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• As ‘Come From Away’ Closes, a Newfoundlander Heads Back Home

  03-10-2022 23:45 via nytimes.com
  The Canadian actress Petrina Bromley has been in the cast during the show’s surprise hit run on Broadway. It resonated because “it’s about kindness,” she says.
  
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• George Baselitz Calls for Removal of Nazi-Era Painting in Munich Museum

  03-10-2022 23:15 via artnews.com
  German artist Georg Baselitz has called for the removal of a painting from the permanent collection of a Munich museum, claiming that it has ties to the Nazi regime.In a letter to Bernhard Maaz,director of the Munich State Painting Collections, and Markus Blume, German’s art minister, Baselitz criticized the Pinakothek der Moderne for displaying the painting. He called the work “Nazi propaganda” and said its continued installation at museum was “shocking.”Baselitz h
  
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• Department of Arts & Culture Selects Four Local Creatives for a Year Long, Paid Artist Residency - City of Albuquerque

  03-10-2022 23:09 via cabq.gov
  Department of Arts & Culture Selects Four Local Creatives for a Year Long, Paid Artist Residency  City of Albuquerque
  
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• Head of Hermitage Museum’s Contemporary Art Department Quits in Protest of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

  03-10-2022 23:06 via artnews.com
  Dimitri Ozerkov, the longtime head of the contemporary art department at the State Hermitage Museum in Moscow, has left his post as a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.“I left because I don’t intend to have anything in common with today’s Russia,” Ozkerov wrote in an extended statement posted to Instagram.He said that the he made the choice leave back in March, soon after the invasion began. “The final decision,” Ozerkov said, came after the p
  
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• UVM introduces new School of the Arts - Vermont Biz

  03-10-2022 22:51 via vermontbiz.com
  UVM introduces new School of the Arts  Vermont Biz
  
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• With Ascension of King Charles III, Ethiopian Government Renews Calls for the Restitution of its Holy Tabot from Westminster Abbey

  03-10-2022 22:42 via artnews.com
  The Ethiopian government is renewing calls for the restitution of a holy object hidden inside an alter in London’s Westminster Abbey. For the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the tablet, known as a tabot, represents the Ark of the Covenant, and it is considered sacrilege for it to be seen by anyone other than clergy. The tabot in Westminster was looted in 1868 by British troops at the Battle of Maqdala, along with hundreds of other cultural treasures looted.The procedure
  
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• Biden Reinstates Arts Committee Disbanded Under Trump Administration

  03-10-2022 22:14 via artnews.com
  On Friday President Joe Biden issued an executive order reinstating the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory group of cultural experts that disbanded in 2017 when its members, many holdovers from the Obama administration, collectively resigned in response to Donald Trump’s response to the Charlottesville riots.In a letter signed by 17 members of the committee, which included artist Chuck Close, architect Thom Mayne, author Jhumpa Lahiri, and comedian Kal
  
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• 3000-Year-Old Sarcophagus of King Ramses II’s Treasurer Found in Egypt

  03-10-2022 22:05 via artnews.com
  The huge granite sarcophagus of King Ramses II’s treasurer, Ptah-em-wia, was discovered by archaelogists at Saqqara, an ancient necropolis roughly 20 miles south of Cairo.The surface of the coffin was complete with inscriptions dedicated to the late treasurer, which helped researchers confirm identification. The inscriptions detailed his closeness to Ramses II and included emblems of deities such as the sky goddess Nut to protect the deceased.The burial chamber and sarcophagus, which have
  
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• Museums in Florida Reopen their Doors in the Aftermath of Hurricane Ian 

  03-10-2022 20:29 via artnews.com
  Last week, Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. Officials are still assessing the damage: hundreds of thousands are without power. Floodwaters are so still high some citizens are commuting by kayak, while others wait for search and rescue missions. As the government works on restoring critical infrastructure, art institutions across the state are returning to business as somewhat normal.The Tampa Museum of Art, situated along Florida’s Gulf Coast, escaped any s
  
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• Coming Soon: Met Operas Streamed Live Into Your Living Room

  03-10-2022 20:20 via nytimes.com
  The company said it would begin offering live simulcasts this month on its website — but only for some customers.
  
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• Victoria and Albert Museum Reverses Course and Removes Sackler Name

  03-10-2022 20:18 via nytimes.com
  The museum’s director had previously said he was not going to erase the name of the Sackler family, which founded Purdue Pharma, the creator of an addictive opioid painkiller.
  
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• ‘Mud/Drowning’ Review: 3 Fools, 3 Kooks, 2 Bizarre Plays

  03-10-2022 20:17 via nytimes.com
  A new production of two of María Irene Fornés’s short plays, “Mud” and “Drowning,” tries to accentuate the weirdness of the playwright’s worlds but too often overreaches.
  
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• An Opera Festival That Keeps Faith With Shutdown’s Innovations

  03-10-2022 20:13 via nytimes.com
  Festival O, back for the first time since 2019, featured two works of dazed horror and a rare staging of Rossini’s “Otello.”
  
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• A New Kind of Cultural Center Opens in the West Village

  03-10-2022 20:11 via artnews.com
  The Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA) opened this past weekend in a burst of song from South African artist and composer Neo Muyanga, who staged multiple performances of his new piece A Mass of Cyborgs. A collaboration between Muyanga and the Unsung, a collective of Black singers, the innovative choral work brought together Muyaunga’s interest in the African diaspora, the slave trade, cyborgs, and the song Amazing Grace in one stunning, constantly evolving musical performance.
  
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• Steve Lacy’s Streaming Smash ‘Bad Habit’ Climbs to No. 1

  03-10-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  A left-field hit from a 24-year-old master of alternative R&B displaces Harry Styles’s “As It Was” as the top single, while Bad Bunny logs a 12th week atop the album chart.
  
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• Behind Wilco’s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,’ a Band Breaking Its Heart

  03-10-2022 19:46 via nytimes.com
  A 20th-anniversary boxed set and a documentary from last year focused on a former band member help explain the growing pains that plagued the rock band as it completed “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.”
  
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• Will Smith Film ‘Emancipation’ Will Be Released in December

  03-10-2022 18:55 via nytimes.com
  Apple said the movie, Mr. Smith’s first since his infamous slap at the Oscars, would be in theaters on Dec. 2 and begin streaming on Dec. 9.
  
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• Controversial Artist Santiago Sierra Designed the Muddy Balenciaga Runway That Ye Walked Down

  03-10-2022 17:33 via artnews.com
  Santiago Sierra, a Spanish artist who regularly invites controversy with his provocative pieces, designed the mud-drenched runway for Balenciaga’s Paris Fashion Week show this past weekend.That show earned plaudits from critics such as the New York Times’s Vanessa Friedman, who reported in her review of it that Sierra had utilized 275 cubic meters of mud that he had trucked in from a French peat bog. Demna, the designer at the helm of Balenciaga, said the set was meant to be about &l
  
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• The Cop Show Enters the ‘Defund’ Era

  03-10-2022 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Widespread concerns over policing after the killing of George Floyd did not end the police drama as we know it. But shows are evolving to reflect the new climate.
  
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• Cop TV Shows: A Brief History of the Police Procedural

  03-10-2022 17:30 via nytimes.com
  The genre dates back to the dawn of television, but it has evolved over the years.
  
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• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Unveils Free, Innovative Digital Platform for Teaching Artists and Older Adults - Pennsylvania Pressroom

  03-10-2022 17:22 via media.pa.gov
  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Unveils Free, Innovative Digital Platform for Teaching Artists and Older Adults  Pennsylvania Pressroom
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Bad Cinderella’ to Open on Broadway in March

  03-10-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The musical, which was known simply as “Cinderella” during a previous run in London, is a new adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
  
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• In Print: Disability Culture

  03-10-2022 15:34 via artnews.com
  There have been very few issues of art magazines devoted to disability. There ought to be more. As Art in America associate editor Emily Watlington, who took the lead on this issue, writes in her essay “Our Work Is Working,” disabled artists have been crucial to progress in disability justice and the art world in general, whether through storytelling, empathy-building, or outright activism. These artists place disability where it belongs: at the heart of creativity itself.In the arti
  
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• Met Plans Lagerfeld Show, Santiago Sierra Creates Muddy Balenciaga Runway, and More: Morning Links for October 3, 2022

  03-10-2022 14:02 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesFASHION MODA. The work of the late designer Karl Lagerfeld will be the theme of the next Met Gala in New York, the Associated Press reports. On the calendar for May 1, the festivities will be tied to the opening of the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” at the Met’s Costume Inst
  
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• Michael Shnayerson to Pen ‘Unauthorized’ Larry Gagosian Biography Published by Simon & Schuster Imprint

  03-10-2022 12:00 via artnews.com
  Michael Shnayerson, the noted art-world chronicler and longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor, will add another biography to his oeuvre, one that is likely to be hotly anticipated. This one will be about mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, whose empire of 19 galleries spans New York to London to Paris to Hong Kong.After publishing Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers and the Rise of Contemporary Art, a 2019 book about the rapid growth of the art market, Shnayerson will now turn his attention to one of that t
  
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• Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece

  03-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Excavations in the Peloponnesian village of Iklaina are yielding rich insights into the lives of the Mycenaean civilization’s general population.
  
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• Les Rallizes Dénudés: Unraveling One of Rock’s Deep Mysteries

  03-10-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Japanese band that emerged in the late 1960s was known for its rumbling rhythms and ear-shredding feedback — but almost nothing was known about its leader, Takashi Mizutani.
  
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• Sacheen Littlefeather, Activist Who Rejected Brando’s Oscar, Dies at 75

  03-10-2022 10:26 via nytimes.com
  The actress was booed at the Academy Awards in 1973 after she refused the best actor award on Marlon Brando’s behalf in protest of Hollywood’s depictions of Native Americans.
  
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• PA Council on the Arts Unveils Free, Innovative Digital Platform for Teaching Artists and Older Adults - Pennsylvania Pressroom

  03-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  PA Council on the Arts Unveils Free, Innovative Digital Platform for Teaching Artists and Older Adults  Pennsylvania Pressroom
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘The Real Love Boat’

  03-10-2022 07:00 via nytimes.com
  The long-running medical drama on ABC begins its 19th season, and CBS airs a reality series inspired by the 1976 TV show.
  
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• Holyland Is the Perfect Mixed-Martial Arts Manga for Fans of UFC - CBR - Comic Book Resources

  03-10-2022 04:12 via cbr.com
  Holyland Is the Perfect Mixed-Martial Arts Manga for Fans of UFC  CBR - Comic Book Resources
  
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• APSU Mondays: New houses, case studies, aliens and arts - The Leaf-Chronicle

  03-10-2022 04:08 via theleafchronicle.com
  APSU Mondays: New houses, case studies, aliens and arts  The Leaf-Chronicle
  
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• ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: An Ugly Game

  03-10-2022 04:05 via nytimes.com
  This week’s episode wove an enormous amount of objectively bonkers goings-on into a mostly credible hour of drama, with one big exception.
  
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• Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World

  03-10-2022 04:00 via nytimes.com
  The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
  
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• How CMA Foundation hopes to boost arts education across Tennessee - Tennessean

  03-10-2022 04:00 via tennessean.com
  How CMA Foundation hopes to boost arts education across Tennessee  Tennessean
  
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• Review: Revisiting ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’

  03-10-2022 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Elevator Repair Service, the experimental theater company, brings to life the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr.
  
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• Blending crafts and agriculture: Garlic and Arts Festival attracts thousands in 24th year - The Recorder

  03-10-2022 02:56 via recorder.com
  Blending crafts and agriculture: Garlic and Arts Festival attracts thousands in 24th year  The Recorder
  
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• 17th Annual Creekside Music & Arts Festival - AskFlagler

  03-10-2022 02:46 via askflagler.com
  17th Annual Creekside Music & Arts Festival  AskFlagler
  
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• Arts Archives • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CAThe Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA - The Mendocino Voice

  03-10-2022 02:31 via mendovoice.com
  Arts Archives • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CAThe Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA  The Mendocino Voice
  
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• 2022 American Indian Arts Festival featured at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center - KRQE News 13

  03-10-2022 01:57 via krqe.com
  2022 American Indian Arts Festival featured at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center  KRQE News 13
  
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• 18th annual Waco Cultural Arts Fest brings in thousands - KWKT - FOX 44

  03-10-2022 01:16 via fox44news.com
  18th annual Waco Cultural Arts Fest brings in thousands  KWKT - FOX 44
  
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• Arts Academy of Sedona October events feature a one-woman play, a Broadway revue, monthly game night & a Sedona 'soul jam' dance night - Verde Independent

  03-10-2022 01:09 via verdenews.com
  Arts Academy of Sedona October events feature a one-woman play, a Broadway revue, monthly game night & a Sedona 'soul jam' dance night  Verde Independent
  
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• Riverwalk arts festival slated for Oct. 8 | Arts and Entertainment | nny360.com - NNY360

  03-10-2022 01:02 via nny360.com
  Riverwalk arts festival slated for Oct. 8 | Arts and Entertainment | nny360.com  NNY360
  
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• Palm Springs: Where to Experience Arts and Culture - Palm Springs Life

  03-10-2022 00:11 via palmspringslife.com
  Palm Springs: Where to Experience Arts and Culture  Palm Springs Life
  
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