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• Marseille Museum President Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Putting Institution ‘At Risk’: Report

  21-08-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  A scathing report by French government investigators accuses Pierre-Olivier Costa, the recently suspended president of Marseille’s Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), of sexual and moral harassment, breaching rules for granting public contracts, and putting the southern French city’s only national museum “at risk,” according to a Le Monde investigation. A front-page scoop published Friday evening in France also rev
  
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• An Obscure Canadian Agency Helped Convict Norval Morrisseau Forgers—and Is Finally Getting Its Due

  21-08-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud case in the history of Canada took at least 1,000 fakes off the market, though there may be thousands more still in private hands. The case made headlines internationally, but the contribu
  
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• Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Ranch in Colorado

  21-08-2026 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney’s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spi
  
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• Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Colorado Ranch

  21-08-2026 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney’s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spi
  
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• Emergency Appeal Asks Federal Court to Keep Trump’s Name Off Kennedy Center

  21-08-2026 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  A federal court received an emergency appeal Thursday seeking to block the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from restoring President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Kennedy Center board, led by Trump and largely composed of his allies, voted earlier this month to engrave the president’s name beneath the signage on the venue’s facade, which would read: “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald
  
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• The Smithsonian May Put its Latino Museum in a Building it Already Owns, Riling Conservatives

  21-08-2026 21:27 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino may make its home in the Arts and Industries Building, which the organization already owns, rather than in a purpose-built one, reports the New York Times, which says the decision may be made at a board meeting to take place August 31. The Smithsonian confirmed the meeting to the newspaper but declined to comment further. The 1881 building is on the National Mall, sited between the Smithsonian’s Castle and the
  
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• Rediscovered Portrait by Baroque Master Bernini Will Be On View in Vienna this December

  21-08-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  When the exhibition “Bernini—Painter and Sculptor” opens at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum on Dec. 2, a painting newly attributed to the prolific Baroque master will be the star of the show. Until recently, Portrait of an Old Man, previously credited to an unknown artist, sat in a storeroom at the museum, reports The Art Newspaper.  Gian Lorenzo Bernini is widely known as an architect and sculptor. He designed several large, ornate components of St. Peter’s
  
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• After a Much-Maligned MoMA Retrospective, Björk’s Hometown Museum Gives Her a Second Chance

  21-08-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  “When you listen to a song for the first time, it is like swallowing a whale.” So reads the wall text in an exhibition by Björk, a pop star whose relationship to music has long been unique, to say the least. She adds, in the same handwritten scrawl, “I don’t think of myself as a visual artist … Everything I do comes from a sonic point of view. This is something I have called ‘sonic symbolism,’ sound made visual, a reverse synesthesia.”All of
  
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  21-08-2026 12:54 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  21-08-2026 03:02 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Who Vouches For The Work Now?

  21-08-2026 00:03 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Google has built a tool that tells fact-checkers whether an image was machine-made, whether it’s been altered, and where else it has surfaced (Nieman Lab). Provenance as a service — infrastructure for a question that didn’t really need infrastructure five years ago.Which makes the day’s other verification story more difficult. Harvard is closing its writing center, and faculty read the timing as of a piece with the university’s enthusiasm for AI on camp
  
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