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• How The Brain Erases Ugly Memories

  07-08-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New research has identified a neuronal circuit responsible for the brain’s ability to purge bad memories, findings that could have implications for treating PTSD and other anxiety disorders.” It’s all about the amygdala and prefrontal cortex …
  
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• South Korean Museum Returns Two Qing Dynasty Lion Sculptures to China

  23-07-2026 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According to a report in the South Korean publication Yonhap News Agency, the ceremony was attended by Chun In-keon, director of the Kansong Art Museum, You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, Dai Bing, the Chinese ambassador to South Korea, and Rao Quan, head of China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration. The lions’ return had b
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci May Become the Face of Future Euro Banknotes

  23-07-2026 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes?In a first, Europeans can now help decide how they want to pay for their Belgian chocolate and French cheese: with bills printed in designs depicting either “European culture” or “Rivers and birds,” announced the European Central Bank (ECB) today. Not too shabby. The bank has revealed 10 shortlisted finalists of an international competition fo
  
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• FBI Returns Looted Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia

  23-07-2026 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  The United States has repatriated a collection of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia, according to a report by the Associated Press. The handover took place July 22 at a meeting between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel in Jakarta.The returned items, from Indonesia’s Papua region, are part of the cultural heritage of the Dani and Asmat tribes and Lake Sentani communities, said Indonesia’s culture minister Fadi Zon. They were repatriated through coo
  
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• The Knicks Championship Trophy Is Heading to the American Museum of Natural History

  23-07-2026 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  Missed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks’ championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O’Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3.The Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs on June 13, crowning a spectacular comeback season and ending a two generation-spanning dignity drought for New York City. And so commenced a literally explosive we
  
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• Restoration of Fire-Ravaged Glasgow School of Art May Be Too Expensive

  23-07-2026 18:17 via artnews.com
  
  The future of the architecturally illustrious centerpiece of the Glasgow School of Art—designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in stages between 1899 and 1909—is uncertain after the school said planned renovation work following two fires is too expensive to undertake on its own.After a fire in 2014, actors Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi led a fundraising drive to restore the building. But another blaze in 2018 did further damage that was deemed “exceptionally significa
  
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• Made in L.A. 2027 to Be Curated by Hammer Chief Curator Michael Wellen and MOCA’s José Luis Blondet

  23-07-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has named the two curators for the next edition of its closely watched Made in L.A. biennial: Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet. Their edition, the eighth overall, will open in the fall 2027.Wellen is the recently appointed chief curator of the Hammer, who officially joined the museum in April from Tate Modern. Blondet has been senior curator at LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art since 2023, and previously worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of A
  
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• San Francisco Art School Renamed for Silicon Valley Tycoon, New Tate Director Takes Big Pay Cut: Morning Links for July 23, 2026

  23-07-2026 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Vanderbilt University to keep art at the heart of the former California College of the Arts campus after a $75 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang.A new study argues that art-world inequality is shaped by institutional networks, not just representation.Ex-Dia director Jessica Morgan is taking a $500,000 pay cut to take the reins at London’s Tate. The Headlines CCA HUANGING ON. Nvidia founder Jensen Huang is making waves in the art world. Just days
  
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• Connecticut Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty in $2.1 M. Theft Scheme

  23-07-2026 16:42 via artnews.com
  
  A Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge Tuesday, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, which alleges that the theft totaled some $2.1 million.According to the plea deal, David L. Johnson, a 66-year-old resident of Greenwich who operated the Stamford-based businesses Antique Treasures and Greenwich Auction, “participated in a scheme to defraud W.L.,” whom the government identifies
  
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• Lauren Oyler on Florentina Holzinger, Watermill Center’s New Advisory Council, and More: Industry Moves for July 23, 2026

  23-07-2026 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  Happy Thursday! Here’s who’s moving and shaking in the art world this week.Jessica Morgan Appointed Director of Tate:The British curator, currently director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, will succeed Maria Balshaw at the helm of the Tate network, which oversees Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives.Watermill Center Announces New Creative and Advisory Councils: The Long Island institution established the bodies to guide its next chapter fo
  
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• French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down Hundreds of WWII-era Looted Artworks

  23-07-2026 03:32 via artnews.com
  
  Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, white, powdered wig, a nobleman’s fine clothes, and a gentle, open smile? If so, you may have come upon a certain Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, a French engraver, designer, and art critic, who worked for King Louis XV and lived from 1715 to 1790.The fact that he is long dead does not preclude him from effectively being a wanted man in France today. Or more accurately, a painting of him by the celebrated French artist Jean Sim&
  
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• French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down 424 Artworks Looted by Nazis

  23-07-2026 03:32 via artnews.com
  
  Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, white, powdered wig, a nobleman’s fine clothes, and a gentle, open smile? If so, you may have come upon a certain Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, a French engraver, designer, and art critic, who worked for King Louis XV and lived from 1715 to 1790.The fact that he is long dead does not preclude him from effectively being a wanted man in France today. Or more accurately, a painting of him by the celebrated French artist Jean Sim&
  
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• Jeff Koons Prevails in Appeal Over Copyright Challenge to ‘Made in Heaven’ Series

  22-07-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Jeff Koons has once again prevailed in a legal challenge, as a New York federal appeals court affirmed that a copyright lawsuit filed against him by artist Michael Hayden was brought too late.According to court documents filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit was dismissed for the second time on procedural grounds: Hayden waited until 2021 to file suit, which sought to assert copyright over a set piece Hayden had created that appears in a 1
  
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• The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, This Time Without Any Crown Jewels

  22-07-2026 21:34 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime heist took less than eight minutes, during which time thieves, disguised as construction workers, used a monte-meubles, or a moving exterior staircase, to break into the Apollo Gallery. Once inside, they quickly absconded with nine bejeweled objects, including a tiara, a necklace, earrings, and a brooch. On
  
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• If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer Themselves

  22-07-2026 20:55 via artnews.com
  
  Art dealer Sonia Dutton was at her gallery on the Lower East Side last fall, where “Night Drawing,” Boston artist Rose deSmith Greenman’s debut New York exhibition, was on view. The untrained artist began drawing only in her seventies, but her still lifes, often made after dark with humble materials like everyday markers and ballpoint pen, bristle with energy. In came a museum curator who expressed enthusiasm about the show, and even interest in acquiring a piece. But that
  
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• Archaeologists Open Three New Kingdom Tombs at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis

  22-07-2026 20:36 via artnews.com
  
  An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news was first reported by Ahram Online.Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara was an important cemetery of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. In the second half of the 18th Dynasty (1550—1292 BCE), high-ranking city dignitaries created tombs for themselves in the limestone cliffs at Bubasteion.Hi
  
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• After $75 M. Gift, Shuttered California College of the Arts to Become School Named for Silicon Valley Billionaire

  22-07-2026 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  In January, the Bay Area’s California College of the Arts announced that it would close in 2027 after selling its two campuses to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. Now, Vanderbilt has revealed that its San Francisco campus will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in recognition of a $75 million donation from Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang and his wife, Lori Huang.“Technology expands what we can build.
  
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• Getty Names Final Round of Grantees for Initiative Focused on Preserving Black Architects’ Work 

  22-07-2026 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced the final cohort of grantees for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative, which focuses on preserving the work of Black architects.  This year’s grantees range, which each receive $150,000 for a total of $750,000 for the cohort from an urban park to a shopping mall. The funding will primarily be used to support historic structures report for the buildings that will
  
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• Gagosian to Stage Major René Magritte Exhibition During Frieze London

  22-07-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian will present a major exhibition devoted to René Magritte and his influence on contemporary art this fall, bringing together museum and private loans alongside newly commissioned works by living artists in London during Frieze week.Opening September 24 at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill space, “This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte” will feature paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and photography spanning the Belgian Surrealist’s care
  
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• Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Glass Desk Sells for $243,200, Setting Auction Record for His Design Work

  22-07-2026 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  A monumental desk designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry sold for $243,200 at Freeman’s in Chicago last week, according to Artnet News. The figure is more than ten times its $20,000 high estimate and sets a new auction record for one of Gehry’s design objects. Known as Icehenge, the sprawling 16-piece work was created in 2012 for the lobby of Chicago’s landmark Inland Steel Building, where Gehry oversaw a renovation after acquiring a s
  
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• Check Out Refik Anadol’s AI-Powered Light and Sound Projection on the Smithsonian’s Iconic ‘Castle’ Building

  22-07-2026 18:06 via artnews.com
  
  During a brief pause in a years-long renovation that began in 2023, the Smithsonian’s iconic red sandstone Castle hosted an immersive light and sound installation by Refik Anadol. The project, Smithsonian Dreams, was projected onto the façade of the building for two hours, starting at 9 PM, on Friday and Saturday evenings last week.A Smithsonian spokesperson estimates that approx. 20,000 visitors settled onto the mall over the course of both nights to experience the multisensory pro
  
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• Louvre Reopens Apollo Gallery, Jessica Morgan to the Tate, and More: Morning Links for July 22, 2026

  22-07-2026 16:23 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum network.The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened nine months after the infamous crown jewels heist exposed major security weaknesses.British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has transformed a 1980s supermarket into a felt-filled wonderland.The Headlines COMING HOME. After more than a decade building a more expansive and globally minded Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan is returning&
  
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• At The Momentary, Lucy Sparrow Transforms a Supermarket into a Felt Wonderland

  22-07-2026 16:07 via artnews.com
  
  The UK-based artist Lucy Sparrow is known for transforming seemingly ordinary spaces—supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, to name a few—into felt wonderlands, celebrated both for their tempting tactility and their technicolor allusions to childhood. What began as a nascent fascination with the material’s ease of use soon grew into a fine art practice, one that asks viewers to see the humdrum artifacts of daily life in a new, playful way.She first found success in 2014, with t
  
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• Jessica Morgan Named Top Director at Tate, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade

  22-07-2026 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027.In that new role, she will oversee one of England’s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain—as well as institutions in Liverpool and St. Ives.She fills a role left vacant by Maria Balshaw, who departed Tate at the end of 2025, during a period of
  
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• Jessica Morgan Heads to Tate as Director, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade

  22-07-2026 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027.In that new role, she will oversee one of England’s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain—as well as institutions in Liverpool and St. Ives.She fills a role left vacant by Maria Balshaw, who departed Tate at the end of 2025, during a period of
  
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• The Online Backlash to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Misses the Point of the Epic Poem

  22-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Months before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hit theaters, many on the internet had seemingly already reached a conclusion. The armor was wrong. Agamemnon’s black, plasticky helmet looked, one widely shared post complained, was like something out of a Batman movie. Odysseus’s ship was a Norse longship, from the wrong civilization and the wrong era. Most of the costumes belonged to the classical period, a good thousand years after the Bronze Age world the poem supposedly descr
  
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• In Venice and Shanghai, Wallace Chan Presents a Vision of Buddhist Maximalism

  22-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In the 1990s, the Hong Kong–based artist Wallace Chan purged all his earthly possessions to live as a Buddhist monk for six months. But since then, he has swapped austerity for exuberance, channeling his spirituality into glittering works of art. After studying metal intently for eight years, he found himself pioneering new techniques in titanium. And for his two-venue summer show, “Vessels of Other Worlds”—on view both in Venice at the Pietà Chapel and in Shanghai
  
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• At the Art + Tech Summit, Christie’s Pins Its Future on AI Billionaires Who Aren’t Buying Art… Yet

  22-07-2026 00:09 via artnews.com
  
  “We are in a historic moment in wealth creation,” said CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank at the keynote presentation of the 2026 edition of the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit last week, alongside Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan and Michael Anders, founder of the investment firm ICONIQ Capital. Frank was referring to the riches being created as big AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX go public. These initial public offerings are projected to create 20 new billionai
  
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