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• Martin Benson, Regional Theater Impresario, Dies at 87

  11-12-2024 23:59 via nytimes.com
  
  South Coast Repertory, which he founded with a partner, was a major force in Southern California theater. He directed more than 100 of its productions.
  
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• Pace African & Oceanic Art Shutters, But Will Continue Under New Leadership

  11-12-2024 22:58 via artnews.com
  
  Pace African & Oceanic Art announced via social media that it will officially close its doors on Friday, December 13. The news of the closure was confirmed by ARTnews with director Carlo Bella.Pace African & Oceanic Art is owned by Pace Editions, which includes Pace Prints. Though the owner of Pace Gallery Arne Glimcher is involved in the business, it is primarily overseen by Richard Solomon, who recently decided to step down. Pace Editions was also sold recently, though the details of t
  
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• Sotheby’s Lays Off 100 Staffers After Lower Results For Marquee Auctions in New York

  11-12-2024 22:53 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has cut 100 staff members from its offices in New York, with the majority of cuts including back-office works, junior staffers, and specialists in various departments, the auction house confirmed to ARTnews Wednesday.In an email statement, a Sotheby’s spokesperson said, “Given the challenges the market has faced this year, we’ve taken a careful look at our business and staffing levels to perform well and grow going forward. We have an exceptionally talented team
  
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• Samia Osseiran Junblatt, Lebanese Painter Who Recently Made Her Venice Biennale Debut, Dies at 80

  11-12-2024 20:56 via artnews.com
  
  Samia Osseiran Junblatt, a leading Lebanese artist who took up painting as a way of responding to events from her personal life, has died at 80. The Beirut-based Dalloul Art Foundation, which lent a work by her to the just-closed Venice Biennale, posted news of her passing to Instagram last week.In her art, Osseiran Junblatt digested the space age, the deaths of her mother and brother, and more. Intersecting planes of color and floating orbs are recurring elements across her oeuvre, which has be
  
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• Dealers and Auction Houses Are Luring Younger Collectors into the Old Masters Market

  11-12-2024 20:36 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.At Sotheby’s Old Masters and 19th century paintings evening sale last Thursday, UK chairman Harry Dalmeny fielded bids from potential buyers who donned wispy silver crowns and bespoke pinstriped tailoring. It’s no secret that the archetypal Old Masters collector is both wealthy and fast appr
  
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• Raygun Shuts Down Musical Inspired by Her Jeered Olympic Breaking

  11-12-2024 19:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The comedian behind the parody about the Australian breaker who became a summer celebrity said she was willing to make some changes to avoid legal drama.
  
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• Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Packaging Operator - Brewbound.com Craft Beer Job Listing - Brewbound.com

  11-12-2024 19:44 via news.google.com
  Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Packaging Operator - Brewbound.com Craft Beer Job Listing  Brewbound.com
  
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• Inside Pillar, Dallas' newest restaurant in a historic building in Bishop Arts - The Dallas Morning News

  11-12-2024 19:27 via news.google.com
  Inside Pillar, Dallas' newest restaurant in a historic building in Bishop Arts  The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Arts Briefs: Musical theater karaoke in Easthampton, improv in Hadley, and more - GazetteNET

  11-12-2024 19:21 via news.google.com
  Arts Briefs: Musical theater karaoke in Easthampton, improv in Hadley, and more  GazetteNET
  
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• Comics Arts Los Angeles Is Back in Business - Publishers Weekly

  11-12-2024 19:05 via news.google.com
  Comics Arts Los Angeles Is Back in Business  Publishers Weekly
  
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• Pairings announced for Hannibal Arts Council’s Bad Art by Good People program - Muddy River News

  11-12-2024 19:04 via news.google.com
  Pairings announced for Hannibal Arts Council’s Bad Art by Good People program  Muddy River News
  
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• Waltons Arts Center to offer performances, events during holiday season - Tahlequah Daily Press

  11-12-2024 19:00 via news.google.com
  Waltons Arts Center to offer performances, events during holiday season  Tahlequah Daily Press
  
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• Theater Review | 'The Prince of Egypt' - CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture.

  11-12-2024 19:00 via news.google.com
  Theater Review | 'The Prince of Egypt'  CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture.
  
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• Scott Palermo at Arts Nest - The River Reporter

  11-12-2024 18:56 via news.google.com
  Scott Palermo at Arts Nest  The River Reporter
  
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• Our Town Lincoln: Lied Center for Performing Arts - KOLN

  11-12-2024 18:56 via news.google.com
  Our Town Lincoln: Lied Center for Performing Arts  KOLN
  
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• Weekend parking alert issued for North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center - ABC NEWS 4

  11-12-2024 18:50 via news.google.com
  Weekend parking alert issued for North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center  ABC NEWS 4
  
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• West Louisville Performing Arts Academy celebrates 35 years at Hope Awards Dinner concert - WHAS11.com

  11-12-2024 18:39 via news.google.com
  West Louisville Performing Arts Academy celebrates 35 years at Hope Awards Dinner concert  WHAS11.com
  
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• Smith, Gondek set to speak at groundbreaking for Arts Commons Transformation expansion - Calgary Herald

  11-12-2024 18:37 via news.google.com
  Smith, Gondek set to speak at groundbreaking for Arts Commons Transformation expansion  Calgary Herald
  
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• Arts calendar published Dec. 11, 2024 - West Central Tribune

  11-12-2024 18:33 via news.google.com
  Arts calendar published Dec. 11, 2024  West Central Tribune
  
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• Sundance Film Festival Unveils a Lineup Heavy on Politics

  11-12-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The annual event also makes room for a remake of the musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and the return of Justin Lin.
  
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• Shadow of a Childless Woman: The Mythic Roots of Strauss’s ‘Frau’

  11-12-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s behind the strange emphasis on childlessness in “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” the Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera now at the Met? Look to the ancients.
  
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• Maritime Museum to Exhibit Kevin Short’s Sun-kissed Paintings - Noozhawk

  11-12-2024 18:00 via news.google.com
  Maritime Museum to Exhibit Kevin Short’s Sun-kissed Paintings  Noozhawk
  
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• How a Soprano With Dyslexia Rose to the Heights of Opera

  11-12-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Elza van den Heever, a star of “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” at the Metropolitan Opera, no longer sees dyslexia as a hindrance — just a different way of learning.
  
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• Art Holiday Pop Offers Eclectic Mix - Noozhawk

  11-12-2024 18:00 via news.google.com
  Art Holiday Pop Offers Eclectic Mix  Noozhawk
  
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• San Diego's Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival acquired by La Jolla-based Events.com - ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV

  11-12-2024 17:52 via news.google.com
  San Diego's Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival acquired by La Jolla-based Events.com  ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV
  
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• Artist in residence expands fine arts program at Judge Memorial, Our Lady of Lourdes schools - Intermountain Catholic

  11-12-2024 17:50 via news.google.com
  Artist in residence expands fine arts program at Judge Memorial, Our Lady of Lourdes schools  Intermountain Catholic
  
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• Brentwood Student Shares Holiday Spirit with 'Nashville’s Nutcracker' - williamsonscene.com

  11-12-2024 17:47 via news.google.com
  Brentwood Student Shares Holiday Spirit with 'Nashville’s Nutcracker'  williamsonscene.com
  
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• Region 2 Arts Council seeks grant review panelists - Bemidji Pioneer

  11-12-2024 17:23 via news.google.com
  Region 2 Arts Council seeks grant review panelists  Bemidji Pioneer
  
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• Nikki Giovanni, Iconic Poet and Voice of the Black Arts Movement, Dies at 81 - The Times Weekly

  11-12-2024 17:17 via news.google.com
  Nikki Giovanni, Iconic Poet and Voice of the Black Arts Movement, Dies at 81  The Times Weekly
  
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• Michael Cole, a Star of ‘The Mod Squad,’ Is Dead at 84

  11-12-2024 17:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The show, about three hippies who become undercover crime fighters, ran from 1968 to 1973. Mr. Cole had been the last of its three stars still living.
  
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• Dec. 11 - Arts United Center added to National Register of Historic Places - FW Business

  11-12-2024 17:00 via news.google.com
  Dec. 11 - Arts United Center added to National Register of Historic Places  FW Business
  
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• Performing Arts Center supporters celebrate completion of $2.2 million campaign Saturday - Yachats News

  11-12-2024 16:59 via news.google.com
  Performing Arts Center supporters celebrate completion of $2.2 million campaign Saturday  Yachats News
  
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• ‘Maria’ Review: A Diva in Decline

  11-12-2024 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that can’t figure her out.
  
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• Arts center to showcase work of well known animator, invites artists to submit work - Paso Robles Daily News

  11-12-2024 16:34 via news.google.com
  Arts center to showcase work of well known animator, invites artists to submit work  Paso Robles Daily News
  
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• Thriving arts and crafts studio opens in downtown Snoqualmie - Snoqualmie Valley Record

  11-12-2024 16:30 via news.google.com
  Thriving arts and crafts studio opens in downtown Snoqualmie  Snoqualmie Valley Record
  
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• Lowville Village Band to present Christmas concert Sunday - NNY360

  11-12-2024 16:30 via news.google.com
  Lowville Village Band to present Christmas concert Sunday  NNY360
  
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• Bryant to consider "ballroom style" entertainment venue operated by Walton Arts Center - Benton Courier

  11-12-2024 16:25 via news.google.com
  Bryant to consider "ballroom style" entertainment venue operated by Walton Arts Center  Benton Courier
  
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• Explore the World Through Food: Culinary Arts Tourism Booms Across Europe, North America, and Asia with Unique Gastronomic Adventures - Travel And Tour World

  11-12-2024 16:16 via news.google.com
  Explore the World Through Food: Culinary Arts Tourism Booms Across Europe, North America, and Asia with Unique Gastronomic Adventures  Travel And Tour World
  
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• Newport Performing Arts Center celebrates reopening after backstage renovations - KLCC FM Public Radio

  11-12-2024 16:11 via news.google.com
  Newport Performing Arts Center celebrates reopening after backstage renovations  KLCC FM Public Radio
  
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• New Orleans Mardi Gras poster series is ending. Artist Andrea Mistretta takes a look back. - NOLA.com

  11-12-2024 16:00 via news.google.com
  New Orleans Mardi Gras poster series is ending. Artist Andrea Mistretta takes a look back.  NOLA.com
  
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• The Torlonia Marbles Are Coming to Museums in Chicago, Texas and Montreal

  11-12-2024 15:58 via nytimes.com
  
  For the first time, the ancient marbles are traveling out of Europe to the United States and Canada, for a prolonged stint.
  
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• Top 15 NJ Arts Events of Week: Lenny Kaye and Tammy Faye Starlite; Mariah Carey; 'The Nutcracker,' more - njarts.net

  11-12-2024 15:57 via news.google.com
  Top 15 NJ Arts Events of Week: Lenny Kaye and Tammy Faye Starlite; Mariah Carey; 'The Nutcracker,' more  njarts.net
  
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• Collective Motion Arts Center in Saco brings 'A Christmas Carol' to life - fox23maine.com

  11-12-2024 15:57 via news.google.com
  Collective Motion Arts Center in Saco brings 'A Christmas Carol' to life  fox23maine.com
  
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• Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie Revisit ‘The Simple Life’

  11-12-2024 15:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The celebutantes-turned-businesswomen are rebooting the show that provided a blueprint for the past 20 years of reality TV.
  
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• Healthcare Partners Support the Performing Arts Baptist Health, Cleveland Clinic, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital and Nicklaus Children’s Health System sponsor series at Broward Center for the Performing Arts and The Parker - South Florida Hospital N

  11-12-2024 15:48 via news.google.com
  Healthcare Partners Support the Performing Arts Baptist Health, Cleveland Clinic, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital and Nicklaus Children’s Health System sponsor series at Broward Center for the Performing Arts and The Parker  South Florida Hospital News
  
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• King County sales tax increase funds $70M for arts, culture and science - The Seattle Times

  11-12-2024 15:00 via news.google.com
  King County sales tax increase funds $70M for arts, culture and science  The Seattle Times
  
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• Pamela Anderson’s Iconic Red ‘Baywatch’ Swimsuit Will Be Shown at London’s Design Museum

  11-12-2024 12:14 via artnews.com
  
  In its nineties heyday, more than one billion people watched Baywatch each week. Many of these viewers tuned in to marvel at a red swimsuit struggling to contain Pamela Anderson as she ran along a beach in slow motion.London’s Design Museum is hoping people will want to look at said swimsuit without Anderson threatening to pop out of it like a chestburster from the Alien movies. The museum is displaying the swimwear item as part of an exhibition dedicated to swimming and people’s lov
  
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• Pamela Anderson’s Iconic Red ‘Baywatch’ Bikini Will Be Shown at London’s Design Museum

  11-12-2024 12:14 via artnews.com
  
  In its nineties heyday, more than one billion people watched Baywatch each week. Many of these viewers tuned in to marvel at a red swimsuit struggling to contain Pamela Anderson as she ran along a beach in slow motion.London’s Design Museum is hoping people will want to look at said swimsuit without Anderson threatening to pop out of it like a chestburster from the Alien movies. The museum is displaying the swimwear item as part of an exhibition dedicated to swimming and people’s lov
  
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• The Best Genre Movies of 2024

  11-12-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  We look at the finest in science fiction, horror, action and international films, all available to stream.
  
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• ‘The Bibi Files’ Review: The Case Against Netanyahu

  11-12-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel looks at the corruption investigation and his enduring grip on the government.
  
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