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• Review: Netflix's 'Yaskuke Reclaims a Black Samurai's History

  28-04-2021 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Netflix’s new anime of ronin, race and robots is entrancing, if overstuffed with action-genre elements.
  
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• Fresh Insights into China’s Famed Sanxingdui Illuminate Ancient Trade Networks

  15-07-2026 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  New research suggests that a treasured bronze artifact excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China is an assemblage of different parts made in different areas at different points in time—“offering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques,” according to a report in Heritage Daily.The research released by the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology pertains to a well-known bronze figure—wearing an e
  
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• Jacolby Satterwhite Receives Inaugural Artists Living With Cancer Grant From Rema Hort Mann Fund and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

  15-07-2026 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  Jacolby Satterwhite has been named the inaugural recipient of the Artists Living With Cancer Grant, a new $25,000 award co-presented by the Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.Satterwhite will be presented with the inaugural grant, the first such partnership between RHMF and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, at the former’s 30th anniversary gala on October 28.The new grant is meant to build on RHMF’s Peter Hort Quality of Life Cancer Grants, which have
  
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• ‘The Potluck’ Review: The Greensboro Massacre, and a Heavy Legacy to Bear

  15-07-2026 18:27 via nytimes.com
  César Alvarez’s ambitious new work is a mixed musical meal: It wants to be a call to revolutionary action but is surprisingly lacking in it.
  
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• A Rousing Tate Modern Retrospective Refuses to Reduce Ana Mendieta to a Tragic Figure

  15-07-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  In 1980, Ana Mendieta returned to her homeland of Cuba for the first time, having fled as a child refugee in 1961. She would make another six trips between 1980 and 1983, and the works she made during these visits open Tate Modern’s new major retrospective of her work. “Esculturas Repuestras”(1981)is a series of sculptures carved into limestone caves, cliffs, and valleys in La Escaleras de Jaruco, a nature reserve in Cuba. They combine so much of what animated Mendieta’s
  
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• ‘The Odyssey’ Review: Passion in Every Frame

  15-07-2026 18:01 via nytimes.com
  Few directors close the divide between the art film and the blockbuster like Christopher Nolan.
  
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• Rutgers’s Zimmerli Art Museum Receives 70-Work Gift, Including Pieces by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, and Lee Friedlander

  15-07-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey is now richer by more than 70 artworks after a donation from the collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein that includes pieces by established figures such as Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, Kunié Sugiura, and John Waters, as well as emerging artists like Ever Baldwin, Troy Lamarr Chew II, and Lamar Peterson.“Anne and Arthur are visionary collectors who have long championed artists of color, women a
  
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• Bacteria Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Metropolitan Museum of Art

  15-07-2026 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has tested positive for traces of the bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, health officials announced Tuesday. The bacteria were previously detected at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as authorities continue searching for the source of the outbreak.The Met is typically closed on Wednesdays, and it said in a statement that the day would be dedicated to cleaning the premises and conducting follow-up testing
  
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• More Pressure on the Smithsonian, Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” Revisited at the Broad, and More: Morning Links for July 15, 2026

  15-07-2026 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!The Smithsonian is under yet more pressure from the Trump administration over its leadership and governance.Yoko Ono’s landmark performance Cut Piece is being revisited at The Broad in Los Angeles.The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its first Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room.The Headlines BOARD OF CONTENTION. The Smithsonian is facing an unusu
  
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• James Cohan Gallery to Become Norr Cohan as Partner David Norr Assumes Sole Ownership

  15-07-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.In 2020, after over 20 years in business, James and Jane Cohan started thinking about the future of their gallery, and made a decision: they wanted it to have a future beyond them. This week, those plans come to fruition as James Cohan Gallery takes on a new identity as Norr Cohan, with gallery partner
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Expands to Silicon Valley with New Gallery in Palo Alto

  15-07-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Hauser & Wirth is planting another flag in California, announcing that it will open a new gallery in downtown Palo Alto on October 3, marking the mega-gallery’s first permanent location in Silicon Valley. The space will debut with “Calder | O’Keeffe,” which is dedicated to the friendship and artistic relationship between Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe. The opening adds another pin to what is already one of the world’s largest commercial ga
  
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• ‘Heartstopper Forever’: Growing Up, and Staying True to Themselves

  15-07-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Like “Heated Rivalry,” this beloved Netflix romance has a big-hearted ethos. It’s bringing that spirit to a new film that rounds out a teenage TV hit.
  
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• ‘Hadestown’ Hits Movie Theaters, and Theater to Stream in July

  15-07-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Streaming picks include the family-friendly sci-fi adventure “Franklin’s Key” in Philadelphia and “Hamlet” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
  
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• Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Without Robert Wilson

  15-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  “When I’m no longer living, can this place exist?” Robert Wilson wondered in a film about his Long Island art incubator. This month, its annual festival will go on without him.
  
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• On ‘Caribenya,’ Lido Pimienta Found a Lifeline

  15-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  On Lido Pimienta’s new album, “Caribenya,” the Colombian Canadian musician sought a warmer, more complex depiction of Caribbean culture. Creating it helped her rediscover the beauty of living.
  
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• Octavia Spencer Believed in Herself Even When Hollywood Didn’t

  15-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  It took years for her to be cast as “the main character,” but she considers that the industry’s loss. Her latest series is the action comedy “Ride or Die.”
  
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• Why Did a Major Museum’s Bong Show Go Up in Smoke?

  15-07-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  After the Toledo Museum of Art canceled a pioneering exhibition of glass cannabis pipes, many people wondered what lay behind the decision.
  
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• Michelangelo’s Forgotten Renaissance Masterpiece

  15-07-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Tired of the David? A trip across Florence to see the small Santo Spirito Crucifix, a tender vision in old wood, is one of the best decisions you could make in your art-journeying life.
  
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• For the Eclipse or a Weekend, How to Save Money in Reykjavik

  15-07-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A museum pass, public hot springs and free airline stopovers help shrink the cost of visiting Iceland’s capital.
  
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• Christie’s Reports $4.5 B. in Sales, Strongest First Half in Five Years

  15-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The global auction market is finding its footing again, at least according to Christie’s.Christie’s reported $4.5 billion in first-half revenue on Tuesday, including $3.5 billion in auction sales and more than $1 billion in private sales, marking the company’s strongest first six months since 2021. Auction sales rose a full 71 percent from the same period last year. The results were driven by blockbuster consignments, led by the $630.8 million sale of the collection of publishi
  
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• Late Night Calls Lindsey Graham’s Senate Seat ‘an Inheritance Jackpot’

  15-07-2026 07:41 via nytimes.com
  “A Senate seat? Most people just get a garage full of damp boxes,” Michael Kosta said of Graham’s sister filling the late senator’s seat on “The Daily Show.”
  
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• Lyndon J. Barrois Sr.’s Miniature Portraits of World Cup History Explore Moments of Joy and Political Controversy

  14-07-2026 23:03 via artnews.com
  
  There have been no shortage of controversies at this year’s World Cup, which enters its final leg this with the final match happening Sunday. The Iranian team was not able to stay in the US. Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry into the US and therefore unable to officiate any games. President Donald Trump intervened to have US player Folarin Balogun’s automatic match suspension from a red card being delayed a year so he could play in the USMNT’s match against Belgium. Th
  
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• Superblue Teams Up With Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre to Bring Immersive Art to Mumbai

  14-07-2026 22:44 via artnews.com
  
  Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition of immersive installations at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC).Titled “Second Nature,” the show opened at NMACC’s four-story Art House on July 3 and runs through January 10, 2027. Curated by Dent-Brocklehurst, the company’s cofoun
  
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• Zendaya Gets an Earful of ‘Orientalist’ Complaints for Wearing Ancient Iranian Earrings to ‘Odyssey’ Promo Amid US-Iran War

  14-07-2026 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Actress Zendaya has been on the receiving end of some, ahem, piercing criticism after wearing ancient Iranian earrings to a London event promoting the new Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey, in which she plays the Greek goddess Athena. The film hits US and UK theaters July 17 and has already been the subject of intense debate.Zendaya got the earrings, believed to date from the first millennium BCE, from London dealer Charlie Barron, and then had them remounted with diamonds and 18-karat yellow g
  
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• Frieze Seoul’s Public Programs Include a Hunt for Hidden Coins and a Place to Talk About Climate Change

  14-07-2026 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  Art fairs may have started out as trade shows for dealers to sell each other their inventory, but they have long since become major events in the art world’s attention economy, zhuzhed up with public art commissions and intellectual dressings, including elaborate programs of public talks and film screenings, as well as plain old fun events like concerts. (As I wrote in 2020, the Armory Show even once offered a museum-style audio guide.) The public programming for the upcoming edition
  
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• A Soundtrack to the 2026 World Cup Semifinals

  14-07-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Listen to songs from Rosalía, Mauvais Djo, Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso and the Beatles.
  
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• ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Review: Expanding a One-Woman Show

  14-07-2026 19:54 via nytimes.com
  Instead of one Whoopi Goldberg, audiences now experience five actresses: Kerry Washington, Kara Young, Dominique Fishback, Danielle Pinnock and Kecia Lewis.
  
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• At Young World Festival, Rap’s Avant-Garde Takes Shape

  14-07-2026 19:45 via nytimes.com
  The Brooklyn festival Young World spotlights emergent indie rappers and veteran artists. It was the brainchild of Mike, an artist and label head who has become a fulcrum of the alt-rap scene.
  
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• T. Rex Fossil Sells for $50.1 Million, Putting the King Back On Top

  14-07-2026 18:42 via nytimes.com
  In a booming fossil market, the T. rex had been dethroned by a stegosaurus. No longer.
  
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• Dealer Dominique Lévy Says She Received Death Threats After Denouncing Post–October 7 Letter in Artforum

  14-07-2026 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  Dominique Lévy, one of the dealers behind the blue-chip New York gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan, spoke at length in a new profile about her response to October 7, claiming that she received death threats after publicly denouncing a 2023 open letter in Artforum that called for a ceasefire in Gaza.Published on October 19, 2023, the letter that ran in Artforum described Israel’s war in Gaza as an “escalating genocide” and demanded “an immediate ceasefire and the open
  
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