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• 🌱 FedEx Driver Speaks Out + New Exhibit At Cultural Arts Center - Patch

  20-01-2023 23:40
  🌱 FedEx Driver Speaks Out + New Exhibit At Cultural Arts Center  Patch
  
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• Wallspace LA and Moby Arts Announce 2023 Collaboration and ... - WEHO TIMES

  20-01-2023 23:37
  
  Wallspace LA and Moby Arts Announce 2023 Collaboration and ...  WEHO TIMES
  
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• Dick Polich, Master Forger of Sculptures for Artists, Dies at 90

  20-01-2023 23:21 via nytimes.com
  
  His foundry, located in upstate New York, helped Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Jeff Koons and many others turn their visions into reality.
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Intact 52-Foot-Long Ancient Papyrus from 50 BCE

  20-01-2023 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered an intact ancient papyrus, dating back to 50 BCE, in what experts in the country are calling the first discovery of its kind in a century. The 52-foot-long papyrus was found in the Saqqara archaeological area. The ancient artifact contains declarations and spells from the Pharaonic Book of the Dead to assist those who have passed away in their afterlives. Egypt’s Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, announced the di
  
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• Dance Monkey Dance kicks off the Kansas Free for Arts Winter ... - Emporia Gazette

  20-01-2023 22:32
  
  Dance Monkey Dance kicks off the Kansas Free for Arts Winter ...  Emporia Gazette
  
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• Artist Michael Rakowitz Calls for British Museum to Return Assyrian Sculpture in Exchange for His Work

  20-01-2023 21:55 via artnews.com
  
  Iraqi American artist Michael Rakowitz has called on the British Museum to return an artifact to Iraq in exchange for the donation of a large-scale work by him. Rakowitz’s proposal will be addressed in a forthcoming visit between Iraq’s culture ministry and British officials in London next month during a scheduled British museum is tour, the Guardian reports.Rakowitz has proposed the gift of his 2018 Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square to the Tate Modern, a British Museum af
  
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• APSU’s Community School of the Arts excepting Registrations until ... - Clarksville Online

  20-01-2023 21:49
  
  APSU’s Community School of the Arts excepting Registrations until ...  Clarksville Online
  
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• David Crosby, a King of Twitter

  20-01-2023 21:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician relished sharing opinions big and small, sparring with fans and dispelling myths, often in sharp, hilarious quips. The vibe on the platform changed, but he posted until the end.
  
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• Plumas Arts promotes countywide grant opportunity - Plumas County Newspapers

  20-01-2023 21:16
  
  Plumas Arts promotes countywide grant opportunity  Plumas County Newspapers
  
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• In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us)

  20-01-2023 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s so funny about his inappropriate response to a boy’s injury? The director pushed to keep the bizarre moment in the film, for good reason.
  
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• Arts Council to host Valentine's workshop - Fostoria - Review Times

  20-01-2023 20:30
  
  Arts Council to host Valentine's workshop - Fostoria  Review Times
  
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• ‘The Immortal Jellyfish Girl’ Review: A 26th-Century Love Story

  20-01-2023 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Featuring a lobster telephone and a robot boy with batlike wings, this puppet romance set in a future post-ecological collapse succeeds on its own weird terms.
  
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• Gilded Warrior’s Tomb Discovered During Construction of an Expressway in Romania

  20-01-2023 20:15 via artnews.com
  
  Construction workers in Romania uncovered the tomb of a 5th century warrior and a cache of gilded artifacts, including an ornate dagger encrusted with jewels, while building the A7 Expressway that will run through eastern Romania, according to Live Science.The tomb is one of four archeological sites that were discovered during construction.Along with the warrior’s complete skeleton, archeologists found remains of his horse, a gold covered saddle, an iron sword, arrowheads, pieces of g
  
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• Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate

  20-01-2023 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Zankel Hall has been temporarily reconfigured so that audiences can sit in the round, beginning with an enjoyable performance by the group yMusic.
  
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• Mayor Jon Mitchell wins national award for supporting the arts in ... - SouthCoastToday.com

  20-01-2023 19:29
  
  Mayor Jon Mitchell wins national award for supporting the arts in ...  SouthCoastToday.com
  
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• Winning a BAFTA? Just One of Joanna Scanlan’s Career Surprises.

  20-01-2023 19:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Last year, the British actress won for “After Love,” a melodrama she led after years of comedic roles and only getting her first acting job at 34.
  
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• Queen Victoria’s Paintings of Flowers Are Up for Auction in London

  20-01-2023 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  A rare pair of large floral paintings by Queen Victoria are going up for auction at Hansons Auctioneers’s London showroom next week. The canvases are expected to fetch between £8,000 and £10,000 ($9,870 and $12,340) each.Queen Victoria, who oversaw the expansion of the British Empire and made critical reforms to the monarchy, reigned from 1837 until her death in 1901.Accompanying the paintings is a provenance letter in which Alexander Mountbatten, First Marquess of Carisbrooke
  
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• Indie-Rock Supergroup boygenius Returns, and More New Songs

  20-01-2023 18:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Kim Petras, Yaeji, Arlo Parks and others.
  
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• Nevada Judge Tosses Lawsuit Filed Against OpenSea, Yuga Labs, for Failure to Prevent Theft

  20-01-2023 18:32 via artnews.com
  
  Nevada Judge Miranda M. Du tossed a lawsuit filed against Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club — as well as major NFT trading platforms OpenSea and LooksRare — that alleged the parties failed to properly prevent and respond to NFT theft. Robert Armijo, who filed the suit, was the owner of three BAYC NFTs that he purchased in November 2021 and January 2022. Armijo said that on February 1, 2022, he attempted to trade one of his NFTs on the messaging site Discord. Someo
  
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• Review: ‘Drama,’ at the Volksbühne, Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One.

  20-01-2023 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Constanza Macras’s new work at the Volksbühne is a chaotic revue featuring dance, slapstick, spoken dialogue, pop music and heavy-handed monologues.
  
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• Department of Performing Arts presents Winter Play 'Inferior Sex' - Today at Elon

  20-01-2023 17:26
  
  Department of Performing Arts presents Winter Play 'Inferior Sex'  Today at Elon
  
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• Northside Gallery Exhibition To Feature Artists Of The Civic Arts ... - Chattanooga Pulse

  20-01-2023 16:47
  
  Northside Gallery Exhibition To Feature Artists Of The Civic Arts ...  Chattanooga Pulse
  
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• Arts Briefs: Comedy in Northampton, striking visual art in Amherst ... - GazetteNET

  20-01-2023 16:43
  
  Arts Briefs: Comedy in Northampton, striking visual art in Amherst ...  GazetteNET
  
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• Arts Playlist: Examining equity and inclusion in the arts - Delaware First Media

  20-01-2023 16:41
  Arts Playlist: Examining equity and inclusion in the arts  Delaware First Media
  
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• David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs

  20-01-2023 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer and songwriter, who died on Wednesday, created music that helped define an era and stretched across generations. Listen to six decades of tracks that tell the story of his career.
  
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• Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Festival returns for 25th year - CBS Philly

  20-01-2023 16:24
  Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Festival returns for 25th year  CBS Philly
  
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• She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up.

  20-01-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jacqueline Nova created forward-thinking, often transgressive electroacoustic music in the 1960s. New releases are helping put her back on the map.
  
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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Repatriation Problem Is Only Getting Bigger

  20-01-2023 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  Despite ongoing arrangements for its return, a stone relic looted from a Nepalese shrine in the 1980s is still on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The eleventh-century artifact featuring the Buddhist and Hindu god Vishnu was donated nearly thirty years ago from the personal collection of Steven Kossak, a former curator in the museum’s Asian art department whose dealings are now being scrutinized by academics, activists, and museum officials.“This is the third thing that the
  
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• Reporting Aside: Waterville arts center an enduring legacy of ... - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

  20-01-2023 15:25
  
  Reporting Aside: Waterville arts center an enduring legacy of ...  Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel
  
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• American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home

  20-01-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Real-life Emilys in Paris complain that the show’s heroine, clad in over-the-top couture and barely able to speak French, is giving them a bad name.
  
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• Activists Spray Painting in Western Australia, Frye Art Museum Names Director, and More: Morning Links for January 20, 2023

  20-01-2023 14:15 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesANOTHER ART ATTACK. On Thursday, protesters at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth spray painted the logo for the oil and gas company Woodside atop a prized Frederick McCubbin painting, the Guardian reports. The piece was covered with clear perspex, apparently preventing it from serious damag
  
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• Clearing Gallery, a Bushwick Stalwart, to Depart Brooklyn After 12 Years

  20-01-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Clearing, one of the New York galleries that helped trigger a groundswell of artistic activity in Bushwick in the early 2010s, is set to leave that neighborhood after more than a decade there.This March, Clearing will relocate to the Bowery in Manhattan, where it will be sited about a block away from the New Museum and the gallery Sperone Westwater. Taking over three floors of 260 Bowery, Clearing will now occupy 6,600 square feet—a smaller amount of space than it had in Bushwick, but in a
  
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• Arts All-Star: Eric Gayne - WWNY

  20-01-2023 13:50
  
  Arts All-Star: Eric Gayne  WWNY
  
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• Mavericks, multiverses and martial arts: can the geeksphere pull off an Oscar triumph? - The Guardian

  20-01-2023 12:29
  Mavericks, multiverses and martial arts: can the geeksphere pull off an Oscar triumph?  The Guardian
  
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• Carleton Is Latest Liberal Arts College To Add Tech-Based Apprenticeships - Forbes

  20-01-2023 12:00
  Carleton Is Latest Liberal Arts College To Add Tech-Based Apprenticeships  Forbes
  
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• Blue Ridge School of Fine Arts opens to the public - Culpeper Star-Exponent

  20-01-2023 12:00
  Blue Ridge School of Fine Arts opens to the public  Culpeper Star-Exponent
  
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• Ice Spice, Hip-Hop’s New Princess, Is Just Warming Up

  20-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Last year, the Bronx rapper emerged from the drill scene with a pop-friendly sound, and attracted the attention of Drake. Now she’s releasing her first EP.
  
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• Brazil’s Defender of the Indigenous Brings Their Fight to the Shed

  20-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland.
  
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• At the Fondation Carmignac’s Island Villa, Art and Nature Coexist in a Picturesque Landscape

  20-01-2023 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  An out-of-this-world haven, accessible only by boat, the Fondation Carmignac on the picturesque Porquerolles island sits on a 37-acre estate where a farm once stood. Upon setting foot on this Mediterranean island between Marseille and Saint-Tropez, you’ll never want to leave. A village looms ahead, but the temptation to follow the sign reading “Fondation d’art contemporain 0,6 km” is too strong. The ascending road on the left takes you up to this contemporary art space, o
  
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• Alec Baldwin Charges Complicate Efforts to Finish Troubled ‘Rust’ Movie

  20-01-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A settlement with the family of the cinematographer who was slain on the set called for resuming production, with her widower serving as an executive producer.
  
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• Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’ at the Comédie-Française

  20-01-2023 09:26 via nytimes.com
  
  A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes.
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Finds the Funny in the Debt Ceiling

  20-01-2023 08:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Fallon says the news that the government has hit its debt cap explains why “Mitch McConnell started an OnlyFans.”
  
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• Before the Curtain: Arts on Campus Week Four - The Dartmouth

  20-01-2023 08:00
  Before the Curtain: Arts on Campus Week Four  The Dartmouth
  
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• Must-see spring 2023 performance arts at Tufts, Part 1 - Tufts Daily

  20-01-2023 06:04
  
  Must-see spring 2023 performance arts at Tufts, Part 1  Tufts Daily
  
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• David Crosby, Folk-Rock Voice of the 1960s Whose Influence Spanned Decades, Dies at 81

  20-01-2023 02:37 via nytimes.com
  
  He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.
  
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• David Crosby, Folk-Rock Voice of the 1960s, Dies at 81

  20-01-2023 02:37 via nytimes.com
  
  He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.
  
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• Local arts and the economy: It's all connected - The Durango Herald

  20-01-2023 01:26
  
  Local arts and the economy: It's all connected  The Durango Herald
  
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• David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81

  20-01-2023 01:21 via nytimes.com
  
  He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.
  
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• The Best Booths at San Francisco’s 2023 FOG Fair, From Harmonies of Color to Homages to the Occult

  20-01-2023 00:15 via artnews.com
  
  Celebrating its ninth edition, FOG Design+Art returned to San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture with an international roster of 48 galleries, including longtime participants and first-time arrivals. Benefitting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s education and exhibitions program, the fair’s preview gala on Wednesday evening drew notable faces such as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, and actor Owen Wilson.With an emphasis on group pr
  
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