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• New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years

  19-10-2026 20:24 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they’ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery&rsquo
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem

  19-10-2026 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  What’s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list.The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression: The Hypnotist (2026) by Atlanta native Taylor Simmons. The work, he wrote, was “just incredible.”Simmons is a 2026 artist-in-residence, along with Simonett
  
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• Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

  19-10-2026 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The €
  
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• Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida city in 2002.But a New York Times report goes inside a sharp-elbowed fight over the future location of the fair, whose executives demanded that the city cut in half the rent it pays on the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the
  
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• An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map

  19-10-2026 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  A retrospective for Eva Gonzalès, who is today best known as Édouard Manet’s only formal pupil, has been long overdue. That correction was planned for 2020, when the Château-Musée de Dieppe was to organize a show as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, but it was put on hold by the pandemic until the Petit Palais took up the mantle, where “Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883): A Free-Spirited Artist’s Journey” is on view until Januar
  
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• For Now, Art Basel Miami Beach Won’t Move To Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “The sticking point, as discussed by city officials at a public meeting last Wednesday before a vote on a revised contract, was Art Basel’s demand to essentially halve the nearly $1 million annual rent the fair had previously paid to Miami Beach.” – The New York Times
  
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• Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France

  19-10-2026 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the same museum, and follows a massive, nationwide protest on Saturday against social inequality, particularly visible in public schools, which spiraled into clashes with police and riots. These continued to a lesser degree Sunday evening.The unrest has come on the eve of
  
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• What If Climate Fiction And Movies Have Been Hitting The Wrong Buttons?

  19-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Fear spreads its message more quickly – but it also paralyzes most people to inaction, exactly not what most writers of climate fiction would prefer. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass

  19-10-2026 15:45 via npr.org
  
  “Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
  
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• We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before

  19-10-2026 15:30 via latimes.com
  
  That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White

  19-10-2026 15:15 via english.elpais.com
  
  “Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
  
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• Protesters Block Louvre Following Weekend of Unrest, Art Basel Will Stay in Miami Following City Rent Discount, and More: Morning Links for October 19, 2026

  19-10-2026 15:10 via artnews.com
  
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  The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on Saturday and devolved into rioting.Amid a “cyclical downturn” for Art Basel fairs, the company will hold onto its spot in Miami through 2031, thanks to a new deal that reduces annua
  
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• Will Humans Still Know How To Clean It Up When AI Flubs Major Tasks?

  19-10-2026 15:00 via theconversation.com
  
  “As people become less involved in a task, they can become less prepared to step in when needed. Researchers have called this the out-of-the-loop performance problem.” – The Conversation
  
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• Saturday Night Live UK Ripped Into US SNL For Shane Gillis’s Blithering Misogyny

  19-10-2026 14:45 via nytimes.com
  “A representative for [Lorne] Michaels did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Fine Art Of Literary Adaptation

  19-10-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Though some books are more easily adapted than others, “the quality of the source is irrelevant.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• For Those Currently Obsessed With ‘You Can See Everything,’ Who Is The Film’s Antagonist?

  19-10-2026 14:15 via nytimes.com
  By now, anyone at all online knows it’s Billy Evans – but who is he? – The New York Times
  
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• Three Recent Films Demonstrate How We See Poetry – And Poets

  19-10-2026 14:00 via lithub.com
  
  Ouf. “Is it wistful or cruel, the movies looking at poets only to find them pitiable, even or especially when they’re howling at the moon? The last artists who can’t make money, who have a pressing and practical concern about old books and what’s in them.” – LitHub
  
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• How The Music Of ‘Traitors’ Manipulates Our Emotions

  19-10-2026 13:45 via bbc.com
  
  Composer Sam Watts: “I knew it was going to be a bit camp and high drama and all the glorious things. … So I just went with that – dark but fun.” – BBC
  
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• Let’s Talk About Why ‘John Proctor Is The Villain’ Is So Massively Popular

  19-10-2026 13:30 via kcstudio.org
  
  Basically? “It’s a two-hour whirlwind of pop music-infused teen joy, thoughtful discussion of cultural revisionism, complex young characters, and dynamic performances.” – KC Studio
  
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• John Berger Is The Antidote To The Scroll

  19-10-2026 13:15 via nytimes.com
  “It’s his essays about art and artists that matter most to me now. Reading them, you often feel you’re standing next to him in the museum or even looking through his eyes at a painting or a sculpture. You pay attention to his attention.” – The New York Times
  
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• Two Land Art Turf Swaps Reveal How Urban London And Rural Wales Are Doing, Ecologically Speaking

  19-10-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s not great news for the rural life, but urban London is looking pretty good. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Isabel Allende Entered Herself in a Contest under a Pseudonym

  19-10-2026 04:45 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Isabel Allende, 84, won Spain’s €1 million Premio Planeta by submitting a sequel to The House of the Spirits under the name Luz Ventura, with the title Los que faltan. She told those at the ceremony she had never entered a contest before because she didn’t want to come last (The Guardian).Ana Mota, a senior at South Grand Prairie High in Texas, was cast as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors until the school board swapped in Frozen, citing the 2025 anti-DEI law, Senat
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies

  19-10-2026 02:08 via artnews.com
  
  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family.The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he
  
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