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• Blake Lively’s Retaliation Case Against Justin Baldoni Heads to Trial Without Harassment Claims

  02-04-2026 22:54 via NYT > Arts
  A federal judge tossed the actress’s sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni in a split decision that sets the stage for a contentious trial.
  
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• The Rundown: A wave of patriotic arts programming - WBEZ Chicago

  02-04-2026 22:45 via news.google.com
  The Rundown: A wave of patriotic arts programming  WBEZ Chicago
  
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• April events at River Arts - Vermont Community Newspaper Group

  02-04-2026 22:41 via news.google.com
  April events at River Arts  Vermont Community Newspaper Group
  
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• Art Gallery Shows to See in April

  02-04-2026 22:27 via NYT > Arts
  This week in Newly Reviewed, Travis Diehl covers Pat Oleszko’s burlesque street theater, Paul Chan’s inflatables, David Armstrong’s calm curiosity and Torbjorn Rodland’s subtle awkwardness.
  
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• Trump’s White House Ballroom Plan Stalls as Congress Balks

  02-04-2026 22:20 via ARTnews.com
  Donald Trump’s $400 million plan to remake the White House with a sprawling ballroom has hit a familiar Washington obstacle: Congress—and a judge who says he cannot go around it.A federal judge earlier this week, passionately and emphatically, ordered construction on the project to stop unless lawmakers authorize it, throwing the future of the ballroom into doubt and forcing the administration into a choice it has so far avoided: fight on Capitol Hill or in the courts. On Capito
  
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• 8 Books We’re Looking Forward to in April

  02-04-2026 22:19 via ARTnews.com
  Spring is here, and new art books and baby bunnies alike are entering the world en masse. Fiction fans can expect a new novel by Ben Lerner, a “medieval weird” tale story starring Monica Lewinsky, and an unhinged art-world satire imagining Sackler revenge. In nonfiction, look for a memoir from Hans Ulrich Obrist, new books on Dorothea Tanning and Alberto Giacometti, and much more.
  
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• Lebanese Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crimes Complaint Against Israel After 2024 Beirut Bombing

  02-04-2026 22:15 via ARTnews.com
  Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has filed a civil complaint in France calling for an investigation into Israeli authorities’ bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024, which killed seven civilians, including the artist’s mother and father.The complaint, filed on April 2 with the French War Crimes Unit against unknown perpetrators, draws on a reconstruction and analysis of the attack by Forensic Archite
  
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• Andy Warhol’s Former Studio Building Now Home to New Uniqlo Union Square Store

  02-04-2026 22:09 via ARTnews.com
  Andy Warhol’s former studio building on Broadway and East 17th Street has been home to many businesses since the Pop artist decamped from his third-floor Factory in 1984, after a decade at 860 Broadway. A nightclub (the Underground) was there in the ‘80s, followed by a Petco in the mid-90s, which relocated nearby in 2023.The commercial building’s ground floor retail space has been vacant for the intervening years, but a new tenant has moved it. The Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo
  
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• Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Charged With Attempted Murder of Bandmate’s Father

  02-04-2026 22:07 via NYT > Arts
  Brady Ebert, a founding member of the Baltimore hardcore punk band, hit the father of Brendan Yates, the group’s lead vocalist, with his car, the police said.
  
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• Liberal Arts student's journey marked by leadership, service, global experiences - The Pennsylvania State University

  02-04-2026 20:00 via news.google.com
  Liberal Arts student's journey marked by leadership, service, global experiences  The Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Art Dealer Larry Gagosian Recalls Rare Misstep With San Francisco Gallery: ‘Nobody Showed Up’

  02-04-2026 19:51 via ARTnews.com
  Larry Gagosian doesn’t do a lot of interviews, but one supposes when Elle Decor asks to do a glossy profile on the rocket-ship trajectory of his eponymous gallery, you say yes.Speaking on the occasion of a new gallery opening at 980 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side this spring, Gagosian reflected on his many successes—and two notable failures.His short-lived San Francisco gallery, which opened in 2016 near SFMoMA and closed in 2021, was one such failure. At the time, a spokesper
  
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• A Priceless Romanian Golden Helmet, Heisted from a Dutch Museum, Has Been Recovered

  02-04-2026 19:27 via ARTnews.com
  Romanian culturati and historians, as well as Dutch museum officials, were shocked in January 2025 when thieves blew up a wall at a Netherlands museum to get at one of the great treasures of the National Museum of Romanian History: the golden Cotofenesti helmet, which dates to the 5th–4th centuries BCE. The thieves were seen on surveillance video opening a museum door with a crowbar before an explosion occurred. But at a press conference in Assen on Thursday, police wearing balaclavas
  
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• ‘The Blue Trail’ Review: A Drifting Journey Into Freedom

  02-04-2026 18:44 via NYT > Arts
  In an imaginary Brazil, where older people are forcibly removed from society, a resolute 77-year-old seeks her independence in the Amazon.
  
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• Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena Launches Art Program, with Paul Pfeiffer As First Artist-in-Residence

  02-04-2026 18:35 via ARTnews.com
  The Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn is expanding its arts programming in the service of “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a new multi-year initiative to continue public art presentations on the building’s high-profile plaza but also move into other realms including an artist-in-residence program to be inaugurated by Paul Pfeiffer.  Pfeiffer, whose work has engaged the spectacle around sports, will lead what a press release describes as “a year-long media workshop
  
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• Six April arts events not to be missed at UMBC - UMBC - University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

  02-04-2026 18:19 via news.google.com
  Six April arts events not to be missed at UMBC  UMBC - University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
  
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• Lender sues to foreclose on G-Star School of the Arts property in Palm Beach County - WPEC

  02-04-2026 17:39 via news.google.com
  Lender sues to foreclose on G-Star School of the Arts property in Palm Beach County  WPEC
  
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• Ancient Artifacts Stolen in Dutch Museum Heist Are Recovered

  02-04-2026 17:18 via NYT > Arts
  The golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a highly regarded artifact from Romania, and two elaborate golden bracelets were taken in January 2025.
  
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• Student performers take the stage as RIT opens Performing Arts Center - Rochester Institute of Technology

  02-04-2026 16:57 via news.google.com
  Student performers take the stage as RIT opens Performing Arts Center  Rochester Institute of Technology
  
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• Danish Shows to Watch While We’re Still at Peace

  02-04-2026 16:24 via NYT > Arts
  The protector of Greenland also makes very entertaining TV.
  
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• Kanye West Plays First American Concert Since 2021

  02-04-2026 15:35 via NYT > Arts
  After years of antisemitic behavior, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West performed at SoFi Stadium for his first full live show in the United States since 2021.
  
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• Kanye West Plays

  02-04-2026 14:56 via NYT > Arts
  A show on Wednesday at SoFi Stadium was the rapper’s first full domestic live show since 2021 — and since a series of antisemitic behavior.
  
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• The Age-Old Obsession With Living Forever

  02-04-2026 14:17 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Biohackers like Bryan Johnson seem to want to live forever. What would that be like? A London exhibition offers some thoughts.
  
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• Pharmaceuticals Billionaire Buys Record-Breaking Indian Painting, Venice Biennale Faces Artist Protest: Morning Links for April 2, 2026

  02-04-2026 14:15 via ARTnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesBEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against “unknown perpetrators,” and denouncing the Israeli army’s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a press release. On November
  
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• Artist Ali Cherri Files Complaint After Israeli Army Kills His Parents, Indian Painting Sets Auction Record: Morning Links for April 2, 2026

  02-04-2026 14:15 via ARTnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesBEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against “unknown perpetrators,” and denouncing the Israeli army’s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a press release. On November
  
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• Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission and New $50,000 Acquisition Fund

  02-04-2026 14:00 via ARTnews.com
  In just over a month, Frieze New York will open its 2026 edition, which will include several institutional collaborations and a new acquisition fund.Scheduled to run May 13­–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors, Frieze New York will partner will the Whitney Museum, the Dia Art Foundation, and the Counterpublic triennial, to present a suite of performances and installations both in and out of the fair.The most high-profile of these is Frieze’s collaboration with this year&r
  
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• College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2026 student marshals - The Pennsylvania State University

  02-04-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2026 student marshals  The Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Ballet North Texas is on point for Dallas Arts Month - KERA News

  02-04-2026 13:06 via news.google.com
  Ballet North Texas is on point for Dallas Arts Month  KERA News
  
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• ‘The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson’ Review: Behind a Cyclist’s Death

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  A crime documentary on the murder of a professional athlete leans into exploitation.
  
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• ‘The Stranger’ Review: An Unexamined Life

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  A man of indifference becomes a killer in this adaptation of a 1942 Albert Camus novel.
  
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• ‘The Drama’ Review: Her Secret Is His Crisis

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple upended when one confesses to coming close to committing a horrific crime.
  
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• ‘Pizza Movie’ Review: Dude, Where’s My Pie?

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  After taking psychedelics, college roommates, Jack (Gaten Matarazzo) and Montgomery (Sean Giambrone), experience unique side effects.
  
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• ‘Living the Land’ Review: Rural China in Transition

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  This drama follows a boy of 10, left in the care of relatives when his parents are lured to the city by the prospect of jobs created by a tech revolution.
  
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• ‘DJ Ahmet’ Review: Finding Hidden Music in the Forest

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  After a young shepherd in North Macedonia finds a dance party in the woods, his life changes.
  
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• A Senegalese Artist Who Crossed Boundaries Others Didn’t Dare

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  A new exhibit at the Met highlights Iba Ndiaye’s myriad influences from across the globe, but ultimately his work was all his own.
  
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• ‘A Great Awakening’ Review: An Unlikely Founding Friendship

  02-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  This film tracks the friendship of Benjamin Franklin and the Rev. George Whitefield, who brought a Protestant revival to the American colonies.
  
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• Gainsborough’s Powdered Wig Portraits Are Suddenly Hot in New York

  02-04-2026 11:01 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The Frick gathers 25 works by the painter Thomas Gainsborough, a visual compendium of the social biggies in British society.
  
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• Everybody Wants to Sing Nate Amos’s Songs

  02-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  This Is Lorelei, the solo project from the Water From Your Eyes guitarist, has become an indie-rock phenomenon in the past year.
  
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• Desi Lydic Wants Trump to Take a Hint About the Ballroom

  02-04-2026 09:26 via NYT > Arts
  “Might I suggest: If the ballroom starts experiencing ballistic assault, maybe we just cancel the ball?” she said on “The Daily Show.”
  
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• A Field Guide to the 2026 Dogwood Arts Season - Inside of Knoxville

  02-04-2026 08:42 via news.google.com
  A Field Guide to the 2026 Dogwood Arts Season  Inside of Knoxville
  
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• Eugene Mirman, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Voice Actor, Seriously Injured in Car Crash

  02-04-2026 03:36 via NYT > Arts
  Mr. Mirman crashed his car on Tuesday in New Hampshire. He remains hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
  
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