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• Irv Gotti: Key Milestones in the Life of the Rap Mogul

  06-02-2025 23:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer, who died on Wednesday, built Murder Inc. into one of the most influential record labels of the early 2000s. His career was marred by a federal investigation and trial.
  
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• ‘Smurfs’ Trailer Shows Rihanna as Smurfette and Promises New Music

  06-02-2025 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The first preview of the animated feature shows the singer in her “blue era” and assures fans that new songs from her will be featured on the soundtrack.
  
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• National Endowment For The Arts Shifts Grant Priorities To Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday - Deadline

  06-02-2025 23:05
  National Endowment For The Arts Shifts Grant Priorities To Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday  Deadline
  
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• Christie’s Sale of El Greco Painting Blocked by Romanian Government

  06-02-2025 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  El Greco’s Saint Sebastian (ca. 1610–14) has been pulled from auction at Christie’s after intervention from the Romanian government, which has claimed the work as being “unequivocally the property of the Romanian state.” The painting was estimated to be worth between $7 million and $9 million, and was expected to be the top lot of a Christie’s Old Masters sale in New York next month.Romania Insider reported that Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and a te
  
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• What to Know About Wendy Williams’s Guardianship

  06-02-2025 22:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Williams, whose health has been scrutinized since she left her daytime talk show in 2021, has been under the control of a court-appointed guardian for the past three years.
  
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• Kanye West Announces He Was Diagnosed With Autism

  06-02-2025 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West revealed the diagnosis during a podcast interview where he also discussed his upcoming album.
  
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• Documenta Adopts Divisive Antisemitism Definition in New Code of Conduct

  06-02-2025 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, Documenta released a new code of conduct aimed at remedying the ongoing fallout from an antisemitism controversy that created upheaval during its 2022 edition.Ahead of its 2027 edition, to be curated by Naomi Beckwith, the famed German art exhibition said in its code of conduct that it “stands for tolerance and respect for human dignity. It actively opposes all forms of anti-Semitism, racism, and any other form of group-related misanthropy.”The code of conduct reli
  
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• What’s Next for MrBeast? Class Consciousness.

  06-02-2025 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  On YouTube, he’s long prompted people to do extreme tasks for money. But on his new reality show and in social media posts, MrBeast is showing a new motivation.
  
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• Charles Atlas’s Multimedia Mission to Bend the Space-Time Continuum

  06-02-2025 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  Toward the end of the farcical 24-minute video As Seen on TV (1988), a Chaplinesque figure played by the actor Bill Irwin loses his grip on reality. The video starts with Irwin’s bumbling Everyman attending a dance audition. As he waits, he gets sucked into a TV—literally absorbed by the screen and rendered a two-dimensional image. The channel changes and suddenly, he’s an impromptu guest on Sesame Street, then a bystander in the background of a live news report. Ultimately, he
  
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• ‘Urinetown’ Review: More Than Toilet Humor

  06-02-2025 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Encores! revival of the musical from Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis seems even more relevant today.
  
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• 'Arts Landing' announced as Pittsburgh's new Downtown civic space - 90.5 WESA

  06-02-2025 20:20
  'Arts Landing' announced as Pittsburgh's new Downtown civic space  90.5 WESA
  
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• Early Modigliani Portrait Discovered in French Antique Shop

  06-02-2025 20:04 via artnews.com
  
  Next time you’re strolling through the antique shop, make sure to listen to your gut. Italian entrepreneur and collector Paolo Guzzini did just that and now finds himself the owner of an original Amedeo Modigliani, according to a report from Corriere Adriatico.Acquired some fifteen years ago from a private seller, the unsigned portrait—painted in Paris in 1906—was recently authenticated and published in the Modigliani archive of Rome.The breakthrough came after Guzzini, cu
  
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• ‘Urinetown’ and Other Plays and Musicals to See in February

  06-02-2025 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar’s “My First Ex-Husband” and a marionette made of ice.
  
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• ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ Is a Scammer Docudrama With Bite

  06-02-2025 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The Netflix series, starring Kaitlyn Dever, tells the story of an Australian blogger who found fame and money by lying about having cancer.
  
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• At the Whitney, Christine Sun Kim’s Advocacy Is Also Her Art

  06-02-2025 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  A confession: before Christine Sun Kim’s survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I had her work all wrong. In my head, her oeuvre could be neatly divided into two camps, with the early work being more formally innovative, the later stuff more politically important. Those early pieces emphasized Kim’s nuanced understanding of sound, owing to the careful auditory attention that her Deafness demands. After that, there were the drawings, which confronted ableism assertively—a
  
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• Pittsburgh Cultural Trust unveils Arts Landing, a $31M outdoor civic space Downtown - TribLIVE

  06-02-2025 19:00
  Pittsburgh Cultural Trust unveils Arts Landing, a $31M outdoor civic space Downtown  TribLIVE
  
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• Zona Maco Opens with High Energy, Lots of Sales, and One Work That Is Sure to Face Blowback

  06-02-2025 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  Zona Maco, one of Latin America’s largest and most important fairs, opened to VIPs on Wednesday, and by the afternoon, the consensus from participating galleries was clear: the crowd was high-energy, there were lots of quality collectors from both Latin America and the US, and sales were being closed, though not always for the highest-priced works on view.“There’s been amazing energy. This is probably the best first day we’ve had in the last five or six years of the fair,
  
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• Independent New York Names Exhibitors for Upcoming Edition in May

  06-02-2025 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Independent art fair has named the 82 galleries that will take part in its upcoming 16th edition, scheduled to take place May 8–11 at Spring Studios in Tribeca.Among the galleries that will show at Independent are the Approach, Bradley Ertaskiran, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Daniel Faria Gallery, Linseed, Magenta Plains, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Night Gallery, Maureen Paley, Kendra Jayne Patrick, Ryan Lee, and Hannah Traore Gallery.This iteration of the fair will also see the l
  
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• Susan Alcorn, Voyager on Pedal Steel Guitar, Dies at 71

  06-02-2025 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent.
  
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• As Dealers Close Up Shop Around Them, Two New York Galleries Look for a New Collaborative Model

  06-02-2025 17:08 via artnews.com
  
  In a period that has seen the closure of several New York galleries, two enterprises have joined forces to create a new model of collaboration that they hope will help them weather an unsteady market.Proxyco, founded in 2017, will move into the fifth-floor gallery space on 88 Eldridge Street, that Instituto de Visión, founded in Bogotá in 2014, has occupied since it opened a New York branch in 2022. The two galleries, each of which are well-regarded for their focuses on raising the
  
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• Give the National Endowment for the Arts Back to the Public - First Things

  06-02-2025 15:24
  Give the National Endowment for the Arts Back to the Public  First Things
  
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• Modigliani Painting Found at Antique Market, Collector Pulls Sculpture from Futurism Exhibition in Rome, and More: Morning Links for February 6, 2025

  06-02-2025 15:10 via artnews.com
  
  The HeadlinesMODIGLIANI DISCOVERY. Experts say a portrait bought at an antique market in France about 15 years ago is in fact an early painting by Amedeo Modigliani, according to Corriere Adriatico. When Italian collector Paolo Guzzini spotted an interesting seal on the back of an expressive oil painting of a man, he decided to pay a few thousand euros for it. The seal said the canvas came from a shop that supplied artists in Montmartre in the early 1900s, but there were no c
  
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• In ‘American Photography’ at the Rijksmuseum, a Foreign Lens on the American Dream

  06-02-2025 14:34 via nytimes.com
  
  A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United States would like to see itself, and how it really looks.
  
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• Daniel Barenboim Announces He Has Parkinson’s Disease

  06-02-2025 14:24 via nytimes.com
  
  “I am planning to maintain as many of my professional commitments as possible,” the conductor said.
  
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• University of Minnesota showcases leading campus arts and culture programs, collaborations - UMN News

  06-02-2025 13:00
  University of Minnesota showcases leading campus arts and culture programs, collaborations  UMN News
  
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• ‘Kinda Pregnant’ Review: The Belly of the Beast

  06-02-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Amy Schumer plays a jealous best friend who fakes her own pregnancy in this Netflix comedy filled with dopey men and miserable women.
  
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• ‘Heart Eyes’ Review: Love Is in the Air, Along With a Machete

  06-02-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding meet cute, then meet killer in this rom-com masquerading as a horror movie.
  
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• ‘Bring Them Down’ Review: Sinister Revenge in Rural Ireland

  06-02-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan are beleaguered sheep farmers at war in this gory drama.
  
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• Irv Gotti, Famed Hip-Hop Music Executive, Dies at 54

  06-02-2025 11:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti with his label, Murder Inc. Records.
  
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• Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog

  06-02-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to think, and how to feel, in a changing environment.
  
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• ‘Parthenope’ Review: Goddess Worship

  06-02-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, this decadent drama about a beautiful young woman is a one-sided meditation on art, desire and spirituality.
  
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• From Crime Scenes to Hollywood Stars, Weegee Snapped Them All

  06-02-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  ICP offers a rare display of his late-career portraits of celebrities alongside the classic New York photos he is celebrated for. How did he go wrong?
  
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• ‘Armand’ Review: When a School Is a Trap

  06-02-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Renate Reinsve stars in a drama about an insular community that is intermittently interesting.
  
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• ‘The Fishing Place’ Review: A Village Under Suspicion

  06-02-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Rob Tregenza’s latest film, set in a German-occupied Norwegian village, follows a housekeeper dispatched to spy on a priest.
  
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• The Choreographer Chris Gattelli Sends Love Letters to His Dance Heroes

  06-02-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The dance humor in Christopher Gattelli’s shows, like “Schmigadoon!” and “Death Becomes Her,” is underpinned by affection for musical theater and its excesses.
  
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• In The Stone of Madness, Outcasts Band Together

  06-02-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Each character in The Stone of Madness, including a mute man, an orphan and a woman proficient in witchcraft, has strengths that can help overcome tactical challenges.
  
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• How Kendrick Lamar’s Performances Led Him to the Super Bowl Halftime Show

  06-02-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ahead of his Super Bowl halftime show, a look at how the rapper has turned introspective rhymes into his own visual language.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Is a Little Alarmed About Trump’s Gaza Proposal

  06-02-2025 08:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Colbert wasn’t the only host flabbergasted by President Trump’s plan to take over Gaza, move the Palestinians out and turn it into a resort destination.
  
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• Moss Arts Center partners with Candoco Dance Company - Virginia Tech

  06-02-2025 07:09
  Moss Arts Center partners with Candoco Dance Company  Virginia Tech
  
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• Irv Gotti, Famed Hip-Hop Music Executive, Dies

  06-02-2025 06:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer helped shape rap and R&B after founding the label Murder Inc., which launched artists like Ja Rule and Ashanti.
  
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• Anson Rabinbach, Leading Historian of Nazi Culture, Dies at 79

  06-02-2025 03:55 via nytimes.com
  
  He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.
  
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