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• At Peter Marino’s Foundation, Centuries of Art History Devilishly Collapse into Each Other

  27-08-2026 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  The Peter Marino Art Foundation occupies the former Rogers Memorial Library, a charming historic building in Southampton, New York, that its namesake has transformed into something much stranger inside. This summer, the iconoclastic architect and collector has placed portraits by Robert Nava alongside those by Y.Z. Kami; abstractions by Betty Parsons and Carla Accardi share a wall. Nearby is a magnificent room filled with Tiffany silver, while a luscious, red-painted space is filled with Vi
  
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• Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Criticizes Met Museum Over Planned Galliano Show: Report

  29-08-2026 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  A range of politicians and public figures have criticized the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for its forthcoming controversial John Galliano show, including dealer Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, one of the biggest such entreprises in the world.A New York Times report published on Friday revealed that the Met has privately faced criticism over the exhibition for Galliano, a fashion designer who was convicted of a hate crime in France in 2011 for antisemitic comments. He later
  
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• Rugged Americana’s age of innocence

  29-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The homoerotic meets the nostalgic in Bruce Bellas’s mid-century photographs of rodeo cowboys
  
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• Homer Is Free. The Rembrandt Isn’t.

  29-08-2026 02:26 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Nobody owns the Odyssey, which is why it keeps working. Emily Wilson is retranslating it from scratch (AP), having decided her celebrated version has flaws worth fixing. In Kyiv, professional actors and active-duty soldiers are staging Homer as Odysseus, Maeotis, using the myth to ask what return means while the war is still on (AP).The UK has blocked a $97 million Rembrandt from leaving the country (The Art Newspaper). Mexico appears to be forfeiting a long argument over who gets a
  
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• Robert Indiana’s Maine Home Is for Sale, Despite Late Artist’s Intentions to Make It an Art Space

  28-08-2026 23:30 via artnews.com
  
  The foundation established by Robert Indiana to preserve his legacy is selling the artist’s longtime home on the Maine island of Vinalhaven, despite instructions in his will that the property be transformed into an art space open to the public.The Star of Hope Foundation, as the foundation is called, listed this week Indiana’s former home, a rambling 19th-century Odd Fellows lodge known as the Star of Hope, for $1.4 million, according to the New York Times. A second building Ind
  
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• Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Denied Use of Roy Cohn Portrait for New Biography Over Political Concerns

  28-08-2026 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation denied the use of a 1981 portrait by the artist of notorious New York lawyer Roy M. Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, titled American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, because of its negative affiliation with the sitting US president, according to the New York Times.The portrait in question, simply titled Roy Cohn, captures the lawyer’s striking outward stare and scar-split nose head on, surrounded by
  
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• China Pulls Artists from Gwangju Biennale as ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Moves Forward

  28-08-2026 21:13 via artnews.com
  
  The Chinese ambassador to South Korea has ordered China’s artists to withdraw from the 16th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 5, in protest of the Gwangju Biennial Foundation allowing Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name “Taiwan,” South Korean media reported today. In a meeting with Gwangju Mayor Min Hyung-bae at Gwangju City Hall yesterday, Ambassador Dai Bing expressed his “regret and concern” over the decision to restore the name “T
  
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• “Aura Farming” Has Become Young Latin Americans’ New Favorite Dance Sport

  28-08-2026 20:50 via msn.com
  “The contests appear to be designed for virality, with young competitors often demonstrating exaggerated versions of popular TikTok dance moves for the audience. Outrageousness seems to be the point of these battles, which have no apparent criteria, judges, or rules. Instead, contestants compete for crowd reaction and are rewarded with attention.” – CNN (MSN)
  
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• The Very Definition Of Kitsch

  28-08-2026 20:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  In one moment, you see children playing on the grass, and you are genuinely moved. In the second moment, you see the children playing, and you think how nice it would be to be moved. The latter is the substance of kitsch. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Embroiled in Alleged Bribery Scandal

  28-08-2026 20:28 via artnews.com
  
  Two municipal employees in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have been dismissed following an investigation into alleged corruption involving construction contracts. They include work connected to asbestos removal at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, one of the country’s most important museums.The employees were among three officials investigated after concerns emerged that municipal contracts had been approved at inflated prices. One of the three has since retired, while the other two were suspend
  
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• A Ukrainian “Odyssey” — Kyiv Theater Reimagines Homer Amid Today’s War

  28-08-2026 20:03 via apnews.com
  
  The play, titled Odysseus, Maeotis (an ancient name for the Sea of Azov), is performed by a mix of professional actors and active-duty soldiers. Says serviceman Daniil Mireshkin, who plays Odysseus. “This combination of myth and modernity allows us to … understand just how critical the question of return is.” – AP
  
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• Group Chats: Our Own Little Neighborhoods

  28-08-2026 19:44 via newyorker.com
  
  In one chat that I share with literary friends, we sometimes joke that after we’re all dead, if historians try to unearth our correspondence, they will find only this sprawling, years-long museum of absurdities. – The New Yorker
  
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• Worries Over The Unrealities Of Social Media Echo Ancient Greek Fears Over Theatre

  28-08-2026 19:31 via theconversation.com
  
  As research, including my own, into this breadth of ancient media production has developed over time, one theme has emerged again and again: as theatrical performance grew into a cultural staple, it was accompanied by the fear that just as art imitates life, so art could overcome reality itself. – The Conversation
  
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• Ideální Herní Podnik Platební Přístupy: Komplexní Průvodce

  28-08-2026 19:17 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Když jde o online herní zařízení, jedním z nejpodstatnějších aspektů k úvahám je vyrovnání technika. Jednoduchost a ochrana převádění a získávání finančních prostředků může podstatně ovlivňovat váš celkový video herní zážitek. V tomto krátkém článku
  
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• Lessons From The Edinburgh Fringe: How To Manage Controversy

  28-08-2026 19:15 via thestage.co.uk
  At a time when mainstream media coverage of festivals such as Edinburgh has shrunk significantly, her debut inevitably pulled headlines towards the infamy of one performer and risked becoming the token fringe story – the celebrity whom everybody outside the festival bubble recognises. – The Stage
  
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• “Terrifying Sleepwalking, Memory Loss” — “Reading Rainbow” Host Mychal Threets Really Wasn’t Okay

  28-08-2026 19:04 via yahoo.com
  The beloved librarian and host of the kids’ TV show reboot, Threets made news earlier this week when he said on social media “I am not okay” and checked into a psychiatric hospital. Now he has revealed some details of how he’s been suffering and what his diagnoses are. – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
  
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• Hollywood Battles Over AI Voice Clones

  28-08-2026 18:44 via msn.com
  Big, established names are using it to make more money. Non-stars say the number of jobs has plummeted and that they are being tricked into training their replacements. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• $4.3 M. Van Cleef & Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna Museum

  28-08-2026 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  Two men stole a diamond necklace worth millions of dollars from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday, after entering the museum as ordinary visitors and smashing open a display case.The unidentified men entered the MAK during opening hours and targeted the museum’s current exhibition of jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels, the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported. The men smashed a glass case, grabbed the necklace, and fled. No one was injured. Police
  
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• “Aesthetically Terrifying”? What US State Department’s Removal Of A Painting Is Really About

  28-08-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  “It was very woke,” Dan Scavino explained. “It was by the gentleman who did Obama’s portrait. And it was aesthetically terrifying.” Strong words for a group portrait of four fully dressed, largely expressionless sitters in front of a background adorned with flowers. – The New York Times
  
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• UK Government Puts Temporary Export Ban on $97.2 M. Rembrandt Painting

  28-08-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  The United Kingdom’s government announced this week that it has put a temporary export ban on a Rembrandt painting valued at £71.7 million ($97.2 million).The painting in question is Rembrandt van Rijn’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), which has been on view in the UK since the mid-18th century, according to a release. It was most recently on view at the National Museum of Cardiff from 2016 to 2019.Rembrandt’s portrait depicts Catrina Hooghsaet, a wealthy member of
  
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• Chief Executive of Sydney’s Forthcoming $915 M. Cultural Institution Steps Down Amid Ongoing Investigations, 10 Weeks Ahead of Its Opening

  28-08-2026 18:27 via artnews.com
  
  Just 10 weeks prior to the opening of Sydney’s latest cultural institution, Powerhouse Parramatta, its chief executive Lisa Havilah has stepped down amid ongoing “investigations into governance and procurement,” according to a statement released on Thursday from the office of Australia’s Minister for Arts John Graham.Since her 2018 appointment, Havilah has been overseeing the $915 million build of Powerhouse Parramatta—the city’s most significant cultural infr
  
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• A Fight Over Frida Kahlo And Access

  28-08-2026 18:15 via nytimes.com
  The fight about these priceless works — where they should remain and who can have access to them — is really a battle over cultural patrimony and national sovereignty, and it’s one the Mexican government seems to have forfeited. – The New York Times
  
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• Soprano Anny Schlemm, Who Went From Operetta And Mozart To Wagner And Strauss, Has Died At 97

  28-08-2026 18:02 via moto-perpetuo.com
  
  “One of the most distinctive features of Schlemm’s career” — which ran from the 1940s to the 1990s — “was the evolution of her voice and repertoire. Having begun with lyric soprano roles, she gradually moved into dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano territory, while becoming particularly admired for her abilities as a singing actress.” – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• Kennedy Center Board Says It Will Delay Adding Trump’s Name to the Center by One Month

  28-08-2026 17:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge on Thursday that it will halt efforts to add President Trump’s name to the building until at least October 8, delaying its plans by a month.The announcement followed an emergency court hearing prompted by a Justice Department filing this week warning that the Kennedy Center could be demolished and potentially replaced with an outdoor amphitheater if the board is not allowed to close the building for two years for repairs. At the same time, the
  
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• Kennedy Board Says It Will Delay Adding Trump’s Name to the Center by One Month

  28-08-2026 17:59 via artnews.com
  
  The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge on Thursday that it will halt efforts to add President Trump’s name to the building until at least October 8, delaying its plans by a month.The announcement followed an emergency court hearing prompted by a Justice Department filing this week warning that the Kennedy Center could be demolished and potentially replaced with an outdoor amphitheater if the board is not allowed to close the building for two years for repairs. At the same time, the
  
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• Heist Of Spanish Museum’s Bronze Age Gold Took Four Minutes

  28-08-2026 17:44 via theguardian.com
  The raid on Thursday morning of the 66 mostly gold objects in the Spanish town of Villena lasted just minutes, officials said. – The Guardian
  
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• A Turning Point In The Battles Over AI Writing

  28-08-2026 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Many contributors, especially prominent politicians or CEOs, employ speechwriters or hire a Beltway writing shop,” he wrote. “How different is that from using AI to streamline an essay?” – The Atlantic
  
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• Why Andy Warhol Couldn’t Get Dolly Right

  28-08-2026 17:15 via nytimes.com
  Parton’s astuteness may have extended to art, if it’s true she was disappointed by her Warhol portrait. – The New York Times
  
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• After All This, Emily Wilson Is Retranslating The Odyssey From Scratch

  28-08-2026 17:01 via apnews.com
  
  “She says her translation methods have become more sophisticated and that enough time has passed for her to see some flaws in her work. … The new edition will be longer, she says, and will better reflect the differing social worlds of Homer’s poem.” – AP
  
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• Today In European Museum Robberies: 200-Carat Diamond Necklace Stolen In Vienna

  28-08-2026 16:33 via yahoo.com
  The platinum necklace with 673 diamonds, originally made for Egypt’s royal family and reportedly worth more than $4 million, was taken in a smash-and-grab at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts. But at least the thieves paid for their tickets. – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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