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• Ready to Lead What’s Next in the Creative Industries?

  14-09-2026 21:42 via artsjournal.com
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• Amid $22 M. deficit, New York’s School of Visual Arts Shutters Photography MFA program

  15-09-2026 16:46 via artnews.com
  
  The School of Visual Arts in New York is ending its MFA program in photography, video, and related media at the end of the 2027–28 academic school year, the school’s provost and vice president of academic affairs Jason Koth announced in an August email. The news was first reported by Hyperallergic, which reviewed the email.In the email, Koth wrote that the choice to shutter the program was a result of “SVA’s ongoing economic challenges, the nationwide decline in enrollmen
  
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• Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis Jointly Acquire Hendrick Avercamp Winter Landscape

  15-09-2026 16:08 via artnews.com
  
  The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Mauritshuis in The Hague have jointly acquired a winter landscape by 17th-century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp. Colf Players on the Ice (ca. 1625) marks the first time the two museums have collaborated on a joint purchase.The acquisition also represents the painting’s return to the Netherlands after decades abroad. In the 20th century, it was acquired by English art dealer Edward Speelman, who died in 1994, and his wife, Sally, who had put it on long
  
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• Gagosian Director Antwaun Sargent Curated the Walter De Maria Sculptures at Calvin Klein’s Spring 2027 Show

  15-09-2026 16:07 via artnews.com
  
  Calvin Klein’s creative director Veronica Leoni is injecting art back into the American brand. At the brand’s spring 2027 runway show last Friday during New York Fashion Week, Walter De Maria’s sculptures were scattered around Terminal Warehouse in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.Leoni, who joined Calvin Klein in 2024, said her collection was a continuation of exploring the art movement that De Maria is most closely associated with in an expanded form. “American Mi
  
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• The Black Schoolhouse in New Orleans Looks to Offer a New Model of Arts Education and Community Building

  15-09-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  In New Orleans’s historic Seventh Ward, a series of repurposed shipping containers will soon host what its founders hope will be a new model of arts education and community building.Artists Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters founded the Black School a decade ago, slowly setting up the groundwork for a physical space. Now, after more than five years of fundraising and community outreach, they will open the Black Schoolhouse next month as the physical manifestation of the Black School.Located
  
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• The ARTnews Accord: Collectors J. Tomilson Hill and Lonti Ebers On What It Means to Support Art Today

  15-09-2026 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  Longtime hedge-fund manager J. Tomlinson Hill has been collecting art since the 1980s alongside his wife, Janine. They collect in four different areas: Renaissance bronzes, Old Master paintings, about a dozen postwar artists (including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Brice Marden), and emerging artists, the latter mostly women. In 2019, Hill opened the Hill Art Foundation, an exhibition space designed by Peter Marino on the third and fo
  
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• Stolen 16th-century Flemish Panel Given to Spain’s Fine Arts Museum of La Coruña, Brazilian Artist Marlies Ritter Has Died, and More: Morning Links for September 15, 2026

  15-09-2026 14:45 via artnews.com
  
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  Spain’s Fine Arts Museum of La Coruña has received a recovered, stolen 16th-century Flemish panel painting of a biblical scene from the government.Brazilian artist Marlies Ritter has died at 84.Ching-Ling Wang will become the first Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.The Headlines RETURN TO SENDER. Spain&rsqu
  
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• British Museum U-turns on Photography of Bayeux Tapestry, While Conservators Discover Two New Small Breaks After Arrival in UK

  15-09-2026 14:23 via artnews.com
  
  The Bayeux Tapestry has taken the British Museum and London by storm with tickets selling out, merchandise being flaunted all over social media, and bookshops placing volumes on the history of the Bayeux Tapestry at every till. But it seems visitors are already disappointed by their experience at the museum as the British Museum has made a U-turn on allowing photography, according to the Substack Maxwell Museum.It’s unclear as to why the British Museum has banned photography without a reas
  
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• Art in the Room where it happens

  14-09-2026 23:34 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Culture needs a room, but who controls the room? San Francisco Opera’s musicians struck opening night at 7:25 p.m., with patrons already in their seats for an 8 o’clock curtain (The New York Times). Now that’s a power statement. Across the country, Lonnie Bunch concluded the White House intended to take the Smithsonian in a direction he couldn’t go and resigned, calculating that giving up the office was the price of keeping the institution (The New York Times
  
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• Pro-Palestine Activists Protest at British Museum During Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition’s Opening Weekend

  14-09-2026 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  On Saturday, a few days after the highly anticipated Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opened at the British Museum, the group Energy Embargo for Palestine staged a protest in the museum’s Great Hall. The protest was related to the museum’s long-running relationship with British Petroleum and its collaboration with Igor Tulchinsky.Last week, Middle East Eye revealed that the Belarusian billionaire spent $6.8 million to support the artwork’s journey from France to London. Tulchinsky al
  
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• 300-Pound Faun Sculpture Stolen from French Zoo in the ’90s Heads Home

  14-09-2026 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Three decades after it was stolen from a zoo under the cover of night, a 19th-century bronze sculpture was recovered from the United States and returned to its rightful home in the north of France, where it is now on display at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens.According to a press release issued by the London-based Art Loss Register (ALR), Alfred Lepère’s Faune Chasseur was identified as part of due diligence preceding a proposed sale by one of ALR’s auction-house client
  
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• Prized Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Priced at $30 at an Estate Sale, Heads to Auction for $250,000

  14-09-2026 22:24 via artnews.com
  
  Missing for decades, a Gertrude Abercrombie painting will find itself some collector’s prize this October at Freeman’s.Of the lots scheduled for Freeman’s postwar and contemporary art auction, Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951), by the celebrated Chicagoan artist, surely has the best story. According to the house, the enigmatic still life of seashells scattered in a deep void was spotted this summer at a “picked-over” estate sale in Michigan. Hung in a corner of
  
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• Using AI, Scientists Recreate the Sights and Sounds of 2,500-Year-Old Tombs

  14-09-2026 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  The Etruscan painted tombs of Tarquinia, Italy, dating from around the 7th to the 1st century BCE, have long been celebrated for their vivid iconography and remarkable state of preservation. Now, archaeologists have used AI to examine how sight and sound may have affected Etruscan mourners of the time.Focusing on two 5th-century BCE painted tombs at Tarquinia, the Tomba del Gallo and the Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri (“Tomb of the Blue Demon”), as case studies, researchers used acoustic s
  
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• Lawsuit Alleges Warhol Forgery Scheme Spanning Florida, Peru, and Philadelphia

  14-09-2026 21:10 via artnews.com
  
  Duped into buying more than $6.7 million worth of fake Andy Warhol paintings and prints, real estate investor Richard Perlman and his family have launched a multinational lawsuit against the players they say are complicit in the alleged scam.Filed on September 9 in a Miami state court and first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the lawsuit accuses roughly half a dozen individuals and companies across Florida, Philadelphia, and Peru of acting as “suppliers, fake authenticators and distri
  
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• San Francisco Opera Musicians Strike Opening Night Just As Curtain Was Supposed To Go Up

  14-09-2026 21:01 via nytimes.com
  At 7:25 p.m., leaders of the opera walked onstage and told the patrons settling into their seats for an 8 p.m. performance that the opera had been canceled. An outdoor performance set for Sunday at Golden Gate Park, part of the opening festivities, was also called off. – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Emmy Nominees Are In

  14-09-2026 20:31 via televisionacademy.com
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• Colburn seeks Assistant Vice President of Performance & Rentals Marketing

  14-09-2026 20:15 via artsjournal.com
  Organization Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles along the city’s renowned Grand Avenue cultural corridor, Colburn is an internationally recognized performing arts institution dedicated to providing the highest quality music and dance education while enriching the broader community through exceptional performances, artistic experiences, and community engagement. Serving more than 2,000 students annually, from young beginners to emerging professionals, Colburn encompasses the Conse
  
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• Charlie Kirk’s Widow Denounces Vandalism of Statue in Arizona: ‘His Instinct Was Always to Build, Not Destroy’

  14-09-2026 20:09 via artnews.com
  
  Not long after it went on view, a sculpture of Charlie Kirk outside his Arizona nonprofit was vandalized, leading to condemnation from the right-wing activist’s widow.The eight-foot-tall statue appeared last week at the Phoenix headquarters of Turning Point USA, the conservative organization that Kirk cofounded in 2012. It was installed last Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the day that Kirk was killed after being fatally shot in the neck before a crowd. That same day, another statu
  
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• Fashion Designer Bob Mackie, 87

  14-09-2026 20:00 via latimes.com
  
  Prolific costume designer Bob Mackie, whose dynamic sparkling and fringed creations dressed pop culture superstars such as Cher, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus, has died. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Angela Duckworth Takes On Will Power

  14-09-2026 19:17 via newyorker.com
  
  High-profile authors are obviously under pressure to offer novel frameworks, but rarely do these second acts feel like an about-face. Duckworth insists that “Situated” is not a reversal but an expansion of her earlier research; as an account of individual success, grit is “necessary but not sufficient,” and must be complemented by the larger picture. – The New Yorker
  
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• George Lucas’ New Temple To Storytelling

  14-09-2026 18:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which opens this month in Exposition Park, just south of downtown Los Angeles, is a swooping, brain-beggaring, super-sexy, twin-bodied leviathan of a megastructure, white as the gown of Princess Leia, half spaceship, half cetacean, all curves, Shangri-la for skateboarders if they could ever get inside. – The Atlantic
  
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• David Salle On Museum Politics

  14-09-2026 18:31 via news.artnet.com
  Is it possible to make qualitative judgements in an unbiased way? Maybe not. Some people feel that the whole idea of making judgements is just another form of cultural oppression. On one level, aesthetic preferences are all cultural. Take for one example the preference for consonant music over dissonant—it’s cultural, not intrinsic. – Artnet
  
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• What Is Poetry? ‘A glimpse of sun.’ — Jim Harrison

  14-09-2026 18:30 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/09/what-is-poetry-a-glimpse-of-sun-jim-harrison.html" title="What Is Poetry? ‘A glimpse of sun.’ —
  
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• Sotheby’s to Offer $90 M. in Art from Richard Hedreen’s Collection, Ahead of Major University Gift

  14-09-2026 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will offer some 50 works from the collection of Seattle real estate developer Richard “Dick” Hedreen this fall and winter, in a series of sales expected to bring at least $90 million.The sale comes two years after Hedreen pledged his and his late wife Betty’s collection to Seattle University, along with $25 million in seed money to establish a new art museum there. Rather than a reversal of that gift, the family says the sale is intended to help make it happen.A
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Future Hangs in the Balance as Report Warns of Imminent Closure

  14-09-2026 18:25 via artnews.com
  
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy. Leaders at the center, who were largely appointed by President Donald Trump, have argued that the only way to avoid “certain fiscal collapse” is by putting the President’s name on the building’s facade to ensure his fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Washington Post.A 57-page packet reviewed by the Post offered a bleak assessment of the center’s future to the
  
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• The Art Of Being Jeff Koons

  14-09-2026 18:15 via nytimes.com
  Koons the pop culture figure is often at odds with Koons the artist, causing some deep ambivalence among the art establishment. He’s at once an esoteric conceptualist and a marketing genius rivaled only by Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí. – The New York Times
  
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• Christie’s to Auction 31 Pablo Picasso Prints, Including Three Rare Portraits of Wife Jacqueline Roque

  14-09-2026 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  More than 30 prints by Pablo Picasso have gone on display at Christie’s in London through September 23, as part of the auction house’s “Prints & Multiples” sale and exhibition. The total 31-piece lot is estimated to fetch between £2.8 million and £4.1 million ($3.8 million and $5.53 million).Include in the print collection are three portraits of Jacqueline Roque, who was Picasso’s second wife and last lover, until his death in 1973. This October mark
  
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• “The Odyssey” Was Shot On Film. Only One Company Makes The Film

  14-09-2026 18:03 via nytimes.com
  Beyond specific formats, Nolan and “The Odyssey” are part of a broader revival of physical film after the digital revolution seemed to have left it for dead.  – The New York Times
  
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• Christie’s to Auction Antonio Homem Sonnabend’s $50 M. Art Collection

  14-09-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Antonio Homem Sonnabend Collection that’s estimated to achieve more than $50 million at auction is coming to Christie’s this fall, with works by Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol. He is the late adopted son of art dealers Ileana and Michael Sonnabend.During his lifetime, Antonio oversaw Ilena and Michael’s vast collection of works, which included post-war and contemporary art, photographs, prints and multiples, and design, which wi
  
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• Restored Giotto Frescoes Unveiled

  14-09-2026 17:44 via apnews.com
  The newly vibrant “Stories of St. Francis” were shown to the public last week in the Basilica of Santa Croce, just in time for the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death on Oct. 4. – AP News
  
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