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• Letter From Catherine the Great Shows Her Support for Inoculations

  29-11-2021 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  In a letter from 1787 to be sold at auction this week, the Russian empress called for widespread access to a precursor of the smallpox vaccine.
  
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• 4 Great Cyber Monday 2021 Deals on Mirrorless Cameras for Artists

  29-11-2021 23:30 via artnews.com
  
  Although DSLRs used to be the interchangeable-lens cameras of choice for pros and enthusiasts, they are seeing competition from an ever-expanding range of mirrorless cameras, which tend to be more compact. They also rely on electronic viewfinders, which allow you to preview your eventual image in real time as you alter your settings. The sales below on mirrorless cameras are attributable in part to makers wanting to clear out inventory to make room for new stock. But if you don’t need the
  
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• 4 Cyber Monday 2021 Deals on Mirrorless Cameras for Artists

  29-11-2021 23:30 via artnews.com
  
  Although DSLRs used to be the interchangeable-lens cameras of choice for pros and enthusiasts, they are seeing competition from an ever-expanding range of mirrorless cameras, which tend to be more compact. They also rely on electronic viewfinders, which allow you to preview your eventual image in real time as you alter your settings. The sales below on mirrorless cameras are attributable in part to makers wanting to clear out inventory to make room for new stock. But if you don’t need the
  
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• Arts workers across the country are unionizing - NPR

  29-11-2021 22:51 via npr.org
  Arts workers across the country are unionizing  NPR
  
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• Sound Artists Decline German Art Award: ‘Pitting Quality Against Diversity Is Pernicious’

  29-11-2021 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  Sound artists Mendi and Keith Obadike declined to accept an honorable mention this weekend ahead of a ceremony for the annual Giga-Hertz Award administered by the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. On Saturday, Kieth Obadike published a statement on his Facebook account to announce that he and his partner declined to accept the honor in response to a ZKM representative’s comment that the organization “had to choose between ‘quality and diversity'” during
  
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• David Zwirner Appoints Lihua Tung as Hong Kong Director

  29-11-2021 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  David Zwirner gallery has appointed Lihua Tung as director of its Hong Kong location. Tung joins the mega-gallery enterprise from Phillips auction house in Hong Kong, where she served as senior director and senior specialist of 20th-century and contemporary art. Prior to joining Phillips in February 2020, she held contemporary art specialist roles at Christie’s in Hong Kong and Taiwan between 2007 and 2018.
  In her new role, she will help to expand Zwirner’s exhibition and fair progra
  
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• In Bill Cosby Case, Supreme Court Is Asked to Toss Ruling That Freed Him

  29-11-2021 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The prosecutors who brought the 2018 sexual assault case are appealing the decision in June by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that overturned the jury verdict.
  
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• At Art Basel Miami Beach, Large-Scale Artworks Reflect on Tumultuous Past Two Years

  29-11-2021 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Several large-scale artworks have touched down this week in the Miami Beach Convention Center as part of Art Basel’s U.S. edition, the first to take place since 2019. Taking its name from the imaginary geographical lines that run from north to south, the fair’s Meridians section will present a range of 16 commissioned and historic works by some of today’s leading and most-closely watched artists, including Howardena Pindella, Yinka Shonibare, Maxwell Alexandre, Brendan Fernande
  
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• In Bill Cosby Case, Supreme Court Asked to Toss Ruling That Freed Him

  29-11-2021 22:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The prosecutors who brought the 2018 sexual assault case are appealing the decision in June by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that overturned the jury verdict.
  
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• Arlene Dahl, Movie Star Turned Entrepreneur, Is Dead at 96

  29-11-2021 21:51 via nytimes.com
  
  She had already started branching out when her film career was at its height, writing a syndicated column and launching a fashion and cosmetics business.
  
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• PNC Bank Arts Center 2022 concert list is here - New Jersey 101.5 FM

  29-11-2021 21:41 via nj1015.com
  
  PNC Bank Arts Center 2022 concert list is here  New Jersey 101.5 FM
  
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• Maker of Totem Poles Allegedly Faked Native American Heritage

  29-11-2021 21:41 via artnews.com
  
  According to a federal investigation, the Washington-based artist Lewis Anthony Rath misrepresented himself as a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in an effort to present totem poles and other crafts he made as authentic Native American artifacts. On November 23rd, a special agent from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service filed a complaint against Rath finding him in violation of four counts of Misrepresentation of Indian Produced Goods and Products, one count of Unlawful Possession of Golden
  
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• You Can Still Get in on These 2021 Black Friday Tech Deals for Artists and Photographers

  29-11-2021 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  Black Friday is today, and we’ve found nine great buys on select tech gear for family, friends, and even yourself. Though fears of a supply-chain meltdown seem to have been somewhat overblown, slower ship times over the holiday shopping season are always to be expected, so if you are buying gifts, now is the time to do so. A word of advice: Move fast, as many of these products will sell out quickly. (Prices current at time of publication.)
  Get 33% off Bose noise-canceling headphonesBose is
  
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• Ivashka: 'My Father Wanted Me To Do Martial Arts' - ATP Tour

  29-11-2021 20:15 via atptour.com
  
  Ivashka: 'My Father Wanted Me To Do Martial Arts'  ATP Tour
  
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• ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm

  29-11-2021 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Elizabeth D. Samet demystifies the cultural narrative that has shrouded the historical reality.
  
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• Adele Is No. 1 With a Huge Week, but Without a Million in Sales

  29-11-2021 18:51 via nytimes.com
  
  “30” tops the Billboard album chart with the equivalent of 839,000 sales in the United States, leaving Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” as the last LP to cross the million mark.
  
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• Virgil Abloh, Visionary Designer Who Bridged High Fashion, Art, and Streetwear, Has Died at 41

  29-11-2021 18:38 via artnews.com
  
  Virgil Abloh, the boundary-breaking designer who united high fashion, art, and hypebeast culture—transforming the public’s perception and consumption of each—died on Sunday in Chicago at the age of 41. In a statement, Abloh’s family shared that he had been privately battling cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, since 2019.
  Abloh’s expansive vision was complemented by his cross-disciplinary background as a trained architect, engineer, and fashion designer, as
  
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• As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians

  29-11-2021 18:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Ballet companies are reworking the holiday classic partly in response to a wave of anti-Asian hate that has intensified during the pandemic.
  
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• 5 Great Cyber Monday 2021 Deals on Camera Accessories for Artists

  29-11-2021 18:34 via artnews.com
  
  Today is Cyber Monday, and we’ve found five great deals on camera accessories on Amazon. Any of them might make a great gift for the artist or photographer in your life. A word of advice: Move fast, as many of these products will sell out quickly. (Prices current at time of publication.)
  Take $171 off a gimbal stabilizerHave you ever wondered how videographers create footage that looks as if the camera is gliding through the air? If you want the same effect, get a gimbal like this one from
  
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• Green Party Politician Claudia Roth to Be Germany’s Next Culture Minister

  29-11-2021 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  Before Claudia Roth moved into politics she was the artistic director of a theater and a manager of the rock band Ton Steine Scherben, which was dedicated to making music about emerging leftist politics in Germany. Roth has since taken her beliefs to parliament, and her new appointment as Germany’s Culture Minister is likely to draw ire from the opposition, according to a report in Artnet News.
  The appointment follows elections in September that have brought together a new governing coalit
  
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• Under the Radar Festival Returns, Smaller but Still Funky

  29-11-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The experimental festival at the Public Theater will return in person with fewer shows and, for the first time, performances outside New York City.
  
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• At the Rubell Museum, Reginald O’Neal Pictures Miami’s Overtown Neighborhood

  29-11-2021 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past decade, Miami-based painter Reginald O’Neal has kept a keen eye on the world around him. The 29-year-old artist’s central subjects have been the people he knows from Overtown, the neighborhood, northwest of Downtown Miami, where he grew up. The neighborhood has a rich and fraught history. It was once a hub for Black musicians like Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday and Jerry Butler, as Jim Crow era’s ruthless segregationist policies barred them from Miami’s ente
  
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• Jussie Smollett Trial Begins With Jury Selection

  29-11-2021 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor said in 2019 that he was the victim of a hate crime, but the police said it was a hoax. His trial will revolve around charges that he filed a false police report.
  
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• You Can Still Get Great Black Friday 2021 Deals on Art Supplies

  29-11-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Black Friday is over, but some of these Black Friday bargains are still available! Whether you need art and craft supplies, are yearning to pick up a new hobby, or are in the market for a gift for your creative loved ones, now is the time to buy.
  A word of advice: move fast as many of these products will sell out quickly (perhaps consider automatic inputting of your payment information for faster checkouts). All prices are current at time of publication. Happy shopping!
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• More Than a ‘Holocaust Artist’: Miami Show Positions Maryan as an Unknown Giant of the Postwar Era

  29-11-2021 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Back in 1972, the Guggenheim Museum invited a group of 10 artists to do an exhibition that had virtually no involvement from its curatorial team. Even if that show was “anticurator,” as one New York Times critic deemed it, the exhibition, titled “Ten Independents,” certainly wasn’t anti–art world altogether. The artists—many of whom were well-known to curators and collectors at the time, like Romare Bearden, H. C. Westermann, and Red
  
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• The Best Cyber Monday 2021 Deals on Art Supplies

  29-11-2021 16:40 via artnews.com
  
  Today is Cyber Monday, when many US retailers post deep discounts on selected wares, including art and craft supplies. To help you parse the offerings, we’ll be tracking some of the best deals on artists’ tools, from pastels to tablets, to give as gifts or to keep for yourself.
  We will be updating this page all today, so check in with us often. A word of advice: Move fast, as many of these products will sell out quickly. (Prices current at time of publication.)
  For more holiday savin
  
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• Naama Tsabar Wants Viewers to Challenge the Expected Museum Experience: ‘If You Push Your Own Boundaries You’re Rewarded’

  29-11-2021 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Sound travels through mysterious channels in Naama Tsabar’s latest exhibition, “Perimeters,” on view at The Bass in Miami through April 16. For the show, the Israeli-born, New York–based artist will occupy the museum’s galleries with new, site-specific iterations of four bodies of work. Tsabar’s art occupies an intersection of sculpture, performance, and architecture that will transform the museum itself into a playable instrument. Taken together, Tsabar hopes
  
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• Zestworld Will Give Comic Book Creators a Greater Stake

  29-11-2021 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Zestworld, which counts Alexis Ohanian as a supporter, will allow comic book writers and artists to present new work and reap the benefits.
  
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• Adele and Summer Walker: Our Season of Romantic Discontent

  29-11-2021 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  New chart-topping albums from the two singers serve as raw excavations of relationships gone bad.
  
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• Looking at Surrealist Art in Our Own Surreal Age

  29-11-2021 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When viewed as a vehicle for various forms of liberation, the movement remains highly resonant even a century after its heyday.
  
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• Joaquina Kalukango and Amanda Williams on Creative Freedom

  29-11-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Slave Play” actress and the Chicago-based artist discuss generational gaps, success and the art that brought them each acclaim.
  
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• Designer Virgil Abloh Dies at 41, Damien Hirst Gives Away NFTs, and More: Morning Links for November 29, 2021

  29-11-2021 12:42 via artnews.com
  
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  THE TRAILBLAZING, DEEPLY INFLUENTIAL DESIGNER VIRGIL ABLOH, who brought together high fashion and streetwear, and worked in countless cultural spheres, has died at 41. The cause was a rare type of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma, that few knew he had been diagnosed with two years ago. The founder of the label Off-White, Abloh was artistic dir
  
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• Meet the Beauty Queens of Al Dhafra

  29-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Camel beauty contests take center stage at a celebration of Bedouin culture, held annually in the United Arab Emirates.
  
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• Colton Underwood Comes Out and Comes Clean

  29-11-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The former “Bachelor” star announced he is gay on national TV in April. A new Netflix reality series seeks to share his journey and address the criticism.
  
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• VCU plans $181M arts building, $44M data center on Broad Street - RichmondBizSense

  29-11-2021 10:01 via richmondbizsense.com
  
  VCU plans $181M arts building, $44M data center on Broad Street  RichmondBizSense
  
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• Rockland arts foundation creating a campus in 'neighborhood in transition' - Press Herald

  29-11-2021 10:00 via pressherald.com
  Rockland arts foundation creating a campus in 'neighborhood in transition'  Press Herald
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: Willy Wonka and a ‘West Side Story’ Special

  29-11-2021 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” airs on AMC. And ABC hosts a special on “West Side Story.”
  
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• ‘Insecure’ Recap, Season 5, Episode 6: Dreams and Ghosts

  29-11-2021 04:31 via nytimes.com
  
  This week’s episode revolves largely around professional aspirations and the messy entanglements that can result from them.
  
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• ‘Succession’ Season 3, Episode 7: Citizen Ken

  29-11-2021 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ken tries to have it both ways with a birthday party that is both absurdly over the top but disownably ironic. Unfortunately for him, it is more tragedy than farce.
  
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• Group to celebrate Houma art gallery's reopening after Hurricane Ida - Houma Courier

  29-11-2021 03:03 via houmatoday.com
  Group to celebrate Houma art gallery's reopening after Hurricane Ida  Houma Courier
  
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• Lower turnout for fine arts show as artists reunite with customers - Mankato Free Press

  29-11-2021 01:10 via mankatofreepress.com
  
  Lower turnout for fine arts show as artists reunite with customers  Mankato Free Press
  
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• Minot's Laudenschlager named to Arts Midwest Board of Directors - KFYR-TV

  29-11-2021 00:32 via kfyrtv.com
  
  Minot's Laudenschlager named to Arts Midwest Board of Directors  KFYR-TV
  
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