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• Afro modernism: Africa's avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures

  01-03-2015 19:39
  
  The 1960s and 70s were an explosive period for experimental architecture in Africa – from vast Toblerone-shaped exhibition centres to giant lily-bud auditoriums. Swiss architect Manuel Herz has tracked down 80 of these lost monuments of African independence for a new book, African ModernismThe forgotten masterpieces of African modernism
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• Pro-Palestine Activists Protest at British Museum During Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition’s Opening Weekend

  14-09-2026 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  On Saturday, a few days after the highly anticipated Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opened at the British Museum, the group Energy Embargo for Palestine staged a protest in the museum’s Great Hall. The protest was related to the museum’s long-running relationship with British Petroleum and its collaboration with Igor Tulchinsky.Last week, Middle East Eye revealed that the Belarusian billionaire spent $6.8 million to support the artwork’s journey from France to London. Tulchinsky al
  
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• 300-Pound Faun Sculpture Stolen from French Zoo in the ’90s Heads Home

  14-09-2026 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Three decades after it was stolen from a zoo under the cover of night, a 19th-century bronze sculpture was recovered from the United States and returned to its rightful home in the north of France, where it is now on display at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens.According to a press release issued by the London-based Art Loss Register (ALR), Alfred Lepère’s Faune Chasseur was identified as part of due diligence preceding a proposed sale by one of ALR’s auction-house client
  
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• Prized Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Priced at $30 at an Estate Sale, Heads to Auction for $250,000

  14-09-2026 22:24 via artnews.com
  
  Missing for decades, a Gertrude Abercrombie painting will find itself some collector’s prize this October at Freeman’s.Of the lots scheduled for Freeman’s postwar and contemporary art auction, Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951), by the celebrated Chicagoan artist, surely has the best story. According to the house, the enigmatic still life of seashells scattered in a deep void was spotted this summer at a “picked-over” estate sale in Michigan. Hung in a corner of
  
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• Using AI, Scientists Recreate the Sights and Sounds of 2,500-Year-Old Tombs

  14-09-2026 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  The Etruscan painted tombs of Tarquinia, Italy, dating from around the 7th to the 1st century BCE, have long been celebrated for their vivid iconography and remarkable state of preservation. Now, archaeologists have used AI to examine how sight and sound may have affected Etruscan mourners of the time.Focusing on two 5th-century BCE painted tombs at Tarquinia, the Tomba del Gallo and the Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri (“Tomb of the Blue Demon”), as case studies, researchers used acoustic s
  
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• Lawsuit Alleges Warhol Forgery Scheme Spanning Florida, Peru, and Philadelphia

  14-09-2026 21:10 via artnews.com
  
  Duped into buying more than $6.7 million worth of fake Andy Warhol paintings and prints, real estate investor Richard Perlman and his family have launched a multinational lawsuit against the players they say are complicit in the alleged scam.Filed on September 9 in a Miami state court and first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the lawsuit accuses roughly half a dozen individuals and companies across Florida, Philadelphia, and Peru of acting as “suppliers, fake authenticators and distri
  
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• Charlie Kirk’s Widow Denounces Vandalism of Statue in Arizona: ‘His Instinct Was Always to Build, Not Destroy’

  14-09-2026 20:09 via artnews.com
  
  Not long after it went on view, a sculpture of Charlie Kirk outside his Arizona nonprofit was vandalized, leading to condemnation from the right-wing activist’s widow.The eight-foot-tall statue appeared last week at the Phoenix headquarters of Turning Point USA, the conservative organization that Kirk cofounded in 2012. It was installed last Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the day that Kirk was killed after being fatally shot in the neck before a crowd. That same day, another statu
  
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• Sotheby’s to Offer $90 M. in Art from Richard Hedreen’s Collection, Ahead of Major University Gift

  14-09-2026 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will offer some 50 works from the collection of Seattle real estate developer Richard “Dick” Hedreen this fall and winter, in a series of sales expected to bring at least $90 million.The sale comes two years after Hedreen pledged his and his late wife Betty’s collection to Seattle University, along with $25 million in seed money to establish a new art museum there. Rather than a reversal of that gift, the family says the sale is intended to help make it happen.A
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Future Hangs in the Balance as Report Warns of Imminent Closure

  14-09-2026 18:25 via artnews.com
  
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy. Leaders at the center, who were largely appointed by President Donald Trump, have argued that the only way to avoid “certain fiscal collapse” is by putting the President’s name on the building’s facade to ensure his fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Washington Post.A 57-page packet reviewed by the Post offered a bleak assessment of the center’s future to the
  
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• Christie’s to Auction 31 Pablo Picasso Prints, Including Three Rare Portraits of Wife Jacqueline Roque

  14-09-2026 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  More than 30 prints by Pablo Picasso have gone on display at Christie’s in London through September 23, as part of the auction house’s “Prints & Multiples” sale and exhibition. The total 31-piece lot is estimated to fetch between £2.8 million and £4.1 million ($3.8 million and $5.53 million).Include in the print collection are three portraits of Jacqueline Roque, who was Picasso’s second wife and last lover, until his death in 1973. This October mark
  
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• Christie’s to Auction Antonio Homem Sonnabend’s $50 M. Art Collection

  14-09-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Antonio Homem Sonnabend Collection that’s estimated to achieve more than $50 million at auction is coming to Christie’s this fall, with works by Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol. He is the late adopted son of art dealers Ileana and Michael Sonnabend.During his lifetime, Antonio oversaw Ilena and Michael’s vast collection of works, which included post-war and contemporary art, photographs, prints and multiples, and design, which wi
  
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• Net.Art Pioneer Olia Lialina on the Practice of Preservation

  14-09-2026 17:33 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.Olia Lialina has been distributing herself online since 1994, counting her among the first artists in the net.art scene. 30 years worth of her fascination with the poetics of servers, browsers, and GIFs is now on view in “Network Portraits” through October 3, at Berlin’s Panke Gallery. (Elsewhere, at the
  
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• Thousands of Art Nonprofits Command Billions in Assets. A New York Conference Sheds Light on an Under-Studied Sector

  14-09-2026 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Spanning the globe, there are uncounted thousands of nonprofit arts organizations, with varying missions, budgets, and staff sizes. While there are many regular reports that cover the art market and the museum world, it may be that private arts foundations are less studied, perhaps partly because they are so varied. Clare Hindle and Meagan Ryan, cofounders (with creative director Hilary Wolfe) of the Stoa Foundation, released an inaugural report this winter and have organized conferences to
  
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• Arthur Jafa Addresses His Work for Kanye West: ‘I’m Not Into Discarding Black Folk Simply for Things They Say’

  14-09-2026 16:52 via artnews.com
  
  Arthur Jafa, the artist and filmmaker whose work will soon be the subject of an expansive exhibition at New York’s New Museum this month, addressed his decision to make a music video for Kanye West, the rapper whose comments about Jews and the enslavement of Black people have drawn widespread scrutiny.In 2020, Jafa directed a music video for West called “Wash Us in the Blood.” Like other works by Jafa, most notably his famed 2016 video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death,
  
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• Alice Diop to Take on Miu Miu’s 2026 Art Basel Paris Commission

  14-09-2026 14:51 via artnews.com
  
  Miu Miu has announced that the recipient of its 2026 commission for the Art Basel Paris Public Program will be filmmaker Alice Diop.Diop will stage Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation) at both the Palais d’Iéna headquarters of France’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council and the Miu Miu runway show. Diop’s takeover will mark the third commissioned by Miu Miu during Art Basel Paris, with Goshka Macuga’s Tales and Tellers (2024) and Helen Marten&rsquo
  
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• $90 M. Hedreen Collection Heads to Sotheby’s to Underwrite Seattle U. Building, Florida Family Claims International Scheme Sold Them Fake Andy Warhols, and More: Morning Links for September 14, 2026

  14-09-2026 14:50 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!
   Sotheby’s is auctioning $90 million worth of art from the collection of Richard Hedreen, which will help underwrite a Seattle University building to house 400 donated works from his collection.A family in Florida claims it was defrauded by an international racketeering scheme that sold them over 200 fake Andy Warhols. President
  
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• High Waters by Massimiliano Gioni — what makes a good Venice Biennale?

  14-09-2026 14:00 via ft.com
  A breezy yet far-reaching account of the world’s oldest art festival that captures the curators’ thinking behind each edition from 1993
  
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• The sexy complexity of the Spanish male

  14-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Ramón Masats’s photographs reveal the paradox at the heart of a national ideal
  
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• As More And More Small Museums Get Hit By Thieves, Can France Keep Its Art At All Safe?

  13-09-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Museum workers, the police and government officials are rattled. They worry about how to protect France’s cultural patrimony in an era of increasingly violent criminal gangs, some of whom have broken into museums in broad daylight.” – The New York Times
  
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• That Time When Russian Printers Went On Strike Over Commas

  13-09-2026 16:30 via lithub.com
  
  “At the time, printers were paid by the letter set, but this didn’t include punctuation.” The workers were not having it. – LitHub
  
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• Sarah Paulson On The Long Slog For A Great Movie Part

  13-09-2026 16:00 via variety.com
  
  When Paulson got the script from fellow actor and writer Cody Fern, “I thought he must have sent [the script] to Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet. … It’s a part in the film space that I haven’t had the opportunity to embody.” – Variety
  
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• Jay Maisel, Photographer Of Miles Davis And So Many More, Dies At 95

  13-09-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  “While not necessarily his best photograph — he wished it had been sharper — the Davis picture became part of a portfolio of remarkable depth.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Current President Of The United States Wants To Install A ‘Colossus’ Statue Of The First President

  13-09-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Of course, the “request” came on conservative social media site Truth Social. It “underscores a perception that he sees himself as curator-in-chief of the nation’s national museum.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Trump Demands ‘Strange Modernist’ Sculpture Be Replaced by George Washington Statue

  13-09-2026 14:43 via artnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump has released his latest list of demands for the Smithsonian Institution, beginning with the installation of a monumental statue of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History.In a flurry of Truth Social posts late Friday, Trump also called for an exhibition honoring the nation’s first president to open imminently and run through February 22, 2032, the 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth. The statue, Trump said, should be erected on Sep
  
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• Is Talk Of Extinction Simply Meant To Distract Us From The True Threats Of AI?

  13-09-2026 14:30 via wired.com
  
  Timnit Gebru: Sometimes “I read quotes to people about artificial intelligence that I’ve gathered in my research, and I ask, What decade was this statement made in? Sometimes people get it right, but a lot of times they do not, because it all sounds the same.” – Wired
  
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• The Warnermount Talks Will Continue Next Month

  13-09-2026 14:00 via vulture.com
  
  Hm: “A judge has instructed Paramount, California attorney general Rob Bonta, and the Writers Guild of America to sit down and talk face-to-face in a month.” – Vulture
  
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• Just How Much Is Your TV Spying On You?

  13-09-2026 13:30 via theverge.com
  
  Oh, says the company doing the spying, not that much. “The word ‘continuously’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated on LG TV keeping extensive logs of ambient conversations.” This seems fine. – The Verge
  
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• Learning, Or Re-Learning, The Story Told By The Bayeux Tapestry

  13-09-2026 13:00 via nytimes.com
  What could justify moving the fragile tapestry to Britain this year? Probably politics: “Foot by foot, fiber by fiber, this is the material proof of England’s entwinement with the continent 21 miles from its coast.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Janine Antoni Simultaneously Disturbs and Delights

  13-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Janine Antoni’s hands descend over the eyes of a creamy-colored bust to the sound of water pouring from a faucet. Bubbles froth at the sculpture’s chin and twinkle from grooves between sculpted strands of hair. She caresses the immobile features, then turns the statue to face her. In this 2003 video, little of the artist herself can be seen: A sliver of bare leg presses against the white enamel of a bathtub; her quick hands studiously encircle the simulated cartilage of the bust&rsqu
  
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• Die besten Glücksspielunternehmen, die Neteller akzeptieren: Ein umfassender Leitfaden

  13-09-2026 06:40 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Wenn Sie ein hingebungsvoller online Wetter sind, dann kennen Sie eventuell bereits die Relevanz einer verlässlichen Zahlungsweise. Bei so vielen verfügbaren Möglichkeiten kann es herausfordernd sein, die richtige zu auswählen, die zu Ihren Anforderungen passt. Eine weit verbreitete und häufig akzeptierte Zahlungsmethode bei online Glücksspielunternehmen ist Neteller. In diesem Schreiben werden wir die besten Glücksspielunternehmen entdecken, die Neteller akzep
  
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