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• Gut Punch

  07-06-2026 19:44 via artsjournal.com
  (Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, 1949).
  In a guest essay in the New York Times, former Washington Post theater critic Naveen Kumar writes that “Broadway is Serving Up Liberal Comfort Food.”
  His piece concludes:Not everyone goes to the theater hoping to be confronted with big questions, the kind that compel audiences to turn inward and disrupt their worldviews. But offering easy answ
  
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• Gagosian and Olney Gleason to Present Solo Exhibition for Lee Krasner in France

  10-06-2026 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  Just months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a blockbuster Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition, galleries Olney Gleason and Gagosian have announced their own Krasner presentation, albeit at the latter’s Rue de Ponthieu space in Paris. Both shows will open in October: October 4 for the Met, and October 19 for Gagosian, a week before the run of Art Basel Paris’s 2026 edition.The Olney Gleason–Gagosian show, presented in collaboration with the Pollock-K
  
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• A Prized Lucien Freud Nude, Estimated at $47 M., is Poised to Break Records at Sotheby’s

  10-06-2026 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter’s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot.Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between £25 million and £35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 million) when it hits the block on June 24 at Sotheby’s in London—to the astonishment of its subject, Sussex resident Sue Tilley. The model and frequent Freud muse told BBC Radio Sussex that she was &ldq
  
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• Valentine Willie, Visionary Advocate of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, Dies at 71

  10-06-2026 21:20 via artnews.com
  
  Valentine Willie, a lawyer by training who spent his career promoting contemporary Southeast Asian art as a curator and galleriest, died on June 9 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was 71. The news was reported by the Malaysian website The Star.Willie was born in Sabah, a state on the norther part of the island of Borneo, in 1954. He studied law at University College London in the ‘70s. In a profile published in Nikkei Asia days before his death, Willie reminisced about finding refuge from the
  
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• Sagrada Familia’s Inauguration Day, Influential Curator Valentine Willie Has Died, and More: Morning Links for June 10, 2026

  10-06-2026 21:17 via artnews.com
  
  Good Day!Pace CEO Marc Glimcher announces plan to downsize its London branch.Influential South-East Asian dealer and curator Valentine Francis Willie has died at 71.Experts in Italy accidentally mistook a three for an eight, and misdated an important, 14th-century Madonna and Child painting, now up for auction.The Headlines IT’S ME, NOT YOU. Uncertainty still reigns a week after Pace galleryannounced it was cutting roughly 50 jobs and 50 artists. Layoffs have hit n
  
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• ‘London Needs Some Lobbying’: 50,000 Attend London Gallery Weekend as Dealers Fight Narrative of City’s Decline

  10-06-2026 21:12 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.Last Thursday, in a basement at No. 9 Cork Street in Mayfair, mega-dealer Thaddaeus Ropac was on hand to launch the 2026 edition of London Gallery Weekend (LGW). The occasion was a panel discussion with Pale Horse Gallery cofounder Emma Hodgson and Kate MacGarry, who runs an eponymous space in Shoreditc
  
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  10-06-2026 19:06 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Sotheby’s London to Offer Two Monets With Blue-Chip Provenance, Estimated at up to $67 M.

  10-06-2026 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  At its June 24 modern and contemporary art sale, Sotheby’s London will offer two Monets—one depicting the famed water lily pond on his estate, the other a portrait of his wife—that have previously passed through the hands of top collectors. Both come from the same unnamed seller, and are coming back to the market just a few years after they last appeared at auction.Nymphéas (1907), estimated at £30 to £40 million ($40 to $53.5 million), was once in the collec
  
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• Guggenheim Museum to Livestream Select World Cup Matches, Screen Art Film on Legendary Football Star Zinédine Zidane

  10-06-2026 17:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Guggenheim Museum in New York announced today that it would host livestreams of a selection of World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer.The livestreams will take place at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright, the Guggenheim’s restaurant. In a release, the museum described the program as a way to create “a space for people to grab a bite, watch the World Cup, and share in the excitement together.” The experience will be free to members and free with that day&r
  
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• Independent 20th Century Heads to the Breuer With Its Biggest Edition Yet

  10-06-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Independent launched Independent 20th Century in 2022 in the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking New York Harbor. This fall, the fair is moving uptown to Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum building, now Sotheby’s global headquarters.The fifth edition of Independent 20th Century will run from September 24–27 at the Breuer, bringing together 56 exhibitors and presentations devoted to artists and movements from across the 20th century. More than 130 art
  
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• Pace Plans to Give Up 8,600-Square-Foot London Gallery as It Continues to Cut Costs

  10-06-2026 15:52 via artnews.com
  
  Pace gallery has put up its 8,600-square-foot space in London’s Hanover Square for rent, with plans to take on a smaller, “less corporate” space, CEO Marc Glimcher told the Financial Times Wednesday.While Glimcher would not confirm rumors about additional layoffs in London, he did praise “how tight teams have worked in [our galleries in] Korea, Tokyo and Berlin,” adding, “That is definitely the model for us.” The gallery said further it plans to maintain
  
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• Saidiya Hartman on Teaming Up with All-Star Artists to Imagine the End of White Supremacy

  10-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  It’s hard to think of a scholar who has had a bigger impact on the art of our times than Saidiya Hartman. The Columbia professor is best known for her method of writing history that she calls “critical fabulation,” a way of using theory and speculative storytelling to fill silences and omissions left in the archives. Specifically, it’s a way of painting a picture of people who were prevented from leaving straightforward material traces, often those who were oppressed or e
  
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  10-06-2026 09:41 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art is Balm for the Scars of European Conquest

  10-06-2026 09:00 via artnews.com
  
  A new group exhibition in Zurich surveys the state of global photographic heritage through the work of twenty renowned artists.Related ArticlesHow the Pace Layoffs Went Down–And What Comes Next Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Dutch Museum Heist of Ancient Romanian Gold “There is something predatory in the act of taking a picture,” writes Susan Sontag in her pivotal 1977 volume, On Photography. “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see
  
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• How the Pace Layoffs Went Down—And What Comes Next

  10-06-2026 00:44 via artnews.com
  
  Early in the morning last Thursday, cell phones started buzzing. Pace gallery staff and their friends in the art world were sending each other a couple of short messages: “Is everything okay? What’s happening?”Just after midnight, the New York Times ran a story reporting that Pace was preparing to lay off roughly 50 employees and cut about 50 artists from its roster. For many Pace staffers, it was the first they had heard of it. The timing could hardly have been worse
  
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• Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Dutch Museum Heist of Ancient Romanian Gold

  09-06-2026 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case.In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the city of Assen, ultimately absconding with a cache of Iron Age gold artifacts from the exhibition “Dacia—Empire of Gold and Silver” and triggering a diplomatic conflict between Romania and the
  
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• Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial

  09-06-2026 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux.The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in April 2025. Ho represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and organized the Asian Art Biennial in 2019. The title of Ho’s show, “You Must Ch
  
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• MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian’s New York Paintings

  09-06-2026 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death in 1944.Known as a pioneer of 20th-century abstraction, Mondrian began as a figurative painter before co-founding the De Stijl art
  
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• Art News, Indeed: NBA Star Victor Wembanyama Prepped For Finals Game By Sketching in Gramercy

  09-06-2026 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up to a decisive Game 3 victory in the 2026 NBA Finals—the first such game in New York City in 25 years—the 7-Foot-4 Frenchman spent the afternoon in Gramercy sketching. As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe, were spotted in Gramercy Park, one of just two private parks in New York City, sketchi
  
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• Boy Punctures Magritte’s ‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’ With a Pinecone at the Israel Museum

  09-06-2026 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a pinecone before a museum guard could stop him, museum staff told The Times of Israel.Sharon Tager, head of conservation at the museum, told Ha’aretz that repairs would take several weeks. “We’re experienced in conserving
  
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  09-06-2026 17:26 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Under Investigation for Referencing Palestine

  09-06-2026 16:53 via artnews.com
  
  A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian reported Friday. Savneet Talwar was reportedly suspended from teaching and is facing a disciplinary investigation following a student’s complaint about a case study assigned in April. Talwar told the Guardian that the
  
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• Templon Gallery Closes New York Outpost, Tone Hansen to Lead Moderna Museet: Morning Links for June 9, 2026

  09-06-2026 15:10 via artnews.com
  
  Good morning!Paris-founded Templon Gallery is closing its Chelsea location and hopes to open a smaller space in New York City.Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum sparked criticism for its plans to replace the word “massacre” with the word “incident,” in reference to the Nanjing Massacre.A Dutch court has sentenced three men to nearly four years in prison for the theft of golden Romanian treasures from the Drents Museum.The Headlines TEMPLON TONES DOWN. The Paris-fou
  
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  09-06-2026 14:02 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?

  09-06-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  How do artists get out of their own heads and just play? The Surrealists had some fantastic answers to this question. Lovers of chance, surprise, and the bizarre, the early 20th-century group had a cache of games that they used to tap into the unconscious and foster collaborative creativity. Exquisite corpse was among the most popular of the Surrealist games and is still widely enjoyed to this day.In exquisite corpse (or cadavre exquis), participants take turns drawing sections of a human body o
  
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  09-06-2026 13:51 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  09-06-2026 03:02 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Thomas Rom, Art Adviser and Performance Space Chair, On His Top Exhibitions in Venice This Year

  09-06-2026 00:00 via artnews.com
  
  This year’s Venice Biennale vernissage week brought more than the usual round of openings for art adviser and Performance Space New York board chair Thomas Rom, as the institution’s Visionaries Circle co-hosted a performance by theater impresario-turned-artist Jordan Roth at Palazzo dei Fiori. We asked Rom to share his reflections on everything he saw in La Serenissima—from the Biennale’s main exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” to quieter collateral shows, like Kan
  
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• Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

  08-06-2026 23:59 via artnews.com
  
  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art may have opened its 200,000-square-foot facility in Bentonville, Arkansas just 15 years ago, but it is already ready for its first major addition. At the museum’s campus last week, founder Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune and, per Bloomberg, the world’s richest woman at $143 billion, explained that she and architect Moshe Safide had drawn up a fifty-year plan for the institution, but given their ages and her insistence that no one but S
  
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