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\n\tTo receive\u00a0Morning Links<\/a>\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews<\/a>\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tREEL GENIUS.<\/strong>\u00a0The filmmaker\u00a0Amos Poe,\u00a0<\/strong>a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York\u2019s punk scene in the mid- and late \u201970s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer,\u00a0Reuters<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>. His seminal works\u2014including\u00a0The Blank Generation<\/em>\u00a0(1975),\u00a0Unmade Beds\u00a0<\/em>(1976), and\u00a0Subway Riders<\/em>\u00a0(1979\u201380)\u2014broke through the formalism of earlier generations of Downtown filmmakers, offering a mix of humor, off-kilter tenderness, and keen-eyed observation of a moment defined as much by economic decay as by guerrilla freedoms. Often made with amateur actors on minimal budgets, Poe\u2019s films moved with an energy that mirrored the underground he traversed: densely composed, taut sequences of people forced into motion.<\/p>\n \n\tFLAGGING TASTE.\u00a0<\/strong>A controversy has erupted at the\u00a0British Museum<\/strong>\u00a0after director\u00a0Nicholas Cullinan<\/strong>\u00a0proposed a 2026 fundraising ball themed \u201cred, white, and blue\u201d to celebrate the planned loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from France, the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>. Some staff decried the color scheme as being \u201cin poor taste\u201d amid a surge in far-right activity across the UK, including anti-immigration rallies marked by flag-waving and xenophobic rhetoric. Cullinan\u2019s supporters countered that national symbols should not be ceded to extremists, framing the theme as a celebration of heritage rather than politics.<\/p>\n \n\tConservators and engineers have employed artificial intelligence to assist in the reconstruction of a\u00a0Cimabue<\/strong>\u00a0fresco. The work was shattered into 120,000 fragments during a 1997 earthquake in the\u00a0Basilica di San Francesco<\/strong>\u00a0in Assisi. [The Art Newspaper<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tNational museums\u00a0<\/strong>in Tehran and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, have announced cultural partnerships, including joint exhibitions and professional exchanges, that highlight their intertwined histories. [Tehran Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tAt Cairo\u2019s newly opened\u00a0Grand Egyptian Museum,<\/strong>\u00a0visitors can witness firsthand the reassembly of a 4,500-year-old solar boat belonging to\u00a0Pharaoh Khufu.<\/strong>\u00a0[AP News<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tGothamist<\/em>\u00a0has picked the eight must-see cultural institutions across\u00a0New York City,<\/strong>\u00a0from the marquee museums to niche institutions. [Gothamist<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\t\tThe Headlines<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
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