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• 'STEM + Arts = STEAM' Event on Feb. 23 Celebrates Synergy Between Art and Engineering | | SBU News - Stony Brook News

  16-02-2022 23:00 via news.stonybrook.edu
  
  'STEM + Arts = STEAM' Event on Feb. 23 Celebrates Synergy Between Art and Engineering | | SBU News  Stony Brook News
  
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• ‘Alcarràs’ Wins Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival

  16-02-2022 21:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The second feature by the Spanish director Carla Simón, about a family of peach farmers, captured the Golden Bear on Wednesday.
  
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• Six Highlights From the Black Film Archive

  16-02-2022 21:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Maya Cade, who founded the archive in August 2021, discusses a film she loves from each decade from the 1920s through the 1970s.
  
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• In a First, Uganda to Host National Pavilion at 2022 Venice Biennale

  16-02-2022 20:58 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time, Uganda will have a pavilion at the Venice Biennale. When the exhibition’s 59th edition kicks off this April, Uganda will become one of 81 countries to host a national pavilion, joining other first-timers like Kazakhstan and Oman.
  Curated by Shaheen Merali, a Tanzania-born, London-based writer and curator, the first-ever Ugandan Pavilion will be titled “Radiance – They Dream in Time” and will feature works by two Kampala-based artists, Acaye Kerunen and
  
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• ‘CODA’ Star Troy Kotsur on His Historic, Healing Oscar Nomination

  16-02-2022 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The deaf actor endured years of rejection and financial struggle. “I was so used to failure that I didn’t realize I would surpass even my own expectations.”
  
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• Rarely Seen Goya Sketches Shown at Prado Museum for First Time in a Century

  16-02-2022 20:45 via artnews.com
  
  A painting of Venus in the nude, stretched across a green velvet sofa, by Goya has been given a bigger, brighter home at the Prado Museum. Pursuing a more “panoramic approach” to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches of Saint Bernardino of Siena preaching to an Aragonese king, as well as a reclining Venus by Titan.
  It was a simple but effective renovation: the gallery walls were painted a light
  
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• Division of the Arts to Host Annual State Employee Art Exhibition - State of Delaware News - news.delaware.gov

  16-02-2022 20:29 via news.delaware.gov
  Division of the Arts to Host Annual State Employee Art Exhibition - State of Delaware News  news.delaware.gov
  
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• Mamoudou Athie Gets Switched On by TV on the Radio and ‘Cowboy Bebop’

  16-02-2022 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor reveals his feelings about his new Netflix series, “Archive 81,” the inspiration of David Bowie and the real reason he bought a bike.
  
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• The Best Kids’ and Classroom Acrylic Paint Sets for Young Artists

  16-02-2022 20:15 via artnews.com
  
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  Acrylic paints are among the most versatile yet attractive paints available. They offer the beauty of oil paints with the short drying time of watercolors, come in an endless array of hues, and dry in a variety of finishes: glossy, satin, matte. The polymer binder in acrylics adheres well to a wide range of surfaces: paper, canvas, wood, ceramics, plastics, fab
  
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• Review: Afro-Colombian Dancing Reawakens the Joyce Theater

  16-02-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sankofa Danazfro returns to New York with “Accommodating Lie,” a curiously muted work about the display of Black Bodies
  
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• The Little TV Industry That Could

  16-02-2022 19:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Want a medical drama, a spy thriller, a snowy neo-noir? Finland has you covered.
  
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• Charter Arts high school shut for day after student protest about sexual assault allegations - lehighvalleylive.com

  16-02-2022 19:44 via lehighvalleylive.com
  
  Charter Arts high school shut for day after student protest about sexual assault allegations  lehighvalleylive.com
  
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• Beverly Ross, Teenage Songwriter in Rock ’n’ Roll’s Youth, Dies at 87

  16-02-2022 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  With hits like “Lollipop,” she became a top woman songwriter in the early 1960s, but she quit the business in frustration over the theft of her work.
  
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• Idaho Fine Arts Academy takes 'different' learning approach to new facility - Idaho EdNews

  16-02-2022 18:25 via idahoednews.org
  
  Idaho Fine Arts Academy takes 'different' learning approach to new facility  Idaho EdNews
  
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• Tate Britian to Commission Artist to ‘Reframe’ Racist Mural in Restaurant

  16-02-2022 18:18 via artnews.com
  
  Tate, the body the manages both Tate Britain and its sister museum Tate Modern, said it would ask an artist to respond to a racist mural in the former museum’s restaurant using a site-specific installation. The announcement suggests that Tate won’t remove portions of the controversial painting by Rex Whistler, which an ethics committee with the museum network had previously deemed “offensive.”
  “Tate is responsible for the mural as a work of art, so the new approach
  
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• Robert Colescott Work Shown at Storied Venice Biennale Pavilion Heads to Auction

  16-02-2022 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  Robert Colescott 1989 painting White Boy will be sold at auction this month. The painting will be offered during a contemporary art evening sale at Bonhams Los Angeles headquarters, where it is expected to achieve a price of $800,000–$1.2 million this Friday.
  The painting was one of 19 that Colescott showed at the U.S. Pavilion of the 1997 Venice Biennale, which made him the first Black artist to represent the country at the exhibition. The paintings Colescott exhibited there riffed on the
  
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• P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition

  16-02-2022 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  O’Rourke, who died on Tuesday at 74, was a sharp-toothed satirist whose conservatism wasn’t doctrinaire.
  
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• How Concrete Went from Industrial Material to Home Decor

  16-02-2022 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Traditionally used industrially, concrete has become a preferred medium for those who seek austere and unusual décor.
  
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• Mitski, in and Out of the Spotlight

  16-02-2022 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The indie-rock musician’s albums inspire deep feelings and attract ever-bigger audiences, but in many ways she remains a mystery.
  
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• ‘Taste’ Review: A Slow, Sensual Hallucination Set in Vietnam

  16-02-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The first feature film from the director Le Bao is a spare series of handsome tableaux that ultimately feels undercooked.
  
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• Alt La La: DIY Art Spaces in Los Angeles

  16-02-2022 16:48 via artnews.com
  
  You won’t see Ryan Gosling or Emma Stone dance across the Los Angeles gridlock, as they did in the 2016 musical La La Land. Stranded in the LA art scene, you’re more likely to see a version of the 1993 drama Falling Down, in which Michael Douglas abandons his car in traffic and treks to the ocean on foot. LA nurtures a kind of angst, for which the exasperating freeways become an easy metaphor. If the SoCal light playing on airplanes and cars informed the Finish Fetish of the 1960s, t
  
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• Norcross arts commission to help shape future of public art - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  16-02-2022 16:00 via ajc.com
  Norcross arts commission to help shape future of public art  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  
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• Irma Thomas, a Soul Queen Far Beyond New Orleans

  16-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As she turns 81, the singer whose intimacy matches her grandeur is the subject of a PBS documentary, “Irma: My Life in Music.”
  
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• How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic

  16-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the film version of “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” about a composer who dreams of Broadway, a “Rent” die-hard discovers more to love in musical theater.
  
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• At California African American Museum, Troy Montes-Michie Offers Up Meditative Collages That Mine Histories of Violence

  16-02-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  There is a long lineage of artists working with collage, though it can sometimes seem that all roads lead back to early experiments by Cubist artists that were later refined by members of the Dada movement, who began to recycle and recombine materials in response to the absurdity of World War I. “Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts,” Hans Arp once wrote. “While the guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collag
  
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• The Frieze Effect: L.A. Dealers Discuss the Fair’s Impact on the City’s Art Market

  16-02-2022 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  When Frieze announced in 2018 that it would launch a new art fair in Los Angeles the following year, the excitement was tinged with a whiff of skepticism. Could a major international art fair make a home in a city as unruly, as mercurial, as sprawling as Los Angeles? At the time, Artnet News columnist Tim Schneider went so far as calling L.A an “art fair graveyard,” predicting that “Frieze Los Angeles would be dead on arrival.” With two successful editions under its belt
  
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• Fifty-Year Artist Friendship Takes Center Stage in Pasadena Exhibition

  16-02-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  In 1969, three artists, all of them mothers and divorcees, met at the University of California, Irvine, where they had enrolled in the school’s newly minted M.F.A. program. Their introduction to each other would prove transformative. The artists, Barbara T. Smith, Marcia Hafif, and Nancy Buchanan, had all graduated from West Coast colleges and had each already demonstrated an inclination toward unconventional art-making. At a time when Abstract Expressionism was still favored at insti
  
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• Museum Security Guard Adds Eyes to Painting’s Faceless Figures

  16-02-2022 14:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The guard at a museum in Russia has been suspended after he used a pen to draw on “Three Figures,” an avant-garde painting from the 1930s.
  
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• Film Directors to Contribute to Met Fashion Show, Akron Art Museum Names Director, and More: Morning Links for February 16, 2022

  16-02-2022 14:10 via artnews.com
  
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  THE TOP JOB. Art institutions have been hiring leaders at a rapid clip lately. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art tapped Christopher Bedford, London’s Barbican Centre Claire Spencer, New York’s Socrates Sculpture Park Tamsin Dillon, and the National Museum of the American in D.C. Jorg
  
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• The Ceramists Ushering in a New Era of Surrealism

  16-02-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These makers are finding beauty and strangeness in the everyday, producing winking renderings of prawns, ashtrays and more.
  
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• Mariane Ibrahim to Represent Ferrari Sheppard, Los Angeles Artist on the Rise

  16-02-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Mariane Ibrahim, which has gallery locations in Chicago and Paris, now represents Ferrari Sheppard, a Los Angeles–based artist whose work can currently be seen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He will have his first solo show at the gallery in 2023.
  Sheppard is best known for his paintings of Black people that are defined by their loose brushwork. To make them, Sheppard relies on an unusual combination of acrylic paint, charcoal, and 24K gold.
  “What I love about his work is t
  
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• Empty Detroit theater with grisly backstory on the market again - Detroit Free Press

  16-02-2022 13:00 via freep.com
  Empty Detroit theater with grisly backstory on the market again  Detroit Free Press
  
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• Publishing C.E.O. Donates $500,000 to Fight Book Bans

  16-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Markus Dohle, the chief executive of Penguin Random House, said the effort “ties into the future of our democracy.”
  
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• An Immersive History of Mixed-Descent Native Families

  16-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Born of Lakes and Plains,” Anne F. Hyde draws attention to the roles that intermarriage played in the development of the American West.
  
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• 5 Monologues, Each a Showcase for Asian American Actors Over 60

  16-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Out of Time” at the Public Theater is intended to showcase the talents of older actors. “People want to dismiss your stories,” the show’s director says. Not here.
  
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• In Orlando, 25 Mysterious Basquiats Come Under the Magnifying Glass

  16-02-2022 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vibrant paintings on cardboard said to be by the artist were found in the storage unit of a Hollywood screenwriter. Will a museum show resolve questions about their authenticity — or raise new ones?
  
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• Late Night Dunks on Trump for Getting Dumped During Tax Season

  16-02-2022 07:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s like getting divorced on Christmas Eve,” Jimmy Kimmel joked.
  
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• ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces?

  16-02-2022 06:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Hansol Jung’s new play looks at the broken adoption of a little boy who is plucked from South Korea and moved to one American home, then shunted to another.
  
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• Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain

  16-02-2022 04:00 via nytimes.com
  
  John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus’s caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play.
  
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• ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades

  16-02-2022 03:18 via nytimes.com
  
  A new documentary pays tribute to Lucio Dalla, a popular and passionate Italian singer whose songs captured the country’s political turmoil.
  
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• Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t

  16-02-2022 01:32 via nytimes.com
  
  A new musical imagines the invention of a decolorizing process. Will it save Black Americans from hatred or destroy them?
  
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• Submissions to Lexington LifeTimes Creative Arts Journal Accepted Through March 25 | lexingtonma - lexingtonma.gov

  16-02-2022 01:01 via lexingtonma.gov
  Submissions to Lexington LifeTimes Creative Arts Journal Accepted Through March 25 | lexingtonma  lexingtonma.gov
  
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