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• Renowned Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli detained in Tehran

  02-07-2016 22:08
  
  The artist was due to fly to London to speak at the British Museum but had his passport confiscated without explanationAuthorities in Iran have confiscated the passport of the country’s most renowned living artist, Parviz Tanavoli, the day before he was due to speak at the British Museum. Tanavoli told the Observer that he went to Tehran’s international airport on Saturday to take a Lufthansa flight to London but border officials confiscated his passport and barred him from leaving t
  
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• Craig Jun Li’s Art of Show-and-Tell

  27-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  “What I do is like a show-and-tell,” Craig Jun Li explained when we spoke, referring to his displays of found objects and archival material—faded photographs, old letters, buttons. Such ephemera made up his January solo exhibition at Chapter NY. “I want to show the effect these materials have had on me,” he added. Yet the show’s title suggests deeper desires: “I Want to Love with No Fear.”“I blocked the radiators,” he said, explaining a
  
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• Frieze Abu Dhabi Lines Up 84 Galleries for Inaugural Edition in November

  27-08-2026 09:00 via artnews.com
  
  Frieze Abu Dhabi announced today the 84 exhibitors who will participate in its inaugural edition, scheduled to run November 19–22 at Manarat Al Saadiyat, in the city’s Saadiyat Cultural District.The fair will bring together galleries from 63 cities in 36 countries, including 36 galleries (around 43 percent) with locations in the SWANA region. They include Carbon 12 (of Dubai), The Third Line (Dubai), Dastan (Tehran and Toronto), Gypsum (Cairo), Loft Art Gallery (Casablanca and Morocc
  
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• Yayoi Kusama, pioneering Japanese artist, 1929-2026

  27-08-2026 06:56 via ft.com
  Member of 1960s avant-garde later became an Instagram phenomenon and one of the world’s most recognisable artists
  
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• Hyeyoung Cho, queen of Korean craft

  27-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  A new section at Frieze Seoul will put craft on an equal footing with contemporary art. That’s just as it should be, its curator explains
  
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• Yayoi Kusama, Avant-Garde Artist Who Pursued Infinity, Has Died at 97

  27-08-2026 05:30 via artnews.com
  
  Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessive repetitions of dots and nets became a means of expressing infinity, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art worldwide, died on August 14 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Her death was reported on August 27 by Kyodo News and confirmed today by her David Zwirner Gallery, her longtime representation. “It’s been one of the great privileges of my professional life to have been able to represent Yayoi Kusama’s extraordi
  
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• Yayoi Kusama, Avant-Garde Artist Who Pursued Infinity, Has Died at 79

  27-08-2026 05:30 via artnews.com
  
  Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessive repetitions of dots and nets became a means of expressing infinity, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art worldwide, died on August 14 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Her death was reported on Thursday by Kyodo News and later confirmed by her David Zwirner Gallery, her longtime representation.“It’s been one of the great privileges of my professional life to have been able to represent Yayoi Kusama’s extraordina
  
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  27-08-2026 03:34 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Dartmouth’s Hood Museum Taps Whitney Museum Chief Curator Kim Contay to Be Next Director

  27-08-2026 01:15 via artnews.com
  
  The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has named Kim Conaty, the chief curator of the Whitney Museum in New York as its next director. She will begin in the role on October 27.Contay has spent nearly a decade at the Whitney, joining in 2017 as curator of drawings and prints. She was promoted to chief curator in 2024. During her tenure at the museum, she organized exhibitions on Edward Hopper, Mary Corse, and Ruth Asawa. Contay becomes the eighth director to assume the top position and succe
  
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• Hollywood Stars and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Join Ukraine Photo Exhibition as Guest Curators

  26-08-2026 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Sir Stephen Fry, Sharon Stone, Prince Harry, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk are among the public figures taking on guest curator roles for “Postcode Ukraine: Diary of a Volunteer,” a fundraising exhibition of photographs by British, Kyiv-based artist Mark Neville. The show is slated to open on September 11 at Westwood Contemporary in Los Angeles and documents everyday life in Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Neville’s photographs focus on v
  
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• LACMA Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach of Employee, Visitor Information

  26-08-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has filed a class action complaint against the institution over a 2025 data breach that he claims has compromised sensitive visitor and employee information, including Social Security numbers. The complaint accuses LACMA of acting negligently by waiting nearly a year to inform its staff of the breach and seeks unspecified damages, as well as a court-ordered assurance of stronger security measures. The lawsuit, reviewed by ARTnews, wa
  
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• Artists Bring a Narrative to Life: We the People

  26-08-2026 22:25 via artsjournal.com
  We wanted to celebrate our nation, because 2026 is our 250th birthday, and also, it feels necessary in this moment. But how would we do it in a moment when celebrating living in the USA feels political, feels fraught with potential pitfalls? What could we do to bring people together across perceived differences? What would […]
  
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• Culture: The Real Costs of Being Real

  26-08-2026 22:01 via artsjournal.com
  It’s getting difficult to trust what (or who) is real in the age of AI.
  
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• The Smithsonian Institution, Andy Warhol Museum Honor Dolly Parton by Sharing Image in Its Collection

  26-08-2026 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Big blonde hair, a pink outfit, and a toothy smile. Dolly Parton’s image appeared on cake mix boxes, film posters, magazine covers, and paintings. In the wake of the country music legend’s death on Tuesday, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, took to Instagram to remember the “queen of country.”The Smithsonian Institution shared three images that belong to the collection of the National Museum of America
  
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• Actor Tim Curry, Star Of “Rocky Horror” And “It,” Has Died At 80

  26-08-2026 21:02 via variety.com
  
  “Though Curry would forever be the face that launched a thousand Time Warp dances …, he (was) far more than a one-trick pony over a career that spanned more than a half-century.” His roles ranged from Pennywise the Clown (Stephen King’s It) to Mozart (Amadeus ,Olivier and Tony nominations) to King Arthur (Spamalot). – Variety
  
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• Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership, Three LA Museums Examine the Work of Architect Paul Revere Williams, and More: Industry Moves for August 26, 2026

  26-08-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership: The new Jarvis & Werner will open on September 2 with a solo exhibition for Martina Cox at 96 Bowery in New York. Werner is the son of Mary Boone and Michael Werner and has previously worked at both of his parents’ galleries. J
  
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• The NEA Has Survived. But At What Cost?

  26-08-2026 20:31 via americantheatre.org
  
  The generally inoffensive nature of these selections seems to reveal an agency that has trimmed its sails (not only financially) and ceded ground to conservative demands in order to survive. – American Theatre
  
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• What Happens to Seoul’s Art Market After the Hype?

  26-08-2026 20:30 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.The hype surrounding Seoul’s boom years is over. As Frieze Seoul returns for its fifth edition and KIAF marks its 25th anniversary this September, the city’s art market is entering a new phase. While collectors and dealers navigate more challenging terrain, signs point to a maturing market.S
  
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• Choreographer Azsure Barton Reimagines Pandora’s Box As A Parable About AI

  26-08-2026 20:04 via theguardian.com
  “Pandora … was the first woman, an Eve-like figure, created from clay and given by Zeus to Epimetheus, unbeknownst to him, as a punishment for his brother Prometheus giving humans fire. ‘One of the things I was really driven by was the fact that she was an agent of change,’ says Barton.” – The Guardian
  
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• Samia Halaby Remembers Sliman Mansour: ‘A Giant in the History of Art’

  26-08-2026 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Sliman Mansour, an artist and educator who helped create the visual language of Palestinian perseverance, died on Monday in Jerusalem at 79. An outpouring of gratitude and grief has followed in the wake of his death from artists and arts professionals within the Arab art community, and beyond, many of whom counted Mansour as both an inspiration and a friend. Below, Samia Halaby, another pioneering Palestinian painter, reflects on Mansour’s life and legacy.Sliman Mansour affected me hugely
  
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• V&A Museum Workers Vote To Strike

  26-08-2026 19:44 via bbc.com
  
  A PCS ballot registered 95% in favour of industrial action. The union did not say how many workers would be striking. It called for better pay, a cross-site policy to close public spaces when temperatures reached 30C, and for V&A East Storehouse workers “to drink and carry water at work”. – BBC
  
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• Falling Finances Follows Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center: Report

  26-08-2026 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ticket sales are dwindling with speed. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that in the 10 months following President Donald Trump’s takeover of the center, ticket sales and donations have tumbled.The performing arts venue is reportedly on track to fall nearly $100 million short of its revenue target, and center officials are predicting that this fiscal year’s revenue will miss its budget target by 70 percent, while contribut
  
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• A Case For Limiting AI In Culture

  26-08-2026 19:31 via thepointmag.com
  
  If we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts, and thus initiating a period in our own society of which it may someday be possible to say that “nothing happened.” – The Point
  
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