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• Bored at the Ballet, Malraux Covered a Ceiling

  12-10-2026 23:00 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,In 1962 André Malraux, France’s culture minister, looked up from a ballet at the Palais Garnier, found the ceiling dull, and commissioned Marc Chagall to replace it. Chagall painted 24 canvases for free and they were hung over Jules-Eugène Lenepveu’s original, which has been a listed monument since 1923 and unseen for 60 years. Lenepveu’s descendant Arnaud Carayon has hired a lawyer and proposes alternating the two ceilings a decade apiece once the ho
  
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• Who Are the Most Faked Artists in History?

  13-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  What makes an artwork real? This seemingly straightforward question can actually be quite loaded.A faked artwork is generally considered to be a copy of an existing work. This seems clear enough, but what about when an artist copies his or her own work? A forgery, on the other hand, imitates an artist’s style to create a new work. But what if the forged artist was someone who challenged concepts of artistic originality and appropriated images from others?Art trickery can get tricky. And ye
  
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• Can Daniel Weiss Fix the Philadelphia Museum of Art?

  13-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Daniel Weiss had a part-time job as a stock clerk in the gift shop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., while in school at George Washington University studying psychology and art history. When his boss was fired for substantial revenue losses, Weiss told the people in charge at the Kennedy Center: “I think I can fix this.” He was offered a six-month tryout the week he graduated in 1979, and over the next four years continued to run the retail business and supervise a staff of
  
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• Marina Perez Simão Wants You to Meditate in Front of Her Paintings at Frieze London

  13-10-2026 06:01 via artnews.com
  
  Amid the hustle and bustle of Frieze London, where champagne bottles pop and deals are orchestrated, Brazilian abstract artist Marina Perez Simão wants to invite guests to contemplate inside a spaceship in Pace Gallery’s booth. She’s painted 11 canvases in three main colors: three in blue, three in gray, and five in magenta.The booth is arranged in the shape of the letter X, with two blue paintings on either side, a gray painting in the middle, and two others on the other side
  
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• Robert Indiana was eclipsed by ‘Love’ — now he is being rediscovered

  13-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  His lettered square became a 20th-century hit that overshadowed an eclectic and erudite oeuvre — but the tide seems to be turning for the late artist
  
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• Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock — a marriage that sustained and constrained

  13-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The Met’s new exhibition about the gifted couple offers a deeply humane account of a relationship in which personality was virtually indistinguishable from art
  
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• Christie’s to Sell Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Featured in Vogue Portrait by Lee Miller

  12-10-2026 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s modern British and Irish art evening sale, taking place in London on October 21, will feature a mid-career sculpture by Barbara Hepworth with an estimate of £5 million–£8 million ($6.6 million–$10.5 million). Hepworth, one of the most well-known British modernist sculptors, carved Sculpture with Colour (Eos) in 1946 from a single piece of Hopton Wood stone, a type of limestone. The approximately two-foot-tall egg-shaped sculpture sits on a short platform
  
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• Sorry, But The Reading “Crisis” Isn’t One

  12-10-2026 20:01 via newrepublic.com
  
  The practice of using our eyes to create and absorb systems of language instead is so difficult and so weird, in fact, that, as best as we can tell, and as Marriott reminds us, it’s been invented no more than four times in our 300,000 years as a species. – The New Republic
  
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• Hollywood Expects David Ellison To Fail. Will He?

  12-10-2026 19:41 via nypost.com
  
  With $80 billion in debt and a sprawl­ing media empire to combine, David Ellison will have his hands full with the now court-approved combination of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, known as Skydance. But so-called “expert” opinion has him failing before he even starts. – New York Post
  
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• American Retirees Aren’t Spending Down Their Savings. This Is A Problem

  12-10-2026 19:21 via theatlantic.com
  A survey of older adults with at least $100,000 showed that only 28 percent were comfortable watching their savings taper off to cover living expenses, ostensibly exactly what the money was saved for in the first place. This is a problem—not just for retirees but for the country.  – The Atlantic
  
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• Frieze’s Kristell Chadé Discusses Why the Fair Has ‘Never Been About Adding Points on a Map’

  12-10-2026 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.In the last decade, the UK has been hit with Brexit and its aftermath, a global pandemic, and seven new prime ministers, but the country has retained its number two ranking in terms of global trade by value behind the US, according to the 2026 Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. When Frieze London and Frieze Masters take over the gro
  
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• New Hammer Museum Director Envisions A New Arts District

  12-10-2026 19:01 via latimes.com
  
  At an institution with a fiscal operating budget of about $30.4 million, she is seeking to place educational initiatives on equal footing with exhibitions, pursuing collaborations across the city, and positioning the Hammer as the anchor of a Westside arts district. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Netflix Admits Using AI On More Than 300 Projects

  12-10-2026 18:42 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Sung Q Lee, Netflix’s senior director of production for Asia-Pacific, said the technology was being deployed across the filmmaking process, but stressed the importance of preserving human creativity. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris to Collaborate on Two-Part Exhibition Pairing Leonora Carrington and Cecilia Vicuña

  12-10-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris will collaborate on a two-part exhibition pairing the work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña for the first time.The first part of the exhibition, titled “Leonora Carrington & Cecilia Vicuña,” will open at Lehmann Maupin in New York on November 19, while the second part will open at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco in January. The two parts have distinct checklists, to accommodate f
  
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• Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Reaches Funding Deal To Stay Open

  12-10-2026 18:22 via nytimes.com
  The museum, one of Europe’s most popular art institutions, had long campaigned for additional government funding for what it said were essential renovations to help preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh. – The New York Times
  
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• Six Of The Best First Lines In Literature

  12-10-2026 18:01 via theatlantic.com
  A novel’s first line is saddled with an extraordinary responsibility: to not only establish a story’s start but also to impart with indelible effect the writer’s voice.  – The Atlantic
  
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• Winaura Casino : vérification d’identité quand le nom contient des accents

  12-10-2026 17:56 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Une différence entre « Élodie » et « Elodie » peut suffire à ralentir une vérification d’identité sur Winaura Casino. Pour éviter un retrait bloqué, il faut saisir vos informations exactement comme elles apparaissent sur vos documents officiels. Ce guide explique comment gérer les accents, quelles pièces préparer et quoi faire si une demande de contrôle arrive au mauvais moment, notamment ap
  
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• Stake et jeux instantanés de type loterie : tableaux de gains et mécanismes de tirage

  12-10-2026 17:46 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Comment fonctionnent les jeux instantanés de type loterie sur Stake, et où trouver les gains possibles ? La réponse dépend de la campagne, du jeu et des conditions de mise. Cette analyse détaille les tirages, les classements et les récompenses publiées, tout en expliquant les points à vérifier avant de participer. Vous trouverez aussi une présentation de stake et de ses outils de jeu responsable.Quels mécanismes de tira
  
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• Mystake : comprendre les limites de retrait après une rétrogradation VIP

  12-10-2026 17:36 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Une rétrogradation dans un programme VIP peut modifier les avantages associés au compte, mais elle ne permet pas de déduire automatiquement une nouvelle limite de retrait. Pour évaluer la situation sur Mystake, il faut distinguer les conditions promotionnelles, les contrôles d’identité et les plafonds affichés dans la caisse. Les informations publiques disponibles restent limitées pour la France ; www.auto-moto-lucky.fr peut servir de
  
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• The Hidden World Of Art Logistics

  12-10-2026 17:35 via nytimes.com
  “Art logistics is the vital, invisible backbone of the global art market.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are National Anthems Always Orchestral?

  12-10-2026 17:15 via theguardian.com
  More to the point, why are some of them so dire? There’s no comparison between God Save the King and La Marseillaise; one’s a dirge, the other makes me want to march to the barricades. – The Guardian
  
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• Should The Paris Opera Remove Chagall’s Work In Favor Of The Original Dome Art?

  12-10-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  A relative of the 19th century artist whose work is under Chagall’s says oui: Jules-Eugène Lenepveu “was specifically chosen to decorate the opera ceiling by Charles Garnier, who designed everything in the opera house right down to the last door knob.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• In Search of the Future, Artists Give New Life to Dead AI Models

  12-10-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every other Monday.The development of generative AI text-to-video models has been charted over the past few years through a simple prompt: “Will Smith eating pasta.”The first videos, posted in 2023 using newly released Stable Diffusion models, feature a ravenous, monstrous rendering of the actor
  
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• The Oregon Guy Behind Goofy And Bozo The Clown

  12-10-2026 16:30 via opb.org
  
  Pinto Colvig, who got his first job as a clown when he was 12 and visiting the Lewis & Clark Centennial Expo in Portland, also voiced Grumpy and Sleepy, and a whole host of other characters. – OPB
  
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• Previewing The Met’s Lincoln In The Bardo

  12-10-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “‘Wild scene,’ the writer George Saunders said, a little wide-eyed, after witnessing a portion of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lincoln in the Bardo unfold.” – The New York Times
  
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• If Bookshops Make Ninety Percent Of People Happier, What’s Going On For The Ten Percent?

  12-10-2026 15:45 via irishtimes.com
  
  “One crime bookshops have been getting away with for years is their blatant role in incentivising the creation of ‘TBR’ (to-be-read) piles.” – Irish Times
  
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• Choral Evensong, A Long Tradition In Britain, Is Threatened By Many Different Pressures

  12-10-2026 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “There is something profoundly human about sitting quietly in a great building, hearing young and old voices combine in astonishingly beautiful music.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Cindy Sherman Collaborates with Chanel on Arts & Culture Magazine, Austrian Presidential Candidate Promises Return of Aztec Headdress to Mexico, and More: Morning Links for October 12, 2026

  12-10-2026 15:20 via artnews.com
  
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  Cindy Sherman is the cover star of the second volume of Chanel’s Arts & Culture magazine.Austrian presidential candidate Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn says that if elected, he’ll return a 16th-century Aztec headdress to Mexico, currently located in Vienna’s Weltmuseum.A descendant of the 19th-century artist Jules-Eugène Lenepveu is taking legal action to dem
  
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• Indie Publisher New Directions Keeps Finding Nobel Prize Winners

  12-10-2026 15:15 via nytimes.com
  “In an era when corporate publishers dominate a rapidly consolidating industry, New Directions has remained independent and continued its long tradition of seeking out and nurturing some of the world’s most seminal authors.” – The New York Times
  
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• Since The Time Traveller’s Wife Was Published, Its Author Has Become Famous – And, She Says, Radicalized

  12-10-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  “In early scene in the new book involves a group of neo-Nazis at a house party. When she was writing it, few people believed the US would witness a resurgence of neo-nazism.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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