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• Spectacular Arts Festival - WTAP

  20-03-2025 23:39
  Spectacular Arts Festival  WTAP
  
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• Spotlight: Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival welcomes crowds for 66th year - Central Florida Public Media (previously WMFE)

  20-03-2025 23:37
  Spotlight: Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival welcomes crowds for 66th year  Central Florida Public Media (previously WMFE)
  
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• 26th annual Very Spectacular Arts Festival gives students a fun experience - WTAP

  20-03-2025 23:00
  26th annual Very Spectacular Arts Festival gives students a fun experience  WTAP
  
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• Liberal Arts student explores global approaches to criminal justice reform - Penn State University

  20-03-2025 22:48
  Liberal Arts student explores global approaches to criminal justice reform  Penn State University
  
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• Madison Arts Commission seeks artist for mural at Madison Public Market - WKOW

  20-03-2025 22:34
  Madison Arts Commission seeks artist for mural at Madison Public Market  WKOW
  
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• Walton Arts Center announces tickets for Artosphere Festival events - KNWA

  20-03-2025 22:32
  Walton Arts Center announces tickets for Artosphere Festival events  KNWA
  
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• How The Creative Coalition Will Swarm Capitol Hill - Hollywood Reporter

  20-03-2025 22:01
  How The Creative Coalition Will Swarm Capitol Hill  Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ triumphs at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts - DC Theater Arts

  20-03-2025 21:52
  ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ triumphs at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts  DC Theater Arts
  
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• Trump Names New Director of Museum Agency He Moved to Dismantle Last Week

  20-03-2025 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of seven federal agencies. Chief among them was the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides critical funding to museums, libraries, and archives. Now, less than a week later, Trump appointed a new head of the agency, Keith E. Sonderling.Earlier this week, Sonderling was confirmed as deputy secretary of the Department of Labor, after previously serving at that agency during Trump’s fir
  
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• Hate Jury Duty? These People Actually Pay for It.

  20-03-2025 21:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Immersive theater productions are taking jury service, which most consider a burden to be avoided at all costs, and packaging it as entertainment.
  
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• Live Arts Theater presents Horton Foote’s ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ - Augusta Free Press

  20-03-2025 21:37
  Live Arts Theater presents Horton Foote’s ‘The Trip to Bountiful’  Augusta Free Press
  
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• ‘Shared Custody’ Is a Prickly Spanish Divorce Drama

  20-03-2025 21:19 via nytimes.com
  
  And as with many European series, this one, on Hulu, features plenty of cool sweaters and hot tempers.
  
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• Hawaiʻi arts agency plans to host regional festival celebrating Pacific Islanders - Hawaiipublicradio

  20-03-2025 21:16
  Hawaiʻi arts agency plans to host regional festival celebrating Pacific Islanders  Hawaiipublicradio
  
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• Pirated-Books Database LibGen, Which Meta Used to Train AI, Includes Books By Artists, Architects, Galleries and Museums

  20-03-2025 21:02 via artnews.com
  
  Library Genesis, the pirated database of millions of books, scientific papers, comics, and magazine issues, was used by Meta to train its flagship AI model.Court documents released on March 19 show that senior staff at Meta obtained permission from company CEO Mark Zuckerberg to download and use Library Genesis, or LibGen, to train its AI model Llama 3. LibGen’s collection currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. While much of the content is in the fie
  
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• Arts Alive events return Thursday night to Petaluma - Petaluma Argus Courier

  20-03-2025 20:48
  Arts Alive events return Thursday night to Petaluma  Petaluma Argus Courier
  
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• Lenny Schultz, Comedian Who Made a Lot of Noise, Dies at 91

  20-03-2025 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  A highly physical performer, he said he couldn’t tell jokes. But he became well known for a wild act that fellow comedians didn’t want to follow.
  
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• Palestinian Artist Dorgham Quraiqi Killed in Israeli Airstrike

  20-03-2025 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Dorgham Quraiqi was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on March 18, according to Hope and Play, a UK charity that had supported his work in Palestinian refugee camps. The Art Newspaper reported on Thursday that he was 28.Hope and Play said that Quraiqi’s family was also killed during the airstrike. “In Dorgham we lose a great colleague who always came up with new ideas and knew how to realize them with great enthusiasm,” the organization wrote in its announcement. &l
  
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• Author Interview: Roberta Silman — Taking up “Heart-work” - artsfuse.org

  20-03-2025 19:57
  Author Interview: Roberta Silman — Taking up “Heart-work”  artsfuse.org
  
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• Trump's targeting of little-known federal agency could impact CT arts and culture organizations - Connecticut Public

  20-03-2025 19:54
  Trump's targeting of little-known federal agency could impact CT arts and culture organizations  Connecticut Public
  
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• Wyoming Arts Council opens Native Art Fellowship applications - Cap City News

  20-03-2025 19:34
  Wyoming Arts Council opens Native Art Fellowship applications  Cap City News
  
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• J.B. Moore, Producer of Seminal Hip-Hop Records, Dies at 81

  20-03-2025 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into the mainstream.
  
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• Point Loma Farmers Market moves to Arts District Liberty Station - San Diego Community Newspaper Group

  20-03-2025 19:33
  Point Loma Farmers Market moves to Arts District Liberty Station  San Diego Community Newspaper Group
  
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• Gila Valley Arts Council bringing Musikaravan to the Player Center - GilaValleyCentral

  20-03-2025 19:33
  Gila Valley Arts Council bringing Musikaravan to the Player Center  GilaValleyCentral
  
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• Philly’s long-running StorySlam events canceled due to NEA funding freeze - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  20-03-2025 19:08
  Philly’s long-running StorySlam events canceled due to NEA funding freeze  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Celebrate Culture Works Annual Campaign for the Arts - Dayton 24/7 Now

  20-03-2025 18:53
  Celebrate Culture Works Annual Campaign for the Arts  Dayton 24/7 Now
  
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• Hundreds of 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets and Seals Unearthed in Iraq

  20-03-2025 18:52 via artnews.com
  More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in southern Iraq. The tablets reveal evidence of a complex bureaucratic system.A team of archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq uncovered hundreds of administrative tablets, dating back to the Akkadian period (2300-2150 BCE), with minute details ranging from scholarly texts to barley rations. Th
  
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• For Cleveland Orchestra, It’s Beethoven (and Freedom) to the Rescue

  20-03-2025 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in.
  
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• 'Death of a Salesman' at Rec Room Arts is a claustrophobic masterpiece - Houston Chronicle

  20-03-2025 18:45
  'Death of a Salesman' at Rec Room Arts is a claustrophobic masterpiece  Houston Chronicle
  
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• Cultural Alliance offering match pool for arts nonprofits during Give Local York - York Dispatch

  20-03-2025 18:42
  Cultural Alliance offering match pool for arts nonprofits during Give Local York  York Dispatch
  
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• A Hong Kong Picasso Show Aims to Shed New Light on the Master

  20-03-2025 18:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The exhibition at M+ pairs the Spanish master’s works with those of four generations of Asian and Asian-diasporic artists, setting up a lively dialogue.
  
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• Hong Kong Bookshops Persist Amid Change and Challenges

  20-03-2025 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  It has not been easy for the city’s bookstores recently. But there are still shops piled high with new, rare and secondhand tomes, if you know where to look.
  
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• ‘The Residence’ Review: Murder and Mystery in the White House

  20-03-2025 18:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The Netflix series, executive produced by Shonda Rimes, is the latest lighthearted murder mystery on streaming TV.
  
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• Pearl Lam Knows the Hong Kong Art Scene, and Is Happy to Talk

  20-03-2025 18:07 via nytimes.com
  
  With Art Basel Hong Kong approaching, the gallerist discussed her thoughts on the city’s place in the Asian art world.
  
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• A Show at Art Basel Hong Kong Revisits History to Interpret Today

  20-03-2025 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  A painter and a former journalist have teamed up to demonstrate the city’s shift from relative openness to tighter controls on freedoms of expression.
  
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• PENINSULA POETRY: At the Fine Arts Gallery - Door County Pulse

  20-03-2025 18:00
  PENINSULA POETRY: At the Fine Arts Gallery  Door County Pulse
  
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• "20 Dashing Years" Exhibition: The Woodlands Arts Council celebrates two decades of art, giving, and fun - hellowoodlands.com

  20-03-2025 17:42
  "20 Dashing Years" Exhibition: The Woodlands Arts Council celebrates two decades of art, giving, and fun  hellowoodlands.com
  
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• RAW VIDEO: Organizers detail this year's Panoply Arts Festival in Huntsville - WAFF

  20-03-2025 17:40
  RAW VIDEO: Organizers detail this year's Panoply Arts Festival in Huntsville  WAFF
  
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• Allred is all about the arts - Addison County Independent

  20-03-2025 17:38
  Allred is all about the arts  Addison County Independent
  
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• State Fair of Texas issues guide for 2025 arts & crafts blue ribbons - CultureMap Houston

  20-03-2025 17:30
  State Fair of Texas issues guide for 2025 arts & crafts blue ribbons  CultureMap Houston
  
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• Greater Conroe Arts Festival and Film Festival to be held in Downtown Conroe - hellowoodlands.com

  20-03-2025 17:12
  Greater Conroe Arts Festival and Film Festival to be held in Downtown Conroe  hellowoodlands.com
  
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• ‘Misericordia’ Review: Danger Always Hides in the Bushes

  20-03-2025 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest.
  
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• Training center rides wave in mixed-martial arts’ popularity and credibility - Colorado Community Media

  20-03-2025 17:00
  Training center rides wave in mixed-martial arts’ popularity and credibility  Colorado Community Media
  
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• Hannibal Arts Council invites young students to explore paper quilling art - khqa.com

  20-03-2025 16:56
  Hannibal Arts Council invites young students to explore paper quilling art  khqa.com
  
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• The Arts at USU: April 2025 Events Preview - Utah State University

  20-03-2025 16:51
  The Arts at USU: April 2025 Events Preview  Utah State University
  
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• Panoply Arts Festival leaders reveal poster art, highlights and music lineup - WAFF

  20-03-2025 16:41
  Panoply Arts Festival leaders reveal poster art, highlights and music lineup  WAFF
  
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• Arts and Culture - siouxfalls.gov

  20-03-2025 16:01
  Arts and Culture  siouxfalls.gov
  
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• Washougal grad drawn to mixed martial arts fighting - Camas Washougal Post Record

  20-03-2025 16:00
  Washougal grad drawn to mixed martial arts fighting  Camas Washougal Post Record
  
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• Flannery O’Connor’s Artworks Finally See the Light

  20-03-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy.
  
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• Robert E. Ginna Jr., Whose Article Bolstered U.F.O. Claims, Dies at 99

  20-03-2025 15:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A founding editor of People, he also served as editor in chief of Little, Brown and produced films. But his public image was defined by a 1952 story for Life.
  
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• The Sudden Weirdness of TV Presidents

  20-03-2025 15:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Today’s political dramas have conspiracy, murder and supervolcanoes. But their conventional White House protocols and procedures might be the most disorienting aspects.
  
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