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• Quick picks for arts and entertainment: Week of July 21-28 - Concord Monitor

  20-07-2021 23:53 via concordmonitor.com
  
  Quick picks for arts and entertainment: Week of July 21-28  Concord Monitor
  
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• Giving Matters: Greenville Center for Creative Arts inspires community with classes, exhibits, studios - Greenville Journal

  20-07-2021 23:02 via greenvillejournal.com
  
  Giving Matters: Greenville Center for Creative Arts inspires community with classes, exhibits, studios  Greenville Journal
  
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• Scenes from the Celebration of the Arts - Midland Reporter-Telegram

  20-07-2021 23:00 via mrt.com
  
  Scenes from the Celebration of the Arts  Midland Reporter-Telegram
  
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• New Houston Arts Leadership: The Future of Houston’s Arts Scene - Houston Public Media

  20-07-2021 23:00 via houstonpublicmedia.org
  
  New Houston Arts Leadership: The Future of Houston’s Arts Scene  Houston Public Media
  
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• To Battle Climate Change, Begin With Your Air-Conditioner

  20-07-2021 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  In “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson explores the ways that temperature-controlled environments contribute to the climate crisis.
  
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• Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury

  20-07-2021 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Better to Have Gone,” Akash Kapur writes about Auroville, a community in India founded by a Frenchwoman, where Kapur grew up and met his future wife.
  
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• After Years of Investment in Arts Infrastructure, Dubai Grows Into Itself

  20-07-2021 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  It’s March as I write this, and Dubai is stretching like a cat after a nap. Vaccinations are rolling out at a furious pace and everywhere, there is a kind of manic, delirious optimism. At the end of January, I returned to my hometown after 15 years split mostly between Dubai and New York. I should have come back sooner. During college I would return in the summer, in those heady years post–financial crash when the city was constantly reinventing itself. I would land each time to see
  
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• After Years of Investment in Arts Infrastructure, Dubai Grows Into Itself - ARTnews

  20-07-2021 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  After Years of Investment in Arts Infrastructure, Dubai Grows Into Itself  ARTnews
  
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• University of Sheffield to Close Archaeology Department Despite Protests

  20-07-2021 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  The University of Sheffield, a public university in South Yorkshire, England, has decided to shut down their internationally renowned archaeology department. The executive board at the University first proposed the closure in late May.Despite protests from students, faculty, staff, and cultural institutions, the University Council decided to go forward with the plan put forward by the executive board to close the department down. The University alerted faculty to this decision in a 13 minute pre
  
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• Art Handlers, Contract Workers at Galleries Faced Steepest Losses During Pandemic: Survey

  20-07-2021 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  Part-time and temporary workers were among those who suffered the most at galleries during the pandemic, a new survey by the Art Dealers Association of America reveals.
  The ADAA surveyed 81 galleries from across the country, primarily ones from its membership but also ones who are part of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association and the Houston Art Gallery Association. Most said they were able to retain the majority of their full-time staffs, with 78 percent saying that they avoided layoff
  
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• Enhance Your Installations With the Best Strobe Lights

  20-07-2021 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  While strobe lights are most common on the dance floor, they can be valuable in the artist’s studio too. You can use these lamps, which produce regular pulses of light, to enhance photography, add flashing effects to your installations, and even create sensory experiences—just please be mindful about the potential to trigger migraines or, worse, seizures. Choosing the right strobe light can be overwhelming, since models can have an abundance of technical features. Ahead, consider wha
  
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• Gil Wechsler, an Illuminating Fixture at the Met Opera, Dies at 79

  20-07-2021 21:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Wechsler, the first resident lighting designer at the Met, created lighting designs that helped bring numerous operas to life.
  
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• National Endowment for the Arts Announces Jazz Masters - The New York Times

  20-07-2021 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  National Endowment for the Arts Announces Jazz Masters  The New York Times
  
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• National Endowment for the Arts Announces Jazz Masters

  20-07-2021 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Its 2022 class includes the bassist Stanley Clarke, the drummer Billy Hart, the vocalist Cassandra Wilson and the saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr.
  
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• Exiled Medieval Anglo-Saxon King May Have Lived as Hermit in 9th-Century Cave Dwelling

  20-07-2021 20:12 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have identified an Anglo-Saxon cave house that may have belonged to a 9th-century king of Northumbria named Eardwulf. The discovery was made by the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and Wessex Archaeology, which recently published their findings in the Proceedings of the University of Bristol Speleological Society.
  The series of sandstone caves in Derbyshire, central England, were once believed to be follies—a popular 18th-century trend that involved elaborate structures w
  
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• Bloomberg To Fund Tech Upgrades For The Arts - The NonProfit Times

  20-07-2021 19:54 via thenonprofittimes.com
  
  Bloomberg To Fund Tech Upgrades For The Arts  The NonProfit Times
  
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• The Bronx Museum of the Arts calls for architects to design its South Wing overhaul - The Architect's Newspaper

  20-07-2021 19:51 via archpaper.com
  
  The Bronx Museum of the Arts calls for architects to design its South Wing overhaul  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Arts In The Barn to feature 'Invitations to Journey' photographs by CT Adams - PenBayPilot.com

  20-07-2021 19:45 via penbaypilot.com
  
  Arts In The Barn to feature 'Invitations to Journey' photographs by CT Adams  PenBayPilot.com
  
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• Palm Coast offers Cultural Arts grants; inquire by July 31 - Palm Coast Observer

  20-07-2021 19:32 via palmcoastobserver.com
  Palm Coast offers Cultural Arts grants; inquire by July 31  Palm Coast Observer
  
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• Nina Simone Saved Ledisi’s Life. Now She’s Paying Tribute on an Album.

  20-07-2021 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  After two decades in music, Ledisi started her own record label and earned her first Grammy. Her latest release is a homage to a musician who brought her inspiration and salvation.
  
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• Ledisi Pays Tribute to Nina Simone on a New Album

  20-07-2021 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  After two decades in music, Ledisi started her own record label and earned her first Grammy. Her latest release is a homage to a musician who brought her inspiration and salvation.
  
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• The Riddle of Riley Keough

  20-07-2021 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Zola” actress has a knack for inhabiting working-class characters who feel real, even though her own family history is as outrageous as it gets.
  
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• A Cosmos of Southern Black Expression: “The Dirty South” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

  20-07-2021 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse” surveys the past hundred years of artistic expression by Black artists who have lived or worked in the American South. The exhibition claims that the culture and aesthetics of Southern hip-hop constitutes an American art form. It firmly situates the musical genre within the lineages of interdisciplinary Black cultural production, including and referencing forms not often recognized by museums, such as Black
  
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• Maltz Performing Arts Center nears completion - Cleveland Jewish News

  20-07-2021 19:00 via clevelandjewishnews.com
  
  Maltz Performing Arts Center nears completion  Cleveland Jewish News
  
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• Rick Laird, Bassist at the Forefront of Fusion, Dies at 80

  20-07-2021 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  He played with jazz greats and helped make music history with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. But he gave it up in his 40s to become a photographer.
  
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• 171 Cedar Arts to award more than $20,000 in scholarships - WETM - MyTwinTiers.com

  20-07-2021 18:07 via mytwintiers.com
  171 Cedar Arts to award more than $20,000 in scholarships  WETM - MyTwinTiers.com
  
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• Tumult at MACBA: Chief Curator, Programming Head Dismissed After New Director Is Named

  20-07-2021 18:06 via artnews.com
  
  Just a few days after it named a new director, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Spain laid off Tanya Barson and Pablo Martínez, its chief curator and head of programming, respectively. The museum claimed that the layoffs were part of an “organizational change” that its board had been hashing out since October.
  Martínez took to Twitter to reveal news of the layoffs on Monday. He said that he and Barson had received an email on Friday telling them that t
  
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• Valentino Chooses Venice for Couture Collaboration with Artists

  20-07-2021 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Venice has been a much quieter place since the global pandemic began, but the city begun a new chapter as the preferred place for fashion houses to hold their cycle of runway shows. Saint Laurent debuted its new Menswear collection last week and was quickly followed by Valentino’s Fall/Winter 2021 couture collection presented in a dramatic setting in the city’s historic Arsenale.
  Valentino’s didn’t skip showing in fashion’s capital—they debuted another couture
  
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• They Did What They Could Do at the Time: Thinking with and after Lauren Berlant

  20-07-2021 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Lauren Berlant fundamentally altered our sense of how language matters, how language can make and sustain alternate worlds. And they did this with the buoying political lessons of writerly style—style as praxis, as a way of doing political thought by critical worldmaking. Berlant’s sentences do their work by asking much of us, by engaging us in the work as comrades, felt intimates, potential or actual friends. Their sentences are wound tight, portable, quick in their punch but longin
  
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• 'Free Britney': Lawmakers Unveil Bill Spurred by Movement

  20-07-2021 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation Act, or the FREE Act, was proposed on Tuesday by two members of the House of Representatives.
  
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• Visitor Guide: Check out Tehachapi's fun arts and entertainment scene - Tehachapi News

  20-07-2021 17:00 via tehachapinews.com
  Visitor Guide: Check out Tehachapi's fun arts and entertainment scene  Tehachapi News
  
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• Sculpture takes Best in Show at Gadsden Arts in 33rd juried exhibition - Tallahassee Democrat

  20-07-2021 16:46 via tallahassee.com
  Sculpture takes Best in Show at Gadsden Arts in 33rd juried exhibition  Tallahassee Democrat
  
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• 'Vibrant' exhibits launched at Holland Arts Council - HollandSentinel.com

  20-07-2021 16:30 via hollandsentinel.com
  'Vibrant' exhibits launched at Holland Arts Council  HollandSentinel.com
  
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• Nominations Sought for 2021 Excellence in the Arts Awards - TAPinto.net

  20-07-2021 16:18 via tapinto.net
  Nominations Sought for 2021 Excellence in the Arts Awards  TAPinto.net
  
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• Art Basel Preps Long-Delayed Swiss Fair, Ancient Military Ship Remains Found in Egypt, and More: Morning Links for July 20, 2021

  20-07-2021 15:20 via artnews.com
  
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  AS EGYPT WORKS TO REJUVENATE ITS TOURISM INDUSTRY, it has been announcing archaeological discoveries at a vigorous pace. The latest: 4th-century BCE Greek funeral grounds and remains of an ancient military vessel were found during underwater excavations of the port of Thonis-Heracleion, according to the Agence
  
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• ‘Space Jam,’ My Dad and Me

  20-07-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A writer adored the basketball-Looney Tunes mash-up as a boy. Watching the movie again after his father died, he felt the movie resonate in a surprisingly deeper way.
  
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• $25,000 Art Prize to Focus on AAPI and Asian Diaspora Artists: ‘We Won’t Be Overlooked Again’

  20-07-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  With the aim of rectifying disparities that continue to impact the art world, a new art prize will be given out every other year to artists who are Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) or from the Asian Diaspora. Titled the Gold Art Prize, it is being founded by advisor Kelly Huang and Gold House, a California-based nonprofit focused on Asian and Pacific Islander leaders.
  The biennial prize will go to five artists each time, with each winner taking home $25,000. The winners of the first
  
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• Lawmakers to Unveil Bill Spurred by 'Free Britney' Movement

  20-07-2021 14:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation Act, or the FREE Act, will be announced on Tuesday by two members of the House of Representatives.
  
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• 'Free Britney': Lawmakers to Unveil Bill Spurred by Movement

  20-07-2021 14:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation Act, or the FREE Act, will be announced on Tuesday by two members of the House of Representatives.
  
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• Palm Springs Public Arts Commission looks to relocate George Floyd mural - kuna noticias y kuna radio

  20-07-2021 14:54 via kesq.com
  
  Palm Springs Public Arts Commission looks to relocate George Floyd mural  kuna noticias y kuna radio
  
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• New appointee Vicki Estrada brings a unique voice to California Arts Council - The San Diego Union-Tribune

  20-07-2021 14:30 via sandiegouniontribune.com
  
  New appointee Vicki Estrada brings a unique voice to California Arts Council  The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• CCNY writer & scholar Lyn Sandín Di Iorio receives NY arts fellowship - The City College of New York News

  20-07-2021 14:00 via ccny.cuny.edu
  CCNY writer & scholar Lyn Sandín Di Iorio receives NY arts fellowship  The City College of New York News
  
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• ‘The New Bauhaus’ Review: Rethinking an Approach to Art

  20-07-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary on the interdisciplinary artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy makes the case that he should be a household name.
  
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• Roberts named to interim post at Arkansas Arts Academy in Rogers - Arkansas Online

  20-07-2021 11:58 via arkansasonline.com
  
  Roberts named to interim post at Arkansas Arts Academy in Rogers  Arkansas Online
  
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• Here are five fine-arts events in Houston to hit this week - Houston Chronicle

  20-07-2021 11:16 via preview.houstonchronicle.com
  
  Here are five fine-arts events in Houston to hit this week  Houston Chronicle
  
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• Baltimore’s Jesse Salazar supports war fighters by day at the Pentagon, arts community when not at work - Baltimore Sun

  20-07-2021 11:02 via baltimoresun.com
  Baltimore’s Jesse Salazar supports war fighters by day at the Pentagon, arts community when not at work  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Katie Kitamura Translates the Untranslatable

  20-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Intimacies,” a court interpreter at The Hague grapples with the ethics of the world around her.
  
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• It’s Never Too Late to Play the Cello

  20-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vera Jiji’s beloved cello, tucked away in the back of her closet, remained untouched, almost forgotten, for over 40 years. It’s been like a second life for her.
  
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• In These Debut Novels, Young Women Feel Oppressed by Womanhood

  20-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A trapped mom turns into an angry dog by night, an atheist lesbian poses as a Catholic receptionist, a 20-year-old woman suffers through domestic abuse.
  
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• In ‘The Council of Animals,’ the Fate of Humanity Comes Down to a Vote

  20-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Nick McDonell’s new novel, humans are almost extinct. Now the animal kingdom must decide their fate.
  
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