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• Bobby Sherman, Former Teen Idol, Has Stage 4 Cancer, His Wife Says

  27-03-2025 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The 81-year-old is known for his breakout role on the 1960s television series “Here Come the Brides” and hits that included “Little Woman.”
  
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• Armand LaMontagne, Meticulous Sculptor of Sports Greats, Dies at 87

  27-03-2025 22:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Working in wood, he captured the zeal of New England sports with his exacting, lifelike renderings of Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Larry Bird.
  
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• Marlborough Gallery’s Former Chelsea Home Hits the Market for $10.9M

  27-03-2025 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  The former home of one of New York’s most storied galleries is officially on the market. The first and second floors of the Chelsea Arts Tower, which once housed Marlborough Gallery, have been listed for $10.9 million. Jeffrey Zoldan and Roger Gillen of Brown Harris Stevens are handling the sale, offering a space that doubles as a piece of art history.The 545 West 25th Street location boasts 18-foot-high ceilings, curb-cut access, and a street-level garage door capable of accommodatin
  
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• California Man Sentenced in Scheme to Steal Pricey Violins and Rob a Bank

  27-03-2025 21:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Prosecutors said that the man persuaded music stores to lend him violins worth tens of thousands of dollars on a trial basis, which he did not return.
  
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• Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America

  27-03-2025 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.
  
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• ‘Fight for Glory’ Is an Ecstatic Treat

  27-03-2025 20:33 via nytimes.com
  
  This three-part documentary about the 2024 World Series has an interesting task: Retell a story that is already pretty good and pretty legible.
  
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• Wildfires in South Korea Kill 28 People, Destroy Ancient Gounsa Temple

  27-03-2025 20:19 via artnews.com
  
  Wildfires in South Korea have killed 28 people so far and destroyed large parts of Gounsa, a major Buddhist temple complex founded in 681 CE.Approximately 20 out of its 30 structures were completely burned down, according to the Associated Press. The destroyed buildings included two that were designated national treasures: Gaunru, the pavilion-shaped structure constructed in 1668, and Yeonsujeon, built in 1904.“I went there this morning and found they’ve been reduced to heaps of ashe
  
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• Pilar Viladas, Architecture and Design Journalist, Dies at 70

  27-03-2025 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Schooled in art history, she brought both authority and a human perspective to her writing and editing for Architectural Digest, HG, The Times and other publications.
  
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• ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli Style Animations Are Almost Too Good

  27-03-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.
  
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• Sundance Picks Boulder, Colo., as Its New Home

  27-03-2025 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The Sundance Institute chose the new location for the movie festival because it had outgrown Park City, Utah, its home for the past 40 years.
  
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• Leonard Polonsky, Philanthropist Who Supported the Arts, Dies at 97

  27-03-2025 18:54 via nytimes.com
  
  After making a fortune in financial services, he funded the arts and made historical artifacts and documents widely available to the public.
  
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• Pennsylvania Woman Says She Bought a Renoir Drawing for $12

  27-03-2025 18:27 via artnews.com
  
  An owner of a rural Pennsylvania antique store paid a mere $12 for what might be an original drawing by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.In January, Heidi Markow, of Salvage Goods Antiques in Easton, Pennsylvania, found the work at a collector’s auction in Montgomery County. She told ABC News that, after she identified the piece “as something special,” her son Carl Paolina bid on three works while Markow continued eyeing other items for sale. Paolina paid $12 for
  
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• Elizabeth Giorgis, Influential Scholar Who Left a Banking Job to Study African Modernism, Dies at 68

  27-03-2025 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  Elizabeth Giorgis, a scholar who left her banking job to study African modernism and Ethiopian art history, and went on to become one of the preeminent experts in her field, died on March 16 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She was 68 years old. The Africa Institute of Global Studies University, where she chaired the humanities department, announced her passing last week but did not specify a cause.Salah M. Hassan, dean of the Africa Institute and chancellor of Global Studies University, said i
  
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• David M. Childs, Architect of 1 World Trade Center, Dies at 83

  27-03-2025 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The antithesis of a “starchitect,” he didn’t have a recognizable style. But as a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he helped transform the New York skyline.
  
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• Citra Sasmita Rewrites Balinese Mythology Through a Feminist Lens

  27-03-2025 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  In Citra Sasmita’s universe, naked women with long, flowing black hair are often engulfed in flames. Some sprout trees from their heads, their necks, or even their pelvises. Others metamorphose into snakes or birds. Still others wield swords and severed heads. Channeling creative and destructive energies, these divine beings, depicted in states of perpetual transformation, are deeply intertwined with nature.A powerful voice reclaiming the narrative of Balinese art, Sasmita is best known fo
  
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• Dealer Vs. Gallerist: A Primer

  27-03-2025 17:22 via artnews.com
  
  You may have read the news the other day that Apple TV+ has just landed a new series called The Dealer, about the relationship between Jessica Chastain (the dealer) and, in the words of Deadline “her most gifted and unnerving artist, played by Adam Driver.” You may have also heard that filming has just wrapped on The Gallerist, a feature film starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega with a plot that Deadline encapsulates as being about “a desperate gallerist who conspires to s
  
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• PS21, a Hub for Forward-Looking Art Upstate, Names a New Director

  27-03-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Vallejo Gantner, a longtime arts administrator in New York City, has taken over as artistic and executive director at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.
  
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• Hollywood Has Not Recovered Jobs Lost During Strikes, Report Says

  27-03-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many entertainment industry workers have been jobless for months, leading state officials to consider increasing subsidies to keep film and television production in California.
  
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• Vancouver Art Gallery CEO and Executive Director Departs

  27-03-2025 16:21 via artnews.com
  
  The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) recently confirmed the departure of CEO and executive director Anthony Kiendl amid uncertainty about its future.The official statement from the VAG’s board of trustees said the reason for Kiendl’s departure was the pursuit of “other professional and personal interests”. It also praised Kiendl for his work during a difficult period. “Under his leadership, the gallery navigated its way through the Covid-19 pandemic, transformed its prog
  
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• RISD Shutters Show of Pro-Palestine, Anti-Colonial Art

  27-03-2025 16:14 via artnews.com
  
  Students at the Rhode Island School of Design have accused administration of censorship after an exhibition of dissident art, some of which explicitly criticized Israel’s occupation of Palestine, was removed from public view by campus security only four days into its run.The show, titled “To Every Orange Tree,” opened on March 17 in the publicly accessible campus café gallery and featured works by more than 70 RISD students and staff, as well as members of the local comm
  
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• Who Was Ethel Sands?

  27-03-2025 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The room comes into focus slowly. It’s an intimate space, with clothing strewn across a chair and a glimpse of a bed frame on the left side of the canvas. Seen through an open door is a smaller room. Warmed by sunlight, it invites us in, but it doesn’t offer us the detail that would make it truly legible.A Dressing Room was painted by Ethel Sands in the early 20th century, probably between 1910 and 1920. Sands was painting the innermost space of a bedroom she shared with her life par
  
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• Under Trump, Kennedy Center’s Classical Offerings Will (Mostly) Go On

  27-03-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The center’s opera company and orchestra are planning typical seasons. But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by its creative team, which objected to the president’s takeover.
  
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• Scowl Made Hardcore Purists Angry. Now the Band Is Doubling Down.

  27-03-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The punk band fronted by Kat Moss wound its way from a local scene to national attention. Its second album, “We Are All Angels,” unpacks the pain of the journey.
  
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• Jazzed About Abstraction: Jack Whitten’s Show Is a Peak MoMA Moment

  27-03-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.”
  
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• The Truth About F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Drunken Brawl in Rome

  27-03-2025 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents suggest Fitzgerald may have behaved worse than he wrote.
  
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• 13 Women Artists Whose Works Have Broken the $1M Mark at Auction

  27-03-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  When Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, fetched $450 million at Christie’s in 2017, it became the most expensive artwork ever sold. While male artists, dead or alive, keep breaking records at auctions (Jeff Koons’s $58.4 million Balloon Dog sculpture in 2013, Claude Monet’s $65.5 million Nymphéas painting in 2024, etc.), the past decade or so has shown a new appreciation for their female counterparts. Some have set personal records, including Joa
  
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• 15 Iconic Feminist Works by American Women Artists

  27-03-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  From the first wave of feminism in the 1840s to second-wave feminism and the Feminist art movement of the 1960s and ’70s through the intersectional feminism of today, these 15 artworks by American women stand out for the lasting impact they’ve had on art history.Read more of our Women’s History Month coverage here.
  
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• Wildfires Destroy Ancient Korean Temple, X-Ray Reveals That Joan Miró Painted Over His Mother’s Portrait, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2025

  27-03-2025 13:38 via artnews.com
  
  The HeadlinesA MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN SOUTH KOREA has killed at least 27 people in Uiseong County in North Gyeongsang and destroyed the Buddhist Gounsa temple, founded in 681 CE, according to Korea JoongAng Daily and the BBC. Though the temple’s structure could not be saved, some relics were rescued; emergency crews are still trying to save other artifacts from the fires. Tens of thousands of people have also been displaced by what is being described as the country&rs
  
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• ‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: A Unique Approach to Teaching

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.
  
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• ‘Julie Keeps Quiet’ Review: Coping at Her Own Speed

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A teenage regional tennis star moves on at her own pace after her ex-coach is dismissed under a cloud of suspicion.
  
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• ‘Holland’ Review: Nicole Kidman Goes Dutch

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Set in a Michigan town designed to evoke the Netherlands, this thriller has red herring on the menu.
  
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• ‘Grand Tour’ Review: A Quiet Knockout

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s black-and-white film follows a colonial official on a 20th-century odyssey across Asia, with his fiancée in pursuit.
  
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• ‘A Working Man’ Review: Blue Collar, Bloody Hands

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at breaking bones as he is at building high-rises.
  
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• Center for Art and Advocacy Opens Showcase for Formerly Incarcerated Artists

  27-03-2025 10:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The nonprofit Center for Art and Advocacy, designed as a steppingstone to the art world, opens a public exhibition and education space in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
  
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• ‘Viet and Nam’ Review: A Soft Kiss Underground

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Truong Minh Quy’s haunting romance between two Vietnamese coal miners contemplates war and loss with pained elegance.
  
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• ‘The Friend’ Review: The Writer vs. the Great Dane

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Naomi Watts plays a writer in mourning who is given a formidable gift from a friend in this adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez novel.
  
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• ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: A Sour Note

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Carey Mulligan briefly warms this damp, downbeat comedy about two lonely men and their musical obsession.
  
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• ‘Holy Cow’ Review: How to Become a Big Cheese

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature follows a teenager in the French Alps who, when thrust into caring for his sister, forges a path in cheese making.
  
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• ‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Into the Woods (Chomp, Chomp)

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who run down a mystical beast and end up running amok with a monstrous brood.
  
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• At 50, the Wooster Group Is Experimenting on Itself

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.
  
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• ‘Art for Everybody’ Review: The Hidden Life of the ‘Painter of Light’

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.
  
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• Is It a Mirror or a ‘Mirror’? Ask Joseph Kosuth.

  27-03-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A deconstructed retrospective for the pioneer of Conceptual art shows off both the exhilarating highs and the sterile dead-ends of making ideas into artworks.
  
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• How ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings a Beloved Song to Life on Broadway

  27-03-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.
  
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• The Nail Artist Mei Kawajiri’s Mind-Boggling Creations

  27-03-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mei Kawajiri hand-paints and sculpts custom designs for a clientele that includes Heidi Klum and Bad Bunny.
  
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• Chairs That Feel Like a Hug

  27-03-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Ten seats you won’t want to get up from.
  
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• Atomfall’s Nuclear Disaster Has a Toxic Element: Tedium

  27-03-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An alternative history of the worst nuclear event in British history is burdened by narrative tropes and uninspired characters.
  
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• A Pan-African Blockbuster Portrays the Continent as a Monolith

  27-03-2025 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  As African nations moved toward independence in the 20th century, competing ideas about nomenclature jockeyed for supremacy, employing terms like African,Black, Arab, and Afro(‑American, ‑Brazilian, ‑Caribbean, etc.) in an attempt to shape legible blocks of solidarity from diverse populations. Given that “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica”—on view at the Art Institute of Chicago and traveling to museums in Barcelona and Brussels—(P
  
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• Late Night Can’t Quit the Group Chat

  27-03-2025 07:47 via nytimes.com
  
  “This operation was about as secretive as a Fortnite Twitch stream,” Jimmy Kimmel said of U.S. officials’ leaked discussion of a plan to attack Yemen.
  
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• Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82

  27-03-2025 00:05 via nytimes.com
  
  One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
  
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