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• David Shepherd obituary

  21-09-2017 19:42
  Artist whose popular wildlife paintings helped raise millions for conservationFresh out of school, with no scholastic achievements to recommend him, David Shepherd applied for a place at the Slade School of Art in London. The Slade did him the biggest favour of his life by telling him that he had no talent for art. Instead, Shepherd, the artist and conservationist, who has died aged 86, took to painting meticulous pictures of railway engines, aircraft and – the real breakthrough – wi
  
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• Thieves Snatch 2,500-Year-Old Celtic Gold Torque from French Museum in Broad Daylight

  25-07-2026 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  A 2,500-year-old gold collar belonging to the Vix Treasure archaeological find was stolen Friday in broad daylight from a French museum, according to reports in Le Parisien and France 3.The thieves allegedly entered the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, around 10:30 a.m. on July 24 by paying the admission fee, acting as regular visitors to the museum. Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said in a statement to Le Parisien
  
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• Archie Rand’s Landmark Letter Paintings Acquired by Italy’s Modena FC Collection

  25-07-2026 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  For decades, Archie Rand’s “Letter Paintings” series has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy’s Modena FC.New York–based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the Italian football club has acquired the group of paintings, which Rand made between 1968 and 1971 while still a teenager. The series was shown in 1983 at the Museum of the Carnegie Ins
  
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• President Trump Orders Signs Installed Outside Smithsonian Warning Public of ‘Inaccurate Information’

  25-07-2026 03:18 via artnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump escalated his battle with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Friday, ordering signage outside the institution to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits.The extraordinary directive comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny of the Smithsonian branch, which was the subject of a recent 162-page report accusing its director, Anthea M. Hartig, of replacing “historical education” wit
  
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• Forgotten in French Customs for Decades, a Chagall Finds New Home in Museum Near Swiss Border

  25-07-2026 02:01 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, French customs near the Swiss border gifted an artwork by Marc Chagall to a nearby museum in France, after it had been languishing in bureaucratic purgatory, forgotten on a warehouse shelf for over 20 years, reported ICI Besançon.In 2006, French authorities stopped a truck carrying artworks from France into Switzerland, and seized an etching by Chagall, along with a 1959 drawing by modern sculptor and painter Ossip Zadkine, because they lacked required certificates for
  
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• Artist Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself to be Guerrilla Girl Lydia Popova

  24-07-2026 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977–93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open.The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 1
  
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• Artist Joyce Kosloff Reveals Herself to be Guerrilla Girl Lydia Popova

  24-07-2026 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977–93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open.The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 1
  
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• BBC Series ‘Fake or Fortune?’ Discovers ‘Enormously Important’ Katherine Read Painting

  24-07-2026 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  An episode of the BBC One documentary series Fake or Fortune? that aired on July 23 confirmed that a previously unattributed artwork was in fact painted by the 18th century Scottish artist Katherine Read. The painting belongs to Mary-Louise Wedderburn, a retired accountant who inherited it from her uncle 20 years ago.Wedderburn presented the gold-framed painting—a portrait of a young Indian woman with a languid expression, wearing several strands of pearl necklaces and a large emerald pend
  
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• Buffalo AKG Promotes Two of Its Own to Co-Lead Art Museum

  24-07-2026 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  Following the departure of Buffalo AKG Art Museum director Janne Sirén in October, after 13 years on the job, the Upstate New York modern and contemporary art museum is turning inward for its future leaders. Today, it announced the appointment of the museum’s current chief curator, Cathleen Chaffee, as the new artistic director, alongside the promotion of its deputy director, Jillian Jones, to become the next executive director. Both will start in their new roles on November 1.&ldqu
  
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• Controversial Gelman Collection to Inaugurate Spain’s New Faro Santander in September

  24-07-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Banco Santander Foundation announced September 8 as the new opening date for its forthcoming art center, the Faro Santander. The news was first reported by El País.The space’s three inaugural shows include a Leonora Carrington solo, an exhibition looking at the Banco Santander’s previously unseen collection of masterpieces, and “Modern Mexico in the Gelman Santander Collection,” drawing from the holdings of the Gelman Collection, which has been mired in controv
  
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• Venice Biennale President Calls EU Withdrawal of Funding Over Russia ‘Entirely Political, Certainly Not Legal’

  24-07-2026 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Venice Biennale will not exclude Russia from its events due to political pressure, the foundation’s president said Thursday in a public address criticizing the European Union’s recent confirmation that it will suspend a €2 million ($2.3 million) grant. The withdrawal of funding was made in response to Russia’s participation in this year’s Biennale for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.During the opening of the 2026 Venice Film Festiv
  
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• Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Reveals Inaugural Film Program, Including Busby Berkeley Fantasias and Avant-Garde Shorts

  24-07-2026 18:38 via artnews.com
  
  As previews continue in advance of showtime upon its opening on September 22, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles—the starry institution conceived by director George Lucas and his wife Melody Hobson—announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con.In a panel discussion featuring Lucas Museum senior curator and head of film programs Ryan Linkof alongside DC Comics CEO Jim Lee, actress Keke Palmer, and two founders of ConStoopid Buddy Stoodios, news dropped for
  
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• Universal Disputes Claim It Left Replica Viking Ship Used in ‘The Odyssey’ Damaged

  24-07-2026 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  The replica Viking ship used in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Odyssey has become the subject of a dispute between its Swedish owners and Universal Pictures over who should pay for repairs after filming. The nonprofit Värmlands Vikingacenter says its 17.5-meter replica warship, Glad av Gillberga, returned from production in need of repairs including a cracked hull and damaged rigging. According to The New York Times, the organization invoiced Universal ro
  
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• Museo Nacional del Ecuador Selects an Architect for Quito, Chelsea Set to Get a New Gallery this Art Week: Morning Links for July 24, 2026

  24-07-2026 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!How will Jessica Morgan transform Tate? Expect more adventurous shows, greater accountability, and stronger connections with artists.A new design by Japanese architecture firm SANAA has been selected for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador’s $100 million new home.A replica Viking ship from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is embroiled in a payment dispute, with its owner alleging that Universal failed to cover damage costs. Universal denies the claim.THE HEADLINES BI
  
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• Bard’s Betty Parsons Retrospective Is a Revelation

  24-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Betty Parsons’s importance in postwar American art history as a fearless, groundbreaking art dealer is indisputable. Within a year after she opened her eponymous gallery in 1946, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still had all signed with her. Remarkable as this beginning was, her importance as a champion of unknown artists does not end there. Parsons gave first shows to Forrest Bess in 1949, followed by Robert Rauschenberg in 1951, Kenzo Okada in 195
  
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• 5 Ways to Celebrate Betye Saar’s 100th Birthday

  24-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  On July 30, legendary artist Betye Saar will celebrate her 100th birthday. A central figure in the Black Arts and feminist art movements of the 1960s, she is best known for her assemblage boxes reframing the history and legacy of racism in America, which she has sought to transform objects of hate into symbols of liberation. One of Saar’s most famous works is her 1972 sculpture The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, in which an Aunt Jemima figurine is armed with a small broom and a tiny rifle.&ldq
  
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• South Korean Museum Returns Two Qing Dynasty Lion Sculptures to China

  23-07-2026 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According to a report in the South Korean publication Yonhap News Agency, the ceremony was attended by Chun In-keon, director of the Kansong Art Museum, You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, Dai Bing, the Chinese ambassador to South Korea, and Rao Quan, head of China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration. The lions’ return had b
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci May Become the Face of Future Euro Banknotes

  23-07-2026 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes?In a first, Europeans can now help decide how they want to pay for their Belgian chocolate and French cheese: with bills printed in designs depicting either “European culture” or “Rivers and birds,” announced the European Central Bank (ECB) today. Not too shabby. The bank has revealed 10 shortlisted finalists of an international competition fo
  
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• A View From Second-Class On The Titanic In A Rare Surviving Letter From A Passenger

  23-07-2026 21:03 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Henry Hodges, a musical instrument salesman, sent the letter from Queenstown (now Cobh), in Cork Harbour in Ireland, the ship’s final stop before crossing the Atlantic on its first and last voyage in 1912. The document provides a little-seen look at accommodations and activities for second-class travelers. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• How Hierarchy Hides in How We Think

  23-07-2026 20:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  The question is not whether the technological revolution already underway will abolish hierarchy. It will not. The question is different: what will the new currency of rank be, and will it better recognise ability, responsibility, and work, or give old advantages a new language? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• FBI Returns Looted Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia

  23-07-2026 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  The United States has repatriated a collection of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia, according to a report by the Associated Press. The handover took place July 22 at a meeting between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel in Jakarta.The returned items, from Indonesia’s Papua region, are part of the cultural heritage of the Dani and Asmat tribes and Lake Sentani communities, said Indonesia’s culture minister Fadi Zon. They were repatriated through coo
  
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• The Film Indian Censors Have Been Blocking For Three Years

  23-07-2026 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Satluj, director Honey Trehan’s feature about an activist whom police tortured to death after exposed atrocities committed during a 1990s crackdown on violent Sikh separatists in Punjab, was withheld by India’s national censorship board since 2022. When Trehan released it online last week, it was taken down on government orders. – The Guardian
  
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• The Knicks Championship Trophy Is Heading to the American Museum of Natural History

  23-07-2026 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  Missed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks’ championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O’Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3.The Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs on June 13, crowning a spectacular comeback season and ending a two generation-spanning dignity drought for New York City. And so commenced a literally explosive we
  
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• Why Philanthropists Give?

  23-07-2026 19:44 via artshub.com.au
  For some, this elevated focus on philanthropy is not so much a voluntary strategic choice, but rather a response to their existing funders encouraging them to diversify their revenue streams and achieve what they see as a more sustainable future for the sector as a whole. – ArtsHub
  
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• Is It A Reading Crisis Or A Comprehension Crisis?

  23-07-2026 19:31 via wired.com
  
  Plenty of her students are smart and capable, but she’s never encountered a group less interested in reading. And neither she nor anyone else seems to have any idea how to fix it. – Wired
  
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• Jeff Koons Wins Case Accusing Him Of Copyright Infringement

  23-07-2026 19:15 via reuters.com
  A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling in favor of pop artist Jeff Koons in a copyright dispute with a sculptor who ​had accused Koons of using his sculpture without permission in a ‌1989 series of artworks. – Reuters
  
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