#MovietimeInManhattan @TheAcademy #OSCARS THE ACADEMY ELECTS 2026-2027 ACADEMY FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Kim Taylor-Coleman re-elected president

of the Academy Foundation Board

 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the newly elected 2026-2027 Academy Foundation Board members and officers.

The Academy Foundation oversees all educational, preservation and cultural activities of the Academy, including the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy Film Archive, the Academy Collection and the Academy’s talent development programs.

The Academy Foundation Board comprises 12 trustees who also are members of the Academy Board of Governors.

Casting director Kim Taylor-Coleman was re-elected president of the Academy Foundation Board.

Also elected to board officer positions:

Brooke Breton (Visual Effects Branch), Vice President

Paul Cameron (Cinematographers Branch), Vice President

David Dinerstein (Marketing and Public Relations Branch), Treasurer

Marlon West (Animation Branch), Secretary

Additional board members include:

Patricia Cardoso (Directors Branch)

Peter Devlin (Sound Branch)

Richard Hicks (Casting Directors Branch)

Lynette Howell Taylor (Producers Branch)

Larry Karaszewski (Writers Branch)

Chris Tashima (Short Films Branch)

Terilyn A. Shropshire (Film Editors Branch)

“The Academy Foundation plays a vital role in expanding our global reach and supporting our film community through the Academy Museum, Academy Collection, educational initiatives and preservation work,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “I am incredibly grateful to our Academy Foundation Board members for dedicating their time, expertise and support to drive forward these impactful and important efforts.”

Academy Foundation Board members and officers serve one-year terms. As representatives of the Foundation Board, Dinerstein, Howell Taylor and Taylor-Coleman will also serve on the Academy Museum Board of Trustees for one-year terms.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's premier film organization and is home to a global membership of more than 11,000 of the most accomplished film industry artists and leaders. The Academy connects global audiences – its members, the film industry, and film fans – through their shared passion for making and watching films. The Academy does this by recognizing and celebrating the arts and sciences of moviemaking through renowned awards for cinematic achievement, including the Oscars®, the Governors Awards, and the Scientific and Technical Awards. The Academy’s affiliated charitable organization, the Academy Foundation, serves a public benefit through its robust educational, preservation and cultural activities. This includes the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the world's largest global film museum, the Academy Collection, the largest film-related collection in the world, and talent development programs for emerging artists. Year-round, the Academy creates opportunities for all communities to engage with the film world.

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#CulturedPeachy @AMNH Were There Tiny Dinosaurs? New Study Explores One of Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries.

Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study published today in the journal Evolution by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Princeton University suggests that one of the greatest mysteries of dinosaur evolution isn’t how some species became giants—it’s why even the smallest dinosaurs never became truly tiny.

Using mathematical models to investigate the evolution of body size across vertebrates, researchers found that while energetics and physiology can explain the sizes of mammals, birds, and turtles, they cannot explain why the smallest non-bird dinosaurs remained unusually large throughout their evolutionary history. Instead, the findings suggest that competition with small-bodied early mammals may have prevented dinosaurs from becoming mouse- or sparrow-sized animals that are so common among vertebrates today.

“Everyone loves a giant dinosaur,” said study co-author Roger Benson, the Macaulay Curator of Dinosaur Paleobiology at the Museum. “But we decided to look at the other end of the scale. The absence of tiny dinosaurs may be just as interesting as the existence of giant ones. We already knew that dinosaurs restricted mammals to small sizes, before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Here we suggest that mammals in turn restricted dinosaurs to large sizes, preventing the evolution of tiny dinosaur species.”

While the largest dinosaurs weighed more than 80 tons, the smallest known non-bird dinosaurs weighed nearly one pound (approximately 450 grams)—about the size of a large rabbit. This is more than 200 times larger than the world’s smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, which weighs just 1.75 grams and the smallest mammal, the Etruscan shrew, which is about 1.8 grams. The smallest lizard, the dwarf gecko, is only 0.15 grams.

Roughly 75 percent of living mammal species and 90 percent of living bird species are smaller than the smallest non-bird dinosaurs.

“Small animals dominate modern ecosystems,” said Stephanie Lechki, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. “If we want to understand how today’s biodiversity evolved, we need to understand why tiny dinosaurs appear to have been missing.”

One possible explanation is simply that scientists haven’t found fossils of the smallest dinosaurs. Tiny animals are harder to discover, and their delicate bones are less likely to fossilize. But Benson and Lechki argue that explanation is unlikely because fossil deposits that preserve dinosaurs routinely preserve much smaller animals as well, including mammals, lizards, amphibians, and other vertebrates. If mouse-sized dinosaurs had existed, scientists would expect at least some of them to appear alongside these other small animals.

Instead, the fossil record suggests that genuinely tiny non-avian dinosaurs were rare, or maybe they were absent altogether.

To investigate why, the researchers used mathematical models that predict how natural selection shapes body size, based on the physiology of energy uptake and reproduction. These models are based on the idea that animals should evolve into sizes that help them most efficiently turn energy into offspring.

This approach successfully predicted observed body size distributions of mammals, birds, and turtles, but it did not work for snakes, lizards, and crocodilians. And even after accounting for a wide range of physiological possibilities, the models could not explain why most non-avian dinosaurs were so much larger than expected.

The findings suggest that physiology alone cannot explain dinosaur body sizes. Instead, ecological factors—including competition, predation, and the availability of different ecological niches—likely played a large role in limiting how small non-avian dinosaurs could become.

The study also offers new insight into one of the most dramatic transitions in vertebrate evolution: the emergence of birds. Although birds evolved from dinosaurs, modern birds are dramatically smaller than even the smallest known non-avian dinosaurs. Birds evolved body sizes far smaller than any other group of dinosaurs in just a short time after they first appeared in the Early Cretaceous.

The researchers found that this shift toward miniature body sizes also cannot be explained by physiology alone. Instead, they propose that the evolution of powered flight fundamentally changed the ecological opportunities available to early birds. By taking to the air, birds may have escaped the ecological constraints that prevented their dinosaur ancestors from evolving into much smaller animals.

“The ability to fly may have opened entirely new ways of life,” Lechki said. “Once birds entered those new ecological niches, they were free to evolve body sizes that had simply not been possible for other dinosaurs.”

Future studies may reveal even more about the ecological pressures that determined which body sizes flourished and which never evolved at all.

“We have this unusual situation where the ancestors of dinosaurs could be tiny. The living descendants of dinosaurs—birds—they can be tiny. But dinosaurs themselves seemed to be forbidden from being tiny,” Benson said. “And we don’t really understand that yet, but it’s a question we should continue to explore if we really want to understand dinosaurs and their fascinating biology.”

Study DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpag117

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#MovietimeInManhattan @TheAcademy #OSCARS ACADEMY REVEALS 2026 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD® WINNERS

STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS CEREMONY TO BE HELD FOR

THE FIRST TIME AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (TIFF)

ALL WINNING FILMS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR 99TH OSCARS®

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted 16 students as winners of the 53rd Student Academy Awards® competition. This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received 2,972 entries from 894 colleges and universities worldwide. The 2026 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award® winners as Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis.

The presentation ceremony for the annual international student film awards will be held at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) inside TIFF Lightbox at Reitman Square on Monday, September 14, 2026, at 6pm ET, in partnership with Rolex.

The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative/Experimental

Lei He, “Drifting,” Duke University, United States

Viktorie Štěpánová, “Volklore,” Filmová a Televizní Fakulta Akademie Múzických Umění v Praze (FAMU), Czech Republic

Nina Broers, “Where Is My Sex Drive?” St. Joost School of Art & Design, Netherlands

Animation

Jonathan Lally, Elio Molinaro & Nicolás Acevedo Ferraté, “COWS,” École Supérieure de Métiers Artistiques (ESMA), France

Noran Fikri Alezabi, Xinyue Ma & Yulin Yue, “Gauze,” Gobelins, France

Matthias Strasser, “The Panic Inside,” Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Documentary

Arjun Fischer, “Artificial Love,” University of Southern California, United States

Jason Elliott, “I Want to Live,” National Film and Television School, United Kingdom

Lara Dihmis, “The Last People of Petra,” New York University, United States

Narrative

Stanzin Jigmet, “The Dragon Letter,” Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC), Spain

Leon Korzyński, “Kamathipura Express,” Warsaw Film School, Poland

Antoine Boulanger, “The Pichenotte,” Concordia University, Canada

First-time honors go to students from Concordia University, Duke University, École Supérieure de Métiers Artistiques (ESMA), Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC), St. Joost School of Art and Design and Warsaw Film School.

Gold, silver and bronze placements in the four award categories will be announced at the ceremony. In addition, winners will have a robust weekend of education programing, networking opportunities and exclusive access to Academy members to support their career advancement.

All Student Academy Award-winning films will be eligible to compete for the 99th Oscars® in the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Film category. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 70 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared 15 awards.

Rolex is supporting the Student Academy Awards through its partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, reflecting its ongoing commitment to fostering excellence, achievement and the transfer of cinematic knowledge to the next generation.

The Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to provide a platform for emerging global talent by creating opportunities within the film industry to showcase their work.

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ABOUT THE ACADEMY

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's premier film organization and is home to a global membership of more than 11,000 of the most accomplished film industry artists and leaders. The Academy connects global audiences – its members, the film industry, and film fans – through their shared passion for making and watching films. The Academy does this by recognizing and celebrating the arts and sciences of moviemaking through renowned awards for cinematic achievement, including the Oscars®, the Governors Awards, and the Scientific and Technical Awards. The Academy’s affiliated charitable organization, the Academy Foundation, serves a public benefit through its robust educational, preservation and cultural activities. This includes the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the world's largest global film museum, the Academy Collection, the largest film-related collection in the world, and talent development programs for emerging artists. Year-round, the Academy creates opportunities for all communities to engage with the film world.

ABOUT ROLEX AND CINEMA

Rolex celebrates human achievement as a journey marked by milestones, emotions and defining moments. For more than half a century, the brand has partnered some of the world’s most talented artists and leading cultural institutions to promote excellence and the transmission of artistic heritage, creating a link between the past, present and future.

Through the Perpetual Arts Initiative, a broad portfolio of arts that extends through architecture, cinema, dance, music, literature, theatre and visual arts, the brand confirms its long-term commitment to global culture.

The company has had close ties with the film industry for decades, its watches playing a role in numerous films, including Oscar®-winning masterpieces. Since 2017, Rolex has supported the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, serving as Proud Sponsor of the Oscars®, hosting the event’s Greenroom, as well as supporting the Governors Awards, which recognize lifetime achievement and humanitarian efforts in the film industry. Rolex also sponsors Film at Lincoln Center as Official Partner and Exclusive Timepiece.

The company promotes achievement through Testimonees such as James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zendaya, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Martin Scorsese, Ava DuVernay and Jia Zhang-Ke. It also assists in the preservation of film history for future generations as a Founding Supporter of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, as a partner of The Film Foundation and through its support to the National Film and Television School in the UK.

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#CulturedPeachy @AMNH New Gobi Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution

A remarkably preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is reshaping scientists’ understanding of mammal evolution during the age of dinosaurs. The new species, described today in the journal Nature by a team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Stony Brook University, University of Arizona, and Arcadia University, reveals that a group of extinct mammals known as zhelestids were not close relatives of modern placental mammals as many researchers thought for decades. Instead, they belonged to an entirely different branch of early mammals, overturning a longstanding interpretation based primarily on fossil teeth.

“This discovery illustrates why fieldwork remains indispensable to understanding life’s history,” said the study’s lead author Andres Giallombardo, who found the specimen as a graduate student on a Museum-sponsored expedition in 2004. “It was the thrill of a career to find a new species so completely preserved that also solves a longstanding scientific problem, and a reminder that the Gobi Desert, which is well known for fossils, continues to change science.”

Zhelestids have been known from isolated teeth and fragmentary fossils for nearly 40 years. Their distinctive teeth, which are more specialized for eating plants than the sharp, insect-eating teeth found in many Cretaceous mammals, led paleontologists to suggest that zhelestids represented an unknown group of hoofed mammals. Researchers have debated whether these animals were examples of Cretaceous placental mammals—the group that today includes humans and most living mammals—or a separate lineage that evolved similar features independently. The idea that placental mammals existed during the Cretaceous is supported by molecular clock studies, which suggest that placentals originated long before the end of the Cretaceous.

The fossil described in the new study provides evidence to the contrary.

“Molecular models based on living animals can predict the past, but fossils provide the evidence needed to test those predictions,” said study coauthor Paul Velazco, a comparative biologist at Arcadia University.

Discovered in the eastern Gobi Desert, Tamirkhan balcarceli is the most complete zhelestid found yet and solves the mystery of what this group looked like. Although Tamirkhan possesses the low, rounded teeth characteristic of zhelestids, it also has long, ever-growing incisors and a suite of distinctive skull features found in a group of small, shrew-like insectivore mammals called zalambdalestoids. In addition, “Tamirkhan’s hind legs are long and slender with distinctive ankles, traits that are unmistakably zalambdalestoid,” said study author Shawn Zack, a paleontologist at the University of Arizona.

Based on these findings, the researchers conclude that zhelestids were not placental mammals or particularly placental-like, but a subset of the zalambdalestoid group. The discovery also shows that the mammal species in the Cretaceous were not as anatomically diverse as might have been anticipated based on the teeth alone. Their distinctive rounded teeth—common to plant-eating mammals—is likely a case of convergent evolution, where unrelated animals evolve similar traits because they adapt to similar lifestyles.

“More than 200 years ago, French naturalist Georges Cuvier famously argued that a single tooth could allow scientists to predict the anatomy of an entire animal,” said study coauthor Maureen O’Leary, a paleontologist at Stony Brook University and research associate at the Museum. “While teeth remain among the most informative fossils available, this work demonstrates that teeth cannot always tell us how the whole animal looked.”

Measuring between 6-7 inches from head to tail, Tamirkhan had elongated hind limbs that gave it an almost rabbit-like appearance. Paleontologists have sometimes informally referred to zhelestids as “Cretaceous rabbits,” because they were rabbit mimics despite their distant relationship to modern rabbits.

The specimen itself illustrates the extraordinary scientific importance of the Gobi Desert, which, in addition to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan is one of the few fossil locations to preserve zhelestids.

“The Gobi is one of the only places where we routinely recover such remarkably complete Cretaceous mammals,” said coauthor Michael Novacek, a curator in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology who has co-led annual expeditions to the Gobi since 1990 in partnership with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. “These extraordinary fossils continue to transform our understanding of mammalian evolution.”

The study’s evolutionary conclusions were made possible through a comprehensive mammalian phylogenetic research platform called MorphoBank. First published in 2013, the database has expanded over more than a decade to include an ever-growing number of key fossil species, providing the most comprehensive framework yet assembled for analyzing early mammal relationships.

Other authors on this study include Eva Hoffman from Yale University.

The Gobi Desert field and laboratory research for this study was supported in part by the Margaret and Will Hearst Paleontological Research Fund and the Frick Laboratory Endowment at the Museum. This research was also supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, grant numbers MRI-R2 0959384, EAR 2506729, and EAR 2506727.

Study DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10861-5

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#CulturedPeachy @WhitneyMuseum Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 Opens September 5, 2026

Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 is a focused exhibition highlighting rarely seen works from the last year of the pioneering Pop artist’s life. This exhibition runs in conjunction with the major exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, presented on the Museum’s 5th floor. Echoing and expanding on key throughlines from the larger exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 includes prints, photographs, and sculptural maquettes along with drawing and collage studies for a number of unrealized projects.

The exhibition demonstrates the incredible vitality of Lichtenstein’s vision and his restless pursuit of new ideas five decades into his career. While the artist is often associated with his works of the 1960s and 1970s, Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 offers fresh insight into the range of the artist’s late experimentation and his response to the advent of the digital age.

Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 is organized by David Crane, Curatorial Research Associate, and Nakai Falcón, Curatorial Assistant.

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#MovietimeInManhattan @TheAcademy #OSCARS LYNETTE HOWELL TAYLOR RE-ELECTED ACADEMY PRESIDENT

ACADEMY BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2026-2027 OFFICERS ELECTED

Oscar®-nominated producer Lynette Howell Taylor was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors.

Also elected to 2026-2027 officer positions by the Board:Lesley Barber (Music Branch), Vice President (chair, Membership Committee)

David Dinerstein (Marketing and Public Relations Branch), Vice President/Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)

Jennifer Fox (Producers Branch), Vice President (chair, Awards Committee)

Lou Diamond Phillips (Actors Branch), Vice President (chair, Equity and Inclusion Committee)

Howard A. Rodman (Writers Branch), Vice President/Secretary (chair, Governance Committee)

Howell Taylor is beginning her second term as president. A sitting Academy president may run for re-election until they have served up to four consecutive one-year terms in the role, even if they would normally be required to take a two-year hiatus after serving two governor terms. Since Howell Taylor has served two governor terms, she will serve as an ex officio voting member of the board until the completion of her term as president.

Barber, Fox, Phillips and Rodman were re-elected as officers. It will be the first officer role for Dinerstein.

“We are so deeply grateful to Lynette, Lesley, David, Jennifer, Lou and Howard for their commitment to the Academy and to our global film community,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “As we move toward our 100th anniversary, I am excited to continue our vital work with the Board and these exceptional Board officers to support our members, the industry and the Academy's mission and programs.”

A member of the Academy’s Producers Branch since 2014, Howell Taylor has produced more than 25 films in the last 20 years, including “A Star Is Born,” which received eight Oscar nominations and earned her a Best Picture nomination. Her film credits include “Roofman,” “The Accountant 2,” “The Accountant,” “Captain Fantastic,” “Big Eyes,” “The Place beyond the Pines,” “Blue Valentine” and “Half Nelson.” She also produced the 92nd Oscars® show with Stephanie Allain in 2020, for which she was nominated for an Emmy®.

Generally, Academy board members may serve up to two three-year terms (consecutive or non-consecutive), followed by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for up to two additional three-year terms for a lifetime maximum of 12 years. If a governor is elected for a term of fewer than three years, that term will not apply against governor term limits. Officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.

The Board of Governors sets the Academy’s strategic vision, preserves the organization’s financial health and assures the fulfillment of its mission. For a complete listing of the Academy’s 2026-2027 Board of Governors, click here.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's premier film organization and is home to a global membership of more than 11,000 of the most accomplished film industry artists and leaders. The Academy connects global audiences – its members, the film industry, and film fans – through their shared passion for making and watching films. The Academy does this by recognizing and celebrating the arts and sciences of moviemaking through renowned awards for cinematic achievement, including the Oscars®, the Governors Awards, and the Scientific and Technical Awards. The Academy’s affiliated charitable organization, the Academy Foundation, serves a public benefit through its robust educational, preservation and cultural activities. This includes the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the world's largest global film museum, the Academy Collection, the largest film-related collection in the world, and talent development programs for emerging artists. Year-round, the Academy creates opportunities for all communities to engage with the film world.

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#CulturedPeachy @WhitneyMuseum Roy Lichtenstein: Like New Opens October 11 , 2026

Roy Lichtenstein changed the way we see images. One of the defining artists of the Pop art movement, he turned the visual language of mass culture, comics, advertising, consumer goods, and commercial printing, into some of the most recognizable images of the twentieth century. His work looked cool, crisp, and machine-made, but was meticulously handmade, revealing an artist fascinated by how images are built, copied, enlarged, circulated, and made new.

Roy Lichtenstein: Like New offers a bold reconsideration of Lichtenstein for the present. Bringing together roughly 130 works made from the early 1940s through the 1990s, the exhibition traces how his early interest in perception and visual recognition shaped a career-long investigation into duplication, simulation, and image culture. Across painting, drawing, collage, prints, sculpture, and film, Lichtenstein treated images as unstable forms that could be borrowed, translated, reframed, and transformed.

The exhibition features many of Lichtenstein’s most celebrated works, including Look Mickey (1961), Girl with Ball (1961), Masterpiece (1962), Drowning Girl (1963), Happy Tears (1964), Little Big Painting (1965), Rouen Cathedral, Set III (1968-69), and Artist’s Studio “The Dance” (1974). It also includes a recreation of three murals, including a nearly 96-foot long iteration of Greene Street Mural (1983). Roy Lichtenstein: Like New also reunites, for the first time, all the works from Lichtenstein’s first exhibition of Pop-style work at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1962. This pivotal moment for the artist would come to define an era with its impact extended far beyond Pop, shaping generations of artists, including Louise Lawler, Richard Pettibone, and Sturtevant whose work will also be on view in this exhibition and further illuminate Lichtenstein’s relationship to copying, influence, appropriation, and the afterlife of images.

In an era when pictures are endlessly cropped, filtered, reposted, and recirculated, Lichtenstein’s work feels newly urgent. Like New looks beyond the artist’s iconic surfaces to reveal the power and instability of images and celebrate an artist who understood, long before the digital age, that images change as they move through the world.

Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is organized by Meg Onli, Nancy and Fred Poses Curator, and Alex Da Corte, Guest Curator, with Nakai Falcón, Curatorial Assistant, and David Crane, Curatorial Research Associate.

Leadership support for Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, Kenneth C. Griffin and Griffin Catalyst, and Susan and John Hess.

Major support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo; Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund; Jill and Darius Bikoff; Neil G. Bluhm and Kimberly Paige Bluhm; Jenny Brorsen and Rich DeMartini; Nancy Carrington Crown & A. Steven Crown; Lise and Michael Evans; Meg and Bennett Goodman; CJ Jones & Philip Rebeiz, Colour Themes; The KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely; Sara and Kip Kirkpatrick; Michael A. Klump; Northern Trust; Nancy and Fred Poses; Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer and Rob Speyer; and the Whitney’s National Committee.

Significant support is provided by The Fuhrman Family Foundation, Jackson Tang, and an anonymous donor.

Generous support is provided by the AG Foundation, Salvador Espinoza and Jonathan Rozoff, the Keith Haring Exhibition Fund, Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation, Susan and Larry Marx, Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Susanne and William E. Pritchard III, Katherine Sachs, and an anonymous donor.

Additional support is provided by Barbara and Richard Lane, and Dawn and David Lenhardt.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Leadership support for the catalogue and education and public programs is provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

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#WhomYouKnowTopTen by @ManhattanPeachy #PeachyDeegan #August2026

-in no certain order-

Dr. Garo Nazarian, Founder and Owner of Cosmopolitan Dental

Gordie Howe the GOAT forever

Dress Like Your Dinner at Ammos Estiatorio

Hagerty and the Ford Mustang

Tropique En Fleurs

French Pride at La Sirene and Margaux

Tall Ships

Paul Rejer

50 Years of Mezza Luna Pizza

Moma's Architecture Prize

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#Summer is Here #Manhattan - Exclusive Sizzling Summer Selections at @AmmosNewYork The Leading Seafood Restaurant Says Peachy Deegan!!! By #DimitrisNakos 52 Vanderbilt Avenue #EatRealFood #PeachysPicks

ALSO, DRESS LIKE YOUR DINNER!

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On Working, by Clint Eastwood

"The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day."

-Clint Eastwood

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 A Peachy's Pick Since 2013 #PeachyPicks #ChezJosephine @ChezJosephineNY Honoring #JosephineBaker Since 1986 by Founder #JeanClaudeBaker Her Son and Today by Original Employee from Day One #ManuelUzhca and #ChrisUzhca Summer 2026 #French #414West42ndStreet between Ninth Avenue and Dyer #TimesSquare

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#InauguralReview @TavernaKyclades #TavernaKycladesAstoria #TerrificTakeoutQueens Since 2000 by #CaterinaSkenderi and #ArdianSkenderi #36-01DitmarsBlvd #Astoria #Queens #NewYork

Thanks to Taverna Kyclades, superior Red Snapper which we absolutely love is not only found in Florida anymore (but read our Florida restaurant reviews here!) but also in NEW YORK CITY, Astoria, Queens to be exact.

The superstar RED SNAPPER!

If you are new to Whom You Know, you need to know pictures are always unedited.

The truth is, it does look exactly this spectacular.

Genuine smile by Cosmopolitan Dental:

Peachy can only smile like that if she really means it.

It looks like Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore...but she IS in the right part of QUEENS for FISH, you know, YOU REMEMBER, we TOLD you this place should have its own zip code for fish like Saks has theirs for shoes.

We first met Taverna Kyclades in January 2014.

They advanced to Peachy's Picks only two months later in lightning speed.

They earned another feature in winter 2015, and again that summer.

Sadly, they closed in Manhattan.

Happily, guess who finally went to Astoria?!

We began with the Kyclades salad: Romaine lettuce, scallions, dill, Feta, olives and pepperoncini. Each element was robust and fresh, and representative of the quality we had grown to know and love ten years ago.  We love it when quality does not change.

The assortment of dips, Pikilia, is a standout appetizer that is always inviting and sure to be a crowd pleaser: there is definitely something for everyone on this plate with the hot pita to dip it into:

meet skordalia (eggplant), tzatziki (creamy dill), tirokafteri (spicy feta) and taramosalata (fish)!

If you are as American as Peachy, you might find the Greek names to be challenging even after a decade and a half of eating them but you will find them incredibly easy to love.

The tzatziki and taramaosalata are Peachy's personal favorites but each is fantastic.

From every angle, the grilled octopus is a vision to behold and when you cut into it, you'll discover the perfect tenderness it possesses because of the skillful grilling and premium quality at Taverna Kyclades.  It is exactly as magnificent as we remember and this is one dish we were always impressed with here.

When we say here, we mean the old Manhattan location but we also mean the brand as a whole carrying over to this location which preceded it but you know Dorothy lives in Kansas, not Astoria.

Now we have fewer geographic limitations: if you cook it, we will come!

Peachy's Picks span from Boston to Florida and we have waitlists in Europe... (London!  Peachy once resided in London. Italy! To name a few...).

You know we have also started a column only on salads.

We believe in getting green vegetables in and the Sauteed Broccoli Rabe is not only a nutritional triumph, but also a delicious one in a generous size.  Some places give you a tiny amount of vegetables but this serving is substantial!

Smile with the Spanakopita!

Can you hear it saying ENCHANTE!?

Again, the truth is it looks this amazing and especially when you see the closeup, you can see the care and attention to detail that Taverna Kyclades employs in crafting this Greek specialty spinach pie.  If you don't eat meat or fish, this has your name all over it especially!  Of course, it is served hot however when it is 100F outside, Peachy personally thinks this is great even at cooler temperatures.

Tomato sauce and Feta party hard with succulent shrimp to choreograph a dance of dinner called Shrimp Santorini!  It awakens your senses on a rainy summer day and really, any time you visit with its layered robust flavors that are so well-married, similar to Caterina and Ardian.

Shrimp Santorini Glamour Shots

When we arrived, Vaggelis Tsakiris, server, was the nicest and had the absolute best hospitality skills.  He told us his personal favorites were the Grilled Octopus, the dips that are hard to pronounce but easy to love, and the SWORDFISH.  

WE LOVE SWORDFISH!

Many restaurants have the usual suspects like Salmon, Filet of Sole, etc but not all have this steak of the sea, which we adore, and especially adore here.

Swordfish is Ksifias in Greek, and we also applaud both the authenticity in the names on the menu and the English translation for the daft Americans like Peachy that you would think would know by now all of the Greek food names especially considering the amount of time she has spent at Greek restaurants overall!

Every bite of every fish we experienced at Taverna Kyclades was just as perfect as we remembered and their dedication to quality should make anyone else serving us fish in Astoria totally intimidated.

There are very few reasons to leave Manhattan and dine in an outer borough but this venue is in it to win it and based on our first and only experience so far at this location, Taverna Kyclades is the best reason to go to Queens at all thanks to the 25 ounce Swordfish that lords over the competition not only in quality but also in quantity.

Even the lemon potatoes and the fragrant yellow rice are standout performers at Taverna Kyclades in Astoria!  Many lesser venues we see "mailing in" the side dishes, but that does not happen here at all.

The beets were Peachy's favorite side dish and the rice was her second favorite.

Not only are the beets delicious, fresh and nutritious, but they are also underrepresented on menus overall.

Ta da, the aforementioned RED SNAPPER!

We count eighteen choices on the menu for fish and if you can only pick one, this was our favorite this visit.  In Greek, say Synagrida!  Sweet and mild, the Red Snapper will swim into your favorite fish memory with ease and grace as each bite of the moist, flavorful poisson will leave you enraptured.

General Manager Nicholas Kefaliakos showed us he is a superstar fileter of fish:

Nicolas takes real pride in his vocation!  Smiles do not lie.

It's even better with Assyrtiko:

Next, we heard the Black Sea Bass exclaim, "Remember me?!"

Yes, we absolutely do remember you and your delicacy is evident once again emblazoned in our culinary memory.   And if you are of the ilk pickier than Peachy, and we know you are among our readers, allow us to remind you there are fifteen other main course fish choices on the main menu of Taverna Kyclades Astoria that are not featured in this post that we imagine will equally impress you.  Finally, save room for dessert: galaktoboureko!

We are absolutely thrilled to return to Taverna Kyclades!

We can't wait to see what they do next and it is too bad it took Peachy over 17 years to get there in Astoria.  It won't take that long again!

Yes, we always only work with the owners.

Yes, we know and love Caterina and Ardian from their previous Manhattan location.

And yes, if we know you and love you and you have proven yourself and are on the phone with Peachy when she is at your venue even if you are four thousand miles away, you can be successful in a review when you have the depth of staff that includes the caliber of server Vaggelis Tsakiris, native of Thesalloniki second largest city in Greece on the right and General Manager Nicholas Kefaliakos, native of Patros, third largest city of Greece on the left!

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36-01 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, NY 11105

Phone: (718) 545-8666

It was pouring rain but the fish selection is all sunshine.

Maybe Dorothy will leave Kansas again and go to Bayside someday.

Taverna Kyclades is there too.

About Kyclades

Kyclades are a group of islands, known for their wonderful beaches, unique sunrises and of course always tasty food. Visit any Taverna Kyclades location and enjoy fresh fish and tasty Greek food just as if you were on one of those islands.

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