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• Harvard Makes Big Changes In Its Music Studies Programs

  28-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We’ve always had gaps in our education, and I think it’s a little disingenuous to say, “Well, what about Schubert?” What about Tony Conrad? I teach the survey now, and I have never pretended to “cover” things. You don’t cover things when you do a survey, and I tell the students that: we’re going to talk about things that interest me – that’s one thing we’re going to do – and the other thing we’re going to do is learn s
  
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• ‘Displaying the cloth like this showed its true beauty’: Aung Chan Thar’s best phone picture

  24-01-2026 12:00
  A beautiful lake, gorgeous fabric: how could the Myanmar photographer resist?When Aung Chan Thar was 25, he was selected to represent Myanmar as part of Asean Centre for Biodiversity’s (ACB) Young Asean Storytellers programme. A cohort of 20 young artists and writers visited Asean Heritage Parks in their own countries to tell stories of biodiversity, nature and culture.Aung first travelled to Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, known for its floating gardens, in 2022. “The
  
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• From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  24-01-2026 07:00
  Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and coSaipan
  Out nowAs the Irish national team descend on a small island in the Pacific to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, an epic falling out between manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) and top player Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) is looming, in this sports drama loosely based on the infamous real-life spat. Continue reading...
  
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• Cartoonists Martin Rowson and Ella Baron at work – in pictures

  24-01-2026 07:00
  As the two cartoonists set out to draw on the same theme – ‘Trump and a world in turmoil’ – to the same deadline, Guardian photographer David Levene visited them in their studiosHow we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head Continue reading...
  
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• Alaska College Student Arrested for Eating AI Artwork Speaks Out: ‘AI Chews up and Spits out Art’ Made By Other People.’

  23-01-2026 22:53 via artnews.com
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate arrested earlier this week for eating an AI-generated artwork on view in an MFA exhibition has since addressed his controversial meal.Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, was charged Wednesday with class B misdemeanor criminal mischief for tearing up a set of Polaroids by artist Nick Dwyer, causing less than $250 in damage.“[Granger] was tearing them up and just shoving them in as fast as he could
  
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• Art Market Sentiment Is Up for 2026, But the Recovery Has a Very Specific Shape

  23-01-2026 22:50 via artnews.com
  The art market is heading into 2026 in a better mood than it’s been in years, according to a new Global Art Market Outlook report from research firm ArtTactic. After a long hangover following the 2022 peak, confidence is back, selectively, cautiously, and with clear favorites.More than half of art market participants now expect the market to grow this year, up sharply from last year. Auction sales are already reflecting that shift: combined fine art sales across major houses rose
  
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• Gene Hackman’s Longtime Santa Fe Home Lists for $6.25 Million

  23-01-2026 21:53 via artnews.com
  Gene Hackman’s longtime home in Santa Fe has quietly come onto the market, offering a rare look at the private world the actor built far from Hollywood.
  The 13,000-square-foot compound, listed for $6.25 million with Sotheby’s International Realty, sits on a hilltop in the gated Santa Fe Summit community, surrounded by piñon trees and open sky. From the property, the views stretch across the Jemez Mountains and north toward Colorado. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, lived
  
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• How Larry Gagosian Pulled Off a Standout Show of Jasper Johns’s Crosshatch Paintings

  23-01-2026 19:42 via artnews.com
  Why did Larry Gagosian want to stage a just-opened blockbuster exhibition of Jasper Johns’s paintings at his Upper East Side gallery in New York? “First of all, because I want to look at them,” he told Alison McDonald in a soon-to-be-published Gagosian Quarterly interview. It’s not an especially lofty justification, but it’s at least an honest one—and it sets the tone for the entire conversation.In the piece, Gagosian talks fluently about the formal characteri
  
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• Jonathan Carver Moore Is Building the Art World He Wanted to Walk Into

  23-01-2026 19:35 via artnews.com
  When Jonathan Carver Moore talks about his gallery, he rarely starts with sales figures or artists’ résumés. He starts with a feeling. The feeling of walking into a space and not wondering whether you belong there.That instinct is on display this week at the FOG Design + Art Fair in San Francisco, where Moore is presenting a solo booth of new paintings by Sesse Elangwe, developed during the artist’s recent residency with the gallery. The work is lush and exacting, satur
  
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• Gelman Collection of Mexican Art Surfaces at Santander, With Plans to Bring it to Spain

  23-01-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  Banco Santander announced Wednesday that it will manage roughly half of the Gelman Collection—one of the most significant collections of 20th-century Mexican art—after the collection disappeared from public view in 2008, El País reports.More precisely, the Madrid-based bank now oversees 160 of approximately 300 works amassed by influential art patrons Jacques and Natasha Gelman. After their deaths, the collection passed to their executor, Robert R. Littman, who reportedly divi
  
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• ‘Secret Mall Apartment,’ Documentary About Providence Artists Living In Mall, Releases on Netflix

  23-01-2026 18:45 via artnews.com
  Secret Mall Apartment, the 2024 documentary film recounting the story of several artists who secretly lived inside a Providence mall for four years, released on Netflix Friday.Originally released in theaters in last March, becoming one of the year’s hit documentaries, the film has since been available for rental on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. However, as is often the case when a film or television series hits Netflix, the documentary is sure to reach a whole new level of audience.Secr
  
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• Why Are So Many New York Gallery Shows This Winter About Saving the Trees?

  23-01-2026 18:36 via artnews.com
  A rich tradition of tree art has sprouted in biennials across the world, with installations composed of saplings, snags, and perennials in various stages of development popping up at seemingly every big art event. (A recent case in point: the centerpiece of last year’s inaugural edition of the Sky High Farm Biennial in Upstate New York was a 1972–73 Harrisons piece resembling an orchard featuring actual trees planted in a gallery.) In 2022, the trend spurred Wallpaper to ask: “
  
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• A Long-Lost Henry Raeburn Painting Discovered at a London House Sale Goes on View in Scotland

  23-01-2026 17:55 via artnews.com
  A long-lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn is now on view at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh. The painting was discovered at a London house sale last year.Scotland’s most famous bard, Robert Burns (1759–1796) is perhaps best known for songs such as “A Red, Red Rose” (1794) and “Auld Lang Syne” (1788), which he based on traditional Scottish ballads. While they lived on the same street, Burns seems to have never sat for his contemp
  
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• Beloved California Art Park Lists Its Estate for $10.9 M. Amid Financial Strife

  23-01-2026 16:56 via artnews.com
  The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, a beloved art park in Naples, California, that is in the midst of a prolonged period of financial difficulty, has listed its estate for $10.9 million, according a report by the San Francisco Chronicle from last weekend.The park is host to a range of notable works by Northern California artists from the postwar era, most notably an iconic Mark di Suvero sculpture that presides over the 217-acre estate. Also included in its collection are important pieces b
  
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• Cyberattack on Dresden State Art Collections Puts Museum Network on Guard

  23-01-2026 16:53 via artnews.com
  A cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections was detected on Wednesday, with the museums remaining open but certain operations put on pause as a result. Among the latter are the museum network’s online shop and visitor services. As reported by Monopol on Thursday, the Dresden State Art Collections—a network of some 15 museums in the east of Germany—issued a statement reading, “Large parts of the digital infrastructure are affected. IT specialists and IT forensi
  
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• Maga is funding murals of a slain Ukrainian refugee. Are they weaponizing her memory?

  23-01-2026 16:00
  More than $1m has been raised by Elon Musk and others to commission ‘sterile’ street art of Iryna Zarutska – whose death has become a rightwing flashpointLike most blocks in Bushwick, New York, Evergreen Street is blanketed in street art and graffiti. But this month, an incongruous new mural appeared, towering over the street corner. Painted on the side of Formosa, a popular Taiwanese dumpling joint, the image of a blond woman stretches across two stories and an entire apartmen
  
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• Tell us your UK town of culture nomination

  23-01-2026 14:48
  We would like to hear your suggestions for the UK’s first town of cultureWith the search for the UK’s first town of culture under way, we would like to hear your suggestions.Guardian writers’ own nominations include Ramsgate in Kent, Falmouth in Cornwall, Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, and Portobello in Edinburgh. Which town would you nominate, and why? Continue reading...
  
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• Thieves Steal Dutch Museum’s Entire Silver Collection

  23-01-2026 13:30 via artnews.com
  A museum in the eastern Dutch city of Doesburg has been hit by thieves who lifted its entire silverware collection in the early hours of Wednesday morning. According to museum staff, more than 300 “irreplaceable” objects were stolen, valued at tens of thousands of dollars.At approximately 4:30 a.m. local time, two men forced entry into the Doesburg Silver Museum, housed in the 13th-century Martini Church. CCTV footage shows the duo using a crowbar to force open a door and shatter dis
  
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• Seductive stitches, Warhol in Nottingham and an Italian giant’s igloo sculpture – the week in art

  23-01-2026 13:00
  Jessica Rankin sews up painting, arte povera’s Mario Merz comes in from the cold and Andy Warhol brings pop to the Midlands – all in your weekly dispatchJessica RankinThis New York artist’s abstract works hover between embroidery and painting and have a seductive, lyrical beauty.• White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, 28 January to 28 February Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The Village of the Damned was shot here – then George Harrison bought a house’: our UK town of culture nominations

  23-01-2026 12:25
  With the search for the country’s first town of culture under way, Guardian writers pick their favourite spots for art, architecture, food, festivals, music and celeb spottingWhy did Caesar, Saint Augustine, Hengist and Horsa make Ramsgate their first port of call on assorted crusading trips to England? Proximity to France? Easy landing beaches beneath the cliffs? The lively arts scene? Continue reading...
  
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• Derek Morris obituary

  23-01-2026 12:14
  My friend Derek Morris, who has died aged 85, taught sculpture at Norwich School of Art (now the Norwich University of the Arts) for a quarter of a century up to his retirement in 1990.He became the sculpture course leader there in 1971, after which he and his colleagues set about building a fine reputation in that discipline for the school, which became a first-choice destination for many art students in the 1980s. Continue reading...
  
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• Is Flora Yukhnovich’s Neo-Rococo Any Different than MAGA’s?

  23-01-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  “Let them eat cake,” the anonymously-run X account @PatriotTakes declared earlier this month. Following its stated mission of monitoring “right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy,” the account issued this declarative alongside found footage of a rather peculiar party. A husky in a pistachio overcoat and breeches spins his flouncy bulldog lover around a patch of overly green golf grass to the croons of a knockoff Sinatra. On the edge of a night-lit pool, a pink-
  
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• $1 M. Jack Whitten Painting Leads Steady Sales at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art

  22-01-2026 23:57 via artnews.com
  At the FOG Design+Art, a San Francisco art fair set across two piers at the Fort Mason Center, the tone for opening night on Thursday was set by what takes place the event’s environs. There, one can find a slew of valet drivers in white dinner jackets; they’ve returned from picking up cars belonging to VIPs. Inside, drinks flowed, and stationed hors d’oeuvres—including sushi rolls, dim sum, yuzu-glaze salmon over beet couscous, and more—could be found.This glitzy pr
  
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• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Names Kristen Shepherd as New President and CEO

  22-01-2026 21:31 via artnews.com
  The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced Thursday that it has named Kristen Shepherd as its new president and CEO. Shepherd will start in the role on February 9.Shepherd, 54, previously served as executive director and CEO at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida for five and a half years. She also held leadership positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum in New York, and Sotheby’s in New York and London. She has also served as a consulta
  
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• ICA San Francisco to Stage Major Public Art Commission by Jeffrey Gibson For Super Bowl LX

  22-01-2026 20:23 via artnews.com
  While the San Francisco 49ers may have blown their chance at a hometown Super Bowl win, that hasn’t stopped the Bay Area from getting into the festivities. On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco announced that it will stage a major new public art commission by Jeffrey Gibson.The work—an adaptation of Gibson’s 2022 video installation THIS BURNING WORLD—will be installed on the façade of the former Bloomingdale’s building at San Francisco
  
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• New Imaging Technology Revels Spicy, 2,000-Year-Old Graffiti Along Pompeii Passageway

  22-01-2026 20:10 via artnews.com
  Researchers at the Pompeii Archaeological Park have utilized cutting-edge imaging technology to decipher centuries-old graffiti—both textual and figurative, some of it quite spicy!—written on the walls of a theater district corridor in the ancient city. The project, called Bruits de coulous (Rumors) was initiated by a team from the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Québec in Montreal during two field campaigns, in 2022 and 2025.The goal of the project is to “restor
  
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• Walker Art Center Will Close Tomorrow in Support of Minneapolis ICE Protest

  22-01-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will close Friday, January 23, during the Day of Truth and Freedom protest, a state-wide action organized in response to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Minnesota communities. Organizers of the action, led by local labor unions and community organizations, have asked Minnesotans to mount a general strike by not working, spending money, or going to school on the day of the protest.The Walker is the largest organization so far to announ
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci Mural Will Be On View in Milan During Olympics

  22-01-2026 19:51 via artnews.com
  When the Winter Olympics begin in Italy next month, a mural by Leonardo da Vinci in the midst of restoration will go on view for five weeks staring February 7. That means visitors to Milan not preoccupied with sports like figure-skating and luge can set their eyes on an unfinished painting on the ceiling and a wall of Sforza Castle by a master for the ages.As reported by Artnet News, “Visitors will be allowed to climb the towering 20-foot scaffold inside the castle’s Sala delle Asse
  
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• Travesía Cuatro Takes on Virginia Chihota, Baltimore Museum Fellowship Awardees, and More

  22-01-2026 18:47 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 Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry MovesSaâdane Afif Joins Esther Schipper: Afif, who is currently having a show at the Hamburger Bahnhof, will continue to work with Mehdi Chouakri, a Berlin-based gallery that recently
  
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• Travesía Cuatro Takes on Virginia Chihota, Baltimore Museum Fellowship Awardees, and More: Industry Moves for January 22, 2026

  22-01-2026 18:47 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 Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Saâdane Afif Joins Esther Schipper: Afif, who is currently having a show at the Hamburger Bahnhof, will continue to work with Mehdi Chouakri, a Berlin-based gallery that recently announced pla
  
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