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• Science Hill junior spotlights fellow artists | Arts & Entertainment | johnsoncitypress.com - Johnson City Press (subscription)

  14-03-2022 23:30 via johnsoncitypress.com
  Science Hill junior spotlights fellow artists | Arts & Entertainment | johnsoncitypress.com  Johnson City Press (subscription)
  
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• Putnam Arts Council's April show to support animals and benefit the Putnam County SPCA - HamletHub

  14-03-2022 23:25 via news.hamlethub.com
  
  Putnam Arts Council's April show to support animals and benefit the Putnam County SPCA  HamletHub
  
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• L.A.-Based Artist Lauren Halsey to Do Metropolitan Museum’s Rooftop Commission

  14-03-2022 23:09 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that Los Angeles–based artist Lauren Halsey will take over the museum’s rooftop this year for its annual commission series. The site-specific installation will open on May 17 and run through October 23.
  Halsey makes immersive architectural installations that reflect on the histories of South Central Los Angeles, where she was born and raised, and where she is currently based. These works often merge these local stories with element
  
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• Jane Campion Apologizes for Comment About Venus and Serena Williams

  14-03-2022 23:08 via nytimes.com
  
  In an acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Awards, the “Power of the Dog” filmmaker wrongly suggested that the tennis greats didn’t compete against men the way she had to.
  
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• UNCSA has ties to Critics Choice Awards | Arts & Theatre | journalnow.com - Winston-Salem Journal

  14-03-2022 22:45 via journalnow.com
  UNCSA has ties to Critics Choice Awards | Arts & Theatre | journalnow.com  Winston-Salem Journal
  
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• Denver Center for Performing Arts to lift vaccine, mask mandates March 28 - FOX 31 Denver

  14-03-2022 22:41 via kdvr.com
  Denver Center for Performing Arts to lift vaccine, mask mandates March 28  FOX 31 Denver
  
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• Denver Center for Performing Arts to lift vaccine, mask mandates - FOX 31 Denver

  14-03-2022 22:41 via kdvr.com
  Denver Center for Performing Arts to lift vaccine, mask mandates  FOX 31 Denver
  
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• Rockford developer appointed to the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts - WREX.com

  14-03-2022 22:36 via wrex.com
  
  Rockford developer appointed to the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts  WREX.com
  
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• The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival creates sense of tradition at annual celebration - Community Impact Newspaper

  14-03-2022 22:27 via communityimpact.com
  
  The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival creates sense of tradition at annual celebration  Community Impact Newspaper
  
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• Register now for Artplay's summer camps in visual arts and musical theater - University of Alabama at Birmingham

  14-03-2022 22:23 via uab.edu
  
  Register now for Artplay's summer camps in visual arts and musical theater  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  
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• Artsy Hoosiers wanted for Indiana Arts Commission - Eyewitness News (WEHT/WTVW)

  14-03-2022 22:17 via tristatehomepage.com
  Artsy Hoosiers wanted for Indiana Arts Commission  Eyewitness News (WEHT/WTVW)
  
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• Lauren Halsey Chosen for Met Roof Installation

  14-03-2022 22:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The commission, on view from May 17 through Oct. 23, will invite visitors to explore connections to ancient Egyptian symbolism, 1960s utopian architecture and more.
  
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• One Work: Raúl Guerrero’s “Tomo VI: 16 de Septiembre con 5 de Febrero”

  14-03-2022 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  For Raúl Guerrero’s first exhibition in Mexico, the veteran artist demonstrated his keen eye for urban environments via a series of paintings he made in 1994 to capture his experience in Mexico City. The paintings share the funny, fluid aesthetics of Mexican caricature and form a refreshingly peculiar narrative of the city, the long-mythologized, overgrown urban wilderness that sits at the center of the country. Each canvas includes stylized text drawn from the cover of one of many
  
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• New Documentary Focuses on Artist George Anthony Morton’s Journey Toward Healing After Prison

  14-03-2022 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  The contrast between light and dark has long been a central concern for artist George Anthony Morton, both in his art and his life. “The concept of duality—this dark and light thing—it’s applicable to my artistic process, my struggles,“ Morton says in a new documentary about his life, titled Master of Light. “You see the oneness of it all.” Those contrasts manifest between Morton growing up poor in Kansas City, addiction problems in his family, and the 1
  
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• Janet Cooling, Painter Who Broke New Ground for Lesbian Artists, Dies at 70

  14-03-2022 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  Janet Cooling, who imagined a style of figurative painting built on lesbian and feminist symbologies during the 1970s and ’80s, died in Richmond, Virginia, on February 25 at the age of 70 from breast cancer. Her partner and wife of 40 years, Jackie Corlin, confirmed her death.
  Among the first artists to be an out lesbian in the American art world, Cooling fearlessly painted works that went against popular taste and normative social mores. Among her earliest proponents were New Museum found
  
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• Funding coming for arts center, home ownership program in Rochester - 13WHAM-TV

  14-03-2022 21:41 via 13wham.com
  Funding coming for arts center, home ownership program in Rochester  13WHAM-TV
  
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• Local martial arts studio to hold spring festival, fundraiser for Relay for Life - Dawson Community News

  14-03-2022 21:40 via dawsonnews.com
  Local martial arts studio to hold spring festival, fundraiser for Relay for Life  Dawson Community News
  
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• Hopkinton Center for the Arts: Arts in Bloom 2022 | Hopkinton MA Community TV Stations - hcam.tv

  14-03-2022 21:40 via hcam.tv
  Hopkinton Center for the Arts: Arts in Bloom 2022 | Hopkinton MA Community TV Stations  hcam.tv
  
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• Greater Conroe Arts Festival's Activities, Events, & Lineup of Free Family Fun - hellowoodlands.com

  14-03-2022 21:33 via hellowoodlands.com
  
  Greater Conroe Arts Festival's Activities, Events, & Lineup of Free Family Fun  hellowoodlands.com
  
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• Martha's Vineyard News | Embracing the Abstract at Pathways Arts - The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News

  14-03-2022 21:25 via vineyardgazette.com
  
  Martha's Vineyard News | Embracing the Abstract at Pathways Arts  The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News
  
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• Surprise arts grant applications accepted soon | The Daily Independent at YourValley.net - Daily Independent

  14-03-2022 21:18 via yourvalley.net
  
  Surprise arts grant applications accepted soon | The Daily Independent at YourValley.net  Daily Independent
  
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• ‘Man Cave’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the American Night

  14-03-2022 21:10 via nytimes.com
  
  John J. Caswell Jr.’s play is a political drama wrapped in the spooky pleasures of the horror genre.
  
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• U.K. Bars Export on 18th-Century Joshua Reynolds Portrait Worth $65 M.

  14-03-2022 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  The U.K. government has temporarily barred the export of a painting by 18th-century artist Joshua Reynolds. That painting, titled Portrait of Omai (1776), is worth an estimated £50 million ($65 million). It depicts Omai, a Tahitian man who became the toast of British society during the 18th century.
  The portrait is one of the most valuable works of art ever to be designated with an export deferral in the U.K. Under government policy, public institutions in the U.K. will be able to vie for
  
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• Four things our arts writers are loving this week - Minnesota Daily

  14-03-2022 21:00 via mndaily.com
  
  Four things our arts writers are loving this week  Minnesota Daily
  
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• Sugar Mags in Ellsworth offering arts & crafts classes - WABI

  14-03-2022 20:56 via wabi.tv
  
  Sugar Mags in Ellsworth offering arts & crafts classes  WABI
  
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• Project Jericho’s ‘Beyond Well-Being’ to feature series on arts and health - Springfield News Sun

  14-03-2022 20:49 via springfieldnewssun.com
  Project Jericho’s ‘Beyond Well-Being’ to feature series on arts and health  Springfield News Sun
  
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• Arts Org 7000 BC Teaches Comic Book Workshops With Education Grant - The Paper

  14-03-2022 20:45 via abq.news
  
  Arts Org 7000 BC Teaches Comic Book Workshops With Education Grant  The Paper
  
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• One Step Closer to Dependable Funding for a Local Arts Organization by and for People of Color - charlottenc.gov

  14-03-2022 20:42 via charlottenc.gov
  
  One Step Closer to Dependable Funding for a Local Arts Organization by and for People of Color  charlottenc.gov
  
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• A New York City Childhood Leads to Anxiety and Jokes in ‘What’s So Funny?’

  14-03-2022 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  David Sipress, a cartoonist who regularly contributes to The New Yorker, remembers growing up in a city simultaneously grimier and more glamorous.
  
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• Trinity Church Fires Conductor After Misconduct Accusation

  14-03-2022 20:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The conductor, Julian Wachner, denied the allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014. The church said it had not verified the accusation, but fired him for behavior “inconsistent with our expectations.”
  
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• Tate Severs Ties With Sanctioned Russian Donors

  14-03-2022 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  The Tate, which oversees four of the United Kingdom’s premier art institutions, has cut ties with Russian oligarchs Viktor Vekselberg and Petr Aven, both of whom have provided funding to the museum network in the past. The move came after calls for the Tate to stop taking money from members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
  Vekselberg, an energy magnate with an estimated net worth of $16 billion, according to Bloombe
  
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• Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity.

  14-03-2022 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor is directing an Encores! revival of the 1997 musical, updating it to confront hard truths about racism, poverty and carceral injustice.
  
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• Beyond the Brush: Mt. Washington Arts Association - New Hampshire Magazine

  14-03-2022 19:36 via nhmagazine.com
  
  Beyond the Brush: Mt. Washington Arts Association  New Hampshire Magazine
  
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• Art Dubai Pledges 25 Percent of All Ticket Sales to Ukrainian Refugees

  14-03-2022 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  The organizers of Art Dubai have announced that 25 percent of all ticket sales from its latest edition will be donated to those affected by the Russian war on Ukraine. This year’s fair, which ran from March 11 through 13 on the mini-city Madinat Jumeirah, was the annual event’s largest yet, with more than 100 galleries participating.
  The announcement followed a gesture from Tbilisi’s Gallery Artbeat, in which the Georgian co-founder, Natia Bukia, draped the Ukrainian flag over
  
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• Blumenthal Performing Arts eyes more digital-art shows after success of Van Gogh exhibit - Charlotte Business Journal - The Business Journals

  14-03-2022 19:19 via bizjournals.com
  Blumenthal Performing Arts eyes more digital-art shows after success of Van Gogh exhibit - Charlotte Business Journal  The Business Journals
  
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• Denver Arts Complex to lift mask, vaccine requirements - 9News.com KUSA

  14-03-2022 19:17 via 9news.com
  
  Denver Arts Complex to lift mask, vaccine requirements  9News.com KUSA
  
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• The Bronx Museum of the Arts Biennial Explores Our Contemporary Condition - Cultured Magazine

  14-03-2022 19:08 via culturedmag.com
  
  The Bronx Museum of the Arts Biennial Explores Our Contemporary Condition  Cultured Magazine
  
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• Pete Davidson to Join Next Blue Origin Space Flight

  14-03-2022 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Saturday Night Live’’ comedian will be one of six passengers to fly to the edge of space this month with Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos.
  
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• Artist rafa esparza Wins Pérez Art Museum’s $50,000 Prize

  14-03-2022 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  The Pérez Art Museum Miami in Florida has given its 2022 Pérez Prize to Los Angeles–based artist rafa esparza. The award, which honors artistic achievement, comes with a $50,000 unrestricted cash grant and was presented to the artist over the weekend at the museum’s annual Art of the Party gala.
  esparza is among the most closely watched artists working in the U.S. today, and is best-known both his large-scale installations made of adobe, a skill learned from his father
  
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• Juilliard’s President Is Challenged but Retains Support of Board

  14-03-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The school’s chairman and biggest benefactor, Bruce Kovner, had wanted its president, Damian Woetzel, to leave after a negative evaluation. He marshaled support and stayed.
  
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• Whitewater Arts Alliance exhibit features artists who love doing what they do - Lake Geneva Regional News

  14-03-2022 19:00 via lakegenevanews.net
  
  Whitewater Arts Alliance exhibit features artists who love doing what they do  Lake Geneva Regional News
  
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• The 10 Best Martial Arts Movies You've Never Seen | CBR - CBR - Comic Book Resources

  14-03-2022 18:45 via cbr.com
  The 10 Best Martial Arts Movies You've Never Seen | CBR  CBR - Comic Book Resources
  
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• Ukraine: Arts and culture heritage buildings, if destroyed, can be rebuilt but never replaced - The Conversation United Kingdom

  14-03-2022 18:40 via theconversation.com
  
  Ukraine: Arts and culture heritage buildings, if destroyed, can be rebuilt but never replaced  The Conversation United Kingdom
  
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• Ukraine: Arts and culture heritage buildings, if destroyed, can be rebuilt but never replaced - The Conversation

  14-03-2022 18:40 via theconversation.com
  
  Ukraine: Arts and culture heritage buildings, if destroyed, can be rebuilt but never replaced  The Conversation
  
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• Arnett's Martial Arts America Honors Late Sensei Frank Arnett with Impressive Showing at Morris Mack Open in Yakima - bigcountrynewsconnection.com

  14-03-2022 18:34 via bigcountrynewsconnection.com
  Arnett's Martial Arts America Honors Late Sensei Frank Arnett with Impressive Showing at Morris Mack Open in Yakima  bigcountrynewsconnection.com
  
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• Facebook "On The Map" Detroit Black Arts Community | HYPEBEAST - HYPEBEAST

  14-03-2022 18:29 via hypebeast.com
  
  Facebook "On The Map" Detroit Black Arts Community | HYPEBEAST  HYPEBEAST
  
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• Colorado Symphony, Opera, Ballet and DCPA to lift vaccine, mask requirements at the end of the month - Denver 7 Colorado News

  14-03-2022 18:15 via thedenverchannel.com
  
  Colorado Symphony, Opera, Ballet and DCPA to lift vaccine, mask requirements at the end of the month  Denver 7 Colorado News
  
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• Monday Arts Roundup: If Cities Could Dance Edition - WCP - Washington City Paper

  14-03-2022 18:12 via washingtoncitypaper.com
  
  Monday Arts Roundup: If Cities Could Dance Edition - WCP  Washington City Paper
  
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• Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters

  14-03-2022 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the tenor Mark Padmore subtly threaded a program of Beethoven songs and Schubert’s “Schwanengesang.”
  
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• Company Behind Bored Ape Yacht Club Buys CryptoPunks

  14-03-2022 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  Yuga Labs, the company behind the highly successful NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club, has made a major acquisition: the rights to the NFT series CryptoPunks and Meebits, both of which were created by Larva Labs, the Verge reports. The company also bought 400 CryptoPunks and 1,700 Meebits from Larva Labs. The IP rights and the assets were both bought for an undisclosed sum.
  For NFT collectors, CryptoPunks are considered hugely valuable. These NFTs resemble pixelated representations of punks, and
  
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