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• New Theatrical Work Desperately Needs New Audiences

  09-08-2026 14:00 via americantheatre.org
  
  “It’s a distinct privilege to witness something being born. It’s exciting.” But developmental opportunities are disappearing from the United States theatre scene at an alarming rate. – American Theatre
  
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• BBC Host Wants New Reality TV Show Featuring Aspiring Art Dealers To Be ‘The Apprentice for the Art World’

  11-08-2026 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  The art market is a tough place to survive these days, with even megagalleries like Gagosian and Pace shuttering locations and cutting loose artists, and every day seeming to bring news of another art gallery calling it quits. So maybe, counterintuitively, this is the perfect moment for the BBC to launch a new reality show that aims to incubate the next great art-dealing duo. The Big Deal with Steph McGovern, which debuts this week, sees “seven pairs of aspiring art dealers battle it
  
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• Laser Technology Reveals Hidden Pre-Hispanic Roads at Machu Picchu

  11-08-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists working near the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu have identified more than 1.5 miles of pre-Hispanic roads, as well as what researchers think could be agricultural terraces and platforms, hidden within the Andean cloud forest. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an August 10 announcement by Peru’s Ministry of Culture.The structures were discovered using LiDAR—an advanced remote sensing technology that can detect man-made features concealed by vegetat
  
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• London’s Sid Motion Gallery to Close After a Decade: ‘Not in a Financial Position to Fully Honor My Artists’

  11-08-2026 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London’s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago.“As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of each of my artists, and I will not compromise when it comes to supporting them in the way that they deserve,” said Motion in a statement on her website. “Closing the gallery
  
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• Both London’s Sid Motion and Beers Galleries Are Closing, Citing Economic Pressures

  11-08-2026 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London’s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago.“As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of each of my artists, and I will not compromise when it comes to supporting them in the way that they deserve,” said Motion in a statement on her website. “Closing the gallery
  
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• One of the Greatest Private Hiroshige Collections Ever Assembled Is Heading to Christie’s

  11-08-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  
  For decades, if you wanted to talk about Japanese prints, the conversation usually began and ended with Hokusai’s Great Wave. That may be starting to change.This September, Christie’s will begin selling more than 600 prints from the collection of Alan Medaugh, an American businessman who spent half a century chasing the finest impressions he could find by Utagawa Hiroshige, Hokusai’s great rival and one of the towering figures of Japanese printmaking. Specialists say the c
  
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• New York’s School of Visual Arts Reports One-Third Drop in Enrollment Since 2019, Faces Largest Budget Deficit Ever

  11-08-2026 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  Amid a broad crisis in higher education in the US resulting from demographic trends and a combative Trump administration, enrollment at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) is down some 34 percent since 2019, and the school faces a $22 million structural budget deficit, “the largest in its nearly 80-year history,” according to a previously unreported July 1 email to faculty and staff from interim president Christopher J. Cyphers. The school’s annual operating budget is
  
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• Could DNA on Ancient Cave Walls Help Solve Art History’s Oldest Provenance Mystery?

  11-08-2026 20:34 via artnews.com
  
  Provenance is everything in the art world. Auction houses spend years tracing the ownership history of a painting from one collector to the next. But for some of humanity’s oldest works of art, the provenance goes cold tens of thousands of years ago.Who painted the bison on the walls of Altamira? Who pressed a hand against damp limestone before blowing red pigment around their fingers? Archaeologists have spent generations trying to answer questions like those. A new study suggests genetic
  
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• V&A Changes Paid Break Policy as East Storehouse Strike Looms

  11-08-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Just weeks after workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s East Storehouse voted to strike over working conditions, the institution announced that it was changing its break policy, according to Museums Assocation, a nonprofit representing museum, gallery, and heritage professionals and organizations in the UK.The trade union Prospect, which represents collections access officers at the Storehouse, argued that its members were not given enough time to use the bathroom or drink water durin
  
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• Cultural Center of the Philippines Appoints New Chief Curator, Ahead of Reopening Next Year

  11-08-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  In advance of its scheduled reopening early next year after renovation work commenced in 2021, the Cultural Center of the Philippines appointed Carlos Quijon Jr. as the next chief curator of its museum for contemporary art.As reported by ArtReview, “Quijon is an art historian, curator and critic based between Manila and New York. For the past two years, he has been the inaugural C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) research fellow for Southeast and East Asia at MoMA, New York.&
  
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• ARTS Southeast Revives Residency Program on Georgia’s Remote Ossabaw Island

  11-08-2026 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state’s third-largest barrier island.The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, with six artists for each session. The fellows will receive a stipend for their participation, as well as have their travel and accommodations to Savannah and to Ossabaw covered. Because of the length of the residency, t
  
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• SF Camerawork To Close After Five Decades, Citing ‘Changing Philanthropic Landscape’

  11-08-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Bay Area photography exhibition venue SF Camerawork is calling it quits after 52 years, the institution announced on its website yesterday.“This decision follows years of rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape,” said the institution. “SF Camerawork is not alone in facing these pressures; arts organizations across the country are confronting similar challenges. Despite the determined efforts of our staff, Board, artists, dono
  
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• Photography Exhibit on Wildfires Nearly Engulfed by Real Wildfire in Sicily

  11-08-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Life not only imitated art at an exhibition in Sicily this summer — it almost destroyed it. Stefano Cerio’s outdoor photography installation about the devastation wrecked by wildfires was nearly engulfed in a real wildfire on Saturday, reported Artribune.“A sad, surreal, involuntary performance,” wrote the artist in an Instagram post.Firemen were able to extinguish the flames as they came only a few feet away from Cerio’s seven large panels installed along a road in
  
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• Prado Museum Debuts AI, London Gallery to Close, a DNA Breakthrough in Cave Art, and More: Morning Links for August 11, 2026

  11-08-2026 14:37 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016, will shutter this fall.Scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls, offering new clues about the people behind prehistoric art.Could the Bayeux Tapestry loan offer a model for using the Parthenon Marbles to boost British soft power while paving the way for their eventual return?The Headlines ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016 to support emerging a
  
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• The Beverly Hills Housewife — the intriguing story of a Hockney muse

  11-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  James Cahill’s Betty Freeman biography captures the hedonism, sunshine and social circles that inspired the British artist in 1960s California
  
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• The American factory, a romance

  11-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  At New York’s Cooper Hewitt museum, Christopher Payne’s photographs turn the grind of industrial process to visual splendour
  
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• Divers Discover Hundreds of Ancient Ceramic Vessels Amid Shipwreck Off the Coast of Sicily

  10-08-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said that this is “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.”According to the BBC, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vess
  
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• Ireland’s Museum Staffers Struggle with Precarious Contracts and Toxic Environments

  10-08-2026 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Museum staffers in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in the field over unstable contracts, low pay and toxic working environments, according to Dr. Emma McAlister, who wrote a blog post on the issue for the International Council of Museums on Monday.As McAlister recounted, she has only been able to work in the Irish museum industry over the last two and a half years through a temporary rolling contract that, at times, would be renewed just one day before its expir
  
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• Storm King Art Center Appoints Anne Reeve as Senior Curator

  10-08-2026 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley has filled its senior curatorial vacancy after over a year and half. First reported by Artnet, Anne Reeve will lead the sculpture park’s curatorial program as senior curator from November 1. Reeve is no stranger to sculpture. She heads to Storm King from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 2018 as associate curator and now curator, overseeing the modern and contemporary sculpt
  
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• Looted Ivorian “Talking Drum” Arrives at Its Home Village After More Than a Century

  10-08-2026 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  A sacred “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted from Côte d’Ivoire by French colonial troops over a century ago, returned this month to the place where it was made. According to the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA), the drum arrived on August 7 at its home village of Adjame, where the local community was able to see it for the first time.The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the sl
  
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• Three Public Artworks by Banksy Have Cost UK Taxpayers Almost $200,000

  10-08-2026 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  Banksy’s guerrilla artworks have generated millions of dollars in auction sales and drawn crowds wherever they appear. They’ve also left British taxpayers footing a growing cleanup bill.Public authorities across London have spent nearly $203,000 removing, protecting, and managing three of the anonymous street artist’s works since 2024, according to figures obtained by the BBC through Freedom of Information requests. The total will keep going up as
  
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• The Best Casino for Roulette in Australia 2026

  10-08-2026 19:51 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Fossils and Other Exhibits Stolen From German University in Latest Museum Robbery

  10-08-2026 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its Goldfuß Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found on display, in order to secure their recovery.The university said it is not clear when the items were stolen, but that it occured during renovation work, which began in December 2023 and is ongoing. In a blog post published August 7, the university shared
  
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• Inhotim Founder Bernardo Paz to Open a Namesake Museum, Right Next Door

  10-08-2026 18:10 via artnews.com
  
  Brazil’s Minas Gerais will soon see another museum thanks to mining magnate Bernardo Paz, the megacollector behind the Inhotim museum and nature complex. The Museu Bernardo Paz will turn 311 acres of countryside into a new landscape for “art, nature and community.” The first phase will open in September 2027. “Museu Bernardo Paz is taking root and flourishing from a belief in the creative potential of unexpected encounters,” said Paz in press materials. “
  
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• Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Museum, and More: Morning Links for August 10, 2026

  10-08-2026 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter’s muse.The Head
  
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• Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Muse, and More: Morning Links for August 10, 2026

  10-08-2026 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter’s muse.The Head
  
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• The Ultimate Guide to Neospin Official: Everything You Need to Know

  10-08-2026 12:46 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Joeun Kim Aatchim’s Layered Lines Summon Translucent Worlds

  10-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In Joeun Kim Aatchim’s paintings—but she calls them drawings—everything is so vivid, yet so elusive. Her line feels definitive, yet the images they convey seem to fade away into sheer luminosity. Her works are typically painted using mineral pigment in shellac—sometimes with watercolor, pastel, or other materials—on layers of silk that, stretched across frames, show through to the wall behind. They’re all about one image being seen through another—n
  
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• Slottica промокод: как казахстанцы находят свои игровые комбинации

  10-08-2026 06:32 via zouchmagazine.com
  Азамат сидел в алматинском коворкинге и смотрел на экран ноутбука.Третий час он пы
  
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• American Classical Music at 250 — Take Five: The Disconnect Between Scholars and Orchestras

  10-08-2026 05:55 via artsjournal.com
  
  Beginning with my “New York Times” piece on July 4, this is the fifth in a series of
  
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