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• Kim’s Video Is Back. What Even Is a Video Store in 2022?

  31-03-2022 23:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Alamo Drafthouse bought the seminal New York chain’s collection in an effort to make rentals a draw for moviegoers. Can one disrupted business help another?
  
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• Broadway Returns To South Florida’s Largest Performing Arts Centers With Nod To Big Shows And Return To Normalcy - CBS Miami

  31-03-2022 23:59
  
  Broadway Returns To South Florida’s Largest Performing Arts Centers With Nod To Big Shows And Return To Normalcy  CBS Miami
  
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• Arts This Week: JMW Turner at the MFA, new lessons from the old master - GBH News

  31-03-2022 23:59
  
  Arts This Week: JMW Turner at the MFA, new lessons from the old master  GBH News
  
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• Alumni donate $32,000 to the theater arts scholarships fund for students - Serving the Fullerton Community Since 1922 | The Hornet - The Hornet

  31-03-2022 23:50
  Alumni donate $32,000 to the theater arts scholarships fund for students - Serving the Fullerton Community Since 1922 | The Hornet  The Hornet
  
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• Vocal Arts Conference, "Singing for Life" - Visit Fort Wayne

  31-03-2022 23:35
  
  Vocal Arts Conference, "Singing for Life"  Visit Fort Wayne
  
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• Innovation Arts & Entertainment to Acquire Food and Wine Festival - The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News

  31-03-2022 23:16
  Innovation Arts & Entertainment to Acquire Food and Wine Festival  The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News
  
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• FestiFools returns with even more fools and a new location | Arts & Culture - Arts & Culture

  31-03-2022 23:13
  FestiFools returns with even more fools and a new location | Arts & Culture  Arts & Culture
  
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• More Than a Dozen Antiquities Linked to Disgraced Dealer Seized from Ivy League School 

  31-03-2022 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  More than a dozen artifacts linked to infamous antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor were seized from an Ivy League school’s art gallery on Wednesday by Homeland Security. Twelve of the 13 artifacts were allegedly looted from India, and one item originated from Burma.
  The artifacts have been valued collectively at $1.29 million, according to officials. Authorities did not identify which school the pieces had been taken from.
  The goods were seized as part of a decade-long investigation into
  
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• A Marble Bust on Long-Term Loan to the Met Was Returned to Libya

  31-03-2022 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  Two marble busts looted from burial sites located in a Libyan coastal city were returned to the North African country on Wednesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced.
  For several decades, looters have pillaged burial grounds at Cyrene, which was once a prominent port city in ancient Greece. The region is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It has suffered from vandalism to its cultural landscape that took place primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  In a statement, Manhatta
  
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• Nancy Milford, Biographer of Zelda Fitzgerald, Dies at 84

  31-03-2022 22:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Her penetrating book about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s troubled wife was a best seller. So was her biography of another Jazz Age figure, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
  
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• Amanda Hunt, Star Hire at L.A.’s Lucas Museum, Departs for Walker Art Center

  31-03-2022 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  Amanda Hunt, a star of the L.A. scene, will leave her post at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a forthcoming institution founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hodson.
  She is set to depart as that museum’s director of public programs and creative practice after less than two years for the Walker Art Center, a Minneapolis museum that ranks among the country’s top contemporary art institutions. At the Walker, she will be head of public engagement, learning, and impact, a department
  
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• Arts & Draughts Returns + Columbia One Of The Worst Allergy Cities - Patch

  31-03-2022 21:38
  
  Arts & Draughts Returns + Columbia One Of The Worst Allergy Cities  Patch
  
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• Paul Herman, Mainstay of Gangster Movies, Dies at 76

  31-03-2022 21:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Over a four-decade career, he was perhaps best known for his role on “The Sopranos.” But he also had dozens of film credits, including “Goodfellas” and “The Irishman.”
  
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• A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light

  31-03-2022 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  After three years of soul-rattling history, this year’s survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art is reflective and adult-thinking. It opens to the public April 6.
  
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• How I Made This: Monika Grzymala’s Tape Drawings in Space

  31-03-2022 21:06 via artnews.com
  
  Monika Grzymala is an installation artist who uses adhesive tape to document her movements in a specific place while constructing new, ephemeral boundaries and spaces. This Polish artist, based in Berlin, applies kilometers of tape within a single room. Moving from the walls to the floor and back again, she draws out taut parallel and overlapping lines; twirls hanging, chandelier-like tangles; and weaves swirling vortexes. Grzymala coined the term Raumzeichnung (German for “room drawing&rd
  
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• ‘Morbius’ Review: Jared Leto Is the Other Bat, Man

  31-03-2022 21:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Jared Leto bares his teeth as a neo-vampire who walks by day and tries to keep his monstrous thirst at bay in the latest Marvel adaptation.
  
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• Arts International festival returns to FMU campus April 9 - SCNow

  31-03-2022 20:59
  
  Arts International festival returns to FMU campus April 9  SCNow
  
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• Stephen Merchant Is an Unsmooth Criminal in ‘The Outlaws’

  31-03-2022 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Merchant, a creator of the original “Office” and other series, recruited Christopher Walken for “The Outlaws,” his new Amazon show about community service.
  
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• Review: Dancing the Night Away With Brazil’s Cia Suave

  31-03-2022 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Alice Ripoll and 10 dancers from Rio de Janeiro combine youthful abandon with an exploration of social injustice in “Cria” at BAM Fisher.
  
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• ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man

  31-03-2022 20:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Jared Leto bares his teeth as a neo-vampire who walks by day and tries to keep his monstrous thirst at bay in the latest Marvel adaptation.
  
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• Ashton Hawkins, Art Lawyer Who Transformed the Met Museum, Dies at 84

  31-03-2022 20:39 via artnews.com
  
  Ashton Hawkins, who helped significantly bolster the reputations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and what is now the Dia Art Foundation through his behind-the-scenes involvement at both institutions, has died at 84. The New York Times, which first reported his passing, said he died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on Sunday in White Plains, New York.
  At the Met and Dia, Hawkins helped steer the course on projects that involved the ultra-wealthy and the socially elite
  
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• Duran Duran’s John Taylor Has Been Painting Obsessively Through the Pandemic

  31-03-2022 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  As cofounder of the iconic new wave band Duran Duran, British musician and songwriter John Taylor is no stranger to the spotlight. But this month, Taylor vaults onto a different artistic stage with his debut fine art exhibition “Not Broken, Unfinished.”
  Throughout the pandemic, Taylor mined family pictures, personal memories, and his earlier formal art education to produce a new body of work. The exhibition features seven of his paintings—ranging from the abstract to the figura
  
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• Montverde Academy partners with Electronic Arts to teach students about making games - Orlando Sentinel

  31-03-2022 20:25
  Montverde Academy partners with Electronic Arts to teach students about making games  Orlando Sentinel
  
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• Fort Drum chefs share passion for cooking with local culinary arts students - United States Army

  31-03-2022 20:23
  
  Fort Drum chefs share passion for cooking with local culinary arts students  United States Army
  
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• 50th Anniversary of Picasso’s Death Will Be Celebrated Next Year by France and Spain

  31-03-2022 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  With the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death next year, France and Spain will partner to organize an international exhibition dedicated to the artist’s legacy that will see shows staged across Europe and in the U.S. in 2023.
  Together, the two European nations have set up a commission of leaders in the cultural space to head the event, which has been dubbed “The Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration.”
  Heading the commission is Cécile Debray, the president of the Musé
  
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• ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure

  31-03-2022 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Gary Oldman stars as an MI5 has-been in a darkly comic thriller about the spies no one wants to talk about.
  
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• Diana Krall, the HSO and lots of comedy among the Courant's arts picks for week beginning April 3 - Hartford Courant

  31-03-2022 20:03
  Diana Krall, the HSO and lots of comedy among the Courant's arts picks for week beginning April 3  Hartford Courant
  
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• The African Artist-Writer Who Mapped New Worlds

  31-03-2022 19:59 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1948, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré had a vision that led him to invent a new writing system. The Museum of Modern Art explores his more than 1,000 drawings.
  
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• The Grammys, Always Unpredictable, Face New Surprises

  31-03-2022 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  The lead-up to the awards has involved controversy over a last-minute ballot change, Covid-19 cases, a nominee’s death and, of course, The Slap. But producers say the show will be ready.
  
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• Innovation Arts acquires two major Island festivals - Martha's Vineyard Times

  31-03-2022 19:43
  
  Innovation Arts acquires two major Island festivals  Martha's Vineyard Times
  
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• Arts and culture events happening this weekend in QCA - WHBF - OurQuadCities.com

  31-03-2022 19:37
  Arts and culture events happening this weekend in QCA  WHBF - OurQuadCities.com
  
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• San Diego Jewish Academy celebrates opening of new performing arts auditorium - Del Mar Times

  31-03-2022 19:11
  
  San Diego Jewish Academy celebrates opening of new performing arts auditorium  Del Mar Times
  
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• Review: In ‘I Agree to the Terms,’ It’s Raining Pennies From Amazon

  31-03-2022 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Builders Association explores the world of turkers, workers performing thousands of weird, low-paying tasks for an online giant.
  
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• ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ Review: OK, Boomer

  31-03-2022 18:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Richard Linklater’s new animated film tells the story of the moon landing with some tongue-in-cheek revisionism.
  
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• ‘The Contractor’ Review: The Pine Identity

  31-03-2022 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Chris Pine and Ben Foster team up to play mercenaries in a solid thriller about losing your faith and finding yourself in a violent reckoning.
  
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• Governor Hochul Announces $20 Million Investment in Capital Projects for Arts and Cultural Organizations - ny.gov

  31-03-2022 18:35
  
  Governor Hochul Announces $20 Million Investment in Capital Projects for Arts and Cultural Organizations  ny.gov
  
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• ‘Gagarine’ Review: Head in the Clouds

  31-03-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh re-envision the demolition of the housing project Cité Gagarine — an aspirational symbol of French communism — with a heavy dose of magical realism.
  
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• Arts Philanthropist Anne Bass’ $250 Million Collection Of Paintings And Statues Heads To Auction - Forbes

  31-03-2022 18:28
  
  Arts Philanthropist Anne Bass’ $250 Million Collection Of Paintings And Statues Heads To Auction  Forbes
  
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• Oceanic Arts Auction - KTLA Los Angeles

  31-03-2022 18:18
  Oceanic Arts Auction  KTLA Los Angeles
  
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• Dougherty Arts Center Replacement Design Update Community Meeting - AustinTexas.gov

  31-03-2022 18:11
  Dougherty Arts Center Replacement Design Update Community Meeting  AustinTexas.gov
  
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• Arts community remembers former 'Youtheatre' director, Broadway performer - WPTA 21

  31-03-2022 18:07
  
  Arts community remembers former 'Youtheatre' director, Broadway performer  WPTA 21
  
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• The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal

  31-03-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Haruki Murakami’s trilogy ’1Q84’ kept me spellbound for all of its 1,328 pages, which is unusual for me. Such an unrealistic story, yet so realistically told.”
  
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• Spring into the Ogden arts scene this Friday - Standard-Examiner

  31-03-2022 17:18
  
  Spring into the Ogden arts scene this Friday  Standard-Examiner
  
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• ‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His

  31-03-2022 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The British crime thriller plays out a meat-and-potatoes (or bangers-and-mash) revenge story with suitable menace and more than a dash of Grand Guignol.
  
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• Utah Museum of Fine Arts school programs manager awarded museum educator of the year - KSL.com

  31-03-2022 16:47
  
  Utah Museum of Fine Arts school programs manager awarded museum educator of the year  KSL.com
  
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• The youngest Met Opera Ambassador, Layla Felder, encourages accessibility in the arts – WABE - WABE 90.1 FM

  31-03-2022 16:47
  
  The youngest Met Opera Ambassador, Layla Felder, encourages accessibility in the arts – WABE  WABE 90.1 FM
  
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• In Sign of Booming Art Market, Top Advisory Firms Form Global Alliance

  31-03-2022 16:36 via artnews.com
  
  As the art market heats up ahead of the May auctions, two top advisory firms today announced a new global alliance.
  The Fine Art Group, the 20-year-old London-based investment and advisory firm, and Schwartzman&, a multifaceted advisory business started two years ago by veteran art adviser Allan Schwartzman, will work together on multiple aspects of their dealings.
  Fine Art Group founder Philip Hoffman, a former Christie’s executive, sees the relationship as one that will allow the two
  
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• Art galleries: Arts of Tolland to have artist reception for juried show Sunday - Journal Inquirer

  31-03-2022 16:30
  
  Art galleries: Arts of Tolland to have artist reception for juried show Sunday  Journal Inquirer
  
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• 12 New Books Coming in April

  31-03-2022 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Novels from Jennifer Egan and Emily St. John Mandel, poetry by Ocean Vuong and nonfiction from Elizabeth Alexander. Plus: Did jealousy conceal the true inventor of the motion picture?
  
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• Ties & Tiarias Enchanted Ball at Madison Arts Barn this weekend - CT Insider

  31-03-2022 16:27
  
  Ties & Tiarias Enchanted Ball at Madison Arts Barn this weekend  CT Insider
  
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