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• Guzman Martial Arts opens dojo in Mesilla Valley Mall - Las Cruces Sun-News

  12-10-2021 23:35
  Guzman Martial Arts opens dojo in Mesilla Valley Mall  Las Cruces Sun-News
  
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• Senator Brown visits Dayton Arcade and local performing arts, showcases grant funding - Dayton 24/7 Now

  12-10-2021 23:10
  
  Senator Brown visits Dayton Arcade and local performing arts, showcases grant funding  Dayton 24/7 Now
  
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• Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance

  12-10-2021 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The Portuguese artist and psychoanalyst examines postcolonial trauma in her U.S. debut in Brooklyn. The stakes are universal, she says.
  
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• 228 Arts Institutions Laid Off 28% of Workers After Receiving PPP Loans, Research Says - Hyperallergic

  12-10-2021 22:52
  
  228 Arts Institutions Laid Off 28% of Workers After Receiving PPP Loans, Research Says  Hyperallergic
  
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• The Chattery Announces Arts For Older Adults Program - The Chattanoogan

  12-10-2021 22:48
  The Chattery Announces Arts For Older Adults Program  The Chattanoogan
  
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• Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right

  12-10-2021 22:10 via nytimes.com
  
  In an essay adapted from remarks he delivered at PEN America’s annual literary gala, the renowned Harvard scholar and author argues that readers and writers must be allowed to engage freely with subjects of their choice.
  
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• New culinary arts center set to open at Brunswick Community College - WWAY NewsChannel 3

  12-10-2021 21:58
  
  New culinary arts center set to open at Brunswick Community College  WWAY NewsChannel 3
  
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• ‘Convergence: Courage in a Crisis’ Review: Tracing a Pandemic’s Arc

  12-10-2021 21:46 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix documentary, filmed in different countries throughout 2020, is grueling to watch.
  
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• Dunster's legacy boosted arts, media in Lima - LimaOhio.com

  12-10-2021 21:44
  
  Dunster's legacy boosted arts, media in Lima  LimaOhio.com
  
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• 2021 Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival announces lineup of featured artists - KSAT San Antonio

  12-10-2021 21:31
  
  2021 Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival announces lineup of featured artists  KSAT San Antonio
  
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• Martin Sherwin, Prize-winning Biographer of Oppenheimer, Dies at 84

  12-10-2021 21:28 via nytimes.com
  
  A historian of the nuclear age, he and his co-author, Kai Bird, won a 2006 Pulitzer for their book about the scientist behind the atom bomb.
  
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• Julie Mehretu Becomes Third Artist Ever to Join Whitney Board

  12-10-2021 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mehretu is one of seven new trustees who have been added over the past year and the third artist in the board’s history, after Chuck Close and Fred Wilson.
  
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• A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience

  12-10-2021 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The Isarphilharmonie in Munich, a prefabricated stopgap during a renovation, is trying to lure listeners far from the city center.
  
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• A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art

  12-10-2021 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Carole Angier’s “Speak, Silence” is the first major biography of the renowned German writer who put people he knew into his work, infuriating many of them.
  
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• Cecily Strong to Make New York Theater Debut at the Shed

  12-10-2021 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The “S.N.L.” star steps into a role originated by Lily Tomlin, and Claudia Rankine’s “Help” gets its pandemic-delayed world premiere in the new Shed season.
  
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• Midvalley Performing Arts Center - Engineering News-Record

  12-10-2021 20:00
  
  Midvalley Performing Arts Center  Engineering News-Record
  
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• Flint Institute of Arts Features Israeli Photorealist Yigal Ozeri — Detroit Jewish News - The Jewish News

  12-10-2021 20:00
  
  Flint Institute of Arts Features Israeli Photorealist Yigal Ozeri — Detroit Jewish News  The Jewish News
  
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• Review: ‘Dopesick’ Depicts the Opioid Crisis From All Sides

  12-10-2021 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  A Hulu mini-series traces the story of OxyContin from the offices of Purdue Pharma to the examining room of an Appalachian doctor (played by Michael Keaton).
  
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• Motorcycle or Artwork? Christo’s Wrapped Vespa Is Parked at Frieze London

  12-10-2021 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  The wrapped Arc de Triomphe, the final realization of a dream that artist Christo had for 60 years before his death at 84 in 2019, is rightly being celebrated, but I’ve always preferred his wrapped vehicles. That Parisian monument isn’t going anywhere, whereas the vehicles might, if they weren’t smothered in cloth. There is something eerie, even uncanny, about their stilled motion and muffled motors. They give new meaning to the driver’s blind spot.
  Christo’s first
  
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• Gavin Creel Lets His Imagination Run Wild With Gay Stories and House Music

  12-10-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, singer and songwriter, whose new show is inspired by the Met, talks about finding clarity with Yung Pueblo and the spiritual aspects of Grape-Nuts.
  
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• A Survivor of Suicide Writes of His State of ‘Eternal Dying’

  12-10-2021 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new memoir, “One Friday in April,” Donald Antrim tells his own story and argues that a suicide attempt is “a disease process, not an act or a choice.”
  
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• Atta Kwami, Painter Who Adroitly Repurposed Ghanaian Traditions, Is Dead at 65

  12-10-2021 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  Atta Kwami, a Ghanaian painter whose abstractions elegantly established a continuum between Africa’s past and present, has died at 65. The Serpentine Galleries in London, which is set to stage an exhibition of Kwami’s work in 2022, announced his passing on Tuesday.
  Kwami’s paintings often resemble colorful arrays of geometric forms that are organized in ways that recall grids. But unlike the neat arrangements seen in works by Piet Mondrian and Agnes Martin, Kwami’s compos
  
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• Neil LaBute Seeks ‘The Answer to Everything’ in Germany

  12-10-2021 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The American playwright’s first new play since he parted ways with his theater in 2018 during the #MeToo movement finds a stage far from New York.
  
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• 'Speaking of The Arts': Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn | 90.1 FM WABE - WABE 90.1 FM

  12-10-2021 18:47
  
  'Speaking of The Arts': Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn | 90.1 FM WABE  WABE 90.1 FM
  
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• How Xenia Rubinos Freed Herself on a New Album, ‘Una Rosa’

  12-10-2021 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  On her third LP, the singer-songwriter brings her brassy vocals to a surreal, electronic universe.
  
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• Ruthie Tompson Dies at 111; Breathed Animated Life Into Disney Films

  12-10-2021 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  One of a cadre of women who worked behind the scenes, she did indispensable but anonymous work on classics like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Pinocchio.”
  
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• In J.K. Rowling’s Latest Fantasy Novel, Pigs Do Fly

  12-10-2021 18:34 via nytimes.com
  
  After his beloved stuffed toy is hurled out the car window, a boy and its despised replacement, “The Christmas Pig,” traverse an underworld of loss.
  
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• Book Review: ‘The Christmas Pig,’ by J.K. Rowling

  12-10-2021 18:34 via nytimes.com
  
  After his beloved stuffed toy is hurled out the car window, a boy and its despised replacement, “The Christmas Pig,” traverse an underworld of loss.
  
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• Beanie Feldstein Feels It All in ‘Impeachment’

  12-10-2021 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor spends most of Tuesday’s episode in tears or hysterics as the show recreates Monica Lewinsky’s detainment by the F.B.I. “I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it,” Feldstein said.
  
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• As Monica Lewinsky in 'Impeachment,' Beanie Feldstein Feels It All

  12-10-2021 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor spends most of Tuesday’s episode in tears or hysterics as the show recreates Monica Lewinsky’s detainment by the F.B.I. “I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it,” Feldstein said.
  
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• Elegant and contemporary: National Arts Club exhibits Andy Warhol | amNewYork - AMNY

  12-10-2021 18:20
  Elegant and contemporary: National Arts Club exhibits Andy Warhol | amNewYork  AMNY
  
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• At Bessie Awards, Dancers Gather to Celebrate Pandemic Art

  12-10-2021 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The annual awards show recognized performers across a variety of genres, including hip-hop and flamenco.
  
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• The Music Lost to Coronavirus, Part 3

  12-10-2021 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Remembering Jacob Desvarieux, John Davis and Chucky Thompson.
  
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• Electronic Arts and FIFPRO Renew Partnership to Continue Delivering the Most Authentic Football Experiences to Players - Business Wire

  12-10-2021 17:45
  
  Electronic Arts and FIFPRO Renew Partnership to Continue Delivering the Most Authentic Football Experiences to Players  Business Wire
  
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• High-Stakes Bidding: A Look at the Year’s Top Auction Buyers and Sellers

  12-10-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  In the past, financial crises have proven particularly grim for auction houses, and the pandemic’s economic impact was no different; it caused a slump in annual sales for the world’s top auction houses—Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips—of 16 percent to 25 percent.
  By June, however, sales volume had bounced back to pre-pandemic levels, the financial lag only momentarily deterring big spenders across the globe. The spring sales drew “a lot of eager bidde
  
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• High-End Design Comes to the Fish Tank

  12-10-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Luxury home aquariums now can rival installations at public aquariums in size and scale, and they come with hefty price tags.
  
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• Collecting for the Future: A Look at What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in 2021

  12-10-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  What does it take to rank among the world’s Top 200 Collectors? If there is a common denominator, it is a commitment to art that is an integral part of one’s identity. For Los Angeles–based Eli Broad, who, along with his wife, Edythe, was on this list every year from its very first edition, in 1990, until his death this past year, that commitment expressed itself in generosity—by way of the lending library he made of his collection—seasoned with more than a pinch of
  
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• One Woman Won a Nobel This Year. Quotas Aren’t the Answer, an Official Says.

  12-10-2021 16:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Only one of the 13 laureates this year was a woman, but the head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences dismissed the idea of guaranteeing representation.
  
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• Business Council for the Arts (BCA) honors Gensler Dallas in 2021 Obelisk Awards - Local Profile

  12-10-2021 16:55
  
  Business Council for the Arts (BCA) honors Gensler Dallas in 2021 Obelisk Awards  Local Profile
  
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• Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked

  12-10-2021 16:18 via nytimes.com
  
  When I discovered the record, it felt like the bizarre offspring of my deepest, dorkiest passions: theater and dad rock.
  
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• Sally Rooney Declines to Sell Translation Rights to Israeli Publisher

  12-10-2021 16:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The author of “Beautiful World, Where Are You” turned down an offer from an Israeli publisher to translate the novel to Hebrew, citing her support for Palestinians “in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality.”
  
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• ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz?

  12-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The rock opera, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, opened on Broadway on Oct. 12, 1971, to protests, an irate composer — and sold-out shows.
  
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• Archaeologists Unearth Massive Winemaking Complex, Architect Owen Luder Dies, and More: Morning Links for October 12, 2021

  12-10-2021 14:24 via artnews.com
  
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  ARCHAEOLOGY BLOTTER: VICE EDITION. Archaeologists in Israel said that they have found a winemaking complex in the town of Yavne that is around 500 years old and that could churn out some 500,000 gallons a year in its heyday, the Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, scientists working in Utah have found evidence that hum
  
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• A Designer Who Finds Beauty in Decay

  12-10-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a Warsaw warehouse, Marcin Rusak turns decomposing plant material into polished pieces that degrade over time.
  
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• When a Factory Relocates to Mexico, What Happens to Its American Workers?

  12-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “American Made,” by Farah Stockman, is a deeply reported account of three workers at a ball bearing plant in Indianapolis, as the factory closes down and they lose their jobs.
  
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• Victoria Chang’s ‘Dear Memory’ Is a Multimedia Exploration of Grief

  12-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new book, Victoria Chang brings together letters, photos, marriage certificates, floor plans and other documents to examine memory and loss.
  
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• ‘Squid Game’ Has Made Tracksuits Hot

  12-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The dystopian Netflix hit from South Korea is proving an unexpected style influence. Here’s why.
  
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• How One Woman Fell In Love Again After 80

  12-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For Phyllis Raphael, 86, a chance meeting on the street turned into a get-together. Then came a date. A second and third followed. So did a love affair.
  
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• He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale

  12-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “All of the Marvels,” Douglas Wolk went down a very deep rabbit hole to find the essence of what he calls the “epic of epics.”
  
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• Diane Williams Navigates the Tricky Business of Intimacy

  12-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “How High? — That High,” her new story collection, is rooted in the dramatic potential of affairs and erotic regret.
  
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