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• A New Arts Compound in East Williamsburg That Draws You In - Curbed

  23-09-2021 23:31 via curbed.com
  
  A New Arts Compound in East Williamsburg That Draws You In  Curbed
  
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• Getty Foundation Awards $1.3 M. for Preservation of Wupatki National Monument

  23-09-2021 23:28 via artnews.com
  
  The Wupatki National Monument in Arizona, a rich repository of archaeological history and the ancestral homestead of several Southwestern Indigenous tribes, will soon be the focus of a major preservation project.
  The Los Angeles-based Getty Foundation has announced a $1.3 million grant awarded to the Center for Architectural Conservation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, which is tasked with developing a new conservation and management plan for the red-r
  
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• In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together

  23-09-2021 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  In new exhibitions at the Metropolitan Opera and David Kordansky Gallery, the artist offers a story of recovery — personal and collective — after a “blunt force trauma.”
  
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• CAP UCLA's Kristy Edmunds, a key leader in L.A. arts, to leave for MASS MoCA - Los Angeles Times

  23-09-2021 22:33 via latimes.com
  
  CAP UCLA's Kristy Edmunds, a key leader in L.A. arts, to leave for MASS MoCA  Los Angeles Times
  
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• College of Arts and Sciences Announces 2021-22 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series | | SBU News - Stony Brook News

  23-09-2021 22:27 via news.stonybrook.edu
  
  College of Arts and Sciences Announces 2021-22 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series | | SBU News  Stony Brook News
  
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• Fun things coming up: ArtWorks Day, Seward Music and Arts Festival, the return of the Anchorage Symphony - Anchorage Daily News

  23-09-2021 22:15 via adn.com
  
  Fun things coming up: ArtWorks Day, Seward Music and Arts Festival, the return of the Anchorage Symphony  Anchorage Daily News
  
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• The Tony Awards Are Back. Here's What To Expect.

  23-09-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The ceremony is taking place at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday. We bring you up to speed on everything that has happened since the shutdown.
  
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• The Long-Delayed Tony Awards Are Almost Here. This Is What to Expect.

  23-09-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The ceremony is taking place at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday. We bring you up to speed on everything that has happened since the shutdown.
  
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• Review: 'Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror' Divides and Conquers

  23-09-2021 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mind/Mirror,” a monumental retrospective at the Whitney Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reveals an artist’s protean talent, changing perspectives and resiliency over six decades.
  
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• Kerry James Marshall to Design Stained Glass Windows for the National Cathedral Following Removal of Confederate Symbols

  23-09-2021 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  Kerry James Marshall has been tapped to design new windows for the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., church officials announced. The previous windows, which had been donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1953, honored the two Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
  In 2015, the windows became a point of contention. Two years later in 2017, the National Cathedral decided to remove the two stained glass windows honoring Lee and Jackson. At the time, 9 people had ju
  
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• Kerry James Marshall to Design Stained Glass Windows for National Cathedral Following Removal of Confederate Symbols

  23-09-2021 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  Kerry James Marshall has been tapped to design new windows for the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., church officials announced. The previous windows, which had been donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1953, honored the Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
  In 2015, the windows became a point of contention. Two years later, in 2017, the National Cathedral decided to remove the two stained glass windows honoring Lee and Jackson. At the time, nine people had ju
  
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• The U.S. Now Has a Museum Dedicated to the American Arts and Crafts Movement - Architectural Digest

  23-09-2021 21:39 via architecturaldigest.com
  
  The U.S. Now Has a Museum Dedicated to the American Arts and Crafts Movement  Architectural Digest
  
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• MASS MoCA Names Influential Performing Arts Center Leader as New Director

  23-09-2021 20:47 via artnews.com
  
  MASS MoCA, the venerated contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, has picked an influential figure in the performing arts world to replace Joe Thompson, the institution’s founding director, who left last October after 32 years at the helm. Kristy Edmunds, the current executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the second-ever director of MASS MoCA. She will begin her new role in October.
  
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• María Mendiola, Half of a Chart-Topping Disco Duo, Dies at 69

  23-09-2021 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie,” which she and a fellow ballet dancer recorded under the name Baccara, became one of the disco anthems of the 1970s.
  
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• "Art All Night, the District's only free all-night arts festival, will return in-person for a two-day activation on Friday and Saturday" - PoPville

  23-09-2021 20:35 via popville.com
  
  "Art All Night, the District's only free all-night arts festival, will return in-person for a two-day activation on Friday and Saturday"  PoPville
  
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• Can a Coma Be Contagious?

  23-09-2021 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Sleeping Beauties,” Suzanne O’Sullivan examines those poorly understood conditions that fall at the tangled intersection of body and mind, like mysterious outbreaks of mass illness.
  
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• Gallery space a 'dream come true' for Pearland Arts League - Houston Chronicle

  23-09-2021 20:12 via houstonchronicle.com
  
  Gallery space a 'dream come true' for Pearland Arts League  Houston Chronicle
  
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• How Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald Will Host the Tony Awards

  23-09-2021 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The two discussed the ceremony’s recognition of Broadway’s reopening, but also its pandemic losses.
  
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• Lee Greenwood 'shocked' by being replaced on arts council by Biden administration - WZTV

  23-09-2021 19:57 via fox17.com
  
  Lee Greenwood 'shocked' by being replaced on arts council by Biden administration  WZTV
  
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• Camille Cottin, de "Dix pour Cent" à Hollywood

  23-09-2021 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Après le succès fulgurant de la série aux USA, la comédienne joue avec Matt Damon dans “Stillwater”, de Tom McCarthy. “Vous ne pouvez quasiment pas la quitter des yeux quand elle est à l’écran,” dit le réalisateur.
  
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• Review: At City Ballet, Getting Back to Showing New Work, Live

  23-09-2021 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Mauro Bigonzetti’s premiere was slight, but a way to show off Maria Kowroski, who retires in October.
  
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• San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Art Produce, Bodhi Tree, 'The Garden,' Art + Science And 'Unwind' - KPBS

  23-09-2021 19:48 via kpbs.org
  
  San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Art Produce, Bodhi Tree, 'The Garden,' Art + Science And 'Unwind'  KPBS
  
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• New Director for Mass MoCA

  23-09-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Kristy Edmunds is to replace the museum’s longtime leader, Joseph C. Thompson, in October.
  
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• ‘Stillwater’, l’autre tragédie américaine

  23-09-2021 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Dans le dernier film de Tom McCarthy, le rôle tenu par Matt Damon est sur-travaillé, d’une réserve plombante. Mais l’électrique Camille Cottin donne de la force à son personnage et de la gravité à ses scènes.
  
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• ‘Birds of Paradise’ Review: Dirty Dancing

  23-09-2021 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  In this florid drama streaming on Amazon, two contestants for a prestigious dance award stop at nothing to prevail.
  
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• ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Review: You’ve Got a Friend (Not)

  23-09-2021 18:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Ben Platt returns in the movie version of the Broadway hit about a lonely teenager who exploits a classmate’s tragedy.
  
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• Critical Eye: Publishing Amid the Museum’s Ruins

  23-09-2021 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  During a 2012 conversation at Art Basel, artist Adam Pendleton told curator Jenny Schlenzka, “I have a copy machine. It’s the queen of my studio.” The remark was offhand, yet revealing and generous. Pendleton, who is in his mid-thirties, has a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, printmaking, book arts, performance, filmmaking, sculpture, and event organizing. At times he describes himself as a conceptualist but, eschewing rigid emphasis on systems and nonrepresent
  
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• Hamburger Bahnhof Extension Saved from Demolition by Real Estate Developer

  23-09-2021 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  Austrian real estate developer CA Immo is expected to drop its plans to demolish an extension to the Hamburger Bahnhof after reaching an agreement with the Berlin contemporary art museum. The agreement will likely bring an end to a battle that nearly cost the museum the ability to display pieces from Friedrich Christian Flick’s 1,500-work collection.
  The negotiations with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees the Hamburger Bahnhof, may also become a crucial part of the
  
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• The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites

  23-09-2021 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Their notable titles include the opening-night movie, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” directed by a solo Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
  
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• Port Authority to Host Public Art Photo Project

  23-09-2021 18:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “Inside Out: NY Together,” which will feature large-scale black-and-white portraits of people who walk by the transit hub, focuses on community.
  
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• Robert Gentile, Sole Remaining Person of Interest in Gardner Museum Heist, Has Died at 85

  23-09-2021 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  Robert Gentile, the alleged mobster thought to have been the last person alive with knowledge of who committed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist, has died at the age of 85. The cause of death was a stroke. He died at Connecticut’s Hartford Hospital on Friday, his attorney Ryan McGuigan confirmed to the Hartford Courant, which first reported news of Gentile’s passing.
  Gentile, who known in some circles by his nickname “The Cook,” was thought to have helped conc
  
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• Why Joint Acquisitions May Be the Way Forward for Cash-Strapped Museums

  23-09-2021 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  It didn’t take long for visitors to Dia:Beacon to fall for Sam Gilliam’s vibrantly colored abstract painting Double Merge (1968), an enormous canvas cascading from the ceiling, when it went on display two years ago, on long-term loan from a private collector. “It is beloved by our audience,” said the museum’s head, Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan, who herself was taken with the piece. “I think with so many things in Dia:Beacon, once you install them
  
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• Mississippi Arts Commission to grant ARP funds to arts sector in Mississippi - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

  23-09-2021 17:45 via djournal.com
  
  Mississippi Arts Commission to grant ARP funds to arts sector in Mississippi  Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
  
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• Pieced Together: Mary Lee Bendolph at Nicelle Beauchene

  23-09-2021 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  In the kaleidoscopic patterns of the eleven quilts on display in Mary Lee Bendolph’s exhibition “Piece of Mind” at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, each stitch, swatch, and geometric configuration feels as important as the larger work of which it is a part. Bendolph hails from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and she inherited the piecework quilt-making techniques and visual styles that generations of Black women developed and passed down in that hamlet on a peninsula. Bendolph and other G
  
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• Arts Communities in OC and LA Mourn the Passing of Paul Musco - Voice of OC

  23-09-2021 17:32 via voiceofoc.org
  
  Arts Communities in OC and LA Mourn the Passing of Paul Musco  Voice of OC
  
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• A dozen things to do as the fall arts season begins - MinnPost

  23-09-2021 17:07 via minnpost.com
  
  A dozen things to do as the fall arts season begins  MinnPost
  
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• Iwan and Manuela Wirth Drop $8.75 Million on Richard Neutra’s Iconic Lovell Health House

  23-09-2021 16:46 via artnews.com
  
  Interior view of the Lovell Health House designed by Richard Neutra.
  After more than one and a half years on the market with an asking price that was initially closely guarded and later revealed to be $11.5 million, Viennese architect Richard Neutra’s iconic Lovell Health House, in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood, has been sold for $8.75 million.
  It was revealed in a recent article in The New Yorker that Swiss “art-world potentates” Iwan and Manuela Wirth are
  
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• A behind the scenes look into U.Va's upcoming Arts Week - University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily

  23-09-2021 16:31 via cavalierdaily.com
  A behind the scenes look into U.Va's upcoming Arts Week  University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
  
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• Mo Abudu Isn’t Waiting for Permission

  23-09-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Known as “Africa’s answer to Oprah,” Abudu has built a media empire aimed at bringing Nigerian stories to the world. Her huge Netflix deal should help.
  
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• Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia?

  23-09-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  ABC’s reboot is conscious of how remembering the old days is more complicated for its Black characters.
  
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• CVPA Gets $34-K Grant to Promote Fine Arts. - Alabama State University

  23-09-2021 14:00 via alasu.edu
  CVPA Gets $34-K Grant to Promote Fine Arts.  Alabama State University
  
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• Wrapped Arc de Triomphe Draws Criticism, Art Institute of Chicago Staffers Organize, and More: Morning Links for September 23, 2021

  23-09-2021 13:55 via artnews.com
  
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  THE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED. The Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been wrapped, as the latest artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude intended, and the reactions are rolling in. Some are less than positive. A right-wing French politician dubbed it “a garbage bag draped over one of our most glorious monuments,” Sebasti
  
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• Terence Blanchard Is the Metropolitan Opera’s First Black Composer

  23-09-2021 13:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Terence Blanchard, best known for scoring Spike Lee films, reopens the 138-year-old opera company with “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.”
  
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• ‘The Starling’ Review: For the Birds

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Melissa McCarthy stars in this film on Netflix that takes shortcuts, at nearly every turn, in portraying the messiness of acceptance.
  
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• ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Review: A Cautionary Tale

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 1971 film “Death in Venice” showcased the delicate androgyny of Bjorn Andresen’s face and form, but the changes it wrought on his life are indelible.
  
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• ‘My Little Pony: A New Generation’ Review: The Ponies Get Political

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest entry in the children’s franchise pits an eclectic team of progressive ponies against a fear mongering demagogue and the prejudices of their communities at large
  
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• ‘My Little Pony: A New Generation’ Review

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest entry in the children’s franchise pits an eclectic team of progressive ponies against a fear mongering demagogue and the prejudices of their communities at large
  
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• ‘Je Suis Karl’ Review: Not Marx. The Opposite, In Fact.

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This drama on Netflix tries to make a hard-hitting statement about youth and the far right in Europe, but it muddles basics of plausibility and structure.
  
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• ‘I’m Your Man’ Review: Living Doll

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Dan Stevens plays a dreamy, pleasure-driven android in this delightful near-future romance.
  
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• ‘El Planeta’ Review: A Comedy of Austerity

  23-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this dry Spanish comedy, a mother and daughter commit to grifting as a full-time job.
  
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