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• Creative Arts Festival Coming To Monmouth County - Patch

  02-05-2022 23:43
  
  Creative Arts Festival Coming To Monmouth County  Patch
  
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• The arts keep us going: Give to the Puget Sound creative community through ArtsFund - The Seattle Times

  02-05-2022 23:22
  
  The arts keep us going: Give to the Puget Sound creative community through ArtsFund  The Seattle Times
  
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• Depp’s $22.5 Million ‘Pirates’ Deal Collapsed After Op-Ed, Manager Testifies

  02-05-2022 23:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Depp’s talent manager said the actor had been up to play Captain Jack Sparrow again until his ex-wife, Amber Heard, wrote an op-ed saying she was a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
  
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• Rubén Blades (finally!) receives Harvard Arts Medal - Harvard Gazette

  02-05-2022 23:08
  
  Rubén Blades (finally!) receives Harvard Arts Medal  Harvard Gazette
  
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• Arts bloom again – Southside Pride - Southside Pride

  02-05-2022 23:07
  Arts bloom again – Southside Pride  Southside Pride
  
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• The Arts Scene: Exhibit of Yakima Valley artist Laura Wise on the move - Yakima Herald-Republic

  02-05-2022 23:00
  
  The Arts Scene: Exhibit of Yakima Valley artist Laura Wise on the move  Yakima Herald-Republic
  
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• Summer Arts Camps: France Edition at ARS Arts And Culture Center - Moody on the Market

  02-05-2022 23:00
  
  Summer Arts Camps: France Edition at ARS Arts And Culture Center  Moody on the Market
  
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• Contemporary Arts Center Honors Local High School Artists - WYDaily

  02-05-2022 23:00
  
  Contemporary Arts Center Honors Local High School Artists  WYDaily
  
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• East Texas martial arts school fundraising for U.S. Open Tournament - KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com

  02-05-2022 22:59
  East Texas martial arts school fundraising for U.S. Open Tournament  KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com
  
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• Philadelphia School of Circus Arts Launches Outdoor Flying Trapeze Lessons - Broadway World

  02-05-2022 22:58
  
  Philadelphia School of Circus Arts Launches Outdoor Flying Trapeze Lessons  Broadway World
  
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• Carnegie Hall & DOP's NeON Arts In-Person Workshops to Resume in Spring 2022 - Broadway World

  02-05-2022 22:58
  
  Carnegie Hall & DOP's NeON Arts In-Person Workshops to Resume in Spring 2022  Broadway World
  
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• Open For Business: Misterio Mezcal Opens in the Arts District - LasVegasNevada.Gov (.gov)

  02-05-2022 22:57
  
  Open For Business: Misterio Mezcal Opens in the Arts District  LasVegasNevada.Gov (.gov)
  
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• Disquiet in the Abstract: The 2022 Whitney Biennial

  02-05-2022 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  The most significant aspect of this year’s Whitney Biennial is its exhibition design. For the first time since 2016, the museum’s fifth floor has been restored to its Renzo Piano-designed primordial state, forgoing walls in favor of a field of fragmented, Tetris-like half-walls arranged in no discernible order or pattern, bookended by city and Hudson River views. The sixth floor, by contrast, is a funereal warren of black walls and black carpet: a “dark video hallway,” as
  
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• Artist Award Roundup: National Portrait Gallery Picks Outwin Boochever Winner, Forge Project Names 2022 Fellows, and More

  02-05-2022 22:45 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. has named the winner of its sixth Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which is held every three years. Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor won for her 2020 painting Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning, which depicts Brooklyn-based hair stylist Anthony Payne giving a woman a haircut under the bridge overpass in front of an ornate mirror. Taylor came across Payne as he was giving outdoor donation-bas
  
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• 17th Annual Saluda Arts Festival to be held May 21 - The Tryon Daily Bulletin - Tryon Daily Bulletin

  02-05-2022 22:40
  
  17th Annual Saluda Arts Festival to be held May 21 - The Tryon Daily Bulletin  Tryon Daily Bulletin
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in May

  02-05-2022 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Here are the most promising new and returning titles for U.S. subscribers this month, including a new season of “Stranger Things.”
  
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• Elon College, the College of Arts & Sciences honors distinguished alumni - Today at Elon

  02-05-2022 22:25
  
  Elon College, the College of Arts & Sciences honors distinguished alumni  Today at Elon
  
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• Arts At Erlanger Now Accepting Submissions For “All Abroad” Call-Out - The Chattanoogan

  02-05-2022 22:19
  Arts At Erlanger Now Accepting Submissions For “All Abroad” Call-Out  The Chattanoogan
  
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• Book Review: ‘Companion Piece,’ by Ali Smith

  02-05-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ali Smith’s new novel, “Companion Piece,” is set in a pandemic-ravaged, post-Brexit Britain, with a perplexing choice at its center.
  
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• Shop Mother’s Day gifts at local arts market Saturday - BRProud.com

  02-05-2022 21:58
  Shop Mother’s Day gifts at local arts market Saturday  BRProud.com
  
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• Graduating fine arts seniors present 'Common Differences' exhibit - Mississippi State Newsroom

  02-05-2022 21:58
  
  Graduating fine arts seniors present 'Common Differences' exhibit  Mississippi State Newsroom
  
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• British Tourist Accused of Smuggling Artifacts from Archaeological Site in Iraq Faces Death Penalty

  02-05-2022 21:55 via artnews.com
  
  A British tourist could face the death penalty in Iraq after being accused of smuggling artifacts out of the country.
  Jim Fitton, a former geologist, collected stone fragments and shards of broken pottery as souvenirs during an archaeological tour of Eridu, an ancient Sumerian city in southern Iraq. He was arrested at the airport on March 20 after the baggage belonging to the tour group was searched. A German tourist who was also part of the tour was apprehended at the airport.
  Under Iraqi law,
  
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• Beach Dunes Eats & Arts Café in Queens Provides Affordable Food - The New York Times

  02-05-2022 21:50
  
  Beach Dunes Eats & Arts Café in Queens Provides Affordable Food  The New York Times
  
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• State-of-the Arts in central Pennsylvania - witf.org

  02-05-2022 21:21
  
  State-of-the Arts in central Pennsylvania  witf.org
  
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• Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative Panel Explores Black Identity in the Arts - Sarasota

  02-05-2022 21:20
  
  Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative Panel Explores Black Identity in the Arts  Sarasota
  
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• Lamar State College Port Arthur students leading way at 2022 Fine Arts Festival, see the details - Port Arthur News - The Port Arthur News

  02-05-2022 20:54
  
  Lamar State College Port Arthur students leading way at 2022 Fine Arts Festival, see the details - Port Arthur News  The Port Arthur News
  
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• Bored Ape Yacht Club Founders Launched a Metaverse NFT Project Many Consider The ‘Biggest Mint in History’

  02-05-2022 20:43 via artnews.com
  
  Yuga Labs, the parent company of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project, launched a new metaverse project Saturday called Otherside. For the project, the company sold 55,000 plots of digital land for the total equivalent of $320 million, making it possibly the largest mint of an NFT project to date.
  Otherside is a metaverse gaming platform in which users’ NFTs could be playable characters. Otherside deeds could only be bought with ApeCoin, a token YugaLabs recently released that runs on the
  
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• In Bid to Boost Peacock, Universal Will Send 3 Movies Straight to Streaming

  02-05-2022 20:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The move is not only an attempt to attract subscribers but an acknowledgment that releasing some films theatrically has become more of a gamble.
  
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• In Bid to Boost Peacock, Universal Is Sending 3 Movies Straight to Streaming

  02-05-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The move is not only an attempt to attract subscribers but an acknowledgment that releasing some films theatrically has become more of a gamble.
  
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• MFA Boston to Return Marble Head Looted During World War II to Italy

  02-05-2022 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  An ancient marble sculpture depicting a Roman politician will soon return home to Italy from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On Monday, the museum announced an agreement with the Italian government to return the artifact, which is believed to have been looted during the second world war.
  The sculpture, which dates back to the 3rd or 4th century CE, depicts the head of Roman emperor Maximianus Herculius. It was unearthed in 1931 during an archeological excavation in Minturno, Italy, and was subs
  
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• Pusha T Earns First No. 1 Album With ‘It’s Almost Dry’

  02-05-2022 19:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper, 44, tops the Billboard chart this week, more than 20 years into a workmanlike career.
  
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• French Sculptor Files Lawsuit in Paris to Be Credited for Making Some of Maurizio Cattelan’s Most Famous Works

  02-05-2022 19:51 via artnews.com
  
  Maurizio Cattelan’s sculptures have made headlines worldwide for their controversial subjects and their attention-grabbing gestures. Now, they have become the subject of scrutiny in France for a new reason: their authorship, which is at the heart of a lawsuit that is headed to a Paris court next week.
  In that suit, the French sculptor Daniel Druet claims that he is the creator of nine works credited to Cattelan, including the famed 2001 sculpture Him, which features a penitent Adolf Hitler
  
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• What Is a ‘Nepotism Baby’?

  02-05-2022 19:49 via nytimes.com
  
  Gen Zers have turned a term of derision into one of admiration. That doesn’t mean they’re not jealous, though.
  
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• ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste

  02-05-2022 19:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Rax King can allude to Updike and Odysseus, but in these essays she is far more concerned with Creed, Snooki and the Cheesecake Factory.
  
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• A Ballerina Harnesses Her Wild Imagination to Choreography

  02-05-2022 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  “There are no rules,” says Janie Taylor, a former City Ballet principal, whose dances are featured in the L.A. Dance Project’s Joyce Theater season.
  
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• Ron Galella, Celebrity-Hounding Photographer, Dies at 91

  02-05-2022 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  He personified the paparazzi — brazen and relentless in chasing the famous, particularly Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But his pictures also came to be admired.
  
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• Monday Arts Roundup: Jazz in the Garden Returns - WCP - Washington City Paper

  02-05-2022 19:16
  
  Monday Arts Roundup: Jazz in the Garden Returns - WCP  Washington City Paper
  
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• Notre Dame Launches Business, Liberal Arts Program – Inside INdiana Business - Inside INdiana Business

  02-05-2022 19:09
  Notre Dame Launches Business, Liberal Arts Program – Inside INdiana Business  Inside INdiana Business
  
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• Arts-centric Long Beach mayoral forum this Saturday - Long Beach Press Telegram

  02-05-2022 19:04
  
  Arts-centric Long Beach mayoral forum this Saturday  Long Beach Press Telegram
  
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• Mellon Foundation, Centro de Economía Creativa Announce $8 M. Artist Employment Program for Puerto Rico

  02-05-2022 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Mellon Foundation in New York has partnered with the Centro de Economía Creativa in San Juan to establish Maniobra, a three-year, $8 million cultural employment initiative that aims to “facilitate stable employment opportunities for artists while strengthening the administrative bandwidth of community-based cultural organizations across Puerto Rico,” according to a release.
  Maniobra will provide 25 cultural organizations in 12 cities across Puerto Rico the funds to hire at
  
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• Interim director heads studio that integrates arts, culture, design to create inclusive communities - ASU News Now

  02-05-2022 19:00
  
  Interim director heads studio that integrates arts, culture, design to create inclusive communities  ASU News Now
  
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• Russian Forces Looted More Than 2,000 Artworks from Mariupol’s Museums, City Council Says

  02-05-2022 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  Russian troops have looted more 2,000 artworks from museums in the devastated Ukrainian port city Mariupol, according to local officials.
  The Washington Post shared Telegram messages from the Mariupol City Council detailing how Russian forces systematically plundered three local museums, including the Kuindzhi Art Museum, since the invasion began in February. The collection has reportedly been transported to Donetsk, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine’s separatist region backed by Russi
  
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• Umbrella Arts Festival highlights Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander communities in Evanston - Chicago Tribune

  02-05-2022 18:49
  
  Umbrella Arts Festival highlights Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander communities in Evanston  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Federal Hill Prep + Francis Scott Key 'Scramble for the Arts Golf Outing' on June 13th - SouthBMore.com

  02-05-2022 18:43
  
  Federal Hill Prep + Francis Scott Key 'Scramble for the Arts Golf Outing' on June 13th  SouthBMore.com
  
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• NW MN Arts Council names artists, advocate of the year - Crookston Daily Times

  02-05-2022 18:40
  
  NW MN Arts Council names artists, advocate of the year  Crookston Daily Times
  
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• The Vatican Will Create a NFT Gallery to ‘Democratize Art’

  02-05-2022 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  The Vatican will debut a NFT gallery so that audiences around the world can view the art, manuscripts, and other objects held in its collection.
  The project is a collaboration between Sensorium, a VR company, and Humanity 2.0, a Vatican-led nonprofit that is working toward “human flourishing,” according to its website.
  Humanity 2.0 is chaired by Father Philip Larrey, a unique presence in the Holy See. Father Larrey is the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran Univ
  
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• In Print: New Talent

  02-05-2022 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  Each May, Art in America brings our readers a sampling of “new talent,” with a special focus on artists whose practice makes them stand out in a sea of competitors vying for attention. “Practice” is very much the operative word here: at a time when many artists are becoming known more for their social-media presence than for their creative endeavors, and when careers are bolstered more by the market than by critical attention, the editors, critics, and curators who contri
  
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• A New Netflix Game Show Reflects Our Post-Truth Times

  02-05-2022 18:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Netflix introduces a post-truth game show, for an era when seeming right sometimes trumps being right.
  
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• Wendell Pierce to Star in ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway

  02-05-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The production, also starring Sharon D Clarke and featuring André De Shields, will arrive some time next season.
  
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• Local arts groups receive nearly $100K in funding from Dane County - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

  02-05-2022 17:12
  
  Local arts groups receive nearly $100K in funding from Dane County  Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3
  
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