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• Minnesota Opera Orchestra Unanimously Votes To Strike

  15-10-2026 20:03 via mprnews.org
  The musicians say that, in contract negotiations, management has rejected any cost-of-living increases in pay. (Their salaries have been flat for the past four years.) The company’s season begins on Halloween with the world premiere of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Minita Gandhi. – Minnesota Public Radio
  
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• Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

  19-10-2026 19:17 via artnews.com
  
  Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The €
  
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• Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida city in 2002.But a New York Times report goes inside a sharp-elbowed fight over the future location of the fair, whose executives demanded that the city cut in half the rent it pays on the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the
  
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• An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map

  19-10-2026 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  A retrospective for Eva Gonzalès, who is today best known as Édouard Manet’s only formal pupil, has been long overdue. That correction was planned for 2020, when the Château-Musée de Dieppe was to organize a show as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, but it was put on hold by the pandemic until the Petit Palais took up the mantle, where “Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883): A Free-Spirited Artist’s Journey” is on view until Januar
  
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• For Now, Art Basel Miami Beach Won’t Move To Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “The sticking point, as discussed by city officials at a public meeting last Wednesday before a vote on a revised contract, was Art Basel’s demand to essentially halve the nearly $1 million annual rent the fair had previously paid to Miami Beach.” – The New York Times
  
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• Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France

  19-10-2026 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the same museum, and follows a massive, nationwide protest on Saturday against social inequality, particularly visible in public schools, which spiraled into clashes with police and riots. These continued to a lesser degree Sunday evening.The unrest has come on the eve of
  
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• What If Climate Fiction And Movies Have Been Hitting The Wrong Buttons?

  19-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Fear spreads its message more quickly – but it also paralyzes most people to inaction, exactly not what most writers of climate fiction would prefer. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass

  19-10-2026 15:45 via npr.org
  
  “Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
  
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• We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before

  19-10-2026 15:30 via latimes.com
  
  That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White

  19-10-2026 15:15 via english.elpais.com
  
  “Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
  
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• Protesters Block Louvre Following Weekend of Unrest, Art Basel Will Stay in Miami Following City Rent Discount, and More: Morning Links for October 19, 2026

  19-10-2026 15:10 via artnews.com
  
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  The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on Saturday and devolved into rioting.Amid a “cyclical downturn” for Art Basel fairs, the company will hold onto its spot in Miami through 2031, thanks to a new deal that reduces annua
  
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• Will Humans Still Know How To Clean It Up When AI Flubs Major Tasks?

  19-10-2026 15:00 via theconversation.com
  
  “As people become less involved in a task, they can become less prepared to step in when needed. Researchers have called this the out-of-the-loop performance problem.” – The Conversation
  
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• Saturday Night Live UK Ripped Into US SNL For Shane Gillis’s Blithering Misogyny

  19-10-2026 14:45 via nytimes.com
  “A representative for [Lorne] Michaels did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Fine Art Of Literary Adaptation

  19-10-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Though some books are more easily adapted than others, “the quality of the source is irrelevant.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• For Those Currently Obsessed With ‘You Can See Everything,’ Who Is The Film’s Antagonist?

  19-10-2026 14:15 via nytimes.com
  By now, anyone at all online knows it’s Billy Evans – but who is he? – The New York Times
  
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• Three Recent Films Demonstrate How We See Poetry – And Poets

  19-10-2026 14:00 via lithub.com
  
  Ouf. “Is it wistful or cruel, the movies looking at poets only to find them pitiable, even or especially when they’re howling at the moon? The last artists who can’t make money, who have a pressing and practical concern about old books and what’s in them.” – LitHub
  
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• How The Music Of ‘Traitors’ Manipulates Our Emotions

  19-10-2026 13:45 via bbc.com
  
  Composer Sam Watts: “I knew it was going to be a bit camp and high drama and all the glorious things. … So I just went with that – dark but fun.” – BBC
  
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• Let’s Talk About Why ‘John Proctor Is The Villain’ Is So Massively Popular

  19-10-2026 13:30 via kcstudio.org
  
  Basically? “It’s a two-hour whirlwind of pop music-infused teen joy, thoughtful discussion of cultural revisionism, complex young characters, and dynamic performances.” – KC Studio
  
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• John Berger Is The Antidote To The Scroll

  19-10-2026 13:15 via nytimes.com
  “It’s his essays about art and artists that matter most to me now. Reading them, you often feel you’re standing next to him in the museum or even looking through his eyes at a painting or a sculpture. You pay attention to his attention.” – The New York Times
  
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• Two Land Art Turf Swaps Reveal How Urban London And Rural Wales Are Doing, Ecologically Speaking

  19-10-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s not great news for the rural life, but urban London is looking pretty good. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Isabel Allende Entered Herself in a Contest under a Pseudonym

  19-10-2026 04:45 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Isabel Allende, 84, won Spain’s €1 million Premio Planeta by submitting a sequel to The House of the Spirits under the name Luz Ventura, with the title Los que faltan. She told those at the ceremony she had never entered a contest before because she didn’t want to come last (The Guardian).Ana Mota, a senior at South Grand Prairie High in Texas, was cast as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors until the school board swapped in Frozen, citing the 2025 anti-DEI law, Senat
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies

  19-10-2026 02:08 via artnews.com
  
  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family.The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he
  
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• A New Collective In Portland Would Really Like To Provide A Living Wage To Theatre Workers

  18-10-2026 22:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  Possible? Maybe: “Davidson found sources for Puddletown’s business structure by looking backward, to the kind of cooperative arrangements used by first traveling commedia dell’arte companies to Shakespeare’s players, on down to late 19th and early [20th] century repertory troupes.” Its first show is free. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• The Art Bird News Outrage Cycle Continues, But Why?

  18-10-2026 21:30 via yahoo.com
  If you have miraculously missed most of the Kelly Clarkson/small business/rudeness cycle, it’s back. The art bird at the center of the Brooklyn storm, once tagged at $15,000, now retails for $15 million. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Recreating The Mona Lisa, By Plane

  18-10-2026 20:30 via nytimes.com
  “Pilots looking to clock in flight hours and practice tricky turns can have a bit of fun by tracing the shapes of animals, words, phrases, or in Mr. McDaniel’s case, world-class art. Mr. McDaniel’s Instagram moniker is Pilot Picasso.” – The New York Times
  
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• Lessons about Value and AI from the Digital Revolution

  18-10-2026 20:02 via artsjournal.com
  Twenty-five years ago the digital revolution rewrote the ways culture gets found, valued and paid for. The battles were fought in a series of skirmishes over disruptive technologies that remade the ways creative marketplaces were organized. AI is poised to do the same. So… lessons?
  
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• If We Force Chatbots Into Third Person, Will People Stop Thinking Of Them As Sentient?

  18-10-2026 20:00 via wired.com
  
  Sherry Turkle: An AI is “really not afraid of death, it’s not afraid of illness, it’s not afraid of pain, it doesn’t love its children, and it doesn’t care if you kill yourself or make dinner.” – Wired
  
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• Is It Possible To ‘Do Jane Austen Justice’ With Movie Costumes?

  18-10-2026 19:30 via variety.com
  
  Says the new Sense and Sensibility‘s costume designer, “It was an amazing experience to try and fight those two sides, making historic accuracy marry up with how I wanted to give us a more modern take in the film.” – Variety
  
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• Peter Nagy, Artist Turned Influential Art Dealer In India, Has Died At 66

  18-10-2026 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Nagy was “a prescient artist turned canny art dealer who brought the New York gallery system to India and contemporary Indian art to the world.” – The New York Times
  
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• Playing A Rock Concert Is Like Giving Yourself A Concussion, Doctors Tell Billy Joel

  18-10-2026 18:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  His neurologist says performing is out for now. “He describes the combination of extreme sound volume, lighting, stress and energy as the concern. Further testing, he adds, will help determine whether he can return.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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