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• WSMV4 Surprise Squad blesses Midstate nonprofit opening up world of the arts to people with disabilities - WSMV

  31-10-2025 22:56
  WSMV4 Surprise Squad blesses Midstate nonprofit opening up world of the arts to people with disabilities  WSMV
  
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• Iris Nemani’s vision for centering the arts - Stanford Report

  31-10-2025 22:52
  Iris Nemani’s vision for centering the arts  Stanford Report
  
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• Investigators Believe Oakland Museum of California Heist Was ‘Crime of Opportunity, Not a Targeted Theft’

  31-10-2025 22:48 via artnews.com
  Following a theft at the Oakland Museum of California‘s (OMCA) off-site storage facility earlier this month, the museum released a statement on Friday afternoon.On October 15, around 3:30 a.m., a thief or group of thieves broke into the museum’s off-site storage facility, taking more than 1,000 objects. A number of additional details surrounding the case were initially withheld, so as not to impact the Oakland Police Department and the FBI’s Art Crime Team’s ongoing inves
  
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• Zoë Wicomb, Acclaimed South African Author, Dies at 76

  31-10-2025 22:46 via nytimes.com
  In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.
  
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• Alison Knowles, Artist Who Took Lunch to New Levels, Dies at 92

  31-10-2025 22:43 via nytimes.com
  An early participant in the eccentric collection of artists known as Fluxus, she was perhaps best known for pieces centered on a humble tuna sandwich and a giant salad.
  
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• Three Horrors for Halloween - wildhunt.org

  31-10-2025 22:22
  Three Horrors for Halloween  wildhunt.org
  
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• Princeton’s New Museum Feels Intimate Despite Its Overwhelming Size

  31-10-2025 22:18 via artnews.com
  The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) reopened its doors to the public Friday, after an almost six-year hiatus. Its previous home, last updated in 1969, was demolished in 2021 to make room for a new 146,000-square-foot complex, which was designed by Adjaye Associates.Walking through Princeton University’s historic campus on my way to PUAM, as crisp leaves fell from their branches, I felt transported to the East Coast collegiate quad that an Ivy League like Princeton typically conjures
  
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• Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of November 2 - The Wall Street Journal

  31-10-2025 22:03
  Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of November 2  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Sotheby’s to Sell Cattelan’s Golden Toilet, Inside the Studio Museum in Harlem’s New Building, and More: Morning Links for October 31, 2025.

  31-10-2025 21:50 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesROYAL FLUSH. During the marquee New York sales next month, Maurizio Cattelan, whose duct-taped banana sold for $6.2 million last year, might just steal the show one more time. That at least seems to be what Sotheby’s is betting on when it offers the Italian conceptual prankster infamous 18-karat, solid gold toilet. Titled America (2016), it will be plumbed into a bathroom in the Breuer Building , Sotheby’s new HQ, and visitors
  
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• New Jersey Performing Arts Center Loaned Scott LaFaro’s 1800s Double Bass - The Violin Channel

  31-10-2025 21:31
  New Jersey Performing Arts Center Loaned Scott LaFaro’s 1800s Double Bass  The Violin Channel
  
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• PETA Calls for Egypt to Allocate Grand Egyptian Museum Revenue to Support Animal Sanctuary

  31-10-2025 21:16 via artnews.com
  As the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) prepares to fully open it doors on Saturday, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on the country’s president to allocate some of the museum’s revenue in support of animals giving tourist rides to the museum and surrounding historic sites in Giza.Today, PETA Asia sent a letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi notifying him of PETA’s recently released video footage of the dead bodies of
  
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• Tifton Arts Affair to draw art lovers to Downtown Tifton Saturday - Tifton Gazette

  31-10-2025 21:12
  Tifton Arts Affair to draw art lovers to Downtown Tifton Saturday  Tifton Gazette
  
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• Boost the impact of arts and culture with the Annual Giving Drive - kcemployees.com

  31-10-2025 20:55
  Boost the impact of arts and culture with the Annual Giving Drive  kcemployees.com
  
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• Paul Taylor Gala to Honor Alex Katz, Painter Who Made Movement Appear Still

  31-10-2025 20:07 via artnews.com
  On November 11 at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation will honor painter Alex Katz, marking yet another chapter in one of the most enduring art-and-dance partnerships.Katz’s collaboration with choreographer Paul Taylor began in 1960, when the poet and critic Edwin Denby introduced the two for a commission at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. Taylor was redefining the language of movement; Katz, then in his 30s, was already re
  
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• South Pasadena Kicks Off Fall Fun With Arts Crawl - Outlook Newspapers

  31-10-2025 20:01
  South Pasadena Kicks Off Fall Fun With Arts Crawl  Outlook Newspapers
  
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• ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: It Takes a Village

  31-10-2025 20:01 via nytimes.com
  Unsettling things happen and the town grown-ups hardly seem to notice. Lilly and Ronnie receive unsettling visits from their pasts.
  
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• Ridgewood: A hidden gem in New York’s arts and culture scene - qns.com

  31-10-2025 20:00
  Ridgewood: A hidden gem in New York’s arts and culture scene  qns.com
  
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• Italy’s Reduced VAT on Art Sales Gives Dealers Hope at Artissima Fair, Where Conversation is Prized

  31-10-2025 19:56 via artnews.com
  Italy’s biggest contemporary art fair, Artissima, opened its doors for its 32nd edition to VIPs on Thursday in Turin’s Oval Lingotto arena. Earlier this week, the fair’s director Luigi Fassi told ARTnews that “there are high hopes” after the Italian government this past July slashed VAT on art sales from 22 percent to just 5 percent.“I am personally more positive than ever,” said Fassi, who is leading his fourth Artissima. “The drop is VAT is big n
  
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• Italy’s Lowered VAT on Art Sales Sees an Uptick in Deals at Turin’s Artissima Fair, Where Conversation Is Prized

  31-10-2025 19:56 via artnews.com
  Italy’s biggest contemporary art fair, Artissima, opened its doors for its 32nd edition to VIPs on Thursday in Turin’s Oval Lingotto arena. Earlier this week, the fair’s director Luigi Fassi told ARTnews that “there are high hopes” after the Italian government this past July slashed VAT on art sales from 22 percent to just 5 percent.“I am personally more positive than ever,” said Fassi, who is leading his fourth Artissima. “The drop is VAT is big n
  
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• Kelvin LaVerne, Creator of Enigmatic Furnishings, Dies at 88

  31-10-2025 19:50 via nytimes.com
  With his father, Philip, he made idiosyncratic, often monumental bronze work influenced by ancient themes. But was it art or was it furniture?
  
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• Project Native Informant, Hip London Gallery, Closes After 12 Years

  31-10-2025 19:16 via artnews.com
  Project Native Informant became the latest gallery to close when it announced plans to shutter on Friday, bringing an end to a 12-year run for one of London’s most beloved commercial art spaces.“The decision to wind down did not come lightly,” wrote founder Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja in a statement. “The current global economic, political and social environment has shaped into an extremely volatile and unsustainable environment for a gallery such as ours. Moreover perso
  
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• After $160 Million Bond Defeat, Frisco Explores New Path For Performing Arts Center - Local Profile

  31-10-2025 19:00
  After $160 Million Bond Defeat, Frisco Explores New Path For Performing Arts Center  Local Profile
  
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• Spain Acknowledges ‘Injustice and Pain’ Colonization Caused to Mexico’s Indigenous Populations, But Stops Short of Formal Apology

  31-10-2025 18:50 via artnews.com
  On Friday, Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares inaugurated a sprawling exhibition titled “Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico,” with more than 400 works on loan from the Mexican government.At a press conference at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid, one of the exhibition’s four venues, Albares said that the history between Spain and its former colony Mexico “like all human history, has its light and dark sides,” according to a report in El Pa&i
  
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• A New Model for Stewardship: Talladega College’s Partnership to Share Hale Woodruff’s Murals

  31-10-2025 18:14 via artnews.com
  In a move that may shine light on how museums and institutions could share the responsibility of preserving cultural heritage, Alabama’s Talladega College has entered into a partnership with three art institutions to share a monumental artwork. The alliance—between the historically Black college and the Toledo Museum of Art, Art Bridges, and the Terra Foundation for American Art—ensures that six murals by artist Hale A. Woodruff will remain visible to the public while supportin
  
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• ART Awards $2.85 Million for Arts and Culture Nonprofits - MacArthur Foundation

  31-10-2025 17:58
  ART Awards $2.85 Million for Arts and Culture Nonprofits  MacArthur Foundation
  
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• Boston wants to build more space for the arts. It just needs a plan - WBUR

  31-10-2025 17:45
  Boston wants to build more space for the arts. It just needs a plan  WBUR
  
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• Brian Eno Sells Paintings for $700 After Two-Day Studio Performance in London

  31-10-2025 16:43 via artnews.com
  Brian Eno, the storied musician and certifiable Renaissance man known for his musings related to the arts, sciences, and so on, will sell a cache of paintings for just £500 each (around $666) through his gallery, Paul Stolper, in London. The online sale—starting November 12—follows a two-day performance during which Eno made more than 400 works with stencils, spray paint, and other materials including “found shapes and dried pasta.”To make the works, Eno set out an
  
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• Statement From Marshall Arts Re Fraudulent Emails - Pollstar News

  31-10-2025 16:42
  Statement From Marshall Arts Re Fraudulent Emails  Pollstar News
  
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• After ‘S.N.L.,’ Tim Meadows Found Success as a Second Fiddle

  31-10-2025 16:28 via nytimes.com
  Twenty-five years after he left “Saturday Night Live,” he is still reaching new audiences, most recently with a new CBS sitcom and a role in the DC Comics universe.
  
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• ‘A House of Dynamite’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  31-10-2025 16:15 via nytimes.com
  The director Kathryn Bigelow narrates a tense sequence from her film, in which a ballistic missile is headed for the United States.
  
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• Watch a Tense Scene From ‘A House of Dynamite’

  31-10-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, narrates a heightened sequence in which a nuclear missile is headed for the United States.
  
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• The Golden Toilet Returns as a Sotheby’s Headliner, for $10 Million

  31-10-2025 15:38 via nytimes.com
  The flushable sculpture, “America,” was made by Maurizio Cattelan, the artist whose banana taped to the wall sold for $6.2 million last year.
  
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• Why Vaginal Davis Is One of the Leading Artists of Her Generation

  31-10-2025 15:25 via artnews.com
  I went to MoMA PS1 two days before Vaginal Davis’s “Magnificent Product” opened and had the sublime pleasure of meeting Ms. Davis herself, at work at a table in one of the galleries. She is one of those people who draws you into her world, even just with conversation—during ours, we learned we were both born in 1961. “So were Kembra Pfahler and Ron Athey,” she noted, naming two legendary peers and collaborators. “So was President Barack Obama,” Dav
  
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• The Golden Toilet Returns as a Sotheby’s Headliner. The Price? $10 Million.

  31-10-2025 15:24 via nytimes.com
  The flushable sculpture, “America,” was made by Maurizio Cattelan, the artist whose banana taped to the wall sold for $6.2 million last year.
  
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• Arts Playlist: Kim Klabe at DDOA's Mezzanine Galley - Delaware Public Media

  31-10-2025 15:19
  Arts Playlist: Kim Klabe at DDOA's Mezzanine Galley  Delaware Public Media
  
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• Kim Kardashian Calls 1969 Moon Landing Fake. NASA Sets the Record Straight.

  31-10-2025 15:10 via nytimes.com
  NASA’s chief, Sean Duffy, set the record straight after Kim Kardashian repeated the conspiracy theory that the 1969 moon landing had been faked.
  
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• Christopher Kulendran Thomas Is Imagining the Ghosts of the Future

  31-10-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  For more than a decade, Christopher Kulendran Thomas has trained his own neural networks, building them from scratch before “AI art” was a widely used. He feeds images of Sri Lankan painters across generations into his models, then uses them to produce new compositions that he and his Berlin studio hand-paint onto canvas. The titles are simply the auto-generated file names of the source PNGs.“The network analyzes the aggregated patterns behind their work,” the artist told
  
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• Stephen Prina Taught a Class on Keanu Reeves in 1994. What Does He Think of ‘Godot’?

  31-10-2025 13:30 via nytimes.com
  Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work.
  
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• Chanel and Fondation Beyeler Pioneer a New Kind of Curator

  31-10-2025 12:00 via artnews.com
  The Fondation Beyeler and the Chanel Culture Fund have appointed the first-ever Chanel Botanical Curator, establishing a new model for how museums engage with their natural surroundings and elevating nature to part of the museum’s collection.Rahel Kesselring, a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin whose work examines regeneration and rewilding practices in contemporary art, will take on the position beginning November 1. The curatorship—the first of its kind at a major arts in
  
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• Royal Flush: Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet in New York

  31-10-2025 11:27 via artnews.com
  Maurizio Cattelan stole the show at last year’s fall marquee auctions in New York with his banana duct-taped to a wall that sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s. During this November’s fall sales, the Italian conceptual prankser is likely to make a bigger splash, after Sotheby’s announced that it is selling his infamous 16-karat, solid gold toilet.Titled America (2016), it will be plumbed into a bathroom in the Breuer Building, Sotheby’s new HQ, and visitors will be i
  
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• Royal Flush: Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet in New York with Starting Bid of $10 M.

  31-10-2025 11:27 via artnews.com
  Maurizio Cattelan stole the show at last year’s fall marquee auctions in New York with his banana duct-taped to a wall that sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s. During this November’s fall sales, the Italian conceptual prankser is likely to make a bigger splash, after Sotheby’s announced that it is selling his infamous 16-karat, solid gold toilet.Titled America (2016), it will be plumbed into a bathroom in the Breuer Building, Sotheby’s new HQ, and visitors will be i
  
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• Royal Flush: Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-Karat Gold Toilet in New York

  31-10-2025 11:27 via artnews.com
  Maurizio Cattelan stole the show at last year’s fall marquee auctions in New York with his banana duct-taped to a wall that sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s. During this November’s fall sales, the Italian conceptual prankser is likely to make a bigger splash, after Sotheby’s announced that it is selling his infamous 18-karat, solid gold toilet.Titled America (2016), it will be plumbed into a bathroom in the Breuer Building, Sotheby’s new HQ, and visitors will be i
  
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• Potters to be featured at The Arts Garage - Port Clinton News-Herald

  31-10-2025 10:16
  Potters to be featured at The Arts Garage  Port Clinton News-Herald
  
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• ‘I Love L.A.’ Depicts the Ecstasy and Agony of Influencing

  31-10-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  The HBO comedy includes TV’s most layered portrait of a social media influencer, the latest evolution in a character type that reflects broader feelings about internet culture.
  
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• ‘Frankenstein’ Has Always Held Up a Mirror. What Does It Show Us Now?

  31-10-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  In Guillermo del Toro’s new version, the answer lies in how deeply it explores the relationship between creator and created.
  
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• A Haunted Tour of the Met Museum

  31-10-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  Zachary Small, culture reporter, takes us on a tour of his four favorite spooky artworks at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’re in for a scare: they include a decapitation platter and a sculpture of a rumored cannibal.
  
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• ‘The White House Effect’ and the Value of Letting Footage Speak for Itself

  31-10-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  This film uses archival clips and documents to examine the way climate change evolved from nonpartisan topic to divisive issue.
  
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• For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword

  31-10-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners?
  
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• Arcade Franchises From the ’80s Are Back to Punish Players

  31-10-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi and Double Dragon revivals are reminders that the definition of a difficult video game has changed.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Can’t Believe He Agrees With Marjorie Taylor Greene

  31-10-2025 08:07 via nytimes.com
  “Sometimes you go so far right you come out on the other side,” Kimmel said of the congresswoman, who has clashed with fellow Republicans over health care.
  
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