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    • FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

    FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

    FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

    When I asked about Charli XCX’s “BRAT” and Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”—two of the biggest club albums of the past several years, each backed by expensive arena tours and hefty production budgets—she distanced herself from those records, calling them “brilliant” but “commercial.” Where they had borrowed from some of the same scenes, she told me, “ ‘Eusexua’ was born from a crevice of subculture.” (Reconciling her celebrity status with her genuine desire to be immersed in—and regarded as—part of the underground can be a challenge.

    Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

    Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

    Exiting through the lobby, you couldn’t miss a familiar, heartening post-screening buzz: sounds of laughter and exasperation; hesitant, hazardous attempts at analysis; confused variations on “What was that all about?” We could have just seen “Eraserhead” or “Blue Velvet,” or stumbled out of “Mulholland Drive,” as some friends and I did, not too far away, more than two decades earlier.

    Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

    Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

    Other Biden appointees included the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, the curator Nora Halpern, the actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner and Kerry Washington, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, the screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes and Steve Israel, a former US representative for New York.

    Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

    Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

    The inclusion of Begum adds a further political layer to the work: in 2023, India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed significant sections of Mughal history from school textbooks under the guise of “rationalising” the syllabus.

    “Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

    “Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

    It’s pulled in less compelling directions by the broad caricatures who now populate the edges of the story, including a marriage-crazed blonde hottie Mo humors until he can’t, and a recently green-card-approved friend whose gun collection seems considerably more expansive than his English-language vocabulary.

    The Best Books We Read This Week

    The Best Books We Read This Week

    With examples including rebellious colonists’ proud adoption of “Yankee Doodle” as their anthem—the song was initially sung by British troops, to make fun of supposedly unsophisticated locals—and the emergence of blackface minstrelsy, Zelnik shows how white settlers used playfulness and humor to position themselves as the rightful owners of the land, to the exclusion not only of foppish Brits but also of Indigenous and Black Americans.

    San Francisco’s growing art week and local scene shine at Fog Design+Art

    San Francisco’s growing art week and local scene shine at Fog Design+Art

    Hauser & Wirth also had strong opening day sales, selling more than a dozen pieces, including a landscape painting so geometric as to almost feel hallucinatory by Jeffrey Gibson for $100,000 and the 38-year-old artist Avery Singer’s Poker Players (study) for $575,000.

    RISD’s Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal

    RISD’s Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal

    (Administrations at Trinity, Oberlin College, Brown University and many others have similarly rejected proposals to divest funds from companies with business interests in Israel.)

    Christie’s Sells Two Winslow Homer Watercolors Appraised On Antiques Roadshow

    Christie’s Sells Two Winslow Homer Watercolors Appraised On Antiques Roadshow

    Krulik said applicants send in images of items for appraisal and get a ticket, but in-person viewing is necessary to determine if an artwork isn’t a reproduction or an oleograph, a print textured to resemble an oil painting.

    How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle?

    How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle?

    In 2018, an anonymous Op-Ed in the New York Times, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” described internal efforts to curb the President’s impulses, and became a book the following year, “A Warning.” The author eventually revealed himself as Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.

    Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s collection in Los Angeles

    Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s collection in Los Angeles

    The non-selling show, called Eye Contact: An Invitation to the Pinault Collection, is set to run from 22 January to 28 March, coinciding with the art world's migration to Los Angeles for the annual Frieze fair starting on 20 February.

    Watercolour submitted online to Christie’s found to be by Turner

    Watercolour submitted online to Christie’s found to be by Turner

    A double-sided portrait by the folk portraitist Ammi Phillips from around 1815, found in a storage unit in California before being submitted to Christie’s via its public website, is a highlight of its Important Americana auction on 24 January (est $40,000-$80,000).