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• Byron Berline, Master of the Bluegrass Fiddle, Dies at 77

  12-07-2021 23:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Berline’s updated version of an old-timey sound enhanced recordings by everyone from Bill Monroe to the Rolling Stones.
  
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• How Courtney McClellan Mocks the Mock Trial

  12-07-2021 23:51 via artnews.com
  
  Since its founding in 1985, the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) has adjudicated thousands of imaginary legal cases in the fictional state of Midlands. College students—many of them preparing for careers in law—compete in variations on courtroom scenarios taken from “case packets” written and distributed by the organization. In text slides from her three-channel video Midlands, which premiered in New York at SculptureCenter’s annual “In Practice” p
  
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• April Freely, Influential Residency Program Director Who Prioritized Community Building, Has Died

  12-07-2021 23:28 via artnews.com
  
  April Freely, the recently appointed director of the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) program, has died. The FIAR said that she had died “unexpectedly” in a Facebook post on July 9. The organization also set up a GoFundMe page in her honor.
  In its statement, FIAR said that Freely was “a caring and thoughtful leader, a passionate community organizer, an enthusiastic mentor and a wonderful friend,” and that she was “committed to supporting LGBTQ poets and arti
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Glenstone Museum Announces New Building for Richard Serra Sculpture—and More from July 12, 2021

  12-07-2021 23:27 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, July 12
  Glenstone Museum Announces New Building for Richard Serra SculptureThe Glenstone Museum in Montgomery County, Maryland, has announced plans to construct a building along its Woodland Trail to house a recent large-scale sculpture by Richard Serra. The 4,000-square-foot concrete structure, designed as a collaboration between the artist and Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, is slated to open in spring/summer of 2022. Two of Serra’s sculptures are already on per
  
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• Over $3M invested by Arts Commission to strengthen communities through arts and creativity - WANE

  12-07-2021 22:45 via wane.com
  Over $3M invested by Arts Commission to strengthen communities through arts and creativity  WANE
  
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• Go Hell for Leather with the Best Leatherworking Kits

  12-07-2021 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  So you’ve picked up a new hobby, one that happens to require lots of tools and materials that you don’t just happen to have lying around the house. Could you be referring to leatherworking? We thought so. Well, you’re in luck: Many toolmakers have taken their quality products and packaged them as kits, ensuring that you have all the essentials you need to learn and develop your craft. Ahead, find our top picks among leatherworking kits, some for the true beginner, others that w
  
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• ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of White Supremacy at Work

  12-07-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director John Singleton uses the experiences of a father and son, Tre and Furious, to depict how a Black community comes undone.
  
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• Drake Bell Given Two Years of Probation in Child Endangerment Case

  12-07-2021 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The former star of the Nickelodeon series “Drake & Josh” had pleaded guilty to two charges related to a girl he met online. She attended one of his concerts in 2017.
  
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• Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue That Incited Violent Protest

  12-07-2021 20:54 via artnews.com
  
  The statue of American Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been the subject of national debate for years, with many claiming that the monument glorified a racist figure. On Saturday, the monument was removed, effectively bringing an end to a series of arduous and tense conversations that had sometimes exploded publicly.
  Activists had long been working to have the movement removed. A renewed push to take it down began in the wake of the first Black Lives Matter pro
  
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• Cumming Arts Center opens new exhibit featuring member artists, plans for big end-of-year events - Forsyth County News Online

  12-07-2021 20:47 via forsythnews.com
  Cumming Arts Center opens new exhibit featuring member artists, plans for big end-of-year events  Forsyth County News Online
  
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• Create Eye-Popping Window Displays with Glass-Friendly Paints

  12-07-2021 20:30 via artnews.com
  
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  When you think “window paint,” you might visualize holiday displays at your local diner or “Just Married” signs scrawled on car windows. Certainly, window paint can be used for bold, declarative statements on the panes of your home, vehicle, or business. But that’s not all it’s good for. Depending on the brand, you can use window
  
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• Even the Tuning Up Gets an Ovation as Tanglewood Reopens

  12-07-2021 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The mood was festive as the Boston Symphony returned to its summer home for its first in-person performances since March 2020.
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo Holds at No. 1 With ‘Sour’

  12-07-2021 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer-songwriter’s debut album has now spent three weeks in the Billboard 200’s peak position.
  
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• Dealer Friedrich Petzel Expands in Chelsea: ‘We Don’t Need to Have a Global Empire’

  12-07-2021 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  While the art world was in lockdown, dealer Friedrich Petzel was thinking big. In a few years’ time, he will move his New York gallery to a new building a few blocks north of his current location on 18th Street. He’ll more than double his current square footage, adding over 22,000 square feet, and add room a bookstore (unlike the relatively small one at 18th Street) and a rooftop sculpture garden. He’ll also have three floors at a location that formerly served as the home of SI
  
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• A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too)

  12-07-2021 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, it was hard for even beloved classics to live up to the elegant intensity of Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence.”
  
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• Dubuque County Fine Arts Society to host 42nd annual DubuqueFest - KGAN TV

  12-07-2021 19:05 via cbs2iowa.com
  
  Dubuque County Fine Arts Society to host 42nd annual DubuqueFest  KGAN TV
  
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• Heir Decries Fondation Beyeler’s Plan to Sell Dubuffet Works Donated by Collector

  12-07-2021 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  In a move that has provoked controversy, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland is planning to sell four paintings by Jean Dubuffet gifted to the private museum by the French art collector Micheline Renard, wife of the late automotive executive Claude-Louis Renard, in 2013.
  The Renards, who amassed a vast collection of modern art, had a longstanding relationship with the museum’s founders, a Basel-born bookseller turned dealer, Ernst Beyeler and his wife, Hildy. The four Dubuffet pai
  
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• FBI Accuses Man of Attempting to Sell Faked Works by Basquiat and Haring

  12-07-2021 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had arrested a 49-year-old man named Angel Pereda who had allegedly tried to sell faked artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. According to its release, Pereda, who hails from Mexico, had been asking for millions of dollars for the works.
  Among those works were two paintings done in the style of Haring’s signature motifs, including his barking dogs and three-eyed monster, as well as a vase lined with similar imagery that Pe
  
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• “Arts in Society” Grant Program Opens Application Portal to Support Arts and Culture Cross-Sector Work in 2021 - Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade

  12-07-2021 18:22 via oedit.colorado.gov
  “Arts in Society” Grant Program Opens Application Portal to Support Arts and Culture Cross-Sector Work in 2021  Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
  
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• Keep Your Clay Masterpieces Safe with the Best Pottery Wheel Bats

  12-07-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Not all bats can fly. Also known as a batterboard, a pottery wheel bat is a thin slab of wood, plaster, or plastic used to support pottery forms while you throw. Because the bat piece can be lifted from the wheel head, there’s no need to directly handle your clay piece and risk distorting its shape. Pottery bats come in a range of materials, shapes, and sizes. Circular pottery bats usually cover the full wheel, but square bats take up less space on your shelves. Plastic bats are sturdy, bu
  
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• 9/11 Museum’s 20th-Anniversary Exhibitions Become Victims of Cuts

  12-07-2021 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  At an important vantage point in history, there will be no special shows looking back at the 2001 attacks, and critics say the museum keeps too tight a rein on the story.
  
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• For Spike Lee, the Secret to Surviving Cannes Is Sleep (and Cool Clothes)

  12-07-2021 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The glamorous film festival can also be arduous, but here’s how Lee and his fellow Cannes jurors are staying alert.
  
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• Arts At Erlanger Now Accepting Submissions For “America The Beautiful” Call-Out - The Chattanoogan

  12-07-2021 17:36 via chattanoogan.com
  Arts At Erlanger Now Accepting Submissions For “America The Beautiful” Call-Out  The Chattanoogan
  
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• The (Not So?) Tentative Return of Live Music

  12-07-2021 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A look at the challenges touring musicians faced over the last year, and how the industry is adjusting to the new normal.
  
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• Unleash Your Child’s Inner Picasso with the Best Paint Dabbers

  12-07-2021 16:17 via artnews.com
  
  Paint dabbers are a great idea for a mess-free artistic afternoon for your child. Resembling giant markers with flat, round nibs, they allow children to easily add polka dots to their artwork, and they can also be used to draw lines and shade coloring pages much like traditional markers. While originally designed for toddlers, paint dabbers have found a growing audience among adult hobbyists and provide a great activity for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. Ahead, find the sets that we li
  
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• Medieval French Coins Unearthed in Poland? A Mystery Begins

  12-07-2021 16:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Could a scavenger hunter’s find be a part of the lost booty once extorted by Vikings to spare Paris from ruin? A full-scale excavation may tell.
  
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• Southern California arts, food, and music events in July - Los Angeles Times

  12-07-2021 16:00 via latimes.com
  
  Southern California arts, food, and music events in July  Los Angeles Times
  
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• Ford, Mellon Foundations Team Up for $5 M. Initiative Focused on U.S. Latinx Artists

  12-07-2021 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Two of the country’s largest philanthropic organizations have joined forces for a new initiative that aims to bring visibility Latinx art in the United States.
  The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, together with the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), have created the Latinx Artist Fellowship. Over the next five years, the foundations will put $5 million toward the fellowship program, with $3.75 million will going to 75 artists in the form of $50,000 unrestricted grants and the remaind
  
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• Emerging From Covid, Small Theaters in Los Angeles Face a New Challenge

  12-07-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A state law threatens to drive up labor costs for the city’s hand-to-mouth small theater scene as it tries to emerge from the pandemic.
  
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• Debut Novels by Pik-Shuen Fung, Rahul Raina and Alex McElroy

  12-07-2021 15:55 via nytimes.com
  
  New fiction ranges from a Chinese family divided across continents to the founding of a cult for rehabilitating toxic masculinity.
  
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• Arrest in Fake Haring and Basquiat Case, Nan Goldin Slams Sackler Settlement, and More: Morning Links for July 12, 2021

  12-07-2021 15:49 via artnews.com
  
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  FEDERAL PROSECUTORS IN NEW YORK HAVE CHARGED a 49-year-old man named Angel Pereda with allegedly trying to sell fake Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat works as the genuine articles, the New York Times reports. “Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldn’t see the dif
  
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• Buffalo School of Culinary Arts opens brand new restaurant - WGRZ.com

  12-07-2021 13:55 via wgrz.com
  
  Buffalo School of Culinary Arts opens brand new restaurant  WGRZ.com
  
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• Michael Landy’s Art of Destruction

  12-07-2021 13:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A new show by the British artist, who once gained fame by destroying everything he owned in an art installation, is again calling attention to the pervasiveness of consumerism and waste in modern life.
  
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• Church buys former Rochester martial arts studio for $1.2 million - PostBulletin.com

  12-07-2021 13:22 via postbulletin.com
  
  Church buys former Rochester martial arts studio for $1.2 million  PostBulletin.com
  
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• Keep nonprofit arts, culture doors open: Apply for funds - StarNewsOnline.com

  12-07-2021 12:02 via starnewsonline.com
  Keep nonprofit arts, culture doors open: Apply for funds  StarNewsOnline.com
  
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• ‘The Man Who Hated Women’ Is Mostly About the Women He Hated

  12-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amy Sohn’s new book is about a 19th-century moral crusader and the women whose work he targeted, including the suffragist Victoria C. Woodhull, the anarchist Emma Goldman and the birth control activist Margaret Sanger.
  
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• Scattered Among the Himalaya, Glimpses of a Changing Tibet

  12-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An array of forces, including political suppression and the ubiquity of the internet, have made elements of traditional Tibetan lifestyles increasingly challenging.
  
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• Savala Nolan Takes a Hard Look at the White Gaze and Its Blind Spots

  12-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The essays in “Don’t Let It Get You Down” explore the in-betweenness of race, class and the size of a woman’s body.
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Webber’s New Act: Activism

  12-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On questions of reopening, the theater impresario has become a surprising thorn in the British government’s side.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Catch and Kill’ and the MLB All-Star Game

  12-07-2021 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  HBO airs a documentary about Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill,” and the MLB hosts its 91st annual All-Star Game.
  
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• Pentwater Fine Arts Fair returns | News | shorelinemedia.net - shorelinemedia.net

  12-07-2021 04:30 via shorelinemedia.net
  Pentwater Fine Arts Fair returns | News | shorelinemedia.net  shorelinemedia.net
  
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• Prominent Lawyer in Discussions to Represent Britney Spears

  12-07-2021 03:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Mathew Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor, plans to attend a hearing on Wednesday and make the case that the singer should be permitted to hire him for her conservatorship battle.
  
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• Critic's Pick: 'Seize the King,' Harlem Theater's 'Richard III'

  12-07-2021 03:47 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s a tale that Will Power intends as cautionary, with cycles of history and human violence in mind.
  
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• William Smith, Action Star Known for His Onscreen Brawls, Dies at 88

  12-07-2021 03:03 via nytimes.com
  
  In addition to his Hollywood legacy, the Missouri native was also a bodybuilder, a champion discus thrower and a published poet.
  
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• Prominent Lawyer Makes Moves to Represent Britney Spears

  12-07-2021 01:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Mathew Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor, plans to attend a hearing on Wednesday and make the case that the singer should be permitted to hire him for her conservatorship battle.
  
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• Arts, Greek fest, wine and jazz on tap for YSU Summer Festival of the Arts weekend - YSU.edu

  12-07-2021 01:18 via ysu.edu
  Arts, Greek fest, wine and jazz on tap for YSU Summer Festival of the Arts weekend  YSU.edu
  
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