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• Carbondale Arts receives federal grant for Youth Art Park sculpture - Glenwood Springs Post Independent

  20-01-2022 23:48 via postindependent.com
  
  Carbondale Arts receives federal grant for Youth Art Park sculpture  Glenwood Springs Post Independent
  
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• ‘Africa, Imagined’ exhibit opens Jan. 22 at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts - mlive.com

  20-01-2022 22:45 via mlive.com
  
  ‘Africa, Imagined’ exhibit opens Jan. 22 at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts  mlive.com
  
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• Arts This Week: Reviewing Boston schools through theater - wgbh.org

  20-01-2022 22:02 via wgbh.org
  
  Arts This Week: Reviewing Boston schools through theater  wgbh.org
  
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• VSU Fine Arts Gallery Hosts Valdosta National 2022 - Valdosta State University News

  20-01-2022 21:53 via valdosta.edu
  VSU Fine Arts Gallery Hosts Valdosta National 2022  Valdosta State University News
  
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• After Decades at the Top, Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Makes a New Move with a Tribeca Space

  20-01-2022 21:38 via artnews.com
  
  Since founding Pace Gallery in 1960, Arne Glimcher has wound his way through all manner of movements in the art world—including a newly planned space of his own to open in downtown New York in 2022. Under the name Gallery 125 Newbury (Pace originally opened at that address on Newbury Street in Boston all those decades ago), the new enterprise will remain related to Pace while giving Glimcher a platform for different kinds of presentations as Pace remains under the stewardship of Marc Glimc
  
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• Taylor Mac Explores the Philosophy of the Hang

  20-01-2022 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  A new jazz opera reimagines Socrates’ final hours. Expect queer romps, ancient Greek in-jokes and plenty of tulle.
  
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• Tracey Emin Demands Artwork Be Removed From 10 Downing Street

  20-01-2022 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  British artist Tracey Emin posted on her Instagram this week that she has officially requested that her 2010 neon piece More Passion be taken down from 10 Downing Street, the official residence and office of the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister.
  “I am now in the process of requesting that my art work be removed from 10 Downing Street,” wrote Emin in her post. “I feel More Passion is the last thing this present government needs. This current situation is shameful.”
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• PV Arts Opens Annual Fundraising Exhibit - Good Times Weekly

  20-01-2022 21:00 via goodtimes.sc
  
  PV Arts Opens Annual Fundraising Exhibit  Good Times Weekly
  
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• Drawing, a Cure for the January Blahs

  20-01-2022 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The medium is our art critic’s favorite — and this is a rich moment to indulge in works on paper, from the Drawing Center to the weeklong Master Drawings New York.
  
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• At Sundance, Two Films Look at Abortion and the Jane Collective

  20-01-2022 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In the years leading up to Roe v. Wade, a Chicago group helped thousands of women obtain the procedure safely. A documentary and a feature tell their story.
  
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• Everett Lee, Who Broke Color Barriers on the Conductor’s Podium, Dies at 105

  20-01-2022 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  He was known as the first Black conductor on Broadway and the first to conduct a white orchestra in the South. Mr. Lee went on to a successful career in Europe.
  
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• Broadway Meets the Avant-Garde in a Juilliard Music Festival

  20-01-2022 20:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Focus, a weeklong event starting Sunday, delves into the broad range of American sounds in the first half of the 20th century.
  
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• A Dollhouse You Could Call Home

  20-01-2022 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Carrie Stettheimer spent 19 years decorating this tiny house, on view at the Museum of the City of New York. She even asked Duchamp to reprise his most famous nude — at three inches.
  
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• Archaeologists Unearth Colossal Pair of Sphinxes in Egypt During Restoration of Landmark Temple

  20-01-2022 19:56 via artnews.com
  
  Fragments of a colossal pair of limestone sphinxes were unearthed at the ancient Egyptian temple of Amenhotep III in western Luxor. A German-Egyptian team of researchers, led by archaeologist Hourig Sourouzian, discovered the artifacts half-submerged in water during their restoration of the funerary temple of the pharaoh and the Colossi of Memnon, two monumental statues in his likeness.
  The sphinxes measure around 26 feet long and likely depict the ancient ruler outfitted wearing a mongoose-shap
  
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• A New Coalition Amplifies Disability Culture in the Music Industry

  20-01-2022 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  RAMPD, an organization of professional disabled musicians, will push for accessibility in the music industry, including adding visible ramps to awards show stages.
  
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• ‘The Tiger Rising’ Review: A Cage of Clichés

  20-01-2022 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  A lonely boy finds an ally when he discovers a caged tiger in a forest behind his home, but imagination is somehow short-lived in this children’s movie.
  
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• Review: ‘As We See It,’ Where the Quest for ‘Normal’ Is Extraordinary

  20-01-2022 19:25 via nytimes.com
  
  This dramedy from Jason Katims brings three young adults on the autism spectrum to vivid life, with empathy and a light touch.
  
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• Fred Parris, Creator of a Doo-Wop Classic, Is Dead at 85

  20-01-2022 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  His “In the Still of the Night” (originally “Nite”), recorded with his group the Five Satins, came to define a sort of dreamy 1950s nostalgia.
  
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• Dutch State’s Purchase of Rembrandt Comes Under Suspicion Due to Ties to Tax Havens

  20-01-2022 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  Officials of the Dutch government raised concerns over the state’s recently-approved plan to purchase a Rembrandt masterpiece worth $198 million from the Rothschild family.
  The Dutch senate is set to put €150 million ($170 million) toward the purchase of The Standard Bearer (1636). A plan to buy the painting was proposed by the Rijkmuseum to the Dutch government in early December. To complete the purchase, the remaining €25 million ($28.4 million) sum will be provided by the Remb
  
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• Hardy Kruger, German-Born Hollywood Star, Is Dead at 93

  20-01-2022 18:51 via nytimes.com
  
  He found success in American films in the 1960s and ’70s, one critic said, because he found ways to portray “the new, good German.”
  
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• ‘Introduction’ Review: All Mixed Up

  20-01-2022 18:46 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new film, the prolific South Korean director Hong Sangsoo tells a fractured coming-of-age story in three vignettes.
  
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• SCS names 2022 Visual Arts Award winners - Shelby County Reporter - Shelby County Reporter

  20-01-2022 18:28 via shelbycountyreporter.com
  
  SCS names 2022 Visual Arts Award winners - Shelby County Reporter  Shelby County Reporter
  
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• Dutch Museums Reopen as Salons and Gyms in Playful Protest Against Covid Lockdown

  20-01-2022 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  Looking for a manicure in Amsterdam? Stop by the van Gogh Museum.
  On Wednesday, museums and theaters in the Netherlands temporarily turned themselves into salons and gyms in protest over continued coronavirus restrictions on the arts sector. All non-essential businesses in the country have been closed since late December in an attempt to slow a surge in cases that threatened to overwhelm its intensive care facilities.
  Last week, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte reduced restrictions on some non-es
  
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• Refuge Coffee opens new location in The Woodruff Arts Center - WABE 90.1 FM

  20-01-2022 18:03 via wabe.org
  
  Refuge Coffee opens new location in The Woodruff Arts Center  WABE 90.1 FM
  
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• Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer

  20-01-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Boston Symphony Orchestra plans to go back to full-scale programming at its bucolic warm-weather home in the Berkshires.
  
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• Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect

  20-01-2022 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedy writer, known for shows like “Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place,” has a surprising new project: a book about moral philosophy that explores how to be a good person.
  
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• ARS Gallery and Arts & Culture Center Offers Winter Classes - Moody on the Market

  20-01-2022 17:09 via moodyonthemarket.com
  
  ARS Gallery and Arts & Culture Center Offers Winter Classes  Moody on the Market
  
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• Waco-area news briefs: Hearts in the Arts to feature 'Little Shop of Horrors' - Waco Tribune-Herald

  20-01-2022 17:00 via wacotrib.com
  
  Waco-area news briefs: Hearts in the Arts to feature 'Little Shop of Horrors'  Waco Tribune-Herald
  
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• Met Museum Receives Rare Poussin Painting from Top Collectors

  20-01-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Passed down, bought, and sold over the centuries, a glitzy collector’s item from the 17th century has finally entered a museum collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received Nicolas Poussin’s Agony in the Garden (1626–27), courtesy of New York collectors Barbara and Jon Landau, who have been listed on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1995.
  The Met already owns six Poussin paintings, including Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolu
  
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• Lawsuit Says Faculty at a Top Arts School Preyed on Students for Decades - The New York Times

  20-01-2022 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Lawsuit Says Faculty at a Top Arts School Preyed on Students for Decades  The New York Times
  
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• Lawsuit Says Faculty at a Top Arts School Preyed on Students for Decades

  20-01-2022 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Dozens of people who studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts during a period of more than 40 years say they were sexually, emotionally or physically abused there as minors.
  
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• Art Basel Hong Kong Names Exhibitors for 2022 Edition, With Even More ‘Ghost Booths’ Than Before

  20-01-2022 16:33 via artnews.com
  
  Art Basel Hong Kong, the most prominent art fair in Asia, has named the 137 galleries lined up to participate in its 2022 edition, which is due to run from March 24–26. That means there are about two dozen more galleries taking part this year than there were at the 2021 edition, which had 104 galleries.
  But it also means the fair is still far from returning to normal operations, though the fair has secured unspecified contingency dates for May in the event of a Covid-related postponement,
  
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• The Cult of Saint Joan

  20-01-2022 15:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Daphne Merkin examines her complicated feelings about Joan Didion’s writing, iconic status and legacy.
  
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• Hilton Als on Curating a Show Inspired by Toni Morrison for David Zwirner: ‘It’s Filled with a Lot of Emotion’

  20-01-2022 15:33 via artnews.com
  
  Unlike Beloved (1987), which is studied in high schools across the U.S., and Song of Solomon (1977), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award upon its release, The Black Book (1974) may not rank among Toni Morrison’s more well-known tomes in some circles. Assembled with collector Middleton A. Harris and a team of researchers while she was still an editor at Random House, The Black Book is an assortment of primary-source documents intended to act as a survey of the Black exp
  
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• ‘High School Play,’ Davóne Tines among Houston’s top fine-arts picks - Houston Chronicle

  20-01-2022 15:17 via preview.houstonchronicle.com
  
  ‘High School Play,’ Davóne Tines among Houston’s top fine-arts picks  Houston Chronicle
  
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• Infinitely Dancing Hearts: Hirshhorn and Albright-Knox Museums Jointly Acquire Kusama ‘Infinity Room’

  20-01-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, have jointly acquired Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe (2018). One of the artist’s more recent entries into her ongoing “Infinity Mirrored Room” series, the work will go on view at the Hirshhorn this spring and the Albright-Knox in 2023.
  Like with other works in the series, Infinity Mirrored Room—My H
  
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• Arts and Sciences Grads Named As Georgia State 40 Under 40 Honorees - Georgia State University News

  20-01-2022 14:36 via news.gsu.edu
  Arts and Sciences Grads Named As Georgia State 40 Under 40 Honorees  Georgia State University News
  
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• Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous

  20-01-2022 14:24 via nytimes.com
  
  “I was really disappointed when I read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’” says the author of “The Making of Incarnation” and other novels. “But then I read his ‘Mother Night,’ and thought it was brilliant.”
  
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• Netherlands Approves Controversial $199 M. Rembrandt Buy, Tracey Emin Slams Boris Johnson, and More: Morning Links for January 20, 2022

  20-01-2022 14:05 via artnews.com
  
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  DUTCH MASTERS. The Senate in the Netherlands gave the go-ahead for the government’s purchase of a 1636 Rembrandt self-portrait from the Rothschild family for €175 million (about $199 million), a plan that had faced criticism, the Art Newspaper reports. The deal is being done via a trust in
  
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• Looking Back to Fly Forward: “Another Tradition” at the Morgan Library & Museum

  20-01-2022 13:50 via artnews.com
  
  Lonnie Holley came to art via tombstones. In 1979, when his sister lost two children in a house fire, Holley managed his grief by chipping away at stone, carving headstones for his niece and nephew’s graves. Afterward, he kept making sculptures and eventually began working with other materials, like wood, barbed wire, and animal bones. Despite their formal eclecticism, these pieces share a purpose: they suggest jagged totems for departed spirits. At the Morgan Library & Museum in New Y
  
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• ‘Simple Passion’ Review: An Ordinary Erotic Tale

  20-01-2022 13:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Adapted from a book by Annie Ernaux, the movie puts a female gaze on sexual obsession.
  
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• ‘The Royal Treatment’ Review: Heavy is the Head (and Shoulders)

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Laura Marano and Mena Massoud star in a romantic comedy that tweaks a familiar formula but still feels inane.
  
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• ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review: God Is Always Watching

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this thriller set in a Calvinist household in 1843, two women in love struggle against both patriarchal and supernatural forces to be together.
  
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• ‘The King’s Daughter’ Review: Sinking or Swimming at Versailles

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Pierce Brosnan stars as a version of King Louis XIV who seeks to sacrifice a mermaid for immortality in this puerile storybook fantasy that was shot nearly eight years ago.
  
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• ‘Salt in My Soul’ Review: Living, Even Thriving, With Illness

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary reconstructs the life of Mallory Smith, who died at 25 after a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
  
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• ‘Munich: The Edge of War’ Review: ‘Well Navigated, Sir’ (Not!)

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With clenched jaws and furrowed brows, this plodding procedural attempts to glorify Neville Chamberlain, played here by Jeremy Irons.
  
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• ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’ Review: Remote Learning

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film, a teacher is assigned to a school that’s an eight-day walk from where he lives.
  
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• Gagosian to Open New Outpost in Swiss Mountain Town, Tapping ‘Rich History of Collecting’

  20-01-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, one of the world’s largest art galleries, with 19 locations worldwide, will add another outpost to its empire. Next month, the gallery will open a new space in the Swiss mountain town of Gstaad.
  The space is Gagosian’s third in Switzerland. In a statement, Gagosian director Milicent Wilner said, “Switzerland has long enjoyed a rich history of collecting,” adding that the country is home to “a discerning audience” of collectors.
  Wilner also said that
  
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• ‘Donkeyhead’ Review: You Really Can’t Go Home Anymore

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A writer living in Canada finds herself back home with her Punjabi immigrant parents.
  
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• ‘A Shot Through the Wall’ Review: Tipping Justice’s Scales

  20-01-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this drama about the killing of a Black man, the intersection of race and policing is considered from the perspective of a Chinese American police officer.
  
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