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• Fine Arts Foundation of the Westby Area (FAFWA) holds annual meeting - The Westby Times

  20-10-2021 23:30
  
  Fine Arts Foundation of the Westby Area (FAFWA) holds annual meeting  The Westby Times
  
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• ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines?

  20-10-2021 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Wes Anderson pays antic tribute to the old New Yorker and its far-flung correspondents.
  
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• Volta Cancels Miami Fair, Citing Pandemic Restrictions: ‘We Did Everything in Our Power’

  20-10-2021 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  Less than two months before it was set to take place, the Volta art fair has canceled its first-ever fair in Miami. According to Artnet News, the fair decided to call off its 2021 edition amid a combination of pandemic restrictions and organizational issues, including difficulty nailing down a venue. Volta had been set to open in November, alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA Miami, and Untitled.
  On its website, Volta lists fairs set to take place in New York and Basel, Switzerland, next year.
  
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• Illegal Excavations of Cultural Property Surged During Pandemic: Interpol Survey

  20-10-2021 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  Illegal activity involving cultural property has spiked during the global Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by the international police organization Interpol.
  In 2020, the rate of illegal excavations of cultural heritage increased across the world beyond pre-pandemic levels, according to Interpol’s “Assessing Crimes Against Cultural Property” report. Africa saw an increase in offenses related to digs, up from 44 incidents in 2019 to 153 in 2020. The starkest increase
  
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• The Albums That Transport You

  20-10-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
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• Flight Patterns: John Akomfrah at Lisson Gallery

  20-10-2021 21:55 via artnews.com
  
  No need to beat around the bush: Five Murmurations is the most haunting, wrenching new work of art I’ve seen so far this decade—appropriately so, since its subject is the haunting, wrenching state of the decade so far. In the three-channel video installation, which was on view this month at Lisson Gallery, British-Ghanaian filmmaker John Akomfrah studies the global shutdown and the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd with a cool, cerebral gloom. Without presuming to ex
  
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• Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal

  20-10-2021 21:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Classical music’s live performance comeback continued with concerts by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
  
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• Collector to Watch: Dani Chakour Combines Love and Reason by Buying Art

  20-10-2021 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  For Lebanese entrepreneur Dani Chakour, collecting art is a marriage of love and reason. “The marriage of love usually ends up failing, and the marriage of reason usually also ends up failing,” he said. “But if you combine a marriage of love and reason, it will last longer.” When he first started buying, he would purchase work by following his instincts; he has since abandoned that strategy. “I don’t buy only because I love the work,” he said. “The
  
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• Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethics Guidelines for Their Work

  20-10-2021 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  New, international standards for handling ancient genetic material draw support from many scientists, criticism from others.
  
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• Lovelorn Arts Prof Imprisoned for Butchering Colleague With Fire Poker - Yahoo News

  20-10-2021 20:48
  
  Lovelorn Arts Prof Imprisoned for Butchering Colleague With Fire Poker  Yahoo News
  
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• The Revolutionary Model Turned Painter

  20-10-2021 20:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Suzanne Valadon taught herself to paint while modeling for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. A revelatory new survey at the Barnes Collection shows what she learned.
  
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• Local arts organizations to host free arts integration professional development for teachers on Nov. 2 - Richland Source

  20-10-2021 19:41
  Local arts organizations to host free arts integration professional development for teachers on Nov. 2  Richland Source
  
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• Review: ‘Songs for a New World,’ Stuck in Another Time

  20-10-2021 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Jason Robert Brown’s show is beginning to show its age, but Carolee Carmello’s deft performance lifts an otherwise straightforward revival.
  
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• R. Kelly to Face Another Trial in Chicago, Next August

  20-10-2021 19:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The R&B star was convicted last month in Brooklyn of sex trafficking and racketeering charges after decades of sexual abuse allegations.
  
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• Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged

  20-10-2021 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The organization opened its season with a program encapsulating a persistently conservative vision of the repertory.
  
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• ‘Chameleon Street’: The Art of the Con

  20-10-2021 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  This forgotten 1990 movie, now showing at Brooklyn Academy of Music, introduced a Black confidence man who played with the assumptions of a white world.
  
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• Hannah Wilke: Living As Art

  20-10-2021 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  To live one’s life as art has advantages over living one’s life for art, not the least of which is that it is often more fun. Hannah Wilke’s work—currently the subject of a retrospective at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis—is testament to art’s generative and relational potential. Wilke developed a practice in which the boundaries between herself and her art dissolved. “I become my art, my art becomes me,” she wrote in “A Letter to W
  
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• With His New Album, 'Far In,' Helado Negro Confronts Earthly Anxieties

  20-10-2021 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The Ecuadorean American musician’s new album, “Far In,” is filled with celestial lullabies that confront earthly anxieties.
  
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• Arts Festival - City of Little Rock

  20-10-2021 18:27
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• Meet the New Owners of the Wu-Tang Clan’s One-of-a-Kind Album

  20-10-2021 18:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The government sold “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” to satisfy a judgment against its first owner, Martin Shkreli. It ended up with a collective called PleasrDAO that paid an intermediary $4 million.
  
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• Collector to Watch: Charles Boyd Creates a ‘Link to the Past’ with His Expanding Holdings

  20-10-2021 17:58 via artnews.com
  
  When he was a pre-med student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Charles Boyd said, he didn’t have time for much else; his life was “science, science, science.” But an art appreciation class on African-American art in 1987 changed the course of his life, ultimately inspiring him to build a formidable collection of historical and contemporary art.
  “I’ve always loved art, loved beauty,” the Michigan-based plastic surgeon and entrepreneur said. He made his
  
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• USF Center Director Lands Historic $8.5 Million Arts Learning Grant - Sarasota

  20-10-2021 17:46
  
  USF Center Director Lands Historic $8.5 Million Arts Learning Grant  Sarasota
  
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• Artist Lucien Smith Joins NFT-Oriented Equity Management Firm to Address Market Imbalances

  20-10-2021 17:38 via artnews.com
  
  Lucien Smith, whose abstract paintings have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, is making another foray into the world of NFTs. Last week, Lobus, an equity management firm focused on artists and collectors, said it had picked the artist as the director of its Cultural Innovation Lab, a position that will see him pitch artists on using blockchain technology to manage their assets.
  Best-known for his “Rain Paintings,” which were flipped by collectors during the early 2010s as pa
  
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• The Return of the Shadowman

  20-10-2021 17:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A stealth artist from Seattle has been replicating the ’80s street art of Richard Hambleton throughout Manhattan. Is this a tribute, a marketing tool — or both?
  
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• Blacktag, a New Streaming Service, Has Big Plans

  20-10-2021 17:20 via nytimes.com
  
  A new streaming platform wants to be a destination for Black audiences around the world.
  
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• Ian Cheng’s Life After Bob

  20-10-2021 17:16 via artnews.com
  
  From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Matrix, from Ghost in the Shell to Paprika (and its American counterpart, Inception), all the way to the German miniseries World on a Wire, the interaction between humans and artificial intelligences has been an inspiration for artists and filmmakers for decades. Artist Ian Cheng, whose work is rooted in live simulations, has been pondering this relationship in his practice since 2012.
  His latest endeavor is a series of animated films called Life After BOB, whos
  
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• ‘Found’ Review: Three Adoptees Seek Their China Roots

  20-10-2021 17:10 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary, taking emotional cues from the teenagers at its center, is smart, illuminating and tender.
  
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• Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethical Guidelines for Their Work

  20-10-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  New, international standards for handling ancient genetic material draw support from many scientists, criticism from others.
  
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• An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater

  20-10-2021 16:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Thomas Forster, promoted to principal dancer during the pandemic, makes his New York debut in “Giselle” as the company returns to Lincoln Center.
  
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• ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson

  20-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The painter’s painter, who died young in 1966 after an all-too-brief career, still casts a long shadow. he continues to inspire Peter Doig, Rashid Johnson, Naudline Pierre and Henry Taylor.
  
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• AMC to Add Onscreen Captions at Some Locations

  20-10-2021 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The move was lauded by advocates for the deaf and the hard of hearing, but theater owners worry audiences don’t want captions.
  
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• AMC Adds Open Captioning at Theaters in Move Toward Accessibility

  20-10-2021 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The move was lauded by advocates for the deaf and the hard of hearing, but theater owners worry audiences don’t want captions.
  
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• How 90 L.A. arts groups are spending COVID relief funds - Los Angeles Times

  20-10-2021 15:00
  
  How 90 L.A. arts groups are spending COVID relief funds  Los Angeles Times
  
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• From Henry Louis Gates Jr., Another Scholarly Megaproject

  20-10-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A book series from Penguin will feature leading writers on the legacy of Black figures including W.E.B. DuBois, John Hope Franklin, Toni Morrison and Stevie Wonder.
  
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• Martha Stewart Mints Richard Prince–Riffing NFT, Crusader’s Sword Found, and More: Morning Links for October 20, 2021

  20-10-2021 14:16 via artnews.com
  
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  ARCHAEOLOGY AFICIONADOS, TODAY IS YOUR DAY. A diver in Israel recently came across a number of objects, including a sizable sword likely used by a knight in the Crusades, NPR reports. “It is exciting to encounter such a personal object, taking you 900 years back in time to a different era,” an official with the nation
  
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• Center for the Arts presents Art in the Open - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff - University at Buffalo Reporter

  20-10-2021 14:13
  
  Center for the Arts presents Art in the Open - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff  University at Buffalo Reporter
  
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• At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts

  20-10-2021 14:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Sofia Gubaidulina and her richly colored, rhythmically adventurous music are being celebrated around the world this season.
  
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• Grand Forks Public Arts Commission board names new executive director - Grand Forks Herald

  20-10-2021 14:00
  
  Grand Forks Public Arts Commission board names new executive director  Grand Forks Herald
  
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• ‘Night Teeth’ Review: You’re So Vein

  20-10-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this spiritless Netflix movie, an unwitting chauffeur in Los Angeles is drawn into a murderous vampire plot.
  
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• Putting West African Art in a Global Spotlight

  20-10-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  With galleries in Ivory Coast and Senegal, Cécile Fakhoury has built a platform for regional artists and collectors. Her next stops: Paris and FIAC.
  
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• Art to See in Paris This Fall

  20-10-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Classic masterpieces and contemporary works are on view, along with an extravaganza all about Napoleon.
  
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• A Show With Its Host City, New Orleans, as the Protagonist

  20-10-2021 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The contemporary art triennial Prospect New Orleans looks at the city’s cyclical history of challenges.
  
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• Writing About a Past Injustice Helped Her See What Has and Hasn’t Changed

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nadifa Mohamed is a Booker Prize finalist for her novel “The Fortune Men,” a story about a false accusation and the tragedy that resulted.
  
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• ‘The End of Bias’ Says There’s Hope for Meaningful Change

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new book, Jessica Nordell examines ways to overcome unexamined stereotypes and the harm they cause.
  
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• Pablo Picasso’s Life Under Surveillance

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A museum show in Paris explores the Spanish artist’s time in France, where his connections and celebrity made him a suspect in the eyes of officials.
  
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• On a Once-Hidden Estate, a Sculpture Show With Deep Emotional Resonance

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Inspired by photos of dancers, 29 works by Kristine Mays celebrate the enslaved people who once toiled on such properties.
  
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• Museums Use Technology to Stir Interest in the Artistic Past

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is using modern technology to stir appreciation for ancient artistry — including an Athenian potter’s transformative “discovery” of red.
  
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• Iran Joins the Lineup at Asia Now

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The art fair in Paris has expanded its scope, bringing Iranian contemporary artists and galleries to a platform called “Tehran Now.”
  
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• In Washington, a Beloved Birthplace for Artistic Giants

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Walla Walla Foundry, one of the largest contemporary fine-art foundries in the world, all sorts of artistic behemoths rise. Yet it’s little-known outside of the art world.
  
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• In Minneapolis, a Thriving Center for Indigenous Art

  20-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The eight-block American Indian Cultural Corridor celebrates Native American art and commerce.
  
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