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• Miami Beach Launches Free Water Taxi Program

  26-11-2025 19:49 via artnews.com
  Miami Beach, a city founded on the principle that nothing should ever take longer than ordering a cortadito, has finally admitted defeat. The traffic is bad—biblically bad—and the municipal solution is wonderfully literal: water taxis. For the second year in a row and beginning on December 1, the city will run a small flotilla of free boats shuttling people between Miami Beach and the mainland every ten to fifteen minutes, complete with connecting shuttles to the
  
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• Pamela Colman Smith, The Artist Behind The Bestselling Tarot Deck Of All Time

  04-01-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  Perhaps unsuprisingly, The NYT didn’t give Colman Smith an obit when she died in the 20th century. But now: “An occult scholar … commissioned her to illustrate the tarot deck he was creating in 1909; she was paid a small one-time fee for many months of work and research.” – The New York Times
  
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• Actor Miranda Otto On Mistakes And That Scene In Lord Of The Rings

  04-01-2026 16:30 via theguardian.com
  And by “that” scene, we mean the stew scene, of course. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Is John Mayer Planning To Do With Henson Studios?

  04-01-2026 16:00 via yahoo.com
  Mayer and his business partner, filmmaker McG, have renamed it Chaplin Studios, and they’re not thinking small. “We’re doing our best to create kind of a Warhol’s Factory thing of like-minded artists bumping into each other to do their best work possible.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Australian Teens And Their Parents Wonder If This Yearslong TV Project Will Ever Be Released

  04-01-2026 15:30 via archive.ph
  “Future Fixers was billed as a glossy, family-friendly reality series. … The show was part Shark Tank, part Lego Masters, and explicitly designed to put girls in tech on prime‑time television.” Then the host’s past caught up with him. – Sydney Morning Herald (Archive Today)
  
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• What It’s Like For An Opera Singer To Retire From The Met

  04-01-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “Singers are tested by every performance, year after year. We are trained to make it look easy. It is never easy. We live through sacrifice, isolation and self-doubt. … Constant travel (if you’re lucky), fatigue and stress take an emotional and physical toll.” – The New York Times
  
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• Jesse Buckley Says It Was A Bit Overwhelming To Be Playing Agnes In Hamnet

  04-01-2026 14:30 via bbc.com
  “I felt untethered. I didn’t know where to go, you know, and then I realised that’s incredibly human to be lost, and that is absolutely Agnes’ story to be lost.” – BBC
  
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• Victoria Jones, Daughter Of Tommy Lee Jones, Has Died At 34

  04-01-2026 14:00 via variety.com
  “Victoria acted as a child opposite her father in Men in Black II in 2002 and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005.” – Variety
  
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• Composer Stephen Schwartz Bows Out Of Hosting An Opera Gala At The Kennedy Center

  04-01-2026 13:30 via nytimes.com
  Schwartz, who wrote English texts for Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, said, “Appearing there has now become an ideological statement. … As long as that remains the case, I will not appear there.” – The New York Times
  
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• Celebrities Dominated Broadway Stages in 2025

  04-01-2026 13:00 via yahoo.com
  “Midtown marquees were packed with famous names from prestige cable (including more than one Succession sibling) and popular franchises. … As theater continues to recover from the pandemic, luring audiences off the couch with faces they recognize from the screen has proved a lucrative strategy.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• Adrian Rodriguez talks about how to be committed to young people as they develop in the arts

  03-01-2026 20:16 via artsjournal.com
  Adrian Rodriguez, Director of Community Engagement, Chorus Director and Curriculum Manager of the Music Advancement Program at The Juilliard School, shares how to implement a commitment to young people as they develop in the arts.
  
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• ‘Ten more years’: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourne’s Brunswick Street

  03-01-2026 20:00
  Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery• More summer essentialsOnce a week you can find Helen Wilding and friends sitting on the side of the road, pens in hand. This time she’s perched on a tiny folding stool between a couple of pot plants, focusing intently on a plant nursery. It appears to be shut.Wilding has been sketching this same street in inner Melbourne for
  
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• ‘The children were delighted to see themselves in such bright colours’: Moe Wai’s best phone picture

  03-01-2026 11:00
  The photographer’s painted bottles and hoops enhanced a carefree afternoon on a Burmese beachAs a tuk-tuk driver, Moe Wai feels that he has honed both his observational and people skills. Wai lives and works in Myin Ka Par, a village in Myanmar, and became interested in mobile photography several years ago. In this instance, he used his phone to capture this gaggle of local children as they were returning home from school.“They were playing on a sandbank with their own plastic b
  
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• Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan Williams

  03-01-2026 11:00
  From Britain’s medieval buildings to western pop and contemporary art, these creations showcase our interwoven storiesWe are repeatedly sold a painfully two-dimensional picture of the motivations of those seeking shelter in Britain. According to this picture, migrants are eager to experience the benefits of our society, but they are also out to undermine it, because they come from cultures whose values are dramatically different from our own. Think of the ongoing “grooming gangs&rdqu
  
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• From Song Sung Blue to Theatre Picasso: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  03-01-2026 07:00
  Let a musical based on a documentary about a Neil Diamond tribute band warm your cockles – or take a new look at the work of the Spanish masterSong Sung Blue
  Out nowIn 2008, an inspirational documentary about Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder warmed hearts with its unconventional love story about Mike and Claire Sardina. Now it’s been adapted into this drama, with all Neil Diamond songs present and correct, and Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman in the lead roles. Continue
  
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• Kathleen Goncharov, Esteemed Curator and Artist, Dies at 73

  02-01-2026 22:36 via artnews.com
  Kathleen Goncharov, a curator whose work included organizing shows for Just Above Midtown gallery, died at her home in Boca Raton, Florida, of natural causes on December 31. She was 73 years old. Goncharov served as senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida from 2012 until she retired in 2025. She had previously worked as a curator at institutions throughout the US, curated exhibitions from Rio de Janeiro to Bologna and Rome, and served as the commissioner of the US Pavilion
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Uses Historic Qur’an at His Swearing-In Ceremony

  02-01-2026 21:52 via artnews.com
  At midnight on New Year’s Eve, incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdami took his oath of office on the Qur’an, Islam’s most important religious text. He is the first Muslim to hold the position of Mayor of New York City.One of the two Qur’ans used in the ceremony came from Mr. Mamdani’s grandfather. The other was lent by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. According to the New York Times, the latter book was selected by Rahim and
  
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• At India’s Top Biennial, A Painting Referencing ‘The Last Supper’ Sparks Protests and Backlash

  02-01-2026 20:56 via artnews.com
  Just weeks after opening in mid-December, India’s top biennial, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, was forced to close briefly following protests by Christian groups in response to a painting depicting the Last Supper.The painting by Tom Vattakuzhy was not included in the main biennial exhibition, “For the Time Being,” but rather in a recurring side exhibition also organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation called “EDAM,” which highlights the practices of artists and colle
  
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• Two Notables Harshly Criticized Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” — So He Painted Them Into It

  02-01-2026 20:50 via news.artnet.com
  Biagio da Cesena, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, and Venetian satirist Pietro Aretino hated the fact that Michelangelo was putting so many naked people on the Sistine Chapel’s wall, saying the painting belonged in a public bathhouse. Bad idea to publicly attack a high-profile artwork while the artist is still working on it. – Artnet
  
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• Sorry, But This Sounds Creepy: How AI Might Put You In The Movie You’re Watching

  02-01-2026 20:31 via deadline.com
  Producer Charlie Brooker proposes scanning the faces of cinemagoers as they enter the theater and then using AI to cast them “randomly” in the actual movie. – Deadline
  
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• Silicon Valley Is Pivoting To Audio And Away From Screens

  02-01-2026 20:15 via techcrunch.com
  The move reflects where the entire tech industry is headed — toward a future where screens become background noise and audio takes center stage. – TechCrunch
  
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• Erie Art Museum Refuses to Return ‘Abandoned’ Painting to Daughter of Late Local Artist

  02-01-2026 20:15 via artnews.com
  The Erie Art Museum has responded to a lawsuit filed on Nov. 7, 2025, by the daughter of a local artist, requesting the return of a watercolor painted by her late father. The artist, George C. Demiel, submitted the painting to be included in an annual juried show in 1966 at the museum, which was then known as the Art Center of Erie. The Art Center did not accept the painting, and Demiel—who died the following year at age 53—never reclaimed the artwork.The Erie Times-News, which has b
  
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• A Hudson River School Painting On Public View For The First Time In 152 Years

  02-01-2026 20:01 via msn.com
  In 1873, Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway was taken to London by its commissioner. It remained overseas until last year, when a couple of American art collectors acquired it — then sent it to a museum because it wouldn’t fit through the door of their home. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Amid Ongoing Layoffs, Brown University ‘Terminates’ Both Bell Gallery Curators, Rankling Faculty

  02-01-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  Both of the curators at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, were terminated on December 4, according to an internal message shared with ARTnews. Kate Kraczon, director of exhibitions and chief curator, and Thea Quiray Tagle, associate curator, will both work until early 2026.The Bell exhibits contemporary art and is part of the Brown Arts Institute. The school is facing a substantial financial crunch that has led to layoffs and other austerity measures.
  
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• Amid Ongoing Layoffs, Brown University Furloughs Both Bell Gallery Curators, Rankling Faculty

  02-01-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  Both of the curators at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, were furloughed on December 4, according to an internal message shared with ARTnews. Kate Kraczon, director of exhibitions and chief curator, and Thea Quiray Tagle, associate curator, will both work until early 2026. The Bell exhibits contemporary art and is part of the Brown Arts Institute. The school is facing a substantial financial crunch that has led to layoffs and other austerity measures
  
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• 25 Dance Artists To Watch In 2026

  02-01-2026 19:44 via dancemagazine.com
  These dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies are already doing exceptional work, but we’re betting on them to break through in a major way in the year to come. – Dance Magazine
  
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• After an Audit Found Irregularities, Baltimore’s Lewis Museum Says It’s On the Road to Compliance

  02-01-2026 19:33 via artnews.com
  The leadership of Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is working to iron out problems uncovered in an August 15 audit by the Maryland Department of Legislative Services, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.The audit uncovered serious irregularities. It found charges on the museum’s corporate credit card that were “without a readily apparent business purpose.” It found two instances in which payments were made to a
  
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