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• "ALL TOGETHER NOW" at the Center for the Arts - Wgnsradio

  01-11-2021 22:23
  
  "ALL TOGETHER NOW" at the Center for the Arts  Wgnsradio
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Nguyễn Trinh Thi Wins $100,000 Prize for Asian Moving-Image Art—and More from November 2, 2021

  01-11-2021 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, November 2
  Nguyễn Trinh Thi Wins $100,000 Prize for Asian Moving-Image ArtThe first winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation‘s $100,000 award for moving-image art by Asian artists has gone to Nguyễn Trinh Thi, a Hanoi-based filmmaker who is among the artists expected to show at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany, next year. Nguyễn’s work is focused on the collective conscience of Vietnam and often makes use of appropriated materials. Through the awar
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: Nguyen Trinh Thi Wins $100,000 Prize for Asian Moving-Image Art—and More from November 2, 2021

  01-11-2021 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Monday, November 2
  Nguyễn Trinh Thi Wins $100,000 Prize for Asian Moving-Image ArtThe first winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation‘s $100,000 award for moving-image art by Asian artists has gone to Nguyễn Trinh Thi, a Hanoi-based filmmaker who is among the artists expected to show at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany, next year. Nguyễn’s work is focused on the collective conscience of Vietnam and often makes use of appropriated materials. Through the awar
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: ICA LA Receives Foundation for Contemporary Arts’s Ellsworth Kelly Award—and More from November 2, 2021

  01-11-2021 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Tuesday, November 2
  ICA LA Receives Foundation for Contemporary Arts’s $40,000 Ellsworth Kelly AwardThis year, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts‘s annual Ellsworth Kelly Award has gone to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which will receive $40,000 from the New York–based organization in support of a Barbara T. Smith survey in 2023. Smith’s work has received overdue attention in recent years for the way it has dealt with technology, spirituality, and sexu
  
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• Holidaze returns with two locations in Fayetteville - 5newsonline.com

  01-11-2021 22:18
  
  Holidaze returns with two locations in Fayetteville  5newsonline.com
  
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• The M+ Museum, Explained: Why Hong Kong’s Newest Art Institute Could Rival Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou

  01-11-2021 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  At long last, Hong Kong’s M+ museum is finally almost here. When it opens on November 12, M+ will be among the biggest museums in Hong Kong, and it could very well become one of the most important contemporary art institutions in Asia. With 700,000 square feet of space, it is expected to be a major entry into the region’s art scene. But the run-up to its opening has been marred by controversy, and behind the scenes, the institution’s leadership has weathered rapid turnover amid
  
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• Northampton Arts Council Wrong to Cancel Biennial Over Criticism from Indigenous Artist - Blogging Censorship

  01-11-2021 22:00
  
  Northampton Arts Council Wrong to Cancel Biennial Over Criticism from Indigenous Artist  Blogging Censorship
  
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• The Harvest Concept offers martial arts, yoga classes in Franklin - Community Impact Newspaper

  01-11-2021 21:53
  
  The Harvest Concept offers martial arts, yoga classes in Franklin  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Amazon, HBO, Hulu and More in November

  01-11-2021 21:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of November’s most promising new titles.
  
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• Nickel Plate Arts District & Movable Feast hang out with Jillian and Ryan - Fox 59

  01-11-2021 21:50
  Nickel Plate Arts District & Movable Feast hang out with Jillian and Ryan  Fox 59
  
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• Big laughs to come at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts - STLtoday.com

  01-11-2021 21:45
  
  Big laughs to come at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts  STLtoday.com
  
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• COLUMN: A letter to the Fine Arts students - The Daily Eastern News

  01-11-2021 21:29
  
  COLUMN: A letter to the Fine Arts students  The Daily Eastern News
  
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• Neal Brennan Thinks Auteurs Can Still Make Chipotle Commercials

  01-11-2021 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian-producer, whose latest solo show opens in Manhattan, discusses déjà vu from ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and the cringe-y candor of Kanye West.
  
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• Masked Singer National Tour Coming to E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall in June 2022 - Cleveland Scene

  01-11-2021 21:07
  
  Masked Singer National Tour Coming to E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall in June 2022  Cleveland Scene
  
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• Update: Following Controversy, DC Council Approves Nominees To The Arts Commission %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% - DCist

  01-11-2021 20:59
  
  Update: Following Controversy, DC Council Approves Nominees To The Arts Commission %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%  DCist
  
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• Mendelson Is Keeping Two Arts Commissioners' Positions In Limbo - DCist

  01-11-2021 20:59
  
  Mendelson Is Keeping Two Arts Commissioners' Positions In Limbo  DCist
  
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• 80 Years in the Making, Diego Rivera’s ‘City of the Arts’ Opens in Mexico City

  01-11-2021 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  Diego Rivera’s dream of an urban oasis of traditional Mexican art has finally been realized 80 years after its conception. Dubbed “the City of Arts,” the 13-building complex opened this weekend at the Anahuacalli Museum. With around 64,600 square feet of gardens, workshops, and performance and exhibition spaces to form the micro museum-city, it is located in the Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacán, according to a report in the Latin American edition of the newspaper El
  
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• 80 Years in the Making, Diego Rivera’s ‘City of the Arts’ Opens in Mexico City - ARTnews

  01-11-2021 20:57
  
  80 Years in the Making, Diego Rivera’s ‘City of the Arts’ Opens in Mexico City  ARTnews
  
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• In the Heart of It All: Midtown Program Invigorates Local Arts Economy, Street Life - SaportaReport

  01-11-2021 20:47
  
  In the Heart of It All: Midtown Program Invigorates Local Arts Economy, Street Life  SaportaReport
  
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• Narragansett Artist Tracy Weisman Wins Best in Show at the Jamestown Arts Center - Newport Buzz

  01-11-2021 20:42
  
  Narragansett Artist Tracy Weisman Wins Best in Show at the Jamestown Arts Center  Newport Buzz
  
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• Changing of the Guard at Williamstown Theater Festival

  01-11-2021 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Mandy Greenfield has resigned and Jenny Gersten will be interim artistic director. The festival gave no reason for the move, but it follows complaints about working conditions.
  
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• Park Authority tweaks proposed plan for Clemyjontri arts center - Tysons Reporter

  01-11-2021 20:30
  
  Park Authority tweaks proposed plan for Clemyjontri arts center  Tysons Reporter
  
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• NYC's Irish Arts Center's new building opens in December - Time Out New York

  01-11-2021 20:24
  
  NYC's Irish Arts Center's new building opens in December  Time Out New York
  
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• Petersburg Arts Council talks about hosting first visiting musician in two years - KCAW

  01-11-2021 20:11
  Petersburg Arts Council talks about hosting first visiting musician in two years  KCAW
  
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• Ronnie Tutt, 83, Dies; Powerful Drummer Backed Rock and Pop Stars

  01-11-2021 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a force in Elvis Presley’s TCB band and accompanied other big names like Jerry Garcia, Billy Joel and Elvis Costello.
  
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• James Ivory, Famous for Buttoned-Up Films, Is Frank About Sex and Much Else in His Memoir

  01-11-2021 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  “Solid Ivory” is a scrapbook of memories about Ivory’s childhood, his mentors and his filmmaking and romantic partner Ismail Merchant.
  
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• Washington Center for the Performing Arts Presents 'The Hip Hop Nutcracker' and 'Seattle International Comedy Competition' This Month - ThurstonTalk

  01-11-2021 19:25
  
  Washington Center for the Performing Arts Presents 'The Hip Hop Nutcracker' and 'Seattle International Comedy Competition' This Month  ThurstonTalk
  
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• Instrumentalist trio to perform at Denmark Arts Center - Lewiston Sun Journal

  01-11-2021 19:19
  
  Instrumentalist trio to perform at Denmark Arts Center  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• $36M performing arts center proposed in Valley - Spokane Journal of Business

  01-11-2021 19:18
  $36M performing arts center proposed in Valley  Spokane Journal of Business
  
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• The South: Trauma, Joy, and the Arc of America’s National Story

  01-11-2021 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  The South is the theme of A.i.A.‘s November/December issue. Take a look at the contents below:
  DEPARTMENTS
  CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITOR’S NOTEHow art thrives in the South today.
  FIRST LOOKKang Seung Lee by Harley WongLA-based artist Kang Seung Lee, born in South Korea, pays homage to his queer predecessors in meticulous drawings and a large bibliographic installation.
  SIGHTLINESHarvard Art Museums curator Horace D. Ballard tells us what’s on his mind.
  PROFILESThe Lives of the P
  
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• Man drowns in San Antonio River near Blue Star Arts Complex, police say - San Antonio Express-News

  01-11-2021 19:05
  
  Man drowns in San Antonio River near Blue Star Arts Complex, police say  San Antonio Express-News
  
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• $36 million Spokane Valley Performing Arts Center aims to break ground next fall - The Spokesman Review

  01-11-2021 19:02
  
  $36 million Spokane Valley Performing Arts Center aims to break ground next fall  The Spokesman Review
  
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• Columbia University School of the Arts Presents the Class of 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition - Hyperallergic

  01-11-2021 19:00
  
  Columbia University School of the Arts Presents the Class of 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition  Hyperallergic
  
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• Google Doodle Honors We:wa, Two-Spirit Zuni Artist Who Crossed Social Boundaries

  01-11-2021 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  To mark the first day of Indigenous People’s Month, Google honored the late We:wa, a Zuni Pueblo artist, spiritual leader, and diplomat, with a Doodle on its homepage today. An ambassador of the Zuni in Washington, D.C. and staunch protector of the tribe’s culture as a master craftsperson, We:wa is known for creating woven works and pottery during the 19th century.
  Born in 1849, We:wa was lhamana, a Zuni category for a male-bodied person who takes on feminine tasks and at times
  
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• Houston Cinema Arts Festival Spotlights Third-Coast Film Talent - outsmartmagazine.com

  01-11-2021 18:37
  
  Houston Cinema Arts Festival Spotlights Third-Coast Film Talent  outsmartmagazine.com
  
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• Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape

  01-11-2021 18:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The Metropolitan Opera’s revival boasts strong performances but raises difficult questions about race and American music.
  
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• Fine Arts Preview: November 1-7 - This week includes the Bjorling Music Festival Concert, performances by the Bardin-Niskala Duo, and the last week of Art for All. Posted on November 1st, 2021 by msousa - Gustavus Adolphus College News

  01-11-2021 18:18
  
  Fine Arts Preview: November 1-7 - This week includes the Bjorling Music Festival Concert, performances by the Bardin-Niskala Duo, and the last week of Art for All. Posted on November 1st, 2021 by msousa  Gustavus Adolphus College News
  
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• Drake Earns a Fifth Week at No. 1 Ahead of Music’s Major Fall Releases

  01-11-2021 17:46 via nytimes.com
  
  With new albums by Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Adele looming, the rapper’s “Certified Lover Boy” remains atop the Billboard chart.
  
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• Fehinti Balogun's Call to Action Unfolds Onstage at COP26

  01-11-2021 16:38 via nytimes.com
  
  A filmed version of Fehinti Balogun’s play about his awakening to climate issues is being shown at the COP26 summit. He is among the theater artists trying to make a difference through their work.
  
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• Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage

  01-11-2021 16:38 via nytimes.com
  
  A filmed version of Fehinti Balogun’s play about his awakening to climate issues is being shown at the COP26 summit. He is among the theater artists trying to make a difference through their work.
  
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• Jammie Holmes on Painting His Hurt and His Hope

  01-11-2021 16:12 via artnews.com
  
  Mementos in Jammie Holmes’s Dallas studio, in memory of his cousins Dantrell Anderson and Tyrone Anderson.
  Just west of downtown Dallas is the city’s former industrial district, which was until recently one of the few places in town to rent a cheap studio or run an exhibition space. These days, the Dallas Contemporary museum plus several galleries—Conduit, Craighead Green, and Barry Whistler—are among the few remaining art venues there, now that the neighborhood’s m
  
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• Audra McDonald to Star in ‘Ohio State Murders’ on Broadway

  01-11-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The production brings the world of the playwright Adrienne Kennedy, 90, to Broadway for the first time.
  
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• One Work: Diane Simpson’s “Two Point Enclosure”

  01-11-2021 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  Diane Simpson’s exhibition at JTT in New York, “Point of View,” is filled with oblique allusions to architectural details: a banister, a roof, a townhouse window. One sculpture, Two Point Enclosure (2020), distinguishes itself precisely because the referent for its distorted form is pleasantly unclear. One of three works Simpson produced for this show from drawings made between 1980 and 1981, at the outset of her late-blooming career, Enclosure was originally realized as p
  
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• A 6-Hour Opera in a Pandemic? The Met Goes for It.

  01-11-2021 15:14 via nytimes.com
  
  As some try to lure audiences back with short programs, the Metropolitan Opera is staging its longest work: Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger.”
  
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• New Romance Novels to Read This Season

  01-11-2021 14:16 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s column includes two books set in the funhouse-mirror world of reality TV and another that takes place in the Alaskan wilderness.
  
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• Book Review: 'Both/And,' by Huma Abedin

  01-11-2021 13:54 via nytimes.com
  
  “Both/And” may not be the most introspective memoir, but it gives readers a front-row view of heartache and humiliation.
  
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• 7 Takeaways From Huma Abedin's Book

  01-11-2021 13:52 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new memoir, “Both/And,” Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide opens up about her ex-husband, the 2016 election and more.
  
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• Rare Roman Artifacts Found in England, KAWS Heads to Singapore, and More: Morning Links for November 1, 2021

  01-11-2021 13:15 via artnews.com
  
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  MONDAY CRIME BLOTTER. Italian authorities confiscated three looted artifacts that date back more than 2,300 years and returned them to Mexico, Reuters reports. Some people close Christian Rosa, the artist accused of hawking forged Raymond Pettibons, say he may be hiding out from federal charges in Portugal,&nb
  
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• Stream These 12 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in November

  01-11-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jack Black, Michael B Jordan, Richard Pryor: A lot of favorites are leaving for U.S. subscribers this month.
  
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• How to experience Denver Arts Week - Denverite

  01-11-2021 11:37
  
  How to experience Denver Arts Week  Denverite
  
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