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• Highlights From This Weekend’s AJBlogs

  18-09-2016 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Five ArtsTrending Stories From This Week’s AJ: Are The Arts Falling Into A Measurement Trap? This Week: The remarkable new National Mall museum that doesn’t look like the rest… An arts council’s risky change in standards… What scientists have learned about the accomplishments of gifted children… Will algorithms… [More] … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-09-18
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• Louvre Faces €10M Loss After Decades-Long Ticket Fraud Busted

  13-02-2026 20:19 via artnews.com
  A sweeping fraud scheme targeting ticket sales at the Louvre was uncovered earlier this week, leaving the scandal-plagued museum facing losses estimated at more than €10 million. The Palace of Versailles was also implicated in the scheme, which involved the sale of counterfeit tickets and the overbooking of guided tours, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday.French authorities shared that nine people have been arrested, including two museum employees, several tour guides
  
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• Adrian Searle to Step Down as the Guardian’s Chief Art Critic After Three Decades

  13-02-2026 20:09 via artnews.com
  After 30 years at the Guardian, chief art critic Adrian Searle is stepping down from the role he has held since 1996.The Guardian announced today that Searle will leave his full-time role at the end of March. His final article, a look back at the past three decades and what he has learned, will appear on April 1. He will continue to contribute occasional pieces.Searle joined the Guardian after transitioning from a career as a painter. Over the next three decades, he became one of the most influe
  
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• University of North Texas Cancels Victor Quiñonez Exhibition, Artist Claims Censorship over Anti-ICE Content in His Work

  13-02-2026 19:51 via artnews.com
  The exhibition was intended to be a homecoming for artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez who grew up in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro area. The excitement built when he got the first batch of images showing his traveling solo exhibition being installed at the University of North Texas’s CVAD Gallery. Quiñonez was looking forward to receiving images of the work being fully installed and was working on managing the RSVPs for an opening reception to take place th
  
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• Christie’s to Offer Three Masterworks From Agnes Gund Collection This May

  13-02-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  When Agnes Gund bought Mark Rothko’s 1964 abstraction No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe) in 1967, she purchased it directly from the artist in his studio. The painting would go on to hang in her living room for decades. This May, it will be offered on the secondary market for the first time, leading a focused group of works from her collection at Christie’s.The auction house announced today that it will offer three pieces from the personal holdings of Gund, who died last Se
  
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• Trump Wants the National Portrait Gallery to Commission a New Portrait

  13-02-2026 18:22 via artnews.com
  Since George Washington, it has been customary for presidents to have an official portrait—usually an oil painting—unveiled shortly after they leave office. That was to be the case for President Donald Trump, who sat for a portrait by artist Ronald Sherr just after leaving office in 2021. There is just one complication: Trump now wants a new one.Sherr’s portrait was ready to be accepted by the National Portrait Gallery, which maintains the nation’s presidential portraits,
  
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• Wisconsin Museum Treasurer Admits to Stealing $70,000 from Institution

  13-02-2026 18:16 via artnews.com
  The former treasurer of the Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin—touted as “the only building still standing from the dawn of electricity” on its website—admitted to stealing $70,000 from the institution.According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, Steven Jahnke confessed to embezzlement and now faces one count of theft in a business setting. As reported by the local radio station WTAQ, “board members became suspicious of transactions appar
  
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• Amy Sherald, Ming Smith Among Artworld Figures to Walk the Runway in Carolina Herrera’s Fall 2026 NYFW Show

  13-02-2026 18:10 via artnews.com
  On Thursday, Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon presented the brand’s fall 2026 ready-to-wear collection during New York Fashion Week. The show was held at an event space on Little W. 12th Street in the Meatpacking District, and mixed in with the typical parade of willowy fashion models were several art world figures, who, while certainly fashionable themselves, are not necessarily known for walking the runway.  Among them were photographer Ming Smith, painter Amy Sherald,
  
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• Staff and Programming Cuts Are Coming to London’s National Gallery Amid Possible $11 M. Deficit

  13-02-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  The National Gallery in London will institute cuts to staff and programming in the face of a deficit that would, in the absence of “decisive remedial action,” grow by 2027 to £8.2 million ($11.2 million), says the institution in an emailed statement.The museum says that “in the present global landscape and with the cost-of-living crisis, like many other institutions, we face increasing competition for people’s time and share of wallet.”“We have been work
  
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• Art Investing Startup Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against an Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat

  13-02-2026 17:58 via artnews.com
  From its offices on the 57th floor of 1 World Trade Center, employees at Masterworks hawk fractional ownership of blue-chip artworks, promising retail investors hefty returns. Reporting in both ARTnews in 2022 and the New York Times in 2024 has revealed a freewheeling atmosphere in which the company has played fast and loose with legal and ethical guidelines. An initial funding round valued the company at more than $1 billion, and by early 2022, the company had traded more than 100 paintings, to
  
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• Louvre’s Denon Wing Springs a Leak, Damaging One Painting—But the ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Safe

  13-02-2026 16:44 via artnews.com
  The Louvre’s Denon Wing, an area of the Paris museum that hosts masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, and many more, sprang a leak on Thursday night, marking the latest difficult turn for an institution that is facing fallout from last year’s heist, scrutiny over its infrastructure, and continued work stoppages.A union spokesperson told Reuters on Friday that the leak happened in Room 707 of the museum, which reportedly holds wo
  
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• Through a Black Lens: 10 Institutional Shows of Work by Black Artists to See This Month

  13-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  Up until the 1950s, many American museums, particularly in the South, held separate days for Black people to see art and artifacts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), whose members included artists Faith Ringgold and Romare Bearden, protested the exclusion of Black artists and Black curators in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. It wasn’t until the latter part of the 1970s that Black artists started
  
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• Police Arrest Network of Louvre Ticket Fraudsters, London’s National Gallery to Cut Jobs Amid Growing Deficit: Morning Links for February 13, 2026

  13-02-2026 13:07 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The Headlines ARTFUL DODGERS. The Louvre has had a rough season since the brazen daylight theft of France’s crown jewels from its gilded halls last October. Now, French police have arrested nine people in connection with an extensive network of fraudsters who sold fake tickets via guided groups to the Louvre and the Chateau de Versailles, reports L
  
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• Four Major Works by Bacon, Freud, and Kossoff from Lewis Collection to Hit Auction Block at Sotheby’s London in March

  13-02-2026 12:50 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago.The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be unveiled in New York before headlining Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London on March 4. The house said the paintings are “one of the fines
  
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• At 88, peter campus Swaps Youthful Ego for Late-Style Modesty

  13-02-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  A death stare greets me as I enter peter campus’s exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. A man looks right at me, dead on—or at the camera, really. His harsh eyebrows, thick yet articulated, add to the intensity.I check the video’s title and learn that it’s a death stare of a different kind: Head of a Man with Death on His Mind (1978). The man swallows occasionally, blinks infrequently. Set against a white background, his face is nevertheless lit as if
  
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• Beste Online Port Machines: Een Gids naar de Ultieme Pcgaming Ervaring

  13-02-2026 06:21 via zouchmagazine.com
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• Art Basel Hong Kong Reveals Program Details for 2026 Fair, from an Ayoung Kim Film to an Elemental Curatorial Vision

  12-02-2026 23:00 via artnews.com
  Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this March with 240 galleries and an expanded program, including a reimagined Encounters section and the Asia debut of the digital-focused Zero 10.Following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, Zero 10’s first Hong Kong outing will feature 14 exhibitors with a program that includes digital animations by DeeKay examining psychological states through the lens of early video games (via a presentation by AOTM); a meeting of AI, sculpture, installation,
  
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• Trump Administration Removes Pride Flag from Stonewall Monument, Elected Officials Reinstated It on Their Own

  12-02-2026 22:38 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, news broke that the Trump administration had quietly removed the Pride flag that once waved over the Stonewall National Monument in New York’s West Village. Several New York City and State elected officials condemned the flag’s removal, and many gathered to reinstate it on Thursday afternoon.Gay City News first reported on the flag’s removal on Monday, with the removal likely happening over the weekend. A report in amNewYork quoted Tim Sutton, a local residen
  
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• Sotheby’s Will Sell Works by El Anatsui, Sean Scully, and Others to Benefit Royal Academy of Art

  12-02-2026 21:17 via artnews.com
  Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic.The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to “secure the future of the Royal Academy as a place where creativity flourishes and artists can fully realise their vision,” Batia Ofer, chair of the Royal Academy Trust tol
  
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• Bonhams Unveils 57th Street Flagship With Cuban Art, Brancusi, and Boxing Legends

  12-02-2026 20:47 via artnews.com
  Bonhams has a new front door in New York, and it is not subtle.This week, the 232-year-old auction house opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street, inside the restored Steinway Hall and beneath the pencil-thin tower that now looms over Billionaires’ Row. The move shifts Bonhams from its longtime Madison Avenue base into a 42,000 square foot space that feels more like a cultural center than a back-office salesroom.The building does much of the talking. Visitors enter through
  
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• 12,000-Year-Old Clothing Made of Animal Hide Discovered in Ice Age Caves in Oregon

  12-02-2026 19:43 via artnews.com
  A team of 13 archaeologists and scientists from universities in Oregon and Nevada have successfully dated a cache of animal hide clothing to the Late Pleistocene era, making it the oldest known sewn clothing in the world.The stitched-together hides were originally excavated, along with other materials (braided cords, knotted bark, and other fiber objects), by an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles from Cougar Mountain Cave in western Oregon in 1958, according to the study published in Scienc
  
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• New York’s High Line Art Announces 2026 Commissions, with Works by Katherine Bernhardt, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Derek Fordjour

  12-02-2026 19:13 via artnews.com
  High Line Art, the Cecilia Alemani–curated enterprise the programs and commissions public artworks for the reimagined elevated-train-track park in New York, announced its next season, to start in the spring and continue (in most cases) for around a year.In March, the High Line Billboard—a working billboard rising from the ground on 18th Street—will be adorned with Spring Cleaning (2026) by Katherine Bernhardt, whose wild colors and animated brushwork rendered a still life compr
  
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• A Belgian Museum Holds Colonial-Era Records About the Congo—A Minerals Company Wants Access

  12-02-2026 19:12 via artnews.com
  A museum devoted to Belgium’s colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly colonized by the European country. The Congolese government and KoBold Metals, a mining and artificial intelligence company backed by billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, are seeking access to documents, including geological records, which are housed at the Africa M
  
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• Henry Moore Sculpture Worth £15 M. to Headline Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London this Spring

  12-02-2026 18:58 via artnews.com
  A sculpture by English artist Henry Moore that’s never hit the auction block before is headlining Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. Titled King and Queen (1952-53), the 64-inch-tall bronze has a £15 million ($20.5 million) high estimate.Katherine Arnold, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th/21st century art and head of post-war and contemporary art for Europe, told ARTnews that the bronze is “the most exciting sculpture I’ve ever seen
  
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• Joe Frazier Statue Will Officially Replace Beloved Rocky at Bottom of Philadelphia Museum Steps

  12-02-2026 18:22 via artnews.com
  With a beloved statue of Rocky Balboa being moved from the bottom of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s steps to its top, the Philadelphia Art Commission has officially selected a replacement artwork: a monument to Joe Frazier, an actual Philadelphian boxer (unlike Rocky, who is fictional).The Frazier statue is currently exhibited outside the Sports Complex in South Philadelphia, where the monument has been located since 2015.Before the art commission formally approved the plan on Wednesday,
  
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• Gagosian Plans Lichtenstein ‘Brushstroke’ Show, Following Last Year’s $150 M. Auction Run and Ahead of Whitney Retrospective

  12-02-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s.Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands in the middle of a frenzied run of market activity for the late Pop artist, alongside a major Whitney
  
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• Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2026 Artists in Residence, First Cohort in New Building

  12-02-2026 17:47 via artnews.com
  The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the participants for its 2026 Artist-in-Residence program. They are Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina, and Taylor Simmons.The cohort will be the first to be in residence in the museum’s new building, which opened last fall. For the building’s inauguration, the Studio Museum mounted an exhibition titled “From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence,” in the very space, officially called the Bruce Llewellyn A
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially Canceled After Jersey City Mayor Pulls Support

  12-02-2026 16:28 via artnews.com
  A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. On Thursday, a Centre Pompidou spokesperson confirmed that the museum was no longer pursuing the project.The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is currently closed for renovations. The Pom
  
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• Carnegie International, America’s Oldest Biennial-Style Show, Names 61 Artists for Biggest Edition Yet

  12-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  For a brief moment ahead of the Venice Biennale this May, all eyes will be on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Carnegie Museum of Art is staging its 2026 edition of the Carnegie International. For its biggest edition to date, the exhibition has tapped an array of 61 artists based in nations ranging from the Philippines to Peru, many of whom will premiere new work when the show opens on May 2.Founded in 1896, the Carnegie International is the oldest biennial-style show in the US; it is now sta
  
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• Florentina Holzinger Steps Into the Gallery World With Thaddaeus Ropac Ahead of Venice Spotlight

  12-02-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  When Thaddaeus Ropac announced this week that he would begin representing Florentina Holzinger, it landed as more than a standard roster update. Holzinger has spent the past decade building a reputation as one of Europe’s most uncompromising performance artists. She has filled opera houses and theaters with motorbikes, helicopters, heavy machinery, nudity, and feats of endurance that test what a body can withstand. What she has not had, until now, is gallery representation.That changes jus
  
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