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• Electric Company Uncovers Thousands of Millennia-Old Objects in Southwest England

  16-06-2021 23:41 via artnews.com
  
  An electric company in England has uncovered a host of millennia-old objects dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman, and Saxon periods at a site near the city of Dorchester. Spanning 6,000 years of history, the artifacts were excavated as part of a project that lasted almost two years.
  The finds were announced last month by the London-based electric company National Grid, which partnered with Oxford Archaeology to conduct the project. Historic England, the Dorset AONB Partnership, and Dorset
  
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• What Is Your Favorite TV Comedy?

  16-06-2021 23:25 via nytimes.com
  
  This week the television critics of The New York Times shared their picks for the best American comedies of the 21st century. Did your favorites make the list?
  
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• News In The Arts: Ned Beatty Passed Away At 83, New Directors Announced At The Speed And Fund For The Arts - Louisville Eccentric Observer

  16-06-2021 23:16
  
  News In The Arts: Ned Beatty Passed Away At 83, New Directors Announced At The Speed And Fund For The Arts  Louisville Eccentric Observer
  
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• Kent Arts Commission seeks applicants to fill alternate... - Kent Reporter

  16-06-2021 23:16
  
  Kent Arts Commission seeks applicants to fill alternate...  Kent Reporter
  
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• BREAKING UPDATE: Newark Brothers, Arts High Sophomore Killed in Linden Double Fatal Crash - RLS Media

  16-06-2021 23:09
  
  BREAKING UPDATE: Newark Brothers, Arts High Sophomore Killed in Linden Double Fatal Crash  RLS Media
  
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• Firehouse Arts Center reopening for shows | News | PleasantonWeekly.com | - Pleasanton Weekly

  16-06-2021 23:07
  
  Firehouse Arts Center reopening for shows | News | PleasantonWeekly.com |  Pleasanton Weekly
  
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• How Lorenza Böttner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

  16-06-2021 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, Germany, Olu Oguibe erected a fifty-foot-tall obelisk paying homage to immigrants, Marta Minujín built a monumental Acropolis-like structure from stacked books, and Maria Eichhorn created an institute focused on the expropriation of property that had been owned by European Jews during World War II. These gestures grabbed the attention of international publications, but it was an
  
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• Enlightened Monkey Arts To Transform Downtown Hotel Roof Monday - Patch.com

  16-06-2021 22:46
  
  Enlightened Monkey Arts To Transform Downtown Hotel Roof Monday  Patch.com
  
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• Hamilton Arts Festival To Take Place This Week in Paterson - New Jersey Stage

  16-06-2021 22:43
  
  Hamilton Arts Festival To Take Place This Week in Paterson  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Supporting Arts Grant Program Helps Connecticut's Arts Organizations, Apply Through July 11 - HamletHub

  16-06-2021 22:34
  
  Supporting Arts Grant Program Helps Connecticut's Arts Organizations, Apply Through July 11  HamletHub
  
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• A Former BYT Staffer Is Starting a New DC Arts and Culture Site for Millennial Parents - Washingtonian

  16-06-2021 22:22
  
  A Former BYT Staffer Is Starting a New DC Arts and Culture Site for Millennial Parents  Washingtonian
  
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• Play it by Ear: Reviving the arts | Lifestyle | chronicleonline.com - Citrus County Chronicle

  16-06-2021 22:18
  Play it by Ear: Reviving the arts | Lifestyle | chronicleonline.com  Citrus County Chronicle
  
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• Reopenings and Road Trips

  16-06-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
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• KAC marks 60 years of community arts | Rome Daily Sentinel - Rome Sentinel

  16-06-2021 22:00
  
  KAC marks 60 years of community arts | Rome Daily Sentinel  Rome Sentinel
  
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• Complete Lineup for the Summer Arts This Weekend – Redheaded Blackbelt - Redheaded Blackbelt

  16-06-2021 22:00
  
  Complete Lineup for the Summer Arts This Weekend – Redheaded Blackbelt  Redheaded Blackbelt
  
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• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sparks Controversy in Online Essay

  16-06-2021 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The novelist’s remarks went viral after she criticized former students as well as “social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion.”
  
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• Electronic Arts and the USGA Celebrate the U.S. Open Championship With Reveal of Amateur Events in EA SPORTS PGA TOUR - American Press

  16-06-2021 21:32
  Electronic Arts and the USGA Celebrate the U.S. Open Championship With Reveal of Amateur Events in EA SPORTS PGA TOUR  American Press
  
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• Summer in the NYC: Check out these arts & entertainment options as restrictions lift | amNewYork - amNY

  16-06-2021 21:05
  Summer in the NYC: Check out these arts & entertainment options as restrictions lift | amNewYork  amNY
  
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• San Antonio arts center lands $1 million donation from famed philanthropist - culturemap.com

  16-06-2021 21:03
  
  San Antonio arts center lands $1 million donation from famed philanthropist  culturemap.com
  
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• Arts Briefs: Poetry, History, events at TwispWorks – Methow Valley News - Methow Valley News

  16-06-2021 20:57
  Arts Briefs: Poetry, History, events at TwispWorks – Methow Valley News  Methow Valley News
  
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• Names chosen for cultural arts corridor spaces in downtown Fayetteville - Fayetteville Flyer

  16-06-2021 20:52
  
  Names chosen for cultural arts corridor spaces in downtown Fayetteville  Fayetteville Flyer
  
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• Methow Arts plans concert series in place of festival – Methow Valley News - Methow Valley News

  16-06-2021 20:51
  Methow Arts plans concert series in place of festival – Methow Valley News  Methow Valley News
  
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• Back on the stage: Center for the Performing Arts marks 20 years with live show - Eagle-Tribune

  16-06-2021 20:47
  Back on the stage: Center for the Performing Arts marks 20 years with live show  Eagle-Tribune
  
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• Arts Festival director points to positive takeaways from hybrid event - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  16-06-2021 20:46
  
  Arts Festival director points to positive takeaways from hybrid event  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Buchanan Center for the Arts in Monmouth to celebrate opening of renovated gallery with collective exhibit - Galesburg Register-Mail

  16-06-2021 20:36
  Buchanan Center for the Arts in Monmouth to celebrate opening of renovated gallery with collective exhibit  Galesburg Register-Mail
  
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• Madison Center for the Arts set to open new gallery featuring local artists - citysuntimes

  16-06-2021 20:30
  Madison Center for the Arts set to open new gallery featuring local artists  citysuntimes
  
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• Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung to Lead Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt

  16-06-2021 20:22 via artnews.com
  
  Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, one of the most closely watched curators working in Germany today, will soon lead one of the country’s most important contemporary art museums. The Berlin-based curator will be the next director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, which focuses in part on presenting the work of artists from outside Europe. He will begin in the post in January 2023, succeeding Bernd M. Scherer, who has led the museum since 2006 and will retire next year.
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• Essential Books: 7 Canonical Books on Architecture

  16-06-2021 20:12 via artnews.com
  
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  “Architecture is reaching out for the truth.” So said Louis Kahn, one of the field’s admitted masters, and while you could quibble with him—all art reaches out for the truth, after all—it is the case that no cultural expression shapes daily life like architecture. Its presence is unavoidable since we constantly interact with buildings (i
  
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• Arts Council to host social justice-themed exhibitions by Owens Daniels and Triad Cultural Arts - Winston-Salem Chronicle

  16-06-2021 20:08
  Arts Council to host social justice-themed exhibitions by Owens Daniels and Triad Cultural Arts  Winston-Salem Chronicle
  
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• Manhattan city commissioners wary of adding position for arts program - Manhattan Mercury

  16-06-2021 20:00
  
  Manhattan city commissioners wary of adding position for arts program  Manhattan Mercury
  
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• How to Describe America’s Character Through Its Favorite How-To Books

  16-06-2021 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Americanon,” Jess McHugh catalogs the country’s virtues and foibles by examining the history of almanacs, dictionaries, etiquette guides and other practical books.
  
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• A busy summer for Lewiston Council on the Arts - Niagara Gazette

  16-06-2021 19:49
  A busy summer for Lewiston Council on the Arts  Niagara Gazette
  
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• Kentucky Performing Arts announces new board appointments - The Lane Report

  16-06-2021 19:46
  Kentucky Performing Arts announces new board appointments  The Lane Report
  
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• MacKenzie Scott Grants Go to Studio Museum in Harlem, Souls Grown Deep, and More

  16-06-2021 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, promised to keep giving her fortune away “until the safe is empty” following her divorce from Jeff Bezos in 2019. Over the past year, Scott has donated some $6 billion to more than 500 nonprofit organizations, and this week announced a new round of grants worth a combined $2.7 billion. The funds will be distributed to 286 higher education, social justice, and arts organizations working to support marginalized and underserved com
  
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• Over 60 arts and culture groups receive funding from MacKenzie Scott, who is giving away $2.74bn of her Amazon fortune - Art Newspaper

  16-06-2021 19:42
  
  Over 60 arts and culture groups receive funding from MacKenzie Scott, who is giving away $2.74bn of her Amazon fortune  Art Newspaper
  
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• Arts, Media, and Entertainment | Northwest News Network - NW News Network

  16-06-2021 19:33
  Arts, Media, and Entertainment | Northwest News Network  NW News Network
  
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• 12 Galleries That Aren’t in New York or Even Los Angeles

  16-06-2021 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  These institutions are a reminder that exciting art is being made and shown all across the country — and of the benefits of going local.
  
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• Publisher's View: Delaware's arts will need our help in recovery - Delaware Business Times

  16-06-2021 19:23
  
  Publisher's View: Delaware's arts will need our help in recovery  Delaware Business Times
  
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• Umpqua Valley Arts hires new executive director | Entertainment | nrtoday.com - NRToday.com

  16-06-2021 19:08
  Umpqua Valley Arts hires new executive director | Entertainment | nrtoday.com  NRToday.com
  
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• ‘In the Heights,’ Where the Streets Explode With Dance

  16-06-2021 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie’s choreographic team, led by Christopher Scott, gets raw and real with dancers — so many! — who give in to thrilling perpetual motion.
  
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• He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed

  16-06-2021 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  With paintings of friends and family members in a Los Angeles biennial, the artist Brandon D. Landers is having his breakout moment. “I’m not totally prepared,” he says.
  
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• Bad Fruit, Fertile Ground: Kathleen Ryan at Karma

  16-06-2021 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  For her second solo show in New York, Kathleen Ryan presents a total of ten sculptures in Karma’s two East Village galleries. Several recent sculptures from the artist’s 2018– “Bad Fruit” series—including three lemons and four cherries, two of them conjoined—rest on pedestals in the smaller venue. Oversize and encrusted with semiprecious stones that convincingly simulate spreading mold, the sculptures reinforce the vanitas motifs found in much of Ryan&rs
  
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• How Dionne Lee Combines Darkroom Techniques with Wilderness Survival Tactics

  16-06-2021 18:47 via artnews.com
  
  In his essay “The Occasion for Speaking” (1960), West Indian novelist George Lamming posits that the seeds of colonization are subtly and richly infused with myths that are difficult to dislodge. Lamming was speaking of myths that haunt postcolonial writing, but his observation applies to photographer Dionne Lee’s chosen medium too. The artist explores how histories of trauma are embedded in the conventions of landscape photography. Working primarily with analog tools, she inve
  
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• Art's Alive Receives Donation From TAG, Hopes To Start Providing Arts Programming - Trenton Republican Times

  16-06-2021 18:38
  Art's Alive Receives Donation From TAG, Hopes To Start Providing Arts Programming  Trenton Republican Times
  
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• Rainbow Summer entertainment series returns to Marcus Performing Arts Center - Milwaukee Business Journal - Milwaukee Business Journal

  16-06-2021 18:30
  Rainbow Summer entertainment series returns to Marcus Performing Arts Center - Milwaukee Business Journal  Milwaukee Business Journal
  
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• HPPR Arts, Culture & History | HPPR - HPPR

  16-06-2021 18:16
  HPPR Arts, Culture & History | HPPR  HPPR
  
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• McLean Project for the Arts Elects New Board Members - TysonsToday - TysonsToday

  16-06-2021 18:00
  McLean Project for the Arts Elects New Board Members - TysonsToday  TysonsToday
  
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• New nonprofit Tampa Arts Alliance has been formed - Tampa Bay Times

  16-06-2021 17:54
  
  New nonprofit Tampa Arts Alliance has been formed  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Brook Arts Center Launches Stand Up Comedy Nights On July 16 - New Jersey Stage

  16-06-2021 17:42
  
  Brook Arts Center Launches Stand Up Comedy Nights On July 16  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Could Paris Challenge London as Europe’s Future Art Capital?

  16-06-2021 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  The stately mansion at 9 Avenue Matignon in Paris is steeped in history. Built in 1913 by architect René Sergent, who created commissioned work for the formidable art collector Pierpont Morgan and the famous dealer Joseph Duveen, it spent the last few decades of the 20th century as an art gallery founded by a makeup mogul, L’Oréal CEO François Dalle.
  Since 2000, the building has served as the headquarters of Christie’s, the auction house owned by fashion magnate
  
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