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• The Joyce Returns, With a Typically Eclectic Dance Menu

  27-07-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The season features 18 companies, including some, like Malpaso from Cuba, whose shows were canceled last year.
  
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• Empress Eugénie’s Crown to be Restored After Louvre Heist, Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links for February 5, 2026

  05-02-2026 15:33 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES FALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen theft of French crown jewels, the Louvre has publicly shared images of Empress Eugénie’s crown, which was badly crushed by thieves who tried but failed to make off with it. Investigators determined that the robbers jammed the crown through a narrow opening they had cut in the jewel
  
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• Philippines-Based Ayala Foundation Names Reuben Keehan as Artistic Director for Kontempo Arts Center

  05-02-2026 15:14 via artnews.com
  The Ayala Foundation, the social development arm of the Phillippines largest conglomerate, announced Wednesday that it has named Reuben Keehan as the incoming artistic director for Kontempo, a new contemporary art space scheduled to open in Manila.Designed by Kulapat Yantrasat, founder of WHY Architecture and architect of the new Rockefeller Wing at the Met, Kontempo will consist of over 26,000 square feet of exhibition space across three galleries. There will also be nearly four acres of open g
  
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• Empress Eugénie’s Damaged Crown to Be Restored After Louvre Heist

  05-02-2026 12:50 via artnews.com
  When thieves broke into Paris’s Louvre on October 19 last year, they ran off with an estimated $102 million in jewels. In their scramble to escape, however, they left behind what may have been top of their loot list: the crown of Empress Eugénie. Dropped and badly damaged during the heist, the diamond- and emerald-encrusted crown is now slated for a painstaking restoration before it returns to public view in the museum’s Galerie d’Apollon.Judicial police initially seized
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Hints ‘Melania’ Box Office Was a ‘Rigged Outcome’

  05-02-2026 11:44 via nytimes.com
  Late night hosts were skeptical of a $7 million opening weekend for the new Amazon film about the first lady.
  
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• Outside the Art World’s Echo Chamber, at Art Basel Qatar

  05-02-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  More than half the exhibited artists were from the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia, giving visitors an opportunity to discover fresh voices.
  
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• Who Is That Masked Man? The Orchids Aren’t Telling.

  05-02-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Flower Fantastic, guest designer for the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show, lets his art speak for itself, never showing his face.
  
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• One Episode of ‘Wonder Man’ Points a Way Forward for the Marvel Universe

  05-02-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Marvel’s character-driven show on Disney+ provides an intriguing alternative to the company’s big-screen spectacles.
  
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• ‘DWI: Drinking With Instruments’: Experiments in Tipsy Music Making

  05-02-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  In “DWI: Drinking With Instruments,” musicians played some thorny new music twice: the first sober, the second under the influence.
  
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• The Churn of Fast Fashion, Slowed Down

  05-02-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  A group exhibition at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn takes an idiosyncratic look at the global textile trade.
  
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• How Trump Brought the Fight Over American History to Philadelphia

  05-02-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased?
  
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• A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full

  05-02-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Ten actors wear the crowns in Karin Coonrod’s production, which is rich with twilight revelation, at La MaMa in Manhattan.
  
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• Save the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal’ in the Cohen Federal Building

  05-02-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The rare murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of dignity and community. Now they could meet the same fate as the White House’s East Wing.
  
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• At the Bronx Biennial, the Promise of New Voices

  05-02-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  This group show is less self-conscious thanslicker surveys, but its offerings are just as worthwhile.
  
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• ‘The President’s Cake’ Review: Party Politics

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Shot in Iraq, this period piece depicts a young girl’s efforts to prepare for a celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.
  
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• ‘Pillion’ Review: An Opposites-Attract ‘Dom-Com’

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A shy young man is captivated by a hunky biker in this bold, funny and achingly tenderhearted B.D.S.M. romance.
  
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• ‘Kokuho’ Review: Over Decades, an Artist’s Life

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  This nearly three hour historical drama became Japan’s highest grossing live action film of all time, and for mostly good reason.
  
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• ‘Jimpa’ Review: In Search of a Queer Education

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A nonbinary teenager pays a visit to their grandfather, a gay professor, in this intergenerational story that slips from sweet into cloying.
  
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• ‘Dracula’ Review: Fangs and a Lot of Fragrance

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Luc Besson’s extravagantly silly twist on the timeless monster, played by Caleb Landry Jones, is deliciously operatic but ultimately a letdown.
  
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• ‘Calle Málaga’ Review: Living an Even Better Life

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Spanish actor Carmen Maura shines as a widow forced to sell her childhood home in Morocco in this film by Maryam Touzani.
  
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• Best One-Night Stand Romance Books, According to Hannah Bonam-Young

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.
  
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• Bad Bunny Means a Breakthrough for Puerto Rican Athletes, Too

  05-02-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Puerto Rican football players are thrilled that Spanish will resound at the Super Bowl. “The stage is bigger than the N.F.L. itself,” one lineman said.
  
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• Rethinking Shakespeare in Shanghai

  05-02-2026 06:00 via nytimes.com
  A recent production of “Othello” proves that small creative flowers can grow between the dreary slabs of cultural concrete laid by the Communist Party.
  
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• New Details Revealed for Planned Saudi Museum in AlUla

  04-02-2026 23:24 via artnews.com
  Further details about a new museum to open in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, were revealed by Arts AlUla, a project of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). Plans for the Lina Ghotmeh–designed institution, a partnership between the RCU and the Centre Pompidou, were first announced in 2023. The new information was reported by the Art Newspaper, among other outlets.Set in the AlUla Oasis, the planned museum is part of RCU’s development of the historic region of Al-Ula (now officially AlUla), hom
  
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• Blanche Marvin, 100, Dies; Critic Was, Maybe, ‘Streetcar’ Inspiration

  04-02-2026 23:00 via nytimes.com
  She was a ubiquitous presence at London theaters and claimed to have inspired the name — and final words — of Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois.
  
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• Philadelphia Art Museum Reverses Controversial Rebrand, Becomes Philadelphia Museum of Art Again

  04-02-2026 22:50 via artnews.com
  Four months after announcing a snazzy rebrand from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Philadelphia Art Museum, the institution announced that it is reversing course. As of Wednesday afternoon, the museum will again be known by its longtime moniker.In a press release, the museum said that it would retain its new griffin logo and brand identity unveiled in October while also returning to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The decision, it said, reflects “the recommendations of an interdiscip
  
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• Collector Ronald Lauder Repeatedly Named in Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Files

  04-02-2026 22:00 via artnews.com
  Ronald Lauder, a powerful art collector who has patronized institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, and the World Monuments Funds, appears more than 900 times in the set of Jeffrey Epstein–related files that were released by the Department of Justice at the end of January.Lauder, the heir to the Estée Lauder Company, appears to have met with Epstein multiple times in 2017. While there is no direct communication between Lauder an
  
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• 7 Shows to See in Mexico City Art Week

  04-02-2026 21:05 via artnews.com
  Throughout the year, the museums and galleries across Mexico City (renamed from the DF to CDMX in 2016) mount an expansive set of exhibitions. But during Mexico City Art Week each February, alongside fairs like Zona Maco and Material, they often open some of their most important exhibitions or host closing receptions for their fall/winter exhibitions. This year offers an interesting mix of exhibitions with an emphasis on historical shows for 20th-century artists as well as shows for some of toda
  
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• See Frank Lloyd Wright’s Circular Sun House on the Market for $8.8 M.

  04-02-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  Frank Lloyd Wright’s so-called Circular Sun House—the last design completed by the famed architect before his death in 1959—is up for sale for $8.8 million. The look is sleek and futuristic, with consummate rhythm and flow. The setting is a hilltop in Phoenix that offers breathtaking views of Palm Canyon and the sun-streaked city below.The listing from Realty ONE Group notes that the house was designed shortly before the opening of Wright’s iconic Guggenheim Museum buildi
  
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• London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery Abruptly Closes, Enters Insolvency Proceedings

  04-02-2026 19:45 via artnews.com
  Rumors have been swirling about London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery, especially after ARTnews reported on Tuesday that the gallery had pulled out at the last minute from a coveted spot at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, which kicked off Tuesday in Doha. Now, ARTnews can confirm that the gallery has entered administration—the UK equivalent to bankrupcy proceedings—and is closed to the public. The gallery was founded in London’s Mayfair neighborhood in 1995. “S
  
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