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• Ai Weiwei Exhibits 500 Cast-Iron Combat Helmets at Australia Museum

  25-09-2026 22:22 via artnews.com
  
  Ai Weiwei on Friday unveiled his commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney: 500 cast-iron combat helmets arranged in ten orderly lines on the city’s busiest green space, Tallawoladah Lawn.The 131-foot-long installation, titled Mushrooms, recalls various 20th-century combat helmets, complete with inner padding. The installation is arranged on an elevated platform split by a pedestrian walkway, making the work difficult for visitors to the famous harbor to miss. Accor
  
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• The Best Booths at Independent 20th Century

  25-09-2026 22:19 via artnews.com
  
  It’s a big year for the Independent, the art world’s favorite contemporary art fair, and its more art-historically minded sister, Independent 20th Century. On the heels of Independent’s move earlier this year from Spring Studios in Tribeca to the much larger Pier 36 on the Lower East Side, its 20th Century edition, which opens to the public today, has also relocated, shifting from its Lower Manhattan location to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s brutalist building—formerly home
  
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• Comprehending ESA Letter Therapists: A Comprehensive Overview

  25-09-2026 21:27 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  In a world where mental wellness is ending up being increasingly prioritized, Emotional Support Pets (ESAs) play a crucial duty in supplying comfort and relief to people experiencing mental and psychological problems. Obtaining an ESA letter is a basic action in this procedure, and the pivotal figure involved in this is the ESA letter specialist.
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• Catching Up With Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick, Now That He’s Out Of Prison

  25-09-2026 20:50 via news.artnet.com
  “I’ve done my time, and all that I ask is that people give me the benefit of the doubt. I may not be given a second chance — but at least recognize that I’ve suffered a lot from what happened.” – Artnet
  
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• Survey: How Libraries Are Using AI

  25-09-2026 20:31 via publishersweekly.com
  Respondents were most likely to use AI for enhancing staff productivity (57.7%), supporting student learning (55.8%), and improving content discovery (53.3%). They were less likely to use AI tools for digital preservation (21.3%) or collection management (27.5%). – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Atlanta Ballet Cuts Way Back On Its Orchestra, And Musicians Picket

  25-09-2026 20:03 via artsatl.org
  
  Members of the pit orchestra protested outside the theater last weekend at performances of the company’s season-opening program, which was danced to recorded music. Atlanta Ballet management says it can afford a live orchestra this season only for its stagings of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. – ArtsATL
  
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• At 77, Artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya is the First Woman to Receive Top Philippine Honor

  25-09-2026 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  At 77 years of age, Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya received the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts. This marks the first time a woman has ever received the honor.The Order of National Artists, established in 1972, is the country’s highest national recognition for Filipinos who have made distinct and significant contributions to art in the Philippines. The distinction was conferred on September 1 on the recommendation of the Cultural Center of the Philippines
  
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• A Convicted Prolific Publishing Scammer Seems To Be Back In Business

  25-09-2026 19:44 via nytimes.com
  Over more than five years, Bernardini created some 160 fraudulent internet domains, prosecutors argued, and impersonated hundreds of publishing professionals to obtain more than a thousand unpublished manuscripts. – The New York Times
  
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• Ancient Wall Found in Paris May Solve Mystery of City’s Origins

  25-09-2026 19:41 via artnews.com
  
  The discovery of an ancient wall beneath a Paris hospital may have answered a question archaeologists have been arguing about for decades: Where, exactly, did Paris begin?The 72-foot stone-and-wood wall turned up this summer during construction at the Hôtel Dieu hospital on the Île de la Cité, the island in the Seine that sits at the center of modern Paris, according to the New York Times. Archaeologists also found a Gallic spearhead nearby. Carbon dating puts the wall somewhe
  
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• Melania Trump, Peng Liyuan Tour Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art

  25-09-2026 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  Any good host knows that when visitors are in town, a visit to the museum is top of the list. And so, on Thursday, the First Lady of the US took China’s First Lady to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C.Melania Trump toured around the museum for 45 minutes with Peng Liyuan, visiting rooms such as the Peacock Room, where Chinese porcelain takes center stage, as well as other rooms that feature Chinese artworks and Asian design. “What better place to
  
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• Steven Shearer Wins Canada’s $71,000 Audain Prize

  25-09-2026 19:35 via artnews.com
  
  Steven Shearer, a Vancouver-based artist best known for paintings that lace historically inclined portraiture with haunting contemporary sensibilities, was awarded Canada’s prestigious Audain Prize, which comes with $100,000 (around $71,000 in US currency).The annual prize, dedicated to British Columbia–based artists and last year awarded to Brian Jungen, is reserved for “a senior artist in recognition of their outstanding contributions to Canadian art.” It is given out b
  
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• How Good Are Today’s Art Market Darlings, Really? Six New York Gallery Shows Put Them to the Test

  25-09-2026 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  It may seem obvious, but it bears repeating: When it comes to what’s shown in galleries, market value and artistic merit do not always correspond. Just because an artwork is worth a lot of money doesn’t mean it’s good, and just because an artwork is good doesn’t mean it’s worth a lot of money.Such are the cruelties of the market. Not that anyone who cares about art ever forgets them, of course, but the paradox has become increasingly hard to ignore over the past hal
  
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• Steve Reich At 90: Most Music Isn’t Very Good

  25-09-2026 19:31 via theguardian.com
  Born in New York in 1936, Reich has spent the last six decades producing music that has changed the soundtrack of modern life in Europe and North America, and inspired superlatives from a wide array of music critics. The New Yorker has called him “the most original musical thinker of our time”. – The Guardian
  
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• Political Ad Money Has Flooded Into Podcasts. Has The Medium Overtaken TV?

  25-09-2026 19:15 via msn.com
  Ad spending on political podcasts jumped 42% in the first half of 2026 after rising 36% during the same period last year, according to Magellan AI estimates provided to TheWrap. Taken together, spending increased approximately 93% over two years. – The Wrap (MSN)
  
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• A New Streaming Platform Where Indie Filmmakers Keep Their IP (And Money)

  25-09-2026 19:04 via variety.com
  
  “The Drive-In, a TVOD service that will operate within independent film and TV discovery app RecDek, … will stream directly from the filmmaker’s library within the platform, which means that ‘nothing is handed over, re-uploaded or locked away.’ Producers will also set their own prices and keep receipts from first sale.” – Variety
  
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• Heirs of a Jewish Collector Contest Sotheby’s Sale of a Pissarro Painting Possibly Looted by Nazis

  25-09-2026 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  Several heirs to Jewish banker Salomon Flavian have taken Sotheby’s to court in Paris over the auctioneer’s sale of a painting by Camille Pissarro. They maintain that the painting was looted by the Nazis and say they were left out of an agreement struck with two of their family members, reports the Art Newspaper (TAN). The case concerns the French Impressionist’s canvas Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne, Dieppe, après-midi ensoleillée (Fishing dock and Duque
  
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• Wikipedia Is 25 Years Old

  25-09-2026 18:44 via historytoday.com
  In 25 years Wikipedia has transformed from a new and provocative innovation to a stalwart of the internet age. That journey reflects persistent anxieties about credibility, expertise, and user-generated content that have continually haunted our relationship with the online.  – History Today
  
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• The Crazy Story Breaking Readership Records At The Boston Globe

  25-09-2026 18:31 via mediaite.com
  “Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was ‘by far our best performing story of the year,’ and appears to be ‘on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.’” – Mediaite
  
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• The Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Ghostly Afterimages to ‘Gentle Destruction’

  25-09-2026 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  The 32nd edition of the Armory Show opened to VIPs Thursday at the Javits Center with a seemingly slower pace than in years past. That might have something to do with its earlier start time (10 a.m., instead of the typical 11 a.m.) and a change from the week after Labor Day to the end of September. For much of the morning, the fair was relatively uncrowded, though groups of people could be seen congregating on the benches facing the Platform section. When I walked by the smallest of the fair&rsq
  
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• Correcting The Record On Lee Krasner

  25-09-2026 18:15 via nytimes.com
  Krasner and Pollock were, in mid-20th-century New York, at the heart of the artistic movement that would become Abstract Expressionism. At that time, the only label more detrimental to a talented artist’s career than “woman” was the handle “wife.” – The New York Times
  
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• America’s Largest Young-Adult Book Festival Is Adding Adult Programming

  25-09-2026 18:02 via publishersweekly.com
  YALLFest, held each fall in Charleston, is adding ROMFest, a parallel programming track for actual grownups, focusing on romance novels. Why are they doing this? Because it turns out that the majority of YALLFest attendees are full-fledged adults. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Habermas’ Ideas On Public Debate

  25-09-2026 17:44 via aeon.co
  He explained the three types of discourse that characterise deliberation – moral, ethical, and pragmatic – and was clear that when it comes to the moral, there are no experts: only individuals working out, together, what’s right in a given context. – Aeon
  
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• Hearing From The New LA Phil And SF Symphony Music Directors

  25-09-2026 17:31 via npr.org
  
  Conversations with the newly minted music directors quickly reveal two distinct, dynamic personalities ready to embark on their next musical journeys. – NPR
  
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• A Bookseller Confronts The AI Company Trying To Buy His Rare Books

  25-09-2026 17:31 via motherjones.com
  
  Brandon DiSabatino quickly became concerned that Blue Angel might be trying to buy his books for a similar ulterior—and to him, sinister—purpose. In so doing, he joined the ever-expanding crowd of people who the AI rush has forced to constantly reconsider their reality. – Mother Jones
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Opens London’s First Dedicated Shakespeare Library And Research Centre

  25-09-2026 17:01 via thebookseller.com
  “The library sits underground, beneath the Globe in London’s South Bank, and is accessible to the public, containing more than 6,000 books about Shakespeare, early modern literature and the history of dramatic performance around the world. A digital performance archive is also available to the public by appointment.” – The Bookseller (UK)
  
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• There’s About To Be A Bidding War For The Movie-Fan Website Letterboxd

  25-09-2026 16:33 via nytimes.com
  “A number of suitors, … enamored by the site’s obsessive audience and the subscription and advertising revenue streams it provides, … have submitted expressions of interest, including The New York Times Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment and (indie studio) A24. … Any deal is expected to value Letterboxd at more than $300 million.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mark Swed’s Farewell Column As L.A. Times Classical Music Critic

  25-09-2026 16:05 via yahoo.com
  “When I accidentally stumbled into music criticism with an academic penchant for music analysis, my crutches for writing about music were technical and of little use in a newspaper. I had to find a way to simply listen. It gave me new ears, and I was hooked.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• PayPal Online Casinos Online: The Ultimate Overview

  25-09-2026 15:50 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• In Colombia, Arts Workers Of All Sorts March To Protest Cuts To Culture Budget

  25-09-2026 15:36 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “Hundreds of artists, students and cultural workers gathered outside of (the) Ministry of Culture in Bogotá on Monday, protesting a proposed 30% cut to the cultural budget in 2027 and a suspension of national arts awards.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Descendants of Nazi-Persecuted Jewish Collector Demand Cancellation of Sotheby’s Pissarro Painting Sale, Artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya is First Woman to Receive Top Philippine Honor, and More: Morning Links for September 25, 2026

  25-09-2026 15:09 via artnews.com
  
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  Descendants of Jewish collector Salomon Flavian are demanding that a Paris court annul the sale of a Pissarro painting at Sotheby’s in London, which they claim was looted by Nazis.At 77, Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya just became the first woman to receive the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts.Germany’s culture minister said that plans
  
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• At Long Last, MOCA In L.A. Has Its New Director

  25-09-2026 15:04 via yahoo.com
  “After almost two decades of high leadership turnover and a more than year-long search, the Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed Jonathan Abbott as its new director and chief executive.” He comes from Boston’s PBS affiliate, GBH, where he was CEO for 15 years. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Mamdani And The Met To Give Away 70,000 Free Opera Tickets A Year

  25-09-2026 14:32 via nytimes.com
  The program, which the mayor said would continue indefinitely, will draw from the pool of unsold tickets, which will be distributed by lottery via the Metropolitan Opera app. The catch: you’re not eligible if you’ve bought Met tickets any time since fall 2018. – The New York Times
  
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• Understanding ESA Letters: Same-Day Solutions for Emotional Support Pets

  25-09-2026 07:20 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  In today’s fast-paced globe, psychological health and wellness and psychological wellness have actually come to be vital. Several individuals find solace in the friendship of animals, which can play a crucial duty in taking care of mental wellness problems. For those who count on psychological support pets (ESAs), obtaining an ESA letter is an important step in attesting their need for such assistance. This article looks into the concept of same-day ESA letters, clarifying their relevance,
  
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• Tim Walker’s portraits of LGBTQ+ royalty – ‘the gays have killed me’

  25-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The photographer’s show at the National Portrait Gallery is the result of a very personal odyssey
  
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• Alvaro Barrington talks taste

  25-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The artist on 2Pac, new boxer shorts and ‘old’ New York 
  
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  25-09-2026 05:02 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• 4,200 Library Books, Three Months, No Phones

  25-09-2026 00:32 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Students at Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville have checked out 4,200 library books in the first three months of this school year, twice last year’s total, since the school district locked phones away “bell to bell.” Noah Berry, a senior, says he had never borrowed a book there before (Aging Untold).Davi Ramos, now the Australian Ballet’s first Black principal, started ballet at 12 in Rio’s Vidigal favela. His school waived the fees, friends&
  
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