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• Caveh Zahedi Has So Many Stories to Tell

  29-06-2021 23:59 via nytimes.com
  
  After plunging into a TV series, a filmmaker low on funds but loaded with rich personal narratives pours them into micro-podcasts.
  
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• NJPAC announces new arts neighborhood for Newark in next phase of development | Video - NJ Spotlight

  29-06-2021 23:49
  
  NJPAC announces new arts neighborhood for Newark in next phase of development | Video  NJ Spotlight
  
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• Now You See the Art. Now You Don’t.

  29-06-2021 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  In their first collaboration, the High Line and the Shed invite the public to a sculpture hunt, in augmented reality. Do you see the ladybug? The floating ice cube?
  
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• Hawai'i for Real: Dana Paresa at Arts and Letters on Nu'uanu - Hawaiipublicradio

  29-06-2021 23:40
  
  Hawai'i for Real: Dana Paresa at Arts and Letters on Nu'uanu  Hawaiipublicradio
  
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• Tenino Theatre Nonprofit Pursues Building Performing Arts Center Downtown - Nisqually Valley News

  29-06-2021 23:25
  
  Tenino Theatre Nonprofit Pursues Building Performing Arts Center Downtown  Nisqually Valley News
  
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• Freud Portrait of Hockney Makes $20.7 M. in Sotheby’s $216 M. London Sales

  29-06-2021 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s staged its marquee British and Modern Art sales today in London. The back-to-back sales led by Sotheby’s veteran auctioneers Oliver Barker and Helena Newman made £156.2 million ($217 million) combined across 83 lots, landing within the pre-sale estimate £119.7 million-£170.3 million ($165.8-$235.9 million) and seeing an 88 percent sell-through rate.
  The result was up 12% from last June’s $193 million “Rembrandt to Richter” sale in London,
  
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• Shape and Sound Arts to hold first summer camp - UpperMichigansSource.com

  29-06-2021 23:02
  
  Shape and Sound Arts to hold first summer camp  UpperMichigansSource.com
  
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• July 1, Arts and Entertainment Source: Pugh tackles avalanche of students - Vallejo Times-Herald

  29-06-2021 22:58
  
  July 1, Arts and Entertainment Source: Pugh tackles avalanche of students  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Jasper Arts announces new season lineup - Dubois County Free Press

  29-06-2021 22:58
  
  Jasper Arts announces new season lineup  Dubois County Free Press
  
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• 4,400-Year-Old Shaman’s Snake Staff Found in Endangered Finnish Wetland

  29-06-2021 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists in southwest Finland have discovered a wooden carving resembling a snake, according to a new paper published in the journal Antiquity. The 4,400-year-old artifact was discovered in a wetland, and is believed to be an ancient shaman’s staff.
  The site where the staff was found would have been occupied from 4,000 B.C.E. to 2,000 B.C.E. It was accidentally discovered by ditch diggers in the 1950s, but had never been properly excavated. According to Satu Koivisto, the lead resear
  
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• Va. Museum of Fine Arts plans $190M expansion - Virginia Business Magazine

  29-06-2021 22:54
  Va. Museum of Fine Arts plans $190M expansion  Virginia Business Magazine
  
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• Hybrid Auctions Are Now the Norm. Will Galleries Follow Suit?

  29-06-2021 22:23 via artnews.com
  
  One of the surprises following last year’s global lockdown was how well the art market seemed to function in a state of semi-suspended animation. There’s a variety of explanations for the industry’s unexpected ability to survive. There are macroeconomic factors involving stimulus packages and governments further easing already lax monetary policies. There are also technological ones based upon the existence of platforms for displaying art. (Many of these platforms already exist
  
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• Getty Trust President James Cuno to Retire After a Decade

  29-06-2021 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  After a decade at the helm of one of the country’s largest and most important arts philanthropies, Getty Trust president and CEO James Cuno said that he will retire. Cuno, now 70, said he will step down from his post once his successor is selected and in place. He will later receive the title president emeritus.
  In a statement, Cuno said, “It has been my honor to serve this tremendous organization, and to play a small part in expanding its mission to broaden and deepen our understand
  
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• Muncie Arts and Culture Council presents one-night exhibition of cicada chorus - Ball State Daily News

  29-06-2021 22:00
  Muncie Arts and Culture Council presents one-night exhibition of cicada chorus  Ball State Daily News
  
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• Come together (carefully): Home Stretch festival celebrates creativity - Madison.com

  29-06-2021 22:00
  Come together (carefully): Home Stretch festival celebrates creativity  Madison.com
  
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• This year's Lake Country Arts Festival may be its last, but organizers hope another local group will take over - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  29-06-2021 21:45
  This year's Lake Country Arts Festival may be its last, but organizers hope another local group will take over  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• The Struggles of Those Who Regain Sight and Hearing

  29-06-2021 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Coming to Our Senses,” Susan R. Barry looks at people who stopped being blind or deaf and then had to adjust to the world.
  
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• New Jersey State Council on the Arts and NJ Theatre Alliance Announce 2021 Cultural Access Award Recipients - New Jersey Stage

  29-06-2021 21:21
  
  New Jersey State Council on the Arts and NJ Theatre Alliance Announce 2021 Cultural Access Award Recipients  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Fergus Falls Public Library receives National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant - Fergus Falls Daily Journal

  29-06-2021 21:20
  
  Fergus Falls Public Library receives National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant  Fergus Falls Daily Journal
  
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• Ellen McIlwaine, Slide Guitarist With a Power Voice, Dies at 75

  29-06-2021 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Early in her career she played with Jimi Hendrix. She went on to record several well-regarded albums. But she remained under the radar.
  
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• Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute accepting registration for annual Arts Festival - WUTR/WFXV - CNYhomepage.com

  29-06-2021 21:08
  Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute accepting registration for annual Arts Festival  WUTR/WFXV - CNYhomepage.com
  
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• Penn College, Community Arts Center finalize merger | Education | northcentralpa.com - NorthcentralPa.com

  29-06-2021 21:00
  Penn College, Community Arts Center finalize merger | Education | northcentralpa.com  NorthcentralPa.com
  
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• Accepted artists announced for YSU Summer Festival of the Arts - Mahoning Matters

  29-06-2021 20:45
  
  Accepted artists announced for YSU Summer Festival of the Arts  Mahoning Matters
  
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• Electronic Arts Swings for the Fences With Sports Spending Spree - Hollywood Reporter

  29-06-2021 20:32
  
  Electronic Arts Swings for the Fences With Sports Spending Spree  Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Martial arts studio, cocktail delivery service concept given formal approvals from Wilmette Village Board - Chicago Tribune

  29-06-2021 20:23
  
  Martial arts studio, cocktail delivery service concept given formal approvals from Wilmette Village Board  Chicago Tribune
  
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• NEA Awards Texarkana Arts Grant of $2400 - kkyr.com

  29-06-2021 20:09
  
  NEA Awards Texarkana Arts Grant of $2400  kkyr.com
  
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• Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative launches 'Syllabus of Color' initiative - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  29-06-2021 20:01
  Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative launches 'Syllabus of Color' initiative  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• Fun for all in the Domestic Arts Building at the 102nd Pun'kin Vine Fair - Newsbug.info

  29-06-2021 19:45
  Fun for all in the Domestic Arts Building at the 102nd Pun'kin Vine Fair  Newsbug.info
  
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• Why People With Arts Backgrounds Can Make Good Financial Advisors - Barron's

  29-06-2021 19:41
  
  Why People With Arts Backgrounds Can Make Good Financial Advisors  Barron's
  
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• ‘False Positive’ and the Horror-Filled Truth About Fertility Treatments

  29-06-2021 19:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Hulu movie is the rare Hollywood production that portrays the struggles to conceive as women actually experience them.
  
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• The Mariposa County Arts Council Presents Music on the Green Starting July 9th - Sierra News Online

  29-06-2021 19:27
  
  The Mariposa County Arts Council Presents Music on the Green Starting July 9th  Sierra News Online
  
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• ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her!

  29-06-2021 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A notorious tweetstorm arrives onscreen, starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough.
  
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• Bruce Springsteen Is Back on Broadway. The Workers Are Coming Back, Too.

  29-06-2021 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Broadway took its first steps back with the return of Bruce Springsteen’s show, and no one is happier than Jim Barry, an usher at the St. James Theater for 20 years.
  
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• Spain Finalizes Agreement to Pay to Keep Baroness Thyssen’s Collection in Madrid

  29-06-2021 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  The Ministry of Culture in Spain has officially finalized an agreement to loan the collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza for an annual fee of 6.5 million euros ($7.8 million), El País reports. Though steps had been made toward the agreement in February, it wasn’t until this week that the 15-year deal was made official.
  Spain’s Minister of Culture, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, said to El Pais that the delays were purely bureaucratic. “They are te
  
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• Stolen Picasso, Mondrian Paintings Recovered in Greece Nearly a Decade After Heist

  29-06-2021 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  Nearly a decade after they were stolen from Greece’s largest public museum, paintings by Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso have been found.
  Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports said that the works had been found in a forest after a 49-year-old man confessed to the theft on Monday. After his confession, he brought police officers to a forest outside Athens, in the country’s Attica region, where he had hidden the paintings.
  The recovery of the Picasso and Mondrian works is a vic
  
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• Photos: Summer Treble Cajun and Creole Music and Cultural Arts Camp - The Advocate

  29-06-2021 18:48
  
  Photos: Summer Treble Cajun and Creole Music and Cultural Arts Camp  The Advocate
  
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• Pride Month 2021: LGBTQ women in arts and entertainment who are paying it forward - NBC News

  29-06-2021 18:17
  Pride Month 2021: LGBTQ women in arts and entertainment who are paying it forward  NBC News
  
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• SC Education Department announces $20M project to boost arts programs statewide - Charleston Post Courier

  29-06-2021 18:00
  
  SC Education Department announces $20M project to boost arts programs statewide  Charleston Post Courier
  
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• John Langley, a Creator of the TV Series ‘Cops,’ Dies at 78

  29-06-2021 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  “You can be entertained by it, you can be disgusted,” he said of the popular reality show that embedded film crews with police officers in the streets for 31 years.
  
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• How ‘Hamilton’ Got $30 Million in Federal Aid

  29-06-2021 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The megahit had five separate productions around the nation, and with each applying for $10 million in pandemic relief to help get back onstage, the tally could reach $50 million.
  
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• Denver Center announces 2021-22 season schedule - 9News.com KUSA

  29-06-2021 17:36
  
  Denver Center announces 2021-22 season schedule  9News.com KUSA
  
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• Black and White and Red All Over: Deniz Gül at SALT Galata

  29-06-2021 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  Linguistic experiments and architectural interventions have defined Turkish artist Deniz Gül’s practice for the past decade. In 2011, Gül lined up a coffin, a vitrine, a door, a closet, and a safe in Istanbul’s Arter gallery, inviting viewers to imagine a conversation among them. Symbolizing the claustrophobia of Turkish bourgeois life, the installation, 5 Person Bufet, introduced this then–twenty-eight-year-old daughter of a furniture salesman to Turkey’s art
  
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• How Guadalajara’s Craft Art History and Close-Knit Community Fosters Collaboration

  29-06-2021 17:20 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 reports from Seoul and Paris online in the weeks to come.
  One hour by plane from Mexico City and 200 miles from Puerto Vallarta on the West Coast, Guadalajara&mdash
  
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• Lucian Freud’s Portrait of David Hockney Sells for $20.7 M. at Auction

  29-06-2021 16:35 via artnews.com
  
  A portrait of David Hockney by Lucian Freud sold at Sotheby’s in London during a British modern art evening sale on Tuesday for £14.9 million ($20.7 million) with buyer’s premium. The portrait is now the sixth-most expensive work by Freud to ever sell at auction. Both Freud and Hockney are among Britain’s most acclaimed artists.
  Five phone bidders from New York, London and Asia competed for the work. The work hammered at £12.8 million ($17.7 million), putting the fi
  
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• Louisville arts and culture: Bold vision, innovative approach - The Lane Report

  29-06-2021 16:26
  Louisville arts and culture: Bold vision, innovative approach  The Lane Report
  
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• Montana Arts Council - the State of Montana NewsRoom

  29-06-2021 16:05
  Montana Arts Council  the State of Montana NewsRoom
  
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• What Won’t the Nelk Boys Do?

  29-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for their pranks, parties and crude humor, the YouTubers are used to getting in trouble. But for them, the backlash is the brand.
  
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• Seven local residents nominated for Mansfield Public Arts Commission - Richland Source

  29-06-2021 16:00
  Seven local residents nominated for Mansfield Public Arts Commission  Richland Source
  
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• Freddie Mercury and Virginie Despentes: What ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Is Made Of

  29-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nida Manzoor, the creator, writer and director of the series, shares what things inspired her to make a show about Muslim women in a punk band.
  
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• Black Dance Stories: By the Artists, for the People

  29-06-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This online show, which wraps up its present incarnation on Thursday, became a serendipitous gathering place and a Thursday-night ritual.
  
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