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• Art Gallery Shows to See in May

  07-05-2026 23:04 via nytimes.com
  This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Ceija Stojka’s naïve expressionism, Mao Ishikawa’s sprawling bodies and a reinstallation of an important show by Peter Hujar.
  
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• Manuela Hoelterhoff, Pulitzer-Winning Arts Critic, Dies at 77

  07-05-2026 22:43 via nytimes.com
  She won the top journalism honor for criticism while with The Wall Street Journal. She later wrote a wry, perceptive book about the backstage world of opera.
  
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• ‘Blue Film’ Review: The Sex Is Expensive. The Talk Is Priceless.

  07-05-2026 21:22 via nytimes.com
  An older man pays a camboy $50,000 for a night that goes to difficult, existential places in this breakout feature from Elliot Tuttle.
  
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• Our Favorite Milan Homes

  07-05-2026 21:09 via nytimes.com
  For centuries, the city has been a capital of design. Here, we revisit the most beautiful and exciting interiors we’ve covered.
  
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• Art Abounds on Campuses Outside of New York City

  07-05-2026 20:31 via nytimes.com
  Academic museums at Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Skidmore have organized several standout exhibitions, worth a venture beyond TEFAF New York.
  
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• Uncertainty, But Also Optimism, Mark New York Art Week

  07-05-2026 20:29 via nytimes.com
  This May, big-ticket items, and numerous major private collections, will be on offer and provide a major test of the market in a chaotic time.
  
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• Radiohead Spectacle in Brooklyn Teems with World-Building Paintings, Sculpture, and Film

  07-05-2026 20:24 via artnews.com
  Even after the recent addition of a Wegmans and Wells Fargo gave the entrance the sanitized shine of a suburban shopping center, it would be hard to overstate the strangeness and surreality of the inner parts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The post-industrial buildings at eye-popping scales hiss and wheeze, and everything in the expansive grounds covered with toppled cobblestones and disused train tracks has the air of a haunted sanctum. (Think “The Zone” in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stal
  
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• Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Pavilions Stage Pro-Ukraine Procession During Venice Biennale

  07-05-2026 20:11 via artnews.com
  Three Baltic pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—organized a walk in solidarity with Ukraine on May 6, one of the exhibition’s preview days.A statement from the Lithuanian Pavilion explains that the procession was dedicated to cultural workers from Ukraine “who continue to create and represent their country in conditions of war, as well as to those who have lost their lives because of ongoing violence.” Ukraine has its own pavilion a
  
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• Aspen Art Fair Names More Than 35 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition at Hotel Jerome

  07-05-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  The Aspen Art Fair will return to the Hotel Jerome from July 29 through August 1 with more than 35 exhibitors for its third edition, as the boutique fair continues to carve out a distinct presence during Aspen Art Week. The 2026 edition will be the first under director Kelly Cornell, who joined earlier this year while continuing to lead the Dallas Art Fair. Her appointment signaled a broader effort to connect collector communities across the two fairs while maintaining Aspen’s smaller
  
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• At the Cannes Film Festival, French Cinema is Front and Center

  07-05-2026 18:50 via nytimes.com
  Frenchness is a common theme among the films selected to open the festival. The opener also premieres in hundreds of theaters across France the day the festival begins.
  
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• In Cartagena, a Place for Monks and Movie Lovers Is Now a Hotel

  07-05-2026 18:46 via nytimes.com
  In Cartagena, Colombia, historic buildings, including a monastery and a nightclub, were transformed into a Four Seasons.
  
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• This Film Provides a Trapezoidal Window into Former Pizza Huts

  07-05-2026 18:40 via nytimes.com
  A documentary about the popular chain presents its repurposed buildings as protective shells where new businesses can grow.
  
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• Israel’s Artist Reportedly Pressured Venice Biennale Before Jury’s Resignation

  07-05-2026 18:26 via artnews.com
  According to multiple media reports, artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, Israel’s representative at the recently opened Venice Biennale, put pressure on the exhibition’s organizers before the show’s jury abruptly resigned last week.When that five-person jury quit, it did not state its reason for doing so. But prior to departing the Biennale, the jury, which been charged with selecting the winners of the Biennale’s Golden Lions, said that it would not consider nations who were cha
  
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• Here’s Why the Venice Biennale Main Show Lost One Artist During the Planning Stages

  07-05-2026 17:30 via artnews.com
  When the Venice Biennale first announced the artist list for Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition in February, the show included 111 participants. But when you visit the Biennale’s website now, you’ll find that Kouoh’s exhibition, titled “In Minor Keys,” now features 110 artists.ARTnews can reveal that the artist who was struck from the list was Bodys Isek Kingelez, a Congolese artist known for his vast, colorful cardboard sculptures of opulent cities. Kingelez, who t
  
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• France Passes Law Easing Process of Returning Looted Art

  07-05-2026 17:18 via nytimes.com
  President Emmanuel Macron has long called the restitution of African art from French museums a priority. Experts say the new law is a seismic moment in that effort.
  
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• America’s Museums Have a Building Problem

  07-05-2026 17:06 via artnews.com
  Most American museums have a problem that visitors rarely see until it’s too late: their buildings are falling apart.A new report from the Government Accountability Office analyzed by The Art Newspaper finds that roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are dealing with deferred maintenance or major repair needs. Even more concerning, about 77 percent say they have at least one structural issue that could put their collections at risk. The scope of the problem cuts a
  
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• Review: Sophie Rivera’s Photos Come Out From the Shadows

  07-05-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Double Exposures,” the first museum survey for the artist, highlights a career spent documenting New Yorkers, in ways both traditional and strange.
  
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• It’s Time to Upgrade Your Cabinet Pulls

  07-05-2026 16:46 via nytimes.com
  Plus: a Bruges bed-and-breakfast with a wild garden, artworks made on soaked canvases and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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• Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s New Art Island Made a Sunny Splash in a Rainy Venice Vernissage Week

  07-05-2026 16:41 via artnews.com
  The international art world visiting Venice for the preview week of the Biennale woke up Thursday with great relief to a sunny forecast after two days of rain. For some, the day got even better with a visit to the island of San Giacomo, in the Northern Lagoon, where ARTnews Top 200 collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo today inaugurated a new art site on the island of San Giacomo that will serve as a home for exhibitions, performances, and residencies. San Giacomo is the newest exhibit
  
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• Loïc Gouzer’s Auction Platform Fair Warning to Sell Major Banksy at Tiffany’s Flagship Store

  07-05-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  Loïc Gouzer doesn’t think the art world understands Banksy. In fact, he thinks it’s scared of him.On May 20, Gouzer’s auction platform Fair Warning will sell Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape, a painting from Banksy’s “Crude Oils” series, in an invitation-only live auction staged inside Tiffany & Co.’s Fifth Avenue flagship. The work, which modifies a thrifted landscape painting with the artist’s signature red, heart-shape
  
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• Is the Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni Legal Fight Over? Not So Fast.

  07-05-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Lawyers for Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni have said the two sides settled much of the contentious dispute. But one major disagreement remains.
  
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• ‘Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft’ Review: 3-D Is What She Was Made For

  07-05-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The pop superstar teamed up with James Cameron to create a concert movie that, playing with shiny camera technology, reinvigorates the concert experience.
  
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• Legal Dispute Threatens Auction of Titanic Artifacts, Vaillancourt Fountain Catches Fire During Demolition, and More: Morning Links for May 7, 2026

  07-05-2026 14:50 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesI’ll NEVER LET GO? Jack, from the 1997 film Titanic, famously heard those words from his beloved Rose before he sank into the icy ocean. But now, the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck wants to let go of—or, rather, auction—nearly 100 artifacts recovered in 1987. The sale has now sparked new legal controversy, reports the New York Times. At the heart of the issue is that the R.M.S. Titanic, a private company
  
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• These Toilets in Venice Have the Art World Aflush

  07-05-2026 14:26 via nytimes.com
  Undoubtedly the biggest talker at this year’s Venice Biennale is the Austrian pavilion, where visitors can make their own contributions to the work on show.
  
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• At the Venice Biennale, an American Artist Plops His Sculptures on a World Stage

  07-05-2026 12:41 via nytimes.com
  They may be bronze and marble, but Alma Allen’s artworks at the Venice Biennale are as intangible as air.
  
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• Venice Diary Day 2: “In Minor Keys” Is a Major Statement on Perseverance and Play

  07-05-2026 11:35 via artnews.com
  “In Minor Keys” is the only biennial in memory that’s made me find a dark corner to cry in.The Arsenale opens with a poem on the wall by Refaat Alareer, written before he was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2023. “If I must die / you must live,” he writes, “to tell my story / to sell my things / to buy a piece of cloth and some strings,” to assemble a white kite that might serve as a symbol of hope for a child somewhere in Gaza, floating in the
  
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• At the Venice Biennale, Koyo Kouoh’s ‘In Minor Keys’ Looks Deeply at Lush Gardens and a Scarred Earth

  07-05-2026 11:29 via artnews.com
  To say that just one aspect of this Venice Biennale is unprecedented would be to understate all that circumstance has dealt this edition of the international art festival. While controversies surrounding several national pavilions—Israel, Russia, the US, South Africa, and Australia, to name a few—loom large, the unexpected death of the central exhibition’s curator, Koyo Kouoh, one year ago looms largest. Before her death, Kouoh had defined the exhibition, titled “In Minor
  
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• The Easiest Home Upgrade: New Pulls, Knobs and Light Switches

  07-05-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  Plus: a Bruges bed-and-breakfast with a wild garden, artworks made on soaked canvases and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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• Ed Gardner, ‘Force to Be Reckoned With,’ Comes Into His Own

  07-05-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Ed Gardner is an ideal ambassador for British music. And he is building an important profile abroad, with a trip to the United States this month.
  
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• Tony Leung Doesn’t Want a Challenge. He Wants a Compatible Director.

  07-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The star often refuses roles unless he clicks with the filmmaker. That’s how he came to work with Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and now Ildiko Enyedi.
  
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• The Sun Sets on ‘Jersey Shore.’ For Now, Anyway.

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The new season of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” will be the last on MTV. The castmates said it’s only a matter of time before it returns somehow.
  
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• ‘Silent Friend’ Review: What a Ginkgo Can Teach Us

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Léa Seydoux, this cerebral drama explores the mysteries of plant and human connection.
  
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• ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Review: Eye-Popping Pyrotechnics

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The movie, directed by Simon McQuoid and based on the cult video game, unleashes another gruesome fighter tournament to determine the fate of the universe.
  
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• Mixtape Has Teenagers Bond With the Help of an Eclectic Soundtrack

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In Mixtape, you can skateboard to Devo’s “That’s Good,” film a party to Iggy Pop’s “Candy” and wallow in sadness to B.J. Thomas’s “Most of All.”
  
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• ‘Jersey Shore’ Cast Reflects on ‘Family Vacation’ Final Season and What Comes Next

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The new season of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” will be the last on MTV. The castmates said it’s only a matter of time before it returns somehow.
  
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• Inside the Artist Peter Bradley’s Upstate New York Home

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Peter Bradley, a painter, art dealer and fixture of the 1960s and ’70s Manhattan art scene, brought a loftlike aesthetic to his lovingly restored 18th-century home.
  
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• A Fashion Revolution at the Met

  07-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  With “Costume Art,” the dress department moves out of the basement to become the gateway to the museum.
  
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• ‘The Sheep Detectives’ Review: A Murder Most Fleecy

  07-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A flock of sheep and Hugh Jackman star in a delightful Agatha Christie-style mystery set in an English village.
  
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• Is It an Art Gallery? A Museum? A Theater? A Dream?

  07-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Ministry of Awe, a new immersive experience in a former bank in Philadelphia, aims to help locate the wondrous in the everyday.
  
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• The Bahamian Pavilion Brings Junkanoo to Venice in a Biennale Standout

  07-05-2026 10:11 via artnews.com
  After a thirteen-year hiatus, the Bahamian Pavilion has returned to Venice with a proposition that is as much educational as representational: that the Caribbean nation can be reintroduced to the world through its contemporary artistic inheritance.To do so, the pavilion turns to the late master John Beadle and his former student Lavar Munroe, framing their work through one of the Bahamas’ defining cultural touchstones — Junkanoo — the whistling, crepe-costumed procession that f
  
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• Late Night Isn’t Buying Trump’s New ‘Skirmish’ in Iran

  07-05-2026 08:58 via nytimes.com
  After Trump used the terms “miniwar” and “excursion” to describe the conflict in Iran, Jimmy Kimmel predicted that the president would next call the war “a tiff. It will be a $200 billion tiff.”
  
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• ‘The Book of Mormon’ Will Close for 2 Weeks After Fire

  07-05-2026 01:00 via nytimes.com
  The long-running musical, one of Broadway’s biggest hits, will be closed through at least May 17 after an electrical fire in its lighting booth.
  
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