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• All creatures great and small

  05-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The best artistic depictions of animals remind us about the richness of the natural world
  
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• Queen of crime, queen of the camera — the revelatory photography of Agatha Christie

  05-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The author’s passion for making images sheds new light on her writing, as a forthcoming British Library exhibition shows
  
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• Kehnide Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt

  05-09-2026 01:53 via artnews.com
  
  Kehnide Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) “aesthetically terrifying” last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said
  
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• Kehinde Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt

  05-09-2026 01:53 via artnews.com
  
  Kehinde Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) “aesthetically terrifying” last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said
  
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• Artistic Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  05-09-2026 01:08 via artsjournal.com
  Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is seeking a talented theater professional to lead the planning and execution of the organization’s core programming as Artistic Director. This newly conceived role will be part of a reimagined leadership team as FST’s long-serving Producing Artistic Director transitions into retirement and top leadership of the organization transfers to an Executive Director, a role effectively defined as a chief executive officer leading a team that includes the Artist
  
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• Managing Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  05-09-2026 01:05 via artsjournal.com
  Florida Studio Theatre (FST) invites applications for its Managing Director, a role for individuals with strong talent for running complex, multi-venue producing operations. The new Managing Director will lead the day-to-day administration of an organization producing more than 1,600 performances annually across five stages, with three additional stages and expanded housing and campus operations coming online at the end of 2027 with the creation of the McGillicuddy Arts Plaza.
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• El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión Look at the Rise of Latinx Art

  05-09-2026 00:56 via artnews.com
  
  This spring, El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión hosted “The Rise of the U.S. Latino Art Market: Lessons from Latin America,” a half-day symposium in El Museo’s iconic Teatro space.The event brought together artists, curators, museum directors, market insiders, and more to discuss the most pressing issues facing Latinx art in the art world and how to continue to grow its infrastructure. (ARTnews served as the media sponsor.)The idea for the event was dreamed up by Asp
  
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• Bannanas are serious business

  05-09-2026 00:09 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Maurizio Cattelan, the man who taped a banana to a wall and watched it sell for $6.2 million, says his work has always been serious — the trouble is that people stop at the joke (The Guardian). Today’s stories keep making his point: things filed under “decorative” turn out to be structural the moment someone tries to remove them.Public television, for instance, is not just programming. Stations are hardwired into FEMA’s alert system, and when Congress d
  
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• Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Preserve for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission

  04-09-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York’s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York’s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island’s Nassau an
  
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• Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Conservancy for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission

  04-09-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York’s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York’s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island’s Nassau an
  
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• An Incisive Exhibition in Buffalo Defies Expectations of What Latinx Painting Should Look Like 

  04-09-2026 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  There is a painting at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum that I still can’t get out of my head, six months after I saw it. It only measures 40 by 30 inches, and I missed it on my first walk through the gallery. Made by Los Angeles–based artist Karla Diaz in thinned-out acrylic paint, it shows two Latino men, both with mustaches, one carrying the other on his shoulders. The painting’s joyful casualness belies its subject matter, clues to which can be found in the coyote on one of the m
  
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• Prolific Mexican Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina Will Organize 2027 Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala

  04-09-2026 22:14 via artnews.com
  
  Cuauhtémoc Medina, a Mexico City–based curator and art historian who has organized exhibitions around the world, has been appointed curator of the Bienal de Arte Paiz. The biennial takes place in Guatemala City and Antigua, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is organized by the Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura, a family foundation that initially awarded education scholarships and supported soup kitchens. The foundation launched the biennial in 1978; Me
  
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• On Its 60th Anniversary, Anderson Ranch Balances Growth and Authenticity

  04-09-2026 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a five-acre complex of studios and artist housing in Snowmass, Colorado, that offers workshops and residencies, is often called a maker’s paradise. You understand that moniker upon arrival: Once you get over the 8,000-foot elevation, you feel energized, breathe in the crisp air, behold your bucolic surroundings—mountains dotted with the watching eyes of aspens—and want to revel in making something, even something as banal as your morning coffee.W
  
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• Maurizio “Banana Taped To The Wall” Cattelan Insists He’s Serious (And He’s Probably Right)

  04-09-2026 20:50 via theguardian.com
  The art world’s merriest prankster; the guy who duct-taped a banana to a gallery wall, called it “Comedian,” and saw it get eaten, sold for $6.2 million, and then eaten again — he says “My work has always been serious. The problem is people often stop at the joke.” – The Guardian
  
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• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Reveals Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Adam Pendleton and Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith

  04-09-2026 20:19 via artnews.com
  
  The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced a group of recent acquisitions across all ten of its curatorial departments. In the past year, the MFA reports, it has purchased 808 works of art and received 2,506 gifts from more than 50 donors, including the donation of 1,989 photographs by the Joy of Giving Something, Inc.Comprising both contemporary and historical artworks, new additions to the museum’s holdings range from a 2025 wall relief by Vietnamese-born artist Tuan Andrew Ng
  
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• New James Turrell Work Debuts at Superblue in Miami

  04-09-2026 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled Blue Sea Sky (2026), marks the artist’s latest installment in his renowned “Ganzfeld” series (1976–).For the last five decades, Turrell has been making works inspired by the ganzfeld effect (German for “complete field”)
  
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• How Errol Flynn Beat The Rap For Statutory Rape

  04-09-2026 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Two credible allegations of sex with teenage girls would by themselves be enough to get Flynn cancelled today, especially since both complainants said that he forced himself on them. Unfortunately, that’s not how it played out in 1942 and ‘43 for Hollywood’s biggest star. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Why The Bayeux Tapestry Thrilled Ancient Audiences

  04-09-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  If we look at the meanings incorporated into different objects during the early medieval period, we see that the Bayeux tapestry is a visual form of the scop, an early medieval storyteller who told tales of heroes and great deeds, helping to preserve the oral tradition of the early English peoples. – The Conversation
  
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• Have We Wrecked Childhood?

  04-09-2026 19:31 via newyorker.com
  
  This doesn’t sound like a very nice life, does it? It’s an existence in which you’re micromanaged and surveilled, given almost no freedom or privacy, and put under constant pressure while, at the same time, being seen as incompetent and lazy.  – The New Yorker
  
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• Collector Leon Black Sues House Oversight Committee over Jeffrey Epstein Investigation

  04-09-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Black, a billionaire investor who counts among the world’s top art collectors, has sued the House Oversight Committee, alleging that its subpoenas to testify in its investigation into the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were “invalid.”Epstein’s friendship with Black has been well-documented. Black, who has repeatedly appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, provided Epstein with financial guidance while he was still CEO of Apollo Global Management, a
  
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• Twilight Of The Oxford Dons

  04-09-2026 19:15 via wsj.com
  These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.” A don, by contrast, was effortlessly successful. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Argentina Ordered to Return Nazi-Looted Painting That Showed Up in a Real Estate Listing

  04-09-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis, which turned up eight decades later in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina owned by descendants of a financier to the SS, must be returned to the heirs of the rightful owner, reports France24.Attorneys, investigators, and heirs of collectors who had their art looted by the Nazis, or left it behind under duress, often spend decades trying to track down the artworks. So a public real estate listing might seem like the unlikeliest place to fin
  
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• This May Not Be The Great American Novel, But It’s Got To Be The Great American Manuscript

  04-09-2026 19:04 via apnews.com
  
  That would be the 120-foot scroll of architectural tracing paper on which Jack Kerouac typed — single-spaced — his original draft of On the Road. He produced the whole megillah in three very caffeinated weeks. – AP
  
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• Vancouver Police Break Into Gallery Mistaking Sculpture For Person In Distress

  04-09-2026 18:44 via vancouver.citynews.ca
  According to the VPD, a caller reported seeing a person’s feet sticking out from behind a counter and believed medical assistance was needed. – Vancouver City News
  
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• Groundbreaking Work for Trump’s Proposed Triumphal Arch to Start in Two Weeks

  04-09-2026 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  United States President Donald Trump has big plans for his Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC, with excavation work for the proposed monument slated to start over the next two weeks, according to secretary of interior Doug Burgum.In a post on X, Burgum wrote that “after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memor
  
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• Iconic Salt Lake City Temple Has Been Transformed. Now A Rare Look Inside

  04-09-2026 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  After years of extensive renovation and structural upgrades, the LDS Church will open its signature temple April 5 to the public — Mormons and non-Mormons alike – for six months of unprecedented tours. – CNN
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture Raises Concern Among Artists: ‘I’m Crushed’

  04-09-2026 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  The removal of a monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has generated concern among artists who have shown there.Workers began to disassemble the Shapiro work, titled Blue, on Tuesday; the Kennedy Center has not stated a rationale for why the 24-foot-tall sculpture of a stick-figure-like person was taken away. But the New York Times reported that internal documents suggested that the work, which Shapiro gave to the Kennedy Cent
  
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• Far-Right German Party Attacks Iconic Bauhaus School

  04-09-2026 18:15 via apnews.com
  
  Attacks on Bauhaus by Alternative for Germany, also known as AfD, come as Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany is about to vote in an election that could see a far-right party take control of one of the country’s states for the first time since World War II. – AP
  
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• In Some Places, Congress’s Defunding Of Public TV And Radio Is Literally Dangerous

  04-09-2026 18:02 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Public television stations are not only broadcasters. They are physical infrastructure inside FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System — one of the pathways that pushes AMBER Alerts, severe-weather warnings, and evacuation orders to the phone in your pocket.” And if rural communities lose their public stations, those alerts disappear. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• What Makes Good Writing For Video Games?

  04-09-2026 17:44 via washingtonpost.com
  “The kinds of writing that players encounter in games comes as a direct result of the medium’s competing needs and origins.” – Washington Post
  
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