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• Art Basel 2017

  10-06-2017 23:00
  Our daily papers from Art Basel, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
  
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• Reasons To Be A Freelance Artist Might Include Avoiding 160 Webcam Videosurveillance Photos Per Day

  15-11-2026 18:00 via ArtsJournal
  As if constant AI use and keystroke surveillance isn’t enough: “In the vast majority of states, if an employer decides to implement facial monitoring, employees will have little option but to smile for the camera.” – Fast Company
  
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• Jewish Heirs Are Challenging The Auction Of A Van Gogh Sold During Nazi-Era Duress

  15-11-2026 17:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The claim centers on that 1936 sale, which … took place three months after the family had left Berlin for Vienna. The Nazis restricted what departing Jews could take with them, and according to Schnabel’s research, the family was forced to pay the ‘Reich flight tax.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Inside The 20-Year, 40 Million Dollar Renovation Of A Theatre In Los Angeles

  15-11-2026 17:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  In a city and private partnership, Leimert Park’s 95-year-old Art Deco Vision Theatre is (finally) making a comeback. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Managing The Celebrity Egos At Vanity Fair

  15-11-2026 16:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Stars of a certain caliber demanded certain privileges in their con­tracts: quote approval, cover approval, cover-or-nothing. Vanity Fair wished to appear to grant these privileges but really had no intention of doing so.” – LitHub
  
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• People Really, Really Love Star Wars Memorabilia

  15-11-2026 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Auctioneers estimated it would sell for over $1m, but on Thursday a Star Wars lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the famous ‘I am your father’ scene from The Empire Strikes Back ended up selling for nearly $5m.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Man Who Invented Reduced Shakespeare, And What He Called A Whole New Brand Of Entertainment

  15-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers’ Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of “reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles.”– American Theatre
  
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• How Olivia Wilde Bounced Back For A Career-Defining Year Of Acting And Directing

  15-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Moral – And Possibly Legal – Harm From Being ‘Nice’ To Bots

  15-11-2026 14:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “‘We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.’ … All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings ‘to the equivalent of a box of equations.'” – The New York Times
  
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• A Grim Trend In Children’s Literature And Movies

  15-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  Seriously, why would The Cat in the Hat (the character) need a real job? – Reactor
  
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• Why Isn’t This Art Collection, Pledged To Seattle University, Heading There?

  15-11-2026 13:30 via ArtsJournal
  Well, some of it may be — after the owner sells enough of the collection to clear old debts. – Seattle Times
  
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• Fifty Years Of Canadian Law Has Shaped The Direction Of U.S. Entertainment

  15-11-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  CanCon, or Canadian content, is “a set of rules for minimum broadcast percentages of music and television originating in Canada. Launched in the early ’70s, the rules require that roughly a third of Canadian radio airplay consist of Canadian artists or songs.”- Slate
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Lifetime Achievement: Maren Hassinger

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing an influential living artist having a retrospective or survey exhibition at a major US museum.Maren Hassingerfor “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (June 6–November 29, 2026)For five decades, Maren Hassinger has been making elegant, spare sculptures that have enlisted a diverse array of materials, from wire rope to pink plastic bags to newspaper to rose leaves. The objects she incorporates in her art are the kind that co
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Historical Artist of the Year: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Honoring a deceased artist who is the subject of a major museum survey that offers a new lens with which to examine their work.Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
  for “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (January 24–April 19, 2026); traveled to Artists Space, New York (September 11–November 21, 2026)
  Curators: Victoria Sung, with Tausif NoorSince her untimely death in 1982, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha has been a touchstone for academics and artists
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Established Artist of the Year: Vaginal Davis

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing an artist with more than a decade’s worth of exhibition history whose latest exhibition comes at a pivotal moment in their career.Vaginal Davis
  for “Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product” at MoMA PS1, New York (October 9, 2025–March 2, 2026, US debut, following versions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Gropius Bau, Berlin)Often described as an icon of Los Angeles’s queer and punk scenes, Vaginal Davis has made art that often wasn’t meant for display in museums or galleries.
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Emerging Artist of the Year: Coco Klockner

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing an artist who is having their first significant gallery or small nonprofit solo show or has made an important contribution to a biennial.Coco Klockner
  for “In Practice: Coco Klockner” at SculptureCenter, New York (October 18, 2025–December 22, 2025) and her contribution to “Greater New York 2026” at MoMA PS1, New York (April 16–August 17, 2026)Coco Klockner has said she approaches making sculpture “as though it were in transition,” a turn of phrase that refers to the
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Best Thematic Museum Exhibition: “MONUMENTS”

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Recognizing a group show at a museum or nonprofit institution with a strong curatorial point of view or focused on a significant historical period.“MONUMENTS”
  at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, Los Angeles (October 23, 2025–May 3, 2026)
  Curators: Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, with Hannah Burstein and Paula KrollFew exhibitions have the power to be decade-defining, but that is one way to describe “MONUMENTS.” A decade in the works, the show repositioned
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026 Best Gallery Group Show: “Horror”

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  “Horror”
  At Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (November 21, 2025–February 14, 2026)
  Curator: Jill MulleadyWith her group show “Horror” at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles, artist Jill Mulleady took an expansive view of its titular genre, viewing horror not from the perspective of a single iconography or set of concerns but rather as a catch-all for everything we fear. Mulleady, a figurative painter whose work invokes spectral figures and mystical phenomena, did not offer a thesis necessarily wi
  
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• ARTnews Awards 2026: About the Jury

  14-11-2026 23:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  The third annual ARTnews Awards, an editorial project honoring excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions, has just revealed the winners for its 2026 edition. To help select this year’s winners, ARTnews invited five esteemed US-based curators, along with two ARTnews editors, to review exhibitions that opened between August 2025 and July 2026. Traveling exhibitions were only eligible for their first US stop. Each juror nominated 1–3 exhibitions per category. Over the course of t
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Chief Was Paid by Ticketmaster’s Owner

  14-11-2026 23:32 via ArtsJournal
  This Week’s Highlights:Canada’s new budget lets artists earn up to $45,000 a year from their creative work tax-free, through a new Canada Creative Credit (CBC). It also raises the Canada Book Fund for the first time since 2001 (Publishers Weekly). Meanwhile, the UK put up to £15 million behind National Theatre Nationwide, which will send shows to 400 schools and sell thousands of £10 tickets to young people (WhatsOnStage).The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing sy
  
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• Hassan Anderson shares the power of teaching artistry and Music for the Common Good

  14-11-2026 16:38 via ArtsJournal
  Hassan Anderson, Coordinator of Teaching Artistry & Director of the Music Teaching Artist Certificate & Associate Professor of Oboe at USC School of Music, shares the power of teaching artistry and Music for the Common Good.
  
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• At home with the rollicking Rollitts

  14-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The Hampshire base of Max Rollitt has always been a playground. Now his sons are picking their own creative paths
  
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• ‘All my emotions are in this artwork’: Gulnur Mukazhanova on reviving Kazakh traditions from Soviet ruins

  14-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The Berlin-based artist on turning centuries-old textile techniques into a potent mix of politics and personal reclamation at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery
  
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• Fake Art Portfolios Are Being Sold for UK Visas

  14-11-2026 03:38 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing system the Met built, for Ticketmaster. While the deal was negotiated, then-president Richard Grenell sat on the board of Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation, which paid him $260,205 last year (NPR). Hmnnn.A London firm offered an undercover BBC reporter a UK “Global Talent” visa as an artist for about £100,000, paintings from China and press reviews included. Nigerian critic Molara Wood found her byline on fake
  
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• Director of Artistic Planning and Operations

  14-11-2026 03:26 via ArtsJournal
  The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for planning and executing the artistic operations of WNO in collaboration with the artistic vision and business goals established by the General Director & CEO and Artistic Director.The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for collaborating with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s productions and lead WNO’s season planning process. The incumbent will also oversee WNO’s Artistic Department and all re
  
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• Whitney Museum Is Selling a de Kooning Painting Just Three Years After Receiving It

  13-11-2026 23:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  New York’s Whitney Museum is selling a Willem de Kooning painting at Christie’s next week, just three years after it formally received the work as a gift from the family of one of its former presidents.Yellow River (1958), a large abstract picture dominated by hefty sweeps of blue and yellow, has an estimate of $12 million to $18 million and will appear in Christie’s 20th century evening sale on November 17. The painting is being sold to benefit the museum’s collection, according to Artn
  
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• Former Philadelphia Museum of Art Executive Charged $30K to Company Cards

  13-11-2026 23:35 via ARTnews.com
  
  A former Philadelphia Museum of Art executive admitted on Friday to using company credit cards to make approximately $30,000 in personal purchases, the Inquirer reports.Latasha Harling, the museum’s former chief people and diversity officer, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, averting a trial that had been scheduled for Friday.Common Pleas Court Judge Leon King II sentenced Harling, 44, to five years of probation for the misdemeanor offense. King also ordered her to pay the museum $3
  
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• Europol Warns of More Aggressive Museum Heists as Thieves Change Tactics and Targets

  13-11-2026 23:06 via ARTnews.com
  
  It seems like news of new museum robberies just keeps coming, particularly in the months following the brazen Louvre heist one year ago. In an attempt to shed light on the phenomenon, Europol published a study in August, Changing Tactics, Changing Targets: The Evolving Nature of Museum Heists, which examines key trends within these more recent crimes, as reported earlier by The Art Newspaper.What does Europol tell us? For one, the old notion that museum thefts are generally non-violent, or use s
  
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• Sotheby’s Hedreen Auction Proceeds Will Repay Loan, Not Fund University Museum: Report

  13-11-2026 22:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  A $300 million art donation to Seattle University has been revealed to be more complex than originally reported.On Monday, Sotheby’s will begin selling approximately 50 works from the collection amassed by Seattle real estate developer and philanthropist Richard “Dick” Hedreen, previously billed as the “largest art gift ever” to a US university. Hedreen said in September that the sale did not mean the promised gift was falling through. Rather, he suggested, the proceeds would help furn
  
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• Manhattan Landlord Sues Kehinde Wiley, Claiming He Owes $36,000 in Unpaid Rent

  13-11-2026 21:53 via ARTnews.com
  
  Artist Kehinde Wiley returned to the New York art scene last week with his first show in the city since he was accused of sexual assault in 2024. Now the famed artist and Obama portraitist faces a legal dispute of a different kind: real estate.In a complaint filed in New York County Supreme Court, 115 West 11th Street LLC accuses Wiley of failing to pay rent on his apartment in its building since October 1. According to court documents filed November 6, the rent is $18,000 a month, and the landl
  
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