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• ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Review: The Old Man and the Sea

  21-10-2021 19:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Liz Garbus’s new documentary is about the life of the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the fate of the oceans he loved.
  
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• Dolly Parton Had the Voice, and Concerns, of an Earth Angel

  26-08-2026 01:10 via nytimes.com
  Parton gave hopeful expression to songs she wrote about the hard times and hard-won triumphs of her life.
  
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• Dolly Parton: A Life in Pictures

  26-08-2026 00:49 via nytimes.com
  Parton made her mark in the country arenas of Nashville, and then crossed over into the pop world, Hollywood and beyond.
  
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• Dolly Parton Was Someone We Could All Agree On. Even in Polls.

  25-08-2026 23:49 via nytimes.com
  Few could match the bipartisan support that Ms. Parton received in public opinion polls. Not even Taylor Swift.
  
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• Len Brown, the Kidlike Creator of ‘Mars Attacks,’ Dies at 84

  25-08-2026 23:47 via nytimes.com
  He brought a juvenile creative sensibility to the Topps Chewing Gum company, where he was able to unerringly predict what would appeal to adolescents.
  
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• Anne Imhof to Debut New Ballet-Inspired Performance at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary

  25-08-2026 23:14 via artnews.com
  
  Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong announced today that Anne Imhof will debut a suite of new works as part of her solo exhibition opening at the former prison turned art space next month.Related ArticlesAnne Imhof’s Vapid ‘DOOM’ Performance Has Nothing to Say After 14 Years, Philip Tinari Leaves UCCA for Hong Kong's Tai Kwun Titled “House of Swans,” the exhibition, which marks the artist’s first solo in Asia, will feature “a major commission of
  
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• Two Convicted in Hamburg Court of Selling Looted Egyptian Antiquities

  25-08-2026 23:12 via artnews.com
  
  Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday of money laundering in a case whose details closely match those of the two children of Serop Simonian, the German art dealer and alleged leader of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring that sold items to museums including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The conviction was reported by Arab News, which did not mention the names of the convicted parties or the French museum in the United Arab Emirates.Th
  
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• Photographer Sues Elizabeth Peyton Over Painting Using His Photo of Oasis Band Members

  25-08-2026 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, rock music photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the American painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby’s, and David Zwirner Gallery, as first reported by Copyright Lately. In the suit, Thomas accuses Peyton of willfully copying a photograph he took at an after-party in London’s Earls Court in 1995 of Oasis band members Liam and Noel Gallagher embracing in a rare show of affection, given the brothers’ w
  
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• Dolly Parton Wanted to Share Her Story on Broadway. She Still Will.

  25-08-2026 22:34 via nytimes.com
  “Dolly: A True Original Musical” is scheduled to begin previews in December after a strong-selling production in Nashville last year.
  
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• Dolly Parton Is Mourned by Reba McEntire, Lily Tomlin and More

  25-08-2026 22:30 via nytimes.com
  After her death at 80, celebrities and politicians honored the country music star for her generosity and philanthropy.
  
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• Trump Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center if He Can’t Close It for Renovations

  25-08-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  The Trump administration is threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it does not get its wish to close it for two years in order to renovate it. In a Monday court filing, the administration describes the building as “dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit” and argues that, absent its proposed renovation, the building “will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site,” noting that “so
  
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• Judge Says Sale of Titanic Artifacts Cannot Go Forward for Now

  25-08-2026 22:16 via nytimes.com
  The salvage company that has been awarded the rights to recover, but not sell, items that sunk with the ship, has proposed selling 100 of them.
  
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• Larry Gagosian Isn’t Losing Much Sleep Over the Great Wealth Transfer

  25-08-2026 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  During a talk at the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons last week, mega-dealer Larry Gagosian was asked for his predictions on whether an enormous amount of art could hit the market in the coming years as aging boomers die and their collections pass to their heirs. Bloomberg recently put the potential haul at around $1 trillion and warned that younger generations may have little interest in keeping what their parents collected.“I guess the worry is that it will push prices down,&
  
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• Russia’s FSB Agents Recruited Former Pussy Riot Member to Spy on Artists

  25-08-2026 20:56 via artnews.com
  
  A former member of the protest-art collective Pussy Riot says she was recruited by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to help spy on the Kremlin’s critics. Rita Flores, whose real name is Margarita Konovalova, sat down in an interview with her lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov posted on the YouTube channel of Port Media, an outlet created in July 2024 by a group of exiled Russian journalists.In 2020, she was jailed for taking part in an anti-police brutality protest near the Kremlin with
  
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• Dolly Parton: Hear 15 Essential Songs

  25-08-2026 20:56 via nytimes.com
  The singer-songwriter rose from poverty to become a chart-topping performer whose earnest character allowed her to span genres.
  
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• Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80

  25-08-2026 20:06 via nytimes.com
  Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
  
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• Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80

  25-08-2026 20:06 via nytimes.com
  Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
  
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• The Origins of Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’

  25-08-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  On its 40th anniversary, our critic looks back at the album’s creation, paradoxes and reception.
  
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• Robert Skidelsky, Definitive Biographer of Keynes, Dies at 86

  25-08-2026 19:46 via nytimes.com
  An economic historian and political maverick, he was a sometimes polarizing public intellectual and a member of the House of Lords.
  
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• Sliman Mansour, Towering Painter of Palestinian Perseverance, Has Died at 79

  25-08-2026 19:43 via artnews.com
  
  Sliman Mansour, a pivotal painter in contemporary Arab art history, with an oeuvre synonymous with the struggle for Palestinian statehood, has died at 79. The news was announced yesterday by Mansour’s family, who had previously shared that he was in critical condition. “The final chapter has been written,” the Mansour family said on Instagram. “With hearts heavy beyond words, we share that our beloved father has passed away. … To the world, he leaves behind a
  
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• Fabrizio Plessi, Pioneering Italian Video Artist and Experimenter, Dies at 86

  25-08-2026 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  Fabrizio Plessi, a pioneer of video art, died on August 23 in Venice at 86. His death was reported by La Repubblica. Plessi was best known for engaging history and tradition with the digital, creating installation that took on an architecture of their own. A true experimenter, he also had a flare for eschewing one medium for another, moving between water, fire, stone, memory, and most recently glass.As a teenager, Plessi moved to Venice, first to study at the city’s Art High School and the
  
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• Trump Lawyers Warn That Kennedy Center Might Need Demolition if Not Fixed

  25-08-2026 18:07 via nytimes.com
  In a court filing about honoring President Trump on the facade, the administration said that without a proper renovation the building might need to be “taken down.”
  
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• Is Billionaire Wealth Driving Modern Art Prices?, Ex-Pussy Riot Member Rita Flores Speaks Out, Kehinde Wiley Painting Removed From American Embassy in the Dominican Republic: Morning Links for August 25, 2026

  25-08-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!The Financial Times has argued that billionaire wealth, not artistic value, is driving modern art’s astronomical prices.Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores said Russia’s FSB tried to recruit her as an informant in 2023.A Kehinde Wiley painting has been removed from the American Embassy in the Dominican Republic for being &ldquo
  
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• ‘Mile End Kicks,’ ‘Good One’ and More Streaming Gems

  25-08-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  In this month’s picks, a new coming-of-age charmer about a rock critic, a fascinating documentary about the early days of hip-hop and a sweet indie about a Brooklyn father-daughter band.
  
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• Trump Administration Weighs Sale of Kehinde Wiley Painting in Larger Shift Away from ‘Globalist and Woke Ideologies’

  25-08-2026 16:11 via artnews.com
  
  The US Embassy in the Dominican Republic is changing its artwork to reflect “American patriotism and the beauty of our great country,” US ambassador Leah Campos wrote in an Instagram post on August 11, that showed Kehinde Wiley’s Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) being swapped for an image of the American flag. The post was accompanied by the song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister.  On Monday, the New York Times reported that the Sta
  
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• Claudia Pagès Rabal Plays in the Ruins of Settler Colonial Time

  25-08-2026 14:35 via artnews.com
  
  In Typo-Topo-Time Aljibe (2024), a video, shown on an undulating screen, follows Claudia Pagès Rabal as she descends into an 11th-century Moorish water cistern in Xàtiva, Spain—wetsuit on, 360-degree camera strapped to her body. She swims through murky water, plunging and surfacing as a techno score drops and swells with her. The walls around her are scribed with marks spanning centuries—penises, names, legal contracts—all cut into the same damp stone, n
  
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• For ‘National Treasure’ Superfans, the Secret Lies in Philadelphia

  25-08-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The creators of the “National Treasure Hunt” podcast bring their passion for the Nicolas Cage heist movie to the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence.
  
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• Interpol Comes Full Circle on ‘This Mirror Weighs a Ton’

  25-08-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The band that emerged in post-9/11 New York grapples with the surveillance state on its anxious but hopeful new LP, “This Mirror Weighs a Ton.”
  
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• Is It Time for This 95-Year-Old Pianist to Retire?

  25-08-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Her vision and hearing are deteriorating, but she still wants to feel like she’s on top.
  
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• Jelly Roll Celebrates His 300-Pound Weight Loss on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

  25-08-2026 07:13 via nytimes.com
  “That means I’ve lost an entire Donald Trump,” the country singer said while guest hosting Monday’s late night show.
  
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