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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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• Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Botched Beyond Previously Reported

  15-10-2026 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post exposé based on an inspection report obtained by the paper.The report, issued internally on August 6 after having been commissioned by the contractor in charge of repairs, documents far more problems than were previously known, and does not mention any vandalism of the kind that the Trump administration cited as a source of the troubles during the summer-lo
  
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• French Collector François Pinault Plans Permanent Hang in Venice Museum

  15-10-2026 17:58 via artnews.com
  
  At age 90, collector François Pinault, founder of the Kering luxury conglomerate and the investment holding company Artémis, isn’t getting any younger. So it’s hard not to wonder how that may have factored into his latest announcement in a rare interview with Le Monde, stating he plans to mount a first permanent exhibition from his collection of over 10,000 artworks, opening in March, 2027 at one of his two Venice museums, the ornate Palazzo Grassi. The display will fea
  
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• Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze London

  15-10-2026 17:44 via artnews.com
  
  Each year at Frieze London, Tate gets to buy works on view at the fair through a dedicated fund, and this time around, the museum purchased just two pieces: an abstraction by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and a sculptural work by Luis Fernando Zapata.Prices were not supplied by Tate, but the Yearwood-Dan painting, titled Peace Unknown (2026), was likely the more expensive work of the two. Sold by the mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, the painting features bursts of yellow, blue, and gree
  
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• FOG Design+Art Fair Names 76 Exhibitors for 2027 Edition, With Revised Layout

  15-10-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco has named 76 exhibitors for its upcoming 2027 edition, running January 21–24 at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts.Returning blue-chip exhibitors include David Zwirner, Lisson, Marian Goodman Gallery, Mendes Wood DM, and Hauser & Wirth, the only mega-gallery that currently has a location in the Bay Area. Galleries returning for 2027 after skipping out for 2026 include Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Commonwealth and Council, and Chris Sharp Gallery,
  
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• François Pinault Takes 106 Works to Palazzo Grassi, Louvre Accelerating Safety and Security, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Liner Failed, and More: Morning Links for October 15, 2026

  15-10-2026 16:05 via artnews.com
  
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  François Pinault will install a permanent exhibition of 106 works from his collection at Palazzo Grassi, one of his two museums in Venice.The Louvre’s security coordinator said the museum is accelerating a “culture of safety and security.”An inspection has uncovered that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner failed in at least 85 places, far more tha
  
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• Six must-see shows in Paris this autumn

  15-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Among the standout art exhibitions are retrospectives for impressionists Eva Gonzalès and Mary Cassatt, and Yu Nishimura’s first major European outing
  
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• Collector’s Diary: Chang Osathanugrah Reflects on What It Means to See Art with Fresh Eyes After Years of Looking

  15-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  I hadn’t expected a talking frog to remind me of why I fell in love with contemporary art, and I certainly hadn’t expected to lose it before I ever had the chance to buy it.In March, during a stretch of cool weather that reminds me why I still love Hong Kong, even when it no longer feels quite like the place I remember, I came across Ryan Gander’s 2025 sculpture You Complete Me, or I see things you can’t see (A Frog’s Tale) at Esther Schipper’s booth at Art Ba
  
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• [Woman] Painter credits unsung female heroes

  15-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  There are vanishingly few historic examples of artwork by women. An exhibition at the National Museum of Oslo is part of a new interest in rewriting art history
  
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• Gustave Fayet’s art collection was the glory of Paris — now it dazzles again

  15-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  This exhibition of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and more at the Fondation Louis Vuitton is a roll call of marvels — yet still full of eye-popping surprises
  
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• Antiques dealer Agathe Derieux: ‘The spirit of Yveline’s apartment remains’

  15-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The Paris antiques shop founded by her grandmother has an obsessive following — and her home nearby has just as many treasures and hidden stories
  
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• Christie’s London Sales Bring in $289 M., With Records for Bridget Riley and Liubov Popova

  15-10-2026 03:25 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s London brought in £218.6 million ($289.4 million) across two evening sales Wednesday, more than doubling last year’s total and offering an encouraging sign for the art market ahead of the New York auctions next month. Seven auction records were set, including five during the sale of British businessman Peter Simon’s collection, while a Wassily Kandinsky painting fetched £31.6 million ($41.8 million) in the evening’s second auction. (All prices repor
  
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• As Diplomatic Tensions Persist, British Museum Chairman ‘Optimistic’ on Parthenon Marbles Deal

  14-10-2026 23:46 via artnews.com
  
  George Osborne, chairman of the British Museum, has expressed hope that a deal can be struck to share the Parthenon Marbles between Athens and London, despite the two-centuries-long diplomatic feud.“I’m still optimistic that we can reach an agreement,” Osborne told reporters in Athens on Tuesday. “If everyone enters into it with the spirit of we’re not going to get everything we want, as is always the case with a successful agreement, then there’s a deal to be
  
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• Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad, Shigeo Otake Joins White Cube, and More: Industry Moves for October 14, 2026

  14-10-2026 23:00 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 Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad: The New York–based painter and cofounder of Reena Spaulings Fine Art will have a work in the gallery’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. She will debut a theatrical production, made with Ken Okiishi, at the New Theater Hollywood in February.Shigeo Otake Jo
  
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• Israel Returns 22 Looted Antiquities to Greece

  14-10-2026 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) returned 22 antiquities to Greece. The cache includes decorated pottery from the 8th through the 4th centuries BCE that had been seized during an illegal antiquities trafficking investigation in and around Tel Aviv in 2020.The ceremony took place at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and was attended by Lina Mendoni, the Greek Minister of Culture; Pninat Yanai, the Israeli Ambassador to Greece; and Amir Ganor, director of the IAA&rsquo
  
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• Monumental Statues of Ramses II Discovered in Egypt

  14-10-2026 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of two colossal statues believed to depict Ramses II after a local landowner reported finding an inscribed stone block in the village of Behbeit El-Hagar.The discoveries were made by an archaeological mission from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). According to Dr. Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of the SCA, the first find was a stone head more than five-feet-high from a massive statue. It depicts a man wearing a double crow
  
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• Frieze London Brings 400-Year-Old Paintings and Collectors in Their 20s

  14-10-2026 22:00 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.It’s fun to celebrity watch the entrance to Frieze London in Regent’s Park before the fair begins. As the floodgates opened for the VIP preview on Wednesday, Oscar-nominated actor Andrew Garfield and his girlfriend, actress Monica Barbaro, strolled in. Also present were Tilda Swinton, Bianca Jagger, London-based designer
  
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• At Frieze, an Artist Project in the Fair’s Public Toilets Confronts the UK’s Ongoing Bathroom Wars

  14-10-2026 20:02 via artnews.com
  
  At Frieze London this week, even the bathroom will be a place to see art. Gray Wielebinski’s new site-specific Production (2026) will transform the fair’s public toilets into an intimate olfactory environment, where scent, bodily function, privacy, desire, and surveillance will converge.Rather than disappearing into the functional infrastructure of the bathroom, Production announces itself as an artwork: Custom urinal cakes and toilet-rim blocks infused with two scents are housed in
  
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• We’re Losing Our Skills As We Lean Into Technology

  14-10-2026 19:15 via aeon.co
  We have fallen into habits that are steadily deskilling the human body, eroding capacities honed by evolution to support our wellbeing as we move through the world. Some of these capacities are weakening through disuse: we have come to rely on our phones, for example, and now, increasingly, on AI. – Aeon
  
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• Untangling The Myths Around Cormac McCarthy

  14-10-2026 19:03 via nytimes.com
  Many of those myths — that he was an outsider to the publishing world, a loner, reluctant to do press — come from a 1992 feature article published in The New York Times Magazine which was, it turns out, quite misleading. (However, McCarthy really was a lousy boyfriend and husband.) – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Salon 94 to Open Permanent Space in Paris During Art Basel

  14-10-2026 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  New York–based gallery Salon 94 will expand its footprint to Paris, where it will open a permanent space facing the Jardin du Palais Royal on October 18. Located at 30 Galerie de Montpensier, the 323-square-foot space will be inaugurated by a solo exhibition for Deborah Roberts, running through November 28.“Artists really led us to think about a space here,” Fabienne Stephan, Salon 94’s European director who will be leading the space, told ARTnews. “Artists love pre
  
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• Congressional Commission to Consider Adding Jewish Museum to Smithsonian Network

  14-10-2026 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is being considered as a potential new member of the Smithsonian museum network, with members of a new congressional commission sworn in on Tuesday set to study the matter.As reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Philip Darivoff, a former longtime chair of the Weitzman and current chair of the new commission, and Dara Horn, a writer serving as vice chair, “said that the Weitzman joining the Smithsonian would send
  
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• Complicating The Morality Of Colonialism?

  14-10-2026 18:44 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  “My pessimism is reinforced by the zero-sum view of economics that typically accompanies the zero-sum view of moral agency around colonialism. A major piece of evidence for the ‘colonisation explains everything’ thesis is economic.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Getty Images Is A Giant. It Was Worth $4.8B A Few Years Ago. Now It’s In Bankruptcy. What Happened?

  14-10-2026 18:31 via fastcompany.com
  Getty Images is preparing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after years of financial struggles, a failed merger, and growing competition from technology that can create images in seconds. – Fast Company
  
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• The Awards Show That Defines Troubled: Golden Globes V Golden Globe

  14-10-2026 18:15 via deadline.com
  
  Two months after the remnants of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association sued Penske Media Corporation for its part in Dick Clark Productions‘ purchase of the Golden Globes in 2023 with allegations of monopolization and fraudulent misrepresentation, the Penske-controlled Golden Globes is going after the Golden Globe Foundation for trademark infringement and unfair competition. – Deadline
  
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• Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition Has Spectators Flocking To Battle Of Hastings Re-Enactment

  14-10-2026 18:01 via nytimes.com
  “Each fall, about 1,000 history enthusiasts gather in Battle, a town in southern England, to recreate the Battle of Hastings (the main event depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry) … on the very landscape where the conflict unfolded on Oct. 14, 1066. This year … the crowds have been more teeming than usual.” – The New York Times
  
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• Indivisible: Lee Krasner And Jackson Pollock

  14-10-2026 17:46 via newyorker.com
  
  The blockbuster that just opened at the Met, “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” is probably, canvas for canvas, the best painting show in America this year. It does something I thought impossible, which is make Abstract Expressionism—the most fossilized of American art movements—seem new again.  – The New Yorker
  
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• The Essential Anne Carson: Fragments Across Time

  14-10-2026 17:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Fragmentation is frequently associated with the crisis of representation in 20th-century literature. Carson reveals that the ancient textual tradition already contains discontinuities that resist the modern desire for completeness. – The Conversation
  
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• Netflix Is Cutting 1000 Jobs As Stock Price, Customer Growth Stumble

  14-10-2026 17:14 via wsj.com
  Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or roughly 1,000 positions globally, its biggest round of layoffs since 2022, as it struggles with slowing growth and customer engagement. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Workers At La Scala Vote To Authorize One-Day Strike

  14-10-2026 17:02 via moto-perpetuo.com
  
  That day, October 20, is opening night for a new production of Gounod’s Faust, directed by Johannes Erath and conducted by Daniele Rustioni. House employees are demanding that their next contract include a 15% increase in gross pay. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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