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• A Not Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

  09-11-2026 16:22 via ArtsJournal
  In the new Canadian federal government budget, a non-refundable tax credit worth up to $45,000 of net income is proposed for artists, to be called the Canada Creative Credit.
  Some tax policy jargon: a tax credit is not the same as a tax deduction. For a tax credit, calculate your income tax owing based on revenues minus eligible expenses. Once you have figured out that amount, subtract the credit. Non-refundable means the credit can reduce the amount you owe all the way down to zero, but no fur
  
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• The Elie Khouri Art Foundation Appoints Sumayya Vally of Counterspace as Architect to Design the Foundation

  11-11-2026 18:24 via ARTnews.com
  
  Elie Khouri, the French-Lebanese philanthropist and entrepreneur, who is readying his contemporary art foundation, the Elie Khouri Art Foundation (Ekeaf), to open in 2028 in Dubai, has appointed architect Sumayya Vally of Counterspace to design the foundation. This year, Khouri appeared on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list.The foundation will house Khouri’s art collection, featuring paintings by Julie Curtiss and Gunther Förg along with pieces by Carol Bove, Dana Schutz, Kehinde Wiley, and
  
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• Balenciaga Collaborates with Damien Hirst on ‘Damienciaga’ Collection

  11-11-2026 18:20 via ARTnews.com
  
  Balenciaga is currently between creative directors after Pierpaolo Piccioli, who joined in July 2025, exited the company last week, and Croydon-born designer Martine Rose doesn’t start in the role for another week. But that hasn’t stopped artist Damien Hirst from having fun with a limited-edition collection nicknamed Damienciaga.The collaboration kicks off Balenciaga’s 25th anniversary of its Le City handbag, which was designed by then-creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, now at the head
  
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• Ted Turner’s Western Art Collection to Sell at Christie’s for $20 M.

  11-11-2026 18:15 via ARTnews.com
  
  With Western art rising as an ascendant category on the auction block, Christie’s is selling works from the collection of Ted Turner, the media mogul who died earlier this year at 87. According to CNN, the works are valued at around $20 million. That means the results for Turner’s works are unlikely to near the ones Christie’s achieved earlier this year when it sold a tranche of art about the American West from the holdings of William Koch, who will also part with works by Claude Monet and
  
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• Art Week NYC Kicks off at Metropolitan Museum of Art with New York Pols and Art Leaders

  11-11-2026 16:38 via ARTnews.com
  
  Dozens of leaders from the New York art and political worlds rubbed shoulders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday morning at the launch of Art Week NYC, a citywide gathering celebrating New York’s leading galleries, institutions, and cultural spaces, organized by ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum. The inaugural event takes place from November 11–14, 2026.The distinguished roster of speakers included Julie Menin, City Council Speaker; City Council Deputy Speaker Nantasha Williams
  
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• New Richard Avedon Documentary Shows That Fashion Isn’t All Style—It’s Substance, Too

  11-11-2026 16:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  When The Devil Wears Prada 2 hit theaters this past spring, it painted an accurate and depressing picture of how fashion publishing has dwindled, its creative juices squeezed. Miranda Priestly, is no longer calling on her assistants to ring Patrick, a reference to the fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, or anyone of that caliber. As someone who spent a majority of their career in that industry and had a short stint at Vogue, the publication the “Devil Wears Prada” films were based on,
  
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• Art Basel Offers 20 Percent Reduction on Exhibitor Booth Fees Due to Early Closure of Paris Fair, Tracey Emin’s New Arts and Community Space in Margate Greenlit, and More: Morning Links for November 11, 2026

  11-11-2026 15:45 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Art Basel Paris has pledged a 20 percent reduction on the final invoices of all exhibitors who participated in the last edition, which was cut short because of protests.Tracey Emin has gotten the green light to turn a dilapidated building thought to have once been an Edwardian bathing house in Margate into an arts and community space.The Kennedy family has joined a legal suit to
  
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• Art Basel to Reduce Galleries’ Invoices by 20 Percent Due to Early Closure of Paris Fair

  11-11-2026 15:05 via ARTnews.com
  
  All exhibitors who participated in the most recent edition of Art Basel Paris, which closed two days early because of planned protests, will get a 20 percent reduction on their final invoices.“We will exceptionally be extending a 20 percent reduction on booth fees to all galleries that participated in the Paris fair, in recognition of the closure,” on October 24–25, Art Basel chief executive Noah Horowitz told ARTnews in an interview. Additionally, tickets purchased for that weekend have a
  
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• Anonymous Was A Woman 2026 Recipients Include Kay WalkingStick, Trisha Baga, and Beatriz Cortez

  11-11-2026 14:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  The New York–based Anonymous Was A Woman has announced the 2026 recipients of its annual awards, which come with $50,000 each for this year’s 15 winners.The 2026 cohort includes Kay WalkingStick, a painter whose work examines the American landscape from the point of view of Indigenous people, and Trisha Baga, whose video installations look at the relationship between the physical and digital worlds. Born in 1935, WalkingStick is this year’s oldest winner, while Baga, who was born in 1985,
  
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• RM’s SFMOMA Show Changed My Mind About Celebrity Curators

  11-11-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  An exhibition co-curated by a K-pop superstar isn’t the kind of show most art critics rush to review. But I couldn’t resist. Call it curiosity, or perhaps a little FOMO. Even my preparation for writing this review felt different: Instead of poring over essays by art historians and curators, I scrolled through fan-made reels, virtual walkthroughs, and videos featuring excerpts from RM’s audio guide. By the time I arrived, the show already felt strangely familiar.The numbers alone make it a
  
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• Frieze arrives in Abu Dhabi amid a culture boom and geopolitical jitters

  11-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The fair is just the latest in the wealthy emirate’s cultural drive — art world players plan to keep calm and carry on despite travel concerns
  
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• A Science Fiction Novel Wins the Booker Prize

  11-11-2026 03:02 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,M John Harrison, 81, has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. He is the prize’s oldest winner and the first from the science-fiction world, after decades of arguing that good SciFi is literary fiction (The Guardian).A Desert Storm memorial opened last month just north of the Lincoln Memorial, and a Global War on Terrorism memorial is planned next to it. Philip Kennicott, the Post’s architecture critic, says a landscape me
  
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• Museum Organizations Call Bipartisan Infrastruture Bill a ‘Sweeping Assault’ on Historic and Sacred Places

  10-11-2026 23:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  Some historic preservationists are alarmed at the potential effects of a bipartisan bill whose sponsors say it aims to cut red tape for infrastructure and energy production projects.On Monday, the US Senate advanced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (S.5653), introduced by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, by a vote of 73–25. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Mike Lee, a Utah Republican; Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat; and Martin
  
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• Man Who Discovered Renaissance Church Facade Hidden in His House to Receive €1 M. Reward

  10-11-2026 22:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  When Juan Francisco León Catena bought an old house in southern Spain, he expected that a planned renovation would incur costs. What he came to learn was that a Renaissance church facade was hidden behind the walls—and that it came with a reward worth more than €1 million ($1.2 million).The discovery dates to November 2016, when León Catena and his father began tearing down interior walls in a property he’d purchased in Úbeda, a historic town in Andalusia that, together with neighboring
  
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• Oxford University Museum Returns 39 Sets of Ancestral Remains to Naga People of India

  10-11-2026 21:52 via ARTnews.com
  
  At a ceremony held on November 9, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University in the UK formally returned 39 sets of ancestral remains to the Naga people of India. The remains, primarily human skulls, were taken during the British colonial rule of India and Burma (now Myanmar) and have been in the museum’s collection for more than a century. A delegation of almost 30 community members from Nagaland, an Indian state bordering Myanmar, traveled to Britain for the handover.The Pitt Rivers claims
  
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• Oxford University Museum Returns 39 Sets of Ancestral Remains to Naga People of India and Myanmar

  10-11-2026 21:52 via ARTnews.com
  
  At a ceremony held on November 9, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University in the UK formally returned 39 sets of ancestral remains to the Naga people of India. The remains, primarily human skulls, were taken during the British colonial rule of India and Burma (now Myanmar) and have been in the museum’s collection for more than a century. A delegation of almost 30 community members from Nagaland, an Indian state bordering Myanmar, traveled to Britain for the handover.The Pitt Rivers claims
  
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• Actor Says He Removed His Mother’s Art from Venice Biennale Installation as a Pro-Israel Protest

  10-11-2026 21:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  Actor Eric Rasmussen revealed this week that he had removed his contribution to an installation by Denniston Hill in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale because the residency program appeared to support the “eradication” of Israel, in Rasmussen’s view.In an op-ed published by the Jewish Journal on Monday, Rasmussen wrote that he had combined two drawings by his mother of Adolf Hitler drawn from a notebook she kept during her childhood. The resulting work, transferred to an acetate p
  
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• Project To Make Downtown Chicago A “Cultural Stadium” Takes A Step Forward

  10-11-2026 21:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Former Michigan state representative Donna Lasinski was announced Wednesday as the initiative’s inaugural president. … The project has been discussed in abstract for years but is now moving from idea to reality with the appointment of Lasinski, who has served as the Cultural Stadium’s senior adviser since April.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• How Did Equality Come To Mean Different Things?

  10-11-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  Today, it’s evident that the word ‘equality’ means very different things to different people. What once seemed capable of providing common ground is now just another source of controversy. What explains this shift? – Aeon
  
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• The National Mall In DC Is Getting Too Full, And The Reason Why Is Not A Happy One

  10-11-2026 20:01 via ArtsJournal
  “The sylvan landscape around the Lincoln Memorial is a mess, and it will only get worse. … A landscape that was meant to symbolize peace and reconciliation after the Civil War is becoming cluttered mainly with memorials devoted to war” — too many to fit in this one place. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Ethics Of Entertainment Values

  10-11-2026 19:45 via ArtsJournal
  “Is the value of my experience at Disney World undermined by the fact that it is, at the end of the day, a production of the Walt Disney Company? Can I trust a profit-hungry corporation to teach my children universal values? – Psyche
  
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• “Art Is The Great Democrat”

  10-11-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Art is the great democrat,” wrote Kennedy, “calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.” He saw art as a means of transcending difference, as both a product of democracy and a contributor to its flourishing. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• American Alliance of Museums Makes Case for Policy Proposals Following Democrats’ Landslide Election Win

  10-11-2026 19:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made reining in the cultural sphere a core plank of his agenda.Those efforts have included slashing federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); attempting to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in his image; and unleashing a relentless barrage of executive orders, attempted firings, and investigations t
  
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• Anime Could Become Japan’s Number-One Export Industry — If Its Business Culture Can Manage It

  10-11-2026 19:04 via ArtsJournal
  The international demand for anime is certainly big enough, and the struggling Japanese economy could really use the extra earnings from abroad. But the country’s corporate culture is not exactly known for nimbleness, and it may not be able to reallocate resources quickly enough to meet demand with supply. – The New York Times
  
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• The Trap Of Optimization

  10-11-2026 18:46 via ArtsJournal
  We usually assume that more of it must be better. But we can become so focused on improving one thing that we lose sight of the others. You can try to arrange your calendar so that every minute is accounted for, but you’ll soon start running over and end up behind.  – The Guardian
  
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• The Secret Handshake’s Latest Statue Mocks President Trump for Toe-Related Deferment to Avoid Vietnam War Draft

  10-11-2026 18:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  One of the five deferments President Donald Trump received to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War is now the subject of a new statue mocking him by the Secret Handshake, an anonymous artist collective. On Monday, a gold statue appeared on the National Mall depicting Trump sitting down and holding his right foot, reports the Washington Post.The plaque at the base of the statue says, “We honor the service and sacrifice of our Commander in Chief, Donald J. Trump. He’s a soldier in spirit, w
  
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• Canadian Government Announces New Investment In Books

  10-11-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The new budget released by the government of Canada last week permanently increased the Canada Book Fund by CDN $5 million annually. This increase, the first since 2001, will bring the Canada Book Fund’s total annual budget to approximately CDN $43.4 million starting in 2027–28. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Skydance, Looking To Cut More Than $6B, Offers Big Staff Buyouts

  10-11-2026 18:14 via ArtsJournal
  
  One of the company’s highest priorities is to get its balance sheet in order. The company has more than $80 billion in debt, and Ellison has promised investors that he and his team would eliminate $6 billion in expenses within three years. On Monday, the executives signaled they were looking to exceed that sum. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Should Non-Equity Touring Shows Be Playing L.A.’s Flagship Nonprofit Theaters?

  10-11-2026 18:02 via ArtsJournal
  A non-Equity production of The Music Man is currently running at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre, and quite a bit of SoCal’s theater community is unhappy about that. But a cast member says they’re treated well, and CTG artistic director Snehal Desai he didn’t have much choice in this case. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• America’s New Movie Capital: New Jersey?

  10-11-2026 17:43 via ArtsJournal
  
  At a time when filming in Los Angeles has plunged to historic lows, New Jersey has soared, becoming one of the nation’s hottest film destinations and squeezing into the limelight of its bigger neighbor across the Hudson River. – Los Angeles Times
  
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