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• California Man Pleads Guilty to Forgery of $1 M. Worth of Art

  11-08-2021 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  Jason Harrington pleaded guilty to selling $1 million worth of forged artworks between 2018 and 2020, according to the Department of Justice. 
  Harrington sold forged works purporting to be by Canadian artist Richard Hambleton and acclaimed portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks to at least 15 buyers and galleries—all of whom remain unnamed. The resident of Escondido, California, fabricated provenance and related documents to legitimize works that he claimed had come into his possession.
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• Artist Nan Goldin Leads Protest Over Proposed Settlement Offer for Sackler Family

  11-08-2021 23:53 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, demonstrators led by artist Nan Goldin built a symbolic graveyard in the plaza of a bankruptcy court in Westchester County to protest a proposed settlement for Purdue Pharma.
  For the action, protestors brought cardboard tombstones bearing the names of friends and family whose lives had been claimed by the opioid epidemic in the United States, and lined them outside of the federal courthouse in White Plains, where the bankruptcy trial is set to begin on Thursday.
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• Dolly Parton and James Patterson Are Working On a Novel, 'Run, Rose, Run'

  11-08-2021 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “Run, Rose, Run” is set for publication in 2022, along with a Parton album whose 12 new songs were inspired by the book.
  
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• In New York, Fair Weather Darkens As Books Show Cancels, Armory Pivots 55 Dealers Online

  11-08-2021 23:27 via artnews.com
  
  Because of the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus and uneven vaccination rates, as well as ongoing travel bans, plans for upcoming in-person trade fairs, including art fairs, are looking shaky. Two prominent New York events have been canceled within the last two weeks.
  Today, the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF), the long-running fair headed up by veteran art fair organizer Sanford Smith, called off its 2021 edition, which was to take place at the Park Avenue Arm
  
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• Wallace Foundation Launches Initiative for Arts Orgs of Color - American Theatre

  11-08-2021 23:08 via americantheatre.org
  
  Wallace Foundation Launches Initiative for Arts Orgs of Color  American Theatre
  
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• Marcia Nasatir, Who Broke a Glass Ceiling in Hollywood, Dies at 95

  11-08-2021 22:23 via nytimes.com
  
  A former book editor and agent, she got her first movie studio job, at United Artists, when she was 48. She insisted on being hired as a vice president.
  
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• ‘Misha and the Wolves’ Review: Fuzzy Memories

  11-08-2021 22:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Did an ostensible Holocaust memoirist really spend her childhood running with wolves? This documentary has answers.
  
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• When Every Plan Is Subject to Change

  11-08-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
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• Here’s how Philly’s major arts venues are dealing with latest COVID restrictions - WHYY

  11-08-2021 21:53 via whyy.org
  
  Here’s how Philly’s major arts venues are dealing with latest COVID restrictions  WHYY
  
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• Objet: Nik Bentel’s Botticelli-Inspired Dress for Summer

  11-08-2021 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past year, subculture-driven aesthetics, or “cores,” such as the pastoral Cottagecore and the collegiate-inspired Dark Academia, have been having a fashion moment, even influencing runway looks. On learning of the Cottagecore phenomenon known as the Strawberry Dress (a pink tulle confection by Lirika Matoshi that became one of the most talked-about garments of 2020), product designer Nik Bentel was inspired to create something in a similar vein.
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• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Announces In-Person Season

  11-08-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The company will celebrate Robert Battle’s 10 years as artistic director at New York City Center in December.
  
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• London’s Barbican Centre Shifts Leadership Roles in Response to Race Allegations

  11-08-2021 20:22 via artnews.com
  
  The Barbican Centre in London will make major changes to its leadership, following the publishing of Barbican Stories, a book written by a group of anonymous employees of color at the institution who recount nearly a hundred of incidents of racism at the institution since its founding. The news was first reported by the Art Newspaper.
  As a result of the publication of Barbican Stories in June, Nicholas Kenyon, the Barbican’s managing director, will step down in the fall. Two current B
  
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• Christie’s Hong Kong is the First to Auction Profile Pic NFTs

  11-08-2021 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  Made popular by celebrities like Jay-Z, profile pic non fungible tokens (PFP NFTs) can be used as a buyer’s profile picture or avatar on social media platforms such as Twitter. Christie’s will be the first to auction PFP NFTs in an online-only sale from September 17th to 28th. During the sale, titled “With No Time Like Present,” buyers will be able to bid on different types of PFP NFTs from multiple series such as CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), and Me
  
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• Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Listen That Way.

  11-08-2021 20:16 via nytimes.com
  
  “Loud” asks us to reconsider mainstream histories of the genre, and reveals critical conversations about its roots and evolution.
  
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• Keep Small Hands Busy With the Best Craft Kits and Gift Boxes for Kids

  11-08-2021 20:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Ready, set, craft! Get your child’s creativity flowing and streamline your art-supply shopping with a ready-made crafting kit. Complete with all the materials needed to make a host of creations at home, craft kits usually come with some combination of pom-poms, scissors, stickers, glitter, paper, Popsicle sticks, and more. Whether your child is looking to make
  
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• Neal Conan, Who Talked (and Listened) to the Nation on NPR, Dies at 71

  11-08-2021 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  In a broadcasting career that began when he was 17, he was a producer, editor and news director — and a voice listeners trusted.
  
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• Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need

  11-08-2021 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian’s “Milk and Money Tour” hits the Beacon Theater at an uncertain time for live comedy. Luckily, the sex jokes are her funniest yet.
  
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• Life Is Short. What Are You Going to Do About That?

  11-08-2021 19:26 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Four Thousand Weeks,” a self-help book skeptical of self-help, Oliver Burkeman offers perspective on how we might spend the fleeting time that we get.
  
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• Beanie Feldstein to Star in ‘Funny Girl’ on Broadway

  11-08-2021 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  With the “Booksmart” actress taking on the role originated by Barbra Streisand in 1964, the show is getting its first Broadway revival in 58 years.
  
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• ‘Jeopardy!’ Announces Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik as New Hosts

  11-08-2021 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The long-running game show decided to turn to two hosts to succeed Alex Trebek, the beloved television personality who died last year.
  
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• Taylor Mac’s ‘Joy and Pandemic’ Is Postponed as Covid Cases Surge

  11-08-2021 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The play, which had been set to have its world premiere in September at the Magic Theater in San Francisco, takes place during the 1918 flu pandemic.
  
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• Essentials: 7 Illuminating Books on Photography

  11-08-2021 18:20 via artnews.com
  
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  While the first photograph was created a decade earlier, 1839 is the year that photography was made practical by the introduction of the daguerreotype, the salt print, and other technologies. Within a decade or so, photography had become a fixture of daily life and even a form of artistic expression, though one that relied on cumbersome cameras to ape the vocabulary
  
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• How a ‘Revolutionary’ Racially Integrated Art Exhibition in Texas Changed the Game

  11-08-2021 18:19 via artnews.com
  
  In July 1971, artist Peter Bradley wrote out to 18 artists seeking work for an exhibition due to take place in Houston, Texas. This wasn’t a typical summer group show, however—it had grander intentions. Anthony Caro, Sam Gilliam, Virginia Jaramillo, Al Loving, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons were among those who received typewritten letters that started out with the following: “We’re planning an exhibition in the poor section of Houston. The object is to br
  
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• A Supernatural Dance Explorer’s Art and Wanderings

  11-08-2021 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Choy Ka Fai’s interest in shamanic dance practices fuels his immersive exhibition at Tanz im August in Berlin.
  
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• Inside the Arts: ELEVATE Atlanta art festival aims to 'Reopen. Reignite. Reconnect.' - Atlanta Intown

  11-08-2021 18:12 via atlantaintownpaper.com
  
  Inside the Arts: ELEVATE Atlanta art festival aims to 'Reopen. Reignite. Reconnect.'  Atlanta Intown
  
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• This year's Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts will celebrate 50 years - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  11-08-2021 17:56 via jsonline.com
  
  This year's Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts will celebrate 50 years  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• Even for David Cronenberg, ‘Slasher’ Felt Like Something ‘Different’

  11-08-2021 17:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The influential director steps in front of the camera for Season 4 of the Shudder anthology horror series. But he’s not playing one of his usual roles.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe Is Back. Is a Smaller Festival Better?

  11-08-2021 17:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Locals long complained that the event had gotten too big. This year, because of the pandemic, their wish for a reduced Fringe has been granted.
  
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• Elka Schumann, Matriarch of the Bread and Puppet Theater, Dies at 85

  11-08-2021 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  She and her husband ran a Vermont-based troupe that has taken on social and political issues in productions featuring enormous puppets.
  
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• Glasgow Art Students Challenge School Over Covid Disruptions, ICP Taps New Director, and More: Morning Links for August 11, 2021

  11-08-2021 15:56 via artnews.com
  
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  ONE MUSEUM LEADER IS OUT, AND ANOTHER IS IN. The closely watched curator Stefan Kalmár is stepping down after five years as director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ARTnews reports. “The moment now feels right for me to hand over to the next generation to lead,” Kalmá
  
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• MGM Resorts to Auction $100 M. Picasso Trove in Las Vegas Sale in October

  11-08-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The American hotel chain MGM Resorts announced today its plans to sell off a group of works by Pablo Picasso at an auction in Las Vegas later this year. Facilitated by Sotheby’s, the sale will take place as a live-streamed evening auction at the city’s iconic Bellagio hotel on October 23, with the 11 offered works by the Spanish modernist expected to fetch a collective $100 million.
  The decision to sell its Picasso collection is a move on MGM’s part to restructure its public-fa
  
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• Dancer and nurse blends arts, science that could change healthcare industry - UNCSA

  11-08-2021 14:31 via uncsa.edu
  
  Dancer and nurse blends arts, science that could change healthcare industry  UNCSA
  
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• With ‘The Kissing Booth 3,’ Joey King Closes a Chapter of Her Life

  11-08-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress started on the Netflix movies when she was 17 and grew along with her high school character, Elle: “I went through a lot of important life moments in her shoes.”
  
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• Colorado Opera House Attic Holds Century-Old Painted Sets

  11-08-2021 13:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Hundreds of painted sets were discovered after a century in the attic of the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colo.
  
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• The Thorny History of the Salzburg Festival’s Logo

  11-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For its centennial, the venerable festival dug into the story of its defining image — and had to reckon with what it found.
  
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• Ridgefield, Conn.: Arts, Culture and Open Space - The New York Times

  11-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ridgefield, Conn.: Arts, Culture and Open Space  The New York Times
  
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• After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care

  11-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When the Delta variant came to town, the Broadway stars, drag queens and comics were performing indoors again and the iffy summer of 2020 was just a memory.
  
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• A Century in Stanislaw Lem’s Cosmos

  11-08-2021 10:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Solaris” author’s centenary is being celebrated from Poland to the International Space Station. The range of his work is similarly dizzying.
  
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• Late Night Weighs In on Andrew Cuomo’s Resignation

  11-08-2021 07:25 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s gonna be tough for Cuomo. With a track record like this, his only future is either president or Supreme Court justice,” Jimmy Fallon joked.
  
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• 'West Side Story' Will Return $10 Million Federal Aid

  11-08-2021 03:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway revival received federal aid through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. But the show decided not to reopen, and said it would return the money.
  
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• ‘The Kissing Booth 3’ Review: Last in the Pecking Order

  11-08-2021 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this Netflix trilogy’s bland finale, teenagers tick off elaborate bucket-list items during their summer before college.
  
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• Get Your Knit or Crochet Projects Rolling with the Best Yarn Winders

  11-08-2021 00:04 via artnews.com
  
  It’s not always a bad thing to be tightly wound. Rolling yarn by hand can be time consuming and tedious, and often those balls wound by hand roll around and fall apart. As an alternative, yarn winders get the job done fast, making center-pull, flat-bottomed yarn balls that stay put as you knit or crochet. These convenient devices typically clamp onto a table and feature a hand crank that you turn to feed and wrap yarn around an attached spool. Winding yarn prevents it from getting tangled
  
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