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• ‘Mini Pompeii’ Preserved by Fire Discovered Beneath Italian Movie Theater

  22-06-2021 23:29 via artnews.com
  
  In the basement of an Italian movie theater in Verona that has been vacant for 20 years, a construction team recently discovered the remains of what may have been an ancient Roman hotel. The Superintendency of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona, Rovigo, and Vicenza announced the findings beneath the city’s abandoned Astra cinema at a press conference last week.
  The ancient structure is believed to date back to the 2nd century C.E. It may have caught fire, causing its roof to col
  
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• Life Gets Hectic Fast for a Heroine and Her Newfound 12-Year-Old

  22-06-2021 22:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The title character of Mia McKenzie’s novel “Skye Falling” wants to avoid chaos and human connection. Too bad for her.
  
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• Britney Spears Wanted Her Father Out. A Court Refused.

  22-06-2021 22:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Confidential court records obtained by The Times reveal that the singer has urged changes to the arrangement that controls her life, and her father’s role in leading it.
  
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• Quick! Get Great Deals on Art Supplies at Dick Blick

  22-06-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
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• New Public Arts Project Calls For 200 Artists To Create 'Parade Of Hearts' Across Kansas City - KCUR

  22-06-2021 21:53
  
  New Public Arts Project Calls For 200 Artists To Create 'Parade Of Hearts' Across Kansas City  KCUR
  
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• A Race ‘Report Card’ Measures Whether the Music Industry Changed

  22-06-2021 21:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The Black Music Action Coalition issued a 37-page report examining if powerful companies followed through on diversity commitments made last summer.
  
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• Arts & humanities initiative offers new support for 10 projects - University of Illinois

  22-06-2021 21:44
  Arts & humanities initiative offers new support for 10 projects  University of Illinois
  
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• June 24 Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something to Celebrate - Vallejo Times-Herald

  22-06-2021 21:17
  
  June 24 Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something to Celebrate  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• The Show Must Go On: Supporting the Arts as We Turn the Corner on COVID-19 - ithaca.com

  22-06-2021 20:41
  The Show Must Go On: Supporting the Arts as We Turn the Corner on COVID-19  ithaca.com
  
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• At a Queer Theater Festival, the Plays Are Brazenly Personal

  22-06-2021 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The Criminal Queerness Festival offers three works that address subjects including addiction, fluid identity and social change.
  
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• Billie Eilish Apologizes for Lip-Syncing Anti-Asian Slur

  22-06-2021 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer wrote on Instagram that she is “appalled and embarrassed.”
  
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• Special Tony Awards Go to 'American Utopia,' 'Freestyle Love Supreme'

  22-06-2021 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, “David Byrne’s American Utopia” and “Freestyle Love Supreme” win Special Tonys.
  
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• Italian Authorities Seize Nearly 800 Illegally Excavated Artifacts from Belgian Collector

  22-06-2021 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  Italian authorities have recovered nearly 800 archeological finds from a Belgian collector worth a combined €11 million (around $13 million). The oldest pieces in the collection date as far back as the sixth century B.C.E.
  The trove of artifacts includes painted vases, amphorae, black glazed ceramics, and several terra-cotta figurines. They were illegally excavated in Puglia, a region in southern Italy, according to Carabinieri’s police division in charge of protecting cultural herita
  
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• Theater Heads North, and in Every Direction at Once

  22-06-2021 20:16 via nytimes.com
  
  A psychological drama from Japan and a classic English comedy are among the high-contrast offerings in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley.
  
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• John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush

  22-06-2021 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The very-online writer, whose “¡Hola Papi!” advice column recently became a book, talks about folding knives, chili sauce and “Hounds of Love.”
  
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• Belgium to Return Hundreds of Objects Obtained Illegally from Democratic Republic of Congo

  22-06-2021 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  As debates about repatriation of cultural objects rage across Europe, Belgium said Saturday that it would transfer ownership of hundreds of objects from the Democratic Republic of Congo that were illegally added to its national holdings. The promise to do so is a major step in a country where conversations about histories of colonialism have historically been given less weight than in nations like France, the Netherlands, and Germany.
  Thomas Dermine, Belgium’s Secretary of State for S
  
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• Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It

  22-06-2021 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Songbooks,” the scholar and critic Eric Weisbard surveys music writing from the 1700s to today, with special attention to voices on the margins.
  
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• A Complicated Collaboration for a New ‘Enemy of the People’

  22-06-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Without seeing a script, Ann Dowd jumped at the chance to work with Robert Icke on his solo adaptation of the Ibsen classic. Then the debates began.
  
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• One Work: Paul Cézanne’s “Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir”

  22-06-2021 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  “Cézanne Drawing,” the enthralling exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, features something for everyone: longtime favorites, new discoveries, works on paper more finished than the artist’s paintings, in-depth explorations of motifs, and highlights from all phases of the Post-Impressionist’s career, which stretched from the 1870s until his death in 1906 at the age of sixty-seven. Deep into the show, past galleries displaying self-por
  
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• Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship

  22-06-2021 18:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Confidential court records obtained by The Times reveal that the singer has urged changes to the arrangement that controls her life, and her father’s role in leading it.
  
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• Art Market Data—Including Catalogues Raisonnés—Just Took a Big Leap Forward

  22-06-2021 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  Not too long ago, it was possible to attend a prestigious art fair in a global capital where you might find two very similar works of art featured at the booths of two different dealers who might have placed wildly different asking prices on the works. How wild? Try a million dollars difference—or one work priced at twice its near twin. 
  That wasn’t supposed to happen in a world where the art market had supposedly achieved some form of price transparency. Although auction price
  
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• USM gets $5 million boost to build new arts center in Portland - Press Herald

  22-06-2021 18:04
  
  USM gets $5 million boost to build new arts center in Portland  Press Herald
  
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• How Do You Move a 30-Ton Diego Rivera Fresco? Very Carefully.

  22-06-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Diego Rivera’s rarely seen “Pan American Unity,” which celebrates the Americas, has been carefully extracted from its home at City College and moved to SFMOMA.
  
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• Moshing in the Rain: The Tenuous Return of the British Music Festival

  22-06-2021 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Spending three days camping at a muddy music festival is a British tradition. But event operators fear that few will go ahead this summer, despite a trial last weekend.
  
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• Los Angeles's Housing Crisis: Can Design Be a Solution?

  22-06-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As Angelenos grapple with ways to address affordable housing, density and homelessness, a new architecture competition looks to low-rise solutions.
  
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• Two arrested in connection with fatal River Arts District shooting - WLOS

  22-06-2021 16:08
  
  Two arrested in connection with fatal River Arts District shooting  WLOS
  
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• Storied Curator Diego Cortez Dies, Banksy Tries to Protect Work in Australia, and More: Morning Links for June 22, 2021

  22-06-2021 15:47 via artnews.com
  
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  ‘ANOTHER ONE OF THE GREAT ART WARRIORS IS GONE,’ the actress and Fun Gallery cofounder Patti Astor wrote on Facebook. Diego Cortez, the legendary Downtown Manhattan curator who helped launch the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, has died, ARTnews reports. A founder of the Mudd Club in
  
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• ‘Siberia’ Review: Beast of the Northern Wilds

  22-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Abel Ferrara’s latest psychodrama sends an ever-intense Willem Dafoe into the Arctic wilderness on a visionary reckoning with his memories and sense of self.
  
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• Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ Names British Producer, Kate Horton, to Replace Rudin

  22-06-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kate Horton will become executive producer of the show, which stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. It is scheduled to begin performances on Dec. 20.
  
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• Whenever She Has This Dream, Someone in Her Village Dies

  22-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Folklore informs Mariana Leky’s novel “What You Can See From Here,” which follows a motley cast of townspeople faced with a crisis.
  
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• Meet Sydney Taylor, Unsung Creator of the All-of-a-Kind Family

  22-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Her books depicted a cozy Jewish family on the Lower East Side. In real life, her back story was more complicated.
  
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• How to Destroy a Village

  22-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Liang Hong’s “China in One Village” recounts the forces that are undermining rural areas, and the helplessness of the people who live there.
  
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• Coming Home Is Anything but Easy in This ‘Millennial Noir’

  22-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Elias Rodriques’s debut novel, “All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running,” follows a young man searching for answers after the death of his high school flame.
  
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• An Architect With an Eye on the Environment

  22-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Increasingly, architects and builders are thinking about how their creations affect the health of the planet. Kunle Adeyemi has built his career around that question.
  
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• Why Geology Is Our Destiny

  22-06-2021 08:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A visit to the renovated hall of gems and minerals at the American Museum of Natural History reveals how the cosmos works in the real world.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Skewers Trump’s Covid Response

  22-06-2021 07:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert joked on Monday night about a forthcoming book on the former president’s pandemic plan: “The main detail: There wasn’t one.”
  
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• The House That Mouse Built

  22-06-2021 06:16 via nytimes.com
  
  This young adult version of a Spanish folk tale redefines what picture books can be. Reader discretion is advised.
  
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• New Tampa Arts Alliance aims to unite support for local arts community - 83degreesmedia

  22-06-2021 06:03
  
  New Tampa Arts Alliance aims to unite support for local arts community  83degreesmedia
  
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• ARTS AND CULTURE: Jazz Alley returns to Paramount - The Tribune | The Tribune - Ironton Tribune

  22-06-2021 06:01
  
  ARTS AND CULTURE: Jazz Alley returns to Paramount - The Tribune | The Tribune  Ironton Tribune
  
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• Dansville's Jefferson wins Graphic Arts award at 'The DIGIES' festival - Dansville-Genesee Country Express

  22-06-2021 04:03
  Dansville's Jefferson wins Graphic Arts award at 'The DIGIES' festival  Dansville-Genesee Country Express
  
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• Dillon McCardle Appointed Director of Fine Arts Center in Viterbo | Local News - Illinoisnewstoday.com

  22-06-2021 03:14
  
  Dillon McCardle Appointed Director of Fine Arts Center in Viterbo | Local News  Illinoisnewstoday.com
  
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• Can Geometry Be as Soul-Stirring as Poetry?

  22-06-2021 02:11 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Shape,” Jordan Ellenberg argues for the importance of geometry as the underlying structure of reality.
  
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• Dare Arts Council names Sands interim director - The Outer Banks Voice

  22-06-2021 01:56
  
  Dare Arts Council names Sands interim director  The Outer Banks Voice
  
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• “Spiva Center for the Arts” camp is going to be more affordable for kids and parents - KSNF/KODE - FourStatesHomepage.com

  22-06-2021 01:55
  “Spiva Center for the Arts” camp is going to be more affordable for kids and parents  KSNF/KODE - FourStatesHomepage.com
  
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• Reconnecting through the arts; Art Week 2021 - UpperMichigansSource.com

  22-06-2021 01:22
  
  Reconnecting through the arts; Art Week 2021  UpperMichigansSource.com
  
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• Survey: Oklahoma arts & cultural organizations lose millions during COVID-19 pandemic - KFOR Oklahoma City

  22-06-2021 01:14
  Survey: Oklahoma arts & cultural organizations lose millions during COVID-19 pandemic  KFOR Oklahoma City
  
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• Mondays in the Park and Movie Mondays at the Capitol Arts Center underway to bring the community together - wnky.com

  22-06-2021 00:56
  
  Mondays in the Park and Movie Mondays at the Capitol Arts Center underway to bring the community together  wnky.com
  
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• Council Connection » Councilmember Herbold Applauds Seattle Rescue Plan's Assistance for Arts and Culture - Council Connection

  22-06-2021 00:54
  Council Connection » Councilmember Herbold Applauds Seattle Rescue Plan's Assistance for Arts and Culture  Council Connection
  
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• Trev Rich, Patti Fiasco to headline Cheyenne Arts Celebration - Wyoming Tribune

  22-06-2021 00:30
  Trev Rich, Patti Fiasco to headline Cheyenne Arts Celebration  Wyoming Tribune
  
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• In July, Alabama arts organizations can apply for recovery grants from the state. Here’s what to know - AL.com

  22-06-2021 00:24
  
  In July, Alabama arts organizations can apply for recovery grants from the state. Here’s what to know  AL.com
  
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