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• Documenting a #MeToo Investigation Seven Years Later

  18-07-2024 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An article on claims of sexual misconduct against Louis C.K. led to backlash against the women who spoke out. “Sorry/Not Sorry,” a New York Times documentary, examined the aftermath.
  
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• Overlooked No More: Patricia Douglas, Who Challenged Hollywood’s Culture of Abuse

  21-08-2026 23:18 via nytimes.com
  Eight decades before the #MeToo groundswell, she took MGM to court after alleging she was attacked at a studio party in 1937.
  
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• Marseille Museum President Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Putting Institution ‘At Risk’: Report

  21-08-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  A scathing report by French government investigators accuses Pierre-Olivier Costa, the recently suspended president of Marseille’s Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), of sexual and moral harassment, breaching rules for granting public contracts, and putting the southern French city’s only national museum “at risk,” according to a Le Monde investigation. A front-page scoop published Friday evening in France also rev
  
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• An Obscure Canadian Agency Helped Convict Norval Morrisseau Forgers—and Is Finally Getting Its Due

  21-08-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud case in the history of Canada took at least 1,000 fakes off the market, though there may be thousands more still in private hands. The case made headlines internationally, but the contribu
  
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• Matthew Barney On His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Ranch in Colorado

  21-08-2026 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney’s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spi
  
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• Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Colorado Ranch

  21-08-2026 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney’s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spi
  
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• Emergency Appeal Asks Federal Court to Keep Trump’s Name Off Kennedy Center

  21-08-2026 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  A federal court received an emergency appeal Thursday seeking to block the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from restoring President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Kennedy Center board, led by Trump and largely composed of his allies, voted earlier this month to engrave the president’s name beneath the signage on the venue’s facade, which would read: “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald
  
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• The Smithsonian May Put its Latino Museum in a Building it Already Owns, Riling Conservatives

  21-08-2026 21:27 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino may make its home in the Arts and Industries Building, which the organization already owns, rather than in a purpose-built one, reports the New York Times, which says the decision may be made at a board meeting to take place August 31. The Smithsonian confirmed the meeting to the newspaper but declined to comment further. The 1881 building is on the National Mall, sited between the Smithsonian’s Castle and the
  
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• Smithsonian Plan for Latino Museum Would Bypass Congress

  21-08-2026 20:31 via nytimes.com
  The board will vote whether to house the museum in its Arts and Industries Building rather than build on a site owned by the National Park Service.
  
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• Dave Marsh, Rock Critic Who Loved Springsteen and Hated the Dead, Dies at 76

  21-08-2026 19:45 via nytimes.com
  A passionately opinionated veteran of Creem and Rolling Stone, he was part of a generation of writers who influenced how the world saw the golden age of rock.
  
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• Rediscovered Portrait by Baroque Master Bernini Will Be On View in Vienna this December

  21-08-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  When the exhibition “Bernini—Painter and Sculptor” opens at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum on Dec. 2, a painting newly attributed to the prolific Baroque master will be the star of the show. Until recently, Portrait of an Old Man, previously credited to an unknown artist, sat in a storeroom at the museum, reports The Art Newspaper.  Gian Lorenzo Bernini is widely known as an architect and sculptor. He designed several large, ornate components of St. Peter’s
  
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• Machel Montano, Soca Sovereign, Takes Over Brooklyn Public Library

  21-08-2026 18:10 via nytimes.com
  The career retrospective for Machel Montano, a first for a Caribbean artist, highlights his ties to New York City.
  
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• Smithsonian’s New Latino Museum May Receive an Existing Building

  21-08-2026 16:46 via nytimes.com
  Changing the museum’s designated site to the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall would bypass congressional approval.
  
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• ‘Spa Weekend’ Review: Girls Gone Wellness

  21-08-2026 16:35 via nytimes.com
  Leslie Mann leads a quartet of gal pals looking for rest, relaxation and sensual massages in this raucous comedy.
  
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• After a Much-Maligned MoMA Retrospective, Björk’s Hometown Museum Gives Her a Second Chance

  21-08-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  “When you listen to a song for the first time, it is like swallowing a whale.” So reads the wall text in an exhibition by Björk, a pop star whose relationship to music has long been unique, to say the least. She adds, in the same handwritten scrawl, “I don’t think of myself as a visual artist … Everything I do comes from a sonic point of view. This is something I have called ‘sonic symbolism,’ sound made visual, a reverse synesthesia.”All of
  
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• This Diarra From Detroit Digs Into Her Hometown’s Mysteries

  21-08-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The comic noir “Diarra From Detroit” gives Diarra Kilpatrick, the creator and star, a chance to explore the “little treasures” of her city.
  
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• Richard Gadd Had Never Heard of the Manosphere

  21-08-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The creator and star of “Half Man” didn’t have a particular agenda for this dark tale of male repression. But “people think that it’s a political piece of work,” he said.
  
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• In ‘Never Stop Chasing,’ Tornadoes Strengthen Bonds of Friendship

  21-08-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  In “Never Stop Chasing,” the dangerous livelihood of storm hunting is underpinned by a rare intimacy among men who grew up together
  
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• How Busta Rhymes Turned 300 Unreleased J Dilla Beats Into His New Album

  21-08-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The ever-lively rapper discusses showmanship, rap’s generational connections and sorting through 300 J Dilla beats for his new album.
  
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• Carlo Borlenghi, Who Turned Sailing Photography Into an Art, Dies at 70

  21-08-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  For four decades, he documented yachting’s top competitions. But the sailboats weren’t always the focus of his images.
  
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• Can She Translate a Big New York Sports Moment Into a Poster?

  21-08-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Eugenia Mello created art for the 2026 U.S. Open inspired by a passion for movement and color, and her own immigrant journey from Peru to Brooklyn.
  
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• The Loudest ‘Seagull’ Is Almost Entirely Silent

  21-08-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Performed in Flemish Sign Language, “[seagull]” revisits Anton Chekhov’s play with a cast of hearing and deaf actors. Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, met with the play’s director and lead actress at the Edinburgh International Festival.
  
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• ‘Nimrods’ vs. ‘Idiots’: Can You Tell These Movies Apart?

  21-08-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Both R-rated comedies star Mason Thames and feature drug-fueled escapades. But the competition wasn’t intentional. Here’s what happened.
  
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• Rosie O’Donnell Ends Late Night Stint With a Ditty to ‘Donny Boy’

  21-08-2026 07:44 via nytimes.com
  “It’s kind of weird to think he spent more nights with me this week than Melania,” O’Donnell said of President Trump on her last night guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
  
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• Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s ‘Road Trip’ Highlights America, and Some of Its Sponsors

  21-08-2026 01:25 via nytimes.com
  The transportation secretary’s six-part YouTube series is fueling ethical concerns over family adventures funded in large part by corporate sponsors regulated by his department.
  
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• The Funny Way That Stand-Up Comics Are Posting on Social Media

  20-08-2026 20:34 via nytimes.com
  Comedians used to post footage of their performances to build a following. Now, some are finding that comic strip-style panels with captions pack a bigger punch.
  
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• After Leadership Shakeup, Telfair Museums Names Caitlín Doherty as Next Director

  20-08-2026 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  The Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, has announced that Caitlín Doherty as its new executive director. She will assume the post in October.Doherty is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in Florida. She joined the institution joined the instiuttion in 2017, following a tenure as chief curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan. At the time of her appointment to MOCA Jacksonville, its board said she possessed an “X factor, that rare quality
  
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• Visitors to the Walker Art Center Encounter Olalekan Jeyifous’s Digital Artwork and Wrongly Brand It ‘AI Slop’ 

  20-08-2026 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and the artist Olalekan Jeyifous are refuting accusations by some museum visitors that his work was made using generative AI, reports MPR News. Jeyifous, born in Nigeria and living in New York, is also an architect and designer, and uses some of the digital tools that are often employed in those fields. His first museum solo, “Hydricosmic Litanies,” is organized by the Walker’s associate curator for visual arts, Taylor Jasper.The show, whic
  
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• ‘Amateur Artist’ Charged in $80K Theft From Minneapolis Painter’s Studio

  20-08-2026 18:38 via artnews.com
  
  Minneapolis police have identified one of two people they believe stole roughly $80,000 worth of artwork from the studio of 80-year-old artist Leon Hushcha, in a burglary that involved a UPS vest, a handcart, and, apparently, another artist.Ricardo Andres Bassat, 56, has been charged with felony burglary and is due in Hennepin County District Court on Monday, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. Police are still looking for his alleged accomplice. Court records, the Star Tribune&nb
  
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• Gagosian to Show New Jordan Wolfson Works at His First Show With the Gallery in New York

  20-08-2026 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian sent out a decidedly sparse press release about Jordan Wolfson’s first show with the gallery in New York, set to open September 18 at its 555 West 24th Street space in Chelsea.The description of the new work to be shown, in its entirety, reads: “A selection of new uniformly scaled sculptures incorporates emblematic color and black-and-white photographs, sourced online and from personal and academic archives, that resonate with art history, popular culture, and Wolfson’
  
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