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Stay-up-to date with our Required Reading this week, where you can find out more about a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more:

In our round-up of must-know art news, photographer Wolfgang Tillmans wins this year’s Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Jack White’s first public exhibition of his artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more stories to follow. Read the full overview:

Did you know that taking photographs, perusing cultural heritage sites, and visiting art museums could slow aging? That's what a new study published earlier this month found. Led by psychobiologist and epidemiologist Daisy Fancourt and a group of researchers at University College London, the study claims to provide the first-ever evidence that engaging with arts and culture can decelerate biological aging or even have anti-aging effects. Read the full story:

It’s been three years since artist Kevin Callahan lost his partner of 39 years and moved to a new home. He still finds reasons to smile as he paints and draws under the California sun.

Kevin Callahan marks three years in his studio after losing his partner of 39 years and moving to a new home. He still finds reasons to smile as he paints and draws under the California sun.

In this week’s Art Movements, a new “unauthorized documentary” about enigmatic art dealer Larry Gagosian is in the works. Plus: Pace gets the Brancusi Estate, the Louvre’s new architects, and other industry news is ready for your review at hyperallergic.com.

Nicole Kidman helped promote a $1 billion sale at Christie’s that set new auction records for Pollock and Brancusi works. In the weeks before the sale, Christie’s hyped up the collection in a promotional video featuring an entranced Kidman dancing around a Brancusi’s cast-bronze bust to the tune of David Bowie’s “Golden Years.” This bust, entitled “Danaïde” (c. 1913), went for $107.6 million, becoming the second most expensive sculpture ever sold. In the same sale, Pollock’s 10-foot-long drip painting “Number 7A, 1948,” shattered records for work by the late artist, selling for $181.2 million.

Beach reads are officially back. But in between your escapist fantasy novels and trendy memoirs, our writers recommend Megan O’Grady’s meditation on art and living, a novel lampooning the art world, and Nan Goldin’s tender photo essay just to name a few.

Staff writer Rhea Nayyar explores the seemingly interchangeable tropes and trends present at the 12th annual New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair including vibrant kitsch, zany little sculptures, shiny stuff™, and lots of florals (in the spring? groundbreaking!). "All of that is to say that there were many works — including those among the aforementioned tropes and their varying combinations — that I did enjoy, and probably would have felt more strongly about outside of the context of NADA," Nayyar says.

This week’s required reading includes artists’ antidote to AI slop, Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new memoir, New Orleans and climate change, an Art Deco train, and what do sex workers think about “Euphoria”?