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• On Exhibit: Plenty to see in shows at Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Clay ... - The Daily Gazette

  21-12-2022 23:49 via news.google.com
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• Sonya Eddy, ‘General Hospital’ Actress, Dies at 55

  21-12-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Eddy played Epiphany Johnson, the head nurse on the long-running ABC daytime series, for 16 years.
  
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• Lewis-Clark State's Center for Arts and History Now Accepting ... - bigcountrynewsconnection.com

  21-12-2022 22:46 via news.google.com
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• Songs from Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga Make the Oscar Shortlist

  21-12-2022 22:38 via nytimes.com
  The academy also released shortlists for documentary, international feature and seven other categories.
  
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• Collector Cliff Schorer Wants to Prove He Owns a Long-Lost Rembrandt Painting

  21-12-2022 22:26 via artnews.com
  Art collector and gallery owner Cliff Schorer might have a genuine painting from Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn that has been missing since 1935. If he is successful at proving its authenticity and consensus from Rembrandt experts, it could be worth $10 million or more.The Rembrandt head study, titled Bredius 262 and last seen in 1935, is of a distinctive older man’s face featuring a bulbous, red nose; a droopy eye; and a shaggy beard. Even Schorer initially thought it was a copy. But aft
  
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• Experts Reveal who are Inside the Mysterious Sarcophagi Found Beneath the Notre-Dame Cathedral

  21-12-2022 22:20 via artnews.com
  Three years ago, the world watched in horror as a fire engulfed Paris’ beloved Notre Dame Cathedral. Restoration work began swiftly thereafter and, almost immediately, yielded incredible discoveries in the depths of the church. Two lead sarcophagi were salvaged from an ancient graveyard, inspiring speculation over who—or what—they contained. After months of research, French archaeologists have revealed the identities of the entombed.The sarcophagi respective
  
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• The Nepo Babies of Art: the Matisse Family, a Zwirner Dynasty, and more

  21-12-2022 22:17 via artnews.com
  Everyone is talking about New York magazine’s big feature on so-called “Nepo Babies” in fields like Hollywood, fashion and publishing. While the magazine included a section on nepotism in the art world — discussing major art dealing families like the Mugrabis, the Nahmads, and the Glimchers — the editors missed more than a few big names. Not to worry, however. ARTnews can fill you in on all the other art world “nepo babies”:DealersHolly Solomon (1934-200
  
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• Twenty 2,500-Year-Old Tombs Unearthed in Egypt

  21-12-2022 22:15 via artnews.com
  Twenty Late-Period tombs have been unearthed by archaeologists working at Tel El-Deir in Damietta, Egypt. Preliminary dating of the tombs, found amid an ancient cemetery, suggests they are from the 26th Dynasty, dating between 664 and 525 BCE. Also know as the Saite Period, this time marked the beginning of the Late Period in Ancient Egypt.Some of the burials are encased with a mudbrick lining, while others are simple dirt pits.“The architectural design of the tombs and items of pottery fo
  
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• Mississippi School of Arts Receives Matching Grant from The ... - DeSoto Times-Tribune

  21-12-2022 22:00 via news.google.com
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• An Artist Who Encourages Visitors to Walk Over His Work

  21-12-2022 21:54 via nytimes.com
  Mathias Kiss has painted the floor of his Paris atelier with a dramatic skyscape that evokes Renaissance frescoes. The rest of his home studio is just as untraditional.
  
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• Bay Area arts: 8 shows and exhibits you should see this weekend and beyond - The Mercury News

  21-12-2022 21:53 via news.google.com
  Bay Area arts: 8 shows and exhibits you should see this weekend and beyond  The Mercury News
  
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• Hogwarts Legacy's Flying Mounts and Dark Arts Battle Arena Set a ... - GameRant

  21-12-2022 21:21 via news.google.com
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• Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts invites public to help build Art Garden installation - KARK

  21-12-2022 21:16 via news.google.com
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• Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royale

  21-12-2022 21:02 via nytimes.com
  Forget the men: A banner crop of leading ladies, including Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett, rule the Oscars’ deepest and most dynamic race.
  
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• Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royal

  21-12-2022 21:02 via nytimes.com
  Forget the men: A banner crop of leading ladies, including Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett, rule the Oscars’ deepest and most dynamic race.
  
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• Kalamazoo-Portage among top 40 ‘arts-vibrant’ communities in U.S. - MLive.com

  21-12-2022 20:58 via news.google.com
  Kalamazoo-Portage among top 40 ‘arts-vibrant’ communities in U.S.  MLive.com
  
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• International African American Museum Delays Opening

  21-12-2022 20:46 via nytimes.com
  One month before its debut, the long-awaited Charleston center acknowledged problems with humidity and temperature controls. It will open later in 2023.
  
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• Arts festival showcases creative talents of Agawam teenagers - Reminder Publications

  21-12-2022 20:46 via news.google.com
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• Bishop Arts Theatre Center commissions 9 new plays based on The ... - CultureMap Dallas

  21-12-2022 20:45 via news.google.com
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• Meet the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture's newest members! - boston.gov

  21-12-2022 20:23 via news.google.com
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• Fayetteville Film Fest to host film series at Walton Arts Center - Fayetteville Flyer

  21-12-2022 20:23 via news.google.com
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• Anaheim Elementary School District teaches cultural arts - Spectrum News 1

  21-12-2022 20:10 via news.google.com
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• November's student stars in the arts - Napa Valley Register

  21-12-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
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• Lloyd Suh’s Plays About the Past Speak Directly to Our Present

  21-12-2022 19:56 via nytimes.com
  The playwright of “The Far Country” is using a contemporary lens to show “the way in which memory becomes hereditary.”
  
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• From the Publisher: A successful fine arts event - The Capital Journal

  21-12-2022 19:45 via news.google.com
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• Onstage, It’s Finally Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Again

  21-12-2022 19:26 via nytimes.com
  After one holiday season lost to the pandemic and another curtailed by Omicron, seasonal staples including “The Nutcracker,” “A Christmas Carol” and “Messiah” are back in force.
  
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• Trinidadian Art Dealer Mark Pereira Killed In His Home During Attempted Robbery

  21-12-2022 19:13 via artnews.com
  Mark Pereria, a much-admired art dealer and curator from Trinidad and Tobago, was killed on December 19, just hours before his 67th birthday, local news outlets reported Tuesday. Pereria was reportedly alone in his bed reading a book when he was fatally shot by burglars at his vacation home in Blanchissuese, an idyllic beach town in northern Trinidad.Pereira, who owned 101 Gallery in the Newtown district of Port of Spain, was mourned by the island’s art community on soc
  
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• Arts Focus: Moving Words 2023 competition puts poems on public ... - ARLnow

  21-12-2022 18:45 via news.google.com
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• “Bad Habit” Musician Steve Lacy Is Right on Time

  21-12-2022 18:42 via nytimes.com
  A year ago, the “Bad Habit” singer and breakout star of 2022 was a cult favorite. Now he’s competing against Harry Styles, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.
  
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• Loudoun Supervisors Eye Funding Arts Program, Segregation ... - Loudoun Now

  21-12-2022 18:41 via news.google.com
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• Picturing the Holy Land

  21-12-2022 18:13 via artnews.com
  While all landscape has, in the words of art historian W. J. T. Mitchell, a “remarkable capacity” to “open up false depths, selective memories, and self-serving myths,” few places are as intensively imagined as the Holy Land. The terrain associated with the Abrahamic religions has been fervently remembered, visualized, and prayed for, often from afar, for millennia—in everything from calls sung on Passover expressing hope to meet next year in Jerusalem to the psalm
  
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• A Human ‘Bog Body’ from a 5,000-Year-Old Ritual Sacrifice Has Been Discovered in Danish Bog

  21-12-2022 17:53 via artnews.com
  In October, archaeologists working with the Roskilde Museum (ROMU) in Denmark uncovered ancient human remains in a bog in Egedal, the museum announced in a statement early this month.During the dig, archaeologists uncovered the legs, pelvis, and jaw of a person who likely lived some 5,000 years ago. The skeleton did not contain traces of violence, such as knife marks or nasty breaks. However, archaeologist Emil Winther Struve nevertheless said that the team believes the remains were of a hu
  
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• Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94

  21-12-2022 17:45 via nytimes.com
  She challenged racial barriers when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972. But she became embroiled in a legal battle when she was denied tenure two years later.
  
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• The Center for the Arts Exhibits 'Markings along the Pathways of the ... - YubaNet

  21-12-2022 17:32 via news.google.com
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• Fire at bustling Heights arts complex could be arson, prompting HFD ... - CultureMap Houston

  21-12-2022 17:30 via news.google.com
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• The Arts in Winter - The Cross Timbers Gazette

  21-12-2022 17:26 via news.google.com
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• On TikTok, an Organist Finds an Audience, and Herself

  21-12-2022 17:26 via nytimes.com
  Anna Lapwood became a star on an app known more for dancing clips than classical music.
  
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• Veterans invited to register for new virtual arts workshops - University of Alabama at Birmingham

  21-12-2022 17:24 via news.google.com
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• Local group makes the arts more accessible - Elko Daily Free Press

  21-12-2022 17:17 via news.google.com
  Local group makes the arts more accessible  Elko Daily Free Press
  
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• Arts education programs receive grants to support Vermont’s ... - vtdigger.org

  21-12-2022 17:03 via news.google.com
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• ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol

  21-12-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  A moment in “O Come, All Ye Faithful” is so popular, it’s printed on T-shirts. But it’s also symbolic, and important to music history.
  
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• 5 Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants - Syracuse University News

  21-12-2022 15:59 via news.google.com
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• Enrollment open for youth arts center upcoming session - Paso Robles Daily News

  21-12-2022 15:43 via news.google.com
  Enrollment open for youth arts center upcoming session  Paso Robles Daily News
  
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• Gila Valley Arts Council present Duo Deloro in Safford on January ... - The Gila Herald

  21-12-2022 15:38 via news.google.com
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• Pace and Black Lunch Table Are Opening the Gallery’s Library to the Public for the First Time

  21-12-2022 15:35 via artnews.com
  This February, Pace will present an exhibition opening the gallery’s private library to the public for the first time.A culmination of a six-month partnership between radical archiving project Black Lunch Table, Kristen Owens, the organization’s Wikimedia fellow and a curator and librarian, and Pace, the exhibition, curated by Owens, features a reading room highlighting a selection of titles from Pace’s massive library of over 11,000 volumes of essays, monographs, and art books
  
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• ‘Women Talking’ and What a Post-#MeToo Future Looks Like

  21-12-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The director Sarah Polley and cast members Claire Foy and Rooney Mara dig into thorny issues raised by their new film, a drama based on sexual assaults in a Mennonite sect.
  
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• Second study on proposed Lafayette performing arts center not approved - The Advocate

  21-12-2022 15:00 via news.google.com
  Second study on proposed Lafayette performing arts center not approved  The Advocate
  
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• Cinema Arts Centre to bring classic films from the 80s and 90s back ... - tbrnewsmedia.com

  21-12-2022 14:56 via news.google.com
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• Cinema Arts Centre to bring classic films from the 80s and 90s back ... - TBR News Media

  21-12-2022 14:56 via news.google.com
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• What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy.

  21-12-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  In “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” performed by City Ballet and young students from its School of American Ballet, ballet comes full circle.
  
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