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• Spokane Valley Performing Arts Center project is dead - KXLY.com

  17-04-2026 22:41 via news.google.com
  Spokane Valley Performing Arts Center project is dead  KXLY.com
  
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• Catalan Museum Has Yet to Follow Through on Court Order to Return Contested Murals to Aragon Monastery

  17-04-2026 22:41 via ARTnews.com
  Nearly a year after Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) must return the Sijena Monastery murals to the Royal Monastery in Aragon, in northeastern Spain, the Barcelona museum still hasn’t let go of the disputed—and delicate—13th-century artworks.The ruling, in May 2025, followed more than a decade of legal battles between the Aragonese government and MNAC. The Sijena murals—often referred to as the “Sistine Chapel of Rom
  
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• First Look at Arts Landing in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District - Discover the Burgh

  17-04-2026 22:39 via news.google.com
  First Look at Arts Landing in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District  Discover the Burgh
  
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• Sotheby’s Paris Notches a $41 M. Modern and Contemporary Sale, Led by a $12 M. Monet Unseen for a Century

  17-04-2026 22:00 via ARTnews.com
  Two paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet led a Sotheby’s Paris sale of modern and contemporary art on Thursday that racked up €35 million ($41 million). That figure is up more than 84 percent on the equivalent sale from last year and exceeds the pre-sale estimate of €22.4–€32.1 million ($26.6–$37.8 million). The total was the house’s second-highest ever in France for a sale in the category. Nearly 63 percent of lots sold above their high estimates
  
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• The Politically Charged Art of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

  17-04-2026 21:48 via NYT > Arts
  Her vivid paintings examined religious fundamentalism and events like the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. She died this month at 46.
  
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• Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Painter of Hotly Topical Images, Dies at 46

  17-04-2026 21:47 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Her vibrant yet brooding work explored the crises of the Trump era, with paintings depicting the Jan. 6 riots and a mangled Confederate monument.
  
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• An Explosion Rattles a Toronto Neighborhood. Was a Drake Video to Blame?

  17-04-2026 21:24 via NYT > Arts
  A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a film shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.
  
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• Governor Shapiro Celebrates the Opening of Arts Landing in Downtown Pittsburgh Ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft, Fulfilling Key Piece of His Downtown Revitalization Plan - PA Department of Community & Economic Development (.gov)

  17-04-2026 20:54 via news.google.com
  Governor Shapiro Celebrates the Opening of Arts Landing in Downtown Pittsburgh Ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft, Fulfilling Key Piece of His Downtown Revitalization Plan  PA Department of Community & Economic Development (.gov)
  
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• Kanye West’s Concert in Poland Is Canceled Amid Furor Over Antisemitic Comments

  17-04-2026 20:48 via NYT > Arts
  The announcement came a day after a government official said, “In a country marked by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Returns to Profit as Sales Rise, Though Cash Pressures Persist

  17-04-2026 20:11 via ARTnews.com
  Sotheby’s has returned to profit after several loss-making years, though the underlying financial picture remains complicated.The auction house posted a $53 million pre-tax profit in 2025, according to financial documents reviewed by the Financial Times, a turnaround from a $190 million loss the year prior. Sales rose nearly 20 percent to $7.1 billion, with revenue from its core auction business climbing 26 percent to about $1 billion. The rebound reflects a modest recovery
  
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• BIG, William Rawn Associates, and others unveil Tennessee Performing Arts Center design - The Architect’s Newspaper

  17-04-2026 19:57 via news.google.com
  BIG, William Rawn Associates, and others unveil Tennessee Performing Arts Center design  The Architect’s Newspaper
  
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• Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head

  17-04-2026 19:46 via ARTnews.com
  The Denver Art Museum has returned a marble head of a bearded man stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna to Turkey. This marks the latest in a growing list of successful restitutions tied to the country’s renewed campaign to reclaim its cultural heritage from museums worldwide. The sculpture’s provenance indicates it was likely carved in the fifth century BCE in Smyrna—the ancient Greek name for present-day Izmir. Situated on Turkey’s Aegean coast, the city is among
  
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• SocialRx teams up with FQHC in NYC to prescribe arts and culture for chronically ill patients - Fierce Healthcare

  17-04-2026 19:14 via news.google.com
  SocialRx teams up with FQHC in NYC to prescribe arts and culture for chronically ill patients  Fierce Healthcare
  
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• Jennifer Gilbert Consigns Blue-Chip Works to Sotheby’s to Fund Detroit Arts Space

  17-04-2026 19:00 via ARTnews.com
  A small group of high-value works from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jennifer Gilbert will go to auction at Sotheby’s this spring, with proceeds directed toward Lumana, a Detroit-based arts nonprofit she is developing.The works will be split across Sotheby’s May contemporary sales and its June design auction. The top lots include Joan Mitchell’s Loom II (1976), estimated at $5 million to $7 million, and Kenneth Noland’s Circle&
  
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• Hendrix College remakes liberal arts education with career-readiness strategy - Hendrix College

  17-04-2026 18:46 via news.google.com
  Hendrix College remakes liberal arts education with career-readiness strategy  Hendrix College
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drop Dead’ Is a Heavenly Fakeout

  17-04-2026 18:33 via NYT > Arts
  The first taste of the pop star’s third album isn’t a bloodthirsty kiss-off, but a dreamy ode to losing herself in love.
  
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• The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Embraces the Big Perm and Boombox Era

  17-04-2026 18:15 via NYT > Arts
  His “Cassette Vol. 1” has a 1980s mix tape soundtrack and nods to postmodern American dance vocabulary.
  
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• Archaeologists Discover 6,000-Year-Old ‘Megastructure’ in Romania

  17-04-2026 18:03 via ARTnews.com
  Archaeologists in northeastern Romania discovered remnants of a “megastructure” that may have figured in the social and organizational structure of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture that thrived around 5,050-2,950 BCE.As reported by Phys.org, an excavation at the archaeological site known as Stăuceni-“Holm” led to findings related to a building measuring 350 square meters (around 3,800 square feet). The size, larger than individual dwellings found in the area, qualifie
  
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• death of a liberal arts college - Amherst Indy

  17-04-2026 17:39 via news.google.com
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• 9 Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About

  17-04-2026 17:13 via NYT > Arts
  John Lithgow in “Giant,” a triumphant revival of “Death of a Salesman” and vogueing cats at “The Jellicle Ball”: These productions are worth knowing about.
  
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• ‘Thrash’ and Other Action Movies to Stream Now

  17-04-2026 17:00 via NYT > Arts
  This month’s picks include killer sharks, unlikely gangsters, and defiant ballerinas.
  
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• Is the Movie Star Back? Sort Of.

  17-04-2026 17:00 via NYT > Arts
  Box office earnings seem no longer won by name alone. From “Project Hail Mary” to “F1,” celebrities are campaigning overtime on screens large and small to lead to hits.
  
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• Metropolitan Opera and MoMA Together Put Kahlo at Center Stage

  17-04-2026 16:58 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  In an unusual collaboration for the Met, the opera’s set designer has conceived a companion exhibition, mounted at MoMA.
  
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• Recalling When Lower Manhattan Was New Amsterdam

  17-04-2026 16:56 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  An exhibition at the New York Historical focuses on the city’s 17th-century roots as a Dutch settlement.
  
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• At the Guggenheim, Pop Art Engages With Art of the Present

  17-04-2026 16:52 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  An exhibition explores examples of Pop Art from the 1960s in dialogue with recent acquisitions by contemporary artists.
  
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• Edmonia Lewis Was the Earliest Known Black Artist to Depict Emancipation. This Is Her First Retrospective.

  17-04-2026 16:50 via ARTnews.com
  The Edmonia Lewis exhibition “Said in Stone,” currently at the Peabody Essex Museum, marks the first time that the tremendous late 19th-century sculptor has been featured in a comprehensive show of her own. More than a hundred years after unformed marble passed through her hands and into human form, her works are at long last assembled together to speak as a kind of family. As such, the museum serves as a space of historical vindication for an artist who struggled, rock hammer in han
  
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• The Triumphant New LACMA Has the Potential to Rewrite Art History

  17-04-2026 16:12 via ARTnews.com
  Can an art museum tell a non-linear version of art history and still be legible to its visitors? That’s the question guiding the David Geffen Galleries, the new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opens to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4.Typically, museums narrate millennia of artistic expression as a series of progressive movements limited to the US and Europe, with everything else pushed to the margins. LACMA has historically been one of those museums, w
  
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• Graduate student artwork featured in annual Visual Arts Exhibition at Penn State - The Pennsylvania State University

  17-04-2026 15:00 via news.google.com
  Graduate student artwork featured in annual Visual Arts Exhibition at Penn State  The Pennsylvania State University
  
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• 2026 Wildwood Arts & Wine Fest - City of Mentor, Ohio

  17-04-2026 13:52 via news.google.com
  2026 Wildwood Arts & Wine Fest  City of Mentor, Ohio
  
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• The Phillies Owner and His Wife Collect Art’s Heavy Hitters

  17-04-2026 13:11 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Mets fans, avert your eyes: John Middleton, majority owner of the Phillies, and his wife have a deep bench of American art stars, and they’ve lent them in a dual display for the 250th.
  
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• On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.) - Literary Hub

  17-04-2026 11:13 via news.google.com
  On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)  Literary Hub
  
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• Pragmata Is a ‘Sad Dad’ Game Without the Emotional Bond

  17-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Pragmata features a grizzled soldier and a robot child but doesn’t have the emotional bond of The Last of Us or The Walking Dead.
  
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• ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Is Out. Wait, Who’s Lee Cronin?

  17-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  The latest take on Universal’s “Mummy” franchise has a director you may not know. We explain who he is, why his name is in the movie title and what he brings to the “Mummy” world.
  
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• How TV Series Like ‘Smash’ and ‘American Classic’ Portray Theater Is Quite a Drama

  17-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  As portrayed in shows like “Smash,” “Slings & Arrows” and “American Classic,” life onstage is a grab-bag of archetypes both hilariously wrong and a little bit right.
  
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• ‘Everyone Is Lying to You for Money’ Digs Into Cryptocurrency

  17-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money,” directed by Ben McKenzie, gives a solid introduction to virtual currency, and its traps.
  
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• A New ‘Sad Dad’ Game Fails to Make Its Ancestors Proud

  17-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Pragmata features a grizzled soldier and a robot child but doesn’t have the emotional bond of The Last of Us or The Walking Dead.
  
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• The Lurid D4vd Case and the Fervid Hunt for Details

  17-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  A teenage girl went missing. The police found her remains in a musician’s car. Then the Los Angeles media machine got to work.
  
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• How the D4vd Case and Rumors Captivated the Public Before the Singer’s Arrest

  17-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  A teenage girl went missing. The police found her remains in a musician’s car. Then the Los Angeles media machine got to work.
  
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• Through A.I. Glasses-Powered Translation, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment

  17-04-2026 09:44 via NYT > Arts
  Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Delights in Trump’s ‘Ongoing Papal Feud’

  17-04-2026 08:04 via NYT > Arts
  The host of “The Late Show” recapped what he called “yet another day when the entire world is on edge over President Trump’s senseless and elective war — with the pope.”
  
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• In 2026, DeviantArt Is Helping Artists Cut Through The Noise and Fuel Sustainable Careers

  17-04-2026 06:01 via ARTnews.com
  More than 25 years after its founding, the site has evolved into the internet’s leading platform for artists to grow and monetize their audience.Related ArticlesJudge Says Major AI Companies Did Not Profit Unfairly from Artists' Work New Data 'Poisoning' Tool Enables Artists To Fight Back Against Image Generating AI If you spend much time online — especially around Gen Z — you may have noticed that Y2K  internet culture is having a moment. Scrolling fatigue, coupled with a
  
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• D4vd Arrested in Connection With Death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

  17-04-2026 05:20 via NYT > Arts
  The singer was detained in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who died before her 15th birthday. D4vd’s lawyers said they would vigorously defend his innocence.
  
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• ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Finale Recap: Jagged Little Pills

  17-04-2026 04:00 via NYT > Arts
  For all the death and darkness the Pitt crew had to swallow this season, finale also offered profound moments of hope and renewal.
  
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• ‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted

  17-04-2026 04:00 via NYT > Arts
  The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.
  
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