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• Sylvère Lotringer, Shape-Shifting Force of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 83

  22-11-2021 23:35 via nytimes.com
  
  He succeeded in making French philosophy hip and provoking mainstream American culture, but he couldn’t vanquish his childhood memories of Nazi rule.
  
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• Cordes Jeff Langley, composer and Sonoma State University arts educator, dies at 70 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

  22-11-2021 23:32 via pressdemocrat.com
  Cordes Jeff Langley, composer and Sonoma State University arts educator, dies at 70  Santa Rosa Press Democrat
  
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• Three Middle Eastern Buildings Designed by Zaha Hadid to Open in 2022

  22-11-2021 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  Zaha Hadid was just 65 when she died of a heart attack in 2016, at what was arguably the height of her career. She left behind many unfinished projects—including several in the Middle East that are now nearing completion.
  The King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Bee’ah Headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, and the Central Bank of Iraq are all now officially to open in 2022, according to a new profile published by Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, her
  
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• Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery Names Allison Kemmerer Director

  22-11-2021 23:13 via artnews.com
  
  The Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, has named Allison Kemmerer as its director after she served a stint as interim director of the institution she first joined in 1992. Prior to moving into her directorship role, Kemmerer worked in the museum’s curatorial department, most recently as a curator of photography and contemporary art.
  In a statement, Phillips Academy head of school Raynard Kington said, “As we considered our search for the Ad
  
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• Archaeologists Discover ‘Oldest’ Jewelry Ever, Shedding Light on Early Ways of Expressing Identity

  22-11-2021 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists working in the Bizmoune Cave in southwest Morocco published a surprising finding in Science Advances last week: they had discovered what is believed to be the oldest jewelry in the world. The team found 33 shell beads that they dated to between 142,000 and 150,000 years old.
  The beads were found between 2014 and 2018 and in the time since the team has been working to confirm a date for the artifacts through scientific analysis. The study, led by El Mehdi Sehasseh, a grad
  
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• Roundtable: Bridging arts, culture and public policy to design an equitable recovery - The Kresge Foundation

  22-11-2021 22:32 via kresge.org
  Roundtable: Bridging arts, culture and public policy to design an equitable recovery  The Kresge Foundation
  
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• Met Signs Loan Exchange Agreement with Nigeria: ‘It Shouldn’t Be Limited to the Benin Bronzes’

  22-11-2021 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art made the return of three looted objects to Nigeria official. At a repatriation ceremony held today in New York, the museum also signed an agreement to partner with the Nigerian government to collaborate on art loans and scholarship. It is unclear whether the Met plans to send back more works from its holdings in the future, however.
  The ceremony held today at the museum centered around two 16th-century brass plaques looted from the Court of Benin and a b
  
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• Southern Appeal

  22-11-2021 21:38 via artnews.com
  
  At the end of July, I was standing with artist Bo Bartlett and his wife, painter Betsy Eby, on the western side of Wheaton Island, a twenty-acre lozenge of granite and spruce about twenty-two miles off the coast of Maine. We were on the shore, surrounded by sea kelp and tall loaves of rock, looking for good stones to skip. Bartlett, 65, is tan and boyish; he speaks softly, with a sort of preacherly calm, but is quite playful and energetic. In addition to painting, he runs a weekly radio show and
  
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• After 20 Years, Frank Stella Returns to Ground Zero

  22-11-2021 21:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The installation of his sculpture marks a homecoming for the 85-year-old artist, whose diptych at the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11.
  
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• Paul Thomas Anderson on "Licorice Pizza" and Age Difference

  22-11-2021 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The auteur explains why he cast Alana Haim, and why he thinks the age difference in the film’s central relationship shouldn’t matter.
  
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• Kasmin Now Represents Diana Al-Hadid, Sculptor Mining Ancient Histories to Reflect on Today

  22-11-2021 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Kasmin gallery now represents Diana Al-Hadid, an artist whose sculpture-based practice looks to the histories of ancient civilizations as a way to process today’s most pressing issues. The gallery will present two new works by the artist in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach week. She will continue to work with San Francisco–based gallery Berggruen.
  Born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Ohio, and now based between Upstate New York and Brooklyn, Al-Hadid has created an exp
  
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• Taylor Swift Earns Her Fourth No. 1 in 16 Months With New ‘Red’

  22-11-2021 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “Red (Taylor’s Version)” had the equivalent of 605,000 sales in the United States. On next week’s album chart, Adele’s “30” is expected to reach or exceed one million sales.
  
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• Review: Channeling Anger in ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’

  22-11-2021 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Annie Ryan’s stage adaptation of the Eimear McBride novel is given a lucid and intimate revival at the Irish Repertory Theater.
  
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• Broadway Play "Clyde's" Will Be Livestreamed

  22-11-2021 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The digital experimentation born of the pandemic shutdown is continuing: the final 16 performances of Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s” will be streamed, for $59.
  
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• Planned Virginia Woolf Monument Overlooking the Thames River Criticized as Insensitive

  22-11-2021 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  A planned monument to Virginia Woolf overlooking the Thames River is under fire for its controversial placement, as the celebrated author committed suicide by drowning. The life-size likeness of Woolf designed by Laury Dizengremel would be positioned on a park bench in southwest London, where she lived with her husband, the writer Leonard Woolf, for a decade starting in 1914. The Richmond council’s environment, sustainability, culture, and sports committee approved the proposal last Thursd
  
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• Macy’s Parade Is Back This Thanksgiving, Without Kids on Floats

  22-11-2021 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The tradition has been largely restored, but children under 12 years old will not be allowed in the parade — only as spectators.
  
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• Robert Bly, Poet Who Gave Rise to a Men’s Movement, Dies at 94

  22-11-2021 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His most famous, and most controversial, work was “Iron John: A Book About Men,” which made a case that American men had grown soft and feminized. It made him a cultural phenomenon.
  
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• LACMA’s Christine Y. Kim Named Curator-at-Large at Tate

  22-11-2021 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  Christine Y. Kim, one of the most closely watched curators in the U.S., will join the Tate museum network as a curator-at-large, based in Los Angeles and New York. For more than a decade, Kim has been at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she established herself as a force within the city’s art scene.
  Kim’s curatorial credits at LACMA include two current shows: one featuring Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley’s portraits of the Obamas, the other a wide-ranging survey called
  
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• Macy’s Parade Is Back This Thanksgiving, but Kids Are Sidelined

  22-11-2021 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The tradition has been largely restored, but children under 12 years old will not be allowed in the parade — only as spectators.
  
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• Garage Museum to Expand by 102,000 Square Feet with Historic Pavilion in Moscow’s Gorky Park

  22-11-2021 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, one of the biggest contemporary art museums in Russia, is getting ready to significantly expand. The Moscow institution is set to revitalize the Hexagon pavilion, an architectural landmark of Gorky Park that has sat in disuse for decades, and turn it into a new space where the museum will host exhibitions. The Japanese architectural firm SANAA has partnered with the museum to overhaul the original design by Russian architect Ivan Zholtovsky.
  Dasha Zhukova,
  
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• The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’

  22-11-2021 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  For several years, the composer Matthew Aucoin corresponded with Sarah Ruhl about how to adapt her play into the Met Opera’s latest premiere.
  
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• Brooklyn Museum to Receive $50 Million Gift From City of New York

  22-11-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The funding will be the largest capital investment in the museum’s nearly 200-year history.
  
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• Constable ‘Copy’ Identified as Real Work, Unknown Dürer Drawing Discovered, and More: Morning Links for November 22, 2021

  22-11-2021 14:24 via artnews.com
  
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  DAVE HICKEY, THE INFLUENTIAL, PERSPICACIOUS, AND POLARIZING “Genius” grant–winning art critic whose books Air Guitar (1997) and The Invisible Dragon (1993) are classics of the genre, has died. He was 82. “His criticism blends high and low, often putting well-known works of art alongside musings on basketball and fast food,”&
  
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• The Searing Beauty, and Harsh Reality, of a Kentucky Tobacco Harvest

  22-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At a family farm in Shelby County, a group of 26 men from Nicaragua and Mexico perform the grueling seasonal work that Americans largely avoid.
  
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• Photo gallery: Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's Christmas Craft Fair and Extravaganza (11/22/21) - Southeast Missourian

  22-11-2021 10:47 via semissourian.com
  
  Photo gallery: Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's Christmas Craft Fair and Extravaganza (11/22/21)  Southeast Missourian
  
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• The art of the con | Arts and Entertainment | hometownsource.com - ECM Publishers

  22-11-2021 08:30 via hometownsource.com
  
  The art of the con | Arts and Entertainment | hometownsource.com  ECM Publishers
  
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• Potters racking up martial arts trophies - Village Living

  22-11-2021 07:50 via villagelivingonline.com
  
  Potters racking up martial arts trophies  Village Living
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the Soul Train Awards

  22-11-2021 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The season finale of “Dancing With the Stars” airs on ABC. And Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold return to host the 2021 Soul Train Awards on BET.
  
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• “Nutcracker” At Kirkwood Performing Arts Center | Webster Kirkwood Times | timesnewspapers.com - Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.

  22-11-2021 07:00 via timesnewspapers.com
  “Nutcracker” At Kirkwood Performing Arts Center | Webster Kirkwood Times | timesnewspapers.com  Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.
  
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• Local News: Arts Center receives $5,000 grant (11/22/21) - Le Mars Daily Sentinel

  22-11-2021 07:00 via lemarssentinel.com
  
  Local News: Arts Center receives $5,000 grant (11/22/21)  Le Mars Daily Sentinel
  
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• Kirkwood Hosts Greater St. Louis Holiday Arts Expo - Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.

  22-11-2021 07:00 via timesnewspapers.com
  Kirkwood Hosts Greater St. Louis Holiday Arts Expo  Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.
  
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• The Center for the Arts names mainstage theater at the “Enchanted” gala - YubaNet

  22-11-2021 06:35 via yubanet.com
  
  The Center for the Arts names mainstage theater at the “Enchanted” gala  YubaNet
  
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• Arts center seeks memberships, sponsorships - Seymour Tribune

  22-11-2021 06:00 via tribtown.com
  Arts center seeks memberships, sponsorships  Seymour Tribune
  
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• Kenan Arts Council Holiday Gift Show celebrates 40 years - WIVB.com - News 4

  22-11-2021 05:38 via wivb.com
  Kenan Arts Council Holiday Gift Show celebrates 40 years  WIVB.com - News 4
  
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• Daytona Beach Museum of Arts & Sciences director leaving at the end of this year - Yahoo News

  22-11-2021 05:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Daytona Beach Museum of Arts & Sciences director leaving at the end of this year  Yahoo News
  
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• Madison Center for the Arts announces 2022 season - AZ Big Media

  22-11-2021 05:10 via azbigmedia.com
  
  Madison Center for the Arts announces 2022 season  AZ Big Media
  
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• Niagara Arts and Cultural Center celebrate Native American traditions - WIVB.com - News 4

  22-11-2021 04:48 via wivb.com
  Niagara Arts and Cultural Center celebrate Native American traditions  WIVB.com - News 4
  
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• ‘Insecure’ Recap, Season 5, Episode 5: Out of Control

  22-11-2021 04:31 via nytimes.com
  
  As Molly deals with a family emergency, Issa finds a new relationship moving faster than she planned.
  
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• ‘People are freaking out’: From martial arts to high-end locks, S.F. residents are investing in self-protection - San Francisco Chronicle

  22-11-2021 04:11 via sfchronicle.com
  
  ‘People are freaking out’: From martial arts to high-end locks, S.F. residents are investing in self-protection  San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• ‘Succession’ Recap, Season 3, Episode 6: Pretenders to the Throne

  22-11-2021 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kendall had hoped to be the kingmaker, but we all know whom that role belongs to.
  
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• Post Lockdown, Arts Companies Still Struggle With Visas, Protocols, and Planning - San Francisco Classical Voice

  22-11-2021 03:51 via sfcv.org
  
  Post Lockdown, Arts Companies Still Struggle With Visas, Protocols, and Planning  San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Sounds of Motown fill DeYor Performing Arts Center - WKBN.com

  22-11-2021 03:29 via wkbn.com
  Sounds of Motown fill DeYor Performing Arts Center  WKBN.com
  
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• Langley, longtime Sonoma State University arts educator, dies at 70 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

  22-11-2021 03:20 via pressdemocrat.com
  Langley, longtime Sonoma State University arts educator, dies at 70  Santa Rosa Press Democrat
  
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• Rapids School of Performing Arts Winter Showcase returns - wrcitytimes.com

  22-11-2021 00:19 via wrcitytimes.com
  
  Rapids School of Performing Arts Winter Showcase returns  wrcitytimes.com
  
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• The Rhythmic Arts Project fundraiser returns to Lobero Theatre Dec. 11 | NewsChannel 3-12 - KEYT

  22-11-2021 00:07 via keyt.com
  
  The Rhythmic Arts Project fundraiser returns to Lobero Theatre Dec. 11 | NewsChannel 3-12  KEYT
  
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• Review: ‘The Alchemist,’ a Play in Search of Comedy Gold

  22-11-2021 00:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Red Bull Theater brings on the cons and their marks in this adaptation of the 17th-century Ben Jonson work.
  
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