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• Filmmaker Amos Poe Dies at 76, ‘Red, White, and Blue’ British Museum Ball Invites Controversy, and: Morning Links for December 26, 2026

  26-12-2025 16:42 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The Headlines REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His seminal works—including The Blank Generation (1975), Unmade Beds (
  
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• The Most Significant Art World Lawsuits of 2025

  26-12-2025 15:10 via artnews.com
  The art world spent much of 2025 not unveiling masterpieces but unsealing court documents, as if the industry had drifted into a year-long deposition. What began as the usual background hum of disputes swelled into something grander: collectors accusing advisers, advisers suing one another, estates defending colors, sneaker companies parsing securities law, and even a SoHo garden insisting—quite earnestly—that it is a work of art entitled to federal protection. It was a year in which
  
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  25-12-2025 14:34 via zouchmagazine.com
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• 10 Must-See Chapels in Italy

  25-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  While most flock to museums to experience world-famous artworks, some of the most influential pieces reside outside institutions—especially in Italy, where, during the Renaissance, a number of wealthy patrons commissioned works of art in smaller chapels.Those chapels were intended as places where their family legacies could live on after their deaths. Many of them still contain some of the most incredible examples of art and architecture; most are open to the public.There are many chapels,
  
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• Merry Christmas

  24-12-2025 23:25 via artsjournal.com
  Today’s highlights: The traditional art market is facing a reckoning as 2025 comes to a close. There was a flood of gallery closures and downsizings this year, marking a period of “endings more than beginnings” as the industry searches for a more sustainable model (ARTnews ). In the publishing world, the mass-market paperback is–shockingly– about to disappear from the U.S. market following a major distributor’s decision to halt operations (Publishers Weekly ).
  
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• “Nothing Is Too Extravagant For Christ” — This May Be America’s Most Over-The-Top Christmas Pageant

  24-12-2025 20:50 via texasmonthly.com
  The 17,000 costume pieces are the least extravagant feature of The Gift of Christmas, the annual spectacular presented by Prestonwood Baptist Church near Dallas. On the 300-foot stage are LED screens, lasers, fireworks, trapezing elves, flying angels, and 21 animals. (And yes, shepherds, three kings, and the Holy Family. And Santa.) – Texas Monthly
  
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• Why Did So Many Art Galleries Close This Year?

  24-12-2025 20:31 via artnews.com
  Overall, when it came to galleries, the dominant vibe was one of endings more than beginnings—and it continued a building drumbeat. Those who closed or significantly downsized in 2025, after all, joined others that have expired in previous years. – ARTnews
  
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• Archaeologist Discovers A Pharaoh’s “Valley Temple”

  24-12-2025 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  “Nyuserra’s sun temple, which is located in Abu Ghurab about 10 miles south of Cairo, was composed of two parts: the previously excavated upper temple and the valley temple (alongside the Nile), which Massimiliano Nuzzolo began work on in 2024.” – Artnet
  
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• Are Our Grandparents Being Captured By Their Phones?

  24-12-2025 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  “I am constantly begging my mom to put her phone down, every time I see her she is just mindlessly scrolling. I swear her attention span is GONE,” one person wrote. – The Atlantic
  
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• Disney Has Had Its Best Box Office Year Since Before The Pandemic

  24-12-2025 19:31 via deadline.com
  Disney is the first and only studio to cross $6B this year, the next best major is Warner Bros with $4.3B. 2025 repped Disney’s biggest year at the B.O. since 2019 when it earned an all-time $13.1B ($11.1B from Disney titles alone, the rest being 20th Century Studios and Searchlight). – Deadline
  
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• AI Voice Clones Are Amazing. But Also Troublesome In Defining Identity

  24-12-2025 19:30 via theconversation.com
  Technology may blur boundaries, but it also reveals who holds the power. When male creators use AI to simulate female voices and personas, are they expanding artistic possibilities or perpetuating a new form of gender appropriation, ventriloquism and misogyny? – The Conversation
  
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• The “Godfather” Of Asian-American Media, Robert Nakamura, Has Died At 88

  24-12-2025 19:03 via nytimes.com
  “As an independent filmmaker, photographer, teacher and activist, he explored issues of justice, identity, memory and racism. He was a founder of Visual Communications, the oldest community-based organization of Asian-American and Pacific Islander filmmakers and media artists in the United States.” – The New York Times
  
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• We Know So Little About How Our Senses Interact. Why Does Music Make Food Taste Different?

  24-12-2025 18:44 via nautil.us
  When we sit down for a meal, all of our senses come to the table, and some of them have unexpected effects. Heavier cutlery, for example, makes a meal more pleasurable, he has found, and flavors in space are often duller. Foods that sound better taste better, too. – Nautilus
  
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• 2025 Was A Very Tough Year For Libraries. These Are The Top Stories

  24-12-2025 18:44 via publishersweekly.com
  Federal funding, the freedom to read, perpetual or temporary access to print and digital collections, and AI innovations saw new and unpredictable developments on a weekly basis. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Authors Sue AI Companies Over Copyright (Again)

  24-12-2025 18:30 via publishersweekly.com
  The group of authors, which includes two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou, are among those who opted out of the proposed $1.5 billion settlement of the lawsuit against Anthropic, announced in September. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Movie Extras Are An Endangered Species

  24-12-2025 18:15 via latimes.com
  Central Casting — now so eponymous that its name has become a cultural phrase — celebrated its 100th anniversary earlier this month. Remember the long lines for casting calls? No more. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Conductor Lorenzo Viotti Will Be Zurich Opera House’s Next Music Director

  24-12-2025 18:01 via moto-perpetuo.com
  The Lausanne-born maestro will take up the position in August 2028 for two seasons; the short contract term aligns him with that of the house’s superintendent, Mathias Schulz. Viotti will succeed Gianandrea Noseda, who will remain at the company through the 2027-28 season. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• Philadelphia Art Museum Doubles Down On Fired Director

  24-12-2025 17:44 via msn.com
  “Arbitration clauses are interpreted literally, but not foolishly,” the new filing argues. It asks the court to enter an order compelling Suda to submit to arbitration, and to stay legal proceedings until the matter is resolved in arbitration. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• British Museum’s Longterm Loans Program Doesn’t Remediate Colonial Looting

  24-12-2025 17:15 via hyperallergic.com
  Long-term loans are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities. Instead, they reinforce a museum’s claim of ownership over objects it has no moral (and often legal) right to possess. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Ten Shirtless Men Compete To Star In A Christmas Movie: The Hallmark Channel Does Reality TV

  24-12-2025 17:05 via yahoo.com
  The series is called Finding Mr. Christmas. “What is fascinating about the premise is that it’s television for women about men making television for women. It’s the hosts and judges evaluating, week by week, what makes a man appealing to a likely female Hallmark viewer.” – The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
  
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• You Can Now Go On A Hallmark Christmas Movie Tour

  24-12-2025 16:33 via apnews.com
  “Connecticut — the location for at least 22 holiday films by Hallmark, Lifetime and others — is promoting tours of the quaint Christmas-card cities and towns featured in this booming movie (genre).” You even get to watch the matching films while on the bus between stops. – AP
  
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• Mass Market Paperbacks Are About To Disappear From The US Market

  24-12-2025 16:01 via publishersweekly.com
  “The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Florida Officials Tried To Stop “A Drag Queen Christmas” In Pensacola. Didn’t Work.

  24-12-2025 15:36 via theguardian.com
  “The state attorney general has spent nearly two months lobbying Pensacola officials to cancel the show, to no avail. Instead, the 1,600-capacity tour stop is sold out.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Year in Gallery Closures: A Collapse or a Transition to a Smarter Market?

  24-12-2025 15:04 via artnews.com
  “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy wrote in the opening of Anna Karenina. The line is so iconic that it gave rise to a principle: for success to occur in any complex endeavor, all key factors must be present and functioning properly, while failure requires only a single missing element. This year, as the art market faltered, many dealers learned that lesson the hard way.It is possible that every such business, like every unhappy
  
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• After Two Years Shut Down Due To War, Christmas Celebrations In Bethlehem Are Back

  24-12-2025 15:04 via apnews.com
  The traditional birthplace of Jesus is in the West Bank, and the livelihoods of thousands of people in the Palestinian town depend on visiting tourists and pilgrims. The war in Gaza brought activity in Bethlehem to a halt, and with a ceasefire signed, those pilgrims and tourists are gradually returning. – AP
  
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• Why Did Broadway’s “The Queen Of Versailles” Flop So Badly?

  24-12-2025 14:36 via nytimes.com
  “The Queen of Versailles, the biggest-budget production to open on Broadway this fall and the only large-scale new musical, aspired to be a cautionary tale about consumption and greed. Instead, it wound up as a cautionary tale about Broadway.” – The New York Times
  
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• American Ballet Companies Really Need Their “Nutcracker”

  24-12-2025 14:00 via npr.org
  It’s been a commonplace for decades that troupes depend on the income from Nutcracker ticket sales to support the rest of their seasons. For just one prominent example, New York City Ballet’s roughly 50 performances of Balanchine’s classic version of the work bring in 45% of the company’s ticket revenue for the year. – NPR
  
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• Christmas Through the Eyes of Photographer Lee Friedlander

  24-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  “Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Lee Friedlander shows us here.” So begins the afterward to Lee Friedlander: Christmas, a new book of holiday-related pictures published by the Eakins Press Foundation. The volume assembles various kinds of images by the storied photographer who started pointing his lens at American life
  
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• Who Wrote “Porgy and Bess”?

  24-12-2025 06:19 via artsjournal.com
  It must mean something that the highest creative achievement in American classical music is permanently controversial. When Porgy and Bess premiered on Broadway in 1935, a typical critical reaction was: “What is it?” American-born classical musicians (unlike their European-born brethren) marginalized George Gershwin as an interloper, a gifted dilettante. Later,
  
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• In Repatriation Ceremony in New York, 43 Antiquities Are Returned to Turkey

  23-12-2025 20:31 via artnews.com
  Reflecting growing pressure by New York prosecutors on museums and private collectors, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and an American collector have returned dozens of looted antiquities to Turkey. As reported by the New York Times, a repatriation ceremony was held in New York on December 8.The repatriations are connected to a years-long investigation into antiquities trafficking networks by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office’s Antiquities Tra
  
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• China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum Involving a Former Director

  23-12-2025 20:28 via artnews.com
  Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to the recent Louvre heist.According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal surfaced after a 16th-century Ming dynasty painting, Spring in Jiangnan by Qiu Ying, appeared in a Beijing auction catalog this year
  
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• Paris’s Galerie 1900-2000 Has Closed Its New York Branch: ‘Business Was Quite Slow’

  23-12-2025 19:02 via artnews.com
  In a multi-year market slowdown, numerous galleries large and small have either gone out of business or retrenched. Galerie 1900-2000, founded in Paris, opened a New York branch on Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side in February 2023 as a joint venture with Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, but the Manhattan outpost is going dark. Its last exhibition closed in September.“We decided to close the gallery mainly because the business was quite slow even though we made some fan
  
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• Jessica Silverman Adds Rebecca Manson, Rubin Acquisitions, and More: Industry Moves for December 23, 2025

  23-12-2025 18:57 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Tuesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry Moves
  Jessica Silverman Adds Rebecca Manson to Roster: The New York–based sculptor, known for her large intensely tactile ceramics, will debut at the gallery with a solo exhibition in Janua
  
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• Rome Introduces Entry Fee to See Famous Trevi Fountain

  23-12-2025 18:19 via artnews.com
  Rome has unveiled its latest tactic to curb over-tourism: a €2 ($2.35) entrance fee for close-up access to the Trevi Fountain.The measure will take effect on February 1 and be enforced daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced on Friday. The iconic fountain will remain visible from a distance free of charge, but visitors seeking a closer view will be required to purchase a ticket. The Italian capital previously implemented restrictions around the 18th-century Baroq
  
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• Louvre Installs Bars on Notorious Window at Center of Art Heist

  23-12-2025 17:32 via artnews.com
  While the Louvre was closed on Tuesday, the museum continued beefing up its security, this time by installing bars on the window through which thieves entered the institution in October and stole bejeweled objects, most of which still have not yet been recovered.The window faces into a space in the Galerie d’Apollon. The thieves reached the window from the outside using a ladder, then applied power tools to slice through the glass and come into the gallery.After being denounced by politici
  
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• Stop Making Sense: 2025 Was the Year No One Could Figure Out the Art Market 

  23-12-2025 16:30 via artnews.com
  Time has become a strange and elastic thing in the post-Covid era. Since President Donald Trump reentered office on January 20, his administration has “flooded the zone” with executive orders, outlandish statements, and social media posts both aggressive and digressive. The cumulative result is a year in which each week has seemed to last, for some for an eternity.So, looking back on 2025, it is exceptionally challenging to boil down what happened in the art market. There were so man
  
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• MoMA Adds CryptoPunks and Chromie Squiggles to Its Collection, Becoming Latest Major Museum to Acquire Onchain Art

  23-12-2025 16:11 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has added eight CryptoPunks and eight Chromie Squiggles to its permanent collection. The acquisition, which comes via donations from multiple collectors, is the latest acquisition by a major museum of on-chain art and one of the medium’s most significant institutional endorsements to date.CryptoPunks are a collection of 10,000 unique, algorithmically generated 24×24 pixel characters on the Ethereum blockchain. They were launched by Larva Labs in 2
  
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• Digital Art’s Narcissism Problem, Sotheby’s to Host Second Saudi Auction, Smithsonian Returns 3 Statues to Cambodia: Morning Links for December 23, 2026

  23-12-2025 15:14 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesDIGITAL NARCISSISM. The Art Newspaper opines that this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach exposed a problem in contemporary digital art: its entrenched culture of narcissism. Nowhere was this apparently clearer than in Zero 10, the fair’s new digital art initiative, which operated outside the usual safeguards of the art
  
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• In Memoriam 2025: Notable Artists, Dealers, Curators, and Collectors Who Died This Year

  23-12-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  Each December, we remember the art-world figures we have lost in the past year. This year, our list includes the famous and the not-so-famous, insiders and outsiders, those who had long careers and those whose lives were cut tragically short. Below, a look back at some of the most notable artists, dealers, curators, art writers, and collectors who died in 2025.Read more of our “2025: Year in Review” coverage here.
  
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• Sotheby’s to Host Its Second Auction in Saudi Arabia in January and This Time Without Luxury Goods for Sale

  23-12-2025 12:02 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has announced it will hold its second auction in Saudi Arabia on January 31. The house hosted the kingdom’s first international auction this past February, selling a mix of art, luxury goods, and sports memorabilia in the hyper-gentrified town of Diriyah, the original home of the Saudi royal family that is located a stone’s throw from the capital, Riyadh. Next year’s sale—titled “Origins II”—will be in the same location but only feature a
  
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• Sotheby’s to Host Its Second Auction in Saudi Arabia in January and This Time Only Art will Be Sold, No Luxury

  23-12-2025 12:02 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has announced it will hold its second auction in Saudi Arabia on January 31, 2026. The house hosted the kingdom’s first international auction in February, selling a mix of art, luxury goods, and sports memorabilia in the hyper-gentrified town of Diriyah, the original home of the Saudi royal family. It is located a stone’s throw from the capital, Riyadh. Next year’s sale—titled “Origins II”—will be in the same place and only feature art, t
  
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• The Best Digital Art of 2025, According to Curators, Artists, and Critics

  23-12-2025 12:00 via artnews.com
  Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a bi-weekly column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.It’s the end of the year. You know what that means: a list. For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and technologists to pick the best works of digital art they saw in 2025.The works chosen, like digital art itself, span a wide range of approaches and topics
  
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• Visionary Artist Tom Lloyd Deserves to Be Canonized. His Studio Museum Show Is Proof.

  23-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  “We cannot be free until our art is free,” reads a flyer from the 1960s issued by the Arts Workers Coalition, an activist group whose protests helped reshape the New York art world. Remember that remark when you visit the Studio Museum in Harlem’s divine survey for Tom Lloyd, a member of the Coalition who spoke on similar terms with his art.Set inside a church-like space with a high ceiling, the Studio Museum’s one-room show is mainly devoted to Lloyd’s light sculpt
  
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• The Unhinged Degas Murder Mystery I Didn’t Know I Needed

  23-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  The Artist has manic energy; everyone in this new TV series is yelling all the time. Even Edgar Degas. Even Thomas Edison. Even the robber baron and his wife and their live-in ballerina.This is art history at its most unhinged. But asking friends, “Have you seen The Artist on The Network?” has produced mostly furrowed-brow responses: this great TV show seems little-known at the moment, and the question is made enigmatic by its generic-sounding proper nouns. The final episodes air Dec
  
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• Our Most-Read Stories of 2025

  23-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  Let’s face it: with writing, as with everything else, popularity doesn’t always align with one’s proudest work—particularly when algorithms get involved. Usually, it’s the most salacious, scandalous, or sexy that takess off online. But 2025 was a welcome exception. This year, our most-read stories suggest a strong interest in art history, in serious criticism—and to my surprise, in animal welfare—among our readers. I like to think that implies that art c
  
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• New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Signs Open Letter Supporting Met Museum Union

  22-12-2025 23:17 via artnews.com
  New York City Mayoral-Elect Zohran Mamdani has signed an open letter in support of roughly 1,000 workers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York who filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in November to approve a bargaining unit. The vote is scheduled to take place on January 13 and 15, 2026, and if it passes, the Met would become the largest unionized museum in the country.The letter was released on December 18 by the United Auto Workers (UAW), which represents the Met w
  
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• Artists Denounced Jeffrey Epstein’s Behavior Nearly 20 Years Ago—and Other Art-Related Reveals from the Newly Released Files

  22-12-2025 21:14 via artnews.com
  Federal authorities, journalists, and Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have spent years scrutinizing the financier’s properties and possessions, piecing together an aesthetic world that often seemed to mirror the abuses he committed. Reporting by ARTnews, the New York Times, Artnet, and other publications has detailed Epstein’s fixation on sexually charged imagery, the theatrical displays inside his properties, and the objects that blurred the line between décor and surve
  
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• Uruguay’s Only Art Fair Wagers That It Can Create a New Regional Market Force

  22-12-2025 20:18 via artnews.com
  “There’s a before and after Este Arte,” Uruguay’s first and only art fair, according to its founder, Laura Bardier. The professionalization of Uruguay’s art market could read as Bardier’s biography—the curator who, through sheer insistence, converted a quixotic dream into a promising market machine—but that would misinterpret the ambition of Este Arte.The fair has a handful of exhibitors, few of whom are well-known in the United States or Euro
  
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• Just in Time for Christmas, Identical New Banksy Murals Look to the Stars But Point to Problems on the Ground

  22-12-2025 19:42 via artnews.com
  For the third time this year, Banksy has created a new work of street art. The new piece has been confirmed in the anonymous British artist’s customary fashion, with an Instagram post. The artwork shows two children lying on their backs and looking toward the heavens, with one pointing a finger skyward. It was spotted Monday outside the Tottenham Court Road Tube station in London, near the landmark Brutalist Centre Point skyscraper. As Christmas approaches, the work could be read
  
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