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• Fine Arts Dean Nancy Uscher Announces New School of Music ... - UNLV NewsCenter

  17-04-2023 23:15
  
  Fine Arts Dean Nancy Uscher Announces New School of Music ...  UNLV NewsCenter
  
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• Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation holds first 'Concerts in the Village' in Destin - WEAR

  17-04-2023 22:54
  Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation holds first 'Concerts in the Village' in Destin  WEAR
  
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• Local students chosen for Governor's Scholars, School for the Arts - WHOP

  17-04-2023 22:48
  
  Local students chosen for Governor's Scholars, School for the Arts  WHOP
  
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• Bernice Rose, Curator Who Elevated the Art of Drawing, Dies at 87

  17-04-2023 22:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Her exhibitions, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and elsewhere, showed that drawings were far more than preliminary works executed on paper.
  
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• Hollywood Writers Approve of Strike as Shutdown Looms

  17-04-2023 22:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The writers have not gone on strike in 15 years, and the vote gives their unions the right to call for a walkout when their contract expires on May 1.
  
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• Lincoln Centers Summer For The Arts Returns In 2023 - Patch

  17-04-2023 22:09
  Lincoln Centers Summer For The Arts Returns In 2023  Patch
  
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• Locals enjoy 16th annual Montevallo Arts Fest - Shelby County ... - Shelby County Reporter

  17-04-2023 22:04
  
  Locals enjoy 16th annual Montevallo Arts Fest - Shelby County ...  Shelby County Reporter
  
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• Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts closes permanently despite ... - Art Newspaper

  17-04-2023 21:35
  
  Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts closes permanently despite ...  Art Newspaper
  
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• Lincoln Center Revives Summer for the City, Hoping to Draw New Fans

  17-04-2023 21:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The festival will include hip-hop, Korean arts, Mostly Mozart and a flock of 200 flamingo lawn ornaments.
  
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• At the Met, Juan de Pareja Is Revealed as More Than the Subject of an Iconic Velázquez Portrait

  17-04-2023 21:15 via artnews.com
  
  Like many museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently been making efforts to decolonize its collection, including the repatriation of artworks from its galleries. Since 2021, the Met has returned three bronzes to Nigeria, 15 artworks to India, and numerous antiquities to Nepal, Italy, and Egypt. But art history also can be decolonized in ways that have less to do with the restitution of goods than with reevaluating the kinds of histories that are told and the range of artists who are re
  
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• Fiesta Arts Fair: Join UTSA in celebrating the San Antonio arts ... - UTSA

  17-04-2023 20:50
  
  Fiesta Arts Fair: Join UTSA in celebrating the San Antonio arts ...  UTSA
  
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• Fredericksburg Area Museum to host Black Arts Festival - Fredericksburg.com

  17-04-2023 20:00
  
  Fredericksburg Area Museum to host Black Arts Festival  Fredericksburg.com
  
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• Fine Arts Student of the Week: Sophomore takes pride in decoy ... - Brainerd Dispatch

  17-04-2023 19:57
  
  Fine Arts Student of the Week: Sophomore takes pride in decoy ...  Brainerd Dispatch
  
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• Nashua gets a new performing arts center after decades of planning - The Boston Globe

  17-04-2023 19:44
  
  Nashua gets a new performing arts center after decades of planning  The Boston Globe
  
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• Arts advocates question whether BOPA should continue to serve as ... - Baltimore Fishbowl

  17-04-2023 19:37
  
  Arts advocates question whether BOPA should continue to serve as ...  Baltimore Fishbowl
  
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• For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light

  17-04-2023 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Buoyed by a $2.3 million grant, the archive hopes increased visibility on the first-person accounts of incarcerated people can serve as a road map for policy reforms.
  
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• Review: ‘Biography of a Phantom,’ by Robert ‘Mack’ McCormick

  17-04-2023 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived, in modest and expurgated form.
  
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• Odessa Arts announces participants for Mural Fest - NewsWest9.com

  17-04-2023 19:10
  Odessa Arts announces participants for Mural Fest  NewsWest9.com
  
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• Artist Wins Photography Contest After Submitting AI-Generated Image, Then Forfeits Prize

  17-04-2023 19:08 via artnews.com
  
  An artist declined an award at for a prominent photography contest because he had submitted an AI-generated work, proving, he said, the competition couldn’t deal with art made by that means. The contest’s organizers, in turn, said they didn’t know the extent to which the work utilized AI.Boris Eldagsen won the World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards for a piece titled The Electrician. The work appears like an old photograph showing two women, one of
  
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• Over 600 Protest at RISD In Support of Workers’ Strike Amid Wage Negotiations

  17-04-2023 18:59 via artnews.com
  
  Over 600 students, faculty, and Providence locals joined a walkout at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design (RISD) last week in support of striking workers involved in ongoing union contract negotiations with the art school’s administration.The workers, represented by the Teamsters Local 251 chapter and spanning groundskeeping, operations, and maintenance, went on strike April 3. Organizers have been in contract negotiations since June 2022 over wages increases, seeking an hourly wage
  
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• 3,200-Year-Old Necropolis Filled with Tombs for the Elite Found in Egypt

  17-04-2023 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  About 20 miles from Cairo, in Saqqara, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 3,200-year-old necropolis that once served as the final resting place for the aristocracy living in the Old Kingdom capital city of Memphis.According to a press release by National Museum of Antiquities of Leiden, the dig was led by Lara Weiss and Daniel Soliman, curators of that institution’s Egyptian and Nubian collection, and Christian Greco, who serves as the director of the Museo Egizio in Turin
  
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• 48th Annual Mainsail Arts Festival takes over Vinoy Park this weekend - I Love the Burg

  17-04-2023 18:52
  
  48th Annual Mainsail Arts Festival takes over Vinoy Park this weekend  I Love the Burg
  
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• Irma Blank, Artist Whose Text-Based Abstractions Brought Her Late-Career Fame, Dies at 88

  17-04-2023 18:34 via artnews.com
  
  Irma Blank, an unclassifiable artist whose experiments with the aesthetics of text went largely under-recognized outside Italy until the past decade, died on April 14 at 88. Her passing was announced over the weekend by two galleries that represent her, the Zurich-based Mai 36 and the Bologna-based P420.“We have lost a graceful and radical artist and wonderful person,” Victor Gisler, the founder of Mai 36, wrote in his gallery’s announcement.Many of Blank’s works resemble
  
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• New York Museum Censors Images of Prophet Muhammad in Online Tour, Sparking Debate

  17-04-2023 17:44 via artnews.com
  
  Scholars took issue with the Asia Society’s handling of images of the Prophet Muhammad after some pictures were blurred in an online campaign related to a current exhibition.The museum’s press materials describe the exhibition, titled “Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds,” as the first comprehensive showcase in the United States dedicated to exploring religious depictions of Hell deriving from Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and Islam. The exhibition, which opened in
  
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• The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour.

  17-04-2023 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Trevor Horn, half of the group behind “Video Killed the Radio Star” and a producer who helped engineer the sound of the ’80s, will be the opening act for Seal.
  
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• As Presenters Cut Back on Streams, Some Disabled Arts Lovers Feel Left Out

  17-04-2023 17:25 via nytimes.com
  
  When shuttered venues embraced streaming during the pandemic, the arts became more accessible. With live performance back, and streams dwindling, many feel forgotten.
  
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• How an arts program supported Seattle public housing residents ... - Smart Cities Dive

  17-04-2023 17:16
  
  How an arts program supported Seattle public housing residents ...  Smart Cities Dive
  
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• Met’s Beloved Roof Garden Draws on Ancient Egypt and South Central L.A.

  17-04-2023 17:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist and activist Lauren Halsey has installed a personal monument to Black lives and urban energy, its walls covered inside and out with the collective history of a neighborhood.
  
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• New York City Ballet to Honor Past and Present in 75th Year

  17-04-2023 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The milestone season will honor the legacy of George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder, and feature several world premieres.
  
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• Among Faceless Offices, a Theater Taking Risks

  17-04-2023 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The New Diorama in London is placing bets on small troupes, inviting them onto its stage and giving them help to thrive. With two shows now in the West End, its gambles are paying off.
  
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• ‘Like a Romance’: Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht’s Spring Fling Onstage

  17-04-2023 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  In David Auburn’s new play, “Summer, 1976,” the actresses play unlikely friends whose relationship has the intensity of a love affair.
  
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• A Spree of Country Music Divorce Albums

  17-04-2023 16:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce and Kacey Musgraves have reacted to breakups — and found freedom — in song.
  
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• Nickel Plate Arts organization to feature three artists • Current Publishing - Current in Carmel

  17-04-2023 16:36
  Nickel Plate Arts organization to feature three artists • Current Publishing  Current in Carmel
  
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• Lubbock Arts Festival Knocks It Out Of The Park Again - Talk 1340

  17-04-2023 16:34
  
  Lubbock Arts Festival Knocks It Out Of The Park Again  Talk 1340
  
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• Performing Arts Recognizes Seniors with “Celebration of Excellence” - Rowan Today

  17-04-2023 16:31
  
  Performing Arts Recognizes Seniors with “Celebration of Excellence”  Rowan Today
  
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• New Medieval Books: Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts - Medievalists.net

  17-04-2023 16:29
  
  New Medieval Books: Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts  Medievalists.net
  
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• Morgan Wallen’s Chart Streak Enters Its Sixth Week

  17-04-2023 15:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The country star’s latest album, “One Thing at a Time,” maintains its dominance over the Billboard chart. Can it match the 10-week run of Wallen’s “Dangerous”?
  
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• Morgan Wallen’s Billboard Chart Streak Enters Its Sixth Week

  17-04-2023 15:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The country star’s latest album, “One Thing at a Time,” maintains its dominance over the Billboard chart. Can it match the 10-week run of Wallen’s “Dangerous”?
  
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• Queens Botanical Garden to host second annual Climate Arts ... - QNS

  17-04-2023 15:00
  
  Queens Botanical Garden to host second annual Climate Arts ...  QNS
  
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• HK Arts Council Nixed Funding Over Security Law Issues, Critics Debate Australian Museum Field, and More: Morning Links for April 17, 2023

  17-04-2023 14:01 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesFIGHTS DOWN UNDER. On Friday, art critic Christopher Allen wrote a column for the Australian arguing that the nation’s public museums are operated by “a sub-intellectual class, which is to say people who are neither intelligent and bold enough to reason for themselves nor willing to take the risk of asking dangerou
  
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• HK Arts Council Nixed Funding Over Security Law Issues, Critics Debate Australian Museum Field, and More: Morning Links for April 17, 2023 - ARTnews

  17-04-2023 14:01
  HK Arts Council Nixed Funding Over Security Law Issues, Critics Debate Australian Museum Field, and More: Morning Links for April 17, 2023  ARTnews
  
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• Artsline: Meaningful history, arts and culture for April! - VPM News

  17-04-2023 14:00
  
  Artsline: Meaningful history, arts and culture for April!  VPM News
  
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• Top Performing Arts & Live Theater This Week: April 17 to 23, 2023 - 365 Things to Do in Houston

  17-04-2023 13:00
  Top Performing Arts & Live Theater This Week: April 17 to 23, 2023  365 Things to Do in Houston
  
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• New exhibit at the Asian Arts Initiative highlights erotic art - WHYY

  17-04-2023 12:31
  
  New exhibit at the Asian Arts Initiative highlights erotic art  WHYY
  
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• ‘Seek the Extremes’: The Venturesome Artist Lee Lozano Gets Her First Survey in Italy

  17-04-2023 12:15 via artnews.com
  
  Where do you possibly begin with an artist who was as protean and prolific as Lee Lozano? In the Pinacoteca Agnelli’s current Lozano survey in Turin, on view until July 23, the first room presents a bevy of the frenetic drawings that she made in early 1960s New York, at the start of her 30s. Disembodied mouths—red lips, menacing grins—abound in these works. Cartoonish penises do, too, as well as bulging tools (hammers, crowbars) that suggest body parts, ready to inflict da
  
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• Arts leadership in northwestern Michigan is changing, and fast - Interlochen

  17-04-2023 12:00
  
  Arts leadership in northwestern Michigan is changing, and fast  Interlochen
  
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• Frank Ocean Headlines Coachella and Plays Reworked Songs

  17-04-2023 11:06 via nytimes.com
  
  During his first large-scale performance in years, the enigmatic singer suggested a new album was coming, just “not right now.”
  
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• Book Review: ‘Chita: A Memoir,’ by Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco

  17-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Her new memoir finds the 90-year-old singer-dancer hungry for acclaim, but generous to others on her way to getting it.
  
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• All Seal Needs Is Love

  17-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Embarking on a tour celebrating his music career’s 30th anniversary, the singer and songwriter explained how tennis, Joni Mitchell and ChatGPT have inspired him.
  
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• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Amityville: An Origin Story’ and ‘Revengineers’

  17-04-2023 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A docuseries on MGM+ delves into the history of the real Amityville house of horrors, and a new prank show from Mark Rober and Jimmy Kimmel premieres on Discovery.
  
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