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• Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in a Boy Band, Dies at 76

  22-04-2026 23:58 via NYT > Arts
  He was the eldest original member of the Osmonds, a family singing group that hit it big in the 1970s with songs like “One Bad Apple.”
  
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• Judge Dismisses Sean Combs’s $100 Million Defamation Suit Against NBC

  22-04-2026 23:57 via NYT > Arts
  The now imprisoned music mogul had sued after NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock aired the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” last year.
  
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• An Auction Without Bidding: Loïc Gouzer’s Latest Bet on How to Sell Art

  22-04-2026 23:30 via ARTnews.com
  Loïc Gouzer has a new idea for how to sell art. It’s untested, but for him that’s part of the appeal.On April 23, his auction app Fair Warning will roll out a new format called “No Warning.” The premise is simple and a little unnerving if you are used to buying via fine art auctions, but perhaps not if you’ve spent any time on eBay or Poshmark. To start, a work will appear for sale (with a price). You can either hit “purchase now” or submi
  
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• Architectural Competition for Louvre ‘New Renaissance’ Project Reportedly Set to Relaunch in May

  22-04-2026 23:05 via ARTnews.com
  Originally delayed earlier this year, reportedly amid staff unrest, and later postponed until after the French municipal elections, the jury tasked with selecting the architects for the Louvre Museum renovation is now set to convene in mid-May, Le Figaro reports. Its members will assess five shortlisted architectural proposals, formally launching the $778 million renovation plan spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron.Quoting sources close to the project, the French newspaper reports tha
  
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• Trump White House Ballroom Contract Allowed Anonymous Donors, Limited Oversight

  22-04-2026 22:51 via ARTnews.com
  A previously undisclosed contract governing the fundraising for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom shields donor identities and omits key conflict-of-interest protections, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post after a court order forced their release. The agreement, signed in early October between the White House, the National Park Service, and the Trust for the National Mall, sets the legal framework for what Trump has described as a roug
  
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• Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art

  22-04-2026 22:36 via ARTnews.com
  A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned collection’s controversial holdings, reports the New York Times.The Netherlands Art Property Collection (known as the NK Collection) comprises thousands of priceless objects, including paintings worth millions by Dutch Golden Age masters, repatriated by the Allies from Germany to the Netherlands after World War II. Most of these objects were looted from Jews who were killed, deported, or forced to sell
  
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• D4vd Murder Case: Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Cause of Death Is Revealed

  22-04-2026 22:31 via NYT > Arts
  The Los Angeles police sought to keep the findings secret for months as they investigated the singer D4vd, who was charged this week with the murder of the teenager.
  
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• Venice Biennale’s 2026 Golden Lion Jury to Be Led by Videobrasil Founder

  22-04-2026 22:23 via ARTnews.com
  The Venice Biennale has revealed the members of the five-person jury that will decide the Golden Lions for the 2026 edition. The president of the jury is Solange Oliveira Farkas, who will be joined by Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, and Giovanna Zapperi.Farkas founded the Videobrasil Biennial in São Paulo in 1983, serving as its artistic director until 2004. Farkas is currently the founder and artistic director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, which supports t
  
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• The Nerve Center of This Art Fair Isn’t Painting. It’s Couture.

  22-04-2026 21:53 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The Independent fair will push boundaries, featuring designs by Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons that blur the line between fashion and sculpture.
  
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• Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery of Art for Lending Program

  22-04-2026 21:36 via ARTnews.com
  When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Across the Nation last spring, it wasn’t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA—with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales—committed to lend up to ten artworks to ten partner institutions in in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, and Wa
  
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• Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery if Art for Lending Program

  22-04-2026 21:36 via ARTnews.com
  When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Art Across the Nation last spring, it wasn’t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA—with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales—committed to lend up to ten artworks to ten partner institutions in in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, an
  
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• Claude Lalanne Mirror Ensemble Sells for $33.5 M., Breaking Design Auction Records

  22-04-2026 21:33 via ARTnews.com
  A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby’s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist’s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction block.  Collectively titled Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, the piece sold for more than double its pre-sale high estimate ($10 million–15 million), surpassing a functioning bar in the shap
  
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• Nathalie Baye, Versatile and Admired French Actress, Dies at 77

  22-04-2026 21:28 via NYT > Arts
  In films like “Day for Night,” “La Balance” and “The Return of Martin Guerre,” she was adept at portraying sensual, reflective or excitable characters.
  
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• Berlin Museum Oversees Digital Resurrection of Hundreds of Paintings Destroyed During World War II

  22-04-2026 21:26 via ARTnews.com
  Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war—including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio—will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie.The museum’s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two fires around the end of World War II. But as reported by the Art Newspaper, digital renderings made from high-resolution glass negatives from a photo-docu
  
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• Dawn Staley Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - University of South Carolina Athletics

  22-04-2026 21:25 via news.google.com
  Dawn Staley Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences  University of South Carolina Athletics
  
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• Celeste Rivas Hernandez Died of ‘Multiple Penetrating Injuries,’ Medical Examiner Says

  22-04-2026 21:03 via NYT > Arts
  The Los Angeles police sought to keep the findings secret for months as they investigated the singer D4vd, who was charged this week with the murder of the teenager.
  
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• Pittsburgh Shows Off New Public Art Projects in Advance of NFL Draft

  22-04-2026 19:50 via ARTnews.com
  The three-day NFL draft, hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, kicks off in the Steel City on Thursday. The main events will take place downtown: at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore and Point State Park, where Pittsburgh’s famous three rivers meet. The city is expecting hundreds of thousands of visitors—by some estimates, far more than the population of the city itself. The draft is taking over the city to such a degree that roads downtown have preemptively closed and the public scho
  
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• Fraenkel Gallery Partners with New York’s Metrograph for Artist-Curated Series

  22-04-2026 19:22 via ARTnews.com
  San Francisco–based Fraenkel Gallery has partnered with Metrograph to have six of the artists it represents select one film each that will screen at the theater from May 8–17, with select encore screenings to follow.The collaboration will open with Weems’s selection, No Country for Old Men (2007). In addition to choosing the film, which a release describes as pointing to the artist’s “sustained engagement with power, violence, and the shaping of American mythologies
  
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• What You Need to Know About the Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion Controversy

  22-04-2026 19:20 via ARTnews.com
  The Venice Biennale always brings with it a flurry of controversies, many of them centered on the national pavilions. For that reason, most observers and attendees expect there to be some degree of scandal built into each each edition of the world’s greatest art festival.But this year’s Biennale, opening in May, has already proven more controversial than most. Artists have repeatedly protested Israel’s presence, continuing calls for the nation’s removal that began in 2024
  
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• A Think Tank and a Foundation Team Up On $1 M. in Accelerator Grants for Museum and Performing Arts Leaders—Timothée Chalamet Be Damned

  22-04-2026 19:12 via ARTnews.com
  It was the dismissal heard around the performing arts world when Timothée Chalamet said, in a February conversation with fellow-actor Matthew McConaughey, “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though, like, no one cares about this anymore.’”Even if ticket sales soared at some venues after the ill-considered remark, Chalamet had certainly put his finger on a real problem, as generati
  
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• Review: At the Met, a Polished and Polite ‘Onegin’ Returns

  22-04-2026 17:30 via NYT > Arts
  A strong cast led by the soprano Asmik Grigorian lifts Deborah Warner’s production, which never quite convinces.
  
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• ‘Half Man’ Review: Richard Gadd’s Bloody ‘Baby Reindeer’ Follow-Up

  22-04-2026 17:09 via NYT > Arts
  The creator of “Baby Reindeer” is back with more anger, repression and violence (and jokes) in a new series for HBO.
  
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• Clowning Around With Fascists, in ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’

  22-04-2026 16:46 via NYT > Arts
  Mark Gatiss plays a Charlie Chaplin-like dictator in a timely Royal Shakespeare Company revival.
  
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• In Central Java, an Eco-Resort Aims to Build Sustainability Through Creativity

  22-04-2026 16:42 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  When an Indonesian and Australian couple bought Yabbiekayu, their first visitors were foreigners. Now, they aim to be part of a “cultural awakening” in the region.
  
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• EU Says It ‘Intends’ to Cut Funding to Venice Biennale Because of Russian Pavilion

  22-04-2026 15:42 via ARTnews.com
  In its most forceful condemnation yet of the world’s greatest art exhibition, the European Union said it planned to cut funding to the Venice Biennale, which will host this year host Russia’s first pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The pavilion has faced a bitter, negative response from European leaders and artists alike. Even participants in the main exhibition have called for the exclusion of Russia, with dozens of artists in that portion of the Biennale
  
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• An Alexander Calder Retrospective in Paris Underscores His Inventiveness

  22-04-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  Few artists have altered the course of modern sculpture as profoundly as Alexander Calder (1898–1976). From the late 1920s onward, he worked both in the United States and France, creating a new sculptural language grounded in movement and chance. It was in Paris that he introduced his first “mobiles,” setting in motion a practice that would unfold over more than five decades and ensure him global acclaim.Calder’s current exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
  
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• New Members Elected in 2026: Fitting Recognition of America's 250th - American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  22-04-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  New Members Elected in 2026: Fitting Recognition of America's 250th  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
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• Dutch Panel Designs Plan to Deal With ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art

  22-04-2026 13:00 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The panel says a new Jewish foundation, not the government, should take over a massive collection of artworks whose owners have yet to be found.
  
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• Imagining the Manosphere as a Kinder, Gentler Place

  22-04-2026 11:27 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Two art exhibitions examining hypermasculine online content and its impact argue that sensitivity and vulnerability are also manly virtues.
  
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• Vilma Jää’s Voice Is Unlike Anything in Opera

  22-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Vilma Jää, a Finnish folk and pop singer, is bringing her eerie and affecting traditional music to the Metropolitan Opera.
  
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• Inside LACMA’s Eye-Popping New Home, How Do You Find the Art?

  22-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Our critic calls the David Geffen Galleries “a beacon of glam with brains.” As a space to show art, it has problems. The Latino art is a revelation (if you can navigate the maze).
  
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• 4 Takeaways From ‘Lorne,’ the Movie About Lorne Michaels and ‘S.N.L.’

  22-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  The documentary offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at a producer even his cast members say is hard to know.
  
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• École des Sables, Africa’s Premier Dance School, Faces a Precarious Future

  22-04-2026 11:01 via NYT > Arts
  The École des Sables has established itself as Africa’s premier dance-training hub. Yet money concerns, and a new port nearby, make its future precarious.
  
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• Krysten Ritter Returns as Jessica Jones in “Daredevil: Born Again”

  22-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  More than six years after “Jessica Jones” came to an end, the actress returns to the role in the new season of “Daredevil: Born Again.”
  
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• Michael Kosta Introduces Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer

  22-04-2026 08:15 via NYT > Arts
  “It’s always the ones you never heard of,” the late night host said on Tuesday’s “The Daily Show.”
  
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• Dave Mason, Songwriter Who Co-Founded Traffic, Dies at 79

  22-04-2026 07:40 via NYT > Arts
  The English singer and guitarist wrote mainstays of the classic-rock canon like “Feelin’ Alright?” and “Only You Know and I Know.” He also had a successful solo career.
  
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• Olafur Eliasson Uses Art and Sound to Raise Climate Awareness in Utah

  22-04-2026 05:32 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The Danish Icelandic artist reflects on his childhood and how it influenced and empowered his art.
  
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• The Vienna Climate Biennale Contrasts Chaos with Hope

  22-04-2026 05:18 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  In a world marked by ecological, social and political crises, the art festival aims to get people talking, thinking and ready to imagine a better world.
  
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• A Mural by the Painter of ‘American Gothic’ Gets New Life

  22-04-2026 05:17 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Grant Wood’s 1926 “Corn Room” has been restored and will anchor an exhibition celebrating its centennial at the Sioux City Art Center in Iowa.
  
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• An Installation in Nature has Climate Lessons for Humans

  22-04-2026 05:15 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  With lichen, mechanical artwork and a barrel of snowflakes, “Climate Clock” will wind along a trail through the forests outside Oulu, Finland.
  
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• The Haas Brothers’ Creative Creations Are on Tour

  22-04-2026 05:13 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  A midcareer survey of the work by the twins Simon Haas and Nikolai Haas is touring the country.
  
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• Review: In ‘The Balusters,’ Neighborly Dysfunction Is on the Agenda

  22-04-2026 03:30 via NYT > Arts
  David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy about a wealthy homeowners association thrown into disarray makes a case for the same social compact it skewers.
  
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• With $116 Million Gift, National Gallery Will Send Its Art Around Nation

  22-04-2026 03:00 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The large contribution from the billionaire collector Mitchell P. Rales is enabling long-term loans to smaller museums in perpetuity.
  
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