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• Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, and More Sign Letter Defending Southbank Centre Chair

  14-05-2026 23:43 via artnews.com
  A letter signed by such luminaries as environmental activist Greta Thunberg and artists Tracy Emin and Peter Doig is presently circulating in support of Misan Harriman, chair of the London-based arts organization Southbank Centre, reports the Guardian newspaper. The letter asserts that Harriman is the victim of what it calls a “dishonest smear campaign” by British newspaper the Telegraph and other right-wing news outlets, which accuse him of promoting conspiracies and comparing the B
  
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• Frank Stack, Painter Who Secretly Drew ‘The Adventures of Jesus,’ Dies at 88

  14-05-2026 23:33 via nytimes.com
  For 20 years, he hid his identity behind the nom de plume Foolbert Sturgeon as he chronicled Christ’s encounters with modern-day hypocrites in comic-book form.
  
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• Kate Cimino on the role of music and the arts as a bridge to creating community - University of Colorado Boulder

  14-05-2026 23:25 via news.google.com
  Kate Cimino on the role of music and the arts as a bridge to creating community  University of Colorado Boulder
  
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• Burlington daycare center ONE Arts temporarily closed to address 'corrective actions,' organization says - WPTZ

  14-05-2026 23:13 via news.google.com
  Burlington daycare center ONE Arts temporarily closed to address 'corrective actions,' organization says  WPTZ
  
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• The Best Booths at NADA New York, From Quietly Ominous Ceramics to Ecstatic Jazz Paintings

  14-05-2026 22:10 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance opened the 12th edition of NADA New York on Wednesday, coinciding again with the start of Frieze just five blocks north.Those who made the trip to Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building on West 26th Street and 11th Avenue were greeted by not just NADA, but also 1-54, which hosts its New York fair on the first floor. Two floors up, NADA occupied most of the third floor, flooded on either end with bright natural light from banks of floor-to-ceiling windows.This year&
  
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• An Inaugural Dean for the School of Arts and Sciences - Dartmouth

  14-05-2026 22:01 via news.google.com
  An Inaugural Dean for the School of Arts and Sciences  Dartmouth
  
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• Gamers, developers protest Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund's bid to acquire Electronic Arts - Los Angeles Times

  14-05-2026 22:00 via news.google.com
  Gamers, developers protest Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund's bid to acquire Electronic Arts  Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Best Booths at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, From Surrealist Fantasias to Afro-Brazilian Imaginings

  14-05-2026 21:34 via artnews.com
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea—just a few blocks from Frieze New York and in the same building at NADA—with more than 20 galleries from the continent and other ports of call for the “ever-expanding narratives of the African diaspora,” as fair director Touria El Glaoui described it. Spirits were high during the opening preview on Wednesday, when an international roster of galleries—including first-time f
  
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• Frick Inks Three-Year Partnership with Louis Vuitton, with Support for Exhibitions and Free Fridays

  14-05-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  The Frick Collection in New York has announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton that will see the fashion house sponsor a number of initiatives at the museum.Louis Vuitton will be the lead sponsor of three of the Frick’s upcoming exhibitions: “Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500,” which will look at the Italian city as an epicenter for innovation in bronze during the Renaissance, opening this fall; “Painting with Fire: Susanne de Court and the Art of Enam
  
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• Dutch Designer Iris van Herpen’s High-Tech Garments Are On View in a Mid-Career Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum

  14-05-2026 21:16 via artnews.com
  In 2010, Iris van Herpen, only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her “Crystallization” collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its ivory-colored coils of 3D-printed polyamide, the piece was a collaboration with British architect Daniel Widrig.“It was a big moment,” says van Herpen, 41, as she contemplates the look on a form in the Brooklyn Museum galleries.
  
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• Nina Pavcnik Named Inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences - Dartmouth

  14-05-2026 20:55 via news.google.com
  Nina Pavcnik Named Inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences  Dartmouth
  
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• What is Nicole Kidman Doing in a Christie’s Video Promoting the Upcoming S.I. Newhouse Sale?

  14-05-2026 20:32 via artnews.com
  Five days before a trove of 16 masterpieces from the late media magnate S.I. Newhouse is set to hit the block as part of Christie’s New York evening sales, the auction house has released a two-minute video promoting one particular sculpture in the sale. The short film, as Christie’s refers to it, was filmed in early May and features none other than Academy Award–winning actress Nicole Kidman starring alongside Constantin Brancusi’s bronze sculpture Danaïde 
  
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• Clarence Carter, Singer of Lust-Filled Soul Hits, Dies at 90

  14-05-2026 19:40 via nytimes.com
  In songs like “Slip Away” and “Back Door Santa,” he performed with the fervor of a backwoods preacher and the bawdy humor of a juke joint.
  
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• Suspect Is Taken into Custody in Decade-Long Louvre Ticketing Scam

  14-05-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  A Louvre employee was indicted and detained on Wednesday on charges including organized gang fraud as part of an investigation into a scheme to defraud the Paris museum of ticket fees for thousands of visitors. Six others had been placed in custody “because of the communications they may have had with the first defendants,” the public prosecutor said, per Le Monde. The indicted employee also faces charges of use of forgery, assistance in the entry and circulation of a foreigner
  
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• J.M.W. Turner’s Most Famous Self-Portrait Might Not Actually Be by the Artist at All

  14-05-2026 19:06 via artnews.com
  One of J.M.W. Turner’s most self-portraits, which appears on the £20 note, may not be by the artist at all.Art historian James Hamilton, who has written widely on Turner, curated exhibitions on the artist, and authored the 1997 biography Turner—A Life, told the Guardian this week that he believes the painting has been misattributed to Turner. While the painting, dated to ca. 1799, does depict the English Romantic painter, he said, he believes it to have been painted by John Opi
  
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• An Installation at the British Museum Recreates the Bayeux Tapestry’s Landscape

  14-05-2026 18:51 via artnews.com
  In the run-up to the British Museum’s historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open “Tapestry of Trees,” an outdoor installation by garden designer Andy Sturgeon. Meant to evoke a medieval woodland, the installation will be composed of plants and trees typically found in East Sussex, where the Battle of Hastings—the primary subject of the tapestry—was fought in 1066 CE.  Visitors approaching the museum’s doors will pass under a c
  
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• At Independent, Joel Mesler’s ‘Death Wish’ Is Part Art Exhibit, Part Market Experiment

  14-05-2026 18:42 via artnews.com
  At a coffee shop in Little Italy late last month, Joel Mesler leaned back in his chair and started explaining how he used to sell art in New York. Back when he was running galleries in the Lower East Side in the late 2000s and early 2010s, he said, deals often came together late at night, after too many drinks, as he mingled with people who he thought were far above his station.“I would want to be at the table, but I wasn’t invited,” Mesler said, pausing to sip an iced coffee.
  
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• Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara in ‘Fallen Angels,’ and More Theater to Stream

  14-05-2026 17:58 via nytimes.com
  The actresses both scored Tony nominations for their hilarious turns in Noël Coward’s 1925 farce. Also catch Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler in “The Last Five Years.”
  
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• Trial Begins in Brent Sikkema Murder-For-Hire Case

  14-05-2026 17:53 via artnews.com
  Opening statements and witness testimony were heard in a Manhattan court on Tuesday in the murder-for-hire trial following the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkeman.Sikkema was found brutally murdered in January 2024 in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days later, and claimed that the dealer’s ex-husband, Daniel Carrera Sikkema, had offered him $200,000 to carry out the crime. Carrera Sikkema was arrested tw
  
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• Six Unforgettable Artists at the Biggest Independent Fair

  14-05-2026 17:52 via nytimes.com
  A dependably stylish fair expands and reappears on the far side of Chinatown.
  
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• At TEFAF New York, Lesser-Known Artists Delight

  14-05-2026 17:48 via nytimes.com
  At the Park Avenue Armory, home to the art fair with the deepest roots in Europe, five names wooed our critic, cutting through the star system.
  
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• ‘Is God Is’ Review: The Fires This Time

  14-05-2026 17:28 via nytimes.com
  Kara Young and Mallori Johnson play twins bent on revenge in the playwright Aleshea Harris’s powerhouse film debut.
  
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• Julio Torres’s Furniture Takes Inspiration From the JFK Customs Line

  14-05-2026 16:55 via nytimes.com
  Plus: a renewed Paris nightclub, sunglasses from Debbie Harry and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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• New York’s Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Major Expansion

  14-05-2026 16:54 via artnews.com
  The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution’s modern art offerings.The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and that the Neue Galerie will now be known as the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, or the Met Neue for short. (The latter institution is located in a townhouse at the corner of Fifth Ave
  
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• The Met Teams Up with Band-Aid on Art-Themed Adhesive Bandages

  14-05-2026 16:26 via artnews.com
  Following the success of their 2025 collaboration, BAND-AID® Brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have reunited to produce a new lineup of art-themed adhesive bandages. This year, the band-aids feature details from three flower paintings in the Met’s collection: Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (1919), Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh’s Irises (1890), and Symbolist artist Odilon Redon’s Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1900–1905).The 2026 Band-Aid
  
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• Judith Barnard, of Best-Selling ‘Judith Michael’ Fame, Dies at 94

  14-05-2026 16:19 via nytimes.com
  At 50, on a lark, she published a romance-thriller with her husband, Michael Fain. Like the characters of their novel, they found themselves thrown into unexpected success.
  
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• Koji Suzuki, Whose Horror Novels Inspired ‘Ring’ Movies, Dies at 68

  14-05-2026 16:06 via nytimes.com
  Sometimes called the Stephen King of Japan, he helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned one of the highest-grossing horror films ever made.
  
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• The Met Will Expand by Merging With the Nearby Neue Galerie

  14-05-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of 20th-century Austrian and German art built by Ronald S. Lauder.
  
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• Hungary’s New Minister of Culture Vows to Restore Artistic Freedom, Turner’s Famous ‘Self-Portrait’ Called Into Doubt, and More: Morning Links for May 14, 2026

  14-05-2026 15:30 via artnews.com
  Good Morning!An expert claims the iconic image of JMW Turner printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait.Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.The Trump administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested Triumphal Arch and a White House ballroom.The Headlines AN ABOUT-TURNER. Most will immediately recognize the f
  
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• Libraries’ 'Paper Paradise' exhibition features Pennsylvania Dutch paper arts - The Pennsylvania State University

  14-05-2026 15:12 via news.google.com
  Libraries’ 'Paper Paradise' exhibition features Pennsylvania Dutch paper arts  The Pennsylvania State University
  
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• Who Owns These Artworks? Musée d’Orsay Hopes Visitors Can Help Find Out.

  14-05-2026 14:53 via nytimes.com
  A new room in the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent display includes 13 pieces that were recovered from Germany and Austria after World War II and whose provenance is unknown.
  
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• City of Boulder Celebrates 6th Annual Arts in the Park Series - City of Boulder (.gov)

  14-05-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  City of Boulder Celebrates 6th Annual Arts in the Park Series  City of Boulder (.gov)
  
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• Engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging as much as exercise, study suggests - CNN

  14-05-2026 12:59 via news.google.com
  Engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging as much as exercise, study suggests  CNN
  
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• In Venice, the Passion of Life and the Ghost of Art

  14-05-2026 11:20 via nytimes.com
  The 2026 edition of the world’s oldest art exhibition is a celebration of vitality — for better and indeed for worse.
  
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• Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Join National Recording Registry

  14-05-2026 11:05 via nytimes.com
  The collection at the Library of Congress also added works by Weezer and Vince Gill, and a radio broadcast of a fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
  
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• Julieta Venegas, a Mexican Pop Hitmaker, Is Looking Homeward

  14-05-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  On her new album, “Norteña,” the singer embraces regional traditions and unlocks her most personal songwriting yet.
  
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• Best Booths at Frieze, the Workhorse of Contemporary Art

  14-05-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  Among the 65 galleries at the Shed are paintings, paintings, paintings, and a surprising trove of small sculptures.
  
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• How the Stars of 6 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows Get Into Character

  14-05-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  For Nathan Lane, Taraji P. Henson, Daniel Radcliffe and other actors, it can take wigs, group hugs or banishing ghosts to make the transformation.
  
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• How an Image of Washington at Prayer Became a Touchstone for the Right

  14-05-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  A scene inspired by the winter at Valley Forge has become more prominent in the Trump era, along with claims that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
  
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• A Primer on Buddhist Monuments

  14-05-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Three architecturally significant stupas, or reliquary mounds, in Nepal, Thailand and Taiwan.
  
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• ‘Obsession’ Review: I Love You to Death

  14-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Passion becomes possession in Curry Barker’s supernatural, be-careful-what-you-wish-for horror movie.
  
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• ‘Magic Hour’ Review: Grief Encounters

  14-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Katie Aselton’s melodrama follows a woman in the California desert who is reeling after a mysterious marriage conflict.
  
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• ‘Life Hack’ Review: A Heist That Never Leaves the Screen

  14-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  A group of teenagers seem to be targeting a cryptocurrency billionaire out of boredom, but they have a more sympathetic motive in this hacker film.
  
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• ‘Decorado’ Review: Cute Mice Meet Cold Orwellian Despair

  14-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  This surreal satire blends anthropomorphic charm with existential dread to critique capitalism, though its meta-commentary leaves some haunting questions frustratingly unanswered.
  
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• ‘Agatha’s Almanac’ Review: Living Off the Land

  14-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Over six years, a filmmaker captured her aunt’s largely self-sufficient lifestyle and eccentricities on a 54-acre farm in Canada.
  
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• ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: The New Rasputin

  14-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Paul Dano and Jude Law star in a movie about the rise of Vladimir Putin and a fictional version of his right-hand man.
  
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• The Villains Who Shaped ‘Survivor’

  14-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  From Richard Hatch to Russell Hantz and beyond, the landmark reality show brought a new type of antagonist to TV screens.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Slams ‘Trump’s Fabulous Billionaire Boys Trip’

  14-05-2026 07:50 via nytimes.com
  Late night hosts responded to President Trump’s arrival in Beijing on Wednesday, accompanied by 17 chief executives including Tim Cook and Elon Musk.
  
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• Shakira, Madonna and BTS Are First World Cup Final Halftime Show

  14-05-2026 06:18 via nytimes.com
  The previous World Cup final drew more than 500 million live viewers. This year’s matchup is scheduled for July 19 at MetLife Stadium.
  
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• S.F. Arts Commission staff says leader who makes more than $230,000 a year has been absent during tumult - San Francisco Chronicle

  14-05-2026 02:48 via news.google.com
  S.F. Arts Commission staff says leader who makes more than $230,000 a year has been absent during tumult  San Francisco Chronicle
  
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