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• Frieze New York Announces 2017 Projects Program

  14-02-2017 17:55 via artnews.com
  Frieze New York has announced details for seven commissioned performances, happenings, and installations that will form the 2017 Frieze Projects program, which transpires during the Frieze New York art fair May 5-7 on Randall’s Island. The program is curated for the sixth year … Read More
  
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• Marvin Curtis talks about the extraordinary documentary, The Invisible Player

  10-01-2026 19:04 via artsjournal.com
  Marvin Curtis, Immediate Past Board Chair of the South Bend Symphony shares the purpose and impact behind the documentary, The Invisible Player.
  
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• Not an Arts Impact Statement, But Really Great

  10-01-2026 18:12 via artsjournal.com
  In the midst of a lot of other news in his first 8 days in office….funding for child care for all, reactions to tragedy, responding to threats from the federal government, and more, new New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made ‘arts for all’ a priority.  On Friday, he joined with the producers of the […]
  
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• The Mauritshuis Museum in Holland to Lend Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to Japanese Museum

  10-01-2026 18:07 via artnews.com
  Holland’s Mauritshuis museum in The Hague announced on Thursday that the best-known work in its collection, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, will travel to Japan this fall. The news was reported by the Japan Times.The 17th-century masterpiece will be on temporary loan to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka while the Dutch museum is closed for renovations in August and September. The painting was last loaned to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for its 2023 Vermeer retrospe
  
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• Beatriz González, Painter Who Remade Others’ Masterpieces and Protested Politicians, Dies at 93

  10-01-2026 18:06 via artnews.com
  Beatriz González, a Colombian painter who ranks among the most important Latin American artists of the 20th century, died on Friday at her home in Bogotá at 93. Galerie Peter Kilchmann, her Zurich-based representative, announced her passing but did not specify a cause.González’s wide-ranging oeuvre tested painterly taboos and flirted with controversy. Working with a color palette that was often termed garish or unpleasing to the eye, she initially gained fame during th
  
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• ‘The boy’s contented face, his red hair matching the pig’s – you couldn’t plan for it’: Kelli Radwanski’s best phone picture

  10-01-2026 12:00
  Remote photography didn’t dilute the intimacy of this blissful moment in the Nevada sunshineSara Weir’s five children had just woken up and were roaming their home in Nevada when this shot was taken. It was 7am and photographer Kelli Radwanski was after the morning light; Weir had another child on the way and had hired Radwanski to capture their family life. All the kids were feeling playful, ready to show off their talents, silly faces and prize possessions. As the eldest son wander
  
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• From Hamnet to Bridget Christie: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  10-01-2026 07:00
  Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley play the Shakespeares in an emotional Maggie O’Farrell adaptation, while The Change creator returns to standupHamnet
  Out nowBring the tissues for this emotional Oscar hopeful which sees Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star as none other than William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, whose son Hamnet died at the age of 11. It is based on the book by Maggie O’Farrell, and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) directs. Continue reading...
  
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• John Luther Adams on “Why I Moved from the US to Australia”

  10-01-2026 05:07 via artsjournal.com
  A couple of my recent blogs – here and here — have saluted John Luther Adams as “among the most esteemed present-day American composers for orchestra. . . . Encountering Adams’s Become Ocean on a 21st-century symphonic program is so fundamentally enthralling that it risks cliché. It is the proverbial oasis in the
  
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• Washington National Opera To Leave The Kennedy Center

  09-01-2026 23:22 via nytimes.com
  The resolution calls for the opera to move its performances out of the Kennedy Center’s 2,364-seat Opera House as soon as possible and to reduce the number of performances as a cost-saving measure. Opera officials said that new sites in Washington have been lined up but that no leases have been signed. – The New York Times
  
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• Recovered Picassos at Center of Art Theft Trial in Nice

  09-01-2026 23:08 via artnews.com
  Seven years after an undercover sting led police to a house packed with stolen art in the hills above Nice, the case has returned to court, with ten defendants now on trial over a cache that included several works by Pablo Picasso.The trial, which opened earlier this month in Nice, revisits a 2017 judicial police operation that recovered more than 20 stolen artworks, including at least seven works by Picasso, following a tip that major pieces were being quietly offered f
  
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• Delcy Morelos to Stage Major Public Art Commission at Barbican in London This Spring

  09-01-2026 22:23 via artnews.com
  As part of its upcoming spring program, the Barbican in London will stage a major commission by artist Delcy Morelos, her first in the United Kingdom.For the commission, on view May 15 to July 31, Morelos will construct her most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Measuring around 78 feet in circumference, the new work, to be sited in the Barbican’s outdoor sculpture courtyard, will take the form of an oval-shaped pavilion made of soil, clay, spices, and plant materials.Morelos&rsqu
  
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• 1,500-Year-Old Byzantine Monastery Discovered in Egypt                

  09-01-2026 22:20 via artnews.com
  The foundations of a building complex from the 5th–6th century CE were recently uncovered at Al-Qarya bi-Al-Duweir, an archaeological site in Sohag, a city along the Nile River in central Egypt. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities posted about the discovery on January 8 on X, noting that the mission was overseen by the Supreme Council of Antiquities.According to Ahram Online, Sherif Fathy, minister of tourism and antiquities, observed that the Byzantine-era residential complex “s
  
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• Columbia Museum of Art Opens Newly Configured Collection Galleries to Cap Year-Long Renovation

  09-01-2026 20:52 via artnews.com
  The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina, is unveiling newly reconfigured collection galleries to cap its 75th anniversary and culminate a yearlong renovation. While the institution is currently hosting “Keith Haring: Radiant Vision”—a traveling exhibition that previously visited the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, and venues in Italy, Israel, and elsewhere—the museum will reopen its collection galleries followin
  
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• How Does This Professor Get Students To Read Complete Books? With A Class Called “Existential Despair.”

  09-01-2026 20:50 via vulture.com
  The professor is Justin McDaniel, chair of the religious studies department at Penn. The class meets once a week for seven-to-eight hours, reading one book cover-to-cover in complete silence, then discuss it. No phones, of course. – New York Magazine
  
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• Belgian Dealer Paid $116,000 for Artwork Now Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens

  09-01-2026 20:27 via artnews.com
  Belgian art dealer Klaas Muller has identified a new study of a bearded man’s head by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, according to a lengthy report in the Dutch daily newspaper De Standaard.Muller bought the work, an oil on paper laid on panel that is now titled Bearded old man, looking down to his left (ca. 1609), at an auction three years ago from “lesser-known auction house in northern Europe,” declining to name it for fear of increased competition, he told the Guardian.Th
  
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• Could Japan’s Highest-Grossing-Ever Live-Action Film Revive Interest In Kabuki?

  09-01-2026 20:03 via cnn.com
  In the movie Kokuho, a epic covering five decades in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we see the traditional theater slowly fade from Japanese popular culture. In real life, interest in kabuki has fallen, especially since COVID. Now there’s hope that the film’s success could attract new fans to the genre. – CNN
  
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• Philanthropist Ensures Live Orchestra For San Diego Opera

  09-01-2026 19:44 via msn.com
  On Monday, San Diego Opera announced that Jacobs has committed $4.5 million to establish The Joan and Irwin Jacobs San Diego Symphony and San Diego Opera Collaboration Fund. – San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
  
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• The Humanities Crisis Is Over. Uh-Oh.

  09-01-2026 19:31 via chronicle.com
  There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is over. The bad news: The crisis of the humanities has been revealed by the events of the last year to be a crisis of civil society writ large. – Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• The Poverty Of Living When Everything Is Ranked

  09-01-2026 19:15 via newyorker.com
  Value capture occurs when you get your values from some external source and let them rule you without adapting them.” Because we live in a world in which nearly everything is quantified and ranked, value capture is everywhere. – The New Yorker
  
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• First Designs Released For 2032 Olympic Stadium In Brisbane

  09-01-2026 19:02 via cnn.com
  The design, by the Australian firms Cox Architecture and Hassell in collaboration with the Japanese practice Azusa Sekkei, is inspired by the wraparound verandas of traditional “Queenslander” houses. (Brisbane is the Queensland state capital.) – CNN
  
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• The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

  09-01-2026 18:51
  It can make us healthier, happier and live longer. Engaging in culture should be encouraged like good diet and exerciseThe second Friday in January has been dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, when we are most likely to give up our new year resolutions. Instead of denying ourselves pleasures, suggests a new batch of books, a more successful route may be adding to them – nourishing our minds and souls by making creativity as much a daily habit as eating vegetables and exercising. Rath
  
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• Making Climate Change Real: When We Write About Places People Know

  09-01-2026 18:44 via theconversation.com
  We have discovered that writing about local places that people are already connected to changes this dynamic and gives people a way to examine their own assumptions within a recognisable framework. – The Conversation
  
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• Science Fiction And The Art Of Predicting The Future

  09-01-2026 18:31 via thebaffler.com
  At odds with the outspoken desire for that which is novel and original in art, audiences also have a hunger for the familiar or at least the spectacularly plausible. If the future can’t be predicted, then maybe it can be gamed out, run through a series of thought experiments. – The Baffler
  
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• Sandra Mujinga’s Shadowy Figures Hit the International Spotlight

  09-01-2026 18:17 via artnews.com
  About a decade ago, when Sandra Mujinga visited Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she relished her time people watching, as travelers are wont to do. But Mujinga was not exactly a foreigner—she was born in Goma, another Congolese city, and had returned to the country multiple times since leaving it as a child—and so her version of people watching entailed observing not just how locals acted but how they dressed.“I felt like there was this innate, un
  
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• Researchers Use AI To Decipher Tens Of Thousands Of Medieval Manuscripts

  09-01-2026 18:15 via inria.fr
  More than 32,000 manuscripts were transcribed in the space of a few months. – Inria
  
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• London’s Natural History Museum Braces for Pokémon Pop-Up After Tickets Sell Out

  09-01-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  The Natural History Museum in London is set to host a Pokémon pop-up shop later this month, an event that has already proved popular enough to sell out timed entry slots well ahead of its opening.According to Time Out London, the pop-up will run from January 26 through April 19 inside the museum’s Cranborne Boutique, following an extension prompted by demand. The collaboration, themed “Pokécology: An Illustrated Guide to Pokémon Ecology,” includes
  
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• One Of America’s Top Luthiers Is Still Picking Up The Pieces After Last Year’s L.A. Fires

  09-01-2026 18:04 via nytimes.com
  Mario Miralles has made violins and cellos for everyone from Yo-Yo Ma and Anne Akiko Myers to principals in the Los Angeles Philharmonic to students to Gustavo Dudamel. His home and studio were in Altadena, and he lost years’ worth of carefully sourced wood, instrument diagrams, and almost everything else. – The New York Times
  
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• More And More Artists Being Asked To Help Finance Museum Shows Of Their Work

  09-01-2026 17:44 via theartnewspaper.com
  Across the US, artists report being called on to subsidise budgets for museum exhibitions, public commissions and even acquisitions. In some cases, opportunities evaporate entirely when the artist and organisation are unable to raise the money needed for production. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Barnes Foundation’s New COO, Heritage Reports $2.2 Billion in Sales for 2025, and More: Industry Moves for January 9, 2026

  09-01-2026 17:36 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.Happy Friday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry Moves
  Will Cary Promoted to EVP and COO of the Barnes Foundation: Cary will oversee new revenue initiatives, the Calder Gardens partnership, and a newly formed Brand department unifying commu
  
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• Universal Music Chief Warns About “Irresponsible” Business Models For Music Taking Hold

  09-01-2026 17:31 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  “Let me be clear: UMG will not stand by and watch irresponsible business models take hold, models that devalue artists, fail to provide adequate compensation for their work, stifle their creativity and ultimately, diminish their ability to reach fans.” – Music Business Worldwide
  
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