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• From the Archives: John Ashbery on ‘Primary Structures,’ in 1966

  12-01-2018 17:50 via artnews.com
  The poet writes on one of Kynaston McShine's most important exhibitions. Read More
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• Nobody Boos At A Screen

  04-08-2026 03:25 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The U.S. has lost a fifth of its movie theaters and nearly a third of its bowling alleys since 2001 (Fortune). That’s not a taste story, it’s an infrastructure one — the places where strangers used to end up sitting next to each other are disappearing.The consequence shows up inside the rooms still standing: moviegoing has stopped being habit meeting spontaneity, and the question of what to see has collapsed into whether to go at all (The Atlantic). Instagram, mean
  
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• Francisco Correa Cordero, Founder of Closely Watched New York Gallery Lubov, Dies

  04-08-2026 00:12 via artnews.com
  
  Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of New York gallery Lubov, died on August 2. The news was announced in a post on the gallery’s Instagram account, which did not provide a cause or age.“He accomplished and lived for his dream through the gallery of a safe and meaningful community for artists – what he built through Lubov will be felt through the art community forever,” the gallery’s post reads, which notes that Correa Cordero “passed away peacefully surrou
  
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• Top 200 Collectors Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai to Divorce After Nearly 30 Years

  04-08-2026 00:04 via artnews.com
  
  Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai, the billionaire art collectors and owners of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, the New York Post reported Friday.The couple, who married in New York in 1996, were named jointly to ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list in 2018 and 2025, with a focus on contemporary art.A representative for the Tsais told the Post that the split was mutual and amicable and that the two plan to keep
  
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• Met Museum Quietly Hangs a Leonardo da Vinci Painting, On Loan from Ken Griffin: ‘A Little Picture, Of Large-Scale Importance’

  03-08-2026 23:52 via artnews.com
  
  Get ready for Leonardo da Vinci fever at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the curators, without so much as a press release, hung a painting this spring by the Renaissance master. On a Monday visit, the work wasn’t gaining any particularly high level of attention as it hung in gallery 609, on the second floor in the European paintings department. The small painting hangs between giant ones by Francesco Francia and Andrea Solario.Madonna of the Yarnwinder (ca. 1505 per a wa
  
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• Gagosian Gives Up London and Basel Spaces as Mega-Galleries Rethink Their Footprints

  03-08-2026 23:34 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian has closed its small space in London’s Burlington Arcade and will soon close up its space in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Newspaper reports.Both spaces started as pop-ups, and as long as the rents were good, it made sense for founder Larry Gagosian to keep up those spaces, a source familiar with the gallery’s thinking told ARTnews. “Larry’s thinking is, ‘If there’s opportunity there, great. If not, that’s okay too,’” the source said.A
  
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• Met Museum Consulted With Jewish Leaders Over Exhibition for Controversial Fashion Designer John Galliano

  03-08-2026 21:28 via artnews.com
  
  Before announcing John Galliano as the subject of its starry Costume Institute exhibition opening next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art met with influential rabbis and Jewish leaders to discuss the selection of a figure “as famous for his antisemitic rant in 2011 as he is for his fashion,” according to the New York Times.As reported by the Times’s chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, the Met convened several meetings between Jewish leaders and Anna Wintour, Vogue’
  
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• The World’s Largest Painting Sold for $62 M. in 2021 to Benefit Children’s Charities, But They Have Yet to Receive Any Funds

  03-08-2026 21:22 via artnews.com
  
  In 2021, British artist Sacha Jafri auctioned what was then the world’s largest canvas painting, The Journey of Humanity, for a total of £45 million ($62 million at the time) in support of children’s charities. The proceeds from the sale made in Dubai were supposed to be split between UNICEF, UNESCO, and the Global Gift Foundation. But the London Times reports that over five years later, the money has still yet to be disbursed to the selected charities.In 2022, the UAE-based or
  
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• A Boston Symphony Lesson: Limits Of A Music Critic?

  03-08-2026 21:00 via orlandoalonsomusic.substack.com
  
  The answer cannot simply be that the critic is more objective. Objectivity is valuable, but proximity matters as well. Critics attend performances. Audiences hear concerts. Administrators oversee institutions. But only the musicians experience the entire artistic relationship. – Orlando Alonso
  
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• Sonny Rollins — A Generation Of Change

  03-08-2026 20:31 via nplusonemag.com
  
  He was the last major figure to work in almost every era of jazz history: swing, bebop, hard bop, free, fusion. He was the terminal representative of the American music we call jazz, the final titan to fall. It’s unclear whether the music can still sustain the spontaneity and power that he and his peers represented. – n+1
  
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• Guardrails For AI Didn’t Work. So Bring In The Philosophers

  03-08-2026 19:30 via brucebarcott.substack.com
  
  “Efforts [to stop the generation of harmful content] were initially focused around putting in simple black-and-white guardrails, such as forbidding a model from talking about bombs entirely. But these proved clumsy and easy to circumvent. Now, companies are pursuing methods that lean heavily on a philosophical understanding of right and wrong.” – The AI Humanist
  
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• Bayreuth Audiences Boo Use Of AI In Wagner Performance

  03-08-2026 19:20 via latimes.com
  
  The collage that the technology projected onstage puzzled the audience, DPA reported, with images including late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the towers of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and a special postage stamp marking German reunification in 1990. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Na Kim Wants You to Look Up

  03-08-2026 19:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Old Stone Mill in Newport, Rhode Island, is an odd little building. Eight thick stone legs support a circular tower pierced by arched openings. There aren’t exactly windows, nor is there a roof. Stand in the middle and look up and all you see is sky.The structure, which sits in Touro Park in the city’s center, is often called a 17th-century windmill, though its exact origins have inspired theories and debate for generations, which have cycled between calling it the Newport Tower,
  
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• The Odyssey’s Success on Movie Screens Produces A Big Surge In Video Game Use

  03-08-2026 19:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Once The Odyssey zapped onto IMAX screens on July 17, “the cultural spillover into games was immediate.” 10 days later, Ubisoft‘s 2018 ancient Greek adventure Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey had nearly doubled its active player count, swelling from an approximate total of 122,000 players to 233,000 across platforms. – GamesRadar
  
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• Ideal Payout Online Online Casinos: A Guide to Winning Large

  03-08-2026 18:55 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Mobile Online Casinos That Approve Neteller: A Convenient Means to Wager on the Go

  03-08-2026 18:51 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  03-08-2026 18:49 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• America Is Losing Its Public Gathering Spaces

  03-08-2026 18:41 via fortune.com
  
  According to its Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages—which counts business establishments by industry down to the county level going back to 1990—the U.S. has lost a fifth of its movie theaters and nearly a third of its bowling alleys since 2001. – Fortune
  
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• There Are 35,000 Museums In The US. Here Is ARTnews’ List Of The Top 30

  03-08-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  They’re spread out across the lower 48. – ARTnews
  
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• Malo Chapuy’s Neo-Medieval Paintings Conjure Apocalyptic Visions

  03-08-2026 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  Medieval art continues to resurface as a foil for the art of subsequent generations. In the quattrocento, Vasari coined the term “gothic” to decry the “barbarousness” of such pre-Renaissance styles. By the mid-19th century, however, revivalists looked to it for inspiration, an egress from the calcified obsequiousness of neoclassicism and the depredations of industrialization. The latter had torn up the old social fabric, killed hundreds of thousands during the Napoleonic
  
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• Did Someone Steal A Nicholas Cage Movie On A Hard Drive?

  03-08-2026 17:40 via rollingstone.com
  
  A new lawsuit claims Netflix did not safeguard an as-yet-unreleased Nicolas Cage WWII movie, which allegedly was just sitting around on a hard drive until somebody stole it. – Rolling Stone
  
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• Google Briefly Allowed AI Manipulation Of Google Earth Satellite Images. Bad Idea

  03-08-2026 17:20 via arstechnica.com
  Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth—before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation. – Ars Technica
  
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• Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Show Will Fill Rotunda with New Body of Work for First Time in Museum’s History

  03-08-2026 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  Taryn Simon’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York will mark a number of firsts for the institution.Opening September 18, the show will mark “the first time the Guggenheim has dedicated the entire rotunda to a new body of work and to a single artist working in photography and video,” according to a release.The exhibition, which will be accompanied by an artist book published by the Guggenheim and Hatje Cantz, has been in the works for nearly a decade an
  
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• Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Show Will Fill Rotunda with Entirely New Body of Work for First Time in Museum’s History

  03-08-2026 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  Taryn Simon’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York will mark a number of firsts for the institution.Opening September 18, the show will mark “the first time the Guggenheim has dedicated the entire rotunda to a new body of work and to a single artist working in photography and video,” according to a release.The exhibition, which will be accompanied by an artist book published by the Guggenheim and Hatje Cantz, has been in the works for nearly a decade an
  
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• White House Proposes Smallest Smithsonian Budget in Years and Cutting Full-Time Staff by 6 Percent

  03-08-2026 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  The Trump administration has proposed the Smithsonian Institution’s leanest budget in nearly a decade, along with staff reductions, as its campaign against the museum over its ideological direction takes a new turn. For fiscal year 2027, the White House has proposed giving the Smithsonian $961.3 million in federal funding, roughly an 11 precent cut from the $1.08 billion Congress provided to it fiscal year 2026 and the institution’s lowest proposed funding level since at least 2
  
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• Misty Copeland Takes The Reins

  03-08-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “It’s about creating opportunity. It’s about creating access. It’s about continuing to not just be a voice in my time, but how are we setting up the next generation?” – The New York Times
  
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• Michelle Grabner Donates More Than 2,000 Artworks to Wisconsin’s Kohler Arts Center, Now the Most Comprehensive Repository of Her Work

  03-08-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Michelle Grabner will donate more than 2,000 artworks to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, making the institution the most comprehensive repository of her work.Comprising 700 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 1,200 prints, Grabner’s gift spans the arc of her career, so far, with pieces made in the early 1990s to ones made in the past few years. Her gift also includes 300 works from her personal art collection, amassed via a combination of trades, gift
  
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• Happy 420th Birthday To The Scottish Play

  03-08-2026 16:30 via lithub.com
  
  Yes, Macbeth has been around for a while. “Fun fact: Samuel Pepys saw it at least nine times himself.” – LitHub
  
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• NADA Miami Names 135 Exhibitors for Upcoming Edition in December

  03-08-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has named the 135 galleries that will take part in the upcoming 2026 edition of NADA Miami, scheduled to run December 1–5 at its longtime home, the Ice Palace Studios.The fair’s 24th edition will bring together exhibitors from 63 cities in 27 countries, with 45 of them participating for the first time. Galleries making their debut at NADA Miami including Pietro Alexander (of New York), Clauda (Prague), Forgotten Lands (Christiansted, St. Croix), Real Tins
  
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• Hollywood’s Open, Horrible Secrets, Such As The Whisper Network Concerning Jared Leto

  03-08-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “When a lot of people make a percentage off the earnings of one famous individual, the capacity for denial is vast” — and now there’s a huge, “well-oiled anti-accountability machine” that cranks up as well. – The New York Times
  
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