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• Permit Applications Filed For Goat Farm Arts Center Projects - What Now Atlanta

  23-06-2021 23:58
  Permit Applications Filed For Goat Farm Arts Center Projects  What Now Atlanta
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Restores Mutilated Rembrandt Painting ‘The Night Watch’

  23-06-2021 23:53 via artnews.com
  
  One of Rembrandt’s finest works, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (better known as The Night Watch) from 1642, is a prime representation of Dutch Golden Age painting. But the painting was greatly disfigured after the artist’s death, when it was moved from its original location at the Arquebusiers Guild Hall to Amsterdam’s City Hall in 1715. City officials wanted to place it in a gallery between two doors, but the painting was too b
  
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• Corporate Photography Reveals a Dehumanizing Gaze

  23-06-2021 23:36 via artnews.com
  
  When it comes to art of the anthropocene, we are often shown the wound and not the assailant. The discourse around ecological crises—and the artistic interventions meant to call attention to them—has primarily been concerned with how to frame their enormous scale. As such, philosopher Timothy Morton’s concept of “hyperobjects”—phenomena which defy our understanding as they exist across such huge swaths of time and space—is useful for capturing the commun
  
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• Britney Spears: ‘I Just Want My Life Back’

  23-06-2021 23:36 via nytimes.com
  
  After requesting to address the judge directly, the singer gave an impassioned speech about her treatment under the conservatorship that controls her life and finances.
  
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• Drake Bell Pleads Guilty to Attempted Child Endangerment

  23-06-2021 22:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Bell, a former star of the Nickelodeon series “Drake & Josh,” faces up to two years in prison.
  
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• ‘Super-Rough’ Runs Through This Weekend in Soho

  23-06-2021 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  At “Super-Rough,” a sculpture exhibition presented by Outside Art Fair and guest curated by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, materials come first. In his title for the show, Murakami acknowledges its almost diametrically opposed spirit to Superflat, a 21st-century Pop art movement—of which Murakami is the primary theorist and practitioner—influenced by Japan’s postwar consumer culture. Superflat artists reflect and appropriate the aesthetics of our mediated worlds,
  
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• As Atlanta’s Art Scene Evolves, Historic Injustices and Hopes for New Futures Come into Focus

  23-06-2021 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  For a survey of what lies ahead as the art world looks forward to the future, ARTnews devoted part of the June-July 2021 issue of the magazine to 10 cities to watch: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Vancouver, Guadalajara, Bogotá, Oslo, Tallinn, Casablanca, Abu Dhabi, and Taipei. Stay tuned as each city joins related features from Seoul and Paris online in the weeks to come.
  As the sprawling hub of the evolving modern South, Atlanta has become an important nexus for all aspects of the culture indus
  
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• When Summer Begins

  23-06-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Inside and out.
  
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• MSU Riley Center announces 2021-2022 Fall/Winter Performing Arts Series - Mississippi State Newsroom

  23-06-2021 21:41
  
  MSU Riley Center announces 2021-2022 Fall/Winter Performing Arts Series  Mississippi State Newsroom
  
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• Book Review: ‘Wayward,’ by Dana Spiotta

  23-06-2021 21:32 via nytimes.com
  
  For the restless heroine of Dana Spiotta’s novel “Wayward,” menopause is reason enough to re-evaluate everything.
  
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• Dickson Street Festival on Saturday: Combines fireworks, arts and proven, new businesses - Tennessean

  23-06-2021 21:31
  Dickson Street Festival on Saturday: Combines fireworks, arts and proven, new businesses  Tennessean
  
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• Essential Books: 7 Enduring Works of Art Criticism

  23-06-2021 21:21 via artnews.com
  
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  While art history and art criticism overlap as disciplines, we usually tend to think of the latter as writing the first draft of the former. This isn’t to say that art critics don’t write about history proper, only that they offer a look into issues being contested during a particular period—even if it those arguments are eventually deemed irrelevan
  
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• MAPS media arts classes make summer much cooler - Bitterroot Star

  23-06-2021 20:50
  MAPS media arts classes make summer much cooler  Bitterroot Star
  
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• Aya Brown’s Essential Portraiture

  23-06-2021 20:44 via artnews.com
  
  In January 2020, artist Aya Brown was admitted to a hospital in New York City. With the help of her sister Aja, a teaching assistant, and that of a committed, if overworked, third-shift nurse, Brown made a full recovery. After her release, she found herself ruminating on the centrality of women in both formal and informal care economies, the racial and gender composition of those tasked with the bulk of social reproduction. The pandemic would make these matters plain, the dual crises of work and
  
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• ‘A Level of Abuse’: Laying Bare Theater’s Dirty Secrets

  23-06-2021 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert O’Hara and Torrey Townsend discuss their collaboration on “Off Broadway,” a biting satire about a company whose leaders are willfully oblivious of their racial and gender biases.
  
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• MacKenzie Scott Just Laid Out a Powerful Case for Funding the Arts — Inside Philanthropy - Inside Philanthropy

  23-06-2021 19:53
  MacKenzie Scott Just Laid Out a Powerful Case for Funding the Arts — Inside Philanthropy  Inside Philanthropy
  
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• Iowa Workshop Whose Pipe Organs Shook the World Burns to the Ground

  23-06-2021 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Fire destroyed the Lake City company founded by Lynn A. Dobson, who built his first organ in the shed of his family’s farm and went on to make instruments for leading concert halls and churches.
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s Brussels Outpost Names Two Artistic Directors, Generating Allegations of ‘Offensive Sexism’

  23-06-2021 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  In an unconventional move, Kanal, a Centre Pompidou outpost in Brussels that opened in 2018, has named not one but two new artistic directors: Kasia Redzisz and Bernard Blistène. But the voting process that led to the appointments has been met with allegations of “offensive sexism” by artists based in Belgium and France, who claim that Redzisz, a senior curator at Tate Liverpool, is qualified enough to hold the position on her own without Blistène, currently the outgoin
  
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• New Gagosian Director Spotlights Black Artists Involved in Social Change

  23-06-2021 19:09 via nytimes.com
  
  In his first show at the gallery, Antwaun Sargent seeks to expand the ways people can engage with art.
  
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• Storefronts Turned Stages for ‘Seven Deadly Sins’

  23-06-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A live theatrical event in the Meatpacking district, featuring several playwrights and sets by David Rockwell, “turns New York itself into the playhouse.”
  
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• Electronic Arts buys mobile game studio Playdemic for $1.4 billion - TechCrunch

  23-06-2021 19:00
  
  Electronic Arts buys mobile game studio Playdemic for $1.4 billion  TechCrunch
  
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• Flower Mound Arts Master Plan progress report - The Cross Timbers Gazette

  23-06-2021 18:59
  
  Flower Mound Arts Master Plan progress report  The Cross Timbers Gazette
  
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• Stars and Symbols: Ming Smith at Nicola Vassell Gallery

  23-06-2021 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  Human figures appear throughout Ming Smith’s photographs on view at Nicola Vassell Gallery, but rarely do they meet our gaze. Subjects more often turn away from the camera, remain engulfed by shadows, or take the form of silhouettes. Black cultural luminaries such as Grace Jones and Sun Ra, pictured at the height of their powers in the 1970s, wear tinted or reflective glasses as part of their regalia. So does the impassive man who stands with his back to a window display festooned with han
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts apologises to Jess de Wahls in transphobia row - The Guardian

  23-06-2021 18:25
  
  Royal Academy of Arts apologises to Jess de Wahls in transphobia row  The Guardian
  
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• City Approves Landmarks Honoring Chinese Americans and Native Americans

  23-06-2021 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The Kimlau War Memorial in Manhattan has long been a symbolic gateway to Chinatown, while an archaeological site in Staten Island dates back 8,000 years.
  
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• London’s Royal Academy Apologizes to Artist Accused of Transphobia

  23-06-2021 17:32 via artnews.com
  
  After removing her work from its gift shop, the Royal Academy of Arts in London has apologized to artist Jess de Wahls, who was accused of transphobia because of views espoused in a 2019 blog post. The institution said in its statement that it would consider stocking her work in its store again.
  “One thing is clear to us now—we should have handled this better,” the Royal Academy wrote in its announcement. “We have apologized to Jess de Wahls for the way we have treated he
  
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• Arts, music, dance, theater events return to Metuchen - centraljersey.com

  23-06-2021 17:19
  
  Arts, music, dance, theater events return to Metuchen  centraljersey.com
  
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• 2,800-Year-Old Castle from Lost Kingdom of Urartu Discovered in Eastern Turkey

  23-06-2021 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  One might think it’s difficult to lose a castle. But, while on an expedition, a team of archaeologists spotted one in Eastern Turkey, reported the Anadolu Agency last week.Located among the mountains of the Gürpinar district of eastern Van province, the castle sits at an altitude of 8,200 feet. There, the team found ancient walls, a cistern for water storage, and, further within the grounds, some ceramic fragments. Though the structure is not intact, piled stones provide outlines of f
  
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• South African Opera Star Says She Was Mistreated by French Police

  23-06-2021 16:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Pretty Yende, an acclaimed soprano, says she was forced to submit to a body search at a Paris airport. “I felt stripped of my human dignity,” she said.
  
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• Theater to Stream: A Dispatch From Britain and a Greek Classic

  23-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Terrance McNally’s farcical “It’s Only a Play,” the revue “After Midnight” and productions from Russia are among the highlights.
  
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• ‘Stoker,’ ‘Synchronic’ and More Hidden Streaming Gems

  23-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Keep your home viewing interesting with these options off the beaten path.
  
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• From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises

  23-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Julius Eastman’s meditative, sprawling “Femenine” is being explored around the world, 31 years after his death.
  
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• Meet the Women Who Give ‘Central Park’ Its Sunny Sound

  23-06-2021 15:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The songwriters Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson say their strength lies in being themselves in a field still dominated by men.
  
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• Kusama ‘Infinity Rooms’ Are Back, Gaudí–Designed Home to Hit Airbnb, and More: Morning Links for June 23, 2021

  23-06-2021 15:41 via artnews.com
  
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  THE RECLUSIVE ARTIST CADY NOLAND IS BACK with an extremely rare solo show that includes new work at Galerie Buchholz in New York. The exhibition, which was unannounced and just opened, is tied to a freshly printed book by the artist and the art historian Rhea Anastas titled The Clip-On Method. The duo approached Buchhol
  
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• Electronic Arts to Acquire Warner Bros. Games’ Playdemic for $1.4B - Hollywood Reporter

  23-06-2021 15:22
  
  Electronic Arts to Acquire Warner Bros. Games’ Playdemic for $1.4B  Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Here's what to know about the 2021 Des Moines Arts Festival - Des Moines Register

  23-06-2021 13:08
  Here's what to know about the 2021 Des Moines Arts Festival  Des Moines Register
  
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• Stripping Away History’s Layers, and Revealing a New Museum

  23-06-2021 11:22 via nytimes.com
  
  About 200 of France’s top craftspeople collaborated to restore the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris to its original 18th-century splendor.
  
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• National Endowment For The Arts Announces New Grants - NPR

  23-06-2021 11:05
  National Endowment For The Arts Announces New Grants  NPR
  
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• You Won’t Have Andy Richter to Sidekick Around Anymore

  23-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Richter, who has worked alongside Conan O’Brien on his three shows, reflects on at his career as late-night’s No. 1 second banana.
  
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• In the West the Looted Bronzes Are Museum Pieces. In Nigeria ‘They Are Our Ancestors.’

  23-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When British soldiers stole the treasured works in 1897, it left a gaping hole in an ancient culture. With a few set to return to Nigeria, can their meaning be restored, too?
  
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• Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore?

  23-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Andy Richter reinvigorated the thankless, tired role, but now that “Conan” is going off the air, it’s time to re-evaluate work that was often mired in stereotypes.
  
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• Celebrating Pride Around the City

  23-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After a more subdued 2020, we’re closing out a revived Pride Month with parties, demonstrations and family celebrations.
  
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• 14 New Books Coming in July

  23-06-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Buzzy novels from Katie Kitamura and S.A. Cosby, Shirley Jackson’s letters, and two tales of mysterious death, one from the Victorian era, the other from India in the 1980s.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel: Trump Can’t Take a Joke

  23-06-2021 08:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The former president denied reports that he tried to use his office to keep late-night shows from poking fun at him. “Not only that, he wanted Guillermo to pay for the wall,” Kimmel said on Tuesday.
  
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• Rembrandt’s Damaged Masterpiece Is Whole Again, With A.I.’s Help

  23-06-2021 08:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sections of “The Night Watch” were cut off in the 18th century and lost. Now, new technology lets viewers imagine how the original work might have looked.
  
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• How 'dark arts' and dirty tricks turned investors against Toshiba - Financial Times

  23-06-2021 06:00
  How 'dark arts' and dirty tricks turned investors against Toshiba  Financial Times
  
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• Prime Day is Over, but Some of These Deals are Still Live

  23-06-2021 05:55 via artnews.com
  
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  Amazon Prime Day, the online marketplace’s biggest sale event of the year, starts today at 12 am Pacific Daylight Time and ends at 11:59 pm PDT on June 22. More than two million deals in 20 countries are up for grabs, but to take advantage of them, you have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber.
  Amazon Prime costs $12.99 a month or $119 a year. Its benefits include
  
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• Important Kehinde Wiley Works Come to Phillips in Quickening Market

  23-06-2021 04:58 via artnews.com
  
  Long-simmering discontent with the symbols of white supremacy that line Richmond’s Monument Avenue erupted last year in a cathartic rejection of the Civil War generals and Confederate leaders enshrined there. In response, the City of Richmond has removed all but one, a statue of Robert E. Lee that is controlled by the State of Virginia. As Richmond determines what should be done with Monument Avenue, a heroic statue of a young man on horseback, a conscious rebuke to the monuments of Monume
  
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• Unanimous Vote Is Final Step Toward Removing Roosevelt Statue

  23-06-2021 03:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The American Museum of Natural History’s sculpture of the ex-president, flanked by a Native American man and an African man, will be sent to an institution dedicated to his life.
  
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• Ohio arts community faces big pandemic losses, looks to state for help - Ohio Capital Journal

  23-06-2021 02:30
  Ohio arts community faces big pandemic losses, looks to state for help  Ohio Capital Journal
  
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