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• Metro Arts Community Center Offers 'Plein Air in the Park' Painting Classes - LouisvilleKy.gov

  01-09-2022 22:19
  Metro Arts Community Center Offers 'Plein Air in the Park' Painting Classes  LouisvilleKy.gov
  
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• Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67

  01-09-2022 22:13 via nytimes.com
  She worked on early projects at Florentine Films, where Ken Burns, her husband for a time, would find fame with “The Civil War.”
  
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• ‘S.N.L.’ Loses Three More Cast Members

  01-09-2022 22:08 via nytimes.com
  Melissa Villaseñor, Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari are the latest performers to depart “Saturday Night Live.”
  
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• From the Archives: The Brilliance of Brancusi’s Bases

  01-09-2022 21:50 via artnews.com
  As we share our Sculpture issue this month, Art in America is looking back on a March 1990 feature in which artist Scott Burton argues persuasively for an understanding of Brancusi’s bases as works of art in their own right.—Eds.
  THE TABLE AND ITS DOUBLE
  MY EXCITEMENT OVER BRANCUSI focuses not on his works with humans and animal subjects, but on the architectural elements and works of furniture he created. The various kinds of seats and tables he made are especially fascina
  
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• Fall guide to the arts at the U - University of Miami: News@theU

  01-09-2022 21:38
  Fall guide to the arts at the U  University of Miami: News@theU
  
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• Closely Watched Photographer Awol Erizku Gets New York Gallery Representation

  01-09-2022 21:34 via artnews.com
  Awol Erizku, a photographer whose work appeared in major publications and museums, has joined the roster of Sean Kelly, which will represent him alongside Los Angeles’s Night Gallery and London’s Ben Brown Fine Arts.
  Erizku creates photographs and installations that consider the representation of Black sitters throughout history. Many know him for photographing a pregnant Beyoncé, although his pictures have also included a portrait of the poet Amanda Gorman and more conceptual
  
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• What Critics Are Saying About ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’

  01-09-2022 21:32 via nytimes.com
  Amazon’s expensive fantasy saga finally debuts on Thursday night. What do the critics think? Read on.
  
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• Venice: Can Iñárritu Beguile Oscar Voters Again With ‘Bardo’?

  01-09-2022 21:14 via nytimes.com
  The director behind award-season favorites ‘Birdman’ and ‘The Revenant’ returns with a personal new movie, but not everyone is a fan.
  
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• ‘The Cathedral’ Review: A Boy, a Home, a World

  01-09-2022 20:29 via nytimes.com
  In this striking, formally rigorous drama, the director Ricky D’Ambrose revisits his Long Island childhood with restraint and tenderness.
  
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• ‘Loving Highsmith’ Review: The Patricia You Didn’t Know

  01-09-2022 20:29 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary makes the case that under her hardened exterior, the novelist Patricia Highsmith was a longing romantic.
  
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• ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ Review: Resurrecting a Megachurch

  01-09-2022 20:29 via nytimes.com
  Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown star in this satire about a fallen megachurch pastor and his first lady praying and angling for a comeback.
  
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• ‘Our American Family’ Review: How Addiction Affects the Household

  01-09-2022 20:21 via nytimes.com
  In this intimate documentary, a Philadelphia family of six reels from a daughter’s recent overdose.
  
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• Review: In ‘On That Day in Amsterdam,’ a Traveler Becomes a Tourist

  01-09-2022 20:15 via nytimes.com
  Two young men wander the city before they both must say farewell and return to very different lives.
  
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• For a New School Year, Here Are the Best Drawing Tablets of 2022

  01-09-2022 20:00 via artnews.com
  Drawing tablets—aka pen tablets or graphics tablets—allow artists to digitally draw, paint, and edit photos while having the same tactile feel of a traditional sketchpad. For the most part, drawing tablets connect to a computer either wirelessly or via a USB cable, allowing you to hand-draw on the surface of the tablet with an included pen-like stylus. The strokes on the tablet appear on the computer screen, simulating the way a person draws with a pencil and paper. Though drawing ta
  
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• Lea Michele On ‘Funny Girl,’ ‘Glee,’ Her Career and Those Rumors

  01-09-2022 19:51 via nytimes.com
  She’s landed her dream role in “Funny Girl.” Now she’s tasked with rescuing the faltering Broadway show and proving that she is not the person she once was.
  
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• UNESCO Supports Ukraine Bid to Add Imperiled Port City of Odesa to World Heritage List

  01-09-2022 18:49 via artnews.com
  UNESCO announced on Tuesday that it supported a bid by Ukraine to add the historic port of Odesa to its World Heritage List of protected sites.
  Odesa, the Black Sea’s largest port and a key transit hub for Ukraine’s grain exports, is roughly seven miles from the frontline of the Russian invasion. Its cultural treasures include the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, an early 19th-century palace which housed more than 12,000 works before the war. Museum staff removed most of the collection for s
  
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• A Bracing Survey of Polish Feminist Art in Brooklyn Makes a Call for Women’s Rights

  01-09-2022 18:47 via artnews.com
  Among the many works of Polish feminist art on view at Brooklyn’s A.I.R. Gallery right now are two by artist and trained pianist Monika Weiss: the graphite drawing Nirbhaya II, from 2020, and the sound installation METAMORPHOSIS/DAFNE (NIRBHAYA), created last year. For the latter, you sit on a piano bench facing a blank wall as a sound composition in five movements emanates through noise-canceling headphones.
  It’s a disquieting experience. The composition is dedicated to victims of g
  
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• Zheng Bo Gets Intimate—and Political—with Plants

  01-09-2022 18:24 via artnews.com
  In Zheng Bo’s video Le Sacre du printemps (Tandvärkstallen) (2021–22), naked men gyrate passionately against trees in a verdant forest. They writhe and moan in ecstasy. At midpoint, the camera turns upside down as the men drop to the ground; what was frenzy dissipates into serenity as they lie still, their bodies melting onto the mossy floor. Zheng composed this 16-minute dance and film piece, currently on view at the 59th Venice Biennale, in collaboration with five Nordic dance
  
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• At Shakespeare’s Globe, a Nonbinary Joan of Arc Causes a Stir

  01-09-2022 18:19 via nytimes.com
  Even before the production debuted, it had inflamed a rancorous debate about sex and gender that plays out almost daily in Britain.
  
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• Venice: Noah Baumbach Finds the Music in ‘White Noise’

  01-09-2022 18:14 via nytimes.com
  An end-credits dance scene, set to a new LCD Soundsystem song, is the talk of the fest. The director explains how it came together and what it means for “Barbie.”
  
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• ‘The Book of Delights’ Review: A Heady Romance

  01-09-2022 18:12 via nytimes.com
  A schoolteacher’s odyssey into erotic self-discovery and existential desire fuels this Brazilian drama, which is based on a novel by Clarice Lispector.
  
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• Fall 2022 Visual Arts and Drama classes for children, Saturdays - Illinois State University News

  01-09-2022 17:48
  Fall 2022 Visual Arts and Drama classes for children, Saturdays  Illinois State University News
  
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• AI-Generated Artwork Goes Viral After Winning Award at State Fair

  01-09-2022 17:17 via artnews.com
  The debate around AI art went viral once again when a man won first place at the Colorado State Fair’s art competition in the digital category with a work he made using text-to-image AI generator Midjourney.
  Twitter user and digital artist Genel Jumalon tweeted out a screenshot from a Discord channel in which user Sincarnate, aka game designer Jason Allen, celebrated his win at the fair. Jumalon wrote, “Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first p
  
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• At Lincoln Center, Addicted to Swing and Back on the Dance Floor

  01-09-2022 16:50 via nytimes.com
  After a pandemic hiatus, dancing under the stars has returned, uniting old friends and acquaintances.
  
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• ‘Gigi & Nate’ Review: A Tender Bond

  01-09-2022 16:47 via nytimes.com
  A young man with quadriplegia and his helper monkey pair up in this overstuffed feel-good drama.
  
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• Fall Exhibitions That Widen the Beaten Path

  01-09-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Fall exhibitions capture a period during which art and art history have been in flux, to our great benefit, including a deep dive into four centuries of lace and the New Museum’s survey of the polymathic Theaster Gates.
  
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• An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths at the Met Museum

  01-09-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Bijayini Satpathy has been remaking herself as an artist with the help of a residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  
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• Richmond Monuments Head to MOCA L.A., California Biennial Returns, and More: Morning Links from September 1, 2022

  01-09-2022 15:30 via artnews.com
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  MONUMENTS MAN. Four of Richmond’s Confederate monuments are officially coming to the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles for a 2023 exhibition called “Monuments,” which is being spearheaded by curator Hamza Walker. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, one of those removed statues is a monument
  
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• Kiaf’s Satellite Fair for Emerging Galleries Kicks Off in Seoul with a Heaping of NFTs

  01-09-2022 15:20 via artnews.com
  As the international art world descends on Seoul, Kiaf Plus, the first in a trio of fairs that also includes Frieze’s first edition in the city, has officially opened. The fair is a satellite to Kiaf, a bigger, long-established edition, and its VIP preview was held on Thursday afternoon at the SETEC convention.
  Kiaf Plus focuses on emerging artists, in particular ones working in digital media, with works like NFTs. This tightly curated fair has numerous exhibitors from across Korea, a majo
  
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• Kiaf’s Satellite Fair for Emerging Galleries Kicks Off in Seoul with a Heap of NFTs

  01-09-2022 15:20 via artnews.com
  As the international art world descends on Seoul, Kiaf Plus, the first in a trio of fairs that also includes Frieze’s first edition in the city, has officially opened. The fair is a satellite to Kiaf, a bigger, long-established edition, and its VIP preview was held on Thursday afternoon at the SETEC convention.
  Kiaf Plus focuses on emerging artists, in particular, those working in digital media, including NFTs. This tightly curated fair has numerous exhibitors from across Korea, a majority
  
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• ‘Peter Von Kant’ Review: Fassbinder and Friends

  01-09-2022 15:02 via nytimes.com
  The prolific French director François Ozon puts a metatextual spin on “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” the classic German tale of amour fou.
  
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• Digital Foundation APENFT’s Call For Submissions

  01-09-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  The digital art marketplace APENFT Foundation has announced its second open call for submissions for its $100 million Art Dream Fund. The contest will select 14 winners, who will share cash prizes totaling more than $100,000 across four award categories and have their works displayed in online and offline exhibitions, art fairs, and auctions internationally. Winners will also be connected with opportunities to participate in workshops and artist residencies, collaborate with renowned brands, and
  
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• Massive 3,000-Year-Old Mythical Bronze Creature Unearthed in China

  01-09-2022 14:28 via artnews.com
  A large mythical creature cast in bronze, among other relics, was found Wednesday at Sanxingdui, an archaelogical site in southwest China. The artifact, weighing 330 pounds with a length and height of 3 feet, is the largest and most complete animal-shaped bronze unearthed at the site.
  The massive animal has a sacred tree engraved on its chest and a horn on its head with a bronze statue of a man standing on it. The figure’s thin frame is clothed in a long robe. Archaeologists believe the ma
  
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• ‘Waiting for Bojangles’ Review: Endless Love

  01-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Set in Paris in the 1960s, the film tells the story of two irrepressible lovers, and their young son, whose tale turns tragic.
  
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• ‘Saloum’ Review: A Paranormal Showdown in the Desert

  01-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A team of African mercenaries encounters supernatural foes in this fable-like adventure.
  
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• ‘McEnroe’ Review: Regrets, He’s Had a Few

  01-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this documentary about his life and career, the tennis player John McEnroe, known for his temper, doesn’t bother trying to apologize for his behavior.
  
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• ‘Kaepernick & America’ Review: A Narrative

  01-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A documentary examines race in football via Colin Kaepernick’s career.
  
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• ‘Burial’ Review: Corpse Ride

  01-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The film, about a Russian intelligence officer’s covert mission at the end of World War II, begins on a suspenseful note, but the tension soon dissipates.
  
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• Restitution Lawsuit Over $250 M. Guelph Treasure Is Dismissed by U.S. Court

  01-09-2022 12:00 via artnews.com
  A U.S. Court dismissed a 2015 restitution lawsuit over the Guelph Treasure, a trove of medieval devotional objects that the heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers claimed had been sold under duress.
  The lawsuit had been filed against the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), which manages state-run museums in and around Berlin. The court dismissed the case because it said it could not be decided in the U.S.
  The Guelph Treasure, also known in German as the Welfenschatz, includes 82 objects, amo
  
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• How to Decorate an Empty Space

  01-09-2022 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Questions on filling a home, carving out guest quarters, deciding whether to choose marble and finding a decent-looking light switch.
  
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• Designer Leena Similu Leaves Fashion for Ceramics in Los Angeles

  01-09-2022 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Once the head of women’s wear for Stella McCartney and Jil Sander, Leena Similu has taken a 180-degree turn into ceramics.
  
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• Household Goods That Wear Their Fashion Influences on Their Sleeves

  01-09-2022 11:01 via nytimes.com
  It can be a short step from a runway look to a home furnishing — especially if the designer has a foot in both worlds.
  
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• From Ralph Lauren to Louis Vuitton, Who Dressed Your Living Room?

  01-09-2022 11:01 via nytimes.com
  For three-quarters of a century, the $1.7 trillion global fashion industry has found opportunity in home furnishings.
  
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• 18 Books Coming in September

  01-09-2022 11:01 via nytimes.com
  New novels from Stephen King, Elizabeth Strout and Maggie O’Farrell; stories by Ling Ma and David Means; and plenty more.
  
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• Things to Do in Seattle: Art Museums, Restaurants and More

  01-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The pandemic may have left some gaps in the urban fabric, but a neighborhood-by-neighborhood rundown of new restaurants and art events reveals that recovery is well underway.
  
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• ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Is Shiny but Not Yet Precious

  01-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Amazon’s pricey, gorgeous fantasy spectacle delivers what fans expect, but it could thrive by giving them what they don’t.
  
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• New Books Tackle Postmodern Buildings and Architects’ Toys

  01-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  New books on gnarly trees with pedigrees, lost Miami buildings and vintage construction toys, along with a deep dive into African textiles.
  
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• Michael Schultz on Breaking the Mold for Black Directors

  01-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  At 83, the filmmaker behind “Cooley High” and “Car Wash” may be the longest-working Black director in history. His own story is a Hollywood epic.
  
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• Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On

  01-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  She’s landed her dream role in “Funny Girl.” Now she’s tasked with rescuing the faltering Broadway show and proving that she is not the person she once was.
  
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• Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust

  01-09-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” coming to PBS Sept. 18, examines the reasons behind the country’s inadequate response to Germany’s persecution of Jews.
  
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