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fromHyperallergic
32 minutes ago

8 Art Books to Read This February

Art-related books explore diverse artists, movements, and activism across centuries and countries, showing creative production enriches perspectives and resists injustice.
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fromHyperallergic
1 hour ago
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Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Opens Applications for Sixth Grant Cycle

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative has awarded over $17.5 million to U.S. visual arts organizations for energy-efficiency and clean-energy projects and has opened its sixth application cycle.
fromThe Oaklandside
1 day ago
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This week in Oakland: an exhibit honoring Oscar Grant, and the Lunar New Year and Black History Month festival in Chinatown

Oakland's vibrant visual arts scene includes murals, galleries, museums, pop-up shows, and community-driven exhibits across conventional and unexpected venues.
fromThe Oaklandside
1 day ago
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This week in Oakland: an exhibit honoring Oscar Grant, and the Lunar New Year and Black History Month festival in Chinatown

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fromwww.amny.com
3 hours ago

Cashing out: Houben RT follows the money with his art and paints what it reveals | amNewYork

Houben RT's paintings expose money as modern society's defining force, replacing virtue with valuation and transforming currency into cultural theology that shapes identity and power.
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fromwww.7x7.com
1 hour ago

Locals We Love: Bay Area artist Erin Fong has already won Super Bowl LX.

Erin Fong designed the official theme art for Super Bowl LX and created custom letterpress prints showcased at Moscone North and on game materials.
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fromAnOther
4 hours ago

A Guide to the Captivating Choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker pioneered minimalist choreography centered on repetition and precision, expanding dance into galleries and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
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fromTime Out London
4 hours ago

The cult female artist that is getting her biggest ever UK exhibition at Tate Modern this summer

Tate Modern will mount the UK's first major Ana Mendieta retrospective, presenting 150 works that showcase her earth-body art, Esculturas Rupestres, restored films and rare drawings.
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fromTime Out London
4 hours ago

This underrated, tiny west London museum is celebrating its 100th birthday with a blockbuster year of exhibitions in 2026

Leighton House celebrates its 100th year with exhibitions and workshops showcasing its history, international influences, Arab Hall origins, and restored collections.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 hours ago

Trigger warnings risk mollycoddling' theatre audiences, says Tony-winning director

Trigger warnings before plays risk mollycoddling audiences and sanitising theatre, undermining theatre's role to challenge, disturb, and confront human darkness.
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fromThe Mercury News
5 hours ago

Alysa Liu ready to show off her freewheeling new outlook on Olympic stage

Alysa Liu transformed from a young jumping phenom into a confident, polished Olympic contender who prioritizes artistic performance and enjoys skating without anxiety.
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fromHyperallergic
6 hours ago
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When Will MoMA Dump Leon Black?

A museum trustee faces new sexual-abuse allegations, artists mobilize against ICE in Minneapolis, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art retires its 'PhAM' nickname.
fromHyperallergic
18 hours ago
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Epstein Files Detail Gruesome Allegations Against Leon Black

Leon Black is accused of biting and abusing alleged victims, including allegation he raped a 16-year-old with autism and a rare form of Down Syndrome.
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fromArtnet News
18 hours ago

How Bridget Riley Redefined Abstraction in the 1960s

Bridget Riley's 1962 Untitled (based on Movement in Squares) initiated her iconic black-and-white Op Art prints, including seven prints on paper and seven Plexiglas Fragments.
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fromArtnet News
18 hours ago

Louvre Begins Restoration of Historic Crown Damaged During Heist

The Louvre will restore Empress Eugénie's deformed crown, with most diamonds and all emeralds intact, using accredited restorers under expert committee and legal oversight.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 day ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Golden Days: Dabin Ahn @ Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles

Dabin Ahn's Golden Days transforms ceramic vessels and personal objects into meticulously painted, carved-frame still lifes exploring memory, impermanence, and blurred pictorial-sculptural boundaries.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 day ago
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After I graduated from college, I realized I needed a 'third place' to stay sane and social. A new hobby helped me find it.

fromBusiness Insider
1 day ago
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After I graduated from college, I realized I needed a 'third place' to stay sane and social. A new hobby helped me find it.

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fromTime Out London
9 hours ago

The 6 best free things to do in London this weekend [February 6-8 2026]

London hosts free events this weekend—watch parties, late museum openings, art installations and cultural celebrations for Super Bowl, Six Nations, Lunar New Year.
fromLondon Unattached
8 hours ago

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard - Old Vic - Review

Tonight is the press night for Arcadia's second major London revival at the playwright's home from home, The Old Vic where he made his name with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. An extremely witty and intellectually dazzling masterpiece, the play in typical Stoppardian fashion examines man's drive to impose systems of order and disorder on the world, the dialectical tension that exists between art and science, sex, the laws of thermodynamics, chaos theory and landscape gardening amongst many other popular dinner table subjects.
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fromOpen Culture
17 hours ago

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings

Renais­sance artist Albrecht Dür­er (1471-1528) nev­er saw a rhi­no him­self, but by rely­ing on eye­wit­ness descrip­tions of the one King Manuel I of Por­tu­gal intend­ed as a gift to the Pope, he man­aged to ren­der a fair­ly real­is­tic one, all things con­sid­ered.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Historic New York Building, Home to the City's Tallest Sculpture, Opens for Tours

The Dinkins Municipal Building rooftop will open for free tours in June after a $6 million renovation, offering views beneath the 25-foot Civic Fate statue.
fromHyperallergic
23 hours ago

Deborah Jack's Immersive Elegy for Water

In the language of climate, water is dialectical: It is overabundance and scarcity; needed as well as dreaded. Psychologically, it can represent the unconscious, the maternal, the prelapsarian. Artist Deborah Jack disrupts any viewer's impulse to find recreational soothing in the ocean's tidal landscape, as she openly critiques the legitimacy of cartography, empire, and ecological adaptation. Jack's six-channel video installation "a sea desalts, creeping in the collapse... in the expanse...a rhizome looks for reason... whispers an elegy instead"
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Exhibitions to see during Mexico City Art Week

Taking over the colourful Casa Gilardi, Luis Barragán's last commissioned residence, built for the advertising executive Francisco Gilardi in the mid-1970s, the German artist Gregor Hildebrandt transforms the house's stylish rooms with an ever-expanding exhibition of his enigmatic works across various media. Known for transforming outmoded analogue recording media-including audio cassettes, VHS tapes and vinyl records-into paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, the Berlin-based artist's conceptual works explore themes of memory, nostalgia and the physical representation of intangible sound and sight.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Legendary Movie Poster Artist John Alvin's Archive Seeks a Buyer

John Alvin created iconic movie posters for over 135 films and left a 1,000+ piece archive now being offered intact by his estate.
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fromHyperallergic
20 hours ago

Remembering Richard Gorman, Seyni Awa Camara, and Bjorn Roth

Notable artists and arts leaders from diverse backgrounds and disciplines have died, including painters, sculptors, educators, and two members of the Florida Highwaymen.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Art Basel Qatar VIP day: fair's debut encourages patience

For more than two decades, Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has spearheaded the development of Qatar's cultural institutions, leading them to world renown. Can her vision-and budget-do the same for the region's art market? This question lies to central to the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, which opened yesterday (3 February) to VIPs.
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fromArtnet News
21 hours ago

British Museum's Forecourt Redesign Slammed by Conservation Groups

Conservationists warn the British Museum's proposed forecourt pavilions and Mediterranean-style garden will disrupt the building's 19th-century classical symmetry and setting.
fromArtnet News
20 hours ago

Rare Rembrandt Drawing Nets Record-Smashing $18 Million at Auction

A Rembrandt drawing of a young lion has become artist's most valuable work on paper to sell at auction after it realized a breathtaking $18 million at Sotheby's New York on February 4. The work, Young Lion Resting (ca. 1638-43), which carried a $15 million to $20 million estimate, smashed Rembrandt's $3.7 million auction record for a drawing. Ahead of the sale, it went on view Paris, London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Diriyah, as Sotheby's deepens its presence in Saudi Arabia after staging its first-ever auction in the country last year.
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fromHyperallergic
20 hours ago

Outrage Over Israeli Plans to Seize Palestinian Archaeological Site

Israel's redevelopment plan for Sebastia aims to convert the archaeological site into a visitor attraction, risking Palestinian villagers' access, income, and heritage.
fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Mnuchin Gallery to Close Following Founder's Death | Artnet News

Mnuchin, an investment banker who found a second career as a dealer of Modern and postwar art, died in December at 91. His gallery on Manhattan's Upper East Side was a powerhouse, known for museum-quality exhibitions of top artists. It will shutter at the end of February. Its final show was a survey of Julian Schnabel 's famed plate paintings, which ended on Saturday. The gallery remains accessible by appointment.
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fromArtnet News
18 hours ago

From Pop Stars to Saints, Nieves Gonzalez Is Rewriting the Rules of Portraiture | Artnet News

Nieves González paints portraits of women that fuse Spanish Baroque dignity with contemporary elements like signature colorful puffer coats, creating mythic yet modern figures.
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fromHyperallergic
18 hours ago

In Minneapolis, Artists Mobilize to Crush ICE

Twin Cities artists are mobilizing through free screen-printed apparel, accessories, and creative actions to demand ICE leave Minnesota.
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fromArtnet News
23 hours ago

Belgium Scraps Plans to Dismantle Its Oldest Contemporary Art Museum | Artnet News

Antwerp's M HKA retains museum status and permanent collection after authorities reverse dismantling plans and pursue a collaboration-focused "M HKA 2.0" approach.
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fromArtnet News
18 hours ago

Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait Sells for Record $5.7 Million at Christie's | Artnet News

Artemisia Gentileschi's self-portrait as Saint Catherine sold at Christie's New York for $5.69 million, establishing a new auction record for the artist.
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fromHyperallergic
21 hours ago

The Rubin's Annual Grant Program Funds Himalayan Art and Research

The Rubin Museum’s annual grants support artists, creatives, and scholars advancing awareness, research, and visibility of Himalayan art and living cultural traditions worldwide.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

A Bedroom From Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights' Opens for Stays

Airbnb offers exclusive stays in a faithful recreation of Thrushcross Grange's all-pink bedroom from Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights, located in West Yorkshire.
fromHyperallergic
18 hours ago

Philadelphia Art Museum Says Goodbye to "PhAM"

There was no good reason to rename it, and in the end, I think the fundamental logic that went into that decision didn't withstand scrutiny or deeper analysis,
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Open letter calls for ouster of Art Gallery of Ontario trustee who led vote against Nan Goldin acquisition

The fact that it was Schulich who instigated the decision not to acquire Goldin's work-first revealed by Toronto-based independent journalist Samira Mohyeddin on X-was later reported by the . The newspaper reviewed further documentation indicating that an unnamed person in a decisive meeting of the gallery's Modern and contemporary curatorial working committee likened Goldin to Leni Riefenstahl, the Second World War-era German film-maker and Nazi propagandist, and called Goldin a "liar" based on her outspoken advocacy for Palestinians.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
18 hours ago

hotel roma: nicole cherubini exhibits surrealist ceramic sculptures at friedman benda

Nicole Cherubini's Hotel Roma features hand-built ceramic sculptures combining collage-like motifs, layered glazes, and Surrealist/feminist themes referencing Leonora Carrington and wartime resilience.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Our bodies bear traces of all we've endured': exhibition explores bodily photography

Photography captures extremes of human embodiment, revealing pleasure and pain, strength and vulnerability in moments from competition to ageing, ritual, and everyday life.
fromJuxtapoz
2 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Krzysztof Grzybacz "To Empty Out" @ Mendes Wood DM, Brussels

Behind its seemingly polished framework, To Empty Out emerges as an exhibition beautifully rife with contradictions that overlay serious and playful themes according to Grzybacz, who often sets out to "clash the forces" of gravity and levity through his chosen subjects. Through sublime florals, bawdy scenes, and raw portraits of social life, Grzybacz balances contemplation and observation, navigating between painterly precision and intuitive expression in this deeply personal exhibition.
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from48 hills
18 hours ago

Meghna Sharma paints the loneliness and joy of immigrant experience - 48 hills

Meghna Sharma paints everyday domestic and community scenes in oil, transforming ordinary moments into finely rendered, resonant works rooted in home and family.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Mexico City's fairs give many artist-run spaces pride of place

Before Zona Maco's launch in 2003 consolidated Mexico City as a global arts capital, artist-run spaces like La Panadería and Temístocles 44 attracted a generation of Mexican artists-among them Minerva Cuevas, Sofía Táboas and Pablo Vargas Lugo-interested in developing their practices beyond a commercial context through installations, self-published periodicals and time-based media. In the 1990s, the city's artist-run spaces created important blueprints for dozens of independent and underground venues that animate the contemporary arts scene across Mexico today. Bold and unconventional works coming out of that ecosystem will be on display across the city at three important fairs during Art Week: Salón Acme, Clavo and Material Fair.
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fromBitcoin Magazine
1 day ago

Rutherford Chang Retrospective: Hundreds And Thousands At UCCA Beijing

But they also miss what makes his approach distinctive. Chang worked with objects that industrial culture designed to be identical: records pressed in millions of copies, portraits drawn according to strict house style, coins minted for perfect interchange. His interest lay in the precise moment when the promise of sameness begins to fail, when time and human handling leave marks that transform supposedly identical objects into singular things.
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fromwww.metrosiliconvalley.com
23 hours ago

Kota Ezawa's National Anthem Screens Before the Super Bowl

Kota Ezawa’s National Anthem screens NFL players taking a knee, using reductive animation to meditate on protest, patriotism, solidarity, and hope.
fromSan Jose Spotlight
21 hours ago

Urbanowski: The arts need more investment from the state - San Jose Spotlight

Artists make California vibrant, innovative and culturally rich, yet our state ranks 35th nationally in per capita arts funding. When the state budget allocates just 53 cents per person to the arts, it's clear how little we're investing in the creative workers who shape the state's identity and economy. California's artists are delivering extraordinary value with minimal investment. Imagine what a stronger commitment to the arts could do for our communities, our economy and our future.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 day ago

'It's Not All About Me': Three Portland icons make a winning show * Oregon ArtsWatch

With most of us, 90 minutes of reminiscing wouldn't make for scintillating theater. Gert Boyle, as played by Wendy Westerwelle, is the exception to that rule. The late Gert came to fame when she took the reins of Columbia Sportswear after her husband's death in 1970 and also became the "One Tough Mother," with gray hair and glasses, of its comedic '80s and '90s ad campaigns. In one, she put her son, Tim, through a carwash to test the durability of a coat.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

It's about hurling yourself into the unknown': Charmaine Watkiss on turning a UK museum upside down

Charmaine Watkiss connects Caribbean, African and UK botanical knowledge and diaspora histories through portraits and sculpture emphasizing medicinal plants and ancestral herbal traditions.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Horoscopes Feb. 4, 2026: Oscar De La Hoya, strive for balance and integrity,

Happy Birthday: Look for opportunities and jump at every chance you get to engage in something that excites you. The people you encounter this year will help shape your future. Partnerships, joint ventures and the lessons you learn will change your perspective on life, love and your purpose. Trust your instincts, and question what others want you to contribute. Strive for balance and integrity, and you'll discover your bliss. Your numbers are 6, 10, 22, 25, 34, 41, 48.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
21 hours ago

Shakespeare' gets a lot of credit but performer should, too

Jacob Ming-Trent uses Shakespeare and hip-hop to process personal trauma, finding poetic kinship that informs a powerful, authoritative solo theatrical performance.
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from48 hills
1 day ago

Drama Masks: Feel good this plot is not - 48 hills

Bay Area civic and cultural life is devolving into surreal, corporate-driven spectacles and real dangers that blur satire and genuine threat.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

A new generation revives 'The Muppet Show' and it's as delightful as ever

Kermit returns as host in a faithful 2026 reboot of The Muppet Show, restoring the original theater format, classic characters, and fresh writers and puppeteers.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 days ago

Saudi woman painter outshines Picasso at Sotheby's second sale in Diriyah

The 2025 sale came in just above its low estimate (all estimates calculated without fees), making $14.4m ($17.2m with fees) from 140 lots with a patchy 67% sell-through rate by lot. This year, by contrast, was a more concise offering, with 67 lots of fine art that landed a healthier sell-through rate of 89% and a hammer total of $15.4m ($19.5m with fees), near the pre-sale high estimate of $16.6m.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Why Collectors Are Clamoring for Frederic Remington's Cowboy Art | Artnet News

Known for his romanticized depictions of the American West, the wildly successful 19th-century painter and sculptor captured cowboy culture in its nascency, helping to etch its ethos of rugged individualism into the American psyche. This nocturne, created toward the end of this career, represented a shift in his style from narrative depictions of frontier battles to more atmospheric renderings of the North American landscape.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Mystery Is Embedded in Julia Fish's Architectural Art

Julia Fish's work visualizes geometry, architecture, wood grain, prismatic light, and musical structures through focused observational drawings and mixed-media pieces.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Vilcek Foundation Awards Five Immigrants $250,000 for Fashion Documentation

The 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion & Culture acknowledge those who preserve fashion history and enrich its documentation through photography, museum curations, historical database development, and educational programming. As part of its mission to uplift US immigrants working in the arts and sciences, the Vilcek Foundation has awarded $250,000 to five immigrant fashion professionals: Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, Diego Bendezu, Jalan and Jibril Durimel, and Natalie Nudell.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Hirshhorn's New Loan Program Will Share Its Hidden Masterpieces Nationwide | Artnet News

Hirshhorn is loaning over 200 American masterpieces to museums in all 50 states and Puerto Rico to expand access for up to five years.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Disney names Josh D'Amaro as its new CEO

Josh D'Amaro, a 28-year Disney veteran and architect of a $36 billion global expansion of Disney Experiences, will replace Bob Iger as CEO in March.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

How Activists Are Embracing Craft as a Tool of Anti-ICE Resistance | Artnet News

Handmade craftivism—knit hats, origami, quilts and puppetry—is being used as a nonviolent, emotion-driven form of protest against ICE enforcement and deportation policies.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

What should we watch next? Share your movie recommendations with us

Ask for movie recommendations tailored to a viewer who loved Sinners, including films with related themes, creators, or cast, for publication before the Oscars.
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