasures Set Records at Sotheby’s

  08-06-2021 20:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The proceeds from Stuart Weitzman’s “Inverted Jennies,” a 1933 gold piece known as the double eagle and the One-Cent Magenta stamp will go to charitable ventures.
  
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• Spruce Pine Toe River Arts: Two Generations – Work by Ken and Galen Sedberry, June 19 – July 24, 2021. - WKYK

  08-06-2021 20:06
  
  Spruce Pine Toe River Arts: Two Generations – Work by Ken and Galen Sedberry, June 19 – July 24, 2021.  WKYK
  
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• Harry Connick Jr., Chicago, Jake Owen headline 2021 Interlochen Arts Festival - MLive.com

  08-06-2021 20:04
  
  Harry Connick Jr., Chicago, Jake Owen headline 2021 Interlochen Arts Festival  MLive.com
  
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• New York Theater Workshop Plans a Summer Reopening

  08-06-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Off Broadway institution unveiled a “superseason” of performances beginning in August, and continuing through 2022-23.
  
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• Review: ‘Loki,’ on the Light Side of the Marvel Streaming Universe

  08-06-2021 19:45 via nytimes.com
  
  After “WandaVision” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” the Norse god’s Disney+ series lets some laughter in.
  
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• After being decimated by the pandemic, Philly’s arts sector needs restored funding | Opinion - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  08-06-2021 19:45
  
  After being decimated by the pandemic, Philly’s arts sector needs restored funding | Opinion  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Lyon Dance Biennale Begins, Reduced but Unbowed

  08-06-2021 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The festival lost some premieres, but gained others, including one by Dimitris Papaioannou, and kept a free project in an old factory.
  
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• Full slate of creative activites offered at Sedona Arts Academy - Verde Independent

  08-06-2021 19:33
  
  Full slate of creative activites offered at Sedona Arts Academy  Verde Independent
  
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• Was This Picasso Lost Because of the Nazis? Heirs and Bavaria Disagree.

  08-06-2021 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Officials have refused to refer a dispute over the work held by the state painting collections to a national commission created to review claims of art lost in the Nazi era.
  
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• Museum’s Role in Police Mural Outside Detroit Draws Criticism

  08-06-2021 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The Detroit Institute of Arts sponsored the mural as part of its efforts to support art in the communities it serves, but critics say the “pro-police” art work sends the wrong message.
  
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• Arts and Entertainment Board - Miami - City of Miami

  08-06-2021 19:08
  Arts and Entertainment Board - Miami  City of Miami
  
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• Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas

  08-06-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Forget the Alamo,” by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, and “A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles,” by Bill Minutaglio, have many strange stories to tell about the Lone Star State.
  
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• One Work: Rindon Johnson’s “Coeval Proposition #1: Tear down so as to make flat…”

  08-06-2021 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  Skylights illuminate a wooden structure in a large and largely empty gallery space. Despite its lofty scale and rigid formalist design, the piece is not imposing. From afar, the sculpture, with its square black posts forming crisp and elegant angles, blends into the industrial black metal framing of the ceiling at SculptureCenter, where it is currently on view. Its title, Coeval Proposition #1: Tear down so as to make flat with the Ground or The *Trans America Building DISMANTLE EVERYTHING, 2021
  
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• Bergen County maps out 13-town trail for first-ever Arts Amble - NJ.com

  08-06-2021 18:17
  
  Bergen County maps out 13-town trail for first-ever Arts Amble  NJ.com
  
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• Bruised by the Pandemic, Carnegie Hall Plans a Comeback

  08-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New York’s premier concert hall hopes a star-studded season will draw virus-wary fans. But there’s still uncertainty.
  
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• Closely Watched Curator Legacy Russell to Direct The Kitchen in New York

  08-06-2021 17:53 via artnews.com
  
  The Kitchen, a New York alternative space with a reputation for showing cutting-edge performance, video, and sound art over the past 50 years, has picked Legacy Russell as its next executive director and chief curator. Russell, who is currently associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, joins the Kitchen in September.
  Since starting as an associate curator at the Studio Museum in 2018, Russell has accrued a following as one of the leading scholars focused on Black and queer
  
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• The New Art Hotspot in Asia: Seoul’s Fast-Rising Scene Is Attracting International Attention

  08-06-2021 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  When South Korea’s richest man, Lee Kun-hee, died this past October, at 78, rumors immediately began swirling about his art collection, a trove said to include thousands of pieces, and to be worth well more than $1 billion. “The reason many go to the Louvre is to see the Mona Lisa, and the Sistine Chapel, the Creation of Adam,” an anonymous critic who had viewed Lee’s bounty told Reuters, adding that “there are valuable masterpieces that can compare to that in the L
  
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• Families, children the focus for Creativity Zone at Three Rivers Arts Festival - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  08-06-2021 17:20
  
  Families, children the focus for Creativity Zone at Three Rivers Arts Festival  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• New Audiobooks From Seth Rogen, Danielle Henderson and Elon Green

  08-06-2021 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  From a grisly ’90s true-crime story to slapstick comedy to family heartbreak, these narrators know how to keep your attention.
  
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• Dormeshia Wins Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award

  08-06-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The tap dancer, choreographer and educator will be honored at a virtual gala on June 12.
  
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• A Jamaican-British Gay Man Makes His Own Way, With Musical Accompaniment

  08-06-2021 16:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Paul Mendez’s debut novel, “Rainbow Milk,” traces the legacy of one family’s decision to leave the Caribbean.
  
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• Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help.

  08-06-2021 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Music and mindfulness have become increasingly linked during the pandemic, and artists like Erykah Badu, Grimes and Arcade Fire are teaming with tech companies to make it happen.
  
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• Michael Che’s New York State of Mind

  08-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Saturday Night Live” comedian talks about “Illmatic” by Nas, Richard Pryor’s stand-up and the importance of a fresh haircut.
  
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• Legacy Russell Is Named Next Leader of the Kitchen

  08-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Currently the associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, she takes over in September from Tim Griffin as executive director and chief curator.
  
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• Italy’s Trifolio Blends Passion, Skill, and Technology to Mirror Masterpieces in High-End Art Books

  08-06-2021 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Renowned book printer Trifolio takes great pride in creating its own works of art that replicate in stunning detail the masterpieces they contain. In its never-ending quest to constantly raise the standard of what can be achieved on the pages of books, the printer recently expanded its use of LED-UV curing with the installation of a second lamp. This move, says Trifolio’s owner, proves that the company has only begun to tap the technology’s potential.
  Based in Verona, Italy, Trifolio
  
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• Damien Hirst Takes Rome, Gunfire Damages Iowa Museum, and More: Morning Links from June 8, 2021

  08-06-2021 15:42 via artnews.com
  
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  NOT ONE BUT TWO STATUES OF LIBERTY WILL BE STANDING in New York Harbor when the U.S. toasts Independence Day on July 4. Joining Auguste Bartholdi’s 151-foot-tall Lady Liberty will be a smaller plaster cast of the work, visiting from France, the Associated Press reports. This one is almost 10 feet tall an
  
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• Was This Picasso Lost Due to the Nazis? Heirs Say Yes. Bavaria Says No.

  08-06-2021 15:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Officials have refused to refer a dispute over the work held by the state painting collections to a national commission created to review claims of art lost in the Nazi era.
  
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• Artists invited to participate in Scituate Arts Association’s Arts Alive! - Wicked Local

  08-06-2021 15:40
  Artists invited to participate in Scituate Arts Association’s Arts Alive!  Wicked Local
  
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• Arts Calendar: June 10 - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com - pressherald.com

  08-06-2021 15:33
  
  Arts Calendar: June 10 - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com  pressherald.com
  
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• Foo Fighters Will Play First Concert Back at Madison Square Garden

  08-06-2021 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The first full-capacity arena concert in New York since March 2020 will feature rock ’n’ roll — but only for fans who are fully vaccinated — on June 20.
  
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• Philly Councilmember proposes creative arts fund, calling for ‘consequences’ if city underfunds the arts - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  08-06-2021 13:33
  
  Philly Councilmember proposes creative arts fund, calling for ‘consequences’ if city underfunds the arts  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Banks Step Up to Support Arts Communities Impacted by Covid-19 | ABA Banking Journal - ABA Banking Journal

  08-06-2021 12:00
  
  Banks Step Up to Support Arts Communities Impacted by Covid-19 | ABA Banking Journal  ABA Banking Journal
  
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• Why ‘Unwell Women’ Have Gone Misdiagnosed for Centuries

  08-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The British scholar Elinor Cleghorn’s new history traces medicine’s sexism from Hippocrates to today.
  
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