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• Moab Petroglyphs Discovered Vandalized: ‘Irreplaceable Cultural Resources’

  09-11-2026 22:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah is seeking the culprits behind two incidents of vandalism that left protected petroglyphs near Moab riddled with crude carvings, including that signature and another, less distinct marking.The vandals reportedly struck one site along Highway 279, a scenic stretch parallel to the Colorado River, and one by Hell’s Revenge, a well-known off-road slickrock trail. Photos taken by the Bureau, and first published by SF Gate, show clear damage to the petroglyph
  
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• Getty Pitches In on First-Ever Conservation of an Earthquake-Damaged 17th-Century Church in the Andean Highlands of Peru

  09-11-2026 22:42 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Getty will work with local authorities on the first-ever conservation project on a 17th-century earthen church in the Andean highlands of the Cusco region of Peru. The Church of Santo Tomás de Aquino, locally known as the Church of Rondocan, is a sacred cultural heritage site. Over the years, earthquakes have damaged the church, and not only the structure but also the church’s collection of more than 300 cultural objects is under threat.The Peruvian government has allotted $5 million to a
  
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• LACMA’s Star-Studded Art+Film Gala Raises Nearly $7 M.

  09-11-2026 21:39 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted its 15th annual Art+Film Gala this past weekend, raising nearly $7 million “to support LACMA’s efforts to make film more central to its curatorial programming, as well as the museum’s broader mission,” per a release.Each Art+Film Gala honors one luminary from the art world and one from film. This year’s honorees were artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, while Rosé performed during the festivities. Eva Chow and Leonardio DiCapr
  
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• Scholar Dishes About Finding a Long-Lost Caravaggio Painting in Paris

  09-11-2026 21:38 via ARTnews.com
  
  On a gray winter day in Paris three years ago, art historian Maria Cristina Terzaghi walked into the back room of a Parisian gallery and came face-to-face with a painting that had been missing for nearly two centuries. The picture was covered in grime, but she recognized it right away: Young Man with a Carafe of Roses, a work believed to have been painted by Caravaggio in the 1590s.Terzaghi, a professor at Roma Tre University and one of the world’s leading Caravaggio scholars, has now offered
  
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• New Archaeological Discoveries Made at Etruscan Necropolis in Italy

  09-11-2026 20:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Archaeologists carrying out emergency conservation work at the ancient Etruscan necropolis of Monte Abatone in Cerveteri, Italy, have found carved rock thrones, walls decorated with paint, and an almost intact jar featuring incised figures. The news was announced on the Facebook page of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Southern Etruria.Monte Abatone was one of the principal burial grounds of Caere, an important Etruscan city about 21 miles northwest of Rome. The fi
  
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• Former Philadelphia Museum CFO Claims Severance Was Withheld as ‘Retaliation’

  09-11-2026 20:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  The fallout from the contentious firing of former Philadelphia Museum of Art director Sasha Suda continues to reverberate through the institution, recent litigation suggests.Former Philadelphia Museum of Art CFO Valarie McDuffie has accused museum director and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and board chair Ellen Caplan of withholding nearly $150,000 in severance out of “spite and retaliation.” But the museum has countered with allegations of its own, claiming that McDuffie breached her severance agreem
  
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• Google, Meta And TikTok Sue To Block California Law Aimed Against Platform Addiction

  09-11-2026 19:40 via ArtsJournal
  
  The law prohibits social media platforms from offering children things like personalized feeds and autoplay for videos. It also requires the deletion of children’s accounts with those features. – KQED
  
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• Many Of DC’s Memorials Are In Darkness As Park Service Maintenance Lapses

  09-11-2026 19:20 via ArtsJournal
  The lapse in upkeep and repairs at some of the most prominent memorials in Washington and at the more than 400 national park properties across the country comes as the Trump administration has reduced the agency’s staff by roughly 25 percent and withheld millions of dollars in funding. – Washington Post
  
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• When AI Transfers Into The Physical World

  09-11-2026 19:05 via ArtsJournal
  
  “With a world model, you give it a visual state of the world, an image, and it will then predict the next visual state of the world.” These 3D generations can be used as digital training grounds. “They’re simulations, but they look and feel real.” – Wired
  
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• Arpita Singh, Indian Painter Who Merged Fantasy and Gritty Realism, Dies at 89

  09-11-2026 18:43 via ARTnews.com
  
  Arpita Singh, an Indian painter whose hallucinatory work fused allusions to real-world violence with uninterpretable dream imagery, died on Monday in New Delhi. She was 89, according to a report by the Tribune that cited confirmation from her husband, the artist Paramjit Singh.Singh frequently switched her technique and way of working across her six-decade-long career, though she is today most well-known for hallucinatory figurative paintings that are steeped in Hindu lore and Indian history. In
  
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• Restoration Of London’s Parliament Buildings Could Take 61 Years And Cost £40B

  09-11-2026 18:40 via ArtsJournal
  The Commons public accounts committee this week warned it was “crunch time” for the ailing building’s restoration, which could cost up to £40bn and take 61 years. – BBC
  
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• In Viral Stunt, Hundreds Try and Fail to Move Anish Kapoor’s ‘Bean’ Seven Inches to the Left, To Help the Man Supposedly Trapped Inside

  09-11-2026 18:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  “We need to move the bean 7 inches to the left. First push @12:47 pm 11/8/2026.” So read a cryptic flyer that appeared in Chicago in recent days, referring to one of the world’s most popular pieces of public art. Hundreds heeded the call, gathering on a sunny Sunday in a benign flash mob. In the end, the crowd was no match for a 110-ton stainless steel sculpture.The subject of the viral campaign was, of course, British Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s silvery sculpture Cloud Gate (2006), whi
  
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• Rare Jan van Huysum Pendant Paintings Head to Christie’s for $10.7 M.

  09-11-2026 18:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  Dutch Golden Age artist Jan van Huysum’s pendant paintings A Vase of Flowers and Fruit with Flowers, will lead Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale in London on December 8 with an estimate of $8 million to $10.7 million (£6 million to £8 million).The two paintings are the only known large-scale fruit and flower pendants by the artist dating back to 1731 to 1733. The pendants have a rich provenance, moving from the ownership of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, the Barings, and the Rothschilds
  
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• The World’s Best Biennial Is in St. Louis

  09-11-2026 18:02 via ARTnews.com
  
  A sign of the times: Shortly after St. Louis’s Counterpublic triennial chose sites for its third edition, climate disaster and civic disintegration plucked them off one by one. First was the International Institute, a nonprofit for immigrants and refugees selected after the last census showed that migrants made up the region’s only population growth. Originally, the team behind Counterpublic had hoped to highlight and celebrate the Institute’s vital work. But on Trump’s first day back in
  
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• Macklemore Says Major Arenas Are Refusing To Book His Concerts

  09-11-2026 18:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  “After weeks of reaching out, nine major American arenas have turned us down,” he wrote. Macklemore went on to name the specific venues that have allegedly turned him and his team away, despite having availability in the coming months. – The Wrap
  
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• How Counterpublic Meaningfully Reimagined What A Triennial Can Be

  09-11-2026 18:02 via ARTnews.com
  
  A sign of the times: Shortly after St. Louis’s Counterpublic triennial chose sites for its third edition, climate disaster and civic disintegration plucked them off one by one. First was the International Institute, a nonprofit for immigrants and refugees selected after the last census showed that migrants made up the region’s only population growth. Originally, the team behind Counterpublic had hoped to highlight and celebrate the Institute’s vital work. But on Trump’s first day back in
  
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• Seven Abstraction Shows to See in New York, From Norman Lewis to Nairy Baghramian

  09-11-2026 18:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Satiating your hunger for abstraction will take you all over New York this fall, from the Upper East Side to Chelsea to Tribeca. The works on view in the city’s galleries range from decades-old works to fresh interventions into ongoing series. Each show offers one artist’s singular approach to a never-ending investigation into how to create and derive meaning from non-representational painting and sculpture. By visiting these shows, you’ll see how artists from different generations have em
  
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• When Writers Lose Confidence In Free Speech

  09-11-2026 17:40 via ArtsJournal
  If democracy is the political system that allows the fullest human flourishing, the novel is the literary form that most fully cultivates our understanding of human possibility and tragedy and endurance. – The Atlantic
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About Life You Can Learn From “Sound Of Music”

  09-11-2026 17:20 via ArtsJournal
  I would argue that everything you need to know about life can be found in “The Sound of Music.” Quite an expansive claim, but I have good credentials for making it. As a child actress, I played the bookish Brigitta von Trapp for three years in a touring production of the musical. – Washington Post
  
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• Using the Graphics of GTA, Sara Sadik Explores the Challenges France’s Muslim Youth Face

  09-11-2026 17:09 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every other Monday.“They say love comes at you when you least expect it. I swear, I’d almost given up. But I actually fell madly in love, again,” says Zine, the protagonist of Sara Sadik’s video game-inspired film Khtobtogone (2021). In the scene, he watches the sun set over the water, wearing an Adidas
  
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• A Long-Lost, Supposed Destroyed, Handwritten Draft Of MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech Has Emerged

  09-11-2026 17:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Like the typed version, it does not include the words ‘I have a dream,’ part of the ringing second half of the speech that King famously improvised.” – The New York Times
  
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• Can Authors Ever Use Enough Tools To ‘Prove’ They Didn’t Use AI?

  09-11-2026 16:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Especially since a lot of LLMs are trained on those authors’ words already? Well, that’s the hope – that’s there’s a way to prove a negative. – Wired
  
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• A Not Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

  09-11-2026 16:22 via ArtsJournal
  In the new Canadian federal government budget, a non-refundable tax credit worth up to $45,000 of net income is proposed for artists, to be called the Canada Creative Credit.
  Some tax policy jargon: a tax credit is not the same as a tax deduction. For a tax credit, calculate your income tax owing based on revenues minus eligible expenses. Once you have figured out that amount, subtract the credit. Non-refundable means the credit can reduce the amount you owe all the way down to zero, but no fur
  
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• Wait, Why Is A 77-Year-Old Judge In Virginia In Charge Of The Titanic?

  09-11-2026 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  Maritime law means Judge Smith oversees “the remains of a ship that was built in Belfast, sailed from England, was heading to New York City and sank off the coast of Canada in international waters more than 1,000 miles from Norfolk.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sometimes It Takes A Film A Little While To Find Its Way To Audiences

  09-11-2026 15:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  After a friend-funded release, the actors of Pyre “have met teary-eyed people at multiple screenings – many wanting to touch their feet and hug them, many who said the film reminded them of their own parents and grandparents who are waiting in villages.” – BBC
  
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• Who Betrayed The Photographer Who Secretly Captured Nazi-Occupied Paris?

  09-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  “It is a story of betrayal, set against the turmoil of wartime France under German occupation. At the center of the suspicion is a couple.” – Le Monde English
  
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• Chicago Crowds Try and Fail to Move Anish Kapoor’s Bean, Art Lawyer Michael Ward Stout Has Died, Louvre President Says Mona Lisa’s Move Will Be Sad, and More

  09-11-2026 15:20 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Hundreds in Chicago tried and failed to push the Bean, Anish Kapoor’s iconic Cloud Gate sculpture, seven inches.Michael Ward Stout, a lawyer who ran Robert Mapplethorpe’s foundation and represented Salvador Dalí, has died at 83.Two oil studies by Peter Paul Rubens, lost for over 80 years, will join three others by the artist to be exhibited at the Ducal Museum in Gotha, Germ
  
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• Making A TV Show At Negative 39 Degrees Isn’t Exactly Simple

  09-11-2026 15:15 via ArtsJournal
  “Wherever possible, materials were sent by sea during the annual short thaw to avoid expensive airfreight. For example, building materials and boxed water — which, Arnaquq-Baril says, was chosen over plastic bottles to leave ‘less toxic garbage in the Arctic’ — were shipped by sealift.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Eurovision Becomes Asiavision Later This Week

  09-11-2026 15:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Bloc voting, where countries award high scores to their neighbours, is a long-running tradition in Europe. Blecher says it is too early to know whether Asia will follow suit.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Canada Has New Tax Relief For The Arts And Artists

  09-11-2026 14:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  It’s not 100 percent clear who, exactly, will benefit. “There’s little to no way to know whether, for example, a violin teacher or a filmmaker is more likely to be approved.” – CBC
  
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