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• Our Spring Book Recommendations

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.
  
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• National Women’s History Museum Annonuces Seven-Figure Donation from Meryl Streep

  19-03-2026 17:45 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, the National Women’s History Museum—a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that “illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future”—announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution.According to a statement, the Academy Award-winning actor has been a long-time supporter of the National Women’s History Museum, which was founded
  
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• At the 34th Outsider Art Fair, Still Genuine Surprises

  19-03-2026 17:26 via nytimes.com
  Cosmic explosions, proto-Surrealism and names to remember — like the D.J. Raoul Hardie and Anne Brown, the high point of our critic’s survey.
  
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• ‘The Sopranos’ Set Photos and Archives Part of Show at the Museum of the Moving Image

  19-03-2026 17:24 via artnews.com
  The wildly popular TV series “The Sopranos” aired its much-hyped season finale almost 20 years ago. The critically acclaimed show, starring the late James Gandolfini as troubled mob boss/family man Tony Soprano, premiered on HBO in 1999 and ran for six seasons. “The Sopranos,” often credited with initiating a golden age of prestige television, is now the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image.“Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos” is on
  
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• Emmanuel Di Donna Closes His Madison Avenue Chapter With a Major Salvador Dalí Show

  19-03-2026 17:19 via artnews.com
  As Emmanuel Di Donna prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery, the veteran dealer is returning to the artist most people think they already understand.This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of Salvador Dalí seen in New York in decades. “Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939,” on view from April 16 through June 13, brings together more than two dozen paintings, sculptures, and works on paper focuse
  
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• Our Critics Say the New Museum Finally Has a Building to Match Its Ambitions

  19-03-2026 15:45 via artnews.com
  Almost two years ago to the day, the New Museum in New York closed its doors to the public, leaving behind a void—this is one of the country’s few major museums that is focused solely on contemporary art, after all. Now, following an expansion overseen by OMA, the museum is finally back and ready to welcome visitors once more. Ahead of the public opening on Saturday, the museum hosted a press preview on Wednesday to show off its refreshed digs, which are occupied almost entirely
  
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• New Museum Debuts New Building With Ambitious ‘New Humans’

  19-03-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  It’s a big, serious, adult show worth debating and even fighting over — just the way our critic likes it.
  
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• Mending Ceramics and Slowing Time With the Japanese Art of Kintsugi

  19-03-2026 15:11 via nytimes.com
  Plus: a guide to Honolulu’s Kaimuki neighborhood, a ski-in, ski-out guesthouse in Austria and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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• Meryl Streep Makes Seven-Figure Donation to National Women’s History Museum, Musée d’Orsay Receives Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fan Paintings: Morning Links for March 19, 2026

  19-03-2026 14:48 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSTREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her honor, while the donation, the amount of which is unspecified, will fund storytelling projects and digital programming.
  
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• Meryl Streep Makes Big Donation to National Women’s History Museum, Musée d’Orsay Receives Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fan Paintings: Morning Links for March 19, 2026

  19-03-2026 14:48 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSTREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her honor, while the donation, the amount of which is unspecified, will fund storytelling projects and digital programming.
  
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• Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts

  19-03-2026 13:02 via artnews.com
  Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday. Legg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution’s exhibitions, collection, and public programs.Legg’s tenure at the Tate Liverpool began in 2018. Under her leadership, the museum has undergone a $46 million renovation, closing in 2023 to the “reimagining” of the building
  
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• Sotheby’s and Gagosian Veteran Publishes a History of the Art Market, From the Renaissance to Today

  19-03-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  When Valentina Castellani was invited to teach a class at New York University on the history of the art market from the Renaissance to today, she came up against one obstacle in her preparation of the syllabus, even despite her expertise in the matter, with longtime art market experience at both Sotheby’s and Gagosian.“I couldn’t find a book that actually covered all this span,” she said in a phone interview. “There are excellent books and academic studies on many o
  
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• Ida Ekblad’s Experimental Space Where Artists Come to Play

  19-03-2026 10:14 via nytimes.com
  Ida Ekblad has transformed a Brutalist villa into an experimental space for herself, and for others.
  
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• Crimson Desert Is South Korea’s Latest Game With Big Ambitions

  19-03-2026 10:03 via nytimes.com
  The open-world fantasy Crimson Desert looks like the latest example of South Korea’s evolution into a gaming powerhouse.
  
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• ‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Practicing Law in a State of Fear

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Set in the Soviet Union in 1937, this investigative drama follows one man’s mission for justice within a corrupt system.
  
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• ‘Tow’ Review: When a Camry Is Home

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  After her car is stolen and then impounded, Amanda (Rose Byrne), fights the system to get it back.
  
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• ‘Spacewoman’ Review: Mission Driven

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Hannah Berryman’s engrossing documentary on Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle pilot and commander, focuses on managing pride and fear.
  
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• ‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: Ryan Gosling Is Lost and Found in Space

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
  
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• ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ Review: Flat Caps and Inflated Myths

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Cillian Murphy rides to the rescue of family and homeland in this affectionate capper to the popular television series.
  
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• ‘Palestine ’36’ Review: A Time of Revolt

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  The Palestinian writer-director Annemarie Jacir focuses on the 1936 farmer rebellion against the British, with the future of the land at stake.
  
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• ‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Coppola Profiles Her Friend Jacobs

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Sofia Coppola profiles the fashion designer Marc Jacobs, but the documentary strains to arrive at even the most basic revelations.
  
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• ‘Late Shift’ Review: Understaffed and Overworked

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  Set in the cancer ward of a Swiss hospital, this antsy workplace thriller follows one nurse’s balancing act over the course of a shift.
  
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• 2 Chainz, One of Hip-hop’s Cheekiest Lyricists, Gets Serious

  19-03-2026 10:02 via nytimes.com
  The rapper known for his quirky turns of phrase and malapropisms is trying his hand at a memoir.
  
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• On a Majorcan Estate, a Collage Made Over Hundreds of Summer Holidays

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  A descendant of one of the island’s oldest families safeguards the history of her 18th-century home — which includes a sprawling feat of decoupage.
  
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• ‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Do Unto Others (or Not)

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  A scorching satire about humanity and the absence of it by Radu Jude, the director of “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.”
  
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• Inside Giancarlo Valle and Jane Keltner de Valle’s New York Townhouse

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  The overhaul of this seven-story home provided a husband-and-wife design duo with plenty of space to express their old-meets-new aesthetic.
  
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• Inside Dorian Grinspan’s Upstate Home, Where Japanese Handicraft Meets ‘British Whimsy’

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  A film producer invited artists and friends to design his house with him, each adding ideas of their own.
  
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• ‘Dead Lover’ Review: A Monster of Her Making

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  A lonely gravedigger tries to Frankenstein love in Grace Glowicki’s macabre queer romance.
  
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• An English Countryside Home That Became Lovelier the More It Fell Apart

  19-03-2026 10:01 via nytimes.com
  The ravages of time have only increased the appeal of one family’s art-filled manor in the English countryside.
  
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• ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Review: The Blood Is Thicker

  19-03-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Grace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original.
  
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