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'Rental Family' Director Hikari Finding Peace on Set Amid the Bustle of Tokyo
On Location peels back the curtain on some of your favorite films, television shows, and more. This time, we take a look at Rental Family. We speak to Japanese director Hikari about her film Rental Family, which follows the story of Phillip, an American actor living in Tokyo (Brendan Fraser) who is recruited by an read more
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Apple Expected to Unveil Five All-New Products This Year
In addition to updating many of its existing products, Apple is expected to unveil five all-new products this year, including a smart home hub, a Face ID doorbell, a MacBook with an A18 Pro chip, a foldable iPhone, and augmented reality glasses. Below, we have recapped rumored features for each product. Smart Home Hub Apple read more
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Mexico City’s Zona Maco to Bring Together 241 Exhibitors Next Month
Next month, Zona Maco, one of Latin America’s top fairs, will alight in Mexico City, bringing together droves of collectors to Centro Banamex, on the outskirts of the capital city for the fair along will several satellites. The fair will take place during the same time as the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar, but read more
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SFMOMA Adds 85 Modern and Contemporary Artworks to Its Holdings
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the acquisition of some 85 modern and contemporary artworks, from painting and sculpture to new media and photography. Some of the most notable names include Ruth Asawa (whose retrospective, currently at the Museum of Modern Art, debuted at SFMOMA last spring), Nan Goldin, Kay WalkingStick, Yoshitomo read more
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52 Walker Quietly Becomes a David Zwirner Gallery as Ebony L. Haynes Shifts to a Global Role
When 52 Walker opened in Tribeca in 2021, it did so with unusual fanfare. The space, founded byEbony L. Haynes under the umbrella ofDavid Zwirner, was widely framed as a corrective gesture within the commercial gallery system: a Kunsthalle-style venue with an all-Black staff, full curatorial autonomy, and a mandate untethered from the usual pressures read more
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Volvos New EX60 SUV Features Pre-Installed Apple Music App With Spatial Audio
Volvo’s new EX60 mid-size electric SUV is set to be the first Volvo vehicle that comes with an Apple Music app pre-installed, Volvo said today. The vehicle will be equipped with Apple Music with Dolby Atmos, providing an immersive Spatial Audio experience. Apple Music will be available as an app accessible through the vehicle’s built-in read more
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New Philadelphia Art Museum Director Says Board Doesn’t Need ‘Radical Restructuring’
In one of his first extensive interviews as the new director of the Philadelphia Art Museum, Daniel H. Weiss told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his institution’s board doesn’t require major changes after the abrupt firing of his predecessor last year. Amid a controversial rebranding, Sasha Suda was terminated in November for what an email described read more
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Volvo’s Electric EX60 SUV Has a 400-Mile Range—and Rethinks the Humble Seat Belt
For the EX60, Volvo is using cell-to-body technology, which means that the battery cells are placed straight into the body, so the outer casing becomes part of the stiffness of the body itself. Volvo claims this improves energy density by 20 percent, while reducing weight and taking up less space. Not many other manufacturers have read more
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Apples Secret Product Plans Stolen in Luxshare Cyberattack
The Apple supplier subject to a major cyberattack last month was China’s Luxshare, it has now emerged. More than 1TB of confidential Apple information was reportedly stolen. It was reported in December that one of Apple’s assemblers suffered a significant cyberattack that may have compromised sensitive production-line information and manufacturing data linked to Apple. The read more
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Goliath Goes to Court, Abramović Brings Installation to Davos: Morning Links for January 21, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines ESCALATION.Two weeks after news broke that South Africa cancelled a Gabrielle Goliath artwork planned for its Venice Biennale pavilion, the artist has announced her next move: taking her dispute to court. Tomorrow Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo will file an application with South read more
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The Language of Flowers Meets Queer Desire in Kris Knight's Tender Portraiture
In late 19th-century London, the famed writer and ostentatious dandy Oscar Wilde initiated a trend that, as trends often do, flourished into a life of its own. Wilde wore a green carnation—the typically pink petals were dyed with arsenic—to the theater, prompting questions about what the oddly colored boutonniere symbolized. This was the height of read more
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Financially Strapped Met Opera May Sell its Prized Marc Chagall Paintings (But Keep Them in Place)
New York’s Metropolitan Opera is facing a serious financial crunch, and may sell two beloved Marc Chagall murals to help fill the gap—but if it does, it will leave them in place. Sotheby’s valued the artworks at a total of $55 million, reports the New York Times. Unveiled in 1966, The Sources of Music and read more
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Edward Zutrau Was a Chromatic Rebel
Every now and then a press release for an artist unfamiliar to you catches your attention for the right reason. It is seldom the description, which I tend to distrust, that piques my interest, but rather the biographical context. This was the case with the exhibition Edward Zutrau: Thirty Years, Two Worlds at Lincoln Glenn. read more
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Police officer cleared of killing woman during high-speed chase in Bristol
A police officer accused of dangerous driving after killing a driver during a high-speed pursuit of a suspect broke down in tears as he was cleared of wrongdoing. Matthew Pike, 40, was accused of causing the death of Keryl Johnson by dangerous driving, as well as causing death by careless driving, in 2021. However, after read more
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Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity
Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, researchers say, to create a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination. The painting has read more
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Israel postpones demolition of Palestinian childrens football pitch in Bethlehem
BBC News The Aida Youth Centre’s pitch sits next to the barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Israel Israel has postponed the demolition of a Palestinian children’s football club in the city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. It said the Aida Youth Centre’s pitch was constructed without the necessary permits. It said read more
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Afcon 2025: Burkina Faso sack coach as Mali hit by resignations
Meanwhile, 10 members of the 19-strong executive committee of Mali’s football federation (Femafoot) have resigned, plunging the administration of the game in the West African country into a leadership crisis. The resignations came after the Eagles reached the quarter-finals in North Africa, matching their performance in Ivory Coast two years ago. However, Femafoot has moved read more
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Loved ones of victims reeling after high-speed rail crash in southern Spain
James Waterhousein Córdoba, Spain BBC/Moose Campbell Yamilei’s brother-in-law Victor was among the victims of Sunday night’s crash Eduardo Morán, a doctor at Córdoba’s Reina Sofía Hospital, suspected it was serious. He and his wife, also a medic, had been asked to head to work after reports that two high speed trains had collided nearby. “We read more
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Greenlands strategic position in seven maps: Why Trump wants the island
US President Donald Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where the issue of Greenland will be front and centre. Trump’s long-running fixation on acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark, has escalated into a transatlantic imbroglio, with threats of sweeping new tariffs and read more
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