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• Stella Abrera to Run the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School for a Year

  09-06-2022 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Abrera, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, has been named acting director of the school.
  
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• A Queer Film Historian Discusses Movies That Provoke

  09-06-2022 23:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Elizabeth Purchell, who has programmed a series on the documentaries of Rosa von Praunheim, sees Pride Month as a chance to discover, and uncover, the past.
  
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• Japan Will Get a New Art Fair in Summer 2023

  09-06-2022 22:38 via artnews.com
  
  The Art Assembly, which organizes several major art fairs across the Asia-Pacific region, will add one more to its portfolio.
  The group plans to launch Tokyo Gendai in Japan, which will bring together between 80 and 100 international art galleries to the Pacifico Yokohama convention center. The new fair will run July 7–9, 2023, with a VIP preview day on July 6. Exhibitor applications for the fair opened today.
  “It’s quite a dynamic moment at present, whereby the art market acro
  
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• New 42 Worker Files Bias Lawsuit Over Diversity Training

  09-06-2022 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A white teaching artist at the theater organization says it discriminated against white people. The nonprofit declined to comment.
  
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• Ranan Lurie, Political Cartoonist With a Global Pen, Dies at 90

  09-06-2022 22:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Starting in the Air Force in Israel and later moving to the United States, he set a record as the world’s most widely syndicated in his field.
  
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• Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound

  09-06-2022 21:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The composer and pianist Timo Andres remembers his former teacher, who “gave the impression that all of music was at our feet.”
  
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• The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña

  09-06-2022 21:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Chilean-born, New York-based, she emerges at the Guggenheim after years under the art-market radar with just the right scrappy feel.
  
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• Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80

  09-06-2022 21:11 via nytimes.com
  
  An influential figure in American experimental music, he was part of a group of composers who stripped music down to basic elements and used digital sounds.
  
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• Ariana DeBose on Hosting the Tonys: ‘Whatever We Do Is Going to Be Fun’

  09-06-2022 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The Broadway ensemble member turned Oscar winner vows that the ceremony will celebrate the often unsung actors who have stepped in so often during the pandemic.
  
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• Getty Foundation Awards $1.3 M. to Fund Prints and Drawings Initiatives

  09-06-2022 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Getty Foundation in Los Angeles has awarded 15 grants, totaling nearly $1.3 million, for exhibitions, publications, digital projects, and workshops related to prints and drawings.
  The awards are part of the foundation’s Paper Project initiative, which was started in 2018 to support the professional development of curators studying the graphic arts.
  This year’s grantees include the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Courtauld in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and
  
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• Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.)

  09-06-2022 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  English National Ballet brings Akram Khan’s “Giselle” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a production that prizes style over substance.
  
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• More Than Fjords: A New Museum to Put Oslo on the Map

  09-06-2022 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  City administrators hope Norway’s new National Museum will help Oslo, and the rest of the country, step out of its Scandinavian neighbors’ shadows.
  
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• Spain Returned A Centuries-Old Painting and Reliquary Stolen Decades Ago to Italy

  09-06-2022 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  Spanish officials returned two centuries-old artifacts Wednesday to Italian ambassadors and police overseeing cultural property.
  In a ceremony that took place at the Italian Embassy in Madrid, Spanish police handed over two old masters works produced in Italy, a 16th century gilded wooden reliquary of a saint and an oil painting on canvas by an anonymous Lombard artist titled Luncheon (ca. 1600) that is believed to have been produced sometime in the 17th-century. Both the works had been recovere
  
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• Dr. Christopher J Poulsen named dean of College of Arts and Sciences | Office of the Provost - Office of the Provost

  09-06-2022 19:22 via provost.uoregon.edu
  Dr. Christopher J Poulsen named dean of College of Arts and Sciences | Office of the Provost  Office of the Provost
  
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• Duro Olowu Excavates Pattern at the Cooper Hewitt

  09-06-2022 19:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The Nigerian-born British fashion designer examines the many ways and meanings of pattern in everything from wallpaper to ceremonial hats.
  
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• ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success

  09-06-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Xavier Giannoli’s headlong adaptation of a Balzac novel paints a timely picture of literary ambition and media corruption in 19th-century France.
  
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• ‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Review: More Wink Than Wallop

  09-06-2022 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor Mike Colter imbues Charlie with cool savvy in this movie about a Black trucker in the ’70s who goes up against the white establishment.
  
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• The Best Books to Read on Disinformation: Its History, Techniques and Effects

  09-06-2022 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The phenomenon has undermined our trust in electoral systems, in vaccines — and in what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Here are books on its history, techniques and effects.
  
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• Grachan Moncur III, Trombonist Whose Star Shone Briefly, Dies at 85

  09-06-2022 18:21 via nytimes.com
  
  He mixed free jazz and post-bop in notable 1960s and ’70s recordings. But he withdrew from the jazz scene, in part because of a dispute over publishing rights.
  
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• In Los Angeles, Artist Mark Bradford Launches a New Collaboration with Local High School Arts Students

  09-06-2022 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Mark Bradford may be best known for working in abstraction, but the L.A.-based artist is committed to thinking through how to change the art world—and the world at large—in concrete, tangible ways.
  Nearly a decade ago, Bradford cofounded the nonprofit Art + Practice in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park with the simple idea that residents of the community shouldn’t have to travel far from home to see exciting and engaging art. More recently he has been thinking
  
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• In a First for Broadway, a Theater Will Be Renamed for Lena Horne

  09-06-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Horne, a renowned singer and activist, will be the first Black woman to have a theater named after her once the Brooks Atkinson is renamed.
  
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• ‘The Walk’ Review: Two Families So Far Apart

  09-06-2022 17:51 via nytimes.com
  
  This sentimental drama about an upstanding cop caught up in the 1974 school desegregation conflict in Boston recycles tired white-savior clichés.
  
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• Auburn University expands creative arts culture, gives students experience through publications - Office of Communications and Marketing

  09-06-2022 17:49 via ocm.auburn.edu
  
  Auburn University expands creative arts culture, gives students experience through publications  Office of Communications and Marketing
  
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• ‘The Janes’ Review: Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands

  09-06-2022 17:43 via nytimes.com
  
  This HBO documentary spotlights the women activists who banded together to form Jane, a clandestine group providing safe abortions in the years before Roe v. Wade.
  
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• Artists have mixed reactions to Three Rivers Arts Festival location swap - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  09-06-2022 17:25 via post-gazette.com
  
  Artists have mixed reactions to Three Rivers Arts Festival location swap  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• ‘Ninja Badass’ Review: Kill Bad Guys, Save Hot Babes, Look Silly

  09-06-2022 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Ryan Harris, an auteur of the gross, includes sight gags like puppies in blenders in this tedious action comedy.
  
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• In ‘For All Mankind,’ the Future Is in the Past

  09-06-2022 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Apple TV+’s refreshingly retro space thriller reverse-engineers history to find an interplanetary path not taken. (Next stop, Mars!)
  
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• Review: In ‘Snow in Midsummer,’ It’s Not Just the Forecast That’s Amiss

  09-06-2022 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Adapted from a 13th-century drama, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s play is part ghost story, murder mystery and family melodrama.
  
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• Minor Literature: Kafka’s Drawings

  09-06-2022 16:52 via artnews.com
  
  In 1924, Franz Kafka, the writer who had sentenced so many of his characters to miserable deaths, died his own, starving after tuberculosis left him unable to swallow. Afterward, good fortune arrived with almost spiteful promptness, so that by the 1940s this sullen nobody had become one of the Western world’s most renowned writers. With renown came forests’ worth of books and combined millennia of contemplation—an endless, exhausting quest to decipher the indecipherable. All of
  
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• Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books

  09-06-2022 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  “Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it.
  
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• Nigerian Megastar Mr. Eazi is Teaming Up With Visual Artists Across Africa—See the First Collab for His New Single

  09-06-2022 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi, a global popstar known for hits like “Skin Tight,” “Bankulize,” and “Leg Over,” is collaborating with top African visual artists for his upcoming debut album, the artist told ARTnews.
  For the album rollout, Eazi will work with contemporary artists to create unique art pieces to accompany each song. The pieces will be tokenized and shared with the public through specially-curated metaverse and physical events.
  Eazi has achieved global
  
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• Nigerian Megastar Mr. Eazi is Teaming Up With Visual Artists Across Africa – See the First Collab for His New Single

  09-06-2022 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi, a global popstar known for hits like Skin Tight,’ ‘Bankulize,’ and ‘Leg Over,’ is collaborating with top African visual artists for his upcoming debut album, the artist toldARTnews.
  For the album rollout, Eazi will work with contemporary artists to create unique art pieces to accompany each song. The pieces will be tokenized and shared with the public through specially-curated metaverse and physical events.
  Eazi has achieved global recognit
  
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• The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles

  09-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A program of early works at the Joyce Theater shows a different, more experimental side of the choreographer.
  
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• Ai Weiwei Gets the Big Retrospective He Deserves, For Better and For Worse

  09-06-2022 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  When a 40-work survey of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s art traveled from Japan to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., a decade ago, the show drew massive crowds and made the artist a star. Earlier this year, a retrospective more than four times that show’s size opened in Vienna at the Albertina Modern to no such fanfare.
  What accounts for this? It’s possible we’re burnt out on Ai’s work by now, which makes sense, considering that th
  
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• From the Archives: Rego’s Girls

  09-06-2022 15:47 via artnews.com
  
  A retrospective of Paula Rego’s paintings was held at the Fun­dacião Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, and the Casa de Serralves, Porto, before coming to the Serpentine Gallery, London, where a considerable number of new paintings were added. The exhibition revealed Rego to be a far more substantial artist than had previously been realized. Born in Portugal in 1935, Rego trained at the Slade School in London and married Victor Willing, a fellow student. Having for many years divided
  
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• Jodie Comer to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Prima Facie’ Next Spring

  09-06-2022 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Killing Eve” star will reprise her role in Suzie Miller’s solo show, which is wrapping up a run in London.
  
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• Ashley for the Arts ready to stage annual arts event - Furniture Today

  09-06-2022 15:12 via furnituretoday.com
  
  Ashley for the Arts ready to stage annual arts event  Furniture Today
  
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• Mosesian Center for the Arts Hosting Pride Weekend Festival - watertownmanews.com

  09-06-2022 15:04 via watertownmanews.com
  
  Mosesian Center for the Arts Hosting Pride Weekend Festival  watertownmanews.com
  
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• Mosesian Center for the Arts Hosting Pride Weekend Festival - Watertown MA News

  09-06-2022 15:04 via watertownmanews.com
  
  Mosesian Center for the Arts Hosting Pride Weekend Festival  Watertown MA News
  
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• The Grammys Have a New Award: Songwriter of the Year

  09-06-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The honor is part of a slate of changes, including a best score soundtrack award for video games and a merit award for best song for social change.
  
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• New Orleans’s Prospect Triennial Names Miranda Lash as Artistic Director for Next Edition

  09-06-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Prospect triennial in New Orleans has appointed Miranda Lash, a rising curator with close ties to the city, as the artistic director for its sixth edition, which is scheduled to open in fall 2024.
  Raised in a Spanish-speaking Latinx household in Southern California, Lash’s appointment as artistic director of Prospect.6 makes her one of the only Latinas ever to curate a major art biennial in the United States. She is known for a curatorial practice that looks at how artists hold and mai
  
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• Registration opens for digital arts camp | Community | tiogapublishing.com - The Wellsboro Gazette

  09-06-2022 14:59 via tiogapublishing.com
  Registration opens for digital arts camp | Community | tiogapublishing.com  The Wellsboro Gazette
  
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• Your weekend arts forecast: Big shows on small stages - St Pete Catalyst

  09-06-2022 14:48 via stpetecatalyst.com
  
  Your weekend arts forecast: Big shows on small stages  St Pete Catalyst
  
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• A Sparse Connecticut County Has Become The Secret Center of the Art World

  09-06-2022 14:43 via artnews.com
  
  The opening of the Beecher Residency in Litchfield is final proof that Northwestern Connecticut has become the secret epicenter of the contemporary art world.
  During the endless hullabaloo at the start of the pandemic in 2020 about how all galleries were now relocating to Long Island and Floridian shores, the happy collectors, curators, critics and above all artists of Litchfield County just blithely carried on swimming across Cream Hill Lake, never doubting that they were in “the great go
  
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• Performing arts center highlights $26.2M White Knoll renovations - columbiabusinessreport.com

  09-06-2022 14:41 via columbiabusinessreport.com
  
  Performing arts center highlights $26.2M White Knoll renovations  columbiabusinessreport.com
  
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• Rogers Park Juneteenth Block Party, Pivot Arts Fest Among Weekend Events Hitting Far North Side - Block Club Chicago

  09-06-2022 14:33 via blockclubchicago.org
  
  Rogers Park Juneteenth Block Party, Pivot Arts Fest Among Weekend Events Hitting Far North Side  Block Club Chicago
  
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• Alexandria graphic designer comes into his own as fine arts artist - The Town Talk

  09-06-2022 14:09 via thetowntalk.com
  
  Alexandria graphic designer comes into his own as fine arts artist  The Town Talk
  
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• Mosaic Arts Alliance seeks artists for new show at the CAVE gallery - The Columbian

  09-06-2022 14:04 via columbian.com
  
  Mosaic Arts Alliance seeks artists for new show at the CAVE gallery  The Columbian
  
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• Springfield Conservatory of the Arts 2022 graduation (photos) - MassLive.com

  09-06-2022 13:45 via masslive.com
  
  Springfield Conservatory of the Arts 2022 graduation (photos)  MassLive.com
  
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• Free film screenings this summer at Denver Arts Complex - 9News.com KUSA

  09-06-2022 13:45 via 9news.com
  
  Free film screenings this summer at Denver Arts Complex  9News.com KUSA
  
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