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• Jury Convicts Daniel Sikkema in Killing of New York Dealer Brent Sikkema

  22-05-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of murdered New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, was found guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court, according to the Wall Street Journal. Daniel Sikkema faced charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the dealer’s killing at his vacation home in Rio de Janeiro in 2024. The case has gripped the art world since Brent Sikkema, the founder of the Chelsea gallery then known as Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was found st
  
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• Historically Accurate Replica of 4500-Year-Old Building to Open at Stonehenge

  22-05-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, aims to help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders.The hall is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more than
  
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• A Historically Accurate Replica of a 4500-Year-Old Community Hall to Open at Stonehenge

  22-05-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, will help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders.The structure is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more tha
  
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• Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Controversial Triumphal Arch Celebrating ‘Greatness, Freedom, and Posterity’

  22-05-2026 20:14 via artnews.com
  President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy chief Vince Haley’s “primary thing.”The project’s architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, a principal at the firm Harrison Design and leader of its “Sacred Architecture Studio,” told the New York Times that “the int
  
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• Christie’s Kiran Nadar Exhibition Is the Latest Indicator of the South Asian Art Market’s Growing Importance

  22-05-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  India’s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is taking its collection to Christie’s London this summer, though don’t expect any of its artworks to be for sale. From July 16 to August 21, the New Delhi institution will stage “The Meeting Ground,” a non-selling survey of works from its 16,000-work collection at the auction house. The show will place Indian modernists like M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, and F.N. Souza, alongside contemporary South Asian artists, practi
  
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• White Stripes Frontman Jack White Is Showing Art at Damien Hirst’s Gallery

  22-05-2026 17:42 via artnews.com
  Jack White, who growled and grinded as the singer/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst.As chronicled in the Financial Times, he two artists first met in 2021, when White was readying a new outpost of his Nashville-based Third Man Records store in Soho, across the street from Hirst’s studio. White played a show from Hirst
  
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• Free Theater in NYC: 15 Live Shows to See This Spring and Summer

  22-05-2026 17:41 via nytimes.com
  Chekhov, Broadway stars and, yes, Shakespeare. There’s no shortage of free productions in the city this time of year. Here are 15 shows worth seeing.
  
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• Elle Pérez Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World

  22-05-2026 16:32 via artnews.com
  Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council). I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about the organization and how it worked. YCC is often one of the first groups that many young (21 to about 40 to be exact) hopeful future trustees and supporters of the arts join. $1,750 gets yo
  
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• Elle Peréz Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World

  22-05-2026 16:32 via artnews.com
  Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council). I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about the organization and how it worked. YCC is often one of the first groups that many young (21 to about 40 to be exact) hopeful future trustees and supporters of the arts join. $1,750 gets yo
  
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• Muriel Hasbun, Artist Whose Work Poignantly Recounted the Salvadoran Diaspora and the Fraughtness of Memory, Dies at 64

  22-05-2026 15:52 via artnews.com
  Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador’s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art historian Tatiana Flores.“A beloved member of the DC art scene and a leading advocate for Salvadoran and Central American artists in the diaspora, Muriel’s loss cuts deeply across many communities,”
  
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• Archaeologist Who May Have Found D’Artagnan’s Skeleton Was Arrested, Congress Nixes Museum Bill, and More: Morning Links for May 22, 2026

  22-05-2026 15:42 via artnews.com
  Good Morning!Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan.Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women.The Commission of Fine Arts approved plans to build Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch.The Headlines ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL? The Dutch archaeologist involved in the recent discovery of what many hope are the remains of the 17th-century
  
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• Stephen Colbert’s Last ‘Late Show’: Laughing Well Is the Best Revenge

  22-05-2026 15:28 via nytimes.com
  The “Late Show” cancellation was a disappointment. But a surreally lovely final episode turned it into a cancellebration.
  
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• Stephen Colbert’s Last Show: Laughing Well Is the Best Revenge

  22-05-2026 14:40 via nytimes.com
  The “Late Show” cancellation was a disappointment. But a surreally lovely final episode turned it into a cancellebration.
  
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• James Gray Stands Out at a Disappointing Cannes Film Festival

  22-05-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” is among the stronger titles, which also include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden” and Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland.”
  
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• Watch Scorsese Make a Mean Sandwich in ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’

  22-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The director Jon Favreau narrates a sequence featuring a character who works at a food truck and is voiced by Martin Scorsese.
  
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• Billy Eichner on ‘Bros’ and His New Memoir

  22-05-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The comedian needed time to process the poor turnout for his gay rom-com, “Bros.” His vulnerable new memoir may surprise “Billy on the Street” fans.
  
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• ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’: What to Know Before Seeing the Movie

  22-05-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  It draws from the Disney+ series. Here’s a reminder of the events of the show and how those fit into the larger franchise.
  
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• What to Read This Summer: NYT Reading Bucket List

  22-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)
  
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• Two of Modernism’s Lesbian Icons Get the Novel Treatment

  22-05-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  In Paris’s 20th arrondissement, there is a park, of sorts, where the city’s greatest revolutionaries go to rot. Some are the real deal: On May 28, 1871, over a hundred Communards were shot dead right here as dreams of a Socialist utopia crumbled around them. Other legends were made not on barricades, but on the stage—or the page. Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smea
  
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• ‘The Yogurt Shop Murders’: When a Documentary Becomes Part of the Story

  22-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Weeks after an HBO docuseries on the 1991 murders of four girls aired last year, their killer was identified, and the race was on to add a new final chapter.
  
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• Superman Experience at Warner Bros. Mirrors Hollywood’s Change

  22-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Inside the reworked Stage 5, a hallowed soundstage where John Wayne once roamed and the cast of “Friends” sipped coffee on couches.
  
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• In Defense of the Institution of Late Night

  22-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” has ended. Our culture critic Jason Zinoman describes what we stand to lose.
  
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• In ‘Ask E. Jean,’ a Trump Adversary Examines Her Decision to Speak Out

  22-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  E. Jean Carroll won two court cases against him, but it took decades for her to come forward. The film is at its best on the reasons for her hesitance.
  
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• ‘Girl, Interrupted’ Continues, This Time Onstage at the Public Theater

  22-05-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here’s how the latest iteration came to be.
  
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• ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  22-05-2026 10:50 via nytimes.com
  The director Jon Favreau narrates a sequence from his film, featuring a character voiced by Martin Scorsese.
  
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• Stephen Colbert’s Last ‘Late Show’ Features Famous Friends and Paul McCartney

  22-05-2026 09:43 via nytimes.com
  Colbert was joined by famous friends, fellow hosts and special guests like Paul McCartney for the finale of “The Late Show.”
  
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• ‘Ladies First’ Review: A Nightmare for Men

  22-05-2026 08:59 via nytimes.com
  Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike star in this role-reversal workplace comedy where women rule the world.
  
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• Women’s Museum Bill Sinks Amid Dispute Over Trump and Trans Issues

  22-05-2026 02:03 via nytimes.com
  The legislation to build a Smithsonian museum to honor women became contentious after it was amended to say the museum could only recognize “biological” females.
  
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• Stream These 9 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in June

  22-05-2026 00:56 via nytimes.com
  Among the highlights leaving for U.S. subscribers are the original “Sex and the City” and the only onscreen pairing of Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
  
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• Valie Export, Who Made Art With Her Naked Body, Dies at 85

  22-05-2026 00:03 via nytimes.com
  In provocative performance pieces and films, she forced viewers to confront misogyny in the media and society at large.
  
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