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• Martin Scorsese Interviews Pope Francis in Upcoming Documentary ‘Aldeas’

  01-05-2025 22:28 via nytimes.com
  The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between the director and the pontiff, who died last month.
  
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• Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of workers in latest round of cuts - Los Angeles Times

  01-05-2025 22:20 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of workers in latest round of cuts  Los Angeles Times
  
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• London’s National Gallery Acquires Curious Altarpiece by Unknown Artist for $20 M.

  01-05-2025 22:09 via artnews.com
  To celebrate its bicentenary, London’s National Gallery has purchased a curious altarpiece for $20 million that it was eyeing for decades. Titled The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret and Two Angels, the painting dates from 1500-10 – and the artist is unknown.The acquisition was funded by the American Friends of the National Gallery of London and bought from a private collection in a sale brokered by Sotheby’s. The price represents a significant outlay for an unkn
  
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• ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ Is a Brutal but Poetic War Drama

  01-05-2025 22:02 via nytimes.com
  Starring Jacob Elordi, this often agonizing series takes on life’s biggest questions, about the mind and the heart, human suffering and transcendence.
  
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• 2025 Tony Awards: George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink Among Nominees

  01-05-2025 21:17 via nytimes.com
  The new musicals “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” tied for the most Tony nominations, with 10 each.
  
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• Sale of $32 Million Klimt Portrait Falls Through Due to Provenance Issues

  01-05-2025 21:01 via artnews.com
  The sale of a $32 million portrait by Gustav Klimt has fallen through, according to the Austrian paper Der Standard. The painting’s anonymous buyer in Hong Kong withdrew from the sale last month after a private restitution settlement did not go ahead. In 2024, Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) sold for €30 million, €35 million with fees, ($32.15 million, $37.51 million with fees), on the lower side of its presale estimate of €30 to €50 million. The s
  
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• Review: Trisha Brown’s Unstable, Liquid Structures

  01-05-2025 20:19 via nytimes.com
  Her company’s program at the Joyce Theater featured two notable works from the early 1980s and a Brown-inflected premiere by Lee Serle.
  
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• Tony Nominations Snubs and Surprises: Denzel Washington Misses for ‘Othello’ and More

  01-05-2025 20:07 via nytimes.com
  Ensemble-driven plays like “Purpose” and “English” received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked.
  
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• Walnut Creek police arrest performing arts teacher on suspicion of sex with student - KTVU

  01-05-2025 19:44 via news.google.com
  Walnut Creek police arrest performing arts teacher on suspicion of sex with student  KTVU
  
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• Judge ‘Inclined’ to Rule Against Institute of Museum and Library Services Shutdown

  01-05-2025 19:04 via artnews.com
  A district court judge slated to issue a ruling on the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) said in court that he’s inclined to block the Trump administration’s efforts, Washington, D.C.’s WUSA9 reported Wednesday.The agency, which is responsible for distributing federal dollars to American museums and libraries, was gutted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last month, with its entire 75-person staff placed on leave by acting direct
  
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• The Getty’s Provenance Index Makes More than 12 Million Records Publicly Available

  01-05-2025 19:00 via artnews.com
  The Getty Research Institute announced an update to its index of provenance-related research today. The remodeled version now offers more than 12 million records available to the public.The Getty Provenance Index (GPI) initially launched in the 1980s to keep track of the ownership history of each artwork in the museum’s collection. Since then, it has become an integral part of the Getty’s research on provenance, collecting, and art markets. Today, the records included in the GPI
  
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• In New York, Art Abounds This May Amid Market Uncertainty

  01-05-2025 18:55 via nytimes.com
  As Frieze, TEFAF and other fairs bloom citywide, galleries and auction houses kick into high gear, with showy exhibitions and big-ticket items.
  
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• ‘The Four Seasons’ Review: Tepid Trouble in Middle-Aged Paradise

  01-05-2025 18:33 via nytimes.com
  In this Netflix series created by Tina Fey, among others, old friends contend with the fallout from a surprising breakup.
  
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• ‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Western Hit by Tragedy Is a Hard Watch

  01-05-2025 18:33 via nytimes.com
  During every scene of this western, I couldn’t stop thinking about the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on set in an entirely preventable tragedy.
  
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• Stan Love, Athlete and Father of Heat’s Kevin Love, Dies at 76

  01-05-2025 17:58 via nytimes.com
  A former N.B.A. player and the father of the All-Star Kevin Love, he was also the brother of the pop group’s Mike Love and a caretaker for its troubled leader, Brian Wilson.
  
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• At Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dave Chappelle Rallies to Keep ‘Tradition Alive’

  01-05-2025 17:25 via nytimes.com
  Attendees at the organization’s gala, which celebrated Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, shared what they listen to.
  
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• The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Names 2025–26 Artists-in-Residence

  01-05-2025 17:05 via artnews.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU of Texas) named Houston-based painter Vincent Valdez and Austin-based author KB Brookins recipients of its artists-in-residence program for 2025–26.As part of the residency, both artists will receive $30,000 each to fund individual projects. They will also work alongside the ACLU of Texas and community leaders to advocate for civil and individual rights within the state.Valdez plans to paint portraits of local community leaders who are work
  
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• Best Movies and Shows Streaming in May: ‘Poker Face,’ ‘Murderbot’ and More

  01-05-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Duster,” “Summer of 69,” “Overcompensating,” “‘Deaf President Now!” and more are arriving, and “Poker Face” returns.
  
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• Best Movies and Shows Streaming in May: “Duster,” “Deaf President Now!” and More

  01-05-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Duster,” “Summer of 69,” “Overcompensating,” “‘Deaf President Now!” and more are arriving, and “Poker Face” returns.
  
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• ‘Vulcanizadora’ Review: Guilt Trip

  01-05-2025 16:57 via nytimes.com
  Two midlife losers reckon with past mistakes on a despairing and oddly haunting trip into the woods and out of their heads.
  
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• TEFAF New York Keeps Its Focus on the Classics In a Turbulent Time

  01-05-2025 16:50 via nytimes.com
  With the art market outlook uncertain, the New York fair aims to keep collectors coming, with a wide array of art and (relatively) less expensive prices.
  
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• Art to See on Day Trips From New York City This Spring

  01-05-2025 16:31 via nytimes.com
  Exhibitions and discoveries await in New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and on the East End of Long Island.
  
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• Tony Awards Nominations 2025: The Complete List

  01-05-2025 16:26 via nytimes.com
  Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards were announced on Thursday. Here’s who made the list.
  
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• Frieze Sold to New Company Founded by Ari Emanuel

  01-05-2025 15:53 via artnews.com
  A long-suspected game of musical chairs for the ownership of Frieze, the group that includes an influential London-based magazine and several art fairs around the world, has come to an end. Endeavor Group Holdings, the parent company of the Hollywood talent agency, has sold it to a new company formed by Ari Emanuel, Endeavor’s former CEO. The deal is expected to close by the third quarter of this year, and the company was valued at almost $200 million, according to the Financial Times. (Th
  
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• George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink Get Tony Nominations

  01-05-2025 15:47 via nytimes.com
  They were among the screen stars who were recognized for their work on Broadway this season as the 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced.
  
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• Frieze, Premiere Art Fair Company, Sold on Eve of New York’s Art Week

  01-05-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The deal would bring seven art fairs under a new private company founded by the entertainment mogul Ari Emanuel, former chief executive of Frieze’s owner, Endeavor.
  
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• Uzbekistan’s Aral Culture Summit Presents a Vision for Ecological and Cultural Renewal    

  01-05-2025 14:11 via artnews.com
  “We hope in the future our Aral Sea will be full again,” said Aygul Pirnazanova, head of the ethnographic department at the Savitsky Museum of Art, distilling the collective ambition of the inaugural Aral Culture Summit (ACS), held last month.Spearheaded by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF), the summit, held this year in Nukus, the capital city of the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan, unfolded in a region emblematic of resilience and ecol
  
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• Uzbeikstan’s Aral Culture Summit Presents a Vision for Ecological and Cultural Renewal    

  01-05-2025 14:11 via artnews.com
  “We hope in the future our Aral Sea will be full again,” said Aygul Pirnazanova, head of the ethnographic department at the Savitsky Museum of Art, distilling the collective ambition of the inaugural Aral Culture Summit (ACS), held last month.Spearheaded by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF), the summit, held this year in Nukus, the capital city of the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan, unfolded in a region emblematic of resilience and ecol
  
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• ‘Words of War’ Review: Portrait of a Fearless Reporter

  01-05-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is the subject of a film that honors her bravery.
  
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• Fun Things to Do in NYC in May 2025

  01-05-2025 12:16 via nytimes.com
  Looking for something to do in New York? Get help from Chloe Troast and her friends, keep “Brat” summer going with Charli XCX, or see Alexei Ratmansky’s take on “Paquita.”
  
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• ‘The Eternaut’ Review: Netflix Gives a Genre Classic New Life

  01-05-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  An archetypal Argentine sci-fi graphic novel comes to the screen seven decades after its debut.
  
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• ‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy

  01-05-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The director Alex Ross Perry said Stephen Malkmus of Pavement told him to “avoid the legacy trap.” The result is a music documentary with made-up elements that really existed. What?
  
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• Carla Bley’s 1970s Experimental Masterpiece Gets a Belated Premiere

  01-05-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Cultic and unclassifiable — “clearly some sort of monstrous hybrid” — Bley’s “Escalator Over the Hill,” a 1971 album, is being staged at the New School.
  
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• Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Gets Muted Release, Years After Fatal Shooting

  01-05-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The filmmakers said that they hoped the finished product would honor the work and memory of its cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, who was shot and killed on the set.
  
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• Sargent and ‘Madame X’ Return, Notorious as Ever

  01-05-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  “Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale.
  
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• Kwame Alexander on Bringing the Free Spirit of Jazz to Young Viewers

  01-05-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The latest in the author’s Acoustic Rooster franchise, a PBS Kids special and series aim to teach children the beauty of collaboration and improvisation.
  
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• What the Cult Singer Daniel Johnston Left Behind

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.
  
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• ’The Surfer’ Review: Nicolas Cage Catches Hell at the Beach

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Nicolas Cage plays the title role in this punishing beach drama, where an aggressive group of surfers advise him the spot is for “locals only.”
  
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• ‘Lavender Men’ Review: Daring to Reimagine ‘America’s Daddy’

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A writer rethinks queer history through Abraham Lincoln’s political ambitions, but needs a few present-day edits.
  
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• Inside Faye Toogood’s Hampshire Manor That Reimagines English Country Style

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In rural Hampshire, the British designer Faye Toogood has converted a 19th-century manor into a space where modern and traditional interiors coexist.
  
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• How ‘Government Cheese’ Creates a Dream World in the Valley

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Set in late 1960s California, this magical realist comedy takes place in a fanciful, aesthetically distinctive world that reflects the spirit of its characters.
  
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• ‘Electra’ Review: Not Exactly a Unicorn

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In Hala Matar’s stylish if somewhat vacant drama, flair trumps grief.
  
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• ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Goodbye Girlhood

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Durga Chew-Bose boldly reimagines a work once adapted by Otto Preminger in her beguiling first film set on the French Riviera.
  
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• ‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: Big Hats and Big Intrigue

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The sequel to the deranged 2018 comedy finds Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick feuding in the Italian sun.
  
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• ‘A Desert’ Review: Motel Hell

  01-05-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A washed-up photographer finds himself embroiled in an eerie mystery in Joshua Erkman’s strange, singular thriller.
  
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• In an Exhibition of Native Artists, Clichés Give Way to Charged Memories

  01-05-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Smoke in Our Hair” features 22 artists who boldly challenge the romanticism that often tinges American fables of the nation’s birth and expansion.
  
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• Seth Meyers Recaps Trump’s Latest Revisionist History

  01-05-2025 08:54 via nytimes.com
  Meyers said the president’s ABC News interview “changed his mind” about Trump’s first 100 days in office.
  
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• 2025 Tony Nominations Announcement: What to Know and How to Watch

  01-05-2025 06:01 via nytimes.com
  Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce which performers and which productions from a crowded 2024-25 Broadway season will vie for awards.
  
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• Christina Leitzel’s ‘Fun’ Prosthetic Eyes are Designed to Stand Out

  01-05-2025 06:00 via nytimes.com
  There are many ways to lose an eye. Christina Leitzel wants people to know that there are also many ways to gain a new one.
  
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• ‘Thunderbolts*’ Review: Florence Pugh and Pals Kick Some Asterisk

  01-05-2025 02:25 via nytimes.com
  The actress is the main attraction in Marvel’s latest, about a group of ragtag super-types who join forces to (spoiler alert!) save the world.
  
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