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• What to expect at Charlotte International Arts Festival 2025 - Axios

  11-06-2025 23:53 via news.google.com
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• Life-Size Bronze Rhinoceros Desk by François-Xavier Lalanne Sells for $16.4 M. at Sotheby’s

  11-06-2025 23:09 via artnews.com
  The global art market may still be sluggish, but strong demand for rare pieces by François-Xavier Lalanne helped one signature sculpture sell for $16.422 million at Sotheby’s today.“Even in this horrible climate, I will be surprised if this doesn’t do well,” art advisor Laura Lester told ARTnews prior to the sale. “There’s always trophy hunters out there.”Grand Rhinocéros II (2003), a life-size sculptural gold patinated bronze, brass, and l
  
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• Frieze to Launch New Seoul Exhibition Space Ahead of September Fair

  11-06-2025 22:49 via artnews.com
  Frieze is expanding its footprint in Asia with the launch of Frieze House Seoul, a new exhibition space that will open alongside the fourth edition of Frieze Seoul in early September. The space, located in Yaksu-dong in central Seoul, will host exhibitions and events organized by leading galleries during the four-day fair, scheduled to take place from September 3 to September 6.The venue, renovated by Seoul-based architecture studio Samuso Hyoja, features two main galleries spread over four
  
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• Brian Wilson, Songwriter and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82

  11-06-2025 22:02 via nytimes.com
  A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and intricate soundscapes in the studio.
  
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• Did Bob Dylan Help Announce an Album From MGK?

  11-06-2025 21:46 via nytimes.com
  The pop-punk star’s trailer for “Lost Americana” features a familiar voice narrating about a “quest to reclaim the authentic essence of American freedom.”
  
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• Disney, Universal Launch AI Legal Battle, Sue Midjourney Over Copyright Claims

  11-06-2025 21:35 via artnews.com
  In the next chapter of Big Entertainment vs. Big Tech, Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Midjourney over tools that allow users to create images and videos that can manipulate famous characters at the click of a prompt.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday by Disney Enterprises, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Universal City Studios Productions and DreamWorks Animation, describes the Da
  
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• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Defense to Analyze ‘Hotel Night’ Texts With ‘Jane’

  11-06-2025 21:22 via nytimes.com
  The music mogul’s lawyers are walking his former girlfriend, who is now a government witness, through a voluminous history of text and audio messages.
  
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• Paul Marantz, Lighting Designer of 9/11 Memorial and Studio 54, Dies at 87

  11-06-2025 21:04 via nytimes.com
  Using neon, searchlights — or even shadows — he dramatically shaped the look of prominent spaces in almost every corner of the world.
  
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• Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s 12 Essential Songs

  11-06-2025 20:45 via nytimes.com
  The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions propelled his band — and contemporaries like the Beatles — into the future.
  
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• Review: Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Families Like Ours,’ on Netflix

  11-06-2025 18:35 via nytimes.com
  In Thomas Vinterberg’s series on Netflix, climate change forces a country to close, and everyone has to leave.
  
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• Broadway Dreams Were Dashed, Then Rob Madge Knocked on Some Doors

  11-06-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  The British performer is bringing “My Son’s a Queer (but What Can You Do?)” to City Center this week, after an earlier run was canceled.
  
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• In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ Tom Hiddleston Dances Up a Storm

  11-06-2025 16:21 via nytimes.com
  In “The Life of Chuck,” the actor known for spontaneous eruptions of joyful movement, lets loose with a feast of footwork.
  
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• A24 Promotes ‘Materialists’ by Rating New York’s Single Men on Stock Exchange

  11-06-2025 16:15 via nytimes.com
  To promote its new film “Materialists,” A24 worked with the New York Stock Exchange to sort participants by attributes like income, height and homeownership.
  
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• St. Thomas Celebrates $25.5 Million Gift to Benefit the Liberal Arts and Athletics - Newsroom | University of St. Thomas

  11-06-2025 16:00 via news.google.com
  St. Thomas Celebrates $25.5 Million Gift to Benefit the Liberal Arts and Athletics  Newsroom | University of St. Thomas
  
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• Men in Blazers Will Host Shows at World Cup Sites

  11-06-2025 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Borrowing a page from ESPN’s “College GameDay,” the podcast company will have live pregame coverage from eight U.S. host cities during the 2026 World Cup.
  
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• Sotheby’s London to Sell ‘Greatest Collection of Surrealism to Emerge in Recent History’

  11-06-2025 12:31 via artnews.com
  
  The collection of British socialite, collector, and arts patron Pauline Karpidas will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s London on September 17 and 18.Described by the house as the “greatest collection of Surrealism to emerge in recent history,” it includes masterpieces by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Leonora Carrington, and Max Ernst. The sale is expected to fetch £60 million ($81 million), the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection at Sotheby
  
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• After Dancer Complaints, Hamburg Ballet’s Artistic Director Leaves

  11-06-2025 11:07 via nytimes.com
  Dancers had accused Demis Volpi of creating a “toxic working environment” in his 10 months at the company, and five principal dancers had resigned.
  
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• The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Reopens at the Brooklyn Museum

  11-06-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening at the Brooklyn Museum, where it features both familiar treasures and some not seen in 10 years.
  
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• The Thrilling Evidence of Jane Austen’s Imagination

  11-06-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Spirited (and gossipy) letters and manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum puncture myths about the writer’s rise to literary fame.
  
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• In “Life of Chuck,” Tom

  11-06-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  In “The Life of Chuck,” the actor known for spontaneous eruptions of joyful movement, lets loose with a feast of footwork.
  
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• As Mister Romantic, John C. Reilly Just Wants to Spread Love

  11-06-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The actor’s passion project is a cabaret act in which he sings the standards. “It might sound Pollyanna-ish,” he says, but his goal is to connect.
  
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• The Pint-Size Singers at the Met Opera Children’s Chorus Tryouts

  11-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus has long been an elite training ground for young singers. Getting in requires grit, personality and a soaring voice.
  
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• ‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Open Your Heart and Loosen Up! Therapist Terry Real’s Advice for Fathers

  11-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The family and relationship counselor responds to listener questions on raising kids with an open heart.
  
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• From ‘The Materialists’ to ‘The Bear,’ Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again

  11-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  From movies and TV shows to music, the habit is no longer taboo. It’s even being celebrated for the way it makes characters look cool or powerful.
  
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• ‘Titan: The OceanGate Disaster’ Review: A Company’s Failures

  11-06-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Netflix’s documentary about the catastrophe uses familiar techniques to spotlight the faulty judgment of Stockton Rush, who ran OceanGate.
  
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• Libasse Ka’s Abstractions Channel Chaos and Calm

  11-06-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Libasse Ka’s paintings offer inventive solutions to thoroughly painterly problems. Take an untitled canvas from 2025, which features a dark silhouette of an umbrella that Ka painted on a piece of newspaper and then pressed onto the surface of his canvas, transferring the image before throwing the newspaper away. Painting the umbrella directly on the canvas “would have been too literal,” he explained when I visited his Brussels studio.Ka’s works, with their pale surfaces,
  
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• Brandee Younger Has a New Secret Weapon: Alice Coltrane’s Harp

  11-06-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The harpist, composer and bandleader plays it on her latest album, “Gadabout Season,” a persuasive argument for the vast potential of her instrument.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Calls Trump an ‘Arsonist With a Hose’

  11-06-2025 08:47 via nytimes.com
  The L.A.-based host said the city’s problem was the president, not the protests: “We have more so-called ‘unrest’ here when one of our teams wins a championship.”
  
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• Günther Uecker, ZERO Artist Who Made Abstractions from Nails, Dies at 95

  11-06-2025 03:28 via artnews.com
  
  Günther Uecker, an iconic artist of the postwar era who redefined abstraction not with paint but with nails hammed into his canvases, died on Tuesday at 95. His passing was announced by his New York gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, which did not specify a cause of death. The German press agency dpa reported that he had been hospitalized in Düsseldorf.Uecker was one of the main artists associated with ZERO, an avant-garde group that was founded in 1957 by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack. Uec
  
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• Niede Guidon, 92, Archaeologist Who Preserved Prehistoric Rock Art, Dies

  11-06-2025 00:19 via nytimes.com
  Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.
  
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• Broadway Musical ‘Smash’ to Close After Tonys Disappointment

  11-06-2025 00:15 via nytimes.com
  The musical, which follows a group of theater artists putting on a show about Marilyn Monroe, opened in April to mixed reviews. It has struggled at the box office.
  
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• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Defense Depicts Ex-Girlfriend as Willing Sex Partner: Trial Takeaways

  11-06-2025 00:12 via nytimes.com
  In her fourth day on the stand, the woman who dated Sean Combs until his arrest recalled fond times in their relationship, as well as jealousy and unwanted escorts.
  
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