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• How The Big Auction Houses Are Mutating To Survive

  12-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Though the hammer’s coming down on a major price in front of a crowd is good for headlines, auction houses have dealt with the pressures of the business by branching out. Private sales are increasingly important to the bottom line, as are advisory businesses — the auction houses help a collector manage her treasures, for instance, or broker acquisitions for museums."
  
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• Swan Lake Moves to Belle Époque Paris

  30-09-2026 00:32 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Today’s highlights: Xander Parish, the first British principal of Russia’s Mariinsky Ballet, left in 2022 and will open the Nouveaux Ballets Russes in Florence on March 14 with a Swan Lake set in Belle Époque Paris, directed by an opera stager and built with projection mapping and holograms (Pointe). Lookingglass, the Chicago ensemble theatre whose alumni include Mary Zimmerman and David Schwimmer, has named two artistic directors and made Schwimmer producing dire
  
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• Sotheby’s London Racks Up Highest-Ever Sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at $26.2 M., Setting Nine Artist Records

  29-09-2026 23:25 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, Sotheby’s London’s sale of modern and contemporary South Asian art rang up at £19.8 million ($26.2 million), the highest total realized for the category in the house’s history. The 73-lot sale achieved a 99% sell-through rate, with some 89% of works exceeding their high estimate. The house’s previous high in the category was £18.9 million ($25.5 million), also achieved in London, one year ago.Along the way, new auction records were set for Antonio
  
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• Lauren Halsey to Transform the Hollywood Bowl with Immersive World for a Concert Headlined by Erykah Badu

  29-09-2026 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles–based artist Lauren Halsey will transform the Hollywood Bowl tonight for a one-night only event with a star-studded line-up, headlined by Erykah Badu.With some tickets still available, doors to the Bowl open tonight at 6 p.m. where visitors will see a large-scale installation-cum-environment that Halsey has created to set the stage for Badu—she’s also done the stage design. Also performing are The Alchemist, DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak), Flea, and artist Charles
  
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• Nicole Eisenman Opens Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’

  29-09-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired The Auction (2024–25), a painting by artist Nicole Eisenman. Like much of Eisenman’s oeuvre, it’s a fanciful work of figuration, featuring a feverish bidding war overseen by a fruit-headed, black-robed judge. While Eisenman’s works are funny at first glance, a nuanced narrative, interweaving the personal and political, can usually be teased out of them. That was not the case with The Auction, which didn&rsqu
  
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• Nicole Eisenman Open Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’

  29-09-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired The Auction (2024–25), a painting by artist Nicole Eisenman. Like much of Eisenman’s oeuvre, it’s a fanciful work of figuration, featuring a feverish bidding war overseen by a fruit-headed, black-robed judge. While Eisenman’s works are funny at first glance, a nuanced narrative, interweaving the personal and political, can usually be teased out of them. That was not the case with The Auction, which didn&rsqu
  
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• Ancient Roman Settlement Discovered in Austria May Be Lost City of Claudivium

  29-09-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  An interdisciplinary team, including archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck, has mapped the remains of a previously unknown Roman town in Lower Austria. Researchers think the settlement could be the lost city of Claudivium, abandoned over 1800 years ago. The news was reported by several sites, including Arkeonews, following a September 25 announcement by the University of Innsbruck.The site, located at the hamlet of Stein/St. Pantaleon-Erla, is just a few miles east of the ancient Roman
  
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• Senators Blumenthal and Cornyn File Amicus Brief in Case of Heirs Suing for Nazi-Looted Egon Schiele Works

  29-09-2026 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and his Republican counterpart John Cornyn of Texas have filed an amicus (or “friend of the court”) brief defending their own Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which was signed into law in 2016, against claims of unconstitutionality by Austrian defendants seeking to hold on to Nazi-looted works by Egon Schiele.The senators filed the brief on September 18 in the Southern District of New York in the case Reif v. Republi
  
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• Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament to Screen in Eight-Hour Event at New York Masonic Hall

  29-09-2026 21:24 via artnews.com
  
  Twelve years after premiering in New York, back then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s epic film River of Fundament will return to the big screen in an eight-hour event at the Masonic Hall of New York, on West 23rd Street in Chelsea.On November 14, the film’s three acts, which run for nearly five and a half hours in total, will be separated by intermissions to allow the audience “to move throughout the adjoining spaces of the Masonic Hall&rs
  
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• Long-Lost Drawing May Be a Previously Unknown Manet

  29-09-2026 21:11 via artnews.com
  
  A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work by Édouard Manet.The small red-chalk study shows a child crouching on the ground, according to The Guardian, which first reported the discovery. Francesco Baccanelli, an Italian art historian who encountered the work in a private collection in northern Italy, told the outlet he became interested after noticing that its mount carried an old attribution to Manet. He subsequently brought
  
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• “Look, I Think It’s All Not To Be Taken Too Seriously,” Says Tilly Norwood’s Creator

  29-09-2026 21:01 via variety.com
  
  Eline van der Velden said that in response to a question about the AI-generated “actress” suddenly speaking in Cantonese during an interview. About Norwood’s future career, van der Velden said “We get loads of offers in, we’ve said no to anything (like) a traditional film, because that’s not what she’s made for.” – Variety
  
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• Artists Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, and Vincent Valdez Win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants

  29-09-2026 20:54 via artnews.com
  
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 20 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellowships, colloquially called “Genius Grants,” which comes with $800,000 in unrestricted funds.This year’s cohort includes four artists: Christine Sun Kim (based in Berlin), Rodney McMillian (Los Angeles), Vincent Valdez (Houston and San Antonio), and Chip Thomas (Flagstaff, Arizona).The subject of a recent Whitney Museum survey, Kim is known for her works that challenge
  
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• Turkish Comedian Sentenced To Prison For Insulting Both “Religious Values” And President Erdoğan

  29-09-2026 20:03 via apnews.com
  “Deniz Göktaş, 32, has been held jailed since July 3 after clips of one of his routines, which included a reference to Erdoğan as a ‘dictator,’ were circulated online. He was convicted Monday …, receiving a combined prison sentence of 19 months and 10 days.” He has been released pending an appeal. – AP
  
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• California Bans “Ghost” Ticketing

  29-09-2026 19:44 via latimes.com
  
  The law prohibits using software to get around ticket limits, queue and presale restrictions. It restricts websites and ads designed to make resellers look like authorized ticket sources. Sellers in violation could face misdemeanor charges and penalties. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Influential MoMA Curator To Retire

  29-09-2026 19:27 via nytimes.com
  Ann Temkin has been a curator at the museum since 2003 and was promoted to chief curator in 2008, becoming the first woman to lead MoMA’s richest and most powerful department. – The New York Times
  
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• How One News Organization Went From Zero To 250,000 Subscribers

  29-09-2026 19:15 via pressgazette.co.uk
  “It’s not just about a one and done, you know, ask for a payment and be done. We really want to nurture the relationship through the journey from anonymous all the way into a paying subscription, and we know that the majority of people aren’t going to ever come over to a paying subscription.” – Press Gazette
  
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• TIME TRAVELS: New and Old

  29-09-2026 19:13 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/09/time-travels-new-and-old.html" title="TIME TRAVELS: New and Old” rel=”nofollow”>My day suddenly
  
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• Xander Parish Opens New Dance Company Patterned After Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes

  29-09-2026 19:04 via pointemagazine.com
  
  A Florence-based nonprofit, the New Generation Foundation, is backing the company, called the Nouveaux Ballets Russes. Parish, a Briton who was until 2022 a principal at Russia’s Mariinsky Theater, is artistic director, and he aims, as Diaghilev did, to engage collaborators in the vanguard of art, music, tech, and fashion. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Has The Kids Scholastic Book Fair Been Ruined?

  29-09-2026 18:44 via lithub.com
  
  If the goal is to celebrate books and reading and get kids excited… is a for-profit book fair the best way to do that? – LitHub
  
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• In Search Of The Perfect Audio Experience

  29-09-2026 18:31 via nplusonemag.com
  
  The word audiophile — etymologically, one who “loves to hear” — has a wine-sipping pretension that I hate, but sometimes an ugly shoe fits. – n+1
  
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• National Gallery of Victoria Executive Accused of Stealing $5.6 M. in Smartphone Scheme

  29-09-2026 18:28 via artnews.com
  
  A former senior executive at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, has been accused of stealing some AUD 8 million ($5.6 million) from the museum over a six-year period.According to ArtAsiaPacific, the unnamed former employee allegedly used a work account to purchase smartphones, which he then resold for a profit. Authorities allege that he used his senior position at the museum to conceal the scheme.The alleged theft began in September 2019 and continued until it was discove
  
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• Anna Weyant’s Upper East Side Apartment Hits the Market for $3.5 M.

  29-09-2026 18:25 via artnews.com
  
  Canadian painter Anna Weyant’s Upper East Side co-op hit the market this week for $3.49 million, Curbed reports. She purchased the apartment in 2024, shortly after breaking up with then-boyfriend and gallerist Larry Gagosian, who was some 50 years her senior.Weyant had a quick trajectory to art world fame, from selling $450 drawings and paintings in 2019 to having her work hit the auction block for $1.6 million in 2022. At 27, she became the youngest artist on Gagosian’s roster, whic
  
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• Inside Those Spicy Microdrama Factories

  29-09-2026 18:15 via slate.com
  
  It’s no secret that we’re kind of in a content race to the bottom right now. Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences. – Slate
  
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• 15 outstanding ways to spend it in October

  29-09-2026 18:09 via ft.com
  Frieze highlights, foraged Martinis and Boodles’ new townhouse
  
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• Maine’s Small-Town “Opera Houses,” Really Performing Arts And Community Centers

  29-09-2026 18:02 via nytimes.com
  The late 19th century saw a wave of American towns building what they called opera houses. They presented all kinds of entertainment, from plays to vaudeville to lectures to magic shows (and yes, occasionally touring opera and classical music artists). Here are five in Maine which are still thriving. – The New York Times
  
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• Pittsburgh Arts Groups Are Fundraising For Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars

  29-09-2026 17:44 via post-gazette.com
  
  “Given sweeping changes in the arts and nonprofit ecosystems both locally and nationally since early 2025, many original benchmarks and timelines included are no longer realistic,” according to the Downtown nonprofit’s funding application. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Cuba’s Ballet Tradition Continues Amid Blackouts

  29-09-2026 17:31 via apnews.com
  For months, two-thirds of Cuba had no electricity at night. Some neighborhoods in the capital of Havana have been without running water for more than two weeks. Transportation is scarce and eggs, bread and cooking oil are hard to find. – AP News
  
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• A Reprieve For Philly’s Academy of Natural Sciences?

  29-09-2026 17:15 via msn.com
  Drexel says that while it appreciates the William Penn Foundation’s “public suggestion that it assist in temporarily keeping the Academy’s museum open,” they have “not received a formal proposal with a defined level of financial support.” – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Gets New Leadership, Including Famous Alumnus David Schwimmer

  29-09-2026 17:01 via yahoo.com
  The new co-artistic directors are Ericka Ratcliff, most recently literary manager at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and longtime Lookingglass ensemble member David Catlin. Another longtime member, Philip R. Smith, will be executive director, while Schwimmer takes the new position of producing director, focusing on fundraising, marketing, board development and finding co-producing partners. – Chicago Tribune (Yahoo!)
  
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• MoMA to Stage Eva Hesse’s First Major US Museum Exhibition in Two Decades

  29-09-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  The late German-American artist Eva Hesse, best-known for her works that challenged the conventions of Minimalism, will have a career-spanning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York next year that foregrounds her drawing practice and how it informed her canonical sculptures and paintings. The show “Eva Hesse: Wild Space, 1957-1970,” on view from May 30–September 25, 2027, will bring together more than 150 works that reframe Hesse’s experimental practice.The ex
  
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