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• Trump Administration Seeks Artists for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Statues

  24-04-2025 23:47 via nytimes.com
  Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  
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• Switzerland’s Bührle Foundation Reaches Settlement with Heirs of Jewish Collector Who Owned Prized Manet

  24-04-2025 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  The foundation that oversees the Emil G. Bührle collection said Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with the heirs of a Jewish collector over a prized Édouard Manet painting.The work, Manet’s La Sultane (c.1871), is one of 205 works from theBührle collection that have been loaned to the Kunsthaus Zurich since 2012.The new agreement, the foundation said, allows the painting to remain on view there.Bührle was a German Swiss industrialist who sold weapons to both
  
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• Andrea Nevins, Who Made Touching Films on Quirky Topics, Dies at 63

  24-04-2025 21:54 via nytimes.com
  Her documentaries, one of which received an Oscar nomination, explored subjects like punk-rock dads and Barbie dolls.
  
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• ‘Game Changer’ Is a Fun and Unpredictable Game Show

  24-04-2025 21:52 via nytimes.com
  Now in its seventh season, the show puts its comedian contestants through a weird and wide-ranging variety of funny and endearing challenges.
  
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• Two Duke Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences - Duke Today

  24-04-2025 21:28 via news.google.com
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• ‘Havoc’ Review: Tom Hardy Is Primed for a Fight

  24-04-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Tom Hardy is a crooked cop looking to make amends in Gareth Evans’s action-packed film.
  
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• Masahiro Shinoda, Leading Light of Japan’s New Wave Cinema, Dies at 94

  24-04-2025 19:41 via nytimes.com
  His films tapped into the fantasies of disgruntled youth by embracing brazen sexuality and countercultural politics. But unlike his peers, he did not shun tradition.
  
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• Yale Will Teach a Course on Bad Bunny’s Cultural Impact

  24-04-2025 19:30 via nytimes.com
  With a new fall offering, Yale becomes the latest university to offer a course on the cultural impact of the Puerto Rican star.
  
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• Judge Orders Art Institute of Chicago to Return Schiele Drawing to Heirs

  24-04-2025 19:25 via artnews.com
  
  A New York judge has ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a 1916 Egon Schiele drawing to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian Jewish art collector persecuted during the second world war.In the ruling, Judge Althea Drysdale sided with state authorities who argued the work was looted during the Holocaust. The drawing, acquired by the Art Institute in 1966, is among several Schiele works once owned by Grünbaum that have surfaced in various private and public collections. Dry
  
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• Judge Orders Art Institute of Chicago to Return Nazi-Looted Schiele Drawing to Heirs

  24-04-2025 19:25 via artnews.com
  
  A New York judge has ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a 1916 Egon Schiele drawing to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian Jewish art collector persecuted during the second world war.In the ruling, Judge Althea Drysdale sided with state authorities who argued the work was looted during the Holocaust. The drawing, acquired by the Art Institute in 1966, is among several Schiele works once owned by Grünbaum that have surfaced in various private and public collections. Dry
  
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• With ‘Étoile,’ Amy Sherman-Palladino Gives Ballet Another Whirl

  24-04-2025 18:56 via nytimes.com
  Her “Bunheads” and other ballet shows were canceled quickly. This new series, created with her husband, centers on fictional companies in New York and Paris.
  
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• Overlooked Letter Rewrites History of Shakespeare’s Bad Marriage

  24-04-2025 18:29 via nytimes.com
  New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.
  
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• Bala, Agrawal, Pascual elected to arts and sciences academy - Cornell Chronicle

  24-04-2025 18:17 via news.google.com
  Bala, Agrawal, Pascual elected to arts and sciences academy  Cornell Chronicle
  
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• Two New Arrests in Drents Museum Heist, But Ancient Romanian Gold Artifacts Remain Missing

  24-04-2025 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  Dutch police recently arrested two more suspects in connection with the theft of Romanian artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands earlier this year in January. “These suspects are a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old man, both from Heerhugowaard. Both men will be questioned about their role in the art theft from the Drents Museum. The stolen masterpieces have not been found,” according to a translated statement from the Netherlands Police. The 20-year-old suspect w
  
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• Texas School District Scrubs Virginia Flag Over Nudity Rules

  24-04-2025 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  Some Texas students won’t be learning about Virginia this year—at least not through their school’s online learning platform.As first reported by Axios, the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, located just outside of Houston, removed a section on the Commonwealth of Virginia from its elementary curriculum last fall. The reason? The state’s flag features the Roman goddess Virtus, who appears with one breast exposed—a violation of the district’s
  
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• Juilliard Plans $550 Million Drive to Go Tuition Free

  24-04-2025 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The goal is to make the school’s programs more accessible and to ease the burden on graduates pursuing careers in the arts.
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Max Hollein Says Trump Anti-DEI Push ‘Doesn’t Apply to Us’

  24-04-2025 17:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art director Max Hollein told French art publication Le Quotidien de l’Art in a recent interview that the Trump Administration’s recent push to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs will have no effect on the venerable institution.In town for the Centre Pompidou’s “TransFORMS” exhibition, dedicated to his father, the architect Hans Hollein, the Met director sat down with French art publication Le Quotidien de l’Ar
  
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• Chicago History Museum Accused of Retaliating Against Employees for Forming a Union

  24-04-2025 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  The union for Chicago History Museum workers claims there was retaliation by museum management against employees in response to organizing efforts, alleging that four members have been fired and five others threatened.The union was formed earlier this year in February with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. It represents nearly 70 employees, including curators, librarians, designers, visitor services associates, and maintenance technicians, and marks the
  
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• Calling on Congress to protect the National Endowment for the Arts - MSNBC News

  24-04-2025 17:54 via news.google.com
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• 8 Standouts at the AIPAD Photography Fair

  24-04-2025 17:50 via nytimes.com
  This year’s colorful and wide-ranging edition of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair is a bursting capsule history of the medium.
  
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• A New Requirement for Oscar Voters: They Must Actually Watch the Films

  24-04-2025 17:22 via nytimes.com
  The new rule, announced this week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was greeted with laughter and disbelief that it had not been required all along.
  
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• Ei Arakawa-Nash to Create Installation on Queer Parenting for Japan’s 2026 Venice Biennale Pavilion

  24-04-2025 17:11 via artnews.com
  
  Los Angeles–based performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, the Japan Foundation announced Thursday. A curator has not been announced yet. For the Pavilion, Arakawa-Nash will create a new installation that, according to the announcement, will explore his perspective as a queer parent of newborn twins in order to “dissect nationalism and patriarchy.”“I thought I would never have a chance to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale a
  
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• Agustina Ferreyra Named Mexico City’s OMR New Director As Her Gallery Closes

  24-04-2025 17:04 via artnews.com
  
  Top Mexico City gallery OMR announced on Wednesday that Agustina Ferreyra, another major dealer in the city, will join the gallery as director.Ferreyra established her own gallery in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2013 before later moving it to Mexico City. Ferreyra has long focused her program on supporting young and emerging Latin American artists. Ferreyra joins OMR after testing the waters in February during Mexico City Art Week with Bodega, a collaborative initiative with the gallery. For Bodega,
  
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• Review: As New York’s Opera Scene Empties, Another Rises Upstate

  24-04-2025 17:02 via nytimes.com
  R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak landscape for Baroque work.
  
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• ‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt

  24-04-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.
  
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• Overlooked Clue Sheds Light on Shakespeare’s Marriage

  24-04-2025 16:48 via nytimes.com
  New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.
  
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• In Philadelphia, Art Shows by Women Teem With Eros and Audacity

  24-04-2025 16:47 via nytimes.com
  Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.
  
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• Ai Weiwei Installation Coming to Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island

  24-04-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.
  
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• In His Show “Walking Into,” Ronen Zien Dreams About Crossing Borders

  24-04-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Ronen Zien dreams about crossing over. In his moving works the artist, born in the Arab city of Shefa Amr in northern Israel, traverses time, space, memory, and even borders—conjuring in images what he can only imagine doing in reality.Related ArticlesMan Sues Museum of Ice Cream, Bronx Museum Director Quits, Judge Allows Artists' Copyright Lawsuit Against AI Companies, and More: Morning Links for August 14, 2024 From New York to Dubai, Museums Weigh in on Violence in Gaza and Israel Zien
  
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• Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse

  24-04-2025 13:12 via news.google.com
  Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse  The Arts Fuse
  
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• ‘Until Dawn’ Review: They Keep Dying, You’ll Keep Shrugging

  24-04-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Based on a video game, this movie is done in by mediocre monsters and muddled time loops.
  
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• ‘The Trouble with Jessica’ Review: Dinner Party or Crime Scene?

  24-04-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This British black comedy, starring Indira Varma, centers on a group of wealthy middle-aged friends with fraught histories.
  
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• ‘Magic Farm’ Review: A Droll Delight

  24-04-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Amalia Ulman’s playful second feature follows an American television crew that lands in rural Argentina.
  
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• ‘Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: Rolling Another One for the Road

  24-04-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The comedy duo celebrates a partnership that they just can’t quit in this celebratory documentary.
  
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• As the Famed ‘October’ Journal Turns 50, This Reading List Charts Its Legacy

  24-04-2025 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  The quarterly journal October launched in 1976 with aims to counter the glossy “pictorial journalism” of arts magazines with critical rigor, documenting relationships between different art forms and assessing the social and economic drivers of contemporary art. As we celebrate its 50th birthday, here are five key titles published through October, books that embody the journal’s founding tenets, or point in new directions.
  
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• The N.B.A.’s Hidden Game: Arranging Courtside Celebrities

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Atlanta is a movie production hub and the home to prominent rappers, so the Hawks have dedicated resources to recruit famous faces like Anne Hathaway and Gucci Mane.
  
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• ‘The Accountant 2’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Revenge of the Killer Nerd

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Affleck returns as a brilliant C.P.A. who moonlights as a mysterious, gun-toting fixer and gets help from his little bro, played by Jon Bernthal.
  
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• ‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Putting It All on the Line

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi lead a melancholic drama about love and longing in the 1950s.
  
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• Boston Public Art Triennial Hopes to Offer a New Image of the City

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  An ambitious citywide exhibition will feature 20 public art commissions at outdoor venues and partnering museums.
  
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• ‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: A Whole World Inside

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A gorgeously intimate debut feature explores the lives of Chinese immigrants in a massage parlor in Queens.
  
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• ‘April’ Review: A Doctor’s Dilemma

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In this, her second feature, the Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili takes on the risks faced by an obstetrician who performs kitchen-table abortions.
  
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• 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to in April 2025

  24-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  An exceptional account of Bach’s Mass in B minor, traditional and unusual string quartets, and Thomas Adès suites are among the highlights.
  
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• The Sculptor Otobong Nkanga Reflects on All The Land Contains

  24-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Otobong Nkanga’s boundary-breaking and prize-winning art is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
  
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• Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio

  24-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.
  
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• Henry Clay Frick Built His Collection With Passion and Patience

  24-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose renovated Fifth Avenue mansion recently reopened.
  
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• Adam Pendleton’s New Show, in D.C., Demands Deep Thought

  24-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The new show at the Hirshhorn Museum, “Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen,” plumbs the past, the idea of presence and the possibilities of what painting could be.
  
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• A Peanuts Museum Exhibition in Miami Teaches Children

  24-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Miami Children’s Museum marks the moment with an exhibition that includes Snoopy, Lucy and more that will travel across the country for almost a decade.
  
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• Arts Festival 2025 - Boston College

  24-04-2025 09:59 via news.google.com
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• Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Elon Musk’s Plan to ‘Get Out of DOGE’

  24-04-2025 07:31 via nytimes.com
  “Musk says that he will dial back his work with the government so that he can spend more time with all 10 of his families,” Kimmel said.
  
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• Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’ Wont Be Shown in Georgia

  24-04-2025 06:01 via nytimes.com
  The director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s new movie, “April,” shines a light on the complicated situation for women seeking abortions in Georgia.
  
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