37 h. ago Which galleries are returning to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025—and which are not?

Which galleries are returning to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025—and which are not?  The Art Newspaper

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39 h. ago ‘I must have done something right!’: dance master Jiří Kylián on his festival, fierce critics and the Ministry of Silly Walks

At 78, the great choreographer is enjoying a career-spanning celebration in Oslo. He reflects on his leap from dance to visual art and why he feels snubbed by BritainA gang of young dancers, their black costumes offset by colourful hats, cascade down the sloping roof of Oslo’s opera house for a jubilant routine to a Prince song by the waterfront. The building’s huge glass facade has become an unlikely stage for sculptures, digitally scanned from dancers’ bodies, positioned as if they are plunging into the building like the nearby bathers in the fjord. Inside, there’s an eclectic bill of ballets including one inspired by a painting from the Edvard Munch museum next door. In the wings of the theatre is an installation drawing on the Buddhist Zen symbol ensō. The studio space is screening short films veering from slapstick to the profound.But this sprawling festival, spanning more than two weeks and then partially touring, has a singular focus. These are all works by Jiří Kylián, the C...

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57 h. ago Frieze Names More Than 280 Exhibitors for London and Masters Fairs in October

Frieze Names More Than 280 Exhibitors for London and Masters Fairs in October  ARTnews.com

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62 h. ago Nordic Darts Masters 2025 schedule and order of play in full as Luke Littler hunts Price’s crown in Denmark

Gerwyn Price out to retain his crown in Copenhagen as nuclear Lukes head challengers

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7 d. ago ‘Feels bigger than herself’: the importance of Taylor Swift’s latest victory

World’s most famous pop star has finally bought back rights to her master recordings, a win for her but also a potentially major win for the industryIt goes without saying, but Taylor Swift has scored a lot of victories in the past few years. There was, first and foremost, the blockbuster Eras Tour, which became the bestselling concert tour of all time and a certifiable cultural era in itself. She released the bestselling concert film of all time, with a distribution model that upended the theatrical market. There was yet another album of the year Grammy. She turned the Super Bowl into the ultimate rom-com. Even with mediocre critical reviews, her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, set more streaming records than I can count.All of these were beyond impressive, if at times threatening overexposure and annoyingly at odds with her self-styled narrative as an underdog – the emotionally astute lyricist battling against a sliding scale of villains, from careless boys, bitc...

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8 d. ago Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums

After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first timeTaylor Swift has bought back the master recordings to her first six albums, giving her control over her entire catalogue for the first time. “I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” she wrote in a letter to fans. “But that’s all in the past now. All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”She originally lost the rights in 2019 when her first record label, Big Machine, sold them to music executive Scooter Braun. Swift described the sale to Braun as her “worst case scenario”, and said she had not been given the opportunity to buy her work outright, but to “earn” one album back for each new album she recorded for the label. Her subsequent albums, from 2019’s Lover onwards, were released on Republic, with Swift retaining the rights to the master recordi...

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1 week ago The Ritual review – Al Pacino is priestly mastermind in tale of infamous real

Pacino is somewhat flat and Dan Stevens seems to be waiting for the final curtain as they with a young woman in Iowa apparently possessed by a demonThis low-budget, minor-key and – frankly – dreary horror feature offers yet another dramatisation of the 1928 exorcism of a young woman (played here by Abigail Cowen), known by her alias Anna Ecklund and her real name Emma Schmidt. The real-life ritual, which transpired at a nunnery in Iowa, was overseen by elderly German Capuchin priest Father Theophilus Riesinger (Al Pacino) and local cleric Father Joseph Steiger (Dan Stevens) and written up as a pamphlet (“Begone Satan!”) that went on to shape the public understanding of exorcisms.All that historical detail is transfused into a weak tea of a script, credited to the film’s director David Midell and Enrico Natale. They have generated a work that is a little more interested in background and context instead of sweary pyrotechnics and supernatural fireworks often found in demonic-possessi...

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1 week ago The Birmingham Four: terrorist masterminds – or victims of a police fit

In August 2017, four men were jailed for life at the Old Bailey for plotting a terrorist attack. They were caught in an undercover police sting, and their defence lawyers insist their case continues to raise troubling and pressing questions ...On Friday 26 August 2016, Naweed Ali drove to his first day of work at a delivery company in Birmingham. His next door neighbour and close friend Khobaib Hussain had already been working at Hero Couriers for a month. The name seemed appropriate. There was something heroic about the work they did. Ali and Hussain were hired to drive around the country reuniting airline passengers with lost property. The pay was great, too – £100 a shift, cash in hand. It seemed too good to be true.So it proved. Hero Couriers was a front for Operation Pesage, an undercover police operation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Mastermind review – Josh O’Connor is world’s worst art thief in Kelly Reichardt’s unlikely heist movie

Cannes film festival Reichardt’s quietist, observational style is unexpectedly successful at creating a super-naturalistic depiction of an art gallery robberyIt needs hardly be said that the title is ironic. The abject non-hero of Kelly Reichardt’s engrossingly downbeat heist movie, set in 1970s Massachusetts, is weak, vain and utterly clueless. By the end, he’s a weirdly Updikean figure, though without the self-awareness: going on the run with no money and without a change of clothes, to escape from the grotesque mess he has made for himself and his family.This is James, played with hangdog near-charm by Josh O’Connor; he is an art school dropout and would-be architectural designer with two young sons, married to Terri (a minor complaint is that the excellent Alana Haim is not given enough to do). James depends on the social standing of his father Bill, a judge, formidably played by Bill Camp, and is borrowing large sums of money from his patrician mother Sarah (Hope Davis), ostens...

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2 w. ago Interior Design Masters 2025: when is the final of series 6? BBC schedule confirmed

Interior Design Masters will soon crown its winner for series six - but when? 🖌

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3 w. ago Inside the LA ‘psychic reset’ bootcamp that promises happiness – at a price

I was told my life would change if I let strangers prod my deepest wounds. But I wasn’t sure: were these group training sessions empowering or exploitative?On a Saturday in March in a conference room with ugly carpeting near Los Angeles international airport, I meekly muttered “thank you” as a group of six people – all strangers until the day before – enumerated my deepest flaws.“I see you, Katherine, as inauthentic,” led the charge. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Reason the PGA Championship isn't played at the same course each year like the Masters is

This year's PGA Championship is set to tee off at the prestigious Quail Hollow course in Charlotte, North Carolina - but last year's tournament played out on the greens and fairways of Kentucky's Valhalla

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3 w. ago After 'cosmic' Masters win, what now for Rory McIlroy and 2025 majors?

Sole Scot Bob MacIntyre set for new test in 107th PGA Championship at Quail Hollow

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