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• Phoenix Performing Arts Gets Ready to Open Anastasia - WSBT

  05-04-2025 14:32 via news.google.com
  Phoenix Performing Arts Gets Ready to Open Anastasia  WSBT
  
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• Would Joan Didion Have Wanted the World To See Her Notes on Therapy?

  17-04-2025 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Readers can decide when “Notes to John,” which shows the writer grappling with guilt and vulnerability, is published next week.
  
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• The Hype at Coachella This Year? Billboards.

  17-04-2025 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Some of the hottest advertising space is deep in the California desert, where Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Djo, Post Malone and more generate buzz for their festival sets.
  
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• Despite Setbacks, Harlem’s Brotherhood Sister Sol Thrives

  17-04-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Three years after opening its visual jolt of a new headquarters, the Brotherhood Sister Sol has become even more of a haven for the young people it serves.
  
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• Jinkx Monsoon Sails From ‘Drag Race’ to ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’

  17-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Jinkx Monsoon talks about feeling like a lifetime of hard work is finally paying off, and her return to Broadway as a zany maid in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical.”
  
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• ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Review: The Family You Find

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A retelling of Ang Lee’s classic of queer cinema comes at the same farcical situation in a new way.
  
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• ‘The Shrouds’ Review: For Cronenberg, Grief Is an Obsession

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The director’s latest stars Vincent Cassel as an entrepreneur who mourns the death of his wife by inventing technology that surveils her entombed body.
  
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• ‘The President’s Wife’ Review: Would Madame Get Your Vote?

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Catherine Deneuve plays the former French first lady Bernadette Chirac in this puckish, highly fictionalized biopic with a pop-feminist edge.
  
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• ‘The Legend of Ochi’ Review: The Great, Familiar Adventure

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A 1980s throwback movie about a teenager who sets out on a journey with a mysterious being.
  
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• ‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler’s Southern Horror Fantasia

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The director goes boldly out there in his fifth feature, a genre-defying, mind-bending shoot-em-up that stars Michael B. Jordan as twins.
  
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• ‘Queens of Drama’ Review: A Half-Century Feud

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Alexis Langlois’s musical romance is an unruly story of a love-hate relationship between two ambitious musicians.
  
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• ‘Invention’ Review: Patent Pensive

  17-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In this strange experimental feature from Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez, a grieving daughter investigates the mysterious gadget her father left behind.
  
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• The Treats That Bernadette Peters, Delia Ephron and Marcus Samuelsson Swear By

  17-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Bernadette Peters, Dichen Lachman, Delia Ephron and more share their tiny joys for tough days.
  
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• The New Frick is the Best of the Old School

  17-04-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  As the old master art world has shrunk in prominence in recent years, the trend has been countered by the creative vitality of an institution that may have seemed least likely to harbor new initiatives: New York’s Frick Collection. The beloved mansion with its palmy garden court and collection of European masterpieces by the likes of Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Fragonard has always been an oasis of beauty within the city’s frenetic art scene, a place where visitors came to contemplate ke
  
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• For This Artist, Doomscrolling Isn’t a Bad Thing

  17-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Jon Rafman’s liberal use of artificial intelligence is on full, dark display in an exhibition that features a kind of MTV warped by internet subcultures.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Defends PBS and NPR Against Trump’s Defunding Plan

  17-04-2025 08:12 via nytimes.com
  Colbert said both public media entities are “already operating on a shoestring budget — Daniel Tiger can’t even afford to wear pants.”
  
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• Review: Caryl Churchill Times Four Makes an Infinity of Worlds

  17-04-2025 04:00 via nytimes.com
  “Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp,” a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.
  
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• Tim Mohr, DJ and German Translator Who Ghostwrote Paul Stanley’s Memoir, Dies at 55

  17-04-2025 00:49 via nytimes.com
  An American who had lived abroad, he sought out books by up-and-coming German writers, while ghostwriting memoirs for rock stars like Paul Stanley.
  
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• Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Bridal Collection Teases Fans Yet Again

  17-04-2025 00:20 via nytimes.com
  Savage x Fenty’s new collection is the latest entry on a list of times the singer and her partner, ASAP Rocky, have alluded to being engaged.
  
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• Art Dubai Opens With Its Own Pace: A Fair That’s ‘Not About Fighting to Win the Waiting List’

  16-04-2025 22:32 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.Art Dubai opened to VIPs on Wednesday with all the familiar trappings of a global art fair—VIPs in sunglasses, polished presentations, branded lanyards, and an ocean of champagne. Though the fair opened at 2 p.m.—later than the usual 11 a.m. or noon—the exhibition hall didn’t tru
  
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• RISD Students Protest Relocation of Pro-Palestine Art Exhibition

  16-04-2025 21:30 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, around 70 Rhode Island School of Design students staged a demonstration outside the school’s administrative offices, protesting the administration’s decision to relocate a pro-Palestine art exhibition. The Brown Daily Herald first reported news of the protest.The RISD show, “To Every Orange Tree,” opened March 17 at Carr Haus Cafe, a student-run space on campus. It was a joint effort between the cafe and RISD Students for Justice in Palestine (RSJP) The imager
  
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• Christie’s Will Auction $30 M. Claude Monet Painting in May Evening Sale

  16-04-2025 21:21 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s will auction Claude Monet’s Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule (1891) during its marquee evening sales in New York next month, where the painting will hit the block with a $30 million–$50 million estimate.The Impressionist’s image of poplar trees at sunset has been with the same family collection for 60 years. It was first owned by legendary dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who acquired it in 1892 and whose family retained ownership until 1955.“
  
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• The Large Bust of Elon Musk in Texas Has Been Defaced

  16-04-2025 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  A 12-foot-tall bust of Elon Musk in Texas was defaced over the weekend, according to the owner of the property the artwork is located on.The landowner, Eleazar Villafranca, told ABC News that passerby alerted him on Saturday to the damage, and, on Monday, he confirmed in-person deep gouges on the bust’s eye, chin, and back. “There are like three or four pieces they cut with a knife,” Villafranca said, adding that it was constructed out of a rubbery material. The work has been s
  
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• Seth Rogen’s Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast

  16-04-2025 19:58 via nytimes.com
  While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony this month, Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”
  
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• Robyn Kahukiwa, Painter Who Recorded the Realities of Māori Life, Dies at 86

  16-04-2025 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  Robyn Kahukiwa, a Māori painter who became one of the most famous artists in Aotearoa New Zealand, died of an illness at 86 in a Wellington hospital on Friday. Her death was announced on Facebook by her family.Her family wrote that she died with “her kaitiaki near, wrapped in the korowai of aroha and pouritanga of our whānau.”Kahukiwa’s paintings gave a visual language to the daily realities of modern Māori life. Frequently focusing specifically on women, she pow
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover 4,000 Mural Fragments Dating to 2nd Century in Spain

  16-04-2025 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Spanish archaeologists have uncovered some 4,000 new painting fragments at a Roman villa in Valencia, dating back to the second century CE.The mural fragments are believed to have decorated various stately rooms at the Barberes Sud villa in the former Roman settlement of Alonís (Allon), near present-day Villajoyosa. This excavation was jointly overseen by the Empresa Alebus Patrimonio Histórico (Alebus Historical Heritage Company) and Servicio Municipal de Arqueología (Munic
  
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• In ‘Your Friends & Neighbors,’ the Watches Steal the Show

  16-04-2025 18:30 via nytimes.com
  “Your Friends & Neighbors” strives to comment on the vacuousness of wealth while simultaneously glorifying the spoils of being really, really rich.
  
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• ‘Government Cheese’ Review: Moving on Up, to the Surreal Side

  16-04-2025 18:13 via nytimes.com
  The comedy, starring David Oyelowo, straddles a border between the pioneering Black sitcoms of the 1970s and dreamy modern dramedies like “Lodge 49.”
  
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• Archaeologists in Egypt Uncover Ancient Town Likely Built by King Tut’s Father 

  16-04-2025 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Egyptian town dating back 3,400 years near the city of Alexandria, according to a recent study published in Antiquity.The researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research have theorized that the mud-brick settlement was likely founded during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550 BCE–1292 BCE), due to the presence of items bearing an amphora stamp with the name Merytaton. Merytaton was the daughter of the pharaoh Akhena
  
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• The Concert Cold War in a Quiet Enclave

  16-04-2025 17:03 via nytimes.com
  Designed to be an idyllic neighborhood more than a century ago, Forest Hills Gardens is now a hub for music — and noise complaints.
  
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