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• Christie’s Hauls in $5.2 M. at Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Auction, Setting 8 Artist Records

  07-11-2025 23:59 via artnews.com
  Christie’s London achieved a total of £4.1 million (around $5.2 million) during a sale of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art on November 6. The sale achieved a 93 percent sell-through rate by value and 85 percent sell-through rate by lot. The sale also confirmed growing appetite among younger buyers: 38 percent of participants were new to Christie’s, with 21 percent being millennials.Of the 39 lots that were offered, 21 came from the Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF). Those
  
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• Christie’s Hauls in $5.2 M. at Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Auction, Setting 7 Artist Records

  07-11-2025 23:59 via artnews.com
  Christie’s London achieved a total of £4.1 million (around $5.2 million) during a sale of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art on November 6. The sale achieved a 93 percent sell-through rate by value and 85 percent sell-through rate by lot. The sale also confirmed growing appetite among younger buyers: 38 percent of participants were new to Christie’s, with 21 percent being millennials.Of the 39 lots that were offered, 21 came from the Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF). Those
  
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• The Huntington’s Recent Acquisitions Include Famed Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Bust, an early Judy Chicago Work, and More

  07-11-2025 23:16 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles–area cultural institution The Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced gifts to its art collection funded by The Huntington’s Art Collectors’ Council. Each year, the Council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators.This year’s acquisitions include a view of London by 17th-century Dutch artist Thomas Wijck; an 1872 bust of a Black woman bound by ropes by French sculptor a
  
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• Sotheby’s, Newly Relocated to the Breuer Building, Reintroduces Itself to New York

  07-11-2025 22:04 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s did not just open a new headquarters this week—it staged a return to form. The auction house has taken over Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist landmark on Madison Avenue, a building that has already lived several cultural lives: it was the longtime home of the Whitney Museum, then the Met Breuer, followed by a short-lived contemporary art annex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a temporary Frick Collection outpost. Now, after a renovation by Herzog & de Meuron, Breuer&
  
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• 13 Masterpieces to See at the Newly Reopened Studio Museum in Harlem

  07-11-2025 21:47 via artnews.com
  As New York museums go, the Studio Museum in Harlem does not hold the largest collection, or even the widest-reaching one, but this has always been a feature, not a bug. First opened in 1968, the museum is focused specifically on artists of African descent, which means it’s been dedicated to Black artists much longer than most institutions in the city. While others have played catch-up in recent years, the Studio Museum has only made its holdings even richer—acquiring its first Basqu
  
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• Philadelphia Art Museum to Mount Exhibition of Two Van Gogh ‘Sunflower’ Paintings

  07-11-2025 20:51 via artnews.com
  The Philadelphia Art Museum (PAM) will mount an exhibition next year bringing together two of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Sunflower” paintings, according to the Art Newspaper (TAN).  The exhibition, which is set to run from June 6 to October 11, 2026, will be titled “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow”. It will feature the PAM’s Sunflowers (1889), with its distinct turquoise background, and the artist’s original iteration
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Site Where Benin Bronzes Were Made

  07-11-2025 20:50
  
  “Rediscovered structural remains, pottery, and glass vessels illuminate daily life and craft practices in the centuries preceding colonial rule. The dig established a complete archaeological sequence from before the kingdom’s founding to after its ruin. As the repatriation of Benin bronzes remains at the forefront of art-world conversations, archaeologists also unearthed artifacts related to metalworking.” – Artnet
  
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• Christie’s to Offer Rare Dinosaur Skeleton in December Auction

  07-11-2025 20:45 via artnews.com
  A well-preserved Caenagnathid dinosaur, affectionately known as Spike, is expected to headline Christie’s inaugural “Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time” auction in London on December 11.At 68 million years old and counting, Spike is one of the most complete specimens of its kind, possibly representing a new species. Discovered in 2022, the sub-adult dinosaur has more than 100 preserved fossil bones and is believed to have once been heavily feathered. This is the first
  
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• Seattle’s New $800M Park Transforms Its Waterfront

  07-11-2025 20:31
  
  Waterfront Park is thus making its debut in a city eager for a win. When it began opening in stages over the last year, Seattleites swarmed the space, dodging construction fences and heavy equipment to check out the progress. Now much rides on its success. – Bloomberg
  
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• Two Caillebotte Paintings Are On View at Louis Vuitton’s New York City Flagship

  07-11-2025 20:25 via artnews.com
  Louis Vuitton’s temporary flagship on 57th Street in New York City boasts special features including a restaurant and towers of trunks — and through Nov. 16 it will also host a couple of museum-grade paintings.The Fondation Louis Vuitton has partnered with Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles for an exhibition of two major works by French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, underscoring the growing synerg
  
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• Russian Publishers And Bookstores Are Nervous As Kremlin Cracks Down On Books

  07-11-2025 20:03
  
  “Publishers have faced a difficult dilemma: stop offering books that the Kremlin dislikes, clandestinely cut the risky parts or openly redact them to show readers that something was censored. … ‘Right now we’re all playing Minesweeper, (said one literary critic,) when you don’t understand what is forbidden and what is not.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Marlene Dumas Becomes First Contemporary Woman Artist Acquired for Louvre’s Permanent Collection

  07-11-2025 19:59 via artnews.com
  Marlene Dumas, one of the most influential painters working today, has become the first contemporary female artist to join the Louvre’s permanent collection. French publication Le Monde reports that nine new paintings by the Dutch-South African artist have been hung on the ground floor of the Louvre’s Denon Wing, which overlooks the Seine River. Dumas, who is represented by David Zwirner, is celebrated for her gestural, even ghostly figures and her off-kilter color schemes, whic
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Collaborated with Three Contemporary Artists for ‘W’ Magazine’s Art Issue

  07-11-2025 19:49 via artnews.com
  Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is the subject of W magazine’s current art issue.In 2006, the fashion-focused publication launched this collaborative series with fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti shooting contemporary American artist Richard Tuttle. Since then, there have been many examples of collaborations between high-profile artists and celebrities, for example, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch directing a shoot starring Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid in 2016, Mickalene
  
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• Woeful Security At The Louvre (Including Its Passwords)

  07-11-2025 19:44
  
  Since the heist, information has resurfaced showing that gaps in security appear to have been known for years – including a 2014 warning that alleged one of the museum’s key passwords was simply “LOUVRE.” – CNN
  
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• Inside The Kennedy Center’s Nose-Dive

  07-11-2025 19:15
  
  Interviews with 25 people, including current and former Kennedy Center executives, board members, longtime employees, recent hires, industry leaders and Trump administration officials, revealed a Washington institution in crisis. – The New York Times
  
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• Alabama Public Television Has Major Second Thoughts About Dropping PBS

  07-11-2025 19:04
  
  “Officials said the end of the PBS partnership could cost Alabama Public Television millions in funding, 90% of its content and thousands of audience members. ‘I’m afraid that it would be the end of APT-PBS as we know it,’ APT Commissioner Pete Conroy said.” – AL.com
  
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• Engage with the arts – and put your phone away | Letters

  07-11-2025 18:51 via theguardian.com
  Ian Flintoff champions live performances and Val Mainwood argues that great art should challenge us. Plus a letter from Ross Speirs on snap-happy gallery visitorsThe case that you brilliantly make for seeing actual paintings rather than reproductions (Editorial, 2 November) also goes wholeheartedly with seeing real and actual performances by live human beings rather than the two-dimensional screen reproductions which are now accepted as the norm.Humans benefit enormously from seeing live perform
  
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• AI Is Exacerbating An Education Crisis

  07-11-2025 18:44
  
  As one instructional designer you’ll hear says, “If this technology becomes more ubiquitous, we’ll have courses created by AI, graded by AI, with submissions from students absolutely generated by AI. So it begs the question: What are we even doing here in higher ed?” – The Verge
  
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• Music Labels Are Beginning To Make AI Deals. What Does It Mean For Musicians?

  07-11-2025 18:32
  
  Such settlements and strategic partnerships will help major labels set the ground rules for developing AI-music ecosystems. And it seems they are becoming common. – The Conversation
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan Awarded the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie 

  07-11-2025 18:29 via artnews.com
  This year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie (Prize of the National Gallery), administered by Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, has been awarded to artist Maurizio Cattelan.Every two years, the prize goes to an influential contemporary artist, who receives a solo exhibition of their work at the German institution. Cattelan was selected by a jury of international directors, which included Emma Lavigne of the Pinault Collection in Paris; Sam Keller of the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland; and
  
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• The Unpleasant Art Museum Tour That’s Wildly Popular

  07-11-2025 18:15
  
  Joseph Langelinck’s “highly unpleasant” tours cost around $8 USD, and they’ve reportedly sold out every session since they launched in May, with bookings well into 2026. – The New York Post
  
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• England Moves To Undo Cuts In Arts Education; Creative Sector Heaves Sighs of Relief

  07-11-2025 18:02
  
  For years, Britain’s leading cultural figures have warned that substandard arts provision in schools is devaluing the sector and creating an increasingly elite industry. But the government’s proposed shake-up of the national curriculum, … has been met with overwhelming positivity, with one figure saying it could end ‘the madness of the past decade’.” – The Guardian
  
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• An AI Map Of Bob Dylan’s Songs

  07-11-2025 17:44
  
  Could machine analysis measure the qualities that make Dylan’s songs resonate – how complexity arises, how new images mix with the familiar, how ambiguity threads through songs? – Aeon
  
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• Timothée Chalamet Visited Michael Heizer’s ‘City’ for Vogue Photoshoot

  07-11-2025 17:39 via artnews.com
  In a restless and ping-ponging profile for Vogue, actor Timothée Chalamet paid a visit to one of the most mystique-intensive artworks of this or any century: Michael Heizer’s monumental Land art installation City. The work, measuring a mile-and-a-half long by a half-mile wide in the desert in Nevada, opened in 2022 after decades of construction dating back to 1970. About Heizer’s creation, Chalamet said, “It’s just a totally remote experience.” That&rsqu
  
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• The Studio Museum in Harlem Is Officially One of the Few US Museums to Own a Basquiat Painting

  07-11-2025 17:34 via artnews.com
  Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018—including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to join the museum’s collection.The painting, titled Bayou (1984), was gifted to the New York museum in 2023 by the financier Joseph Perella and his wife Amy. Joseph was a mentor to Raymond J. McGuire, an investment ba
  
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• Film Festival In New York Cancelled At Last Minute After Chinese Filmmakers Withdraw

  07-11-2025 17:29
  
  “The inaugural IndieChina film festival was planned to take place between 8 and 15 November. But on 5 November the festival’s curator … posted on Facebook that he had been forced to cancel 80% of the planned screenings because film-makers had pulled out” after their families in China were pressured by authorities. – The Guardian
  
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• The Mona Lisa Problem

  07-11-2025 17:15
  
  One solution might be to put it in a separate structure — climate-controlled, transparent — in the neighboring Tuileries Garden. Time-controlled tickets could be sold at a premium, while the general public could view it for free at a distance, through the glass walls. – Washington Post
  
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• Why Japan Shadow-Banned Paul Schrader’s Biopic Of Yukio Mishima

  07-11-2025 17:01
  
  Until, that is, last week, when the 1985 film Mishima finally had its Japanese premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where the screening sold out in ten minutes. Before that? Well, in his homeland the life and ideas of the author were something of an uncomfortable subject. – The New York Times
  
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• Has Chicago’s Theater Scene Addressed The Issues In The “We See You, White American Theater” Letter?

  07-11-2025 16:35
  
  “WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times asked some Black Chicago theater makers what has changed for them since 2020. Among those interviewed for this story, even the most optimistic back in 2020 felt no significant change in the years since. That’s despite the promise of major action by groups themselves.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Toronto’s Only Purpose-Built Dance Venue To Reopen

  07-11-2025 16:03
  
  The auditorium at Queens Quay had been called the Fleck Dance Theatre; early this year, the Harbourfront Centre, which manages Queens Quay, declined to renew the Fleck’s lease. Now the Toronto Stage Company will take over, presenting its own mainstage season there and making it available to dance organizations. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Steve Cohen Revealed as Consignor of Cattelan’s Golden Toilet, Sotheby’s Paris Takes $21.5 M. from Davidson Sale, Gladstone Gallery Now Represents Robert Colescott: Morning Links for November 7, 2025

  07-11-2025 15:43 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesGOLDEN THRONE. For nearly a decade, the art world has speculated about the fate of Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious golden toilet, America, a fully functional sculpture made of 100 kilograms of 18-karat gold. One of the mystery buyers (the work comes in an edition of three, plus two artist’s proofs) has now been revealed as billionaire financier and collector Steven Cohen, owner of the New York Mets and founder of Point72 Asset Management, the New York Times reports. C
  
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• Bizarre Attack By Teen Tourist On Met Museum Artworks

  07-11-2025 15:34
  
  On Monday, a 19-year-old hurled water at a 19th-century portrait and a 16th-century altarpiece, then ripped two tapestries. His mother turned him over to police, who said he seemed to be to be under the influence of an “unknown substance” and took him to a hospital before having him arraigned for criminal mischief. – ARTnews
  
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• Mets Owner and Billionaire Collector Steve Cohen Revealed as the Consignor of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet

  07-11-2025 15:20 via artnews.com
  The consignor of one of the most buzzed about auction lots this season has been revealed. Top 200 Collector Steven A. Cohen is the current owner Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet, America (2016), according to a report in the New York Times. The work is set to hit the block at Sotheby’s on November 18.
  Per the catalog entry, the soon-to-be-auctioned sculpture, made of 18-karat gold and weighing over 100 kilograms, was purchased by the owner from Marian Goodman Gallery in 2017. The wor
  
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• LACMA Management Won’t Recognize Employee’s Union Formed Last Week

  07-11-2025 15:06
  
  “This means LACMA United cannot move forward with collective bargaining efforts until it is formalized by a National Labor Relations Board election. Complicating matters further, NLRB activities — including elections — are on hold amid the federal government shutdown.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Robert Colescott Estate

  07-11-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  The estate of Robert Colescott will now be represented by Gladstone Gallery, which will mount its first exhibition for the artist next year and bring work by him to the upcoming edition of Art Basel Miami Beach next month.Colescott, who died in 2009, is one of the 20th century’s most important American artists. His large-scale paintings are known for their satirical, biting condemnations of both American history and art history.Among his most famous works is George Washington Carver Crossi
  
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• Actress Pauline Collins, Known For “Shirley Valentine,” Has Died At 85

  07-11-2025 14:30
  
  She began her carer in theatre and TV and first became widely known as troublemaking parlour maid Sarah on Upstairs, Downstairs. Her turn as the lonely housewife talking to the wall in the one-woman play Shirley Valentine won her an Olivier, a Tony, and, for the film adaptation, an Oscar nomination. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Anti-Israel Protestors Light Flares Inside Crowded Paris Concert Hall

  07-11-2025 14:02
  
  Thursday night’s Israel Philharmonic concert at the Philharmonie was interrupted three times by demonstrators, including twice when flares were lit in the balcony and smoke filled the auditorium. One of the disruptors was attacked by angry audience members and a physical fight broke out. Four people were arrested. – BBC (MSN)
  
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• The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

  07-11-2025 14:01 via theguardian.com
  It may be a midlife crisis, says the man behind seven-metre installations of the Earth, moon and Sun who has planted 365 trees in a 100-year project in SomersetLuke Jerram, whose art installations have travelled the world, is philosophical about his latest project bearing fruit beyond his time on Earth.Known for his Play Me I’m Yours street pianos project and his Museum of the Moon artwork – a seven-metre diameter sculpture of the moon featuring detailed Nasa imagery of the lunar sur
  
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• Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

  07-11-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR – all in your weekly dispatchWright of Derby: From the Shadows
  Two of the greatest paintings ever done about science – in which audiences are transfixed by lectures on an Orrery and Air-Pump – are brought together in this small but luminous show.• National Gallery, London, until 10 MayContinue reading...
  
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• Sotheby’s Paris Takes $21.5 M. from Manny Davidson Collection, 2025’s Record for a Single-Owner Sale in France

  07-11-2025 11:49 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s Paris took a combined €18.6 million ($21.5 million) from collection of the late real estate mogul Manny Davidson on Wednesday (evening sale) and Thursday (day sale). The result marked the highest total for a single-owner sale in France this year, and with the collection’s third online sale closing on Friday, that figure will climb higher.Titled “The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence,” the trio of sales comprise almost 500 lots.
  
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• Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum review – a grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity

  07-11-2025 11:16 via theguardian.com
  David Zwirner Gallery, London
  From cruel pictures of elderly widows to a shocking image of motherhood, the American photographer’s genius is on full display in a show that finds ugliness all around herIn 1971, at the age of 48, the American photographer Diane Arbus killed herself. Someone should have seen the clues, for her photography is not so much tragic as utterly alienated from the human species. Here is a woman nursing her baby, a modern Madonna – except the woman’s limbs
  
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• How Erwin Olaf Married Freedom and Discipline

  07-11-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  Erwin Olaf knew how to pick his people; he knew how to light a shot; he knew how to throw a party. You could put together quite a life knowing just those things. But it doesn’t make easy work for any museum attempting a retrospective of the lauded Dutch photographer, who died two years ago at the age of 64 mere weeks after receiving a lung transplant. Privilege any one version—activist, formalist, hedonist—and you risk overdetermining the others; keep them all in play and you r
  
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• Director of Programming, Hult Center, Eugene, OR

  07-11-2025 05:04
  Application Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025, at 5 p.m. P.T.
  Accepting Online Applications Only Via the City of Eugene’s Website: Job Link : Director of Programming | Job Details tab | Career Pages
  How to Apply | Eugene, OR WebsiteCity of Eugene
  Director of ProgrammingSALARY
  $44.83 – $60.52 Hourly$93,246.40 – $125,881.60 Annually
  JOB TYPE Full-TimeLOCATION Eugene, ORJOB NUMBER 04311DEPARTMENT Library, Recreation & Cultural ServicesDIVISION Cultural Services DivisionO
  
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