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Arts · Dispatch · 5 min

Venice Ovation for Wild Horse Nine Draws Early Oscar Buzz for John Malkovich

Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine received a 13-minute ovation at Venice and prompted early awards buzz for John Malkovich, a two-time nominee without a win since 1993.

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John Malkovich stars with Sam Rockwell as CIA officers in Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine. Variety · Searchlight Pictures
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A Russian pianist on Erard pianos and an American actor on the conductor's podium

07 Aug
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Charli xcx enters the National Portrait Gallery as a new album cycle opens

28 Jul
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Venice 2026 Lineup Drops With Danny Boyle's "Ink" Set to Open a Leaner Festival

24 Jul
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Nikiforchin's 16-concert marathon: how a Russian piano festival sold 40,000 tickets

21 Jul
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Arts23 Jul

Venice 2026 lineup lands light on Hollywood, heavy on international directors, per Variety preview

Variety's 23 July 2026 preview frames Venice as tilting toward international directors, with Danny Boyle's 'Ink' as the previously announced opener;…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

A Whitewashed Washington, Quietly Reinstalled

Six months after Trump ordered an outdoor exhibition on American slavery removed, a new administration-installed display at a Philadelphia heritage…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

Toronto lines up its 51st edition with Mirren, Rock and Rogen at the top of the marquee

The 51st Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a slate fronted by Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen, with world premieres built…

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

At SVA's MFA Thesis Show, the Rubble of History Becomes a Working Surface

The School of Visual Arts' Art Practice MFA thesis show treats inherited history as material to be rebuilt, not mourned, and the work is sharper for…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

Sony courts the Cinerama Dome, and the exhibition map tilts again

Sony Pictures is in early talks to lease the Cinerama Dome, with Alamo Drafthouse potentially running it, a move that would deepen studio ownership…

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

Five Years After 11J, Otero Alcántara Lands in Miami: What the Cuban Exile of a Performance Artist Tells Us…

The performance artist who challenged Cuba's institutions from inside a maximum-security cell has been released into exile. The terms of his…

Aubert · 6 min
Arts21 Jul

The seven-metre ballerina, and why Moscow wants her back

Moscow wants its 1958 seven-metre ballerina back from the Tverskaya Street rooftop where she once stood. The dispute is small in scale and large in…

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

Katie Holmes, the Tribeca Dinner, and the Slow Convergence of Celebrity and the Art World

A reported pairing between Katie Holmes and an artist she met at a Tribeca Film Festival dinner is the latest small data point in a years-long drift:…

Aubert · 3 min
Arts21 Jul

The Hole, a Downtown NYC Gallery, Faces a $50,000 Lawsuit From Artists It Reportedly Couldn't Pay

Four artists are suing The Hole, a well-known Lower East Side gallery, for nearly $50,000 in unpaid sales. The case lands at a moment when small…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

EU Pulls €2 Million Biennale Grant as Russia’s Venice Pavilion Refuses to Step Aside

Brussels suspended a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale on 21 July 2026 after a review found the festival had not adequately addressed Russia's…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists take Tchaikovsky back to Alapaevsk

Yuri Bashmet led the Moscow Soloists into the composer’s family home in the Urals, the first concert held inside the house-museum in decades.

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

Inside the bugged stately home where Nazi POWs monologued to their captors

A new museum at Trent Park restores the listening booths where captured German officers held forth, unaware that every boast was being recorded by…

Aubert · 7 min
Arts21 Jul

A flash flood inside the New Museum, and a third death in New York's Legionnaires' cluster: the dual…

Two unrelated emergencies converged on Lower Manhattan over the weekend: a flash flood tore through the New Museum on the Bowery, while the city…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

A Silk Road Museum Pairing: Hong Kong and Tashkent Sign a Cultural Accord

The Hong Kong Palace Museum and Uzbekistan's Islamic Civilization Center have agreed to collaborate on exhibitions, research and staff exchanges,…

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

A Bronze Jefferson Lands in the Rose Garden: Trump's Quiet Remake of the White House Grounds

President Trump has installed a new Thomas Jefferson bronze in the Rose Garden, the fifth statue added to the White House grounds since he returned…

Aubert · 3 min
Arts21 Jul

Christine Borland, the Scottish artist who turned forensic science into form, dies at 60

Borland built a four-decade practice around what institutions usually hide: medical archives, crime-scene traces, and the genetics of consent. Her…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

A Mountain West Residency Reopens Its Doors, and the Question of Who Gets to Disappear

Jentel Artist Residency has opened applications for 2027, returning the spotlight to a small Wyoming program whose rural setting and bare-bones…

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

Behind the Art Institute of Chicago's outsourcing push

The Art Institute of Chicago is moving to outsource custodial work, prompting a union pushback that turns a back-of-house decision into a public test…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

Disney Store Returns to D23 With F1 Jackets and a Peter Pan Push

The Disney Store booth at this weekend's D23 fan event will lean on Formula 1 co-branded jackets and early peeks at the Peter Pan collection as the…

Aubert · 5 min
Arts21 Jul

V&A's Loss of an Academic Programs Head Reopens a Familiar Question About Britain's Major Museums

Yoshiko Kikuchi, who left the V&A in 2023, told The Art Newspaper she felt unwelcome from day one and described a workplace where microaggressions…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

"Faces Catastrophe With Flowers": Sabri Sundos and the Body as Archive

In Portland, Sabri Sundos translates inherited catastrophe into labour: hundreds of paper flowers, a bisected mobile sculpture, and an argument that…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

A Shiny Glass Box Meets a Flash Flood

The New Museum's seven-year-old glass tower survived a record flash flood largely intact. The incident exposes how untested some landmark cultural…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

A Manchester show stitches Manchester's textile past into a global conversation

The Whitworth's summer survey 'Entangled and Woven' uses Manchester's textile history as a launch pad for a transnational conversation about labour,…

Aubert · 4 min
Arts21 Jul

Shania Twain plays the long game on Little Miss Twain

Republic Nashville's seventh studio album revisits Twain's difficult childhood but softens the edges into polite country-pop, suggesting a legacy…

Aubert · 4 min
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  1. Vienna's art market regroup: a 35-gallery coalition bets on Astoria as the city's two…21 Jul
  2. New York's The Hole sued for nearly $50,000 in unpaid artist payments20 Jul
  3. Soil collapse at the Scriabin Museum exposes Moscow's cultural-infrastructure squeeze20 Jul
  4. A 2 a.m. Odyssey: Inside the All-Night Nolan Revival That Sold Out Manhattan20 Jul
  5. Netflix buys Danny Boyle's 'Ink' ahead of Venice, putting Murdoch back on screen20 Jul
  6. Three deaths, one outbreak: Legionnaires' strain hits a New York summer, and the city's…20 Jul
  7. Water in the gallery: a leak at the New Museum tests a Lower Manhattan flood plan20 Jul
  8. Bolshoi brings its 250-year archive to the Seychelles20 Jul
  9. Zwirner folds the Upper East Side into Chelsea, signalling a Manhattan gallery map in…20 Jul
  10. Philadelphia's Slave-Revolution Backdrop Quietly Rewritten20 Jul
  11. Kyung-Me turns inward, and the sunflower does the rest20 Jul
  12. Bayeux Tapestry Survives Its London Outing, But the Loan Debate Is Just Beginning19 Jul
  13. Netflix's Murdoch biopic buy signals a streaming arms race for prestige cinema19 Jul
  14. Danny Boyle's Murdoch-era tabloid drama sells to Netflix ahead of Venice bow19 Jul
  15. A Leaking Ceiling Meets a Rising Sea: Inside the New Museum's Pre-Storm Race19 Jul
  16. Natalia Bessmertnova at 85: the Bolshoi ballerina who never really left19 Jul
  17. Shanghai auction fraud sentences land as collectors ask who else was watching19 Jul
  18. The Bayeux Tapestry Comes Home: A Loan Recounted in Centimetres, Not Centuries18 Jul
  19. Veronesi’s ‘Dio Ride’ Lands Closing Slot at 83rd Venice Film Festival18 Jul
  20. Steve Lacy's long silence, and the price of an early No 118 Jul
  21. A courtyard falls in: the Scriabin Museum's soil collapse and the fragility of Moscow's…18 Jul
  22. Nolan's 'Odyssey' Pulls an All-Nighter, and So Did Manhattan18 Jul
  23. Netflix bets on Boyle: a Murdoch origin story, and a question about which stories get…18 Jul
  24. Danny Boyle's 'Ink' Sells to Netflix Before Venice Premiere, Reshaping the Awards-Sales…18 Jul
  25. Bolshoi comes to the Seychelles: Moscow's 250-year institution opens its first African…18 Jul
  26. A New York Sculptor Wants to Put Charlie Kirk in Bronze. The Internet Has Other Plans.18 Jul
  27. Asghar Farhadi heads to Sarajevo: a festival lifeline for an Iranian cinema in exile from…18 Jul
  28. Glasgow's hidden rooms: John Wood's leather-scene archive gets its first solo show18 Jul
  29. When the figure won't hold still: the quiet contest over who illustrates the science we…18 Jul
  30. Re-reading a 1,400-year-old wall at Calakmul: the hunter who may also be a king18 Jul
  31. Bayeux Tapestry Clears British Museum Inspection, French Officials Say17 Jul
  32. Netflix Buys Danny Boyle's Murdoch Biopic 'Ink' for U.S. and Latin America17 Jul
  33. Murmurs Gallery, a Springboard for Emerging Artists in Los Angeles, Closes After Seven…17 Jul
  34. Mark Hamill's Lightsaber Breaks the Prop Market Wide Open17 Jul
  35. Iran strikes a US radar site in Kuwait: what we know, and what we don't17 Jul
  36. British Museum Faces Political Scrutiny Over Removal of ‘Palestine’ from a Display17 Jul
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