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• Decades in the Making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release Next Month

  09-03-2026 18:48 via artnews.com
  After over 40 years in the making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné will finally release next month. Pace will host a book launch at its London gallery on April 21, with a day-long symposium to follow on April 30 at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street space in New York.To say the publication is a labor of love for Marc Restellini, Modigliani scholar and founder of the Institut, would be an understatement. At six volumes and over 2,000 pages, with 100 wor
  
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• Lucy Raven’s Latest Film Captures a Dramatic Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest

  09-03-2026 17:54 via artnews.com
  Lucy Raven’s film work Murderers Bar (2025) captures the removal of a dam in the Pacific Northwest and the dramatic release of water that takes the form of a newly born river as it rushes from Oregon through Northern California on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The 42-minute piece is the final part of a trilogy titled “The Drumfire,” which also includes the 2021 film Ready Mix, a meditation on processes involved in making concrete at a plant in Idaho, and the 2022 films Demoliti
  
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• Works by Es Devlin, Brian Eno, and Nan Goldin to Be Auctioned to Support Palestinian Aid

  09-03-2026 17:38 via artnews.com
  Works by artists including Es Devlin, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, and Grayson Perry will be auctioned in London later this month to raise funds for humanitarian aid supporting Palestinians.The sale, organized by Choose Love, Gideon Berger Studio, Hope 93 Gallery, and art dealer Zayna Al-Saleh, will benefit the Together For Palestine Fund, which supports Palestinian-led humanitarian organizations, according to the National.The initiative follows the Togethe
  
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• Venice Biennale Faces Mass Outcry Over Return of Russian Pavilion: ‘Normalizing What Cannot Be Normalized’

  09-03-2026 16:56 via artnews.com
  The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it.Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about the pavilion this weekend, calling for the Biennale to exclude Russia this time around. “The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most authoritative art platforms,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha wrote in a statement posted to social media, &ldquo
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Deputy Director and Chief Curator Leaves in Latest Departure

  09-03-2026 16:56 via artnews.com
  Art Gallery of Ontario deputy director and chief curator Julian Cox will leave his post this April after eight years in the role, marking the latest departure at the Toronto museum since it became embroiled in a controversy over a failed plan to acquire a work by Nan Goldin.It was not clear whether Cox’s departure was in any way related to the Goldin controversy, which stemmed from a decision not to add a recent work to the collection following her comments on Israel’s war in Gaza. A
  
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• UK TV Hosts Ant and Dec Seek Court Order to Trace Alleged ‘Secret Profits’ in Banksy Print Deals

  09-03-2026 16:38 via artnews.com
  British television presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly—better known as Ant and Dec—have secured a court order requiring an art dealer to disclose details of transactions involving Banksy prints in their collection, as the pair attempts to determine whether an intermediary made undisclosed profits from the deals.According to the BBC, a High Court judge ruled on March 4 that there is a “good arguable case” that wrongdoing may have occurred in transactions
  
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• This LA Exhibition of Julia Stoschek’s Video Art Collection Is the City’s Hottest Ticket 

  09-03-2026 15:42 via artnews.com
  “No white cubes! No black boxes!” That’s Udo Kittelmann speaking during a tour of “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation he organized at the disused Venetian-style Variety Arts Theater, a six-story Los Angeles palace. On view are selections from the holdings of Julia Stoschek, an ARTnews Top 200 collector who primarily focuses on time-based media. Spaces from grand theaters to dingy basements, shadowy bathrooms to dusty hallways host 45 artwor
  
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• Inside the UK Companies House Filings for Stephen Friedman and More: Morning Links for March 9, 2026

  09-03-2026 14:24 via artnews.com
  Thaddeus Mosley, sculptor of salvaged wood, has died at 99 in Pennsylvania.A look at the latest Companies House filings in the UK reveal a mixed picture of the market for many of the world’s biggest galleries and auction houses.DOGE used ChatGPT to decide what NEH grants to cut, alleges a lawsuit.The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley died in Pennsylvania on Friday at 99, reports ARTnews . Mosley’s abstract sculptures of salvaged wood were “slee
  
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• Icelandic Pavilion at Venice Biennale to Present Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir’s “Pocket Universe”

  09-03-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Icelandic Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale will feature Pocket Universe, a new multidisciplinary project by the artist, poet, composer, and filmmaker Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir.Curated by Margrét Áskelsdóttir with Unnar Örn, the exhibition will be on view from May 9 through November 22, 2026, at Docks Cantieri Cucchini in Venice’s San Pietro di Castello district, a former shipyard located between the Biennale’s Giardin
  
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• The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs

  08-03-2026 21:00 via vulture.com
  “‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply vote for their guy. Which means that truly anything can happen.” – Vulture
  
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• Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift

  08-03-2026 20:30 via slate.com
  “Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance genre is in the midst of an unprecedented boom period.” – Slate
  
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• Amazon Tried To Sponsor A Book Festival In France, And That Went About As Well As You Might Expect

  08-03-2026 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Many – most, even – of France’s booksellers pulled out of . Then the organizers got Amazon to “mutually agree” to end its sponsorship. Who thought this was a good idea in the first place? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• It’s Such A Brutal Time For Both Theatre And Arts Journalism

  08-03-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  So what’s an NYT theatre critic to do? “There are so many things beyond our control … but somewhere amid all the hubbub, someone is making something, and you need to pay attention.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Man In Charge Of Pixar Cuts Any Content He Sees As Therapy

  08-03-2026 19:00 via msn.com
  Especially if that content is, you know, gay. Surely that will fix the fabled studio! – Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• La Guía Definitiva de Sitios de Juegos Seguros

  08-03-2026 18:34 via zouchmagazine.com
  Apostar siempre ha sido un pasatiempo preferido para muchas gentes en todo el planeta. No obstante, con el incremento de las apuestas en línea, se ha llegado a ser aún más accesible y práctico para los jugadores. Aunque esto procede, numerosas ventajas, igualmente incluye ciertos riesgos, como la protección de los sitios de apuestas online.
  En esta guía comprensiva, exploraremos el globo de sitios de apuestas seguros. Veremos los aspectos esenciales a co
  
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• Federal Judge Rules Appointment Of Kari Lake Invalid, Voiding Mass Layoffs At The Voice Of America

  08-03-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  “If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth’s ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the news group to return to their jobs” – and to keep broadcasting to places like China, Russia, and Iran. – The New York Times
  
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• For Dublin’s Arts Council, Meetings With Property Developers Are Always On The Schedule

  08-03-2026 18:00 via irishtimes.com
  “Our job is to ‘opportunity-make’ a space.’ … A lot of people think cultural development shouldn’t exist. There should be housing development, factory development and office development. But culture? What is that?” – Irish Times
  
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• The Met Is The Largest Performing Arts Company In The US, And It’s Desperate For Money

  08-03-2026 17:30 via nytimes.com
  “The core problem has been ticket revenues, which were weakening even before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its theater with a devastating financial impact. Box-office receipts last year were down $20 million from a decade earlier.” – The New York Times
  
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• How The Musical Suffs Emerged From The 2016 Election

  08-03-2026 17:00 via bostonglobe.com
  “To me, a great protagonist for a musical is somebody who wants something so desperately, who is going to be relentless to the point of recklessness. … Alice [Paul] lived until 1977. She was the author of the Equal Rights Amendment. She never stopped.” – Boston Globe
  
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• Tatjana Wood, A Skilled Comic Colorist Who Worked On Famous Teams For DC, Has Died At 99

  08-03-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “Anyone who laid eyes on a DC Comics cover from 1973 to 1983 was likely seeing an example of Ms. Wood’s work. She colored nearly every cover for the company, whether the image was for a horror title, a war comic or a superhero adventure.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Cosplayers Taking Emerald City Comic Con To Task For Its Deep Connections To ICE

  08-03-2026 16:00 via thestranger.com
  “The problem lies in a rotten, corporate family tree,” and the self-described nerds aren’t going to let anyone forget it. For instance, in one panel, “it’ll be much, much more about fascism than a steamy book panel usually would be.” – The Stranger (Seattle)
  
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• After An Indigenous Filmmaker’s Speech Is Cut Fore Broadcast, The Toronto Film Critics Association Is Falling Apart

  08-03-2026 15:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Does This Musician’s Nostalgic Performance Prove The Brits Are Becoming More Conservative Again?

  08-03-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  “For all that the audience are loving it, the enthusiastic self-infantilisation feels depressing to me. Is Middle England so deprived of communal singing – the pub, the church, the local choir – it makes this appealing?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Remaking The Art Of The Fugue As A Ballet, In Denmark, After Fleeing The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

  08-03-2026 14:30 via nybooks.com
  “When the tanks entered Ukraine, Ratmansky gathered his artistic team and left for New York, severing ties with the Bolshoi and with Russia.” – New York Review of Books
  
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• The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Firing Of Nelsons Provides Conductors With A Cautionary Tale

  08-03-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  “Nelsons, 47, has become one of the most unfortunate symbols of all that is irresponsible about the overstretched, overtired, overindulged modern music director. It has been not only deeply frustrating, but genuinely sad, to witness his trajectory.” – The New York Times
  
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• Grammarly Openly Steals The Work Of Writers Living And Dead

  08-03-2026 13:30 via avclub.com
  Gross: “Using Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ allows an approximation of Stephen King and Neil deGrasse Tyson to nitpick your work. While Tyson has the opportunity to say whether he’d like to be turned into a chatbot, other authors, like Carl Sagan, cannot because they are dead.” – AV Club
  
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• Whether He Had A Point Or Not, Opera (And Ballet) Are Clapping Back At Chalamet

  08-03-2026 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  The Seattle Opera offered a deal on tickets to Carmen using the code Timothee, and LA Opera “posted a photo from the opera Akhnaten … with the caption ‘Sorry, @tchalamet. We’d offer you complimentary tickets to Akhnaten, but it’s selling out.’” – NBC
  
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• OK, What He Said Was Foolish, But Did Chalamet Have A Point About Ballet?

  08-03-2026 12:30 via nytimes.com
  “This is the frustration of working in the fine arts. The people who care about ballet, for example, care deeply. And most of those who don’t care think of ballet through stereotypes or quick hits of dancers on TikTok.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are Twins Or Doppelgangers Everywhere Right Now?

  08-03-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  “From spyware as standard to the conspiracy theorists who insist that Melania Trump has been replaced by an impersonator, we are in a deeply paranoid moment. Fittingly, the figure of the doppelganger stalks right across contemporary culture, through books, fashion and film.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• AJ Chronicles: “Future Vision” and what the Boston Symphony signaled this week

  07-03-2026 17:18 via artsjournal.com
  The Boston Symphony’s board didn’t fire Andris Nelsons as its music director. Not exactly. They declined to renew his contract because he and the BSO weren’t “aligned on future vision” — the board’s own words, offered without apology. Not artistic differences. Not budget. Not performance. Future vision. That phrase is doing a lot of work here, and it’s worth thinking about, because it signals a structural institutional shift, one that appears, in d
  
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• Art by Infamous Prisoner Charles Bronson Will Head to Auction

  07-03-2026 14:16 via artnews.com
  Five hundred artworks by Charles Bronson, one of England’s most infamous outsider artists, are set to be auctioned by U.K. auction house David Duggleby Auctioneers in Murton, according to the BBC. The works, which belong to a single owner, will be offered as one lot on March 11.Now 73, Bronson was born Michael Peterson and currently calls himself Charles Salvador. A former bare-knuckle boxer, he was first sent to prison at the age of 21 for armed robbery. Attacks on fellow inmates and staf
  
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• Art by Famed Prisoner Charles Bronson Will Head to Auction

  07-03-2026 14:16 via artnews.com
  Five hundred artworks by Charles Bronson, one of England’s most infamous outsider artists, are set to be auctioned by UK auction house David Duggleby Auctioneers in Murton, according to the BBC. The works, which belong to a single owner, will be offered as one lot on March 11.Now 73, Bronson was born Michael Peterson and currently calls himself Charles Salvador. A former bare-knuckle boxer, he was first sent to jail at the age of 21 for armed robbery. Attacks on prison inmates and staff, i
  
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• Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Wielded Heavy Wood with a Light Touch, Dies at 99

  07-03-2026 14:11 via artnews.com
  Thaddeus Mosley, a sculptor whose abstractions formed from reused wood earned him a significant, fervent following in the late stages of his career, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Friday at 99. His family announced his passing, with his son, Pittsburgh City Councilman Khari Mosley, calling him “a dedicated family man, ubiquitous community pillar, and an inimitable creative force.”Many of Mosley’s sculptures are made using salvaged hunks of walnut, sycamore, and cherry woo
  
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• From The Bride! to Harry Styles: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  07-03-2026 07:00
  Maggie Gyllenhaal gives us a new take on The Bride of Frankenstein, and the stadium-conquering pop prince is back with a new albumThe Bride!
  Out nowMaggie Gyllenhaal directs this Chicago-set gothic romance starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Per James Whale’s 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, on which it is loosely based, a lonely monster wants a mate and taps up a scientist, Dr Euphronious (Annette Bening), to create her. Continue reading...
  
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• Andris Nelsons Out As Music Director Of The Boston Symphony

  07-03-2026 02:26 via apnews.com
  “The decision to not renew his contract was made by the BSO’s board of trustees because, beyond our shared desire to ensure our orchestra continues to perform at the highest levels, the BSO and Andris Nelsons were not aligned on future vision,” the BSO said in a statement from its trustees and CEO Chad Smith. – AP
  
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• Ukrainian musical mosaics in New York City

  07-03-2026 00:10 via artsjournal.com
  The seventh annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival returns to The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on March 19–21, 2026 with a three-day celebration of new music from Ukraine.This year’s festival explores “Mosaics” — the rich diversity of peoples, places, and musical practices that make up Ukraine’s cultural identity today.Opening night on March 19th, focuses on Ukrainian places, will be presented by the esteemed International Contemporary Ensemble and
  
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• Vanity Fair Launches Revamp of Nate Freeman’s Newsletter With Michael Govan Interview on LACMA’s New $720 M. Building

  06-03-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan is speaking publicly for the first time about the museum’s long-awaited David Geffen Galleries.The interview, which went live today, appears in the relaunch of True Colors, Vanity Fair’s art-world newsletter written by Nate Freeman. The newsletter will now land in inboxes weekly on Fridays with interviews, art-market intelligence, and dispatches from across the art world.The debut edition features Govan discussing the museum&rsq
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction $130 M. Robert Mnuchin Collection Led by $70–100 M. Rothko Painting

  06-03-2026 22:15 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s is preparing to bring works from the collection of the late dealer and financier Robert Mnuchin to auction this May in New York, adding a fresh trove of blue-chip material to a season the house hopes will build on its blockbuster November and a strong start to the spring sales.The consignment comprises roughly 25 works from the personal collection Robert assembled with his wife Adriana Mnuchin, long known among collectors for its focus on museum-quality examples of
  
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• Christie’s Nabs $450 M. S.I. Newhouse Cache, Led by Pollock, Picasso, and Brancusi Masterworks

  06-03-2026 21:13 via artnews.com
  Treasures priced at $100 million by 20th-century masters Jackson Pollock and Constantin Brancusi will lead Christie’s New York’s marquee May art sales, coming from the collection of media magnate S. I. Newhouse, Artnet News has revealed. While Christie’s has yet to confirm Artnet’s report, those two estimates, if met, would far exceed those artists’ current auction highs. Numbering as many as 40 works, the collection encompasses examples by giants like Jasper Johns
  
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• Pedro Friedeberg, Surrealist Artist Who Designed the Iconic Hand-Chair, Dies at 90

  06-03-2026 20:53 via artnews.com
  Pedro Friedeberg, an artist affiliated with the Mexican offshoot of the Surrealist movement and who is now best known for his absurdist designs, including the iconic Hand-Chair, died on Thursday in San Miguel de Allende. He was 90, according to his New York gallery, Ruiz-Healy Art.Friedeberg’s diverse practice included paintings dense with dreamy imagery and design objects that looked like body parts and animals. Though commonly labeled a Surrealist, he bristled against being associated wi
  
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• Now in Its 45th Edition, Arco Madrid Follows Its Own Measured Tempo

  06-03-2026 20:46 via artnews.com
  The 45th edition of Arco Madrid, which runs until Sunday, March 8, opened under an unseasonably cloudy Madrileño sky—an atmospheric departure for a fair more often associated with early spring brightness. Inside IFEMA Madrid, the city’s sprawling exhibition and convention complex, a second surprise awaited.Despite bringing together 211 galleries from 30 countries, the fair floor did not immediately hum with its usual intensity. At the entrance to the first booth
  
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• Lebanese Ministry of Culture Urges UNESCO to Grant Enhanced Protections to Cultural Property

  06-03-2026 20:25 via artnews.com
  Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional protection for the nation’s cultural heritage as the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict spills into its southern borders.According to a ministry statement on Wednesday, Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé spoke by phone with Khaled El-Enany, director-general of UNESCO, urging the United Nations agency to intervene on Lebanon’s behalf.The minister reportedly told El-Enany: “In light of the cur
  
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• Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets $265 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

  06-03-2026 19:16 via artnews.com
  This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million).The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s equivalent sale last year, achieving a 96 percen sell-through rate by lot and 98 percent by value. There were also n
  
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• Bauhaus Buildings at UNESCO World Heritage Site Damaged in Tel Aviv by Iranian Missile Strike

  06-03-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  Two buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel first reported on the damage of one of these buildings.The White City is a complex of 4,000 buildings done in the Bauhaus style that were completed by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s. Constructed between the ’30s and the ’50s, the
  
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• Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

  06-03-2026 18:37 via artnews.com
  Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 (approximately $218,000).As part of the award, Muholi will receive a solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, along with an accompanying publication. The exhibition opens on October 10 and remains on view through April 24, 2027
  
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• Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

  06-03-2026 18:32 via artnews.com
  A senior archaeologist at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been arrested in Poland at the request of Ukrainian authorities, according to The Art Newspaper, who are seeking his extradition over alleged illegal excavations carried out in Crimea.Alexander Butyagin, who heads the Hermitage’s department focused on ancient archaeology of the northern Black Sea region, was detained in Poland in December 2025 while traveling in Europe for a lecture tour. A Warsaw appeals court uphe
  
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• Sculpture in Rome Reattributed to Michelangelo, Who May Have Also Painted a Work Analyzed in Belgium

  06-03-2026 18:28 via artnews.com
  A marble bust in a Roman basilica was attributed to Michelangelo nearly 200 years after it was last associated with the Renaissance master.The sculpture of Jesus Christ in the Basilica of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura had been attributed to Michelangelo until the early 19th century, after which its origins were thought to have come from other hands. But as reported by Reuters, “Italian independent researcher Valentina Salerno—a member of the Vatican committee for the celebrations m
  
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• San Francisco and De Young Museum Hit With Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Alleging ‘Outrageous Conduct’

  06-03-2026 18:14 via artnews.com
  In a complaint filed February 20 in San Francisco Superior Court, a security guard at the De Young Museum in San Francisco alleges sexual harassment and retaliation. The complaint names the city and county of San Francisco, the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (which operates the De Young and the Legion of Honor), and Patrick Smithwick, who supervises the plaintiff and other guards. It alleges gender-based harassment, sexual harassment, failure to prevent harassment, and retaliation for
  
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• Strikes Damage UNESCO Sites in Israel and Iran, Cologne Cathedral to Charge Tourists Entry: Morning Links for March 6, 2026

  06-03-2026 17:38 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHERITAGE STRIKES. Amid the escalating Middle East war, UNESCO World Heritage buildings in Tel Aviv’s White City district have been damaged by Iranian missile strikes, which killed one woman and injured many, reports the Art Newspaper. The buildings were built between 1935 and 1937 as part of an urban plan in the Bauhaus architectural s
  
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• Christie’s Unveils New Rostrum by Jony Ive, Apple’s Former Chief Design Officer

  06-03-2026 17:35 via artnews.com
  Jony Ive is arguably the world’s most well-known product designer, famed for all the iMacs, iPods, iPhones, and Apple Watches he conceived during his nearly three-decade tenure with Apple Inc. Now, he can claim one major contribution to the art world as well.Christie’s tapped LoveFrom, the design collective Ive founded with Marc Newson in 2019 soon after he left Apple, to design a new rostrum for the auction house. This sleek object, made of oak sourced from the same French forest th
  
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