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• Art by Whitewater Arts Alliance Members shown from Nov. 4 to Dec. 18 - Daily Union

  03-11-2022 23:32 via news.google.com
  Art by Whitewater Arts Alliance Members shown from Nov. 4 to Dec. 18  Daily Union
  
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• NY’s UJA-Federation funds new arts education campus in downtown Jerusalem - JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

  03-11-2022 23:16 via news.google.com
  NY’s UJA-Federation funds new arts education campus in downtown Jerusalem  JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  
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• Bellevue Gathering Celebrates the Arts and Their Impact - 425business.com

  03-11-2022 23:15 via news.google.com
  Bellevue Gathering Celebrates the Arts and Their Impact  425business.com
  
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• Payne County educators hone creativity at Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute - Stillwater News Press

  03-11-2022 23:13 via news.google.com
  Payne County educators hone creativity at Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute  Stillwater News Press
  
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• First ever Hoopers Island Chalk Arts Festival coming Saturday - 47abc - WMDT

  03-11-2022 22:48 via news.google.com
  First ever Hoopers Island Chalk Arts Festival coming Saturday - 47abc  WMDT
  
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• The Lightning Field: How Walter De Maria’s Land Art Lodestar Communes with Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, and Web3

  03-11-2022 22:14 via artnews.com
  It’s more colorful on the high desert plains of western New Mexico’s remote Catron County than most Americans probably think: a rainbow of gold, sanguine, and umber, blotted with shocks of assertive teals and jades, and accents of muted violet. A dozen miles east of the Continental Divide, at an elevation of 7,200 feet, the sky is inescapable, glowing so blue that it borders on the psychedelic. Here, in 1977, Walter De Maria, along with a small army of surveyors, engineers, contracto
  
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• Contest shines a spotlight on student research in the arts and humanities - University of Georgia

  03-11-2022 22:13 via news.google.com
  Contest shines a spotlight on student research in the arts and humanities  University of Georgia
  
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• Couple launches Washougal Songcraft Festival to promote local songwriting, performing arts - Camas Washougal Post Record

  03-11-2022 22:02 via news.google.com
  Couple launches Washougal Songcraft Festival to promote local songwriting, performing arts  Camas Washougal Post Record
  
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• Manhattan Prosecutors Return 7th-Century Cambodian Statue Sold by Dealer Doris Wiener

  03-11-2022 21:59 via artnews.com
  Another piece that passed through a disgraced dealer’s New York gallery has gone back to Southeast Asia. On Wednesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced the return of a Vishnu statue from a 7th-century temple to Cambodia. The statue was given over in a repatriation ceremony attended by United States ambassador Keo Chhea and a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations team.The district attorney’s office of Alvin L. Bragg said the Cambodian statue was b
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: Frida, dance, puppets and more - KPBS

  03-11-2022 21:43 via news.google.com
  San Diego weekend arts events: Frida, dance, puppets and more  KPBS
  
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• Climate Activists‘ ‘Attacks on Art‘ Are ’Misdirected,’ U.S. Museum Group Says

  03-11-2022 21:27 via artnews.com
  The Association of Art Museum Directors, a prominent museum group that includes many of the most important art institutions in the U.S. and Canada, released a statement speaking out against climate activists’ recent protests in Europe, which have sometimes involved flinging liquids at artworks.These protests have taken place at a range of widely visited institutions, from the Uffizi Galleries in Florence to the Royal Academy in the Hague. The U.K.-based group Just Stop Oil has led a number
  
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• Kristin Chenoweth concert canceled at Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center - KTUL

  03-11-2022 21:20 via news.google.com
  Kristin Chenoweth concert canceled at Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center  KTUL
  
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• The Best Booths at an ADAA Art Show Filled with Memorable Presentations by History’s Most Under-Recognized Artists

  03-11-2022 21:19 via artnews.com
  Currently celebrating its 60th year, the Art Dealers Association of America opened this year’s edition of its annual fair, the Art Show, last night at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. The opening was part of a benefit gala benefiting the Henry Street Settlement. Gathering 78 exhibitors from its membership, this year’s Art Show is as elegant as ever, with an emphasis on solo presentations highlighting the work of under-recognized historical artists like Pacita Abad, Geoffrey Holde
  
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• Susan Begy's mural 'Entanglement' connects Rochester's arts community - Rochester City Newspaper

  03-11-2022 21:15 via news.google.com
  Susan Begy's mural 'Entanglement' connects Rochester's arts community  Rochester City Newspaper
  
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• A Fair Where the Art Shines (Grandstanding Not Required)

  03-11-2022 21:12 via nytimes.com
  This year’s Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory cuts through the noise of politics. Painting reigns supreme, but the standouts include ceramics and works on paper.
  
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• Artists Revisit Their Bronx Walls of Fame

  03-11-2022 20:36 via nytimes.com
  John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres spent decades capturing the verve and scruff of Bronx residents in plaster and paint. A survey at the Bronx Museum — their first in 30 years — brings their vision home.
  
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• Less than a year after suffering strokes, Reno woman qualifies for pole arts world championships - Reno Gazette Journal

  03-11-2022 20:23 via news.google.com
  Less than a year after suffering strokes, Reno woman qualifies for pole arts world championships  Reno Gazette Journal
  
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• California Institute of the Arts Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary - Hyperallergic

  03-11-2022 19:55 via news.google.com
  California Institute of the Arts Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary  Hyperallergic
  
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• Rodney Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Starred in His Work, Dies at 73

  03-11-2022 19:33 via nytimes.com
  As both an artist and a model, he created alternative worlds where ordinary characters seemed extraordinary.
  
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• Arcural, an Art Basel-Funded Blockchain Startup, Launched Today

  03-11-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  Art Basel’s parent company MCH Group and the LUMA Foundation, a Zurich based arts nonprofit, have launched Arcural, a blockchain startup dedicated to the needs of the art world. Arcural is a new blockchain that makes smart contracts that are specifically constructed for the art world, as opposed to the NFT world. These smart contracts offer artists, galleries, institutions, and collectors a standardized way of logging provenance and sales agreements, while also distributing royalties and p
  
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• Arcual, an Art Basel-Funded Blockchain Startup, Launched Today

  03-11-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  Art Basel’s parent company MCH Group and the LUMA Foundation, a Zurich based arts nonprofit, have launched Arcual, a blockchain startup dedicated to the needs of the art world. Arcual is a new blockchain that makes smart contracts that are specifically constructed for the art world, as opposed to the NFT world. These smart contracts offer artists, galleries, institutions, and collectors a standardized way of logging provenance and sales agreements, while also distributing royalties and pro
  
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• Barton's Friends of Visual Arts Welcomes CAM Exhibitions Curator Liz Hull to Speak on November 15 - Barton College

  03-11-2022 19:23 via news.google.com
  Barton's Friends of Visual Arts Welcomes CAM Exhibitions Curator Liz Hull to Speak on November 15  Barton College
  
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• The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics

  03-11-2022 19:21 via nytimes.com
  David Geffen Hall reopened with a month of concerts that sketched a possible future for the New York Philharmonic. Now it’s back to business.
  
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• ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Any Odd? He Beat It.

  03-11-2022 18:58 via nytimes.com
  The parody musician makes a joke of his own life, with the help of Daniel Radcliffe, in this uproarious sham biopic.
  
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• DEI in the arts is a long but necessary process, local leaders say - MiBiz: West Michigan Business News

  03-11-2022 18:24 via news.google.com
  DEI in the arts is a long but necessary process, local leaders say  MiBiz: West Michigan Business News
  
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• On-sale date established for Moss Arts Center dual - VT hokiesports.com

  03-11-2022 18:22 via news.google.com
  On-sale date established for Moss Arts Center dual  VT hokiesports.com
  
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• Review: Ayodele Casel Returns to the Joyce With ‘Chasing Magic’

  03-11-2022 18:21 via nytimes.com
  Originally a virtual production earlier in the pandemic, this live version features an improvised duet between Casel and the pianist Arturo O’Farrill.
  
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• At Tribeca Gala, Art Insiders Raise $2.7 M. for Medical Care and Emerging Artists

  03-11-2022 18:16 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday night, collectors and artists gathered in Tribeca for a gala staged by New York’s Rema Hort Mann Foundation — a philanthropic organization dedicated to funding medical support for cancer patients that has forged deep roots in the city’s cultural sector as a longtime backer of emerging artists.Guests convened for cocktails at Tribeca 360 on Desbrosses Street to view a selection of works donated by contemporary artists auctioned off later in the night. 120 works in tot
  
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• Italian Prime Minister and Uffizi director exchange blows over the museum’s closure on a national holiday

  03-11-2022 18:12 via artnews.com
  Italian culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, who was appointed last month, had harsh words for Florence’s Uffizi Galleries, which closed its doors on Monday in recognition of All Saint’s Day, a national holiday in Italy. Despite the fact that the celebrated museum is normally closed on Mondays, Sangiuliano said locking the doors was a “very serious” issue as thousands of culture-hungry tourists were denied access to the painting and sculpture galleries (the Giardino di B
  
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• ‘Causeway’ Review: Companions on a Hard Road to Recovery

  03-11-2022 18:12 via nytimes.com
  Superb acting from Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry brings credibility to an underdeveloped story of trauma and friendship.
  
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• ‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth

  03-11-2022 18:01 via nytimes.com
  In Bolivia’s official submission to the next Oscars, an old Quechua couple struggle to find water to sustain them, their crops and llamas.
  
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• Exclusive: Fine Arts Museums of S.F. to unveil 3 major artists’ exhibitions in 2023 - SF Chronicle Datebook

  03-11-2022 18:01 via news.google.com
  Exclusive: Fine Arts Museums of S.F. to unveil 3 major artists’ exhibitions in 2023  SF Chronicle Datebook
  
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• Croatia Takes a Step Toward Returning Art Looted During the Holocaust

  03-11-2022 17:48 via nytimes.com
  A study released jointly by the government and the World Jewish Restitution Organization details the plunder from Jewish estates and lists some of the works still held in Croatian museums.
  
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• When Technology Makes Music More Accessible

  03-11-2022 17:47 via nytimes.com
  In Britain and Ireland, a series of recent projects show the rich possibilities when disability and neurodiversity are considered in the creative process.
  
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• Google to Rollout App for AI-Generated Artwork, Complicating Copyright Worries

  03-11-2022 17:24 via artnews.com
  A new Google feature will let consumers use artificial intelligence to bring their fantastical creations to (digital) life by just typing a few words. The app, which Bloomberg reported Thursday is currently under development, will have two functions: users can construct cities with its “City Dreamer” function, or customize a family-friendly cartoon monster with its “Wobble” feature. The tools will be available through Google’s AI Test Kitchen app, Douglas Eck,
  
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• Google to Roll Out App for AI-Generated Artwork, Complicating Copyright Worries

  03-11-2022 17:24 via artnews.com
  A new Google feature will let consumers use artificial intelligence to bring their fantastical creations to (digital) life by just typing a few words. The app, which Bloomberg reported Thursday is currently under development, will have two functions: users can construct cities with its “City Dreamer” function, or customize a family-friendly cartoon monster with its “Wobble” feature. The tools will be available through Google’s AI Test Kitchen app, Douglas Eck,
  
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• Belgian Climate Protestors Sentenced to Prison for Targeting ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’

  03-11-2022 17:15 via artnews.com
  Two activists in Belgium have been sentenced to two months in prison for a protest in which one person glued their hand to the wall next to Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring while another attempted to paste his head to the painting. The painting was unharmed. According to the Guardian, the public prosecutor had requested four months in prison with two months suspended, saying in a hearing, “An artwork hanging there for all of us to enjoy has been smeared by defendants who
  
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• Newsroom | Iphigenia Opens as Inaugural Performance at the Prior Performing Arts Center - Holy Cross News

  03-11-2022 17:10 via news.google.com
  Newsroom | Iphigenia Opens as Inaugural Performance at the Prior Performing Arts Center  Holy Cross News
  
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• Alex Katz’s Massive Guggenheim Retrospective Is the Season’s Biggest Disappointment

  03-11-2022 17:00 via artnews.com
  What would painting today look like without Alex Katz? Depending on who you ask, the answers will vary greatly, but chances are almost everyone in the New York art world has an opinion. You may not like Katz, who recently turned 95, but the fact that everyone can’t stop talking about him and his work certainly counts for something.Katz’s fans, of which there are many, will point to his paintings’ reliable formula as a sign of his brilliance: stylish figures placed in vacant set
  
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• A Deluge of Art at the Carnegie International

  03-11-2022 16:51 via nytimes.com
  A hugely ambitious show, the 58th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, leaves our critic wondering just who, or what, art exhibitions like this are for.
  
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• We Care Arts names new executive director - Dayton Daily News

  03-11-2022 16:06 via news.google.com
  We Care Arts names new executive director  Dayton Daily News
  
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• ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife

  03-11-2022 16:01 via nytimes.com
  In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s sprawling, intensely personal new film, a prominent journalist grapples with work, family, metaphysics and the paradoxes of Mexican history.
  
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• ‘Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams’ Review: For the Heel of It

  03-11-2022 15:51 via nytimes.com
  Luca Guadagnino’s documentary about the celebrated Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo reaches for romance and glamour, but falters during transitions.
  
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• John David Washington Gets an Education in ‘The Piano Lesson’

  03-11-2022 15:44 via nytimes.com
  The actor adds to his body of knowledge with a starry production of the August Wilson play and a once-in-a-lifetime moment with Robert De Niro on “Amsterdam.”
  
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• Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’

  03-11-2022 15:38 via nytimes.com
  Created half a century apart, two exhibitions in Los Angeles by two painters make ardent cases for abstraction.
  
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• Get creative with Holiday Session classes at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond - WRIC ABC 8News

  03-11-2022 15:34 via news.google.com
  Get creative with Holiday Session classes at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond  WRIC ABC 8News
  
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• Wicker Park's Flat Iron Arts Building Sells To New Owners For First Time In 3 Decades - Block Club Chicago

  03-11-2022 15:20 via news.google.com
  Wicker Park's Flat Iron Arts Building Sells To New Owners For First Time In 3 Decades  Block Club Chicago
  
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• ‘Soft & Quiet’ Review: Far-Right Ladies Night

  03-11-2022 15:18 via nytimes.com
  This distressingly immersive horror film by Beth de Araújo traces a group of white supremacist women in real time.
  
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• In ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton Play the Game

  03-11-2022 15:05 via nytimes.com
  In a decadent new Starz drama, the two actors play young versions of literature’s most poisoned and poisonous power couple.
  
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• The ARTnews Culture (and Food) Lover’s Guide to Atlanta

  03-11-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  Old Atlanta is gone. And those of us who “flew here” rather than “grew here” missed something wild and glorious. Old timers tell tales of the Gambino-funded Gold Club, RuPaul dancing on his go-go milk crate at Weekends disco, a small group of Atlanta University Center students organizing a picnic in 1983 that birthed the cultural and musical revolution that was Freaknik.There was the southern outpost of the famed New York nightclub Limelight, now a grocery store known as
  
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