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• Ancient Petroglyphs In Utah Vandalized, Damage May Be Permanent

  10-11-2026 15:04 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The Bureau of Land Management announced on November 6 that it was investigating vandalism at two ancient rock-art sites near Moab, Utah, where someone carved names into petroglyphs, leaving damage that may be impossible to remove.” – Outside
  
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• With Protests Quieting Down But Not Forgotten, Dealers Return to the Grand Palais for Paris Photo

  12-11-2026 00:24 via ARTnews.com
  
  As soft music crooned through the halls of a softly lit, glittering Grand Palais in Paris Tuesday evening, VIPs trickled in for a private dinner hosted by the Prix Pictet as part of the Paris Photo fair, which opens to the public on November 12. Wandering through the fair’s aisles featuring 246 exhibitors this year, it was unsettling to imagine that just a three weeks ago, Art Basel Paris had to evacuate the very same venue. Booths were dismantled early, the night before protests planned for O
  
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• After a Historic Electoral Rout, Trump Again Asks the Supreme Court to Greenlight His Ballroom

  11-11-2026 23:01 via ARTnews.com
  
  One day after the historic rout by the Democrats nationwide on Election Day a week ago, Trump took to the construction site of the sprawling ballroom he is constructing on the grave of the East Wing of the White House, which he abruptly razed in October 2025. “Trump invited reporters into a cavernous construction site and talked about the building project for nearly 20 minutes,” reported PBS, “without mentioning sweeping Republican defeats around the country the night before.”The next da
  
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• Bill T. Jones Will Close His Dance Company

  11-11-2026 22:41 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will stop performing at the end of 2027, after 45 years and creating more than 140 works. Jones, nearly 75, says he wants to ask “new questions about how I want to create” (BroadwayWorld).The Vatican Museums hold about 80,000 objects that missionaries sent to Rome for a 1925 exhibition, and this month is the museum’s centenary. A Vatican source says the plan is to lie low; a McGill art historian says missionaries looted Canadian graves to f
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Now Represents rafa esparza, Maker of Adobe Sculptures and Paintings That Center Community

  11-11-2026 22:19 via ARTnews.com
  
  Hauser & Wirth, one of the largest galleries in the world, now represents Los Angeles–based artist rafa esparza, who is best-known for his installations, sculptures, and paintings made from adobe. The representation will be done in collaboration with LA’s Commonwealth and Council, the artist’s longtime gallery.The news makes esparza one of the few living Latinx artists to be represented by a mega-gallery. Hauser & Wirth also represents Firelei Baéz and Angel Otero.esparza will hav
  
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• Franklin Sirmans Elected Warhol Foundation Board Chair, CARA Fellowships Go to Ming Smith and Pepón Osorio, and More: Industry Moves for November 11, 2026

  11-11-2026 22:15 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves Franklin Sirmans Elected Warhol Foundation Board Chair: The director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami succeeds scholar Deborah Willis as chair. The foundation also announced that Cheryl Finley, Candice Hopkins, and Suzi Kwon Cohen have joined the board, and that Naomi Beckwith and Cary Davis have completed their terms.Ming
  
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• Liverpool Biennial Announces Artist List and ‘Age of Magical Thinking’ Theme

  11-11-2026 21:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  The 2027 edition of the Liverpool Biennial, scheduled to open June 5 and continue through September 19, will feature 25 artists and collectives assembled in mind of a newly designated theme: “The Age of Magical Thinking.”“The title draws on psychologist Jean Piaget’s identification of a particular period in childhood development when the lines between reality and make-believe are blurred,” reads a press release. “This is an age when the imagination is powerful; tomorrow is charged wi
  
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• Kennedy Family Joins Litigation Opposing Trump’s Triumphal Arch

  11-11-2026 21:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  The opposition to President Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch has gained a formidable ally: the Kennedy family.Nine members of the Kennedy family moved on Tuesday to join ongoing litigation in Washington, D.C., seeking to halt the project before construction begins. Echoing a central criticism of the project, the Kennedys argue that the arch would cast a shadow over the graves of their relatives buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The filing adds that the structure would obstruct the solemn s
  
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• German Art Historian Reattributes Renoir Print Previously Believed to Be a Fake

  11-11-2026 21:26 via ARTnews.com
  
  German art historian Henry Keazor has reattributed a work on paper to Pierre-Auguste Renoir that had previously been labeled a forgery.Keazor is the founder of the Heidelberg Forgery Study Collection (HeFäStuS), which is “a collaboration with the three state criminal investigation offices of Berlin, Bavaria, and Baden-Württemberg, which provide forgeries from their evidence rooms as loans for research and teaching purposes,” according to its website. Students at the University of Heidelber
  
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• NY Phil’s First European Tour With Dudamel Hit Some Bumps In The Road, But It Was A Hit

  11-11-2026 21:04 via ArtsJournal
  “The tour … was striking in its ambitions: 17 days, four countries, 10 performances and an army of 147 musicians, backup conductors, sound technicians, librarians, stagehands, donors, executives and a tour doctor. They traveled on trains, bus caravans, and chartered and commercial airplanes.” – The New York Times
  
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• Art Basel To Discount Gallery Fees After Paris Show Closed Early

  11-11-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  “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. – ARTnews
  
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• AI Has Become The Next Generation’s Way Into The Film Biz

  11-11-2026 20:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  While it can seem like a daunting time for students to enter an industry grappling with contraction and AI-driven shifts, many educators who have embraced AI remain optimistic. They choose to focus on the emerging opportunities for the next generation of talent. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Vatican Has A Huge, Little-Known Collection Of Indigenous Art. Should It All Be Repatriated?

  11-11-2026 20:02 via ArtsJournal
  “The Anima Mundi, formerly the Ethnological Museum, (is) home to around 80,000 objects from across the globe, many of which were ‘gifted’ to the Catholic church in Rome by Indigenous peoples at a time when its missionaries were powerful, and sometimes dubious, figures in their far-flung communities.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Worst Thing About Using AI To Write?

  11-11-2026 19:46 via ArtsJournal
  Above the chaos is a question: Why did this novel, thematically rote and stylistically bland as it is, receive such acclaim in the first place? – The Atlantic
  
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• Why We Are Not Our Brains

  11-11-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  Remember that the brain itself is merely another object in the world. To talk about it at all is to have already accepted a level of objective existence which cannot be reduced to sensory experience. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Rethinking What Biographies Are For

  11-11-2026 19:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  On its face, biography is the genre of the integral subject—a person interacting with others but distinct from them, not dissolving in a sea of substance. For Carlisle, though, the “metaphysical selfishness” of a world composed of discrete human beings “reinforces moral selfishness, and vice versa.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Could Chicago’s South Side Become The Hub Of Black Theater It Used To Be?

  11-11-2026 19:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  Some of the first Black theater companies in the country were in South Side Chicago, and the scene flourished into the 1970s. Then, for economic and systemic reasons, the drama mostly dried up. Now, with some fresh talent and an influx of grant money, a revival is tentatively emerging. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• The Death Of Online Search?

  11-11-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  Even Google may not be too big to fail, as pessimism mounts about the possibility of Search ever again working the way it used to. – The New Yorker
  
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• We Need To Change Our Approach To Digital Life

  11-11-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  It’s increasingly clear to me that we will not survive as a society without some seismic intervention that separates us from our screens, our algorithms, and our little simulacra of social life. – The New Yorker
  
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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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• Waves Of CNN, CBS Veterans Take Skydance Buyouts

  11-11-2026 18:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  At CNN, according to two of these people, buyouts were offered to people who were in vice president roles or levels below and had more than 15 years of service. – Variety
  
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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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• Gary Fisketjohn, One Of American Fiction’s Most Influential Editors, Is Dead At 72

  11-11-2026 18:01 via ArtsJournal
  “Fisketjon stayed with Knopf for 29 years, where he worked with many of the novelists who would come to define the American literary canon of the late 20th century” — among them Don DeLillo, Donna Tartt, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Dillard, Bret Easton Ellis, Patricia Highsmith, and Tobias Wolff. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Skydance Disses Warner Performance, Says It Will Be More Selective With Projects

  11-11-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Warner Bros film has underperformed this year and will weigh on Q4 results. We’ll apply the same playbook we did at Paramount: greenlighting more selectively, prioritizing profitable streaming growth over subscriber count, optimizing linear and driving efficiency through the cost structure.” – Deadline
  
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• Claim: AI Has Made It Almost Impossible To Assess Students

  11-11-2026 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  Universities should go back to traditional exams and in-person presentations to grade students after lecturers complained that AI has made it “close to impossible” to assess coursework, according to an investigation by England’s higher education regulator. – The Guardian
  
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• Met To Stream Its Sold-Out “Lincoln in the Bardo” On YouTube

  11-11-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  This broadcast—the first of its kind for the Met on YouTube—will support the company’s $1.5 billion Make the Met Forever fundraising campaign. Beginning November 20, the recording will be available on Met Opera on Demand through a range of paid viewing options. – TheatreMania
  
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• One Of New L.A. Mayor’s Big Challenges Will Be Bringing Hollywood Production Jobs Back To City

  11-11-2026 17:02 via ArtsJournal
  “Nithya Raman’s connections to Hollywood were a key part of the coalition that fueled her upset victory. … Now, they and hundreds of thousands of entertainment workers and business owners that rely on the film-and-TV industry will look to Raman to find a way to stop the decline in employment opportunities.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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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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• Met Opera To Livestream “Lincoln In The Bardo” For Free

  11-11-2026 16:34 via ArtsJournal
  
  The Missy Mazzoli/Royce Vavrek adaptation of the George Saunders novel sold out most of its run, including the final performance on November 14. That performance will be streamed live on the Met’s YouTube channel. The video will remain available on YouTube until midnight NYC time on Wednesday, November 18. – Playbill
  
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