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• Widline Cadet Explores How Images Echo Across Time and Space

  12-05-2022 23:48 via artnews.com
  
  Widline Cadet remembers playing soccer and catching birds that flocked to a backyard grapefruit tree in her birthplace, Haiti. But she migrated to the United States in 2002, at the age of ten, and hasn’t been back to Haiti since 2016. Many of her childhood memories have slipped away, and she now speaks more English than Creole, her first language. Cadet made her first body of work, the photo series “Home Bodies,” when she received a fellowship to travel back to Haiti just after
  
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• Arts grants will add some color to Washington and Loogootee - Washington Times Herald

  12-05-2022 23:30
  Arts grants will add some color to Washington and Loogootee  Washington Times Herald
  
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• One Work: Bob Thompson’s “The Carriage”

  12-05-2022 23:21 via artnews.com
  
  Bob Thompson’s vibrant scenes resonate with an unplaceable familiarity, recalling canonical Western paintings but with more dreamlike and largely inscrutable narratives. Monsters, featureless figures, jazz musicians, and processions of animals replace religious figures; references to contemporary events infiltrate mythological tales; bold, flat planes of color abstract realistic classical compositions. Under Thompson’s hand, a Fra Angelico composition of a beheading becomes the scene
  
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• Joanna Barnes, Actress in ‘The Parent Trap’ and Its Remake, Dies at 87

  12-05-2022 23:20 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1961, she played a vixenish fortune hunter. In 1998, she played the character’s mother. In between, she kept busy on TV and also wrote novels.
  
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• Get your groove on in downtown Coeur d'Alene with several arts-based happenings this Friday the 13th - Inlander

  12-05-2022 23:11
  
  Get your groove on in downtown Coeur d'Alene with several arts-based happenings this Friday the 13th  Inlander
  
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• The Spell ‘Doctor Strange’ Is Missing: Sam Raimi’s Macabre Vision

  12-05-2022 23:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The auteur put his mark on the new film in a few spots, but his “Spider-Man” movies prove that superhero tales needn’t be so visually bland.
  
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• Womanhood, music and culture at SCENE, a small arts fest in Delray Beach - WLRN

  12-05-2022 23:00
  
  Womanhood, music and culture at SCENE, a small arts fest in Delray Beach  WLRN
  
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• Artists Are Putting Their Stamp on Lincoln Center

  12-05-2022 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Public Art Fund, works by Nina Chanel Abney and Jacolby Satterwhite will help reintroduce Geffen Hall this fall.
  
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• Pace Gallery Suing Over a Fake $2 M. Seurat Bought from a Seller Claiming to Be the Artist’s “Distant Cousin”

  12-05-2022 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  Pace Gallery is suing over a fake Georges Seurat drawing purchased for $2 million from a man purporting to be the descendant of the famed Pointillist, according to a lawsuit filed this week. The news was first reported by the Daily Beast.
  The lawsuit was filed in the New York Supreme Court on May 10. With “willful malice and abuse and intent to damage,” the lawsuit alleges, Jean-Pierre Seurat and his associates provided Pace with “false, misleading, and irrelevant” docume
  
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• Pace Gallery is Suing Over a Fake $2 M. Seurat Bought From a Seller Claiming to Be the Artist’s “Distant Cousin”

  12-05-2022 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  Pace Gallery is suing over a fake Georges Seurat drawing purchased for $2 million from a man purporting to be the descendant of the famed Pointillist, according to a lawsuit filed this week. The news was first reported by the Daily Beast.
  The lawsuit was filed in the New York Supreme Court on May 10. With “willful malice and abuse and intent to damage,” the lawsuit alleges, Jean-Pierre Seurat and his associates provided Pace with “false, misleading, and irreverent” docume
  
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• Painter Michael Armitage Tapped to Design £1 Coin Reflecting ‘Rich Tapestry of Modern Britain’

  12-05-2022 22:33 via artnews.com
  
  Michael Armitage, a painter whose work has been seen widely in Europe over the past few years, will design a new £1 coin, an edition of which will be released next year to mark the currency’s 40th anniversary.
  U.K. chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the news at a reception on Tuesday evening held to mark the opening of the Royal College of Art’s revamped campus. He said that Armitage’s forthcoming design for the new coin “will symbolize the rich tapestry of modern Bri
  
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• Raising Money Towards a Dream to Interlochen Arts Academy - 9 & 10 News - 9&10 News

  12-05-2022 22:22
  
  Raising Money Towards a Dream to Interlochen Arts Academy - 9 & 10 News  9&10 News
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: A big weekend at Bread and Salt, Charlene Mosley, free opera and more - KPBS

  12-05-2022 22:13
  
  San Diego weekend arts events: A big weekend at Bread and Salt, Charlene Mosley, free opera and more  KPBS
  
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• Keanu Reeves Will Be Your Mirror

  12-05-2022 22:12 via nytimes.com
  
  No matter the role, the actor is reflecting your desires of what you want him to be.
  
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• HHSC Hosts Mental Health Creative Arts Contest Virtual Reception | Texas Health and Human Services - Texas Health and Human Services |

  12-05-2022 21:37
  HHSC Hosts Mental Health Creative Arts Contest Virtual Reception | Texas Health and Human Services  Texas Health and Human Services |
  
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• Governor Hochul Announces Completion of $32 Million Housing and Arts-Related Development in Ithaca - ny.gov

  12-05-2022 21:20
  
  Governor Hochul Announces Completion of $32 Million Housing and Arts-Related Development in Ithaca  ny.gov
  
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• Breckenridge Creative Arts' music lineup includes Béla Fleck, Graham Nash and more - Summit Daily

  12-05-2022 21:16
  
  Breckenridge Creative Arts' music lineup includes Béla Fleck, Graham Nash and more  Summit Daily
  
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• Deana Lawson Wins One of the World’s Top Photography Prizes for Work That ‘Reframes the Black Experience’

  12-05-2022 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Deana Lawson, a photographer whose work is currently the subject of a traveling survey in the U.S., has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
  Though it only comes with £30,000 (about $36,600), the award is considered to be among the most important ones devoted to photography. It has previously been won by artists such as Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, Juergen Teller, Cao Fei, and Andreas Gursky.
  Lawson is best known for her portraits of Black men and women who are often pos
  
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• Naomi Judd Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound, Her Daughter Says

  12-05-2022 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Judd’s youngest daughter, the actress Ashley Judd, said in a television interview on Thursday that her mother was suffering from mental illness when she died last month.
  
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• Local Arts Organizations in Perfect "Harmony" - Palm Beach

  12-05-2022 20:29
  
  Local Arts Organizations in Perfect "Harmony"  Palm Beach
  
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• While Building a House, They Dug Up a Chamber for Ancient Gods

  12-05-2022 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The discovery in Turkey led to a looting charge against the homebuilders and captured a time when the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the region’s dominant power.
  
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• ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again

  12-05-2022 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  HBO’s new adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi romance comes from a “Sherlock” creator and “Doctor Who” mainstay.
  
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• ‘Our Father’ Review: A Doctor’s God Complex Revealed

  12-05-2022 20:22 via nytimes.com
  
  A new documentary tells the story of siblings who unite to bring to justice the fertility specialist who impregnated their mothers with his sperm without consent.
  
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• Indiana Communities Institute Study: Arts and Culture Important to Economic, Community Planning - Ball State University News

  12-05-2022 20:15
  
  Indiana Communities Institute Study: Arts and Culture Important to Economic, Community Planning  Ball State University News
  
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• Parsons School of Design Presents the MFA Fine Arts Class of 2022 Thesis Exhibition - Hyperallergic

  12-05-2022 20:04
  
  Parsons School of Design Presents the MFA Fine Arts Class of 2022 Thesis Exhibition  Hyperallergic
  
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• A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’

  12-05-2022 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Target Margin Theater stages an enchanting riff on “One Thousand and One Nights” inside an old Brooklyn garage. Tea and pastries included, blankets welcome.
  
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• Mahmood and Blanco’s Eurovision Song Shows Italy’s L.G.B.T.Q. Progress

  12-05-2022 19:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The love song, and its video showing the artist Mahmood embracing another man, has been well received in a nation with a spotty history on L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
  
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• Italy’s Eurovision Entry Signals L.G.B.T.Q. Progress

  12-05-2022 19:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The love song, and its video showing the artist Mahmood embracing another man, has been well received in a nation with a spotty history on L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
  
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• Photos: Sold out crowd supports LSCPA arts programs - Beaumont Enterprise

  12-05-2022 19:12
  
  Photos: Sold out crowd supports LSCPA arts programs  Beaumont Enterprise
  
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• Thousands of Prehistoric Hunting Pits Unearthed Beneath Stonehenge

  12-05-2022 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of pits below Stonehenge that are believed to have been used by prehistoric hunters.
  Some of the pits are over 10,000 years old. One was 13 feet wide and 6.5 feet deep, making it the largest of its kind in northwest Europe, University of Birmingham and Ghent University researchers said.
  The entire site dates from between 8200 BCE and 7800 BCE, revealing some of the earliest activity of hunter-gatherers around Stonehenge in the pit from the Mesolithic perio
  
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• Bruce MacVittie, Ubiquitous Character Actor, Dies at 65

  12-05-2022 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  A co-founder of the Naked Angels troupe in New York, he was a familiar face in Off Broadway theater, in movies and on TV, often playing tough guys with tormented souls.
  
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• Arts Council Of Anne Arundel County Presents Paint The Town - Severna Park Voice

  12-05-2022 18:34
  
  Arts Council Of Anne Arundel County Presents Paint The Town  Severna Park Voice
  
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• Kent Kleinman appointed Brown Arts Institute faculty director - The Brown Daily Herald

  12-05-2022 18:23
  Kent Kleinman appointed Brown Arts Institute faculty director  The Brown Daily Herald
  
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• Suzi Gablik, Well-Connected Critic Who Asked Tough Questions, Dies at 87

  12-05-2022 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  Suzi Gablik, an art critic and artist whose polarizing work dealt with the end of modernism and the growth of a newer, more spiritual style, died of a long illness at 87 at her home in Blacksburg, Virginia.
  Deborah Solomon, an art critic for the New York Times and a close friend of Gablik, confirmed Gablik’s death in an email.
  “Suzi had a great talent for admiration, and many artists benefitted from her moral support,” Solomon wrote. “She asked little in return, other tha
  
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• Nineteen Carson High School seniors awarded Fine Arts Diploma Endorsements - Carson Now

  12-05-2022 18:10
  
  Nineteen Carson High School seniors awarded Fine Arts Diploma Endorsements  Carson Now
  
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• ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter

  12-05-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Bella Cherry (psst, it’s not her real name) has come to Los Angeles looking for success. What happens next is a surprisingly complex take on the porn industry.
  
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• Ford, Mellon Foundations Name 2022 Winners of $50,000 Latinx Artist Fellowships, Including Amalia Mesa-Bains, Las Nietas de Nonó

  12-05-2022 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Last year, the Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation, two of the country’s largest philanthropic funders in the arts, joined forces to establish the Latinx Artist Fellowship, which will support the work of 75 Latinx artists at various stages in their careers over a five-year period.
  Now, the foundations have announced the second cohort of artists who will each receive a $50,000 unrestricted grant to support their careers. Administered by the US Latinx Art Forum, each 15-person cohort is co
  
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• ‘On the Count of Three’ Review: Friends to the End

  12-05-2022 17:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Jerrod Carmichael’s directing debut is a buddy comedy about a suicide pact.
  
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• How Jessie Sima’s 8th Grade Sketches Led to a Career

  12-05-2022 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Sometimes a horse is just a horse. For this writer and illustrator, equine drawings were the path to an artistic future.
  
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• A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife

  12-05-2022 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Shows in Hartford and New York spotlight great works by Milton Avery from every decade, and those of Sally Michel, who helped shape her husband’s art.
  
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• OMA Unveils Designs for New Detroit Arts Centre - HYPEBEAST

  12-05-2022 16:49
  
  OMA Unveils Designs for New Detroit Arts Centre  HYPEBEAST
  
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• ‘Kamikaze Hearts’ Review: Truth or Fiction

  12-05-2022 16:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Juliet Bashore’s porn-world quasi documentary is a delirious and distressing portrait of two women’s tempestuous relationship.
  
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• ‘Il Buco’ Review: Notes From Underground

  12-05-2022 16:11 via nytimes.com
  
  A 1961 Italian spelunking expedition is the subject of Michelangelo Frammartino’s contemplative new film.
  
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• Pittsburgh summer festivals: Join the crowd for music, arts, food trucks and more - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  12-05-2022 16:00
  
  Pittsburgh summer festivals: Join the crowd for music, arts, food trucks and more  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due

  12-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With a new production of Anthony Davis’s pathbreaking Malcolm X opera opening in Detroit, we are on the cusp of a broader reappraisal of his work.
  
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• Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown to Headline Saturday at the Lowertown Arts & Music Festival in Paducah - WKMS

  12-05-2022 15:56
  
  Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown to Headline Saturday at the Lowertown Arts & Music Festival in Paducah  WKMS
  
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• Professor Kathleen Mulligan (Theatre Arts) Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant to India - Ithaca College

  12-05-2022 15:36
  Professor Kathleen Mulligan (Theatre Arts) Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant to India  Ithaca College
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel on Senate’s Blocking of Abortion Access Protection Bill: ‘Stupefying’

  12-05-2022 15:28 via nytimes.com
  
  “Chuck Schumer said he called for the vote so we would know where Republicans stand. Turns out, they’re standing in the year 1865,” Kimmel said.
  
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• DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art

  12-05-2022 15:18 via nytimes.com
  
  On the occasion of his inspiring solo debut at the Wellin Museum, he talks about Black labor, migration — and the family he recently discovered.
  
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• Your weekend arts forecast: Wanda Sykes, Second Saturday ArtWalk - St Pete Catalyst

  12-05-2022 15:09
  
  Your weekend arts forecast: Wanda Sykes, Second Saturday ArtWalk  St Pete Catalyst
  
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