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• Art Basel Paris Opens Avant Première with ‘Good Energy,’ a Smattering of Sales, and One $100 M. Work

  20-10-2026 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  What’s the vibe in Paris, you may be asking? While the detritus of the weekend’s protests marks many of the city’s arrondissements, the art world is proceeding with business as usual, with events and openings going on as planned Monday night and Tuesday, culminating in the opening of Art Basel Paris’s Avant Première preview at 3 p.m.Around 10 minutes before opening, only a short line had formed to enter the Grand Palais, the architectural marvel that is home to Art
  
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• National Museum of Korea Director Apologizes for Misattribution of a Work on Display

  20-10-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 20, 2026, with additional information.The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has issued a formal apology after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily, which reported on the incident last week.The work at the center of the controversy was presented in the show “The Korean Table
  
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• The Washington Ballet At 50

  20-10-2026 21:01 via yahoo.com
  “Go-Go 50,” the upcoming mixed-bill program assembled to celebrate the anniversary, “exemplifies some of the company’s hallmarks: a willingness to gamble on new work, an embrace of diverse repertoire, and an ability to capitalize on the culture and cachet of its hometown.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Donors Are Trying To Save Artworks At The Kennedy Center

  20-10-2026 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  Donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. – ARTnews
  
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• What Got The Hollywood Establishment To Join The Vertical Microdrama Boom? SAG-AFTRA

  20-10-2026 20:03 via msn.com
  “SAG-AFTRA’s independent Verticals Agreement helped open the door for producers to hire union performers for the format’s notoriously small-scale productions. They’ve also brought some structure and legitimacy to the medium. … Bigger-name talent is now more open to verticals thanks to the protections the agreement brings.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• James Gibson’s Cultural and Spiritual Legacy Lives on in His Sculptures

  20-10-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  With a career spanning 60 years, James Gibson was a revered Tennessee teacher and sculptor. Today, over 240 sculptures from his estate are available to collectors for purchase.Related ArticlesJenny Holzer on Paris Protests: 'It's Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education' Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center's Artworks from 'Destruction' or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover It’s hard to miss a sculpture by James Gibson, whose numerous and often massive works can b
  
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• Jenny Holzer on Paris Protests: ‘It’s Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education’

  20-10-2026 19:56 via artnews.com
  
  In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to be clean,” the artist told T: The New York Times Style Magazine. “I worry about the kids’ safety.”The occasion for the interview was Holzer’s solo
  
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• Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center’s Artworks from ‘Destruction’ or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover

  20-10-2026 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed if he does not get his way.Now, CNN reports that donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of l
  
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• How Intuition Works

  20-10-2026 19:44 via aeon.co
  The key is to see that intuition works in much the same way as perception, in that both can directly present something to us as actual. Once we understand what gives perception this feature, we can see why intuitions might involve exercising the same basic kind of cognitive capacity. – Aeon
  
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• Five Essential Books About Pop Art

  20-10-2026 19:37 via artnews.com
  
  Pop Art arrived in the middle of the 20th century, as artists experimented with pictures and processes borrowed from mass media. Their high-low mashups, nostalgic references, and high-octane colors remain alluring, relevant, and surprisingly misunderstood. In time for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on Roy Lichtenstein, read these five books to revisit the significant cultural movement and track its continual reinvention.
  
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• What’s Up with Elizabeth Holmes’s Weird Norman Rockwell–Inspired Background on X?

  20-10-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US.Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the businesswoman that was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, may offer some reasons for the weirdness of her social media in the past few years.As stated in
  
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• Shakespeare And The Work Of Black Women

  20-10-2026 19:15 via theguardian.com
  In the Folger’s newest exhibition To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, curated by Akhimie, more than 400 years of Black women’s engagement with Shakespeare is collectively explored for the first time, illuminating the ways in which Black women have claimed and reimagined the works of Shakespeare through scholarship and craft. – The Guardian
  
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• Scholars Conclude That Shakespeare Was Primary (But Not Sole) Author Of “Edward III”

  20-10-2026 19:02 via theguardian.com
  The history play was published without a named author in 1596, and it was long believed that Shakespeare had written a few scenes. New analysis shows “beyond doubt” that he wrote “the lion’s share,” 23 segments of the script, while Christopher Marlowe wrote nine. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Has Netflix Hit A Wall?

  20-10-2026 18:44 via wsj.com
  The ousters of two of the company’s top creative executives are a sign that the streaming giant’s leaders feel the service needs to overhaul its content offerings. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Brewster Kahle: Why The Internet Needs A Memory

  20-10-2026 18:31 via theatlantic.com
  Many people assume that once something is published online, it will remain forever retrievable. The saying that “the internet never forgets” has produced a dangerously false sense of permanence. In reality, the internet forgets continuously. Websites are constantly revised, deleted, and abandoned altogether. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Harms Of Zombie Copyright

  20-10-2026 18:15 via lessig.substack.com
  
  Fifty years ago today, copyright law in America changed fundamentally. That change was an accidental disaster for both creators and the culture they create. – Lawrence Lessig
  
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• New York’s Canada Gallery Faced Threat of Dissolution After Backer’s Lawsuits, Court Documents Show

  20-10-2026 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  Canada, an esteemed New York gallery, faced the threat of closure last year after a backer filed two lawsuits against the space’s founders.A New York court ruled that the gallery could remain open, and neither lawsuit appears to be active, with the most recent filings for both posted at the start of this year. However, in the year and a half since the lawsuits were filed, three of Canada’s partners—including one of the gallery’s founders—left the operation. Five art
  
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• What’s Behind The Current Wave Of Theater, Film, Literature, And Other Art About AIDS

  20-10-2026 18:04 via nytimes.com
  Much of the new work being done has a sense of mission — a feeling that, 45 years after the epidemic first broke out, something many gay people today are too young to remember — a struggle that changed our world cannot be permitted to recede into mere abstraction. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Experts Call for Indigenous Artifacts in Canadian Tycoon’s Collection to Be Repatriated

  20-10-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  A Canadian seafood tycoon’s financial troubles have turned into a debate over who gets to decide what happens to his art collection, which includes dozens of Indigenous artifacts that some experts say should be returned to their communities of origin.John Risley, the billionaire businessman who cofounded Clearwater Seafoods, is caught up in a dispute over hundreds of artworks and antiques following the collapse of his investment company, CFFI Ventures, which entered creditor protection in
  
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• Did Drought Really Cause The Collapse Of Ancient Maya? New Studies Cast Doubt

  20-10-2026 17:44 via washingtonpost.com
  Taken together, the research is part of a shift in how researchers have come to consider one of antiquity’s great mysteries, awakening yet another fierce debate in academia over the effects of climate on civilizations, and why they fray. – Washington Post
  
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• Auction House Phillips Appears To Be Reinventing Its Business

  20-10-2026 17:35 via artnews.com
  
  In conversations with several people with intimate knowledge of Phillips, past and present, it appears Phillips has decided it doesn’t want to be the same company it spent the last decade trying to become. – ARTnews
  
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• WBUR Chief To Step Down

  20-10-2026 17:15 via wbur.org
  
  Margaret Low joined NPR at age 23 as an overnight production assistant and rose to senior vice president for news, the network’s top editorial job. She then spent five years running The Atlantic’s live events division before becoming WBUR’s first CEO in January 2020 – “just in time for a global pandemic,” she said. – WBUR
  
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• Global Executive Arts Management Fellowship –  Apply by Dec. 3

  20-10-2026 17:07 via artsjournal.com
  The DeVos Institute Global Executive Fellowship is a three-year, fully-subsidized program for arts and culture executives. The Institute invites applications for the 2027-2029 cohort from leaders of arts and culture non-profits worldwide by December 3, 2026.Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, the high-intensity program provides training and guidance in strategic planning, leadership, fundraising, marketing, board governance, human resources, and financial
  
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• Artistic Director – The Apollo via TOC Arts Partners

  20-10-2026 17:04 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityFor more than ninety years, The Apollo has stood as a living symbol of Black excellence, artistic innovation, and cultural leadership. From legendary performances that reshaped American culture to new works that challenge, inspire, and unite, The Apollo has never been simply a theater; it has been a proving ground for brilliance, a gathering place for a Harlem and international community, and a home for Black artists.As The Apollo completes The Apollo Rising 2.0 campaign, t
  
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• YouTube Intends To Start Offering Audiobooks

  20-10-2026 17:01 via msn.com
  “YouTube has weighed bundling the product in its ad-free YouTube Premium service, which starts at $15.99 a month and includes access to music and videos, the people said. Like other streaming platforms vying for consumers’ attention, YouTube has packaged offerings together to make lucrative subscriptions more appealing.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• While Partly Closed For Construction, Broad Museum In L.A. Will Lend Scores Of Artworks To Paris

  20-10-2026 16:35 via yahoo.com
  “The museum announced Tuesday that it’s shipping 164 works to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris for its most extensive exhibition ever mounted outside Los Angeles. The show will open April 21 and run through Aug. 30,” as the Broad finishes major construction on a new extension. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Jewish Museum in Rural Argentina Stays Open Amid Clash With Local Government, Rare Hilma af Klint Abstract Painting Hits Auction, and More: Morning Links for October 20, 2026

  20-10-2026 16:28 via artnews.com
  
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  The Villa Domínguez Jewish Museum in Argentina is keeping its doors open amid clashes with the local government.An abstract Hilma af Klint painting, coming to auction for the first time in more than three decades, could potentially break a record for the Swedish artist.A final review of President Donald Trump’s proposed Triumphal Arch by the National Capital Planning
  
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• Bayeux Tapestry Will Return Home Next Summer To A Completely Different Display Format

  20-10-2026 16:03 via artnews.com
  
  Before the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidery left its eponymous museum in France for London, it was hung vertically. At the British Museum, the enormous textile is lying flat in a display case in a darkened room, a format which the post-renovation Bayeux Museum will (mostly) adopt. – ARTnews
  
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• In Rare Market Moment, Hilma af Klint Painting Comes to Auction in Sweden

  20-10-2026 15:57 via artnews.com
  
  A Swedish auction house will sell an abstract painting by Hilma af Klint, an artist whose work almost never comes to market.The painting, titled Ser III No. 5 (1920), will be sold by the Stockholm-based Bukowskis house during a November 19 sale of modern art and design objects. It has been given an estimate of $600,000–$800,000, and if it reaches even its low estimate, the work will shatter af Klint’s prior auction record.Once a relatively obscure figure within 20th-century art histo
  
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• Collector Libbie Mugrabi Faces New Legal Battle Over 1982 Basquiat to Satisfy $2.3 M. Judgment

  20-10-2026 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this month, the real estate company 320 E 82nd Owner, LLC filed a petition seeking to compel socialite art collector Libbie Mugrabi and the auction house Phillips to turn over an untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in the latter’s possession in order to satisfy a $2.3 million judgment.New York County Supreme Court judge Linda M. Capitti pushed the petition forward last week, approving an order on October 14 preventing the sale or transfer of the Basquiat and compelling Mugr
  
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• After Decades On The Sidelines, American Contemporary Opera Is Now Thriving

  20-10-2026 15:32 via sfclassicalvoice.substack.com
  
  After a few decades when most US companies (especially the Met) treated new opera like kryptonite, many are now presenting a contemporary work almost every season — and selling lots of tickets. Michael Zwiebach examines why this is happening now. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• 5 Pro Tips For Conserving Your Art Collection

  20-10-2026 15:32 via artnews.com
  
  In the world of contemporary art, the maintenance and conservation of paintings usually takes place in strict confidence. But the discretion that damaged art requires does come at an unintended cost, leaving many collectors in the dark about how to navigate the surprising and complex journeys paintings take through time. When defects can be so readily photoshopped out, it’s even easy to fall prey to the illusion that paint doesn’t age at all.In truth, paintings have always been needi
  
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• The First Opera About Russia’s War On Ukraine Has Its Premiere

  20-10-2026 15:04 via nytimes.com
  The Mothers of Kherson, with music by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and libretto by American playwright George Brant, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera three years ago and got its first full performance on Friday at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. (The Met premiere is scheduled for April 2028.) – The New York Times
  
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• Teenage Suspect Arrested In Case Where Actor Was Chased Through Streets Before Performance

  20-10-2026 14:36 via portsmouth.co.uk
  The incident happened last week at England’s Chichester Festival Theatre: last Tuesday’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was cancelled after a cast member reported that he’d just been chased through the streets by people shouting abuse. One 16-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged. – The News (Portsmouth, UK)
  
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• A lively Frieze Week has London gallerists dreaming of a Brexit U-turn

  20-10-2026 14:26 via ft.com
  With solid auction results and a starry Frieze London, the capital’s art scene is enjoying a wave of optimism
  
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• Ann Hornaday, Longtime Washington Post Film Critic, Is Dead At 66

  20-10-2026 14:00 via msn.com
  “(She) brought a casual, if knowledgeable, approach to her reviews, writing more from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer than from the lofty perch of a scholar of cinema. She wrote hundreds of reviews … over more than 20 years and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism in 2008.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Fondation Louis Vuitton Reunites Hundreds of Masterpieces Once Owned by One France’s Most Important, Though Now Forgotten, Collectors

  20-10-2026 08:00 via artnews.com
  
  Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, January 1889 emerges like a vaguely familiar, climactic apparition about a third of the way through the new blockbuster exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (FLV) in Paris. Here, we find “poor Vincent,” as he is occasionally referred to in the exhibition catalog, smoking a pipe, an activity he associated with calm contemplation. Behind him, swaths of orange and red form a bold contrast to his green jacket and mat
  
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• Oh, what a beautiful ceiling!

  20-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Will you be activating your fifth wall?
  
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