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• Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Glory Days,’ Dead at 75

  02-04-2025 23:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A gifted athlete, he gave a clumsy teenage Bruce Springsteen his first nickname, Saddie. Years later, the Boss returned the favor, memorializing him in a song.
  
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• African American History Museum Director on Leave as Trump Targets Smithsonian

  02-04-2025 23:19 via artnews.com
  
  Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has been on personal leave since March 14, and will continue to be out of office indefinitely, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the news on Wednesday.The Post reported that a museum spokesperson said Young would be out for an “undetermined period.” Young has been director of the museum, one of many run by the Smithsonian Institution, since 2021.The insti
  
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• Texas Politician Proposes Plan to Fine Museums for Displaying ‘Obscene’ Content

  02-04-2025 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  A Texas lawmaker has proposed a bill that could be used to keep certain kinds of art off view, the Fort Worth Report reports.On March 6, representative David Lowe filed House Bill 3958, which outlines a proposed civil penalty against any museum showing “certain obscene or harmful material.” The Texas Penal Code defines “obscene” as any kind of performance or material that depicts sexual acts without literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.If passed, Lowe’
  
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• Patti Smith to Perform at Rally to Save New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Park

  02-04-2025 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  Patti Smith performed at a New York City rally Tuesday as part of an effort to prevent a downtown park from being converted into affordable housing.The Elizabeth Street Garden, located between between Spring and Prince streets, has long been a community gathering place for artists and city dwellers. However, the city — which owns the land — announced plans to transform the space into an “urban oasis,” a move that longtime SoHo icons like Smith, Robert De Niro, and Ma
  
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• The Movie That Can Help You Understand Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Senate Speech

  02-04-2025 22:38 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring Jimmy Stewart as a naïve senator, explores the idealism — and reality — behind the tactic.
  
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• Val Kilmer Brought a Wonderfully Weird Sensibility to Every Role

  02-04-2025 22:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Even his choice of parts could be eccentric. In the end, he’s best thought of as a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body.
  
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• ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: Block by Bizarre Block

  02-04-2025 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in this adaptation of the megahit video game that leans into the mindless silliness of mid-aughts comedy.
  
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• It’s in the Cards: An Exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute Offers a History of Tarot

  02-04-2025 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  From Renaissance Milanese court painter Bonifacio Bembo to the Surrealists and even contemporary artist Claire Tabouret (who painted her home’s ceiling with images from an early-20th-century tarot deck), tarot—a centuries-old set of 78 cards—wafts in and out of art history. Between 1979 and 1998, French avant-garde artist Niki de Saint Phalle built a sculptural installation called the Tarot Garden outside Rome, and a newly opened show dedicated to British Surrealist and occulti
  
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• Val Kilmer in ‘Batman Forever’ Was a True 1990s Moment

  02-04-2025 19:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact of its era.
  
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• Nonprofit Focused on Restoring Cultural Sites Affected by State Department Cuts to Foreign Aid

  02-04-2025 19:19 via artnews.com
  
  The U.S. Department of State’s recent cuts to foreign aid grants is expected to affect New York nonprofit World Monuments Fund (WMF), which has lost seven grants totaling more than $800,000, the Art Newspaper reported Tuesday. The cuts affect restoration efforts in Algeria, Benin, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, and Iraq. The broader policy shift, part of the White House’s “America First” agenda, which seeks to move resources away from international
  
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• Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper Talk About the Netflix Hit ‘Adolescence’

  02-04-2025 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  In an interview, the actors Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham explore the social and personal impact of the Netflix hit about a teenager accused of murder.
  
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• ‘Adolescence’ Stars Discuss Their Father-Son Bond, and Questions of a Sequel

  02-04-2025 19:08 via nytimes.com
  
  In an interview, the actors Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham explore the social and personal impact of the Netflix hit about a teenager accused of murder.
  
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• Val Kilmer: A Life in Pictures

  02-04-2025 18:59 via nytimes.com
  
  A charismatic and handsome leading man in the 1990s, Kilmer played both superhero and rock star.
  
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• Little Island Welcomes an Ambitious Sophomore Season

  02-04-2025 18:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The summer lineup will include eight premieres, including new works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Whitney White and Bobbi Jene Smith.
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 Will Release in June With New Mario Kart

  02-04-2025 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The company said Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza would be part of the early game lineup, also sharing details on the console’s technical upgrades.
  
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• Trump Administration Threatens Extreme Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities

  02-04-2025 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly recommended extreme cuts to staff and programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the New York Times reported Tuesday evening.NEH employees were informed by managers on Tuesday morning of DOGE’s recommended reductions to the staff by as much as 70 to 80 percent of the organization’s 180 staffers, as well as the possible cancellation of all outstanding grants made under the Biden administration
  
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• Val Kilmer: Stream ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Batman Forever’ and Other Memorable Movies

  02-04-2025 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Kilmer’s film career ranged from slapstick comedy to some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and ’90s.
  
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• In Ed Atkins’s World, the Uncanny Is Realer Than the Real

  02-04-2025 17:17 via nytimes.com
  
  The British artist is being honored with a major retrospective. His eerie avatars aren’t quite lifelike, but they show what it means to be human.
  
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• Val Kilmer: Seven Memorable Movies to Stream

  02-04-2025 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Kilmer’s film career ranged from slapstick comedy to some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and ’90s.
  
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• Rare Beatles Audition Tape Surfaces in a Vancouver Record Shop

  02-04-2025 16:39 via nytimes.com
  
  The recording appears to be from the band’s 1962 audition for Decca Records, which notably rejected the group.
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 Will Release in June and Emphasize Streaming

  02-04-2025 15:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The company said Mario Kart World would be part of the new console’s initial game lineup, also sharing details on its technical upgrades.
  
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• A Nail Art Neophyte Sits Down With a Manicurist

  02-04-2025 15:21 via nytimes.com
  
  I didn’t know a topcoat from a base coat. But writing about an unfamiliar subject made me a better reporter.
  
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• ‘Truelove’ Explores Truth, Love and Endings

  02-04-2025 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  This thoughtful British mini-series explores the complex bonds among a group of aging friends who are determined not to let one another suffer.
  
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• Khaled Sabsabi Says Australian Pavilion Cancelation Is ‘Dismantling’ His Career, Trump Portrait Smuggled into Louvre, and More: Morning Links for April 2, 2025

  02-04-2025 14:26 via artnews.com
  
  The HeadlinesAUSTRALIA’S VENICE CONTROVERSY CONTINUES, with Khaled Sabsabi now telling the Guardian that Creative Australia’s controversial decision to suddenly drop him from as the country’s representative for the 2026 Biennale is “dismantling” his career. “Nobody should have to go through this torture,” he added. Creative Australia’s board nixed Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino’s p
  
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• Karyn Olivier’s Elusive Art Bears Witness to Hidden Histories

  02-04-2025 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Karyn Olivier’s work can often read as elusive. An expansive artist whose practice floats across various mediums, her works take many forms: a white column that rests on a historical table, a set of 15 stacked orange construction barriers, heaps of found clothing or fishing nets, an aesthetically pleasing piece of driftwood resting atop sheets of steel, photographs that are partially obscured by asphalt. They typically come off as quiet or deceptively straightforward, slowly unfolding to r
  
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• Val Kilmer: Six Memorable Movies to Stream

  02-04-2025 11:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Kilmer’s film career ranged from slapstick comedy to some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and ’90s.
  
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• At New Directors/New Films, the Faces Tell the Story

  02-04-2025 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren.
  
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• Sara Mearns and Jamar Roberts Know This: Dance Is Tough Love

  02-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Two of the art form’s best join forces in a program curated by Mearns at City Center that features a new work by Roberts, “Dance Is a Mother.”
  
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• ‘Modern Love’ Podcast: My Brother Has Schizophrenia. This Is How I Love Him.

  02-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  When her little brother Tim begins behaving strangely, doctor-in-training Jamie Shandro calls on her medical school experience and her sisterly love to navigate his frightening diagnosis.
  
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• Hello From a French Village That Recalls the U.S. as a Staunch Ally

  02-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I.
  
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• From Hasidic Brooklyn to Off Broadway: The Life of a Trans Rabbi

  02-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  After disavowing her strict religious upbringing, Abby Stein came out as transgender. She is now the subject of a new play by New York Theater Workshop.
  
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• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Billie Holiday

  02-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love about the artistry of Lady Day.
  
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• David Hockney Wants His Biggest Ever Show to Bring You Joy

  02-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist is 87 now and under constant medical care. But he was determined to make it to Paris for the exhibition of his life.
  
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• Visting Shanghai Now: It’s a Blue-Sky, App-Based Life

  02-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A longtime visitor returns to the post-pandemic city, finding it as varied and sophisticated as ever, and newly powered by digital commerce, with challenges for travelers.
  
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• Reproductive Justice is Under Threat. What Can Art Do?

  02-04-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSES of the last United States presidential election, Norma McCorvey would probably have voted for Donald Trump were she alive today. The “Roe” of Roe v. Wade (1973), McCorvey was a non-college-educated white Christian woman who lived in the South. Born in Louisiana in 1947, she spent most of her life in Texas working as a janitor, housecleaner, waitress, and receptionist after dropping out of high school. She was married at 16, had her tubes tied by the
  
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• In ‘The Friend,’ A Great Dane and His Co-Star, Naomi Watts, Learn New Tricks

  02-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Friend,” a huge dog and his new human, played by Naomi Watts, are in mourning. Both actress and canine had to learn new tricks for the film.
  
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• Val Kilmer: Five Memorable Movies to Stream

  02-04-2025 10:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Kilmer’s film career ranged from slapstick comedy to some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and ’90s.
  
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• Late Night Is Expecting Tariffs With a Side of Drama

  02-04-2025 08:57 via nytimes.com
  
  New tariffs will be unveiled at the White House Rose Garden — because “when you elect a reality TV star, you get all your economic policy via rose ceremony,” said Stephen Colbert.
  
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• Val Kilmer: Three Memorable Movies to Stream

  02-04-2025 08:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Kilmer’s film career ranged from slapstick comedy to some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and ’90s.
  
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• Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65

  02-04-2025 05:45 via nytimes.com
  
  A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.
  
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• DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment

  02-04-2025 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.
  
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• Mural - Denver Gazette

  02-04-2025 00:40 via news.google.com
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• Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Benicia gets macabre - Times Herald Online

  02-04-2025 00:30 via news.google.com
  Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Benicia gets macabre  Times Herald Online
  
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• April 3 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Faces and Places - Times Herald Online

  02-04-2025 00:30 via news.google.com
  April 3 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Faces and Places  Times Herald Online
  
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• April 3 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities - The Vacaville Reporter

  02-04-2025 00:30 via news.google.com
  April 3 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: Activities  The Vacaville Reporter
  
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• Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Source: Solano ‘Head over Heels’ - Times Herald Online

  02-04-2025 00:07 via news.google.com
  Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Source: Solano ‘Head over Heels’  Times Herald Online
  
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• Kathan Brown, Acclaimed Fine Art Printmaker, Dies at 89

  02-04-2025 00:03 via nytimes.com
  
  She helped revive the centuries-old tradition of intaglio printing in the U.S., producing fine-art etchings with artists like Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt.
  
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• Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Chats with Ree Kaneko Award Winner Paula Wilson & Public is Invited to Join - 91.5 KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio

  02-04-2025 00:01 via news.google.com
  Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Chats with Ree Kaneko Award Winner Paula Wilson & Public is Invited to Join  91.5 KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
  
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