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• Free: The Music Center's ‘Very Special Arts Festival' is ‘United & Inspired' - NBC Los Angeles

  27-03-2026 23:11 via news.google.com
  Free: The Music Center's ‘Very Special Arts Festival' is ‘United & Inspired'  NBC Los Angeles
  
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• Overlooked No More: Gertrude Chandler Warner, Author of ‘The Boxcar Children’

  27-03-2026 22:44 via NYT > Arts
  Her best-selling series, about four children who live in a train car and solve mysteries, inspired sequels, spinoffs and animated films.
  
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• Outside Kennedy Center, Jane Fonda and Joan Baez Raise Voices in Protest

  27-03-2026 21:58 via NYT > Arts
  The pair joined in a gathering of artists and others who denounced censorship and faulted President Trump’s growing influence over the nation’s cultural life.
  
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• Kennedy Center Begins Staff Layoffs

  27-03-2026 21:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Kennedy Center began laying off staff on Thursday, according to a report in the Washington Post. The cuts, which employees say affected multiple departments, are tied to President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the Washington, D.C., cultural institution for two years, which was approved by its board earlier this month.Included in the layoffs were the Kennedy Center’s executive vice president Nick Meade and vice president Rick Loughery, both of whom were installed in their roles
  
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• New York City Ballet Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Performances

  27-03-2026 21:55 via NYT > Arts
  The decision by the company, one of the most prestigious in the country, is the latest in a wave of high-profile cancellations at the center.
  
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• Prince William County Arts Grants Workshop Scheduled for Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - Prince William Living

  27-03-2026 21:21 via news.google.com
  Prince William County Arts Grants Workshop Scheduled for Wednesday, April 8, 2026  Prince William Living
  
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• Gulf Coast Symphony bringing '1776' to Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall for America250 - WGCU

  27-03-2026 21:03 via news.google.com
  Gulf Coast Symphony bringing '1776' to Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall for America250  WGCU
  
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• We Tried a Bookbinding Class at Wild Arts Learning Center - 417 Magazine

  27-03-2026 20:48 via news.google.com
  We Tried a Bookbinding Class at Wild Arts Learning Center  417 Magazine
  
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• Broome & Tioga County officials seek public input on arts and culture support programs - WBNG

  27-03-2026 20:28 via news.google.com
  Broome & Tioga County officials seek public input on arts and culture support programs  WBNG
  
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• Guillaume Cerutti, Former Christie’s CEO, Leaves Post as Pinault Collection President

  27-03-2026 20:11 via ARTnews.com
  
  Guillaume Cerutti, the former CEO of Christie’s auction house, has left his position at the Pinault Collection after just 13 months, the French investigative news outlet Glitz reported earlier this week.In February 2025, Cerutti became president of the collection owned by French billionaire François Pinault. In addition to the 10,000 works in its holdings, the Pinault Collection also maintains several private museums: the Bourse de Commerce in Paris and the Palazzo Grassi and Punta
  
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• Chance Theater students get 'direct bridge' to performing arts careers - The Poughkeepsie Journal

  27-03-2026 20:02 via news.google.com
  Chance Theater students get 'direct bridge' to performing arts careers  The Poughkeepsie Journal
  
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• Candelaria Silva-Collins, champion of Roxbury arts and cultural institutions, has died - The Bay State Banner

  27-03-2026 19:38 via news.google.com
  Candelaria Silva-Collins, champion of Roxbury arts and cultural institutions, has died  The Bay State Banner
  
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• Alexander Kluge, a Lodestar in New German Cinema Movement, Dies at 94

  27-03-2026 18:57 via NYT > Arts
  A film director, movie theorist and author, he was widely regarded as one of his country’s towering artists and intellectuals.
  
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• Review: Tulsa Ballet’s ‘Casanova’ at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center March 26-29 - TulsaPeople Magazine

  27-03-2026 18:37 via news.google.com
  Review: Tulsa Ballet’s ‘Casanova’ at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center March 26-29  TulsaPeople Magazine
  
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• Antonio Homem, Champion of the Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Dies at 86

  27-03-2026 18:09 via ARTnews.com
  
  Antonio Homem, who started working with the storied gallerist Ileana Sonnabend in the 1960s and went on to oversee her collection and maintain her and husband Michael Sonnabend’s legacy as supporters of some of the most important figures of post-war contemporary art, has died at the age of 86. The news was announced by the Sonnabend Collection Mantova, a museum Homem helped open in the north of Italy in 2025.Born in Portugal in 1939, Homem moved to Switzerland as a teenager and studied eng
  
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• Watch K-Pop Superstars BTS Perform New Singles “SWIM” and “2.0” at the Guggenheim Museum

  27-03-2026 17:01 via ARTnews.com
  
  Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.)Fresh off a four-year hiatus, BTS’s new album Arirang came out on Mar. 20. The band was interviewed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night. But instead of performing t
  
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• The BTS Connection With Howard University

  27-03-2026 17:01 via NYT > Arts
  In promoting its new album, the K-pop superstars looked back to a late-19th-century moment featuring the unofficial anthem Arirang for inspiration.
  
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• Stream These Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in April

  27-03-2026 16:56 via NYT > Arts
  Several Christopher Guest mockumentaries and almost every James Bond movie are among the titles leaving for U.S. subscribers before the month ends.
  
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• Coleman Barks, Who Popularized the Islamic Poet Rumi in the West, Dies at 88

  27-03-2026 16:48 via NYT > Arts
  Although he did not speak a word of Persian, his interpretations of the 13th-century mystic’s work made Rumi a New Age icon for millions.
  
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• European Parliament Members Call on EU to Strip Funding from Venice Biennale Amid Russian Pavilion Controversy

  27-03-2026 16:12 via ARTnews.com
  
  As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale.The EU has not publicly stated how much money it gives to the Biennale, which is not just the top art exhibition in Europe but the biggest show of its kind anywhere in the world. But according to the letter, which was obtained by
  
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• 5 Takeaways From Netflix’s ‘BTS: The Return’ Documentary

  27-03-2026 15:30 via NYT > Arts
  Netflix’s documentary about the superstar K-pop group’s comeback after a four-year hiatus showcases its creative process, brotherhood and anxieties about fame.
  
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• How ‘Love Story’ Gave Viewers a History Lesson on the Kennedys and ’90s NYC

  27-03-2026 15:28 via NYT > Arts
  The FX show, which dramatizes the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has inspired a legion of younger viewers to dig into the couple’s past and 1990s New York City.
  
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• Guillaume Cerutti Departs Pinault Collection, Rediscovered Napoleon Hat on View, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2026

  27-03-2026 15:21 via ARTnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his relatively new role as president of the Pinault Collection.Forgotten in storage for nearly a century, one of Napoleon’s two-cornered hats has been identified and will go on display in June.Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial installation of around 50 hanging stuffed animals and dolls has gone on view after a delay.The Headlines SACKED. Guillaume Cerutti has been dismissed from his plush position as president of the&n
  
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• Arts All-Star: Lily White - WWNY

  27-03-2026 12:56 via news.google.com
  Arts All-Star: Lily White  WWNY
  
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• Cigarette taxes would be risky bet for arts funding | Letters - The Columbus Dispatch

  27-03-2026 12:02 via news.google.com
  Cigarette taxes would be risky bet for arts funding | Letters  The Columbus Dispatch
  
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• Hudson schools break ground on new Harmony Performing Arts project - Akron Beacon Journal

  27-03-2026 12:00 via news.google.com
  Hudson schools break ground on new Harmony Performing Arts project  Akron Beacon Journal
  
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• At Phipps Community Day, get behind-the-scenes look at Hudson arts center - Hudson Star Observer

  27-03-2026 11:55 via news.google.com
  At Phipps Community Day, get behind-the-scenes look at Hudson arts center  Hudson Star Observer
  
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• Top 5 arts events this week in the Sarasota area, March 29-April 4 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  27-03-2026 11:10 via news.google.com
  Top 5 arts events this week in the Sarasota area, March 29-April 4  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  
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• How the Arts Council helps shape Fayetteville’s culture — and what’s next - The Fayetteville Observer

  27-03-2026 11:02 via news.google.com
  How the Arts Council helps shape Fayetteville’s culture — and what’s next  The Fayetteville Observer
  
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• ‘For All Mankind’ Is the Anti-‘Black Mirror’

  27-03-2026 10:02 via NYT > Arts
  The optimistic space-race drama, starting its fifth season, imagines humans settling space without tech colonizing our minds.
  
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• Don’t Let the Name Harry Hole Fool You. The Important One Is Jo Nesbo.

  27-03-2026 10:02 via NYT > Arts
  After a disappointing movie adaptation, the Norwegian author took the reins as showrunner in a new Netflix series based on his Detective Hole books.
  
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• Can We Settle Your Music Debate? Of Course We Can.

  27-03-2026 10:02 via NYT > Arts
  Popcast is here to answer your questions. (And to tell you who’s right.)
  
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• 33 Fun Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Spring

  27-03-2026 10:01 via NYT > Arts
  They can shake off those winter doldrums by hunting for Easter eggs, running the bases at Brooklyn Cyclones’ ballpark or gliding down Slide Hill on Governors Island.
  
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• I Saw a Great Show in China That Would Be Censored in the United States

  27-03-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  In a famous photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois with Mao Zedong, both men are absolutely giddy and dressed to the nines: big smiles, stylish hats, long wool coats. That picture—and the 20th-century Afro-Asian alliances it symbolizes—was something of an impetus for “The Great Camouflage,” a show on view at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai through April 26.Co-curators X Zhu-Nowell and Kandis Williams began with a shared interest in overlapping revolutionary histories and cross-
  
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• Wisconsin ranks nearly last in the country in arts funding. Madison arts organizations and the UW are trying to fill the gaps. - The Daily Cardinal

  27-03-2026 09:00 via news.google.com
  Wisconsin ranks nearly last in the country in arts funding. Madison arts organizations and the UW are trying to fill the gaps.  The Daily Cardinal
  
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• Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial Installation Is on View After a Delay, and It’s a True Shocker

  27-03-2026 09:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Earlier this month, the Whitney Biennial went on view to the usual amount of fanfare—but one work was notably missing from the show. That work, a room-filling installation by Precious Okoyomon featuring stuffed animals and racist dolls suspended from the ceiling by nooses, was initially meant to appear in the lobby. But shortly before the exhibition opened to the press, the artist and the show’s curators pulled the plug on that plan.The issue, Okoyomon told ARTnews this week, was not
  
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• Late Night Disses Trump’s New ‘America First’ Award

  27-03-2026 08:27 via NYT > Arts
  “How many fake trophies that were made specifically for him is this guy going to get?” Seth Meyers asked on Thursday’s “Late Night.”
  
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• Tracking Trump’s Efforts to Reshape Cultural Institutions

  27-03-2026 08:00 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Jennifer Schuessler, a culture reporter who writes about intellectual life, is now covering President Trump’s attempts to amend the presentation of American history.
  
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• Chip Taylor, Writer of ‘Wild Thing’ and Other Rock Hits, Dies at 86

  27-03-2026 06:07 via NYT > Arts
  Mr. Taylor, the younger brother of the actor Jon Voight, found success as a songwriter for the likes of Janis Joplin and Juice Newton.
  
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• Theater Tickets Are Cheaper in London Than New York. What Gives?

  27-03-2026 05:01 via NYT > Arts
  For half the price of a great seat at a Broadway show, you can see “Paddington” in the West End (if you can find a ticket) and snack on a marmalade sandwich.
  
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• What does “liberal arts” mean? - The Mac Weekly

  27-03-2026 04:28 via news.google.com
  What does “liberal arts” mean?  The Mac Weekly
  
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• Salzburg Festival Fires Its Artistic Director

  27-03-2026 03:05 via NYT > Arts
  The board terminated Markus Hinterhäuser’s contract early, leaving the leadership of the world’s largest classical music festival in limbo for now.
  
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• ‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap: Breaking Points

  27-03-2026 03:00 via NYT > Arts
  The stalwarts of the Pitt seem to be cracking under the stress of an especially difficult day — in a workplace defined by difficult days.
  
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• New Jenni Rivera Performing Arts Center unveiled at Long Beach City College - ABC7 Los Angeles

  27-03-2026 02:53 via news.google.com
  New Jenni Rivera Performing Arts Center unveiled at Long Beach City College  ABC7 Los Angeles
  
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• Han Kang Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

  27-03-2026 01:07 via NYT > Arts
  This year’s winners include the latest novel by the South Korean Nobel laureate in literature and a memoir by one of India’s best known novelists.
  
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• Commissioner McCurdy and Clark County Public Arts Office Announce Call for Artists for Cinco de Mayo - Clark County (.gov)

  27-03-2026 00:22 via news.google.com
  Commissioner McCurdy and Clark County Public Arts Office Announce Call for Artists for Cinco de Mayo  Clark County (.gov)
  
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• Free shows at PNC Bank Arts Center will include Tommy James/Peter Noone double bill - NJArts.net

  27-03-2026 00:07 via news.google.com
  Free shows at PNC Bank Arts Center will include Tommy James/Peter Noone double bill  NJArts.net
  
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