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• Julie Halston Sees Herself in Dorothy Parker

  03-01-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  She stole the show in “And Just Like That …,” but theater is where the actress’s heart lies.
  
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• Colossal Athletes Fill These Modern Arenas

  03-01-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  COSM, a company once focused on planetarium displays, is immersing sports fans with giant screens and desirable angles.
  
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• Angie Katsanevas Went From Real Housewives Outsider to the Center Snowflake

  03-01-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Angie Katsanevas has carved her own path through life, and her deadly quips on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” have made her a breakout star.
  
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• Stephen Schwartz Criticizes Kennedy Center, Saying He Won’t Host Gala

  03-01-2026 00:51 via nytimes.com
  The Washington National Opera said the “Wicked” composer was scheduled to host its annual event at the center this spring.
  
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• Kathleen Goncharov, Esteemed Curator and Artist, Dies at 73

  02-01-2026 22:36 via artnews.com
  Kathleen Goncharov, a curator whose work included organizing shows for Just Above Midtown gallery, died at her home in Boca Raton, Florida, of natural causes on December 31. She was 73 years old. Goncharov served as senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida from 2012 until she retired in 2025. She had previously worked as a curator at institutions throughout the US, curated exhibitions from Rio de Janeiro to Bologna and Rome, and served as the commissioner of the US Pavilion
  
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• Overlooked No More: Pamela Colman Smith, Artist Behind a Famous Tarot Deck

  02-01-2026 22:22 via nytimes.com
  She hand-painted around 80 illustrations for the Rider-Waite deck, which is still used around the world to predict destinies.
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Uses Historic Qur’an at His Swearing-In Ceremony

  02-01-2026 21:52 via artnews.com
  At midnight on New Year’s Eve, incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdami took his oath of office on the Qur’an, Islam’s most important religious text. He is the first Muslim to hold the position of Mayor of New York City.One of the two Qur’ans used in the ceremony came from Mr. Mamdani’s grandfather. The other was lent by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. According to the New York Times, the latter book was selected by Rahim and
  
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• At India’s Top Biennial, A Painting Referencing ‘The Last Supper’ Sparks Protests and Backlash

  02-01-2026 20:56 via artnews.com
  Just weeks after opening in mid-December, India’s top biennial, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, was forced to close briefly following protests by Christian groups in response to a painting depicting the Last Supper.The painting by Tom Vattakuzhy was not included in the main biennial exhibition, “For the Time Being,” but rather in a recurring side exhibition also organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation called “EDAM,” which highlights the practices of artists and colle
  
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• Erie Art Museum Refuses to Return ‘Abandoned’ Painting to Daughter of Late Local Artist

  02-01-2026 20:15 via artnews.com
  The Erie Art Museum has responded to a lawsuit filed on Nov. 7, 2025, by the daughter of a local artist, requesting the return of a watercolor painted by her late father. The artist, George C. Demiel, submitted the painting to be included in an annual juried show in 1966 at the museum, which was then known as the Art Center of Erie. The Art Center did not accept the painting, and Demiel—who died the following year at age 53—never reclaimed the artwork.The Erie Times-News, which has b
  
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• Violinist on Will Smith’s Tour Files Wrongful Termination Lawsuit

  02-01-2026 20:03 via nytimes.com
  A lawyer for the musician, Brian King Joseph, says in the court papers that Mr. Joseph was fired after reporting sexual harassment.
  
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• Amid Ongoing Layoffs, Brown University ‘Terminates’ Both Bell Gallery Curators, Rankling Faculty

  02-01-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  Both of the curators at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, were terminated on December 4, according to an internal message shared with ARTnews. Kate Kraczon, director of exhibitions and chief curator, and Thea Quiray Tagle, associate curator, will both work until early 2026.The Bell exhibits contemporary art and is part of the Brown Arts Institute. The school is facing a substantial financial crunch that has led to layoffs and other austerity measures.
  
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• Amid Ongoing Layoffs, Brown University Furloughs Both Bell Gallery Curators, Rankling Faculty

  02-01-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  Both of the curators at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, were furloughed on December 4, according to an internal message shared with ARTnews. Kate Kraczon, director of exhibitions and chief curator, and Thea Quiray Tagle, associate curator, will both work until early 2026. The Bell exhibits contemporary art and is part of the Brown Arts Institute. The school is facing a substantial financial crunch that has led to layoffs and other austerity measures
  
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• After an Audit Found Irregularities, Baltimore’s Lewis Museum Says It’s On the Road to Compliance

  02-01-2026 19:33 via artnews.com
  The leadership of Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is working to iron out problems uncovered in an August 15 audit by the Maryland Department of Legislative Services, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.The audit uncovered serious irregularities. It found charges on the museum’s corporate credit card that were “without a readily apparent business purpose.” It found two instances in which payments were made to a
  
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• Works by Salvador Dalí, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, and More Have Officially Entered the Public Domain

  02-01-2026 17:54 via artnews.com
  With each passing year, new artworks are shorn of their copyright protections and entered into the public domain, allowing them to be used freely, without express permission from the estates that steward these pieces. This year, pieces by Salvador Dalí, José Clemente Orozco, and others of note have officially joined the public domain.There are some important exceptions about how these artworks can be used, however. In theory, in keeping with US copyright law, which states that a co
  
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• 2,000-Year-Old ‘Extensive Industrial Complex’ and Roman Cemetery Found in Egypt

  02-01-2026 16:58 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists working in the western Nile Delta of Egypt discovered remnants of an “extensive industrial complex” from as far back as the 5th century B.C.E. as well as a Roman cemetery that suggests the area was fertile ground for civilization and exchange in the Mediterranean.As reported by Archaeology News, the findings—by an Egyptian-Italian team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the University of Padua at the sites of Kom el-Ahmar and Kom Wasit in Beheira Governo
  
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• Trump Rings in 2026 at Mar-a-Lago With Auction of Jesus Painting for $2.75 M.

  02-01-2026 16:37 via artnews.com
  President Donald Trump rang in the New Year with an amateur art auction at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, where a freshly painted portrait of Jesus Christ sold for $2.75 million. He even shared his New Year’s resolution: “Peace on Earth.”The painting was created on stage by Vanessa Horabuena, a self-described Christian “worship artist” whom the president described as “one of the greatest artists anywhere in the world”.“To me, she’s one of
  
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• UK Museums Increasingly Turning to Public to Make Decisions, Trump Auctions Off Jesus Christ Painting for $2.75 M.: Morning Links for January 2, 2026

  02-01-2026 15:24 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPOWER TO THE PEOPLE. British museums are increasingly handing the compass to the public, inviting ordinary citizens to help chart future policy, priorities, and even funding decisions through citizens’ assemblies, The Art Newspaper wrote. The National Gallery’s newly launched NG Citizens panel is emblematic of this shift, followi
  
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• On ‘Best Medicine,’ Josh Charles Has a Heart

  02-01-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  After years of playing smarmy characters, the actor is stepping up as the lead in a comedy about a grumpy but charming doctor.
  
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• This Playwright Has Seen the Future. It Isn’t Human.

  02-01-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In “Marjorie Prime” and other works, Jordan Harrison delivers sweet-bitter anatomies of human connection mediated through technology destined to supersede us.
  
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• Gabriele Münter, an Overshadowed Pillar of Modern Art, Gets a Spotlight

  02-01-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Contours of a World” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path.
  
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• 9 European Exhibitions Worth Traveling For in 2026

  02-01-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  With Björk, Parisian photography, and beauty and ugliness in the Renaissance, it’s shaping up to be an innovative year in art on the continent.
  
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• 2026 Preview: 20 Museum Openings, Art Exhibitions, Fairs, and Biennials to Look Forward To

  02-01-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  While 2026 has barely even begun, the year already looks to be a busy one. The world’s biggest art festival, the Venice Biennale, is returning, headlining a year that will also see many more biennials staged from New York to Sydney. Long-awaited museums are finally set to arrive, and new fairs are launching. And that’s to say nothing of monumentally scaled retrospectives for some of art history’s biggest stars.What should you look forward to most this year? To help you plan, we
  
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• Mohammad Bakri, Palestinian Whose Film Was Banned in Israel, Dies at 72

  02-01-2026 06:29 via nytimes.com
  His 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin” exposed the often harsh realities of life experienced by his fellow Arabs in Israel.
  
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• Art Gallery Shows to See in January

  01-01-2026 22:30 via nytimes.com
  This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Jana Euler’s delightful absurdity, Lotty Rosenfeld’s portraits of the Pinochet dictatorship and Erich Heckel’s eerie dream world.
  
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• Janet Fish, Painter of Luminous Still Lifes, Dies at 87

  01-01-2026 20:38 via nytimes.com
  From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass.
  
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• Review: The Met Opera Unveils ‘I Puritani’ on New Year’s Eve

  01-01-2026 16:37 via nytimes.com
  Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.
  
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• ‘Stranger Things’ Has Ended. What Happened in the Series Finale?

  01-01-2026 11:05 via nytimes.com
  There was a lot to tie up after five seasons and nearly 10 years, and the show gave itself another two hours to do it. Here are the major events.
  
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• He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That

  01-01-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.
  
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• 24 Fun Things to Do in NYC in January 2026

  01-01-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Welcome to a new year. It promises Ian McKellen, fresh jazz, free exhibitions, restored films and comedy with latkes.
  
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