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• Milan Kundera’s First Novel In 13 Years Is On The Way

  04-02-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Faber will release Kundera’s The Festival of Insignificance, translated from the original French by Linda Asher, on 18 June. The short work was first published in Italy in 2013, and has since topped charts in Italy, Spain and France. … The US edition will be released by HarperCollins on 23 June.”
  
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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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• The Amazon’s Two Historic Opera Houses Get UNESCO World Heritage Status

  28-07-2026 19:04 via yahoo.com
  The two venues — Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, the port in the central Amazon basin, and Theatro da Paz (sic) in Belem, the port at the mouth of the river — date from the late 19th-century rubber boom, which made those cities wealthy enough (for a while) to bring in major artists from Europe. – DPA (Yahoo!)
  
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• Huntsville Public Radio Dropped NPR Programming — Here’s What Happened

  28-07-2026 18:44 via al.com
  Its listenership has grown since the change. WLRH is ranked as the No. 4 most listened-to station on its most recent Nielsen report, according to Brukner. It usually ranks around No. 10. – Alabama.com
  
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• Maybe Losing Federal Funding Ended Up Being An Opportunity For Public Media?

  28-07-2026 18:31 via current.org
  After the federal funding loss, the industry saw that it hadn’t plateaued but instead “found a whole new level of support,” Chinn said. Stations saw record giving, with some even raising enough to cover the loss of federal funding.  – Current
  
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• Why Did Paramount Agree To Delay Its Warner Deal?

  28-07-2026 18:15 via msn.com
  With a $7 million-per-day ticking fee that kicks in starting Oct. 1 — which would cost Paramount $650 million a quarter — why would Paramount agree to such a delay? The key lies in the nine words preceding the June 1 target date: “until five days after the outcome in a trial.” – The Wrap (MSN)
  
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• Sure, We’ve Canceled A Bunch Of Previews, But Our “Game Of Thrones” Play Is Just Fine, Says RSC

  28-07-2026 18:02 via nytimes.com
  “Ticketholders for five preview performances of the play, Game of Thrones: The Mad King, were more than a little dismayed last week when the shows, scheduled for July 20-24, were canceled. … A show on Saturday, July 25, was also called off just hours before the curtain was set to rise.” – The New York Times
  
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• What If More Intelligence Doesn’t Make Us Better?

  28-07-2026 17:44 via noahpinion.blog
  
  If we think of intelligence as the ability to extract information from data, then even an infinitely advanced model endowed with infinite compute will be limited by the fact that there’s a limited amount of information that can be extracted from the data. – Noahpinion
  
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• Meet The Messi Of Ballet

  28-07-2026 17:31 via theguardian.com
  In Argentina, they call her the Messi of ballet – although when it comes to who has the finest footwork, they should really be calling him the Núñez of football. – The Guardian
  
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• Bernard Arnault Hits Back at Le Monde Report Accusing Him of Being ‘In Love With the Arts and Tax Exemptions’

  28-07-2026 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  In a social media post, Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and one of Europe’s most influential art patrons and collectors, shot back at a scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delving into the scope of his power, wealth, and alleged rivalries within the Arnault clan, described as “the last royal family of France.” The report also devotes a chapter to Arnault’s engagement with the arts, titled: “Bernard Arnault, the generous patron, in love with the
  
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• Authors Have Mixed Feeling About Anthropic “Win”

  28-07-2026 17:15 via npr.org
  
  One possible way for authors to get a fairer shake in the age of AI could be through the licensing of their work to AI companies. – NPR
  
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• SFMoMA Announces Recent Gifts and Purchases of Modern and Contemporary Artworks

  28-07-2026 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the purchases of more than 90 modern and contemporary artworks between January and June 2026. The purchases include videos and video installations by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Ana Mendieta, and Agniezka Polska; works on paper by Arakawa + Gins and Orlando Smith; sculpture and mixed-medium pieces by Betye Saar, Kishio Suga, Rose B. Simpson and Elaine Cameron-Weir; basketry by Jeremy Frey; and objects by architects Frida Escobedo, Bi
  
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• The Return Of “Tamizdat”: Why So Many New Russian Books Are Being Published Abroad

  28-07-2026 17:01 via bloomberg.com
  “Freedom Letters … (is) one of a growing number of cultural organizations that have joined forces with bookstores, wholesalers and book-fair organizers to build a literary resistance among the Russian diaspora. Together, they publish, sell and distribute books that can’t get through Russia’s restrictive new censorship laws.” – Bloomberg
  
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• After Decades Of Anonymity, One Of The Guerilla Girls Unmasks Herself

  28-07-2026 16:33 via ocula.com
  “The founding member of Guerrilla Girls known by the pseudonym Liubov Popova has revealed her true identity: she is 83-year-old US-based painter and sculptor, Joyce Kozloff, a major figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s.” – Ocula
  
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• At The Empty Kennedy Center, A Volunteer Tour Guide Soldiers On

  28-07-2026 16:05 via nytimes.com
  “In a dogged demonstration of love and loyalty for an institution that has elevated life for her and millions of visitors, (Sandy Weisswasser) still arrives every Monday for her tour day, knowing she may soon find the doors locked.” – The New York Times
  
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• Betye Saar Dies at 99, Irish Museum Worker Charged in Bomb Plot, and More: Morning Links for July 28, 2026

  28-07-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Betye Saar has died at 99, just four days before her 100th birthday.A worker of the National Museum of Ireland has been charged in connection with a bomb plot. Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Museum has reopened after a meticulous restoration.The Headlines AN ICON GONE. Yesterday evening, news broke that Betye Saar, the Los Angeles&
  
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• BuzzFeed To Lay Off More Than One-Third Of Its Staff

  28-07-2026 15:36 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “In the first major restructuring move of Byron Allen‘s ownership tenure, … some 180 staffers (are) to be given pink slips companywide. … BuzzFeed, across all its units, had approximately 510 employees prior to the cuts. The company said it expects to see $29 million to $32 million in annualized savings.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Buffalo AKG Museum (Formerly Albright-Knox) Splits Its Director Job In Two

  28-07-2026 15:04 via btpm.org
  
  “Cathleen Chaffee, who currently serves as … Chief Curator, is the museum’s incoming artistic director, while Jillian Jones, AKG’s deputy director, will become executive director. Under a new co-leadership structure, Chaffee will oversee the museum’s exhibitions and public-facing programs. Jones will guide overall strategy, operations and finances.” – Buffalo Toronto Public Media
  
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• Artist Betye Saar Has Died, Four Days Before Her 100th Birthday

  28-07-2026 14:32 via yahoo.com
  “(She) transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined the searing history of race in the United States,” most famously in her 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Who is Matthew Taylor, the Artist Helping Trump Reshape Washington, D. C.?

  28-07-2026 14:26 via artnews.com
  
  Who is Matthew Taylor, a senior adviser to the National Endowment for the Humanities and a key figure in the Trump Administration’s efforts to reshape the nation’s capital in the president’s image? Well, the New York Times‘s Zachary Small dug into the little-known, but important figure, and found that Taylor has become a kind of de facto culture czar in the White House. Taylor consulted on the July 4 report that accused the National Museum of American History of “id
  
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• Czech Artist and Museum Director Milan Knížák, Once Imprisoned as an ‘Enemy of the State,’ Has Died at 86

  28-07-2026 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  Milan Knížák, the Czech artist and performer and a former director of the country’s National Gallery director, died on July 26 at the age of 86. Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř announced his death on X. In his post, Klempíř called Knížák an “author who was part of the history of modern Czech art and shaped it for decades” and “a personality who made a significant impact not only on the art world, but al
  
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• Rusudan Petviashvili Channels the Divine Through the Elegance of an Unbroken Brushstroke

  28-07-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Celebrated throughout Europe for decades, the enigmatic artist and ambassador of Georgian culture is finding new acolytes worldwide.Related ArticlesBetye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99  Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess' 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched Many words have been used to describe the phenomenon that is Georgian artist Rusudan Petviashvili. Peers and critics have calle
  
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