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• Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Companion and Contested Heir, Dies at 79

  05-03-2025 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  As a young potter, he turned up on the doorstep of an octogenarian master of modern painting. They grew so close it became a scandal.
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover

  05-03-2025 23:10 via nytimes.com
  
  “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
  
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• Texas Lawmakers Take Aim at Pro-Palestine Student Art Exhibition

  05-03-2025 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A Texas lawmaker urged university administrators to cancel a planned lecture, remove a student art exhibition, and review campus free speech policies, citing alleged antisemitism, according to NTdaily, the school’s news outlet.In a letter addressed to University President Harrison Keller and UNT System Chancellor Michael Williams, Texas representative Mitch Little claimed the exhibition and lecture violated Governor Greg Abbott’s March 2024 Executive Order No. GA-44, which mandates t
  
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• Arts community galvanizes for post-fire recovery - Spectrum News 1

  05-03-2025 21:56 via news.google.com
  Arts community galvanizes for post-fire recovery  Spectrum News 1
  
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• A Publisher Pulled a Romance Novel After Criticism From Early Readers

  05-03-2025 21:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The novel, “Sparrow and Vine” by Sophie Lark, was due out in April from Bloom Books. Readers with advance copies criticized passages that they found racist — or that praised Elon Musk.
  
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• Christie’s AI Art Sale Defies Controversy, Surpasses Expectations

  05-03-2025 21:19 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s first-ever auction dedicated to artificial intelligence-generated art, Augmented Intelligence, concluded on Wednesday, March 5, exceeding estimates and, according to the auction house, drawing a fresh wave of collectors.The sale amassed $728,784, the auction house said in a press release, outpacing its $600,000 projection. Notably nearly half of bidders, 48 percent, identified themselves as Millennials or Gen Z, while 37 percent were first-time buyers at Christie&rsquo
  
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• Piglets Stolen from Art Installation in Which They Were Left to Starve

  05-03-2025 20:56 via artnews.com
  
  Three piglets were stolen from an installation in Copenhagen after the artist behind the work had placed the animals in a cage and left them to starve.Marco Evaristti had shown the work, titled And Now You Care?, in a site that was once home to a butcher’s warehouse. Per the New York Post, the piece was intended to shine a light on the ethical issues associated with pig farming in Denmark, a country that has received a particularly level high of scrutiny for this industry.Evaristti, who wa
  
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• Austin, a Texan City with a Growing Gallery Scene, to Get a New Art Fair in May

  05-03-2025 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Friends Fair in Austin will become the latest event to join the art world’s jam-packed calendar when it launches its inaugural edition on May 15.Running through May 15, the new fair is the brainchild of a group of five Austin galleries—grayDUCK, Ivester Contemporary, Martha’s, McLennon Pen Co., and Northern–Southern—which created an informal gallery association about a year and a half ago in an effort to be more collaborative. Under the banner of Friends of Gallerie
  
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• Pierre Joris, Translator of the ‘Impossible’ Paul Celan, Dies at 78

  05-03-2025 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the Holocaust by inventing a new version of German.
  
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• Sony Lays Off Unknown Number of Workers at PlayStation Visual Arts Studio - IGN

  05-03-2025 19:57 via news.google.com
  Sony Lays Off Unknown Number of Workers at PlayStation Visual Arts Studio  IGN
  
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• Art Professionals Scramble As New Trump Tariffs Against Canada, Mexico and China Go Into Effect

  05-03-2025 18:07 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.As the clock struck midnight on Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump made good on his threat to impose widespread tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, the US’s top three trading partners. China and Canda have already instituted retaliatory tariffs, with Mexico to follow as soon as Sunday.If ga
  
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• Máret Ánne Sara to Bring Sámi Art and Activism to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall This Fall

  05-03-2025 17:56 via artnews.com
  
  Tate Modern’s cavernous Turbine Hall will be transformed by the work of Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara this fall. That Sara has received the Hyundai Commission marks another major spotlight on Indigenous artistic practice on the international stage. Hailing from a reindeer-herding family in Guovdageaidnu, Norway, Sara is a fierce critic of Nordic colonialism and an advocate for Sámi cultural survival and her work is deeply rooted in her community’s
  
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• NADA New York Announces 111 Exhibitors, New Location for 2025 Edition

  05-03-2025 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has announced the more than 100 exhibitors that will take part in its upcoming New York edition, as well as a new location for the fair. The 2025 edition will run May 7–11, with VIP hours from 10 a.m .to 4 p.m. on May 7.  After two years in the former Dia building on West 22nd Street, NADA New York will move further west in Chelsea to the Starrett-Lehigh Building on West 26th Street and 11th Avenue. The move brings it even closer to Frieze New York, which
  
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• Sotheby’s Successful Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London Nets $78.6 M., Shows Green Shoots for Art Market

  05-03-2025 17:23 via artnews.com
  
  In the hour before Sotheby’s kicked off its midseason Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London Tuesday, a group of specialists huddled together outside The Windmill, a pub around the corner from the auction house. Their safety-in-numbers formation reminded me of highland cattle, a friendly, handsome breed that clump together for protection and warmth. Who can blame them? Sotheby’s has been through the ringer over the last year: multiple rounds of corporate restructuring and lay
  
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• Joan Didion Knew the Stories We’d Tell About the Manson Murders

  05-03-2025 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Didion’s influential account of the era, “The White Album,” captures the ripples of terror provoked by the 1969 murders.
  
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• Review: Sally Mann’s provocative ‘At Twelve’ at Jackson Fine Art - ARTS ATL

  05-03-2025 17:05 via news.google.com
  
  Review: Sally Mann’s provocative ‘At Twelve’ at Jackson Fine Art  ARTS ATL
  
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• Review: With ‘Fidelio,’ the Met Opera Does What It Does Best

  05-03-2025 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Met, a magnet for star singers, flexed its muscles to stack the cast of Beethoven’s only opera, with Lise Davidsen in the title role.
  
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• How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene?

  05-03-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Five recent books collect photographs, memories and ephemera from the hardcore band Agnostic Front, the mysterious dance artist Aphex Twin, the rap collective Odd Future and more.
  
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• Report: Sony lays off employees at Visual Arts and PS Studios Malaysia - GamesIndustry.biz

  05-03-2025 15:07 via news.google.com
  Report: Sony lays off employees at Visual Arts and PS Studios Malaysia  GamesIndustry.biz
  
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• Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize

  05-03-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”
  
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• The 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century

  05-03-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  A global recession, a pandemic, 9/11, the Arab Spring, Brexit, the rise of Web 2.0, unrest in the face of economic stability, wars in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza, and elsewhere: these were but a few of the many events that have defined the past 25 years, a period characterized by tumult and uncertainty. That all may explain why art appeared to change faster than ever all the while, with artists burning through styles and tendencies with each coming year.With the 21st century now at the quarter po
  
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• How We Made Our List of the 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century

  05-03-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  I’m a fan of list-making, and most people in the art world are not, because this is a space, after all, where that form of writing is considered déclassé at best. And so, when I brought the idea to rank the best 100 artworks of the 21st century to a meeting of ARTnews and Art in America editors last fall, I expected that everyone would consider the concept gauche. That wasn’t what happened: the editors enthusiastically supported the idea of such a list. But this, it tur
  
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• For Stars at the Oscars, a Night of Celebration and Selfies

  05-03-2025 13:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and other stars dropped their guard on Hollywood’s biggest night.
  
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• A ‘Greatest Showman’ Musical Is Coming to the Stage, in Britain

  05-03-2025 13:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The show, developed by Disney with a Tony-winning creative team, will have an initial production in Bristol, England in the spring of 2026.
  
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• ‘Modern Love’ Podcast: If You Want This Kind of Love, Don’t Expect It to Be Easy

  05-03-2025 11:22 via nytimes.com
  
  After a difficult divorce, Samaiya Mushtaq found the love of her life — and the courage to support his volunteer work in Gaza.
  
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• How a Shocking Act of Literary Vandalism Helped a Family Start Again

  05-03-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A cache of family documents led a journalist to discover the source of the wealth that allowed his family to remake life in Australia after surviving World War II in Europe.
  
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• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Chicago Jazz

  05-03-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the forefront of today’s sound.
  
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• The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas

  05-03-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Chad Kassem is on a mission — saving listeners “from bad sound” — at the rural factory where he pores over LPs from some of music’s most important artists.
  
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• In ‘The Electric State,’ Jolting a Robot to Life

  05-03-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  How the makers of a new Netflix science fiction movie enhanced the look of the cute, round-headed bot at its center.
  
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• A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives

  05-03-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition at the New York Public Library celebrates the magazine’s literary stars and unsung office heroes.
  
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• A Jaw-Dropping Cooperative Game Lets Writers Run Wild

  05-03-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  With Influences from Contra, Metroid, Portal, Mario, Halo and more, Split Fiction follows two aspiring authors into the sci-fi and fantasy settings of their imaginations.
  
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• In ‘Deli Boys,’ Two Actors Find Dream Roles Playing No One’s Hero

  05-03-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Saagar Shaikh and Asif Ali will do “unspeakable things” in a Hulu comedy that centers on South Asians, drugs, violence — and the minimart.
  
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• Woodworking Is Losing Its Macho Edge Thanks to These Women

  05-03-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As contemporary woodworking loses its macho edge, it gains a whole new dimension.
  
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• In the San Juan Islands, a Cabin Touched by Many Hands

  05-03-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How artisans in a corner of the Pacific Northwest turned a rocky retreat into a permanent residence.
  
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• French Cinema Celebrates Its Covid Recovery

  05-03-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The French movie industry has been celebrating statistics that show an increase in movie attendance.
  
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• 150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate

  05-03-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the heart of Utah’s Uinta Mountains, a team of scientists is re-creating historical pictures to study how much, and how quickly, ecosystems are changing.
  
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• Late Night Is Underwhelmed by Trump’s Address to Congress

  05-03-2025 10:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Jimmy Kimmel noted that the president’s speech started late: “I guess they were waiting for that last coat of shellac to dry on his face.”
  
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• ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Review: Can You Fight City Hall?

  05-03-2025 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The sort-of-rebooted series from Marvel and Disney+ pits the blind vigilante against a chaos-inducing, revenge-minded office holder.
  
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