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A 16th-century depiction of St. Anthony that had been attributed to the workshop of Bosch or a follower is now thought to be by the Dutch master’s hand.
Saudi Court Spares Poet’s Life but Gives Him 8 Years and 800 Lashes
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A court revised the punishment given to a stateless Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, who was convicted of apostasy. He was also sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Lukewarm results from the major auction houses and wary buyers and sellers chill the market.
Cartoonist Is Arrested as Egypt Cracks Down on Critics
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The arrest of the cartoonist Islam Gawish escalated a crackdown by the government on even moderate forms of dissent.
Jacques Rivette, French New Wave Director of Enigmatic Films, Dies at 87
By DAVE KEHR
Mr. Rivette may not have been as well known as his colleagues François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, but his work was revered by film aficionados.
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A “Loyalty in Culture” initiative, included as an amendment to a budget bill, proposes denying state funds to institutions that do not express “loyalty” to the state.
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The Print Room offers a revelatory production of "Five Finger Exercise," but "Waste," at the National Theater's Lyttelton stage, and Cirque du Soleil's "Amaluna," at Royal Albert Hall waver.
Berlin Show Features German Ethnologist’s Copies of Art From Prehistoric Times
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The Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing “Art of Prehistoric Times: Rock Paintings from the Frobenius Collection” through May 16.
French Comedian Dieudonné Says He’s Barred From Hong Kong
By HANNAH OLIVENNES and PATRICK BOEHLER
He posted on Facebook a photograph of the notice denying him entry, writing that he and his sons had “been detained by the Hong Kong police for over 14 hours.”
Russian Dissident Artist Is Said to Be Sent for Psychiatric Evaluation
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Pyotr Pavlensky was taken to a hospital notorious for giving insanity diagnoses to political dissidents in the Soviet period, raising worries about a revival of politicized psychiatry.
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Italians Mock Cover-Up of Nude Statues for Iranian’s Visit
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To avoid offending President Hassan Rouhani on his visit to Rome, one critic wrote, “we offended ourselves.”
Josef Frank: Celebrating the Anti-Design Designer
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art has mounted the biggest exhibition of the designer's work in 30 years, hoping to burnish his reputation.
Indonesia’s First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017
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The Museum MACAN, for Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, is being financed by the businessman and collector Haryanto Adikoesoemo.
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In its own modest way, a band created during a time of Aboriginal oppression is helping to heal deep racial wounds in Australia.
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The Team will partner with the National Theater of Scotland for a new show at the festival in August.
Egyptian Museum Officials Face Tribunal for Damaging King Tutankhamen’s Mask
By DECLAN WALSH
Eight Egyptian officials are to face a disciplinary tribunal for their role in a botched repair job that caused lasting damage to the famed burial mask.
‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works
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An exhibition opening at the German Historical Museum in Berlin shows 100 works clandestinely created by Jews in Nazi-occupied territories.
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By KATHLEEN BECKETT
"Cycle Revolution" at the Design Museum of London charts the growth of bike use in the city, along with the engineering, fashion and cultures of what it calls bike tribes.
Edmonde Charles-Roux, Novelist and Editor of French Vogue, Dies at 95
By WILLIAM GRIMES
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Zaha Hadid Architects
A rendering of Zaha Hadid’s design for the Olympic stadium in Tokyo.
The architect Zaha Hadid says her stadium design for the Tokyo Olympics was rejected for nationalist motives.
Hieronymus Bosch Is Credited With Work in Kansas City Museum
By NINA SIEGAL
A 16th-century depiction of St. Anthony that had been attributed to the workshop of Bosch or a follower is now thought to be by the Dutch master’s hand.
Saudi Court Spares Poet’s Life but Gives Him 8 Years and 800 Lashes
By BEN HUBBARD
A court revised the punishment given to a stateless Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, who was convicted of apostasy. He was also sentenced to eight years in prison.
Art World Prepares for a Challenging Year
By SCOTT REYBURN
Lukewarm results from the major auction houses and wary buyers and sellers chill the market.
Cartoonist Is Arrested as Egypt Cracks Down on Critics
By DECLAN WALSH and AMINA ISMAIL
The arrest of the cartoonist Islam Gawish escalated a crackdown by the government on even moderate forms of dissent.
Jacques Rivette, French New Wave Director of Enigmatic Films, Dies at 87
By DAVE KEHR
Mr. Rivette may not have been as well known as his colleagues François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, but his work was revered by film aficionados.
Israel, Mired in Ideological Battles, Fights on Cultural Fronts
By STEVEN ERLANGER
A “Loyalty in Culture” initiative, included as an amendment to a budget bill, proposes denying state funds to institutions that do not express “loyalty” to the state.
Review: ‘Five Finger Exercise,’ ‘Waste’ and ‘Amaluna’ Take to London Stage
By MATT WOLF
The Print Room offers a revelatory production of "Five Finger Exercise," but "Waste," at the National Theater's Lyttelton stage, and Cirque du Soleil's "Amaluna," at Royal Albert Hall waver.
Berlin Show Features German Ethnologist’s Copies of Art From Prehistoric Times
By MELISSA EDDY
The Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing “Art of Prehistoric Times: Rock Paintings from the Frobenius Collection” through May 16.
French Comedian Dieudonné Says He’s Barred From Hong Kong
By HANNAH OLIVENNES and PATRICK BOEHLER
He posted on Facebook a photograph of the notice denying him entry, writing that he and his sons had “been detained by the Hong Kong police for over 14 hours.”
Russian Dissident Artist Is Said to Be Sent for Psychiatric Evaluation
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Pyotr Pavlensky was taken to a hospital notorious for giving insanity diagnoses to political dissidents in the Soviet period, raising worries about a revival of politicized psychiatry.
Álvaro Enrigue: Using the Past to Explain the Present
By STEPHEN HEYMAN
The author of six acclaimed books in Spanish, his newest novel, "Sudden Death," which earned major literary prizes in Mexico and Spain, is his first novel to appear in English.
Italians Mock Cover-Up of Nude Statues for Iranian’s Visit
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
To avoid offending President Hassan Rouhani on his visit to Rome, one critic wrote, “we offended ourselves.”
Josef Frank: Celebrating the Anti-Design Designer
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art has mounted the biggest exhibition of the designer's work in 30 years, hoping to burnish his reputation.
Indonesia’s First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017
By AMY QIN
The Museum MACAN, for Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, is being financed by the businessman and collector Haryanto Adikoesoemo.
An Art Powerhouse From North Korea
By AMY QIN
The Angkor Panorama Museum is the most ambitious foreign project by the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang, which employs hundreds of North Korean artists.
Yarrabah Journal
Aboriginal Brass Band Offers Burst of Hope in a Bleak Community
By CLARISSA SEBAG-MONTEFIORE
In its own modest way, a band created during a time of Aboriginal oppression is helping to heal deep racial wounds in Australia.
Brooklyn Theater Company Heads to Edinburgh International Festival
By STEVEN McELROY
The Team will partner with the National Theater of Scotland for a new show at the festival in August.
Egyptian Museum Officials Face Tribunal for Damaging King Tutankhamen’s Mask
By DECLAN WALSH
Eight Egyptian officials are to face a disciplinary tribunal for their role in a botched repair job that caused lasting damage to the famed burial mask.
‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works
By MARY M. LANE
An exhibition opening at the German Historical Museum in Berlin shows 100 works clandestinely created by Jews in Nazi-occupied territories.
At London Museum, Britain’s Bicycling Revolution
By KATHLEEN BECKETT
"Cycle Revolution" at the Design Museum of London charts the growth of bike use in the city, along with the engineering, fashion and cultures of what it calls bike tribes.
Edmonde Charles-Roux, Novelist and Editor of French Vogue, Dies at 95
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Ms. Charles-Roux’s first novel, “To Forget Palermo,” won the Prix Goncourt, France’s biggest literary prize, in 1966, four months after the magazine ousted her.
With Acquisition, Sotheby’s Shifts Strategy
By SCOTT REYBURN
Art Agency, Partners will help bolster expertise on private sales and advising for the 271-year-old auction house.
Special Report: Front Row Center
In Berlin, Reinventing an Operatic Tradition
By REBECCA SCHMID
The theater director Peter Sellars again teams up with the Berlin Philharmonic for a new staging of “Pelléas et Mélisande.”
Singing Shakespeare, 400 Years After His Death
By DAVID BELCHER
As theater companies prepare to go all out in 2016 to commemorate the anniversary, opera companies are doing the same, to honor his vast contribution to their art.
Spotlight
Street Artist Takes Her Work to New Dimensions
A conversation with Alice Pasquini, a street artist in Italy.
Recent Highlights
Black Artists and the March Into the Museum
By RANDY KENNEDY
After decades of spotty acquisitions and token exhibitions, American museums are rewriting the history of 20th-century art to include black artists.
Old Masters’ Prices Are No Laughing Matter
By SCOTT REYBURN
Disappointing results indicate the "classics" may have fallen out of fashion.
Six French Films That Speak to the Identity of the Nation
By WESLEY MORRIS and A. O. SCOTT
Revisiting a half-dozen movies that seem especially relevant to the work of thinking and understanding that lies ahead after the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris.
Arts Guide
ArtsBeat
What’s on This Week Around the World
By CHRISTOPHER D. SHEA
An LGBT-themed festival runs in Manchester, England; a dance triple bill opens in Paris; and the Bolshoi stages “Don Quixote” in Moscow.
Special Report: The Art of Collecting
Art Basel in Miami Beach Shines a Light on the Americas
By TED LOOS
Cuba gets a starring role at the art fair as the island enters a period of transition.
How Jefferson Learned Architecture
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
An exhibition in Vicenza, Italy explores the Italian architect Andrea Palladio‘s influence on Thomas Jefferson.
Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast
Each week, Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, talks to authors, editors and critics about new books, the literary scene and current best sellers.
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