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• Dartmoor’s Princetown Press makes prints fit for a king

  23-09-2026 12:01 via ft.com
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• Lucia Laguna, Brazilian Artist Who Got Late But Fruitful Start on Painting Career, Has Died

  23-09-2026 16:40 via artnews.com
  
  Lucia Laguna, a Brazilian painter inspired by her lush surroundings in the hills above Rio de Janeiro, where she lived, died there at the age of 85, according to her gallery, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel. The São Paulo gallery said it was closing for the day yesterday to honor the memories of Laguna and Rodrigo Cass, another artist on the roster, who recently died in a beach accident.“Throughout her career, Lucia developed a body of work defined by her engagement with landscap
  
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• Mauritshuis Returns Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs of Jewish Dealer

  23-09-2026 15:37 via artnews.com
  
  The Mauritshuis in The Hauge, the home of famed Dutch Old Master works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, is returning Jan van Goyen’s painting Fishermen by the Lakeshore (1651) after new research has revealed that the piece was looted by Nazis.The painting belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer who was fleeing the Netherlands for England on a ship in 1940 during World War II. His dealership in The Hague was taken over by Nazis and 1,113 pieces of artwork were transported to Germany a
  
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• Brazilian Artist Lucia Laguna Dies, Artworks by Bolivian Artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes Resurrected from the Dumpster, Uzbekistan’s Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent Opens, and More: Morning Links for September 23, 2026

  23-09-2026 14:47 via artnews.com
  
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  Brazilian painter Lucia Laguna has died this week in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 85.The legacy of Bolivian artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–ca. 1960), a protégé of Diego Rivera, is rising from the abyss—or more literally, the dumpster.US Senator Martin Heinrich, with a group of senators, has sent a letter demanding that the Trump administration halt
  
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• The Future of American Non-profit Theatre: A Discussion

  23-09-2026 06:07 via artsjournal.com
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• Four Violinists, Four Helicopters, One Opera

  23-09-2026 01:59 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The British Museum sold £2.4 million of Bayeux Tapestry tickets in 24 hours, the biggest day in its history. Days after the show opened it banned photography, because visitors shooting the 230-foot embroidery were blocking the line (The New York Times). After an Electra/Persona curtain call at the National Theatre, Cate Blanchett asked the audience to stop filming: “there are few places on this planet where we can simply be together and be present” (Deadline).Tara
  
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• Christie’s Heads to Abu Dhabi to Mark 20 Years in United Arab Emirates, as Country’s Market Grows

  22-09-2026 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  Twenty years after Christie’s became the first international auction house to hold a sale in the United Arab Emirates, the house is marking the anniversary by moving its gavel down the road.On November 1, Christie’s will hold its first fine art auction in Abu Dhabi, offering more than 70 works of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern and North African art at the Abu Dhabi Edition hotel. Titled “MAWASIM: 20 Years of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art,” the sale in
  
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• Solange Knowles Will Show Large-Scale Sculpture on New York’s High Line

  22-09-2026 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  Solange Knowles, sister of Beyoncé and a distinguished musician and artist in her own right, will unveil a large-scale sculpture on New York’s High Line as part of an event staged later this week by Google.“Unfinished Projects,” as the program is called, will take over the High Line’s Chelsea Market Passage September 24–27 and is being realized with the assistance of Google Chrome. The showing will also include ballet flats designed by musician PinkPantheress
  
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• Weis Family Files Counterclaim in Suit Over $4 M. Pierre Soulages Painting

  22-09-2026 22:49 via artnews.com
  
  The three children of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis filed on Tuesday an answer and counterclaim in a New York court as part of an ongoing suit that aims to establish an ownership claim to a Pierre Soulages painting.The original lawsuit was first filed in July by members of the Zeckendorf family who allege that the Soulages’s 1958 abstraction Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958 was stolen at some point between 1977 and 1980, during which time a trust controlled by the real es
  
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• Tyler Mitchell Wins $250,000 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum

  22-09-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  Photographer Tyler Mitchell is the sixth winner of the Don Tyson Prize and will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds.The award was launched in 2016 as part of the Tyson Scholars of America program, a fellowshipendowed by the Arkansas-based food processing giant Tyson Foods and housed at Crystal Bridges in nearby Bentonville. For the first decade, the Don Tyson Prize, named for the company’s former chairman and chief executive who died in 2011, came with a $200,000 award given biannually;
  
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• UK Temporarily Bans Export of a ‘Small But Mighty’ Italian Renaissance Bronze Valued at $6.1 M.

  22-09-2026 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  The UK has temporarily banned the export of a rare and highly valuable Renaissance bronze by the artist known as Antico. Seated Nymph, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1455–1528), is valued at £4.6 million ($6.1 million). UK museums and galleries have until December 17 to make an offer following the decision, taken on the advice of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA).Antico’s signature works are very rare to come to
  
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• Robbie Fairchild’s Debut As A Choreographer Is About Shakespeare’s “Lovely Boy”

  22-09-2026 21:03 via nytimes.com
  The first dance created by the former New York City Ballet principal and Broadway star looks at the young man to whom Shakespeare addressed over 100 sonnets. The piece, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, imagines that he was an actor in the playwright’s company — and an inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. – The New York Times
  
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• Faced With Soaring Costs, Museums Are Rethinking Their Climate Control Standards

  22-09-2026 20:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  For decades, professionals codified a climate range of plus or minus 2°C and plus or minus 5% humidity into museum practices and loan agreements worldwide, applying these numbers to institutions in environments wildly different from London. In recent years, however, professionals have started to push back against these stringent standards. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Deutsche Oper Berlin Needed Some Shaking Up, So Its New Boss Is Going Big

  22-09-2026 20:01 via nytimes.com
  Attendance at the DOB has been disappointing in recent years; it was time for something different. Aviel Cahn, who became the company’s general director this year, is making major programming changes. His first new staging there is nothing less than Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht, complete with camel and helicopters. – The New York Times
  
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• Codex Azcatitlan Goes on View in Mexico City, as Culture Ministry Continues Centuries-Long Quest for Repatriation

  22-09-2026 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare manuscript about Aztec history and civilization, recently went on view at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, as the Mexican Culture Ministry continues its nearly two-century-long quest to have it repatriated.The illustrated document, created between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is on loan from the National Library of France (BnF) as part of the celebrations for the bicentennial of diplomatic relationships between France and Mexico, Le Figa
  
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• How The American Public Library Model Evolved

  22-09-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  When you view the centuries-long history of American librarianship through a Pennsylvania lens, it’s more complex, nuanced and fascinating than many people realize. – The Conversation
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Strikes a Deal with Nigeria for Long-Term Loan of Three Major Artworks

  22-09-2026 19:35 via artnews.com
  
  Three major artworks from Nigeria will be on long-term display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a partnership with the African nation. The artworks, which the museum describes as masterworks, will be on loan to the museum for a 25-year term with the possibility of extension. They will be placed this month in the museum’s recently remodeled Michael C. Rockefeller wing, which ARTnews’s Alex Greenberger deemed a “masterpiece.”The pieces were formerly in the
  
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• The Real Qualities Of A Skeptic

  22-09-2026 19:30 via aeon.co
  ‘Sceptic’ comes from the Greek skeptikos, meaning enquirer, and has a long and serious pedigree in philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, the term has been hijacked by science-denial movements, giving us oxymorons like ‘climate sceptic’, ‘vaccine sceptic’, and ‘evolution sceptic’. – Aeon
  
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• Paramount’s Sweetheart Deal To Permit Warner Merger

  22-09-2026 19:15 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Paramount’s C-suite must have been popping bottles of champagne as the press office engines of the major studio and 12 state attorney generals typed up the settlement term boilerplate language of what ended up being a stern finger-wave to Ellison’s team. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• A Fragment of a Peace Treaty Between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires Discovered in Hattusa, Turkey

  22-09-2026 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  A fragment of a cuneiform tablet was discovered by archaeologists excavating Hattsua, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in present-day Turkey, Heritage Daily reported. The artifact’s text was part of the larger Kadesh Peace Treaty.The fragment was originally found near Building E in Hattusa’s Büyükkale district of Çorum Province. It has been undergoing scientific analysis for about a year, according to Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Researche
  
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• Russia Is Deliberately Waging War On Ukraine’s Book Industry

  22-09-2026 19:02 via apnews.com
  More than 40 Ukrainian publishing houses and numerous bookstores have been seriously damaged — and some simply obliterated — in targeted attacks by Russian drones and missiles since the summer began. Over 13 million books — a third of the country’s annual print run — were destroyed in two months. – AP
  
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• After Fashion’s Me Too Reckoning, Fashion Photography’s Good Men Are Having Their Moment

  22-09-2026 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  2018 was the fashion industry’s reckoning with its own image. Fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Terry Richardson were dropped by the industry at large after numerous lawsuits claimed that the photographers had abused their power by exploiting their subjects. Their names were banished from the pages of glossy magazines owned by Condé Nast and Hearst.In their absence, the industry made way for new talent with women photographers shooting magazi
  
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• British Museum Bans Picture-Taking At The Bayeux Tapestry

  22-09-2026 18:44 via nytimes.com
  The museum made like the Sistine Chapel and announced a ban on photography in the exhibition, an unforgivable move to some in the Instagram age but a godsend to others. – The New York Times
  
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• Apple Opens A New Live Music Venue In London

  22-09-2026 18:31 via variety.com
  
  Located in Battersea Power Station, Apple Music Hall is a state-of-the-art venue “designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhere else,” Apple said in its announcement on Tuesday. – Variety
  
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• How Superfans Are Reshaping The Concert Industry

  22-09-2026 18:15 via theguardian.com
  Fans are paying thousands of dollars not just to see their favorite artists live, but to get closer to the performance and have a more exclusive experience. – The Guardian
  
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• Autopsy Confirms Hayden Panettiere Overdosed On Fentanyl And Prescription Drugs

  22-09-2026 18:04 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The inquest by the Greenville County, South Carolina Coroner’s Office ruled that the actress died accidentally from the toxic effects of fentanyl combined with Xanax, the muscle relaxant methocarbamol, and quetiapine, an antipsychotic. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Inside The Capture Of The Kennedy Center

  22-09-2026 17:44 via nytimes.com
  Internal emails and documents obtained by The New York Times demonstrate the political capture of the institution by the whims of Mr. Trump, who at the start of his second term installed a board that made him chairman. Audiences and donors fled, and its finances cratered. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Education Should Be More Like Gym Class

  22-09-2026 17:31 via newyorker.com
  
  For years, the architecture of higher education quietly encouraged students to believe that the point of a class, and indeed of the entire college experience, was the credential. But if the grade is the goal, and a machine can get you the grade, the machine is not a shortcut; it’s just efficiency. – The New Yorker
  
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• Cate Blanchett Implores Audience From A London Stage To Stop Videoing

  22-09-2026 17:15 via deadline.com
  
  “There are few places on this planet where we can simply be together and be present. I understand you like filming the curtain call – and it is kind of flattering in a way – but for anyone who is filming the show, please don’t, because it spoils it for the next group of people.” – Deadline
  
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• Fair Warning Heads Underground With Keith Haring Subway Drawing Estimated at Just Under $1 M.

  22-09-2026 17:04 via artnews.com
  
  On the heels of a couture sale that saw the guerrilla auctioneers at Fair Warning tackle the runway, the house is going somewhere a little more underground—literally.Its next major auction will offer a monumental Keith Haring subway drawing from 1984, one of the chalk-on-black-paper works the artist famously made on blank advertising panels throughout the New York City subway system in the early 1980s.The untitled drawing, which measures 80 by 40 inches, shows a towering skeleton whose eye
  
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