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• Reason to Smile: Jeffersonville arts district receives high honor - WHAS11

  13-11-2025 23:56
  Reason to Smile: Jeffersonville arts district receives high honor  WHAS11
  
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• Studio helps young performers build confidence through arts - WRDW

  13-11-2025 23:47
  Studio helps young performers build confidence through arts  WRDW
  
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• Barbara Reuther Receives Arts Education Visionary Award - NewJerseyStage.com

  13-11-2025 23:43
  Barbara Reuther Receives Arts Education Visionary Award  NewJerseyStage.com
  
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• Atlantic City Arts Foundation presents "The Ministry of ARTeriors" - NewJerseyStage.com

  13-11-2025 23:28
  Atlantic City Arts Foundation presents "The Ministry of ARTeriors"  NewJerseyStage.com
  
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• Indiana Arts Commission Accepting Applications For America250 Grants - timesuniononline.com

  13-11-2025 23:23
  Indiana Arts Commission Accepting Applications For America250 Grants  timesuniononline.com
  
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• LeMoyne Arts 62nd Annual Holiday Art Show, Art Nouveau Aglow - Tallahassee Democrat

  13-11-2025 22:50
  LeMoyne Arts 62nd Annual Holiday Art Show, Art Nouveau Aglow  Tallahassee Democrat
  
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• New Albion Arts Center Grand Opening November 20 - JTV Jackson

  13-11-2025 22:41
  New Albion Arts Center Grand Opening November 20  JTV Jackson
  
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• Support the arts, celebrate creativity and bet on a great cause - The Troy Messenger

  13-11-2025 22:21
  Support the arts, celebrate creativity and bet on a great cause  The Troy Messenger
  
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• Catholic Studies Students Present at the Scottish Catholic Studies Arts Lab, University of Glasgow - Seton Hall University

  13-11-2025 22:05
  Catholic Studies Students Present at the Scottish Catholic Studies Arts Lab, University of Glasgow  Seton Hall University
  
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• Florida Women's Arts Association seeking toy donations for Domestic Abuse Council of Volusia County - Observer Local News

  13-11-2025 22:00
  Florida Women's Arts Association seeking toy donations for Domestic Abuse Council of Volusia County  Observer Local News
  
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• Jersey Arts TV: New Building Marks New Life for the Princeton University Art Museum - NewJerseyStage.com

  13-11-2025 21:52
  Jersey Arts TV: New Building Marks New Life for the Princeton University Art Museum  NewJerseyStage.com
  
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• Metallica Guitarist Sells Painting of Conan the Barbarian—With a $10 M. Asking Price

  13-11-2025 21:35 via artnews.com
  Bidding starts at $10 million for a painting of Conan the Barbarian that Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett bought from artist Frank Frazetta for $1 million in 2009. The work, titled Conan the Berserker (1967), served as cover art for a paperback edition of Robert E. Howard’s novel Conan the Conqueror, and is being offered up in Heritage Auctions’ “Hollywood/Entertainment Signature Auction” December 9–10.Conan looks more than a little triumphant in the painting,
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: Spock, noodles, clowns and doom metal - KPBS

  13-11-2025 21:28
  San Diego weekend arts events: Spock, noodles, clowns and doom metal  KPBS
  
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• Getty Trust Adds Glenn Lowry and Lionel Sauvage to Board of Trustees

  13-11-2025 21:28 via artnews.com
  The J. Paul Getty Trust has appointed Glenn D. Lowry, the former director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Lionel M. Sauvage, a French philanthropist and collector, to its board of trustees. Both will begin as trustees in 2026.“It’s an honor and delight to welcome Glenn and Lionel to Getty’s Board of Trustees. Both have a lifelong commitment to the arts, and deep and varied experience. Their contributions will benefit Getty in countless ways,” Katherine E. Fl
  
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• Historical Museum postpones annual arts show - The Mesa Tribune

  13-11-2025 21:18
  Historical Museum postpones annual arts show  The Mesa Tribune
  
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• Alabama State Board of Education delays vote for social studies, arts education textbooks - Alabama Reflector

  13-11-2025 21:15
  Alabama State Board of Education delays vote for social studies, arts education textbooks  Alabama Reflector
  
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• ‘Riskier Business’ Guide Aims to Help Arts Workers Navigate Health Insurance - American Theatre

  13-11-2025 21:12
  ‘Riskier Business’ Guide Aims to Help Arts Workers Navigate Health Insurance  American Theatre
  
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• Veterans Day Celebration Luncheon and Arts Presentation on tap Saturday - Mainstreet Daily News Gainesville

  13-11-2025 21:10
  Veterans Day Celebration Luncheon and Arts Presentation on tap Saturday  Mainstreet Daily News Gainesville
  
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• MAC awards $4 million through the Building Fund For The Arts grant TO 17 arts organizations in 14 counties - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

  13-11-2025 21:03
  MAC awards $4 million through the Building Fund For The Arts grant TO 17 arts organizations in 14 counties  Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
  
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• Arts in Corrections releases new book - Mariposa Gazette

  13-11-2025 21:01
  Arts in Corrections releases new book  Mariposa Gazette
  
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• ‘Archduke’ Review: Impressionable Young Men

  13-11-2025 20:57 via nytimes.com
  Rajiv Joseph’s farcical play follows the nationalists who carried out the assassination that ignited World War I.
  
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• Destin High School Launches First “Holly Jolly Market” at Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation Amphitheatre - Mid Bay News

  13-11-2025 20:51
  Destin High School Launches First “Holly Jolly Market” at Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation Amphitheatre  Mid Bay News
  
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• Houston Cinema Arts Festival puts city’s creative diversity and rising global status on display - Texas Standard

  13-11-2025 20:31
  Houston Cinema Arts Festival puts city’s creative diversity and rising global status on display  Texas Standard
  
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• UR event celebrates aging and the arts - Rochester Business Journal

  13-11-2025 20:26
  UR event celebrates aging and the arts  Rochester Business Journal
  
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• South Mississippi arts organizations receive grants for renovations and preservation projects - WLOX

  13-11-2025 20:19
  South Mississippi arts organizations receive grants for renovations and preservation projects  WLOX
  
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• Sofia Coppola Honored at MoMA Benefit With Elle Fanning, Bill Murray and David Letterman

  13-11-2025 20:05 via nytimes.com
  The Museum of Modern Art’s annual film gala honored the writer and director, attracting a crowd that included Olivia Wilde, Bill Murray and David Letterman.
  
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• Fire ravages South River Art Studios, displacing artists - ARTS ATL

  13-11-2025 20:01
  Fire ravages South River Art Studios, displacing artists  ARTS ATL
  
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• UNR Performing Arts Series: Twanguero - KNPR

  13-11-2025 19:57
  UNR Performing Arts Series: Twanguero  KNPR
  
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• Pike Liberal Arts to host baseball clinic Dec. 6 - The Troy Messenger

  13-11-2025 19:56
  Pike Liberal Arts to host baseball clinic Dec. 6  The Troy Messenger
  
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• At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians

  13-11-2025 19:47 via nytimes.com
  William Kennedy raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his celebrated Albany cycle with half a century ago.
  
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• Former Texas gymnastics, martial arts instructor sentenced for child pornography crimes - FOX 26 Houston

  13-11-2025 19:33
  Former Texas gymnastics, martial arts instructor sentenced for child pornography crimes  FOX 26 Houston
  
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• ‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life

  13-11-2025 19:17 via nytimes.com
  The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the Stephen King novel.
  
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• Clayton Center for the Arts presents Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol - The Mountain Press

  13-11-2025 19:03
  Clayton Center for the Arts presents Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol  The Mountain Press
  
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• Local business owner honored for supporting arts - Findlay News | The Courier

  13-11-2025 19:00
  Local business owner honored for supporting arts  Findlay News | The Courier
  
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• New Chalk Wall Mural at Pullen Arts Center - RaleighNC.gov

  13-11-2025 18:55
  New Chalk Wall Mural at Pullen Arts Center  RaleighNC.gov
  
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• Massive 40-Year-Old Sculpture Demolished for Battery Park City Resiliency Project

  13-11-2025 18:55 via artnews.com
  A massive 40-year-old art sculpture is being demolished in Battery Park City to make way for the controversial North/West Battery Park City Resiliency (NWBPCR) project.The sculpture, titled Upper Room, by artist Ned Smyth, is a 20-column court featuring an elongated table with inlaid chessboards. The colonnade recalls ancient architecture and offered a public reprieve for New Yorkers. Commissioned in 1986, it was Battery Park City’s first public art piece.Just last year the Batte
  
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• The Art World’s ‘Joe Rogan,’ ONX Expands, and More: Industry Moves for November 13, 2025

  13-11-2025 18:48 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.Happy Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry Moves Wadsworth Atheneum Names New President and CEO: Allison Blais, a longtime leader at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York, will take over the role in January 2026, succeeding Jeffrey
  
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• Deck the Chairs announces 2025 holiday schedule with more programming, arts activities in Jacksonville Beach - News4JAX

  13-11-2025 18:48
  Deck the Chairs announces 2025 holiday schedule with more programming, arts activities in Jacksonville Beach  News4JAX
  
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• $4M grant boosts arts facilities in Mississippi communities - WJTV

  13-11-2025 18:46
  $4M grant boosts arts facilities in Mississippi communities  WJTV
  
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• Three Paintings by Bob Ross Raise $600,000 at Auction for American Public Broadcasting

  13-11-2025 18:41 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday, the first three (of 30 total) original canvases by America television icon Bob Ross hit the auction block at Bonhams. The paintings sold for a total of $600,000. The proceeds from this and future sales of Ross’s “happy little paintings” will benefit American Public Television, a nonprofit syndicator that has been impacted by President Trump’s budget cuts.The three Ross landscape paintings—Cliffside, 1990; and Home in the Valley and Winter’s Peace,
  
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• Tate Staff Overwhelmingly Vote to Strike Over ‘Inadequate’ Pay Raise Offer

  13-11-2025 18:29 via artnews.com
  More than 150 unionized workers at Britain’s Tate museums will go on strike in protest over what the union calls “inadequate” pay raises. The Public and Commercial Services Union has announced that the staff will go on strike from November 26 to December 2.Some 98 percent of members members who cast votes were in support of the action, with nearly 88 percent of the members casting votes. In a recent survey by the union, more than 72 percent of PCS members at Tate said their sal
  
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• In Emails, Jeffrey Epstein Said He Had ‘Art Guy’ and Assessed an Expensive Leonardo da Vinci Painting

  13-11-2025 18:23 via artnews.com
  Jeffrey Epstein discussed quite a few things in the newly released tranche of emails put out by House Republicans this week: current events, the New York Times’s reporting, legal action against him, and a whole lot more. Yet, based on these documents, he also appears to have some interest in art.In one email sent on May 30, 2019, Epstein wrote to Michael Wolff, a reporter who has written on Donald Trump and his election as President, about a very expensive painting that has commonly been a
  
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• Artist Mel Leipzig, the ‘Chekhov of Trenton’, Has Died at 90

  13-11-2025 18:18 via artnews.com
  Melvin Donald “Mel” Leipzig, a painter who guided generations of artists from his adopted home of Trenton, New Jersey, died on November 1 at the age 90. According to his daughter, Francesca Leipzig, he died exactly 18 years after the passing of his wife, the artist Mary Jo Michelessi.Across more than half a century, the Brooklyn-born artist portrayed the people and places he encountered—no matter how mundane—with gravitas. He never painted from photographs, preferrin
  
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• Desert X Marks 10 Years with New Season, Expanded Team, and Global Ambitions

  13-11-2025 18:00 via artnews.com
  Desert X, the recurring exhibition that helped redefine land art for the 21st century, will mark its 10th edition in 2027 with a longer season, new curatorial leadership, and plans for international growth.Opening October 30, 2027, and running through May 7, 2028, the next Desert X will unfold over six months—triple its usual run—to capture the desert’s changing light and align with major cultural moments in Southern California, including the Palm Springs In
  
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• After Museum Heist, Syrian Cultural Authorities Face Scrutiny Over Lack of Transparency

  13-11-2025 17:57 via artnews.com
  Syria’s Ministry of Culture yesterday appeared to publish details of the artifacts stolen from the Damascus National Museum on Sunday, only to delete the brief statement several hours later. The now-removed post has intensified demands for transparency over what was stolen and how the investigation is proceeding.On Tuesday, international media reported that six Roman-era statues and several gold ingots had been stolen from the museum’s classical department, citing anonymous sources.
  
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• Arts groups hold a fundraiser on Saturday — for the environment - WHRO

  13-11-2025 17:54
  Arts groups hold a fundraiser on Saturday — for the environment  WHRO
  
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• Arts, Culture, Et Cetera: Music, libraries and an early Christmas - Louisville Public Media

  13-11-2025 17:42
  Arts, Culture, Et Cetera: Music, libraries and an early Christmas  Louisville Public Media
  
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• ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Ode to ‘Breathless’

  13-11-2025 17:41 via nytimes.com
  The American director moves his sights to Paris in 1959, when a young, cocky Jean-Luc Godard is hustling to make his first (now legendary) movie.
  
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• Wharton Performing Arts School presents Holiday Cabaret Benefit on December 12th - NewJerseyStage.com

  13-11-2025 17:25
  Wharton Performing Arts School presents Holiday Cabaret Benefit on December 12th  NewJerseyStage.com
  
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• ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater Ode to ‘Breathless’

  13-11-2025 17:15 via nytimes.com
  The American director moves his sights to Paris in 1959, when a young, cocky Jean-Luc Godard is hustling to make his first (now legendary) movie.
  
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