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• 6 Hidden Shops in New York Worth Visiting

  12-06-2025 23:30 via nytimes.com
  Hand-forged armor. Prehistoric bones. Music that’s never been digitized. This isn’t retail — it’s an invitation-only obsession.
  
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• ‘The Survivors’ Is a Polished and Potent Murder Mystery

  12-06-2025 22:56 via nytimes.com
  Based on the book by Jane Harper, this six-part Australian drama takes place in a coastal Tasmanian town, where the bodies keep surfacing.
  
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• Trump’s New ‘Apprentice’ Boardroom: The Oval Office

  12-06-2025 22:41 via nytimes.com
  The stately room has long been a site of diplomacy. But the reality-star president often does not come there to make friends.
  
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• How “Pet Sounds” Became the Beach Boys Masterpiece

  12-06-2025 22:37 via nytimes.com
  Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece is now considered a crowning achievement of music. The album’s reputation grew over time.
  
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• Brian Wilson and Sly Stone: Pop World Builders Dogged by Darkness

  12-06-2025 22:37 via nytimes.com
  Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers struggled to realize in their own lives.
  
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• Brian Wilson’s Life in Photos

  12-06-2025 22:36 via nytimes.com
  The Beach Boys leader was one of pop music’s most acclaimed visionaries, whose creative success was tempered by personal battles.
  
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• A Night Out for Trump at the Theater, With a Pocket of Dissent

  12-06-2025 22:29 via nytimes.com
  Opening night of “Les Misérables” was meant to celebrate the president’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. But he also was forced to encounter his critics.
  
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• Enzo Staiola, Who Starred in ‘Bicycle Thieves’ as a Child, Dies at 85

  12-06-2025 22:19 via nytimes.com
  Discovered on the street in Rome, he had a brush with stardom when he was cast in what many consider one of the greatest films of all time.
  
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• This Barbara Kruger Mural from 1990 Has Become the Year’s Most Poignant Artwork

  12-06-2025 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  History repeats itself, and so does Barbara Kruger. Over and over, she has created text-heavy artworks that make visible secret forms of power and control in the media. Over and over, she has returned to these past works, many of them situated in public spaces, and revised them, most recently for a series of videos that she calls “replays.”Why so much repetition?Look for an answer in Untitled (Questions), a piece that Kruger initially produced for a temporary venue of the Museum of C
  
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• ‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem

  12-06-2025 21:28 via nytimes.com
  In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
  
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• Two French Men Found Guilty of Forging and Selling Fake Royal Furniture

  12-06-2025 21:17 via artnews.com
  An antiques expert and a cabinet maker were recently found guilty for forging and selling nine imitations of historic 18th-century armchairs they claimed belonged to members of French royalty like Marie Antoinette.The judgment for the case applied to nine chairs and armchairs that were purportedly commissioned by relatives of Louis XV and Louis XVI. Antiques expert Georges “Bill” Pallot and cabinet maker Bruno Desnoues then sold the items through galleries in Paris and Sotheby’
  
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• Documenting Life on Both Sides of the South African Color Line

  12-06-2025 21:04 via nytimes.com
  David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ‘happened’ and yet all was contained.”
  
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• Former martial arts instructor pleads guilty to child sexual abuse - Times Union

  12-06-2025 19:57 via news.google.com
  Former martial arts instructor pleads guilty to child sexual abuse  Times Union
  
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• Trump Met with Mixed Reception at Kennedy Center’s Showing of ‘Les Misérables’

  12-06-2025 19:14 via artnews.com
  While attending a fundraiser at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump was booed, reported the Washington Post.The president arrived with his wife, Melania, to support the arts center and to see the critically acclaimed musical Les Misérables, adapted from the 1862 French epic novel by Victor Hugo, which criticizes society’s treatment of members of the lower class. The musical gives voice to the lowliest sufferers as they ulti
  
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• ‘Sex’ Review: Two Men Talk About and Around the Subject

  12-06-2025 18:49 via nytimes.com
  A chimney sweep and his colleague get deep on the roofs of Oslo in Dag Johan Haugerud’s curious meditation on marriage and masculinity.
  
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• Met Opera’s ‘Diva Whisperer’ Retires After 18 Years

  12-06-2025 16:56 via nytimes.com
  Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, who is retiring as a wardrobe supervisor at the opera house after 18 years, has been a confidante and cheerleader to the stars.
  
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• Kennedy Center Audience Boos Trump, French Carpenters Sentenced for Selling Fake ’18th-Century’ Chairs, MOCA Stays Closed: Morning Links for June 12, 2025

  12-06-2025 15:05 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesMOCA STAYS SHUTTERED AMID PROTESTS. The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) said it will keep its Geffen Contemporary space closed to the public through the weekend as the National Guard continues to confront anti-ECE protestors nearby, reports Alex Greenberger for the ARTnews. On June 8, MOCA shut the space, and yesterday the museum sa
  
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• Lapham’s Quarterly Will Begin Its Revival with Website and Podcast

  12-06-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Now attached to Bard College, the literary journal is about to publish new commentary and a popular historical feature. Next year: the print magazine.
  
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• Armory Show Names Over 230 Galleries for 2025 Edition, First Under Kyla McMillan’s Direction

  12-06-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show has announced the more than 230 exhibitors set to participate in its upcoming edition, scheduled to run September 5–7 at the Javits Center in New York, with a VIP preview on September 4.This edition marks the first under the direction of Kyla McMillan, who joined the Armory Show last July, after its 2024 exhibitor list had been announced. Among the changes that McMillan will introduce are a new floor plan, an additional section, and a reconfiguration of its section for larg
  
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• Ana Mendieta Estate Heads to Marian Goodman, After Three Decades at Galerie Lelong

  12-06-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  Marian Goodman Gallery will now represent the estate of Ana Mendieta, the pioneering Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist. The gallery will mount its first Mendieta exhibition in November in New York, ahead of a major Tate Modern retrospective next year.As part of the agreement, the estate will continue to work with Alison Jacques in London and Prats Nogueras Blanchard in Barcelona and Madrid, but will depart Galerie Lelong, which represented Mendieta’s work for over three decades.“Wi
  
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• Broadway Fell Through. Now ‘My Son’s a Queer’ Gets an Off Broadway Run.

  12-06-2025 13:21 via nytimes.com
  The British performer Rob Madge is bringing their show to New York City Center this week, after an earlier run was canceled.
  
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• ‘Tatami’ Review: A Bitter Fight, Both on and Off the Mat

  12-06-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A flinty Iranian judoka competing in the World Judo Championships is menaced by her government in this absorbing political thriller.
  
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• ‘Echo Valley’ Review: Mother Knows Best, Daughter Does Worst

  12-06-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A stellar cast led by Julianne Moore is unable to breathe life into this unsuccessful blend of maternal drama and crime caper.
  
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• ‘Deep Cover’ Review: Fighting Crime With Improv

  12-06-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Three hapless comics, played by Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas Howard and Nick Mohammed, infiltrate the criminal underworld.
  
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• Colorado Arts Spotlight: Former Lumineers singer brings the tale of Rattlesnake Kate to life, Henry Awards make a historic change, ‘Balloon Boy’ coming to Netflix and things to do this weekend - Colorado Public Radio

  12-06-2025 12:00 via news.google.com
  Colorado Arts Spotlight: Former Lumineers singer brings the tale of Rattlesnake Kate to life, Henry Awards make a historic change, ‘Balloon Boy’ coming to Netflix and things to do this weekend  Colorado Public Radio
  
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• The Lovable Misfits in Deltarune Make the Long Wait Worth It

  12-06-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The first chapter of Deltarune was released in 2018, and there are still more to come. But speeding to a quick ending is not the point.
  
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• A Mecca for Black History Turns 100

  12-06-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.
  
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• Juneteenth 2025: Events to Celebrate Black History Across the U.S.

  12-06-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The federal holiday, celebrated on June 19, is embraced as a nationwide celebration of Black history. Here’s how and where to partake.
  
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• Turning VHS Tapes of Gay Men’s Choruses Into a Powerful Celebration

  12-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Matthew Leifheit’s “No Time at All,” culled from recordings made at the height of the AIDS crisis, plays through speakers nestled in the New York City AIDS Memorial.
  
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• The Most Beautiful Kitchens T Magazine Has Covered

  12-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  We’re revisiting rooms that would make any chef swoon.
  
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• The Most Beautiful Kitchens T Has Covered

  12-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  We’re revisiting rooms that would make any chef swoon.
  
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• ‘Meeting With Pol Pot’ Review: Snapshots of Totalitarianism

  12-06-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
  
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• Mario Kart World’s Journeys Are Smooth and Unremarkable

  12-06-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  There’s an exciting new endurance race that combines several tracks and eliminates drivers after each checkpoint. But it’s a racing world without any oil drips or skid marks.
  
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• ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review: The Return of Hiccup and Toothless

  12-06-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  This live action remake of the 2010 animated film is religiously faithful to the original. The result is exhilarating at times, if somewhat mechanical.
  
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• ‘Angry Alan’ Review: John Krasinski Explores the Manosphere

  12-06-2025 06:00 via nytimes.com
  In an Off Broadway play, the former Jim Halpert of Dunder Mifflin dives into a darker world of male grievance.
  
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• Amid Anti-ICE Protests, MOCA Los Angeles’s Geffen Contemporary Remains Closed

  12-06-2025 02:46 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles said it would keep its Geffen Contemporary space closed to the public through the weekend as the National Guard continues to face off with anti-ICE protestors nearby.This past Sunday, MOCA closed the Geffen Contemporary space, currently host to an Olafur Eliasson show; the venue has been shuttered since then. On Wednesday, the museum said the closure would remain in place.“In light of the evolving conditions in downtown Los Angeles and the Geffen
  
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