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‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing New Fans to Hockey. Does the Sport Deserve Them?
The NHL also pointed WIRED to its partnerships with Pride organizations around the US, Canada, and Australia, as well as pro-inclusivity organization You Can Play, which it’s been working with since 2013. The league said it will be hosting its third annual Pride Cup in 2026. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has said he “binged” Heated read more
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Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors
On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February. She will be replaced by the publication’s executive editor, Rachel Wetzler, and editor Daniel Wenger, who will now serve as co-editors. (The editor-in-chief title will no longer be used.) Ryan, a curator, critic, and specialist in read more
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Amy Sherald’s Show Sets Visitor Record at Baltimore Museum of Art
News The museum became a venue for “American Sublime” after Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the Smithsonian, citing censorship concerns. Amy Sherald, “Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)” (2024) (courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) The traveling exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime has set a new attendance record at the Baltimore Museum of read more
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Queens Museum Promotes Debra Wimpfheimer to Executive Director
The Queens Museum has named Debra Wimpfheimer as its next executive director. She replaces Sally Tallant, who departed last month ahead of taking on the directorship of the Hayward Gallery in London. Wimpfheimer, a Queens native, has worked for the museum for more than two decades. She first joined as the institution’s director of external read more
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Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation | TechCrunch
Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier. The beta version is now available in the app. To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store’s read more
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Microsoft says hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to target Windows and Office users | TechCrunch
Microsoft has rolled out fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, which the company says are being actively abused by hackers to break into people’s computers. The exploits are one-click attacks, meaning that a hacker can plant malware or gain access to a victim’s computer with minimal user interaction. At least two flaws can read more
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Teaching Children Taught Me How to Be an Artist
At the end of November of 2011, I saw my dad take his last breath. I came back to the United States after participating in all the death-related rituals that helped organize my pain in México. New York City was not a place to live my mourning, and right around December of the same year, read more
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iOS 26.3 Features: Everything New in iOS 26.3
Apple released iOS 26.3 today, and while it doesn’t have as many features as iOS 26.1 or iOS 26.2, there are still a couple of new additions worth knowing about. Transfer to Android Apple is making it easier for iPhone users to transition to an Android smartphone in iOS 26.3, introducing a new transfer tool read more
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ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minnesota is pushing the United States court system to its breaking point. Since Operation Metro Surge began in December, federal immigration agents have arrested some 4,000 people, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The result is an avalanche of cases filed in the US district read more
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No, The Gardner Museum’s Stolen Rembrandt Is Not in the Epstein Files, Despite Claims in a Viral Video
Wouldn’t it be fascinating if one of the greatest museum heists of all time was somehow associated with one of the most sordid crime rings in recent history? And wouldn’t it be great if you could get a piece of the $10 million reward? That was the prospect presented by a video by Instagrammer Emily read more
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Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA’s Art Scene, Dies at 89
Photographer Jerry McMillan, who played a key role in documenting the mid-century art scene in Los Angeles, died on Monday, February 9, at the age of 89. The cause was “old age and a broken heart,” according to his son. McMillan’s wife of more than six decades, Patricia Ella McMillan, had passed away a week read more
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Art Problems: Should I Sell My Work to People Whose Politics I Hate?
Should I allow my work to be sold to people whose politics I hate? I’m not okay with the ongoing injustice in Minneapolis and I don’t want to pretend this is just a difference of opinion. —distraught painter in America Short answer. No. You should not allow your work to be sold to MAGA supporters. read more
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Along the Mississippi River, 'Water | Craft' Is a Confluence of Art, Culture, and Ecology
When we think of terms like “flowing” or “fluid,” we could be referring to the nature of water, but we can also just as easily apply these concepts to our understanding of art and craft. Fabrics “pool” and different mediums converge. The nature of creativity is often referred to in terms of an “ebb and read more
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Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially ‘Dead,’ Says Jersey City Mayor
A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is read more
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Remembering Ted Berger, Christopher White, and Hudson Talbott
In Memoriam This week, we honor a devoted patron of the arts, the director of the Ashmolean, and a beloved children’s book illustrator. Ted Berger in 2012 (photo by Lloyd Mulvey, courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation) In Memoriamis published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. Ted Berger (1940–2026)Head of read more
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Cash App adds payment links so you can get paid in a DM | TechCrunch
It’s already quite easy to use Cash App. However, on Wednesday, the payment platform owned by Block, Inc. introduced a new feature designed to make its user experience significantly easier: payment links. The feature allows app users to send payments via a hyperlink that can be attached to a variety of communications. Users can access read more
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New Siri Runs Into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27
Apple has “run into snags” testing the more personalized, smarter version of Siri that’s planned for iOS 26.4, reports Bloomberg. Because of the issues, the upcoming Siri features will be spread across several upcoming iOS releases and won’t all come in the spring iOS 26.4 update. Apple could postpone some or all of the new read more
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David Bowie Immersive Exhibition Opens in London
The UK can’t seem to get enough of David Bowie. “David Bowie Is,” an exhibition about the late pop icon’s life, music, videos, and art, was organized by the V&A in London, where it opened in 2013 and proceeded to tour the world for five years. The V&A also recently opened the David Bowie Centre, read more
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Debra Wimpfheimer Named Executive Director of Queens Museum
News The Queens native, who succeeds Sally Tallant, has held senior roles at the institution for over two decades. A portrait of Debra Wimpfheimer, the Queens Museum’s incoming executive director (photo by Claudia Lucia, courtesy the museum) Three weeks after the Queens Museum announced the forthcoming departure of Executive Director Sally Tallant, the board has read more
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DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing 'millions of computers and devices' | TechCrunch
The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide, U.S. prosecutors have confirmed for the first time. In October, Australian national Peter Williams, 39, pleaded guilty to selling eight hacking tools that he stole from his employer Trenchant, a read more
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