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• Get to know some of west Louisville's artists and arts groups – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville - 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

  23-02-2022 23:13 via wfpl.org
  
  Get to know some of west Louisville's artists and arts groups – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville  89.3 WFPL News Louisville
  
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• Remembering Betty Davis, a Futuristic Funk Force

  23-02-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about her unique music, her short career and the path that led to her rediscovery.
  
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• Petitioners Condemn Transfer of Contested Roosevelt Monument to North Dakota

  23-02-2022 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  More than 140 artists and professors have signed a petition calling on New York City officials to stop the relocation of a contested statue of Theodore Roosevelt that long resided at the American Museum of Natural History, claiming that its new location in North Dakota would put it on land that was seized from Indigenous peoples.
  The bronze statue depicts Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by Black and Indigenous figures that are positioned beneath him. Activist groups have deemed the statue r
  
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• IMAX Looks Beyond Movies to Live Events

  23-02-2022 22:39 via nytimes.com
  
  To combat the decline of theatergoing, the large-format cinema company will show events like concerts, stand-up comedy and e-sports tournaments.
  
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• Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa Defeats Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen

  23-02-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  While it did not affect the reigning champion’s title, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa of India defeated Carlsen in the middle of the night during a rapid online tournament, stunning the chess world.
  
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• 16-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Defeats World Champion Magnus Carlsen

  23-02-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  While it did not affect the reigning champion’s title, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa of India defeated Carlsen in the middle of the night during a rapid online tournament, stunning the chess world.
  
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• The Best Empty Watercolor Tins for Customizing Your Palette

  23-02-2022 22:28 via artnews.com
  
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  Watercolor is a favorite medium of professional and budding painters alike, not least because of its flexibility and portability. Palette tins that you fill with your own pan paints offer an easy way to carry watercolor paints along with you for whenever inspiration strikes. They also allow you to customize your palette, and many feature thumb rings so you can
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio Donated to Whitney Museum: ‘A Magnificent Act of Generosity’

  23-02-2022 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  Dorothy Lichtenstein, the widow of painter Roy Lichtenstein, has promised to donate the Pop artist’s studio to the Whitney Museum in New York.
  Lichtenstein’s studio is located at 741/745 Washington Street, not far from the Meatpacking District building that the Whitney has called home since 2015. Since his death in 1997, Lichtenstein’s studio has been where his foundation has prepared a catalogue raisonné and overseen his archives.
  The Whitney will use the 9,000-square-f
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: Married to a Deal Breaker

  23-02-2022 22:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Could you fall in love with someone who can’t quit the thing you hate?
  
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• Arts Board Seeks Consultant, Approves More Than $4M in Arts and Culture Support - charlottenc.gov

  23-02-2022 22:01 via charlottenc.gov
  
  Arts Board Seeks Consultant, Approves More Than $4M in Arts and Culture Support  charlottenc.gov
  
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• Hearing on Henry Darger Estate Dispute Is Postponed

  23-02-2022 21:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Distant relatives are seeking to gain control of the outsider artist’s estate from a former landlord, who has said that Darger gave the art and literary works he created to her husband.
  
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• Bronzeville Center for the Arts' purchase of former DNR building nets final approval - BizTimes Milwaukee

  23-02-2022 21:13 via biztimes.com
  
  Bronzeville Center for the Arts' purchase of former DNR building nets final approval  BizTimes Milwaukee
  
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• ONCE to be Presented at California Center For The Arts, Escondido - Broadway World

  23-02-2022 20:45 via broadwayworld.com
  
  ONCE to be Presented at California Center For The Arts, Escondido  Broadway World
  
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• Exhibits, galleries, theater and more: Seacoast arts and culture news - Seacoastonline.com

  23-02-2022 20:40 via seacoastonline.com
  Exhibits, galleries, theater and more: Seacoast arts and culture news  Seacoastonline.com
  
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• 'The Proud Family' Returns, Now Even Louder and Prouder

  23-02-2022 20:37 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” on Disney+, revives a beloved animated series for a new generation.
  
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• 9,000-Year-Old Neolithic Shrine Unearthed in Jordan’s Desert

  23-02-2022 20:09 via artnews.com
  
  A team of archeologists have discovered a roughly 9,000-year-old ritual complex in a Neolithic campsite in Jordan’s eastern desert. The shrine was found near ancient hunting traps called “desert kites,” each consisting of two long walls stone walls that converge like a giant arrow. Experts believe game animals like gazelles would enter the structure and be corralled towards slaughter. The structures are scattered across Southwest and Central Asia, with some of the oldest believ
  
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• The Oscars’ Popularity Crisis

  23-02-2022 20:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Why academy efforts like trimming awards from the telecast won’t help. People watch because it’s a show about elite work, not in spite of it.
  
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• Review: What the Return of ‘Law and Order’ Is Missing

  23-02-2022 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The show’s first episode in 12 years has the intro, the music, the dun-dun, and a couple of the old stars. But it’s missing the things that made the series essential.
  
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• ‘Law & Order’ Review: Leaving Out the Best Parts

  23-02-2022 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The show’s first episode in 12 years has the intro, the music, the dun-dun, and a couple of the old stars. But it’s missing the things that made the series essential.
  
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• Six New York Artists Tapped to Revamp LaGuardia’s Delta Terminal 

  23-02-2022 20:02 via artnews.com
  
  LaGuardia Airport, not exactly the place you’d expect to see world-class art by internationally acclaimed artists, will soon become the home of six new large-scale installations by artists based in New York City. Those works by Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton, Ronny Quevedo, and Fred Wilson will appear Delta Air Lines’s Terminal C, set to open this spring as part of an $8 billion revamp. Delta’s art program is set to cost $12 million to produce.
  
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• Astral Planes: Philip Smith at Primary

  23-02-2022 19:43 via artnews.com
  
  Philip Smith has always seemed the oddball of the “Pictures” generation. In theory, he worked with all the right ingredients: a generic sign system of illustrations resembling those of instruction manuals, a way of painting that ironically highlights mark-making and the medium itself, and compositions that mimic diagrams, charts, and other pedagogical tools. And yet, the results always turned out a little too quirky. No matter what he tried—building up surfaces until the pigmen
  
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• Review: A Pianist Explores Mozart the Late Bloomer

  23-02-2022 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Víkingur Ólafsson made his Carnegie Hall debut with a hypnotically unfurling program based on his recent album “Mozart and Contemporaries.”
  
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• Simpsonville City Council Notes: City mulls hiring full-time arts center manager - Greenville Journal

  23-02-2022 19:05 via greenvillejournal.com
  
  Simpsonville City Council Notes: City mulls hiring full-time arts center manager  Greenville Journal
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio Becomes Home to an Artistic Community

  23-02-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The pop master’s foundation, a longtime friend of the Whitney Museum, will donate his Greenwich Village studio to the museum’s Independent Study Program. It will open next year.
  
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• A No-Cost Modernist Home, but No Takers Yet. It Needs Moving.

  23-02-2022 18:49 via nytimes.com
  
  An Instagram post has boosted preservation efforts for a midcentury-modern home in Illinois. But a plan for its future would need to be in place by April 1, or it might be razed.
  
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• Arts Fund, Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences to Merge - Santa Barbara Independent

  23-02-2022 18:17 via independent.com
  
  Arts Fund, Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences to Merge  Santa Barbara Independent
  
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• TEFAF Announces Exhibitors for First New York Edition Since 2019

  23-02-2022 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) has announced the 91 exhibitors that will take part in its upcoming New York edition, scheduled to run at the Park Avenue Armory May 6–10, with a VIP preview day on May 5. This will be the fair’s first New York iteration since 2019, as TEFAF had been forced to cancel ones in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic.
  The exhibitors, who will offer contemporary art, jewelry, antiquities, and design, come from 14 different countries, with 13 participating
  
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• Review: Exposing the Heart in a Brutal Dance of Love

  23-02-2022 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  L-E-V, led by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, returns to the Joyce Theater with an evening-length work.
  
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• Orchestrating above the chaos: Part I on teaching performing arts in Sacramento during COVID • Sacramento News & Review - Sacramento News & Review

  23-02-2022 18:01 via sacramento.newsreview.com
  
  Orchestrating above the chaos: Part I on teaching performing arts in Sacramento during COVID • Sacramento News & Review  Sacramento News & Review
  
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• ‘The Same’ Review: Do You See What I See?

  23-02-2022 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Enda Walsh’s play, which had its U.S. premiere at the Irish Arts Center, stars two sisters who play different versions of the same character.
  
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• Black Artists Pioneered Electronic Music. This Festival Celebrates Them.

  23-02-2022 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The founder of the Dweller festival, now in its third year in New York, started the event to center Black D.J.s and producers, “and imagine what we want.”
  
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• Tea on Fur, Wet Fur on Lips

  23-02-2022 17:38 via artnews.com
  
  One formula for a memorable Surrealist artwork goes like this: take a familiar everyday object and change one of its elements so that it’s no longer useful but instead fantastic or absurd. There’s the telephone that Salvador Dalí transfigured in 1938 by affixing a plaster lobster to a handset cradled atop a rotary dial. There’s Man Ray’s Gift (1921), for which the artist glued tacks to the soleplate of an iron. And there’s the impossible monocle concocted by
  
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• Dutch Couple Returns 17 Pre-Columbian Artifacts to Mexico

  23-02-2022 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  A Dutch couple, Hubert De Boer and Liesebeth Mellis, returned 17 pre-Columbian artifacts to Mexico this past Sunday, according to a statement from the country’s Ministry of Culture.
  The couple had the artifacts in their possession for more than 30 years, though the Ministry of Culture did not disclose how they had come to own the pieces. It was only when De Boer and Mellis visited an exhibition of Aztec artifacts at the Museum of Ethnography in the city of Leiden that they realized how imp
  
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• When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal

  23-02-2022 17:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Aficionados of the deceptively simple word game, including Monica Lewinsky and J. Smith-Cameron, weigh in with their opening gambits.
  
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• Hong Kong’s Para Site Names New Director, Rediscovered Mies van der Rohe Completed, and More: Morning Links for February 23, 2022

  23-02-2022 17:04 via artnews.com
  
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  THE TOP JOBS. After 11 years helming Hong Kong’s closely watched Para Site art space, Cosmin Costinas is departing to “join a German institution,” the venue announced. Billy Tang, senior curator of the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, will follow him as executive director and curator. Ov
  
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• Para Site, Cutting-Edge Hong Kong Art Space, Picks Rockbund Art Museum Curator as New Leader

  23-02-2022 16:58 via artnews.com
  
  Para Site, a Hong Kong art space that has drawn widespread acclaim for its offbeat, boundary-pushing offerings, has named Billy Tang as its next director. Tang will replace Cosmin Costinas, who has led the space since 2011 and has helped it accrue the reputation is currently has today.
  Costinas is leaving to join “a German institution” in mid-2022, Para Site said in its announcement. The news comes as Costinas undertakes two major projects being staged outside Hong Kong: th
  
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• Restoring ‘The Godfather’ to Its Original (Still Dark) Glory

  23-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Francis Ford Coppola discusses a repaired 50th-anniversary edition of his classic, one that aims to be as vivid — and shadowy — as it was in 1972.
  
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• Met Buys Italian Renaissance Bronze After Two Decades on the Hunt

  23-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The purchase of a roundel for $23 million is the museum’s second largest ever, and fulfills a former curator’s dream after losing out in a 2003 auction.
  
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• 6 True-Crime Podcasts: When Love Is a Dangerous Con Game

  23-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In these shows, the promise of “happily ever after” turns into a nightmare, with stories of abusers who ruthlessly exploit their victims’ desire for love.
  
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• New performing arts center poised to make N.J. town 'The Center of It All' - Jersey's Best

  23-02-2022 15:24 via jerseysbest.com
  
  New performing arts center poised to make N.J. town 'The Center of It All'  Jersey's Best
  
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• New Haven's Long Wharf Theater to Become Itinerant

  23-02-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Long Wharf Theater, a regional nonprofit on New Haven’s waterfront, is ending a long, bumpy chapter there, hoping to expand access and reduce costs.
  
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• Photography exhibit comes to Doña Ana Arts & Cultural Center - Las Cruces Sun-News

  23-02-2022 13:00 via lcsun-news.com
  Photography exhibit comes to Doña Ana Arts & Cultural Center  Las Cruces Sun-News
  
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• 'Medea' performing arts project offers new lens on a classic tale - Union College

  23-02-2022 13:00 via union.edu
  
  'Medea' performing arts project offers new lens on a classic tale  Union College
  
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• Marilyn Stafford's Wild and Wide-Ranging Photography Career

  23-02-2022 12:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Marilyn Stafford, who photographed the 20th century, finally gets recognition in the 21st.
  
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• ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius

  23-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new book, Ananyo Bhattacharya writes about John von Neumann, who played an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics, computing and the atom bomb.
  
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• Finding ‘Funny Girl.’ Finally.

  23-02-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After nearly six decades and many false starts, the musical is returning to Broadway, with Beanie Feldstein taking on the role that made Barbra Streisand a star.
  
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• Liberal arts colleges enroll more first-year Black students - Inside Higher Ed

  23-02-2022 09:11 via insidehighered.com
  
  Liberal arts colleges enroll more first-year Black students  Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Stephen Colbert Riffs on Joe Biden’s Sanctions Against Russia

  23-02-2022 07:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert said Putin sought to keep the peace, and imitated Russia’s president: “I keep this piece of Ukraine. I keep that piece of Ukraine. I keep all the pieces of Ukraine.”
  
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• Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’

  23-02-2022 04:12 via nytimes.com
  
  In a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue.
  
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• Mark Lanegan, 57, Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age Singer, Dies

  23-02-2022 00:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for his deep, world-weary voice, he was part of a generation of Seattle musicians who put grunge music on the map.
  
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