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• Pamela Blair, an Original ‘Chorus Line’ Cast Member, Dies at 73

  28-07-2023 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  As Val, one of the dancers in the hit Broadway musical, she sang a memorable song explaining how she got work by enhancing her body through cosmetic surgery.
  
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• Pike Liberal Arts School Head Football Coach and AD resigns - WTVY

  28-07-2023 23:32 via news.google.com
  
  Pike Liberal Arts School Head Football Coach and AD resigns  WTVY
  
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• Taylor Swift-Quake: Fans Cause Seismic Activity at Seattle Concert

  28-07-2023 23:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Seismometers can pick up many types of ground vibrations but this drew comparisons to the “Beast Quake” of 2011, when Seattle football fans roared in celebration of a last-minute Seahawks touchdown.
  
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• Arts Briefs: Plans for a busy weekend - MPR News

  28-07-2023 22:41 via news.google.com
  
  Arts Briefs: Plans for a busy weekend  MPR News
  
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• Drake Revealed as Buyer of Tupac Shakur’s $1.02 M. Crown Ring at Sotheby’s Auction

  28-07-2023 22:10 via artnews.com
  
  Grammy-winning artist, entrepreneur, and art collector Drake has revealed that bought Tupac Shakur’s gold, diamond, and ruby ring at a recent auction at Sotheby’s in New York.The ring was sold at a Sotheby’s hip-hop sale on Tuesday. It went for $1.02 million, more than triple its $300,000 high estimate. According to Sotheby’s, the ring is the only hip-hop artifact to sell for more than $1 million at auction.While the identity of the buyer was not immediately disclosed fol
  
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• Mari Ruti, Scholar of Gender, Sexuality and More, Dies at 59

  28-07-2023 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Her books explored psychoanalytic theories and a range of other topics, including the enduring popularity of a Julia Roberts movie.
  
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• Program pushes kids away from crime and into the arts - WRDW

  28-07-2023 21:47 via news.google.com
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• Rumors swirl at EG arts center | Lifestyle | egcitizen.com - Elk Grove Citizen

  28-07-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
  Rumors swirl at EG arts center | Lifestyle | egcitizen.com  Elk Grove Citizen
  
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• Arts Council cleans up public sculpture in Covell Park - shorelinemedia.net

  28-07-2023 20:54 via news.google.com
  
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• Market Bleu's Quarterly Night Market Returns This Weekend at the ... - Cincinnati CityBeat

  28-07-2023 20:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Review: This ‘Summer Stock’ Cast Is Having a Blast

  28-07-2023 20:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The Goodspeed Opera House takes on Charles Walters’s 1950 film with zest and humor.
  
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• Student artists prepare for showcase to close out Kentucky summer arts program - WKYT

  28-07-2023 20:16 via news.google.com
  Student artists prepare for showcase to close out Kentucky summer arts program  WKYT
  
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• Middletown Arts Fest Brings The Arts To Main Street - Patch

  28-07-2023 20:12 via news.google.com
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• Jason Aldean’s Culture War Hit ‘Try That in a Small Town’

  28-07-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  After the country star’s “Try That in a Small Town” video was criticized as offensive, right-wing support sent the song to No. 2 on the singles chart.
  
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• 50 Rappers, 50 Stories: Hear the Remix

  28-07-2023 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ten bonus songs from our hip-hop anniversary project.
  
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• Artist Eduardo Kac to Send a Hologram Into Space

  28-07-2023 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  Eduardo Kac has been waiting three decades to complete his artwork Ágora (1986-2023), which he designed with deep space in mind. Soon, the work will be launched on a rocket, along with the cremated remains of Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry, and the DNA of Presidents George Washington, JFK, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. These are coincidental companions, divorced from the art project — though, in art, context is context. “I will be placing a physical artwork in permanen
  
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• Andrew da Conceicao, Cofounder of One of Africa’s Most Important Galleries, Dies at 53

  28-07-2023 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  Andrew da Conceicao, a founding director of Stevenson, one of South Africa’s first major commercial galleries, has died at 53. The gallery announced his death on Friday, the same day of his passing.With Michael Stevenson and Kathy Grundlingh, da Conceicao founded Stevenson in Cape Town in 2003 under the name Michael Stevenson Contemporary. It was, at the time, one of the very few commercial art spaces in South Africa, and it remains one of the most high-profile galleries not only in the co
  
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• A Digitized Collection of Art, Poetry, and Books Will Be Permanently Installed on the Moon

  28-07-2023 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  A multimedia creative arts archive will head to space as part of a permanent installation on a series of unmanned rockets stationed on the moon, the New York Times reported on Thursday.The Lunar Codex is a digitized collection of contemporary art, poetry, magazines, music, film, podcasts and books. It contains the work of 30,000 artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across 157 countries. The semiretired Canadian physicist and author Samuel Peralta started the project.As executive chairman
  
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• British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer to Leave His Post in 2024

  28-07-2023 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  Hartwig Fischer will depart his post as director of London’s British Museum in 2024, marking an end to a tenure that weathered a tense period of public scrutiny for the institution.Fischer, who has been director of the British Museum since 2016, has helped the institution modernize its building and create a new research and storage facility. The announcement for Fischer’s departure also noted that he had “set the Museum on course for a comprehensive energy transition towards gr
  
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• How David L. Johnson Intervenes in the Ongoing Privatization of Public Space

  28-07-2023 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  Since 2020, I’ve been making a series called “Loiter” that involves the ongoing removal of different forms of hostile architecture. One example is the metal spikes that get attached to benches, steps, or standpipes in order to prevent people from sitting. A standpipe is a connection outside many buildings that allows the fire department to access the water supply, but people use them as impromptu forms of public seating, especially in areas of the city where there aren’t
  
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• Canadian Company Behind Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition Files for Bankruptcy

  28-07-2023 18:52 via artnews.com
  
  The Canadian company behind popular immersive art exhibitions featuring the work of Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, and Claude Monet, has recently filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US. The Toronto-based Lighthouse Immersive Inc. submitted the legal filing in Delaware on July 28 along with its affiliates. The filing protects the company’s assets in the United States while insolvency proceedings take place in Ontario. Lighthouse’s website says it operates in 21 cities
  
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• Arts District Darling Yangban to Temporarily Close for a Remodel - Eater LA

  28-07-2023 18:39 via news.google.com
  
  Arts District Darling Yangban to Temporarily Close for a Remodel  Eater LA
  
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• A Grand Piano Once Owned By John Lennon is Coming Up for Sale

  28-07-2023 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  A Baldwin grand piano which passed through the hands of two of the most influential artists of the 20th century, John Lennon and Andy Warhol, will go on auction in September at Alex Cooper Auctioneers in Townson, Maryland, according to the Baltimore Banner.John Lennon bought the Concert Grand Model D Piano in 1978 from the Baldwin Factory Store in New York City, according to ACA. The following year he gave the instrument to his friend, the art dealer and curator Sam Green, who org
  
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• Sinead O’Connor’s 10 Essential Songs

  28-07-2023 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Her catalog is full of raw passion and raw nerve.
  
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• Minors and certificates | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts - Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

  28-07-2023 18:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Create the Future | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts - Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

  28-07-2023 18:19 via news.google.com
  
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• Admission | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts - Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

  28-07-2023 18:19 via news.google.com
  
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• George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Announces New Cookbook ... - New Orleans Magazine

  28-07-2023 18:03 via news.google.com
  
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• Emmy Awards Will Be Postponed Because of Actors’ and Writers’ Strikes

  28-07-2023 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The ceremony, originally planned for Sept. 18, may be pushed into January in hopes that the labor disputes will be settled.
  
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• 2023 Emmy Awards Will Be Postponed Because of Actors’ and Writers’ Strikes

  28-07-2023 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The ceremony, originally planned for Sept. 18, may be pushed into January in hopes that the labor disputes will be settled.
  
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• Arts Playlist: Delaware Arts Alliance set to launch plan to bolster the ... - Delaware First Media

  28-07-2023 17:29 via news.google.com
  Arts Playlist: Delaware Arts Alliance set to launch plan to bolster the ...  Delaware First Media
  
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• Despite Acquittal, Kevin Spacey Faces Uphill Battle for Hollywood Roles

  28-07-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor, who was cleared of sexual assault charges in Britain this week, has parts in two small upcoming films. Yet his tarnished public perception makes starry roles unlikely.
  
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• Jean Fagan Yellin, Who Uncovered a Slavery Tale’s True Author, Dies at 92

  28-07-2023 16:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Her research proved that a 19th-century book presumed to be a novel by a white woman was actually an autobiography by a formerly enslaved Black woman.
  
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• Delaware Division of the Arts presents "Between Light & Shadow" by ... - news.delaware.gov

  28-07-2023 15:54 via news.google.com
  
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• A Must-See Matthew Wong Retrospective Reveals New Sides of an Artist Whose Story Is Still Emerging

  28-07-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  When they die unexpectedly, certain male painters get mythologized. Pronouncements about how they were at their best just as they passed follow, then musings on their tortured mental states, and finally awe as their markets explode. Think of what happened with Jackson Pollock or Jean-Michel Basquiat, and you’ll be able to conjure many more recent examples.Matthew Wong might be one of them. He received this same treatment following his death by suicide at age 35 in 2019, and I’ll admi
  
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• The Dance Delight in ‘Barbie’ Belongs to the Kens

  28-07-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The most majestic dance in “Barbie” is an emotional release for the Kens, but in subtle ways movement touches, and enhances, everything in the movie.
  
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• Big Hair and Big Thoughts at a Paris Museum

  28-07-2023 11:31 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition with over 600 items explores the evolution of women’s hairstyles, questions around body hair and more. But hair is never just hair.
  
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• He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him

  28-07-2023 11:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Twenty years after his quirky project Katamari Damacy delighted the video game industry, Keita Takahashi is an independent designer who receives no royalties for his debut work.
  
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• Nonprofit Theaters Are in Crisis. A Times Reporter Spoke With 72 of Them

  28-07-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Michael Paulson spoke with producers and artistic directors at nonprofit theaters across the country about the crisis their industry is facing.
  
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• ‘Mr. Blandings’ Is Now 75. What Can His Dream House Tell Us About Ours?

  28-07-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The 1948 film starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy celebrated leaving city life and spreading out in suburbia. Even then, it was a questionable idea.
  
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• Class Is in Session. The Teacher? Mark Morris.

  28-07-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer has long taught company class. It’s part of what makes his distinctly individual dancers seem so natural — and coherent as a group.
  
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• Randy Meisner, Founding Member of the Eagles, Dies at 77

  28-07-2023 06:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Meisner, the group’s original bass player, helped form the band in 1971.
  
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• Princeton Arts Fellowships - E-Flux

  28-07-2023 06:03 via news.google.com
  
  Princeton Arts Fellowships  E-Flux
  
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