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• Lincoln In Opera — A Different Portrait

  27-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The composer Missy Mazzoli and the librettist Royce Vavrek, one of the hottest creative teams in opera, conjure a darker, more conflicted president in “Lincoln in the Bardo,” which premiered on Oct. 19 at the Metropolitan Opera. – The New York Times
  
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• At home with the rollicking Rollitts

  14-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The Hampshire base of Max Rollitt has always been a playground. Now his sons are picking their own creative paths
  
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• ‘All my emotions are in this artwork’: Gulnur Mukazhanova on reviving Kazakh traditions from Soviet ruins

  14-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The Berlin-based artist on turning centuries-old textile techniques into a potent mix of politics and personal reclamation at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery
  
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• Whitney Museum Is Selling a de Kooning Painting Just Three Years After Receiving It

  13-11-2026 23:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  New York’s Whitney Museum is selling a Willem de Kooning painting at Christie’s next week, just three years after it formally received the work as a gift from the family of one of its former presidents.Yellow River (1958), a large abstract picture dominated by hefty sweeps of blue and yellow, has an estimate of $12 million to $18 million and will appear in Christie’s 20th century evening sale on November 17. The painting is being sold to benefit the museum’s collection, according to Artn
  
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• Former Philadelphia Museum of Art Executive Charged $30K to Company Cards

  13-11-2026 23:35 via ARTnews.com
  
  A former Philadelphia Museum of Art executive admitted on Friday to using company credit cards to make approximately $30,000 in personal purchases, the Inquirer reports.Latasha Harling, the museum’s former chief people and diversity officer, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, averting a trial that had been scheduled for Friday.Common Pleas Court Judge Leon King II sentenced Harling, 44, to five years of probation for the misdemeanor offense. King also ordered her to pay the museum $3
  
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• Europol Warns of More Aggressive Museum Heists as Thieves Change Tactics and Targets

  13-11-2026 23:06 via ARTnews.com
  
  It seems like news of new museum robberies just keeps coming, particularly in the months following the brazen Louvre heist one year ago. In an attempt to shed light on the phenomenon, Europol published a study in August, Changing Tactics, Changing Targets: The Evolving Nature of Museum Heists, which examines key trends within these more recent crimes, as reported earlier by The Art Newspaper.What does Europol tell us? For one, the old notion that museum thefts are generally non-violent, or use s
  
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• Sotheby’s Hedreen Auction Proceeds Will Repay Loan, Not Fund University Museum: Report

  13-11-2026 22:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  A $300 million art donation to Seattle University has been revealed to be more complex than originally reported.On Monday, Sotheby’s will begin selling approximately 50 works from the collection amassed by Seattle real estate developer and philanthropist Richard “Dick” Hedreen, previously billed as the “largest art gift ever” to a US university. Hedreen said in September that the sale did not mean the promised gift was falling through. Rather, he suggested, the proceeds would help furn
  
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• Manhattan Landlord Sues Kehinde Wiley, Claiming He Owes $36,000 in Unpaid Rent

  13-11-2026 21:53 via ARTnews.com
  
  Artist Kehinde Wiley returned to the New York art scene last week with his first show in the city since he was accused of sexual assault in 2024. Now the famed artist and Obama portraitist faces a legal dispute of a different kind: real estate.In a complaint filed in New York County Supreme Court, 115 West 11th Street LLC accuses Wiley of failing to pay rent on his apartment in its building since October 1. According to court documents filed November 6, the rent is $18,000 a month, and the landl
  
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• Long-Lost Charles Le Brun Painting Returns to the New Palace in Potsdam

  13-11-2026 21:39 via ARTnews.com
  
  Lost for more than 75 years, a painting by French Baroque artist Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) is now returning to the New Palace in Potsdam’s Sanssouci Park. The news was reported first by the German Press Agency (dpa) following a statement by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG).Court painter to Louis XIV after 1661 and the designer most responsible for the opulent style of the French monarchy, Le Brun created the work, a depiction of a sleeping Christ Child
  
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• The ADAA Fair Is Back, and Sometimes Smaller Really Is Better

  13-11-2026 21:27 via ARTnews.com
  
  Art fairs should do two things: let visitors see art, ideally stuff they haven’t seen before, and help dealers sell that art to people who want to buy it. Simple enough. And yet, somewhere along the way, fairs became so enormous that seeing everything on offer began to feel like an endurance sport.That’s one reason the newly rechristened Art Dealers Association of America Fair, which opened Thursday night at the Park Avenue Armory, was such a pleasure. With just 63 exhibitors, it’s small e
  
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• Lightsaber Brandished by Darth Vader Auctioned for $4.9 M., Breaking Record for Star Wars Sales

  13-11-2026 19:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  A lightsaber wielded by none other than Darth Vader sold for $4.875 million in a Heritage Auctions sale, breaking the record for Star Wars–related memorabilia.The treasure was used in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983), and also holds the special distinction of having been the weapon central to the former’s famous “I am your father” scene, in which Luke Skywalker learns some surprising news from the figure who had long been his nemesis.Heri
  
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• Fake UK Artist Visas Are Being Offered for $132,000, New Investigation Finds

  13-11-2026 19:29 via ARTnews.com
  
  Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news, according to a new investigation published by the BBC Friday.Nigerian art critic Molara Wood told the publication that she had found her name attached to fake online reviews praising the works of two obscure artists, just one instance of the materials created. “There is a real problem whereupon f
  
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• Rhizome Announces Partnership With Electronic Arts Intermix Following Vimeo Censorship Concerns

  13-11-2026 18:56 via ARTnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, Rhizome, the 30-year-old digital art nonprofit that has been affiliated with the New Museum since 2003, announced a pilot program with its internal video hosting platform video.rhizome.org, and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). Rhizome hopes to offer VRO, as it’s known, to other digital arts organizations and artists as an alternative to commercial video platforms like Vimeo.“We think offering artists video hosting is something that could be meaningful for people in the comm
  
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• Matthew Barney Nearly Directed a 29-Hour Opera Cycle But Declined: ‘I Don’t Think I Can Quit My Job for Two Years’

  13-11-2026 16:35 via ARTnews.com
  
  Matthew Barney, the artist behind epic film projects such as The Cremaster Cycle and River of Fundament, very nearly took on yet another gargantuan project. But he declined the opportunity, fearing the time commitment involved, according to a freshly published New York Magazine profile.That project would have been an opera cycle by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called Licht. Written between 1977 and 2003, Licht is composed of seven operas, one for each day of the week, and calls in p
  
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• Microsoft Outage Disrupts Global Operations and Art World Too, Undercover Investigation Busts Fake UK Artist Visas, and More: Morning Links for November 13, 2026

  13-11-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  
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  As Microsoft’s global outage stretches into its second day on Friday, the art world, like everyone else, is feeling the pain.An undercover investigation has found that companies are helping migrants create fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news, to help them apply for UK visas.The Kennedy Center began negotiations under its former president
  
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• PBS North Carolina To Take Over Struggling PBS Charlotte

  13-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  Pending FCC approval, Central Piedmont Community College, PBS Charlotte’s licensee, will transfer ownership of the station’s broadcast license and equipment to the University of North Carolina system, licensee of the statewide PBS North Carolina network. The Charlotte outlet lost 22% of its budget when federal funding was rescinded. – Current
  
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• Objects of Desire by Celia Paul — grief, art and the beauty of Venice

  13-11-2026 13:00 via Visual Arts
  A seven-week residency for the celebrated British artist in La Serenissima becomes a searching meditation on death, desire, painting and the pleasure of solitude
  
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• How Does an Artist Know When She’s Done? A Major Marisa Merz Retrospective Turns the Question on Its Head

  13-11-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Italian artist Marisa Merz (1926–2019) was famously camera-shy. In rare snapshots, such as a captivating photograph taken by Claudio Abate at her 1975 solo show in Rome, she would retreat from the camera’s gaze. Before Abate’s camera, Merz appears clad in her woven nylon Scarpette (Little Shoes), 1968, her back to him as she gazes out an open window at the moon.The turn away is emblematic of Merz’s artistic ethos writ large. As she once wrote, in a 1975 issue of Data Arte magazine, “Th
  
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  13-11-2026 06:35 via Zouch
  
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• Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury — a dispiriting guide to how not to paint

  13-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The pair had far less effect on British art than claimed, but the painters’ conviction of art’s importance still shines through this Tate Britain show
  
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• Managing Director & Co-Leader, Fountain Theatre

  13-11-2026 03:37 via ArtsJournal
  The Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) is excited to hire a full-time Managing Director who will co-lead the organization alongside the Artistic Director and report directly to the Board of Directors.The Managing Director (MD) is accountable to ensure the overall operational structures, procedures, and policies to help the organization advance its mission. This is achieved most directly by managing the majority of the year-round staff members who support the various functional needs of the orga
  
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• Artnet’s Kalshi Partnership Faces Swift Backlash Online, But Advisers Are More Mixed

  13-11-2026 00:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  The art world, as much as we love it, has never been accused of lacking opportunities for speculation. But apparently “there’s room for one more, honey.“On Wednesday, Artnet announced that it had partnered with Kalshi, the prediction-market platform that lets users bet on everything from election results to sporting events. Artnet will become Kalshi’s official art partner, helping select markets and supplying the auction data used to determine which bets pay out.The reaction on Instagram
  
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• MoMA Shells Out $200,000 for Inaugural Ambasz Prize for ‘Nature-Reconciled’ Architecture, Half of Which Will Go To Plant Trees

  12-11-2026 22:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  As experts gather in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations COP31 climate change conference, the nonprofit Climate Action Tracker is warning of devastating warming by 2100, and the EU reports that global warming has accelerated significantly since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, notes Inside Climate News.Against this grim backdrop, New York’s Museum of Modern Art is announcing that it will give an annual grant totaling $200,000 in recognition of a single project by architects whose work is,
  
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  12-11-2026 22:19 via Zouch
  
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• Lorna Simpson Wins $105,000 Wolfgang Hahn Prize

  12-11-2026 21:54 via ARTnews.com
  
  American artist Lorna Simpson, who pioneered a new approach to conceptual photography, has been named the winner of the 2027 Wolfgang Hahn Prize. The Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, which sponsors the annual prize, will put €100,000 (about $105,000) toward the acquisition of a work by Simpson for its collection. A solo exhibition of her work will staged by the institution next year, accompanied by a publication.The 2027 award jury comprised Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator
  
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• Monumental Equestrian Statue of Roman Emperor Once Stood in Second Century Scotland

  12-11-2026 21:27 via ARTnews.com
  
  Once part of a monumental Roman-era equestrian statue, a gilded bronze lower leg and foot found in a bog in Milsington, Scotland, in 1820 will be a highlight of a new show at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The artifact, which dates to approximately 140 CE, was originally thought to have been looted by Scottish tribes from a site further south. But experts new believe that it came from a sculpture erected locally by Roman conquerors.A study of statue fragments from Roman Scotland h
  
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• Tenor Antonello Palombi, 58, Found Dead In Hotel Room

  12-11-2026 21:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  Though he had an active career spanning four continents, he’s best known for stepping in mid-performance as Radames in Aida at La Scala after Roberto Alagna stormed off the stage because he was booed. Palombi’s body was found during a wellness check after he failed to show up for rehearsal in Mainz, Germany. – OperaWire
  
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• Vienna Actionism Museum to Cease Exhibition Program Following Controversial Otto Muehl Show

  12-11-2026 20:49 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Vienna Actionism Museum will end its exhibition program in 2027 and transition into a research institution dedicated to the transgressive postwar art movement, Monopol reports. The research institution will be open to the public by appointment only.The privately owned institution has been a controversial presence in Austria’s art scene since opening in 2024, owing to its focus on a movement known for violent, visceral performances that often used blood and excrement as materials. But publi
  
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• American Novelist and Four Others to Stand Trial Over Sale of Gold Looted from Shipwreck

  12-11-2026 20:44 via ARTnews.com
  
  In a story that sounds ripped from the pages of a novel, an American novelist, her husband, and three French nationals are set to stand trial in France next May for their alleged involvement in the resale of gold bars looted from an 18th-century shipwreck decades ago.Eleanor “Gay” Courter, 82, an author of best-selling fiction, nonfiction, and memoir; her husband, Philip Courter, 84, a film director; Yves Gladu, 79, a professional underwater photographer; his wife, Brigitte Gladu, 76; and hi
  
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• Chicago’s Viral ‘Bean’ Stunt Inspires Londoners to Move the Marble Arch

  12-11-2026 20:38 via ARTnews.com
  
  Londoners want to get in on the viral stunt of the Bean, British Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s silvery sculpture Cloud Gate (2006), by wanting to move the Marble Arch, designed by John Nash in 1827.“Bean there, done that,” as Ocula reports, responding to a public listing on the platform Partiful planned for Saturday, inviting people to move the 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch 17.78 cm (7 inches) to the left, the same distance that Chicagoans recently tried to push Kapoor’s
  
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