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• Finalists For This Year’s National Book Awards

  07-10-2026 19:31 via publishersweekly.com
  The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature—will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 18. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• A Winston Churchill Painting Gifted to His Daughter Lands at Christie’s

  09-10-2026 19:01 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie’s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of £300,000–£500,000 ($396,000–$661,000). The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soam
  
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• Guadalupe Maravilla to Stage Major Installation at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine This December

  09-10-2026 18:47 via artnews.com
  
  Creative Time has commissioned artist Guadalupe Maravilla to make a major installation in the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York’s Morningside Heights neighborhood. Presented in collaboration with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Maravilla’s Consejos de las Estrellas will be on view from December 16, 2026, to February 7, 2027.As with past works by the artist, Consejos de las Estrellas will take the form a sculptural installat
  
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• Brussels Gallery Super Dakota to Close After 15 Years

  09-10-2026 18:19 via artnews.com
  
  The Brussels-based gallery Super Dakota announced that it will close at the end of October. The gallery’s last show will be Adrian Geller’s current solo, which closes on October 16.In an email to its listserv, founder Damîen Dakota (Damîen Bertelle-Rogier) wrote, “This has been a great journey, but after 15 years the model of a commercial art gallery doesn’t match my ambitions anymore. I want to continue supporting artists through other platforms and models.&r
  
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• With an $18 M. Price Tag, 24-Karat ‘Fancy Intense Pink’ Diamond Ring Heads to Auction at Christie’s Geneva

  09-10-2026 17:58 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s “Magnificent Jewels” sale during Autumn Luxury Week in Geneva will include a storied “Fancy Intense Pink” diamond ring made by Bulgari in the 1950s. The estimate for the lot, to be auctioned off on November 10, is $12 million–$18 million.According to a press release, the 24-karat diamond was acquired in India by the current owner’s great-grandfather and given to Bulgari to be set into a piece of jewelry around the time that Rome, the house&rsq
  
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• Julianne Moore’s West Village Home Features Work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong

  09-10-2026 17:54 via artnews.com
  
  Tucked away in the West Village, actor Julianne Moore doesn’t seem to live like her Hollywood counterparts. She resides in a two-bedroom duplex with her husband, film director Bart Freundlich, that is also home to work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Robin Rice.“My taste is consistent, though it has evolved. I love modernism. But this apartment is prewar, and you have to address that. It’s not tiny, but it’s not massive, either, so materials and choi
  
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• Belinda Tate Departs Indianapolis Museum of Art, Glasgow’s Arts Community Fights to Save CCA and Others, and More: Morning Links for October 9, 2026

  09-10-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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  Belinda Tate is leaving her post as executive director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.Glasgow’s arts community is “in uproar” since a series of crises.The elected board in Arlington County, Virginia, filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s planned triumphal arch.The Headlines MUSICAL CHAIRS. After three years, Belinda Tate is leaving her post as execu
  
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• It’s Yours Now: What Top Collectors Have Donated to Museums

  09-10-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  When it comes to expanding their collections, museums cannot always do it alone—they often need deep-pocketed patrons to step in and help them obtain particularly expensive art. Below is a look at seven collectors who gave notable artworks to museums over the past 12 months.
  
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• Baselitz’s anti-heroic ‘Heroes’ burst into life at Thaddaeus Ropac

  09-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  The late artist’s final planned exhibition reunites the exhilarating, devastating paintings of one of his greatest series
  
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• Mystake: bezpečné platby a výběry vysvětlené krok za krokem

  09-10-2026 12:39 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  09-10-2026 12:38 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• wazamba jako mobilní kasino: přehled funkcí, bonusů a rizik

  09-10-2026 12:37 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Ten Spiritualist Women Artists to Know

  09-10-2026 11:30 via artnews.com
  
  When Spiritualism began as a movement in the mid-19th century, it attracted a host of believers—particularly women, because it granted them powers they couldn’t obtain elsewhere. “I time traveled to the worlds of remarkable women,” writes Jennifer Higgie in the prologue to her 2024 book about women artists of the past two centuries with a spiritualist bent, The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World. “Women who found solace in the spiritual realm,
  
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• The New Museum Spotlights New York City’s First Working-Class Entertainment Zone

  09-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  “A walk down 14th Street is more amazing than any work of art,” Allan Kaprow wrote in 1959, the same year he staged 18 Happenings in 6 Parts in a loft a block off the Bowery. What might he have said of that mile-long boulevard, “one of the great highways of humanity” per Theodor Roosevelt (the only New York police commissioner ever elected US president)?The greatest architectural hodgepodge of its borough, the Bowery (from the Dutch bouwerie, meaning “homestead&rdqu
  
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• Who will crack the Gen Z art market?

  09-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Galleries and fairs are increasingly courting younger audiences who have caught the art-buying bug
  
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• In Memoriam: Remembering Art Collectors Lost, From Agnes Gund to Dorothy Vogel

  08-10-2026 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  During the past 12 months, the art world lost some of its most dedicated collectors, who were known for the outsize holdings as well as their patronage of institutions, many of which benefited from their largess. Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobsen were longtime trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dorothy Vogel was a librarian whose holdings of postwar art transformed the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Susan Marx helped make the Aspen Art Museum what it is today. The Museu
  
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• Van Gogh Museum Reaches Agreement with Dutch Government on Contentious Renovation Budget

  08-10-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  Funding trouble has been brewing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since at least 2023, when the museum began negotiating with the Dutch Ministry of Culture over the budget for a much-needed building renovation. In the summer of 2025, two years into the negotiations, museum director Emilie Gordenker told the New York Times that the current situation was “dangerous for the art and dangerous for our visitors.” The necessary repairs were so urgent that Gordenker worried the museum&mda
  
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• Stake : guide bancaire pour les joueurs de casino mobile

  08-10-2026 21:33 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Ce guide explique comment fonctionnent les dépôts, les retraits et la sécurité du portefeuille Stake sur mobile. Point essentiel pour les lecteurs en France : la plateforme internationale interdit l’utilisation par les personnes situées ou résidant en France. Nous détaillons donc les règles bancaires documentées pour les marchés autorisés, afin de vous aider à comprendre les délais, les frais et les c
  
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• Comment gagner des points de fidélité sur Touch casino : ce qui compte et ce qui ne compte pas

  08-10-2026 21:31 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Règles de publicité des jeux d’argent en France : ce que cela change pour Winaura casino

  08-10-2026 21:30 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  En France, la publicité pour les jeux d’argent ne peut pas être traitée comme une promotion commerciale ordinaire. Les messages doivent rester loyaux, encadrés et adaptés à un public majeur. Pour comprendre les précautions autour de winaura casino, il faut donc distinguer les offres affichées, leur présentation au public français et la possibilité réelle d’y accéder légalement.Le cadre fr
  
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• Winoui sur mobile : les vérifications à faire avant de jouer

  08-10-2026 21:29 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Avant d’utiliser winoui sur un smartphone ou une tablette, quelques contrôles simples évitent les blocages de connexion, les paiements refusés et les retards de vérification. Il faut surtout examiner le navigateur, la connexion, la sécurité du téléphone et les limites de paiement. Cette checklist vous aide à préparer votre appareil avant de vous inscrire, de déposer ou de lancer un jeu.Préparer son appareil
  
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• At the Fall’s First Major Auctions, Buyers Spent Carefully but Competed for the Right Works

  08-10-2026 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  The first sales of the fall auction season offered some encouraging signs for an art market that has spent the last few years searching for them. Buyers were willing to spend, sometimes well beyond expectations. But they were picky on which works they spent their money.Across recent sales at Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s in New York, bidders chased down established artists, recognizable bodies of work, and lots carrying estimates that left some room to run, with records and bid
  
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• A New AI Tool Wants to Fix the Gender Imbalance of Gallery Rosters

  08-10-2026 19:36 via artnews.com
  
  A new AI tool is aimed at revealing the gender imbalance in gallery rosters. Hall W Rockefeller, who designed the program, is using it advance the mission of her art organization, Less Than Half, which aims to raise the profile of women artists.The AI tool analyzes a gallery’s artist roster to determine the percentage of male, female, and non-binary artists represented. Though the tool is not perfect, it purports to be capable of identifying artists who identify as non-binary, as well as d
  
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• Cooper Union Strikes New Land-Lease Deal for New York’s Chrysler Building, With Plans to Restore Full-Tuition Scholarships

  08-10-2026 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s iconic Chrysler Building, standing on land owned and leased by the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is transferring ownership to the commercial real-estate company Tishman Speyer and other investors, who are planning an extensive overhaul of the Art Deco landmark after years of neglect. The $235-million deal includes a 150-year ground lease with future rent to be paid to Cooper Union, which plans to use the funds to restore full-tuition scholarships to all un
  
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• Tang Contemporary Art Shutters a Hong Kong Location as Creditors File Complaints and Artists Claim Overdue Payments

  08-10-2026 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  A Hong Kong branch of the gallery Tang Contemporary Art closed in June amid accusations of overdue payments to its artists as well as its landlords and service providers. Vivian Har, director of the Hong Kong location, confirmed to the Art Newspaper (TAN) that the gallery is facing “major operational challenges across the region.”Founded in Bangkok in 1997 by Zhjeng Lin, Tang continues to operate showrooms there and in Beijing, Seoul, and, as of 2024, Singapore; the gallery also expa
  
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• Former Bard President Resigns College Affiliations Amid Inquiry Into Jeffrey Epstein Ties

  08-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Botstein, the former Bard College president of five decades, who retired this spring amid scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, resigned this week from all of his roles affiliated with the arts school. Botstein announced his retirement in May after a trove of documents collected by the Justice Department, known as the Epstein Files, revealed that the two shared a closer relationship than previously disclosed. He nevertheless remained involved in the school’
  
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• Gochman Family Collection’s Hudson Valley Space to Be Called Branchline, Opening in November

  08-10-2026 16:50 via artnews.com
  
  The Gochman Family Collection, founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Becky and David Gochman, has announced more details for its forthcoming space in the Hudson Valley.Branchline, as it will be called, will open on November 6 in Katonah, New York, about an hour north of Manhattan. The new exhibition space, which will be open to the public four days a week and be free to visit, takes its name from the “branch lines” of the various rail systems that connect Katonah to New York City, pe
  
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• Sotheby’s To Offer $100 M. Collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, Led by $15 M. Paintings by Rothko and Ruscha

  08-10-2026 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will offer the collection of cable television magnate Ted Baum and his wife, interior designer Ruth Baum, with the whole estimated to total in excess of $100 million. The collection includes works by leading American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, and Tom Wesselmann, and major European figures including Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Piero Manzoni. The group is led by a $10–15 million Rothko painting on paper and a Ru
  
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• Art Basel/UBS Report’s Surprising Findings, Artists Say Tang Contemporary Owes Them Money and Artwork, and More: Morning Links for October 8, 2026

  08-10-2026 15:13 via artnews.com
  
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  The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting revealed several unexpected findings.Several artists are accusing Tang Contemporary gallery of not paying them and withholding artworks, joining similar claims by their landlord and other providers.A nearly 8-foot-tall naked gold statue depicting a bloated President Donald Trump sitting on the shoulde
  
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• Hammer Museum Board Gets New Chair, Denzil Forrester Joins Thaddaeus Ropac, and More: Industry Moves for October 8, 2026

  08-10-2026 14:45 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves Hammer Museum Board Elects New Leadership: The trustees of the Los Angeles museum have selected Eric Esrailian to be chair and Karen Hillenburg vice chair. Three new members have joined the now 24-person-strong board: Leslie McMorrow, Alicia Miñana de Lovelace, and Joan Weinstein. Additionally, the board of adv
  
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