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• Pope L. monkeys around in a gorilla suit at Art Basel

  14-06-2016 10:45
  
  New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery kicked off Art Basel’s Unlimited section last night (13 June) with a new performance by Pope.L, the US artist who tackles issues of race and angst across a variety of media. When asked about the reactions he expected from the crowd, he said: “Thoughtfulness,” adding: “I suppose people throwing things might be okay. I can defend myself. I’m not a beast without a mission.” Pope.L debuted The Problem (2016) by t
  
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• Five Standouts at Portland’s Converge 45 Triennial, From a Gourd Frieze to a Performance That Played with Fire

  08-09-2026 19:52 via artnews.com
  
  The US art world has in recent years worked hard to bring a focus to cities outside the market capitals, mounting recurring exhibitions like Counterpublic in St. Louis, the Medina Triennial in upstate New York, and the lamentably discontinued Front Triennial in Cleveland (adding to long-running shows like the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh). One that has remained a little under the radar is Converge 45, established in 2016 by Portland dealer Elizabeth Leach in hopes of getting the art worl
  
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• Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch to Retire as Trump Targets Museum Consortium

  08-09-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III will retire at the end of this year, according to the Washington Post, amid a historic confrontation with the Trump administration over how the museum consortium historicize the United States. Bunch, who assumed leadership in 2019, has faced extraordinary pressure from the White House over the past 18 months to comply with President Trump’s ideological intervention in the Smithsonian, which has had its exhibitions targeted for including refere
  
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• Lucien Smith, Onetime Market Darling Who Turned His Focus To Helping Emerging Artists, Has Died at 37

  08-09-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the cause or place of his death.“Lucien lives in a wordless place inside us now,” Powers told ARTnews.“I loved him and I’m hapy knowing he found some serenity later in life,” artist Joel Mesler told ARTnews via text, adding a hear
  
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• Oxford University Museum to Repatriate 39 Colonial-Era Human Remains

  08-09-2026 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people in India, following years of negotiations, Naga representatives told the New York Times on Saturday. Formal repatriation efforts began six years ago in 2020.The 39 partial remains that will return to Nagaland by the end of this year include a warrior’s cranium, a woman’s skull, and a young person’s jaw, among others. While there were 40 re
  
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• The Man Who Bought The Scream: Collector Leon Black’s Reckoning Is Far from Over

  08-09-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Black’s main passion is art, a love that can easily be traced back to his mother, the artist, and to his aunt, the art dealer, and to her husband, his uncle, who was also an artist. His collection, housed in both his Park Avenue town house and his weekend home in Bedford, New York, is considered by many to be one of the world’s finest in private hands. It’s easily worth more than $1 billion, and perhaps several multiples of that number. On the extensive grounds at his Bedf
  
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• Former Chairman of Kennedy Center Buys Disassembled Joel Shapiro Sculpture

  08-09-2026 16:57 via artnews.com
  
  A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center’s former chairman, David Rubenstein.Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist, was reported as the buyer of Blue on Monday by the New York Times, which cited unnamed sources who said that 24-foot-tall sculpture would eventually go on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art
  
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• Eiffel Tower Workers Strike in Outrage After Female Staffers Ordered to Leave Their Posts, Replaced by Men

  08-09-2026 15:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Eiffel Tower closed Monday due to strikes over outrage that female workers were allegedly ordered to leave and stay out of sight to comply with a special request from a traditional Hindu delegation that visited the monument over the weekend, reported Le Parisien. By Tuesday, the monument had reopened, and a representative of the Hindu religious organization BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, which has close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist party, issued an apology.But
  
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• Loewe’s Fall 2026 Collection Inspired by Cosima Von Bonin’s Sea Creatures Lands in Stores

  08-09-2026 15:17 via artnews.com
  
  German artist Cosima von Bonin’s whimsical and kooky sea creatures have sat on school desk chairs and leaned across museum floors, but in March, her creations made it to Paris Fashion Week to sit on the front row at Loewe’s runway show, the second by creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. Now, those plush octopi, sea lions, whales, and pearl shells that shared prime seating with the likes of Sissy Spacek, Julia Garner, and Lil Yachty have landed in the Loewe st
  
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• Thieves Snatch Renoir Paintings, Ejected Kennedy Center Chairman Buys ‘Blue’ Sculpture, Mexican Sculptor Geles Cabrera Dies, and More: Morning Links for September 8, 2026

  08-09-2026 14:38 via artnews.com
  
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  This morning, thieves nabbed four Renoir paintings and abandoned two before escaping from a southern French museum. Geles Cabrera, Mexico’s first professional female sculptor, has died at age 100. David Rubenstein, ousted chairman of the Kennedy Center, has acquired Joel Shapiro’s Blue sculpture that was just dism
  
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• Four Paintings Stolen from Renoir Museum in Southern France

  08-09-2026 12:32 via artnews.com
  
  Thieves stole four paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tuesday morning from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, according to reports Le Monde and AFP. In their haste, the two suspects abandoned two of four paintings, according to BFM TV, but managed to escape with two artworks, estimated to be worth €9 million ($10.5 million). The museum’s alarm system went off at 5:48 a.m. (local time), with police reportedly arriving on site in five min
  
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• Four Paintings Stolen from France’s Renoir Museum in Predawn Raid

  08-09-2026 12:32 via artnews.com
  
  Thieves stole four paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tuesday morning from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, according to a report by Le Monde and AFP. In their haste, the two suspects abandoned two of four paintings, according to BFM TV, but managed to escape with two artworks, estimated to be worth €9 million ($10.5 million). The museum’s alarm system went off at 5:48 a.m. (local time), with police reportedly arriving on site in five
  
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• Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy Win $95,000 Praemium Imperiale Award

  08-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Artists Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japan’s 37th Praemium Imperiale award—one of the world’s largest art prizes, dubbed by some the “Nobel Prize of the Arts.” They will each win 15 million yen (about $95,000).The award celebrates lifetime contributions to painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater/film on a global scale. Fellow laureates this year include actor Cate Blanchett, who has won Academy Awards for performan
  
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• How Jutta Koether Made A Color Her Signature Style

  08-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  When you walk through a show,” Martin Kippenberger observed to Jutta Koether when she interviewed him in 1991, “some of the pictures are good and some of them are bad. Then there’s possible controversy.” It may seem like a simple observation—until he explains that that’s what he was for. “And not, please, where everything is equally good…. When everything is good, none of it counts. God, in the beginning, wanted that a bit differently. Both good a
  
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• Chanel Culture Fund Partners with Dib Bangkok on Inaugural Chanel Gateway Commission

  08-09-2026 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  Chanel is deepening its artistic relationships overseas through its Chanel Culture Fund. The French luxury brand has partnered with Thailand’s contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok for the inauguration of its annual Chanel Gateway Commission.The annual program will handpick a local artist in Southeast Asia to create a large-scale artwork that will then be displayed at Dib Bangkok, which was founded by ARTnews Top 200 collector Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah and opened its doors in De
  
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• Chanel Culture Fund Partners with Dib Bangkok on Inaugural Chanel Gateway Commission

  08-09-2026 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  Chanel is deepening its artistic relationships overseas through its Chanel Culture Fund program. The French luxury brand has partnered with Thailand’s contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok for the inauguration of its annual Chanel Gateway Commission.The annual program will handpick a local artist in Southeast Asia to create a large-scale artwork that will then be displayed at Dib Bangkok, which was founded by ARTnews Top 200 collector Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah and opened its doo
  
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• Activist Group Labels Video Documenting Falling Ceiling Debris at the Kennedy Center ‘Propaganda’

  08-09-2026 03:23 via artnews.com
  
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in all kinds of trouble, from stagnant ticket sales to falling debris in the grand foyer. The center posted images of the debris on X and Instagram on Friday. “Another warning we can’t ignore. A section of the Grand Foyer ceiling collapsed after this week’s storms. Thankfully no one was hurt. Decades of deferred maintenance made this inevitable,” said the post, adding that “Chairman President Trump has been
  
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• Geles Cabrera, Trailblazing Mexican Sculptor, Dies at 100

  07-09-2026 23:14 via artnews.com
  
  Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, who was celebrated as her country’s first professional female sculptor and associated with the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), died on September 1 at age 100, as first reported by the Spanish magazine Bonart. Over seven decades, she built a sculptural practice that explored the human figure through abstracted, voluptuous forms, often ones made of rough volcanic stone. Over the years, she effectively led the way for younger generations o
  
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• Exactly how to Get an ESA Letter for Your Dog: A Comprehensive Guide

  07-09-2026 19:45 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Emotional Support Pets (ESAs) play an essential duty in offering convenience and friendship to individuals encountering psychological wellness difficulties. An ESA letter is a critical document that gives your dog the lawful status of an emotional assistance animal, allowing you to accessibility specific benefits and lodgings. If you’re thinking about obtaining an ESA letter for your pet, it is very important to comprehend the procedure and needs included.
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• St Paul’s Cathedral Faces Backlash After Partnering with Fabric, Iconic London Nightclub

  07-09-2026 16:24 via artnews.com
  
  St Paul’s Cathedral, the main cathedral in London that serves as the seat of the Bishop of London, is facing backlash after it announced that it’s entering a four-year partnership with Fabric, the capital city’s iconic nightclub known for its variety of contemporary music, from drum and bass to house and techno.St Paul’s Cathedral has a rich history and has been part of many state events such as the funerals of British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatch
  
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• Issy Wood Picked as National Portrait Gallery’s Inaugural Artist for Contemporary Program

  07-09-2026 16:22 via artnews.com
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London, which is home to paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony Van Dyck, and Joshua Reynolds, is welcoming contemporary artists to the museum as part of a new program called Artist Focus.The gallery’s Weston Wing will host three exhibitions annually with free admission, starting with the American-born British artist Issy Wood, whose show will be on view October 9 through to February 28, 2027. In 2025, Wood made headlines for painting pop star Charl
  
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• Fair Warning to Auction Rare Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian Dress and Several Pieces by John Galliano Despite Controversy over Met Museum Exhibition’s Cancellation

  07-09-2026 16:14 via artnews.com
  
  An Yves Saint Laurent Piet Mondrian dress from the 1960s that’s been photographed by the likes of David Bailey, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon is going under the hammer at the online auction house Fair Warning, in collaboration with Kerry Taylor Auctions. Titled “The Impossible Couture Collection,” the sale also features pieces by Azzedine Alaïa, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paco Rabanne, and John Galliano.The sale will take place on the evening of September 17, the first day of Lo
  
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• Exactly how to Obtain an ESA Letter: Your Comprehensive Guide

  07-09-2026 12:03 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  In the last few years, Psychological Assistance Animals (ESAs) have actually amassed substantial focus for their esa letter kansas city capacity to supply convenience and companionship to people with mental wellness problems. An ESA letter is an important document that confirms the requirement for an emotional assistance pet. This overview will stroll you through the procedure of getting an ESA letter, ensuring you have all the information you need.
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• Guggenheim director Miren Arzalluz’s guide to Bilbao

  07-09-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  The art historian and curator charts her hometown’s evolution
  
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• Recognizing What an ESA Letter Appears Like

  07-09-2026 04:54 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Emotional Support Pets (ESAs) have actually come to be an important part of psychological health care for many individuals facing emotional and psychological difficulties. An ESA letter is the necessary paper that legitimizes the visibility of an emotional assistance animal. It plays a esa certification arizona crucial function in guaranteeing ESA proprietors can have their friends with them in various settings, particularly real estate and travel. Yet just what does an ESA letter resemble?
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• Het groene vak en de nul bij roulette

  07-09-2026 02:53 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  “Heel veel mensen denken dat het groene vak alleen maar kans op winst is.”Die opmerking hoorde ik vorig jaar in een café in Eindhoven, terwijl de bartender een zakje koffie tikte.Jij staat voor een tafel met cijfers die niet altijd zeggen wat ze lijken.Het begrip roulette nul groene weddenschap risico blijft vaak vaag voor de onervaren.Ik heb jarenlang bancaire processen gevolgd en zie nu patronen terugkomen.De werkelijkheid is genuanceerder dan een simpele winstkans suggereer
  
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• The Machine Can’t Do Marilyn

  07-09-2026 01:43 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Today’s stories ask the question: when machines can make something, what’s left that only people can make? Start with the flop. A commissioned AI attempt to turn Dakota Johnson into Marilyn Monroe didn’t work, and Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t sorry it failed (Vulture). Meanwhile the Anthropic settlement, sold as a win for authors, has become a fight among publishers, authors, and third parties over who actually gets paid (The New York Times). Money is easier to ex
  
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