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• Isaiah Davis Makes Metal—and Masculinity—Seem Soft

  06-08-2026 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  Isaiah Davis’s Midtown Manhattan studio was once Christian Louboutin’s atelier, and it still has red carpeting that evokes the lacquered undersides of the designer’s signature stilettos. When I visited Davis’s studio this past winter, that red peeked out from under heaps of black and brown leather the artist was working with.Leather appeared in Davis’s 2021 show at New York’s Participant Inc: White American Flag (2021) is a wall work with stars and stripes but
  
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• Leading Industry Group ICOM Releases Statement in Support of Smithsonian Institution

  12-08-2026 23:29 via artnews.com
  
  The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums released a statement Tuesday pledging its “unwavering support” for the Smithsonian Institution, as it faces repeated assaults on its integrity and independence by the Trump administration.In the statement, ICOM-US said that it was speaking out in response to the recent congressional hearings, in which Anthea Hartig, the director of the institution’s National Museum of American History, was grilled over
  
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• Mitchell Charbonneau’s Hyperrealist Sculptures Hide in Plain Sight

  12-08-2026 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Mitchell Charbonneau’s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. Upon entering, I moved to place my coat on a worn, half-open folding chair. Looking more closely, I reconsidered, recognizing it as a work of art. Charbonneau’s exhibitions cohere in spare arrangements of banal detritus, with a tight visual vocabulary of things like Little Trees air freshene
  
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• Sale of a “Stunning” UK Fossil Collection to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Sparks Controversy

  12-08-2026 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  A “stunning” British collection of 318 Jurassic-era fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, the Guardian reports, in what some have described as a loss to the nation. The trove was collected by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore along the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO world heritage site in southwest England that is rich in fossils dating from 200 million to 245 million years ago. They include ichthyosaurs, fish, and crustaceans, among other creatures, some of which could
  
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• San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Employees, Citing ‘The Current Landscape’

  12-08-2026 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  The San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing “rising operational costs,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.The layoffs affected departments across the museum, including programs, development, and exhibitions, and leave the total staff count at 118. The news comes six months after the Balboa Park museum marked its 100th anniversary and amid a major renovation of its West Wing.Kari Kovach, the museum’s chief operating officer, told the newspa
  
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• Sotheby’s Lands Another Blockbuster Collection as Blaquier Family Parts With $450 M. of Impressionist Treasures

  12-08-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Just when it looked like the major auction houses had exhausted the supply of trophy consignments, another heavyweight collection has surfaced.Sotheby’s has secured the collection of the late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, a group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces said to be worth around $450 million, according Artnet News.The consignment is expected to anchor the upcoming auction season and includes paintings by Vincent va
  
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• The New York Gallery That Brought You Adrien Brody Is Suing a Collector for More than $800,000 in Unpaid Invoices

  12-08-2026 20:58 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Eden Fine Art filed a legal complaint in New Jersey district court last month, saying that collector Jacob Shochat hasn’t paid for some $822,390 worth of artworks he bought from the gallery. The gallery is accusing the collector, who has a background in medical technologies, of breach of contract.Eden says it began taking orders from Shochat in 2018 for $900,000 worth of “artworks and sculptures.” Based on past experience in which he had paid for his purchases,
  
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• ‘The Last Museum’ Search Engine Serves Up Millions of Artwork Images from More Than 3,000 Institutions

  12-08-2026 20:37 via artnews.com
  
  The Last Museum, an online search engine without any names or credits attached to it, now offers up images of some 6.3 million artworks held in museum collections around the world, searchable by “theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine.”As reported by Colossal, many of the works are in the public domain, and “if there’s copyright attached to the images, they’re available in accordance with fair use, which means they’re available at a l
  
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• Sharjah is Set for the Region’s First Contemporary Craft Museum

  12-08-2026 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  The United Arab Emirates landscape is expanding once again, with Sharjah set for the region’s first contemporary crafts museum.The Irthi Museum will open in Sharjah’s Creative Quarter sometime in 2029 and house a permanent collection of contemporary crafts from across the Gulf, the Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council announced. More specifically, the museum will preserve and document tradition skills—weaving, woodworking, glassmaking, and more— while offering opportunities
  
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• Former National Gallery Executive Accuses Institution of ‘Soft Censorship’ After DOGE Visit

  12-08-2026 16:10 via artnews.com
  
  A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year.The symposium, titled “Color Lines Across the United States and Mexico,” was originally scheduled for May 2025 at the museum’s renowned Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Scholars, however, later found
  
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• Atlanta Art Fair’s Third Edition Will Host 67 Galleries, Hailing From as Far as Korea, Spain, and Uganda

  12-08-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  The third edition of the Atlanta Art Fair (October 1–4) will feature upwards of 67 galleries, convening at Pullman Yards, a 27-acre former rail works in the Kirkwood district. The fair is organized by AMP (Art Market Productions), which also organizes the Seattle Art Fair, Art on Paper, and San Francisco Art Market, and is under the leadership of director Kelly Freeman and artistic director Nato Thompson. The exhibitor list is, say the organizers, still in development. “We’re t
  
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• Zeitz MOCAA Enters Post-Koyo Kouoh Era, Sotheby’s Lands $450 Blaquier Collection, And More: Morning Links for August 12, 2026

  12-08-2026 15:48 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director.Sotheby’s has landed a $450 million tranche of works from the collection of Argentine industrialists Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier.An anonymous group has launched a search engine called The Last Museum, with the goal of eventually “index[ing] all museum art in the world.”The Headlines NEW ZEIT-GEIST. The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (M
  
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• Zeitz MOCAA Names Elvira Dyangani Ose as Next Artistic Director

  12-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, announced Wednesday Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. She will begin in the post on October 1.In leading the museum’s curatorial program, Dyangani Ose succeeds Koyo Kouoh, who served as executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA from 2019 until her death, at 57, in May 2025. (At the time of her death, Kouoh was also organizing the 2026 Venice Biennale, which opened posthumously in May; Dyangan
  
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• Speelhuis Waalkade Nijmegen: ligging en openingstijden onder de loep

  12-08-2026 08:49 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Nijmegen, de oudste stad van Nederland, kent een levendige Waalkade waar historie en moderne horeca samenkomen. Hier vind je het speelhuis, een plek die zich richt op kansspelen en vermaak. De ligging aan het water en de centrale positie in het stadscentrum maken het een aantrekkelijke bestemming voor wie een gokje wil wagen. Maar voordat je de deur platloopt, is het goed om te weten wat de exacte locatie is en wanneer je er terecht kunt. Daarnaast is het belangrijk om oog te hebben voor verantw
  
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• 10 Deposit Casino: Your Quick‑Play Powerhouse for Rapid Wins

  12-08-2026 07:38 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Gambling establishments with Mastercard: A Convenient Way to Wager Online

  12-08-2026 06:30 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  12-08-2026 06:30 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Como Ganhar na Roleta Jogo a Dinheiro Real: Guia Completo

  12-08-2026 02:43 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• BetPlay: Quick Wins and Rapid Action for the Modern Gamer

  12-08-2026 01:27 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• BBC Host Wants New Reality TV Show Featuring Aspiring Art Dealers To Be ‘The Apprentice for the Art World’

  11-08-2026 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  The art market is a tough place to survive these days, with even megagalleries like Gagosian and Pace shuttering locations and cutting loose artists, and every day seeming to bring news of another art gallery calling it quits. So maybe, counterintuitively, this is the perfect moment for the BBC to launch a new reality show that aims to incubate the next great art-dealing duo. The Big Deal with Steph McGovern, which debuts this week, sees “seven pairs of aspiring art dealers battle it
  
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• Laser Technology Reveals Hidden Pre-Hispanic Roads at Machu Picchu

  11-08-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists working near the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu have identified more than 1.5 miles of pre-Hispanic roads, as well as what researchers think could be agricultural terraces and platforms, hidden within the Andean cloud forest. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an August 10 announcement by Peru’s Ministry of Culture.The structures were discovered using LiDAR—an advanced remote sensing technology that can detect man-made features concealed by vegetat
  
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• London’s Sid Motion Gallery to Close After a Decade: ‘Not in a Financial Position to Fully Honor My Artists’

  11-08-2026 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London’s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago.“As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of each of my artists, and I will not compromise when it comes to supporting them in the way that they deserve,” said Motion in a statement on her website. “Closing the gallery
  
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• Both London’s Sid Motion and Beers Galleries Are Closing, Citing Economic Pressures

  11-08-2026 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London’s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago.“As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of each of my artists, and I will not compromise when it comes to supporting them in the way that they deserve,” said Motion in a statement on her website. “Closing the gallery
  
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• One of the Greatest Private Hiroshige Collections Ever Assembled Is Heading to Christie’s

  11-08-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  
  For decades, if you wanted to talk about Japanese prints, the conversation usually began and ended with Hokusai’s Great Wave. That may be starting to change.This September, Christie’s will begin selling more than 600 prints from the collection of Alan Medaugh, an American businessman who spent half a century chasing the finest impressions he could find by Utagawa Hiroshige, Hokusai’s great rival and one of the towering figures of Japanese printmaking. Specialists say the c
  
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• New York’s School of Visual Arts Reports One-Third Drop in Enrollment Since 2019, Faces Largest Budget Deficit Ever

  11-08-2026 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  Amid a broad crisis in higher education in the US resulting from demographic trends and a combative Trump administration, enrollment at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) is down some 34 percent since 2019, and the school faces a $22 million structural budget deficit, “the largest in its nearly 80-year history,” according to a previously unreported July 1 email to faculty and staff from interim president Christopher J. Cyphers. The school’s annual operating budget is
  
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  11-08-2026 20:37 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Could DNA on Ancient Cave Walls Help Solve Art History’s Oldest Provenance Mystery?

  11-08-2026 20:34 via artnews.com
  
  Provenance is everything in the art world. Auction houses spend years tracing the ownership history of a painting from one collector to the next. But for some of humanity’s oldest works of art, the provenance goes cold tens of thousands of years ago.Who painted the bison on the walls of Altamira? Who pressed a hand against damp limestone before blowing red pigment around their fingers? Archaeologists have spent generations trying to answer questions like those. A new study suggests genetic
  
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• Advanced Roulette for Experts Australia No Registration

  11-08-2026 20:12 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• V&A Changes Paid Break Policy as East Storehouse Strike Looms

  11-08-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Just weeks after workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s East Storehouse voted to strike over working conditions, the institution announced that it was changing its break policy, according to Museums Assocation, a nonprofit representing museum, gallery, and heritage professionals and organizations in the UK.The trade union Prospect, which represents collections access officers at the Storehouse, argued that its members were not given enough time to use the bathroom or drink water durin
  
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  11-08-2026 19:24 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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