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  07-09-2026 09:49 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Well-Preserved Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Official Found Near Saqqara

  08-09-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  A joint Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission has found a well-preserved tomb dating to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (2494–2345 BCE), reports the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The find was made during the mission’s 2026 excavation season in the area known as the Mariette Necropolis, north of Egypt’s Saqqara archaeological site.The tomb consists of a mastaba containing two funerary chapels. One chapel belongs to a man named Yunmen, a high-rank
  
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• Production Mold for Ancient Female Figurine Discovered in Jerusalem

  08-09-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A mold used to create a clay figurine during the First Temple Period was discovered earlier this summer on the grounds of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. The excavation, at Kishle, a former prison and military base that is now part of the museum, was overseen by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).“Although many figurines from this period have been uncovered in Jerusalem, this is the first time that a mold used to manufacture them has ever been found in the city,” said IAA re
  
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• Clive Davis’s Warhol, Hockney Paintings Head to Christie’s During Marquee New York Sales

  08-09-2026 21:11 via artnews.com
  
  Eight paintings from the collection of Clive Davis, the famed record producer who died this past June, will head to Christie’s during the November sales in New York. They are some of the first major consignments to those sales, and they are worth a total of more than $35 million. (Christie’s has not yet released individual estimates for each work.)Those eight works include a ca. 1986 painting of Andy Warhol painting of Aretha Franklin, the singer whom Davis befriended and supported p
  
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• The Dance-Pop Singer That Argentines Treat As A Saint, Complete With Prayers, Shrines And Miracles

  08-09-2026 21:01 via apnews.com
  
  Miriam Alejandra Bianchi, known by the stage name Gilda, died 30 years ago in a highway collision, and she’s since become one of Argentina’s many folk saints, not officially recognized by the Vatican but venerated by ordinary people nevertheless. Gilda’s wrecked tour bus has even become a pilgrimage site. – AP
  
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• What Does A Healthy Arts Ecosystem Look Like?

  08-09-2026 20:31 via cultureoc.org
  
  A healthy cultural ecosystem needs not just the creation and presentation of art. It needs education, access, discovery, interpretation and criticism, documentation, advocacy, funding, participation, connection, preservation and audience development. – Culture OC
  
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• Fans Are Angry That This Season’s “Dancing With The Stars” Features Stars Who Can Already Dance

  08-09-2026 20:03 via the-independent.com
  
  “Why do you keep adding professionally trained dancers to the cast?” tweeted one fan in response to the news that the next crop of celebrity competitors — Jenna Dewan, Julia Stiles, and Harry Shum Jr. — have all at some point danced for their livelihood. – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Five Standouts at Portland’s Converge 45 Triennial, From a Gourd Frieze to a Performance That Played with Fire

  08-09-2026 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  The US art world has in recent years worked hard to bring a focus to cities outside the market capitals, mounting recurring exhibitions like Counterpublic in St. Louis, the Medina Triennial in upstate New York, and the lamentably discontinued Front Triennial in Cleveland (adding to long-running shows like the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh). One that has remained a little under the radar is Converge 45, established in 2016 by Portland dealer Elizabeth Leach in hopes of getting the art worl
  
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• Hollywood’s Record Summer Box Office Has Analysts Dreaming Of A $10B Year

  08-09-2026 19:43 via latimes.com
  
  The summer’s total was a nearly 30% improvement on the lackluster 2025 season. Notably, this summer’s tally was 9% higher than that of the same period in 2019 — before the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes upended the industry — though when accounting for inflation, this summer ends up ranking below. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch to Retire as Trump Targets Museum Consortium

  08-09-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III will retire at the end of this year, according to the Washington Post, amid a historic confrontation with the Trump administration over how the museum consortium historicize the United States. Bunch, who assumed leadership in 2019, has faced extraordinary pressure from the White House over the past 18 months to comply with President Trump’s ideological intervention in the Smithsonian, which has had its exhibitions targeted for including refere
  
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• Trump Attacks UK Plans To Boost BBC On YouTube

  08-09-2026 19:31 via deadline.com
  
  In a submission to Britain’s consultation on the proposals, the U.S. government said the plans would be state meddling in the algorithms of American companies that could amount to “extraterritorial censorship of protected speech by Americans online.” – Deadline
  
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• How Knowledge Is Assembled

  08-09-2026 19:15 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Just because something makes sense doesn’t mean that it’s true. Even valid reasoning cannot establish that its starting premises are correct. Even today, science continues to rely on experience, reasoning, and knowledge passed down by others. Much of the scientific process comes down to how we check our knowledge. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• American Literary Culture Is Besotted With Reissues

  08-09-2026 19:04 via nplusonemag.com
  
  “If the past few years of American literary publishing have had a zeitgeist, it has been more like a series of geists from zeits past.” – n+1
  
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• The Making Of A de Kooning

  08-09-2026 18:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Like Balanchine, de Kooning made images for the mind about the body as it was expressed in the streets of the city. Sometimes, when I watch Balanchine’s choreography, I can’t help imagining “Monumental Woman” and other drawings from the “Women” series flashing behind the dancers as they embody de Kooning’s symphony of flesh. – The New Yorker
  
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• Smithsonian Chief Lonnie Bunch To Retire Amid Trump’s Culture-War Attacks

  08-09-2026 18:36 via yahoo.com
  “Bunch’s resignation comes at one of the most politically fraught moments in the Smithsonian’s 180-year history. … Trump has sought to purge what he calls ‘improper ideology’ from its museums, while his administration has threatened the institution’s federal funding, tried to fire a museum director and challenged its authority over personnel and exhibitions.” – The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
  
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• How Neoliberal Policies Corroded Democracy (And How To Fix It)

  08-09-2026 18:31 via aeon.co
  Promises of prosperity by Reagan, Thatcher and other advocates of neoliberalism were mistaken because it brought only fragility to previously prosperous democracies. – Aeon
  
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• Barcelona: Hotbed Of Tap Dance

  08-09-2026 18:15 via substack.com
  
  Guillem Alonso and his colleagues trained a new generation of tap dancers, and that generation, in turn, developed its own styles, pedagogies, and companies. They’re still developing them, as are their students. The result is a hotbed of creativity. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Lucien Smith, Onetime Market Darling Who Turned His Focus To Helping Emerging Artists, Has Died at 37

  08-09-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the cause or place of his death.“Lucien lives in a wordless place inside us now,” Powers told ARTnews.“I loved him and I’m hapy knowing he found some serenity later in life,” artist Joel Mesler told ARTnews via text, adding a hear
  
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• South Carolina Arts Commission Requires Two LGBTQ Performing Groups To Prove Their Artistic Merit

  08-09-2026 18:02 via postandcourier.com
  
  In August, the Commission confirmed grants to all but two of the nearly 180 applicants its selection panel had approved. Those two are the Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus and Spartanburg’s Proud Mary Theatre Company, which have been told to provide additional demonstration of their artistic merit beyond what was in their applications. – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Destroying Rare Books To Capture Them?

  08-09-2026 17:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Having identified books as the “highest quality source of training data” for Anthropic’s L.L.M.s, it initiated a covert program called Project Panama, defined succinctly in court documents as “our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” “Destructively scan” means precisely that. – The New Yorker
  
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• Behind The Resurgent Philadelphia Fringe Festival

  08-09-2026 17:31 via phillymag.com
  We’ve actually grown to be the largest Fringe Festival in the United States in terms of the number of venues being used. This year, we have more than 350 shows at over 100 venues. We’re taking over the whole city, with performances at traditional venues and theaters but also in places you might not expect.  – Philadelphia Magazine
  
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• Authors Push Back As Agents, Publishers Scramble To Get Pieces Of The Anthropic AI Settlement

  08-09-2026 17:15 via techcrunch.com
  
  Writers have been posting on social media that publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of some payments. – TechCrunch
  
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• Oxford University Museum to Repatriate 39 Colonial-Era Human Remains

  08-09-2026 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people in India, following years of negotiations, Naga representatives told the New York Times on Saturday. Formal repatriation efforts began six years ago in 2020.The 39 partial remains that will return to Nagaland by the end of this year include a warrior’s cranium, a woman’s skull, and a young person’s jaw, among others. While there were 40 re
  
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• “The Fantasticks” Has Been Adapted Into A Gay Love Story. Maybe It Always Was One?

  08-09-2026 17:05 via nytimes.com
  “What’s more surprising than how gay the show has become,” writes Jesse Green, “is how quietly gay it was all along.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Man Who Bought The Scream: Collector Leon Black’s Reckoning Is Far from Over

  08-09-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Black’s main passion is art, a love that can easily be traced back to his mother, the artist, and to his aunt, the art dealer, and to her husband, his uncle, who was also an artist. His collection, housed in both his Park Avenue town house and his weekend home in Bedford, New York, is considered by many to be one of the world’s finest in private hands. It’s easily worth more than $1 billion, and perhaps several multiples of that number. On the extensive grounds at his Bedf
  
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• Former Chairman of Kennedy Center Buys Disassembled Joel Shapiro Sculpture

  08-09-2026 16:57 via artnews.com
  
  A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center’s former chairman, David Rubenstein.Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist, was reported as the buyer of Blue on Monday by the New York Times, which cited unnamed sources who said that 24-foot-tall sculpture would eventually go on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art
  
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• San Diego Symphony To Do Its First-Ever European Tour

  08-09-2026 16:33 via msn.com
  The 116-year-old orchestra’s European debut will be in Barcelona in late April of next year, followed by performances in Toulouse, Hamburg, Paris and Dublin. Music director Rafael Payare will conduct, with pianist Javier Perianes as soloist in Spain and violinist Leonidas Kavakos featured on the remaining dates. – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
  
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• The Metropolitan Opera Auditions Boa Constrictors

  08-09-2026 16:01 via apnews.com
  
  Zoe Ziegfeld, a carnival performer who plays a snake handler in the Met’s Coney Island-inspired staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, tried out a number of snakes for this season’s revival of the production. This time out, she settled on a sun-glow boa named Princess. – AP
  
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• AMC Settles Lawsuit Over Profit-Sharing On “The Walking Dead”

  08-09-2026 15:36 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The lawsuit, initially filed in 2022, was about the profit participation rights for the original Walking Dead series and its first spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead. AMC says that it will pay $120 million to resolve the lawsuit, including $85 million this month, with another $35 million next year.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Eiffel Tower Workers Strike in Outrage After Female Staffers Ordered to Leave Their Posts, Replaced by Men

  08-09-2026 15:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Eiffel Tower closed Monday due to strikes over outrage that female workers were allegedly ordered to leave and stay out of sight to comply with a special request from a traditional Hindu delegation that visited the monument over the weekend, reported Le Parisien. By Tuesday, the monument had reopened, and a representative of the Hindu religious organization BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, which has close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist party, issued an apology.But
  
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