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• Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling

  24-07-2022 22:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Musicians often talk about seeking the divine in their work. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter went to Harvard to study it as she made her second major-label album, “Surrender.”
  
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• Oscars 2026 Candid Moments From the Audience

  17-03-2026 10:03 via nytimes.com
  Our photographer captured unguarded moments with Michael B. Jordan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Gwyneth Paltrow and other celebrities in the crowd.
  
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• With Twin Babies, the Opera Star Lise Davidsen Wonders What Comes Next

  17-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Davidsen, who has returned triumphantly to the Met in “Tristan und Isolde,” said that singing “has been my world, my everything. And now it’s not.”
  
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• How Readers Voted on Miscast Roles in the Movies

  17-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Given a list of 14 mismatches, they quickly picked Ben Platt in “Dear Evan Hansen.” But they took issue (loudly) with one of our choices.
  
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• Meg Webster’s Life in Five Artworks

  17-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  Meg Webster revels in impermanence. Here, her story in five works.
  
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• John Lithgow’s Career Spans 200 Roles — From ‘3rd Rock’ to Roald Dahl

  17-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  Is there anyone John Lithgow can’t — or won’t — play?
  
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• Joseph Beuys Might Be the 20th Century’s Most Influential Artist—but We Have Him All Wrong.

  17-03-2026 10:00 via artnews.com
  Joseph Beuys was full of contradictions—in his art and in his life. Born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1921, he enlisted in the Hitler Youth months before membership was mandatory. At 18, he worked in a circus, and two years later, he volunteered for the Nazi Air Force. After serving on the front lines of the wrong side of history, he crafted a public persona as Germany’s healer, identifying as a “shaman.” He died young, at 64, and is remembered as a leftist radical, even a nai
  
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• Grace Ives Was Tipped as a Top Indie-Rock Star. Then She Hit the Bottom.

  17-03-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Her 2022 breakthrough, “Janky Star,” won her accolades and devotees, but she didn’t begin a follow-up until she got sober and started fresh.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Has a Bone to Pick With Trump’s War Plans

  17-03-2026 07:43 via nytimes.com
  “The only war Trump had an exit plan for was Vietnam,” Kimmel remarked after the president said he would end the war in Iran when he “feels it in his bones.”
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Says the ‘Only War Trump Had an Exit Plan for Was Vietnam’

  17-03-2026 07:16 via nytimes.com
  The host made the remark about Donald Trump avoiding the draft after the president said he would end the war in Iran when he “feels it in his bones.”
  
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• Inside the Katseye Fandom: Friendships, Rivalries and Boycotts Over Manon’s Hiatus

  17-03-2026 05:01 via nytimes.com
  Fans of the group have leveraged their influence into friendship and rivalry. Then a member’s sudden hiatus sent them into a spiral.
  
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• How Michael B. Jordan Won (and Timothée Chalamet Lost) Best Actor at 2026 Oscars

  17-03-2026 02:11 via nytimes.com
  The “Sinners” star became the consensus pick as voters soured on Timothée Chalamet, the “Marty Supreme” lead. It helped that the winner is a bankable performer.
  
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• Richard Grenell: From Trump Cabinet Hopeful to Ex-Kennedy Center Manager

  17-03-2026 01:47 via nytimes.com
  Richard Grenell once hoped to be President Trump’s secretary of state. Instead, Mr. Trump just replaced him as Kennedy Center president.
  
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• House Adopts Bill to Ease Recovery by Heirs of Nazi Looted Art

  16-03-2026 23:23 via nytimes.com
  The Senate had already passed an extension of the so-called HEAR Act, which is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk.
  
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• How ‘Marty Supreme’ and Timothée Chalamet Went Home With No Oscars

  16-03-2026 22:51 via nytimes.com
  A few years ago, the indie studio A24 was luxuriating in Academy Awards. On Sunday it was shut out entirely.
  
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• Researchers Confirm Location of Lost City of Alexandria on the Tigris

  16-03-2026 22:19 via artnews.com
  An international team of researchers has confirmed the rediscovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus River and encompassed swathes of Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia, it was a vital trading center until the 3rd century CE.News of the find was announced in January by the University of Konstanz in Germany, whose chair of Mediterranean and Near Easter
  
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• Judy Pace, 83, Dies; Actress Brought Layers to Black Characters

  16-03-2026 22:18 via nytimes.com
  On the prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place,” she played one of TV’s first Black female antagonists. She was also a fixture in blaxploitation films.
  
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• Live Nation Antitrust Case Resumes With Testimony About Springsteen Fees

  16-03-2026 22:16 via nytimes.com
  After the Justice Department announced a deal with the concert giant, the trial picked up after a week’s break, with a coalition of states leading the way.
  
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• Kennedy Center Board Votes in Favor of Two-Year Closure

  16-03-2026 21:22 via artnews.com
  The board of directors the Kennedy Center voted on Monday in favor of President Donald Trump’s proposal to shut the institution down for two years, according to the Associated Press.Related ArticlesRenowned Composer Philip Glass Withdraws Symphony from the Kennedy Center Trump Plans to Close Kennedy Center for Two Years, Beginning July 4 The closure will begin after celebrations there on July 4, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. When Trump announced plans to clo
  
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• London’s Timothy Taylor to Close New York Outpost After a Decade

  16-03-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  The London-based gallery Timothy Taylor will close its New York outpost next month at the conclusion of its current show for James Prapaithong, after nearly a decade of operation in Manhattan.The decision was made “to ensure the long-term stability of the gallery and the community around it,” the gallery told ARTnews. The gallery, however, will maintain an office and viewing room in New York.“In light of current market conditions, the gallery has made the decision to close its
  
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• Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close for 2-Year Renovation Project

  16-03-2026 21:00 via nytimes.com
  Ahead of the vote, President Trump criticized the center’s physical condition and previous financial management.
  
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• Outgoing Tate Director Argues for Bigger Tax Breaks for Donors

  16-03-2026 20:47 via artnews.com
  Maria Balshaw, who in December announced her plan to step down from her role as director of Tate since 2017, said that UK chancellor Rachel Reeves should incentivize donations to museums’ endowment funds by offering bigger tax breaks to would-be philanthropists.In an interview with the Financial Times, Balshaw said, “The government could do a lot more to incentivise giving by very rich people, because British museums are competing on a very uneven playing field compared with US insti
  
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• Blue Shields Placed at 34 Archaeological Sites Across Lebanon, Signaling Enhanced Protections

  16-03-2026 20:16 via artnews.com
  Blue shields now guard 34 archaeological sites across Lebanon, as the country moves to protect its cultural heritage amid escalating air and ground assaults from Israel, the Lebanese Culture Ministry announced Sunday. The shields signal that the sites are protected under international agreements regarding cultural property during wartime.Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh told Lebanon’s National News Agency that the move aims to comply with the 1954 Hague Convention, which requires safeguard
  
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• At Dance Reflections, Embodied Acts of Memory

  16-03-2026 19:37 via nytimes.com
  Works by Soa Ratsifandrihana and Robin Orlin evoked Malagasy line dances and Zulu rickshaw drivers.
  
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• Oscars Cut Off ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Speech in Brutal Live Moment

  16-03-2026 19:25 via nytimes.com
  After the hit song from “KPop Demon Hunters” made Oscars history, a snare drum and a crashing cymbal mercilessly drowned out the winners.
  
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• Monet, Munch, and Hockney Headline Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar

  16-03-2026 19:11 via artnews.com
  The Tate’s four national museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain, in London, plus branches in Liverpool and St Ives—have announced their exhibition programming for 2027. One of the more high-profile shows is “Monet: Painting Time,” Tate Modern’s first solo show dedicated to the French Impressionist. “Painting Time” is co-organized with Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie (where it opens on September 30, 2026) and will include several of Mo
  
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• Newly Unearthed Letter Reveals Edvard Munch’s Influence on Paula Rego

  16-03-2026 18:56 via artnews.com
  In 1951, a 16-year-old Paula Rego wrote to her mother after visiting an Edvard Munch exhibition, the Guardian reported Sunday, in a newly uncovered letter.“It’s so impressive that you can’t imagine,” Rego wrote, years before she would emerge as the Iberian Peninsula’s preeminent figurative painter, known for her searing visions of womanhood.Rego died in 2022 at 87, apparently never recounting to anyone besides her mother, Maria, the formative visit to the Tate Galle
  
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• Trump Defends Need for Kennedy Center Renovation Project

  16-03-2026 18:45 via nytimes.com
  Ahead of a vote on whether to close the center for two years of construction, the president criticized its previous financial management and physical condition.
  
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• John Bengtson, Modern-Day Silent-Film Sleuth, Dies at 68

  16-03-2026 18:22 via nytimes.com
  Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched outdoor scenes from their movies to contemporary locales, creating a visual record of vanished cityscapes.
  
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• Founder of Art School That Received $2 M. NEH Grant: Artists Would Be ‘Wise’ to Be ‘Unpolitical’

  16-03-2026 18:13 via artnews.com
  When the National Endowment of the Humanities announced in January its first round of grants since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, one recipient stood out from the rest: Grand Central Atelier.Based in Queens, the New York art school was awarded $2 million, one of only a handful that exceeded $1 million to a single recipient. The school says that it promotes “art untouched by modernism” and teaches methods “rooted in traditions pre-dating the 19th centur
  
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