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The Headlines
REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY movies helped outline New York’s punk scene within the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with most cancers, Reuters experiences. His seminal works—together with The Clean Era (1975), Unmade Beds (1976), and Subway Riders (1979–80)—broke by the formalism of earlier generations of Downtown filmmakers, providing a mixture of humor, off-kilter tenderness, and keen-eyed commentary of a second outlined as a lot by financial decay as by guerrilla freedoms. Typically made with novice actors on minimal budgets, Poe’s movies moved with an power that mirrored the underground he traversed: densely composed, taut sequences of individuals pressured into movement.
FLAGGING TASTE. An argument has erupted on the British Museum after director Nicholas Cullinan proposed a 2026 fundraising ball themed “pink, white, and blue” to have a good time the deliberate mortgage of the Bayeux Tapestry from France, the Guardian experiences. Some employees decried the colour scheme as being “in poor style” amid a surge in far-right exercise throughout the UK, together with anti-immigration rallies marked by flag-waving and xenophobic rhetoric. Cullinan’s supporters countered that nationwide symbols shouldn’t be ceded to extremists, framing the theme as a celebration of heritage fairly than politics.
The Digest
Conservators and engineers have employed synthetic intelligence to help within the reconstruction of a Cimabue fresco. The work was shattered into 120,000 fragments throughout a 1997 earthquake within the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi. [The Art Newspaper]
Nationwide museums in Tehran and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, have introduced cultural partnerships, together with joint exhibitions {and professional} exchanges, that spotlight their intertwined histories. [Tehran Times]
At Cairo’s newly opened Grand Egyptian Museum, guests can witness firsthand the reassembly of a 4,500-year-old photo voltaic boat belonging to Pharaoh Khufu. [AP News]
Gothamist has picked the eight must-see cultural establishments throughout New York Metropolis, from the marquee museums to area of interest establishments. [Gothamist]
The Kicker
FREE THROW AND BRUSHSTROKES. This low season, Washington Wizards ahead Bilal Coulibaly traded the court docket for the canvas. The Washington Put up visited his D.C. studio, the place he painted alongside native artist Charles Jean-Pierre as a part of the “Like Water for Chocolate Metropolis” collection. The 21-year-old Paris-born participant stated his inventive observe—portraiture and nonetheless life—calls for the identical qualities as his athletic profession: self-discipline, danger, and creativeness, making each pursuits as private as they’re revelatory.
