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• AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say

  30-01-2025 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  Content generated solely by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright law, according to new guidelines issued by the US Copyright Office.The announcement was included in a sweeping report on policy issues related to artificial intelligence, particularly its ability to be copyrighted—a flashpoint within creative industries in recent years. The document states that despite its ongoing advancements, generative AI is liable to the United States’s current copyright principles,
  
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• Will Beyoncé or Chappell Roan Win Big at the Grammys? Our Predictions.

  30-01-2025 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Stars like Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are also up for major awards on Sunday. We previewed the big categories (and made our personal picks).
  
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• 2025 Grammys Predictions: Will Beyoncé or Chappell Roan Win Big?

  30-01-2025 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Stars like Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are also up for major awards on Sunday. We previewed the big categories (and made our personal picks).
  
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• 3 Are Arrested in Dutch Museum Heist

  30-01-2025 23:27 via nytimes.com
  
  The police said they had yet to recover the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a prized artifact from Romania, and other artifacts stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands over the weekend.
  
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• How to Watch FireAid, the Star-Studded Benefit for Los Angeles

  30-01-2025 23:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The concert, featuring Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and so many stars that it will fill two arenas, will be carried on major streaming platforms.
  
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• Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden - The New York Times

  30-01-2025 23:19
  Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden  The New York Times
  
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• Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden

  30-01-2025 23:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The disbanding of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities came amid a flurry of executive orders touching on art, culture and history.
  
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• New Sex Trafficking Indictment of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Lists Two More Victims

  30-01-2025 23:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Federal prosecutors filed an amended list of charges against the music mogul on Thursday and said he had coerced two additional women into sex acts.
  
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• Rebecca Yarros’ ‘Onyx Storm’ is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years

  30-01-2025 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the romantasy genre’s staying power.
  
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• ‘Asura’ Is a First-Class Domestic Drama

  30-01-2025 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Shoplifters”), this Netflix series is so good it makes other shows look bad.
  
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• Hank Willis Thomas Billboard with MAGA Slogan Removed in Montgomery Amid Controversy

  30-01-2025 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A billboard by artist Hank Willis Thomas in Montgomery, Alabama, was removed after an outcry that spurred city leadership to investigate the piece.The billboard was mounted through For Freedoms, an artist-led organization cofounded by Thomas that has historically mounted politically charged billboards across the nation during election cycles, including the 2024 one. For Freedoms has brought on artists to do these billboards, which have addressed notions of freedom and democracy.“We are dis
  
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• For Freedoms Billboard with MAGA Slogan Removed in Montgomery Amid Controversy

  30-01-2025 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A billboard in Montgomery, Alabama, by the artist group For Freedoms was removed after an outcry that spurred city leadership to investigate the piece.The billboard was mounted through For Freedoms, an artist-led organization cofounded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman that has historically mounted politically charged billboards across the nation during election cycles, including the 2024 one. For Freedoms has in the past brought on outside artists to do these billboards, which have addre
  
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• Yoshitomo Nara Designs Merch for LA Wildfire Benefit

  30-01-2025 22:20 via artnews.com
  
  Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara has been enlisted to design a range of merchandise and the promotional poster for FireAid, a benefit concert set to take place at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Los Angeles on January 30. All proceeds from the event will communities affected by the recent LA wildfires.The concert, produced by music moguls and ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Shelli and Irving Azoff in collaboration with Live Nation and the LA Clippers, boasts a lineup of heavyweights includin
  
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• Alonzo Davis, Artist Who Founded One of America’s First Black-Owned Galleries, Dies at 82

  30-01-2025 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  Alonzo Davis, known for founding one of America’s first Black-owned galleries, died on January 27 at 82 years. The news of his passing was confirmed by Los Angeles gallery Parrasch Heijnen, which represents him.His prints, paintings, performances, and installations were inspired by his travels. “The magic of the Southwest United States, Brazil, Haiti and West Africa has penetrated my work,” he wrote in an artist statement. “Southern California, my home for thirty years, h
  
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• California Historical Society Shutters, Transfers Collection to Stanford University

  30-01-2025 20:36 via artnews.com
  
  The California Historical Society (CHS) has permanently closed and transferred its collection to Stanford University.Founded in 1871, CHS became the state’s official historical society in 1979; unlike others of its kind, however, it never received general operating funds from California. Financial stability became a challenge over the last decade as attendance declined and donations dwindled, with the problems only further exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, CHS’s board vo
  
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• Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78

  30-01-2025 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  A fresh-voiced singer and Mick Jagger’s muse in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant.
  
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• Museum DEI Initiatives, Explained: Why These Diversity Programs Were Formed, and Why Some Are Being Shuttered

  30-01-2025 20:07 via artnews.com
  
  Departments devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion—DEI, as it is known for short—have long existed at US museums, even before the widespread push to expand them in the past five years. But this month, DEI offices became the subject of national news in ways they had not before.With President Donald Trump having issued an executive order last week that called for an end to federal DEI programs, two Washington, D.C. institutions—the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian
  
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• Marianne Faithfull, Chanteuse of Survival, Is Dead at 78

  30-01-2025 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  A feather-voiced pop star and Mick Jagger’s muse in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times but emerged triumphant.
  
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• Spring Break Art Show Cancels 2025 LA Fair, Citing Wildfires and Market Saturation

  30-01-2025 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  The Spring Break Art Show has canceled its 2025 Los Angeles edition, originally scheduled for February 18–23, citing ecological concerns surrounding the wildfires that have devastated swaths of Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fair also said that market saturation had contributed to its decision. According to Hyperallergic, Spring Break cofounders Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori said they were concerned over the impact on air and water quality, as well as the moral implicatio
  
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• Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts acquires theater for college expansion - Florida State News

  30-01-2025 18:59
  Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts acquires theater for college expansion  Florida State News
  
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• ‘Mo’ Review: An International Hustle

  30-01-2025 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The second season of the Netflix comedy begins with its title character stuck in immigration purgatory in Mexico.
  
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• Review: In Justin Peck’s New Dance, Air, Earth and Self-Help

  30-01-2025 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mystic Familiar,” a New York City Ballet premiere, has a score by the musician Dan Deacon and some all-too-familiar sentiments.
  
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• George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86

  30-01-2025 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
  
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• ‘Love Me’ Review: Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Star in Zany Sci-Fi Romance

  30-01-2025 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in a marvelously inventive sci-fi romance that spans eons yet pokes at a simple question.
  
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• ‘Love Me’ Review: A Romance Six Billion Years in the Making

  30-01-2025 17:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in a marvelously inventive sci-fi romance that spans eons yet pokes at a simple question.
  
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• The Curious Power of Tarot Cards to Explain and Reveal

  30-01-2025 17:38 via nytimes.com
  
  A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs shifting to reflect the times.
  
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• Blue Man Group’s 34-Year New York Run Comes to an End

  30-01-2025 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Over 34 years, the show gave Fred Armisen a drumming gig, “Arrested Development” a hilarious story line and more. Now the cultural sensation comes to an end in New York.
  
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• Philip Guston’s Restored 1930s Antiwar Mural to Go on View in Mexico

  30-01-2025 17:29 via artnews.com
  
  A monumental 1930s mural painted by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish will go back on public view in the Mexican city of Morelia this week after an extensive restoration.Located in an 18th-century Baroque palace in Morelia, converted later into the Regional Museum of Michoacán, the mural’s revamp is being unveiled after a family-run foundation overseeing Guston’s legacy, working with Mexico’s culture ministry, partnered with architects and conservators to reverse damage to
  
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• Patron Marisa Chearavanont Hopes to Transform Thailand’s Art Scene with an ‘Art Forest’

  30-01-2025 16:26 via artnews.com
  
  Marisa Chearavanont, a Thai-Korean arts patron, grew up visiting South Korea’s museums from a young age, nurturing a passion for art. She even tried her hand at making art, but quickly gave it up, and then began collecting more than 30 years ago, shortly after she got married. “My collecting is for my two eyes only,” she told ARTnews of her holdings, which focus on Southeast Asian artists. “When I look at my collection, it says more about my life journey than about a
  
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• L10 Arts and Cultural Center, first-of-its-kind creative hub, opens in Downtown Brooklyn - Brooklyn Paper

  30-01-2025 16:00
  L10 Arts and Cultural Center, first-of-its-kind creative hub, opens in Downtown Brooklyn  Brooklyn Paper
  
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• A Night at the Museum: Visiting the Centre Pompidou After Hours

  30-01-2025 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  In Ancient Greece, a mouseion was the temple of the Muses, the goddesses of inspiration. As long as I can remember, I have always felt inspired when visiting museums. They’ve often helped with writer’s block, reconnecting me with my creativity almost as soon as I entered any of the galleries of Paris’s famed institutions. I have spent many days and some evenings surrounded by beauty—but never a full night.When I unexpectedly ran into Centre Pompidou president Laurent Le B
  
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• Fun Things to Do in NYC in February 2025

  30-01-2025 14:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Looking for something to do in New York? Catch Margaret Cho’s “sons” at Joe’s Pub, groove to 070 Shake or watch collections of animated shorts at the BAMkids Film Festival.
  
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• Trio of Suspects Arrested After Theft of Romanian Gold Artifacts in Holland, Ai Weiwei Responds to DeepSeek Censorship, Van Gogh Painting Found in Garage Sale? Morning Links for January 30, 2025

  30-01-2025 14:48 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSUSPECTS NABBED AFTER DUTCH MUSEUM HEIST. Three suspects have been arrested after the theft of ancient gold Romanian artifacts form a Dutch museum, reports Karen K. Ho for ARTnews. The Drents Museum in Assen in the Netherlands announced the arrests Wednesday afternoon, after Dutch police released images of one of the suspects. On January 24th,&nb
  
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• ‘Marcello Mio’ Review: All About My Father

  30-01-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Chiara Mastroianni enacts a warped sort of paternal cosplay in this French farce, also starring her mother, Catherine Deneuve.
  
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• 'I Gained 50 Pounds Of Muscle With This Workout Combo' - Women's Health

  30-01-2025 13:00
  'I Gained 50 Pounds Of Muscle With This Workout Combo'  Women's Health
  
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• ‘Green and Gold’ Review: Betting the Farm on Football Games

  30-01-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Craig T. Nelson plays a stubborn farmer in Wisconsin whose devotion to the Green Bay Packers could save his business.
  
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• British Man Sets Guinness World Record by Visiting Most Museums in One Day

  30-01-2025 11:37 via artnews.com
  
  A British man has written his name into the history books by setting a Guinness World Record for visiting the most museums in 24 hours.Ben Melham, 42, zoomed around 42 London museums in less than 12 hours on a kick scooter including the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the Barbican Art Gallery on October 25. It wasn’t until this week, though, that his feat was officially verified by the world records team.He usurped the previous joint-record holders, India’s Sujoy Kuma
  
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• Review: In ‘Common Side Effects,’ It’s Fungus vs. Them

  30-01-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  A weird, deadpan animated thriller finds a new timeliness in ancient medicine.
  
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• Judith Bernstein at 82 Comes Back Swinging

  30-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Unrelenting, unrepenting, the artist who made a name for herself with huge drawings of hairy phallic screws presents a world of work with exuberant energy over 60 years.
  
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• Americans Feel Isolated. Imani Perry Wants to Help Them Connect.

  30-01-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine notions of Blackness.
  
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• ‘You’re Cordially Invited’ Review: Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon Star in New Rom-Com

  30-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon star in a romantic comedy about double-booked weddings that never quite hits its stride.
  
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• ‘You’re Cordially Invited’ Review: Here Come the Brides

  30-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon star in a romantic comedy about double-booked weddings that never quite hits its stride.
  
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• Intergalactic Shantytowns Where Dice Dictate Your Future

  30-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  By placing the randomness of dice rolls center stage, a sci-fi video game subverts the medium’s conventions.
  
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• In the Footsteps of the Enslaved

  30-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Stony the Road,” the photographer Dawoud Bey offers a captive’s-eye view of the Richmond Slave Trail.
  
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• ‘Companion’ Review: Girl, Corrupted

  30-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A lakeside getaway becomes a battleground for couples in this fast, furious and exceptionally fun horror-comedy.
  
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• 20 New Books to Read in February: Bill Gates, Ali Smith, TJ Klune and more

  30-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Thinks RFK Jr. Is Not the Right Man for the Job

  30-01-2025 09:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Stephen Colbert reveled in an anecdote about Trump’s health secretary nominee blending baby chickens and mice to feed his pet hawks.
  
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• At LA’s Homeboy Art Academy, arts education saves lives - EdSource

  30-01-2025 09:02
  At LA’s Homeboy Art Academy, arts education saves lives  EdSource
  
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• Forget the Punchline. It’s the Setup to These Jokes That’s Tricky.

  30-01-2025 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ronny Chieng, Gary Gulman and other comics are experimenting with long buildups that can be audacious … when they work.
  
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