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• Helping ‘Benjamin Button’ Grow Up, Into A Musical

  26-10-2026 12:45 via ArtsJournal
  “In rehearsals, they tightened the structure, fine-tuned the music and lyrics, tamping down the sentimentality. Still, the show is plenty sentimental.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sotheby’s Dinosaur ‘Jodi’ Sells for $47.3 M., More Than Five Times Its High Estimate

  27-10-2026 16:38 via ARTnews.com
  
  The dinosaur market has produced another monster sale.“Jodi,” a 67-million-year-old Nanotyrannus skeleton, sold Tuesday at Sotheby’s New York for $47.3 million, including fees, more than five times its $9 million high estimate. The skeleton hammered at $40.5 million, making it one of the most expensive dinosaur fossils ever sold at auction.The result comes just three months after Sotheby’s sold “Gus,” a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, for a record $50.1 million. That July sale, which car
  
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• Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Gigantic Cedar Forms, Dies at 84

  27-10-2026 16:24 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ursula von Rydingsvard, a sculptor who responded to the austerity of Minimalism with monumental cedar sculptures that had a distinctly human touch, died in New York on Tuesday following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 84, according to the New York Times.Frequently using 4×4 cedar beams, von Rydingsvard crafted towering forms that appear to undulate and shift. Made of organic material, they at times even looked as though they were alive, spinning through the air like mysterious anim
  
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• In a New Video, Mayor Mamdani Touts the Met Museum as an Early Voting Site

  27-10-2026 16:06 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ahead of a hotly contested group of midterm elections that include a heated gubernatorial race for New York State, New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani shared a new video on social media encouraging voters to vote early—with a twist.“Only in New York City can you vote in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Mamdani says as he walks through the recently refurbished Rockefeller Wing, home to its holdings of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.“I just voted here on the fi
  
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• Former Stedelijk Museum Director Rudi Fuchs Has Died at 84, V&A Plans Cuts to Academy Program, 100 Years of Marisa Merz, and More: Morning Links for October 27, 2026

  27-10-2026 15:07 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Acclaimed art historian and former director of the Stedelijk Museum, Rudi Fuchs has died at 84.The Victoria and Albert Museum is planning to downsize its adult-learning program, the V&A Academy, amid broader threats of staff cuts.A recently attributed 16th-century painting by Giorgio Vasari, Transport of Christ to the Tomb,will be put up for sale tomorrow in Milan.The Headlin
  
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• Tatiana Trouvé’s Art Is All About Getting Lost and Found and Lost Again

  27-10-2026 15:06 via ARTnews.com
  
  “I spend my time making maps,” Tatiana Trouvé told me as we ambled through her first exhibition with Brussels-based gallery Xavier Hufkens. Map-making is a rather curious obsession for Trouvé to have, given how keenly she wants to experience the feeling of being lost and “disoriented,” she explained.Contradictions like these are a hallmark across the artist’s oeuvre. Objects aren’t quite what they appear to be. Installations blur the line between archival documentation and fiction.
  
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• Gagosian to Sell Works from Mr. Chow’s Art Collection, Including Paintings by Warhol, Basquiat, Hockney, and More

  27-10-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Larry Gagosian has spent decades entertaining artists, collectors, and assorted celebrities at Mr. Chow. Now he’s returning the favor, helping his longtime friend Michael Chow sell a selection of artworks that have decorated the restaurateur’s famous dining rooms for years.The gallery will present “Friends and Legends: The Collection of Michael Chow,” an exhibition of 11 works from Chow’s collection, including portraits of the restaurateur by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, David Ho
  
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• A Women’s HBCU Will Sell a Record-Smashing Aaron Douglas Painting of Harriet Tubman to Support Women’s Health Programs

  27-10-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  A monumental painting by a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance, showing a legendary figure from the struggle for African American liberation, will come to auction at Sotheby’s New York next month. Aaron Douglas’s painting Harriet Tubman (1931) is expected to sell for between $2.5 million–$3.5 million, the highest estimate ever placed on a work by Douglas. The painting will go to the block as part of the house’s marquee modern art auction on November 18. The first example by the arti
  
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• Hillary Clinton Visits Yayoi Kusama Sculptures on Naoshima Island Ahead of 37th Praemium Imperiale Awards Ceremony

  27-10-2026 13:08 via ARTnews.com
  
  As the US midterm elections loom closer, former First Lady Hillary Clinton is turning to art for peace of mind. She is in Japan for the 37th Praemium Imperiale awards ceremony taking place on Wednesday at Meiji Kinenkan in Tokyo.Clinton serves as US advisor to the prestigious global arts prize and on Monday posted photos on Instagram from a visit to Naoshima, one of Japan’s most well-known art islands. She posed with two of Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin sculptures and observed that “in a sometime
  
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• Art Basel Qatar Returns for Second Edition With 82 Galleries Under Artistic Direction of Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Aims to ‘Deepen Collector Relationships’

  27-10-2026 12:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Art Basel Qatar is returning for its sophomore edition from January 28 to 30 to three venues in Msheireb Downtown Doha: Barahat Msheireb, M7, and Doha Design District. The fair features 82 galleries from 37 countries, with 50 percent of the artists hailing from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, while more than a third of the participating galleries operate within these regions.The fair has teamed with Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), QC+, and Visit Qatar as official partners to “de
  
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• Jogen Chowdhury, ‘Towering Pillar’ of Indian Modern Art, Has Died at 87

  26-10-2026 23:04 via ARTnews.com
  
  Jogen Chowdhury, one India’s leading modern painters whose figurative oeuvre foregrounded humanity, died at a hospital in Kolkata on October 25. He was 87. Indian media reports that Chowdhury had been suffering from a rare blood cancer for more than a year.Condolences have poured in on social media in the wake of his death. Writing on X, West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari praised Chowdhury as a “a towering pillar of our cultural world,” whose artistic legacy would be “immortal t
  
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• Two Top Executives Leave National Gallery of Singapore Amid Staff Shakeup

  26-10-2026 22:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Following the news last month that Chng Hak-Peng is taking over Eugene Tan’s role as CEO of the National Gallery of Singapore, English-language newspaper The Straits Times reports that two other top staffers are also leaving the museum. Chief curator Patrick Flores and assistant chief executive Chris Lee will leave in December, coinciding with Tan’s departure.Chng told The Straits Times that the National Gallery’s programming would continue as planned but did not confirm any details about
  
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• Bill Koch to Sell More Than $40 M. in Art at Christie’s, Led by Monet and Cezanne Paintings

  26-10-2026 22:18 via ARTnews.com
  
  Billionaire collector William “Bill” Koch is ready to sell more of his art. After parting ways with $84 million worth of American art at Christie’s in January, he’s putting another group of paintings up for sale this November, including works by Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne that could fetch as much as $18 million apiece.Christie’s said the collection, which also includes works by Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Diego Rivera, is expected to bring more than $40 million duri
  
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• V&A Union Suspend Planned Strikes after Management Delivers New Offers

  26-10-2026 21:29 via ARTnews.com
  
  A planned strike across all four Victoria and Albert Museum sites has been suspended as unionized staff return to the negotiating table following a new offer from management.Members of Prospect and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union had voted to strike on October 29 and 30 amid a dispute over wages and working conditions. The dispute includes allegations that workers at the museum’s newest location, V&A East Storehouse, had fainted due to insufficient hydration breaks. The stri
  
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• Friedel Dzubas Dreamed of Showing His Paintings in a Church—Now He Has His Wish

  26-10-2026 21:23 via ARTnews.com
  
  Friedel Dzubas spent most of his career making enormous, vibrant Color Field–esque abstract paintings. But for a brief stint in the early 1960s, he abandoned color altogether. He became so taken with the outcome of that period—a series of soft yet stark black-and-white paintings—that he dreamed of finding a Baroque chapel somewhere in Europe and covering its walls with them.He never got his chapel. But more than 30 years after his death, the German-born painter has come surprisingly close.
  
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• Milwaukee Art Museum Receives $10 M. Gift to Preserve Santiago Calatrava–Designed Building

  26-10-2026 21:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  Members of the Quadracci family have pledged $10 million to establish the Quadracci Pavilion Preservation Endowment Fund, which will support the long-term care and maintenance of one of the museum’s buildings.Named after donors Betty and Harry Quadracci, who provided $10 million in the 1990s to build it, the Quadracci Pavilion opened in 2001 and is the first building in the United States by Spanish Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava. Housing an exhibition space, reception hall, auditorium, and
  
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• Scientists Say They’ve Rediscovered How the Romans Made the British Museum’s Color-Shifting Lycurgus Cup

  26-10-2026 21:19 via ARTnews.com
  
  Solving a mystery that has puzzled experts for centuries, scientists at the University of Sheffield in England have recreated the color-changing properties of the British Museum’s storied 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which is green in typical lighting but turns red when lit from behind.“To me, it’s magic,” Lisa Hollands, a technician who worked on project, told the Guardian. She added that “people have tried it before with limited success” and called the undertaking a “labor of lov
  
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• ‘Desiring Machines’ Dares Us to Imagine a Healthy Relationship with Technology

  26-10-2026 20:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every other Monday.A classic illustration of a world that has fallen to technology first appeared on Facebook in the 2010s and has been circulating online ever since. You likely know it: Rows of bent heads gazing at their phone screens; each face replaced by a ray of light sucked towards the screen. By 2026, the
  
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• Whitney Museum Hires Nolan Jimbo as Associate Curator

  26-10-2026 20:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Whitney Museum in New York has hired Nolan Jimbo as the Arnhold Associate Curator, a role most recently held by Rujeko Hockley. He will start in the role on November 16.Jimbo is currently an assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where he started in 2021 as a curatorial fellow. During his tenure at the MCA Chicago, he has organized solo exhibitions for Gregory Bae, which was on view in 2022, the year after the artist’s death; Kenzi Shiokava, the artist’s first inst
  
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• R.M. Schindler’s Modernist Beach House, Built for a California Health Nut, Hits the Market for a Breezy $18.8 Million

  26-10-2026 19:27 via ARTnews.com
  
  A century ago, California health fanatic Philip Lovell had some unusual ideas about how people ought to live. He believed in vegetarianism, plenty of exercise, fresh air, and nude sunbathing. All good there. He also thought sleeping outdoors was good for you, which is why, when he commissioned architect Rudolph Schindler to build a beach house in Newport Beach in 1926, he insisted on open-air sleeping porches instead of bedrooms.That particular experiment lasted about two years. It turns out the
  
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• Italian Carabinieri Are Training Professionals Across Africa to Stop Antiquities Trafficking

  26-10-2026 18:05 via ARTnews.com
  
  Earlier this month, Italy’s National School of Heritage and Cultural Activities (SNPAC) and the École du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) in Porto-Novo, Benin, launched a training course on combatting the illegal trafficking of antiquities. Launched on October 5, the course is the first of its kind, the result of a three-year agreement between the SNPAC and the EPA for training and research in the management of cultural heritage and museums. Professionals from Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Moroc
  
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• Casino night : comprendre les mises Any Seven au craps entre come-out et point

  26-10-2026 16:57 via Zouch
  
  La mise Any Seven au craps repose sur une règle simple : elle gagne si les dés donnent un total de 7, mais seulement pendant le lancer concerné. Pour jouer avec méthode sur casino night, il faut distinguer la phase come-out de la phase du point, connaître le paiement prévu et vérifier les conditions avant de déposer. La page casino night inscription constitue le point de départ, mais la compréhension du pari reste essentielle.Comment fonctionne une mise Any Seven sur casino night ?
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  26-10-2026 15:26 via Zouch
  
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• Indian Artist Jogen Chowdhury Has Died, $80 M. Klimt Heads to Christie’s, and More: Morning Links for October 26, 2026

  26-10-2026 14:35 via ARTnews.com
  
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  A major work by Gustav Klimt will go under the hammer at Christie’s New York next month with a price tag of $60 to $80 million.Celebrated Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury died in Kolkata on October 25 at 87.The National Gallery Singapore’s chief curator Patrick Flores and assistant chief executiveChris Lee, are the latest to depart the institution in December amid a staff shake-
  
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• Former Presidents Obama, Clinton Mock Trump’s White House Interiors With Comparisons to ‘Saddam Hussein’ and ‘Liberace’s Bathroom’

  26-10-2026 14:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ahead of the US midterm elections on November 3, all eyes are on the White House, specifically its interiors.After White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted a video on X of the construction of President Donald Trump’s ballroom on Friday, former President Barack Obama told a crowd at an Ohio rally on Saturday gave his opinion on the video. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovation. He should be on HGTV,” Obama said, adding that Trump is bui
  
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• Sotheby’s Deepens Abu Dhabi Relationship With Inaugural Fine Art Auction in December

  26-10-2026 14:08 via ARTnews.com
  
  As the art market in the Middle East heats up with the inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi taking place next month, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opening in December, and Art Basel Qatar expected to return for its second edition in 2027, Sotheby’s is deepening its activity in the region with the launch of the house’s first fine art auction in Abu Dhabi on December 10, a day before the Guggenheim opening.Part of Sotheby’s Collectors’ Week, which debuted last year, the upcoming second edition returns wi
  
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• An Abbey in France Discovered Previously Unknown Wall Sketches by Odilon Redon

  26-10-2026 13:45 via ARTnews.com
  
  For more than a century, a suite of murals by Symbolist painter Odilon Redon have decorated the library of the Abbaye de Fontfroide, an 11th-century former monastery in the South of France. When they were removed earlier this year for the first time since their installation to be loaned for a high-profile exhibition, a set of test drawings, until then unknown, by Redon were uncovered.“It was a great surprise—nobody imagined the existence of these sketches,” Alexandre d’Andoque de Sériè
  
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• How To Write About People, And Place, Beyond War

  26-10-2026 13:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Turning to fiction allowed for stories that would otherwise have disappeared into the chest of time, to live on, and slowly but surely they are educating, bringing forth that we all share this place together. The 24-hour news cycle leaves little room for reflection or deeper understanding.” – LitHub
  
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• Riots brought Art Basel Paris to a close — is it a sign of things to come?

  26-10-2026 13:00 via Visual Arts
  Gallerists are bracing themselves for operating in a world of escalating tensions — and collectors are increasingly attuned to the risks
  
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• Bristol Is Booming With New Spaces For Black Music

  26-10-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  “We don’t need to pretend to be nobody else, we’re just us. It just took a while to get there.” – BBC
  
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