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• Creative Time Names Nato Thompson Artistic Director, Announces New Senior Curator

  10-02-2017 18:45 via artnews.com
  Creative Time, the New York–based nonprofit focused on public art, has promoted former chief curator Nato Thompson to artistic director and appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as a new senior curator.Thompson, who was been with Creative Time since 2007, has presented some of the organization’s … Read More
  
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• Tim Walker’s portraits of LGBTQ+ royalty – ‘the gays have killed me’

  25-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The photographer’s show at the National Portrait Gallery is the result of a very personal odyssey
  
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• Alvaro Barrington talks taste

  25-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The artist on 2Pac, new boxer shorts and ‘old’ New York 
  
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• 4,200 Library Books, Three Months, No Phones

  25-09-2026 00:32 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Students at Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville have checked out 4,200 library books in the first three months of this school year, twice last year’s total, since the school district locked phones away “bell to bell.” Noah Berry, a senior, says he had never borrowed a book there before (Aging Untold).Davi Ramos, now the Australian Ballet’s first Black principal, started ballet at 12 in Rio’s Vidigal favela. His school waived the fees, friends&
  
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• When It Comes to Armory Show Sales, Can Slow and Steady Win the Race?

  24-09-2026 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  One could argue that New York’s Armory Show has spent much of the last decade trying to figure out exactly what kind of fair it wants to be. It moved from the charmingly gritty piers on the Hudson River to the sterile but safe Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side and changed dates. Then, in 2023, it was acquired by Frieze, which already operates one of New York’s other major fairs, down the road at the Shed, without question the worst venue of any art fair across the globe. N
  
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• New York Investigators Return 36 Artifacts to Syria, Including Relief Looted from Palmyra

  24-09-2026 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Thirty-six antiquities, collectively valued at more than $5 million, including a stone relief looted from the ancient site of Palmyra, have been retuned to Syria, New York investigators announced on Wednesday.Among the group are 14 “extraordinary” mosaics stolen from a Roman-era villa in Syria linked to antiquities dealer Georges Lotfi, a former source for the Manhattan district attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit who was, in a dramatic turn of events, charged in 2022 with
  
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• Newly Speculated Goya Painting to Feature in 2028 Museo del Prado Show

  24-09-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A painting that well-placed observers surmise was painted by Francisco de Goya will be on view in a forthcoming exhibition timed to commence 200 years after the celebrated Spanish artist’s death.After posing a question related to whether or not the work is truly by Goya, The Art Newspaper reported, “A full technical investigation of the work has yet to be completed but everyone involved, including Spain’s culture ministry and Madrid’s Museo del Prado, is operating under t
  
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• Art Collector and Publisher Benedikt Taschen Lists Mid-Century Modern Beverly Hills Home for $25 M.

  24-09-2026 21:27 via artnews.com
  
  ARTnews Top 200 collectors Benedikt and Lauren Taschen have spent the past eight years restoring the Adelman Residence, a 5,000-square-foot mid-century modern home designed by architects Thornton Abell and O’Neil Ford in 1956. The Taschens bought the home in 2018 (it was listed for $12,750,000), and, over the years, have refurbished the tennis court, original to the property from when it was part of Charlie Chaplin’s estate; the pool, the gardens, and the guest house; as well as all
  
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• MOCA LA Names Former Public Media Executive as New Director

  24-09-2026 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  For its next director, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles has gone with a figure whose expertise lies outside the art world.Jonathan Abbott, the former head of the public media organization GBH, was announced as the institution’s new director on Thursday, formally filling a post that was held in an interim capacity by curator Ann Goldstein. She had taken the leadership role after Johanna Burton left in 2025 to lead the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia.It is an unconventio
  
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• Greek PM Rejects British Museum Comparison of Parthenon Marbles and Bayeux Tapestry

  24-09-2026 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  In August, British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan told the Financial Times that the Bayeux Tapestry loan from France was “a very compelling example of international partnership,” and a successful, “reciprocal exchange.” That deal, which took years to form, might even pave the way for a Parthenon Marbles loan, he suggested.But in a provocative opinion piece in today’s The Guardian, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded, seizing on Cullinan’s not
  
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• Australian Ballet Gets Its First Black Principal

  24-09-2026 21:02 via danceaustralia.com.au
  
  Davi Ramos grew up in a Rio favela and didn’t start ballet lessons until he was 12. Only two years later, he competed in Youth America Grand Prix and, subsequently, the Prix de Lausanne; he studied in London and apprenticed in Amsterdam before coming to Melbourne, drawn by AD David Hallberg. – Dance Australia
  
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• Schools Report Surge In Library Book Checkouts After Cellphone Bans

  24-09-2026 20:44 via aginguntold.com
  
  Students at Pleasure Ridge Park High School are checking out books at a rate librarians say hasn’t been seen before, coinciding with a districtwide cell phone ban that took effect at the start of the 2025 school year. – Aging Untold
  
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• Lucas Museum Architects And The Building Of Fantasies

  24-09-2026 20:31 via nytimes.com
  MAD Architects is a team that has completed major cultural and residential projects in 16 countries and counting. Their signature is hard-to-believe designs that do all of the shouting — etched towers churning like hula-hooping women; a museum honed like an ancient stone; an opera house resembling a mountain, bursting from the ground. – The New York Times
  
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• At Spring/Break’s First Edition in the Old CBS Newsroom, (Almost) Everything Is Political

  24-09-2026 20:31 via artnews.com
  
  This weekend, for likely the last time, cameras are rolling at 555 West 57th Street.The longtime headquarters of CBS News’s most hallowed properties—60 Minutes and Inside Edition—was recently hollowed out in a Paramount acquisition that saw personalities and producers shuffled to a center across the street. So, perhaps fittingly, Spring/Break, New York’s most irreverent art fair, has taken residence. Its inaugural edition at 555 West 57th Street, titled “Hide and Se
  
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• BBC Is Preparing To Shut Down Some Radio And TV Channels: Report

  24-09-2026 20:04 via deadline.com
  
  “Deadline hears that the BBC is expected to unveil what one source described as ‘audience-facing’ closures next week, as the UK broadcaster ramps up efforts to save £500 million ($660M) over the coming years. … Speculation (is) rife that youth network BBC Three is at risk of being unplugged for a second time.” – Deadline
  
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• Chicago Symphony Rebrands

  24-09-2026 19:31 via wbez.org
  
  The changes come as the CSO prepares to welcome its new, buzzy music director, Klaus Mäkelä, who will officially step into the role next fall. – WBEZ
  
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• Australia’s Performing Arts Sector Is In Crisis

  24-09-2026 19:15 via artshub.com.au
  Too many of our finest performers and musicians feel compelled to leave Australia. Productions, concert seasons and festivals are being cancelled or scaled back. – ArtsHub
  
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• Author Of One Of France’s Biggest Hit Novels Of The Year Accused Of Using AI

  24-09-2026 19:03 via euronews.com
  C’était ça ou mourir (It Was That Or Die) by Thélyson Orélien has sold over 35,000 copies and been hailed in France’s literary mediasphere as a revelation. On Monday, an anonymous X (Twitter) account claimed the AI-spotting software Pangram found that “this novel was written almost entirely by an artificial intelligence.” – Euronews
  
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• How AI Is Changing The Art Of Translation

  24-09-2026 18:44 via publishersweekly.com
  Many literary translators fear that if machine-assisted translation becomes the norm in book publishing, it could fundamentally change the nature of their profession. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Judge Granted Last-Minute Pause On Paramount/Warner Deal

  24-09-2026 18:31 via deadline.com
  
  With an 11 am PT virtual hearing before Judge Martinez-Olguin widely viewed as a rubber stamping of the September 21 antitrust settlement and hence the mega-merger itself, the granting of Block the Merger’s move makes it almost certain the deal won’t be formally approved today. – Deadline
  
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• Is AI Above The Law? Outside? Under?

  24-09-2026 18:15 via newyorker.com
  
  At least for now, then, robots legally are things, not persons. But neither category quite fits. Instead, robots are outlaws: they lie outside the protection of the law, and their actions are not answerable to it. – The New Yorker
  
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• Private Members Club Maison Estelle Under Police Investigation, Canceling Frieze Week Events

  24-09-2026 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  Maison Estelle, a private members club in London, temporarily shuttered today following a Metropolitan Police investigation outside the premises. The club was set to host parties and dinners to mark Frieze Week, all of which have been canceled.Lisson Gallery, which was set to host an event at Maison Estelle, confirmed in an email to ARTnews that its team is now looking for a new venue. This is the second consecutive year that the gallery was forced to pivot venues under unusual circumstances: In
  
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• AI-Generated Mural Sparks Backlash in Banksy’s Hometown of Bristol

  24-09-2026 18:10 via artnews.com
  
  A new AI-designed vinyl mural, mounted in Banksy’s hometown of Bristol, is facing heavy criticism for its mistakes, including a depiction of the wrong Banksy work.The mural in question is pasted along the side of the Jolly Colliers Pub building in Bedminster, Bristol. It depicts not only an incorrect iteration of Cabot Tower and a dwarfed SS Great Britain, but it also contains a flawed interpretation of Banksy’s Mild Mild West (1999), with a one-legged figure pointing instead of the
  
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• Former Microsoft CEO Repairs Damaged Calder Mobile In U.S. Senate Building

  24-09-2026 18:01 via artsjournal.com
  When Kim and Jon Shirley visited Alexander Calder’s Mountains and Clouds (1976/1986) in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, the stabile portion of the sculpture (the mountains) was there, but the mobile part (clouds) had been removed due to structural damage. Ten years and $10 million later, the clouds are back. – ARTnews
  
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• The Powers Of Bibliotherapy

  24-09-2026 17:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Today, bibliotherapy takes many different forms, from literature courses run for prison inmates to reading circles for elderly people suffering from dementia. Sometimes it can simply mean one-on-one or group sessions for “lapsed” readers who want to find their way back to an enjoyment of books.  – The New Yorker
  
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• The African American History and Culture Museum, Ten Years On

  24-09-2026 17:32 via smithsonianmag.com
  The decades-long effort got its final push with the bipartisan efforts of Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, a stalwart of the civil rights movement, and Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas; the bill establishing the museum was signed by President George W. Bush in 2003. – The Smithsonian
  
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• Sotheby’s is Selling One of the World’s Most Coveted Whisky Bottles

  24-09-2026 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  “This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art and luxury. See all of our reporting on the topic here.”On October 9, Sotheby’s will take one of the world’s most famous bottles of whisky back to its origins for the house’s first-ever sale at The Macallan Estate in Speyside, Scotland. The bottle — “The Macallan Fine & Rare 60 Years Old 1926” — has a high estimate of £2.2 million ($3 million), and is the auction&rsq
  
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• Judging The Aftermath Of The Paramount/Warner Deal “Concessions”

  24-09-2026 17:15 via wsj.com
  “These promises are extremely, exquisitely hard to enforce,” said Alvaro Bedoya, an antitrust lawyer, likening Paramount’s concessions to a pinkie promise. If Paramount fell short of its spending commitments, for instance, attorneys general would need to rely on the company’s own data to prove it, Bedoya said. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• A New Wave Of Documentary Theater Sweeps Latin America

  24-09-2026 17:03 via nytimes.com
  “Over the last three decades, a growing cohort of theater artists across Latin America have … used journalism, documentary and memoir to explore the boundaries between fact and fiction while confronting their region’s troubled past and turbulent present in a genre known as Theater of the Real.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Director Of Kanal-Centre Pompidou In Brussels Will Step Down Immediately After Opening Weekend

  24-09-2026 16:32 via artforum.com
  
  “Yves Goldstein will leave (the new contemporary art museum) two days after its opening on November 28. He has spent a decade leading Kanal through the planning and renovation of its home in a massive Art Deco building, which formerly housed a Citroën garage, and navigating a partnership with the Centre Pompidou.” – Artforum
  
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