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• ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul

  18-11-2021 23:57 via nytimes.com
  
  In Mansa Ra’s heart-bruised new play, racism is a lethal force that menaces generations of Black American men.
  
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• Single tickets to Hamilton at Walton Arts Center now on sale - Fayetteville Flyer

  18-11-2021 23:54
  
  Single tickets to Hamilton at Walton Arts Center now on sale  Fayetteville Flyer
  
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• UTSA, Southwest School of Art ink deal to create downtown arts school - San Antonio Report

  18-11-2021 23:41
  
  UTSA, Southwest School of Art ink deal to create downtown arts school  San Antonio Report
  
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• Latin Grammy Live Updates: Stars Gather in Las Vegas

  18-11-2021 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Gloria Estefan will kick off the show. Bad Bunny will be among the performers. And Rubén Blades will be named person of the year. The show begins at 8 p.m. Eastern.
  
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• Arts calendar published Nov. 17, 2021 - West Central Tribune

  18-11-2021 23:36
  
  Arts calendar published Nov. 17, 2021  West Central Tribune
  
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• Two new exhibitions open at Community Arts of Elmira - WETM - MyTwinTiers.com

  18-11-2021 23:28
  Two new exhibitions open at Community Arts of Elmira  WETM - MyTwinTiers.com
  
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• Southern, BIPOC Arts Groups Are Eligible For $6 Million In Funding. Here's How To Apply - Louisville Eccentric Observer

  18-11-2021 23:04
  
  Southern, BIPOC Arts Groups Are Eligible For $6 Million In Funding. Here's How To Apply  Louisville Eccentric Observer
  
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• Dealer Inigo Philbrick Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud: ‘I Knew My Actions Were Wrong and Illegal’

  18-11-2021 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  At a federal court in New York on Thursday, embattled dealer Inigo Philbrick pleaded guilty to wire fraud, marking yet another dramatic turn in a saga that has captured the attention of the international art world.
  Allegations of the 34-year-old dealer’s wrongdoing first emerged in 2019, when the German art firm Fine Art Partners filed suit in Florida, accusing him of having “refused” to return various artworks, including a Yayoi Kusama installation, worth millions of dollars.
  
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• 5 for Good: Artists for Humanity offers employment in the arts to local teens - WCVB Boston

  18-11-2021 23:00
  5 for Good: Artists for Humanity offers employment in the arts to local teens  WCVB Boston
  
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• Bowen Center for the Arts kicks off “Festival of Trees” - Dawson Community News

  18-11-2021 22:48
  Bowen Center for the Arts kicks off “Festival of Trees”  Dawson Community News
  
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• Arts and Innovation Academic Building would transform the student experience - VCU News

  18-11-2021 22:40
  
  Arts and Innovation Academic Building would transform the student experience  VCU News
  
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• Arts This Week: ICA exhibit spotlights how a lack of affordable studio space in Boston hurts artists - wgbh.org

  18-11-2021 22:15
  
  Arts This Week: ICA exhibit spotlights how a lack of affordable studio space in Boston hurts artists  wgbh.org
  
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• Kevin Beasley Joins Roster of L.A.’s Regen Projects

  18-11-2021 22:03 via artnews.com
  
  Kevin Beasley, whose work with sculpture and sound often delves into African American histories and imagined futures, is joining the roster of Los Angeles–based gallery Regen Projects. He will continued to be represented by Casey Kaplan in New York. His first show at Regen Projects is scheduled for April 2022.
  Nominated for the prestigious Hugo Boss Prize in 2020, Beasley has presented exhibitions and performance works in a variety of forms ranging from conceptually minded DJ sets to an in
  
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• KAWS Sues Digital Marketplaces, Claiming ‘Calculated Schemes to Confuse and Deceive’ Collectors

  18-11-2021 22:03 via artnews.com
  
  Because of his street art in the 1990s, his paintings now setting auction records, his collectible toys, his enormous inflatables, and his recent mid-career survey at the Brooklyn Museum, the unmistakable characters created by Brian Donnelly, the artist known as KAWS, have become ubiquitous. A new lawsuit alleges that a number of items out there are fakes. Donnelly and a related company under the name of KAWS have sued several websites vending artworks that the artists says are counterfeits
  
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• Outsider Art Fair’s 30th Anniversary to Feature Michael Stipe’s Art Collection, Curated Booths

  18-11-2021 21:55 via artnews.com
  
  A rare art fair that trades transactional frenzy for folksy charm, New York’s Outsider Art Fair will mark its 30th anniversary in 2022 with a focus on guest-curated exhibitions to join booths presented by some 65 dealers from near and far.
  Slated for February 3–6 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan, the fair will feature special thematic offerings including a major presentation of psychedelic art curated by artist Fred Tomaselli and an offering of works from the collection of M
  
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• Outsider Art Fair Will Mark 30th Anniversary with New York Edition Featuring Guest-Curated Booths

  18-11-2021 21:55 via artnews.com
  
  A rare art fair that trades transactional frenzy for folksy charm, New York’s Outsider Art Fair will mark its 30th anniversary in 2022 with a focus on guest-curated exhibitions to join booths presented by some 65 dealers from near and far.
  Slated for February 3–6 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan, the fair will feature special thematic offerings including a major presentation of psychedelic art curated by artist Fred Tomaselli and an offering of works from the collection of M
  
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• Review: Twyla Tharp Looks Back, With an Eye on the Future

  18-11-2021 21:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The starry program “Twyla Now,” at New York City Center, ends with a dazzling premiere featuring dancers who could be the stars of tomorrow.
  
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• Civic Woman's Club Helping Allied Arts make art accessible - The Union-Recorder

  18-11-2021 21:47
  
  Civic Woman's Club Helping Allied Arts make art accessible  The Union-Recorder
  
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• 'First weekend fling': Durango Arts Center launches 24 hours of theater - The Durango Herald

  18-11-2021 21:45
  'First weekend fling': Durango Arts Center launches 24 hours of theater  The Durango Herald
  
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• Menil Collection to Mount Exhibition of Bruce Davidson Photography Trove

  18-11-2021 21:39 via artnews.com
  
  An exhibition of the images by American photojournalist Bruce Davidson taken between 1965 and 1995 will go on view at the Menil Collection in Houston next month.
  The show primarily draws from a recent gift from an anonymous donor of nearly 350 photographs, which have until now not gone on view at the Menil. The exhibition will give an overview of Davidson’s career from his early series chronicling a gang of teenagers known as The Jokers in in Brooklyn to his images of the civil rights mov
  
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• Rare 18th-Century Watercolor Depicting Black Woman Acquired by National Galleries of Scotland

  18-11-2021 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  Edinburgh Milkmaid with Butter Churn (ca. 1785), by artist David Allan, is thought to be one of the first images of a Black subject ever created in Scotland. Now, it has a home: the National Galleries of Scotland, a consortium of five Scottish galleries in Edinburgh.
  Starting in 1785, Allan created a series of paintings and drawings where he chronicled the ordinary people of Edinburgh, from soldiers to sedan chair porters and butter churners. By the time Allan began this project, titled “E
  
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• Wilbur Smith, Best-Selling Author of Swashbuckling Novels, Dies at 88

  18-11-2021 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  His books were full of lovers, dysfunctional families, pirates and hunters, and set in locations from ancient Egypt to colonial Africa. They sold in the millions.
  
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• Highland Lakes musician Keenan Fletcher appointed to Texas arts commission - DailyTrib.com

  18-11-2021 20:41
  
  Highland Lakes musician Keenan Fletcher appointed to Texas arts commission  DailyTrib.com
  
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• ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Review: A Play for Nostalgia and Merch

  18-11-2021 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Jason Reitman, son of the original “Ghostbusters” director, delivers a toothless film with Paul Rudd as a love interest and plenty of cutesy ghosts.
  
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• Drifters - Times Square Arts

  18-11-2021 20:12
  Drifters  Times Square Arts
  
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• ARTS SPARK Announces Launch of New Website - Saratoga TODAY Newspaper

  18-11-2021 20:11
  ARTS SPARK Announces Launch of New Website  Saratoga TODAY Newspaper
  
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• Andrea Karnes Named Chief Curator at Texas’s Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

  18-11-2021 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, one of the most important institutions of its kind in the South, has promoted Andrea Karnes from senior curator to chief curator.
  Karnes has worked at the Museum since the early 1990s. During her decades at the Modern Art Museum, she has been instrumental in expanding the museum’s collection and attendance.
  “Andrea is dedicated to this museum and to our curatorial goal to increase the diversity and broaden the narrative of exhibitions and
  
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• Absolver dev's martial arts adventure Sifu now arriving two weeks earlier - Eurogamer.net

  18-11-2021 19:54
  
  Absolver dev's martial arts adventure Sifu now arriving two weeks earlier  Eurogamer.net
  
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• Not Relatable: April Clark and Grace Freud’s “Girl God”

  18-11-2021 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  April Clark (@autogynefiles) started using Twitter in March 2020, during quarantine. She was eighteen and bored, living at home with her parents in Seattle, and she liked using Photoshop to make fake news headlines. From the New York Times: “NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says ‘Monkeys Ride Free’ On New York Buses.” From the Guardian: “Robert Pattinson: ‘I don’t really know how to walk down stairs.’” Anything could be “so true,” as she
  
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• Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut

  18-11-2021 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Dima Slobodeniouk was an excellent fill-in with the New York Philharmonic in works by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
  
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• ‘King Richard’ Review: Father Holds Court

  18-11-2021 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis play the parents of Venus and Serena Williams in a warm, exuberant, old-fashioned sports drama.
  
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• Lehmann Maupin Expands in Seoul as Western Galleries Flock to the City

  18-11-2021 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  Lehmann Maupin will dramatically grow its presence in Seoul, with a new gallery set to open in the South Korean capital in the spring of 2022. Its decision to expand there comes galleries based in Europe and the U.S. plot moves to launch spaces in the city as well.
  In the past year, galleries like Pace, Gladstone, and Thaddaeus Ropac have revealed plans to expand or open up shop in the city. But Lehmann Maupin has been there longer than most: the gallery opened its Seoul location in 2017.
  As the
  
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• Birds of Paradise: Tony Fitzpatrick at Cleve Carney Museum of Art

  18-11-2021 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  Chicago novelist Nelson Algren described his hometown as a city “that was to forge, out of steel and blood-red neon, its own peculiar wilderness.” He was talking about a mercantile city, an ecosystem of trainyards and jails and bars, but he was also gesturing to a density that felt untamed, in which anything could happen. Tony Fitzpatrick, another Chicagoan, literalizes the idea of urban wildness in “Jesus of Western Avenue,” an exhibition at the Cleve Carney Museum of Ar
  
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• ‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Are You My Mommy?

  18-11-2021 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  In Mike Mills’s latest film, Joaquin Phoenix plays an uncle who takes care of his precocious nephew during a family crisis.
  
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• Mayor's Arts Awards honor top Muncie arts advocates, mentors and supporters - The Star Press

  18-11-2021 18:29
  Mayor's Arts Awards honor top Muncie arts advocates, mentors and supporters  The Star Press
  
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• Gillian Wearing Is Spilling Your Secrets

  18-11-2021 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  What makes this British Turner Prize winner maddening also makes her fascinating. Now her confessional art is on view in “Wearing Masks,” her first American museum retrospective.
  
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• Milwaukee Youth Arts Center shows off its new expansion and makeover - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  18-11-2021 16:42
  Milwaukee Youth Arts Center shows off its new expansion and makeover  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
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• ‘The Princess Switch 3’ Review: Meow, It’s Fiona’s Turn

  18-11-2021 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A golden star on loan from the Vatican to crown the holiday tree in tiny Montenaro has been stolen. What’s a royal family to do?
  
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• ‘Jagged’ Review: The Painful Road to Era-Defining Success

  18-11-2021 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary from Alison Klayman catalogs the odds that Alanis Morissette overcame to make her 1995 hit album “Jagged Little Pill.”
  
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• Expo Chicago Announces Expansion of Museum Purchase Prize

  18-11-2021 16:09 via artnews.com
  
  Expo Chicago and the Chicago-based wealth management firm Northern Trust will expand their Northern Trust Purchase Prize, which allows curators of a designated museum to select an artwork from the fair for their collection. Typically, the Purchase Prize only applies to one institution, but for the upcoming 2022 fair in April, three museums will benefit from the prize: the Portland Art Museum, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
  “The expansion speaks
  
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• Abu Dhabi Art, Flagship Fair of the Emirates, Returns In-Person with a Slow Start But Strong Local Presence

  18-11-2021 16:02 via artnews.com
  
  The lights never go out in Abu Dhabi, but during the countdown to the United Arab Emirates “Golden Jubilee” this December, the night is especially dazzling. Sparkling advertisements for the 50th anniversary of the unification of the Gulf nation decorate the highways and wrap glass skyscrapers. After a quiet pandemic year, the capital and wealthiest of the Emirates has prepared to party.
  But the opening of Abu Dhabi Art on November 17, marking the fair’s first in-person edition
  
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• The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli Gets a Solo Career, 50 Years Late

  18-11-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the 1970s, Nocentelli recorded a folk album drastically different from his band’s funk music. Barely anyone heard it — until it ended up at a swap meet.
  
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• Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley to Create New Designs for American Express Platinum Cards

  18-11-2021 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  During a conversation between artists Julie Mehretu and Kehinde Wiley hosted by the Studio Museum in Harlem on Wednesday night, American Express announced that it had tapped the two artists to create designs for its U.S. Platinum Card. The designs by Mehretu and Wiley will be unveiled next month during Art Basel Miami Beach and will be available to American Express Platinum Card holders beginning in January.
  The company also said that it would give $1 million to the Studio Museum to help the ins
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Hires Curators for American Art, Contemporary Art

  18-11-2021 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Brooklyn Museum has made two major hires. Stephanie Sparling Williams will now be the institution’s curator of American art, beginning in December, and Kimberli Gant will be curator of modern and contemporary art, starting in January.
  The museum said that Sparling Williams will expand the museum’s holdings with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and women American artists. She was most recently an associate curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and a visiting lecturer in art
  
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• The Moment That Janet Jackson’s Career Stalled and Justin Timberlake’s Soared

  18-11-2021 15:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Jackson was vilified after her 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, while Timberlake’s popularity seemed to take off. Our new documentary examines how the superstars were treated after their unforgettable wardrobe malfunction.
  
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• $3M Grant to Prepare Underrepresented Arts and Humanities Faculty for… - Maryland Today

  18-11-2021 15:30
  
  $3M Grant to Prepare Underrepresented Arts and Humanities Faculty for…  Maryland Today
  
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• Review: This ‘Wheel of Time’ Goes Nowhere Fast

  18-11-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amazon’s ambitious fantasy adaptation is bursting with magic and monsters, but it’s no heir to the “Thrones.”
  
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• Jennifer Packer: Painting as an Exercise in Tenderness

  18-11-2021 14:49 via nytimes.com
  
  In a virtuosic solo show at the Whitney, the artist finds her subjects’ complex humanity, and offers a new way forward for representation.
  
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• Lehmann Maupin Expands in Seoul, Inside the Manhattan D.A.’s Art Storage, and More: Morning Links for November 18, 2021

  18-11-2021 14:12 via artnews.com
  
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  A STRONG NIGHT IN MIDTOWN. At its newly opened Manhattan showroom yesterday, Phillips notched the largest total it has ever had at an evening sale—$139 million—offering 46 lots of modern and contemporary art. A solid 43 of those sold, led by a 1958 Francis Bacon pope painting that went for $38 million with
  
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• Latin Grammys 2021: How and Where to Watch Live

  18-11-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 22nd annual Latin Grammys will be shown live on Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern on Univision. Gloria Estefan, Rubén Blades, Camilo and more are scheduled to perform.
  
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