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• How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted

  07-10-2026 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  Jean-Michel Basquiat once offered a wonderfully concise explanation of his practice: “I collage my own hand.”That line could serve as the motto for “Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction,” a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum centered on 11 paintings Basquiat made 1984, shown alongside other works by the artist.The “Blue Ribbon” paintings, reunited here for the first time in more than three decades, are full of rep
  
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• Sotheby’s To Offer $100 M. Collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, Led by $15 M. Paintings by Rothko and Ruscha

  08-10-2026 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will offer the collection of cable television magnate Ted Baum and his wife, interior designer Ruth Baum, with the whole estimated to total in excess of $100 million. The collection includes works by leading American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, and Tom Wesselmann, and major European figures including Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Piero Manzoni. The group is led by a $10–15 million Rothko painting on paper and a Ru
  
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• Art Basel/UBS Report’s Surprising Findings, Artists Say Tang Contemporary Owes Them Money and Artwork, and More: Morning Links for October 8, 2026

  08-10-2026 15:13 via artnews.com
  
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  The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting revealed several unexpected findings.Several artists are accusing Tang Contemporary gallery of not paying them and withholding artworks, joining similar claims by their landlord and other providers.A nearly 8-foot-tall naked gold statue depicting a bloated President Donald Trump sitting on the shoulde
  
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• Hammer Museum Board Gets New Chair, Denzil Forrester Joins Thaddaeus Ropac, and More: Industry Moves for October 8, 2026

  08-10-2026 14:45 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.Industry Moves Hammer Museum Board Elects New Leadership: The trustees of the Los Angeles museum have selected Eric Esrailian to be chair and Karen Hillenburg vice chair. Three new members have joined the now 24-person-strong board: Leslie McMorrow, Alicia Miñana de Lovelace, and Joan Weinstein. Additionally, the board of adv
  
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• ‘The 90s: Art and Fashion’ is a riotous, revisionist version of Britain

  08-10-2026 13:30 via ft.com
  Bawdy humour, rave culture and the mythical Cool Britannia: former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful captures a creative era at Tate Britain
  
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• ‘She lets her energy go full throttle’: Hilton Als on Alice Neel’s queer portraits

  08-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Works by the painter will be included in ‘Queering Modernism’, a new curated section at Frieze Masters
  
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• 21 outstanding ways to spend it in October

  08-10-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  Frieze highlights, foraged Martinis and a South American feast
  
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• The Wealthiest Collectors Are Increasingly Relying on AI, Says Art Basel/UBS Report

  08-10-2026 06:01 via artnews.com
  
  The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting, authored by arts economist Clare McAndrew and out today, delved into some new areas. For the first time this year, the author asked high-net-worth collectors how they got started on the road to collecting and how they think about granting access (whether physical or digital) to their holdings versus keeping them private. It also found that these well-to-do collectors are increasingly relying on artificial intelligen
  
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• Is the Tate’s ’90s Art and Fashion Show a Buzzing Delight or a Wardrobe Malfunction? Depends on Who You Ask

  08-10-2026 06:01 via artnews.com
  
  Louis Vuitton had barely closed out Paris fashion week when the fashion world had one of the biggest nights of the year—in London. Donatella Versace, Givenchy’s Sarah Burton, Burberry’s Daniel Lee, photographer Ellen von Unwerth, British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan were among the glittering crowd that turned out for the opening of “The 90s: Art and Fashion,” on Tuesday night. This is perhaps not surprising, given that one of the curators is Edward Enninful, th
  
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• Arthur Jafa’s New York retrospective treads disturbing ground lightly

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  ‘I Am Tony’ at the New Museum is a frequently virtuosic examination of race
  
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• As Europe Enters Art Fair Season, London is Looking Fresh and Paris Continues to Shine

  07-10-2026 23:45 via artnews.com
  
  Three years ago, dealer Thaddaeus Ropac started to question the health of the art market in London. The mixed auction results of 2022 and 2023 reflected what he saw as a stagnant period. And Paris, with the recent premiere of Art Basel, seemed to be emerging as the dominant location. “London lost part of the market because Paris became very attractive,” he told ARTnews in a recent interview. Still, Ropac is bullish on London: his gallery has just renewed its lease there for another 1
  
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• Thieves Carted Off a 330-Pound Dalí

  07-10-2026 23:06 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Thieves took the 330-pound bronze cover of Dalí’s Livre de l’Apocalypse, inlaid with precious stones and seashells, from a museum in Issoire, France, overnight Sunday, and police can’t say how they moved it unnoticed. Its owner, the restorer Christian Karoutzos, told local radio, “They assassinated France” (The Telegraph).The Justice Department is citing executive privilege to withhold records from Rep. Joyce Beatty’s suit over the Kennedy
  
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• Greek Prime Minister to “Ramp Up” Efforts Related to Parthenon Marbles Return

  07-10-2026 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has continued to speak out regarding the Parthenon Marbles, vowing to “ramp up” his country’s efforts to retrieve the marble sculptures from the British Museum, The Guardian reported.Mitsotakis has claimed that United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham was supportive of restitution efforts before assuming his current role, adding that he would raise the issue upon meeting Burnham.“Unfortunately [talks] have not progressed,”
  
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• Behind The Scenes: How They Choose The Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literature

  07-10-2026 21:02 via dw.com
  
  The Swedish Academy does not discuss the criteria it uses for selecting Nobel laureates, but here are the basics of how the process works. – Deutsche Welle
  
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• What McKenzie Bezos’ Serialized Book Says About How Amazon Has Changed Publishing

  07-10-2026 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  The former wife of a man who built a notorious empire by making other people’s books ever easier to buy and, eventually, ever easier to produce has herself produced a novel that seems to have stepped directly into the literary territory that Amazon helped make so fertile. – The New Yorker
  
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• Marin Alsop Takes Another Conducting Job

  07-10-2026 20:04 via gramophone.co.uk
  She is now artistic director of the Webern Kammerphilharmonie, the training orchestra of Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts. Currently, she is also artistic director of the Polish National Radio Symphony, chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, and principal guest conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. – Gramophone
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein Saw Our Pictures-Obsessed Moment Coming—and Deliberately Fed Into It

  07-10-2026 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  If you, like me, cannot resist hate-reading a horribly misguided takedown of a great artist, check out the September 1963 issue of Artforum, which featured one of two screeds against Roy Lichtenstein by artist Erle Loran published that very month. (The other appeared in this magazine.) Loran was ticked off by Lichtenstein’s Portrait of Madame Cézanne (1963), a painting that borrowed Loran’s own diagram analyzing the Paul Cézanne work of the same name. As with the Loran
  
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• Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M. Auction Record

  07-10-2026 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Plucked from an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $30, Gertrude Abercombie’s Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951) sold for $1.35 million at Freeman’s auction house on October 1.The final bid far surpassed the lot’s $250,000 estimate, setting a new auction benchmark for the late Surrealist painter. For Freeman’s New York, success was almost guaranteed. Alderman Merriam’s Shells arrived on the block buoyed by its sensational rediscovery: the enigmatic still li
  
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• Finalists For This Year’s National Book Awards

  07-10-2026 19:31 via publishersweekly.com
  The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature—will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 18. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• A Way To Create Less Bland New Architecture?

  07-10-2026 19:15 via dezeen.com
  As part of the £1.5 million research partnership, Humanise said it wants to “challenge the ‘blandemic’ of dull, soulless development” and improve the way the UK designs and builds its urban environments. – Dezeen
  
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• London’s Royal Ballet School At 100

  07-10-2026 19:03 via thetimes.com
  “In the 1980s Margot Fonteyn told me her technique as Britain’s most celebrated ballerina was far inferior to that of any young dancer starting out in the Eighties. ‘And today the technical accomplishment is far greater than it was 40 years ago,’ (Royal Ballet School artistic director Iain) Mackay tells me.” – The Times (UK)
  
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• Leon Bottstein Is No Longer President Of Bard College. But…

  07-10-2026 18:46 via nytimes.com
  Botstein, embattled and polarizing, has held on. He has continued to teach at Bard, the liberal arts college 100 miles north of New York City. (He is on sabbatical now to complete a book on Mahler.) He remains the artistic co-director of the Bard Music Festival and runs The Orchestra Now. – The New York Times
  
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• Rep. Jamie Raskin Wants the Smithsonian to Collect and Display Trump’s Propaganda, To Teach About Tyranny

  07-10-2026 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  Democratic Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, a dogged antagonist to President Donald Trump who attempted to have him removed from office, has introduced legislation directing the Smithsonian Institution to preserve “artifacts reflecting the rise of government propaganda, corruption, and authoritarianism” during Trump’s two terms and place them in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), a museum in the nation’s capital that is part of
  
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• 100 Years Of A Storied Artist Retreat

  07-10-2026 18:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  After 26 years at the helm of Yaddo, the storied artist retreat currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, Elaina Richardson is moving on. She will be succeeded by Cyra Levenson, deputy director of Learning and Engagement at the Guggenheim Museum, as announced last week. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Measuring The Dance World

  07-10-2026 18:15 via dancemagazine.com
  DDP’s latest data set shows half of the creative teams commissioned for new dance works are entirely male. Less than 10 percent have an equal proportion of men and women. All-women teams are rare. “It basically proves what people have known for a long time,” says DDP founder Elizabeth “Liza” Yntema.  – Dance Magazine
  
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• San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater Names New Artistic Director

  07-10-2026 18:01 via msn.com
  “Elizabeth Williamson, … 47, currently serves as artistic director of Geva Theatre in Rochester, N.Y., and previously held leadership positions at Hartford Stage in Connecticut and Pioneer Theatre Company in Utah.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Whitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Roy Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

  07-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” opens for previews tomorrow, and the artist’s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitti
  
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• The Gap and the Whitney Museum Unveil New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

  07-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there will now be a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, for its highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” and the artist’s estate, the Gap is launching an exclusive 18-piece retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting h
  
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• Gap and the Whitney Museum Unveil A New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

  07-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there will now be a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, for its highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” and the artist’s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive 18-piece retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting his s
  
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• Disney Goes To Court To Contest Early License Review For ABC

  07-10-2026 17:44 via nytimes.com
  Disney lawyers asked a judge in U.S. District Court in Washington to bar the F.C.C. from undertaking an unusual, early review of the broadcast licenses of the eight stations the company owns and operates. – The New York Times
  
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