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• Newark Catholic's Performing Arts Center right on schedule - The Newark Advocate

  12-01-2021 10:46
  
  Newark Catholic's Performing Arts Center right on schedule  The Newark Advocate
  
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• Penelope Keith, Effortlessly Posh Star of British Sitcoms, Dies at 86

  07-07-2026 23:42 via nytimes.com
  A veteran stage actress, she starred in two of Britain’s most beloved TV comedies of the 1970s, “The Good Life” and “To the Manor Born.”
  
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• Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026

  07-07-2026 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  An exhibition of some 70 artworks by the Spanish artist Remedios Varo will open at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a destination museum on the coast just north of Copenhagen, this fall. The show, “Painting Magic,” is on view from September 18, 2026, through January 10, 2027, and includes examples of Varo’s paintings, drawings, and photographs. It will subsequently travel to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.Varo was born in Spain in 1908 and left for Paris when she was 19, wh
  
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• Check Out the Art Behind the Scenes of Loro Piana’s Fall/Winter 2026 Ad Campaign

  07-07-2026 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  Loro Piana, the Italian luxury brand known for its high-end wool and cashmere garments, shot its fall/winter 2026 ad campaign at a trio of unexpected (for a fashion brand, at least) locations in Houston: the Menil Collection and private de Menil residence, both run by the Menil Foundation, and the nearby Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational space founded by John and Dominique de Menil that is full of serene, monochromatic canvases by the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko.The fashion hous
  
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• Fundación Kahlo Launches $50,000 Prize for Emerging Mexican Artists

  07-07-2026 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  The Fundación Kahlo, the New York–based nonprofit established by the family of the iconic painter Frida Kahlo, has announced the launch of a new prize to support emerging Mexican artists.Underwritten by the auction house Phillips, the Kahlo Art Prize will be awarded every other year and come with a $50,000 stipend, as well as opportunities for the winner’s work to be exhibited in Mexico City at the recently opened Museo Casa Kahlo.“Through the process of opening the muse
  
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• Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice

  07-07-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  The cultural activist group that led a historic strike and rally at this year’s Venice Biennale over Israel’s inclusion in the international exhibition has called for a mass mobilization on July 17, when the US Ambassador to Italy, Tilman Fertitta, is scheduled to arrive in Venice.The group, Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), announced the action in an Instagram post published today, inviting supporters to gather at 4 p.m. at Campo San Zaccaria, a square in central Venice just steps f
  
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• Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60 Percent Jump in Auction Sales

  07-07-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, the auction house Phillips said its spring season generated $507 million in auction sales, a 60 percent increase from a year earlier, as a record-breaking watch business and stronger demand for high-value consignments helped propel one of the house’s best performances in recent years.The auction house said average lot value increased 55 percent over the same period, while maintaining a 90 percent sell-through rate by lot. Evening sales achieved a 94 percent sell-through rate by
  
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• Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60% Jump in Auction Sales

  07-07-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, the auction house Phillips said its spring season generated $507 million in auction sales, a 60 percent increase from a year earlier, as a record-breaking watch business and stronger demand for high-value consignments helped propel one of the house’s best performances in recent years.The auction house said average lot value increased 55 percent over the same period, while maintaining a 90 percent sell-through rate by lot. Evening sales achieved a 94 percent sell-through rate by
  
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• Hachette Book Group Employees Vote to Unionize

  07-07-2026 21:14 via nytimes.com
  Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing history.
  
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• Madonna’s Retro Reverie and 5 More New Songs You Should Hear

  07-07-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Listen to new music from the queen of pop reinvention, Billy Strings, Ciara and more.
  
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• Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77

  07-07-2026 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese conceptual artist whose whispering sound installations and language-based works made her one of her country’s most influential contemporary artists, died on Monday of cancer at Lisbon’s Hospital de São José. She was 77. Over a career that began in the early 1990s, Cunha built a body of work that quietly transformed ordinary words into immersive works of art. Using whispered recordings, brief commands and fragments of conversation,
  
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• Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum

  07-07-2026 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, has been named as the institution’s next director. He will take on the role beginning August 1. He succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her retirement, after 26 years, last September. “After an extensive international search, we are thrilled to announce Massimiliano Gioni’s appointment as steward of the New Museum in its next chapter,” New Museum board president James-Keith Brow
  
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• New Museum’s Next Director Will Be Massimiliano Gioni

  07-07-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  The expanded museum is promoting its longtime artistic director to help rebuild attendance after a two-year closure and hold onto its “edgy” character.
  
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• Jake Roxander, a Ballet Theater Dancer Raised on Superheroes

  07-07-2026 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Jake Roxander, a virtuosic wonder at American Ballet Theater, was promoted onstage after a recent performance. The news hasn’t quite sunk in.
  
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• UK Artists Accuse Shuttering Artist Pension Trust of ‘Epic Betrayal,’ Former Barnes Foundation President Richard Glanton Has Died, and More: Morning Links for July 7, 2026

  07-07-2026 17:49 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!The London branch of the Artist Pension Trust is closing to the dismay of participating artists.“Combative” former head of the Barnes Foundation has died at 79.Historians rebut White House attack against the National Museum of American History.The Headlines ARTIST PENSION DISTRUST. The London chapter of the New York–founded 
  
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• Louise Lasser, Star of TV’s ‘Mary Hartman,’ Is Dead at 87

  07-07-2026 17:27 via nytimes.com
  She began her screen career in Woody Allen movies (he was also her husband), but she was best known for her portrayal of the Ohio housewife in the pigtails and puffed sleeves.
  
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• Valerie Brathwaite, Sculptor Who Drew Parallels Between Landscapes and Bodies, Has Died

  07-07-2026 16:55 via artnews.com
  
  Valerie Brathwaite, an artist whose sculptures utilized sinuous forms that intentionally recall both geographic formations and curvaceous bodies, died on Monday. The news was announced via the artist’s Instagram page, whose bio memorably terms her a “Sculptress & Dj.” She was either 87 or 88.In the second half of the 20th century, Brathwaite rose to become one of the most important artists working in Venezuela. Working in ceramic, drawing, and less classifiable mediums, the
  
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• An English National Is the First to Be Convicted of Violating Sanctions Against Russia

  07-07-2026 16:11 via artnews.com
  
  British national Jonathan Hornby is the first from his country to be convicted of violating the UK’s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, 2022.Hornby, managing director of a logistics company, attempted to send four artworks to Russia in February 2024, according to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Government officials seized the shipment, which was linked to Ho
  
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• Dolly Parton to Celebrate Turning 81 With a Musical About Her Life

  07-07-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The show about the country music queen, “Dolly: A True Original Musical,” will begin performances on Broadway in December.
  
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• Dolly Parton Musical Heads to Broadway in December

  07-07-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The show about the country music queen, “Dolly: A True Original Musical,” will begin performances on Broadway in December.
  
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• The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic

  07-07-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to reshape the American story.
  
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• Anthea Hartig, Smithsonian Museum Director, Faces the White House’s Wrath

  07-07-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Historians defended Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, after the Trump administration accused her of spreading “radical activist ideology.”
  
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• How to Make a Floral Arrangement That Will Last All Summer

  07-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The artist Sourabh Gupta gives a step-by-step guide to crafting Icelandic poppies out of crepe paper.
  
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• Few Composers Can Sell Out Arenas. He’s One of Them.

  07-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Joe Hisaishi got famous writing the soundtracks to Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films. Now he is focusing on his first love: classical music.
  
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• ‘Kimmel’ Guest Host Tiffany Haddish Roasts Trump’s Fourth of July Party

  07-07-2026 07:42 via nytimes.com
  The comedian and actress joked that “there was more people at my bat mitzvah” than at America’s 250th birthday party.
  
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• Jonathan Anderson Takes Inspiration from Sculptor Lynda Benglis for Dior’s Latest Haute Couture Collection

  07-07-2026 01:15 via artnews.com
  
  Designer Jonathan Anderson has once again taken inspiration from the work of sculptor Lynda Benglis for his latest fashion show.The creative director of Dior since 2025, Anderson presented the house’s Fall Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture Show at the Musée Rodin in Paris on Monday, marking his second haute couture collection for Dior.“The collection responds, in the language of couture, to the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis,” a description published on Dior’s
  
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• Indio Solari, Argentine Rocker Who Packed Stadiums, Dies at 77

  06-07-2026 23:59 via nytimes.com
  A counterculture icon with broad appeal, he compared himself to Bob Dylan and developed an especially fervent following among working-class youth.
  
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• Former Marlborough Gallery Space in Chelsea Sells for $7.5 M.

  06-07-2026 23:16 via artnews.com
  
  The former New York home of Marlborough Gallery, arguably the world’s pioneering mega-gallery before its collapse and closure in 2024, has found a new owner.Gazelli Art House, which operates galleries in London and Baku, Azerbaijan, has purchased the former Marlborough space at 545 West 25th Street for $7.5 million. Brown Harris Stevens brokers Jeffrey Zoldan and Roger Gillen represented the seller.The sale marks another chapter in the winding down of Marlborough’s leg
  
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• Historians Reject Trump Administration’s Criticism of Smithsonian Museum

  06-07-2026 23:02 via nytimes.com
  The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
  
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• The Frida Kahlo Effect: Why the Mexican Artist Is Still a Pop-Cultural Icon Today

  06-07-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  Updated July 6, 2026Our fascination with all things Frida Kahlo seemingly knows no end. Fridamania, the global obsession with this painter whose life was as artful as her canvases, has been rising for decades but is now at a fever pitch.A major exhibition of her work that opened in late June at London’s Tate Modern pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the museum (outperforming shows for beloved artists such as David Hockney). That exhibition opened earlier this year at the Museum of Fine
  
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