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• Jorge Drexler’s Music Connects Genres, Generations and Continents

  19-04-2022 23:55 via nytimes.com
  
  After three decades of making albums, the Academy Award-winning songwriter is still blending science and poetry, still reaching out to younger artists and still learning.
  
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• Get your child into the arts at Around The Curtain Children's Theatre - WAFF

  19-04-2022 23:46 via waff.com
  
  Get your child into the arts at Around The Curtain Children's Theatre  WAFF
  
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• April 21 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities - Vallejo Times-Herald

  19-04-2022 23:41 via timesheraldonline.com
  
  April 21 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Best of Santa Cruz County 2022: Arts & Culture | Good Times - Good Times

  19-04-2022 23:39 via goodtimes.sc
  
  Best of Santa Cruz County 2022: Arts & Culture | Good Times  Good Times
  
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• Brazilian blend of martial arts, dance brings community together in SLC - KSLTV

  19-04-2022 23:37 via ksltv.com
  
  Brazilian blend of martial arts, dance brings community together in SLC  KSLTV
  
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• ‘The Runaways,’ ‘Brigsby Bear’ and More Streaming Gems

  19-04-2022 23:30 via nytimes.com
  
  This month’s outside-the-box streaming recommendations include quirky comedies, an uncommonly rich music biopic and genre movies that are a cut above.
  
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• Downtown Odessa, Odessa Arts to host walking tour this Friday - KMID - Local 2 News

  19-04-2022 23:22 via yourbasin.com
  Downtown Odessa, Odessa Arts to host walking tour this Friday  KMID - Local 2 News
  
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• Biotech Entrepreneur Jonathan Lim Launches City Hill Arts; Unveils Slate Of Projects With Stampede Ventures & More - Deadline

  19-04-2022 23:21 via deadline.com
  
  Biotech Entrepreneur Jonathan Lim Launches City Hill Arts; Unveils Slate Of Projects With Stampede Ventures & More  Deadline
  
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• Kazakhstan’s Debut Pavilion at Venice Biennale Delayed Amid War in Ukraine

  19-04-2022 23:09 via artnews.com
  
  Plans to mount Kazakhstan’s first ever national pavilion as part of this year’s Venice Biennale have been delayed due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
  The exhibition was to mark the first time the Central Asian country and former Soviet Republic would independently participate in the Biennale. When it was first announced in February, the news was seen as a potential milestone for the country that has been investing more in its cultural agenda despite being afflicted by political unrest
  
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• Meet Stephen Kantrowitz: The New Senior Director of Cultural Arts at the JCC Has Been Busy — Detroit Jewish News - The Jewish News

  19-04-2022 23:00 via thejewishnews.com
  
  Meet Stephen Kantrowitz: The New Senior Director of Cultural Arts at the JCC Has Been Busy — Detroit Jewish News  The Jewish News
  
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• Sparking New Careers at Industrial Arts Institute in Onaway - 9 & 10 News - 9&10 News

  19-04-2022 22:50 via 9and10news.com
  
  Sparking New Careers at Industrial Arts Institute in Onaway - 9 & 10 News  9&10 News
  
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• Hoover painter wins best of show at Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival - Hoover Sun

  19-04-2022 22:42 via hooversun.com
  
  Hoover painter wins best of show at Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival  Hoover Sun
  
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• Carroll County Arts Council announces PEEPshow winners - Baltimore Sun

  19-04-2022 22:37 via baltimoresun.com
  Carroll County Arts Council announces PEEPshow winners  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Counterspace's Sumayya Vally named co-curator of inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale - The Architect's Newspaper

  19-04-2022 22:30 via archpaper.com
  
  Counterspace's Sumayya Vally named co-curator of inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Festival of the Arts on tap April 21 in Pequot Lakes - Pine and Lakes Echo Journal

  19-04-2022 22:04 via pineandlakes.com
  
  Festival of the Arts on tap April 21 in Pequot Lakes  Pine and Lakes Echo Journal
  
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• Idyllwild Arts Academy to Present Spring 2022 Showcase - Broadway World

  19-04-2022 21:48 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Idyllwild Arts Academy to Present Spring 2022 Showcase  Broadway World
  
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• Tour Cecilia Alemani’s Venice Biennale Exhibition, Coursing with Surrealist Energies and Abounding with Bodies

  19-04-2022 21:24 via artnews.com
  
  At last—Venice. For the first time since 2019, La Biennale is on view in the Most Serene Republic.
  Cecilia Alemani, the chief curator of High Line Art in New York, is at the helm of this, the 59th edition, and she has organized a central exhibition that is a feast of breathtaking proportions. Titled “The Milk of Dreams,” after a children’s book by the artist Leonora Carrington, it includes 213 artists across the show’s two traditional locations, the Central Pavilion
  
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• Art is Racist…According to the California Arts Council - California Globe

  19-04-2022 21:19 via californiaglobe.com
  
  Art is Racist…According to the California Arts Council  California Globe
  
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• WGI Sports of the Arts World Championships returns to Dayton this week - Dayton Daily News

  19-04-2022 21:10 via daytondailynews.com
  WGI Sports of the Arts World Championships returns to Dayton this week  Dayton Daily News
  
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• Thought-provoking new works of media art in exhibition by Digital Arts and New Media MFAs - University of California, Santa Cruz

  19-04-2022 21:03 via news.ucsc.edu
  
  Thought-provoking new works of media art in exhibition by Digital Arts and New Media MFAs  University of California, Santa Cruz
  
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• Thomas Piketty’s Radical Plan to Redistribute Wealth

  19-04-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Piketty’s “A Brief History of Equality” looks at centuries of economic improvement and suggests new reforms for modern societies.
  
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• Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films

  19-04-2022 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Returning to an in-person event, this year’s adventurous festival is filled with discoveries that use families to explore contemporary life.
  
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• Jackson Pollock Drip Painting Expected to Fetch $45 M. at Christie’s

  19-04-2022 20:49 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s has unveiled an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock featuring the postwar painter’s signature ‘drip’ style that will be auctioned next month. Number 31 (1949) will hit the block during an evening sale in New York on May 12 dedicated to art produced in the 20th century. It is expected to fetch a price in excess of $45 million and will be offered without a guarantee.
  Pollock completed the work, which stands at 31-by-22-inches, in 1949, during a formative time in
  
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• Alfie Allen Gets in the Zone with Gospel Music and Pineapples

  19-04-2022 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for portraying the luckless Theon Greyjoy on “Game of Thrones,” the British actor shares the items that are helping him prep for his Broadway debut.
  
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• Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival Shares Artist Lineup: Green Day, Post Malone, SZA and More - jambands.com

  19-04-2022 20:27 via jambands.com
  
  Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival Shares Artist Lineup: Green Day, Post Malone, SZA and More  jambands.com
  
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• An 11-year-old York County boy using martial arts to fight cancer - York Dispatch

  19-04-2022 20:20 via yorkdispatch.com
  An 11-year-old York County boy using martial arts to fight cancer  York Dispatch
  
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• The Museum of the American Revolution Receives $50 Million

  19-04-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The gift, from the estate of its founding chairman, H.F. Lenfest, will nearly double the Philadelphia museum’s endowment.
  
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• Get Ready for an Asian Food Block Party in Bishop Arts - D Magazine

  19-04-2022 20:04 via dmagazine.com
  
  Get Ready for an Asian Food Block Party in Bishop Arts  D Magazine
  
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• Zineb Sedira’s Joyous French Pavilion Emerges as an Early Favorite at the Venice Biennale

  19-04-2022 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  It’s still too soon to predict a winner for the Golden Lion for best national participation, one of the Venice Biennale’s top awards, but it was clear earlier today that the French Pavilion had attracted significant attention within the exhibition’s first hours.
  The pavilion is host to a new grouping of installations and a film by Zineb Sedira, who is the first artist of Algerian descent to represent the country. (Yasmina Reggad, along with the duo Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellra
  
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• Pratt's 2022 Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition Is on View in Brooklyn - Hyperallergic

  19-04-2022 20:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Pratt's 2022 Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition Is on View in Brooklyn  Hyperallergic
  
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• $20.2 million apartment, arts and tech hub planned for Bronzeville area - BizTimes Milwaukee

  19-04-2022 20:00 via biztimes.com
  
  $20.2 million apartment, arts and tech hub planned for Bronzeville area  BizTimes Milwaukee
  
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• Star-Studded Spring Arts + Ideas Line-up Announced at JCC Manhattan - iLovetheUpperWestSide.com - I Love the Upper West Side

  19-04-2022 19:50 via ilovetheupperwestside.com
  
  Star-Studded Spring Arts + Ideas Line-up Announced at JCC Manhattan - iLovetheUpperWestSide.com  I Love the Upper West Side
  
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• Cincinnati Arts Nonprofit FotoFocus Breaks Ground on Multi-Million-Dollar Exhibition Space in Over-the-Rhine - Cincinnati CityBeat

  19-04-2022 19:28 via citybeat.com
  
  Cincinnati Arts Nonprofit FotoFocus Breaks Ground on Multi-Million-Dollar Exhibition Space in Over-the-Rhine  Cincinnati CityBeat
  
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• Inside Simone Leigh’s Long-Awaited U.S. Pavilion, Where Black Women Take Center Stage

  19-04-2022 19:19 via artnews.com
  
  After two years of anticipation, Simone Leigh’s United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is finally here.
  The good news is that the pavilion, which is commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and curated by the institution’s chief curator Eva Respini, lives up to the hype. The bad news is that there are only a handful of works, though U.S. visitors have little to worry about, given that the ICA Boston is currently at work on a Leigh survey that will include an op
  
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• Purcellville Music and Arts Festival returns April 30 | Entertainment | loudountimes.com - Loudoun Times-Mirror

  19-04-2022 19:18 via loudountimes.com
  Purcellville Music and Arts Festival returns April 30 | Entertainment | loudountimes.com  Loudoun Times-Mirror
  
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• ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 2: Do the Hustle

  19-04-2022 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Gus and the cartel chase Nacho, Kim and Jimmy pursue Howard — and everyone is conning someone.
  
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• Inside ‘The Burnt City,’ Punchdrunk’s Take on the Fall of Troy

  19-04-2022 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Punchdrunk’s “The Burnt City” adds techno and sake to the story of the fall of Troy, but it brought in a scholar of classical theater to get the details right.
  
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• Hermann Nitsch, Boundary-Pushing Pioneer of Viennese Actionism, Has Died at 83

  19-04-2022 19:03 via artnews.com
  
  Hermann Nitsch, a pioneer of Austrian Actionism with a flair for the macabre, has died at 83. Nitsch’s wife, Rita, told the Austria Press Agency that he died in the Austrian town of Mistelbach after battling a serious illness. An exhibition of the artist’s landmark body of work, 20th painting action, comprising a series of red paint-splattered canvases, opened this week on the Venetian island Giudecca during the 59th Venice Biennale.
  In a statement, the Hermann Nitsch Foundation lame
  
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• Tate Modern And Other International Institutions Acquire Artworks from Souls Grown Deep Collection For The First Time

  19-04-2022 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership announced that Tate Modern in London, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Pinault Collection in Paris and Venice will acquire artworks from its collection. This marks the first time that works from the collection will be acquired internationally.
  The Souls Grown Deep Foundation holds the largest collection of artworks by Black artists from the Southern United States, boasting roughly 1,000 works by more than 160
  
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• Arts Calendar: April 21-30 - Portland Press Herald - Press Herald

  19-04-2022 18:58 via pressherald.com
  
  Arts Calendar: April 21-30 - Portland Press Herald  Press Herald
  
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• FACE fine arts scholarships available | Community | effinghamdailynews.com - Effingham Daily News

  19-04-2022 18:53 via effinghamdailynews.com
  FACE fine arts scholarships available | Community | effinghamdailynews.com  Effingham Daily News
  
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• Rachel Williams named dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at UNCSA - UNCSA - UNCSA

  19-04-2022 18:47 via uncsa.edu
  
  Rachel Williams named dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at UNCSA - UNCSA  UNCSA
  
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• An Opera Rarity Reclaims Its Spot in the Repertory

  19-04-2022 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Jaromir Weinberger’s “Schwanda the Bagpiper” has been given a persuasive new production by the Komische Oper in Berlin.
  
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• Jerrod Carmichael Wears the Truth in His HBO Comedy Special

  19-04-2022 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian’s latest HBO special, which explores family secrets and sexual orientation, is as much a therapy session as a stand-up show.
  
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• Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth

  19-04-2022 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian’s latest HBO special, which explores family secrets and sexual orientation, is as much a therapy session as a stand-up show.
  
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• ECC culinary arts students face off in contest to find creative ways to use Fisher Nuts in recipes - Chicago Tribune

  19-04-2022 18:25 via chicagotribune.com
  
  ECC culinary arts students face off in contest to find creative ways to use Fisher Nuts in recipes  Chicago Tribune
  
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• UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR CALIFORNIA "ARTS & MUSIC IN SCHOOLS" INITIATIVE USA - English - USA - PR Newswire

  19-04-2022 18:24 via prnewswire.com
  
  UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR CALIFORNIA "ARTS & MUSIC IN SCHOOLS" INITIATIVE USA - English - USA  PR Newswire
  
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• As One Alaskan Museum Closed, a Native Heritage Center Prospered

  19-04-2022 18:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Wells Fargo closed its museum in Anchorage and has given much of its collection of Native artifacts to another institution that focuses on the state’s Indigenous cultures.
  
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• A Fascinating—and Flawed—Marlene Dumas Survey Kicks Off Venice Festivities

  19-04-2022 18:13 via artnews.com
  
  Attention-grabbing gestures tend to garner the most buzz during the Venice Biennale, which is perhaps only natural when the world’s biggest art exhibition is your competition. Look no further than Anselm Kiefer’s room-filling paintings currently at the Palazzo Ducale or the Anish Kapoor survey coming to the Gallerie dell’Accademia show for proof. But there are benefits to thinking small, too, as the Palazzo Grassi’s elegant Marlene Dumas survey, “open-end,” cu
  
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• Girls Excel in Language Arts Early, Which May Explain the STEM Gender Gap in Adults - University of California San Diego

  19-04-2022 18:06 via ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
  
  Girls Excel in Language Arts Early, Which May Explain the STEM Gender Gap in Adults  University of California San Diego
  
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