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• Chad Kimball Sues ‘Come From Away’ Over His Termination

  22-10-2021 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who is Christian, said in an interview he was let go because of his religious beliefs. The show’s producers declined to comment.
  
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• National Gallery of Art Acquires Iconic Faith Ringgold Flag Painting

  22-10-2021 23:14 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of a Faith Ringgold retrospective due to open at the New Museum in February, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has acquired a painting from the artist’s famed “American People Series.” Titled The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967), the painting was gifted to the museum by the Glenstone Foundation, which was formed by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Emily and Mitchell Rales. (Mitchell is the president of the National Gallery’s board.) It
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings the Music of the Night Back to ‘Phantom’

  22-10-2021 23:09 via nytimes.com
  
  After a long pandemic pause, “The Phantom of the Opera” is returning to Broadway with some help from its creator.
  
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• Emerging Through the Fog of a Pandemic With ‘Giselle’

  22-10-2021 22:54 via nytimes.com
  
  American Ballet Theater returns to Lincoln Center with its full-length production — and with it, a breakthrough performance by Skylar Brandt.
  
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• Bernard Haitink, Perhaps the Wisest Conductor of Them All

  22-10-2021 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The unflashy maestro, who died on Thursday, gave orchestras a sound with integrity, weight and gravity, without heaviness.
  
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• Manuel Neri, Influential Bay Area Sculptor with a Focus on Figuration, Is Dead at 91

  22-10-2021 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  Manuel Neri, whose offbeat sculptures of figures missing limbs and heads count among the most significant works of the Bay Area Figuration Movement, died of natural causes on Monday at 91. San Francisco’s Hackett Mill gallery, which represents Neri, announced the news in an email blast earlier this week.
  “Neri’s highly evocative, lyrical work with the female form, chiefly in plaster, bronze, and marble, represents a vivid link between modernist sculpture and the fullness of the
  
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• Edita Gruberova, Dazzling Soprano With Emotional Power, Dies at 74

  22-10-2021 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  A Slovak coloratura, she was a fixture at the opera houses of Vienna and Munich, artfully balancing technical brilliance with deep expression.
  
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• Museums Across Mexico, Central America Face Financial Peril, Survey Finds

  22-10-2021 22:18 via artnews.com
  
  Dozens of museums across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean are at risk of permanent closure as a result of pandemic-related financial losses, a recent report by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has found. The report’s findings were first reported this week by the Spanish-language publication El País.
  While museums across the world struggled to survive last year, this region appears to have been impacted more extensively than others. Within the U.S., for e
  
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• In Her First-Ever Performance, Tschabalala Self Explores a Creative Relationship in Crisis

  22-10-2021 22:18 via artnews.com
  
  With her painted collage Sprewell (2020), Tschabalala Self departed from her more familiar depictions of exaggerated female figures that seem to duplicate by splitting apart. In the apartment scene, a couple embrace with fragmented bodies, suggesting that we still withhold some pieces of ourselves, even in the happiest relationships. Now the artist’s newest work, a performance titled Sounding Board, brings that motif to life.
  In it, a female and male actor—both of whom remain nameles
  
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• Investigation Continues Into Fatal Shooting on Alec Baldwin Movie Set

  22-10-2021 21:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor fired a gun being used as a prop on the set of“Rust,” killing the film’s cinematographer and wounding its director, a sheriff’s office in New Mexico said.
  
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• Dorothy Steel, Whose Big-Screen Career Had a Late Start, Dies at 95

  22-10-2021 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  She was cast in “Black Panther” at 90, not long after she began acting professionally. “As soon as we saw her,” the movie’s casting director said, “we wanted her.”
  
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• Indian Film Is Being Adapted Into a Broadway Musical

  22-10-2021 21:18 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” a popular Hindi-language movie from 1995, will debut during the 2022-23 season.
  
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• Review: In ‘An Evening of Hope,’ a Veteran Dancer Gets Personal

  22-10-2021 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A program of works by the former Alvin Ailey member Hope Boykin is about stepping into a surer sense of herself.
  
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• State-of-the-art Midtown Arts Center opens in Eugene - KEZI TV

  22-10-2021 20:32
  
  State-of-the-art Midtown Arts Center opens in Eugene  KEZI TV
  
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• Collector to Watch: Film Producer Michael Sherman Views Buying Art as a ‘Curation Process’

  22-10-2021 20:14 via artnews.com
  
  Before he produced a documentary on Maurizio Cattelan or worked with Rashid Johnson on his adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son, Michael Sherman decided to fill a new home he purchased in Los Angeles in 2011 with art. He bought pieces by Wes Lang, whom he met in New York, and Noah Davis, a recommendation from friends Chris Gibbs and Beth Birkett, owners of streetwear mecca Union Los Angeles.
  At first, Sherman was put off by the art market, which he found difficult to break into becaus
  
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• Lana Del Rey’s Sisterly Solidarity, and 10 More New Songs

  22-10-2021 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Miranda Lambert, Summer Walker, My Morning Jacket and others.
  
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• Watch Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin Spar in ‘Dune’

  22-10-2021 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Denis Villeneuve narrates a sequence from his film.
  
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• ‘Dune’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  22-10-2021 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Denis Villeneuve narrates a combat training sequence from his film, featuring Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin.
  
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• Review: In ‘Unedited,’ the Revisions Are Part of the Tradition

  22-10-2021 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Risk and improvisation are integral to kathak, the Indian classical dance form on display in Rachna Nivas’s stunning solo performance at Dixon Place.
  
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• Collectors to Watch: Dawn and David Lenhardt Focus on the Stories Behind the Art They Buy

  22-10-2021 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  In 2004, a young business executive named David Lenhardt attended an auction at Christie’s New York. Surrounded by art world veterans, the former PetSmart CEO remembers being intimidated when he placed his winning bid for a print of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn in Day-Glo pink. “When we won, they all looked at me and were like, ‘Wow, who’s this young kid?’ That was our introduction to the auction world. And it was a good one,” he said. Since then, Dawn and Davi
  
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• Brandon Lee and Other Deaths on Set

  22-10-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Accidents on sets have resulted in numerous deaths and injuries over the years, some bringing about lawsuits or changes in safety guidelines.
  
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• National Arts and Humanities Month: From climate change to racism, how the arts can save us - USA TODAY

  22-10-2021 17:56
  
  National Arts and Humanities Month: From climate change to racism, how the arts can save us  USA TODAY
  
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• Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent

  22-10-2021 17:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Ashley’s “eL/Aficionado” is receiving a rare revival that is a testament to its vitality.
  
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• Plantation Landscapes and Murky Water: Dawoud Bey at Sean Kelly

  22-10-2021 17:51 via artnews.com
  
  For the exhibition “In This Here Place,” Dawoud Bey continues his photographic index of locations significant in the African American experience, focusing in this iteration on an historically fraught section of Louisiana’s landscape. Troubling the landscape genre’s affiliation with the sublime, Bey looks to the Southern plantation as a place where memories of horror clash with beauty. The outcome of more than two years of research, Bey’s twenty-six large-scale, rich
  
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• Sword Fights on Canvas: Georges Mathieu at Perrotin and Nahmad Contemporary

  22-10-2021 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  A precursor to Happenings and performance art, and an intriguing example of asemic writing—which resembles language but does not carry meaning—the work of French painter Georges Mathieu (1921–2012) was both influential and prescient. Yet Mathieu’s achievements have largely faded from view, at least within the United States. This remarkable New York survey, featuring some thirty-six major works filling two venues, marks the artist’s centenary.
  During his lifetime, an
  
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• UT Dallas Arts Return to Campus Stage after Year of Improvisation - University of Texas at Dallas

  22-10-2021 17:18
  UT Dallas Arts Return to Campus Stage after Year of Improvisation  University of Texas at Dallas
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Dark Arts’ Homerton – recipe - The Guardian

  22-10-2021 17:00
  
  Cocktail of the week: Dark Arts’ Homerton – recipe  The Guardian
  
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• Halyna Hutchins, Cinematographer of 'Rust,' Was Talented and Spirited

  22-10-2021 16:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Halyna Hutchins, the director of photography for the film “Rust,” was killed when the actor Alec Baldwin discharged a firearm being used as a prop.
  
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• How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’

  22-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The composer worked with a far-flung “band” of collaborators who sung, scraped metal, invented instruments and more for the score.
  
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• ‘American Veteran’ Honors the Many Faces of the U.S. Soldier

  22-10-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On the heels of America’s longest war, a new PBS documentary series sits down with nearly 50 veterans in hopes of helping to bridge a growing gap.
  
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• At FIAC Art Fair, Ambitions Are High. Can Sales Keep Pace?

  22-10-2021 14:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Paris wants to rival London as the art world’s European hub. It still has a way to go.
  
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• David Adjaye Designs Wild New York Skyscraper, Rare Hilma af Klints Surface, and More: Morning Links for October 22, 2021

  22-10-2021 14:13 via artnews.com
  
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  FAIR PLAY. A lucky break for the 150 dealers participating in the 2021 edition of Art Cologne, which runs next month: They will get a 34 percent reduction in the cost of their booths, the Art Newspaper reports. The price cut comes as a result of funding from a German government program aimed at ameliorating the financial har
  
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• Shipping and supply chain issues shake up Seattle arts - Crosscut

  22-10-2021 14:02
  
  Shipping and supply chain issues shake up Seattle arts  Crosscut
  
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• This is Afrofuturist Weekend at Elastic Arts - Chicago Tribune

  22-10-2021 14:00
  
  This is Afrofuturist Weekend at Elastic Arts  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Colorado Arts Relief Grant Opens Second Round of Applications for Pandemic Assistance - 303 Magazine

  22-10-2021 14:00
  Colorado Arts Relief Grant Opens Second Round of Applications for Pandemic Assistance  303 Magazine
  
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• ‘Blown Away’ Star Alex Rosenberg Reveals His Conceptual Side

  22-10-2021 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Few things are as mesmerizing to watch as skilled glassblowers in the hot shop, gathering molten glass on their long iron rods then swiftly adding color, form, and texture before it cools in minutes. In Blown Away, a reality-competition glassblowing show that first aired on Netflix in 2019, this grace and elegance is also punctuated by a lot of stress: the inevitable shattering form, the ticking clock. ARTnews recently caught up with Alex Rosenberg, a season one contestant and one of five fan fa
  
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• Worker churn at major Bay Area arts companies heralds shift in labor market - SF Chronicle Datebook

  22-10-2021 13:01
  Worker churn at major Bay Area arts companies heralds shift in labor market  SF Chronicle Datebook
  
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• Arts are an investment | Opinion | aspendailynews.com - Aspen Daily News

  22-10-2021 13:00
  Arts are an investment | Opinion | aspendailynews.com  Aspen Daily News
  
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• Art Castle set to revive the west side arts community - KUER 90.1

  22-10-2021 13:00
  
  Art Castle set to revive the west side arts community  KUER 90.1
  
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• Alec Baldwin Fatally Shoots Crew Member on 'Rust' Set, Authorities Say

  22-10-2021 12:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie’s director of photography was killed and the director was injured on the set of “Rust,” a Western, a sheriff’s office in New Mexico said.
  
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• Shawnee's Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art fall activities aided by Allied Arts grant - Shawnee News Star

  22-10-2021 12:01
  Shawnee's Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art fall activities aided by Allied Arts grant  Shawnee News Star
  
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• Imagine Performing Arts looking for answers | News | newsexaminer.com - Newsexaminer

  22-10-2021 12:00
  Imagine Performing Arts looking for answers | News | newsexaminer.com  Newsexaminer
  
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• ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Aiken native featured in campus writers' series - Charleston Post Courier

  22-10-2021 12:00
  
  ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Aiken native featured in campus writers' series  Charleston Post Courier
  
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• Annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Show returns to Knox Farm State Park - WKBW-TV

  22-10-2021 11:35
  
  Annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Show returns to Knox Farm State Park  WKBW-TV
  
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• Why Do Actors Keep Working With Wes Anderson?

  22-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What is it about the director that draws stars like Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton again and again? There are many reasons, but the nightly feasts don’t hurt.
  
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• For Tiphanie Yanique, Black Love Comes With Baggage

  22-10-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Monster in the Middle,” parents beget children who inherit their pain, their care and their madness.
  
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• Aspen for Arts campaign strives for passage of 2A - Aspen Daily News

  22-10-2021 11:00
  
  Aspen for Arts campaign strives for passage of 2A  Aspen Daily News
  
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• Highlands Arts League preparing for 54th annual Sebring Arts and Crafts Festival - ABC Action News

  22-10-2021 10:57
  
  Highlands Arts League preparing for 54th annual Sebring Arts and Crafts Festival  ABC Action News
  
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• Alec Baldwin Fatally Shoots Crew Member With Prop on 'Rust' Set, Authorities Say

  22-10-2021 10:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie’s director of photography was killed and the director was injured on the set of “Rust,” a Western, a sheriff’s office in New Mexico said.
  
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• Arts center to host fall festival Saturday - Peninsula Daily News

  22-10-2021 10:30
  
  Arts center to host fall festival Saturday  Peninsula Daily News
  
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