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• Belgrade Trump Hotel Project Dropped After Serbia’s Culture Minister Is Indicted

  29-01-2026 23:06 via artnews.com
  Plans to turn one of Belgrade’s most charged architectural sites into a Trump-branded luxury hotel have collapsed after Serbia’s culture minister and several senior heritage officials were indicted, according to The Art Newspaper, bringing a controversial redevelopment proposal to an abrupt halt.The project would have transformed the Generalštab complex, a former Yugoslav military headquarters and landmark of postwar Modernism, into a high-end development anchored by
  
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• Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace, and Dozens More Galleries Join Anti-ICE National Strike

  29-01-2026 23:03 via artnews.com
  In a rare show of political solidarity for the art world, a growing number of New York galleries will close on Friday, January 30, as part of the nationwide general strike protesting expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. These actions come amid global scrutiny over the use of deadly force against protestors and allegations that federal tactics are eroding constitutional rights, including protections for free expression and due process.Industry heavyweights, such as Pace
  
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• Diagnosing King Henry VIII

  29-01-2026 20:59 via historytoday.com
  Over the course of his 38-year reign, he aged from a famously handsome monarch into an overweight, volatile despot. Various explanations, from syphilis to scurvy to psychopathy, have been proposed over the centuries, yet these diagnoses often tell us more about the preoccupations of the time than about Henry himself. – History Today
  
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• BBC Told To Avoid Color-Blind Casting

  29-01-2026 20:31 via deadline.com
  The BBC has been urged to rethink color-blind casting “tokenism” and “preachy” storylines about the UK’s colonial history in scripted series, according to a major study commissioned by the broadcaster. – Deadline
  
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• Why Is “American Psycho” Popping Up All Over? (And Should We Be Worried?)

  29-01-2026 20:05 via theguardian.com
  In the 35 years since the novel made its bloody splash, there have been a hit movie, a stage musical, and countless memes. Now a remake of the film is in the works, the musical is being revived, and Patrick Bateman is a role model for the Andrew Tate manosphere. – The Guardian
  
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• How Did The Iconic “Infinite Jest” Become A Punchline?

  29-01-2026 19:44 via newyorker.com
  The occasion is a moment to ask how a novel that mourns addiction and venerates humility and patience became a glib cultural punch line, routinely subjected to the word “performative” in its most damning sense. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Washington Post Is Imploding

  29-01-2026 19:31 via msn.com
  Under Bezos’s leadership, CEO Will Lewis has floated a bunch of proposals to make the company profitable, few of which so far resemble anything people might actually want to buy. – Intelligencer (MSN)
  
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• Minneapolis Bookshop Becomes Famous After ICE Murders

  29-01-2026 19:31 via publishersweekly.com
  Greg Ketter became a social media phenomenon over the weekend, when MS Now aired a video of him pacing half a block away from where Alex J. Pretti had been murdered by agents an hour earlier, cursing the 50-100 armed ICE agents keeping the crowd back. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Music Companies Sue Anthropic For $3 Billion Over Copyright

  29-01-2026 19:15 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  The companies, including Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO Music, are seeking more than $3 billion in potential statutory damages over alleged infringement of more than 20,000 songs. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• Los Angeles Ballet At 20

  29-01-2026 19:01 via pointemagazine.com
  For such a large city, L.A. has been a difficult environment for classical dance; before this company, no ballet troupe there had lasted for more than nine years. Artistic director Melissa Barak and executive director Julia Rivera talk with a reporter about how Los Angeles Ballet has lasted and where it’s headed. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Why Liberal Arts Education May Be More Important In The Age Of AI

  29-01-2026 18:44 via usnews.com
   A machine will never possess the level of interpersonal skills needed to manage a team, to engage in civil discourse with individuals from different cultures and backgrounds, or to resolve messy human conflicts that resist logic. Judgment will never be AI’s strength. – US News
  
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• We Used To Think That Our Brains Were Our Brains. Now We Know Different

  29-01-2026 18:31 via theconversation.com
  Neuroplasticity therefore reframes the brain as neither rigid nor infinitely malleable, but as a living system shaped by experience, effort and time. – The Conversation
  
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• Public Television is $1.3 Million Richer, Thanks to a Wildly Successful Bob Ross Auction 

  29-01-2026 18:19 via artnews.com
  Three paintings by beloved artist and television personality Bob Ross sold for as much as thirteen times their high estimates at a Bonhams Skinner auction on Tuesday, netting $1.3 million for American Public Television (APT). The paintings come from a group of thirty that Bob Ross, Inc. consigned to Bonhams in October, with a total estimated value of up to $1.4 million, to benefit APT and PBS stations nationwide.The Ross works came to the block as part of the sale “Americana: Crafting a Na
  
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• Public Television is $1.3 M. Richer, Thanks to a Wildly Successful Bob Ross Auction 

  29-01-2026 18:19 via artnews.com
  Three paintings by beloved artist and television personality Bob Ross sold for as much as thirteen times their high estimates at a Bonhams Skinner auction on Tuesday, netting $1.3 million for American Public Television (APT). The paintings come from a group of thirty that Bob Ross, Inc. consigned to Bonhams in October, with a total estimated value of up to $1.4 million, to benefit APT and PBS stations nationwide.The Ross works came to the block as part of the sale “Americana: Crafting a Na
  
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• To Wall-Text Or Not-To-Wall-Text

  29-01-2026 18:15 via theartnewspaper.com
  “It feels more important than ever to invite multiple voices into the museum space. There isn’t one perfect solution for all visitors, but we strive to offer a variety of access points—whether it’s traditional labels, guided gallery conversations or prompts to spark reflection and dialogue.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How Sotheby’s is Deepening its Transformation from Auction House to Financial Institution

  29-01-2026 18:15 via artnews.com
  This week Sotheby’s Financial Services (SFS) announced that it had priced a $900 million securitization backed by loans secured against artworks and, for the first time, collectible cars, according to the company. The deal is scheduled to close on February 3 and is expected to receive top-tier credit ratings from Morningstar DBRS, Sotheby’s said.In simple terms, the transaction bundles hundreds of loans made to collectors, using artworks and luxury vehicles as collater
  
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• Newark Museum of Art Names Lisa Funderburke as Next Director

  29-01-2026 18:13 via artnews.com
  The Newark Museum of Art (NMOA) in New Jersey has named Lisa Funderburke as its next director and CEO, beginning February 1. She succeeds Linda C. Harrison, who departed seven months ago after six years in the role.Funderburke comes to NMOA, which has a collection of 300,000 objects with strong holdings in Tibetan art and an annual operating budget just shy of $19 million in 2023, from a much smaller organization, the Artist Communities Alliance. That nonprofit, based in Providence, Rhode Island
  
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• Samurai review: Japan’s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory

  29-01-2026 18:05
  British Museum, LondonExtraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epochJapan’s pre-modern warrior elite can’t still be alive inside the suits of armour that hold you awed and scared in this scintillating journey through their world of gore, power and artistic beauty. But they surely seem to be: samurai armour is so vital, so electric, with its grimacing, moustached, bla
  
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• Another Issue Musicians Don’t Talk About: Eating Disorders

  29-01-2026 18:04 via classical-music.uk
  A recent survey found that about a third of responding musicians were dealing or had dealt with an eating disorder. While there’s not yet any research as to why classical musicians develop eating disorders, several known risk factors are very common in the profession. – Classical Music (UK)
  
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• New Brain Research Reveals Insight On What Sparks Creativity

  29-01-2026 17:44 via psychologytoday.com
  The old metaphor of creativity being sparked makes it sound like there’s a creativity center in the brain that’s just waiting to kick things off. But brain scans of jazz improvisers point to a much more diffuse picture of creativity’s location. – Psychology Today
  
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• Art Institute of Chicago Director Frankly Addresses Airplane Incident: A ‘Very Low Moment’

  29-01-2026 17:33 via artnews.com
  For the first time since his return to his job last May following a voluntary leave, James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, spoke frankly about a bizarre incident on an airplane that gained attention far beyond the art world.During that incident, last April, Rondeau was on a plane from Chicago to Munich when he began taking his clothes off, according to the CBS News report. That report said that Rondeau had “drank alcohol and took prescription medication,” and t
  
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• Spotify Paid Our Record $11 Billion To Musicians In 2025

  29-01-2026 17:27 via latimes.com
  The milestone year reflected the “largest annual payment to music from any retailer in history,” the company announced on Wednesday in a post. In 2025, Spotify’s payout amount grew by over 10%, making the Sweden-based streamer one of the industry’s main revenue drivers. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Smithsonian Struggles For Independence As 250th Birthday Celebration Starts

  29-01-2026 17:15 via thehill.com
  The battle is approaching a tipping point after the Smithsonian acquiesced to an administration demand to hand over documents regarding the types of exhibits it will display for America’s 250th anniversary this summer. – The Hill
  
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• With Adelaide Writers’ Week Cancelled, A Grassroots Festival Is Popping Up Instead

  29-01-2026 17:03 via artsjournal.com
  “Constellations – also jokingly dubbed ‘Not Writers’ Week’ – is being put on by “a loose coalition” of writers and publishers and the support of not-for-profit Writers SA, with dozens of free events to be staged from 28 February to 5 March.” – The Guardian
  
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• Silicon Valley’s Biggest Theater Company Is Planning A New Venue

  29-01-2026 16:36 via msn.com
  “TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is partnering with the city of Palo Alto on a new venue at a familiar location. The municipality and the Tony-winning theater company announced plans to redevelop (its) existing theater … and build a new one next to it, forming a performing arts complex of 40,000 square feet.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• LVMH Shares Tank by 8% as Luxury Sector Struggles to Recover

  29-01-2026 16:22 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of a new series on the convergence of art and luxury. See all of our reporting on the topic here.LVMH’s uneasy quarter has sent another tremor through the luxury world, reinforcing how fragile any talk of recovery remains for an industry still grappling with geopolitical strain, cautious consumers, and compressed margins.Shares in the French conglomerate fell roughly 7 percent on Wednesday after the release of its fourth-quarter result
  
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• Britain Considers Plan To End Free-To-Air TV

  29-01-2026 16:02 via theguardian.com
  “For almost a quarter-century Freeview has enabled viewers to access (digital terrestrial) television from the nation’s biggest broadcasters … for no charge. Despite it still being the UK’s largest TV platform, … those same broadcasters are now calling for the service to be switched off in as little as eight years’ time.” – The Guardian
  
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• Robert Crumb review – sexual deviancy elevated to an art form

  29-01-2026 16:00
  David Zwirner, London
  Though they were created for comic books, the artist’s horny and hilarious drawings of his own neuroses, and of glamazons in thigh-high boots, are unnervingly powerful on gallery wallsIt is unnerving to walk into a gallery and see all your deepest fears and anxieties splayed out across the wall, but that is the power of Robert Crumb. For more than half a century, the wiry, weird, difficult and awkwardly horny artist (now in his 80s) has been churning out underground c
  
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• James Rondeau Is Ready To Beef Up The Art Institute Of Chicago (And Let’s Just Forget About That Airplane Incident, Okay?)

  29-01-2026 15:35 via wbez.org
  As some other American museums struggle, the Institute is doing very well under Rondeau’s leadership (notwithstanding the medication-and-alcohol-fueled disrobing during a commercial flight last April). He’s now pushing for an expansion, saying the museum needs more display space. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Wynton Marsalis To Retire As Chief Of Jazz At Lincoln Center

  29-01-2026 15:01 via nytimes.com
  “After nearly 40 years as the charismatic founder and recognizable face of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis will step down as managing and artistic director next year, the organization announced on Thursday, ending a transformative tenure that raised the profile of jazz nationwide.” – The New York Times
  
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• Victoria Helena on Why Artists Need to Take Control of Their Money

  29-01-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  Victoria Helena has built a career most artists could never imagine for themselves. Before founding Artist Money Matters, a new artist-first financial consultancy launching this month, she spent two decades working in finance and studio administration while maintaining her own sculptural practice. The result is a rare fluency in both balance sheets and the psychic reality of making art. We spoke with Helena about why artists avoid money conversations, what they most often get wrong in contracts,
  
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• ‘I was so, so stupid’: how Animalia and The Eleventh Hour made Graeme Base an unlikely bestseller

  29-01-2026 15:00
  Base had no idea what he was doing when he published his wonderfully weird and fiendishly difficult picture books. They became global hits anywayVote for the best Australian children’s picture bookIt is so often the case that the best children’s books are the ones adults think children won’t like – too difficult, too weird, too wordy. Graeme Base seems to specialise in these. Like his alphabet book Animalia, which has sold five million copies around the world, packed with
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Names Robert Wiesenberger Senior Curator of Contemporary Art

  29-01-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  Robert Wiesenberger will become the Brooklyn Museum’s new senior curator of contemporary art, filling a post that has been vacant since in 2023.“I’m elated,” Wiesenberger said in an email to ARTnews. “I love this museum—I used to go there weekly to sketch in the galleries, in rotation with visits to the botanic garden and the public library next door. To say that Brooklyn is full of incredible artists is an understatement. I’m eager to get to know them b
  
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• Kanal-Centre Pompidou to Open in November, Trump Hotel Plans Nixed After Serbia’s Culture Minister Indicted: Morning Links for January 29, 2026

  29-01-2026 14:59 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BRUSSELS’ KANAL SPROUTS. The long-anticipated Kanal–Centre Pompidou, Brussels’s new hub for modern and contemporary art, will open on November 28 with an ambitious launch program of 10 exhibitions, positioning it alongside Europe’s leading art institutions, The Star wrote. Housed in a vast former Citroën garage buil
  
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  29-01-2026 12:33 via zouchmagazine.com
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