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• Pearl District Summer Arts Series - Visit Fort Wayne

  15-04-2026 23:58 via news.google.com
  Pearl District Summer Arts Series  Visit Fort Wayne
  
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• University College and Veterinary Medicine students, Liberal Arts professor named 2026 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award winners - Auburn University

  15-04-2026 23:50 via news.google.com
  University College and Veterinary Medicine students, Liberal Arts professor named 2026 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award winners  Auburn University
  
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• Spring Research and Arts Conference celebrates student innovation - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC)

  15-04-2026 23:42 via news.google.com
  Spring Research and Arts Conference celebrates student innovation  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC)
  
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• Knoxville’s Dogwood Arts Festival returning to World’s Fair Park - WVLT

  15-04-2026 23:30 via news.google.com
  Knoxville’s Dogwood Arts Festival returning to World’s Fair Park  WVLT
  
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• Activist Super-Glues Herself to Display Cabinet at Berlin’s Bode Museum

  15-04-2026 23:30 via ARTnews.com
  On Tuesday afternoon, police were called when an activist super-glued herself to a display cabinet at the Bode Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. The news was reported by the German magazine Monopol.The action was claimed by New Generation, a successor movement to Last Generation, a German/Italian group of climate activists best known for gluing themselves to roadways. Last Generation disbanded in January 2025.The woman, dressed like Germany’s Economic Affairs Minister, Katherina Reic
  
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• Mural Arts Philadelphia once again faces funding gap in city's proposed budget - Inquirer.com

  15-04-2026 23:27 via news.google.com
  Mural Arts Philadelphia once again faces funding gap in city's proposed budget  Inquirer.com
  
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• Dogwood Arts continues to show off the beauty of Knoxville through private garden tours - WBIR

  15-04-2026 23:15 via news.google.com
  Dogwood Arts continues to show off the beauty of Knoxville through private garden tours  WBIR
  
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• SBU Community Celebrates Past and Future at Shirley Strum Kenny Arts Festival - SBU News

  15-04-2026 22:59 via news.google.com
  SBU Community Celebrates Past and Future at Shirley Strum Kenny Arts Festival  SBU News
  
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• Mural Arts unveils design for new Philadelphia Stars mural at Negro League Baseball Memorial Park - Inquirer.com

  15-04-2026 22:19 via news.google.com
  Mural Arts unveils design for new Philadelphia Stars mural at Negro League Baseball Memorial Park  Inquirer.com
  
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• Art Dubai Unveils Leaner ‘Special Edition’ Built Around Regional Core

  15-04-2026 22:15 via ARTnews.com
  Art Dubai has released the exhibitor list for its 2026 “special edition,” a scaled-back fair that will run May 15–17 at Madinat Jumeirah, with a VIP preview on May 14, bringing together roughly 75 presentations across galleries, institutions, and partners. The revised format, announced amid ongoing regional instability and rising costs across the fair circuit, places a tighter focus on galleries with longstanding ties to the region: roughly 60 percent of participants in th
  
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• Eiteljorg Indian Market & Festival celebrates Native arts and cultures on June 27-28 - Native News Online

  15-04-2026 22:12 via news.google.com
  Eiteljorg Indian Market & Festival celebrates Native arts and cultures on June 27-28  Native News Online
  
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• V&A Pulls Catalog Materials Due to Chinese Censorship Laws

  15-04-2026 22:11 via ARTnews.com
  The Victoria and Albert Museum in London removed material from at least two recent exhibition catalogs at the request of a Chinese printing company, according to documents obtained by The Guardian through freedom of information requests. The report found that certain maps and images were flagged as violating China’s censorship laws.Partnering with foreign printing companies isn’t unusual among major arts institutions; both the British Museum and Tate do so, as the report notes. In t
  
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• Beowolff Combines Artsy and Artnet in Digital Art Market Push

  15-04-2026 22:06 via ARTnews.com
  Artsy and Artnet are being brought under the same ownership, consolidating two of the art world’s largest online platforms across data, media, auctions, and e-commerce.The companies said Wednesday that they will continue to operate as separate brands, even as they combine their underlying infrastructure and data. The move follows Beowolff Capital’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Artsy and its decision last year to take Artnet private, bringing both businesses under the sa
  
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• Hampshire College, Alma Mater to Many in the Arts, Is Closing - Artforum

  15-04-2026 22:02 via news.google.com
  Hampshire College, Alma Mater to Many in the Arts, Is Closing  Artforum
  
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• Top 15 NJ Arts Events of the Week: Bruce Springsteen/American Music Honors, Remember Jones, more - NJArts.net

  15-04-2026 22:01 via news.google.com
  Top 15 NJ Arts Events of the Week: Bruce Springsteen/American Music Honors, Remember Jones, more  NJArts.net
  
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• Julio Torres, Jennifer Tilly and More Star in Plays That Are Streaming Now

  15-04-2026 21:53 via NYT > Arts
  Other picks include the historical hip-hop musical “Mexodus,” an Anne Carson radio play and a century-old play about machines replacing humans.
  
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• McKeel Martial Arts students advance in rank - Main Street Media of Tennessee

  15-04-2026 21:45 via news.google.com
  McKeel Martial Arts students advance in rank  Main Street Media of Tennessee
  
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• (BPRW) Where Creativity Takes Center Stage: Uplifting Youth Voices Through the Arts - Black PR Wire

  15-04-2026 21:37 via news.google.com
  (BPRW) Where Creativity Takes Center Stage: Uplifting Youth Voices Through the Arts  Black PR Wire
  
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• Barbara Gordon, Who Wrote Memoir of Pill Addiction, Dies at 90

  15-04-2026 21:30 via NYT > Arts
  “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
  
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• Live Nation and Ticketmaster Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds

  15-04-2026 21:27 via NYT > Arts
  In a verdict that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry, the live colossus that includes Ticketmaster was found to have violated antitrust laws.
  
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• Retired Educators meet at arts center in April - Moultrie Observer

  15-04-2026 21:03 via news.google.com
  Retired Educators meet at arts center in April  Moultrie Observer
  
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• URochester launches interdisciplinary Department of Sound Arts and Engineering - University of Rochester

  15-04-2026 21:02 via news.google.com
  URochester launches interdisciplinary Department of Sound Arts and Engineering  University of Rochester
  
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• 24 Arts & Culture Partners Selected for Santa Monica Events - Santa Monica Daily Press

  15-04-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  24 Arts & Culture Partners Selected for Santa Monica Events  Santa Monica Daily Press
  
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• Theatre Washington to host 42nd Annual Helen Hayes Awards - DC Theater Arts

  15-04-2026 20:23 via news.google.com
  Theatre Washington to host 42nd Annual Helen Hayes Awards  DC Theater Arts
  
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• Kiehle Visual Arts Center closes its doors May 8 after the Spring Semester concludes - KVSC 88.1 FM

  15-04-2026 19:31 via news.google.com
  Kiehle Visual Arts Center closes its doors May 8 after the Spring Semester concludes  KVSC 88.1 FM
  
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• Drew’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Hosts Spring Arts & Letters Salon - Drew University

  15-04-2026 19:27 via news.google.com
  Drew’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Hosts Spring Arts & Letters Salon  Drew University
  
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• Arts at Picnic Day: The Gong Returns, Fashion, More - UC Davis

  15-04-2026 19:13 via news.google.com
  Arts at Picnic Day: The Gong Returns, Fashion, More  UC Davis
  
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• NBA Star Devon Booker Finds Perspective at James Turrell’s Fabled Roden Crater

  15-04-2026 19:03 via ARTnews.com
  Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an “amazing person … taking it to another level, and that’s what all artists try to do.”As reported in a lengthy profile in The Athletic, the sports section of the New York Times, Booker first traveled to Roden Crater in 2020, when he was first rapt by
  
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• ‘The Adding Machine’ Review: A Man Is Made Redundant

  15-04-2026 18:58 via NYT > Arts
  Daphne Rubin-Vega stars as a laid-off office worker who spins into a murderous rage in this update of Elmer L. Rice’s 1923 classic.
  
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• Met Museum to Stage Giacometti Show in Temple of Dendur This Summer

  15-04-2026 18:58 via ARTnews.com
  The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti—a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any kind.The exhibition, simply titled “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,” is a small one, with just 17 of the artist’s sculptures. Fourteen of them belong to the Fonda
  
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• Arts Student of the Week: Charlotte Costa - Left Hand Valley Courier

  15-04-2026 18:56 via news.google.com
  Arts Student of the Week: Charlotte Costa  Left Hand Valley Courier
  
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• African American Arts Institute’s spring concert season to inspire hope - Indiana Daily Student

  15-04-2026 18:53 via news.google.com
  African American Arts Institute’s spring concert season to inspire hope  Indiana Daily Student
  
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• The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival announces dates for 2027 Show - Hello Woodlands

  15-04-2026 18:51 via news.google.com
  The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival announces dates for 2027 Show  Hello Woodlands
  
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• The Met is Finally Treating Lee Krasner as Pollock’s Equal—Will the Market Follow?

  15-04-2026 18:51 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.The Metropolitan Museum of Art says its upcoming exhibition, “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” is a “story of equals.” Set to open in October, the survey brings together 120 works  by more than 80 lenders, with an explicit focus on considering Jackson Pollock and Lee K
  
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• College of Arts & Sciences Celebrates Faculty Promotions for 2026-27 - Utah State University

  15-04-2026 18:32 via news.google.com
  College of Arts & Sciences Celebrates Faculty Promotions for 2026-27  Utah State University
  
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• Highlights from the 2026 Boneyard Arts Festival - Smile Politely

  15-04-2026 18:26 via news.google.com
  Highlights from the 2026 Boneyard Arts Festival  Smile Politely
  
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• Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential List Includes Artist Cao Fei and Photojournalist Lynsey Addario

  15-04-2026 18:21 via ARTnews.com
  Time magazine has released the 2026 edition of its “most influential” list, spanning leaders and notable figures in politics, sport, technology, fashion, medicine, and many other fields. Included this year are artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario.Founded in 1923, Time published its first “most influential” list in 1999. “There is no single metric that defines influence,” writes editor in chief Sam Jacobs. “Our selections are led by the stori
  
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• A Parisian Man Just Won a $1 Million Picasso Painting with a $117 Raffle Ticket

  15-04-2026 18:18 via ARTnews.com
  A 58-year-old Paris-based engineer named Ari Hodara bought a raffle ticket on a whim, and ended up winning a gouache-on-paper painting by Picasso a few days later. The 1941 painting, Head of a Woman, is a portrait of the French artist’s lover and muse Dora Maar, an artist in her own right who was frequently painted by Picasso.Before Hodara, the portrait was owned by Opera Gallery, an international operation with branches in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S. The gallery sold 120,0
  
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• Review: Here’s Johnny! (And Bach and 4 Choreographers)

  15-04-2026 17:50 via NYT > Arts
  The violinist Johnny Gandelsman wanted his music to move. In the overly winsome “Johnny Loves Johann,” he performs Bach’s cello suites alongside four dance artists.
  
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• Paris Man Wins $1.2 Million Picasso Painting in Charity Raffle

  15-04-2026 17:42 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  A Parisian software salesman entered a charity raffle and came away with a piece of history: “I have some paintings, but not like a Picasso.”
  
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• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Puts Connecticut Artists in the Spotlight

  15-04-2026 17:41 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield will showcase works by people who live and work in New York’s shadow.
  
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• In the Tech Heart of Texas, an Art Show Built on Data, Code and A.I.

  15-04-2026 17:36 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The showcase features works that change from hour to hour, invite interaction and interrogate the idea of creativity itself.
  
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• Erewhon, Grocery Store Known for $20-Plus Smoothies, to Set Up Shop in LACMA’s New Building

  15-04-2026 17:34 via ARTnews.com
  Erewhon, the iconic LA grocery store known for its $20-plus smoothies, will soon open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of a new partnership.LACMA is currently preparing to open its new, Peter Zumthor–design building, officially called the David Geffen Galleries, this spring, with members getting access beginning April 19 and the public opening coming on May 4. Erewhon will similarly have its opening timed to the new building, with members getting early access ahead of the ca
  
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• Honoring Frederic Church: Beyond the Hudson River School

  15-04-2026 17:29 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  His many achievements have been obscured, some believe, by his reputation as a provincial landscape painter.
  
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• ‘Giant’ Revisits Roald Dahl’s Antisemitic Comments: What to Know

  15-04-2026 17:29 via NYT > Arts
  Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.
  
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• Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Warns of Global Recession if Strait of Hormuz Remains Closed

  15-04-2026 17:28 via ARTnews.com
  Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund founder and one of the world’s most prominent art collectors, warned Tuesday that the global economy faces a recession if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed through the end of this year.“Let’s assume it’s shut down for the next six to 12 months,” Griffin said at the Semafor World Economy summit in Washington, D.C. “The world’s going to end up in a recession. There’s no way to avoid that.”Griffin
  
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• Lincoln Center Kicks Off Accessibility Project With Vibrant New Mural

  15-04-2026 17:27 via ARTnews.com
  Earlier this week, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts unveiled a mural adorning construction fencing along Amsterdam Avenue, marking the western edge of LCPA’s Upper West Side campus. The mural was designed by Vanesa Álvarez, a Spanish artist based in Brooklyn. Derval Fairweather, a local artist who grew up in public housing on Amsterdam adjacent to Lincoln Center, assisted Álvarez on the mural, titled The Future We Create.LCPA collaborated with ArtBridge on the project.
  
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• A Schiaparelli Show Offers a Properly Surrealist Mash-Up of Art and Fashion

  15-04-2026 17:13 via ARTnews.com
  “See you tomorrow night,” Salvador Dalí wrote on the bottom of a sketch of a dress made to look like a skeleton before sending it over to his friend Elsa Schiaparelli. Framed on a wall at the Victoria & Albert Museum next to the famous skeleton dress itself, made in 1938, the offhand note offers striking insight into the fashion designer’s place at the center of a dynamic, radical web of artists and designers in Paris in the 1930s. “Schiaparelli: Fashion Become
  
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• ‘Rethinking, Reimagining and Reinstalling’ the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  15-04-2026 17:12 via NYT > Arts
  A $1.5 billion project will transform the nation’s most-visited art museum, with renovations involving a quarter of the galleries and public spaces.
  
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• Butler’s arts fund raises $150,000 to support local arts organizations - The Butler Collegian

  15-04-2026 17:11 via news.google.com
  Butler’s arts fund raises $150,000 to support local arts organizations  The Butler Collegian
  
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