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• Madison Cultural Arts: 4th of July Concert on the Green in Madison-A Salute to the Brits and the Yanks - WTNH.com

  23-06-2023 23:34
  Madison Cultural Arts: 4th of July Concert on the Green in Madison-A Salute to the Brits and the Yanks  WTNH.com
  
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• At Attractions About the Titanic, Pondering the Fate of the Titan

  23-06-2023 23:21 via nytimes.com
  
  More than a century after the Titanic sank, its story is still told in exhibitions and shows. But those who went this week had a newer disaster to consider.
  
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• Discover a world of culture and artistic celebration at the Utah Arts Festival - ABC4.com

  23-06-2023 23:08
  Discover a world of culture and artistic celebration at the Utah Arts Festival  ABC4.com
  
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• Joni Mitchell Finally Returned. Her Fans Were Waiting.

  23-06-2023 23:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The crowd at the singer-songwriter’s first announced concert in more than two decades was intergenerational and grateful.
  
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• Arts Briefs: Theater in surprising places - MPR News

  23-06-2023 22:30
  
  Arts Briefs: Theater in surprising places  MPR News
  
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• Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and a Face of Gen X, Dies at 60

  23-06-2023 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  In addition to playing with the audacious Texas band, she helped define the image of an aimless generation with her role in the 1990 film “Slacker.”
  
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• Wallach Art Gallery Presents a Visual Arts Tribute to Harlem's Sonic ... - Hyperallergic

  23-06-2023 22:02
  
  Wallach Art Gallery Presents a Visual Arts Tribute to Harlem's Sonic ...  Hyperallergic
  
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• The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts at James Madison ... - James Madison University

  23-06-2023 22:02
  
  The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts at James Madison ...  James Madison University
  
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• Draw drag queens at this free Tempe Center for the Arts event - Fronteras: The Changing America Desk

  23-06-2023 21:37
  
  Draw drag queens at this free Tempe Center for the Arts event  Fronteras: The Changing America Desk
  
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• Firelands Association for Visual Arts to announce winners of photography show - The Morning Journal

  23-06-2023 21:30
  Firelands Association for Visual Arts to announce winners of photography show  The Morning Journal
  
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• OZ Arts Nashville, The Porch present readings from fellows ... - pridepublishinggroup.com

  23-06-2023 21:29
  OZ Arts Nashville, The Porch present readings from fellows ...  pridepublishinggroup.com
  
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• Gloster Arts, School of the Arts provide free summer camps - Daily ... - Dailyleader

  23-06-2023 21:10
  
  Gloster Arts, School of the Arts provide free summer camps - Daily ...  Dailyleader
  
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• Arts Auxiliary looks to color summer schedule with events - thecorryjournal.com

  23-06-2023 21:00
  
  Arts Auxiliary looks to color summer schedule with events  thecorryjournal.com
  
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• Arts Council Celebrates Five Decades | Features | thepilot.com - The Pilot

  23-06-2023 20:54
  
  Arts Council Celebrates Five Decades | Features | thepilot.com  The Pilot
  
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• Harvard Art Museums Now Offer Free Admission To All Visitors

  23-06-2023 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  The Harvard Art Museums has announced a new free admission policy, which administrators have hailed as a “significant expansion” of public access to its collections, exhibitions, and research in a press release on Friday. The policy will remain in place permanently.“Art is for everyone, and the Harvard Art Museums will now be free to all visitors,” university president Lawrence S. Bacow said in a statement. “This initiative ensures that every visitor to our campus w
  
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• ‘One Woman Show’ Review: Unlikable for Laughs

  23-06-2023 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Liz Kingsman plays a messy attention-seeker grasping at relevance in a sharp satire of the trend of female comics playing chaotic train wrecks.
  
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• Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet

  23-06-2023 20:12 via nytimes.com
  
  American Ballet Theater opened its summer season with Christopher Wheeldon’s new three-act ballet, inspired by a novel and film.
  
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• Local arts nonprofit hires new executive director - Milwaukee ... - The Business Journals

  23-06-2023 20:12
  
  Local arts nonprofit hires new executive director - Milwaukee ...  The Business Journals
  
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• The Majesty of the Cure’s Live Show

  23-06-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Smith’s band cast a spell on New York this week. Listen to a playlist that showcases the long-running group’s onstage power.
  
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• University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences May 2023 graduates - Richmond Register

  23-06-2023 19:41
  University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences May 2023 graduates  Richmond Register
  
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• Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker

  23-06-2023 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me” explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
  
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• New leadership for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social ... - fhsu.edu

  23-06-2023 19:03
  
  New leadership for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social ...  fhsu.edu
  
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• Pioneering Video Artist Nalini Malani Awarded Japan’s $700,000 Kyoto Prize

  23-06-2023 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  Indian artist Nalini Malani has been awarded this year’s Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award, which carries a $700,000 purse.Malani is among India’s first video artists, though her practice has extended to include theater, installations, paintings, and drawings. She is being recognized for her “phantasmagorical spaces with approachable art forms” as well as her “pioneered artistic expression that brings the voices of the voiceless to more people,&r
  
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• Estate of Suspected Antiquities Trafficker Forfeits$12 M. to Settle Civic Suit

  23-06-2023 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  The estate of Douglas A.J. Latchford, an art and antiquities dealer who was accused of selling ancient artifacts stolen from Cambodia, has agreed to hand over $12 million and a 17th Vietnamese bronze statue to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the U.S. Government, according to the New York Times.In 2019, federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York alleged that Latchford had “built a career out of the smuggling and illicit sale of priceless Cambodian antiquities, often s
  
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• Estate of Suspected Antiquities Trafficker Forfeits $12 M. to Settle Civic Suit

  23-06-2023 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  The estate of Douglas A.J. Latchford, an art and antiquities dealer who was accused of selling ancient artifacts stolen from Cambodia, has agreed to hand over $12 million and a 17th Vietnamese bronze statue to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the U.S. Government, according to the New York Times.In 2019, federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York alleged that Latchford had “built a career out of the smuggling and illicit sale of priceless Cambodian antiquities, often s
  
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• Knoxville arts district ranks 4th in USA TODAY national ranking - Knoxville News Sentinel

  23-06-2023 18:29
  
  Knoxville arts district ranks 4th in USA TODAY national ranking  Knoxville News Sentinel
  
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• Stanly Arts Guild will host Summer Art Explosion - The Stanly News ... - Stanly News & Press

  23-06-2023 18:03
  
  Stanly Arts Guild will host Summer Art Explosion - The Stanly News ...  Stanly News & Press
  
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• Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening

  23-06-2023 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The Met Orchestra’s season-ending concert at Carnegie Hall featured the premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Heath (‘King Lear’ Sketches).”
  
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• Beck and Phoenix’s Bouncy Synth-Pop Team-up, and 8 More New Songs

  23-06-2023 17:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by Palehound, Jaimie Branch, Aphex Twin and others.
  
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• Tarik Kiswanson’s Probing Art Reflects His Experience as a Second-Generation Immigrant

  23-06-2023 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  One of Tarik Kiswanson’s newest sculptures, Nest (2022), is an ovoid fiberglass resin form, larger than a human, its shape reminiscent of eggs and cocoons, and also seeds; Kiswanson notes that the Greek roots of the word “diaspora” come from spreading seeds. Especially as a polyglot—he speaks Swedish, Arabic, English, French, and Italian—the artist likes having, as he puts it, “something so dense or layered that it produces things outside of your body and boun
  
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• ‘The Flash’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  23-06-2023 17:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Andy Muschietti narrates a sequence featuring Ezra Miller.
  
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• Watch a Falling-Baby Rescue in ‘The Flash’

  23-06-2023 17:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Andy Muschietti narrates a sequence featuring Ezra Miller.
  
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• A Comic With Many Questions About Jews and Whiteness

  23-06-2023 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Alex Edelman thrives on doubt in “Just for Us” on Broadway. It’s the result of years of revision and notes from Seinfeld, Birbiglia and the late Adam Brace.
  
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• Horror Movie Streaming Guide: ‘The Hole in the Fence,’ ‘Pastacolypse’ and More

  23-06-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this month’s chilling picks, creepypasta and killer pasta, too.
  
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• Student Who Ate Famed Banana Sculpture Speaks: ‘I’m Not Familiar with Cattelan’s Work’

  23-06-2023 16:45 via artnews.com
  
  In a Guardian essay published Friday, South Korean student Noh Hyun-soo explained his decision to eat the banana that constitutes Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019).Hyun-soo made headlines when he visited Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art on April 27 and chose to interact with the Cattelan sculpture in a decidedly unusual way. He wasn’t the first to consume this work—artist David Datuna also did so during the debut of Comedian at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019—but his stu
  
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• 12 LGBTQ+ Artists Having Institutional Shows This Pride Month

  23-06-2023 16:37 via artnews.com
  
  Pride Month is here, and while the celebrations go on as they always do, this year’s have been shadowed by a wave of trans- and homophobic incidents as well as by a spate of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation coming out of Republican-controlled statehouses. Elements on the right seem bent on forcing the LGBTQ+ community back into the closet, but unfortunately for them, they’re too late: Whether it’s in the courts or at the polls, they’re unlikely to succeed in the long run. The spir
  
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• Pope Hosts Artists in Sistine Chapel, Even Some Who Attracted Controversy

  23-06-2023 16:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The event was part of a broader effort to engage with artists as the Roman Catholic Church did in the past. Pope Francis also urged them to pursue social justice through their work.
  
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• Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals

  23-06-2023 16:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Discovered in a dig at a thermal spring in Tuscany, Italy, the well-preserved items offer a glimpse into medical practices from the Etruscan and Roman eras.
  
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• Salida Council for the Arts Brightens up June - by Carly Winchell - The Ark Valley Voice

  23-06-2023 16:02
  
  Salida Council for the Arts Brightens up June - by Carly Winchell  The Ark Valley Voice
  
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• How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic

  23-06-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star Jharrel Jerome and senior members of the creative team discuss how they created the distinctive look of this ambitious new Amazon series.
  
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• Summer Arts and Music Festival this Weekend - North Coast Journal

  23-06-2023 15:07
  
  Summer Arts and Music Festival this Weekend  North Coast Journal
  
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• How Robert Gottlieb Shaped Dance

  23-06-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The esteemed editor, who died last week at 92, was a balletomane who was known to program New York City Ballet seasons from his offices at Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker.
  
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• Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99

  23-06-2023 14:59 via nytimes.com
  
  His collaborations with the composer Jerry Bock also included “Fiorello!” — which, like “Fiddler,” was a Tony winner — and “She Loves Me.”
  
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• Arts Playlist: Delaware Art Museum forms partnership to create new ... - Delaware First Media

  23-06-2023 14:56
  
  Arts Playlist: Delaware Art Museum forms partnership to create new ...  Delaware First Media
  
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• London’s National Portrait Gallery Looks to Private Donors

  23-06-2023 14:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Britain’s National Portrait Gallery reopened Thursday after a three-year, $53-million renovation. Raising the money in the current climate was tough.
  
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• The ARTnews Guide to Performance Art, Part 2: 1950s to the Present

  23-06-2023 14:20 via artnews.com
  
  Between 1900 and 2000, performance art evolved from a fringe practice to a global divertissement. Its history divides into two periods: the first half of the 20th century, when performative practices by the avant-garde weren’t formally categorized as art, and the postwar era, when they eventually were. Moreover, these activities were confined largely to Europe and America before spreading worldwide after 1950.Performance before and after midcentury was also distinguished by its increasing
  
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• Estate of Embattled Art Dealer to Forfeit $12 M., Art Collectors Get Hollywood Treatment, and More: Morning Links for July 27, 2023

  23-06-2023 14:08 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSETTLING HIS AFFAIRS. The estate of the late antiquities dealer Douglas A.J. Latchford has agreed to forfeit $12 million in a deal with U.S. officials, who claimed in a civil case that Latchford trafficked in looted Cambodian artifacts, the New York Times reports. Latchford was criminally charged in 2019 with dealing stol
  
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• Local comedian, orchestra founders honored by Washington Center for the Performing Arts - The Olympian

  23-06-2023 14:00
  
  Local comedian, orchestra founders honored by Washington Center for the Performing Arts  The Olympian
  
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• Things to do this weekend in Des Moines: Arts festival, Music Under ... - Axios

  23-06-2023 13:21
  
  Things to do this weekend in Des Moines: Arts festival, Music Under ...  Axios
  
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• ‘The Perfect Find’ Review: Gabrielle Union and Keith Powers Light It Up

  23-06-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fashion media workers, paired on a project that caters to their passion for all things vintage, fall for each other in this romance by Numa Perrier.
  
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