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• Not Your Grandfather’s Axe: Coleman Collins at Brief Histories

  10-06-2022 23:41 via artnews.com
  
  Lately, Coleman Collins has been cutting, marking, and converting his DNA sequence into videos, sculptures, and prints. Using iterative processes, he tests the limits of his materials, producing errors, variations, and gaps that probe the concept of inheritance. These experiments are on view at the new location of the gallery Brief Histories as part of “Body Errata,” the artist’s first solo show in New York.
  In some works, genetics are a starting point for considering what else
  
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• Kate Fowle Will Step Down as Director of MoMA PS1

  10-06-2022 23:12 via artnews.com
  
  Kate Fowle, the director of MoMA PS1, one of the county’s leading museums for contemporary art, said she will step down from her role after less than three years. Her last day will be July 15.
  In an email sent to the museum’s staff on Friday afternoon that was reviewed by ARTnews, Fowle did not give a reason for her unexpected departure, saying only that she would continue to organize the institution’s highly anticipated exhibition of Daniel Lind-Ramos due to open in April 2023
  
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• Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65

  10-06-2022 23:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In projects for the director David Lynch, she brought an eerie, otherworldly style to “Falling” and other songs.
  
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• Holmes arts center digital programs get booster from Appalachian grant - Wooster Daily Record

  10-06-2022 22:26 via the-daily-record.com
  Holmes arts center digital programs get booster from Appalachian grant  Wooster Daily Record
  
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• Telluride condo owner sues town’s arts council over open-air concerts “10 feet from (his) bedroom window” - Out There Colorado

  10-06-2022 22:21 via outtherecolorado.com
  Telluride condo owner sues town’s arts council over open-air concerts “10 feet from (his) bedroom window”  Out There Colorado
  
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• Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts announces 2022-23 Broadway season - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

  10-06-2022 21:57 via clickorlando.com
  
  Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts announces 2022-23 Broadway season  WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
  
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• Penguins, Pride events, and Pivot Arts - Chicago Reader

  10-06-2022 21:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Penguins, Pride events, and Pivot Arts  Chicago Reader
  
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• ‘Soft’ Review: Young Black Men, Gently Pointed Toward Liberation

  10-06-2022 21:04 via nytimes.com
  
  In Donja R. Love’s new play, an English teacher struggles against the penal system — and with his own guilt — to help students see a future beyond prison.
  
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• How a Highway Divided a Community in Philadelphia

  10-06-2022 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  On a personal episode of “Still Processing,” Wesley Morris revisits a highway that he walked across as a kid. He never knew how deeply it had transformed the neighborhood it ran through.
  
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• Looted 1500-Year-Old Maya Temple Facade To Be Fully Restored

  10-06-2022 20:42 via artnews.com
  
  An ancient Maya temple facade that was looted from the jungle in the 1960s and once offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is undergoing restoration by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
  Dating to approximately 450–600 CE, the 30-foot-long, two-ton stucco relief is believed to depict either a maize god or an unknown governor. The figure is shown in a feathered headdress flanked by two elder gods holding symbolic glyphs. The piece was believ
  
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• Manhattan’s New Green Space Was J.P. Morgan’s Side Yard

  10-06-2022 20:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates the restoration of a McKim building and unveils a garden with classical sculptures from the financier’s collection.
  
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• Arts coalition successfully relocates draft Seattle Center light rail station onto Mercer - MyNorthwest

  10-06-2022 20:33 via mynorthwest.com
  
  Arts coalition successfully relocates draft Seattle Center light rail station onto Mercer  MyNorthwest
  
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• Britney Spears: The Once and Future Versace Muse

  10-06-2022 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer wore the Italian brand for her wedding to Sam Asghari, culminating a longstanding fashion relationship.
  
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• In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness

  10-06-2022 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  This British horror-comedy, which has its season finale on Sunday, literalizes the terrors of motherhood.
  
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• ‘Quince’ Review: A Mexican American Tale That Explains Too Much

  10-06-2022 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The new play, about a 15-year-old girl and her impending quinceañera, creates a fitting party vibe. If only the script didn’t clarify every cultural reference.
  
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• Review: The Kids (in New Hands) Are Still All Right

  10-06-2022 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The student dancers looked good in Kids Dance, the performance troupe of Ballet Tech, which has passed from Eliot Feld to Dionne Figgins.
  
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• Smithtown Performing Arts Council unveils plans to restore Main Street's historic theatre - Greater Long Island

  10-06-2022 20:00 via greaterlongisland.com
  
  Smithtown Performing Arts Council unveils plans to restore Main Street's historic theatre  Greater Long Island
  
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• Metro Arts Terminates Strategic Funding and Initiatives Manager Janine Christiano - Nashville Scene

  10-06-2022 19:43 via nashvillescene.com
  
  Metro Arts Terminates Strategic Funding and Initiatives Manager Janine Christiano  Nashville Scene
  
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• Actor and Artist Jim Carrey Is Minting His First NFT on SuperRare

  10-06-2022 19:24 via artnews.com
  
  Actor and comedian Jim Carrey, who has become known as a painter and political cartoonist in recent years, announced Thursday that he has minted his first NFT with platform SuperRare.
  The NFT, titled Sunflower, is based off his painting of the same name and will be accompanied by an original voice-over, which was produced with filmmaker David Bushell. The auction, which began today, started at $1. Proceeds will go toward Feeding America, a nonprofit network of food banks.
  “I’ve been
  
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• The Jan. 6 Hearing Put a True-Crime Drama on Prime-Time TV

  10-06-2022 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The first night of the Jan. 6 hearings was serious public service, but it told an engrossing story with the tools of a limited series drama.
  
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• Paula Rego, Artist Known for Unsettling Images, Dies at 87

  10-06-2022 19:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Her paintings, many of which focused on women’s experiences and perspectives, might depict fear or menace. But it was up to the viewer to fill in the blanks.
  
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• Mary Gillett: Strengthening the arts by connecting the dots - Traverse City Record Eagle

  10-06-2022 19:00 via record-eagle.com
  Mary Gillett: Strengthening the arts by connecting the dots  Traverse City Record Eagle
  
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• Arts Playlist: 'Two Years in Italy' | Delaware First Media - Delaware First Media

  10-06-2022 18:37 via delawarepublic.org
  
  Arts Playlist: 'Two Years in Italy' | Delaware First Media  Delaware First Media
  
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• In ‘Becoming Elizabeth,’ a Queen’s Rebellious Teenage Years

  10-06-2022 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Becoming Elizabeth,” a new show on Starz, depicts Queen Elizabeth I’s early years, which are rarely seen onscreen, as a claustrophobic family drama.
  
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• SZA’s ‘Ctrl’ Bonus, and 8 More New Songs

  10-06-2022 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Saucy Santana, Demi Lovato, Joyce Manor and others.
  
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• ‘Dark Winds’ Review: Murder Most Foul in the Navajo Nation

  10-06-2022 18:17 via nytimes.com
  
  A six-episode adaptation of Tony Hillerman’s tribal-police mysteries finally puts the invaluable actor Zahn McClarnon at the top of the cast list.
  
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• After a Political Storm, Gay Days Return to Disney

  10-06-2022 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  An L.G.B.T.Q. tradition at Disney World took on new significance this year, when Disney was ensnared in a heated cultural debate.
  
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• NFTs Can Be Artistically Groundbreaking — Meet the Artists and Curators Leading The Way

  10-06-2022 17:13 via artnews.com
  
  When French artist George Rouault’s painting The Three Judges  was first presented in 1936, Rouault’s gallery placed it in a 17th century frame. His dealer saw the need to contextualize his bold Expressionism for audiences still uncertain of such daring. 
  Galleries and curators have always been critical to the introduction of new styles or media in art. It is no different today in the world of NFTs. While most NFT platforms — focused as they are on volume — are
  
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• With $12 M. Donation, Michigan’s Muskegon Museum Will Look to Build Wing Dedicated to Women Artists

  10-06-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The state of Michigan is shaped like hand, swaddled by two Great Lakes: Huron to the East and Lake Michigan to the West. The latter breaches the state via the estuary Muskegon Lake. Viewed from above, the town of Muskegon is a pin on a great blue expanse. And a pin on a pin, situated along the riverbank, is the Muskegon Museum of Art. It’s a mid-size institution founded in 1912 and counts around 5,000 artworks in its collection.
  In a true Midwestern fashion, its director Kirk Hallman avoi
  
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• Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End

  10-06-2022 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The cult British show’s final season is now on Netflix, but its creator has plans for a spinoff movie and says he wants to follow the Shelby family into the 1940s and ’50s.
  
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• The stage is set. UCSB Arts & Lectures announces its 2022-2023 season featuring more than 45 events - Santa Barbara Independent

  10-06-2022 16:42 via independent.com
  The stage is set. UCSB Arts & Lectures announces its 2022-2023 season featuring more than 45 events  Santa Barbara Independent
  
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• 5 Highlights from the Heidi Horten Collection, From a Warhol-Basquiat Collab to a Dancing Dog

  10-06-2022 16:37 via artnews.com
  
  After years of secrecy, the Austrian collector Heidi Göess-Horten has finally given her holdings a permanent home via a new museum in Vienna.
  The recently opened Heidi Horten Collection is a short walk from many of Vienna’s most famous museums, including the Leopold and the Albertina. While it pales in size and scope to those two institutions, it has already drawn large crowds since its inauguration earlier this month.
  Göess-Horten has over the years amassed a 700-work collection
  
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• Businessman Dimitris Daskalopoulos’s World-Class Collection Gets a Goodbye Tour in Athens

  10-06-2022 16:26 via artnews.com
  
  It is not every day that a major collector parts ways with a significant chunk of their collection, but that is just what Dimitris Daskalopoulos did when he announced this past April that he would donate 350 works to four museums: Athens’s National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), London’s Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and New York’s Guggenheim Museum.
  That means that a number of these works are leaving Greece, Daskalopoulos’s home country, for the time
  
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• Sophie Lauwers, Director of Important Belgium Museum, Dies at 55

  10-06-2022 16:19 via artnews.com
  
  Sophie Lauwers, the director-general of the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, died at 55 on May 29 at her home.
  Bozar said on Wednesday that she had died on May 29 of an illness. The Brussels Times later reported that she had been battling breast cancer, and that she had continued to lead the museum during her final days.
  Lauwers had gained a strong reputation within the Belgian art scene for her work at Bozar, where she spent a total of 20 years in a variety of positions. She had been hea
  
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• Ogden Arts Festival returns for another year, bringing new artists - Standard-Examiner

  10-06-2022 16:18 via standard.net
  
  Ogden Arts Festival returns for another year, bringing new artists  Standard-Examiner
  
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• “Red Scare” by Liam Francis Walsh

  10-06-2022 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Liam Francis Walsh’s graphic novel “Red Scare” revisits a chapter in American history when the fear of being labeled a communist led to rampant conformism.
  
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• “The Golden Twine” (Cat’s Cradle, Volume 1) by Jo Rioux

  10-06-2022 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In Jo Rioux’s “The Golden Twine,” an orphan girl who lives among traveling merchants aspires to be a monster tamer.
  
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• John Waters, an Auteur of Trash, Would Like to Thank the Academy

  10-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Curators from the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures rummaged through his Baltimore home to plan an exhibition on Waters and his cult films.
  
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• A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota

  10-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After 19 years, Osmo Vänskä is leaving a Minnesota Orchestra that once again stands proud after a nearly disastrous lockout.
  
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• A Secretive Austrian Collector Unveils a Long-Awaited Private Museum in Vienna

  10-06-2022 15:44 via artnews.com
  
  Back in 1996, the art market was left in shock after a single collector bought up $22 million worth of art at a Sotheby’s auction in London.
  The buyer, who called in with a Vienna specialist with the house, was a “mysterious German-speaking collector,” the New York Times reported at the time, and she had purchased pieces by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and others all in one fell swoop, making herself a sensation almost overnight.
  
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• Klaus Mäkelä, 26, Takes Podium at Storied Concertgebouw Orchestra

  10-06-2022 11:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Finnish maestro, a rapidly rising star in classical music, has been named the new chief conductor of the 133-year-old Amsterdam ensemble.
  
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• Guajiro Cuban Comfort Food planned for Asheville's River Arts District - Citizen Times

  10-06-2022 11:06 via citizen-times.com
  Guajiro Cuban Comfort Food planned for Asheville's River Arts District  Citizen Times
  
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• The Bumpy Road to a Group-Led Documenta

  10-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 2022 edition of this exhibition in Germany is curated by a leaderless collective. Things didn’t always go to plan.
  
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• Review: ‘How You Get Famous,’ by Nicole Pasulka

  10-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nicole Pasulka’s new history of drag in Brooklyn, “How You Get Famous,” closely follows a handful of queens to explore the cultural and business evolution of the drag industry.
  
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• New in Paperback: ‘Sexual Justice’ and ‘Last Call’

  10-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
  
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• Five Key Scenes From ‘The Wire’

  10-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Cast members look back at some of the HBO drama’s most pivotal moments 20 years after its premiere.
  
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• Tony Awards Predictions: ‘Strange Loop’ and ‘Lehman’ Look Strong

  10-06-2022 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  We surveyed voters ahead of this year’s ceremony on Sunday. They are strikingly split in the races for leading musical performers.
  
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• Have arts, will travel - VCU News - VCU News

  10-06-2022 09:00 via news.vcu.edu
  
  Have arts, will travel - VCU News  VCU News
  
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• A ‘Strange’ Wind Blowing: Tony Voters Like ‘Loop’ and ‘Lehman’

  10-06-2022 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  We surveyed voters ahead of this year’s ceremony on Sunday. They are strikingly split in the races for leading musical performers.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Recaps Jan. 6 Hearings’ ‘Episode One’

  10-06-2022 08:37 via nytimes.com
  
  He called the prime time congressional hearings “this summer’s most compelling drama.”
  
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