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• 2025: Average American Read Fewer Than Four Books

  06-01-2026 18:31 via lithub.com
  According to a YouGov poll released at year’s end, American reading habits stay in the toilet. Four in ten Americans didn’t read a single book during our last spin around the sun. And of the 60% who did venture to a library, most were frugal. – LitHub
  
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• Russian and Kyrgyz Scientists Explore Medieval City That Drowned in a 15th Century Earthquake

  08-06-2026 22:19 via artnews.com
  Russian and Kyrgyz scientists are exploring the ruins of the medieval trading center of Turu-Aygyr, submerged in the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan for centuries. Their findings were first reported by the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) last November, when it launched a joint archeological mission with the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic to study the drowned city.An important stop on the anci
  
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• Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, Dies at 84

  08-06-2026 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  Elfie Semotan, an Austrian fashion photographer known for her collaboration with designer Helmut Lang, died “unexpectedly” on Saturday at 84 years old in Jennersdorf, a town in southeast Austria, according to an obituary posted on Instagram and a report by Austria’s national public broadcasting network ORF.Semotan was based in Vienna, New York, and Jennersdorf, which is near the border with Slovenia and Hungary. She had spent time there since first buying a farmhouse in the are
  
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  08-06-2026 21:13 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral as LA Becomes a Canvas of Protest

  08-06-2026 18:33 via artnews.com
  
  As Donald Trump finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and battery packs onto carts and brought them to the middle of a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the 101. In the anonymity of darkness, the members of the guerilla art co
  
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• Price for Billionaire Bill Koch’s Aspen Home Cut from $125 M. to $99 M., Put Up For Auction

  08-06-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  A year and a half ago, the billionaire Bill Koch spun his massive Aspen estate on the market for $125 million, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale across the globe. That hefty sum likely wasn’t palatable for most people, and the price has since dropped to $99 million—no measly asking price either.Now, still searching for a buyer, Koch is putting the 52-acre spread up for auction. From July 7 to 17, you’ll have chance to bid on E
  
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• French Supreme Court Tears Up Lawsuit Aiming to Halt Bayeux Tapestry Loan to the British Museum

  08-06-2026 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  Last July, French president Emmanuel Macron announced hat one of his country’s great cultural treasures, the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, would be loaned to the British Museum. Six months later, in December, heritage group Sites & Monuments appealed to the French supreme courtto stop the move of the monumental but fragile artifact. Last week, the court shot down the organization’s attempt, reports Le Journal des Arts.Sites & Monuments cited Bayeux deputy mayor Loïc Jami
  
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• Chairman of US Commission of Fine Arts Attends ‘Russian Davos,’ Joins Roundtable With Russian Envoy Responsible for Venice Biennale Participation

  08-06-2026 17:49 via artnews.com
  
  Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, became the first US official to participate in St. Petersburg’s so-called “Russian Davos” in nearly a decade, according to reports. The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is designed to attract foreign investment in Russia, but has seen a drop in attendance of high-profile Western leaders since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance

  08-06-2026 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing mechanistic helmets and gloves.After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in di
  
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• Sotheby’s To Offer $60 M. Modigliani From Exhibition Once Shuttered For Indeceny, and More: Morning Links for June 8, 2026

  08-06-2026 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Sotheby’s attempt at a private sale of Pace founder Arne Glimcher’s Jackson Pollock painting was called off for lack of bidders.The chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts participated in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the first US official to do so in nearly a decade.Sotheby’s will offer Amedeo Modigliani&r
  
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• Through Sculpture, Kiah Celeste Finds Elegance in the Everyday

  08-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Kiah Celeste trained as a photographer, majoring in the medium at SUNY Purchase. But after school, she abandoned it quickly, frustrated by all the rules that accompany such a technical pursuit. When I visited her Brooklyn live/work studio, it was brimming with sculptures, and I asked her if she thought she used her photo training indirectly. “If I do,” she said, “it’s by avoiding every single thing I learned.” Instead, Celeste credits her hands-on post-college
  
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• The Four Musicals That Are Counting On Broadway Shows Finally Turning A Corner

  07-06-2026 20:30 via yahoo.com
  “There’s a big reason it takes years for a fresh musical to land on Broadway. Cracking any story is a painstaking process. The same goes for crafting a songbook. Getting the two to coalesce? It’s a delicate alchemy.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• Who’s Going To Win At The Tonys Tonight?

  07-06-2026 20:00 via vulture.com
  
  Can Jellicle Ball beat out the universally loved Ragtime? Will Lesley Manville’s British chops beat out Susannah Flood’s incredible performance in Liberation? Find out soon! – Vulture
  
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• Gut Punch

  07-06-2026 19:44 via artsjournal.com
  (Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, 1949).
  In a guest essay in the New York Times, former Washington Post theater critic Naveen Kumar writes that “Broadway is Serving Up Liberal Comfort Food.”
  His piece concludes:Not everyone goes to the theater hoping to be confronted with big questions, the kind that compel audiences to turn inward and disrupt their worldviews. But offering easy answ
  
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• Anthony Stewart Head, Star Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Ted Lasso, Has Died At 72

  07-06-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  “One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical The Rocky Horror Show while in drama school as a teenager. He told The Guardian that it ‘ignited something in my core.’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Story Of Hong Kong’s Popular Music Can Tell The Tale Of The City’s History

  07-06-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Cantopop is “predominantly Hong Kong music that blends Chinese and western pop sensibilities.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A New Edith Wharton Story Highlights The Human Inability To Deal With War

  07-06-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  “The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table where, earlier in the war, an army surgeon had performed amputations.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mary Shelley’s Sisters

  07-06-2026 18:00 via lithub.com
  
  “Fanny’s few surviving letters testify to her interests in poetry, education, art history, literature, current affairs, social politics, and the wellbeing of her extended family. … She counted Aaron Burr (former USA vice president), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), Humphry Davy (scientist), [and] Charles and Mary Lamb (writers)” as acquaintances. – LitHub
  
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• Two And A Half Centuries On, Someone May Have Figured Out The Mystery Of The Declaration Of Independence

  07-06-2026 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Pretty cool: “Scholars have identified about 17 distinct broadside editions created in print shops across the colonies in July and August 1776, usually in runs of hundreds of copies.” One was anonymous – but perhaps not anymore. – The New York Times
  
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• The UK’s Heirloom Ceramics Sector Is In Deep Trouble

  07-06-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  “The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people, half of them in the West Midlands, and is regarded as an indispensable to the economy” – but repeated blows are breaking even the ceramics for the defense sector. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• AJ Chronicles: A New Policy to Eliminate Arguments for the Arts

  07-06-2026 16:51 via artsjournal.com
  This notion that the ultimate measure of American educational value is economic is an impoverishing one. We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. Social value measured on an earnings scale doesn’t just get deprioritized, it doesn’t exist.
  
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