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• Conductor Herbert Blomstedt, 99

  05-11-2026 22:10 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Herbert Blomstedt, who led the San Francisco Symphony for ten years, died at 99 in Gothenburg, Sweden (NPR). He conducted in Detroit and Leipzig this year, in recent seasons from a piano bench.The Crucible, a 27-year-old industrial arts school in West Oakland, closed without notice and told more than 150 staff and faculty to stop work, then laid them off (KQED). Its union says management ignored its cost-cutting proposals, weeks after the school received over $1.5 million in grants.
  
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• American Alliance of Museums Makes Case for Policy Proposals Following Democrats’ Landslide Election Win

  10-11-2026 19:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made reining in the cultural sphere a core plank of his agenda.Those efforts have included slashing federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); attempting to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in his image; and unleashing a relentless barrage of executive orders, attempted firings, and investigations t
  
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• The Secret Handshake’s Latest Statue Mocks President Trump for Toe-Related Deferment to Avoid Vietnam War Draft

  10-11-2026 18:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  One of the five deferments President Donald Trump received to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War is now the subject of a new statue mocking him by the Secret Handshake, an anonymous artist collective. On Monday, a gold statue appeared on the National Mall depicting Trump sitting down and holding his right foot, reports the Washington Post.The plaque at the base of the statue says, “We honor the service and sacrifice of our Commander in Chief, Donald J. Trump. He’s a soldier in spirit, w
  
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• Britain’s BalletBoyz At 25

  10-11-2026 16:05 via ArtsJournal
  “Let’s dispel the myth about BalletBoyz — it’s not an all-male company and never has been. There were women in their first shows 25 years ago, in this show and others in between, while the ensemble’s lineup can change every year.” Founders William Trevitt and Michael Nunn never liked the name, anyway. – The Times (UK)
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Visited MoMA’s West African Modern Architecture Survey and Loved It

  10-11-2026 15:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has continued his social media campaign to stump for exhibitions staged by the city’s museums, this time focusing on a survey of West African modernist architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, whose praises he sang on Instagram early this morning.Titled “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa,” the 400-work show surveys architectural projects in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon produced during a period o
  
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• Chicagoans Vote To Create Permanent Site For Rock Festivals. But …

  10-11-2026 15:36 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The (non-binding ballot) measure, meant to gauge public interest, arrived after pushback in recent years from some Chicagoans who oppose privately run festivals taking place in the city’s public spaces, from Lollapalooza in Grant Park to Riot Fest in Douglass Park. But despite electoral support, there are no clear next steps.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Only Known Handwritten Draft of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Could Top $10 M. at Christie’s

  10-11-2026 15:05 via ARTnews.com
  
  Christie’s announced Monday that it will offer the only known handwritten manuscript of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, better known as the “I Have a Dream” speech.The manuscript has seven yellow pages of King’s handwriting, including edits and cross-outs. It will be offered in a single-lot sale on January 22, 2027. The lot will carry an estimate on request, though Christie’s said it expects the manuscript to sell for more than $1
  
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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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• Julia Stoschek Collection to Celebrate 20 Years with ‘Selfish in Bed’ Exhibition and Düsseldorf Reopening

  10-11-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Sarah Lucas doesn’t appear particularly apologetic in her 2000 self-portrait Selfish in Bed II. Standing with her hands on her hips, the British artist wears a black T-shirt with the words “SELFISH IN BED” printed across the front. Next April, that cheeky photograph will set the tone for a major group exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany.Aptly titled Selfish in Bed, the exhibition opens on April 10, 2027, and will bring togeth
  
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• Former CFO Sues Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Claiming Her Severance Was Withheld

  10-11-2026 14:32 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Valarie McDuffie has accused museum director and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and board chair Ellen Caplan of withholding nearly $150,000 in severance out of ‘spite and retaliation.’ But the museum has countered with allegations of its own, claiming that McDuffie breached her severance agreement.” – ARTnews
  
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• Contemporary Stained-Glass Windows Installed in Notre-Dame, Spanish Man Awarded $1.12 M. for Renaissance Door Discovery, and More: Morning Links for November 10, 2026

  10-11-2026 14:30 via ARTnews.com
  
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  New stained-glass windows by French artist Claire Tabouret have been quietly installed in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and will be unveiled to the public on December 7.Canada has just proposed a federal budget that exempts artists from paying taxes on C$45,000 ($38,000) of their earnings.The 1963 handwritten final draft of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I Hav
  
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• The $900,000 Plug Hiding in Your Balanced Budget

  10-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  Every budget is a set of promises.
  Most boards treat a budget as a forecast, a test of how good or bad management is at predicting the future. But when a board approves next year’s budget, it is also approving a list of commitments the organization says it will keep: pay these people, fix that roof, raise this much from these donors by these dates. The bottom line comes out to zero, everyone exhales, and the minutes record a balanced budget. That zero says very little about whether the promise
  
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• For The First Time, The Booker Prize Goes To A Bona Fide Sci-Fi Novel

  10-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history.” Booker Prize Foundation CEO Gaby Wood called it “the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world.” – The Guardian
  
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• Collectors Jill and Peter Kraus Want Artists to Look at Their Upstate New York Property and React to It

  10-11-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Jill and Peter Kraus’s almost 400-acre property in Dutchess County, New York, the rolling hills add to the serenity and also create drama. Standing in front of any one of the 18 commissioned outdoor sculptures here, you can’t see any of the others. Sabine Hornig’s 2010 concrete work, Entrance With Floating Stairs II, for example, stands atop a hill. “What I love about this piece is the siting of it,” Jill Kraus told me as we pulled up to the work on a Polaris utility terrain vehicle
  
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• Future of Photography

  10-11-2026 06:02 via Visual Arts
  200 years since the creation of the first photograph, this special report surveys how photographers, educators and curators are positioning the art form as it once again grapples with rapid technological change
  
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• Thomas Ruff: ‘Photography will live forever’

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Ahead of a major retrospective at Paris Photo, the prolific artist reflects on nearly 50 years of photographic experimentation
  
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• Publishers battle rising costs to maintain photobook renaissance

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Ever more ambitious projects are entering a market that is barely growing
  
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• Photography education navigates the rise of artificial imagery

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Art schools are grappling with how to teach students to use AI-generated imagery in ways that do not undermine the reasons for studying photography
  
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• Photography at 200: Why the camera still matters in the age of AI

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  From cinema to television and AI-generated imagery, photography has remained remarkably resilient throughout two centuries
  
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• Past is future at this year’s Paris Photo

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Highlights from the Grand Palais as the world’s largest fair dedicated to photography celebrates 200 years of the art form
  
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• Lebanese artist Dala Nasser: ‘I feel like Indiana Jones’

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The adventurer undertakes expeditions to ruins steeped in myths across the Middle East, making charcoal rubbings from ancient texts and symbols
  
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• ‘I’m well aware audiences will watch what we do here’ — Makeda Best

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Curator’s appointment to the ‘judgment seat’ of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art comes as the art form is once again being reshaped by technology
  
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• Macklemore Says Nine Arenas Rejected Palestine Benefit Shows

  10-11-2026 00:33 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Macklemore says nine U.S. arenas, including Madison Square Garden, offered dates and then withdrew them once they learned his shows would benefit Palestinian relief (The Wrap). MSG Entertainment says he is “not an arena level act.” The other eight didn’t respond.Seven legal-pad pages of Martin Luther King’s handwritten draft for the March on Washington turned up in a desk drawer of his aide Edward Clayton, and Christie’s expects more than $10 million at a January 22 sale (
  
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• Moab Petroglyphs Discovered Vandalized: ‘Irreplaceable Cultural Resources’

  09-11-2026 22:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah is seeking the culprits behind two incidents of vandalism that left protected petroglyphs near Moab riddled with crude carvings, including that signature and another, less distinct marking.The vandals reportedly struck one site along Highway 279, a scenic stretch parallel to the Colorado River, and one by Hell’s Revenge, a well-known off-road slickrock trail. Photos taken by the Bureau, and first published by SF Gate, show clear damage to the petroglyph
  
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• Getty Pitches In on First-Ever Conservation of an Earthquake-Damaged 17th-Century Church in the Andean Highlands of Peru

  09-11-2026 22:42 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Getty will work with local authorities on the first-ever conservation project on a 17th-century earthen church in the Andean highlands of the Cusco region of Peru. The Church of Santo Tomás de Aquino, locally known as the Church of Rondocan, is a sacred cultural heritage site. Over the years, earthquakes have damaged the church, and not only the structure but also the church’s collection of more than 300 cultural objects is under threat.The Peruvian government has allotted $5 million to a
  
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• AviaMasters im Kurzsession-Modus: Warum mobile Spieler auf schnelle Flugrunden setzen

  09-11-2026 21:55 via Zouch
  
  Es ist Mittagspause. Jemand steht in der Schlange beim Bäcker, zieht das Handy aus der Tasche und öffnet für zwei, drei Minuten eine Casino-App. Genau in diesem Moment passt AviaMasters wie kaum ein anderes Spiel. Das rote Flugzeug von BGaming startet, sammelt ein paar Multiplikatoren ein, und wenige Sekunden später ist die Runde auch schon wieder vorbei. Kein langes Warten, kein kompliziertes Regelwerk. Wer sich auf dieterwiefelspuetz.de über schnelle Casual-Titel informiert, stößt schne
  
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• LACMA’s Star-Studded Art+Film Gala Raises Nearly $7 M.

  09-11-2026 21:39 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted its 15th annual Art+Film Gala this past weekend, raising nearly $7 million “to support LACMA’s efforts to make film more central to its curatorial programming, as well as the museum’s broader mission,” per a release.Each Art+Film Gala honors one luminary from the art world and one from film. This year’s honorees were artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, while Rosé performed during the festivities. Eva Chow and Leonardio DiCapr
  
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• Scholar Dishes About Finding a Long-Lost Caravaggio Painting in Paris

  09-11-2026 21:38 via ARTnews.com
  
  On a gray winter day in Paris three years ago, art historian Maria Cristina Terzaghi walked into the back room of a Parisian gallery and came face-to-face with a painting that had been missing for nearly two centuries. The picture was covered in grime, but she recognized it right away: Young Man with a Carafe of Roses, a work believed to have been painted by Caravaggio in the 1590s.Terzaghi, a professor at Roma Tre University and one of the world’s leading Caravaggio scholars, has now offered
  
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• New Archaeological Discoveries Made at Etruscan Necropolis in Italy

  09-11-2026 20:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Archaeologists carrying out emergency conservation work at the ancient Etruscan necropolis of Monte Abatone in Cerveteri, Italy, have found carved rock thrones, walls decorated with paint, and an almost intact jar featuring incised figures. The news was announced on the Facebook page of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Southern Etruria.Monte Abatone was one of the principal burial grounds of Caere, an important Etruscan city about 21 miles northwest of Rome. The fi
  
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• Former Philadelphia Museum CFO Claims Severance Was Withheld as ‘Retaliation’

  09-11-2026 20:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  The fallout from the contentious firing of former Philadelphia Museum of Art director Sasha Suda continues to reverberate through the institution, recent litigation suggests.Former Philadelphia Museum of Art CFO Valarie McDuffie has accused museum director and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and board chair Ellen Caplan of withholding nearly $150,000 in severance out of “spite and retaliation.” But the museum has countered with allegations of its own, claiming that McDuffie breached her severance agreem
  
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