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• A Conversation on ‘Passing’

  09-03-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The author Brit Bennett speaks about Nella Larsen’s 1929 classic.
  
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• New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years

  19-10-2026 20:24 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they’ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery&rsquo
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem

  19-10-2026 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  What’s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list.The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression: The Hypnotist (2026) by Atlanta native Taylor Simmons. The work, he wrote, was “just incredible.”Simmons is a 2026 artist-in-residence, along with Simonett
  
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• Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

  19-10-2026 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The €
  
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• ‘Mothers of Kherson’: An Operatic Show of Support for Ukraine

  19-10-2026 18:38 via nytimes.com
  Operas don’t usually reflect current events. But “The Mothers of Kherson,” a product of artistic advocacy by the Met Opera, blends news and myth.
  
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• Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida city in 2002.But a New York Times report goes inside a sharp-elbowed fight over the future location of the fair, whose executives demanded that the city cut in half the rent it pays on the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the
  
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• Jenny Holzer Resurrects the Past to Lament the Present

  19-10-2026 18:13 via nytimes.com
  Excerpts from archival letters and diaries were the basis for a number of the works in the American artist’s solo show at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay.
  
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• An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map

  19-10-2026 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  A retrospective for Eva Gonzalès, who is today best known as Édouard Manet’s only formal pupil, has been long overdue. That correction was planned for 2020, when the Château-Musée de Dieppe was to organize a show as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, but it was put on hold by the pandemic until the Petit Palais took up the mantle, where “Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883): A Free-Spirited Artist’s Journey” is on view until Januar
  
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• Tony Iommi Keeps Looking for Joy in the Darkness

  19-10-2026 16:49 via nytimes.com
  After the sadness of the final Black Sabbath show, the guitarist completed “From the Dark,” his first solo album in 20 years, with younger collaborators who aided his ongoing quest for “big riffs.”
  
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• Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France

  19-10-2026 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the same museum, and follows a massive, nationwide protest on Saturday against social inequality, particularly visible in public schools, which spiraled into clashes with police and riots. These continued to a lesser degree Sunday evening.The unrest has come on the eve of
  
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• Protesters Block Louvre Following Weekend of Unrest, Art Basel Will Stay in Miami Following City Rent Discount, and More: Morning Links for October 19, 2026

  19-10-2026 15:10 via artnews.com
  
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  The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on Saturday and devolved into rioting.Amid a “cyclical downturn” for Art Basel fairs, the company will hold onto its spot in Miami through 2031, thanks to a new deal that reduces annua
  
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• Art Basel Las Vegas? The Fight Over Miami Beach’s Fair

  19-10-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  After 18 months of negotiations and warnings that it might relocate to Nevada, the Art Basel fair will remain in Miami Beach through 2031.
  
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• What Can We See in All the Recent Art About AIDS?

  19-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.
  
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• 25 Years After the World Trade Center Fell, an Architect’s Legacy Is Still Being Written

  19-10-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Our reporter’s personal journey in search of buildings by Minoru Yamasaki finds some abandoned, some celebrated.
  
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• ‘Yaga’ and 8 More Shows to Watch on TV This Week

  19-10-2026 07:00 via nytimes.com
  Hudson Williams stars in a new mystery series from Canada. And CMA celebrates Dolly Parton.
  
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• ‘Other Desert Cities’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Smashing Debut

  19-10-2026 05:59 via nytimes.com
  Jon Robin Baitz’s 2010 family bash-em-up gets an uneven Broadway revival, with a cast that also includes Allison Janney at her droll, insulting best.
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies

  19-10-2026 02:08 via artnews.com
  
  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family.The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he
  
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• ‘Saturday Night Live U.K.’ Lays Into Shane Gillis

  18-10-2026 23:52 via nytimes.com
  Gillis has been sharply criticized for his jokes about women during his opening monologue as host of “Saturday Night Live” in New York on Oct. 10.
  
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• Alan Mandell, Star of ‘Godot’ and Other Beckett Plays, Dies at 98

  18-10-2026 23:09 via nytimes.com
  An actor, producer and director, he also managed several theater companies. But he was best known for his performances in works by Samuel Beckett.
  
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• 7 Takeaways From Chuck Lorre’s New Memoir, ‘Sitcom’

  18-10-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  In “Sitcom,” the longtime TV writer and producer Chuck Lorre gives his candid take on Charlie Sheen, Roseanne Barr and the “Big Bang” cast.
  
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• A Once-in-a-Lifetime Look Into America’s Most-Storied Art Couple

  18-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of more 120 works by America’s most storied art couple: Lee Krasner (1908–84) and Jackson Pollock (1912–56). Much has been said about them, with almost all the focus being on Pollock. A May auction made him the newest member of the $100 million club, and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Grego
  
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• Lana Del Rey’s Country Duet and 9 More Songs We’re Talking About

  18-10-2026 06:23 via nytimes.com
  The singer joins Zach Bryan’s new single, Olivia Rodrigo teams up with Chappell Roan, Fireboy DML vows longevity and more.
  
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• The Man Who Taught Us How to Pay Attention

  18-10-2026 06:01 via nytimes.com
  The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling.
  
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• Peter Nagy, Visionary Artist Turned Art Dealer, Dies at 66

  17-10-2026 19:04 via nytimes.com
  After an early career in New York City, where he co-founded one of the first artist-run galleries, he fell in love with India and uprooted his life.
  
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• The Best Book Parties Are at the Frankfurt Book Fair

  17-10-2026 17:35 via nytimes.com
  Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.
  
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• The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront

  17-10-2026 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to London for its 14th edition, which has introduced a new section this year focused on African modernism, curated by art historian Nancy Dantas. Titled “West Wind” and inspired by Miriam Makeba’s 1966 anthem for unity, this presentation addresses the gap left by Sotheby’s when it closed its dedicated African modernism department in 2025. The showcase features mid-20th-century masters, like Ibrahim El-Salahi, Bertina Lop
  
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• Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana

  17-10-2026 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Listen to Ibrahim Mahama speak, and he’s likely to credit his success to his community, which includes market women, weavers, craftsmen, studio assistants, railway workers, curators, professors, and fellow artists.The Ghanaian artist is quick to recognize their contributions when he receives one of the many awards he’s picked up recently. Ranked at the top of the influential ArtReview Power 100 list in 2025, he also won an Art Basel Gold Award that year and received the 2026 Arnold B
  
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• Lana Del Rey’s Country Duet and 9 More Songs We're Talking About

  17-10-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The singer joins Zach Bryan’s new single, Olivia Rodrigo teams up with Chappell Roan, Fireboy DML vows longevity and more.
  
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• In Netflix’s ‘East of Eden,’ Florence Pugh’s Cathy Ames Is Recognizably Human

  17-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh’s nuanced take on the Netflix show’s villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.
  
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• A Mona Lisa Etched Into Oklahoma’s Skies by a Pilot and His Plane

  17-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Benjamin McDaniel, known as the Pilot Picasso, has drawn some of the most elaborate designs in the sky: a world map, a “Lord of The Rings” homage and now, a da Vinci.
  
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