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• The Best Modeling Clay for Animating, Mold Making, and More

  12-04-2022 23:30 via artnews.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission.A versatile medium for artists of all ages, modeling clay is easy to shape with your hands and does not need to be fired to create a permanent form. The clay softens up in response to body heat, and most types can be reworked endlessly as the medium won’t harden, even after months—and if it’s being finicky, just add some water. Modeling clay i
  
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• Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian With a Distinctive Voice, Dies at 67

  12-04-2022 22:27 via nytimes.com
  
  His credits ranged from the family-friendly “Aladdin” to the unfettered vulgarity of “The Aristocrats” and included a brief stint on “Saturday Night Live.”
  
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• ‘Macbeth’ Plans to Restart Broadway Performances on Tuesday

  12-04-2022 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The plans come as new coronavirus cases rise in New York City, though the average number of new cases remains far lower than during the winter Omicron peak.
  
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• MCA San Diego’s $105M Expansion Is An Odd, But Often Stunning Attempt To Create A ‘More Inclusive’ Museum

  12-04-2022 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  After a four-year wait and a $105 million expansion, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s reopening is a study in the changing shape of institutions. 
  Overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the seaside neighborhood of La Jolla, the newly renovated complex is essentially two different buildings joined at the hip. 
  On the right, you’ll find a composite of white-stuccoed boxes, punctuated by curved windows that riff on the surrounding buildings’ Mediterranean-inspired ar
  
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• MCA San Diego’s $105 M. Expansion Is An Odd, But Often Stunning Attempt To Create A ‘More Inclusive’ Museum

  12-04-2022 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  After a four-year wait and a $105 million expansion, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s reopening is a study in the changing shape of institutions. 
  Overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the seaside neighborhood of La Jolla, the newly renovated complex is essentially two different buildings joined at the hip. 
  On the right, you’ll find a composite of white-stuccoed boxes, punctuated by curved windows that riff on the surrounding buildings’ Mediterranean-inspired ar
  
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• Actors in ‘Waitress’ Tour Seek to Join Labor Union

  12-04-2022 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Employees of a nonunion production are seeking improved compensation and safety protocols, saying a union version of the same musical pays better.
  
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• Amy Sherald Puts $1 M. Toward Student Grants Programs in Breonna Taylor’s Name

  12-04-2022 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Amy Sherald has given $1 million to the University of Louisville to establish two grant programs in Taylor’s name.
  The funds came from the sale of her ethereal portrait of Breonna Taylor, which first graced the cover of Vanity Fair. The painting was jointly acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and is now on view at the former institution.
  “Nothing can take
  
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• Amy Sherald Puts $1 M. Toward Student Grant Programs in Breonna Taylor’s Name

  12-04-2022 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Amy Sherald has given $1 million to the University of Louisville to establish two grant programs in Breonna Taylor’s name.
  The funds came from the sale of her ethereal portrait of Taylor, which first graced the cover of Vanity Fair. The painting was jointly acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and is now on view at the former institution.
  “Nothing can take
  
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• United Arts dishes out more cash to local organizations - Bungalower

  12-04-2022 19:38 via bungalower.com
  
  United Arts dishes out more cash to local organizations  Bungalower
  
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• Doomed duck and arts cuts among themes of young cartoonists of year - The Guardian

  12-04-2022 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Doomed duck and arts cuts among themes of young cartoonists of year  The Guardian
  
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• Arts and Culture District goes back to the drawing board - KPCW

  12-04-2022 19:15 via kpcw.org
  
  Arts and Culture District goes back to the drawing board  KPCW
  
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• Fire Breather: Gary Indiana’s New Essay Collection

  12-04-2022 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  Contempt and outright misanthropy are unusual poses for a successful art critic and essayist. Sure, there are the grumpy types, the great moralizers, the defenders of Culture’s fortress, the scolds. But someone who makes no bones about hating most people and things? It would seem to get old quickly. That is, unless contempt were elevated into its own art form—a whole field of expressive possibility with identifiable sub-moods, subtleties, and techniques, such that contempt was not re
  
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• Derricks Adams Receives $1.25 M. Grant to Develop Archive Devoted to Black Culture in Baltimore

  12-04-2022 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Derrick Adams has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York to develop an archive that aims to document the activities of Black artists and creatives in Baltimore.
  The archive aims to catalogue records and materials related to the work of past and current Baltimore-area creatives, as well as other figures spanning science and sports.
  In a statement, Adams, a Baltimore native who is now based in Brooklyn, said the Black Baltimore Digital Database (
  
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• French Authorities Seize Oligarch’s Painting Before It Leaves for Russia

  12-04-2022 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  A work displayed in the blockbuster “Morozov Collection” exhibition will remain in France, and authorities have their eyes on another painting in the show.
  
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• A Surprising Global Dance Showcase, Deep in the Heart of Texas

  12-04-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Dance Salad, an annual festival in Houston, is the brainchild of Nancy Henderek, whose hands-on involvement even extends to editing some of the works.
  
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• Book Review: “Supertall,” by Stefan Al

  12-04-2022 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Stefan Al’s “Supertall” is a thoughtful inquiry into the new generation of skyscrapers, which are taller and more ubiquitous than their predecessors.
  
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• Guan Xiao, Artist With an Eye On Our Hyper-Online Lives, Joins David Kordansky Gallery

  12-04-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of the opening of its first outpost in New York, the Los Angeles–based David Kordansky Gallery is eyeing an expansion of its presence in Asia.Beijing-based multimedia artist Guan Xiao is now represented by the Los Angeles stalwart, joining a roster that includes Derek Fordjour, Huma Bhabha, and Lauren Halsey. Guan, who will have a solo show at Kordansky’s New York outpost in 2023, will continue to be represented by Antenna Space in Asia and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in German
  
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• Miami's venerable Oolite Arts unveils Barozzi Veiga–designed new home - The Architect's Newspaper

  12-04-2022 16:45 via archpaper.com
  
  Miami's venerable Oolite Arts unveils Barozzi Veiga–designed new home  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets

  12-04-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor is back on Broadway for a revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo.” He discusses his other must-haves, like a chef’s knife, trampolines and crystals.
  
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• Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Take Action to Support Federal Arts Funding - AFL-CIO

  12-04-2022 15:30 via aflcio.org
  Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Take Action to Support Federal Arts Funding  AFL-CIO
  
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• Beeple to Appear in First Museum Show, Detroit Readies Massive Van Gogh Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for April 12, 2022

  12-04-2022 14:40 via artnews.com
  
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  THE GATES OPEN. Beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist who stunned denizens of the old-school art world last year when he sold an NFT for a cool $69 million at Christie’s, is about to display his work in a museum for the first time. In the Wall Street Journal, Kelly Crow has the scoop that his v
  
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• Turner Prize Names Four Nominees for 2022 Edition, Including One Whitney Biennial Artist

  12-04-2022 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  The Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious and often controversial artist award, has revealed the four nominees for this year’s edition. Among them is one participant in the current Whitney Biennial in New York.
  Dedicated to artists based in the U.K., the Turner Prize has regularly generated controversy because its nominees and winners tend to produce hyper-conceptual art. This year’s four nominees are Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, and Sin Wai
  
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• Armory Show Will Expand for Its 2022 Fair as Art World Returns to In-Person Events

  12-04-2022 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  For its 2022 edition this September, the Armory Show, one of the country’s top art fairs, will expand, adding dozens of more exhibitors as many members of the art world return to their pre-pandemic ways.
  At this year’s edition, the second to take place at the Javits Center in New York’s Hudson Yards, the Armory Show will feature more than 240 exhibitors from around the world. By contrast, last year, only 157 galleries participated.
  While that number puts the Armory Show on the
  
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• Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future

  12-04-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An eclectic array of musicians will gather in New York to celebrate the pianist’s legacy. Five collaborators and admirers discuss his experiments, artistry and generosity.
  
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• ‘Glitch Feminism’ Author And Curator Legacy Russell Declares ‘A Feminist Emergency’ at New York Benefit

  12-04-2022 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Legacy Russell, a curator, author, and one of the art world’s leading voices, delivered an urgent message during a speech last week, calling the present moment across the cultural sector “a feminist emergency.”
  Speaking at the annual benefit luncheon and awards ceremony for ArtTable, a New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to women working in the visual arts, Russell was there to deliver a keynote speech considering the future of feminism and the arts. The event was
  
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• Black Artists Lead Turner Prize Shortlist

  12-04-2022 12:48 via nytimes.com
  
  This year’s nominees include a sculptor, a photographer and an artist who created a 31-foot statue of a dollop of whipped cream, with a fly on it.
  
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• Two Strangers Meet in a Cafe in Cairo. What Happens Next Is Complicated.

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English,” Noor Naga explores the forces of identity, belonging and globalism, as they bear down on two new lovers.
  
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• The Appalling Treatment of a Prisoner at Guantánamo

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Forever Prisoner,” by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, tells the story of a man who has been held captive by the C.I.A. for 20 years.
  
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• She’s a 12-Year-Old Girl and Also a Spirit That Can See Into Her Family’s Past

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her debut novel, “Things They Lost,” Okwiri Oduor uses magical realism to explore toxic mother-daughter relationships.
  
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• Sadeq Hedayat, Iran’s Misunderstood Literary Modernist

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Blind Owl,” by Sadeq Hedayat, is a hallucinatory short novel that upends Persian artistic traditions.
  
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• On TV, the Truth Hurts

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Television is hooked on scripted dramas based on real life. But they rarely measure up either to actual life or to actual drama.
  
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• Margo Jefferson’s New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jefferson’s “Constructing a Nervous System,” a companion to her earlier “Negroland,” explores the materials used to make identity and art.
  
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• Everything We Wanted to Know About David Shields (and Already Asked)

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His new book is composed entirely of questions posed in interviews over his long career.
  
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• Delia Ephron’s Memoir Could Be Called ‘Love, Loss and Love Again’

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Left on Tenth,” the veteran author looks back on a series of life-altering events, including a whirlwind romance at the age of 72.
  
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• A Nurse Finds Herself on the Other Side of the Equation — as a Patient

  12-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her memoir, “Healing,” Theresa Brown recalls what she learned from her own treatment for breast cancer.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Laughs Off Trump’s Shilling for Dr. Oz

  12-04-2022 09:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Come on, he’s a con man. And so is Dr. Oz,” Colbert joked of the former president.
  
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• College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2022 student marshals - Pennsylvania State University

  12-04-2022 09:00 via psu.edu
  
  College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2022 student marshals  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Chicago's Fine Arts Building, Still a Haven for Creatives, Undergoes Updates - WTTW News

  12-04-2022 04:05 via news.wttw.com
  
  Chicago's Fine Arts Building, Still a Haven for Creatives, Undergoes Updates  WTTW News
  
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• Review: ‘The Little Prince,’ a Lumbering Circus

  12-04-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A stage version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic of children’s literature lands on Broadway but remains stubbornly earthbound.
  
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• The Boston Symphony cancels its European tour over virus concerns.

  12-04-2022 00:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The orchestra has also reported a surge in cases among its players.
  
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• Boston Symphony Cancels European Tour Over Virus Concerns

  12-04-2022 00:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The orchestra has also reported a surge in cases among its players.
  
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• Patricia MacLachlan, ‘Sarah, Plain and Tall’ Author, Dies at 84

  12-04-2022 00:27 via nytimes.com
  
  A best-selling children’s book writer, she focused on family life and its difficulties, earning acclaim for her gentle, sparse prose.
  
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• Ukraine Benefit Featuring Russian Ensemble Is Canceled in Vienna

  12-04-2022 00:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Organizers said they canceled a performance by MusicAeterna after the Ukrainian ambassador in Austria expressed concern about featuring Russian artists.
  
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• Saeed Jones and Times Editors Discuss Books About Home

  12-04-2022 00:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The writer Saeed Jones will join Times editors to discuss their personal favorites, and they want to hear from you.
  
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