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• ‘The Wire’ Creators, David Simon and Ed Burns, on the Show 20 Years Later

  31-05-2022 23:45 via nytimes.com
  
  David Simon and Ed Burns discuss the legacy of their seminal crime drama, and why the systemic decay it depicted has become only more profound.
  
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• Dealers Make a Long-Term Investment in the Hamptons’ Budding Art Scene

  31-05-2022 23:25 via artnews.com
  
  Each summer, New Yorkers depart the city for the Hamptons, heading there for beaches, drinking, and ritzy dining. This past Memorial Day weekend, something else was drawing Manhattanites as well: the art scene of the Hamptons, which over the past two years has been transformed.
  There has always been an art scene in the Hamptons, but never before has it seemed quite so vibrant. More spaces continue to open in the area, and instead of setting up pop-ups, as dealers have done in the past couple yea
  
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• NYC to Have Immigrant Research & Performing Arts Center - American Theatre

  31-05-2022 23:22 via americantheatre.org
  
  NYC to Have Immigrant Research & Performing Arts Center  American Theatre
  
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• June 2 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something To Celebrate - Vacaville Reporter

  31-05-2022 23:21 via thereporter.com
  
  June 2 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Always Something To Celebrate  Vacaville Reporter
  
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• Festival of the Arts returns to downtown Grand Rapids this weekend after 2-year COVID break - MLive.com

  31-05-2022 23:18 via mlive.com
  
  Festival of the Arts returns to downtown Grand Rapids this weekend after 2-year COVID break  MLive.com
  
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• What Is the NEA? - National Endowment for the Arts

  31-05-2022 23:17 via arts.gov
  What Is the NEA?  National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90

  31-05-2022 23:13 via nytimes.com
  
  In provocative, sometimes linguistically playful experimental fiction, a Vienna-born American traced the complex interplay of modern Germany and its Nazi past.
  
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• Student Contest Winner: Told He Had Six Months to Live, He Opened an Art Exhibit

  31-05-2022 23:03 via nytimes.com
  
  After Kim Gyoo-sik was named an artist of the year in a national contest, he learned he had late-stage cancer. But even now, he’s thinking of ideas for a new project.
  
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• Arts council asks city to allocate additional $100K in budget - Port City Daily

  31-05-2022 23:00 via portcitydaily.com
  
  Arts council asks city to allocate additional $100K in budget  Port City Daily
  
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• Fayez Sarofim, Houston Financier and Museum Benefactor, Dies at 93

  31-05-2022 22:41 via artnews.com
  
  Fayez S. Sarofim, the Egyptian-born Houston-based financier and mega-collector who become known for his investment savvy has died at the age of 93. He died at his Houston residence on May 28, a spokesperson for the family confirmed to the Houston Chronicle.
  Born in Cairo in 1929, Sarofim was one of three children, whose father was a prominent pharmaceuticals and agricultural products distributor. After attending a boarding school in Cairo, Sarofim came to the U.S. in 1946 to study food tech
  
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• 5 Times the Mona Lisa Was Vandalized or Stolen

  31-05-2022 22:35 via artnews.com
  
  Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa may be one of the most beloved artworks in the world. Seen by millions of people each year, it is considered to be the crown jewel of the Louvre’s collection, an iconic work of the Renaissance, and a painting that is impossible to value because it is seen as being priceless. It has also been the target of theft and vandalism on several occasions.
  Since the start of the 20th century, the painting, which was acquired by France in 1797, has had spray paint
  
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• Alain Frogley named Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts - UConn Today - UConn

  31-05-2022 22:11 via today.uconn.edu
  
  Alain Frogley named Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts - UConn Today  UConn
  
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• Alain Frogley named Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts - UConn Today - today.uconn.edu

  31-05-2022 21:53 via today.uconn.edu
  
  Alain Frogley named Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts - UConn Today  today.uconn.edu
  
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• As Mental Health Awareness Month Closes, Liquid Stranger Shares How Martial Arts Make Him a Better Artist — And Human - Billboard

  31-05-2022 21:45 via billboard.com
  
  As Mental Health Awareness Month Closes, Liquid Stranger Shares How Martial Arts Make Him a Better Artist — And Human  Billboard
  
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• Young at HeART: Explore Arts and Aging at Akron ArtWalk on June 10 - Downtown Akron Partnership

  31-05-2022 21:34 via downtownakron.com
  Young at HeART: Explore Arts and Aging at Akron ArtWalk on June 10  Downtown Akron Partnership
  
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• A Farewell and the Promise of a New Future at City Ballet

  31-05-2022 21:20 via nytimes.com
  
  The company’s spring season, a double whammy of Covid and injury, ended with the retirement of the principal Amar Ramasar.
  
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• Liberty Memorial Central students create unique multimedia poetry project with Lawrence Arts Center - The Lawrence Times

  31-05-2022 21:18 via lawrencekstimes.com
  
  Liberty Memorial Central students create unique multimedia poetry project with Lawrence Arts Center  The Lawrence Times
  
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• Book Review: Tom Perrotta’s ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’

  31-05-2022 21:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Tom Perrotta’s sequel to “Election” finds Flick, the character immortalized in film by Reese Witherspoon, reconsidering her past.
  
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• New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas redefines art, builds connections - CT Insider

  31-05-2022 21:02 via ctinsider.com
  
  New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas redefines art, builds connections  CT Insider
  
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• Fenix Arts to Stage "Queer" Exposition - kuaf.com

  31-05-2022 20:36 via kuaf.com
  
  Fenix Arts to Stage "Queer" Exposition  kuaf.com
  
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• Arts organizations commit to developing local and young artists - Lansing State Journal

  31-05-2022 20:29 via lansingstatejournal.com
  Arts organizations commit to developing local and young artists  Lansing State Journal
  
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• Documenta Files Criminal Complaint After Exhibition Space Is Vandalized Amid Anti-Semitism Controversy

  31-05-2022 20:23 via artnews.com
  
  Documenta, the esteemed exhibition set to open in Kassel, Germany in June, filed a criminal complaint Tuesday after a participant’s exhibition space was vandalized with messages alluding to an icon of the alt-right in Spain.
  The vandalized space was due to host work by the Question of Funding, a collective that “aims to rethink the economy of funding and the culture it produces in Palestine,” according to Documenta’s website.
  The space, known as WH22, was spray-painted wi
  
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• To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last

  31-05-2022 20:10 via nytimes.com
  
  The Ukrainian city’s distinctive architecture has made it a world heritage site. Its architects are trying to balance aesthetics with sustainability as it prepares for a long war.
  
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• University of the Arts Offers a Streamlined Master of Arts Program in Museum Studies - Hyperallergic

  31-05-2022 20:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  University of the Arts Offers a Streamlined Master of Arts Program in Museum Studies  Hyperallergic
  
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• Becoming Johnny Rotten, When John Lydon Would Rather You Didn’t

  31-05-2022 19:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Anson Boon went through a grueling process to play the punk star in “Pistol,” even though the original wanted nothing to do with the project.
  
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• For a Young Choreographer, Bed-Stuy Is Home and a Stage

  31-05-2022 19:43 via nytimes.com
  
  “Everything I need is right here,” Jordan Demetrius Lloyd said of his Brooklyn neighborhood. Add to that his new work, “Jerome,” staged in a schoolyard near his home.
  
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• ‘Stranger Things 4’: A Guide to the Major Pop Culture References

  31-05-2022 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  As in seasons past, this go-round is full of nods and Easter eggs to 1970s and ’80s pop culture, particularly onscreen. Here’s a roundup of the ones we caught.
  
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• Looking for Europe’s Future in an Overlooked Corner of the Continent

  31-05-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert D. Kaplan’s “Adriatic” takes readers on a political, intellectual and personal tour from Italy to Albania.
  
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• Australia’s Biggest Biennial Names Two Artistic Directors for 2024 Edition

  31-05-2022 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  The organizers of the Biennale of Sydney have named Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero as the artistic directors of its next edition, which is set to run in the Australian city March 9–June 10, 2024.
  Costinaș and Guerrero, who are both now based in Berlin, having organized several exhibitions together over the past decade, including the 2018 Dakar Biennale in Senegal; the 2016–17 show “Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs,” which traveled to Manila, Hong Kong, and Ba
  
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• The month of June in the arts: A Pride-ful calendar - St Pete Catalyst

  31-05-2022 18:17 via stpetecatalyst.com
  
  The month of June in the arts: A Pride-ful calendar  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season

  31-05-2022 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The Met’s performances of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” are the latest in a long line of short spring revivals of works off the beaten path.
  
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• Berlin Biennale Reveals Artist List for 2022 Edition About ‘Planetary Emergency’

  31-05-2022 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  Less than two weeks before its opening, the Berlin Biennale, one of Europe’s top recurring art exhibitions, has named the artists set to show in this year’s edition, curated by artist Kader Attia. Titled “Still Present!,” it will kick off on June 11.
  This year, the Biennale is likely to be seen by even more people than usual at its start, since its opening roughly coincides with the Swiss edition of the fair Art Basel and the beginning of Documenta, a quinquennial in the
  
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• Luna County arts and crafts featured in June Show at Deming Art Center - The Deming Headlight

  31-05-2022 17:12 via demingheadlight.com
  Luna County arts and crafts featured in June Show at Deming Art Center  The Deming Headlight
  
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• Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude

  31-05-2022 16:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The Netflix executive says he — and the company he helped build — will survive a bout of bad earnings numbers.
  
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• Harry Styles Is No. 1 With a Record-Breaking Total for Vinyl Sales

  31-05-2022 16:24 via nytimes.com
  
  “Harry’s House,” the British pop star’s third solo album, moved more copies on vinyl since at least 1991, when SoundScan began keeping reliable sales data.
  
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• ‘Baseball Players Don’t Dance’? The Savannah Bananas Beg to Differ.

  31-05-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  TikTok choreography, dancing umpires, a ballet-trained first-base coach: This collegiate summer league team has amassed a following by leaning into entertainment.
  
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• Kevin Spacey to Voluntarily Travel to Britain to Face Sexual Assault Charges

  31-05-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor said in a statement to “Good Morning America” that he will seek to prove his innocence against the charges.
  
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• Kevin Spacey to Face Sexual Assault Charges in Britain

  31-05-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor said in a statement to “Good Morning America” that he will seek to prove his innocence against the charges.
  
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• These Are the Top Art Cities in the U.S., According to a New UBS Report

  31-05-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Each year, UBS and the economist Clare McAndrew publish a report that looks at the world’s global art market. For the first time, to go alongside it, McAndrew has also published a second report devoted to the role that cities across the U.S. play in the global art market.
  According to McAndrew, the U.S. accounted for nearly half of all art sales in 2021—around some $28 billion, per her previous 2022 art market report. The new report reveals that the top five U.S. cities are New York,
  
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• Portage Park Elementary's Festival Of The Arts Returns With 4 Days Of Performances - Block Club Chicago

  31-05-2022 14:50 via blockclubchicago.org
  
  Portage Park Elementary's Festival Of The Arts Returns With 4 Days Of Performances  Block Club Chicago
  
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• British Arts Streamer Marquee TV Buys Helio Arts & Restructures - Deadline

  31-05-2022 14:30 via deadline.com
  
  British Arts Streamer Marquee TV Buys Helio Arts & Restructures  Deadline
  
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• Arts All-Star: Jacqueline Seymour - WWNY

  31-05-2022 14:08 via wwnytv.com
  
  Arts All-Star: Jacqueline Seymour  WWNY
  
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• Billionaire Collector Fayez Sarofim Dies at 93, FBI Investigates Basquiats in Orlando Museum Show, and More: Morning Links for May 30, 2022

  31-05-2022 14:07 via artnews.com
  
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  THE ARTIST, CURATOR, AND HISTORIAN SAMELLA LEWIS, whose work helped to define and preserve African American art history, died on Friday at the age of 98, Alex Greenberger reports in ARTnews. Lewis’s vast accomplishments include writing the canonical books Black Artists on Art (1969), which was released b
  
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• Billionaire Collector Fayez Sarofim Dies at 93, FBI Investigates Basquiats in Orlando Museum Show, and More, and More: Morning Links for May 30, 2022

  31-05-2022 14:07 via artnews.com
  
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  THE ARTIST, CURATOR, AND HISTORIAN SAMELLA LEWIS, whose work helped to define and preserve African American art history, died on Friday at the age of 98, Alex Greenberger reports in ARTnews. Lewis’s vast accomplishments include writing the canonical books Black Artists on Art (1969), which was released b
  
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• Cleveland County Arts Council to host garden, outdoor living tour - Shelby Star

  31-05-2022 14:02 via shelbystar.com
  Cleveland County Arts Council to host garden, outdoor living tour  Shelby Star
  
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• White and Black: A Historian Traces African-American Influences in the United States

  31-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  David Hackett Fischer’s “African Founders” examines the interplay of Black and white culture through the centuries.
  
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• Review: ‘The Foundling,’ by Ann Leary

  31-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ann Leary’s novel, “The Foundling,” may sound like dystopian satire — but it’s not.
  
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• Book Review: “Yerba Buena,” by Nina LaCour

  31-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The author Nina LaCour is known for her young adult novels. She is making her adult debut with a tale of two women finding themselves, and each other.
  
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• Bill McKibben’s ‘The Flag, the Cross and the Station Wagon’ Review

  31-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon,” an activist finds flaws in patriotism, faith and suburban life and urges fellow baby boomers to change.
  
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• Bill McKibben, American Idealist, Sours on America’s Ideals

  31-05-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon,” an activist finds flaws in patriotism, faith and suburban life and urges fellow baby boomers to change.
  
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