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• On Kawara’s One Million Years to be performed at the Venice Biennale

  23-11-2016 12:03
  
  The Japanese-born American conceptual artist On Kawaras performance piece, One Million Years, is heading to the Venice Biennale next year. The epic, ongoing project will be performed for the first three months of the biennial (13 May until around 1 August) in the Oratorio di San Ludovico Dorsoduro, a 16th-century ecclesiastic building dedicated, fittingly, to the spoken word.The ecclesiastic setting is very appropriate for a work that has such profound philosophical implications, says Jonathan
  
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• The Zaha Hadid Foundation Is Reopening the Late Architect’s Former HQ as a Public Arts Space

  06-10-2026 23:50 via artnews.com
  
  To mark the 10-year anniversary of Zaha Hadid’s death, the Zaha Hadid Foundation is reopening the architect’s former headquarters on October 29. The former Victorian schoolhouse, located at 10 Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell, will be repurposed as a public cultural space for architecture, design and the related arts.The newly-refurbished space will include galleries, a learning space, lecture hall and collection display. The spaces will be used to host exhibitions, talks, workshops
  
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• Zurich-Based Dealer Eva Presenhuber to Close ‘Sentimental’ Vienna Gallery Space

  06-10-2026 23:35 via artnews.com
  
  Dealer Eva Presenhuber told ARTnews she is closing her space in Vienna in early December, in a decision that the influential gallerist said had more to do with local conditions in Vienna than the overall financial stability of her Zurich-based business. The gallery in Austria is currently showing an exhibition of works by Angela Bulloch until October 23, which will be followed by a final exhibition of works by Austrian designer Nina Hollein, from November 11 to December 4. Shortly afterward, the
  
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• ‘Jodi,’ Sotheby’s Newly-Minted Nanotyrannus, Hits the Auction Block With $9 M. Estimate

  06-10-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s may have been hoping that the dinosaur skeleton known as “Jodi” was, in fact, a youthful T. rex, given the name recognition and resulting price tags that have accompanied this species of sought-after dinosaur.Instead, the auction house’s latest high-profile specimen is a Nanotyrannus, a mid-size tyrannosaurid genus that, according to Artnet, had previously been for sale for $20 million at Frieze Masters in 2023. At the time, the skeleton was called “Chompe
  
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• Martha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection

  06-10-2026 21:12 via artnews.com
  
  “Painting, for me, is about tension,” Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A “sensual” material, she said, “smooth or rough, its tactile quality often resembles skin.”For more than 60 years, Jungwirth has refined this painterly interplay. Spontaneous smears and streams of color form her famous abstractions, evoking a body in motion. It’s no wonder fashion found its way to her studio.The Swiss fashion A
  
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• Phoenix Art Museum Receives $5 M. Donation to Expand Sri Lankan and South Asian Art Galleries

  06-10-2026 20:37 via artnews.com
  
  Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution’s Asian art galleries, as well as acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programs on Sri Lankan art.The museum’s Art of Asia galleries will expand from approximately 6,000 square feet to 9,500 square feet, and it includes a new 2,000-square-foot Nagendran Gallery for the Art of Sri Lanka and South As
  
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• The State Russian Museum Has Restored Ivan Aivazovsky Seascape Painting Ahead of Major Retrospective

  06-10-2026 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  The State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg has restored Ivan Aivazovsky’s The Ninth Wave (1850) ahead of a retrospective on the Russian artist opening on October 16, according to Russian state media LenTV24.The restoration of the painting started in June and will be exhibited in the Benois Wing of the museum. In the 120 years that the State Russian Museum has owned the painting, only minor conservation has been carried out.“The Russian Museum has no canvases in unsatisfactory condi
  
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• New Museum Announces 36 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Triennial, Including Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Josi, Jota Mombaça, and Agnes Questionmark

  06-10-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  The New Museum in New York has announced the 36 artists and collectives that will participate in the 2027 New Museum Triennial, running February 4–May 16, 2027.Under the title “The Outside Expands,” the sixth edition of the Triennial will also be the first to take place at the museum since its expansion opened earlier this year. Among the closely watched artists included are Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Josi, Jota Mombaça, Agnes Question
  
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• Art Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Lists Upper East Side Co-Op for $12 M.

  06-10-2026 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020.At 5,000-square-feet, the 10 Gracie Square fourth floor apartment boasts incredible East River views and a massive amount of space, including a 32-foot-long entrance gallery, an expansive living room, a formal dining room, a terrace, four bedrooms, two staff rooms, a laundry room, and an eat-in kitchen, complete with paned
  
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• Dalí-Designed Bronze ‘Livre de l’Apocalypse’ Book Cover Stolen from French Museum

  06-10-2026 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  Yet another French museum has fallen victim to a brazen theft. A colossal, 330-pound book cover designed by Salvador Dalí, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells and—this being Dalí—cutlery, was stolen overnight on Sunday from a small, private contemporary art museum in the town of Issoire, in central France, reports Le Monde.The book is known as the Livre de l’Apocalypse, or in English, the Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse of St John. I
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg’s New York Loft-Studio Is For Sale. Should It Be Saved?

  06-10-2026 16:05 via nytimes.com
  The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation clearly doesn’t think so: not only has it listed the Soho building he bought in 1966, it has already sold the house on Florida’s Captiva Island where he spent his final decades. (A resort developer bought that property for $45 million.) – The New York Times
  
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• Plans Revealed For $250 Million Arts District In Historically Black Neighborhood In Chicago

  06-10-2026 15:36 via wbez.org
  
  The Bronzeville Legacy Collective says it has already raised $75 million toward its goal: a campus with museums dedicated to the gospel music, blues legend Muddy Waters, and Emmett Till; a center for Black dance; a theater with a resident company; a recreational trail; and an arts and culture center. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Whitney Museum And Staffers Agree On Contract Just Hours Before Strike Deadline

  06-10-2026 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  “Under the new contract, every Whitney employee will receive a wage increase of at least 14.75% over four years. Workers with the lowest salaries will receive larger raises, ranging from 5% to 23% in the first year.” The settlement came in time to avoid disruption of the museum’s major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. – ARTnews
  
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• Dali-Designed Bronze Book of Revelations Cover Stolen from French Museum, Sotheby’s to Auction Nanotyrannus Fossil, and More: Morning Links for October 6, 2026

  06-10-2026 14:51 via artnews.com
  
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  A 330 pound book cover designed by Salvador Dali, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells, and cutlery, was stolen overnight on Sunday from a museum in France.Sotheby’s will auction a fossilized Nanotyrannus, comparable to a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, estimated to fetch between $6 million and $9 million.The UK-based, Grenada-born painter
  
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• San Antonio’s Newest Orchestra Makes A Crowd-Pleasing Debut

  06-10-2026 14:32 via yahoo.com
  Harmonium of Texas — made up largely of musicians from the long-defunct San Antonio Symphony and the now-probably-defunct San Antonio Philharmonic, and co-founded by former SA Phil music director Jeffrey Kahane — gave its first performance on Friday, three days after what’s left of the Philharmonic sued Harmonium. – San Antonio Express-News (Yahoo!)
  
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• What’s One Museum Work the Top 200 Collectors Would Own If They Could?

  06-10-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors are among the world’s most voracious art buyers, many of them obsessed with adding works to their collections long after the walls of their homes can accommodate their purchases.There are, however, limits to what they can buy—not everything is available. As part of our annual questionnaire to the Top 200, we asked the collectors if there was one artwork held by a museum that they would own if they could, what would it be. (For the record, we did ask the
  
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• What the World’s Top Collectors Bought in 2026, From a 15th-Century Pietà Painting to an Oar from Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion

  06-10-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Each year, we ask the Top 200 Collectors for an update on what they’ve purchased in the past 12 months. The answers always surprise us. Among the highlights that they shared are a 15th-century Pietà by a Follower of Rogier van der Weyden, a complete set of Robert Frank’s The Americans, a wearable work of art by Alexander Calder, and a poignant Hale Woodruff painting. There’s also a lot of purchases of contemporary artists, including Robert Gober, Carol Bove, Jeremy Frey,
  
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• The Year of the Trophy: An Introduction to the 2026 Edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors List

  06-10-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The past two auction seasons in New York have seemed to buoy hope in an art market that has been variably described as shaky or going through a correction. At the top end of the market is the competition for “trophy works,” pieces by canonical, blue-chip names that typically have sterling provenance—and that count, if nothing else, as smart investments. Look no further than Constantin Brâncuși’s Danaïde (ca. 1913) and Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A, 194
  
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• Jeffrey Archer — Bestselling Novelist, Tory Politician, Convicted Felon — Is Dead At 86

  06-10-2026 14:00 via msn.com
  “Possessed of huge drive, vast wealth and immense personal charm, Archer bounced back from disaster and, more than once, rebuilt a shattered life. But for all his talents, he will be remembered as a man affected by a defective moral compass, whose public humiliation was entirely self-inflicted.” – BBC (MSN)
  
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• ARTnews’s “Top 200 Collectors” Issue Features 37th Annual List, Conservation Tips for Caring for Your Collection, and More

  06-10-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  There is never a dull moment when we are putting together ARTnews’s annual Top 200 Collectors issue. We get to find out who acquired some of the incredible art we’ve seen over the past year. One thing that caught my eye is that Emily Wei and Mitchell Rales, who built the Glenstone museum in Potomac, Maryland, own Kerry James Marshall’s triptych made up of the three connected paintings Haul, Outbound, and Cove (2023–25). It’s an enormous piece made specifically for M
  
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• What is Black design now?

  06-10-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  Ahead of a new Design Museum show, seven creatives debate it
  
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• Sensual, dangerous, joyous — painter Salman Toor brings New York queer life to the Courtauld

  06-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  At his first European solo show, the Pakistani-American’s art history-inspired works find a fitting home in the London gallery
  
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• Do you remember your first Magritte? Artists on the surrealist’s impossible world

  06-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Dana Schutz, Ed Ruscha, Anna Weyant and more on how they fell for the Belgian painter — and why his visions feel even more intense in the age of AI
  
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• Oracle Pays $10 Million for Nashville Symphony’s Season

  06-10-2026 02:45 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Oracle is giving the Nashville Symphony $10 million, reinstating a season the orchestra cancelled a week earlier and ending furloughs of 77 musicians and 27 staff that were to begin Oct. 18 (The New York Times). Music director Leonard Slatkin, who had just conducted three sold-out concerts, was as surprised as anyone.Adults and teens are now 40 percent of Build-A-Bear’s customers, and its stock rose more than 2,000 percent between 2020 and 2025 (The New Yorker). The NHL is cou
  
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• Oracle Gives $10M To Help Save The Nashville Symphony

  05-10-2026 23:22 via nytimes.com
  The gift will allow the symphony to resume the season, which runs through June 2027, and to retain staff, Mark Tillinger, Nashville Symphony’s president and chief executive, said in a news release on Sunday. – The New York Times
  
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• The British Museum Will Extend Its Hours Amid ‘Extraordinary’ Demand for Bayeux Tapestry

  05-10-2026 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  Crowds of visitors have swarmed the British Museum since the Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London from its home in Normandy, France, earlier this fall. Along with unprecedented attendance figures and fervent international interest in the 230-foot-long textile have come some visitor experience snafus, including closing early due to an unrelated gala dinner and being sued by a blind man for not providing audio tours.In response to some of these issues, which have resulted in visitors not being able t
  
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• In Vatican Address, Pope Leo Denounces AI-Generated Art: ‘The Church Needs Artists’

  05-10-2026 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  In a Friday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo told artists and curators that the Church needs them, especially in the age of AI. The pontiff weighed in at the very moment when some experts are predicting that artificial intelligence could wipe out humankind within a decade, and just three days after US president Donald Trump rallied some of the world’s top architects of frontier AI models at the White House to sign an agreement to regulate themselves.The pope spoke to the artists and curato
  
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• Sotheby’s Will Host “The Art of Divorce” Panel Discussion in Geneva

  05-10-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  It’s divorce season. Princess Diana’s Christina Stambolian dress, otherwise dubbed “the revenge dress” is coming to auction at Sotheby’s London on December 9 for an estimate of $150,000 to $300,000; Sienna Miller and Dominic West’s divorce drama “War” premiered this week, and on Tuesday in Geneva, Sotheby’s is hosting a panel discussion titled “The Art of Divorce.”Julian Washington, head of tax, heritage and U.K. museums and fiduc
  
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• Why More Adults Are Playing With Kids Toys

  05-10-2026 21:01 via newyorker.com
  
  “People just stay very playful for a longer period of time. And it’s cross-brand. You know, it might be Teddy bears. It might be Lego bricks. It might be Transformers. It might be Barbie dolls.”  – The New Yorker
  
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• Will We Still Need Punctuation When Machines Are Writing?

  05-10-2026 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  What are those commas doing there, anyway? By modern usage, they should mark off a non-restrictive clause, but they don’t. Nor are they marking items in a series or natural pauses in speech.  – The New Yorker
  
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