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• Charli XCX’s Ever-Evolving Pop

  30-03-2022 23:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer and songwriter’s career has inspired dance parties, as well as spirited conversations about her ambitions and aesthetic innovations.
  
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• Years After Restitution Request, Seattle Returns Indigenous Artifacts Found on River Shore

  30-03-2022 23:47 via artnews.com
  
  The Seattle City Council unanimously voted earlier this week to return 270 historic artifacts to the native Upper Skagit Tribe, reported the Seattle Times. The artifacts likely represent the remains of an ancient village of the Upper Skagit Tribe, who had hunting and fishing settlements along the Skagit River for thousands of years.
  The artifacts were first discovered during a renovation project at the Gorge Inn site, northeast of Seattle, in 2013. Constructed in 1925, the Gorge Inn was bui
  
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• Bruce Willis Has Aphasia and Is ‘Stepping Away’ From His Career

  30-03-2022 23:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The news of his diagnosis, initially announced by his ex-wife, Demi Moore, prompted an outpouring of support and appreciation for Willis from fans, stars and other notable figures.
  
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• Boneyard Arts Market happening this weekend - wcia.com

  30-03-2022 23:36 via wcia.com
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• Local Black female scientist duo using STEM and Arts to close the inequity - WXYZ 7 Action News Detroit

  30-03-2022 23:30 via wxyz.com
  
  Local Black female scientist duo using STEM and Arts to close the inequity  WXYZ 7 Action News Detroit
  
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• ‘The Square,’ ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and More Streaming Gems

  30-03-2022 23:27 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s offbeat streaming recommendations include several very dark satires, a handful of engaging indies, and two documentaries that cinephiles will adore.
  
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• A New Public Art Program Launches in Miami with Massive Nina Chanel Abney Mural

  30-03-2022 23:13 via artnews.com
  
  A new $5 million public art initiative will bring major commissions by world-class contemporary artists to downtown Miami. First up is a monumental mural by Nina Chanel Abney.
  The work is a joyful mashup of graphic figures, bold color planes, and musical notes that was inspired by Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami. It spans the length of a passageway under a property within the mixed-used development called Worldcenter, a self-described “city within a city.”
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• Cecilia Vicuña, Tireless Maker of Poignant Sculptures on the Precarity of Life, Selected for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Commission

  30-03-2022 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  The New York–based artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña has been selected for Tate Modern’s annual Turbine Hall Commission, where an artist presents a large-scale new work in the main entranceway to the London museum. The site-specific work will open in October and run through April 2023.
  An acclaimed poet who has authored over 15 collections of poetry, Vicuña is known in the art world for a practice that spans painting, sculpture, and performance and deals with themes of the
  
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• L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming

  30-03-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sales of queer romance novels have surged, with books coming from the biggest publishers and prominently displayed at mainstream retailers.
  
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• A ‘Dog’ Robot Is Now Guarding Pompeii’s Ancient Ruins

  30-03-2022 22:51 via artnews.com
  
  The Boston Dynamics’ canine robot, known as Spot, is now patrolling archaeological areas and structures at Pompeii in Italy,  the Archaeological Park of Pompeii announced in a release on Monday.
  The agile robot is being used to identify structural and safety issues at Pompeii—an Ancient Roman city encased in volcanic ash following the 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius— such as narrow passages and uneven surfaces, while also inspecting underground tunnels leading to and fr
  
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• How I Made This: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Crowdsourced She Wolf

  30-03-2022 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  Each/Other (2020–2021), a large, multicolored fabric sculpture of a she-wolf, is the first collaborative work by Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt. The pair invited members of the public to embroider messages onto bandanas and mail them to the artists, who hand-sewed them onto a canvas-covered metal wolf form. For these Indigenous creators, the crowdsourced she-wolf represents kinship among people and between species as well as a protective, maternal shelter.
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• Richard Lipez, Who Reimagined the Gay Detective Novel, Dies at 83

  30-03-2022 22:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Under the pen name Richard Stevenson, he sought to correct crime fiction’s portrayals of gay characters as freaks or villains with an entirely relatable protagonist.
  
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• Modern Love Podcast: Right Swipes, Big City

  30-03-2022 22:06 via nytimes.com
  
  A young woman with a prosthetic leg navigates dating apps in New York City.
  
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• Ashton Hawkins, Manager of the Rich at the Met Museum, Dies at 84

  30-03-2022 21:50 via nytimes.com
  
  A top executive, he cultivated donors, then used his legal acumen to arrange their multimillion-dollar gifts of money and art.
  
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• UHD Arts + Communication Festival Kicks Off April 4 - UHD News

  30-03-2022 21:46 via news.uhd.edu
  
  UHD Arts + Communication Festival Kicks Off April 4  UHD News
  
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• ‘Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King’ Review: Coins and Misdemeanors

  30-03-2022 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  In this sensationalist Netflix documentary, aggrieved users of a defunct cryptocurrency exchange grow convinced that the company’s head absconded with their money.
  
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• Anna Netrebko Seeks Distance From Putin After Losing Work

  30-03-2022 21:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The superstar soprano, whose past support of the Russian president cost her many engagements after the invasion of Ukraine, said in a statement that she was not “allied with any leader of Russia.”
  
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• A Classic Novel Reappears, Just in Time to Narrate a Novel of Its Own

  30-03-2022 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Joseph Roth’s 1924 novel “Rebellion” turns up as the central voice in Hugo Hamilton’s new novel, “The Pages.”
  
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• A Famed L.A. Bookseller Is Donating His Encyclopedic Archive of Black Artists to Getty

  30-03-2022 20:23 via artnews.com
  
  The Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles has acquired the private collection of Lee Kaplan, a local bookseller who amassed a significant archive of eclectic published material and ephemera on Black artists.
  “Running the gamut from out-of-print catalogues published by long-defunct galleries to recent zines by Los Angeles artists, this significant acquisition presents a unique opportunity for the Library to collect deeply and broadly on Black visual culture from a rich variety of di
  
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• Whitney Museum Workers Stage Union Event During VIP Opening for 2022 Biennial

  30-03-2022 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  Workers at the Whitney Museum in New York handed out leaflets Tuesday night in below freezing temperature calling for support of their union as VIP guests arrived to an invite-only opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, the institution’s hallmark exhibition that occurs every two years.
  About three dozen Whitney workers and allied workers from other museums stood in front of the Whitney to call attention to seemingly stalled negotiations between the union and museum leadership.
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• ‘Julia’ Review: Mastering the Art of Playing Julia Child

  30-03-2022 19:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The celebrated British actress Sarah Lancashire follows in the footsteps of Dan Aykroyd and Meryl Streep in a biographical dramedy from HBO Max.
  
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• Ashton Hawkins, Manager of the Rich and Powerful at the Met Museum, Dies at 84

  30-03-2022 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A top executive, he cultivated donors, then used his legal acumen to arrange their multimillion-dollar gifts of money and art.
  
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• A Tiny Brontë Book, Lost for a Century, Resurfaces

  30-03-2022 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A miniature book made by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë, to go on sale next month for $1.25 million, contains what may be her last unknown poems.
  
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• Artist Award Roundup: Camille Turner Receives Toronto Biennial’s Artist Prize, Three Winners for Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards, and More

  30-03-2022 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  The Toronto Biennial of Art in Canada, which opened to the public over the weekend, has named the two artists who have won prizes for their contributions to this year’s exhibition. They are Camille Turner, who won the Artist Prize, and Aycoobo / Wilson Rodríguez, who won the Emerging Artist Prize. Each winner will receive CAD$10,000 ($8,000). In June, the Biennial will also award two new prizes: Audience Artist Prize and Programs Prize, both selected by online voting.
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• Some Deaf Viewers of ‘CODA’ Are Torn Over the Movie

  30-03-2022 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  They’re hesitant to criticize the Oscar-winning film because it showcases deaf actors and lives, but some find its hearing perspective frustrating or even upsetting.
  
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• How Film Forum Became the Best Little Movie House in New York

  30-03-2022 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  With its rigorous schedule of features and events, the theater has created a devoted community of cinephiles over the last five decades.
  
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• Bruce Willis to Step Away From Acting After Aphasia Diagnosis

  30-03-2022 19:41 via nytimes.com
  
  His ex-wife, Demi Moore, announced on Instagram that the actor has recently received the news.
  
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• Reprints and Reversals: Stephanie Syjuco at Ryan Lee

  30-03-2022 19:24 via artnews.com
  
  The centerpiece of “Latent Images,” Stephanie Syjuco’s recent exhibition at Ryan Lee in New York, was a 2021– work called Partial Anarchival Index (Working Platform). It comprises a modular configuration of low wooden tables, strewn with pictures printed on paper at a variety of scales and clustered into evidently methodical (if not immediately meaningful) groupings. Some of these images are sharp; others are pixelated beyond recognition. Many of them reproduce old photog
  
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• Review: A Tap-Dancing Soul in Spirit-World Limbo

  30-03-2022 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Once Upon a Time Called Now,” the tap dancer and musician Michela Marino Lerman tries something new: a theatrical narrative.
  
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• The Crypto Community Spent ‘NFT Weekend’ Awkwardly Mingling At A Swanky Long Island Hotel

  30-03-2022 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  Last weekend, at the Sound View Hotel in Greenport, on the North Fork of Long Island, a couple embraced passionately by the head of a table where a large dinner had been laid out. At first I was concerned–had something happened? Some bad news? And then I remembered that these were performers. All evening, two male dancers and one woman — the influencer and performer Violetta — draped themselves on the walls and chairs, and on each other, for a piece called Furniture Intimacy by
  
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• Representation or Stereotype? Deaf Viewers Are Torn Over ‘CODA’

  30-03-2022 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  They’re hesitant to criticize the Oscar-winning film because it showcases deaf actors and lives, but some find its hearing perspective frustrating or even upsetting.
  
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• A Mural Celebrating Tipu Sultan Sold at Auction. His Legacy Is Contested.

  30-03-2022 18:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The battle scene depicts a victory over British troops by an 18th-century Muslim, a man India’s current government would prefer was forgotten.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ‘Dissent Collar’ Donated to the Smithsonian

  30-03-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The collar and other gifts from her family coincide with a posthumous recognition for the Supreme Court justice, who is to receive the institution’s Great Americans Medal.
  
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• K-Pop Star Luna to Make Broadway Debut in ‘KPOP’ the Musical

  30-03-2022 17:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The show, which had an Off Broadway run in 2017, will begin previews this fall at Circle in the Square Theater.
  
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• For Grammy Nominee Rogét Chahayed, Pop Isn’t Far From Mozart

  30-03-2022 16:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Up for producer of the year, non-classical, on Sunday, a conservatory-trained collaborator focuses on “finding the simplicity, finding that golden chord progression.”
  
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• How Artist Marcia Resnick, Long Underknown, Pushed Photography to Its Conceptual Boundaries

  30-03-2022 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  For artist Marcia Resnick, a photograph is not a static thing—it’s an exchange, a performance, a selectively rendered reality. Her pictures tell a tightly choreographed story, revealing a worldview centered on exposing and poking fun at life’s absurdities. “The art I make is a reflection of what I want to see,” Resnick said in a recent interview. 
  Last month, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, opened a traveling survey of images made by Resn
  
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• When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill

  30-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Adrian Lyne used to make deranged romps animated by conservative masculine anxieties. By the time of “Deep Water,” his muse — the all-powerful white man — had lost his grip.
  
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• The Brilliance of Charo

  30-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The guitarist, singer, actress and comedian has long wrapped her prodigious talents in a glossy, over-the-top persona. Decades later, and still going strong, it’s time to take her seriously.
  
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• Carrboro resident appointed to President Biden's Advisory Committee on the Arts - The Daily Tar Heel

  30-03-2022 15:34 via dailytarheel.com
  Carrboro resident appointed to President Biden's Advisory Committee on the Arts  The Daily Tar Heel
  
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• ‘Told It Like It Was’: Ntozake Shange’s Tales of Black Womanhood

  30-03-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As ‘For Colored Girls’ returns to the New York stage, we look at how the show found its way from a Bay Area bar to Broadway in 1976.
  
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• Midtown Arts Center: A Quiet Surprise for for the Visual Arts Community - KLCC FM Public Radio

  30-03-2022 15:00 via klcc.org
  
  Midtown Arts Center: A Quiet Surprise for for the Visual Arts Community  KLCC FM Public Radio
  
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• Hollywood Star Gives Broadway a Much-Needed Boost. Sound Familiar?

  30-03-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A Broadway comeback is a box-office triumph: Parallels abound between two starry shows, more than 80 years apart.
  
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• The Whitney Biennial Arrives, Architect Christopher Alexander Dies at 85, and More: Morning Links for March 30, 2022

  30-03-2022 14:21 via artnews.com
  
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  THE BIG SHOW. After a pandemic-induced delay, the Whitney Biennial has arrived in New York, with work from 63 participants. Curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, it is a “tender, understated survey of the American art scene as it stands right now that also acts as a means of processing the grief of the last tw
  
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• Inaugural Arts Crawl at UW–Madison starts March 31 - School of Education - School of Education

  30-03-2022 13:18 via education.wisc.edu
  Inaugural Arts Crawl at UW–Madison starts March 31 - School of Education  School of Education
  
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• ‘Nitram’ Review: Slouching Toward Infamy

  30-03-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this unnerving drama based on a true crime, a lonely outsider reaches his breaking point.
  
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• A Mural Celebrating Tipu Sultan Is Up for Auction. His Legacy is Contested.

  30-03-2022 12:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The battle scene depicts a victory over British troops by an 18th-century Muslim, a man India’s current government would prefer was forgotten.
  
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• What to Know About Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’

  30-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, the new Marvel series follows a troubled, crime-fighting caped crusader. But don’t mistake him for Batman.
  
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• Ukraine’s Most Famous Living Composer Is Now a Refugee

  30-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As Russia’s war against Ukraine intensified, Valentin Silvestrov, 84, fled to Germany and has become a musical spokesman for his country.
  
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• Review: ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ by Emily St. John Mandel

  30-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Station Eleven,” she explored fallout from a pandemic. Now, in “Sea of Tranquility,” Mandel takes up existential questions of time and being.
  
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• Review: ‘Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power,’ by Faith Ringgold, Michele Wallace and Kirsten Weiss

  30-03-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A book of the artist’s work between 1967 and 1981 reveals her commitment to Black Power and Black feminism.
  
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