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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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• Miami Art Dealer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake Warhols

  16-10-2026 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  A Miami art dealer received a 46-month federal prison sentence on Thursday in a long-running case centered around his efforts to sell fake Andy Warhol works.Leslie Roberts is now facing his second prison sentence since he opened his Miami Fine Art Gallery in 1997. In 2015, he received a 22-month sentence for a case involving faked Romero Britto and Peter Max paintings. He was given three years of supervised release, but the agreement was voided in 2018, after he was accused of trying to negotiat
  
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• Strife at Tom of Finland Foundation as Cofounder Levels Accusations and the Board Claims Harassment

  16-10-2026 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  It has been a long road to recognition for the artist known as Tom of Finland, who started out in the queer erotica underground, submitting his drawings of gay men with eye-popping physiques, often dressed in leather fetish gear and engaged in equally eye-popping sex acts, to magazines like Physique Pictorial in the 1950s, sometimes seeing them branded as pornographic.Despite those origins, he has arrived at international renown. When Finland’s postal service released stamps devoted to the
  
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• Police Recover Three Religious Artworks Stolen From Spanish Churches

  16-10-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody, though investigators are still looking for a fourth missing sculpture.The recovered objects include a Baroque wooden angel from the Church of Vera Cruz, a copy of Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales, and a panel depicting the Seventh Station of the Cross. The latter two belonged t
  
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• The Huntington’s Newest Acquisitions Include Works by Raqib Shaw, Robert Indiana, and More

  16-10-2026 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  Los Angeles–area cultural institution the Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced this year’s gifts to its art collection funded by the Huntington’s Art Collectors’ Council. Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators.The five Art Collectors’ Council acquisitions span the 16th to the 21st centuries and encompass a range of media. The gifts build on the mus
  
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• Have Fashion Folk Ruined the Frieze London Experience?

  16-10-2026 18:40 via artnews.com
  
  Frieze Week has become a pilgrimage site for fashion folk. Since 2022, the fashion population has been aggressively migrating to the art fair; that same year McQueen and Roksanda staged their runways shows to coincide with Frieze London and Frieze Masters. In the lead-up to Frieze Week, there has been some chatter among art journalists, publicists and gallerists about the increasing number of fashion attendees making a pitstop just for an Instagram photo.So, has fashion ruined Frieze?“Ruin
  
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• Francesco Bonami Named Artistic Director of Russian Billionaire’s Moscow Art Complex

  16-10-2026 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  Francesco Bonami, a widely regarded curator whose achievements include curating the 2003 edition of the Venice Biennale, has been named artistic director of the GES-2 House of Culture, the Moscow art space sited across a river from the Kremlin.Opened in 2021, not long before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the 440,000-square-foot GES-2 House of Culture is run by the V-A-C Foundation, which was established by the Russian-Israeli billionaire collector Leonid Mikhelson. The owner of one of the
  
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• Art Week NYC Announces 32 Participating Institutions, New Museum Programming for Inaugural Fall Event

  16-10-2026 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  On Friday, Art Week NYC, a four-day event taking place throughout the city from November 11 through 14, announced a list of 32 participating institutions. They include museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum; nonprofits like ArtTable, the Madison Square Park Conservancy, and the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation; and many other citywide arts organizations.ARTnews, along with sister publication Art in America and Artforum, three of th
  
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• The Best Booths at Frieze London, From Scenes of Eroding UK Coastlines to an Installation Picturing AI Through the Human Digestive System

  16-10-2026 17:04 via artnews.com
  
  Across the more than 170 exhibitors, the 2026 edition of Frieze London features a diverse array of works from mixed-media installations to textiles drawing on Indigenous weaving traditions to found objects to interactive digital works to works on paper. Throughout the aisles, visitors will find work by artists engaging a range of themes in their work, including climate change, the human life cycle, the destructive nature of AI, and more.Below, a look at the 10 best booths at Frieze London, which
  
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• London Invitational Targets the City’s Diverse Collectors Amid ‘Bullish’ and ‘Struggling’ Market

  16-10-2026 16:45 via artnews.com
  
  When Sotheby’s reported first-half consolidated sales of $4.4 billion in July, some suggested that the business was now stretching beyond the auction room and into hospitality and real estate. If this Frieze Week is anything to go by, it seems smaller art fairs like Minor Attractions and London Invitational (an extension of the Dallas Invitational) have also taken note.Minor Attractions changed locations for its fourth edition and picked The Newman as its new home, a recently opened hotel
  
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• Antoine Billore – the cheekiest boy in antiques

  16-10-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Nude selfies first got his business noticed. It’s still irreverent, but fully dressed 
  
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• The perfect artist’s studio? An attic in Paris

  16-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The bohemian ideal of the struggling young genius was nurtured in the ramshackle world of 19th-century Montmartre and Montparnasse
  
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• Director of Operations

  16-10-2026 02:14 via artsjournal.com
  The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (“The Clarice”) at the University of Maryland is the nationally recognized, innovative, collaborative and supportive home for UMD’s School of Music (SOM); the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS); and The Clarice’s own artistic platform, Clarice Presents; as well as The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library (MSPAL). Together they create a welcoming, collaborative, and socially-conscious community for students,
  
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• Manager, Artistic Administration

  16-10-2026 02:12 via artsjournal.com
  The primary responsibility of the Manager, Artistic Administration is to support the activities of The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s presenting program, Clarice Presents, which is dedicated to building the future of the arts through innovative performances and meaningful engagement of The Clarice’s community. Clarice Presents’ four programs includes Performance, Community, Civic, and Digital areas, as well as the NextNow Fest and National Orchestral Institute + Festiva
  
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• The Granada Theatre seeks Vice President of Stage Production & Operations

  16-10-2026 02:09 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary The Vice President of Stage Production & Operations (VP) will serve as the senior functional leader for Stage Production, Front of House, Hospitality, and Building Operations at The Granada Theatre (Granada), ensuring performances, events, rentals, resident company engagements, and touring productions are delivered safely, efficiently, and to high standards of service, technical excellence, readiness, and financial stewardship.The VP will guide labor administration, estimati
  
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• Executive Director – Guild Hall of East Hampton

  16-10-2026 02:01 via artsjournal.com
  Guild Hall seeks a visionary, collaborative, and operationally disciplined Executive Director to lead one of the country’s most distinctive multidisciplinary cultural institutions into its second century. This is a rare opportunity to build upon a period of extraordinary transformation while shaping Guild Hall’s next era of artistic excellence, civic leadership, financial sustainability, and national impact. Guild Hall’s historic galleries and theater have welcomed generations
  
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• Company Manager, Long Wharf

  16-10-2026 01:57 via artsjournal.com
  Reports to: General Manager (Finance & Operations)Works closely with: Director of Artistic & Community Partnerships, Artistic Producer, Production Management, Stage Management, Audience Experience, and guest artists.Location: Must reside in or near New Haven, CT, with regular on-site work at rehearsal, performance, and artist housing locations throughout the Greater New Haven area.Employment: Full-Time (non-exempt)Salary: $50,000–$60,000 annually, depending on experience, with bene
  
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• Chinese Hospitals Warn About the Flash Step

  16-10-2026 01:50 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A teaching film from the Beijing Dance Academy, posted in 2018 by a graduate who only wanted to preserve the footage, went viral in China last month. Its moves come from the Flower Drum Lantern dance, a national intangible cultural heritage of Anhui province, and a hospital affiliated with Yangzhou University now warns that untrained imitators are tearing ligaments (South China Morning Post). On Saturday Night Live, Rosalía appeared to stand en pointe for nearly four minutes
  
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• Ruletka na prawdziwe pieniadze na zywo – graj i wygrywaj!

  16-10-2026 01:22 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Co to jest ruletka na prawdziwe pieniadze na zywo?
  Ruletka na prawdziwe pieniadze na zywo to wspaniała forma rozrywki dla miłośników gier kasynowych, którzy chcą poczuć klimat prawdziwego kasyna, nie wychodząc z domu. Gra odbywa się na żywo, z udziałem prawdziwego krupiera, który prowadzi grę. Dzięki temu możesz cieszyć się grą na wysokim poziomie realizmu i emocji, podobnie jak w tradycyjnym kasynie.
  
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• Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Sale Tallies $61.1 M., Led by a $12.9 M. De Kooning

  15-10-2026 23:57 via artnews.com
  
  In a tense saleroom with a lot of silent moments and anxious pauses—at times it felt like a courtroom, with all eyes on auctioneer Tom Eddison—Sotheby’s London conducted a slow but steady £46.1 million ($61.1 million) contemporary art sale on Thursday in a full sale room, with a £9.8 million ($12.9 million) Willem de Kooning abstraction earning the top price. The sale carried an overall estimate of £41.7–58.6 million ($55.3–77.8 million); the hamme
  
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• National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Museum Misattributed Work from Private Collection

  15-10-2026 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled an object from his private collection from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator.You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked que
  
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• National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Misattributed Work from His Private Collection to the Musuem

  15-10-2026 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled an object from his private collection from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator.You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked que
  
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• Dino Bones Held in UK Museum for 100 Years Identified as New Species

  15-10-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  London’s Natural History Museum has millions of specimens in its collection, and until recently at least one dinosaur nobody knew it had.A fragment of skull that spent roughly a century in the museum’s holdings has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur, according to Discover. Better still, the creature appears to be Europe’s first known megaraptoran, a group of formidable prehistoric predators that have prevously identified elsewhere in the wor
  
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• Minor Attractions, a New London Fair In a Hotel, Finds Space for Emerging Galleries and Artists

  15-10-2026 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  Frieze Week in London has stopped being just about Frieze London and Frieze Masters as smaller fairs are seizing the opportunity for more intimate fair models. On Tuesday, Minor Attractions hosted its fourth edition—this time with a new location at The Newman, a newly opened hotel in central London.This year’s fair runs until Saturday, with 38 galleries from 15 countries set up in 16 bedrooms at the hotel. Some galleries are sharing, while others have an entire suite. “We wante
  
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• A New Met Show Promises Rembrandt, as Never Seen Before

  15-10-2026 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  Reframing Rembrandt, one of the Dutch Golden Age’s greats, is no small feat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art seems poised to pull it off, with an exhibition next year that will bring several of the artist’s works to the United States for the first time.“Rembrandt and the Ancients,” organized with the Louvre Museum and opening in New York in November 2027, is billed as the first in-depth museum examination of the artist’s fascination with the art and mythology of Medi
  
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• Writers Are Being Deluged With Scams, Even Though Most Don’t Have Much Money. How Come?

  15-10-2026 21:04 via thedial.world
  Because these scammers have hit on an M.O. to which writers are particularly susceptible, that’s why. And there are a lot of hopeful writers out there, so the scammers can ask for small amounts of money (making it look low-risk to the targets), and make bank on volume. – The Dial
  
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• Yes, Reading Has Changed. Adapt.

  15-10-2026 20:31 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  “We have everything we need to be happy,” the hero of Fahrenheit 451 observes, “but we aren’t happy.” Maybe that’s the ultimate lever to pull: the growing awareness that our devices are exhausting and eroding us. – The American Scholar
  
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• Minnesota Opera Orchestra Unanimously Votes To Strike

  15-10-2026 20:03 via mprnews.org
  The musicians say that, in contract negotiations, management has rejected any cost-of-living increases in pay. (Their salaries have been flat for the past four years.) The company’s season begins on Halloween with the world premiere of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Minita Gandhi. – Minnesota Public Radio
  
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• A Landmark Survey of Native Graphic Arts Defies Expectations

  15-10-2026 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  Through next February, New York’s Poster House is home to “Designed to Be Red,” a milestone survey of Native graphic arts. By institutional convention, such a show would unfold chronologically; but as its curator, the Native designer Brian Johnson, notes, time is a snake swallowing its own tail.The show spans two centuries and more than 60 tribes and nations, organized around five themes: Indigenous Joy, Creative Sovereignty, Protest, It’s Complicated, and Extractive Mark
  
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• Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction After Centuries in Private Hands

  15-10-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  
  A previously unknown drawing by18th century Italian painter and printmaker Canaletto is heading to auction in England next week with an estimate of $53,000 to $79,000, after two centuries apparently spent in a single family’s collection.The drawing, a fanciful architectural scene called a capriccio, will be on sale at Mallams auction house in Oxford on October 21. The work has been authenticated by Canaletto specialist Charles Beddington and dates to between 1746 and 1755, when the Venetia
  
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