Paris protests disrupt art week as major cultural returns take shape

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Terry Lee, a longtime art lecturer at Sheffield College of Art and a painter for more than 50 years, has died at 93. His early work was linked to the Kitchen Sink painters, but he later moved toward more lyrical and contemplative art shaped by landscape, music and literature.

Why it matters

Lee leaves behind both a substantial body of work and a lasting mark on generations of artists.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl is heading to comics through a new series from Vault Comics. The adaptation is scheduled for release in 2027.

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The comic adaptation could turn a breakout sci-fi hit into a bigger multimedia franchise.

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Mike Mignola is expanding the Hellboy universe with B.P.R.D.: Declassified, a new comic set inside the paranormal agency's world. The project offers an early look at another chapter in the long-running supernatural saga.

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The new series keeps one of comics' most distinctive shared worlds in motion.

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Gary Larson returned to clowns again and again, usually placing them in situations far less cheerful than their makeup suggests. This collection highlights 10 of his sharpest clown-themed cartoons, where stage smiles meet accidents, menace, and wonderfully grim punchlines.

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It is a compact reminder of how easily Larson could turn a familiar comic character into a source of beautifully twisted humor.

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JR is bringing sketches and photographs connected to La Caverne du Pont Neuf to a solo exhibition at Perrotin in New York. The show runs from October 28 through December 19 and revisits his monumental installation on Paris’s oldest standing bridge.

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A landmark Paris installation is getting a second life through the artist’s drawings and images.

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Luke Kennard narrates his darkly comic novel about a broke London actor who takes a bizarre university job and is zipped into a black leather bag for a psychological experiment. His performance brings out the book’s sharp timing and escalating absurdity.

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This is a case where the author’s own voice makes an already unusual novel even more entertaining.

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A work of literature gives the dildo the grand treatment usually reserved for epic heroes. Its mock-serious poem describes the object in startlingly precise physical detail, opening a broader look at the dildo's place in literary history.

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The piece turns an overlooked object into a surprisingly rich lens on literary history, humor and desire.

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A decade after its debut, Yuri!!! On Ice remains a landmark anime for its emotionally open story about figure skating, ambition, and love. Its influence is especially clear now, as newer sports dramas such as Heated Rivalry draw attention to similar themes.

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Yuri!!! On Ice helped expand what sports anime could show, both on and off the rink.

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Helen Fielding has created a new prize for funny writers from northern England. Entrants must submit a self-contained, first-person piece of 1,000 words, reviving the diary-style format that introduced Bridget Jones to readers.

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The prize could spotlight a new generation of sharp, distinctly northern comic writers.

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A roundup of five free exhibitions ranges from Pia Camil’s playful celebration of lust to Cindy Sherman’s oversized pearls and Mark Leckey’s ominous visions. The shows offer plenty of strange, funny and hypnotic reasons to spend an afternoon in a gallery.

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You can find ambitious, wildly different art without paying an admission fee.

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Horseback archery is drawing new interest as athletes revive a skill once central to mounted warfare. The sport took the spotlight at the World Nomad Games, where riders shot arrows from galloping horses in a display of speed, control and tradition.

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Horseback archery is preserving a historic skill while turning it into a modern competitive spectacle.

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Michael Walzer, whose book Just and Unjust Wars helped shape modern thinking about military ethics, is reconsidering one of its central ideas after the war in Gaza. The conflict has forced him to revisit how the rules of war apply when civilian suffering becomes so overwhelming.

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A major voice in just-war thinking is acknowledging that old moral frameworks may not fully explain modern conflicts.

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In 1952, Ernest Hemingway took aim at a young former bullfighter whose novel threatened his literary territory. What followed was a private campaign to discredit the newcomer and protect Hemingway's status as the reigning writer of masculine adventure.

Why it matters

The story shows how aggressively established authors can defend their turf when a promising rival appears.

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A collection of Life magazine photographs traces how Americans danced, from ballet performances to crowded parties and the Rockettes. Across decades of changing fashion and social norms, dance became a vivid way to capture shifting ideas about gender, culture and public life.

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The images show dance not just as performance, but as a snapshot of American identity and social change.

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Laleh Khadivi’s novel follows Heti, an Iranian-American mother in Los Angeles who begins investigating her late mother’s hidden role in the Iranian Revolution. What she uncovers forces her to confront the secrets, violence and identities passed through her family.

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The novel explores migration, motherhood and political trauma through one woman’s startling family discovery.