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• Patrick George obituary

  04-05-2016 18:07
  
  Painter whose all-weather pursuit of heightened realism sought out English light and atmospherePatrick George, who has died aged 92, was a landscape and figure painter of distilled emotion and intelligence who enjoyed a greater reputation among fellow artists than with the general public. A modest man of considered opinions and dry humour, he preferred to paint at his Suffolk home rather than court the art establishment, and his visits to London were mostly made in order either to teach or to se
  
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• Cesar Chavez Mural Painted Over in San Francisco Amid Growing Fallout from Abuse Allegations

  20-03-2026 19:51 via artnews.com
  A mural of Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over this week, becoming one of the first visible public reckonings with newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader.The artwork, which covered the facade of the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, was removed Wednesday by the building’s owner, Richard Segovia, along with artist Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, according to ABC7 Eyewitness News. The decision came day
  
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• James Murdoch and Art Basel’s Parent Company Are Working on a Big Ideas Festival to Launch in 2028

  20-03-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  James and Kathryn Murdoch are working with MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, on a new festival meant to rival the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and other “ideas”-driven gatherings that convene the world’s wealthy and powerful.While details remain scarce and no formal announcement has been made, Vanity Fair’s Nate Freeman reported that he confirmed the in-the-works event with multiple sources. According to Freeman, the project is a join
  
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• Czech Culture Minister Dismisses Director of Prague’s National Gallery, Generating Scrutiny

  20-03-2026 17:44 via artnews.com
  Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř dismissed Alicja Knast from her post as director of Prague’s National Gallery, generating scrutiny over what precipitated the decision.Within the Czech Republic, the dismissal has been viewed by some as a politically motivated gesture. Knast took up the position in 2021, having been appointed to the role by Lubomir Zaoralek, a Social Democrat who was then serving as culture minister. Klempíř, a member of the right-wing Motorists pa
  
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• This Year’s Outsider Art Fair Is More Wide-Ranging Than Ever In Its Definition of ‘Outsider’

  20-03-2026 17:36 via artnews.com
  The field of outsider art continues to expand its parameters, encompassing not only the output of self-taught artists, visionary artists, folk artists, vernacular artists, and artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities, but virtually any maker working outside the mainstream, whether by choice or by circumstance. At the same time, however, outsider art itself is going mainstream: in recent years it has been a focus of, or significant presence in, institutional exhibitions and b
  
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• Mexican Culture Ministry Calls on eBay to Halt Sales of Pre-Columbian Artifacts

  20-03-2026 17:02 via artnews.com
  The culture ministry of Mexico has called on eBay to remove sale listings for 195 pre-Colombian artifacts, claiming they were obtained by way of “illicit extraction” and that they should be returned to their country of origin.As reported by The Art Newspaper, the case was made public when Mexico’s secretary of culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, wrote in a posting on X that the Orlando, Florida–based enterprise Coins Artifacts was selling objects deemed part of Mexico&rsquo
  
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• Calvin Tomkins, Who Chronicled Generations of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 100

  20-03-2026 16:11 via artnews.com
  Calvin Tomkins, who wrote defining profiles of scores of leading artists, bringing their work to a broad public in crystalline prose that was insightful, generous, and witty, died on Friday. He was 100, according to David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, where Tomkins published numerous profiles. Remnick did not state where Tomkins died in the obituary he wrote for the New Yorker’s website.For more than 60 years, Tomkins immersed himself in the contemporary art world, meeting with hi
  
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• Jordan Wolfson’s Newest Provocation Is a Creepy Prada Ad Campaign

  20-03-2026 15:57 via artnews.com
  Prada’s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, chained-up puppets, and other terrors.Wolfson’s art is famous—and, in some cases, notorious—for its depictions of violence, both of the physical and emotional variety. A VR work that he produced for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, for exa
  
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• San Francisco Mural of Cesar Chavez Painted Over, Venice Mayor Warns Russian Pavilion Against Peddling Propaganda: Morning Links for March 20, 2026

  20-03-2026 14:25 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPAINTING OVER THE CRACKS: Amid ongoing fallout over sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, a prominent mural honoring the labor and farmworker leader was painted over yesterday in San Francisco, reports ABC 7 News. The artwork had adorned the Mission District’s Latin Rock Music House, a venue that has hosted legendary Latino p
  
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• 30 Iconic Feminist Works By Women Artists

  20-03-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  Last March, we presented 15 iconic works of feminist art stretching from the first wave of feminism to the intersectional movement of today. But that roster could only scratch the surface of a potent artistic point of view. Here we add another 15 artworks that powerfully advance the feminist argument.
  
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• In a Show at Stanford, Miljohn Ruperto Trolls the Death Drive of AI Guys

  20-03-2026 11:26 via artnews.com
  As I stood in front of a black screen, a luminous alien creature with five legs and translucent antennae appeared. After a minute, it morphed into an isopod with larger, more articulated limbs. Fathoms (Tartarapelagic), 2025–26, by Miljohn Ruperto, uses AI to generate otherworldly creatures like these, all based on species recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). But there’s a dark irony: the extensive mining of manganese, nickel, copper, and co
  
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• Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari

  19-03-2026 22:18 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance.Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the canvas’s lower-right portion. With the overpaint now gone, the painting has now been identified as Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist (1512/1513) by 16th-century painter Rosso Fiorentino. The pain
  
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• California Museum to Remove Cesar Chavez From Hall of Fame Following Abuse Allegations

  19-03-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  A California museum is moving to strip Cesar Chavez of one of the state’s highest honors following newly published allegations of sexual abuse.According to Sacramento’s news outlet ABC10, the California Museum in Sacramento said its board of trustees plans to remove Chavez from the California Hall of Fame after a New York Times investigation detailed claims that the labor leader sexually abused multiple girls and engaged in misconduct with women tied to the United Farm
  
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• Fort Lauderdale Still Fighting Removal of Rainbow Crosswalks: ‘We Are the Last Man Standing’

  19-03-2026 19:56 via artnews.com
  The legal battle between Fort Lauderdale and state officials over a recent crackdown on street art may conclude in May, when both parties may have a one-day final hearing.The crackdown began in August 2025 under Governor Ron DeSantis, with roughly 100 public artworks across Florida slated for removal under his Safe Streets program in collaboration with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).The directive reportedly stems from an FDOT memo prohibiting painted pavement featuring “so
  
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• San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Plans to Sell Building

  19-03-2026 18:52 via artnews.com
  
  The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco announced this week that it will look to sell its building in the city’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood, which also includes some of the city’s other top cultural organizations.The decision to sell is part of “a series of strategic steps to ensure a sustainable and impactful future for The Museum,” according to a release, which includes stabilizing the organization’s finances and ensuring that its endowments ar
  
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• Lauren Halsey’s Long-Awaited LA Sculpture Park in South Central Is Finally Here—See Inside

  19-03-2026 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  Almost two decades ago, while she was an architecture student at El Camino College, Lauren Halsey began conceiving a sculpture park for South Central, the Los Angeles neighborhood where she grew up. At long last, that sculpture park has finally arrived and is now open to the public.Curated by Christine Y. Kim and organized by the arts organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division, the park is officially titled sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south cen
  
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• Art Dubai Postpones Fair to May Amid Wider Middle East Conflict

  19-03-2026 18:50 via artnews.com
  
  Art Dubai is the latest fair to be upended by the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran. With Iran continuing to stirke the United Arab Emirates, leading to eight dead and 157 injured and damage to Dubai International Airport, the emirate’s leading art fair announced that its upcoming ediiton will not be held as planned in April.Instead, the fair said in a statement Thursday that it will be moving foward in an “adapted format” on May 14 to May 17 at the resort Madin
  
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• National Women’s History Museum Annonuces Seven-Figure Donation from Meryl Streep

  19-03-2026 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, the National Women’s History Museum—a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that “illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future”—announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution.According to a statement, the Academy Award-winning actor has been a long-time supporter of the National Women’s History Museum, which was founded
  
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• ‘The Sopranos’ Set Photos and Archives Part of Show at the Museum of the Moving Image

  19-03-2026 17:24 via artnews.com
  
  The wildly popular TV series “The Sopranos” aired its much-hyped season finale almost 20 years ago. The critically acclaimed show, starring the late James Gandolfini as troubled mob boss/family man Tony Soprano, premiered on HBO in 1999 and ran for six seasons. “The Sopranos,” often credited with initiating a golden age of prestige television, is now the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image.“Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos” is on
  
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• Emmanuel Di Donna Mounts Major Salvador Dalí Show as Final Exhibition in Madison Avenue Space

  19-03-2026 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  As Emmanuel Di Donna prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery, the veteran dealer is returning to the artist most people think they already understand.This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of Salvador Dalí seen in New York in decades. “Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939,” on view from April 16 through June 13, brings together more than two dozen paintings, sculptures, and works on paper focuse
  
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• Emmanuel Di Donna Closes His Madison Avenue Chapter With a Major Salvador Dalí Show

  19-03-2026 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  As Emmanuel Di Donna prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery, the veteran dealer is returning to the artist most people think they already understand.This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of Salvador Dalí seen in New York in decades. “Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939,” on view from April 16 through June 13, brings together more than two dozen paintings, sculptures, and works on paper focuse
  
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• Our Critics Say the New Museum Finally Has a Building to Match Its Ambitions

  19-03-2026 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  Almost two years ago to the day, the New Museum in New York closed its doors to the public, leaving behind a void—this is one of the country’s few major museums that is focused solely on contemporary art, after all. Now, following an expansion overseen by OMA, the museum is finally back and ready to welcome visitors once more. Ahead of the public opening on Saturday, the museum hosted a press preview on Wednesday to show off its refreshed digs, which are occupied almost entirely
  
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• Meryl Streep Makes Big Donation to National Women’s History Museum, Musée d’Orsay Receives Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fan Paintings: Morning Links for March 19, 2026

  19-03-2026 14:48 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSTREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her honor, while the donation, the amount of which is unspecified, will fund storytelling projects and digital programming.
  
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• Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts

  19-03-2026 13:02 via artnews.com
  
  Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday. Legg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution’s exhibitions, collection, and public programs.Legg’s tenure at the Tate Liverpool began in 2018. Under her leadership, the museum has undergone a $46 million renovation, closing in 2023 to the “reimagining” of the building
  
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• Sotheby’s and Gagosian Veteran Publishes a History of the Art Market, From the Renaissance to Today

  19-03-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  When Valentina Castellani was invited to teach a class at New York University on the history of the art market from the Renaissance to today, she came up against one obstacle in her preparation of the syllabus, even despite her expertise in the matter, with longtime art market experience at both Sotheby’s and Gagosian.“I couldn’t find a book that actually covered all this span,” she said in a phone interview. “There are excellent books and academic studies on many o
  
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• Monet Once Pledged His Paintings to Secure a Loan, a Letter Reveals

  18-03-2026 22:41 via artnews.com
  Paintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840–1926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his Meules (Haystacks) soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymphéas (Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet’s work has attracted a global f
  
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• Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago 

  18-03-2026 22:34 via artnews.com
  The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district.“Located in a space with a long history in modern art, formerly Galerie Malingue, this new venue reflects Mennour’s continued growth while setting out a clear direction: the showcasing of significant works by modern
  
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• Christie’s Turns Pop Culture Into a Stadium Event With $94.5 M. Jim Irsay Sale

  18-03-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  For a few days in March, Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries felt less like an auction house than a public exhibition of 20th-century mythmaking. Fans came to see Kurt Cobain’s guitar, Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger,” and John Lennon’s piano from “Sgt. Pepper” and Ringo Starr’s “Ed Sullivan” drum kit up close. Then the sales began, and what had been a museum-like display turned into something louder, faster, and far more competitive.Ac
  
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• Online Casino Sites That Accept Neteller: A Comprehensive Guide

  18-03-2026 21:57 via zouchmagazine.com
  Online casinos have obtained tremendous popularity in recent years, giving players with the convenience and excitement of playing their preferred gambling establishment games from the convenience of their own homes. One of one of the most popular settlement approaches made use of by gamers worldwide is Neteller. In this article, we will discover the leading online casino sites that approve Neteller and talk about the advantages of utilizing this payment approach.
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• The Cecilia Chorus of NY, Carnegie Hall, April 17.

  18-03-2026 21:53 via artsjournal.com
  The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Conductor, presents the world premiere of A Call for the Battle to Cease by Robert Sirota and Victoria Sirota, featuring pianist Simone Dinnerstein; the New York premiere of Grammy-nominated Mass in Exile by Mark Buller, Leah Lax, and Beth Greenberg, featuring guitarist David Leisner, baritone Shavon Lloyd, and Every Voice Children’s Chorus; and excerpts from Haydn’s Mass in Time of War. Saturday, April 17 at 8 PM in Carnegie Hall.MORE
  
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