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• Legendary sculptor Phillip King at 80

  05-12-2014 16:00
  
  Phillip King’s sculptures from the 1960s helped to define a new era in British art. As he turns 80, and ahead of a Tate retrospective of his work, he talks to Nicholas Wroe
  It was 60 years ago that Phillip King, then a young conscript doing his national service, was posted to Paris. “I could speak French and was supposed to be joining a general’s staff. But when I got there my post had been taken by someone else and so I found myself living this very independent life, with my own flat, a
  
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• ARTS Southeast Revives Residency Program on Georgia’s Remote Ossabaw Island

  11-08-2026 18:04 via artnews.com
  ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state’s third-largest barrier island.The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, with six artists for each session. The fellows will receive a stipend for their participation, as well as have their travel and accommodations to Savannah and to Ossabaw covered. Because of the length of the residency, t
  
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• SF Camerawork To Close After Five Decades, Citing ‘Changing Philanthropic Landscape’

  11-08-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Bay Area photography exhibition venue SF Camerawork is calling it quits after 52 years, the institution announced on its website yesterday.“This decision follows years of rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape,” said the institution. “SF Camerawork is not alone in facing these pressures; arts organizations across the country are confronting similar challenges. Despite the determined efforts of our staff, Board, artists, dono
  
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• Photography Exhibit on Wildfires Nearly Engulfed by Real Wildfire in Sicily

  11-08-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Life not only imitated art at an exhibition in Sicily this summer — it almost destroyed it. Stefano Cerio’s outdoor photography installation about the devastation wrecked by wildfires was nearly engulfed in a real wildfire on Saturday, reported Artribune.“A sad, surreal, involuntary performance,” wrote the artist in an Instagram post.Firemen were able to extinguish the flames as they came only a few feet away from Cerio’s seven large panels installed along a road in
  
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• Prado Museum Debuts AI, London Gallery to Close, a DNA Breakthrough in Cave Art, and More: Morning Links for August 11, 2026

  11-08-2026 14:37 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016, will shutter this fall.Scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls, offering new clues about the people behind prehistoric art.Could the Bayeux Tapestry loan offer a model for using the Parthenon Marbles to boost British soft power while paving the way for their eventual return?The Headlines ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016 to support emerging a
  
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• The Beverly Hills Housewife — the intriguing story of a Hockney muse

  11-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  James Cahill’s Betty Freeman biography captures the hedonism, sunshine and social circles that inspired the British artist in 1960s California
  
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• The American factory, a romance

  11-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  At New York’s Cooper Hewitt museum, Christopher Payne’s photographs turn the grind of industrial process to visual splendour
  
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• Divers Discover Hundreds of Ancient Ceramic Vessels Amid Shipwreck Off the Coast of Sicily

  10-08-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said that this is “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.”According to the BBC, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vess
  
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• Ireland’s Museum Staffers Struggle with Precarious Contracts and Toxic Environments

  10-08-2026 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Museum staffers in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in the field over unstable contracts, low pay and toxic working environments, according to Dr. Emma McAlister, who wrote a blog post on the issue for the International Council of Museums on Monday.As McAlister recounted, she has only been able to work in the Irish museum industry over the last two and a half years through a temporary rolling contract that, at times, would be renewed just one day before its expir
  
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• Storm King Art Center Appoints Anne Reeve as Senior Curator

  10-08-2026 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley has filled its senior curatorial vacancy after over a year and half. First reported by Artnet, Anne Reeve will lead the sculpture park’s curatorial program as senior curator from November 1. Reeve is no stranger to sculpture. She heads to Storm King from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 2018 as associate curator and now curator, overseeing the modern and contemporary sculpt
  
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• Looted Ivorian “Talking Drum” Arrives at Its Home Village After More Than a Century

  10-08-2026 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  A sacred “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted from Côte d’Ivoire by French colonial troops over a century ago, returned this month to the place where it was made. According to the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA), the drum arrived on August 7 at its home village of Adjame, where the local community was able to see it for the first time.The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the sl
  
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• Three Public Artworks by Banksy Have Cost UK Taxpayers Almost $200,000

  10-08-2026 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  Banksy’s guerrilla artworks have generated millions of dollars in auction sales and drawn crowds wherever they appear. They’ve also left British taxpayers footing a growing cleanup bill.Public authorities across London have spent nearly $203,000 removing, protecting, and managing three of the anonymous street artist’s works since 2024, according to figures obtained by the BBC through Freedom of Information requests. The total will keep going up as
  
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  10-08-2026 19:51 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Fossils and Other Exhibits Stolen From German University in Latest Museum Robbery

  10-08-2026 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its Goldfuß Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found on display, in order to secure their recovery.The university said it is not clear when the items were stolen, but that it occured during renovation work, which began in December 2023 and is ongoing. In a blog post published August 7, the university shared
  
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• Inhotim Founder Bernardo Paz to Open a Namesake Museum, Right Next Door

  10-08-2026 18:10 via artnews.com
  
  Brazil’s Minas Gerais will soon see another museum thanks to mining magnate Bernardo Paz, the megacollector behind the Inhotim museum and nature complex. The Museu Bernardo Paz will turn 311 acres of countryside into a new landscape for “art, nature and community.” The first phase will open in September 2027. “Museu Bernardo Paz is taking root and flourishing from a belief in the creative potential of unexpected encounters,” said Paz in press materials. “
  
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• Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Museum, and More: Morning Links for August 10, 2026

  10-08-2026 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter’s muse.The Head
  
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• Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Muse, and More: Morning Links for August 10, 2026

  10-08-2026 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter’s muse.The Head
  
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• Joeun Kim Aatchim’s Layered Lines Summon Translucent Worlds

  10-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In Joeun Kim Aatchim’s paintings—but she calls them drawings—everything is so vivid, yet so elusive. Her line feels definitive, yet the images they convey seem to fade away into sheer luminosity. Her works are typically painted using mineral pigment in shellac—sometimes with watercolor, pastel, or other materials—on layers of silk that, stretched across frames, show through to the wall behind. They’re all about one image being seen through another—n
  
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  10-08-2026 06:32 via zouchmagazine.com
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• American Classical Music at 250 — Take Five: The Disconnect Between Scholars and Orchestras

  10-08-2026 05:55 via artsjournal.com
  
  Beginning with my “New York Times” piece on July 4, this is the fifth in a series of
  
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• Ted Lasso Found The Audience Broadway Couldn’t

  09-08-2026 23:38 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The most useful stories today aren’t about who’s failing to draw a crowd. They’re about where crowds actually come from now — and it’s almost never through the front door.A fictional English football club made Americans care about the real sport, and the writers say the trick was smuggling the game inside a comedy (Los Angeles Times). Poetry is having its biggest moment in decades, built by performance poets on TikTok and Instagram rather than by publis
  
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• Movies Have Also Turned Completely Gray

  09-08-2026 22:00 via english.elpais.com
  
  Where the heck is all of the color? – El País English
  
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• Was An All-Night Art Heist In Italy Some Kind Of Revenge?

  09-08-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  “About 30 artworks belonging to Lilli Petroli owner Mauro Lilli were stolen in the unusual heist, including bas-reliefs attributed to Pablo Picasso, a bronze ballerina sculpture by Giacomo Manzù, paintings by Bruno d’Arcevia of the Italian Manner movement, and pieces by sculptor Mario Moretto.” – ARTnews
  
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• Elizabeth Smith, Founding Faculty Member Of Juilliard Drama And Vocal Coach To The Stars, Has Died At 91

  09-08-2026 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “The actress Laura Linney, who graduated from Juilliard in 1990, was confused when Ms. Smith stared at the floor during her entire audition. ‘She wasn’t looking, she was listening,’ to Ms. Linney’s voice, the actress said.” – The New York Times
  
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• How ‘Ted Lasso’ Might Deserve Some Credit For A Soccer Boom In The United States

  09-08-2026 20:30 via msn.com
  “We tricked them by putting soccer in a comedy show. … The first thing you’ve got to do to get somebody to become a soccer fan is just make them care about one team, to find one team.” Even if it’s fictional. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Demystifying The Art Of Conducting

  09-08-2026 20:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  No, not by watching Tár. “The very act of conducting—waving a wand to summon ravishing or ethereal or earsplitting sounds—can look like either inexplicable magic or embarrassing nonsense, a kind of tuxedoed air guitar.” – The Atlantic
  
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• What In The World Is The Met Museum Doing?

  09-08-2026 19:30 via artsjournal.com
  Why platform John Galliano, known for antisemitic tirades and more? “The fashion business has long been known to tolerate bad behavior; addiction, provocation and eccentricity are seen as normal, and at times necessary, elements of the creative process. Mr. Galliano’s comportment went way beyond all that.” – The New York Times
  
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