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• Getty Images Heads to Bankruptcy With Koch’s Backing

  17-10-2026 23:33 via artsjournal.com
  This Week’s Highlights:Getty Images, whose photographers cover most red carpets and owns a significant portion of the world’s historical photo archives, plans to go private through Chapter 11 with up to $533 million from Charles Koch’s investment firm; its iStock stock-image business is losing demand to AI tools, while its news-photo division is forecast to grow from $369 million to $400 million by 2029 (The Hollywood Reporter).
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• The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront

  17-10-2026 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to London for its 14th edition, which has introduced a new section this year focused on African modernism, curated by art historian Nancy Dantas. Titled “West Wind” and inspired by Miriam Makeba’s 1966 anthem for unity, this presentation addresses the gap left by Sotheby’s when it closed its dedicated African modernism department in 2025. The showcase features mid-20th-century masters, like Ibrahim El-Salahi, Bertina Lop
  
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• Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana

  17-10-2026 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Listen to Ibrahim Mahama speak, and he’s likely to credit his success to his community, which includes market women, weavers, craftsmen, studio assistants, railway workers, curators, professors, and fellow artists.The Ghanaian artist is quick to recognize their contributions when he receives one of the many awards he’s picked up recently. Ranked at the top of the influential ArtReview Power 100 list in 2025, he also won an Art Basel Gold Award that year and received the 2026 Arnold B
  
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• How Cringe Took Over Culture

  17-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In art, as in life, the messy materiality of flesh fazes me not one whit.The climax of Lukas Moodysson’s A Hole in My Heart (2004), where Geko vomits into Tess’s open mouth? Wrote about it. Judy Chicago’s menstrual defiance, Ina Poppe’s mother’s milk cheese, Martin von Ostrowski’s spunk-strewn canvases, Marc Quinn’s sculpture cast with 10 pints of his own blood? Up my alley. Florentina Holzinger’s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at
  
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• Eight Galleries in India You Should Know

  17-10-2026 09:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Indian contemporary art market has been on an upswing in recent years. The growth has been catalyzed by the country’s economic boom and explosion in private wealth. This has been amplified by a surge in prices for the work of India’s modern masters, now nearly inaccessible for emerging collectors. Galleries have been in rapid expansion mode, participating in more art fairs internationally, and opening new spaces.Below is a primer looking at eight of India’s top galleries, w
  
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• One weekend, 1,400 works — how much art can a person absorb?

  17-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  A museum or gallery visit can end up as rushed viewing or sensory overload. So don’t seek ‘value’ in terms of money or time — what matters is the lingering impact
  
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• How artists have imagined the end of civilisations

  17-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  From exhibitions to reinhabited structures, artists and architects explore how ruins and fragments show the beauty of what remains
  
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• Help — four letters that require attention

  17-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The way we respond to the needs of others is more complex than we care to admit
  
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• Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Federation Over Cranach Diptych, Met Names Danh Võ for Genesis Façade Commission, and More: Morning Links for October 16, 2026

  17-10-2026 01:59 via artnews.com
  
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  The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter’s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection.The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected artist Danh Võ for its 2027 Genesis Façade Commission.The Biennale Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing it
  
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• Mao Weitao Shaved Her Head for Opera

  17-10-2026 00:41 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Ian McKellen, 87, will appear as a hologram in Simon Stephens’s play An Ark, filmed by 52 cameras, at Manchester’s Factory International from March 27 (BBC).Mary Duggan was asked to design 80 council homes on a Croydon hillside and instead fit in 157 among five brick towers and a bluebell wood. Lion Green Road has just won Britain’s Stirling Prize for architecture, after a planning application that drew 257 objections (The Guardian).
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