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• Production Mold for Ancient Female Figurine Discovered in Jerusalem

  08-09-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A mold used to create a clay figurine during the First Temple Period was discovered earlier this summer on the grounds of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. The excavation, at Kishle, a former prison and military base that is now part of the museum, was overseen by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).“Although many figurines from this period have been uncovered in Jerusalem, this is the first time that a mold used to manufacture them has ever been found in the city,” said IAA re
  
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• Qatar Is Building a Permanent Pavilion for Gerhard Richter to Open in November

  10-09-2026 19:34 via artnews.com
  
  A new permanent pavilion devoted to the artist Gerhard Richter will open later this fall in Qatar, in MIA Park outside Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art. The building was designed by Richter himself and is being constructed in collaboration with Selldorf Architects, the firm led by art-world design favorite Annabelle Selldorf (whose credits include the Frick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, and many more). “Doha Pavilion has been designed by Gerh
  
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• ‘The American Public Has No Love for a CEO’: Stanya Kahn On Her Riveting Video of Social Posts About Luigi Mangione

  10-09-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  It was one of the wildest assassination stories of recent times, when, on December 4, 2024, surveillance cameras captured a masked man as he gunned down United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson outside the company’s annual investor conference in New York. The alleged shooter then fled on a Citi Bike, leaving behind in Central Park a backpack full of Monopoly money. He managed to escape to Pennsylvania, only to be turned in by a McDonald’s employee (who earned the internet’s wrath
  
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• UAE Minister Says Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Will Tell a New Story About the Middle East, Despite the Ongoing War

  10-09-2026 17:36 via artnews.com
  
  All eyes are on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi as it prepares for opening on December 11 after two decades of delays. The cost of the project has neared $1 billion and the country is getting excited for what’s to come. Just last month, the museum named Valerie Hillings as the institution’s inaugural director, where she will oversee the largest branch in the Guggenheim’s four-country museum network.In a short interview with the German culture magazine Monopol, Noura bint Mohammed Al K
  
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• See Inside Maurizio Cattelan’s Highly Anticipated Berlin Show, Featuring a Sculpture Made with Human Remains

  10-09-2026 17:09 via artnews.com
  
  Maurizio Cattelan, the provocateur sculptor famed for duct-taping a banana to a wall and calling it art, has returned with his latest exhibition, a much-hyped show at Berlin’s Neue Nationgalerie. It’s billed as a survey, but in typical form for Cattelan, who once did a Guggenheim Museum retrospective in which many of his sculptures were strung together and hung in the center of the rotunda, the exhibition is something funkier than that.The genesis of the show is equally funky. Cattel
  
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• Billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, Who Sponsored the Bayeux Tapestry’s UK Sojourn, Also Funded a Mental Health Facility in an Illegal West Bank Settlement

  10-09-2026 17:06 via artnews.com
  
  The historic voyage of the Bayeux Tapestry to London’s British Museum has been a popular sensation, with VIPs like the UK’s King Charles and French president Emmanuel Macron attending a reception to welcome the famed 11th-century embroidery. Tens of thousands of people vied for tickets. The fragile artwork was allowed to travel only after the French supreme court tore up a lawsuit aiming to stop the loan and a painstaking French study said it would be safe to undertake the trip.It ha
  
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• Curator Jordan Carter Shares Five Recent Obsessions

  10-09-2026 16:53 via artnews.com
  
  The Dia Art Foundation curator behind this fall’s Counterpublic triennial in St. Louis and Haegue Yang exhibition in Beacon singles out five favorites.
  
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• The Largest Ancient Roman Wall Mosaic Ever Found Goes on Public View

  10-09-2026 16:41 via artnews.com
  
  What may be the largest ancient Roman wall mosaic ever found has been open to the public for limited viewing. Roberto Gualtieri, the mayor of Rome, unveiled the 1st-century CE mosaic, along with a fresco discovered at the same time, in the city this week.The artworks were first identified during excavations in the 1990s at the Baths of Trajan, located on Oppio Hill near the Colosseum, but never fully uncovered until now. Dedicated by Roman emperor Trajan in 109 CE, the baths were an enormous lei
  
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• “Urgent Action” Needed to Protect a World Heritage-Listed Temple in Cambodia

  10-09-2026 16:23 via artnews.com
  
  An ancient Cambodian temple has suffered extensive damage from “direct hits” following the 2025 border war between Thailand and Cambodia, a UNESCO-led study found.The Temple of Preah Vihear, a World Heritage-listed site, remains under serious threat due to military strikes that have left “a profound and detrimental impact on the integrity of the property,” according to the mission report. “Every part of the monument, recent touristic infrastructures and equipme
  
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• Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress Returns to Sotheby’s With $300,000 Price Tag

  10-09-2026 15:37 via artnews.com
  
  It’s been 32 years since Princess Diana stepped out at the Serpentine Gallery’s summer party wearing a black Christina Stambolian dress, otherwise dubbed “the revenge dress.” The dress has served as a reference point for fashion designers on the international runways and for costume designers on shows such as Netflix’s “The Crown.” Now, the dress is coming to auction at Sotheby’s London on December 9 for an estimate of $150,000 to $300,000.The
  
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• Family of Holocaust Victim Made Restitution Request for One of Two Stolen Renoir Paintings, Wildfire Forces Getty Center to Close, and More: Morning Links for September 10, 2026

  10-09-2026 15:18 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!
  One of the stolen Renoir paintings from a southern French museum was the subject of a pending restitution request made by the heirs of a Jewish art dealer who died in Auschwitz.The Getty Center closed on Wednesday after a wildfire broke out along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles. President Trump will have unprecedented control over the Smiths
  
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• Sandra Vásquez De La Horra’s Dreamlike Drawings Unite Nature and Humanity

  10-09-2026 14:45 via artnews.com
  
  As a young child visiting her grandparents in the Chilean countryside, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra went missing. “Nobody could find me. They searched for hours and hours, until finally they found me with a pig who had just given birth. I was sleeping with the piglets,” the artist recently recalled, beginning to laugh. “My relationship with nature is that I’m part of it. I don’t feel separation.”For more than four decades, Vásquez de la Horra has m
  
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• Rabkin Foundation Names Eight Winners of Its 2026 Arts Journalism Grants 

  10-09-2026 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2026 prize for visual arts journalists. The Rabkin Prize carries an unrestricted $50,000 purse, along with creative and intellectual recognition. This year’s recipients, the foundation said, are “deeply interested in the forces that shape what we see—and what we don’t.”This year’s grant winners are Damien Davis, a writer, educator, and artist whose work interrogates how
  
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• After a Turbulent Decade and Multiple Delays, Brussels’s Kanal-Centre Pompidou Will Open in November. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.

  10-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  This past spring, an eclectic mix of journalists donned hard hats and dusty boots to join Kasia Redzisz, the artistic director of the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, on a tour through the institution’s colossal former Citroën garage from the 1930s ahead of its long-awaited reopening. After a crisis-ridden decade of planning and renovations and more than €250 million ($290 million), the 430,000-square-foot complex is set to open on November 28, when it will become the Belgian c
  
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• Getty Center Closes After Fire Breaks Out Along Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway

  10-09-2026 03:27 via artnews.com
  
  Los Angeles’s Getty Center closed early on Wednesday after a fire broke out along the 405 Freeway.Per the Los Angeles Times, the fire was reported to the city’s Fire Department at 4:30 p.m.; it has already burned five acres. The Fire Department has issued an evacuation warning for an area that includes the Getty Center, a complex that includes museum buildings host to Renaissance and Old Master paintings, the Getty Research Institute, and a Robert Irwin–designed garden.Accordin
  
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• The Ninety Nobody Wants From ChatGPT

  09-09-2026 23:37 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Students, it turns out, are tired of AI — not on principle, but because a ninety from ChatGPT doesn’t feel like anything, while a ninety earned over six hours in a basement does (The Walrus). Most people want to earn their accomplishments. That’s the argument culture often fails to win when it’s asked to justify itself in somebody else’s currency.Today’s institutional news is that failure in four lenses. London’s Gate Theatre closes after 47
  
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• Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Names New Director 

  09-09-2026 21:26 via artnews.com
  
  The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has named Kathleen V. Jameson as its next director. She officially began in the role on Tuesday. She replaces Raphaela Platow, who stepped down last year at the end of a four-year contract.  A scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century American art, with an emphasis on photography and works on paper, Jameson was most recently the executive director of Pennsylvania’s James A. Michener Art Museum, a role she held from 2018 to 2019.Pre
  
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• Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Faces Lawsuit over Whether It Truly Is a Private Museum at All

  09-09-2026 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the newly inaugurated institution spearheaded by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, may finally have opened to the press and founding members after $1 billion in costs and more than a decade of bureaucratic wrangling, but a new lawsuit alleges that the museum should’ve faced yet more hurdles during its construction.The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that the museum is currently the subject of four lawsuits by contractors, one of whom is
  
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• Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection Donates 51 Artworks to Four Museums in Greece and Scotland

  09-09-2026 21:24 via artnews.com
  
  The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums across Greece and Scotland.The majority of the works will be spread across the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMUS), and the National Gallery of Greece, all in Greece, with three pieces heading to the National Galleries of Scotland.The donation continues the collection’s “commitment to making contemporary art accessible to wider audiences,” the announcement
  
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• Europe’s Largest Center For Dance Is Now Under Construction In The Netherlands

  09-09-2026 21:02 via gramilano.com
  
  “Located on a prominent site in Rotterdam’s historic docklands, … Danshuis will be the largest centre in Europe dedicated to the production and development of dance under one roof. Open to all ages and levels of experience, it will provide facilities for both professional and amateur dance-making.” – Gramilano
  
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• Many Students Are Sick Of AI

  09-09-2026 20:31 via thewalrus.ca
  
  “Obviously, failing and struggling is not fun, but the sense of pride and succeeding afterwards is very, very motivating for me. And I don’t think you’d get that same kick or that same hit from getting a ninety from ChatGPT versus getting a ninety over an essay where you spent six hours in a basement.” – The Walrus
  
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• Scott Rudin Is Back On Broadway Again — And These Next Projects Are Pretty Brave

  09-09-2026 20:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The first, starting previews next month, is Bruce Norris’s Downstate, about four convicted sex offenders, one of whom is confronted by a now-adult victim. The second has less fraught subject matter; in fact, it has almost no words at all. Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds stars Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Finland’s Largest Viking-Age Silver Hoard

  09-09-2026 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  A hoard of thousands of silver coins was unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist in southern Finland. Experts at Lahti Museums believe it’s the largest Viking-era coin hoard found in the country, Heritage Daily reported.Kalle Lappinen made the find with a metal detector near Sysmä church village on September 3. Archaeologists have since inspected the site and recovered a trove of almost 10 pounds of silver coins, with individual pieces still to be cleaned, separated, and counted.The
  
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• Lonnie Bunch’s Smithsonian Legacy

  09-09-2026 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Through a combination of principled stances and deft political skills, he has kept the sprawling institution on mission and aligned with its public. – The Atlantic
  
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• Will The Lucas Museum Disrupt Museums?

  09-09-2026 19:15 via latimes.com
  
  The museum calls it “narrative art,” defined as art “created to tell stories through images.” George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, have also described their collection as “the people’s art.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• London Loses Another Theatre Company As The Gate Shuts Down

  09-09-2026 19:01 via theguardian.com
  “The Gate Theatre, which has punched above its weight ever since it was founded above a Notting Hill pub in 1979, is to close permanently next month. The announcement comes four years after the theatre had what it described as a ‘devastating’ 100% cut to its Arts Council England funding.” – The Guardian
  
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• Modernist Trove Rich in Signac Paintings Heads to Sale at Christie’s

  09-09-2026 18:47 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title “Radiant Modernism.” The sale will occur across multiple dates, the first of which will take place this October during Frieze London.The auction house did not name the seller of the works, though it did say that the pieces all belonged to a private European collection. Christie’s said the works could collectively bring in somewhere between $40 million and $60 million.The nearly
  
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• Modernist Collection Rich in Signac Paintings Heads to Sale at Christie’s

  09-09-2026 18:47 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title “Radiant Modernism.” The sale will occur across multiple dates, the first of which will take place this October during Frieze London.The auction house did not name the seller of the works, though it did say that the pieces all belonged to a private European collection. Christie’s said the works could collectively bring in somewhere between $40 million and $60 million.The nearly
  
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• Basel Social Club Launches Japanese Counterpart for Art Week Tokyo

  09-09-2026 18:32 via artnews.com
  
  Basel Social Club, an adventurous initiative that has provided counterpoint programming to the spectacle of Art Basel week in Switzerland since 2022, will launch a Japanese edition for Art Week Tokyo in November.Dubbed the Tokyo Jazz Club, the project will transpire in an eight-story former capsule hotel in the bookshop-intensive Jimbocho district of the city, with dates listed as November 1-8.As reported by the Italian publication Artribune, “Inspired by the cross-pollination of fields an
  
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• The Making Of American Sophistication

  09-09-2026 18:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Sophistication, one begins to think, is a thing won against the grain of privilege—a substitute for it, a social sleight of hand. A “classy” entertainer is almost never someone from the upper classes; sophisticated people are mostly smart people passing as rich people.  – The New Yorker
  
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