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• Kutztown University Inducts Second Annual Class of Arts Hall of Fame - bctv.org

  26-04-2022 23:50
  Kutztown University Inducts Second Annual Class of Arts Hall of Fame  bctv.org
  
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• Arizona Arts Center Meets Rapid Deadline with Hundreds of Thousands in Savings - American City & County

  26-04-2022 23:10
  
  Arizona Arts Center Meets Rapid Deadline with Hundreds of Thousands in Savings  American City & County
  
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• SA YES provides books, arts and crafts, and more to local kids through Little Locker program - KSAT San Antonio

  26-04-2022 23:04
  
  SA YES provides books, arts and crafts, and more to local kids through Little Locker program  KSAT San Antonio
  
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• Arts Extravaganza was a lot to brag about - Walterboro Live

  26-04-2022 23:00
  
  Arts Extravaganza was a lot to brag about  Walterboro Live
  
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• 'A Song for Cesar' highlights the role of music, arts in supporting the farmworkers' movement - Mountain View Voice

  26-04-2022 22:57
  
  'A Song for Cesar' highlights the role of music, arts in supporting the farmworkers' movement  Mountain View Voice
  
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• Diego Rivera Work Seized from Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska

  26-04-2022 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  Amid an ongoing investigation, authorities have uncovered an artwork by Diego Rivera along with other luxury items at a residence belonging to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who was sanctioned in 2018.
  Bloomberg first reported the news on Monday, saying that U.S. authorities have alleged that Deripaska is evading the country’s sanctions. He is said to be a target of an international task force established last month to go after wealthy Russians with ties to Russian President Vladi
  
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• April 28 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something To Celebrate - Vallejo Times-Herald

  26-04-2022 22:28
  
  April 28 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something To Celebrate  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Six Visual Artists Win This Year’s Coveted Rome Prize, Including Tony Cokes and Elle Pérez

  26-04-2022 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  The American Academy in Rome announced the winners of 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships today.
  The visual artists awarded this year are Tony Cokes, Todd Gray, Ester Partegàs, Elle Pérez, Ioana M. Uricaru, and Bradford M. Young. The visual arts prize for an Italian fellow, the Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts, was awarded to Alice Visentin.
  The prestigious Rome Prize is awarded to about 30 American scholars and artists every year, rangi
  
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• With ‘Roar,’ the Creators of ‘GLOW’ Got Extra Personal. And Weird.

  26-04-2022 21:47 via nytimes.com
  
  A surreal new series by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch tells eight separate tales about women, including one who is mansplained to by an aggressive duck.
  
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• Hélio Oiticica’s Major Central Park Installation Will Be Realized 51 Years Later at Queens’s Socrates Sculpture Park

  26-04-2022 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  When he arrived in New York in the early 1970s, the late Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica dreamed of creating a large-scale outdoor public installation for the city. Situated outside a traditional arts institution, the work was meant to challenge what art could be by creating a space that would actively engage the public by inviting them to participate.
  Oiticica, who died at 42 in 1980, was never able to realize this work, titled Subterranean Tropicália Projects (1971), the red-tape
  
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• OZ Arts Nashville Announces Innovative Local Artists Featured in Inaugural Brave New Works Lab - Broadway World

  26-04-2022 21:34
  
  OZ Arts Nashville Announces Innovative Local Artists Featured in Inaugural Brave New Works Lab  Broadway World
  
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• New exhibit takes Urban Arts Space visitors 'Behind the White Coat' - Columbus Alive

  26-04-2022 20:58
  New exhibit takes Urban Arts Space visitors 'Behind the White Coat'  Columbus Alive
  
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• Arts Council Presents 'Controlled Burn and Brush Works' - The Pilot

  26-04-2022 20:55
  Arts Council Presents 'Controlled Burn and Brush Works'  The Pilot
  
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• The first Baton Rouge Fiber Arts and Makers Festival launches this weekend - [225] - 225 Baton Rouge

  26-04-2022 20:42
  
  The first Baton Rouge Fiber Arts and Makers Festival launches this weekend - [225]  225 Baton Rouge
  
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• Spain’s Hotel Arts Barcelona Is A Mecca For Art, Culture And Gastronomy. Here’s Why - Forbes

  26-04-2022 20:41
  
  Spain’s Hotel Arts Barcelona Is A Mecca For Art, Culture And Gastronomy. Here’s Why  Forbes
  
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• Liberal Arts course prepares students for the job market - Pennsylvania State University

  26-04-2022 20:37
  
  Liberal Arts course prepares students for the job market  Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Donald Baechler, Painter of Cartoonish Collages, Is Dead at 65

  26-04-2022 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  His works, depicting crudely-drawn images of balloon-like faces, beach balls, flowers, globes or ice cream cones, brought him fame in New York in the 1980s.
  
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• Energized for efficiency: Headwaters Music and Arts holds planting, painting Earth Day event - The Bemidji Pioneer

  26-04-2022 19:57
  
  Energized for efficiency: Headwaters Music and Arts holds planting, painting Earth Day event  The Bemidji Pioneer
  
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• East Texas Giving Day: Young Audiences aiming to provide arts-in-education experiences for students - KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com

  26-04-2022 19:36
  East Texas Giving Day: Young Audiences aiming to provide arts-in-education experiences for students  KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com
  
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• Sasha Waltz’s ‘In C’ Marries Choreography and Improvisation

  26-04-2022 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Waltz’s dance, born in deep lockdown, embraces the openness and fluidity of Terry Riley’s classic minimalist score. It’s coming to BAM.
  
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• Director of the Prestigious Courtauld Institute Deborah Swallow Retires

  26-04-2022 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  Curator and educator Deborah Swallow will be stepping down from her position as the Märit Rausing director of The Courtauld Institute of Art in London after 18 years, the Institute announced in a statement.
  “It has been a huge honour to serve The Courtauld as the Märit Rausing Director and to play a part in shaping this unique organisation’s development,” Swallow said in the statement. “I have been challenged, inspired and energised by my Courtauld colleagues, b
  
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• Dispatch Has Rereleased ‘The General’ in Russian to Support Ukraine

  26-04-2022 18:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The band members Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan said they hope that Russian soldiers will hear the antiwar song and discontinue their invasion.
  
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• Mountains and Glue: “Assembly Required” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

  26-04-2022 18:33 via artnews.com
  
  A WORK TO BE STEPPED ON, announces an index card placed on the floor of the gallery. The label is positioned next to a scrap of canvas, inviting visitors to traverse the tattered fabric. Yoko Ono’s Painting to be Stepped On (1960/61) is one of many works in the Pulitzer Arts Foundation exhibition “Assembly Required” that ask viewers to participate in some manner. Spanning more than six decades, the works are connected not by historical moment or geographic context but by a broa
  
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• Mountains and Glue: “Assembly Required” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation - ARTnews

  26-04-2022 18:33
  
  Mountains and Glue: “Assembly Required” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation  ARTnews
  
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• Cross Contamination

  26-04-2022 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  Max Liboiron
  Maru García
  Pollution is a means by which colonialism is enacted. So argues artist-cum-geographer Max Liboiron in their influential 2021 book Pollution Is Colonialism, a manifesto that also details the author’s work running an anticolonial science lab at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) investigates plastic pollution while experimenting with decolonial approaches to science and seeking to model new relat
  
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• Northeast Louisiana Arts Council's BLEND combines art, food and wine in Sunday fundraiser - The News Star

  26-04-2022 18:19
  Northeast Louisiana Arts Council's BLEND combines art, food and wine in Sunday fundraiser  The News Star
  
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• Fairfield Arts Fair makes in-person comeback with a Superheroes theme - The Cincinnati Enquirer

  26-04-2022 18:18
  Fairfield Arts Fair makes in-person comeback with a Superheroes theme  The Cincinnati Enquirer
  
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• Essential Books: 7 Enlightening Histories of Dada

  26-04-2022 18:15 via artnews.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission.The comedian Groucho Marx once said, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member,” as apt a summary of Dada (which took its name from the French for “hobbyhorse”) as any. Tristan Tzara, the movement’s cofounder, put it somewhat differently in his Dada Manifesto. “The true dadas are against DADA,” he wrote.
  
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• 'Ferdinand' mural to be celebrated on Arts Appreciation Day - NewsWest9.com

  26-04-2022 18:09
  
  'Ferdinand' mural to be celebrated on Arts Appreciation Day  NewsWest9.com
  
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• No One Is Saying Who Gave The Bruce Museum Its ‘Unprecedented’ $50 M.+ Gift — But There Are Signs

  26-04-2022 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  The Bruce Museum, a Greenwich institution that holds exhibitions related to the arts and sciences, has received a collection of 70 works of art amassed by a local anonymous couple, making it the largest art donation ever to the museum in its 112-year history.
  Figures in the area familiar with the Greenwich cultural scene are remaining quiet about the identity of the local donor. Despite calls to nearly 20 Greenwich and New York insiders by ARTnews, no one is revealing the name. However, clear si
  
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• Baltimore School For The Arts Remains A Magnet For Young Talent - CBS Baltimore

  26-04-2022 17:37
  
  Baltimore School For The Arts Remains A Magnet For Young Talent  CBS Baltimore
  
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• JVS + Kadima's Frame of Mind Benefit and Arts Showcase Features More Than 20 Artists — Detroit Jewish News - The Jewish News

  26-04-2022 17:00
  
  JVS + Kadima's Frame of Mind Benefit and Arts Showcase Features More Than 20 Artists — Detroit Jewish News  The Jewish News
  
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• Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2022-23 Season

  26-04-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The presenter is planning a return to full-scale programming for its 2022-23 season. Our critics and writers chose 15 highlights.
  
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• What ‘Severance’ Is Made of: ‘Being John Malkovich’ and a Sizzler Steakhouse

  26-04-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The creator of the sci-fi thriller drew on Kurt Vonnegut, “Black Mirror” and a ’90s restaurant commercial to build the show’s disquieting sets and nightmare logic.
  
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• Building three new homes for Black arts and culture in Fort Worth - KERA News

  26-04-2022 16:00
  
  Building three new homes for Black arts and culture in Fort Worth  KERA News
  
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• Theater Notebook: San Diego Rep unveils lineup for 29th annual Jewish arts festival - Del Mar Times

  26-04-2022 15:03
  
  Theater Notebook: San Diego Rep unveils lineup for 29th annual Jewish arts festival  Del Mar Times
  
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• Arts All-Star: Chloe O'Shea - WWNY

  26-04-2022 14:42
  
  Arts All-Star: Chloe O'Shea  WWNY
  
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• Red Eye Theater starts over at 'a new little pocket for arts' in south Minneapolis - Star Tribune

  26-04-2022 14:04
  
  Red Eye Theater starts over at 'a new little pocket for arts' in south Minneapolis  Star Tribune
  
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• Bath Savings sponsors new website, brand identity for Arts & Cultural Alliance of Freeport - Press Herald

  26-04-2022 14:01
  
  Bath Savings sponsors new website, brand identity for Arts & Cultural Alliance of Freeport  Press Herald
  
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• Record $25 M. Gift for Florida Museum, Turkish Arts Patron Gets Life in Prison, and More: Morning Links for April 26, 2022

  26-04-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
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  IT IS RAINING IN THE SUNSHINE STATE. The Tampa Museum of Art in Florida has received $25 million for its planned expansion from Dick Corbett, who runs the Concorde Companies real-estate investment firm, the Tampa Bay Times reports. The museum termed it the largest private donation ever made to a public mu
  
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• Basel’s June Art Fair Announces 18 Galleries Participating in 2022 Edition

  26-04-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The June Art Fair has announced the 18 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming edition in Basel, Switzerland, which will run June 13 to June 19 in an underground bunker designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
  Among the galleries lined up to participate are New York’s Foxy Production, Tokyo’s Misako & Rosen, Amsterdam’s Ellen de Bruijne Projects, and The Green Gallery  of Milwaukee. First-time exhibitors include New York’s Downs & Ross, Arcade of London a
  
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• ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ Will Be Sold at Auction

  26-04-2022 12:46 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s a smaller version of the giant painting at the Met in New York, and it hung in the White House for years. Christie’s thinks it could sell for at least $15 million next month.
  
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• Six Artists Balance Creativity and Motherhood. Results Vary.

  26-04-2022 11:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In Julie Phillips’s group portrait, Alice Neel, Doris Lessing, Ursula Le Guin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker and Angela Carter take on making art while parenting.
  
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• University of the Arts raises $67 million in its first capital campaign. Here’s how it’ll be used. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  26-04-2022 11:04
  
  University of the Arts raises $67 million in its first capital campaign. Here’s how it’ll be used.  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• What’s a Six-Letter Word for Fanatical Devotion to Solving Things?

  26-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Puzzler,” A.J. Jacobs takes on some of the hardest-to-crack games with equal parts tenacity and curiosity.
  
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• Side by Side With (Bernie) Sanders

  26-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ari Rabin-Havt’s “The Fighting Soul” provides a rare close-up of Bernie Sanders.
  
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• ‘Omniscient Yet Impotent’: 4 Books About Ghosts That Linger

  26-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From a mysterious suicide to P.T.S.D. to a folkloric antihero: Four new novels explore different kinds of haunting.
  
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• Looking to the Past, an Artist Finds a Soul Mate in Gwen John

  26-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Celia Paul’s “Letters to Gwen John” is a conversation between two artists — one living, one dead — about creativity, loss and the long shadows of famous men.
  
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• In Squad We Trust: When a Church Committee Yields Unexpected Discovery

  26-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  One year, eight members, many meetings. The setup for Michelle Huneven’s new novel, “Search,” sounds like a reality show, and it’s equally entertaining.
  
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• How Does One Find Meaning and Love in a World Full of Ills?

  26-04-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Zachary Lazar’s new novel, “The Apartment on Calle Uruguay,” examines the ambiguous relationships we have with harsh political realities.
  
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