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• Your Guide to Real Money Online Casinos in Australia

  31-07-2026 23:29 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  The Australian online gambling landscape has evolved rapidly, and more players than ever are looking for a trusted platform to play for real money. Whether you are in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane, the convenience of accessing your favourite pokies, blackjack, or live dealer games from home is undeniable. But with dozens of sites claiming to be the best, knowing where to deposit your hard-earned dollars is essential.
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• 6 Books We’re Looking Forward to in August

  31-07-2026 23:16 via artnews.com
  Summer reading enters its final stretch as 6 exciting new books hit the shelves in August (if you don’t count my own!). This month’s offerings span the centuries, moving from Renaissance theories of vision to contemporary debates over morality, inequality, and the future of art.A new biography explores the secret lives of John Singer Sargent, the queer Gilded Age society painter whose dazzling surfaces concealed a more guarded inner world. A manifesto by the artist collective Metahav
  
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• Citing Censorship, Artist Emma Shapiro Launches Legal Challenge to Restore Instagram Account

  31-07-2026 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom.The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims to challenge gender-based discrimination by highlighting the ways society’s sexualization of female-presenting bodies is reflected in various laws. Image after image of female nipples filled
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Egyptian Grave Markers Carved with Human Figures

  31-07-2026 22:08 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 20 funerary stelae depicting human figures at Tell El-Deir, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta. The news was reported by multiple news outlets, including Ahram and La Brújula Verde, following an announcement by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).The carved limestone grave markers are not only notable for their workmanship but for the religious symbols and deities engraved on their lateral sides and backs, including th
  
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• In New York Court, Dealer Yves Bouvier Seeks Sotheby’s Records as Part of New French Criminal Case

  31-07-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  Yves Bouvier is back in federal court in New York.The Swiss art dealer has asked a judge in the Southern District of New York to compel Sotheby’s to turn over records relating to the private sale of a Pablo Picasso painting, saying the documents are needed for a criminal case he recently launched in France against French art dealer Antoine Peretti.According to court filings, Bouvier purchased Picasso’s Intimité (Femmes et Enfants) from Peretti in April 2024 for $7.25
  
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• Behold The World’s Oldest Competitive Pole Dancer. She’s 82.

  31-07-2026 20:50 via nypost.com
  
  Idanna Abignente, who lives in a suburb of Turin, started pole dancing at around age 70 to keep fit. She developed a passion for it and eventually joined the competition circuit, where she frequently wins her age division for lack of other competitors. – New York Post
  
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• See the Trailer for the New Thomas Crown Affair Movie, Starring Michael B. Jordan as a Notorious Art Thief

  31-07-2026 20:48 via artnews.com
  
  Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award–winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film. About 12 seconds into the trailer, Jordan’s Thomas Crown faces some built-in bookshelves that slide apart to reveal a hidden room where he stores his stolen paintings. On a metal rack, r
  
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• Do Artists Still Need Galleries?

  31-07-2026 20:22 via ocula.com
   It is often assumed that a gallery is a prerequisite to finding commercial success and a place in the history of art. But a growing number of artists are rejecting that notion and going—to use the kind of commercial lingo that the art market likes to avoid—Direct to Consumer (DTC).  – Ocula
  
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• Gunther Von Hagens, Creator Of Controversial Exhibition “Body Worlds,” Is Dead At 81

  31-07-2026 20:03 via apnews.com
  
  An anatomist by training, he developed a technique called “plastination” which prevents the decay of corpses and leaves them flexible. He used that technique on dozens of bodies, many with skin removed to display musculature, and set them in various poses for his traveling exhibitions — which attracted both excited crowds and horrified criticism. – AP
  
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• Business School Professors Launch AI Tool to Help Identify Unclaimed Nazi-Era Looted Artworks

  31-07-2026 19:48 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Santa Clara University in California launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research. The tool is intended to enable anyone to ask questions about Nazi-looted artworks and receive answers based on information culled from a searchable, illustrated online database with over 40,000 entries. The news was recently reported by the Jewish News of Northern California.The group is made up of three business school colleagues: management professor Michael S
  
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• Why Hollywood Loves The Cello

  31-07-2026 19:44 via theguardian.com
  Why, out of every option in the orchestra, did the cello become the instrument of introspection? “It’s the cliche, but it’s probably because the cello comes closest to the human vocal range.” – The Guardian
  
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• Streamers Are Pressuring France To Drop Their Requirements To Invest In France

  31-07-2026 19:31 via variety.com
  
  Since January 2022, subscription streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ have been required to invest 20% of their annual French revenue in local film and television production under France’s implementation of the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive. – Variety
  
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• Is There Any Upside To The Paramount/Warner Merger?

  31-07-2026 19:15 via cjr.org
  
  If the deal does go through, it will saddle the new corporate entity that emerges with nearly eighty billion dollars in debt. –
  
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• Boy George Withdraws From West End’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” After Backlash Against His Latest Song

  31-07-2026 19:02 via playbill.com
  
  Next month, the 1980s New Wave pop icon, now 65, was going to play King Herod in the London revival of the musical. But his June release, “We Will Dance Again,” takes strong and controversial positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict; after weeks of heavy criticism, he cancelled his run in the role. – Playbill
  
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• The Modern Stadium And Monumentality

  31-07-2026 18:44 via dezeen.com
  Nearly all monumental architecture is expected to convey some set of values greater than its stated purpose. This is especially true of stadiums with their straightforward program – a pitch for a game to be played and seating from which to observe it. – Dezeen
  
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• Should We Stop Listening To Technocrats?

  31-07-2026 18:31 via aeon.co
  International civil servants do not in fact escape power. They rearticulate it with the help of technical experts. By framing this rearticulation as real impartiality, however, they conflate technocracy and expertise. This conflation lies at the heart of the legitimacy crisis that international organisations face today. – Aeon
  
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• Ex-National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Defends Smithsonian Colleague After Heated Congressional Hearing

  31-07-2026 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  “I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York Times.“I could see that it was going to become a real witch hunt,” she continued. “I didn’t wish that on my colleagues and I didn’t wish that on the Smithsonian.
  
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• Translator Emily Wilson On Reaction To Her Scathing Review Of “The Odessey”

  31-07-2026 18:15 via ew.com
  “You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong!” she added. “But it’s not ‘personal’ to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than ‘Hurray!’ or ‘Hiss!’” – Entertainment Weekly
  
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• At Tanglewood This Summer, Things Are Feeling Pretty Tense

  31-07-2026 18:04 via nytimes.com
  “During a recent week on the grounds, it felt anxious, angry, combustible. It was impossible to escape the warfare that the Boston Symphony is waging on itself: a crisis that is drowning out the music. Somebody needs to quiet things down before even more serious damage is done.” – The New York Times
  
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• Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600,000 in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets

  31-07-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one t
  
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• Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600 K. in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets

  31-07-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one t
  
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• Universal Music Posts A Blockbuster Revenue Quarter

  31-07-2026 17:44 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Recorded revenues grew about 13 percent to 2.516 billion euros ($2.89 billion), while publishing revenue grew about 8 percent to 616 million euros (about $710 million). – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Filmmakers Sue Netflix For $105 Million Over Stolen Hard Drive With Unreleased Nicolas Cage Film

  31-07-2026 17:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in California federal court, writer-producer Simon Afram and his company, Op-Fortitude, accuse Netflix of compromising the sale of the World War II spy thriller” — titled Fortitude — by losing a copy of the movie that was shared for screening. He seeks at least $105 million.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Historic Japanese Castle Damaged By Earthquake For Second Time In Ten Years

  31-07-2026 16:33 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Kumamoto Castle, built in 1607 on the island of Kyushu, is considered one of Japan’s three great surviving castles. A portion of its moat wall collapsed following Tuesday’s 7.1 earthquake. In 2016, a different portion of the wall came down in another temblor. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Kennedy Center Stops Public Tours Three Days After NY Times Feature On Tour Guide

  31-07-2026 16:05 via nytimes.com
  On Monday, The New York Times posted an article featuring a longtime volunteer tour guide who said of the currently-dormant institution, “Now it’s a black hole.” On Thursday, a Kennedy Center official sent a memo to all volunteer tour guides telling them not to come there “until further notice.” – The New York Times
  
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• Kim Sajet Talks to the Times About the Smithsonian, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2026

  31-07-2026 16:03 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!A new AI chatbot helps speed up provenance research for Nazi-looted artworks.The new Africa Cultural Initiative wants to build a collaborative arts infrastructure across the continent. San Francisco’s Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week Returns September 30.The Headlines  END OF THE LINE. Gail Asper, whose family helped fund Winnipe
  
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• Trump Administration Organizes “Patriotic” Art Exhibition Near White House. Yes, There’s Cronyism Involved.

  31-07-2026 15:32 via nytimes.com
  What with all the complaints Trump has about the Smithsonian’s “bias,” the State Department has decided to “make visual arts great” (their phrase) with the exhibition “Passport to Patriotism: 250 Years of Diplomacy.” No historians or professional curators are involved, and the show includes pieces by the planners’ friends. – The New York Times
  
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• What Curtis Institute Has Planned For Its Latest Building, Which It Bought After UArts Collapse

  31-07-2026 15:04 via msn.com
  The old Art Alliance building near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square had belonged to the University of the Arts, which abruptly closed in 2024. Curtis bought it in January 2025; it was badly damaged in a fire that July 4. Repairs are underway, and the conservatory will house its vocal/opera department there. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Florida College Professor Fired For Assigning Ottessa Moshfegh Short Story

  31-07-2026 14:36 via tallahassee.com
  
  Vinita Prabhakar, until recently an adjunct professor at South Florida State College, had used Moshfegh’s “Bettering Myself” in an introductory reading-and-writing course there without incident since 2023. But someone complained about the story’s content to the college president, who fired Prabhakar, who’s now suing. – Tallahassee Democrat
  
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• Trump Administration’s Overhaul Of Historical Preservation Rules Alarms Preservationists

  31-07-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  “A draft of the rule changes that circulated in recent weeks prompted an outcry from preservationists, architects, archaeologists and organizations representing Native American tribes. … ‘It’s both a scalpel and a bludgeon,’ said Greg Werkheiser, a lawyer who specializes in preservation cases.” – The New York Times
  
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• We Asked Claudia Rankine to Name One Artwork She Considers a “Revelation”

  31-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In March of this year, I flew to Los Angeles to see the literally groundbreaking exhibition “Monuments,” curated by Hamza Walker, Bennett Simpson, and Kara Walker and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Brick. Because that show engaged many dialogues around the presence and removal of monuments, it had a generative impact on how I consider the role of monuments in our national lives. Once I returned to New York, I wondered what form alternative public sculpt
  
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• This Rare Winslow Homer Show Lets You Delight in the Puzzle of His Process

  31-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  A taut line of rope stretches across the upper register of Winslow Homer’s Saved (1889), an etching made during a period of experiments in printmaking he undertook in the second half of the 1880s. On view in an exhibition at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art (PMA) dedicated to this brief but significant period, Saved is a reworking of his hit oil painting The Life Line (1884) that pares down the earlier canvas to enhance the drama of a rescue at sea. The painting included a billowing sa
  
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• The New Africa Cultural Initiative Hopes to Build a Collaborative Arts Infrastructure in Africa—and for Africa

  31-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  For nearly a decade, Manju Journal has been establishing a vital digital archive and storytelling platform celebrating contemporary African art, fashion, photography, and the creatives shaping its future. Founded in Ghana in 2017, it has since grown into a global community. However, for founder Richmond Orlando Mensah, documenting the continent’s thriving creative scene wasn’t the only end goal. It has now officially transitioned into institutional work with the launch of its nonprof
  
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• Remembering Bill McGlaughlin: 1943-2026

  31-07-2026 04:16 via artsjournal.com
  
  I once described Bill McGlaughlin, who has died at the age of 82, as manifesting “a singular combination of gravitas,
  
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• New York Theatre Ballet seeks Executive Director

  31-07-2026 03:19 via artsjournal.com
  New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB) seeks an Executive Director to lead the organization’s strategic direction, drive fundraising and revenue growth, and oversee both operational and artistic functions. The ED partners closely with the Artistic Director, the School Director, and Board of Directors to ensure NYTB’s artistic and educational excellence, financial sustainability, and community impact. Key Responsibilities • Lead organizational strategy and deliver a Board approved multi
  
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