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• Transcendence Theatre Company's TRANSCENDENCE FOR ALL Shares The Power Of The Arts With Underrepresented Groups - Broadway World

  18-03-2022 23:39
  
  Transcendence Theatre Company's TRANSCENDENCE FOR ALL Shares The Power Of The Arts With Underrepresented Groups  Broadway World
  
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• South Arkansas Arts Center to host “Furball Off the Wall” fundraising event for local animal shelter - KTVE - myarklamiss.com

  18-03-2022 23:35
  South Arkansas Arts Center to host “Furball Off the Wall” fundraising event for local animal shelter  KTVE - myarklamiss.com
  
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• Geneva Center for the Arts to hold online auction to benefit displaced families in Ukraine - Chicago Tribune

  18-03-2022 22:53
  
  Geneva Center for the Arts to hold online auction to benefit displaced families in Ukraine  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Disney's 'Little Mermaid Jr.' coming to Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts - The Suffolk News-Herald - Suffolk News-Herald

  18-03-2022 22:51
  
  Disney's 'Little Mermaid Jr.' coming to Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts - The Suffolk News-Herald  Suffolk News-Herald
  
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• Marina Abramovic to Revisit ‘The Artist is Present’ for Ukraine Benefit Auction

  18-03-2022 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  This month Marina Abramović will restage one of her most famous performances, The Artist is in Present, for an auction benefiting Ukraine.
  Currently on auction through an Artsy platform is a chance be photographed opposite Abramović at New York’s Sean Kelly gallery, where a survey of her work is currently on view. The photograph will be taken by Marco Anelli, who captured the more than 1,500 people who came to the Museum of Modern Art 12 years ago for a chance to sit across from
  
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• College of Arts and Sciences awarded a $1.5 million grant to improve retention, persistence, and success - Tuskegee University

  18-03-2022 22:10
  College of Arts and Sciences awarded a $1.5 million grant to improve retention, persistence, and success  Tuskegee University
  
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• Peter Bowles, Actor in ‘To the Manor Born,’ Dies at 85

  18-03-2022 22:03 via nytimes.com
  
  In a six-decade career in TV, film and onstage, he played comedy and drama, hapless heroes and villains, often with the air of the archetypal English gent.
  
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• How I Made This: Reconstructing Colette Lumiere’s “Living Environment”

  18-03-2022 21:28 via artnews.com
  
  In the 1970s and early 1980s, artist Colette Lumiere (the last of a number of names the French-born artist adopted in the course of her career) created, performed in, and eventually fully inhabited spaces cocooned in ruched, draped, and pleated fabric. Her best-known endeavor, the transformation of her downtown New York loft into an artwork titled Living Environment (1972–1983), was recently re-created for an exhibition at Company Gallery in New York.
  Living Environment began organically.
  
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• How to Wear a Sculpture: New York Show Explores the Thin Divide Between Clothing and Art

  18-03-2022 21:17 via artnews.com
  
  What distinguishes garments and art? In 2022, the question may be moot. The Costume Institute at Metropolitan Museum of Art is regularly breaking attendance records, and textile-based exhibitions are appearing with greater frequency and curatorial depth. Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York, for example, is staging an incisive exploration of the famed quilters of Gee’s Bend in Alabama and their successors. It’s more interesting to ask how history gives meaning to cloth, makes it sa
  
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• Auction Houses Will Comply With International Inquiry Into Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs’ Assets

  18-03-2022 20:37 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips, the top three auction houses in the world, will comply with ongoing international efforts targeting assets owned by sanctioned Russian business moguls.
  On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department released details about an international task force it said will target “high-value” and “luxury” assets owned by blacklisted Russians with links to President Vladimir Putin. Bankers, energy barons, and politicians will be among thos
  
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• Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Shares Camping Plaza Lineup - jambands.com

  18-03-2022 20:31
  
  Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Shares Camping Plaza Lineup  jambands.com
  
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• Arts organizations cut ties with Russian donors and artists - Marketplace

  18-03-2022 20:23
  
  Arts organizations cut ties with Russian donors and artists  Marketplace
  
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• Moon Knight's Most Memorable Fight Is Inspired by Martial Arts Films - CBR - Comic Book Resources

  18-03-2022 20:00
  Moon Knight's Most Memorable Fight Is Inspired by Martial Arts Films  CBR - Comic Book Resources
  
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• Donatello Gets His Due

  18-03-2022 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibit in Florence puts the 16th century sculptor at the epicenter of the Renaissance, presenting a master whose innovations transformed art history.
  
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• Review: In ‘What You Are Now,’ Memory Is a Dangerous Thing

  18-03-2022 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  In Sam Chanse’s affecting play, a daughter tries to understand her mother, who resists any reminder of her escape from the Khmer Rouge.
  
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• Not All Microbes

  18-03-2022 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  Most of the time, when we hear about microbes, the subject is their extermination: “Kills 99.9% of germs,” exclaim the labels on popular disinfectants. We are at war, so the metaphor goes, with an invisible enemy that must be wiped out to keep us safe. Microbes are typically defined by our inability to see them with the naked eye: they are small living things, visible only under a microscope. These tiny life forms—including bacteria like E. coli, fungal microorganisms like yeas
  
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• Upstate arts groups look for additional state funding - WXXI News

  18-03-2022 19:21
  
  Upstate arts groups look for additional state funding  WXXI News
  
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• 'Performance Outside The Proscenium' International Arts Conference Begins Registration Next Week - Broadway World

  18-03-2022 18:35
  
  'Performance Outside The Proscenium' International Arts Conference Begins Registration Next Week  Broadway World
  
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• The Flluxe Arts Festival makes art come alive - Panama City - WJHG

  18-03-2022 18:27
  
  The Flluxe Arts Festival makes art come alive - Panama City  WJHG
  
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• Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts to Present SIGNOR DELUSO - Broadway World

  18-03-2022 17:52
  
  Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts to Present SIGNOR DELUSO  Broadway World
  
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• Arts Playlist: Children's author Erin Entrada Kelly | Delaware First Media - Delaware First Media

  18-03-2022 17:28
  
  Arts Playlist: Children's author Erin Entrada Kelly | Delaware First Media  Delaware First Media
  
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• Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Acquires Critic Robert Hughes’s Papers

  18-03-2022 17:17 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian Institute’s Archives of American Art announced this week that it has acquired the papers of famed art critic Robert Hughes, who died in 2012.
  “It is a privilege and an honor to preserve the legacy of Robert Hughes and his decades of critical writings” said Liza Kirwin, interim director at the Archives of American Art, in a statement.
  Not only did Hughes serve as head art critic at Time magazine, where he wrote accessible and elegant reviews, he also produce
  
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• Visual Arts Annual Graduate Research Exhibition on display beginning March 25 - Pennsylvania State University

  18-03-2022 17:02
  
  Visual Arts Annual Graduate Research Exhibition on display beginning March 25  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Arts Council hosts Celebration of the Arts gallery - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press - Stanly News & Press

  18-03-2022 16:49
  
  Arts Council hosts Celebration of the Arts gallery - The Stanly News & Press | The Stanly News & Press  Stanly News & Press
  
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• Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition

  18-03-2022 16:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The superstar conductor, a possible successor to the New York Philharmonic’s podium, led a cycle of Robert Schumann’s symphonies and two premieres.
  
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• Arcade Fire Ignites a Fresh Era, and 11 More New Songs

  18-03-2022 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Normani, Brad Mehldau, Valerie June and others.
  
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• Burns Bottom Arts Festival set for Saturday - The Commercial Dispatch

  18-03-2022 16:44
  
  Burns Bottom Arts Festival set for Saturday  The Commercial Dispatch
  
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• Jack Willis, TV Producer and Empathetic Filmmaker, Dies at 87

  18-03-2022 16:39 via nytimes.com
  
  A survivor of a crippling accident, his documentaries and news coverage for public television focused on poverty, race and other social issues.
  
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• In Houston, Artist Clarissa Tossin Ponders the Colonial Implications of the 21st-Century Space Race

  18-03-2022 16:35 via artnews.com
  
  Los Angeles–based artist Clarissa Tossin has created work in various modes from post-apocalyptic sculpture to installations comprising of woven textiles. For her current exhibition at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, she presents The 8th Continent (2021), situated in Brochstein Pavilion on Rice’s campus as part of the Moody Center’s “Off the Wall” series. The work is a wide-spanning triptych depicting three images taken by NASA of the moo
  
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• Old Main hosts renowned musicians for 'Celebrate the Arts' - Winona Post

  18-03-2022 16:03
  Old Main hosts renowned musicians for 'Celebrate the Arts'  Winona Post
  
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• Laurie Cumbo, Controversial Former City Council Majority Leader, Reportedly Picked as New York City’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs

  18-03-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Laurie Cumbo, a former arts administrator and New York City Council Majority Leader, has reportedly been picked to be the city’s next Department of Cultural Affairs commissioner, sources tell ARTnews. 
  Considered one of the most important jobs in the city’s art ecosystem, the position has remained open despite Mayor Eric Adams entering office over three and half months ago. The Cultural Affairs department is the largest municipal funder of the arts in the United States and provi
  
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• Laurie Cumbo, Controversial Former City Council Majority Leader, Picked as New York City’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs [Updated]

  18-03-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Laurie Cumbo, a former arts administrator and New York City Council Majority Leader, has been picked to be the city’s next Department of Cultural Affairs commissioner. After speculation about her pending appointment this week, the Mayor’s office confirmed the news Friday afternoon.
  Considered one of the most important jobs in the city’s art ecosystem, the position had remained open despite Mayor Eric Adams entering office over three and half months ago. The Cultural Affairs dep
  
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• Five Science Fiction Movie to Stream Now

  18-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s picks include near-future psychological drama, Oscar-nominated robot antics and a bearded, mysterious Hugo Weaving.
  
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• ‘Contained Fire’ Breaks Out in Lobby of New York’s Whitney Museum

  18-03-2022 15:47 via artnews.com
  
  Last night, the Fire Department of New York was called to the Whitney Museum, where a fire had broken out in the lobby. The fire took place around 8:30 p.m., after the museum was closed to the public for the day.
  “On Thursday evening, a small, contained fire in the lobby of The Whitney Museum of American Art was discovered and quickly extinguished,” a museum spokesperson said in a statement. “There were no injuries and no art works were damaged. The Whitney expresses its g
  
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• Bronzeville to gain new housing, stores and an arts center under public land sales that advanced this week - Milwaukee Business Journal - The Business Journals

  18-03-2022 15:43
  Bronzeville to gain new housing, stores and an arts center under public land sales that advanced this week - Milwaukee Business Journal  The Business Journals
  
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• McNair Scholars Program's Black History Month Fine Arts Contest Features Talents of USM Students - The University of Southern Mississippi

  18-03-2022 15:24
  McNair Scholars Program's Black History Month Fine Arts Contest Features Talents of USM Students  The University of Southern Mississippi
  
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• City Invites Community to Celebrate Arts in Georgetown this April - Hello Georgetown

  18-03-2022 15:19
  
  City Invites Community to Celebrate Arts in Georgetown this April  Hello Georgetown
  
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• SMSD News: Celebrating the arts in the SMSD - Shawnee Mission Post

  18-03-2022 15:03
  
  SMSD News: Celebrating the arts in the SMSD  Shawnee Mission Post
  
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• What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces?

  18-03-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  César Franck’s only symphony was a pillar of the repertory for decades. But it’s now a rarity.
  
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• ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and the Lessons Few Horror Films Get Right

  18-03-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ti West is the rare genre director to understand the original and honor it with a movie, “X,” that also works on its own terms.
  
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• Russian Conductor Will Not Appear With New York Philharmonic

  18-03-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tugan Sokhiev, who resigned from two posts after facing pressure to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, will not perform with the orchestra because of the war.
  
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• Hodgins: OC Arts Groups Emerge From Pandemic With New Ideas and Strengthened Resolve - Voice of OC

  18-03-2022 15:00
  
  Hodgins: OC Arts Groups Emerge From Pandemic With New Ideas and Strengthened Resolve  Voice of OC
  
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• Liberal Arts senior works to empower Black Penn Staters - Pennsylvania State University

  18-03-2022 14:58
  
  Liberal Arts senior works to empower Black Penn Staters  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Wrecking ball comes for an entire block of cool Bishop Arts housing - The Dallas Morning News

  18-03-2022 14:54
  
  Wrecking ball comes for an entire block of cool Bishop Arts housing  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• The Cake is at the Alliance for the Arts March 17-26 - News landing page

  18-03-2022 14:31
  
  The Cake is at the Alliance for the Arts March 17-26  News landing page
  
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• ‘American Song Contest’ Puts a Stateside Spin on Eurovision

  18-03-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Stars vs. hopefuls. State vs. state. Eurovision fans will recognize the format of NBC’s new original song competition. For everyone else, here’s a primer.
  
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• Keep Music Alive Partners with Music & Arts Teach Music Week March 21-27 - PR Newswire

  18-03-2022 13:38
  
  Keep Music Alive Partners with Music & Arts Teach Music Week March 21-27  PR Newswire
  
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• Scholarships available to graduating seniors pursuing a degree in visual arts - WCF Courier

  18-03-2022 13:13
  
  Scholarships available to graduating seniors pursuing a degree in visual arts  WCF Courier
  
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• Frank Gehry Designs $350 M. Expansion for L.A. Music School, Met Gala Co-Chairs Named, and More: Morning Links for March 18, 2022

  18-03-2022 13:12 via artnews.com
  
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  THE WAR IN UKRAINE. The U.K. has barred arts exports to Russia in its sanctions package, the Financial Times reports, but one expert questioned the impact of the move, since many arts businesses have already halted shipments. Speaking of moving art, Bloomberg’s James Tarmy checked in with two brave
  
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• Almost 90% of Performers Have Experienced Violence, Harassment in Latin American Screen and Arts Industries - Variety

  18-03-2022 13:11
  
  Almost 90% of Performers Have Experienced Violence, Harassment in Latin American Screen and Arts Industries  Variety
  
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