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• In ‘Incorrect,’ Sam Morril Makes Being a Loser Look Like Fun

  29-09-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Sam Morril’s new Netflix special, “Incorrect,” is filled with lowlife stories that don’t always make him look good. That’s why they’re so funny.
  
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• ‘NAZA’ Review: Intimate Interviews About War’s Human Costs

  30-09-2026 20:13 via nytimes.com
  The haunting documentary, by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, interviews anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers as they recount their military actions in Gaza.
  
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• Art Collector Ken Griffin Gives $3 B., the Largest Donation in the History of Higher Education, to Carnegie Mellon For a Miami Campus

  30-09-2026 20:07 via artnews.com
  
  Billionaire hedge funder and ARTnews Top 200 collector Kenneth C. Griffin has made the largest-ever donation in the history of higher education, giving $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh. The school will launch a purpose-built Miami outpost with $2 billion of the gift, which also supports the main campus to the tune of $1 billion. It’s additionally the largest gift Griffin has ever given.The Miami campus, located in the city’s Wynwood district, will support
  
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• Louis Vuitton Collaborates with Keith Haring Foundation for its Latest Artycapucines Handbag Collection

  30-09-2026 19:47 via artnews.com
  
  For the eighth iteration of its “Artycapucines” collection, Louis Vuitton collaborated with the Keith Haring Foundation to create 13 new bag designs dedicated to the work of late American artist Keith Haring, WWD reported.The bags will feature Haring’s bold graphic imagery, including his signature Running Heart and Radiant Baby dancing figures among the compositions. The designs will further incorporate such craft techniques as traditional leather marquetry and laser printing t
  
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• Artists Rights Society Launches Partnership with Samsung to License Artworks on Digital Displays

  30-09-2026 19:37 via artnews.com
  
  The New York–based Artists Rights Society (ARS), which represents more than 120,000 artists for licensing images of their works in the United States, has announced a partnership with Samsung Art Store to display the work of ARS-represented artists on Samsung TVs.The collaboration launches with the work of LeRoy Neiman, who is known for his expressionist depictions of sports, leisure, and other facets of Americana. A collection of 33 of Neiman’s work is now available to license via th
  
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• Blind Man Sues the British Museum Over Lack of Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tours

  30-09-2026 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum is nothing short of controversy. In its latest, the museum is being sued by a blind man over a lack of audio guides at the exhibition, according to The Telegraph.The lawsuit was filed by Yusuf Ali Osman, a registered blind man who has no sight in both eyes, with the law firm Leigh Day. A letter was sent to the museum by the law firm outlining that the British Museum failed to comply with the Equality Act.“The Museum is committed to making the Bayeu
  
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• Bon Iver to Release 10th-Anniversary Edition of Album with Elaborate Artwork Elucidated

  30-09-2026 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  Bon Iver, whose music has evolved over time from sparse acoustic folk to a synthesized sound suggestive of intricate worldbuilding, will release a deluxe 10th-annivesary edition an album that counted as a Gesamtkunstwerk when it helped reposition the band in 2016.For 22, A Million, the group’s third album, artist and designer Eric Timothy Carlson effectively joined the band and became an integral part of its creative process, such that its distinctive symbolist visual language and iconogra
  
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• After Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opening, Stephanie Rosenthal Will Join Rotterdam Museum as Artistic Director

  30-09-2026 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  Stephanie Rosenthal, the current director of Gropius Bau, has been named artistic director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She will take up the post in September 2027.In May, Rosenthal was appointed project director of the Guggenheim’s Abu Dhabi satellite, overseeing the museum’s final preparations after two decades in development. The museum is scheduled to open to the public in December, when Valerie Hillings will assume her role as its inaugural director.“Inst
  
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• Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology

  30-09-2026 17:16 via nytimes.com
  100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.
  
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• Calder Sculpture ‘Mountains and Clouds’ Is Restored in Senate Office

  30-09-2026 17:07 via nytimes.com
  The effort to reunite two halves of Alexander Calder’s monumental “Mountains and Clouds” hit many snags, until donors and legislators from both parties stepped in.
  
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• Rafael Ferrer, Puerto Rican Musician-Turned-Artist, Has Died at 93

  30-09-2026 16:51 via artnews.com
  
  Puerto Rican musician-turned-artist Rafael Ferrer has died at age 93, El Museo del Barrio announced last night. Ferrer was “a groundbreaking artist whose singular and influential practice challenged boundaries” across a vast range of mediums and disciplines, stated the New York museum.In fact, Ferrer first worked as a jazz drummer before moving into visual arts after discovering Surrealist artists and writers during a 1954 trip to Paris. He eventually studied painting with the exiled
  
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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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