Natsuko Uchino wins the 2026 MGM Discoveries Art Prize - Art Basel

Before Beck’s latest album, “Ride Lonesome,” came out in September, it had been seven years since the last one. That’s the longest stretch between releases for the Southern California songwriter. Naturally, then, at a tour stop Saturday at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Beck kept the focus on his new material. “Ride Lonesome” is full of somber campfire songs, and there was a moment during the show when Beck and his band sat around in a semicircle, as if they were huddling over an actual fire pit. The band, featuring longtime Beck sidekicks Jason Falkner on guitar and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. on keyboards, was exquisite. Almost too perfect, truth be told. There was a lot of reconfiguring happening onstage throughout the night, with technicians and stagehands scampering around between songs. At one point Beck noted that his favorite part of touring is the backstage warmup, when the band clusters in some small space in the bowels of the venue. To demonstrate, they gathered inside a V-shaped scrim, like they were standing between the pages of an open book. Get Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.

Triumph, which has just opened at London’s Almeida theatre, is Caryl Churchill’s latest piece of explosive minimalism. Running at just 20 minutes, it skewers contemporary barbarism without mentioning the names of Trump, Putin or any of the other supposedly strong national leaders. It works through historical analogy and is a reminder that Churchill – while “always ahead of the game” in the words of the play’s director, James Macdonald – has in recent years developed a form of elliptical drama for which the apt word might be compressionism. At the heart of Churchill’s new play is an edgy romance between a male journalist and a female press officer who dons a blond wig for her screen appearances and who is a vigorous apologist for a cruel, vindictive, narcissistic emperor. At first she merrily trumpets his more acceptable achievements: pearls imported from Britain, gold from the temples of Gaul, statues erected to his own glory. But through her lover she learns of the monstrosities of the regime she represents – such as prisoners trapped in claustrophobic cages and sawn in half – and reveals the truth on camera.

A a man died of a freak accident on the property on Friday during a walking tour.

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MIRROR-FINISH ACRYLIC PANELS CONCEAL pavilion IN GUADALAJARADesigned by errre taller, Sfumato is a temporary reflective pavilion that reinterprets the Cubo MEM, a prominent sculptural landmark at the ITESO architecture complex in Guadalajara, Mexico. Selected as the winning proposal for the inaugural Pabellón MEM competition, the project investigates how an existing architectural structure can become visually imperceptible while maintaining its physical footprint.all images ©errre tallerCONCEALED STEEL FRAMING FORMS MONOLITHIC SKYWARD PAVILIONThe intervention by studio errre taller wraps the 6.40 × 6.40-meter cube in a reflective envelope composed of 3 mm mirror-finish acrylic panels. The standard 1.22 × 2.44-meter sheets are combined with 76 cm cut sections to maximize material efficiency while maintaining surface continuity. The panels are attached using double-sided tape and silicone to a light-gauge metal stud-and-track framing system supported by an interior wooden sub-structure fixed to the original PTR steel frame. To preserve the illusion of a monolithic volume, a single access portal is positioned discreetly on the less prominent west face.