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• Interscope Pairs Today’s Top Artists with Storied Musicians for Ambitious Project

  28-01-2022 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  It’s easy to rattle off the artists who’ve designed album covers that have gone down in history. During the ’60s, there was the covers of Rolling Stones’s Sticky Fingers and the Velvet Underground and Nico’s eponymous 1967 album, both by Andy Warhol. There were also three covers for the Beatles, all by the Pop artist Peter Blake. The tradition has continued on since then, and has in recent years included covers by Takashi Murakami and George Condo for Kanye West, on
  
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• Victorian gem in northeast Minneapolis Arts District is listed at $975000 - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  28-01-2022 23:48 via startribune.com
  
  Victorian gem in northeast Minneapolis Arts District is listed at $975000  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
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• Missouri Healing Arts board requests court records in Agape Boarding School doctor case - News-Leader

  28-01-2022 23:23 via news-leader.com
  Missouri Healing Arts board requests court records in Agape Boarding School doctor case  News-Leader
  
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• PHOTOS: Ensuring that every child has access to the arts - WJCT NEWS

  28-01-2022 23:12 via news.wjct.org
  
  PHOTOS: Ensuring that every child has access to the arts  WJCT NEWS
  
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• Montgomery Co. grant program supports arts, culture – How to apply - WDTN.com

  28-01-2022 23:11 via wdtn.com
  Montgomery Co. grant program supports arts, culture – How to apply  WDTN.com
  
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• Carol Speed, Vixen of the Blaxploitation Era, Dies at 76

  28-01-2022 22:57 via nytimes.com
  
  In the mid-70s, thanks to two beloved B movies, she had a moment in the spotlight and enjoyed celebrity status in the Black press.
  
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• New World School of the Arts High School Named “National Magnet School of Excellence” by Magnet Schools of America - The Reporter

  28-01-2022 22:49 via news.mdc.edu
  
  New World School of the Arts High School Named “National Magnet School of Excellence” by Magnet Schools of America  The Reporter
  
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• Cotuit Center for the Arts Announces 2022 Season - Broadway World

  28-01-2022 22:47 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Cotuit Center for the Arts Announces 2022 Season  Broadway World
  
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• Rare Coin in Las Vegas—From the Earliest Years of America—Makes a Mint

  28-01-2022 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  A rare silver coin from the earliest years of the United States increased in value by $11,999,999 when a man from Las Vegas sold it to GreatCollections Coin Auctions, a company based in Irvine, California. Now valued at $12 million, the silver dollar from 1794 is believed to be the first such coin ever made by the U.S. Mint, according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and “was intended to help replace Spanish, English, Dutch and French coins that were in circulation in the count
  
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• Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ - Ukiah Daily Journal

  28-01-2022 22:24 via ukiahdailyjournal.com
  
  Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’  Ukiah Daily Journal
  
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• Alexia Fabre Becomes First Woman to Lead Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts

  28-01-2022 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  Alexia Fabre, the longtime chief curator of the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, has been named the director of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Fabre becomes the first woman to lead the prestigious art school in its nearly 400-year history. She succeeds Jean de Loisy, who served as director since 2018.
  A graduate of l’École du Louvre and the National Heritage Institute, Fabre led the Departmental Museum of the Hau
  
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• Alexia Fabre Becomes First Woman to Lead Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts - ARTnews

  28-01-2022 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  Alexia Fabre Becomes First Woman to Lead Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts  ARTnews
  
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• February Workshops at The Arts Center - Penn Yan Chronicle-Express

  28-01-2022 22:17 via chronicle-express.com
  February Workshops at The Arts Center  Penn Yan Chronicle-Express
  
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• Picasso Family Says Reports of Major NFT Sale Are ‘Completely Wrong’

  28-01-2022 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter Marina and great-grandson Florian announced they were going to release a series of 1,010 NFTs of a ceramic work by Picasso himself. Accompanying the NFTs would be a track produced by Florian, who is a DJ. However, the other members of the Picasso have halted the project, reported the Associated Press.
  Marina and Florian had invited AP to tour Marina’s house last week to learn about the NFTs, which they were planning on minting in a kin
  
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• After Announcing NFT Limit, OpenSea Reverses Course Amid User Uproar

  28-01-2022 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  OpenSea, the major NFT marketplace, announced yesterday that it had decided to limit how many NFTs OpenSea users could create, attributing it to community feedback “about [its] creator tools,” the company’s announcement read. But following enormous pushback from creators, OpenSea reversed its decision within 24 hours.
  Mega-successful projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club and similar PFP collections have totaled around 10,000 NFTs, but with this update, OpenSea decided to limit eac
  
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• A Change of Address

  28-01-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This isn’t goodbye.
  
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• Chita Rivera’s Book Will Introduce Fans to the Real Her

  28-01-2022 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway star is writing a memoir with the help of a journalist who encouraged her to share what she’s really like, alter ego and all.
  
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• Pull on your boots for 'Oklahoma!' | Arts & Entertainment | telluridenews.com - The Daily Planet

  28-01-2022 21:39 via telluridenews.com
  Pull on your boots for 'Oklahoma!' | Arts & Entertainment | telluridenews.com  The Daily Planet
  
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• Sundance Film Festival: ‘Nanny’ Leads a Parade of Scares

  28-01-2022 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  This year’s festival featured lots of scares, a parade of bodies (and body parts) and a haunted, haunting postcolonial tale set in New York.
  
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• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts awarded $150,000 grant - Fox17

  28-01-2022 21:19 via fox17online.com
  
  Kalamazoo Institute of Arts awarded $150,000 grant  Fox17
  
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• HolidayFest donates $7k from St. Nicholas Ball to Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, $2k to End Slavery Tennessee - Tennessean

  28-01-2022 21:18 via tennessean.com
  HolidayFest donates $7k from St. Nicholas Ball to Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, $2k to End Slavery Tennessee  Tennessean
  
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• Jonathan Brown, Pioneering Historian of Spanish and Latin American Art, Dies at 82

  28-01-2022 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  He played a crucial role in reinvigorating a neglected area of Western art history, bringing figures from the past to life and connecting lived realities of earlier centuries with those of the present.
  
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• Festus R-6 Performing Arts Center expected to open next month - Leader Publications

  28-01-2022 21:09 via myleaderpaper.com
  Festus R-6 Performing Arts Center expected to open next month  Leader Publications
  
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• Ways to Celebrate Black History, Culture, and Arts Uptown This February - Columbia | Neighbors

  28-01-2022 21:06 via neighbors.columbia.edu
  
  Ways to Celebrate Black History, Culture, and Arts Uptown This February  Columbia | Neighbors
  
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• Joe Exotic Is Resentenced to 21 Years for ‘Tiger King’ Murder-for-Hire Plot

  28-01-2022 20:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Last year, a federal appeals court vacated the initial sentence for the plot, which was featured in the Netflix series “Tiger King.” Petitions for pardons from two presidents have also failed.
  
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• New Schedule Could Weaken HPHS Fine Arts Program, District Warned - Patch.com

  28-01-2022 20:47 via patch.com
  
  New Schedule Could Weaken HPHS Fine Arts Program, District Warned  Patch.com
  
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• Recalling the Pain of an Early 19th Century Writer

  28-01-2022 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Stuck in a CT scan, the illustrator Alison Barnwell remembers the horrors recounted by Fanny Burney, who wrote of her mastectomy in excruciating detail.
  
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• Lebovitz Lively Arts Scholarship available to Mattoon High School students and graduates - myradiolink.com

  28-01-2022 20:37 via myradiolink.com
  
  Lebovitz Lively Arts Scholarship available to Mattoon High School students and graduates  myradiolink.com
  
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• Kamau Bell: Bill Cosby is Key to Understanding America

  28-01-2022 20:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The comic and commentator discusses his new documentary, “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” and what Cosby’s story reveals about the “two runaway forces of oppression in America.”
  
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• Sundance Film Festival: ‘Nanny’ Leads a Parade of

  28-01-2022 20:21 via nytimes.com
  
  This year’s festival featured lots of scares, a parade of bodies (and body parts) and a haunted, haunting postcolonial tale set in New York.
  
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• Arts center to be part of Northwood project - Famuan

  28-01-2022 20:11 via thefamuanonline.com
  
  Arts center to be part of Northwood project  Famuan
  
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• Franz Marc Painting Expected to Fetch $47 M. at Auction After Contentious Restitution

  28-01-2022 20:06 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by German Expressionist Franz Marc that was recently restituted from a German museum to the heirs of its original Jewish owners will be sold at Christie’s next month.
  Marc’s 1913 painting Die Füchse (Foxes) will hit the block on March 1 during a modern and contemporary art sale spanning the house’s London and Shanghai headquarters, where the house recently opened a new exhibition and salesroom. The work is being offered with a third party guarantee. It is e
  
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• NC Poet Laureate's Visit Rescheduled | Arts | transylvaniatimes.com - The Transylvania Times

  28-01-2022 20:05 via transylvaniatimes.com
  
  NC Poet Laureate's Visit Rescheduled | Arts | transylvaniatimes.com  The Transylvania Times
  
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• Family of Slain ‘Rust’ Cinematographer Weighs Wrongful-Death Lawsuit

  28-01-2022 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Lawyers for the family of Halyna Hutchins filed a petition in New Mexico to appoint a representative who will consider whether to file a suit.
  
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• Hamilton County, ArtsWave to award $2M in arts and cultural grants - Cincinnati Business Courier - Cincinnati Business Courier

  28-01-2022 20:02 via bizjournals.com
  Hamilton County, ArtsWave to award $2M in arts and cultural grants - Cincinnati Business Courier  Cincinnati Business Courier
  
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• Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture to reopen Saturday - The Spokesman Review

  28-01-2022 19:58 via spokesman.com
  
  Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture to reopen Saturday  The Spokesman Review
  
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• HOB To Host The Fourth Annual Arts In March - The Transylvania Times

  28-01-2022 19:56 via transylvaniatimes.com
  HOB To Host The Fourth Annual Arts In March  The Transylvania Times
  
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• PATH and Jersey City Mural Arts Program collaboration - nj.com

  28-01-2022 19:47 via nj.com
  
  PATH and Jersey City Mural Arts Program collaboration  nj.com
  
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• Number 7 Arts Accepting Membership Applications | Arts | transylvaniatimes.com - The Transylvania Times

  28-01-2022 19:45 via transylvaniatimes.com
  Number 7 Arts Accepting Membership Applications | Arts | transylvaniatimes.com  The Transylvania Times
  
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• Faced with Local Opposition, Russia’s Hermitage Museum Could Call Off Barcelona Satellite

  28-01-2022 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  Faced with firm local opposition and the prospect of a court battle, Russia’s Hermitage Museum may call off its plans to open a Barcelona satellite.
  According to El Pais, organizers are now focused on judicial proceedings, in particular compensation for the money invested so far in the project. Albert Pinadell, general coordinator of the project, told the Spanish news outlet that “unless, shortly, there are radical changes, the project will not be carried out in Barcelona.&rdquo
  
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• Gateway Arts Council announces Spring Fling - sidneydailynews.com

  28-01-2022 19:19 via sidneydailynews.com
  
  Gateway Arts Council announces Spring Fling  sidneydailynews.com
  
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• One Good Antarctic Explorer Deserves Another

  28-01-2022 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The adventurer Ranulph Fiennes has written a biography of Ernest Shackleton, telling the life story of the famed explorer while also describing his own exploits.
  
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• Russian Police Won’t Investigate After Vandal Draws Eyes on Painting at Museum

  28-01-2022 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  During the run of an exhibition at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia, a vandal decided that an Anna Leporskaya work from the 1930s was missing something—and proceeded to add eyes to two of the figures in the painting with a ballpoint pen.
  On December 7, some visitors became aware of the attack on the Leporskaya painting, which is titled Three Figures (1932–34) and owned by the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and told the art center’s staff about it. However, accord
  
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• Cultural Arts Commission Hosts 'Virtually Burbank' Event - outlooknewspapers.com

  28-01-2022 19:00 via outlooknewspapers.com
  
  Cultural Arts Commission Hosts 'Virtually Burbank' Event  outlooknewspapers.com
  
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• In Arts Warehouse Portraits, an Eclectic Cross-Section of Delray - Boca Raton

  28-01-2022 18:39 via bocamag.com
  
  In Arts Warehouse Portraits, an Eclectic Cross-Section of Delray  Boca Raton
  
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• The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward

  28-01-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Despite an ongoing legal challenge, New York City is going ahead with a plan for artwork at a new park that will feature messages of social justice, not the statuary some had sought.
  
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• Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers

  28-01-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Justin Peck’s “Partita,” set to Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer-Prize winning composition, opened New York City Ballet’s winter season at Lincoln Center.
  
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• Historic building in West Monroe to be renovated for new Arts Council office - The News Star

  28-01-2022 18:38 via thenewsstar.com
  Historic building in West Monroe to be renovated for new Arts Council office  The News Star
  
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• What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture.

  28-01-2022 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Some dancers recoiled at the prospect of volunteering their services at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show: “You can’t make a living off of exposure.”
  
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• Review: Philip Glass and the Bangles, Mashed at the Symphony

  28-01-2022 18:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond brought their gleeful opera-cabaret show “Only an Octave Apart” to the New York Philharmonic.
  
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