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• Development Communications Manager

  15-06-2016 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  UMS an independent multi-disciplinary performing arts presenter affiliated with University of Michigan is seeking a Development Communications Manager Apply at www.umjobs.org Search: Job ID:127116. The manager will be responsible for overseeing and implementing a comprehensive internal and external communication plan for the UMS Development office including responsibility for the primary writer and editor for the team communications.
  University Musical Society (UMS)UMS is an independent multi-di
  
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• Phillips Reveals Lineup for Its March Sales in London, Including Scandinavian Masterworks and $800 K. Emin Painting

  25-02-2026 11:45 via artnews.com
  A landmark group of Scandinavian masterworks from the collection of ambassador John L. Loeb will headline Phillips’ modern and contemporary art sales in London this March. Loeb served as the US ambassador to Denmark from 1981 to 1983.The auctions, taking place on March 5 and 7 at the house’s Berkeley Square HQ, are spearheaded by Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Interior of Woman Placing Branches in Vase on Table (1900), which carries a high estimate of £2 million.The Loeb col
  
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• Phillips Reveals Lineup for Its March Sales in London, from Scandinavian Masterworks to $800 K. Emin Painting

  25-02-2026 11:45 via artnews.com
  A landmark group of Scandinavian masterworks from the collection of ambassador John L. Loeb will headline Phillips’ modern and contemporary art sales in London this March. Loeb served as the US ambassador to Denmark from 1981 to 1983.The auctions, taking place on March 5 and 7 at the house’s Berkeley Square HQ, are spearheaded by Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Interior of Woman Placing Branches in Vase on Table (1900), which carries a high estimate of £2 million.The Loeb col
  
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• Georg Kolbe Museum to Restitute Nazi-Looted Sculpture to Heirs of Holocaust Victim

  25-02-2026 11:10 via artnews.com
  A landmark sculpture by renowned German artist Georg Kolbe will be removed from public display in Berlin and returned to the heirs of the Jewish family who lost it under Nazi persecution.The 1922 work, Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (Dancers’ Fountain), stood for nearly five decades in the garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum and had become one of its most recognizable pieces. After an extensive provenance investigation, the museum concluded that the sculpture must be restituted because it is regard
  
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• Nor’easter Causes Travel Delays for New York Dealers Heading to Frieze Los Angeles

  24-02-2026 23:14 via artnews.com
  I arrived in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon, expecting that the showers that drenched my hometown last week might have dampened spirits ahead of Frieze Los Angeles. That proved not to be the case—temperatures here have been steadily increasing into the mid-70s over the past few days—but it turns out that weather across the country, on the East Coast, had been the true problem for some attendees, who were left scrambling after a nor’easter blanked New York City in nearly two
  
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• Heading Into Frieze After a Year Marked by Fire and ICE, Los Angeles’s Art World Is Poised Between ‘Grief and Hope’

  24-02-2026 23:08 via artnews.com
  As the art market looks ahead to its next major tentpole event, the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles this week, LA is marking just over one year since devastating wildfires ripped through parts of the city. “There was really a point where we thought the whole city was going to burn down,” said lifelong Angelena Megan Mulrooney, who opened her eponymous gallery there in 2024, in a phone conversation.“I had two clients whose homes burned to the ground along with their coll
  
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• Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Ends Tenure Early Amid Conflict over Abu Dhabi Biennial

  24-02-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, will step down at the beginning of April, ahead of her contract’s original expiration date in late July. The move concludes a tense dialogue with the MACBA Consortium, which had ruled that her appointment as director of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial conflicted with her duties at the Barcelona museum.Dyangani Ose succeeded Ferran Barenblit as director in 2021, becoming the first woman and the first person of color to lead the contempor
  
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• Calder Sculpture in Senate Office Building to Be Restored a Decade After Dismantling

  24-02-2026 21:26 via artnews.com
  A partially dismantled sculpture by Alexander Calder in Washington, D.C. is, at long last, in the process of being restored, according to Roll Call, a publication that focuses on Capitol Hill-based news.The sculpture in question, Mountains and Clouds, fills the 90-foot-high, skylit atrium of the Hill’s Hart Senate Office Building, which was constructed in the 1970s and first occupied in 1982. Calder’s proposal was chosen from a group of five sculptors who were tasked with designing &
  
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• In Leaked Transcript, UNT Dean Cites Politics as the Reason Behind Cancelation of Show with Anti-ICE Art Show

  24-02-2026 20:37 via artnews.com
  The decision to cancel a solo exhibition featuring anti-ICE art at the University of North Texas art school was an “institutional directive,” Dean Karen Hutzel said in newly leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting. First reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle, the transcripts show Hutzel declining to identify the directive’s source while warning colleagues to expect a “media storm.”The College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) at the University of North Texas made n
  
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• Butter Art Fair Expands to Los Angeles During Frieze Week

  24-02-2026 20:11 via artnews.com
  Butter, the Indianapolis-founded art fair that returns 100 percent of sales proceeds to artists, will make its Los Angeles debut this week, expanding for the first time beyond its Midwest base as the city fills with collectors and dealers for Frieze week.Founded in 2021 and organized by Indianapolis-based cultural development firm GangGang, Butter positions itself as a no-commission alternative to the traditional art fair model, centering Black visual artists from California and across the count
  
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• Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns After Heist and Internal Turmoil

  24-02-2026 19:10 via artnews.com
  After a prolonged period of internal turmoil that has included a widely publicized heist, striking workers, two structural leaks, and a ticketing scam, the Louvre has lost its director.On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had officially accepted the resignation of Laurence des Cars, who had led the Louvre since 2021.“Ms. Laurence des Cars has submitted to the President of the Republic her letter of resignation from the presidency of the Louvre Museum,” a short stateme
  
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• MOCA Los Angeles Reveals 158 Newly Acquired Works, Including Acclaimed Kara Walker Sculpture

  24-02-2026 18:40 via artnews.com
  An acclaimed Kara Walker sculpture, abstractions by beloved painters of the past and present, and a video about two lizards in Covid-era New York are among the 158 artworks acquired last year by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which revealed the newest pieces to enter its holdings on Tuesday. Fifty of the artists behind those works have never before seen their art acquired by MOCA, one of LA’s top museums.The Walker sculpture, Unmanned Drone (2023), is perhaps the most high-pro
  
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• Four Suffer Minor Injuries After Michael Joo Sculpture Is Damaged in New York

  24-02-2026 18:37 via artnews.com
  A large sculpture by Korean American artist Michael Joo collapsed after an accident, reportedly caused by a careless visitor, during the February 20 opening of his exhibition “Sweat Models 1991–2006,” at New York’s Space ZeroOne. The collapse of the piece Saltiness of Greatness (1992) injured four, who were taken to the emergency room via ambulance, according to a report in Seoul Economic Daily. The piece reportedly consists of stacks of compressed salt and, per a 20
  
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• Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock to Star in Blockbuster Exhibition at the Met

  24-02-2026 18:33 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host a major exhibition for two major artists who have never been subject to such treatment by the institution before: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.The famously married artists each established a legacy that stands on its own. This show, to open in October and run through January 2027, will survey those legacies both on their own and side-by-side.In a press release, Met director Max Hollein said, “With its distinctive premise and scope, Kr
  
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• Digital Artist Gets in Hot Water for AI-Generated Works ‘After’ George Condo 

  24-02-2026 18:31 via artnews.com
  Artists copying or quoting other artists’ works is common throughout art history. But when is a new piece too close to an existing artist’s work?This question, and the way that AI might shift the answer to it, is at the center of a show on view through March 15 at New York’s Heft Gallery. It’s the New York solo debut of 31-year-old New York artist Kevin Esherick, who started creating art in the 2021 wave of interest in digital art, especially NFTs. Founded last year by Ad
  
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• Pritzker Prize Defends Jury Independence After Tom Pritzker’s Epstein Ties Surface

  24-02-2026 16:07 via artnews.com
  The Pritzker Architecture Prize issued a statement defending the integrity of its selection process after newly released Jeffrey Epstein files detailed past contact between Tom Pritzker, the director of the foundation behind the award, and the disgraced financier.The statement, released to the New York Times, said the Hyatt Foundation’s role as the prize’s benefactor allows it “to remain assured in the strength of its process and focus entirely on the celebration of a
  
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• Berkeley Art Museum Will Receive Major Bequest of Work by Women Artists

  24-02-2026 16:05 via artnews.com
  The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced on Monday that it will receive a bequest of nearly 150 artworks from Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, two Berkeley-based collectors who focus on modern and contemporary art by women.Cooper, a criminal defense attorney and advocate for social justice, and Rosenwasser, a poet and cofounder of the Bay Area–based feminist publishing house Kelsey Street Press, have long made collecting a part of their support for women in the arts.Sin
  
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• British Museum Sets Aside £1.2 M. to Cover Transport of the Bayeux Tapestry

  24-02-2026 13:35 via artnews.com
  The British Museum is gearing up for a major logistical challenge: moving the iconic Bayeux Tapestry from Normandy to London. According to the online publication Arts Professional, the museum has set aside £1.2 million to cover the transport, including all the preliminary work needed to get the 11th-century masterpiece safely across the Channel.The tapestry is already being covered by a UK Treasury guarantee of around £800 million ($1 billion). Now the museum has confirmed the extra
  
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• British Museum Sets Aside £1.2 M. to Cover Transport of the Bayeux Tapestry from Normandy to London

  24-02-2026 13:35 via artnews.com
  The British Museum is gearing up for a major logistical challenge: moving the iconic Bayeux Tapestry from Normandy to London. According to the online publication Arts Professional, the museum has set aside £1.2 million to cover the transport, including all the preliminary work needed to get the 11th-century masterpiece safely across the Channel.The tapestry is already being covered by a UK Treasury guarantee of around £800 million ($1 billion). Now the museum has confirmed the extra
  
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• The Tangs Donate 150 Native American Artworks to NY Historical, Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Become Honorary Chairs of Met Gala: Morning Links for February 24, 2026

  24-02-2026 13:18 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPAST, PRESENT, FUTURE. The New York Historical (NYH) has just received 150 artworks by Native American artists, donated by the chair of its board of trustees, Agnes Hsu-Tang—and her husband, Oscar Tang. The gift coincides with the 250th anniversary of the US, reports the Art Newspaper. Works by Fritz Scholder (Luiseño)
  
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• Real Money Slots: The Ultimate Overview to Online Slot Gamings

  24-02-2026 12:12 via zouchmagazine.com
  For betting lovers, the world of genuine cash ports is an exciting and possibly profitable one. Whether playing in land-based casinos or online platforms, the thrill of rotating the reels and striking it rich is exceptional. But with countless slot video games offered, it can be frustrating to choose the ideal one.
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• France Returns Looted ‘Talking Drum’ to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

  24-02-2026 00:01 via artnews.com
  In a ceremony held on Friday at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris, France officially returned a drum known as the “talking drum” or Djidji Ayôkwé, to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. The news was reported by French newspaper Le Monde.The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the slit are two planks, one of which supports a carving of a jumping leopard. The box itself is decorated with carve
  
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• Live Roulette in Texas

  23-02-2026 23:43 via zouchmagazine.com
  When the evening settles over Texas, the glow from casino floors starts to pulse through the city lights. In a state that prizes boldness and tradition, roulette has slipped from the marble tables of brick‑and‑mortar halls into a live, online format that can be reachedfrom a laptop or a phone. Laws that once kept the wheel confined to physical casinos have begun to loosen, letting Texans experience a real dealer without leaving their living rooms.
  In live roulette Texas, players can
  
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• Artists Rally for Jamaica and L.A. With a Hollywood Auction During Art Week

  23-02-2026 22:20 via artnews.com
  The art world loves a party. This time it’s putting that energy to work. On February 26, during L.A. Art Week, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary will launch “Get Up Stand Up: Artists for Jamaica and Los Angeles,” a benefit auction aimed at long-term recovery efforts after Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and the recent wildfires in Los Angeles.The event kicks off in Hollywood with a live sale led by Swiss auctioneer Simon de
  
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• Met Gala Reveals 2026 Dress Code: ‘Fashion is Art’

  23-02-2026 22:18 via artnews.com
  Last November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute revealed that theme for this May’s Met Gala, is “Costume Art,” a capacious conceit that positions the museum’s five-millennia spanning collection in dialogue with the dressed body (never mind its nonrepresentational holdings). The Met Gala dress code has now been announced, and it pairs neatly: airy to the point of apolitical, a truth too apparent to debate—”Fashion is Art.”The
  
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• Newly Unearthed Documents Propose That the Eastern Island Head Was Not Stolen

  23-02-2026 21:35 via artnews.com
  A British archaeologist has proposed a revised account of the excavation of Hoa Hakananaiʻa, the moai better known as the Easter Island Head, arguing that its removal was not a unilateral act of imperial extraction but a collaborative effort between British explorers and Indigenous Rapa Nui islanders that ultimately led to its voyage to England.Hoa Hakananaiʻa was one of roughly 1,000 basalt statues scattered across Easter Island, a subtropical landmass about the size of Manhattan loca
  
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• Newly Unearthed Documents Propose That the Easter Island Head Was Not Stolen

  23-02-2026 21:35 via artnews.com
  A British archaeologist has proposed a revised account of the excavation of Hoa Hakananaiʻa, the moai better known as the Easter Island Head, arguing that its removal was not a unilateral act of imperial extraction but a collaborative effort between British explorers and Indigenous Rapa Nui islanders that ultimately led to its voyage to England.Hoa Hakananaiʻa was one of roughly 1,000 basalt statues scattered across Easter Island, a subtropical landmass about the size of Manhattan loca
  
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• Ancient Egyptian Tombs, Some Full of Pottery and Jewelry, Discovered at Qubbet Al-Hawa

  23-02-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  A research team from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has announced new discoveries at Qubbet Al-Hawa, a well-known archaeological site in southeast Egypt, near the city of Aswan. The Upper Egyptian site is known for its sprawling necropolis.This latest mission, as reported in Ahram, focused on rock-cut burial shafts and chambers, most notably two chambers full of 160 pottery vessels, many of which are covered with text, that are believed to have been used to store grain and li
  
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• Newsmakers: Enzo, a Small Art Fair, Could Have a Big Impact on the LA Market

  23-02-2026 21:26 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.This year sees the introduction of two new major fairs: Art Basel Qatar earlier this month and Frieze Abu Dhabi in November. Those enterprises will almost certainly have an important impact on the market, both in the Gulf and globally. But this week in Los Angeles, one collector is thinking through how a smaller fair can also
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction Jean and Terry de Gunzburg Collection, Led by Claude Lalanne Mirrors and $15 M. Rothko

  23-02-2026 20:42 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s is about to turn a pair of very polished lives into a two-part auction season.In April and May, the house will present roughly 135 works from the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, carrying a combined estimate of $67 million to $99 million. The first chapter arrives on April 22 with a dedicated design sale in New York, estimated at $30 million to $44 million and described by Sotheby’s as “the most valuable single-owner design sale in its history.” A selec
  
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