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• Galleries, Gatekeepers, And An 82-Year-Old Pole Dancer

  01-08-2026 02:20 via artsjournal.com
  Good Afternoon,Ocula asks the question the art trade would rather not engage on: do artists still need galleries (Ocula)? The answer depends on what the gallery was ever really selling — access, or permission. Philadelphia offers a blunter version: Curtis is putting $25 million into the building it acquired out of University of the Arts’ collapse, rehearsal hall included (MSN).
  Follow the money and the pattern holds. Universal Music posted a 13% revenue jump (The Hollywood Reporter)
  
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• Online Gambling Enterprises Accepting Neteller Deposits: A Comprehensive Overview

  01-08-2026 22:00 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  01-08-2026 17:01 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Best Online Casino Real Money: Your Ultimate Overview

  01-08-2026 14:22 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Ideal Gambling Sites: Explore the Thrills of Online Betting

  01-08-2026 12:58 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Live Roulette Free Video Game: An Exciting Means to Play and Find out

  01-08-2026 12:48 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• The Best Online Betting Sites: A Comprehensive Guide

  01-08-2026 03:56 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Immediate Opening: Vice President of Marketing and Audience Development

  01-08-2026 02:22 via artsjournal.com
  THE POSITION:Reporting to the President & CEO, the Vice President of Marketing & Audience Development is a key member of the senior leadership team responsible for developing and executing statewide strategies that achieve earned revenue, audience growth, patron loyalty and institutional communications objectives. The Vice President provides executive leadership for marketing, sales, audience development, communications, brand strategy, patron experience, and patron loyalty initiatives,
  
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  01-08-2026 00:01 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Your Guide to Real Money Online Casinos in Australia

  31-07-2026 23:29 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• 6 Books We’re Looking Forward to in August

  31-07-2026 23:16 via artnews.com
  Summer reading enters its final stretch as 6 exciting new books hit the shelves in August (if you don’t count my own!). This month’s offerings span the centuries, moving from Renaissance theories of vision to contemporary debates over morality, inequality, and the future of art.A new biography explores the secret lives of John Singer Sargent, the queer Gilded Age society painter whose dazzling surfaces concealed a more guarded inner world. A manifesto by the artist collective Metahav
  
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• Citing Censorship, Artist Emma Shapiro Launches Legal Challenge to Restore Instagram Account

  31-07-2026 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom.The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims to challenge gender-based discrimination by highlighting the ways society’s sexualization of female-presenting bodies is reflected in various laws. Image after image of female nipples filled
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Egyptian Grave Markers Carved with Human Figures

  31-07-2026 22:08 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 20 funerary stelae depicting human figures at Tell El-Deir, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta. The news was reported by multiple news outlets, including Ahram and La Brújula Verde, following an announcement by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).The carved limestone grave markers are not only notable for their workmanship but for the religious symbols and deities engraved on their lateral sides and backs, including th
  
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• In New York Court, Dealer Yves Bouvier Seeks Sotheby’s Records as Part of New French Criminal Case

  31-07-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  Yves Bouvier is back in federal court in New York.The Swiss art dealer has asked a judge in the Southern District of New York to compel Sotheby’s to turn over records relating to the private sale of a Pablo Picasso painting, saying the documents are needed for a criminal case he recently launched in France against French art dealer Antoine Peretti.According to court filings, Bouvier purchased Picasso’s Intimité (Femmes et Enfants) from Peretti in April 2024 for $7.25
  
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• Behold The World’s Oldest Competitive Pole Dancer. She’s 82.

  31-07-2026 20:50 via nypost.com
  
  Idanna Abignente, who lives in a suburb of Turin, started pole dancing at around age 70 to keep fit. She developed a passion for it and eventually joined the competition circuit, where she frequently wins her age division for lack of other competitors. – New York Post
  
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• See the Trailer for the New Thomas Crown Affair Movie, Starring Michael B. Jordan as a Notorious Art Thief

  31-07-2026 20:48 via artnews.com
  
  Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award–winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film. About 12 seconds into the trailer, Jordan’s Thomas Crown faces some built-in bookshelves that slide apart to reveal a hidden room where he stores his stolen paintings. On a metal rack, r
  
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• Do Artists Still Need Galleries?

  31-07-2026 20:22 via ocula.com
   It is often assumed that a gallery is a prerequisite to finding commercial success and a place in the history of art. But a growing number of artists are rejecting that notion and going—to use the kind of commercial lingo that the art market likes to avoid—Direct to Consumer (DTC).  – Ocula
  
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• Gunther Von Hagens, Creator Of Controversial Exhibition “Body Worlds,” Is Dead At 81

  31-07-2026 20:03 via apnews.com
  
  An anatomist by training, he developed a technique called “plastination” which prevents the decay of corpses and leaves them flexible. He used that technique on dozens of bodies, many with skin removed to display musculature, and set them in various poses for his traveling exhibitions — which attracted both excited crowds and horrified criticism. – AP
  
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• Business School Professors Launch AI Tool to Help Identify Unclaimed Nazi-Era Looted Artworks

  31-07-2026 19:48 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Santa Clara University in California launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research. The tool is intended to enable anyone to ask questions about Nazi-looted artworks and receive answers based on information culled from a searchable, illustrated online database with over 40,000 entries. The news was recently reported by the Jewish News of Northern California.The group is made up of three business school colleagues: management professor Michael S
  
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• Why Hollywood Loves The Cello

  31-07-2026 19:44 via theguardian.com
  Why, out of every option in the orchestra, did the cello become the instrument of introspection? “It’s the cliche, but it’s probably because the cello comes closest to the human vocal range.” – The Guardian
  
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• Streamers Are Pressuring France To Drop Their Requirements To Invest In France

  31-07-2026 19:31 via variety.com
  
  Since January 2022, subscription streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ have been required to invest 20% of their annual French revenue in local film and television production under France’s implementation of the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive. – Variety
  
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• Is There Any Upside To The Paramount/Warner Merger?

  31-07-2026 19:15 via cjr.org
  
  If the deal does go through, it will saddle the new corporate entity that emerges with nearly eighty billion dollars in debt. –
  
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• Boy George Withdraws From West End’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” After Backlash Against His Latest Song

  31-07-2026 19:02 via playbill.com
  
  Next month, the 1980s New Wave pop icon, now 65, was going to play King Herod in the London revival of the musical. But his June release, “We Will Dance Again,” takes strong and controversial positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict; after weeks of heavy criticism, he cancelled his run in the role. – Playbill
  
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• The Modern Stadium And Monumentality

  31-07-2026 18:44 via dezeen.com
  Nearly all monumental architecture is expected to convey some set of values greater than its stated purpose. This is especially true of stadiums with their straightforward program – a pitch for a game to be played and seating from which to observe it. – Dezeen
  
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• Should We Stop Listening To Technocrats?

  31-07-2026 18:31 via aeon.co
  International civil servants do not in fact escape power. They rearticulate it with the help of technical experts. By framing this rearticulation as real impartiality, however, they conflate technocracy and expertise. This conflation lies at the heart of the legitimacy crisis that international organisations face today. – Aeon
  
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• Ex-National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Defends Smithsonian Colleague After Heated Congressional Hearing

  31-07-2026 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  “I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York Times.“I could see that it was going to become a real witch hunt,” she continued. “I didn’t wish that on my colleagues and I didn’t wish that on the Smithsonian.
  
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• Translator Emily Wilson On Reaction To Her Scathing Review Of “The Odessey”

  31-07-2026 18:15 via ew.com
  “You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong!” she added. “But it’s not ‘personal’ to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than ‘Hurray!’ or ‘Hiss!’” – Entertainment Weekly
  
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• At Tanglewood This Summer, Things Are Feeling Pretty Tense

  31-07-2026 18:04 via nytimes.com
  “During a recent week on the grounds, it felt anxious, angry, combustible. It was impossible to escape the warfare that the Boston Symphony is waging on itself: a crisis that is drowning out the music. Somebody needs to quiet things down before even more serious damage is done.” – The New York Times
  
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• Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600,000 in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets

  31-07-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one t
  
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• Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600 K. in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets

  31-07-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one t
  
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