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• Merce Cunningham explains his process

  06-02-2017 22:00
  The ultimate collaborator, Merce Cunningham is known as much for his genre-bending choreography as he is for the friendships and working relationships he built with visual artists, composers and film-makers over his career. Audiences today can get an idea of these wide-ranging collaborations at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the MCA Chicago, where the joint exhibition dedicated to the late choreographer opens this week. Here, Cunningham explains his working process, and how all the ele
  
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• Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest

  16-01-2026 21:19 via artnews.com
  Artists and other creative people (not to mention, ahem, journalists) have been deeply concerned about the way that their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel artificial intelligence–powered image and text generators. In 2023, several digital artists filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and the image-sharing platform DeviantArt, and others filed a suit against online retailer Shein for stealing their designs. Such suits scored a small win in cou
  
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• UK Reveals Nearly $80 M. Worth of Art Donated by Collectors in Order to Reduce Tax Burdens

  16-01-2026 20:49 via artnews.com
  Arts Council England has announced the results of the 2024-25 edition of its Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) and Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) initiatives. Thirty-two artworks entered public collections this cycle, with a combined value of almost $80 million.Highlights include Edgar Degas’s pastel Danseuses roses (ca. 1897–1901), given to the National Gallery by the estate of Ann Marks; paintings by Max Liebermann and Max Pechstein, given to Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum fro
  
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• Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Dark and Violent World

  16-01-2026 20:46 via artnews.com
  In Ali Cherri’s recent films, war maps itself onto the spine of those afflicted. The watchman, the titular figure of a 2024 short, stands rigid for unbroken hours, lost in a lineage of men stationed along the border of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Cherri’s follow-up film The Sentinel (2025)—the second in an ongoing trilogy—debuts today. It centers on a French soldier, gently bent at the waist, a rifle lodged in his mouth. The
  
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• Joan Mitchell Foundation Names 31 Artists for Residency in New Orleans

  16-01-2026 19:10 via artnews.com
  The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation has named the 31 artists who will participate in its 2026 residency program.Taking place at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, the residents will participate in either six-week or 14-week residencies during three seasons (spring, summer, fall) this year, with no more than nine residents being on hand at one time. The first residents will arrive on February 2.The foundation’s residency program is unique in that it not only brings artis
  
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• Met Workers Vote to Join Local 2110 UAW, Creating One of the Nation’s Largest Museum Unions

  16-01-2026 19:01 via artnews.com
  Nearly 1,000 salaried and hourly workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted on Friday to join Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW), creating one of the nation’s largest museum unions.The new union, approved by a vote of 542-172, comprises staff from across 50 departments at the Met, including curators, conservators, librarians, visitor experience coordinators, and archivists. According to a statement from Local 2110, roughly 100 ballots remain sealed due to a management challen
  
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• Qatar Museums, Not a Foreign Nation, Reportedly Tried to Acquire South African Pavilion Work

  16-01-2026 18:58 via artnews.com
  Yet more details have emerged surrounding the abrupt cancelation of Gabrielle Goliath’s planned Venice Biennale pavilion for South Africa, with the Daily Maverick publishing a report about the allegations that a foreign nation tried to interfere in her exhibition.Gayton McKenzie, the South African culture minister, controversially said in a statement that he canceled Goliath’s pavilion not because it was to deal with Israel’s war in Gaza, but because another country had attempt
  
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• Düsseldorf Art School Stands by Palestinian Artist After Criticism from Jewish Groups

  16-01-2026 18:56 via artnews.com
  The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a storied German art school, faced scrutiny this week from three Jewish groups over the invitation of Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma Al-Sharif for an event.Ahead of Al-Sharif’s lecture on January 21, the Jewish groups issued an open letter claiming, without proof, that Al-Sharif’s past events had been “characterized by the trivialization of terrorism and Israel-related antisemitism.” The groups then called for the cancelation of
  
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• Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter

  16-01-2026 18:45
  Publishing pays abysmally, says an anonymous writer, who feels closer to their neighbours on benefits than to their former peers in teaching and academiaAccess to the arts might be good for mental health (The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art, 9 January), but the conditions in which most artists have to produce their work does nothing to improve their own.I’m a novelist, and I was paid £1,000 and £500 respectively for my last two books. The latter was
  
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• Gordon Parks Foundation Marks 20th Anniversary with Exhibitions Curated by Dawoud Bey and Bryan Stevenson

  16-01-2026 15:29 via artnews.com
  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of photographer and artist Gordon Parks, who is known for his images that chronicled the segregated South, the civil rights movement, poverty, and the impact that racism had on the lives of African Americans. 2026 also marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Gordon Parks Foundation, which is tasked with preserving the legacy of Parks but also has become known for its work in supporting the next generation of artists and writers whose
  
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• Who Was Gustav Klimt and Why Is His Work So Important?

  16-01-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  On the night of November 21, 2025, the hammer came down after 20 minutes of heated bidding on Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16), the marquee lot at Sotheby’s New York auction house that evening. Expectations were high, considering that the painting was one of only two full-length likenesses by Klimt still in private hands, but the final offer left even hardened art market insiders goggle-eyed: It sold for $236.4 million, making it the second most expensive
  
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• Dark depths with Emin, a homoerotic saint and punchy political posters – the week in art

  16-01-2026 12:55
  Tracey gathers the melancholy giants, a lost London is remembered and collages celebrate Scots strugglers – all in your weekly dispatchCrossing into Darkness
  Tracey Emin curates an exhibition about thresholds of despair and the power of melancholy featuring Goya, Munch, Bourgeois, Baselitz and other visionary artists.• Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, opens Sunday Continue reading...
  
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• Why Art Deco Still Dazzles 100 Years On

  16-01-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  Before ornament was declared a crime and excised from modernists’ vocabularies, it had one last spectacular gasp in the glitz and glamor of Art Deco. One hundred years on, celebrations of the movement emphasize its complexity. Sitting between a dazzling milieu of precious luxury and an industrial age recovering from a great war, Art Deco asks us to reckon with the place of art and design in modern life.Art Deco was consolidated in a 1925 international design exhibition in Paris, and it is
  
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• Swatch Launches Guggenheim Collaboration With Watches Inspired by Pollock, Degas, Monet, and Klee

  15-01-2026 22:32 via artnews.com
  Swiss watch company Swatch is the latest brand to partner with a major museum on a product collection. On Thursday, it announced the Swatch x Guggenheim Collection, featuring watches that translate pieces from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The artists featured include Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock.The pieces are the latest in Swatch’s larger Art Journey series, which launched in 2023
  
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• Centre Pompidou Reportedly Gives Up a Grand Palais Space Due to ‘Financial Constraints’

  15-01-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  The Centre Pompidou gave up one of its two spaces at the Grand Palais due to what the Paris museum described as “financial constraints faced by both institutions,” according to Le Monde.The Pompidou had been using two exhibition spaces within the Grand Palais while the modern art museum’s main base is closed for renovations. The space that the Pompidou forfeited was the smaller of the two, but it was being used for programming that remained notable no less.Indeed, in the fall,
  
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• Bucking Current Trends, Prado Director Says Museum Won’t Be Chasing Ever-Growing Visitor Numbers

  15-01-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  The new millennium has seen museums around the world grow—and then grow some more. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are in the midst of sweeping campus reimaginings, while the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston have unveiled major expansions over the past decade. Even the Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum, has floated plans to reconfigure itself.Much of this expansion has bee
  
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• Paris Investigators Say Stolen Louvre Jewels Were Hidden in Parking Lot as Thieves Ditched Getaway Vehicles

  15-01-2026 22:16 via artnews.com
  Three months on, the $102 million in jewels brazenly stolen from the Louvre in Paris remain missing. While Paris police have arrested at least eight people believed to be connected to the October 19 robbery, investigators have made little progress in recovering the loot. Recently, however, officers from Paris’s Anti-Gang Brigade (BRB) identified the jewels’ last known location.As reported by Le Parisien, the BRB traced the stolen items to an underground parking lot in Aubervilliers,
  
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• Whitney Museum Taps Ego Nwodim as Art Party Co-Chair

  15-01-2026 21:34 via artnews.com
  Actress and comedian Ego Nwodim will co-chair the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual Art Party on January 27, 2026, the museum announced on Thursday.Hosted by the Whitney Contemporaries, the event will take place at the museum’s Gansevoort Street building and will feature DJ sets by Raúl de Nieves and The Dare, whose performance will headline the night. A fixture on New York’s arts and philanthropy calendar, the Art Party draws young patrons, artists, and figures fr
  
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• Ian McKellan Will Act Out Unheard Audio Recordings of Cult Artist L.S. Lowry in New Documentary

  15-01-2026 21:28 via artnews.com
  Ian McKellan has signed to star in a new BBC documentary about cult artist L.S. Lowry, with a focus on unheard audio recordings that Lowry made in the final four years of his life.As reported by the Guardian, “Fifteen years ago, Sir Ian McKellen was among the leading arts figures who criticized the Tate for not showing its collection of paintings by L.S. Lowry in its London galleries and questioned whether the ‘matchstick men painter’ had been sidelined as too northern and prov
  
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• Iranian Artists Killed in Anti-Government Protests, Advocacy Groups Report

  15-01-2026 21:27 via artnews.com
  At least four artists have killed by Iranian police and militias since nationwide demonstrations against the Islamic Republic erupted in December, according to Artists at Risk Connection (ARC).In a statement published on January 13, the nonprofit organization—which provides emergency financial support to imperiled artists and cultural workers worldwide—condemned the reported killing of civilians by Iranian authorities, as well as the government-imposed internet and mobile blackout.Ci
  
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• Andean artist Antonio Paucar wins Artes Mundi prize in Wales

  15-01-2026 21:00
  Artist and beekeeper who highlights eco crisis plans to spend £40,000 award on building cultural centre in PeruAn artist and beekeeper from a remote corner of the Andes has won one of the UK’s most prestigious contemporary arts awards and plans to spend the £40,000 prize on building a cultural centre in the Peruvian mountains.Antonio Paucar was declared the winner of the biennial Artes Mundi prize after presenting work ranging from a spiral made of alpaca wool to a video of him
  
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• Kochi Biennale Foundation Co-Founder Bose Krishnamachari Resigns

  15-01-2026 20:11 via artnews.com
  Bose Krishnamachari, an artist and curator who co-founded the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) in 2010, announced his sudden resignation. South First reported the news, with a statement from the foundation citing “pressing family reasons.”The 6th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale—India’s first dedicated to international contemporary art and the largest in South Asia—opened on December 12, 2025, and is scheduled to close on March 31. The current exhibition, titled
  
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• Trump Reportedly Looking at D.C. Park Near Jefferson Memorial For Sculpture ‘Garden of Heroes’ 

  15-01-2026 20:10 via artnews.com
  The Trump administration is eyeing a Washington, D.C. park for its “National Garden of American Heroes,” according to two sources speaking anonymously to the Washington Post. West Potomac Park is south of the National Mall, near memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. and president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Just what part of the park is under review for the placement of the sculpture garden is not clear. The Post notes that if he wants to use the southern tip of the park, which is near
  
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• Beloved Rocky Statue Will Move to Top of Philadelphia Art Museum Steps

  15-01-2026 18:25 via artnews.com
  A popular statue of Rocky that’s currently sited at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Art Museum is officially being relocated to the top of those flights.There is technically a sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer played by Sylvester Stallone, at the top of the stairs now, but it is a second casting of the original at the bottom, which remains the more popular statue. It regularly draws tourists and locals alike, and has functioned as a Philadelphia icon.The Phi
  
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• United States Artists Names 2026 Fellows, Including Mendi + Keith Obadike, Edra Soto, and Johanna Hedva

  15-01-2026 17:37 via artnews.com
  The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists has named the 50 artists who will receive its annual USA Fellowship and the recipient of its Berresford Prize, both of which come with an unrestricted grant of $50,000.This year marks the 20th anniversary of United States Artists, which was founded in 2006 and is one of a handful of US-based organizations that provides direct support to artists.“For two decades, United States Artists has advanced a simple yet powerful conviction—that
  
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• 12th-Century Church in Spain Partly Collapses, Prompting Scrutiny From Preservationists

  15-01-2026 17:30 via artnews.com
  A section of the apse of a 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar church in the village of Muriel de Zapardiel, in Spain’s Valladolid province, collapsed on Monday, prompting the closure of the building and renewed scrutiny of the condition of historic religious sites in rural Spain.The collapse affected the semicircular apse of the Church of Our Lady of the Castle—also known as the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption—a protected Bien de Interés Cultural (Asset of Cultural Int
  
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