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Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation

Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) has spent the last year and a half photographing the American landscape. That journey across the United States has culminated in the new site-specific installation, titled Red Metal Dust, at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. For it, the multidisciplinary Native American artist constructed 11 panels that layer landscape photography and copper sheets and filter American histories and landscapes from an Indigenous perspective. Related Articles These meditative photographic landscapes reference the Ho-Chunk tribe’s name for copper, a surface metal that takes on the effects of its surroundings and wear-and-tear through physical contact. On view through next January, Red Metal Dust asks viewers to consider the cycles of time—past, present, future—via copper itself. ARTnews spoke with Hopinka to discuss the impacts of time and human presence on the American landscape in this new body of works. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and concision. ARTnews: How …

How America Learned to Love Barnes & Noble Again

How America Learned to Love Barnes & Noble Again

Published by Daniella Wilson

Barnes & Noble was once the avatar for sinister big-box stores on the march against independent businesses. In 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks plays an executive at Foxbooks, a thinly disguised bookstore chain, who puts out of business (and also, weirdly, seduces) an independent bookseller played by Meg Ryan. Local bookstores were, at the time, folding en masse, and people were mad about the growing predominance of chain retail. Then Barnes & Noble got its comeuppance. In the years after the 2008 financial crisis, it closed more than 150 stores. To some extent, the bookstore was experiencing the same predicament of chain retail generally, which, after robust expansion that put mom-and-pop shops out of business, declined faster than independent stores in the age of e-commerce. Amazon was doing to Barnes & Noble what Barnes & Noble had done to local bookstores. But today, in a world more online than ever, Barnes & Noble is experiencing a revival. It opened 60 new stores last year and plans to do the same this year. It is …

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes makes joke about players betting on games

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes makes joke about players betting on games

Published by skeptic

In a press conference, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes joked, “sometimes I wonder if my guys are betting on games” before quickly saying “erase that.” The 71-year-old began laughing shortly after making the comment, along with members of the press who can be heard in the background. Immediately after, he said: “I shouldn’t say that, but you know…erase that…” before putting his head in his hands. “I’m just wondering what’s happening. I mean, cos I know we’re too good of players to do that…” He then apologized and said “I shouldn’t have said that…” The joke came as the coach was talking about some bad passes that had taken place This was an all-timer by Rick Barnes I asked him about the team’s heightened focus and it ends with him talking about certain questionable bad passes. “Sometimes I wonder if my guys are betting on games.” pic.twitter.com/1Q5Au3008b — Paige Dauer (@PaigeDauerFDP) February 1, 2026 Tennessee coach betting joke comes at a time when organizations are grappling with betting concerns While the coach was only joking, and …

Harvey Barnes miss condemns Newcastle to play-offs but they will be a threat

Harvey Barnes miss condemns Newcastle to play-offs but they will be a threat

Published by Sam Flores

PSG Safonov; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Niuno Mendes, Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Joao Neves; Kvaratskhelia, Dembélé, Barcola. Substitutes Chevalier, James, Lucas Beraldo, Zabarnyi, Gonçalo Ramos, Doué, Hernández, Mayulu, Mbaye. Newcastle  Pope; Thiaw, Botman, Burn; Miley, Ramsey, Tonali, Hall; Elanga, Willock; Woltemade. Substitutes Ramsdale, Trippier, Wissa, Gordon, Barnes, Osula, Jacob Murphy, Alex Murphy, Guimaraes, Shahar, Harris.  Referee Slavko Vincic (Slovenia Source link

Julian Barnes says ‘Departure(s)’ will be his last book : NPR

Julian Barnes says ‘Departure(s)’ will be his last book : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes turns 80 on Monday and has been very busy. “I can’t remember a period of months when there’s been so much going on,” he says. He’s pictured above in London in 2017. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images Europe Six years ago, British author Julian Barnes was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer. But rather than feel angry or fearful, Barnes experienced a strange calm; he approached the disease with what he calls his “novelist’s interest.” “I love talking to doctors and consultants and nurses. They stick their needles into your arm and take off pints of blood,” he says. “It’s very interesting. Though like many things, it does get a bit tedious on the 34th time of taking a pound of blood out of you.” Cancer means that Barnes, who turns 80 on Jan. 19, will spend the rest of his life on chemotherapy drugs. Still, he says, he doesn’t grieve for his aging and ailing body. “We are these …

Julian Barnes Says Goodbye to the Novel

Julian Barnes Says Goodbye to the Novel

Published by Sam Flores

“Yes—oh, dear, yes—the novel tells a story,” E. M. Forster wrote. “I wish that it was not so.” Julian Barnes has confessed that as a young man reading Aspects of the Novel, he found this sentiment “feeble” and responded impatiently, “If you aren’t up to telling a story, why write a novel?” Barnes, who turned 80 in January, now sings a different tune, and anyway, Forster’s wish was long ago granted. The literary novel of today is quite free from conventional storytelling, and ironically (irony is one of his specialties), Barnes got busy loosening the bonds early in his career. He’s still at it: His brief new novel, Departure(s), offers only a sketchy storyline, mixed with memoir and thoughts on memory. An extended farewell, an author’s valedictory flourish, the whole package is a culmination of sorts, shimmering with his silky, erudite prose; beneath the suave surface is an earnest investigation into the mysterious ways of the human heart. Explore the February 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to …

Barnes Foundation’s New COO, Heritage Reports .2 Billion, and More

Barnes Foundation’s New COO, Heritage Reports $2.2 Billion, and More

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Friday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Industry Moves Will Cary Promoted to EVP and COO of the Barnes Foundation: Cary will oversee new revenue initiatives, the Calder Gardens partnership, and a newly formed Brand department unifying communications, design, and marketing. Bukia Vakhania Gallery to Open Berlin Location Amid Rebrand: The Tbilisi-based gallery—formerly known as Gallery Artbeat—will open a second space in Berlin on January 15 with a solo show by Nina Kintsurashvili.  Heritage Reports $2.2 Billion in Sales for 2025: The Dallas-based auction house said that was its highest-ever annual total, driven by strong results across categories like coins, comics, sports memorabilia, and illustration art. Antenna Space to Open Hong Kong Outpost in March 2026: The Shanghai-based gallery will launch its first overseas space in Wong Chuk Hang with a group show to coincide with Hong Kong Art Week. The director of the new space is Jeff Li. The …

Barnes and Noble’s Most Anticipated Books in Fiction and More

Barnes and Noble’s Most Anticipated Books in Fiction and More

Published by José Betancourt

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Barnes & Noble’s Most Anticipated Books in Fiction and More Over the holiday week, the major book retailer released its annual lists of the most anticipated books of 2026 in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Fantasy and YA (not sure why they’re mashed together), and Kids’ Books. There’s much to dig into, but I’ll share my personal highlights. In Fiction, we have Vigil by literary darling George Saunders; Kin by celebrated, award-winning author Tayari Jones; talk-of-the-town Half His Age, Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel; Python’s Kiss: Stories, a collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louise Erdrich. In Fantasy and YA, I’m looking forward to Queen of Faces, a debut novel from biracial, trans writer Petra Lord, as well as Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories by Amal El-Mohtar, hot off of her buzzy 2025 release, The River Has Roots. Find all of the available lists here. Fascinating 2025 Reading Data YouGov America Senior Data Journalist David H. …

A Once-in-a-Generation Henri Rousseau Show at the Barnes Foundation

A Once-in-a-Generation Henri Rousseau Show at the Barnes Foundation

Published by skeptic

There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His Rendezvous in the Forest (1889) meticulously reproduces dense woodland foliage, a constellation of leaves blanketing the surface of the canvas and nearly concealing the illicit couple at its center. This is the work of an artist who knew how to bide his time, an artist whose primary profession was waiting—Rousseau served as a customs agent at a toll gate in Paris for over two decades, the source of his nickname, Le Douanier Rousseau. Yet Rousseau’s work is hardly observational—a reminder that staring at the same view every day may mean we see less, rather than more, of it. Instead, he pursued an imaginative practice often characterized as “naïve,” though “Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” dispels such illusions. The show is a collaboration between the Barnes and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and includes work from the collection of the Parisian dealer Paul Guillaume. Guillaume sold Albert Barnes many of …