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• Spencer Museum of Art receives $3 million gift to endow Arts Research Integration | The University of Kansas - KU Today

  19-07-2022 23:56
  Spencer Museum of Art receives $3 million gift to endow Arts Research Integration | The University of Kansas  KU Today
  
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• ‘Flashlight’ sculptor leaves legacy for arts at UNLV - KLAS - 8 News Now

  19-07-2022 23:06
  ‘Flashlight’ sculptor leaves legacy for arts at UNLV  KLAS - 8 News Now
  
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• Redding School of the Arts plans to open new high school in August - Record Searchlight

  19-07-2022 22:56
  Redding School of the Arts plans to open new high school in August  Record Searchlight
  
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• Dana Canedy, Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint, Has Left the Job

  19-07-2022 22:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The first Black woman in the position, Canedy spent two years in the role. Her hiring came amid a push for diversity in the industry.
  
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• Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America

  19-07-2022 22:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Even viewers who did not know the artist’s name devoured his audacious sculptures of cheeseburgers, cherries and ice cream cones.
  
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• Gateway Center for the Arts holding 'Who Dunnit?' auditions July 20 - The West Volusia Beacon

  19-07-2022 22:47
  
  Gateway Center for the Arts holding 'Who Dunnit?' auditions July 20  The West Volusia Beacon
  
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• Taste of Akron, Akron Arts Expo return to Hardesty Park this week - WKYC.com

  19-07-2022 22:44
  
  Taste of Akron, Akron Arts Expo return to Hardesty Park this week  WKYC.com
  
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• Arts Council of South Wood County releases details on upcoming season - WSAW

  19-07-2022 22:36
  
  Arts Council of South Wood County releases details on upcoming season  WSAW
  
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• Governors Island Arts to Launch Three-Day ‘House Fest,’ Celebrating Organizations in Residence on Governors Island - City Life Org

  19-07-2022 22:34
  
  Governors Island Arts to Launch Three-Day ‘House Fest,’ Celebrating Organizations in Residence on Governors Island  City Life Org
  
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• British Museum Urged By Union to Remain Closed Throughout U.K.’s Unprecedented Heatwave

  19-07-2022 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Airport tarmacs are melting, air conditioner sales are skyrocketing, and people have been advised not to travel unless necessary as the United Kingdom breaks its highest temperature ever recorded. The heatwave is testing England’s infrastructure and spurring unprecedented safety measures at some art institutions.
  On Monday and Tuesday, the British Museum temporarily closed its upper galleries “to ensure the comfort and safety of staff and visitors,” it said in a statement. The
  
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• British Museum Urged By Union to Remain Closed Throughout U.K.’s Unprecedented Heat Wave

  19-07-2022 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Airport tarmacs are melting, air conditioner sales are skyrocketing, and people have been advised not to travel unless necessary as the United Kingdom breaks its highest temperature ever recorded. The heatwave is testing England’s infrastructure and spurring unprecedented safety measures at some art institutions.
  On Monday and Tuesday, the British Museum temporarily closed its upper galleries “to ensure the comfort and safety of staff and visitors,” it said in a statement. The
  
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• Southeast Seattle’s Rainier Arts Center Celebrates 100th Birthday - South Seattle Emerald

  19-07-2022 22:22
  
  Southeast Seattle’s Rainier Arts Center Celebrates 100th Birthday  South Seattle Emerald
  
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• Brazilian Collector and Museum Benefactor, Gilberto Chateaubriand, Dies at 97

  19-07-2022 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Brazilian art collector and museum benefactor, Gilberto Chateaubriand, died last week at the age of 97 in São Paulo. During his lifetime, Chateaubriand amassed a sprawling collection of modern and contemporary art that is estimated to have spanned more than 8,000 works.
  Born in 1925 in Paris as Gilberto Francisco Renato Allard Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, he was the son of Brazilian media tycoon and lawyer Assis Chateaubriand, whose company Diários Associados oversaw a large swa
  
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• Midwest Salute to the Arts set for Aug. 26-28 - Alton Telegraph

  19-07-2022 22:17
  
  Midwest Salute to the Arts set for Aug. 26-28  Alton Telegraph
  
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• Toronto Police Make Arrest In Connection With Anti-Semitic Graffiti on Brian Jungen’s Massive ‘Couch Monster’

  19-07-2022 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  A man has been arrested in connection with the investigation into anti-Semitic graffiti found on artist Brian Jungen’s Couch Monster sculpture in Toronto last week.
  Toronto’s police department said that, on July 13 at 6:15 a.m., a man was seen spray painting the graffiti at the front of the sculpture, an enormous 11,000-pound figure of an elephant constructed from discarded leather couches and cast in bronze.
  A 53-year-old man, Paul Cote, was arrested two days later and charged with
  
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• Netflix Loses Nearly 1 Million Subscribers and Breathes a Sigh of Relief

  19-07-2022 22:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming giant, facing significant headwinds, had said it expected to lose two million subscribers in the second quarter.
  
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• The Arts in Montana Receive $757,602 in Relief Funding - the State of Montana NewsRoom

  19-07-2022 22:01
  The Arts in Montana Receive $757,602 in Relief Funding  the State of Montana NewsRoom
  
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• Netflix Loses 1 Million Subscribers and Breathes a Sigh of Relief

  19-07-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming giant, facing significant headwinds, had said it expected to lose two million subscribers in the second quarter.
  
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• ‘A Dark, Dark Man’ Review: Murder and Corruption in Kazakhstan

  19-07-2022 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  This exceptionally grim police procedural recalls films like Bong Joon Ho’s “Memories of Murder” and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.”
  
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• Juneteenth festival celebrates cultural arts in Leimert Park - lastandardnewspaper.com

  19-07-2022 21:51
  
  Juneteenth festival celebrates cultural arts in Leimert Park  lastandardnewspaper.com
  
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• Point Beach Arts Festival Puts Art In Beach Party - Patch

  19-07-2022 21:46
  
  Point Beach Arts Festival Puts Art In Beach Party  Patch
  
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• Brett Waterhouse, Arts Organizer and Advocate - Shepherd Express

  19-07-2022 21:32
  
  Brett Waterhouse, Arts Organizer and Advocate  Shepherd Express
  
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• Kindling Arts Festival returns as performing arts industry tackles Nashville's growing pains - Nashville Business Journal - The Business Journals

  19-07-2022 21:29
  Kindling Arts Festival returns as performing arts industry tackles Nashville's growing pains - Nashville Business Journal  The Business Journals
  
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• Vermont Arts Council executive director to depart - Vermont Biz

  19-07-2022 21:25
  Vermont Arts Council executive director to depart  Vermont Biz
  
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• Ritzi Jacobi, Maker of Mind-Bending Textile Art, Dies at 80

  19-07-2022 21:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Her monumental wall hangings and soft sculptures incorporated fiber-based materials as part of a “new tapestry” movement.
  
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• From the Archives: Claes Oldenburg’s Awakening

  19-07-2022 21:12 via artnews.com
  
  After the recent death of Claes Oldenburg, Art in America is looking back on a May 2012 feature in which Martin Friedman, former director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, attended to the major themes and motifs of the artist’s work.—Eds.
  CLAES OLDENBURG AND I were sitting outdoors at an Indian health food restaurant off Sunset Boulevard. It was a crisp sunny day in fall 1974. The restaurant had white-turbaned waiters, who smiled beatifically at the world. Whatever was being s
  
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• Omaha Performing Arts announces Steelhouse Omaha's opening date - Omaha World-Herald

  19-07-2022 20:34
  
  Omaha Performing Arts announces Steelhouse Omaha's opening date  Omaha World-Herald
  
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• Demolition season: 8th Street apartments, Bishop Arts cottages torn down - Oak Cliff Advocate

  19-07-2022 20:34
  
  Demolition season: 8th Street apartments, Bishop Arts cottages torn down  Oak Cliff Advocate
  
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• In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning

  19-07-2022 20:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Liska Jacobs’s novel sets a honeymooning couple in a posh Beverly Hills establishment during a summer of unrest in Los Angeles.
  
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• Christie’s Is Launching A Venture Fund Targeting Tech Companies With Art Impact

  19-07-2022 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s announced Monday that it has launched Christie’s Ventures, an investment fund that will target emerging tech companies whose product could have an impact on the art market.
  The auction house was one of the very first art institutions to understand the impact that NFTs could have on the art market and quickly arranged NFT sales that would end up profoundly changing the auction house and the larger art market. Of particular note is the March 2021 sale of digital artist Beepl
  
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• Why ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Author Delia Owens Is Wanted for Questioning

  19-07-2022 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The release of a movie based on the best-selling novel renewed questions about the author, Delia Owens, her time in Zambia and the shooting of a suspected poacher there.
  
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• Influencer fashion brand, furniture maker sign leases in Arts District - The Real Deal

  19-07-2022 19:56
  Influencer fashion brand, furniture maker sign leases in Arts District  The Real Deal
  
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• ART IN THE PARK IS BACK AT UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION - kqennewsradio.com

  19-07-2022 19:31
  ART IN THE PARK IS BACK AT UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION  kqennewsradio.com
  
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• ‘Aftershock’ Review: A Moving Ode to the Black Family

  19-07-2022 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Black mothers are dying from childbirth at alarming rates. A new documentary explains why.
  
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• Spanish Authorities Have Seized A Smuggled Drawing Attributed to Picasso Worth Nearly $500,000

  19-07-2022 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  Authorities seized a drawing attributed to Pablo Picasso after it was found in a passenger’s suitcase by Spanish customs officials in an Ibiza airport earlier this month, Spain’s customs office said in a statement Monday. The passenger, who was flying from Zurich, failed to declare the artwork.
  Picasso’s Trois Personnages (1966) is worth 450,000 Swiss francs ($464,658).
  One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Picasso was born in Spain but lived most o
  
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• Netflix Is Set to Announce Earnings

  19-07-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming giant, facing significant headwinds, has said it expected to lose two million subscribers in the second quarter.
  
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• SAN DIEGO RECOGNIZED BY OVATION TV FOR ITS STAND FOR THE ARTS INITIATIVE - PR Newswire

  19-07-2022 18:47
  
  SAN DIEGO RECOGNIZED BY OVATION TV FOR ITS STAND FOR THE ARTS INITIATIVE  PR Newswire
  
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• Celebrating ‘small town arts’ in Manitou - FOX21News.com

  19-07-2022 18:35
  Celebrating ‘small town arts’ in Manitou  FOX21News.com
  
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• State Arts Council announces Call for Artists for the galleries at Block Island Airport and GREEN SPACE at RI T.F. Green International Airport - What'sUpNewp

  19-07-2022 18:30
  
  State Arts Council announces Call for Artists for the galleries at Block Island Airport and GREEN SPACE at RI T.F. Green International Airport  What'sUpNewp
  
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• Geneva Arts Fair marks 20th year this weekend - Kane County Chronicle

  19-07-2022 18:30
  
  Geneva Arts Fair marks 20th year this weekend  Kane County Chronicle
  
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• Pace Gallery Closes Palo Alto Space After ‘Consolidating’ West Coast Operations

  19-07-2022 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  Having recently opened a new flagship in Los Angeles, Pace Gallery said it would close its space in Palo Alto, California, which it had operated since 2016.
  The Palo Alto location, which was sited about an hour outside San Francisco, was marketed as Pace’s attempt to tap a Silicon Valley collector base. When it first launched the space there, Pace had been tapping momentum spurred by the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s expansion.
  Pace’s Palo Alto gallery wil
  
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• Frieze London, Frieze Masters Name More Than 200 Galleries for Upcoming October Edition

  19-07-2022 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  The organizers of Frieze London and Frieze Masters have announced the over 200 galleries that will participate in both fairs that will run concurrently in Regent’s Park from October 12 to October 16.
  For Frieze London, which focuses primarily on post-war and contemporary art, more than 160 galleries will offer their wares in the British capital, including Lisson Gallery, Carlos/Ishikawa, Sadie Coles HQ, Taka Ishii Gallery, David Kordansky, Matthew Marks Gallery, Maureen Paley, Gallery Hyun
  
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• Three arts groups receive major grants from Miriam Rosenthal Foundation - Dayton Daily News

  19-07-2022 18:02
  Three arts groups receive major grants from Miriam Rosenthal Foundation  Dayton Daily News
  
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• A Behind-the-Scenes Eminence Shapes a Festival’s Future

  19-07-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Pierre Audi, the artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory, is coming into his own as the leader of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France.
  
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• Medina County Arts Week hits all the right notes - cleveland.com

  19-07-2022 17:34
  
  Medina County Arts Week hits all the right notes  cleveland.com
  
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• Lizzo’s Empowerment Pop Gets Stuck in the Same Groove

  19-07-2022 17:08 via nytimes.com
  
  “Special,” her second major-label album, gestures toward complexities that would broaden her image as the queen of the mirror pep talk, but retreats to her comfort zone.
  
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• Dr. Sarah Poggione named interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University - Ohio University

  19-07-2022 16:45
  Dr. Sarah Poggione named interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University  Ohio University
  
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• UNCW will kick off its 2022-2023 arts season in mid-September - WHQR

  19-07-2022 16:39
  
  UNCW will kick off its 2022-2023 arts season in mid-September  WHQR
  
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• Arts Glances: Group art show, ArtWaves birthday bash, teddy bear picnic - Mount Desert Islander - Mount Desert Islander

  19-07-2022 16:35
  
  Arts Glances: Group art show, ArtWaves birthday bash, teddy bear picnic - Mount Desert Islander  Mount Desert Islander
  
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• Local zine hosting visualiterary multimedia arts event during LA Arts Artwalk - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

  19-07-2022 16:19
  Local zine hosting visualiterary multimedia arts event during LA Arts Artwalk  Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel
  
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