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• Arts This Week: Exploring spaces real and imagined - wgbh.org

  11-11-2021 23:33 via wgbh.org
  
  Arts This Week: Exploring spaces real and imagined  wgbh.org
  
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• Alarm Raised Over Fate of Georgian Museum Collection Amid Political Unrest

  11-11-2021 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  Experts have raised concerns over the fate of a collection of Ancient and Modern art housed at Georgia’s leading art museum, the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts. This comes as proposed renovation plans by Georgia’s culture minister, Thea Tsulukianian, are taken under consideration and as political unrest sweeps across the country.
  Members of the Tbilisi museum’s staff, as well as cultural experts, are concerned that the collection, which houses nearly 139,000-items of
  
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• UND Theatre Arts Department stages Oscar Wilde's mad-cap comedy, 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Grand Forks Herald

  11-11-2021 23:00 via grandforksherald.com
  
  UND Theatre Arts Department stages Oscar Wilde's mad-cap comedy, 'The Importance of Being Earnest'  Grand Forks Herald
  
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• GLAF sponsors virtual fine arts for theater students - WV News

  11-11-2021 23:00 via wvnews.com
  GLAF sponsors virtual fine arts for theater students  WV News
  
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• Vancouver Museum Closes Part of Its First Peoples Gallery in Effort to Decolonize

  11-11-2021 22:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Royal British Columbia Museum in Vancouver announced last week that it would close sections of its First Peoples galleries, beginning this month. In January, the entire wing, located on the museum’s third floor, will close. The closure comes in response to calls by Indigenous activists to change how the museum discusses the colonization of British Columbia, privileging the stories of settlers over the Indigenous peoples who had long lived on the land.
  “Decolonization of the museu
  
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• San Fran Arts Orgs Unite for a Return as #BayAreaArtsTogether - American Theatre

  11-11-2021 22:04 via americantheatre.org
  
  San Fran Arts Orgs Unite for a Return as #BayAreaArtsTogether  American Theatre
  
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• Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days

  11-11-2021 22:04 via nytimes.com
  
  For over four centuries, the Orpheus myth has inspired opera composers. One was Luigi Rossi, whose 1647 retelling deserves more attention.
  
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• Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself

  11-11-2021 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  New collections from Paul Muldoon, Rita Dove, Jim Moore, Marianne Worthington and Frank Bidart.
  
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• Arts & entertainment briefs: Nov. 12 | Arts And Culture | reformer.com - Brattleboro Reformer

  11-11-2021 21:38 via reformer.com
  
  Arts & entertainment briefs: Nov. 12 | Arts And Culture | reformer.com  Brattleboro Reformer
  
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• Portsmouth Holiday Arts Tour set for next weekend - Seacoastonline.com

  11-11-2021 21:21 via seacoastonline.com
  Portsmouth Holiday Arts Tour set for next weekend  Seacoastonline.com
  
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• Leafy London Mansion Comes With Arts and Crafts Charm—and a Bomb Shelter - Mansion Global

  11-11-2021 21:20 via mansionglobal.com
  
  Leafy London Mansion Comes With Arts and Crafts Charm—and a Bomb Shelter  Mansion Global
  
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• Longtime Home of Conceptual Artist John Baldessari Hits the Market

  11-11-2021 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  Though John Baldessari passed away in early 2020 at age 88, the conceptual artist’s pioneering legacy lives on at the Los Angeles home he occupied for three decades. Significantly updated during Baldessari’s tenure—with more space, light and “creatively exciting” living space—the Craftsman bungalow is now on the market in the coastal Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, asking $3.9 million.
  Often called the “Godfather of Conceptual Art,” Baldes
  
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• Arts Wrap: Drawn Together Arts, Lily LaMotte, Donald Gardner Stacy and Dishman Hills Pilsner - The Spokesman Review

  11-11-2021 21:01 via spokesman.com
  
  Arts Wrap: Drawn Together Arts, Lily LaMotte, Donald Gardner Stacy and Dishman Hills Pilsner  The Spokesman Review
  
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• ‘What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?’ Review: But I Digress

  11-11-2021 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Two strangers become near-lovers in a movie that invites you to think more about the perfectly, simply, ordinary life around them.
  
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• Salon Fair, Still Focused on Decor, Now Back at the Armory

  11-11-2021 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  On Park Avenue, booths display an intersection of design and art, from Japanese metalwork to an American artist who trained with Tiffany.
  
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• ‘Cusp’ Review: Teenage Girls, Stuck With Shrugging Off Harm

  11-11-2021 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  What starts as a documentary about three Texan high schoolers becomes a look at the normalization of sexual abuse.
  
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• New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery Expands to Los Angeles

  11-11-2021 20:08 via artnews.com
  
  New York–based gallery Sean Kelly will open a new space in Los Angeles next spring. The new gallery will be led by Thomas Kelly, a partner and director at the gallery who will relocate to the California city.
  Located in the city’s Hollywood neighborhood (at 1357 North Highland Avenue), only a few blocks from some of L.A.’s top galleries, like Regen Projects, Various Small Fires, and Kohn Gallery, the new 10,000-square-foot space will open with an exhibition by London-based arti
  
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• Review: Dancing Bodies That Contain Multitudes

  11-11-2021 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “I Am Also – Monte,” Molly Poerstel and Monte Jones consider how, in dance, the past seeps into the present and into collaborations.
  
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• Prado Museum Exhibition Argues That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Not by Leonardo da Vinci

  11-11-2021 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  The catalogue for a recently opened Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Prado Museum in Madrid argues that Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) should not be considered a masterpiece solely by the artist, according to a report in the Art Newspaper.
  The exhibition, titled “Leonardo and the copy of the Mona Lisa. New approaches to the artist’s studio practices,” opened in September and centers around the Prado’s copy of the Renaissance master’s most famous painting. The sho
  
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• Dominic Chambers, Fast-Rising Figurative Painter, Heads to Lehmann Maupin

  11-11-2021 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  Dominic Chambers believes in self-care. The fast-rising figurative painter has gained recognition for expansive canvases in which the mundane and magical converge. In an early work, a woman sits on a couch absorbed in a book; the couch floats along an abstracted blue backdrop reminiscent of a rushing river. Themes of leisure and Black intellectualism run through his paintings.
  “It’s important to present Black people in states other than distress and resistance,” Chambers said.
  
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• Dominic Chambers, Fast-Rising Figurative Painter, Heads to Lehmann Maupin Gallery

  11-11-2021 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  Dominic Chambers believes in self-care. The fast-rising figurative painter has gained recognition for expansive canvases in which the mundane and magical converge. In an early work, a woman sits on a couch absorbed in a book; the couch floats along an abstracted blue backdrop reminiscent of a rushing river. Themes of leisure and Black intellectualism run through his paintings.
  “It’s important to present Black people in states other than distress and resistance,” Chambers said.
  
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• Northampton Arts Council working on an apology for Biennial exhibit: Issue continues to simmer after abrupt cancellation - GazetteNET

  11-11-2021 19:13 via gazettenet.com
  
  Northampton Arts Council working on an apology for Biennial exhibit: Issue continues to simmer after abrupt cancellation  GazetteNET
  
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• The new Oak Creek Performing Arts & Education Center will host its first show on Saturday - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  11-11-2021 19:00 via jsonline.com
  The new Oak Creek Performing Arts & Education Center will host its first show on Saturday  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks

  11-11-2021 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Rebecca Hall’s piercing drama stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as old friends navigating the color line in 1920s New York.
  
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• ‘Always Jane’ Is Part of a New Generation of Trans Documentaries

  11-11-2021 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  For decades, films about transgender people tended to be sensationalistic. A newer crop is more celebratory — and opening doors for its young subjects.
  
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• Singapore Biennale Taps Four Curators for 2022 Edition That Will Avoid ‘Conventional Preoccupation with the Visual’

  11-11-2021 18:40 via artnews.com
  
  The Singapore Biennale, one of the top biennials in Asia, has revealed the four curators who will organize next year’s edition: Binna Choi, Nida Ghouse, June Yap, and Ala Younis. Their biennial will run from October 18, 2022, to March 19, 2023, and will be on view at various venues across Singapore.
  Despite having taken place entirely in the country in the past, the curators said that this iteration of the exhibition will be somewhat different. “While the region of Southeast Asia rem
  
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• Lady Gaga and Ridley Scott on ‘House of Gucci’: When Beauty Turns Ugly

  11-11-2021 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  To play a fashionista willing to kill in the director’s fact-based drama, his star plunged deeply into character. “How could I possibly turn it off?” she said.
  
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• Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Gets Acquired by Yale Museums

  11-11-2021 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  A Kehinde Wiley portrait of British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has been jointly acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, both in New Haven, Connecticut. This is the first time the museums have jointly purchased an artwork.
  Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite (2017) depicts Yiadom-Boakye on a life-size scale. In it, she is outfitted in traditional English hunting garb, rifle in hand. At her feet are five dead hares, and behin
  
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• Painting on Eggshells: Kristin Calabrese at Louise Alexander Gallery / AF Projects

  11-11-2021 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  “It’s so easy. It just flows. Without effort—effortless,” reads a mantra assiduously repeated in various fonts in the background of Kristin Calabrese’s painting How Things Feel (2021). Yet despite their airy appearance, the artist’s illusionistic canvases depicting stylized text and mundane objects are anything but effortless, sometimes taking years to complete. Compounding this “easy” painting’s ironic undertones, its title is boldly emblazo
  
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• Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched

  11-11-2021 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  For decades this social critic has addressed the powerful influence of media, consumerism and politics. Her work anticipated how images and ideas are now disseminated.
  
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• The ARTnews Accord: Gallerist Nicola Vassell and Curator Donna De Salvo Talk About Kaleidoscopic Changes in the Art World

  11-11-2021 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  Born in Jamaica, Nicola Vassell opened her namesake gallery in New York’s Chelsea art district this past spring after working for years as a curator, dealer, and adviser. After stints as a gallery director—first at Deitch Projects, then at Pace—she founded Concept NV, an art consultancy and curatorial agency, in 2013. Two years later, she was appointed the curatorial director of the Dean Collection and No Commission, a family art collection and cultural platform developed by Ka
  
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• Beeple Appears on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’: ‘This Is the American Dream’

  11-11-2021 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist better known by his moniker Beeple, spoke about how he went from selling work for $100 to the third-most valuable living artist. It’s the first time that the artist has made such a mainstream public appearance, cementing himself as the face of NFT boom.
  The segment marked an interesting point in NFT history, acting as proof that a niche part of the art world had effectively crossed over and become the
  
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• IPMA show moving to Providence Performing Arts Center, line-up to be announced Nov. 20 at Launch Party - Fall River Herald News

  11-11-2021 17:40 via heraldnews.com
  
  IPMA show moving to Providence Performing Arts Center, line-up to be announced Nov. 20 at Launch Party  Fall River Herald News
  
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• Creating Change Network Seeks Participation from the New Jersey Arts Community for National Day of Racial Healing - New Jersey Stage

  11-11-2021 17:34 via newjerseystage.com
  
  Creating Change Network Seeks Participation from the New Jersey Arts Community for National Day of Racial Healing  New Jersey Stage
  
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• Arts & Holiday Spectacular returns to Monroeville Convention Center - TribLIVE

  11-11-2021 17:30 via triblive.com
  
  Arts & Holiday Spectacular returns to Monroeville Convention Center  TribLIVE
  
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• Jonathan Reynolds, Playwright and Food Columnist, Dies at 79

  11-11-2021 17:27 via nytimes.com
  
  His plays tended to parody American institutions. His food writing tended to be full of humor.
  
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• Review: In ‘Yellowjackets,’ It’s Reunion Time for the Crash of ’96

  11-11-2021 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Showtime’s pulpy, promising survival thriller tells a coming-of-age and middle-age story, with a bloody twist.
  
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• Christopher Walken Destroys Banksy Painting on BBC Comedy Show

  11-11-2021 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A genuine painting by Banksy, the street artist whose work has sold for millions, was gone in seconds as the actor painted over the artwork as a gag on the show.
  
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• ‘Night Raiders’ Review: A Future That Resembles the Past

  11-11-2021 17:16 via nytimes.com
  
  A mother joins a group of vigilantes to help free her daughter from a state-run academy in this feature from Danis Goulet.
  
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• The Anatomy of ‘New Hugs.’

  11-11-2021 16:45 via nytimes.com
  
  And handshakes.
  
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• Electronic Arts Is Scoring Big With Sports - Nasdaq

  11-11-2021 16:45 via nasdaq.com
  
  Electronic Arts Is Scoring Big With Sports  Nasdaq
  
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• 'Pretty Woman' tour brings Broadway back to the Fox Theatre - STLtoday.com

  11-11-2021 16:30 via stltoday.com
  
  'Pretty Woman' tour brings Broadway back to the Fox Theatre  STLtoday.com
  
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• Anishinaabe Arts Initiative grants available - Bemidji Pioneer

  11-11-2021 16:30 via bemidjipioneer.com
  
  Anishinaabe Arts Initiative grants available  Bemidji Pioneer
  
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• Drexel Arts, Culture and Campus Recommendations | Now - Drexel Now

  11-11-2021 16:19 via drexel.edu
  
  Drexel Arts, Culture and Campus Recommendations | Now  Drexel Now
  
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• Creative Sonoma announces new round of arts grants - Petaluma Argus Courier

  11-11-2021 16:11 via petaluma360.com
  Creative Sonoma announces new round of arts grants  Petaluma Argus Courier
  
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• ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ at 20: The Film That Started It All

  11-11-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two decades after the film’s release, Daniel Radcliffe and the director, Chris Columbus, take us inside four key scenes.
  
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• Gross joins CJN as arts reviewer - Cleveland Jewish News

  11-11-2021 16:00 via clevelandjewishnews.com
  Gross joins CJN as arts reviewer  Cleveland Jewish News
  
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• Your weekend arts forecast: James Taylor, 50 years later - St Pete Catalyst

  11-11-2021 15:52 via stpetecatalyst.com
  
  Your weekend arts forecast: James Taylor, 50 years later  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Top 10 Arts Events for Sarasota-Manatee: Nov. 11-17 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  11-11-2021 15:37 via heraldtribune.com
  Top 10 Arts Events for Sarasota-Manatee: Nov. 11-17  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• Where's Shane? Mark Arts Holiday Tables - Wichita - KWCH

  11-11-2021 15:36 via kwch.com
  
  Where's Shane? Mark Arts Holiday Tables - Wichita  KWCH
  
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