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• Executive Director – Guild Hall of East Hampton

  16-10-2026 02:01 via artsjournal.com
  Guild Hall seeks a visionary, collaborative, and operationally disciplined Executive Director to lead one of the country’s most distinctive multidisciplinary cultural institutions into its second century. This is a rare opportunity to build upon a period of extraordinary transformation while shaping Guild Hall’s next era of artistic excellence, civic leadership, financial sustainability, and national impact. Guild Hall’s historic galleries and theater have welcomed generations
  
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• Getty Images Heads to Bankruptcy With Koch’s Backing

  17-10-2026 23:33 via artsjournal.com
  This Week’s Highlights:Getty Images, whose photographers cover most red carpets and owns a significant portion of the world’s historical photo archives, plans to go private through Chapter 11 with up to $533 million from Charles Koch’s investment firm; its iStock stock-image business is losing demand to AI tools, while its news-photo division is forecast to grow from $369 million to $400 million by 2029 (The Hollywood Reporter).
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• The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront

  17-10-2026 17:27 via artnews.com
  
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to London for its 14th edition, which has introduced a new section this year focused on African modernism, curated by art historian Nancy Dantas. Titled “West Wind” and inspired by Miriam Makeba’s 1966 anthem for unity, this presentation addresses the gap left by Sotheby’s when it closed its dedicated African modernism department in 2025. The showcase features mid-20th-century masters, like Ibrahim El-Salahi, Bertina Lop
  
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• Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana

  17-10-2026 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  Listen to Ibrahim Mahama speak, and he’s likely to credit his success to his community, which includes market women, weavers, craftsmen, studio assistants, railway workers, curators, professors, and fellow artists.The Ghanaian artist is quick to recognize their contributions when he receives one of the many awards he’s picked up recently. Ranked at the top of the influential ArtReview Power 100 list in 2025, he also won an Art Basel Gold Award that year and received the 2026 Arnold B
  
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• How Cringe Took Over Culture

  17-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In art, as in life, the messy materiality of flesh fazes me not one whit.The climax of Lukas Moodysson’s A Hole in My Heart (2004), where Geko vomits into Tess’s open mouth? Wrote about it. Judy Chicago’s menstrual defiance, Ina Poppe’s mother’s milk cheese, Martin von Ostrowski’s spunk-strewn canvases, Marc Quinn’s sculpture cast with 10 pints of his own blood? Up my alley. Florentina Holzinger’s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at
  
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• Eight Galleries in India You Should Know

  17-10-2026 09:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Indian contemporary art market has been on an upswing in recent years. The growth has been catalyzed by the country’s economic boom and explosion in private wealth. This has been amplified by a surge in prices for the work of India’s modern masters, now nearly inaccessible for emerging collectors. Galleries have been in rapid expansion mode, participating in more art fairs internationally, and opening new spaces.Below is a primer looking at eight of India’s top galleries, w
  
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• One weekend, 1,400 works — how much art can a person absorb?

  17-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  A museum or gallery visit can end up as rushed viewing or sensory overload. So don’t seek ‘value’ in terms of money or time — what matters is the lingering impact
  
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• How artists have imagined the end of civilisations

  17-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  From exhibitions to reinhabited structures, artists and architects explore how ruins and fragments show the beauty of what remains
  
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• Help — four letters that require attention

  17-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The way we respond to the needs of others is more complex than we care to admit
  
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• Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Federation Over Cranach Diptych, Met Names Danh Võ for Genesis Façade Commission, and More: Morning Links for October 16, 2026

  17-10-2026 01:59 via artnews.com
  
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  The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter’s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection.The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected artist Danh Võ for its 2027 Genesis Façade Commission.The Biennale Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing it
  
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• Mao Weitao Shaved Her Head for Opera

  17-10-2026 00:41 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Ian McKellen, 87, will appear as a hologram in Simon Stephens’s play An Ark, filmed by 52 cameras, at Manchester’s Factory International from March 27 (BBC).Mary Duggan was asked to design 80 council homes on a Croydon hillside and instead fit in 157 among five brick towers and a bluebell wood. Lion Green Road has just won Britain’s Stirling Prize for architecture, after a planning application that drew 257 objections (The Guardian).
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• Rubaiya Qatar Quadrennial Names More Than 120 Artists for Inaugural Edition

  16-10-2026 23:21 via artnews.com
  
  Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new initiative, presented by Qatar Museums in collaboration with ALRIWAQ Arts + Architecture.Unlike most other recurring art exhibitions, Rubaiaya Qatar will be made up of three separate shows at three different institutions and will also include a public art component.“The inauguration of Rubaiya Qatar
  
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• ARTnews Celebrates 2026 Edition of Annual Top 200 Collectors Issue

  16-10-2026 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from the Chrysler Building to the JPMorgan Chase Tower to the Empire State Building.The evening’s cohosts were Estrellita Brodsky, chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and cofounder of Another Space in Chelsea, and Becky Gochman, cofounder of the Gochman Family Collection, which will o
  
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• Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Dealer’s Heirs Over Looted Cranach Painting, Extending a Decades-Long Fight

  16-10-2026 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by the Nazis and later sold to its founder. The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return.The museum opposes an attempt by the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles and its board chair Daniel Gryczman, who sued in
  
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• George Osborne Personally Helped Secure Controversial $6.6 M. British Museum Sponsorship, Emails Show

  16-10-2026 21:38 via artnews.com
  
  George Osborne, the former British chancellor who now chairs the British Museum, played a personal role in securing a reported £5 million ($6.6 million) sponsorship from billionaire hedge fund manager Igor Tulchinsky, according to internal emails obtained by the campaign group Culture Unstained.The correspondence, first reported by in the Art Journal, shows that Osborne introduced Tulchinsky to the museum and gave the go-ahead for sponsorship negotiations less than 90 minutes after receivi
  
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• Eight Group Shows to See in New York, From Incendiary Art History to a Lesson in Telenovelas

  16-10-2026 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  You’d be forgiven for thinking New York’s fall art calendar begins and ends with the museum spotlight. From the Whitney Museum’s Roy Lichtenstein retrospective to a Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock blockbuster at the Met, ’tis the season of mid-century heavyweights. But for those who’ve made the rounds—or simply like their art with a party—compelling encounters abound in group shows across the city.Some delve into lesser-known chapters of New York art his
  
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• Ice Dancing Champion Tessa Virtue Makes Her Professional Debut Dancing On Dry Land

  16-10-2026 20:50 via dancemagazine.com
  “In the studio, Virtue has found new freedom in the ‘ability to get grounded with the floor,’ she says. ‘I’m not just gliding across the surface, but I’m actually using the floor as an impetus to step and move and turn.’” – Dance Magazine
  
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• London’s Art Market May Be Damaged But Small Galleries Are Sharpening Their Edge

  16-10-2026 20:31 via nytimes.com
  Though Brexit and reforms to wealthy international residents’ tax arrangements have damaged the Britain’s art market, the depth and quality of London’s midsize and smaller gallery offerings still give the city’s art scene an edge. – The New York Times
  
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• Brazilian Outpost of Centre Pompidou Pushed Back to 2029

  16-10-2026 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  A Brazilian outpost of Paris’s hallowed Centre Pompidou initially planned to open next year has been pushed back 2029, according to a report in the Art Newspaper.Construction on Centre Pompidou Paraná, in the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, has not begun, and a planned call for bids has reportedly been pushed back from its expected date next month. A Pompidou spokesperson told TAN, “The project is currently working toward an opening in 2029 and is in the techn
  
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• How Ukrainians Are Fighting Back Against Russia’s Destruction Of Their Books

  16-10-2026 20:01 via thebookseller.com
  “The Ukrainian response has been a renewal of patriotism and engagement with national culture, along with enthusiastic defiance: the queues outside bookshops that formed in response to … the destruction, the orders that flooded in for e-books, or customers content to wait months for physical copies.” – The Bookseller (UK)
  
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• New from Moloko Print It Is Written: Times with Brion Gysin

  16-10-2026 19:57 via artsjournal.com
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• Miami Art Dealer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake Warhols

  16-10-2026 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  A Miami art dealer received a 46-month federal prison sentence on Thursday in a long-running case centered around his efforts to sell fake Andy Warhol works.Leslie Roberts is now facing his second prison sentence since he opened his Miami Fine Art Gallery in 1997. In 2015, he received a 22-month sentence for a case involving faked Romero Britto and Peter Max paintings. He was given three years of supervised release, but the agreement was voided in 2018, after he was accused of trying to negotiat
  
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• Bernie Sanders: Let’s Not Let Big Tech Dictate The Future Of Humanity

  16-10-2026 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  If these were the fantasies of teenage boys obsessed with science fiction, we could laugh them off. They are not. These are the foundational beliefs of the most powerful people in the world, who are mobilizing trillions of dollars to turn them into reality. – The Atlantic
  
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• Strife at Tom of Finland Foundation as Cofounder Levels Accusations and the Board Claims Harassment

  16-10-2026 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  It has been a long road to recognition for the artist known as Tom of Finland, who started out in the queer erotica underground, submitting his drawings of gay men with eye-popping physiques, often dressed in leather fetish gear and engaged in equally eye-popping sex acts, to magazines like Physique Pictorial in the 1950s, sometimes seeing them branded as pornographic.Despite those origins, he has arrived at international renown. When Finland’s postal service released stamps devoted to the
  
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• Opening Of New Brazil Pompidou Museum Delayed Until 2029

  16-10-2026 19:30 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “The project is currently working toward an opening in 2029 and is in the technical preparatory stages for the bidding process,” a Pompidou spokesperson tells The Art Newspaper. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Police Recover Three Religious Artworks Stolen From Spanish Churches

  16-10-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody, though investigators are still looking for a fourth missing sculpture.The recovered objects include a Baroque wooden angel from the Church of Vera Cruz, a copy of Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales, and a panel depicting the Seventh Station of the Cross. The latter two belonged t
  
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• CNN Signs Deal With Google For Generative AI Development

  16-10-2026 19:15 via variety.com
  
  CNN says the partnership would unlock “new pathways for audiences to access CNN’s unparalleled journalism while being compensated for the delivery and use of our unique intellectual property in connection with AI products.” – Variety
  
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• Traditional Chinese Opera’s Biggest Star Is Also Its Most Controversial

  16-10-2026 19:03 via sixthtone.com
  
  Mao Weitao has performed in Yue opera (the form from the city of Shaoxing) for almost 50 years, and she’s one of very few performers in traditional Chinese theater to have achieved mainstream celebrity. And she’s done that in part by upending the conventions of the genre. – Sixth Tone
  
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• The Huntington’s Newest Acquisitions Include Works by Raqib Shaw, Robert Indiana, and More

  16-10-2026 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  Los Angeles–area cultural institution the Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced this year’s gifts to its art collection funded by the Huntington’s Art Collectors’ Council. Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators.The five Art Collectors’ Council acquisitions span the 16th to the 21st centuries and encompass a range of media. The gifts build on the mus
  
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• How Florida’s New College Was Neutered By DeSantis’ Culture War

  16-10-2026 18:44 via nplusonemag.com
  
  The report shows that NCF, with about eight hundred students, had both the largest administrative personnel and the highest operating expenses of any public college in Florida. – n+1
  
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