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Your artists at work: ARTs + Change Conference addresses bias, advocates for equity

Here’s the question for Missy Pfohl Smith: What prompted the creation of the ARTs + Change Conference? Worldwide, it’s the rising tide of polarization,...
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Wed, 06/02/2021 - 1:52am
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Art, and how it speaks to an NPR reporter

The prison in Central America was run down, the conditions horrible. Yet art was there. “Guys with tattoos on their faces, their eyelids, under their...
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Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:53am
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Public Eye sees the heroes we need

As freelance artists in a time of pandemic drought, David Cowles and Josh Gosfield sensed it was time to put matters in their own hands. “Let’s not wait...
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Wed, 05/12/2021 - 5:16am
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New York arts organizers make best-laid plans for live events

I had my coming-out from COVID-19 about a week and a half ago. My first indoor concert in more than a year. Two solo acoustic performers: a ridiculously...
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Wed, 04/28/2021 - 1:49am
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Pioneering record producer Ethel Gabriel's legacy focus of forthcoming documentary

A handful of framed gold records lined the otherwise mundane hallway of the Rochester Presbyterian Home, and then on to the walls of the one-room...
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Wed, 04/21/2021 - 6:15am
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Pop-culture investments fuel poet Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib left Connecticut in the spring of 2017, after a painful breakup. Now he was back in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. A wounded writer....
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Wed, 04/14/2021 - 1:51am
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These days, Joywave's Daniel Armbruster is cherishing the mundane

It is such a simple morning ritual. Daniel Armbruster gets out of bed. His own bed, after years of so many unfamiliar ones. He pours himself a bowl of...
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Wed, 04/07/2021 - 1:51am
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Come for the hummus, enjoy the incidental show

Danny Deutsch is watching the charts. Not the Billboard magazine charts. But The New York Times charts, tracking the new COVID-19 cases. And the COVID...
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Wed, 03/31/2021 - 8:52am
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'Tenacious Women' making their way to Geva’s stage

Jenni Werner moved to Rochester 10 years ago. She certainly knew the stories of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Everyone who has sat through a...
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Wed, 03/24/2021 - 7:31am
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'Too Much Johnson' may have been too much for Orson Welles, Eastman Museum finds

The images are black and white, the movements of the actors are herky-jerky, which is what we’re used to seeing in silent films. The acting is hammy:...
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Wed, 03/17/2021 - 1:56am
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