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• The Kentucky Museum's US Bank Celebration of the Arts offers opportunity to share grief behind art - College Heights Herald

  25-02-2022 23:49 via wkuherald.com
  
  The Kentucky Museum's US Bank Celebration of the Arts offers opportunity to share grief behind art  College Heights Herald
  
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• ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ Review: Sons and Wives

  25-02-2022 23:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In this D.H. Lawrence play, a production by the Mint Theater, men are trouble, “pure and simple.”
  
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• Mary Montgomery, philanthropist and patroness of the arts, dies at 91 - Palm Beach Daily News

  25-02-2022 22:45 via palmbeachdailynews.com
  Mary Montgomery, philanthropist and patroness of the arts, dies at 91  Palm Beach Daily News
  
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• Asghar Farhadi's Rule: ‘Always Focus on Ordinary People’

  25-02-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Asghar Farhadi, who has won two Oscars, says stories about the rich and famous “are not part of my emotional bank.”
  
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• The Comet and the Hourglass: Theodora Allen at Blum & Poe

  25-02-2022 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Moments after I stepped into Blum & Poe, where Theodora Allen’s recent paintings are hanging, a woman entered and declared to her companion, “These are so pleasing.” Allen’s works do, indeed, give immediately and generously of their visual splendor. They deftly marry ostensibly opposing formal qualities—flatness and depth, extravagance and restraint, presence and absence—eliciting not only sensual pleasure but also an intellectual rush.
  “Syzygy&rdquo
  
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• Valery Gergiev Faces Removal From Podiums Over Support for Putin

  25-02-2022 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Munich Philharmonic and other institutions threatened to cut ties with the Russian conductor unless he denounced the invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Former Christie’s Specialist Opens Gallery in Pittsburgh: ‘I Think I Can Take This Risk’

  25-02-2022 20:28 via artnews.com
  
  As a contemporary art specialist at Christie’s, Lexi Bishop established herself as a core part of a team well practiced in spotting emerging artists that went on to become market phenomenons. Then, in a surprise move, she left in 2019 for the gallery world. Following a stint as an associate dealer at Los Angeles’s Nino Mier Gallery during the early stages of the pandemic, she struck out on her own, and has now made moves to open her own gallery in a city without a sizable art-market
  
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• As Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Intensifies, Artists and Institutions React to an Uncertain Future

  25-02-2022 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies, with the latter’s capital Kyiv now under siege, Ukrainian artists, both at home and abroad, face an uncertain future.
  The situation in Ukraine has the potential to disrupt the country’s participation at the Venice Biennale, the world’s biggest art exhibition, which is set to open in April. This week, the organizers of the Ukrainian Pavilion said they had been forced to suspend preparation for their exhibition, which was set to
  
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• Outcry Follows the AP’s Decision to Sell NFT of Migrants at Sea

  25-02-2022 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  Yesterday, the Associated Press tweeted that it would be releasing an NFT of a short video by photojournalist Felipe Dana featuring migrants crowded together on a raft in the Mediterranean Sea. Plans for the sale went viral, with many bashing the news agency for profiting from human misery.
  AP’s tweet was up for four hours before it was deleted. The sale of the NFT has also been halted.
  “This was a poor choice of imagery for an NFT. It has not and will not be put up for auction,&rdqu
  
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• Morris Performing Arts Center receives $1 million donation as 100th anniversary approaches - South Bend Tribune

  25-02-2022 20:07 via southbendtribune.com
  Morris Performing Arts Center receives $1 million donation as 100th anniversary approaches  South Bend Tribune
  
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• FESTIVAL OF FINE ARTS PRESENTS CONCERTS TO SOUND THE ARRIVAL OF MARCH - PRNewswire

  25-02-2022 20:07 via prnewswire.com
  
  FESTIVAL OF FINE ARTS PRESENTS CONCERTS TO SOUND THE ARRIVAL OF MARCH  PRNewswire
  
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• theo tyson on Breaking Societal Expectations and Finding Common Ground

  25-02-2022 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  Portrait of theo tyson.
  I joined the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [MFA Boston] a few months ago. I feel so fortunate to have fantastic colleagues, even beyond the fashion arts department, including curators Liz Munsell and Michelle Millar Fisher. When I first moved to Boston, my goal was to become part of the cultural landscape of the city and not work in a silo. And the space that has been created for me at the MFA Boston is one where I have had the opportunity to invite more people in. As a Bla
  
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• North Texas Performing Arts Announces Plano Children's Theatre Founder Sara Egelston Akers To Retire - Broadway World

  25-02-2022 19:47 via broadwayworld.com
  
  North Texas Performing Arts Announces Plano Children's Theatre Founder Sara Egelston Akers To Retire  Broadway World
  
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• Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs

  25-02-2022 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Bonnie Raitt, Kehlani, Mahalia and others.
  
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• $45 M. van Gogh Painting Made During Asylum Confinement to Sell at Christie’s

  25-02-2022 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  Vincent van Gogh’s painting Fields near the Alpilles (1889), which the artist produced while he was committed to a French asylum, is coming to auction for the first time next month. It is expected to fetch a price around $45 million when it hits the auction block during a 20th century art evening sale this May in New York.
  This landscape has remained in private hands since it was created and has never been exhibited publicly. It was previously owned by the designer Yves Saint Laurent
  
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• Two U.S. Museums Acquire Works by Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo

  25-02-2022 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio recently acquired works by Remedios Varo, a Surrealist artist whose work has begun to see a new level of institutional attention in the U.S.
  Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Varo produced works depicting artists and intellectuals in intricate dream-like settings. Her career took off in those years after relocating to Mexico City as a refugee during World War II. Six decades after her death in 1963, her market is growing, and her
  
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• GreenHeart Opens Parking Deck at Legal Arts Building - businessjournaldaily.com

  25-02-2022 18:47 via businessjournaldaily.com
  
  GreenHeart Opens Parking Deck at Legal Arts Building  businessjournaldaily.com
  
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• Artists Ask to Pull Out of British Art Survey Amid Reported Call for Manchester Museum Director to Leave Over Statement About Palestine

  25-02-2022 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  Days after news emerged that Manchester University’s Whitworth Art Gallery reportedly asked its director to leave after his inclusion of a statement of solidarity with Palestine in an exhibition, 21 artists, including several winners of the prestigious Turner Prize, said they would pull out of a British art survey scheduled to open at the institution in May. Many of the artists announced their decision on social media, where a message posted on multiple accounts said the move was intended
  
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• An Art-World Capital, With Few Places for Artists to Work

  25-02-2022 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  A new London exhibition celebrates the creativity of artists in their studios. But ateliers in the city are vanishing, and artists are being pushed out.
  
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• Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’

  25-02-2022 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Civilian specialists are tracking the threat to landmarks in Ukraine as the U.S. Army struggles after more than two years to appoint new cultural heritage preservation specialists modeled after the “Monuments Men.”
  
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• Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards

  25-02-2022 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Manfred Honeck led a program that teased at novelty, then settled into well-known works by Mendelssohn and Dvorak.
  
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• Ukraine on TV: A Cold War Nightmare Meets Modern Politics

  25-02-2022 17:39 via nytimes.com
  
  As the invasion unfolded, images straight out of Cold War nightmare dramas butted up against 21st-century politics.
  
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• One Work: Raymond Saunders’s “Beauty in Darkness”

  25-02-2022 17:39 via artnews.com
  
  Raymond Saunders created the arresting mural-scale collage-painting Beauty in Darkness (1993–99) in his Oakland, California, studio during the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa. Its acerbic commentary on segregationist policies pertains as much to that context as to America’s past and present. Indeed, Beauty in Darkness attains a heightened sense of urgency in light of this country’s ongoing discourse on racial inequity, along with some government officials&rsquo
  
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• PiM Arts HS announces regional arts awards; virtual ceremony is Feb. 26 - ECM Publishers

  25-02-2022 17:30 via hometownsource.com
  PiM Arts HS announces regional arts awards; virtual ceremony is Feb. 26  ECM Publishers
  
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• Celebrating an Anniversary Edition, ARCO Madrid Returns with a Pre-Pandemic Vibe

  25-02-2022 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  Though Covid continues to force many art fairs around the world to postpone (like the London Art Fair or TEFAF in the Netherlands) or to cancel altogether (like 1-54 in Marrakech), ARCO Madrid went forward as planned this year. Earlier this week, it successfully opened its “40(+1) Anniversary” edition at the city’s IFEMA convention center, with 185 contemporary art galleries from 30 countries.
  “Forty years plus one, because 2021, when we actually turned 40, was a time to
  
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• What to See and Experience Live in New York This Spring

  25-02-2022 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  ‘Funny Girl’ and ‘A Strangle Loop’ on Broadway, Ashwini Ramaswamy’s dances, Olivia Rodrigo’s pop takeover: what our critics and writers are looking forward to this season.
  
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• Scholar of the Early Republic Wins American History Book Prize

  25-02-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The New-York Historical Society award goes to Alan Taylor, whose “American Republics” emphasizes the fragility of the American experiment from the beginning.
  
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• What Happens When a ‘Heritage Act’ Wants More Than Playing the Hits?

  25-02-2022 16:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Tears for Fears are returning with their first new album in 18 years. The group is one of a number of veteran bands releasing fresh music after lengthy pauses.
  
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• Review: Conversation and Conflict, as Warhol Meets Basquiat

  25-02-2022 16:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope give memorable performances as the odd couple artists in Anthony McCarten’s new play, “The Collaboration.”
  
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• Ukraine War Heralds Need for New, Delayed ‘Monuments Officers’ Unit

  25-02-2022 16:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Civilian specialists are tracking the threat to landmarks in Ukraine as the U.S. Army struggles after more than two years to create a new cultural heritage preservation squad modeled after the “Monuments Men.”
  
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• PNC Bank Announced as Presenting Sponsor of MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival - Fort Worth Magazine

  25-02-2022 16:23 via fwtx.com
  
  PNC Bank Announced as Presenting Sponsor of MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival  Fort Worth Magazine
  
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• Growing Up Onscreen With ‘My Brilliant Friend’

  25-02-2022 16:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace have starred in the HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels since they were in middle school. The new season will be their last.
  
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• Foo Fighters Made a Horror Film. Because Why Not?

  25-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Dave Grohl shares how the band went from filming funny music videos to making “Studio 666,” due Feb. 25, and discusses a coming album.
  
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• ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French

  25-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  On Monday, the company performs the much-revised masterpiece for the first time in its original language.
  
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• Musical Comedy ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ to Open on Broadway Next Fall

  25-02-2022 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The new musical, by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, will star Victoria Clark as a teen girl who ages too quickly.
  
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• A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About

  25-02-2022 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Andrey Kurkov wrote about fighting between Russia and Ukraine long before Thursday’s invasion. But now, more than ever, he wants to explain it to the world.
  
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• An Iranian Director’s Rule: ‘Always Focus on Ordinary People.’

  25-02-2022 15:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Asghar Farhadi, who has won two Oscars, says stories about the rich and famous “are not part of my emotional bank.”
  
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• Disney Takes Visitors to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

  25-02-2022 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, opening at Walt Disney World, is part luxury hotel, part theme park ride, part role-playing game. But it will cost you.
  
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• Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All.

  25-02-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 19th-century French play is quite adaptable, as numerous stage and film versions have shown, including the latest musical starring Peter Dinklage.
  
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• TC Arts Commission unveils new art installation | News | record-eagle.com - Traverse City Record Eagle

  25-02-2022 15:00 via record-eagle.com
  TC Arts Commission unveils new art installation | News | record-eagle.com  Traverse City Record Eagle
  
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• Joaquina Kalukango Isn’t Afraid to Speak Up Anymore

  25-02-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Before leading her first Broadway musical in “Paradise Square,” she had long deferred to others in the rehearsal room — until she realized how much she has to share.
  
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• CDC Foundation seeks to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy through the arts - WABE 90.1 FM

  25-02-2022 14:45 via wabe.org
  
  CDC Foundation seeks to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy through the arts  WABE 90.1 FM
  
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• Arts venues learn to make their spaces welcoming with sensory-friendly shows. How one theater is making it happen. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  25-02-2022 14:34 via inquirer.com
  
  Arts venues learn to make their spaces welcoming with sensory-friendly shows. How one theater is making it happen.  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Ukrainian Museums Work to Safeguard Collections, Manhattan D.A. Returns Antiquities to Greece, and More: Morning Links for February 25, 2022

  25-02-2022 14:11 via artnews.com
  
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  THE DISASTERS OF WAR. As fighting rages in Ukraine, museums across the country are working to safeguard their collections, the New York Times reports. Aleksandra Kovalchuk, the director of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, told the paper via WhatsApp that staffers were “hiding” art in “the basement. Try
  
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• Winter wanes, and campus arts and entertainment is blooming - AroundtheO

  25-02-2022 14:00 via around.uoregon.edu
  
  Winter wanes, and campus arts and entertainment is blooming  AroundtheO
  
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• Collaborating with AGIS to Support Performing Arts Businesses - Investor Relations

  25-02-2022 13:09 via about.fb.com
  
  Collaborating with AGIS to Support Performing Arts Businesses  Investor Relations
  
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• The Queer Young Comics Redefining American Humor

  25-02-2022 13:02 via nytimes.com
  
  For years, gay male performers were left out of the comedy landscape or tokenized within it. Now, a new wave of entertainers are succeeding by playing to themselves.
  
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• Arts + Lit Lab to host Feb. 28 event for Li's 'Women Dancing' project - School of Education - University of Wisconsin-Madison

  25-02-2022 12:40 via education.wisc.edu
  Arts + Lit Lab to host Feb. 28 event for Li's 'Women Dancing' project - School of Education  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
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• Former Harrison Arts principal Daryl Ward takes over Polk Arts Alliance - The Ledger

  25-02-2022 12:05 via theledger.com
  Former Harrison Arts principal Daryl Ward takes over Polk Arts Alliance  The Ledger
  
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• Pinellas Arts Village provides home for nearly a dozen artists in Pinellas Park - ABC Action News

  25-02-2022 11:01 via abcactionnews.com
  
  Pinellas Arts Village provides home for nearly a dozen artists in Pinellas Park  ABC Action News
  
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