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• Open Rebellion At Seoul Philharmonic: Staffers Demand CEO Resign Over Abusive Behavior

  05-12-2014 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  A press release from the orchestra’s own offices accuses Park Hyun-jung of “abusive language and sexual harassment” and violating employees’ human rights, hiring the children of her friends, and driving away half of her staff and three-quarters of the SPO’s patron group. (in English)
  
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• Hollywood Stars and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Join Ukraine Photo Exhibition as Guest Curators

  26-08-2026 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Sir Stephen Fry, Sharon Stone, Prince Harry, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk are among the public figures taking on guest curator roles for “Postcode Ukraine: Diary of a Volunteer,” a fundraising exhibition of photographs by British, Kyiv-based artist Mark Neville. The show is slated to open on September 11 at Westwood Contemporary in Los Angeles and documents everyday life in Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Neville’s photographs focus on v
  
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• LACMA Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach of Employee, Visitor Information

  26-08-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has filed a class action complaint against the institution over a 2025 data breach that he claims has compromised sensitive visitor and employee information, including Social Security numbers. The complaint accuses LACMA of acting negligently by waiting nearly a year to inform its staff of the breach and seeks unspecified damages, as well as a court-ordered assurance of stronger security measures. The lawsuit, reviewed by ARTnews, wa
  
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• The Smithsonian Institution, Andy Warhol Museum Honor Dolly Parton by Sharing Image in Its Collection

  26-08-2026 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Big blonde hair, a pink outfit, and a toothy smile. Dolly Parton’s image appeared on cake mix boxes, film posters, magazine covers, and paintings. In the wake of the country music legend’s death on Tuesday, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, took to Instagram to remember the “queen of country.”The Smithsonian Institution shared three images that belong to the collection of the National Museum of America
  
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• Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership, Three LA Museums Examine the Work of Architect Paul Revere Williams, and More: Industry Moves for August 26, 2026

  26-08-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership: The new Jarvis & Werner will open on September 2 with a solo exhibition for Martina Cox at 96 Bowery in New York. Werner is the son of Mary Boone and Michael Werner and has previously worked at both of his parents’ galleries. J
  
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• What Happens to Seoul’s Art Market After the Hype?

  26-08-2026 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.The hype surrounding Seoul’s boom years is over. As Frieze Seoul returns for its fifth edition and KIAF marks its 25th anniversary this September, the city’s art market is entering a new phase. While collectors and dealers navigate more challenging terrain, signs point to a maturing market.S
  
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• Samia Halaby Remembers Sliman Mansour: ‘A Giant in the History of Art’

  26-08-2026 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Sliman Mansour, an artist and educator who helped create the visual language of Palestinian perseverance, died on Monday in Jerusalem at 79. An outpouring of gratitude and grief has followed in the wake of his death from artists and arts professionals within the Arab art community, and beyond, many of whom counted Mansour as both an inspiration and a friend. Below, Samia Halaby, another pioneering Palestinian painter, reflects on Mansour’s life and legacy.Sliman Mansour affected me hugely
  
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• Falling Finances Follows Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center: Report

  26-08-2026 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ticket sales are dwindling with speed. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that in the 10 months following President Donald Trump’s takeover of the center, ticket sales and donations have tumbled.The performing arts venue is reportedly on track to fall nearly $100 million short of its revenue target, and center officials are predicting that this fiscal year’s revenue will miss its budget target by 70 percent, while contribut
  
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• Historic Sulfur Emissions Likely Damaged Murujuga Rock Art, New Study Finds

  26-08-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions.About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world’s most significant and dense collections of ancient petroglyphs, dating back about 50,000 years. These tens of thousands of petroglyphs depict animals, spiritual figures, and sacred stories.Since the 1950s, however, Murujuga has also become
  
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• A GoFundMe Campaign Has Been Launched to Preserve Marijke De Roover’s Work

  26-08-2026 17:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Belgian artist Marijke De Roover, who turned memes into art and never shied away from topics of feminism, sex and gender, died on July 25, at 36 years old.A crowdfunding campaign has since been launched by her community to preserve her work, Ocula reported on Tuesday. So far, 48 donations totaling €3,684 ($4,292) have been made, with a €10,000 goal. The GoFundMe campaign was started by De Roover’s immediate family, writing that she would describe “herself as a part-time
  
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• Federal Judge Halts Sale of Titanic Artifacts

  26-08-2026 17:15 via artnews.com
  
  A ‘wrecked’ sale? An Atlanta-based company that salvaged 100 artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck decades ago has been banned from auctioning them, a federal judge ruled Monday, according to The New York Times.Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, upheld a 2011 ban on the sale of artifacts recovered by the R.M.S. Titanic Inc., a company previously authorized to salvage and exhibit items from the Titanic shipwreck. Smith said she has jurisdiction o
  
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• Gwangju Biennale Restores ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Amid Diplomatic Crisis and Censorship Claims

  26-08-2026 16:53 via artnews.com
  
  Ten days into a deepening diplomacy dispute between Taiwan and South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale over allegations of censorship, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (GBF) has agreed that a satellite exhibition at its September edition can open as the “Taiwan Pavilion.” The decision follows a series of conflicting accounts between the two parties over the exhibition’s renaming under the banner of its commissioning institution, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), and
  
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• ‘Cool Britannia’ is back — but it needs patrons

  26-08-2026 16:00 via ft.com
  Targeted investment in culture would help the UK keep up with US and Asian philanthropy in the arts
  
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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202

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