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• Our Primal Need To Be Needed

  05-11-2026 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces—thinking machines, aging, economic and social dislocation—appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world? – The New Yorker
  
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• Collectors Jill and Peter Kraus Want Artists to Look at Their Upstate New York Property and React to It

  10-11-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Jill and Peter Kraus’s almost 400-acre property in Dutchess County, New York, the rolling hills add to the serenity and also create drama. Standing in front of any one of the 18 commissioned outdoor sculptures here, you can’t see any of the others. Sabine Hornig’s 2010 concrete work, Entrance With Floating Stairs II, for example, stands atop a hill. “What I love about this piece is the siting of it,” Jill Kraus told me as we pulled up to the work on a Polaris utility terrain vehicle
  
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• Future of Photography

  10-11-2026 06:02 via Visual Arts
  200 years since the creation of the first photograph, this special report surveys how photographers, educators and curators are positioning the art form as it once again grapples with rapid technological change
  
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• Thomas Ruff: ‘Photography will live forever’

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Ahead of a major retrospective at Paris Photo, the prolific artist reflects on nearly 50 years of photographic experimentation
  
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• Publishers battle rising costs to maintain photobook renaissance

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Ever more ambitious projects are entering a market that is barely growing
  
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• Photography education navigates the rise of artificial imagery

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Art schools are grappling with how to teach students to use AI-generated imagery in ways that do not undermine the reasons for studying photography
  
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• Photography at 200: Why the camera still matters in the age of AI

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  From cinema to television and AI-generated imagery, photography has remained remarkably resilient throughout two centuries
  
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• Past is future at this year’s Paris Photo

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Highlights from the Grand Palais as the world’s largest fair dedicated to photography celebrates 200 years of the art form
  
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• Lebanese artist Dala Nasser: ‘I feel like Indiana Jones’

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The adventurer undertakes expeditions to ruins steeped in myths across the Middle East, making charcoal rubbings from ancient texts and symbols
  
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• ‘I’m well aware audiences will watch what we do here’ — Makeda Best

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Curator’s appointment to the ‘judgment seat’ of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art comes as the art form is once again being reshaped by technology
  
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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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• AviaMasters im Kurzsession-Modus: Warum mobile Spieler auf schnelle Flugrunden setzen

  09-11-2026 21:55 via Zouch
  
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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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• Big Bass Splash: Warum kurze, intensive Sessions das Spielgeschehen prägen

  09-11-2026 19:12 via Zouch
  
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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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• Vinyl casino : quels appareils de confiance doivent être invalidés après une récupération de compte ?

  09-11-2026 18:48 via Zouch
  
  Après une récupération de compte, la sécurité ne dépend pas seulement du nouveau mot de passe. Les anciens appareils, sessions et moyens de paiement peuvent encore représenter un accès indirect. Pour casino vinyl, il faut donc distinguer une simple reconnexion d’une véritable reprise de contrôle. Voici quelles modifications devraient invalider les accès précédents, ce que les règles publiées permettent de confirmer et les limites à vérifier avant de jouer.Vinyl casino et appar
  
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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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• Amonbet : vérifier si une correction du seuil de qualification change le délai d’expiration

  09-11-2026 18:23 via Zouch
  
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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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