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• Colin Cantwell, ‘Star Wars’ Spacecraft Designer, Dies at 90

  24-05-2022 23:54 via nytimes.com
  
  He created the look of the X-wing and the Death Star; he also worked on “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “WarGames.”
  
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• Applications open for license tag fund to support arts - Selma Sun

  24-05-2022 23:44
  
  Applications open for license tag fund to support arts  Selma Sun
  
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• Tourism and Hospitality Power Player Mara Manus, NYS Council on the Arts - Politics NY

  24-05-2022 23:43
  
  Tourism and Hospitality Power Player Mara Manus, NYS Council on the Arts  Politics NY
  
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• ‘Since I Been Down’ Review: Crime and Punishment

  24-05-2022 23:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The inmates in this documentary offer reasons for rethinking the harsh sentencing of young people in Washington State.
  
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• High school students use fine arts to answer what matters to them - Desert Sun

  24-05-2022 23:35
  High school students use fine arts to answer what matters to them  Desert Sun
  
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• Allegany-Limestone's spring Arts Fest returns after 2 years - Olean Times Herald

  24-05-2022 23:29
  Allegany-Limestone's spring Arts Fest returns after 2 years  Olean Times Herald
  
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• 'Minglings' exhibit celebrates Chinese culture at the Flint Institute of Arts - Flintside

  24-05-2022 23:10
  
  'Minglings' exhibit celebrates Chinese culture at the Flint Institute of Arts  Flintside
  
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• Arts Mid-Hudson Announces Grants - Highlands Current

  24-05-2022 23:07
  
  Arts Mid-Hudson Announces Grants  Highlands Current
  
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• 15 Works to Know by Photographer Gordon Parks, Who Chronicled African American Life

  24-05-2022 23:05 via artnews.com
  
  To call Gordon Parks (1912–2006) a Renaissance man would be a massive understatement.
  A photographer, filmmaker, writer, musician/composer, and painter, Parks enjoyed an extraordinary career that landed him everywhere from Hollywood to the front lines for the battle over Civil Rights.
  Parks was a freelancer for Glamour and Ebony before becoming the first black staff photographer at Life magazine in 1948; later, he shot fashion spreads for Vogue. He was also the first African American to he
  
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• Motown Strutters at River City Festival of the Arts - WV News

  24-05-2022 23:00
  Motown Strutters at River City Festival of the Arts  WV News
  
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• West Haven Art Crawl to promote arts, artists in a casual atmosphere - New Haven Register

  24-05-2022 22:57
  
  West Haven Art Crawl to promote arts, artists in a casual atmosphere  New Haven Register
  
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• Removed Organs Star in Doctor-Turned-Artist’s Bizarre New York Show

  24-05-2022 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  Imagine that you wake from surgery, and your doctor hands you a portrait of the gallbladder that was just removed from you. In the photograph, your gallbladder is about to be eaten by a pelican, stacked on tomatoes. It’s a gift, made out to you in swirling calligraphy.
  Hundreds of people in the town of St. Marie, Pennsylvania, had something close to this experience. K. C. Joseph, an Indian American surgeon, spent 15 years making surreal art with his patients’ organs, and now, a selec
  
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• May 26 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities - Vallejo Times-Herald

  24-05-2022 22:42
  
  May 26 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities  Vallejo Times-Herald
  
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• Hard Truths: Can an Unsung Surrealist Rise from the Dead?

  24-05-2022 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  I’m not particularly involved with art and am writing at the suggestion of my sister’s lover. My great-grandfather made his living as a bookbinder in New York, but he was also a talented painter in the Surrealist vein. He had a few solo exhibitions and was in many group shows, including one at the Julien Levy Gallery, which specialized in Surrealist art. I’ve been told that he met André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, on a few occasions and had a correspondence with a
  
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• Smithfield Arts Festival debuts - Smithfield Times - Smithfield Times

  24-05-2022 22:21
  
  Smithfield Arts Festival debuts - Smithfield Times  Smithfield Times
  
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• Fine Arts Fair held at Gualala Arts Memorial Day Weekend - Ukiah Daily Journal

  24-05-2022 22:21
  
  Fine Arts Fair held at Gualala Arts Memorial Day Weekend  Ukiah Daily Journal
  
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• Arts Center honors Karen Willis with Vereen Award - Moultrie Observer

  24-05-2022 22:15
  
  Arts Center honors Karen Willis with Vereen Award  Moultrie Observer
  
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• Is It Time to Throw Out the Term ‘Muse’? Not Just Yet, a Provocative New Book Says

  24-05-2022 22:10 via artnews.com
  
  During the early 20th century, the Milanese heiress Marchesa Luisa Casati dyed her hair a bold shade of red, dropped Belladonna into her eyes to widen her pupils, and exuded a devil-may-care charm, bewitching anyone who came into her orbit. Artists Man Ray, Giacomo Balla, and Kees van Dongen were among the famed modernists who came under her spell. But it was a woman artist, the painter Romaine Brooks, who painted what may just be Casati’s most provocative portrait.
  Brooks’s Portrait
  
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• Glen Rocks Arts & Brew Fest to return - ABC27

  24-05-2022 22:01
  Glen Rocks Arts & Brew Fest to return  ABC27
  
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• Letter: Without Post-Dispatch, the arts won't be reviewed - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  24-05-2022 22:00
  
  Letter: Without Post-Dispatch, the arts won't be reviewed  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  
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• Weeding and Seeding Histories: Walid Raad at Paula Cooper

  24-05-2022 21:58 via artnews.com
  
  In an imagined account of Lebanese historians flocking to Beirut’s hippodrome to gamble on horse racing during the civil war, Walid Raad’s recurring, alter-egoic academic character Dr. Fadl Fakhouri annotates several images of horses at the finish line, recording “the race’s distance and duration, the winning time of the winning horse, calculations of averages, the historians’ initials with their respective bets, [and] the time discrepancy predicted by the winn
  
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• Community Care Physicians, CDPHP Break Ground on New Headquarters and Medical Arts Complex - CDPHP

  24-05-2022 21:36
  Community Care Physicians, CDPHP Break Ground on New Headquarters and Medical Arts Complex  CDPHP
  
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• This NFT Project Offers ‘Digital Restitution’ for Looted African Art

  24-05-2022 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  What if you didn’t have to wait for European and American museums to repatriate African artifacts? Mulling this question, Chidi Nwaubani, the founder of NFT project Looty, decided to take matters into his own hands with his project Looty, which bills itself as a “digital restitution project.”
  “Our ‘Looters’ [anonymous team members] go to the museums (physically) and take back the artworks (digitally),” a description on its website reads. To do so, the pe
  
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• Mississippi School of the Arts earns Arts Schools Network Exemplary School designation - YallPolitics

  24-05-2022 21:18
  
  Mississippi School of the Arts earns Arts Schools Network Exemplary School designation  YallPolitics
  
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• CPS Replacing 'Cornerstone' Arts Program, Upsetting Some Educators and Students - WTTW News

  24-05-2022 21:15
  
  CPS Replacing 'Cornerstone' Arts Program, Upsetting Some Educators and Students  WTTW News
  
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• University of the Arts president David Yager to step down - Philadelphia Business Journal - The Business Journals

  24-05-2022 21:06
  University of the Arts president David Yager to step down - Philadelphia Business Journal  The Business Journals
  
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• Hugh Jackman Is Having Fun Playing as ‘Arrogant as You Possibly Can’

  24-05-2022 20:47 via nytimes.com
  
  “There’s something about this show that buoys me up with an energy that I didn’t think I had,” the Tony nominee said of “The Music Man.”
  
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• Across The Block - Antiques and the Arts Online

  24-05-2022 20:44
  
  Across The Block  Antiques and the Arts Online
  
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• The Day - Norwich Arts Center celebrates 35 years - News from southeastern Connecticut - theday.com

  24-05-2022 20:30
  
  The Day - Norwich Arts Center celebrates 35 years - News from southeastern Connecticut  theday.com
  
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• Washington Classical Review » Blog Archive » Choral Arts presents unwieldy yet powerful “African American Requiem” - Washington Classical Review

  24-05-2022 20:15
  Washington Classical Review » Blog Archive » Choral Arts presents unwieldy yet powerful “African American Requiem”  Washington Classical Review
  
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• JANM Debuts Miné Okubo Collection on Google Arts & Culture - The Rafu Shimpo

  24-05-2022 20:03
  
  JANM Debuts Miné Okubo Collection on Google Arts & Culture  The Rafu Shimpo
  
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• Interlochen Arts Academy Choirs premiere new arrangement at Festival - Interlochen

  24-05-2022 20:00
  
  Interlochen Arts Academy Choirs premiere new arrangement at Festival  Interlochen
  
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• Festival of Arts, Terra settle lawsuits over unpaid rent, building mishaps - Laguna Beach Local News - Laguna Beach Independent Newspaper

  24-05-2022 19:51
  
  Festival of Arts, Terra settle lawsuits over unpaid rent, building mishaps - Laguna Beach Local News  Laguna Beach Independent Newspaper
  
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• Arts Council: Dublin students' artwork on display at Scioto Park - The Columbus Dispatch

  24-05-2022 19:51
  
  Arts Council: Dublin students' artwork on display at Scioto Park  The Columbus Dispatch
  
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• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark?

  24-05-2022 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  David Shiffman’s “Why Sharks Matter” helps our critic, a surfer, see the creatures in a new, more appreciative light.
  
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• Arts and health agencies join forces for Jazz in the City Public Health concert series - syracuse.com

  24-05-2022 19:22
  
  Arts and health agencies join forces for Jazz in the City Public Health concert series  syracuse.com
  
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• Mixed martial arts sparring associated with brain structure changes - UPI News

  24-05-2022 19:15
  
  Mixed martial arts sparring associated with brain structure changes  UPI News
  
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• New DuPage Community Arts Festival coming to Wheaton - Shaw Local

  24-05-2022 19:00
  
  New DuPage Community Arts Festival coming to Wheaton  Shaw Local
  
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• Karen Brooks Hopkins - Building a Diverse Arts Community (Virtual) - GBH News

  24-05-2022 18:54
  
  Karen Brooks Hopkins - Building a Diverse Arts Community (Virtual)  GBH News
  
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• A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act

  24-05-2022 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  In the early ’70s the artist dispensed with collage, making airy cardboard sculptures that challenged the macho posturing that had overtaken American sculpture.
  
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• Donors Expand Creative Arts Therapies Programs Through $1.5 Million in Support to Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen Now - The Bakersfield Californian

  24-05-2022 18:46
  
  Donors Expand Creative Arts Therapies Programs Through $1.5 Million in Support to Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen Now  The Bakersfield Californian
  
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• Arts council awards $70,000 for Creative Aging programming - The Lane Report

  24-05-2022 18:25
  Arts council awards $70,000 for Creative Aging programming  The Lane Report
  
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• Italian Police Recover Titian Portrait Lost for Nearly Two Decades

  24-05-2022 18:02 via artnews.com
  
  The Italian police unit in charge of cultural heritage announced they had recovered a portrait by Renaissance painter Titian that has been lost for nearly 20 years.
  Discovered by a Turin branch of the cultural heritage unit, a subsidiary of the Italian state police known as the Carabinieri, the 16th-century work, titled Portrait of a Man with a Beret, first went missing two decades ago from an undisclosed location. Following its disappearance in 2004, authorities believed it had been taken to Sw
  
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• Faith Ringgold and Nan Goldin Among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year

  24-05-2022 17:56 via artnews.com
  
  Time magazine released its list of the 100 “most influential” people of 2022 on Monday and this year’s edition featured notable artists alongside the usual suspects of politicians and zeitgeisty celebrities.
  Artist-activists Nan Goldin and Faith Ringgold were featured on the list along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, actress Michelle Yeoh, and writer Sally Rooney. Like always, the roundup is divided into categories of artists, innovators, titans, leaders, icon
  
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• Mobile Arts Council Spring Fling Paint Party Fundraiser - Fox 10 News

  24-05-2022 17:52
  
  Mobile Arts Council Spring Fling Paint Party Fundraiser  Fox 10 News
  
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• Kendrick Lamar’s Anxiety Era

  24-05-2022 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  During his five-year pause between albums, the rapper has been reckoning — with his own evolution, and the narrative that’s been constructed for him.
  
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• Juancho Hernangómez Winds Down With Good Wine and the Stars Above Asturias

  24-05-2022 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The N.B.A. player and star of the new basketball movie, “Hustle,” talks about his first foray into Hollywood and his cultural interests off the court.
  
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• ‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet

  24-05-2022 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The British tenor Allan Clayton’s portrayal of the title role in Brett Dean’s opera is personal, emotional — and a breakthrough.
  
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• Scenic City Clay Arts Announces Clean Green Ceramics Certification - The Chattanoogan

  24-05-2022 17:00
  Scenic City Clay Arts Announces Clean Green Ceramics Certification  The Chattanoogan
  
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• 6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet

  24-05-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These shows tap into the dangers of our wired life, exploring cybercrime, cryptocurrency and the many flavors of horror that lurk on the dark web.
  
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