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• Ukraine Charges a Russian General in Absentia Over the Missile Strike That Destroyed the Skovoroda Museum

  30-10-2026 19:43 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in the spring of 2022.As reported by The Kyiv Independent, “According to the Prosecutor General, the Russian lieutenant general who ordered the attack is originally from the village of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast and commands Russia’s 6th G
  
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• Seven Sculpture Shows to See in New York, From Modernist Masterpieces to Contemporary Anti-Monuments

  30-10-2026 19:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  In 1979, at the start of her essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss wrote: “Over the last ten years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles in ordinary rooms; temporary lines cut into the floor of the desert.”Since then, sculpture has ventured even wider, into realms such as crafts, gardens, and masquerad
  
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• Italian Police Used AI to Identify $200 M. Worth of Stolen Art and Antiquities

  30-10-2026 19:08 via ARTnews.com
  
  In the fall of 2024, Italian police used AI to analyze photographs taken at a popular antique fair, identifying a particular oil painting as having been one stolen from a church near L’Aquila 20 years prior.The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Italy’s art crime squad, has been using an AI algorithm to identify stolen artworks and artifacts since 2023. The platform they use is called SWOADS—or Stolen Works of Art Detection System—and was developed by Salvatore
  
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• The Met Museum and Vacheron Constantin Unveil Artworks Produced Through New Residency

  30-10-2026 16:44 via ARTnews.com
  Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the three artists chosen for the Artisan Residency Programme, a collaboration between the museum and Vacheron Constantin, unveiled the works that each has created through the program.The Swiss luxury watch company launched the 18-month residency program with the Met in May 2025, making the third such partnership for the company. (The company also has partnerships with the Louvre, dating to 2019, and the Palace Museum in Beijing, established i
  
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• The Met Museu and Vacheron Constantin Unveil Artworks Produced Through New Residency

  30-10-2026 16:44 via ARTnews.com
  Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the three artists chosen for the Artisan Residency Programme, a collaboration between the museum and Vacheron Constantin, unveiled the works that each has created through the program.The Swiss luxury watch company launched the 18-month residency program with the Met in May 2025, making the third such partnership for the company. (The company also has partnerships with the Louvre, dating to 2019, and the Palace Museum in Beijing, established i
  
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• Vietnamese-American Photographer and Oberlin Professor Pipo Nguyen-duy Found Dead at 64

  30-10-2026 14:59 via ARTnews.com
  
  Pipo Nguyen-duy, a professor at Ohio’s Oberlin College and Conservatory and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, was found dead at 64 in an off-campus home on Wednesday.ABC News reports that Nguyen-duy’s son, Daniel Jones (formerly known as Asia Nguyen-duy), has been charged in connection with a double homicide for the murder of his father and stepmother, Tran Thi Phong. Nguyen-duy and Phong were found fatally shot by local police.“The male victim was discovered on the
  
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• Louvre Signs Deal with Unions, Ending Threat of Continued Strikes

  30-10-2026 14:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  As nationwide protests continue to loom across France, with the next action planned for Saturday, October 31, at least one social grievance has been addressed at the country’s top museum. On Thursday, the Louvre in Paris signed an agreement with unions who had threatened to strike for months, reports Le Figaro and AFP.“The signature of the agreement amounts to a positive step for the Louvre,” a museum representative told AFP.A few months after last year’s daytime robbery at the Louvre em
  
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• In Postwar Rural France, Alexander Calder Found Respite from Pressures of Fame and a Chance to Dream Big

  30-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever looked long and slow enough at Alexander Calder’s mobiles made of wire-suspended, leaf-like metal shapes painted solid colors, you likely know that they are as much about their sculptural form and silhouette as they are about the breathing air, light, shadow, and nature all around them. They shiver, drift, and play with the unpredictable whims of the surrounding atmosphere, making the invisible ether newly visible. Calder’s alternately delicate and massive sculptures are in
  
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• A Retrospective Introduces Francis Picabia to a New Generation—with Funhouse Mirrors and a Peep Show

  30-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  While midday crowds throng under a brilliant sky on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, darkness gathers behind the windows of the nearby Palazzo Reale, where the vernissage for a major Francis Picabia retrospective has just begun. “Picabia. Open the Gates of Night” is curated by the artist’s great-granddaughter Anne Berest, who explained in her opening remarks that “to know [Picabia] is… to spend the night with him.” As if in a dream, the exhibition unfurls in a dusky twilight, low-lit gall
  
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• MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Will Treat Their Holdings as One Collection in Unprecedented Alliance

  30-10-2026 04:15 via ARTnews.com
  
  Six years ago, the director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum, Suhanya Raffel, told cultural strategist András Szántó, in an interview for the book The Future of the Museum, that in the years to come museums will need to “stand together and work to help one another to deliver a more sustainable baseline.” Collaboration, she went on, “will be a key aspect of the next chapter of museum work.” Her words seem to have been prophetic: on Friday morning in Hong Kong, M+, the Museum of Modern Art in
  
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