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• Constance Antell named Pierre Fine Arts Performer of the Week - Drgnews

  19-10-2020 20:32 via drgnews.com
  
  Constance Antell named Pierre Fine Arts Performer of the Week  Drgnews
  
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• Puerto Rican Musician-turned-Artist Rafael Ferrer Has Died, Preliminary Trial Opens Against Museum and City Officials for Alleged Negligence Leading to Villena Treasure Theft, and More: Morning Links for September 30, 2026

  30-09-2026 15:02 via artnews.com
  
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  Puerto Rican musician-turned-artist Rafael Ferrer has died at age 93.Preliminary court proceedings have begun against the mayor of the Spanish town of Villena and the director of the local MUVI museum, both accused of neglect leading to the theft of the Villena Treasure.The German town of Heidenau has voted to stop installing new “Stolpersteine” (or “stumbling s
  
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• Can Trump Legally Demolish the Kennedy Center? Experts Say Not Easily.

  30-09-2026 14:25 via nytimes.com
  The president has entertained the idea of tearing down the performing arts venue. Analysts say any plan would face multiple daunting challenges.
  
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• $180 M. Van Gogh Landscape Leads Blaquier-Arrieta Collection of Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces at Upcoming Sotheby’s Auction

  30-09-2026 14:16 via artnews.com
  
  For decades, Carlos Pedro Blaquier and Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier quietly lived with the sort of paintings that have, for the most part, disappeared from private collections: major works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, and others, many of which have not been seen publicly in more than half a century.Now the whole group is coming out at once. Sotheby’s will offer the 12 works in New York on November 18, with a combined
  
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• A Storied Collection of Blotter Acid Art Will Help Launch Northern California’s Inaugural ‘Further’ Triennial

  30-09-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  A new triennial focusing on Northern California will include a show closely linked to the psychedelic counterculture often identified with the Bay Area: it will display the art that is printed on the sheets of card stock on which LSD is usually distributed. The artifacts come from the collection of San Francisco artist and psychedelics enthusiast Mark McCloud.“I’ve been at it since the mid-’60s, collecting it in the inside of my body first and then in my freezer, and then I sta
  
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• A New Exhibition Explores How Telenovela Tropes Reveal a Deeper Meaning in Art

  30-09-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  What can a telenovela tell us about society? Or about art even? Those questions are central ones to the recently opened exhibition “Telenovela” at the Americas Society in New York. Running through March 27, the show explores a range of cultural, social, and economic messaging inserted in the genre through 52 artworks ranging from the 1970s to present day.“Telenovelas are a historical phenomenon,” Americas Society chief curator Aimé Iglesias Lukin told ARTnews of he
  
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• Can Trump Demolish the Kennedy Center?

  30-09-2026 11:11 via nytimes.com
  President Trump was photographed holding a rendering of the Kennedy Center being demolished. Our reporter Julia Jacobs explains how destroying the arts venue would face legal hurdles.
  
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• ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: The Circle of Life

  30-09-2026 11:06 via nytimes.com
  A promotion, a loss and news of an impending arrival.
  
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• Can President Trump Demolish the Kennedy Center? Experts Say Not Easily.

  30-09-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The president has entertained the idea of tearing down the performing arts venue. Analysts say any plan would face multiple daunting challenges.
  
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• ‘Begotten’: Rubbing Your Eyes in Disbelief

  30-09-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  E. Elias Merhige’s digitally restored, black-and-white horror film has its first New York run in decades at the IFC Center. Its power is undiminished.
  
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• ‘The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part’ Review: More True-Crime Sensationalism

  30-09-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  A new Netflix documentary looks at the winding road to getting a conviction in a Las Vegas murder case.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Degenerates’ Unmasks the Longing Disguised as Hate

  30-09-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  In her play about a group of very online incels, Else Went reveals what happens to their rabid rhetoric when these people are offered love.
  
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• 20 Years Later, Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ Is Back at Versailles

  30-09-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Once criticized for its modern soundtrack and pastel aesthetics, the director’s portrait of royal ennui is now being honored in the chateau where it was filmed.
  
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• Jennifer Archibald Is Bringing Fresh Moves to New York City Ballet

  30-09-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Jennifer Archibald creates ballets for the generations who grew up on hip-hop and electronic dance music. She makes her New York City Ballet debut at the fashion gala.
  
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• Xbox’s Millennial C.E.O., Asha Sharma, Isn’t Playing Around

  30-09-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “I think the industry will require disruption,” said Asha Sharma, who has overseen layoffs and divested studios since inheriting Microsoft’s flailing video game division.
  
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• A New Documentary Looks at Etel Adnan’s Radical Mind and What She Left Us

  30-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The fog rises from Mount Tamalpais like a spirit, slowly billowing over spears of feathery redwoods and fluffs of fragrant bay laurels. A carpeted green California landscape meets sky and a lick of silvery Pacific Ocean. The mountain seems to breathe like a living being, and it acts as a central character in a new documentary about the late artist Etel Adnan, who similarly turned her attention to the mountain in numerous paintings and poems for over five decades.Filmed during the last five years
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Pokes Fun at America’s New A.I. Chatbot

  30-09-2026 07:21 via nytimes.com
  “Yeah, everyone’s afraid of A.I., and nobody trusts the federal government, so Trump was like, ‘Let’s combine them,’” Jimmy Fallon said.
  
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• Sotheby’s London Racks Up Highest-Ever Sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at $26.2 M., Setting Nine Artist Records

  29-09-2026 23:25 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, Sotheby’s London’s sale of modern and contemporary South Asian art rang up at £19.8 million ($26.2 million), the highest total realized for the category in the house’s history. The 73-lot sale achieved a 99% sell-through rate, with some 89% of works exceeding their high estimate. The house’s previous high in the category was £18.9 million ($25.5 million), also achieved in London, one year ago.Along the way, new auction records were set for Antonio
  
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• Lauren Halsey to Transform the Hollywood Bowl with Immersive World for a Concert Headlined by Erykah Badu

  29-09-2026 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles–based artist Lauren Halsey will transform the Hollywood Bowl tonight for a one-night only event with a star-studded line-up, headlined by Erykah Badu.With some tickets still available, doors to the Bowl open tonight at 6 p.m. where visitors will see a large-scale installation-cum-environment that Halsey has created to set the stage for Badu—she’s also done the stage design. Also performing are The Alchemist, DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak), Flea, and artist Charles
  
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• At U.C.L.A., a Bollywood Dance Team Like ‘Best of the Best’

  29-09-2026 22:46 via nytimes.com
  “For a lot of South Asians, dance is the way we connect,” said a member of the U.C.L.A. team Nashaa. Our photographer captured glimpses of the team last year, from audition to competitions.
  
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• Nicole Eisenman Opens Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’

  29-09-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired The Auction (2024–25), a painting by artist Nicole Eisenman. Like much of Eisenman’s oeuvre, it’s a fanciful work of figuration, featuring a feverish bidding war overseen by a fruit-headed, black-robed judge. While Eisenman’s works are funny at first glance, a nuanced narrative, interweaving the personal and political, can usually be teased out of them. That was not the case with The Auction, which didn&rsqu
  
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• Nicole Eisenman Open Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’

  29-09-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired The Auction (2024–25), a painting by artist Nicole Eisenman. Like much of Eisenman’s oeuvre, it’s a fanciful work of figuration, featuring a feverish bidding war overseen by a fruit-headed, black-robed judge. While Eisenman’s works are funny at first glance, a nuanced narrative, interweaving the personal and political, can usually be teased out of them. That was not the case with The Auction, which didn&rsqu
  
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• Ancient Roman Settlement Discovered in Austria May Be Lost City of Claudivium

  29-09-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  An interdisciplinary team, including archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck, has mapped the remains of a previously unknown Roman town in Lower Austria. Researchers think the settlement could be the lost city of Claudivium, abandoned over 1800 years ago. The news was reported by several sites, including Arkeonews, following a September 25 announcement by the University of Innsbruck.The site, located at the hamlet of Stein/St. Pantaleon-Erla, is just a few miles east of the ancient Roman
  
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• Senators Blumenthal and Cornyn File Amicus Brief in Case of Heirs Suing for Nazi-Looted Egon Schiele Works

  29-09-2026 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and his Republican counterpart John Cornyn of Texas have filed an amicus (or “friend of the court”) brief defending their own Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which was signed into law in 2016, against claims of unconstitutionality by Austrian defendants seeking to hold on to Nazi-looted works by Egon Schiele.The senators filed the brief on September 18 in the Southern District of New York in the case Reif v. Republi
  
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• Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament to Screen in Eight-Hour Event at New York Masonic Hall

  29-09-2026 21:24 via artnews.com
  
  Twelve years after premiering in New York, back then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s epic film River of Fundament will return to the big screen in an eight-hour event at the Masonic Hall of New York, on West 23rd Street in Chelsea.On November 14, the film’s three acts, which run for nearly five and a half hours in total, will be separated by intermissions to allow the audience “to move throughout the adjoining spaces of the Masonic Hall&rs
  
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• Long-Lost Drawing May Be a Previously Unknown Manet

  29-09-2026 21:11 via artnews.com
  
  A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work by Édouard Manet.The small red-chalk study shows a child crouching on the ground, according to The Guardian, which first reported the discovery. Francesco Baccanelli, an Italian art historian who encountered the work in a private collection in northern Italy, told the outlet he became interested after noticing that its mount carried an old attribution to Manet. He subsequently brought
  
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• Artists Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, and Vincent Valdez Win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants

  29-09-2026 20:54 via artnews.com
  
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 20 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellowships, colloquially called “Genius Grants,” which comes with $800,000 in unrestricted funds.This year’s cohort includes four artists: Christine Sun Kim (based in Berlin), Rodney McMillian (Los Angeles), Vincent Valdez (Houston and San Antonio), and Chip Thomas (Flagstaff, Arizona).The subject of a recent Whitney Museum survey, Kim is known for her works that challenge
  
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• As Mr. Belding on “Saved by the Bell,” Dennis Haskins Made Principals Your Pal

  29-09-2026 20:12 via nytimes.com
  As Mr. Belding on “Saved by the Bell,” Dennis Haskins helped change an onscreen dynamic that paved the way for principals to come.
  
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• My Favorite Phone Songs

  29-09-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Stow your devices and listen to these telephone-themed songs from Blondie, Chuck Berry, R.E.M. and more.
  
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• In ‘How Shakespeare Saved My Life,’ Tragedy Mingles With Comedy

  29-09-2026 18:54 via nytimes.com
  The actor Jacob Ming-Trent faced numerous rejections. But in this solo play at the Public, he tells how he found redemption through the playwright’s worlds and words.
  
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