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• New Immersive ‘Nutcracker’ Cancelled After One Performance

  22-11-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Royal Ballet member Will Tuckett conceived, organized anc choreographed a new version of the Christmas chestnut that would have the audience at tables as guests at the Act I Christmas party and wandering through the space (a converted industrial print shop) to take in the set pieces of Act II. Then the cash ran out.
  
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• Christie’s New Head of Luxury Talks The Category’s Growth and Plans for 2026

  02-02-2026 14:28 via artnews.com
  Earlier this month, Christie’s promoted Kimberly Miller to global managing director of its luxury operation, a move that comes as the category continues to outpace much of the auction market. In December, the house reported that in the first half of last year, luxury sales jumped 30 percent, compared to the same period in 2024. The jump came as the house’s overall first-half results remained flat. That momentum carried through the rest of the year. In Geneva in November, the Mellon B
  
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• Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Manuel Rabaté Tapped to Lead India’s Largest Private Museum

  02-02-2026 11:41 via artnews.com
  The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, one of India’s leading private art institutions, has announced the appointment of Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director. The Frenchman joins from Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has served as its inaugural director since the museum opened in 2016.Rabaté’s arrival comes as KNMA prepares for a major expansion that will see it move from its current location inside a shopping mall into a purpose-built museum co
  
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• Collectors Steve Tisch and Jean Pigozzi Named in Latest Epstein Files

  01-02-2026 22:19 via artnews.com
  The latest batch of documents released by the Department of Justice as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act includes references to two leading art collectors, Steve Tisch and Jean Pigozzi. The DOJ’s library of documents have been added to over the past several days, with the latest update occurring on Saturday, January 31.The documents, primarily in the form of emails sent around 2013, appear to show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connecting Tisch, a film producer and co-owne
  
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• Likeness of restored angel to Giorgia Meloni triggers investigations in Rome

  01-02-2026 17:04
  Cherub at landmark church causes ecclesiastical and political uproar with alleged resemblance to Italian PMItaly’s culture minister and the diocese of Rome have launched investigations after claims were made that an angel in a landmark church in Rome was restored in the likeness of the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.The resemblance was first flagged by the newspaper La Repubblica, which noted that one of the two angels flanking a marble bust of Italy’s last king in the Basili
  
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• Pat Oleszko on Making a Fool of Herself for 60 Years and Counting

  01-02-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  Pat Oleszko has been making a fool of herself full time for 60 years. Known for her satirical wit, surreal costumes, and performances in and around immense inflatables, the artist defies easy categorization. Using her body as the armature for a unique sort of walking, talking “pedestrian art,” Oleszko has inhabited incendiary and far-flung guises including a rapacious Coat of Arms(1972), a robed and miter-clad Nincompope (1999), and, in recent years, a caricature of Dumpty Trumpty (2
  
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• ‘I was really surprised by the swimmers’ powerful energy’: Jorge Perez Ortiz’s best phone picture

  31-01-2026 12:00
  After undergoing emergency surgery following an accident, the photographer discovered a newfound appreciation for the human bodyThree years ago, Jorge Perez Ortiz was on a small wooden boat travelling from Cartagena in Colombia to a group of nearby islands when the sea became unexpectedly rough. As a strong wave hit, Ortiz, sitting at the bow, felt his body lift and come down sharply on his seat. The sudden impact fractured a vertebra. He was taken to hospital and underwent emergency surgery.&ld
  
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• From Nouvelle Vague to Mock the Week: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  31-01-2026 07:00
  Richard Linklater pens a love letter to the greats of French cinema, and the satirical panel show finds a new homeNouvelle Vague
  Out nowNever bet against Richard Linklater: the veteran director (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood) loves turning his hand to different genres, and his latest is a typically mellow dramatisation of the period in French film history that saw the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol shake off their lives as critics and become bona fide film le
  
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• Chung Sang-hwa, Korean Painter Associated with Dansaekhwa, Dies at 93

  30-01-2026 23:10 via artnews.com
  Chung Sang-hwa, a central figure in Korean modern art, died on January 28 after a prolonged illness. He was 93. The news was reported by the Korea Times.Chung is best known for his affiliation with Dansaekhwa (or “monochrome painting”), a mode of abstract art that emerged in the mid-1970s in Korea and which found new interest in the West in the 21st century.Dansaekhwa emerged from Korea’s earlier, more expressive Informel painting of the late 1950s and 1960s and was distinguish
  
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• Zapotec Tomb Unearthed in Mexico Hailed as ‘The Most Significant’ Discovery of Last Decade

  30-01-2026 21:54 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists in southern Mexico have unearthed a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb bearing intricate carvings, a discovery hailed by experts as “the most significant” of the last decade. The tomb was discovered in San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca, and dates to around the year 600 CE, according to a statement released last week by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Experts have noted the exceptional preservation of the burial chamber’s features, inclu
  
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• Highlights from the Baltimore Museum of Art’s 2025 Acquisitions, From Henri Matisse to Kiyan Williams to Senegalese Tapestries

  30-01-2026 21:42 via artnews.com
  The Baltimore Museum of Art has added 250 artworks in the past year to its encyclopedic collection. The wide-ranging acquisitions—from all over the world and spanning centuries—“reflect the museum’s focus on expanding the range of global voices represented within its collection,” according to a statement released by the museum.More than half of the new works—180 in total—are part of an anonymous gift of contemporary art by 63 different artists, among Gin
  
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• Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Files Show $5,000 Donation to the Met Costume Institute

  30-01-2026 21:04 via artnews.com
  On Friday, the US Department of Justice publicly released over three million additional documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender. Tucked into those files is a copy of a donation check dated April 29, 2014 for $5,000 from Enhanced Education, a long-running foundation set up by Epstein that was once portrayed as a “charitable powerhouse,” according to the New York Times. The recipient of the donation: none other than the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with th
  
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• Remembering Catherine O’Hara, Who Played an Artist and A.i.A. Cover Girl in Beetlejuice

  30-01-2026 21:01 via artnews.com
  There is so much to appreciate about the actress and comedian Catherine O’Hara following the news of her death at age 71. But she’s long held a special place here at Art in America ever since her character in Beetlejuice (1988), a sculptor named Delia Deetz, appeared on a fictional cover of the magazine in the movie. Deetz created abstract sculptures with rough-hewn surfaces that feel at home in the world of the film’s director, Tim Burton. In a famous dinner party scene where
  
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• Sayre Gomez Opens Up About His Strange New Soldier Sculptures

  30-01-2026 20:40 via artnews.com
  Sayre Gomez is known for painting urban landscapes marked by gritty realism. But when it comes to his subject—Los Angeles—that realism is always tied up in fantasy, punctuated by signs and sunsets. For his latest show “Precious Moments,” on view at David Kordansky in Los Angeles through March 1, he mixed things up: the show’s titular figures are too cartoonish kids modeled after his own. They share haircuts with his children and even borrowed their clothes, their ex
  
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• Leon Black’s Extensive Art Collection Seemingly Revealed in Jeffrey Epstein Files

  30-01-2026 20:38 via artnews.com
  The newly released Jeffrey Epstein files contain a 51-page document cataloging a host of masterworks that appear to belong to Leon Black, a major art collector and businessman whose dealings with Epstein are well-documented.The document does not name Black, a trustee and former board chair at the Museum of Modern Art. His connections to Epstein, a convicted sex offender, fully came to light in 2021, resulting in him not seeking reelection as chair. At the time, several high-profile artists calle
  
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• US State Department Report Shows Biden Received $19,000 Painting as Gift During Presidential Term

  30-01-2026 20:25 via artnews.com
  In a new report published by the State Department’s Bureau of Protocol, records show that former President Joe Biden received a $19,000 painting from the president of Angola, João Lourenço, last year.The report, published annually, details gifts given to the president, their spouse, members of the cabinet, and other senior officals by foreign leaders and governments. Federal employees are required to report such gifts, if they are worth more than $480. Usually, those gifts ar
  
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• At 89, Martial Raysse, France’s Most Celebrated Pop Artist, Is Still as Productive and Restlessly Experimental as Ever

  30-01-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  When you get to the chance to meet a giant of the art world, it’s an opportunity you don’t pass up. Martial Raysse, 89, is one of those giants. The reclusive artist seldom grants interviews, but he welcomed me into his home, just outside Bordeaux, shortly before the opening of his exhibition at Galerie Templon in Paris earlier this month. The exhibition marks the artist’s debut with the gallery, which is showing 30 of Raysse’s recent paintings and sculptures—narrowe
  
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• Macron-Backed Bill to Return Art Looted During Colonial Era Passes French Senate

  30-01-2026 18:19 via artnews.com
  French senators have unanimously adopted a bill designed to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era, a move that advances President Emmanuel Macron’s long-running effort to recast France’s relationship with its former colonies. The legislation now heads to the National Assembly, where it must still be approved before becoming law.Macron has made restitution a central plank of his cultural and diplomatic agenda since taking office in 2017, going further than any
  
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• Artists can’t buy into these fantasy houses | Brief letters

  30-01-2026 17:44
  House price fantasies | Coyote confirmation | Premier Inns | Longevity advice | ApostrophesI always regard the house prices in your fantasy house hunt feature with wry amusement. After all, it is supposed to be fantasy. However, last weekend’s selection made my blood boil (Homes for sale to inspire artists in England – in pictures, 23 January). In 2024, the Guardian reported that the median income of visual artists had dropped to £12,500, a fall of 40% since 2010. Even the most
  
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• How Joseph Grigely Blazed a Trail for Disability Arts

  30-01-2026 16:46 via artnews.com
  I never thought I’d get misty-eyed reading an essay called “Why I Am an Asshole,” but artists are always surprising me, and that’s why I love my job. This tragicomic tearjerker, from 2021, appears in Joseph Grigely’s new essay collection Otherhow: Essays and Documents on Art and Disability 1985–2024. The book made me laugh and cry, and it made me angry, too—angry alongside, rather than at, the author. I felt seen. I learned lots.You’re probably won
  
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• Anish Kapoor Plans to Send Sculpture to Space, Says He ‘Cannot Stand’ Elon Musk

  30-01-2026 16:37 via artnews.com
  Anish Kapoor, a Turner Prize–winning artist who has never been afraid of controversy, has plotted his next project: sending a sculpture to space.What, exactly, the work might be remains a mystery, but he told the Times of London this week that it will ponder such questions as: “What is adequate? What can stand up against vast, eternal, cosmic space? It’s ambitious to put something in space which is visible from Earth.” According to Kapoor, the sculpture “might&rdquo
  
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• Clark Art Institute Promotes Esther Bell to Director

  30-01-2026 16:34 via artnews.com
  The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted Esther Bell, its deputy director and chief curator, to serve as the museum’s sixth director. She begins in the post on July 1.Bell is the first woman to hold the role in the Clark’s 70-year history. She will succeed Olivier Meslay, who has been the director since 2016 and announced last year that he will move back to France in 2026.Having joined the Clark in 2017, she was among Meslay’s early hires; she was el
  
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• ‘Risking Your Life is Unbelievably Inspiring’: Minneapolis Artists Put Their Bodies on the Line Against ICE

  30-01-2026 15:30 via artnews.com
  When U.S. Border Patrol agents subdued, disarmed, and then killed nurse Alex Pretti on January 24, it was on the doorstep of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and just a few blocks from the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). Multiple flash-bang grenades and chemical munitions deployed by federal agents in the aftermath resulted in an eleven-hour shelter-in-place order for the MCAD community, which numbers about 800 students from 13 countries. The school has had one employee appre
  
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• Faiza Butt to Represent Pakistan at Venice Biennale, Kahlo-Branded Condos Hit the Market, and More: Morning Links for January 30, 2026

  30-01-2026 15:03 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesRECKONING WITH RESTITUTION. French senators adopted a long-awaited bill to facilitate the restitution of art looted during the colonial era, reports the Agence France-Presse. If passed by the National Assembly, the lower house of French Parliament, the legislation will move closer to fulfilling a promise made in Burkina Faso by Emmanuel Macron  in 2017 to return African cultural heritage to the continent. “The idea is not to empty French museums, but to ach
  
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• Samurai erotica, a metal-and-flesh sculptor and Jenny Holzer’s big glow-up – the week in art

  30-01-2026 13:00
  The secret side of Japan’s warrior class, Holzer lights up Scunthorpe, Julia Phillips steels herself and Quentin Blake takes off in Dorset – all in your weekly dispatchSamurai
  A tremendous, awe-inspiring journey into Japan’s past, with samurai armour so sublimely crafted it seems darkly alive, as well as exquisite landscapes, erotica and other arts that delighted the samurai between battles. Read the review here.• The British Museum, London, from 3 February to 4 May Contin
  
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• Yet-to-Be-Built Frida Kahlo-Branded Apartments Hit the Market in Miami

  30-01-2026 12:47 via artnews.com
  Condos in a Frida Kahlo-branded luxury condominium development in Miami went on sale this week, even though the project has yet to break ground. Promotional materials describe the planned residences as “inspired by Frida Kahlo’s expressive spirit.”Renderings of the so-called Frida Kahlo Wynwood Residences show a massive image of the artist emblazoned across one side of a 14-story tower designed by Carlos Ott, the architect behind Paris’s Opéra Bastille. A second, e
  
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• Frida Kahlo–Branded Apartments Hit the Market in Miami

  30-01-2026 12:47 via artnews.com
  Condos in a Frida Kahlo–branded luxury condominium development in Miami went on sale this week, even though the project has yet to break ground. Promotional materials describe the planned residences as “inspired by Frida Kahlo’s expressive spirit.”Renderings of the Frida Kahlo Wynwood Residences show a massive image of the artist emblazoned across one side of a 14-story tower designed by Carlos Ott, the architect behind Paris’s Opéra Bastille. A second, eight
  
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• Wall of Tears: 50ft Brooklyn mural pays tribute to children killed in Gaza

  30-01-2026 11:04
  Installation remembers the names of over 18,000 children killed by Israel in Gaza between October 2023 and July 2025First is وسام اياد محمد ابو فسيفس, or Wesam Iyad Mohammed Abu Fsaife, a 14-year-old boy. Last is صباح عمر سعد المصري, or Sabah Omar Saad al-Masri, an eight-year-old gir
  
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• A Must-See Lotty Rosenfeld Retrospective Is a Playbook for Fighting Fascism

  30-01-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  In the 1980s, two women—a German Jew and a Palestinian—met in Chile, where they were both born to families of immigrants. Together, they crafted some of the most powerful antifascist art of the era, collaborating on installations and documenting one another’s performances. One of those women, the artist Lotty Rosenfeld, is the subject of a revelatory retrospective at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, on view through March 15. The other, her close friend, the writ
  
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  30-01-2026 10:37 via zouchmagazine.com
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