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• Trace Like an Ace With the Best Colored Vellum

  17-08-2021 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  Most commonly used by graphic designers and architects for technical drawings, drafting vellum is a versatile paper suitable for a range of uses. Its surface lends itself to fine-line drawing and calligraphy, and because it’s translucent, it can be used for tracing images; for photo overlays in scrapbooking projects; or for storyboarding. And because it’s compatible with inkjet and laser printers, you can load your paper tray with vellum and print from digital files or produce multip
  
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• ‘In the Same Breath’ Review: Wuhan 2019, or When Normalcy Ended

  17-08-2021 22:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In her latest documentary, the director of “One Child Nation” revisits the pandemic as it unfolded in China as well as in the United States.
  
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• In Kansas City, a 20,000-square-foot Arts Campus Aims to Bring Together the City’s Artists - Hyperallergic

  17-08-2021 22:21 via hyperallergic.com
  
  In Kansas City, a 20,000-square-foot Arts Campus Aims to Bring Together the City’s Artists  Hyperallergic
  
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• How Misty Copeland and Robert Garland Are Uniting Black Dancers

  17-08-2021 22:16 via nytimes.com
  
  A rare gathering of Black dancers from different companies meet to discuss a new production on Little Island, curated by Misty Copeland and Robert Garland.
  
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• She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep

  17-08-2021 22:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The protagonist of Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s novel “Fierce Little Thing” is drawn reluctantly back to the scene of the crime, the survivalist commune where she lived as a teenager.
  
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• Post-Spiritual Abstraction

  17-08-2021 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Being absorbed in visual abstraction has been, traditionally, a very good way to get some quiet. Whether besieged by a once again noisy culture, a relentlessly beckoning internet, or just our own yammering minds, there is plenty of reason to long for wordless, lumen-less art—for obstinately mute and immobile paintings and sculptures without namable content.
  Alas, it is not to be. As is evident in a spate of recent exhibitions and publications, including modern and contemporary art scholar
  
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• Amid a ‘Coronamüde’ Fog, Members of Berlin’s Art Scene Manage to Avoid Exhaustion

  17-08-2021 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  “The Berlin art scene has been paralyzed, yet people are still sticking to the old familiar dates,” artist Henning Strassburger wrote this past April in the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. And he was right: as much of the global art world persisted in its pivot to digital, Berlin continued to delude itself into thinking a return to normal was just around the corner.
  As we should have learned by now, neither approach works. Earlier this year, emails were sent out to save the dates
  
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• Meme Fall Plans: So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant

  17-08-2021 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  An ongoing meme personifies a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus as a saboteur.
  
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• One Work: Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version L)”

  17-08-2021 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  On December 13, 1954, Pablo Picasso began painting a group of fifteen works featuring two or three languidly posed, vividly colored women accompanied by a servant. He said that this series, begun shortly after Henri Matisse’s death, paid homage to his fellow artist. But his canvases, collectively titled “Les Femmes d’Alger,” more closely resemble those portraying Algerian women by a third master from an earlier generation, Eugène Delacroix, and Picasso’s canv
  
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• Ankara Print Dresses? These Aren’t Shakespeare’s ‘Merry Wives.’

  17-08-2021 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Shakespeare in the Park is back, and Dede Ayite’s West African-influenced costume designs are just as lively as Jocelyn Bioh’s adaptation.
  
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• Banksy Goes on Mural-Making Spree as Part of ‘Great British Spraycation’

  17-08-2021 20:48 via artnews.com
  
  The elusive street artist Banksy is at it once again, producing a slew of works that have appeared along the east coast of England, the country he calls home. He confirmed that he was the creator of the works by way of an Instagram video focused on his travels in a camper van. 
  The first of the murals, featuring a couple dancing atop a bus shelter and a man playing an accordion, was spotted in Great Yarmouth, followed by one showing an arcade toy-grabber crane that appeared in the nearby to
  
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• So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant

  17-08-2021 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  An ongoing meme personifies a highly contagious strain of the coronavirus as a saboteur.
  
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• Pink Siifu Releases 'Gumbo'!, a Nod to Southern Rap

  17-08-2021 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The prolific 29-year-old rapper, singer and producer returned this month with “Gumbo’!,” a hat tip to the soulful Southern rap that inspired him.
  
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• Pink Siifu, a Shape-Shifting Musician With One Demand: Don’t Box Me In

  17-08-2021 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The prolific 29-year-old rapper, singer and producer returned this month with “Gumbo’!,” a hat tip to the soulful Southern rap that inspired him.
  
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• What Constitutes Art Sales Under Duress? A Dispute Reignites the Question.

  17-08-2021 18:47 via nytimes.com
  
  A fight over a landscape painting bought for Hitler is focused on the question of whether its sale was voluntary or forced by economic distress the Nazis helped create.
  
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• Maggie Q Nourishes Herself With Local Produce and ‘Dateline’

  17-08-2021 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress talks about her latest movie, “The Protégé,” her fascination with “American Gigolo,” her dedication to rescue dogs, and the joy of Asian stand-up and soup.
  
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• Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios

  17-08-2021 18:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Daguerreotypes by James P. Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge and Augustus Washington are the centerpiece of a collection that could rewrite the early history of American photography.
  
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• Books That Cover Two Human Constants: Time and Motion

  17-08-2021 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  A review of Tom Standage’s “A Brief History of Motion” and David Rooney’s “About Time” delves into our concern with moving faster and checking our clocks.
  
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• Lincoln Center Hopes a $20 Million Donation Will Help Fuel a Revival

  17-08-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Eager for a comeback amid the pandemic, the center will distribute the gift to Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Ballet.
  
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• Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist

  17-08-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new memoir, “All In,” King is as concerned with political and social issues as she is with tennis.
  
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• Ellen Havre Weis, Whose Museum Put Pop Into Mythology, Dies at 64

  17-08-2021 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Mythology, in San Francisco, which she helped found, posited that advertising figures have emerged as the pre-eminent mythical figures of our time.
  
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• Paint En Plein Air Like a Pro With the Best Pochade Boxes

  17-08-2021 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  Sick of painting indoors? Then try doing it outdoors! For that, you’ll need something called a pochade box: a portable carry-all for brushes, paints, and mixing palettes, first adopted during the 19th-century by French Impressionists, for whom natural light was essential. Sometimes, brackets are built into the case to prop up small pieces of paper or board for rendering sketches—which the French call pochades—as you hold the box on your lap. Some larger versions even have colla
  
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• Review: Revisiting Four Nobodies in ‘[title of show]’

  17-08-2021 17:26 via nytimes.com
  
  For an outdoor residency at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Bridge Production Group breathes fresh life into a 2004 musical.
  
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• Denmark Now Has Two Little Mermaids. The Famous One Is Suing.

  17-08-2021 17:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The heirs of the artist behind the Copenhagen landmark want a similar statue torn down. And they want compensation, too.
  
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• A Memoir’s Painful Question: Where Are You From?

  17-08-2021 16:20 via nytimes.com
  
  “Names for Light,” by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, is a memoir recounted through the stories of family members.
  
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• Barbara Kruger Talks Copyright, Alibaba Offers NFTs, and More: Morning Links for August 17, 2021

  17-08-2021 15:30 via artnews.com
  
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  TODAY BRINGS A BOATLOAD OF FRESH ARTIST INTERVIEWS. Asked if she has ever taken copycats to court, Barbara Kruger told the Art Newspaper: “I don’t sue people. I will let all these corporations who are old-school robber barons do that. I think copyrights are euphemisms for corporate control on a certain level.”&n
  
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• HPD Reveals Plans for New Afro-Latin Music and Arts Center and Nearly 600 Affordable Homes in East Harlem - New York YIMBY

  17-08-2021 13:00 via newyorkyimby.com
  
  HPD Reveals Plans for New Afro-Latin Music and Arts Center and Nearly 600 Affordable Homes in East Harlem  New York YIMBY
  
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• A Painter’s Secret Roman Sanctuary

  17-08-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Roberto Ruspoli’s airy whitewashed studio in the attic of his childhood home is one big blank canvas.
  
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• Vinod Busjeet’s Debut Sets an Origin Story on the Island of Mauritius

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Silent Wind, Dry Seas,” a man of Indian descent leaves his country behind to chase an American ideal of success.
  
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• Three Short Story Collections That Use Humor to Overcome Hardship

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New story collections from Chris Stuck, Simon Rich and Jaime Cortez.
  
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• The Victorian Poet Who Sought to Capture Everyday Life in Her Verse

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Two-Way Mirror,” by Fiona Sampson, is the first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in many years. It aims to restore the now overlooked poet’s reputation as a major innovator.
  
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• The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new book by Eyal Press examines ethically fraught jobs on which our society depends and which we implicitly condone even as we pay other people to do them.
  
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• The Authors of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ Are Back With a New (Angry) Book

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In their new work, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, the feminist scholars who wrote the 1979 classic, examine literary manifestations of feminist anger from the second half of the 20th century to today.
  
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• It’s Never Too Late to Record Your First Album

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For a celebrated architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an album of 11 original songs, in a variety of genres, was eight decades in the making.
  
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• He Spent 14 Years at Guantánamo. This Is His Story.

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Don’t Forget Us Here,” by Mansoor Adayfi with Antonio Aiello, is the memoir of a Yemeni man who claims he was kidnapped in Afghanistan, sold to the C.I.A. and sent to the detention camp in a case of mistaken identity.
  
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• A Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk

  17-08-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The daring opera star Asmik Grigorian “could sing the phone book and it would be fabulous,” one director says.
  
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• After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits

  17-08-2021 09:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Since 1995, Helga Rabl-Stadler has ruled the Salzburg Festival, classical music’s premier annual event, as its president and public face.
  
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• Colbert on Afghanistan: ‘It’s Heartbreaking’

  17-08-2021 07:56 via nytimes.com
  
  “Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We’ve got our own on Capitol Hill,” Stephen Colbert said.
  
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• Afghan director issues warning of massacres, child brides, banned arts amid Taliban takeover - Fox News

  17-08-2021 06:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Afghan director issues warning of massacres, child brides, banned arts amid Taliban takeover  Fox News
  
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• Arts mission expands at Amite High | News | hammondstar.com - Hammond Daily Star online

  17-08-2021 06:30 via hammondstar.com
  Arts mission expands at Amite High | News | hammondstar.com  Hammond Daily Star online
  
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• Inaugural Greer Arts & Eats Festival coming to downtown Greer in October | GVLtoday - AVLtoday

  17-08-2021 06:01 via gvltoday.6amcity.com
  
  Inaugural Greer Arts & Eats Festival coming to downtown Greer in October | GVLtoday  AVLtoday
  
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• What's Southwest Arkansas Arts Council all about? - Texarkana Gazette

  17-08-2021 05:51 via texarkanagazette.com
  What's Southwest Arkansas Arts Council all about?  Texarkana Gazette
  
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• GAC receives grant in support of Putnam Visual Arts Exhibit - Banner Graphic

  17-08-2021 04:12 via bannergraphic.com
  GAC receives grant in support of Putnam Visual Arts Exhibit  Banner Graphic
  
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• Black Arts Festival honors families that made it possible - Hudson Valley 360

  17-08-2021 03:02 via hudsonvalley360.com
  
  Black Arts Festival honors families that made it possible  Hudson Valley 360
  
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• Access to culinary arts degrees, aeroponic gardening part of expanded ACHE programs - talkbusiness.net

  17-08-2021 03:00 via talkbusiness.net
  
  Access to culinary arts degrees, aeroponic gardening part of expanded ACHE programs  talkbusiness.net
  
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• Arts & Crafts fair at the State Fair of West Virginia sees less entries than expected - WVNS-TV

  17-08-2021 02:51 via wvnstv.com
  Arts & Crafts fair at the State Fair of West Virginia sees less entries than expected  WVNS-TV
  
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• Theater Director With Exaggerated Résumé Quits, Citing Mental Illness

  17-08-2021 02:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher Massimine found success as a theater executive in New York and Utah, but resigned after facing questions about errors on his résumé, saying he had mental illness.
  
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• Watch This Summery, Soapy New Drama Starring Nicole Kidman

  17-08-2021 00:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Looking for something to watch this week? Our critic recommends “Nine Perfect Strangers” a lush new David E. Kelley adaptation of a book by Liane Moriarty.
  
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• Post from Community: Heroes Day at the Marcus Performing Arts Center - Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

  17-08-2021 00:20 via milwaukeenns.org
  
  Post from Community: Heroes Day at the Marcus Performing Arts Center  Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
  
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• Bernards Township: Accepting Nominations For The Mayor's Arts Awards - Patch.com

  17-08-2021 00:16 via patch.com
  
  Bernards Township: Accepting Nominations For The Mayor's Arts Awards  Patch.com
  
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