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• Could This Technology Solve Electronic Ticketing Problems?

  12-08-2017 01:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As Citizen Ticket's technology – BitTicket – is based on blockchain, it means that batches cannot be oversold and tickets cannot be copied or counterfeited, while the number of tickets in a transaction is also monitored."
  
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• TEFAF New York Names 88 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition at Park Avenue Armory

  10-02-2026 23:10 via artnews.com
  TEFAF New York will return to the Park Avenue Armory from May 15 to 19, 2026, with 88 exhibitors presenting modern and contemporary art, design, jewelry, and antiquities. An invitation-only preview will take place on May 14.The 2026 edition will bring together dealers from 14 countries across four continents. The roster includes nine new exhibitors and 78 returning participants, with four galleries rejoining after an absence.“The heart of TEFAF New York lies with its exhibitors,” Lea
  
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• With New Bill, Israel Moves to Expand Control Over Ancient West Bank Sites

  10-02-2026 22:40 via artnews.com
  Israel has unveiled a bill to oversee West Bank antiquities, drawing condemnation as a violation of international law and a further escalation of its annexation of Palestinian territory.The bill was approved for a first reading by the Israeli Knesset’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation on February 8. It would give Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu “sweeping authority” to appoint the governing council, designate antiquity sites, and expropriate land and artifacts across the We
  
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• Lauren Haynes Appointed Executive Director of Atlanta Contemporary

  10-02-2026 20:34 via artnews.com
  Atlanta Contemporary has named Lauren Haynes’s as its new executive director, effective March 16. She replaces interim ED Everett Long, who had been in the position since last summer.Haynes brings a wealth of curatorial experience to her new role, from institutions throughout the United States. She was most recently vice president of arts & culture and head curator at the Trust for Governors Island. Governors Island, in New York Harbor, has robust arts programming, including exhibition
  
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• Investigators Find Decades-Long Mismanagement, Corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum

  10-02-2026 19:31 via artnews.com
  An investigation into the Nanjing Museum, one of China’s premier state-run cultural institutions, found that decades of systemic mismanagement and corruption enabled the secret sale of national treasures into the private art market. According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal erupted last September after the museum was accused of selling donated paintings, prompting an investigation by Chinese authorities that has since focused on a former director. The publication reported
  
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• Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane

  10-02-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  John Phelan, a prominent art collector and the current Secretary of the Navy, is revealed to have flown on the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to a report by CNN. Flight logs note that he flew from London to New York on March 3 of that year. The flight came four months before Epstein was first indicted in Florida for felony solicitation of prostitution.CNN reports that a close friend of the secretary confirmed that Phelan was on the flight, “but e
  
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• Bard College President Leon Botstein Scrutinized for Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

  10-02-2026 19:05 via artnews.com
  Longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has helmed the influential liberal-arts school since 1975, is under fire after the release of email communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, suggest a relationship more personal than had been previously disclosed.On Monday, the New York Times reported that Botstein had sent Epstein a grateful note regarding a 2012 trip to the Caribbean that he recently claimed not to remember in detail—includ
  
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• Ali Eyal Wins Hammer Museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award

  10-02-2026 19:00 via artnews.com
  The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has announced the winners of the three prizes it gives out for each edition of its Made in L.A. biennial.Ali Eyal has won the Mohn Award, which comes with $100,000 and a Hammer-produced monograph on his work. Carl Cheng, who is in his 80s, won the Career Achievement Award, which comes with $25,000. Greg Breda was selected by public vote of visitors to the exhibition to receive the Public Recognition Award, which also comes with $25,000.Eyal and Cheng were selecte
  
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• Philadelphia Museum of Art Chief of Staff Departs as Tumult Continues

  10-02-2026 18:39 via artnews.com
  A period of turmoil at the newly rechristened Philadelphia Museum of Art continued on this week as two more senior staffers are set to resign from their posts.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that chief of staff Maggie Fairs and CFO Valerie McDuffie will both vacate their posts. Fairs is expected to leave by the end of February while McDuffie’s final day will be Friday.Fairs was appointed to her post by Sasha Suda, who was fired in November from her post as director and CEO for an unspeci
  
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• Counterpublic Triennial’s 2026 Edition to Take Theme of ‘Coyote Time’

  10-02-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  The upcoming iteration of Counterpublic, a triennial staged in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced the exhibition’s title and a number of its main venues around the Gateway City. The 2026 show will run September 12 to December 12.For their version of Counterpublic, the five-person curatorial team—consisting of Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush—chose “Coyote Time” as the title and theme. They have commissioned 50 artist
  
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• Frieze New York Names More Than 65 Galleries for 2026 Edition

  10-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  Frieze New York has named the more than 65 galleries that will participate in its upcoming 2026 edition, which will be the sixth iteration staged at the Shed in Hudson Yards.This year’s Frieze New York is scheduled to take place May 13–17, its timing comes closer to the middle of the month of May than usual in order to avoid conflicting with the professional days and opening of the 2026 Venice Biennale. The exhibitor list includes several of the world’s leading galleries includ
  
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• Five Artists Honored, Including Claire Fujita and Yuki Kobayashi—TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition Opens

  10-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  Warehouse TERRADA, which supports emerging artists on the foundation of its art-storage business, opened the finalist exhibition for TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 on January 16. Works by five artists poised to shape the next generation are now on view.Related ArticlesUnleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of Tomorrow How Warehouse Terrada Turned Reclaimed Land at the Edge of Tokyo into Japan's Leading "Art Quarter"
  
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• MoMA PS1 Names 53 Artists for Ambitious Survey of New York’s Art Scene

  10-02-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  MoMA PS1 has revealed the 53 artists who will participate in Greater New York, the Queens museum’s quinquennial devoted to New York City’s art scene.Opening on April 16, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on its staff to organize the show. The exhibition’s curatorial team includes director Connie Butler, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs Ruba Ka
  
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• British Museum Raises $4.8 M to Keep ‘Tudor Heart,’ Authenticity Concerns Intensify Legal Battle Over Collection Attributed to Russian Modernists: Morning Links for February 10, 2026

  10-02-2026 13:36 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE ULTIMATE VALENTINE’S GIFT. The British Museum has managed to raise £3.5 million ($4.8 million) to acquire the “Tudor Heart,” reports ARTnews. The engraved, heart-shaped, 24-carat-gold pendant and chain was found by a metal detectorist in Warwickshire, and is the only known piece of jewelry to have survived the pe
  
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• Ukrainian Pavilion at Venice Biennale to Take Aim at Lack of Security Guarantees

  10-02-2026 13:01 via artnews.com
  The Ukrainian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale will take aim at a question that has haunted the country for decades: what are security guarantees worth? According to an announcement made in Kyiv on February 5, the pavilion will focus on the failure of international promises to protect Ukraine.Titled “Security Guarantees,” the project refers to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, an agreement signed by Ukraine, the UK, the US, and Russia, under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear
  
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• Battle Over 1,800 Paintings Attributed to Russian Modernist Masters Intensifies After Litigation Funder Raises Authenticity Concerns

  10-02-2026 11:24 via artnews.com
  A long-running dispute over a collection of roughly 1,800 paintings attributed to Russian modernist masters has escalated after a litigation funder said it may have been misled about the works’ authenticity. The development has added a new layer of tension to a case already entangled in competing ownership claims, criminal investigations, and multimillion-dollar lawsuits across several countries.The controversy centers on the late Palestinian collector Uthman Khatib, his son Castro Ben Leo
  
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• British Museum Raises $4.8 M. to Keep ‘Tudor Heart’ Pendant in UK

  10-02-2026 01:01 via artnews.com
  The British Museum announced that it has successfully raised £3.5 million ($4.8 million) to acquire the “Tudor Heart” pendant and keep the centuries-old object in the UK.The museum described the Tudor Heart as “unlike any object in the British Museum collection or elsewhere in the UK.” The 24-carat-gold pendant, which is accompanied by a 75-link gold chain, is currently the only known piece of jewelry to survive from the period of Henry VIII’s reign during his
  
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• Michaels Sues Artist Who Claimed the Craft Store Giant Used His Work Without Permission

  09-02-2026 23:46 via artnews.com
  Street artists have found themselves in legal conflicts for years with fashion brands and other companies that employ their work in advertising and social media campaigns. Some have won settlements after legal battles with these companies, which claim they do not need to contact the artists for their works, which often appear in public and sometimes are created illegally.Now, Chicago artist Jordan Nickel, who goes by the moniker Pose, finds himself in a legal conflict with arts and crafts retail
  
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• First Art Basel Qatar Closed with Institutional Acquisitions, Mid-Market Strength, and Measured Sales Momentum

  09-02-2026 23:28 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Qatar closed its inaugural edition this week with numbers that suggest Doha has quickly established itself as a serious market platform. Getting there required patience.Selling in Doha was always going to unfold differently. The Qatari royal family was given a private walkthrough on Monday, the day before VIP preview began. Sorces told ARTnews that galleries were told that any work placed on hold would either be confirmed as sold or released within 24 hours. Yet even on
  
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• Political Bribery Investigation in South Korea Involving Lee Ufan Painting Draws to a Close

  09-02-2026 22:48 via artnews.com
  A bizarre saga involving a painting attributed to Lee Ufan and Kim Keon-hee, the wife of South Korea’s impeached and jailed former president Yoon Suk-yeol, may be drawing to a close.Kim Sang-min, a former chief prosecutor, had previously been accused of purchasing Lee’s From Point No. 800298 in 2023 for around 140 million won (about $100,000) and then gifting the work to the former first lady in exchange for political favors. On Monday, he was acquitted of violating the Improper Soli
  
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• Long Misidentified, Object in Museum Is Oldest Drilling Tool Found Yet in Egypt

  09-02-2026 21:52 via artnews.com
  A small metal object excavated almost 100 years ago has been identified as the oldest known drilling tool yet found in Egypt. The news was reported by Archeology Today.The artifact came from a predynastic cemetery at the archeological site of Badari in Upper Egypt and dates to the late 4th millennium BCE. Part of the grave goods of an adult male, it is made of copper alloy and measures only about two and a half inches.A 1924 catalog entry at Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, wher
  
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• Ai Weiwei Says London’s Royal Academy Sought to Eject Him After Post–October 7 Tweet about Jews

  09-02-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  In a new interview with The Guardian in advance of his forthcoming book On Censorship, artist Ai Weiwei talked about experiencing censorship not just in his native China but also in the West—including an incident involving his membership in London’s Royal Academy.After chronicling some of his storied challenges and acts of defiance against China’s communist regime, Ai told writer Lanre Bakare he feels “the same kind of surveillance, same kind of censorship in the west.&rd
  
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• Meet the Speakerhead Wiring the Art World for Sound

  09-02-2026 20:08 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now.One of the standout works in “Art of Noise,” an exhibition of music-related design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, is a listening room devoted to a sound system built by Devon Turnbull, also known as OJAS. In the past few years, Turnbull has garnered attention as a high-fidelity evangeli
  
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• Debbie Harry, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Al Green Appear in New Factory Images Acquired by the Smithsonian

  09-02-2026 19:54 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has added more than 400 rarely seen images of famous figures who passed through Andy Warhol’s Factory, from David Hockney and Debbie Harry, to Georgia O’Keeffe and Paloma Picasso. According to the institution, the images were captured by the artist Ronald “Ronnie” Cutrone as stereoscopic slides, pairing two photographs to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth.
  Cutrone, a performer (with the Velvet Underground, not
  
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• Bedoya: The Imagination Of Democracy

  09-02-2026 19:40 via reader.giarts.org
  We already carry muscle memory: voting, organizing for fairness and equity, creating the beauty of art expressed in what we share between us — images, songs, movements, designs, or letters — shapes the will of the people and creates knowledges and visions of a fully manifested democracy. – GIA Arts
  
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• Spotify Adds Physical Books To Its Service

  09-02-2026 19:20 via hollywoodreporter.com
  The tech platform is launching Page Match, a tool that will allow readers to scan a page of a printed or e-book using their phone and continue listening to the audiobook version where they left off. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Dreaming of Creating a Giant Public Artwork With Google? Artist Judy Chicago Doesn’t Recommend It.

  09-02-2026 19:14 via artnews.com
  For just about any artist, a major, permanent public commission from a giant global corporation might seem like great news. The artist might expect big budgets, massive exposure, and a ribbon-cutting with the mayor and CEO. Even Judy Chicago, an icon of feminist art who has had solo exhibitions at institutions from New York’s New Museum to San Francisco’s de Young Museum and whose massive piece The Dinner Party (1974–79) is on permanent view at the Brooklyn Museum, anticip
  
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• Longtime Musician: The Music Industry Is Broken

  09-02-2026 19:02 via guitarworld.com
  I’ve spent roughly 20 years in the Australian extreme metal scene – clubs, festivals, support slots with bands like Napalm Death, Psycroptic and Gorguts – and I can tell you this: the industry isn’t just tough. It’s quietly chewing up the people who keep it alive. – GuitarWorld
  
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• MFA Boston Denies Targeting DEI Staff in Cutbacks, Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang Stepping Down: Morning Links for February 9, 2026

  09-02-2026 18:47 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesFACING PUBLIC BACKLASH, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has denied targeting DEI employees when it fired 33 people, including the institution’s only Muslim curator, Nadirah Mansour, only Native American curator, Marina Tyquiengco, and only Black curator, theo Tyson, reports Artnet News. After news of the layoffs effective Jan. 30, 130 staff
  
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• Davone Tines On Defining A Role In Classical Music

  09-02-2026 18:40 via theguardian.com
  What’s too often missing for Tines in opera and classical music is an investigation into why treasured artworks remain valuable and what they may say today. What he’s not interested in, he concludes with a knowing cackle, is being “slapped into someone’s production of Don Giovanni. – The Guardian
  
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