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• Creative Time has a banner year

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  Creative Time unveiled its next project at its gala fundraiser on 3 May. For Pledges of Allegiance, to debut in New York this summer, the public-art body has invited 16 artistsincluding Yoko Ono, Robert Longo, Alex Da Corte and Ahmet gtto create customised flags addressing the current political climate. 
  Originally conceived by W Magazines Alix Browne, the project was developed in collaboration with her colleague Cian Browne, Salon 94 curator Fabienne Stephan and the fashion boutique Openi
  
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• Renowned Composer Philip Glass Withdraws Symphony from the Kennedy Center

  27-01-2026 19:39 via artnews.com
  Celebrated composer Philip Glass has withdrawn a symphony he composed on commission honoring Abraham Lincoln for the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he said in a statement today. The work, Symphony No. 15, was scheduled for its first-ever performance by the National Symphony Orchestra this June.Glass informed the center of his decision in a letter on Tuesday that he later shared on social media. “Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and
  
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• Alison Weaver Named Next Director of NYU’s Grey Art Museum

  27-01-2026 19:29 via artnews.com
  New York University announced Tuesday that Alison Weaver will serve as the next director of its Grey Art Museum. She will begin in the role on May 26, after the conclusion of the current academic year. Weaver succeeds Lynn Gumpert, who retired last year and had been in the role since 1997.Weaver comes to NYU from another university museum, theMoody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, where she served as founding executive director since 2015. Her last day at Rice will be on May 1.
  
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• Meet the Swiss Artist-Publisher Making Children’s Books With Artists Like Rachel Harrison and Martin Parr

  27-01-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  Rachel Harrison’s recent show “The Friedmann Equations,” at New York’s Greene Naftali gallery, was a highlight of 2025. To try to break it down briefly, it was classic Harrison: brainy, oblique, and funny. The show’s title alluded to mathematical formulas relating to the universe’s expansion that were used as a sly call for the opening up of society by Chinese dissidents amid Covid lockdowns. It included a number of her lumpy sculptures that mix abstract shape
  
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• Guggenheim Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Paintings by Salman Toor, Ambera Wellmann

  27-01-2026 18:08 via artnews.com
  New York’s Guggenheim Museum has revealed the 39 works that it acquired last year, among them paintings by some of today’s most celebrated artists.There were some historical works added to the collection last year, including pieces by Freddy Rodríguez and Fanny Sanín, who were born in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, respectively. Both were included in the 2024 Venice Biennale, and both relocated to the US.But many of the works acquired are by emerging and mid-caree
  
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• London’s Courtauld Will Build New Contemporary Art Galleries with $13.8 M. Blavatnik Gift

  27-01-2026 17:54 via artnews.com
  London’s Courtauld Gallery, home to a storied collection including works by artists like Manet and van Gogh, will open two new galleries devoted to contemporary art at the museum’s recently refurbished campus at Somerset House. The galleries will be built with a Blavatnik Family Foundation gift of £10 million ($13.8 million). This brings recent support by the foundation to a total of £20 million ($27.5 million). The top-floor galleries, designed in the 18th century a
  
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• Big Name Artists Donate Works to Auction Benefitting Gaza, Courtauld Unveils Plans for Two New Contemporary Art Galleries: Morning Links for January 27, 2026

  27-01-2026 17:16 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesART FOR GAZA. A group of 21 artists have donated works to “Seeds of Solidarity,” an art auction supporting medical professionals in Gaza, the Art Newspaper reports. Organized by Health Workers 4 Palestine, the sale will take place on February 1 at The Savoy in London, with proceeds going to the Gaza Medics Solidarity Fu
  
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• ‘The Gallerist,’ an Art World Satire at Sundance, Offers Good Fun and Little to Think About

  27-01-2026 16:35 via artnews.com
  The Gallerist, the most high-profile art world satire in some time, centers around Polina Polinski (Natalie Portman), a struggling gallerist on the verge of bankruptcy who’s betting it all on a one-artist debut at Art Basel Miami Beach. The gruesome (and very funny) accidental death of a particularly obnoxious art influencer, Dalton Hardberry (Zach Galifianakis), occurs just as the legendary dealer Marianne Gorman (Catherine Zeta-Jones)—a character with a very similar name to the lat
  
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• A ‘Rhythm 0’ for the TikTok Age

  27-01-2026 15:20 via artnews.com
  In 1974, Marina Abramovic placed an assortment of items on a table. A rose, a gun, a knife, a feather, a pot of honey, a whip, and so on. Objects that could bring pleasure or pain. The audience was informed that those props could be used on Abramovic over the course of the next six hours, she would not resist them. It was a famous performance: what began with gentle, playful interaction quickly devolved into an act of violence. When the gallerist announced that the performance was over, the peop
  
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• Expo Chicago Names Exhibitors for 2026 Edition, Nearly 25% Fewer Than Previous Year

  27-01-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  Expo Chicago has named the over 130 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming 2026 edition, scheduled to take place April 9–12 at Navy Pier.Last November, when the fair announced the promotion of Kate Sierzputowski to director and the appointment of Essence Harden as curator, it also promised a smaller floor plan. That is now borne out in the just-released exhibitor list, which represents nearly a 25 percent smaller fair than the 2025 edition. The slimmed down fair is meant to provi
  
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• NFT Platform Nifty Gateway to Shut Down Amid Market Collapse

  27-01-2026 13:42 via artnews.com
  Nifty Gateway, one of the earliest and most high-profile online marketplaces for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), announced it will close on February 23, citing sharply declining activity. The platform, which has already entered “withdrawal-only mode,” is advising users to move their assets before the deadline, after which they will no longer be able to buy, sell, or bid on NFTs, though withdrawals will still be possible.Founded in 2018 by twins Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster, Nifty Gatew
  
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• British House That Inspired a Turner Painting Hits the Market for a Cool $2 M.

  27-01-2026 12:36 via artnews.com
  Brendan and Celia Wilson’s home, you could say, is museum-quality. As the BBC reported, their Grade II-listed home—called Rossett Mill—in Wrexham, Wales, dates to 1588 and once inspired an early painting by J.M.W. Turner.The Wilsons first encountered the water mill 17 years ago, when it was boarded up, uninhabitable, and slated for demolition. A newspaper advertisement initially caught their attention, and a chance drive through the area soon sealed their fate. “We knew w
  
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• British House That Inspired a Turner Painting Hits the Market for a Cool £1.5 M.

  27-01-2026 12:36 via artnews.com
  Brendan and Celia Wilson’s home, you could say, is museum-quality. As the BBC reported, their Grade II-listed home—called Rossett Mill—in Wrexham, UK, dates to 1588 and once inspired a painting by J.M.W. Turner, the artist widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters.The Wilsons first encountered the watermill 17 years ago, when it was boarded up, uninhabitable, and slated for demolition. A newspaper advertisement initially caught their attention, and a
  
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• Adolf Hitler’s Art Still Sells, as ‘Industry’ Just Reminded Us

  26-01-2026 23:44 via artnews.com
  Adolf Hitler’s artistic ambitions may have died in a Vienna admissions office, but his watercolors remain surprisingly alive on the auction circuit—and, now, on prestige television.This week’s episode of HBO’s Industry features a quiet reveal that would have felt implausible if it weren’t so well documented: a tasteful watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle turns out to be signed “A. Hitler.” The moment lands as satire, but it also reflects a
  
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• Jaume Plensa Sculpture Collapses Outside University of Notre Dame Museum

  26-01-2026 22:18 via artnews.com
  A 36-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture by Jaume Plensa collapsed outside the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame last month, with museum officials saying the cause of the failure remains unclear, according to the university’s student-run paper The Observer.The work, Endless, was found broken into two pieces on December 10 after standing outside the museum for nearly three years. No injuries were reported, and officials said there was only minor damage to
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Trustee Reportedly Led Push Against Acquiring Nan Goldin Work

  26-01-2026 21:38 via artnews.com
  A trustee at the Art Gallery of Ontario advised an acquisitions committee at the museum not to acquire a Nan Goldin piece because of the artist’s statements on Israel’s war in Gaza, according to a new report by the Globe and Mail.The same publication previously reported that the museum had sought the acquisition of Stendhal Syndrome, a 2024 video installation that does not address Israel, Palestine, or the conflict in Gaza. The plan was initially to purchase the work in tandem with t
  
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• AI-Generated Image Misattributed to Egon Schiele Provokes Outrage

  26-01-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  An AI-generated image purporting to be a famous watercolor by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele has generated hundreds of thousands of page views, as well as outrage and alarm on X.The image was posted by @lovedropx, an account with 287,000 followers and a vigorous reposter with a weakness for maudlin inspirational quotes. The image in question is a depiction of a woman in a black dress and stockings rendered in the style of a Schiele drawing and titled with the name of an actual watercolor, g
  
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• In New York, the Stakes are High for a Young Gallery Dedicated to Play

  26-01-2026 20:53 via artnews.com
  A cold wind cuts through lower Manhattan, passing shuttered storefronts that once housed small galleries—some casualties of the rent crisis—before losing force at the corner of Broome and Chrystie Streets. There, a different kind of market experiment took shape. Last year, Spielzeug Gallery, a nomadic curatorial project had a turn as a brick-and-mortar commercial gallery, testing a model that reads almost anachronistic beside Tribeca: one in which chaos is not a pose, but the consequ
  
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• Artists Urge Jewish Museum to Save Federal ‘Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art’ from Demolition in Open Letter

  26-01-2026 20:03 via artnews.com
  The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel.The letter, addressed to Shari Aronson, chair of the board of the Jewish Museum, was written by artists Elise Engler, Joyce Kozloff, and Martha Rosler, and has been signed by hundreds
  
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• Louvre Closes Again as Union Negotiations Drag On

  26-01-2026 19:43 via artnews.com
  The Louvre closed on Monday due to a strike as employees’ demands for improved working conditions and pay equity continue to go unmet, marking the fourth day the Paris museum has shuttered since mid-December. The stoppage is one of the longest strikes in the history of the world’s most visited museum, a crisis intensified by the October 19 burglary and related revelations of systemic security failures.According to Le Parisien, roughly 300 employees voted in a general assembly on Mond
  
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• Salon 94’s Alissa Friedman on Coming Home, Cultural Lag, and Why Art’s Boundaries Are Disappearing

  26-01-2026 19:41 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.For Alissa Friedman, returning to Salon 94 was a homecoming. After more than a decade of helping to shape the gallery’s identity, Friedman left when founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn joined forces with Brett Gorvy, Dominique Lévy, and Amelia Dayan to form LGDR. (Greenberg Rohatyn later left LGDR, which is now known
  
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• Studio Museum in Harlem Closes After Sprinkler Emergency

  26-01-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  A “sprinkler emergency” forced the recently reopened Studio Museum in Harlem to evacuate visitors on Friday and close for the weekend.As reported by Hyperallergic, staff told visitors to leave as a ceiling near the gift shop leaked water. “We saw a large pool of water on the floor near the entrance, and saw the water flowing down in the store,” an unnamed visitor told Hyperallergic.A spokesperson for the Studio Museum—which reopened in November in a high-profile new
  
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• 6 Books on Robert Smithson’s Shelf

  26-01-2026 18:31 via artnews.com
  By the time Robert Smithson died in a plane crash in 1973, at the age of 35, he had amassed over 1,000 periodicals and books. Soon after his death, a graduate student catalogued each and every one—save for a few loaned to friends and never returned—and grouped the artist’s titles by genre before arranging them alphabetically.Smithson, who was also a skilled and articulate writer, is perhaps best known for artworks that dabble in anthropology, archaeology, and Earth sciences. Bu
  
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• Record-Breaking Koch Sale at Christie’s Signals Renewed Interest in American Art

  26-01-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  Christie’s record-breaking sale of works from William I. Koch’s Western art collection may look like a one-off, but recent data suggest it fits into a wider, if uneven, revival of historical American art. According to the Observer, the two-part auction realized $84.1 million with fees, more than tripling the previous record for a single-owner Western art collection and setting five new artist records.The results stand out in a category that has spent much of the past decade on t
  
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• Amid National Upheaval Over Minneapolis Killings, Photographer Ellen von Unwerth Attends White House ‘Melania’ Screening

  26-01-2026 18:17 via artnews.com
  On Saturday, the same day that federal Border Patrol agents shot and killed intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in the street in Minneapolis, and as an historic winter storm bore down on a large swath of the United States, the White House staged a screening of Melania, the forthcoming documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. Among those in attendance was photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who shot the promotional poster for the movie, notes Hollywood Reporter. Other VIPs on the scene reportedly inc
  
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• Seyni Awa Camara, Sculptor Beloved by Artists Ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Pharrell, Has Died

  26-01-2026 17:56 via artnews.com
  Seyni Awa Camara, a sculptor whose clay creations made in a remote Senegalese town captured the European art world’s attention in the late ’80s and gained a vast following in the decades afterward, has died. DakArt News reported Camara’s death on social media on Sunday. Because Camara’s birth year has not definitively been reported, ARTnews was unable to determine her age.Working in Bignona, the Diola artist gained international recognition for her totem-like clay sculptu
  
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