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• Losing Control With Riz Ahmed

  28-01-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor’s process is so intense, his “Sound of Metal” director refused to share dailies with him. But after all that overthinking, formidable instincts kicked in.
  
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• Augie Meyers, Pioneer of Tex-Mex Music, Dies at 85

  23-03-2026 18:08 via nytimes.com
  His carnival-like swirls on the Vox organ helped define the sound of the border with groups like the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados.
  
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• See Inside the Venice Biennale’s Newly Renovated Central Pavilion Ahead of the 2026 Edition

  23-03-2026 17:53 via artnews.com
  The Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, located within the Giardini della Biennale, has undergone a complete renovation ahead of the opening of the show’s 2026 edition in May.The total budget for the renovation was €31 million ($36 million); public funding was supplied by the the Italian Ministry of Culture’s National Plan for Complementary Investments of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The project is also part of the Culture Ministry’s “Great
  
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• Statue Removed from Delaware During Black Lives Matter Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.

  23-03-2026 17:43 via artnews.com
  Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved more than 200 people at the plantation he owned—in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.As reported by the Washington Post, which cited Interior Department documents obtained by the paper, the statue’s resurrection is a
  
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• What’s It Like to Be Back in Print After 20 Years? A Bit Odd.

  23-03-2026 17:42 via nytimes.com
  Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.
  
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• Trump Installs Christopher Columbus Statue on White House Grounds

  23-03-2026 17:40 via artnews.com
  A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020.The sculpture was placed on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building facing Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the New York Times. It is a replica of a statue that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the Inne
  
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• Two Choreographers, Two Visions of Philadelphia Freedom

  23-03-2026 17:17 via nytimes.com
  Rennie Harris’s “Losing My Religion” and a Matthew Neenan program from BalletX were signs of health in two of the city’s most important dance institutions.
  
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• East Village Brownstone Where Mark Rothko Once Lived Now for Sale as Luxury Condominiums

  23-03-2026 16:59 via artnews.com
  Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist—famously known for his color field technique—created the painting titled “Thru the Window,” inscribing the back with the building’s address, “313 E 6th,” along with his signature.The entire multifamily building sold for $45,000 in the 197
  
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• Venice’s Mayor Warns that Russia’s Pavilion Will Be Closed if It Peddles Propaganda at Biennale

  23-03-2026 16:33 via artnews.com
  Russia has been warned by Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, that if its pavilion peddles propaganda at the upcoming biennial, it will be shutdown.Brugnaro was addressing media at the opening of the Venice Biennale’s revamped Central Pavilion, which cost €31 million and took 16 months to complete. “If the Russian government were to carry out propaganda, we would be the first to close the pavilion,” Brugnaro told the Ansa press agency.Russia’s decision to reopen it
  
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• Light Art Installation Returns to San Francisco Bay Bridge, ‘Pre-Stonewall Street Queen’ Artist Agosto Machado Has Died: Morning Links for March 23, 2026

  23-03-2026 16:29 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesLIGHTS, ART, ACTION. After a three-year absence, a popular light art installation has returned brighter and revamped to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in a sign of “commitment” to the arts, reports ABC 7. During a Friday lighting ceremony, artist Leo Villareal, who designed the work first installed in 2013, said its much-awaited, upgra
  
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• Nancy Lemann Is Back in Print After Two Decades. It’s a Bit Odd.

  23-03-2026 16:14 via nytimes.com
  Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.
  
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• Britain’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ as Seen From Both Sides of the Atlantic

  23-03-2026 15:18 via nytimes.com
  In a country with little knowledge of the American TV institution, the show landed in a new light. An American and a British critic found plenty to enjoy.
  
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• At ‘Baywatch’ Tryouts, Hoping to Be the Next Pam Anderson or Jason Momoa

  23-03-2026 14:56 via nytimes.com
  Buff, waxed or otherwise, thousands answered an open casting call to become the next “Baywatch” discovery — or just “Drowning Swimmer No. 2.”
  
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• In Hong Kong for Art Basel? Don’t Miss These Local Galleries and Museums

  23-03-2026 14:32 via artnews.com
  In 2025, nearly 100,000 people—collectors, curators, and the merely curious—descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust in equal measure, Art Basel anchors a constellation of exhibitions and events during&nbs
  
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• Hong Kong Readies for Art Week With Optimism for a Rebound—and a Healthy Dose of Caution

  23-03-2026 14:11 via artnews.com
  Hong Kong’s art market is staging a cautious comeback in 2026, as industry players bet that collectors will return for the city’s marquee art week after years of political upheaval and pandemic-driven isolation.At the macroeconomic level, signs of recovery have emerged since late 2025, spanning high-end residential real estate in the city to equity markets. A recent report by Morgan Stanley suggested that prolonged instability in the Middle East could prompt further capital and talen
  
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• New Report Suggests AI is Widely Used in Commercial Galleries, But Mostly Without Oversight

  23-03-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  A new report suggests artificial intelligence is already widely used in commercial galleries, but largely without oversight.According to the AI in Galleries report by the art industry network First Thursday, 84 percent of galleries surveyed say they are using AI tools in their daily work. Yet only 8 percent have a formal policy governing how those tools should be used.The findings are based on interviews with 103 gallery professionals around the world, including owners, directors, and staff work
  
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• An Orientalist Painting Central to the Penn Museum’s History To Be Offered for $4 M. at Bonhams

  23-03-2026 12:01 via artnews.com
  American universities facing financial crunches come under fire when they either close their art museums or sell paintings from their collections to narrow a budget gap. Just in the last few years, Chicago’s DePaul University, Indiana’s Valparaiso University, and Pennsylvania’s Albright College have alienated donors and their respective school communitues in this fashion. Professional organizations like the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Mu
  
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• Why Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Go-Go Dancer Piece Remains Subversive

  23-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  A work about gay visibility avoids statements, yet remains powerful. A dancer appears just once a day, showing the political valence of absence.
  
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• Review: On ‘Arirang,’ BTS Is Too Big to Fail. But Not Too Big to Succeed.

  23-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  The K-pop superstars’ new album, “Arirang,” comes with huge commercial expectations. The group made room for artistic experimentation, too.
  
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• The Man Who Taught Boy Bands How to Move

  23-03-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  A new tour featuring New Edition and Boyz II Men is also a showcase for the influential work of their longtime choreographer, Brooke Payne.
  
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• ‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years

  23-03-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The Bravo TV empire, which turns 20 this month, has also been a gold mine for the internet.
  
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• New Yorkers, Have You Found Your Microscene?

  23-03-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  A sampling of the city’s creative cohorts and the places where they gather, from the Tompkins Square Park monkey bars to a hair salon that doubles as an art gallery.
  
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• American Art History from A to Z

  23-03-2026 10:00 via artnews.com
  When Art in America was founded in 1913, it was an important year for American art. The inaugural Armory Show introduced the European avant-garde to the United States, galvanizing generations of artists while shocking audiences with paintings like Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912). By 1917, Duchamp even-more-famously caused a stir with his porcelain urinal Fountain, a work that changed art forever and helped make New York an artistic center. American art’s endu
  
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• ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen,’ Plus 6 Things to Watch on TV This Week

  23-03-2026 06:00 via nytimes.com
  A new horror thriller premieres and Miley Cyrus celebrates the 20th anniversary of “Hannah Montana.”
  
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• ‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: The Old Razzle-Dazzle

  23-03-2026 04:00 via nytimes.com
  The HBO comedy returned for a new season on Sunday, more than 11 years after the previous one.
  
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• For ‘Buffy’ Fans, Nicholas Brendon’s Xander Was a Complicated Everyman

  22-03-2026 23:21 via nytimes.com
  The actor, who died on Friday, was a fan favorite on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” even as his character mixed quiet heroism with hostility toward the show’s women.
  
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• Artist Qualeasha Wood Says Viral ‘BedRot’ Performance Copied Her Work

  22-03-2026 22:35 via artnews.com
  On Saturday, a performance by artist who goes by the alias Aphex Redditor went viral on social media after she laid down and continually scrolled through Instagram Reels for 24 hours. But as the performance gained attention on Instagram and X, another artist, Qualeasha Wood, accused Aphex Redditor of copying a similar performance she had staged the year before.In March 2025, Wood staged a performance called Attention Economy at London’s Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, whose release for the exhi
  
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• Christopher Columbus Statue Is Installed on White House Grounds

  22-03-2026 19:47 via nytimes.com
  The statue of the explorer, a replica of one that protesters toppled in 2020, was placed outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
  
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• Agosto Machado, Artist and Activist Whose Shrine Sculptures Kept Queer History Alive, Has Died

  22-03-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  Agosto Machado, an artist and activist associated with the Downtown New York art scene whose altar sculptures currently appear in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday following a brief illness. In keeping with his own wishes, his gallery, the New York–based Gordon Robichaux, did not announce Machado’s age in the obituary it sent out on Sunday. Speaking of his decision never to publicly share his birth year last year, Machado said, “A lady never tells.”Within the art wor
  
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• Taylor Frankie Paul and the Downfall of the ‘Bachelor’ Empire

  22-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  As competing dating shows flaunt modern norms, the ABC franchise finds itself mired in scandals and stymied by its traditional approach to love.
  
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