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• ‘Her Majesty’ Is Glamorous and Salty Fun

  10-04-2025 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A badly behaving princess is suddenly forced to take on more responsibility than she is ready for in this cynical Spanish comedy.
  
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• James Toback Is Ordered to Pay $1.7 Billion in Sexual Assault Case

  10-04-2025 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  After the former Hollywood director stopped participating in the civil case against him, a jury awarded 40 accusers $42 million each.
  
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• Gerald Luss, Master of Midcentury-Modern Design, Dies at 98

  10-04-2025 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  His work on the interiors of the Time-Life Building helped set the tone for postwar office style and provided a model for the set of “Mad Men.”
  
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• Influential Berlin Gallery Peres Projects Placed Under Insolvency

  10-04-2025 22:14 via artnews.com
  
  Christian Otto, a Berlin-based attorney, has been appointed as the insolvency administrator for Peres Projects, an influential contemporary art gallery founded by Javier Peres, 53. The Berlin district court placed the gallery under provisional insolvency administration in February, following allegations of financial distress first reported by German outlet Verbraucherschutzforum.The gallery’s Berlin location, opened in 2005, last held an exhibition in February. Its Milan branch has been do
  
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• Canceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’

  10-04-2025 21:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.
  
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• BBC House’s Restored Sculpture by Artist and Sexual Abuser Eric Gill Goes Back on View

  10-04-2025 21:15 via artnews.com
  
  The BBC Broadcasting House in London has restored a sculpture by Eric Gill, an artist associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement who is also known to have sexually abused his daughters, on its exterior. The work is now encased behind panels of protective glass after it was defaced twice.A BBC spokeswoman told the BBC, which first reported the news, the corporation “in no way condones Gill’s abusive behaviour” but that it “draws a line between the actions of Gill, and th
  
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• Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Alisa Weilerstein Make Sparks Fly at N.Y. Phil

  10-04-2025 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Guest conductors and the firebrand soloists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Alisa Weilerstein brought welcome energy to David Geffen Hall.
  
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• ‘Amm(i)gone’ and ‘A Mother’: Sons Calling for Their Mothers

  10-04-2025 19:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.
  
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• David Altmejd on his Tour-de-Force Surrealist Serpent

  10-04-2025 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  Though an intricate sprawling feat of both Maximalism and engineering, David Altmejd set out to create his latest tour-de-force sculpture The Serpent (2025) with little planning—opting instead to figure out his work’s meaning and form as he worked, letting his materials guide the way. Many of the best artists work this way: After all, if you already knew what a work was going to be, or could say in a few sentences what it means, why go through the hassle of making it at all? In the f
  
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• Artists rip Mayor Brandon Johnson’s arts commissioner, department ‘dysfunction’ in letter - Chicago Tribune

  10-04-2025 19:03 via news.google.com
  Artists rip Mayor Brandon Johnson’s arts commissioner, department ‘dysfunction’ in letter  Chicago Tribune
  
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• Dali Museum Produces Salvador Dali’s Once-Lost Screenplay With Google’s New Generative Video Platform

  10-04-2025 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  In December, Google announced that it would soon launch a new version of its generative video model, Veo 2. Among the promised features were a better understanding of real-world physics, more “nuances of human movement and expression,” and less unintentional “hallucinations” like extra fingers. The surreality now, however, is intentional. On Wednesday, at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, the company demonstrated Veo 2 with a trailer for a new film, produced
  
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• What to Expect From Bravo’s Nepo Baby Reality Show, ‘Next Gen NYC’

  10-04-2025 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Next Gen NYC” is a big bet on the Gen Z offspring of the cable network’s “Real Housewives” franchise.
  
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• Abel Rodríguez, Artist Whose Drawings of Plants Became a Hit at Biennials, Has Died

  10-04-2025 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  Abel Rodríguez, a Nonuya artist who translated his knowledge of plants in the Amazon into drawings that were shown widely at international biennials, making him one of the most famous artists in Colombia, has died in Bogotá. His gallery, Instituto de Visión, announced his passing on Thursday, but did not specify an age or a cause of death.The gallery said that Rodríguez, who was sometimes called Don Abel, “passed away peacefully, surrounded by his devoted family
  
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• The Lost Capital of the Kingdom of Lyncestis May Have Been Found Among North Macedonian Ruins

  10-04-2025 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  The remains of Lyncus, the lost capital city of the ancient Kingdom of Lyncestis, may have been found by archaeologists excavating the Gradishte site in North Macedonia.The Kingdom of Lyncestis (or “land of the lynx”) was an autonomous region in Upper Macedonia until it was conquered in 358 BCE by Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. The lost capital of Lyncestis was likely the ancient city of Lyncus, where it is believed that Eurydice, the queen and wife of king Amyntas III of
  
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• Billionaire Rembrandt Collector Plans to Sell Lion Drawing Next Year in Hopes of Breaking Auction Record

  10-04-2025 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  A 17th-century drawing of a lion by Rembrandt could become the most expensive work on paper ever sold at auction, according to the Art Newspaper, with proceeds fittingly ear-marked for big cat conservation.American collector and precious-metals mogul Thomas Kaplan—who has assembled the largest private collection of Rembrandts in the world—plans to part with Young Lion Resting (1638–42) sometime next year. He’s hinted at a price in the “multiples of te
  
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• ‘G20’ Review: Viola Davis Plays an Action-Hero President

  10-04-2025 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Davis raises the bar on sheer brawniness in this action film where an American president has to fight Australian crypto-terrorists.
  
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• Jon Hamm Finds His Way Back to the Hilltop

  10-04-2025 17:45 via nytimes.com
  
  For the actor, the decade since “Mad Men” ended has been a period of personal change and mixed professional success. Suddenly, he is everywhere again.
  
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• Mutter Museum’s ‘Polarizing’ Executive Director Kate Quinn Is Out

  10-04-2025 17:43 via artnews.com
  
  Kate Quinn is no longer the executive director of the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. The institution’s leadership confirmed to WHYY this week that Quinn’s final day was April 7.In 2022, Quinn became the leader of the Mutter, which features historic medical instruments, anatomical models, and other biological specimens. Its prior tagline was “disturbingly informative”.But Quinn’s tenure was controversial after she asked staff to take down all of the museum&rsquo
  
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• Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup, Including Scarlett Johansson and Wes Anderson

  10-04-2025 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  A sidebar to the competition will feature Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.
  
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• Hania Rani’s Music Is Tranquil. Please Don’t Call It ‘Soothing.’

  10-04-2025 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Polish musician is a mainstay of streaming playlists with names like “Calm Vibes.” But she bristles at the notion that her music is therapeutic.
  
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• Chicago artists say in letter that ‘dysfunction’ in city cultural department causing grant delays - WBEZ Chicago

  10-04-2025 16:51 via news.google.com
  Chicago artists say in letter that ‘dysfunction’ in city cultural department causing grant delays  WBEZ Chicago
  
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• Engaging with the Arts: Six NYC Galleries to Make You Think and Maybe Smile - The Cornell Daily Sun

  10-04-2025 16:22 via news.google.com
  Engaging with the Arts: Six NYC Galleries to Make You Think and Maybe Smile  The Cornell Daily Sun
  
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• Why Wasn’t Anyone Traumatized in the ‘White Lotus’ Finale?

  10-04-2025 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  After a violent climax to the third season of the hit HBO show, everyone seems A-OK. Was it a Hollywood ending, or a natural trauma response?
  
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• Art Dubai Prepares to Open 18th Edition Amid Major Local Growth in High Net Worth Individuals

  10-04-2025 14:48 via artnews.com
  
  Now entering its 18th edition, Art Dubai returns next week to the Madinat Jumeirah hotel with over 120 galleries and a slate of new commissions, digital installations, and discussions aimed at defining the cultural and technological stakes of contemporary art. The fair, which opens with a VIP preview on April 16, continues to position itself less as a marketplace and more as an incubator for regional ideas with global resonance.That global resonance has been spurred by a number of prominent bien
  
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• Art Dubai Prepares to Open 18th Edition Amid Major Local Growth in High Net Worth Individuals

  10-04-2025 14:48 via artnews.com
  
  Now entering its 18th edition, Art Dubai returns next week to the Madinat Jumeirah hotel with over 120 galleries and a slate of new commissions, digital installations, and discussions aimed at defining the cultural and technological stakes of contemporary art. The fair, which opens with a VIP preview on April 16, continues to position itself less as a marketplace and more as an incubator for regional ideas with global resonance.That global resonance has been spurred by a number of prominent bien
  
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• Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater to Compete at Cannes Film Festival

  10-04-2025 13:59 via nytimes.com
  
  A sidebar to the competition will feature Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.
  
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• Germany Names New Culture Minister, Hong Kong Replaces M+ Venice Pavilion Organizer, and More: Morning Links for April 10, 2025

  10-04-2025 13:33 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesCONTROVERSIAL NEW GERMAN CULTURE MINISTER. Berlin’s culture senator, Joe Chialo, will become Germany’s Culture Minister in the country’s forthcoming, new government, reports Berliner Zeitung. Chialo, a member of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, faced controversy for a proposed funding clause last year, re
  
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• UK Version of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Will Start in 2026

  10-04-2025 12:23 via nytimes.com
  
  A British version of the television sketch comedy program “Saturday Night Live” is set to debut in 2026.
  
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• Live From London, It’s Saturday Night!

  10-04-2025 12:23 via nytimes.com
  
  A British version of the television sketch comedy program “Saturday Night Live” is set to debut in 2026.
  
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• After Years of Figurative Painting, Abstraction Roars Back in New York’s Galleries Better Than Ever

  10-04-2025 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  New York is a city that quickly cycles through artistic trends, so it’s been surprising that figurative painting has hung on for the better part of a decade. But now, there are signs that abstraction is roaring back in galleries after a period of relative dormancy. Gestural strokes and off-kilter color fields are becoming the norm, slowly replacing the portraits and surrealist tableaux that have for so long been a fixture of storefront spaces and auction house salesrooms.What kind of abstr
  
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• ‘Chicken Jockey!’ What to Know About the ‘Minecraft’ Catchphrase

  10-04-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When Jack Black yells that in “A Minecraft Movie,” young audiences respond raucously. The director approves, but some theaters don’t. Here’s what to know.
  
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• Why Some Dance Companies Are Moving Away From Social Media

  10-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Social media seemed to hold enormous promise for the dance field. So why are some dancers and companies choosing to disconnect?
  
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• New Season of ‘Black Mirror’ on Netflix Satirizes Streaming Services

  10-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The new season, premiering Thursday on Netflix, includes the show’s most blatant satire of streaming services yet.
  
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• ‘Warfare’ Review: A Combat Movie That Refuses to Entertain

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film about an American platoon in Iraq, there is no admirably staged bloodshed or witty repartee. That’s the point.
  
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• ‘The Uninvited’ Review: A Surprise Guest at the Garden Party

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Hollywood types get skewered in this comedy of manners, starring Walton Goggins, Pedro Pascal and Elizabeth Reaser.
  
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• ‘The Teacher’ Review: Harsh Lessons in the West Bank

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A legal procedural, a family tragedy, a romance and a kidnapping plot are a lot to hang on one character in this debut film by Farah Nabulsi.
  
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• ‘The King of Kings’ Review: A Remaking of the Christ

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The story of Jesus, told through the eyes of Charles Dickens, that nobody asked for.
  
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• ‘The Amateur’ Review: An Unsafe World

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Rami Malek stars in a spy movie that struggles with its conspiratorial angle.
  
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• ‘Sacramento’ Review: Best Frenemies

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In this warmly funny indie comedy, two friends with a complicated past confront their grief and anxieties on a California road trip.
  
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• New to Fantasy? Leigh Bardugo Recommends Her Favorite Books to Get Started.

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Interested in dipping your toe into the genre? The author Leigh Bardugo recommends books that can get you started.
  
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• ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: A Year in the Life

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Kevin Macdonald’s immersive documentary follows the couple from their heady first days in New York to their galvanizing concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972.
  
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• ‘G20’ Review: Madam President or Rambo?

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Viola Davis raises the bar on sheer brawniness in this action film where an American president has to fight Australian crypto-terrorists.
  
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• ‘Drop’ Review: The Ultimate Doomscroll

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A first date turns hellish when a terrified woman’s phone is cloned by an anonymous psycho in this stylishly silly thriller.
  
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• The Manor Mystery Blue Prince Hides Secrets in Every Room

  10-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Blue Prince follows in the storied tradition of mystery house games while mixing in logic riddles, word games, math problems and many codes and passwords.
  
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• Martin Wong, Medici of the Aerosol Art Set

  10-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, Futura and others) is on the museum wall.
  
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• Weezer Bassist’s Wife Shot by L.A. Police and Is Charged With Attempted Murder

  10-04-2025 09:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Jillian Lauren Shriner, an author who is married to a member of the band Weezer, was charged with attempted murder, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
  
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• Late Night Finds Trump to Be His Own Worst Enemy

  10-04-2025 07:57 via nytimes.com
  
  “Yeah, Trump was, like, ‘I just saved the economy from me. You’re welcome,’” Jimmy Fallon said on “The Tonight Show.”
  
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• Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk 2025 - Inside of Knoxville

  10-04-2025 06:01 via news.google.com
  Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk 2025  Inside of Knoxville
  
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• Tracy Schwarz, Mainstay of the New Lost City Ramblers, Dies at 86

  10-04-2025 01:40 via nytimes.com
  
  He was the last surviving member of a retro-minded string trio whose celebration of prewar songs of the rural South put them at the heart of the folk revival.
  
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