Zachary Small@ZacharyHSmall

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Oct 27
humbly submitting for your consideration, @ZacharyHSmall: the seven-story Nordstrom flagship on 57th Street. (any floor will do. ) nytimes.com/2026/10/26/nyreg…
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Ursula von Rydingsvard has died. It's hard to think of another sculptor with the same meteoric rise late in life. @business staff walk past her work every morning at 731 Lex nytimes.com/2026/10/27/obitu…

Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Monumental Forms, Dies at 84

Working with four-by-four cedar beams, she created towering sculptures that evoked cave walls, frozen waves, seashells or the folds of a giant’s brain.

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Who is Asha Sharma? I spent the last six months talking to the new XBOX CEO and current/former employees. What I found is a new type of leader in video games. nytimes.com/2026/09/30/arts/…

Xbox’s Millennial C.E.O. Isn’t Playing Around (Gift Article)

“I think the industry will require disruption,” said Asha Sharma, who has overseen layoffs and divested studios since inheriting Microsoft’s flailing video game division.

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We also touched on how the competition is heating up with Sony, coming back with some news of the collaboration with Kojima.
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Sep 29
Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyreg…

Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There. (Gift Article)

Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art.

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The largest Martian meteorite ever found was confiscated from Sotheby's by @JudgeJeanine. My reporting indicates it was smuggled out of Algeria, though it was sold as coming from Niger. Sotheby's claimed to have sold it for $5.3M last year.
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“So we own it now," Pirro says. If a deal is reached, it's most likely that the record meteorite will be given to a museum like the Smithsonian. But first, you probably want to know how this space rock traveled around the world: nytimes.com/2026/09/20/arts/…

Who Owns This Chunk of Mars? Jeanine Pirro Says America Does Now. (Gift Article)

Sotheby’s sold the rock at auction last year for $5.3 million. The government has now seized the 54-pound hunk of space debris — the largest meteorite from Mars ever auctioned.

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Once again pleading with the public to take me meteorite and fossil hunting!!!
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Why did the Trump administration remove a Kehinde Wiley painting from an embassy? The ambassador thought the painting featured a lesbian picnic … nytimes.com/2026/09/04/arts/…

Ambassador Who Removed Kehinde Wiley Work Described It as a Lesbian Picnic (Gift Article)

Trump officials recently removed a painting from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic without explaining why. An interview by Ambassador Leah Campos shed some light.

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I started reporting on Yayoi Kusama's final years during a 2024 trip to Japan. We filled in some gaps about how the artist was working until her death at 97, but some mysteries remain. For example, this promo picture for LV, which seems to be one of her last.
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The final decade of Kusama's life was also her most profitable. The paintings and sculptures kept coming. Here's how: nytimes.com/2026/09/02/arts/…

The Mysterious and Lonely Final Decade of Yayoi Kusama’s Life (Gift Article)

The Japanese artist spent the last seven years in isolation and declining health. Still, it was the most prolific chapter of her career.

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Jay Root@byjayroot
Jul 28
NEW: In late 2024, @ZacharyHsmall and I reported on allegations of federal grant fraud at the neglected and run-down NY State Museum. Today we reveal that a joint federal-state probe “substantiated the allegations.” 1/ nytimes.com/2026/07/28/nyreg…

New York Museum Misused $597,000 in Federal Funds, Investigators Say

Investigators said museum leaders compelled staff members to inflate time sheets and improperly draw on funds meant for a geological survey.

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Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Jul 7
New: Behind Xbox's big reset was a failed Game Pass strategy. Xbox spent nearly $80b in deals for content that it hoped would grow the subscription service. Instead, Game Pass lost subscribers. Deep dive: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Behind Xbox’s Big Layoffs, a Streaming Strategy That Failed

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox spent nearly $80 billion in the last decade on deals that would give it popular video game titles like Call of Duty and Skyrim, betting that gamers would flock to its Netflix...

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Jul 7
37-year veteran of Microsoft and Xbox platform VP Kevin LaChapelle was among those laid off yesterday. He led the team that worked on Xbox One backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games, a feature revealed during E3 2015, as well as its eventual cloud gaming initiative.
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Xbox is dropping five studios and looking at a 20% reduction in staff as the company attempts to reset its business. “History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability,” @asha_shar wrote. “We will not be one of them.” nytimes.com/2026/07/06/techn…

Xbox Hits Reset Button, Laying Off Thousands and Dropping Game Studios

The layoffs were part of wider cuts at Microsoft, as the company prioritizes spending on artificial intelligence.

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Arts education stands to lose about $311 million in student loans, according to a new federal 'earnings test' for higher education. The schools that fail the test might surprise you, including Harvard, Yale and Juilliard.
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The earnings test is meant to help students decide on majors with earning potential, but critics say the test fails to account for how most artist income takes time to increase. Our story on how universities were caught by surprise — nytimes.com/2026/06/02/arts/…

New Federal Guidelines Threaten Almost Half of Graduate Arts Programs

Many musicians, filmmakers and artists earn less than the Education Department’s proposed guidelines for alumni, imperiling federal aid for students in those programs.

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The commissioner, who recently owned a pet food store, has no museum experience. The curator left the art world after an exhibit that was criticized for being racially insensitive. The artist? He’s actually based in Mexico. Welcome to the Trump admin's entry to the Art Olympics.
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With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’? (Gift Article)

After the State Department overhauled the process for choosing an artist for the Venice Biennale, it gave control to a woman who previously owned a pet food store.

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Peter Baker
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Apr 16
Even the architectural critic who encouraged Trump last year to build a triumphal arch in Washington thinks he's going too far. "It's way too big for that site." @lukebroadwater @ZacharyHSmall nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/po…

Trump’s ‘Triumphal Arch’ Draws Backlash, Even From an Expert Who Proposed It

The story of how President Trump quadrupled the size of the original proposal for the arch follows a now-familiar pattern.

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