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• Hugh Jackman Visits Milwaukee High School of the Arts - MPS: Milwaukee

  04-12-2025 23:51 via news.google.com
  Hugh Jackman Visits Milwaukee High School of the Arts  MPS: Milwaukee
  
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• David Gross named Liberal Arts marshal for fall 2025 commencement - Penn State University

  04-12-2025 23:19 via news.google.com
  David Gross named Liberal Arts marshal for fall 2025 commencement  Penn State University
  
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• At Art Basel, Beeple Unleashes Pooping Robot Dogs Modeled After Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

  04-12-2025 23:06 via artnews.com
  It seems Art Basel Miami Beach has perfected the art of the scroll-by spectacle. This year, the collective gasp was at the new Zero10 digital art section, and it happened every time one of about a half-dozen robot dogs “went.”The installation, Regular Animals by Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), is part satire, part dystopia, part slapstick theater. In it, a pen of robot dogs (or is it pigs?) have been fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso
  
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• Bucco Bill to Grow NJ Arts Community Passes Committee - NJ Senate Republicans

  04-12-2025 23:02 via news.google.com
  Bucco Bill to Grow NJ Arts Community Passes Committee  NJ Senate Republicans
  
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• Reporter's Notebook: Shipman at South Arts, Right whale spotted off S.C., 'Civil Sights' book signing - SaportaReport

  04-12-2025 22:47 via news.google.com
  Reporter's Notebook: Shipman at South Arts, Right whale spotted off S.C., 'Civil Sights' book signing  SaportaReport
  
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• Check Out the Celebrities in Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach

  04-12-2025 22:17 via artnews.com
  Early December means one thing in the art world: Miami Art Week is upon us again. While Art Basel Miami Beach remains the epicenter of the city’s activities, at least when it comes to art-dealing, there is no shortage of satellite fairs, celebrity-studded parties, beachside performances, brand collaborations, and product launches happening throughout the city. One of this year’s hottest tickets include a dinner hosted by the Cultivist, a private arts club, with a performance by the l
  
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• London’s National Gallery Announces Plans to Raise $1 B. for New ‘Project Domani’

  04-12-2025 22:13 via artnews.com
  On Wednesday, London’s National Gallery announced plans to raise nearly $1 billion for Project Domani, the institution’s new initiative to collect art from the 20th and 21st centuries, along with a new wing to house that part of the collection. As part of Project Domani, the National Gallery held an international architectural competition to design the new wing, receiving 65 entrants. On Wednesday, the institution announced the six short-listed architects, which includes Farshid Mous
  
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• STC Graphic Arts student turns childhood passion for drawing into career ambition - South Texas College

  04-12-2025 22:09 via news.google.com
  STC Graphic Arts student turns childhood passion for drawing into career ambition  South Texas College
  
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• San Diego weekend arts events: Kitschmastime, SoNoFest and '80s Shakespeare - KPBS

  04-12-2025 22:03 via news.google.com
  San Diego weekend arts events: Kitschmastime, SoNoFest and '80s Shakespeare  KPBS
  
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• Ousted DuSable Museum VP Alleges Retaliation in Whistleblower Lawsuit

  04-12-2025 21:34 via artnews.com
  Two months after accusing Chicago’s DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center of misappropriating public funds and other offenses, Kim Dulaney, its former vice president of education and programs, has filed a whistleblower and retaliatory discharge lawsuit.Dulaney filed a complaint with the Cook County Circuit Court on December 1, alleging wrongful termination following her repeated criticisms of the museum’s operations under CEO and president Perri Irmer. The lawsuit wa
  
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• Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year, a Shade of White, Is Tone Deaf

  04-12-2025 21:30 via artnews.com
  At a time when the political significance of whiteness has been at the center of debates across United States and Europe, Pantone has named “Cloud Dancer,” a shade of white, as its 2026 Color the Year.According to Pantone’s gushy press release about the hue, Cloud Dancer is “a billowy white imbued with a feeling of serenity” and “a symbol of calming influence in a frenetic society rediscovering the value of measured consideration and quiet reflection”&md
  
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• Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Gifts Totaling $7 M. for Caribbean Cultural Institute

  04-12-2025 21:23 via artnews.com
  During a week when all eyes (art world ones, at least) are on Miami, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has announced a pair of substantial gifts in support of the museum’s Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI). The Mellon Foundation (which helped PAMM establish the CCI in 2019 with a $1 million gift) has continued its support with a further $2 million, and the Green Family Foundation (GFF) has gifted $5 million to the institute, which will be renamed the Green Family Foundation Caribbe
  
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• Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62

  04-12-2025 21:21 via nytimes.com
  Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
  
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• A Knockout Sale: Warhol’s Ali Fetches $18 M. in the Building Where the Legend Was Born

  04-12-2025 21:04 via artnews.com
  One of the most recognizable faces in American culture returned to the site of his making on Wednesday, when Lévy Gorvy Dayan sold Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali (1977) for $18 million during the VIP Preview of Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting—autographed on the reverse by Ali and once owned by Richard L. Weisman, who commissioned Warhol’s “Athletes” series—hung only a few hundred feet from the place where Ali became Ali.That historical resonance was not
  
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• MSU’s Brown reelected to arts and sciences national board - Mississippi State University

  04-12-2025 20:59 via news.google.com
  MSU’s Brown reelected to arts and sciences national board  Mississippi State University
  
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• Philly’s Arts Scene Runs on “Temple Made” Talent - Inquirer.com

  04-12-2025 20:17 via news.google.com
  Philly’s Arts Scene Runs on “Temple Made” Talent  Inquirer.com
  
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• ACE Awards proved C-U's arts scene runs on live current - Arts - Smile Politely

  04-12-2025 20:00 via news.google.com
  ACE Awards proved C-U's arts scene runs on live current - Arts  Smile Politely
  
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• 6,000-Year-Old Artifacts Discovered Below Palace of Westminster

  04-12-2025 20:00 via artnews.com
  The Palace of Westminster, the oldest building on the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary estate, which has played a central role in 900 years of British history, still contains some secrets hidden below.Evidence of human activity dating back almost 6,000 years has been discovered by archaeologists working at the Palace of Westminster in England, the UK Houses of Parliament reported. The findings predate the earliest earthworks at Stonehenge by more than a millennium.Archaeologists have been wo
  
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• At Art Basel, Andrea Fraser’s Latest Project Compiles Words Banned by Trump

  04-12-2025 19:50 via artnews.com
  At Art Basel Miami Beach this week, you might notice a stack of posters (glossy white paper, with red text) on the floor of Commonwealth and Council’s booth. The Los Angeles–based gallery is encouraging visitors to take them home with them.Upon close inspection, the work’s text is a list of words that have seemingly been banned by the Trump administration that first appeared in the New York Times in March, which has been adapted as Andrea Fraser’s latest project, titled L
  
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• Eurovision Is in Turmoil as Israel’s Participation Leads to Boycott

  04-12-2025 19:45 via nytimes.com
  The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year’s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.
  
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• Yale Relocates Famed Claes Oldenburg ‘Lipstick’ Sculpture after Vandalism

  04-12-2025 19:43 via artnews.com
  After it was vandalized, Claes Oldenburg’s beloved 1969 sculpture Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks will be relocated by Yale University from a public courtyard to the Yale University Art Gallery. The Yale Daily News, the school’s student-run newspaper, first reported on the removal this week.The sculpture, which is typically viewable in front of the Yale-run Morse College, was reportedly vandalized in October. Officials with the school discovered the letters “ATB&rdqu
  
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• Steve Cropper: 9 Essential Songs

  04-12-2025 19:43 via nytimes.com
  An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few indelible anthems.
  
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• Bullet Holes from WWII-Era Nazis Found in Marseille Madonna and Child

  04-12-2025 19:26 via artnews.com
  A giant Madonna and Child statue said to protect the people of Marseille from a perch atop a cathedral was shot by Nazis during World War II, as recently discovered during a restoration process that revealed seven bullet holes in the duo’s copper and iron bodies.The mother and child stand at the top of Notre-Dame de la Garde, at the city’s highest peak, and is known as the Bonne Mère (Good Mother) to those who peer up at it rising into the sky. The icon is nearly 37 feet tall
  
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• Inside the Alvin Ailey Gala: Ciara, the Red Carpet and a Madonna Dance Party

  04-12-2025 19:20 via nytimes.com
  Alvin Ailey’s annual gala began with suits and bare chests on the red carpet and ended with dancing to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”
  
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• ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: The Robots Are Malfunctioning (Again)

  04-12-2025 19:07 via nytimes.com
  The bigger-budget follow-up to last year’s abysmal cult horror hit about haunted animatronic puppets is, at best, marginally scarier.
  
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• The Best Art Gifts of 2025 for Artists and Art Lovers Alike

  04-12-2025 18:40 via artnews.com
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission.The 2025 ARTnews holiday art gift guide has arrived, with art-inspired products for every enthusiast on your list! Whether you’re shopping for an artist, a writer, a hobbyist, or an aesthete, our list of art gifts—compiled this year by Chen & Lampert—has you covered, with suggestions for everything from art supplies to art-themed appar
  
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• Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s Queer Cult Classic Debuts in New York

  04-12-2025 18:22 via nytimes.com
  “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions” is a music theater piece based on Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s 1970s book.
  
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• In Ephrat Asherie’s ‘Shadow Cities,’ Club Dance Meets Latin Jazz

  04-12-2025 17:57 via nytimes.com
  Ephrat Asherie’s “Shadow Cities” pairs her group’s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O’Farrill.
  
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• What Do Zohran Mamdani and the Louvre Have in Common? You’re Probably Pronouncing Their Names Wrong, Says a New List

  04-12-2025 17:44 via artnews.com
  Those paying attention to New York politics this fall (basically everyone, it seemed) couldn’t help but notice that Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani often saw his name mispronounced, misspelled, and generally mangled. All the same, he went from one percent name recognition to the winning candidate, beating by a wide margin former governor Andrew Cuomo. It got so bad that the mayor-elect even scolded the former governor during a debate, saying, “The name is Mamdani. M-A-M-D-A-N-I.” (E
  
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• The Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach, From Visions of Palestine to Scenes of Queer Life

  04-12-2025 17:36 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Miami Beach opened its 2025 edition on Wednesday morning to VIPs. While long lines formed at each of the fair’s entrances around the Miami Beach Convention Center ahead of the 11 a.m. opening time, the fair felt much quieter than last year’s iteration. Even at 4 p.m., when there’s usually a left-the-office-early wave, the aisles still felt relatively walkable.As New York gallerist Nicola Vassell told ARTnews, “It’s much quieter and a bit more serious, whic
  
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• ‘La Grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Portrait of Waning Power

  04-12-2025 17:18 via nytimes.com
  The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term.
  
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• Jennifer Packer: Art at the Cosmic Edges of Longing

  04-12-2025 16:25 via nytimes.com
  Where does a painter’s grief go? Onto the canvas, in spectral realms.
  
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• Iran’s Art Market Proving Resilient, Andy Warhol Foundation Names Arts Writers Grant Recipients, and More: Morning Links for December 4, 2025

  04-12-2025 15:51 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINES IRANIAN RESILIENCE. The Azadi Hotel, originally built in the 1970s as the Hyatt Crown Tehran during Iran’s oil-fueled boom, now stands above a city battered by June’s so-called Twelve Day War, when Israeli airstrikes devastated residential districts and infrastructure, forcing millions to flee. Yet in October, this same hotel hosted
  
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• Drag Antics and ‘a Political Bomb’: Bringing ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Home

  04-12-2025 13:13 via nytimes.com
  The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris can accept a new “Americano-French musical.”
  
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• A guide of arts and happenings in our brave little state - The Middlebury Campus

  04-12-2025 12:02 via news.google.com
  A guide of arts and happenings in our brave little state  The Middlebury Campus
  
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• Sara Sargent ’07 on Nonlinearity, Editing, and the Liberal Arts Experience - The Swarthmore Phoenix

  04-12-2025 11:04 via news.google.com
  Sara Sargent ’07 on Nonlinearity, Editing, and the Liberal Arts Experience  The Swarthmore Phoenix
  
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• Best TV Shows of 2025

  04-12-2025 11:04 via nytimes.com
  Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
  
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• ‘Rosemead’ Review: A Mother and Her Troubled Son

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  In this drama, Lucy Liu offers a compassionate and grim portrait of the lengths a mother will go to protect — and thwart — her teenage son.
  
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• ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Review: It’s a Hit (Reprise)

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen.
  
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• ‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Teenage Infatuation

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic.
  
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• ‘Jay Kelly’ Review: All His Memories Are Movies

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Noah Baumbach’s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars.
  
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• ‘Happy Holidays’ Review: Fissures in a Palestinian Family

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  In Scandar Copti’s film, set in Haifa, Israel, secrets and deceptions strain relationships.
  
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• ‘Fackham Hall’ Review: Keep Calm and Chuckle On

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin.
  
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• Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten ‘Soldier in Art’

  04-12-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust.
  
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• ‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Saved by the Pen

  04-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Kristen Stewart’s feature directing debut stars a riveting Imogen Poots in an uncomfortably visceral tale of abuse and addiction.
  
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• ‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History

  04-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Two filmmaking brothers trade tales in a tonally singular documentary.
  
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• A SoHo Loft That Reflects an Expansive Idea of Home

  04-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  In furnishing his own apartment, Gabriel Hendifar created a place where generations and cultures converge.
  
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• ‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale

  04-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret.
  
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• Using AI, Mimi Ọnụọha Reminds Us That We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

  04-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  When I visited her Brooklyn studio, Mimi Ọnụọha was working beneath a handwritten sign that read what we don’t talk about. That phrase came to her while making new work for a show that opened in late November at the Vienna Secession, but it also speaks well for nearly all Ọnụọha’s multimedia works, which incisively contend with all that datasets contain—and all that they leave out.Starting in 2019, Ọnụọha began working clos
  
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• The Surprising—and Welcome—Comeback of Cinema Vérité

  04-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  While reflecting on the artworks that moved me most this year, I did a double take: was I getting into cinéma vérité? In 2025? This couldn’t be. I’d always thought of myself as too impatient for raw footage and long, unedited takes—I liked my stories synthesized. And I remained unconvinced by the old utopian claims of the fly-on-the-wall view touted by those French filmmakers of the ’50s and ’60s: even as observational cinema tries to avoid mani
  
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