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NEW YORK — This spring, longtime Central Park birder and naturalist Gabriel Willow is feeling a little less nervous than he did a year ago.

PARIS — A rare painting by Vincent Van Gogh was sold at auction Thursday by Sotheby’s Paris for 13.1 million euros ($15.4 million).

NEW YORK — Morris Dickstein, an influential educator, critic and cultural historian who wrote often about the intersection between art and society, has died at age 81.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Win” by Harlan Coben (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press) 3. “Life After Death” by Sister Souljah (Atria) 4. “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig (Viking) 5.

1. “Win” by Harlan Coben (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “Wild Sign” by Patricia Briggs (Ace) 3. “Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 4. “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press) 5.

New York City is taking steps toward the reopening of the city's theatres , creating vaccination and testing sites for stage workers in a bid to restore a key part of New York's draw.

LOS ANGELES — The original 1950s Godzilla movies stomped into theatres carrying a metaphor about nuclear destruction. Two years ago, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” sounded alarms about climate change.

PARIS — French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed acclaimed movies such “A Sunday in the Country,” “Captain Conan” and “The Judge and the Assassin,” has died, according to his family. He was 79.

Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman says she's grown up alongside "Shiva Baby" as the coming-of-age comedy catapulted from a school assignment into a festival-feted feature.

TORONTO — The recent auction of an artwork has created a stir in the art and tech worlds, and not just because of the US$69.4-million final bid it fetched.