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58 minutes ago

Docklands museum's art explores Romani identity

An exhibition at London Museum Docklands showcases British Romani artists' work to challenge stereotypes and celebrate creativity, craft and resilience.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 hours ago

designboom's guide to miami art & design week 2025: what not to miss in and out of the fairs

Miami Art Week 2025 assembles major international and regional art and design fairs, showcasing galleries, designers, curated programs, and new partnerships across Miami Beach.
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fromHyperallergic
22 hours ago

What We're Grateful For

Billion-dollar auction sales mask deep problems: most artists and galleries are excluded, and the market remains unhealthy despite headline optimism.
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fromARTnews.com
21 hours ago

Sotheby's London Reveals Its Old Master and 19th Century Evening Sale, with Half of Works Unseen for a Century

Sotheby's December 3 London Old Master sale features 31 works, many unseen for decades, with top estimates up to £7 million.
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fromwww.npr.org
15 hours ago

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Tom Stoppard, celebrated playwright and screenwriter, died at 88; he won major awards and wrote intellectually witty, language-focused plays and screenplays.
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fromColossal
22 hours ago

Leonore Chastagner Sculpts Tender Connections Between Figurative Gestures and Objects

Léonore Chastagner sculpts intimate, detailed clay depictions of bodies and domestic spaces, drawing on archaeology, talismans, and everyday objects.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Eggshells, onion bags and five years painting only in orange: the playful avant-garde art of John Nixon

John Nixon, the late Australian avant-garde artist, would sometimes save the shells from his boiled eggs and sprinkle them across blank paint, creating his own starry night. Other times he'd set himself rules, such as painting only in orange for five years. It was 1996 and he was becoming a father, so he wanted a streamlined practice plus, what other artist was associated with orange?
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
20 hours ago

nomad studio's charred juniper ring marks the scar of a wildfire in northern spain

In the burn scar left by the 2022 wildfire in Sabinares del Arlanza - La Yecla Natural Park, Spain, Nomad Studio places Socarrado, a circular structure built entirely from charred juniper trunks recovered after the blaze. First conceived for the Uncommissioned Exhibition by Novo Collective, the work becomes a point of collective reflection for the communities of Santo Domingo de Silos, transforming damaged terrain into a site of memory, refuge, and healing.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 day ago

December DanceWatch: Nutcrackers, NOT-Cracker, Pearl Dive, ZooZoo and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

You'll find most professional dancers in the studio teaching, not onstage performing - because paid performing work has always been scarce, and keeps getting scarcer. And with President Trump's policies gutting arts funding and devaluing cultural work at every turn, the squeeze on dance artists is getting even tighter. So these highly skilled artists do what actually pays: They pour everything they know (and it's a lot; 15-50 years and more of intensive dance and fitness training) into the next generation in studios across America.
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fromCbsnews
1 day ago

A reimagined holiday classic dazzles at the Brooklyn Ballet

Brooklyn Ballet's 'Brooklyn Nutcracker' reimagines The Nutcracker by integrating borough-specific cultures, dance styles, and instruments while preserving classical ballet tradition.
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fromwww.london-unattached.com
20 hours ago

Jack and the Beanstalk Adult Only King's Head

King's Head Theatre's adults-only pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a high-energy, risqué musical featuring drag performers and strong production values.
from24/7 Wall St.
20 hours ago

The Most Expensive Rifle You Can Buy Costs $250,000

These firearms are typically valued not only for their mechanical performance, but for their specific history, including who owned them, the battles they were used in, or their connection to iconic gunsmiths. Antique rifles from the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly those with elaborate engravings, custom stocks, and hand-forged barrels, are among the most highly valued. These guns bring in hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars at auction.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

What will holiday shopping say about the state of America? An expert hunts for clues

American shoppers prioritize control over spending, time, and energy, becoming frugal consumers who strategically allocate resources for value and certainty.
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fromARTnews.com
1 day ago

How Romare Bearden's Estate Is Bringing the Artist's Work into the Digital Realm

Romare Bearden produced thousands of works many unaccounted for, requiring extensive research and digitization that revealed new attributions and discoveries.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Hurricane Melissa relief: artists and art organisations lead fundraising efforts for devastated Caribbean

Artists and art organisations mobilise regional and international relief, fundraising, volunteer coordination, and heritage protection after Hurricane Melissa's widespread destruction in the Caribbean.
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1 day ago

This new movie about Russia's independent journalists is harrowing, but not hopeless

Vladimir Putin's government had begun cracking down on independent journalists covering the protests, branding them as "foreign agents" a designation that effectively stigmatized them and forced them to include disclaimers with their work. Loktev began filming several of these journalists who courageously kept reporting on the abuses of the regime, including her friend Anna Nemzer, a talk-show host for the independent channel TV Rain.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

A 400-year-old kung fu-fighting monkey is finally having his American moment

The Monkey King (Sun Wukong) has achieved renewed American popularity through film, video games, and opera while originating in the 16th-century Journey to the West.
fromARTnews.com
2 days ago

Christie's London to Sell Third Part of Sam Josefowitz's Rembrandt Print Collection in December

"Rembrandt's etchings were an enduring passion for the late Sam Josefowitz, whose collection of the Dutch master's graphic works remains unparalleled by any other 20th-century collector," the house said in a statement.
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fromARTnews.com
1 day ago

36 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Winter

Museums worldwide are showing environmentally focused, future-oriented, and historically reevaluative exhibitions highlighting ecology, postcolonial autonomy, gendered futures, and overlooked artists.
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fromARTnews.com
1 day ago

A Holiday Art Book Gift Guide, for Every Artsy Archetype

Match artsy archetypes with standout recent art and photography books as thoughtful holiday gifts.
fromARTnews.com
1 day ago

The Best 2025 Black Friday Deals on Artists' Tools and Supplies

Today is Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season! Many US retailers have marked down selected wares, including art and craft supplies. To help you parse the offerings, we'll be tracking some of the best deals on artists' tools, from pastels to tablets, to give as gifts or to keep for yourself. We will be updating this page, so check in with us often. A word of advice: Move fast, as many of these products will sell out quickly.
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fromARTnews.com
1 day ago

For Mernet Larsen, Painting Is a Matter of Perspective

When Mernet Larsen was in her 70s, theproject she had been working on her entire life met a moment. It was the 2010s, and painters everywhere were grappling with how the digital realm affected what we see. People seeing Larsen's paintings for the first time often assumed that they were made using a computer, reading her signature blocky figures as robotic or pixelated-something a machine would create. But they are not computational at all.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds

Henry Moore believed tactility to be paramount, "as an aesthetic dimension", to both the making and the experiencing of sculpture. He really wanted us to be able to touch his work. However, its value and importance now means that doing so in most museums would be considered a big no-no-and for anyone for whom touch provides sight, this is massively restricting.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

'Left-Handed Girl' takes on quiet shame across generations in Taipei

Early on in Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl, one of its protagonists, an adorable Taiwanese girl named I-Jing (Nina Ye), is told by her grandpa that her left-handedness is a curse. "Don't use left-hand in my house," he says to her, yanking a crayon from her left hand into her right and sending a bolt of fear through the impressionable 5-year-old. "Left hand is evil," he scolds. "It belongs to the devil."
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fromianVisits
1 day ago

Saatchi Gallery marks 40 years with an oil lake, a spinning car and a riot of contemporary art

The Saatchi Gallery's 40th‑anniversary winter exhibition presents a broad, buffet-like selection of contemporary works, mixing challenging conceptual pieces with immersive, sensory installations.
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1 day ago

Matthew Stone, the Artist Taking Painting into the Digital Realm

Gazing at Matthew Stone's new works at The Hole NYC, the question feels impossible to ignore. The exhibition, titled Staggered Paintings, describes the way in which his paintings are constructed: layer upon layer, moving back and forth between mediums of oil paint and AI technology. 'Staggered' implies something disrupted, jolted, or momentarily thrown off balance, and perhaps this is where painting sits today, leaning towards a change as it confronts the unprecedented capacities of digital production, CGI modelling and AI-driven image-making.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

Intense rivalries, including public humiliation and occasional violence, have repeatedly shaped artists' careers from the Renaissance through nineteenth-century Britain.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

O come out ye faithful: a joyful roundup of UK culture this Christmas

Last year, character comedians Adam Riches and John Kearns joined forces for an archly silly tribute to crooners Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. Now Riches is back with another leftfield celebrity riff as he gives his Game of Thrones-era Sean Bean impression (as seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his Edinburgh show Dungeons'n'Bastards) a yuletide twist.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 days ago

Stage & Studio: A timely 'Christmas Carol' * Oregon ArtsWatch

A Christmas Carol at Portland Playhouse reimagines Dickens through a multiracial, often cross-gender, musical and dance adaptation that emphasizes humanity, redemption, and family.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 days ago

In Salem, Jo Hamilton's art of nude crochet * Oregon ArtsWatch

The use of crochet as fine art with this level detail and on this scale can boggle the mind for anyone who practices the craft. Crochet and portraiture are not usually synonymous. Crochet is a textile art and uses a hook to tie yarn into knots. It is most often used to create household goods such as blankets, stocking caps and clothes. It falls somewhere between knitting and tatting in its use. It is an artistic and creative craft that often ventures into functional art.
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fromwww.amny.com
1 day ago

Big Apple Circus blends classic stunts with modern spectacles in new gravity-defying show | amNewYork

Big Apple Circus returns at Lincoln Center with immersive, high-risk live acts including a rare quadruple somersault, running Nov. 7–Jan. 4 with tickets from $27.
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fromwww.amny.com
1 day ago
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New play Everything Is Here' takes a wild, warm look at aging and A Streetcar Named Desire' | amNewYork

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1 day ago
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New play Everything Is Here' takes a wild, warm look at aging and A Streetcar Named Desire' | amNewYork

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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

God Bless "A Christmas Carol," Every One

Multiple New York productions present varied stagings of A Christmas Carol, from immersive lantern-lit adaptations to period readings and an evolving annual couple's performance.
fromCurbed
1 day ago

After the Klimt Auction

On November 18, Sotheby's rolled out the blue carpet, hung the velvet ropes, and poured Champagne for attendees on the inaugural night of auctions at the Breuer Building, its new headquarters on Madison Avenue. The collection of the late cosmetics billionaire Leonard A. Lauder was on the block, and the house desperately needed a strong showing. The global art market has endured a grim two years of sliding sales and gallery closures, but Sotheby's has been in a more precarious position than most.
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fromLondon Unattached
1 day ago

Midsummer Night's Dream Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Review

Shakespeare's beloved comedy takes on the eternal themes: love, jealousy, and unreality. The action turns around the romantic infatuations of a love quadrangle, an approaching wedding, and a clumsy acting troop. It foregrounds the changeability of passion, the agony of unrequited feelings, and the delights of lust. Experiencing the play might feel like drifting through dreams in the small hours of the morning, the real and the fantastical weaving inextricably together. It's both hallucinogenic and sharply lucid theatre.
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 days ago

London theatre slaps 'nonsense' trigger warning on Jesus Christ Superstar musical because it depicts crucifixion

Trigger warnings on Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium sparked fan backlash and renewed debate over audience alerts versus preserving theatrical shock.
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fromwww.london-unattached.com
1 day ago

The Snowman, Peacock Theatre

The Snowman stage production delivers charming, family-focused Christmas theatre with whimsical characters, enchanting music, and enduring multigenerational appeal.
fromianVisits
1 day ago

Christmas themed tours of Shakespeare's Globe theatre

Hear how Christmas was observed in Shakespeare's time and the folk traditions that people practised to welcome in winter. From wassailing to the winter solstice, 'kissing boughs' to proper mince pyes, this family-friendly guided tour will enchant, fascinate and warm even in the frostiest of weather. But do still wrap up well - don't forget our wooden 'O' is outdoor!
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

A View From the Easel

Mieke Marple creates art in a home garage studio during short, fragmented sessions, finding safety that enables creative risk-taking amid daily life.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever

While Robert Musil's century-old adage that "there is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument" still rings true in some ways, many monuments today feel more visible than ever. Statues of Cecil Rhodes and Robert E. Lee have collapsed under the pressures of public protest, exposing monuments for what they really are: flashpoints where histories are negotiated and mythologies are formed.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

Heading to the movies this Thanksgiving? Here's what's new

Multiple diverse films—family animation, afterlife romance, mystery, foreign thriller, and art-focused drama—arrive in theaters for the holiday weekend.
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fromARTnews.com
2 days ago

Artist Yang Fudong Summons the Future in One of His Biggest Exhibitions in China

Artist Yang Fudong employed prolonged silence as a central expressive strategy in his films and installations, evolving into new multimedia works at UCCA Beijing.
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fromARTnews.com
2 days ago

Iconic Photographs of Blind People Prove Seeing Isn't Knowing

Jacob Riis used magnesium flash photography in 1887 to document hazardous tenement life at Blind Man's Alley, revealing cramped conditions, blind tenants, and landlord exploitation.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

An Ecuadorian-style Thanksgiving: Recreating holiday memories of a childhood recipe

Bolones de verde are Ecuadorian deep-fried mashed green plantain balls mixed with chicharron, often served with eggs and fried in butter, oil, or lard.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

This artist designs intricate suits of armor. The intended wearer? A humble mouse

A metalwork artist crafts miniature plate armor for mice using traditional medieval techniques, transforming functional armor into detailed fine-art miniatures and teaching the craft.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

'Stranger Things' is back. Does everything old still feel new?

Season 5 opens with a de-aged Will Byers captured by Vecna and resumes four years later with Hawkins quarantined and teens facing a world-threatening extra-dimensional menace.
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fromARTnews.com
2 days ago

Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion Members Turn Venice's Canal Green to Protest COP30 Outcome

Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion dyed Venice's Grand Canal green with non-toxic fluorescein dye to protest slow fossil fuel transition, drawing fines and temporary bans.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Required Reading

For Lankton, dolls were more than just kitschy objects - they were powerful, emotional extensions of herself. "(My dolls) are all freaks. Outsiders. Untouchables," she once said. "They're like biographies - the kind of people you'd like to know about. Really interesting and fucked up." Lankton's dolls were born as much from necessity as from imagination. "She wasn't allowed to have a doll as a kid," Monroe tells Dazed. "So, she made them - first with flowers, then with socks.
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fromItsnicethat
2 days ago

Scary Boots is an arts and literature zine born from a "chaos of imperfections"

Polish film posters, old matchboxes, pulpy book designs, escort calling cards from the 90s and Julia Fox - these are just a few of the visual inspirations behind Scary Boots, an arts and literature zine published "roughly quarterly" with each one themed and Risograph printed in limited runs. The harness of all of these influences is Elias Myer, a zine-maker in East London who is moved by homemade, self-published magazines
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fromFuncheap
2 days ago

Art Explosions' Annual Art Show & Holiday Market (SF)

Annual Art Show & Holiday Market, Sunday Dec 7, 12–5pm at 744 Alabama St, San Francisco, featuring artists across three floors with music and treats.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 days ago

'a life-giving approach is needed': doyenne studio on how feminine literacy rewires design

Feminine literacy reframes feminine as a collaborative, decentralized, empathetic design methodology shaping regenerative materials, systemic experimentation, inclusive objects, and care-focused social practices.
fromColossal
2 days ago

Abdoulaye Konate Translates Ancient Spirituality into Lush Tapestries

Through large-scale tapestries of fringed strips of fabric, Abdoulaye Konaté explores the contemporary relevance of ancient signs and symbols. The Malian artist began working with textiles in the 1990s, when it became clear to him how prevalent they are in our everyday lives, from clothing and home goods to tools and more. This early interest began what's become a research-driven artistic practice, and today, he layers long, stitched pieces of Bazin and Kente fabrics into dynamic, largely abstract works.
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fromLondon Unattached
2 days ago

Ballet Black, Shadows - Sadler's Wells - Review

Ballet Black's new double bill presents two commissioned works exploring psychological shadows and dark familial themes, showcasing strong choreography, music, and lighting.
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fromFuncheap
2 days ago

Shipyard Holiday Art Show: 80+ Artists Open Studios (Hunters Point)

Eighty-plus artists open decorated studios for a free holiday art show and sale at Building 101, 451 Galvez Street, San Francisco, December 7, 2025.
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fromsf.funcheap.com
3 days ago

$1 Margaritas & "Disco Taco Tuesday" at Underdogs (SoMa)

9:30 am de Young Museum Free Day (First Tuesdays) FREE* *Free admission to general galleries; special exhibition fees still apply. Timed tickets required 9:30 am Legion of Honor Museum Free Day (First Tuesdays) FREE* *Free admission to general galleries; special exhibition fees still apply. Advanced timed tickets required. 10:00 am SF's Conservatory of Flowers Free First Tuesdays (Golden Gate Park) FREE 11:00 am SF's Cartoon Art Museum's Pay What You Wish Day (First Tuesdays) FREE* 12:00 pm TALL: Tenderloin Art Lending Library | SF FREE
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

inverse ruin: gijs van vaerenbergh suspends archaic temple remains in southern italy

Inverse Ruin by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh stands within the Archaeological Park of Herakleia in Policoro, Italy a quiet expanse where traces of the Archaic Temple meet the open landscape of the Ionian plain. Developed as part of the broader project Siris, curated by STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO with artistic direction by Antonio Oriente, the installation forms one of several interventions intended to bring clarity to a site shaped by layered histories.
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fromianVisits
2 days ago

Barbican to unveil giant plant-covered clay pavilion next spring

A 24-metre-circumference, plant-covered clay ovular pavilion by Delcy Morelos will occupy the Barbican's Sculpture Court, opening 15 May 2026, free to visit.
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fromLondon On The Inside
2 days ago

Luke Jerram Is Bringing a New Celestial Artwork to London

Mirror Moon, a two-metre stainless-steel tactile sculpture of the lunar surface by Luke Jerram, will be displayed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich from 3 March 2026.
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fromThe Mercury News
2 days ago

7 incredible Bay Area things to do Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 28-30

Bay Area offers a wide range of holiday entertainment this weekend, including light shows, concerts, theater productions, new films, Sonoma experiences, and cocktail ideas.
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fromDefector
2 days ago

A Long Weekend In "Magary Country" | Defector

Thanksgiving arrives as grateful exhaustion, a quiet relief amid gray weeks exemplified by a Connecticut trail, unexpected art encounter, and slowed domestic pleasures.
fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago

My wife and I met at a clown convention. Our retirement plan is to be Santa and Mrs. Claus.

In 2010, Kolinda and I met at a clown convention, where we were introduced to each other while wearing full clown makeup. I had been a clown since 1988, when I enrolled at clown college. Upon graduation, I was hired to perform with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and then went on to perform at Circus Circus in Las Vegas and as the clown for McDonald's corporation in North Carolina.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Jill Freud obituary

Jill Freud founded a beloved summer repertory company in Suffolk, producing hundreds of plays and nurturing actors for three decades.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 days ago

Royal family gift thought to be lost could break auction records

A rare 1913 Fabergé Winter Egg, crafted from rock crystal and diamonds by Alma Pihl, will be auctioned at Christie's with estimates over $26 million.
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

How Can NYC Artists Push Back Against Censorship?

New York City arts leaders warned of censorship, grant withdrawals, and self-censorship due to federal funding cuts and content restrictions under the Trump administration.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Remembering Llyn Foulkes, Dawn Little Sky, and Dorothy Vogel

Multiple influential art-world figures recently died, including LA artist Llyn Foulkes, a geometric painter, a Bronx graffiti artist, a Minneapolis gallerist, and a jewelry executive.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days ago

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight is retiring

"He possesses a quiet, encyclopaedic knowledge of art, and in column after column he connected the dots of culture, history, folklore, civics and psychology in razor-sharp assessments of what a piece of art really means, or how a particular exhibition is poised to change the narrative around a longstanding or misguided idea. In short, he is everything a truly excellent critic should be."
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fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Protest Dance Outside Kennedy Center Targets Trump's Attack on Culture

WASHINGTON, DC - On Saturday, November 22, protestors expanded and crunched their bodies, arms rising and falling with flicked wrists, as they marched in front of the Kennedy Center with stoic expressions. Passersby would be excused for mistaking it for an official performance, but the show outside the nation's art center was actually a " dance protest " organized in response to President Trump's rising authoritarianism.
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fromARTnews.com
3 days ago

Artists and Former Staffers Accuse London Gallery of Withholding Payment

Brittany Fanning alleges London gallery Pictorum failed to pay artists and staff; artists report unpaid balances, a court judgment exists, and the gallery dissolved.
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