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• Kinda Sorta REALLY Creepy – Festival Using Facial Recognition Software To Scan Audience Faces

  12-06-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Strategically placed cameras will scan faces at the Download Festival site in Donnington before comparing [them] with a database of custody images from across Europe. It is one of the first times it has been trialled outside, normally it is done in a controlled environment. There has been a lot of interest from other festivals […]
  
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• Yoshitomo Nara’s First Show with David Zwirner Slated for October in New York

  29-07-2026 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is slated to open October 29 and will run through December 12.Nara joined Zwirner after being represented previously by Pace and Blum galleries, and said at the time, “Now, I
  
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• Christie’s to Sell Monet Masterpiece From Durand-Ruel Collection in Paris

  29-07-2026 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  Claude Monet’s Bord des falaises à Pourville (ca. 1882) is coming to the auction block at Christie’s Paris this October with an estimate of €11 million–€15 million ($12.5 million–$17.1 million). The brightly hued landscape is leading a sale of works from the family collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer considered most responsible helped establish Impressionism as a commercial and critical success.The October 22 sale, titled “Dura
  
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• Mayor Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Puts Art World Heavyweights in the Spotlight

  29-07-2026 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  Will New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax drive major art collectors from the Big Apple into the tax-friendly arms of competing cultural hubs? That is the question at the heart of an ongoing debate, prompted by a database published last week by the New York City Department of Finance (DOF). The list identifies numerous prominent art-world figures as potentially subject to a surcharge on multimillion-dollar second homes, know as as pied-à-terres.According to the DOF datab
  
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• American Alliance of Museums Slams Trump Administration’s Report on the Smithsonian

  29-07-2026 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  The White House has continued to escalate its assault on the Smithsonian Institution this week, ordering signage outside the National Museum of American History to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits. A prominent industry group, the American Alliance of Museums, is finally hitting back.Earlier this month, the AAM released a statement condemning the Trump administration’s attacks on the Smithsonian. In a scathing rebuke, the grou
  
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• Hankering to See Salvator Mundi? An Artist Opened a Museum of the World’s Priciest Painting in His Brooklyn Lobby

  29-07-2026 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  When auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen brought down the hammer on Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) at Christie’s in 2017, it fetched $450.3 million, making history as the priciest work of art ever sold at a public auction. Sold as the last Leonardo in private hands, it went to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; ever since, it’s been visible in numerous headlines and even in a documentary, but hasn’t gone on public view. Well, New York’s Salvator Mund
  
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• 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces Exhibitors for Upcoming London Edition

  29-07-2026 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall.Scheduled for October 15–18 at Somerset House, alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the fair will feature a focus on African modernists through curated booths and a 1-54 Presents’ spotlight exhibition titled “West Wind,” curated by the South
  
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• A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition

  29-07-2026 17:22 via artnews.com
  
  You know it’s going to be a different kind of group show right away: A wall decal detailing the exhibition budget greets visitors to “Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Shaped like a receipt but organized like a spreadsheet, it lists artists’ honoraria—a nice $25,000 for 27 artists—alongside framing ($1,100, a steal), vinyl ($1,925), and more.But the exhibition quickly expands to consider costs bey
  
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• Metis Co-Founder Rebecca Fine on Why Art Lending Is Becoming a Bigger Part of Wealth Management

  29-07-2026 16:21 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past five years, as auction sales faltered and interest rates climbed, collectors became reluctant to sell prized works into an uncertain market. The result? Loans secured by art became one of the fastest-growing corners of the art market.Banks have expanded their offerings, auction houses have grown their lending divisions, and a wave of independent firms has entered the market, all betting that collectors these days see their collections not just as cultural assets but as financi
  
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• Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Accused of Whitewashing, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2026

  29-07-2026 16:11 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!The American Alliance of Museums has slammed the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution.Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has been accused of whitewashing the country’s wartime past.The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors on December 11.The Headlines PUSHBACK. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has slammed the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution, warning t
  
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• The 30 Best Art Museums in the US

  29-07-2026 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by major collectors—among them Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell Rales’s Glenstone—and the landscape becomes even more crowded.With all that in mind, the editors of ARTnews felt it was
  
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  29-07-2026 10:08 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  29-07-2026 06:26 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Artist Dustin Yellin Has a Hot Take for Viral ‘Subway Takes’ Show

  28-07-2026 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  Dustin Yellin has a hot take: “Religion should be a product of art, not art a product of religion!”Um, sure!The multidisciplinary artist and Pioneer Works founder made the comment in a recent appearance on SubwayTakes, the internet talk show hosted by Kareem Rahma. In the episode, posted to Instagram Tuesday, a befuddled Rahma responds, “100 percent disagree. Don’t even know what the f—k you’re talking about.”As is perhaps to be expected from an out
  
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• Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and George Condo Among Those Caught in Major Vancouver Real Estate Fraud Lawsuit

  28-07-2026 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  There is a new development in an ongoing fraud lawsuit against the leader of the collapsed Vancouver-based developer Coromandel Properties, whose chief executive allegedly misappropriated funds to acquire an art collection, reports The Vancouver Sun.In 2023, Junchao Mo, a Chinese seed investor and part-owner of Coromandel Properties, and his two sons, Zhao Ming “Robert” Mo and Zi Hao “Calvin” Mo, filed a lawsuit now headed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia against
  
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• UK Jury Convicts Activists Who Covered a Picasso With Image of Gazan Mother and Child at the National Gallery

  28-07-2026 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of a mother and child in Gaza. Jai Halai, age 25, and Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, were convicted by a jury over the incident at the National Gallery in London in October 2024.  As reported by Jewish News, “During the prote
  
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• Museums, Curators, and Artists Say Goodbye to Betye Saar: ‘Thank You for the Dance’

  28-07-2026 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday, to the shock and sadness of an art world preparing to celebrate the centennial of the singular assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar spent six decades excavating the American sediments of race and politics through found objects, from the innocuous—furniture, feathers, birdcages—to the insidious. Saar’s groundbreaking 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima depicted the eponymous “Mammy”
  
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• Artist Robert Lazzarini Will Unveil Works Intended for the US Pavilion This Fall in Boston

  28-07-2026 21:16 via artnews.com
  
  A Boston exhibition this fall will reveal works by New York–based artist Robert Lazzarini that were intended to represent the country at the hotly contested US Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale. The show, “The New World,” opens on September 30 at Boston’s MassArt Museum (MAAM), at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and will allow the public to see works that employ the artist’s trademark distortions to comment on American symbolism. The current
  
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• Biennale of Sydney Appoints Low Kee Hong Artistic Director of 2028 Edition

  28-07-2026 20:52 via artnews.com
  
  The Biennale of Sydney has appointed Low Kee Hong artistic director of its 26th edition, which will be on view in and around the city in 2028. This year’s Biennale, directed by Hoor Al Qasimi and titled “Rememory,” closed last month.“The 2028 Biennale will embrace participation and discovery, inviting people from all walks of life to share in the experience. I look forward to spending time with artists, communities and cultural leaders across Australia
  
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• The Phildelphia Museum of Art Ran a $10 M. Deficit This Past Fiscal Year

  28-07-2026 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  The hits keep coming for the Philadelphia Museum of Art: On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the museum is suffering a growing deficit, according to preliminary documentation reviewed by the paper.For the fiscal year 2025-2026, which ended on June 30, the museum had a deficit of $10 million on a $76.5 million budget. That deficit is nearly double the $5.4 million it experienced in the previous fiscal year. And, according to the Inquirer, museum leaders expect the deficit to eithe
  
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• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Sets December Opening Date

  28-07-2026 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  The keenly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open its doors on Saadiyat Island on December 11, the Department of Culture and Tourism-Abu Dhabi announced today. Plans for the addition to the Guggenheim network were unveiled in 2006 at an undisclosed cost, designed by the late Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry.At its opening, it will become the largest star in the Guggenheim’s four-country museum constellation, joining the flagship in New York and outposts in Venice and Bilbao. The
  
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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged in Alleged Car Bomb Plot

  28-07-2026 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  An employee at the National Museum of Ireland has been charged with explosives offenses, according to the Irish Mirror, after Irish authorities said they intercepted a suspected car bomb near the border with Northern Ireland.Simon O’Donovan, 44, who prosecutors identified as an employee at the National Museum’s Collins Barracks site in Dublin, appeared before Ireland’s Special Criminal Court on Saturday after being charged with possession of explosives. Authoriti
  
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