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• Singer Sues Met Opera Over Firing for Post-Pregnancy Vocal Problems

  09-04-2025 23:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who suffered vocal problems during and after pregnancy, is suing the opera company — and the union that represented her — after she lost work.
  
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• The Architecture You Need to See in Milan

  09-04-2025 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The Italian city has a reputation for being gray, but its architecture is far from dull.
  
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• 5 Songs by Rubby Pérez, the Singer Lost in the Dominican Republic Roof Collapse

  09-04-2025 22:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician, 69, got his break in the 1980s and continued releasing albums through 2022.
  
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• 5 Songs by Rubby Pérez, the Merengue Singer Lost in the Roof Collapse

  09-04-2025 22:51 via nytimes.com
  
  The musician, 69, got his break in the 1980s and continued releasing albums through 2022.
  
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• Conductor John Nelson Dead at 83

  09-04-2025 22:14 via nytimes.com
  
  He revived interest in a “problem child” in the pantheon of high romantic composers, bringing Berlioz overdue recognition as one of France’s greatest composers.
  
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• ‘Manhunt’ Is a Case Study in Fragile Masculinity

  09-04-2025 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.
  
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• Pop Songs, ‘Hamilton’ and Windows 95 Chime Join National Registry

  09-04-2025 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  The recordings, along with works by Tracy Chapman, Elton John and the rock band Chicago, are among the 25 selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.
  
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• It’s Springtime in Paris for David Hockney

  09-04-2025 21:24 via nytimes.com
  
  A huge new exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation is a late-career retrospective with a sense of new beginnings.
  
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• France to Return Human Remains to Madagascar in Historic Repatriation

  09-04-2025 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  France will repatriate the skulls of King Toera and two Sakalava warriors to Madagascar, marking the first return of human remains under a new French law passed in 2023. The remains, which were taken during France’s colonization of the island in 1897, have been held for more than a century in Paris’s Natural History Museum.The decision was announced by French prime minister François Bayrou and follows a formal request by Madagascar in 2022, as well as a review by a bilate
  
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• France to Return Human Remains to Madagascar in Historic Repatriation

  09-04-2025 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  France will repatriate the skulls of King Toera and two Sakalava warriors to Madagascar, marking the first return of human remains under a new French law passed in 2023. The remains, which were taken during France’s colonization of the island in 1897, have been held for more than a century in Paris’s Natural History Museum.The decision was announced by French prime minister François Bayrou and follows a formal request by Madagascar in 2022, as well as a review by a bilate
  
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• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Continues to Completely Miss the Point With AI Art

  09-04-2025 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  Last month, OpenAI launched a new AI image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, by showing off its ability to turn any image into one inspired by iconic Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli. The new functionality quickly kicked off a viral trend that had everyone from the White House to Israel Defense Forces Ghibli-fying images. It also kicked off a major public backlash, given that Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki, famously committed to hand-drawn animation, once called AI-generated art &ldq
  
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• Artist Daniel Arsham Sues Rapper Quavo in Copyright Case

  09-04-2025 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Daniel Arsham is suing the rapper Quavo and his record label Quality Control Music, along with parent company HYBE America, of copyright infringement and a violation of right of publicity.Arsham alleges that Quavo used his sculpture Quartz Eroded 1961 Ferrari GT (2018) without permission in his “Back to the Basics 2025” promotional video and social media posts.In the complaint Arsham filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on March
  
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• National Gallery of Art to Loan Works from Its Permanent Collection to Museums Across the Country

  09-04-2025 18:48 via artnews.com
  
  A Rembrandt in Denver. A Botticelli in Flint, Michigan. A Rothko in Boise. An O’Keeffe in Anchorage. Masterpieces from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will soon be on view in far-flung locales across the country.As part of its programming to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States next year, the NGA has launched “Across the Nation,” which will see major works from its permanent collection loaned to 10 partner institutions in Alaska, Col
  
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• UChicago announces unified Division of the Arts & Humanities - University of Chicago News

  09-04-2025 18:47 via news.google.com
  UChicago announces unified Division of the Arts & Humanities  University of Chicago News
  
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• Museum and Library Union Launches Legal Battle Against White House to Stop Cuts

  09-04-2025 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  In the latest legal challenge to the Trump administration from the cultural sector, the largest union of museum and library professionals in the United States has sued to block efforts to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).The lawsuit was filed in in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a union representing over 42,000 US cult
  
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• Harris launched 'dark-arts operation' against opponents for VP spot in 2020, new book claims - Fox News

  09-04-2025 18:03 via news.google.com
  Harris launched 'dark-arts operation' against opponents for VP spot in 2020, new book claims  Fox News
  
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• Thomas Pynchon to Publish a New Novel This Fall

  09-04-2025 17:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Featuring a Depression-era private eye, “Shadow Ticket” will be the 87-year-old writer’s first book since 2013.
  
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• At Dance Theater of Harlem, Robert Garland Has a Plan

  09-04-2025 17:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Garland has built the company’s season on the idea that varied works can be in conversation with each other — and with dancers’ bodies.
  
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• Max Kozloff, Influential Art Critic Who Augured a Turn Away from Formalism, Dies at 91

  09-04-2025 16:35 via artnews.com
  
  Max Kozloff, a critic who influentially collapsed the divide between art and politics that was erected by formalists who came before him, died on April 6 at 91. His death was announced this week by his wife, the artist Joyce Kozloff.Kozloff made his name during the 1970s on essays that addressed Cubism, Futurism, and other modernist movements. But rather than rehashing the same ideas about form, style, and artistic innovation put forward by Clement Greenberg and others of his ilk, Kozloff set ou
  
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• France to Return Human Remains to Madagascar, American Library Association Sues Trump Administration, and More: Morning Links for April 9, 2025

  09-04-2025 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION has joined new legal challenges against President Trump’s efforts to dismantle federal library and museum services, reports the New York Times. The library association, along with a union representing over 42,000 US cultural workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has filed
  
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• American Library Association Sues Trump Administration, France to Return Human Remains to Madagascar, and More: Morning Links for April 9, 2025

  09-04-2025 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION has joined new legal challenges against President Trump’s efforts to dismantle federal library and museum services, reports the New York Times. The library association, along with a union representing over 42,000 US cultural workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has filed
  
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• Women Artists Report Facing Underrepresentation, Career Setbacks, According to Anonymous Was a Woman Survey

  09-04-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  A new report is raising alarms about entrenched gender inequities in U.S. art institutions—gaps that a generation of established women artists have increasing tried to correct as they have sought out more autonomy from traditional institutions. The report was published and funded by Anonymous Was A Woman, a grant organization that awards an independent art award distributed by the New York Foundation for the Arts and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. It is part of an effort to counte
  
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• Christie’s to Sell Treasured Artworks Picked by Tiqui Atencio and Ago Demirdjian

  09-04-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s is kicking off a major selling season with works that once decorated the home of Ago Demirdjian and ARTnews Top 200 collector Tiqui Atencio, the husband and wife duo who have become two the most influential figures in contemporary art patronage.The two have picked 15 blue-chip works of postwar and contemporary art owned by the trustees of Mayfair Oeuvres d’Art Ltd and Artapar Ltd. (Atencio and Demirdjian are behind the two corporations, a Christie’s spokesperson
  
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• Curator Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu Shares Her Top Five Recent Obsessions

  09-04-2025 14:50 via artnews.com
  
  Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu is the cocurator of the 2025 edition of the Hawai‘i Triennial, which is on view across the state through May 4. Below, she discusses Indigeneity and artists as healers, along with related interests.
  
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• The Best Classical Music Performances of March 2025

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant.
  
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• ‘Pink Narcissus’: A Home Movie Both Abject and Erotic

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Originally released anonymously, this homoerotic fantasia by James Bidgood gets its first theatrical run in 54 years at Metrograph.
  
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• ‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Let Yourself Rage With Poet Laureate Ada Limón

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Limón has been on a mission to help Americans experience the full range of human emotion.
  
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• ‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Let Yourself Rage With Ada Limón

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Limón has been on a mission to help Americans experience the full range of human emotion.
  
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• Faced With Death, He Did the Only Thing He Could: Take Notes

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Peter Godwin, who has seen death up close a few times over the course of his life, examines grief and belonging in a new memoir, “Exit Wounds.”
  
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• Angel Studios Turns to Viewers of Faith to Greenlight Movies

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The company behind “Sound of Freedom” follows an unusual strategy that relies on an army of subscribers to its streaming platform.
  
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• Trumpeters. Friends. Rivals. 60 Years Ago, the Pair Made Jazz History.

  09-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Over two nights in Brooklyn, two musicians at a crossroads — Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan — went head-to-head in a pair of sizzling gigs.
  
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• ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: What to Know About the Broadway Show

  09-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new play, set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series, combines lavish spectacle with a cast of familiar characters.
  
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• How America Ripped Off R. Crumb

  09-04-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  “I like your comics, kid. They’re very good. Just stay away from cocktail parties.”Charles Bukowski delivered this evergreen piece of advice in the 1960s to the King of Underground Comics, Robert Crumb. Crumb indeed did his best to steer clear of the US bourgeois jet-setting class that he and Bukowski had then pinpointed as the veritable enemy.Crumb once warned that the collective unconscious of the US “was/is the product of a commercial, industrialized, capitalist societ
  
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• End the National Endowment for the Arts - Cato Institute

  09-04-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  End the National Endowment for the Arts  Cato Institute
  
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• Late Night Frantically Tries to Keep Up With Trump’s Tariffs

  09-04-2025 08:40 via nytimes.com
  
  “I’d say he’s like a bull in a china shop, but at 104 percent, I can’t afford to say that,” Desi Lydic said of President Trump on “The Daily Show.”
  
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• Taymour Grahne Projects to Open New Gallery in Dubai This September

  09-04-2025 04:00 via artnews.com
  
  Taymour Grahne Projects, the London-based contemporary art gallery known for its sharp program of emerging talent, is planting its flag in Dubai. In September, the gallery will open a permanent 2,000-square-foot space in Alserkal Avenue, the UAE’s prominent gallery neighborhood and cultural hub.The enterprises expansion into the Middle East represents a new chapter for the gallery as it celebrates its 12th anniversary. Founded in New York in 2013 and now operating out of London, Taymour Gr
  
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• Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs

  09-04-2025 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.
  
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• The Skin on Mysterious Medieval Books Concealed a Shaggy Surprise

  09-04-2025 01:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin.
  
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• William Finn, Tony-Winning Composer for ‘Falsettos,’ Dies at 73

  09-04-2025 00:35 via nytimes.com
  
  An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”
  
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• The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn

  09-04-2025 00:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.
  
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