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• ‘Bat Boy: The Musical’ Review: He’s Just Trying to Fit In

  30-10-2025 23:58 via nytimes.com
  For its gala, New York City Center revives an antic show about a half-man tabloid sensation, with catchy music and lyrics by the versatile Laurence O’Keefe.
  
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• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Transferred to Federal Prison in New Jersey

  30-10-2025 23:35 via nytimes.com
  The music mogul was sentenced earlier this month to 50 months in prison for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
  
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• Alison Knowles, Fluxus Artist Who Spun Art from the Everyday, Dies at 92

  30-10-2025 22:57 via artnews.com
  Alison Knowles, a leading artist of the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and the brain behind such beloved pieces as Make a Salad (1962), died at 92 in New York on October 29. Her gallery, the New York–based James Fuentes, announced her passing but did not specify a cause.Many of Knowles’s sculptures, performances, and musical works were so simple that anyone could produce them, which was exactly their point. Using materials as quotidian as dried beans, shells, netting, and tunafish, Kno
  
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• Dallas Arts District leader to step down in January - KERA News

  30-10-2025 22:25
  Dallas Arts District leader to step down in January  KERA News
  
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• Embattled Director of Wexner Center for the Arts Resigns

  30-10-2025 22:24 via artnews.com
  Gaëtane Verna, the embattled executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, will resign effective immediately. The news comes a week after the Columbus Dispatch reported that Wexner had accumulated a $1.1 million deficit in fiscal year 2024, and that more than a dozen employees signed a formal letter of no confidence in Verna’s leadership. That letter was sent to university officials.The Dispatch reported that employees at the center were informed of th
  
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• Embattled Director of Wexner Center for the Arts Resigns - ARTnews.com

  30-10-2025 22:24
  Embattled Director of Wexner Center for the Arts Resigns  ARTnews.com
  
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• Concert Review: Herbie Hancock at the Boch Center Wang Theatre - The Arts Fuse

  30-10-2025 22:17
  Concert Review: Herbie Hancock at the Boch Center Wang Theatre  The Arts Fuse
  
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• Art Gallery Shows to See in November

  30-10-2025 21:30 via nytimes.com
  This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers E.E. Ikeler’s cosmic diagrams, Veronica Ryan’s resolute casualness, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s climate change interventions.
  
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• Ted Huffman to Lead Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival

  30-10-2025 21:12 via nytimes.com
  The Aix-en-Provence Festival in France has named Huffman to succeed the visionary Pierre Audi, who died earlier this year.
  
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• Thieves Steal More Than 1,000 Items From Oakland Museum of California

  30-10-2025 21:05 via nytimes.com
  A robbery this month targeted Indigenous baskets, jewelry and other artifacts from a storage facility of the Oakland Museum of California.
  
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• $5 million awarded to arts groups bringing tourists to Orange County - Spectrum News 13

  30-10-2025 21:03
  $5 million awarded to arts groups bringing tourists to Orange County  Spectrum News 13
  
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• Lavazza Partners With NYU Tisch School of the Arts - PR Newswire

  30-10-2025 20:33
  Lavazza Partners With NYU Tisch School of the Arts  PR Newswire
  
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• Rarely Seen Matthew Wong Paintings to Appear in Venice During Biennale

  30-10-2025 20:29 via artnews.com
  Rare and never-before-exhibited works by Matthew Wong will head to Venice in time for next year’s Biennale, marking one of the most high-profile shows planned for La Serenissima during the spring.The show, titled “Matthew Wong: Interiors,” is being curated by John Cheim, whose defunct New York gallery was among the few to show the artist’s work during his brief life.Wong, who died by suicide at 35 in 2019, is today remembered for the vivacity of the colors he used to depi
  
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• Texas Women for the Arts opens grant applications to State organizations - KRIS 6 News

  30-10-2025 20:12
  Texas Women for the Arts opens grant applications to State organizations  KRIS 6 News
  
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• Typhoon Halong Scatters Trove of Yup’ik Artifacts Along Alaskan Coast

  30-10-2025 19:37 via artnews.com
  An archaeological site near Quinhagak, previously preserved in permafrost, was heavily damaged by Typhoon Halong earlier this month. Rick Knecht, a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen who has long worked in the area, raised the alarm regarding the risks of climate change to the Associate Press. “A longstanding concern has been the threat that climate change — melting permafrost, coastal erosion, the potential for more frequent or stronger storms — has posed to the site,&rdqu
  
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• Canceled Samia Halaby Exhibition Partially Recreated in Qatar

  30-10-2025 19:28 via artnews.com
  The Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar is showing works by Samia Halaby that were meant to appear in a canceled survey to be held last year at Indiana University.In December 2023, the school’s Eskenazi Museum of Art called off the Palestinian artist’s show, citing “safety reasons.” The show was scrapped just a month before it was to open at the university’s Eskenazi Museum of Art; Halaby, 87 at the time of the cancellation, had earned a master&rsqu
  
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• Over 1,000 Artifacts Stolen from the Oakland Museum of California

  30-10-2025 18:27 via artnews.com
  More than 1,000 objects were stolen from the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)’s collection earlier this month, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On October 15, around 3:30 a.m., a thief or group of thieves broke into the museum’s off-site storage facility. They made off with a number of items, including jewelry, precious metals and pearls, Native American baskets and tools, antique daguerreotypes, and a collection of ephemera like political pins. They also stole laptops and cam
  
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• Dubai Reveals Plans for First Modern and Contemporary Art Museum

  30-10-2025 17:57 via artnews.com
  With global attention fixed on the Gulf’s ascendent art market, Dubai has unveiled plans for its first art museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art.The Dubai Museum of Art (DUMA) will be designed by Pritzker Prize–winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando and constructed along Dubai Creek, an inlet of the Persian Gulf. The project is being developed by the Al-Futtaim Group conglomerate, with the support of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the current ruler of Dubai who also
  
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• MFA Boston Restitutes Two Ceramic Vessels to Descendants of Enslaved Artist David Drake

  30-10-2025 17:51 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has reached an agreement with the known descendants of David Drake, an artist who was enslaved for the majority of his life, to restitute two of Drake’s large-scale works to them.The MFA Boston acquired its first work by Drake, a “Poem Jar” from 1857, in 1997 and the second work, a “Signed Jar” also from 1857, in 2011. (The two works were made about a month apart.) Both of these works featured in the acclaimed exhibition “Hear M
  
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• Dolly Parton Museum and Hotel Opens for Reservations in Nashville

  30-10-2025 17:48 via artnews.com
  “To Nashville, Love Dolly”—so goes the sentiment behind a new museum and hotel devoted to Dolly Parton preparing to open next year in downtown Nashville.As reported by an eager anchor on WSMV4 News, “You can go ahead and sign up to visit as early as June, if you love that lady.” The subject of her excitement is Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum and SongTeller Hotel, both of which will offer Parton fans an experience around a four-hour drive from her storied D
  
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• Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures - UC Santa Barbara

  30-10-2025 17:28
  Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures  UC Santa Barbara
  
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• French Police Arrest 5 More in Louvre Jewel Heist Investigation

  30-10-2025 17:20 via nytimes.com
  The authorities have detained seven suspects in total but have not recovered the stolen jewels.
  
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• Review: To Cure the Sick, ‘Le Grand Bal’ Prescribes a Rave

  30-10-2025 17:19 via nytimes.com
  The French troupe Compagnie Dyptik is making its United States debut with a show seemingly inspired by pandemic isolation and its aftermath.
  
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• Smart Bets: Sylva arts festivals - Mountain Xpress

  30-10-2025 17:02
  Smart Bets: Sylva arts festivals  Mountain Xpress
  
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• NADA Partners with Finnish Institutions to Spotlight Country’s Emerging Artists

  30-10-2025 16:42 via artnews.com
  Three New York galleries will present exhibitions of Finnish contemporary art this winter as part of a new partnership between the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the Consulate General of Finland, and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).The initiative—funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Finlandia Foundation National, and Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture—sent Gaa Gallery, Margot Samel, and Ulterior Gallery to Finland earlier this year to meet artist
  
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• Monet Was Reluctant. Venice Seduced Him.

  30-10-2025 16:36 via nytimes.com
  Even on vacation, the father of French impressionism couldn’t resist the pull of optics and art history. A lush blockbuster show in Brooklyn helps you see why.
  
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• Pierre Robert, Philadelphia’s ‘Citizen’ D.J., Dies at 70

  30-10-2025 16:06 via nytimes.com
  He became a stalwart of Philadelphia’s rock airwaves after moving from California, broadcasting a live show for more than 40 years.
  
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• Nonprofit hosts Native American arts performance for Phoenix-area students - AZ Family

  30-10-2025 16:00
  Nonprofit hosts Native American arts performance for Phoenix-area students  AZ Family
  
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• Food as Metaphor and Method in the Inaugural Bukhara Biennial

  30-10-2025 15:45 via artnews.com
  As I sit in the courtyard of the 16th-century Khoja Gavkushon complex and watch the water catch the late afternoon light, I’m struck by how the site embodies the spirit of Uzbekistan’s first international art biennial. This courtyard has witnessed centuries of gathering, commerce, and cultural exchange. Now it serves as the beating heart of the biennial’s inaugural edition, where tradition and contemporary art converge in ways both tender and transformative.Dust gets on everyth
  
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• Helen DeWitt’s New Novel Almost Drove Her To Despair

  30-10-2025 15:35 via nytimes.com
  Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.
  
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• Trump May Erect a Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C.

  30-10-2025 15:21 via artnews.com
  In addition to tearing down the East Wing of the White House to make way for a ballroom and using federal grant funds to support the creation of the National Garden of Heroes, President Donald Trump is considering erecting a grand arch in Washington, D.C.Plans for the project were unveiled at a dinner at the White House to thank Trump donors for their contributions, namely $250 million earmarked for the ballroom. Guests reportedly included representatives from such tech firms as Amazon, Apple, M
  
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• MFA Boston’s Historic Restitution, Five New Louvre Arrests Made, and More: Morning Links for October 30, 2025

  30-10-2025 14:16 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINES MORE LOUVRE THEFT ARRESTS MADE. Five additional suspects have been arrested in connection with the audacious Louvre heist, according to Paris’ public prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, the BBC reports. The arrests took place on Wednesday night in the Paris region and included one of the main suspects, AFP reported. Earlier that day, two men had pa
  
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• Arts, Culture, Et Cetera: Happy Halloween! - Louisville Public Media

  30-10-2025 14:00
  Arts, Culture, Et Cetera: Happy Halloween!  Louisville Public Media
  
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• Reginald Madison Joins Uffner & Liu, Paul Soto Takes on John Sandroni, and More: Industry Moves for October 30, 2025

  30-10-2025 13:28 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry MovesBlue-Chip Galleries Drop Out of Art Basel Miami Beach: At least eight exhibitors—including Alison Jacques, Miguel Abreu, and Lia Rumma—have dropped from the list of participants since the fair announced it in July, as ARTnews reported earlier this week.
  
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• Harlem’s Remarkable New Studio Museum Redefines 125th Street

  30-10-2025 13:16 via nytimes.com
  After seven years and $160 million, the museum has an uplifting home on a street that has always been a barometer of Harlem’s fortunes and aspirations.
  
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• Five More Suspects Arrested in Connection with Louvre Jewel Heist

  30-10-2025 13:07 via artnews.com
  Five more suspects have been arrested in connection to the historic theft of jewelry from the Louvre Museum, French authorities said on Thursday.Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau told RTL radio on Thursday that the arrests were made Wednesday night during coordinated raids in Paris and its northern suburbs. One suspect was identified through DNA traces recovered at the crime scene, but it remains unclear what role the other four played in the heist. The investigation was making progress after phone
  
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• This Pitt alum is promoting fitness and perseverance through competitive martial arts - University of Pittsburgh

  30-10-2025 13:00
  This Pitt alum is promoting fitness and perseverance through competitive martial arts  University of Pittsburgh
  
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• Visual Arts Review: A Glitch in the System — American Artist’s Homage to Octavia Butler - The Arts Fuse

  30-10-2025 12:10
  Visual Arts Review: A Glitch in the System — American Artist’s Homage to Octavia Butler  The Arts Fuse
  
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• Trump just fired everyone on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts board. What now? - Fast Company

  30-10-2025 11:06
  Trump just fired everyone on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts board. What now?  Fast Company
  
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• ‘Paddington: The Musical’: The West End Will Now Look After This Bear

  30-10-2025 10:21 via nytimes.com
  Over nearly seven decades Paddington Bear has enjoyed a lasting popularity. Now, he’s the star of a new musical.
  
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• Surreal Creatures Gather at Michigan’s Cranbrook Art Museum

  30-10-2025 10:04 via nytimes.com
  Plus: a new book from Chantal Joffe and Olivia Laing, satin flats for holiday parties and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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• ‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Warming Up for ‘Slow Horses’

  30-10-2025 10:03 via nytimes.com
  Emma Thompson plays the private-eye heroine of Mick Herron’s first series of novels in a new series for Apple TV.
  
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• Tim Meadows Just Wants to Keep Showing Up to Be Funny

  30-10-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Twenty-five years after he left “S.N.L.,” he is still finding new audiences, most recently with a new CBS sitcom and a role in the DC Comics universe.
  
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• Rosalía’s Thrilling Pop Evolution on ‘Lux’: Singing in 13 Languages

  30-10-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  The Spanish musician on why (and how) she pushed herself to make “Lux,” a labor of love exploring the feminine divine and the brutalities of romance.
  
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• ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Discovering the World

  30-10-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  In this sweet animated film, set in Japan, a Belgian child encounters a flood of new wonders.
  
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• ‘Baahubali: The Epic’ Review: The Return of the King

  30-10-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  This film combines S.S. Rajamouli’s dynamic two-part period epic, “Baahubali: The Beginning” (2015) and “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” (2017), into a single, rollicking story with aplomb.
  
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• B. Wurtz’s Life in Five Artworks

  30-10-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  B. Wurtz uses humble, everyday materials — plastic bags, aluminum pans — and turns them into something beautiful. Here, his life in five artworks.
  
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• Martin Puryear Sees Sculpture as a Bodily Encounter

  30-10-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  In a full-career survey at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he melds form, material and an engagement with the world.
  
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• ‘Hedda’ Review: Sex, Lies and a Country Estate

  30-10-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  ​​Tessa Thompson plays mind games with her guests in Nia DaCosta’s endlessly surprising adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen production.
  
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• ‘Fire of Wind’ Review: May Day

  30-10-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  In this elegant, elliptical folk tale set in rural Portugal, a group of grape pickers are trapped in treetops after a bull is let loose and gores a few of their companions.
  
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