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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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• Painter William T. Williams Has Stayed Curious on the Canvas for Six Decades

  15-09-2026 22:20 via artnews.com
  
  “There’s something to learn every time I go in the studio,” William T. Williams told me this past spring. “Anything that I did yesterday I have to forget, and I have to enter the studio and enter the paintings as if it’s the first time that I’ve had engagement.” He likes to keep the process “as open as possible,” but still, he is always “thinking about two or three steps ahead.” He keeps at it until he has followed “where th
  
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• Brooklyn Museum, American Folk Art Museum, and Whitney Museum Unions Vote in Favor of Strikes

  15-09-2026 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  Unionized staff at three New York City cultural institutions—the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art—voted in favor of strike action if they do not receive satisfactory offers on their contracts, Local 2110 UAW announced today.Local 2110 UAW, which represents workers at a broad network of museums and cultural institutions across the country, said its members voted overwhelmingly to authorize the union’s elected bargaining commit
  
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• Three Works of Sacred Art Stolen From Spanish Churches as Authorities Warn of Rise in Art Theft

  15-09-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  Three works of religious art were stolen from two churches in the Spanish city of Valladolid, the latest in a string of thefts from museums and churches across Spain and Europe.Two works disappeared from the Church of San Pablo: a small Station of the Cross depicting Jesus falling for the second time, decorated with a silver relief, and a 17th-century copy of an Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales. A nearby church, Vera Cruz, meanwhile lost a roughly two-foot-tall polychrome
  
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• Artadia Names Allison Derusha as New Executive Director

  15-09-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Artadia, the nonprofit known for giving unrestricted grants to artists across the United States, has named Allison Derusha its new executive director.Derusha, an arts fundraiser and strategist who has worked at the Guggenheim Museum, the American Ballet Theatre, the National Academy of Design, and SculptureCenter, takes over from Bora Kim, who has served as interim executive director since January. Kim stepped into the role following the departure of Patton Hindle, who left Artadia to become dir
  
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• Joan Mitchell Foundation Publishes Extensive Report on Artist Legacy Stewardship

  15-09-2026 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  What does it take to preserve an artist’s legacy? “You can only learn how to do this by doing it,” Solana Chehtman, director of artist programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, offered. That question animates an ambitious new report titled Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship, published by the Mitchell Foundation. “There are so many ways in which people can have a hand in this work, and we want to a raise awareness and give visibility to
  
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• Federal Judge Again Rules Trump Cannot Add Name to Kennedy Center

  15-09-2026 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not inscribe “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump” on the venue’s facade, dealing another setback to the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center’s months-long campaign to memorialize the president somewhere on the institution’s premises.US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who has presided over several legal challenges brought by Trump over the issue, wrote that any suc
  
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• Painter Lucy Bull Joins Hauser & Wirth as Her Market Continues Its Ascent

  15-09-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  Lucy Bull, one of the most sought-after young painters, has joined Hauser & Wirth, a mega-gallery with 16 spaces spread across three continents. She will continue to be represented by the Los Angeles– and New York–based David Kordansky Gallery, which has shown her since 2021.Bull produces vibrantly colored abstractions that can at times resemble fantastical beings moving through voids. These paintings often involve frottage and automatic techniques—both of which are associa
  
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• Fresh off Knicks Championship, NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns to Curate a Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale with Lifestyle Mogul Jordyn Woods

  15-09-2026 19:28 via artnews.com
  
  The stars of the basketball court and the lifestyle industry meet the stars of the art market at Sotheby’s on October 7.Six-time NBA all-star Karl-Anthony Towns, center for the 2026 champions the New York Knickerbockers, and lifestyle entrepreneur and model Jordyn Woods will organize a “Contemporary Curated” art auction at the house. The 10-lot sale will itself feature high scorers (on the market): John Chamberlain, George Condo, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson
  
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• Chelsea Building Housing Two Art Galleries Will Go to Auction, But the Dealers Plan to Stay Put

  15-09-2026 18:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Spears Building, at 525 West 22nd Street, in the heart of the Chelsea gallery district on Manhattan’s West Side, will head to the auction block next week, reports Crain’s New York Business.U.S. Bank Trust Company foreclosed on the six-story building last year after Chelsea Warehouse Associates, which owns the building, allegedly defaulted on a $14.2 million loan, leading to a $14.9 million judgment, notes Crain’s. Law firm Cole Schotz, which represents the defendants, did n
  
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• Newsmakers: Studio Ma’s Christiana Moss on Building Museums for a Hotter, More Expensive World

  15-09-2026 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  The Western Spirit Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, was a strange proposition for architect Christiana Moss when she first began designing it. There was a site, provided by the city, but not much money. There wasn’t even a permanent collection. The building would have to come together, as Moss puts it, like “stone soup.” It worked. Designed by Moss’s Phoenix-based firm Studio Ma, the museum, also known as Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, opened in
  
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• Artist Documentary Maker Art21 Launches Searchable Archive of Unseen Footage

  15-09-2026 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  When curator and filmmaker Susan Sollins founded the nonprofit Art21 in the late 1990s, her goal was to introduce contemporary artists to a wider audience by bringing documentaries about them to television and, later, to the internet. Reviewing Art21’s first series, Art21: Art in the 21st Century, which aired on PBS in 2001, Kay Larson, writing in the New York Times, praised the show for “getting rid of narrators and allowing artists to tell us in their own words how they work and wh
  
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• Rare Marble Bust by America’s First-Known Female Sculptor Discovered in English Garden

  15-09-2026 18:42 via artnews.com
  
  A rare marble sculpture, made by a pioneering 19th-century artist and feminist, was discovered by auctioneers in the garden of a home in the Cotswolds in England. It is expected to fetch up to £18,000 ($24,300) at auction.The 1854 bust by American neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer depicts Daphne, Apollo’s first love in Greek mythology, with her chest exposed as she glances solemnly downward. On the back, the marble is inscribed with the artist’s name, along with the
  
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• Sotheby’s Is Opening a Parisian Restaurant Filled With $150 M. of Art During Art Basel Paris

  15-09-2026 18:34 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s Paris is getting into the restaurant business, at least for a week.During Art Basel Paris next month, the auction house will take over an apartment on Rue de Rivoli overlooking the Jardin des Tuileries, filling it with nearly $150 million worth of art by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, and others. And, because simply hanging all that art on the walls apparently wasn’t enough, Sotheby’s is leaning all the way into the fantasy,
  
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• Jordan Wolfson’s Mysterious Gagosian Show Apparently Includes AI Imagery, 9/11 References

  15-09-2026 18:27 via artnews.com
  
  Jordan Wolfson, one of the most widely acclaimed provocateurs of today’s art scene, has been loath to speak about his latest exhibition, opening at Gagosian gallery in New York on Friday. Queried by Artnet News editor Andrew Russeth about his first New York show of new work since 2018, Wolfson simply said, “I don’t care what people know or don’t know.” The exhibition, which Wolfson said in that interview was “a very traditional sculpture show,” comes wit
  
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• Amid $22 M. deficit, New York’s School of Visual Arts Shutters Photography MFA program

  15-09-2026 16:46 via artnews.com
  
  The School of Visual Arts in New York is ending its MFA program in photography, video, and related media at the end of the 2027–28 academic school year, the school’s provost and vice president of academic affairs Jason Koth announced in an August email. The news was first reported by Hyperallergic, which reviewed the email.In the email, Koth wrote that the choice to shutter the program was a result of “SVA’s ongoing economic challenges, the nationwide decline in enrollmen
  
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• Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis Jointly Acquire Hendrick Avercamp Winter Landscape

  15-09-2026 16:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Mauritshuis in The Hague have jointly acquired a winter landscape by 17th-century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp. Colf Players on the Ice (ca. 1625) marks the first time the two museums have collaborated on a joint purchase.The acquisition also represents the painting’s return to the Netherlands after decades abroad. In the 20th century, it was acquired by English art dealer Edward Speelman, who died in 1994, and his wife, Sally, who had put it on long
  
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• Gagosian Director Antwaun Sargent Curated the Walter De Maria Sculptures at Calvin Klein’s Spring 2027 Show

  15-09-2026 16:07 via artnews.com
  
  Calvin Klein’s creative director Veronica Leoni is injecting art back into the American brand. At the brand’s spring 2027 runway show last Friday during New York Fashion Week, Walter De Maria’s sculptures were scattered around Terminal Warehouse in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.Leoni, who joined Calvin Klein in 2024, said her collection was a continuation of exploring the art movement that De Maria is most closely associated with in an expanded form. “American Mi
  
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• The Black Schoolhouse in New Orleans Looks to Offer a New Model of Arts Education and Community Building

  15-09-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  In New Orleans’s historic Seventh Ward, a series of repurposed shipping containers will soon host what its founders hope will be a new model of arts education and community building.Artists Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters founded the Black School a decade ago, slowly setting up the groundwork for a physical space. Now, after more than five years of fundraising and community outreach, they will open the Black Schoolhouse next month as the physical manifestation of the Black School.Located
  
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• The ARTnews Accord: Collectors J. Tomilson Hill and Lonti Ebers On What It Means to Support Art Today

  15-09-2026 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  Longtime hedge-fund manager J. Tomlinson Hill has been collecting art since the 1980s alongside his wife, Janine. They collect in four different areas: Renaissance bronzes, Old Master paintings, about a dozen postwar artists (including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Brice Marden), and emerging artists, the latter mostly women. In 2019, Hill opened the Hill Art Foundation, an exhibition space designed by Peter Marino on the third and fo
  
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• Stolen 16th-century Flemish Panel Given to Spain’s Fine Arts Museum of La Coruña, Brazilian Artist Marlies Ritter Has Died, and More: Morning Links for September 15, 2026

  15-09-2026 14:45 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!
  Spain’s Fine Arts Museum of La Coruña has received a recovered, stolen 16th-century Flemish panel painting of a biblical scene from the government.Brazilian artist Marlies Ritter has died at 84.Ching-Ling Wang will become the first Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.The Headlines RETURN TO SENDER. Spain&rsqu
  
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• British Museum U-turns on Photography of Bayeux Tapestry, While Conservators Discover Two New Small Breaks After Arrival in UK

  15-09-2026 14:23 via artnews.com
  
  The Bayeux Tapestry has taken the British Museum and London by storm with tickets selling out, merchandise being flaunted all over social media, and bookshops placing volumes on the history of the Bayeux Tapestry at every till. But it seems visitors are already disappointed by their experience at the museum as the British Museum has made a U-turn on allowing photography, according to the Substack Maxwell Museum.It’s unclear as to why the British Museum has banned photography without a reas
  
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• Art in the Room where it happens

  14-09-2026 23:34 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Culture needs a room, but who controls the room? San Francisco Opera’s musicians struck opening night at 7:25 p.m., with patrons already in their seats for an 8 o’clock curtain (The New York Times). Now that’s a power statement. Across the country, Lonnie Bunch concluded the White House intended to take the Smithsonian in a direction he couldn’t go and resigned, calculating that giving up the office was the price of keeping the institution (The New York Times
  
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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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• Ready to Lead What’s Next in the Creative Industries?

  14-09-2026 21:42 via artsjournal.com
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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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• San Francisco Opera Musicians Strike Opening Night Just As Curtain Was Supposed To Go Up

  14-09-2026 21:01 via nytimes.com
  At 7:25 p.m., leaders of the opera walked onstage and told the patrons settling into their seats for an 8 p.m. performance that the opera had been canceled. An outdoor performance set for Sunday at Golden Gate Park, part of the opening festivities, was also called off. – The New York Times
  
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