Art Basel Paris is closing for the weekend as protests are expected across the city. Smaller satellite fairs are staying open and adjusting their plans, giving collectors and visitors other ways to see art.
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Paris protests disrupt art week as major cultural returns take shape
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Tom Hanks will return to Broadway next fall in "This World of Tomorrow," a time-travel romance co-starring Kelli O’Hara. It will be his first Broadway appearance in 14 years.
5:36 PMNew York Times Arts
Claude Monet’s painting "Iris" sold for $56 million in France. The work comes from the artist’s later period, which has become increasingly popular with wealthy collectors in recent years.
5:01 PMNew York Times ArtsA Barbara Hepworth sculpture sold for $8.3 million at Christie’s London auction, making it the top lot of the sale. The result helped push the house’s combined October 20th- and 21st-century auction total to £278.6 million, or about $371.4 million.
4:14 PMARTnewsTurkish authorities seized a marble head of Zeus believed to be around 2,000 years old. Three unnamed suspects were detained in connection with the case.
4:13 PMARTnews
ASCAP has announced its latest honors for standout music writing and broadcasting. The winners include biographies of film composers John Williams and Bernard Herrmann, a documentary about cult R&B artist Swamp Dogg, Frank Zappa liner notes, and Rick Beato’s YouTube podcasts.
11:01 PMVariety
The Studio Museum has announced its newest artists-in-residence. The roundup also includes this year's Prix Duchamp winners and news that a major collection of Kiki Smith prints is headed to the New York Public Library.
6:08 PMHyperallergic
A musical about Amy Winehouse is in the early stages of development for London’s West End. Producer Catherine Schreiber is involved, and casting is reportedly already underway.
12:33 PMVariety7:43 PMARTnews
As Art Basel Paris Shutters for Weekend Protests, Satellite Fairs Keep Their Doors Open
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Art Basel Paris is closing for the weekend as protests are expected across the city. Smaller satellite fairs are staying open and adjusting their plans, giving collectors and visitors other ways to see art.
The shutdown puts a spotlight on the smaller fairs that often operate in the shadow
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Paris's art week is continuing, but the center of gravity may shift to its independent fairs.
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5:36 PMNew York Times Arts
Tom Hanks Will Return to Broadway in ‘This World of Tomorrow,’ a Time-Travel Romance
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Tom Hanks will return to Broadway next fall in "This World of Tomorrow," a time-travel romance co-starring Kelli O’Hara. It will be his first Broadway appearance in 14 years.
The production pairs one of film’s most recognizable actors with one of Broadway’s leading performers.
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Broadway is getting a high-profile new romance led by Hanks and O’Hara.
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5:01 PMNew York Times Arts
Monet Painting Sells for $56 Million in France
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Claude Monet’s painting "Iris" sold for $56 million in France. The work comes from the artist’s later period, which has become increasingly popular with wealthy collectors in recent years.
The price reflects the premium attached to Monet’s late work, as buyers compete for paintings
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The sale confirms that top-tier Monet works continue to command extraordinary prices.
4:14 PMARTnews
Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Sells for $8.3 M., Leading Christie’s London Auction
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A Barbara Hepworth sculpture sold for $8.3 million at Christie’s London auction, making it the top lot of the sale. The result helped push the house’s combined October 20th- and 21st-century auction total to £278.6 million, or about $371.4 million.
The strong result shows that major modernist names still have plenty of pull with collectors,
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The sale highlights continued high-end demand for blue-chip modern art.
4:13 PMARTnews
Turkish Authorities Seize 2000-Year-Old Marble Head of Zeus
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Turkish authorities seized a marble head of Zeus believed to be around 2,000 years old. Three unnamed suspects were detained in connection with the case.
The seizure underscores how vulnerable ancient artifacts remain to illicit excavation and trafficking. A piece
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The case puts renewed attention on the protection and recovery of ancient heritage.
11:01 PMVariety
Biographies of John Williams and Bernard Herrmann Among Honored Works in ASCAP’s Awards for Music Writing and Broadcasts
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ASCAP has announced its latest honors for standout music writing and broadcasting. The winners include biographies of film composers John Williams and Bernard Herrmann, a documentary about cult R&B artist Swamp Dogg, Frank Zappa liner notes, and Rick Beato’s YouTube podcasts.
The awards cast a wide net, treating books, documentaries, archival work, and online video as
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The honors spotlight the many ways music history and ideas reach audiences today.
6:08 PMHyperallergic
Studio Museum Announces New Artists-in-Residence
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The Studio Museum has announced its newest artists-in-residence. The roundup also includes this year's Prix Duchamp winners and news that a major collection of Kiki Smith prints is headed to the New York Public Library.
It is a busy mix of emerging talent, major recognition, and an important archival gift.
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New residencies and major acquisitions are opening fresh paths for artists and audiences alike.
12:33 PMVariety
Amy Winehouse West End Musical in Development (EXCLUSIVE)
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A musical about Amy Winehouse is in the early stages of development for London’s West End. Producer Catherine Schreiber is involved, and casting is reportedly already underway.
The project is still taking shape, with no word yet on its creative team, songs,
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Winehouse’s life and music are being prepared for one of theater’s biggest stages.
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Bill Irwin stars in his own lively adaptation of Molière’s 1673 comedy. He plays a domineering family patriarch whose obsession with his supposed illnesses throws everyone around him into comic chaos.
11:00 PMNew York Times Arts
"The Prime of Your Life" looks at 18 women artists over 75 and asks what it really means to reach an artistic prime. The exhibition weighs recognition and market success against the longer, less predictable timelines of creative work.
5:23 PMHyperallergicZadie Smith is looking back on the 25th anniversary of her debut novel, "White Teeth." She reflects on how her understanding of time has changed since the book first appeared and on the distance between her younger and older selves.
4:47 PMNPR ArtsAllison Janney is back on Broadway in "Other Desert Cities," returning to the stage about 30 years after her debut. She reflects on how the new production compares with that early experience and what brings her back to live theater.
4:47 PMNPR Arts
Terry Lee, a longtime art lecturer at Sheffield College of Art and a painter for more than 50 years, has died at 93. His early work was linked to the Kitchen Sink painters, but he later moved toward more lyrical and contemplative art shaped by landscape, music and literature.
3:53 PMThe Guardian Art and Design
Dungeon Crawler Carl is heading to comics through a new series from Vault Comics. The adaptation is scheduled for release in 2027.
12:32 PMPolygon
Mike Mignola is expanding the Hellboy universe with B.P.R.D.: Declassified, a new comic set inside the paranormal agency's world. The project offers an early look at another chapter in the long-running supernatural saga.
12:00 PMIGNGary Larson returned to clowns again and again, usually placing them in situations far less cheerful than their makeup suggests. This collection highlights 10 of his sharpest clown-themed cartoons, where stage smiles meet accidents, menace, and wonderfully grim punchlines.
11:00 AMPolygonJR is bringing sketches and photographs connected to La Caverne du Pont Neuf to a solo exhibition at Perrotin in New York. The show runs from October 28 through December 19 and revisits his monumental installation on Paris’s oldest standing bridge.
11:00 AMWWD
Luke Kennard narrates his darkly comic novel about a broke London actor who takes a bizarre university job and is zipped into a black leather bag for a psychological experiment. His performance brings out the book’s sharp timing and escalating absurdity.
10:00 AMThe Guardian Books
A work of literature gives the dildo the grand treatment usually reserved for epic heroes. Its mock-serious poem describes the object in startlingly precise physical detail, opening a broader look at the dildo's place in literary history.
8:00 AMThe Paris Review Daily
A decade after its debut, Yuri!!! On Ice remains a landmark anime for its emotionally open story about figure skating, ambition, and love. Its influence is especially clear now, as newer sports dramas such as Heated Rivalry draw attention to similar themes.
8:00 AMIGN
Helen Fielding has created a new prize for funny writers from northern England. Entrants must submit a self-contained, first-person piece of 1,000 words, reviving the diary-style format that introduced Bridget Jones to readers.
7:46 AMThe Guardian Books
A roundup of five free exhibitions ranges from Pia Camil’s playful celebration of lust to Cindy Sherman’s oversized pearls and Mark Leckey’s ominous visions. The shows offer plenty of strange, funny and hypnotic reasons to spend an afternoon in a gallery.
7:31 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
Horseback archery is drawing new interest as athletes revive a skill once central to mounted warfare. The sport took the spotlight at the World Nomad Games, where riders shot arrows from galloping horses in a display of speed, control and tradition.
7:04 AMThe New York Times
Michael Walzer, whose book Just and Unjust Wars helped shape modern thinking about military ethics, is reconsidering one of its central ideas after the war in Gaza. The conflict has forced him to revisit how the rules of war apply when civilian suffering becomes so overwhelming.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & Culture
In 1952, Ernest Hemingway took aim at a young former bullfighter whose novel threatened his literary territory. What followed was a private campaign to discredit the newcomer and protect Hemingway's status as the reigning writer of masculine adventure.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & Culture
A collection of Life magazine photographs traces how Americans danced, from ballet performances to crowded parties and the Rockettes. Across decades of changing fashion and social norms, dance became a vivid way to capture shifting ideas about gender, culture and public life.
3:00 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
Laleh Khadivi’s novel follows Heti, an Iranian-American mother in Los Angeles who begins investigating her late mother’s hidden role in the Iranian Revolution. What she uncovers forces her to confront the secrets, violence and identities passed through her family.
2:00 AMThe Guardian Books11:00 PMNew York Times Arts
A Sparkling ‘Imaginary Invalid,’ With Bill Irwin, Is the Cure for What Ails You
Summary
Bill Irwin stars in his own lively adaptation of Molière’s 1673 comedy. He plays a domineering family patriarch whose obsession with his supposed illnesses throws everyone around him into comic chaos.
Irwin’s physical comedy gives this old satire plenty of bounce, turning medical anxiety and family
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A centuries-old farce gets a fresh jolt of life from Bill Irwin’s singular comic talent.
5:23 PMHyperallergic
When Does a Woman Artist Reach Her "Prime"?
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"The Prime of Your Life" looks at 18 women artists over 75 and asks what it really means to reach an artistic prime. The exhibition weighs recognition and market success against the longer, less predictable timelines of creative work.
The show pushes back on the idea that an artist's most important work must arrive
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Artistic careers do not follow a fixed clock, and this exhibition makes that especially clear.
4:47 PMNPR Arts
Zadie Smith reflects on the 25th anniversary of her debut novel 'White Teeth'
Summary
Zadie Smith is looking back on the 25th anniversary of her debut novel, "White Teeth." She reflects on how her understanding of time has changed since the book first appeared and on the distance between her younger and older selves.
A quarter-century gives Smith room to revisit the novel without being trapped by the expectations
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The anniversary offers a fresh look at how both a landmark novel and its author change over time.
4:47 PMNPR Arts
Allison Janney returns to Broadway in 'Other Desert Cities'
Summary
Allison Janney is back on Broadway in "Other Desert Cities," returning to the stage about 30 years after her debut. She reflects on how the new production compares with that early experience and what brings her back to live theater.
Janney is best known for screen work, so the role offers a chance to see
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A major screen actor is revisiting her theatrical roots with a new Broadway challenge.
3:53 PMThe Guardian Art and Design
Terry Lee obituary
Summary
Terry Lee, a longtime art lecturer at Sheffield College of Art and a painter for more than 50 years, has died at 93. His early work was linked to the Kitchen Sink painters, but he later moved toward more lyrical and contemplative art shaped by landscape, music and literature.
Lee's career traces a quiet shift from gritty scenes of ordinary life to work with
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Lee leaves behind both a substantial body of work and a lasting mark on generations of artists.
12:32 PMPolygon
Dungeon Crawler Carl Is Officially Getting a New Release Next Year
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Dungeon Crawler Carl is heading to comics through a new series from Vault Comics. The adaptation is scheduled for release in 2027.
The wildly popular progression-fantasy series is moving into a format built for its monsters, traps,
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The comic adaptation could turn a breakout sci-fi hit into a bigger multimedia franchise.
12:00 PMIGN
Mike Mignola Resurrects the Hellboy Universe for B.P.R.D.: Declassified
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Mike Mignola is expanding the Hellboy universe with B.P.R.D.: Declassified, a new comic set inside the paranormal agency's world. The project offers an early look at another chapter in the long-running supernatural saga.
Mignola keeps finding new corners of this universe to explore without losing its eerie, folklore-heavy
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The new series keeps one of comics' most distinctive shared worlds in motion.
11:00 AMPolygon
10 Darkly Funny 'Far Side' Comics About Clowns
Summary
Gary Larson returned to clowns again and again, usually placing them in situations far less cheerful than their makeup suggests. This collection highlights 10 of his sharpest clown-themed cartoons, where stage smiles meet accidents, menace, and wonderfully grim punchlines.
Larson understood that clowns are already a little unsettling, so he barely had to push
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It is a compact reminder of how easily Larson could turn a familiar comic character into a source of beautifully twisted humor.
11:00 AMWWD
The Artist Behind the Installation on Oldest Standing Bridge in Paris Is Coming to New York
Summary
JR is bringing sketches and photographs connected to La Caverne du Pont Neuf to a solo exhibition at Perrotin in New York. The show runs from October 28 through December 19 and revisits his monumental installation on Paris’s oldest standing bridge.
The exhibition offers a closer, more intimate look at a project originally designed to transform
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A landmark Paris installation is getting a second life through the artist’s drawings and images.
10:00 AMThe Guardian Books
Black Bag by Luke Kennard audiobook review – brilliant Booker-shortlisted campus comedy
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Luke Kennard narrates his darkly comic novel about a broke London actor who takes a bizarre university job and is zipped into a black leather bag for a psychological experiment. His performance brings out the book’s sharp timing and escalating absurdity.
The premise is strange even by campus-comedy standards, but Kennard’s narration keeps it lively rather
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This is a case where the author’s own voice makes an already unusual novel even more entertaining.
8:00 AMThe Paris Review Daily
Murano Parsnips: The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo
Summary
A work of literature gives the dildo the grand treatment usually reserved for epic heroes. Its mock-serious poem describes the object in startlingly precise physical detail, opening a broader look at the dildo's place in literary history.
The subject is bawdy, but the approach is scholarly and playful. Treating erotic objects as
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The piece turns an overlooked object into a surprisingly rich lens on literary history, humor and desire.
8:00 AMIGN
Before There Was Heated Rivalry, There Was Yuri!!! On Ice
Summary
A decade after its debut, Yuri!!! On Ice remains a landmark anime for its emotionally open story about figure skating, ambition, and love. Its influence is especially clear now, as newer sports dramas such as Heated Rivalry draw attention to similar themes.
The series still feels distinctive because it treated queer romance and athletic pressure as central
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Yuri!!! On Ice helped expand what sports anime could show, both on and off the rink.
7:46 AMThe Guardian Books
Helen Fielding launches Bridget Jones prize for northern comedy writing
Summary
Helen Fielding has created a new prize for funny writers from northern England. Entrants must submit a self-contained, first-person piece of 1,000 words, reviving the diary-style format that introduced Bridget Jones to readers.
The competition is aimed less at polished literary stars than at people who notice the
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The prize could spotlight a new generation of sharp, distinctly northern comic writers.
7:31 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
The joy of strap-ons, Sherman’s plump pearls and a hypnotic apocalypse: five free exhibitions to see
Summary
A roundup of five free exhibitions ranges from Pia Camil’s playful celebration of lust to Cindy Sherman’s oversized pearls and Mark Leckey’s ominous visions. The shows offer plenty of strange, funny and hypnotic reasons to spend an afternoon in a gallery.
The common thread is variety rather than a single art-world mood. One stop may be
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You can find ambitious, wildly different art without paying an admission fee.
7:04 AMThe New York Times
Archers Mount Their Steeds in Pursuit of Centuries-Old Warrior Spirit
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Horseback archery is drawing new interest as athletes revive a skill once central to mounted warfare. The sport took the spotlight at the World Nomad Games, where riders shot arrows from galloping horses in a display of speed, control and tradition.
The appeal is partly athletic and partly cultural. In an age of drones and remote
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Horseback archery is preserving a historic skill while turning it into a modern competitive spectacle.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & Culture
A Philosopher of War Changes His Mind
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Michael Walzer, whose book Just and Unjust Wars helped shape modern thinking about military ethics, is reconsidering one of its central ideas after the war in Gaza. The conflict has forced him to revisit how the rules of war apply when civilian suffering becomes so overwhelming.
This is a rare intellectual reversal from a thinker whose work has guided decades of
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A major voice in just-war thinking is acknowledging that old moral frameworks may not fully explain modern conflicts.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & Culture
Hemingway’s Vendetta
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In 1952, Ernest Hemingway took aim at a young former bullfighter whose novel threatened his literary territory. What followed was a private campaign to discredit the newcomer and protect Hemingway's status as the reigning writer of masculine adventure.
The episode reveals a less romantic side of Hemingway's legend: insecurity, rivalry and a fierce
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The story shows how aggressively established authors can defend their turf when a promising rival appears.
3:00 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
Proms, parties and gender politics: amazing photos from American dancefloors – and what they tell us about a changing nation
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A collection of Life magazine photographs traces how Americans danced, from ballet performances to crowded parties and the Rockettes. Across decades of changing fashion and social norms, dance became a vivid way to capture shifting ideas about gender, culture and public life.
Life understood that bodies tell stories before people say a word. Its dance photography turns
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The images show dance not just as performance, but as a snapshot of American identity and social change.
2:00 AMThe Guardian Books
Female Life on Planet Earth by Laleh Khadivi review – a mother’s secret past in the Iranian revolution
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Laleh Khadivi’s novel follows Heti, an Iranian-American mother in Los Angeles who begins investigating her late mother’s hidden role in the Iranian Revolution. What she uncovers forces her to confront the secrets, violence and identities passed through her family.
The book turns inheritance into something more unsettling than genetics or family tradition. It asks
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The novel explores migration, motherhood and political trauma through one woman’s startling family discovery.
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