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• Mayan City, Hidden for More Than 1,000 Years, Is Discovered Intact in Mexico

  24-06-2026 23:22 via artnews.com
  
  A joint Slovenian-Mexican archeological team has discovered an undisturbed Mayan city in a remote area of Campeche, Mexico. Located deep within the jungles of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the city—which the researchers have named “Minanbé,” a Maya Yucatec phrase meaning “there is no road”—had been hidden by vegetation for over a thousand years.The site features a 43-foot-high pyramid temple (about the height of a four-story apartment building), and 1
  
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• After Splashy Venice Debut, Florentina Holzinger’s ‘Seaworld’ is Coming to Berlin, Brooklyn

  24-06-2026 22:38 via artnews.com
  
  Ring an alarm bell—the most striking performance of this year’s Venice Biennale is going on tour.An adapted version of Florentina Holzinger’s Seaworld Venice, created for the Austrian Pavilion, will be presented at Gropius Bau in Berlin in spring 2027, followed by a stop at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna that fall, before concluding its run in March 2028 at Amant in Brooklyn. Nora‑Swantje Almes, Curator for Live Programs and Outreach at Gropius Bau, who organized its Veni
  
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• After Splashy Venice Debut, Florentina Holzinger’s ‘Sea World’ is Coming to Berlin, Brooklyn

  24-06-2026 22:38 via artnews.com
  
  Ring an alarm bell—the buzziest performance of this year’s Venice Biennial is going on tour.An adapted version of Florentina Holzinger’s Seaworld Venice, created for the Austrian Pavilion, will be presented at Gropius Bau in Berlin in spring 2027, followed by a stop at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna that fall, before concluding its run in March 2028 at Amant in Brooklyn. Nora‑Swantje Almes, Curator for Live Programs and Outreach at Gropius Bau, who organized its Venice pr
  
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• Actress Julia Ormond Threatens Top 200 Collector Michael Ovitz With Bench Warrant

  24-06-2026 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Lawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.Ovitz was asked about his continuing association with Epstein after the disgraced financier’s conviction for sex crimes. At one point, Ovitz stopped engaging. “I’m not going to discuss anything about Jeffrey Epstein,” he said. “You can ask
  
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• In Open Letter, Hundreds of Artists Urge Mayor Mamdani for Two-Year Ban on AI in Classrooms

  24-06-2026 21:13 via artnews.com
  
  Hundreds of New York City–based artists and cultural workers have called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to implement a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence in public schools.In an open letter published yesterday by the AI Moratorium Coalition, approximately 500 visual artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to prohibit the technology, describing it as “built on theft, having stolen the work of countless creatives” and arguing that it has no
  
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• Egyptian Archaeologists Unearth Two Tombs That Could Represent Early Development of Funerary Pyramids

  24-06-2026 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists working in Upper Egypt discovered two tombs dating to the Early Dynastic period, both of them at the fabled location known as Gabal El-Teir—or, as translated from Arabic, “Mountain of the Birds.”The tombs date from 3100 to 2686 B.C.E. and “will allow researchers to trace the development of funerary architecture,” according to Archaeology Magazine, which noted that thick walls at the bottom that taper toward the top of the structures could represent an
  
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• Australian Artist Accused of Copying Work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nicholas Harding

  24-06-2026 19:37 via artnews.com
  
  An Australian artist has been accused of copying the work of two artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, in paintings she has won prizes for in Australia. Jane Allan, an artist based in Lennox Head, a seaside town located about two hours south of Brisbane, is at the center of a controversy regarding her paintings, as reported by multiple Australian news outlets.Earlier this week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Philip Bacon, an art dealer based in Brisbane, had a
  
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• Since the 1960s, Marilou Schultz Has Merged Diné Weaving and Digital Worlds

  24-06-2026 18:24 via artnews.com
  
  Weaving may be the world’s oldest way of reproducing information—and computing is poised to become its final one. Across millennia, surprising similarities persist: both media operate on binary logic (over/under, on/off), are intrinsically based on counting, and are characterized by patterns that emerge structurally, not on the surface. In fact, the first automated machine, the Jacquard machine, was a loom, and weaving was a favorite metaphor employed by Ada Lovelace while she was wo
  
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• Did You Miss the Original Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius? Now You Can Experience It in Augmented Reality in Pompeii

  24-06-2026 17:47 via artnews.com
  
  A new augmented reality app will enable devotees of the ancient city of Pompeii to explore the city as it was in 79 C.E., before the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius—as well as during the historic catastrophe, in which some 2,000 are believed to have perished, possibly in ghastly fashion, including asphyxiating amid clouds of ash or even having their bodily fluids vaporized by burning gas. Besides seeing the sky go dark on that fateful day, they’ll be able to see gladiators figh
  
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• Southbank Centre Director Will Leave His Post, Says Departure Is Unrelated to Social Media Controversy

  24-06-2026 17:18 via artnews.com
  
  Photographer and activist Misan Harriman has said on social media that he will leave his post as director of London’s Southbank Centre after his current contract expires in the fall. The revelation comes after considerable criticism leveled at him over some social media posts, which he alludes to in the video, saying it came after his decision was already made.“It’s semi-public knowledge that my term is coming to an end anyway, my actual term at Southbank, my second term,&rdquo
  
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• Resignations at the Southbank Centre and Canadian Human Rights Museum, and More: Morning Links for June 24, 2026

  24-06-2026 15:55 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Misan Harriman, chair of London’s Southbank Centre, is resigning following accusations of sharing antisemitic posts.The Louvre and Eiffel Tower close early due to crushing heatwave.Murals from the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project in Manhattan’s Bellevue Men’s Shelter could be lost for good.The Headlines YOU CAN’T FIRE ME, I QUIT. The chair of London’s Southbank Centre, Misan Harriman, is resigning following accusations
  
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