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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Lifetime Achievement: Maren Hassinger

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing an influential living artist having a retrospective or survey exhibition at a major US museum.Maren Hassingerfor “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (June 6–November 29, 2026)For five decades, Maren Hassinger has been making elegant, spare sculptures that have enlisted a diverse array of materials, from wire rope to pink plastic bags to newspaper to rose leaves. The objects she incorporates in her art are the kind that co
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Historical Artist of the Year: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Honoring a deceased artist who is the subject of a major museum survey that offers a new lens with which to examine their work.Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
  for “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (January 24–April 19, 2026); traveled to Artists Space, New York (September 11–November 21, 2026)
  Curators: Victoria Sung, with Tausif NoorSince her untimely death in 1982, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha has been a touchstone for academics and artists
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Established Artist of the Year: Vaginal Davis

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing an artist with more than a decade’s worth of exhibition history whose latest exhibition comes at a pivotal moment in their career.Vaginal Davis
  for “Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product” at MoMA PS1, New York (October 9, 2025–March 2, 2026, US debut, following versions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Gropius Bau, Berlin)Often described as an icon of Los Angeles’s queer and punk scenes, Vaginal Davis has made art that often wasn’t meant for display in museums or galleries.
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Emerging Artist of the Year: Coco Klockner

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing an artist who is having their first significant gallery or small nonprofit solo show or has made an important contribution to a biennial.Coco Klockner
  for “In Practice: Coco Klockner” at SculptureCenter, New York (October 18, 2025–December 22, 2025) and her contribution to “Greater New York 2026” at MoMA PS1, New York (April 16–August 17, 2026)Coco Klockner has said she approaches making sculpture “as though it were in transition,” a turn of phrase that refers to the
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Best Thematic Museum Exhibition: “MONUMENTS”

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing a group show at a museum or nonprofit institution with a strong curatorial point of view or focused on a significant historical period.“MONUMENTS”
  at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, Los Angeles (October 23, 2025–May 3, 2026)
  Curators: Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, with Hannah Burstein and Paula KrollFew exhibitions have the power to be decade-defining, but that is one way to describe “MONUMENTS.” A decade in the works, the show repositioned
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Best Gallery Group Show: “Horror”

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  “Horror”
  At Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (November 21, 2025–February 14, 2026)
  Curator: Jill MulleadyWith her group show “Horror” at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles, artist Jill Mulleady took an expansive view of its titular genre, viewing horror not from the perspective of a single iconography or set of concerns but rather as a catch-all for everything we fear. Mulleady, a figurative painter whose work invokes spectral figures and mystical phenomena, did not offer a thesis necessarily wi
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026: About the Jury

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  The third annual ARTnews Awards, an editorial project honoring excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions, has just revealed the winners for its 2026 edition. To help select this year’s winners, ARTnews invited five esteemed US-based curators, along with two ARTnews editors, to review exhibitions that opened between August 2025 and July 2026. Traveling exhibitions were only eligible for their first US stop. Each juror nominated 1–3 exhibitions per category. Over the course of t
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Chief Was Paid by Ticketmaster’s Owner

  14-11-2026 23:32 via ArtsJournal
  This Week’s Highlights:Canada’s new budget lets artists earn up to $45,000 a year from their creative work tax-free, through a new Canada Creative Credit (CBC). It also raises the Canada Book Fund for the first time since 2001 (Publishers Weekly). Meanwhile, the UK put up to £15 million behind National Theatre Nationwide, which will send shows to 400 schools and sell thousands of £10 tickets to young people (WhatsOnStage).The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing sy
  
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• Hassan Anderson shares the power of teaching artistry and Music for the Common Good

  14-11-2026 16:38 via ArtsJournal
  Hassan Anderson, Coordinator of Teaching Artistry & Director of the Music Teaching Artist Certificate & Associate Professor of Oboe at USC School of Music, shares the power of teaching artistry and Music for the Common Good.
  
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• At home with the rollicking Rollitts

  14-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The Hampshire base of Max Rollitt has always been a playground. Now his sons are picking their own creative paths
  
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• ‘All my emotions are in this artwork’: Gulnur Mukazhanova on reviving Kazakh traditions from Soviet ruins

  14-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The Berlin-based artist on turning centuries-old textile techniques into a potent mix of politics and personal reclamation at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery
  
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• Fake Art Portfolios Are Being Sold for UK Visas

  14-11-2026 03:38 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing system the Met built, for Ticketmaster. While the deal was negotiated, then-president Richard Grenell sat on the board of Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation, which paid him $260,205 last year (NPR). Hmnnn.A London firm offered an undercover BBC reporter a UK “Global Talent” visa as an artist for about £100,000, paintings from China and press reviews included. Nigerian critic Molara Wood found her byline on fake
  
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• Director of Artistic Planning and Operations

  14-11-2026 03:26 via ArtsJournal
  The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for planning and executing the artistic operations of WNO in collaboration with the artistic vision and business goals established by the General Director & CEO and Artistic Director.The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for collaborating with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s productions and lead WNO’s season planning process. The incumbent will also oversee WNO’s Artistic Department and all re
  
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