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Florentina Holzinger Is Closing Out ‘Seaworld Venice’ With a ‘Final Dinner’ Made From Bodily Waste

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:44:00 +0200

In piano parlance, an étude is a technically tricky piece of music typically practiced to push a musician beyond their limits. Following that logic, the name of Florentina Holzinger’s final Venice Biennale performance, CLOSING ÉTUDE, suggests that after seven months of her propriety-imploding, waste-wonderland SEAWORLD VENICE, there are feats of endurance still ahead.Part performance, part installation, SEAWORLD VENICE opened at the Austrian Pavilion in May with the piercing

Condemning Violent Protestors, Alicja Kwade to Remove Art Basel Paris Public Sculpture Early

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:28:00 +0200

A monumental sculpture by artist Alicja Kwade will be removed early from public display in Paris, where it was installed part of the public program of the Art Basel Paris fair. The piece is situated on the Avenue Winston Churchill, on the doorstep of the Grand Palais, where the fair is taking place; it went on view today and will be removed on Friday, rather than Sunday, her Paris gallery, Mennour, told ARTnews in an email.“Unfortunately, only on view today and tomorrow, as it has to be di

What’s Selling at Art Basel Paris? Reported Sales Top Out at $10 M. for a Richter and a Baselitz

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:22:00 +0200

Top galleries are placing plenty of works for prices above $1 million at Art Basel Paris 2026. Dealer Emmanuel Di Donna told ARTnews at the Avant-Première preview on Tuesday afternoon (aka the VVIP opening) that the experience is like “drinking from a fire hose.” That was followed by the VIP preview on Wednesday.This all came off without a hitch amid heightened security as protests roiled Paris after demonstrations by high school students against crumbling educational infrastr

V&A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200

Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&A pree

V&A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200

Melting Ron DeSantis Statue Makes a Point About Climate Change in Florida

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:41:00 +0200

Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat.A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in Tallahassee last week, only to begin melting in the Florida sunshine. As DeSantis’s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-lookin

Artists John Akomfrah, Ben Rivers, and Dozens Others Defend Sally Rooney in Open Letter

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:32:00 +0200

Earlier this month, the publisher Faber & Faber announced that it was pulling the books of Sally Rooney from UK shops due to the Irish novelist’s support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group designated as a terrorist organization by the UK government. Now, dozens of artists and writers have signed an open letter that appeared in the New Statesman on Wednesday in protest of the UK government’s policy.Among the signatories are artists John Akomfrah and Ben Rivers, art hist

National Museum of Korea Director Offers to Resign

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:23:00 +0200

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 21, 2026, with additional information.The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has tendered his resignation after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea Herald.The work in question was presented in the show “The Korean Table: Food, Nature, and Life” (on view through October 25) as a piec

Chanel Becomes Lead Sponsor of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum in Expanded Three-Year Deal

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:18:00 +0200

Chanel is deepening its relationship with Hong Kong’s M+ museum, signing on as its lead partner for the next three years and expanding its support beyond film to exhibitions, artist programs, and other projects.The French luxury house has backed M+, the contemporary visual culture museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, since 2023. The partnership has until now mostly focused on experimental cinema, film restoration, and building the museum’s moving-image collecti

The Best Works at Art Basel Paris’s Public Program, From a Crowd of TV Screens to a Flock of Plush Animals

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:05:00 +0200

Yesterday, visitors to the fifth edition of Art Basel Paris had the chance to preview its “Hors les murs” program, which spreads monumental artworks across nine exceptional cultural and heritage sites in the French capital. Among the highlights are works by Niki de Saint Phalle and Alicja Kwade, displayed along Avenue Winston Churchill, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais.Yet these encounters also serve as reminders of what the program has lost. Kwade and Saint Phalle were

Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center to Launch Native Artist Residency with Walker Youngbird Foundation

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200

The Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Walker Youngbird Foundation will jointly launch a new residency program for Native artists beginning next spring.Called the Walker Youngbird Native Artist Residency, the initiative will bring a Native artist to FAWC for four weeks (May 23–June 19). The Walker Youngbird Foundation will provide $10,000 for the inaugural year, $2,500 of which will go to the artist as a stipend. The chosen artist will also receive a priva

NFL COLOR FIELD Program to Debut With Jammie Holmes Artwork Before First Football Game in France

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:58:00 +0200

In advance of its first-ever regular season game in Paris on Sunday, the National Football League announced NFL Color Field—“a new platform that brings football and visual arts together through large-scale installations, original programming and immersive cultural experiences,” as a press release describes it.Over the coming weekend, a painting by Jammie Holmes will figure in hand-painted end zones created for a flag-football field that will be set up beneath the Eiffel Tower a

Eli in Paris: The Fondation Louis Vuitton Will Mount a Giant Show of the Broad Collection Next Year

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0200

A major Paris art institution will host a significant Los Angeles collection next year. “The Broad in Paris” (April 21–August 30, 2027), at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, will be the largest display of works from the Broad collection ever mounted outside its home city, with some 164 works making the transatlantic voyage. The show will happen while the Broad is closed for renovation; it will reopen in 2028 with 70 percent more gallery space.“The Broad in Paris” will fe

Jeff Koons Talks AI, a $100 M. Modigliani in Paris, and More: Industry Moves for October 21, 2026

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:13:00 +0200

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.Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Vielmetter Los Angeles Takes On Painter Patrick Eugène: The Brooklyn-born, Atlanta-based artist, whose figurative work draws on his Haitian heritage, will debut with the gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach in December ahead of a

London’s National Gallery to Exhibit 40 Works, From Rembrandt to René Magritte

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:12:00 +0200

Artworks by Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Lucian Freud, and John Constable are coming together next year at the National Gallery in London, as part of an exhibition titled “Collected.”The works have been acquired through two programs: the Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes, organized by the Arts Council England on behalf of the UK government. The first is an initiative that allows an inheritance tax bill to be replaced by transferring important or pre-eminent cultur

Youthful Edward Hopper Oil Paintings Revealed to Be Copies of Other Artists’ Work

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:02:00 +0200

An excerpt from Louis Shadwick’s new Edward Hopper biography, published in the Art Newspaper Tuesday, reveals that all six of the artist’s early oil paintings are in fact copies of other artists’ works, rather than Hopper’s own original compositions. Hopper made the paintings in a studio in his family’s home in Nyack, New York, when he was a teenager, before attending art school in New York City.The works were discovered in the attic of Hopper’s childhood home

Basquiat’s Long-Unseen Riff on Leonardo da Vinci To Lead Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale With $30 M. Estimate

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0200

The re-emergence of a long-unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs. Christie’s announced Tuesday that one will appear at its 21st Century Evening Sale this fall.Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads) will make its first public appearance in more than two decades when it leads Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale in New York on November 19, having surfaced from a “distinguished” private European collection. The es

Düsseldorf Galleries Sign Open Letter Against Far-Right Political Party’s Attempts to ‘Co-Opt’ Joseph Beuys

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:56:00 +0200

More than 30 galleries based in Düsseldorf, Germany, signed an open letter last week that called out the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party for its attempts to “instrumentalize Düsseldorf’s art and cultural history to serve a political narrative that promotes social exclusion.”Published on October 15 and initiated by Daniela Horn, the founder of Van Horn gallery, the letter centers around an event that was initially set to be staged at the city&rsqu

Theaster Gates Returned a David Drake Jar to His Descendants—It’s Now on View at a Virginia HBCU

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:47:00 +0200

In May, Theaster Gates set a precedent for restitution by transferring ownership of a stoneware vessel by David Drake, an enslaved ceramist widely known as “Dave the Potter,” to his descendants. The family estimates that some 200 of Drake’s surviving works remain in the possession of museums and collectors, though a growing number of institutions are agreeing to its request: return Drake’s work to his family, and we’ll keep it on view and accessible to the public.Th

Environmental Group Unveils Melting Statue of Florida Gov., New Beatles Museum Announced for Liverpool, V&A Unionized Staff to Strike Again, and More: Morning Links for October 21, 2026

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:26:00 +0200

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An environmental group has unveiled a life-size melting statue of Florida governor Ron DeSantis.Liverpool announces Beatles projects for the city, including a 100,000-square-foot museum.The Victoria & Albert Museum’s unionized staff plans to strike across all four London sites.The Headlines MELTING AWAY. A statue of Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been unveiled in Tal

Do memorials belong in train stations?

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:20:00 +0200

The meaning of statues like the Kindertransport one risks being lost when the world is rushing past

Can AI Help Identify the Sitters in Historical Portraits?

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200

Can AI help identify the sitters in historical portraits? This is the question pondered by an interdisciplinary project as well as an exhibition that opened this month at Geneva’s Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH), showcasing a dozen 1762 chalk drawings of the family of Austria’s Empress Maria Theresa by the 18th-century artist Jean-Étienne Liotard.Twenty years ago, when Catriona Seth was preparing to publish a book about Marie-Antoinette, she chose a beloved

Rosana Paulino’s Pantheon of Black Plant Goddesses Arrives in Paris

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200

The growing visibility of Rosana Paulino’s work reaches a new chapter with the opening this week of her first solo exhibition in Paris, at Mendes Wood DM’s outpost in the French capital.Titled “Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight,” the exhibition introduces new plant goddesses into the Afro-botanical pantheon Paulino has been building since 2019 as part of her ongoing series “Senhora das Plantas” (Lady of the Plants), which elevates Black women to th

Hey Kennedy Center, I want my art back!

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:52:00 +0200

Good Morning,Computer analysis of Edward III, published anonymously in 1596, assigns 23 segments to Shakespeare and nine to Christopher Marlowe, the first serious case that the two rivals wrote a play together (The Guardian).Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met this week; no opera won a Pulitzer or reached the finals between 1962 and 2000, so this one’s a milestone (SF Classical Voice). The Met also commissioned The Mothers of Kherson, an opera about Russia’s w

Art Basel Paris Opens Avant Première with ‘Good Energy,’ a Smattering of Sales, and One $100 M. Work

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:04:00 +0200

What’s the vibe in Paris, you may be asking? While the detritus of the weekend’s protests marks many of the city’s arrondissements, the art world is proceeding with business as usual, with events and openings going on as planned Monday night and Tuesday, culminating in the opening of Art Basel Paris’s Avant Première preview at 3 p.m.Around 10 minutes before opening, only a short line had formed to enter the Grand Palais, the architectural marvel that is home to Art

National Museum of Korea Director Apologizes for Misattribution of a Work on Display

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:01:00 +0200

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 20, 2026, with additional information.The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has issued a formal apology after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily, which reported on the incident last week.The work at the center of the controversy was presented in the show “The Korean Table

The Washington Ballet At 50

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:01:00 +0200

“Go-Go 50,” the upcoming mixed-bill program assembled to celebrate the anniversary, “exemplifies some of the company’s hallmarks: a willingness to gamble on new work, an embrace of diverse repertoire, and an ability to capitalize on the culture and cachet of its hometown.” – The Washington Post (MSN)

Donors Are Trying To Save Artworks At The Kennedy Center

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0200

Donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. – ARTnews

What Got The Hollywood Establishment To Join The Vertical Microdrama Boom? SAG-AFTRA

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:03:00 +0200

“SAG-AFTRA’s independent Verticals Agreement helped open the door for producers to hire union performers for the format’s notoriously small-scale productions. They’ve also brought some structure and legitimacy to the medium. … Bigger-name talent is now more open to verticals thanks to the protections the agreement brings.” – TheWrap (MSN)

James Gibson’s Cultural and Spiritual Legacy Lives on in His Sculptures

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200

With a career spanning 60 years, James Gibson was a revered Tennessee teacher and sculptor. Today, over 240 sculptures from his estate are available to collectors for purchase.Related ArticlesJenny Holzer on Paris Protests: 'It's Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education' Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center's Artworks from 'Destruction' or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover It’s hard to miss a sculpture by James Gibson, whose numerous and often massive works can b

Jenny Holzer on Paris Protests: ‘It’s Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education’

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:56:00 +0200

In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to be clean,” the artist told T: The New York Times Style Magazine. “I worry about the kids’ safety.”The occasion for the interview was Holzer’s solo

Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center’s Artworks from ‘Destruction’ or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:45:00 +0200

It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed if he does not get his way.Now, CNN reports that donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of l

How Intuition Works

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:44:00 +0200

The key is to see that intuition works in much the same way as perception, in that both can directly present something to us as actual. Once we understand what gives perception this feature, we can see why intuitions might involve exercising the same basic kind of cognitive capacity. – Aeon

Five Essential Books About Pop Art

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:37:00 +0200

Pop Art arrived in the middle of the 20th century, as artists experimented with pictures and processes borrowed from mass media. Their high-low mashups, nostalgic references, and high-octane colors remain alluring, relevant, and surprisingly misunderstood. In time for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on Roy Lichtenstein, read these five books to revisit the significant cultural movement and track its continual reinvention.

What’s Up with Elizabeth Holmes’s Weird Norman Rockwell–Inspired Background on X?

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:32:00 +0200

This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US.Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the businesswoman that was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, may offer some reasons for the weirdness of her social media in the past few years.As stated in

Shakespeare And The Work Of Black Women

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0200

In the Folger’s newest exhibition To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, curated by Akhimie, more than 400 years of Black women’s engagement with Shakespeare is collectively explored for the first time, illuminating the ways in which Black women have claimed and reimagined the works of Shakespeare through scholarship and craft. – The Guardian

Scholars Conclude That Shakespeare Was Primary (But Not Sole) Author Of “Edward III”

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:02:00 +0200

The history play was published without a named author in 1596, and it was long believed that Shakespeare had written a few scenes. New analysis shows “beyond doubt” that he wrote “the lion’s share,” 23 segments of the script, while Christopher Marlowe wrote nine. – The Guardian

Why Has Netflix Hit A Wall?

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:44:00 +0200

The ousters of two of the company’s top creative executives are a sign that the streaming giant’s leaders feel the service needs to overhaul its content offerings. – The Wall Street Journal

Brewster Kahle: Why The Internet Needs A Memory

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:31:00 +0200

Many people assume that once something is published online, it will remain forever retrievable. The saying that “the internet never forgets” has produced a dangerously false sense of permanence. In reality, the internet forgets continuously. Websites are constantly revised, deleted, and abandoned altogether. – The Atlantic

The Harms Of Zombie Copyright

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0200

Fifty years ago today, copyright law in America changed fundamentally. That change was an accidental disaster for both creators and the culture they create. – Lawrence Lessig

New York’s Canada Gallery Faced Threat of Dissolution After Backer’s Lawsuits, Court Documents Show

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:14:00 +0200

Canada, an esteemed New York gallery, faced the threat of closure last year after a backer filed two lawsuits against the space’s founders.A New York court ruled that the gallery could remain open, and neither lawsuit appears to be active, with the most recent filings for both posted at the start of this year. However, in the year and a half since the lawsuits were filed, three of Canada’s partners—including one of the gallery’s founders—left the operation. Five art

What’s Behind The Current Wave Of Theater, Film, Literature, And Other Art About AIDS

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:04:00 +0200

Much of the new work being done has a sense of mission — a feeling that, 45 years after the epidemic first broke out, something many gay people today are too young to remember — a struggle that changed our world cannot be permitted to recede into mere abstraction. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine

Experts Call for Indigenous Artifacts in Canadian Tycoon’s Collection to Be Repatriated

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200

A Canadian seafood tycoon’s financial troubles have turned into a debate over who gets to decide what happens to his art collection, which includes dozens of Indigenous artifacts that some experts say should be returned to their communities of origin.John Risley, the billionaire businessman who cofounded Clearwater Seafoods, is caught up in a dispute over hundreds of artworks and antiques following the collapse of his investment company, CFFI Ventures, which entered creditor protection in

Did Drought Really Cause The Collapse Of Ancient Maya? New Studies Cast Doubt

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:44:00 +0200

Taken together, the research is part of a shift in how researchers have come to consider one of antiquity’s great mysteries, awakening yet another fierce debate in academia over the effects of climate on civilizations, and why they fray. – Washington Post

Auction House Phillips Appears To Be Reinventing Its Business

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:35:00 +0200

In conversations with several people with intimate knowledge of Phillips, past and present, it appears Phillips has decided it doesn’t want to be the same company it spent the last decade trying to become. – ARTnews

WBUR Chief To Step Down

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0200

Margaret Low joined NPR at age 23 as an overnight production assistant and rose to senior vice president for news, the network’s top editorial job. She then spent five years running The Atlantic’s live events division before becoming WBUR’s first CEO in January 2020 – “just in time for a global pandemic,” she said. – WBUR

Global Executive Arts Management Fellowship – Apply by Dec. 3

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:07:00 +0200

The DeVos Institute Global Executive Fellowship is a three-year, fully-subsidized program for arts and culture executives. The Institute invites applications for the 2027-2029 cohort from leaders of arts and culture non-profits worldwide by December 3, 2026.Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, the high-intensity program provides training and guidance in strategic planning, leadership, fundraising, marketing, board governance, human resources, and financial

Artistic Director – The Apollo via TOC Arts Partners

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:04:00 +0200

About the OpportunityFor more than ninety years, The Apollo has stood as a living symbol of Black excellence, artistic innovation, and cultural leadership. From legendary performances that reshaped American culture to new works that challenge, inspire, and unite, The Apollo has never been simply a theater; it has been a proving ground for brilliance, a gathering place for a Harlem and international community, and a home for Black artists.As The Apollo completes The Apollo Rising 2.0 campaign, t

YouTube Intends To Start Offering Audiobooks

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:01:00 +0200

“YouTube has weighed bundling the product in its ad-free YouTube Premium service, which starts at $15.99 a month and includes access to music and videos, the people said. Like other streaming platforms vying for consumers’ attention, YouTube has packaged offerings together to make lucrative subscriptions more appealing.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

While Partly Closed For Construction, Broad Museum In L.A. Will Lend Scores Of Artworks To Paris

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:35:00 +0200

“The museum announced Tuesday that it’s shipping 164 works to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris for its most extensive exhibition ever mounted outside Los Angeles. The show will open April 21 and run through Aug. 30,” as the Broad finishes major construction on a new extension. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Jewish Museum in Rural Argentina Stays Open Amid Clash With Local Government, Rare Hilma af Klint Abstract Painting Hits Auction, and More: Morning Links for October 20, 2026

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:28:00 +0200

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The Villa Domínguez Jewish Museum in Argentina is keeping its doors open amid clashes with the local government.An abstract Hilma af Klint painting, coming to auction for the first time in more than three decades, could potentially break a record for the Swedish artist.A final review of President Donald Trump’s proposed Triumphal Arch by the National Capital Planning

Bayeux Tapestry Will Return Home Next Summer To A Completely Different Display Format

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:03:00 +0200

Before the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidery left its eponymous museum in France for London, it was hung vertically. At the British Museum, the enormous textile is lying flat in a display case in a darkened room, a format which the post-renovation Bayeux Museum will (mostly) adopt. – ARTnews

In Rare Market Moment, Hilma af Klint Painting Comes to Auction in Sweden

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0200

A Swedish auction house will sell an abstract painting by Hilma af Klint, an artist whose work almost never comes to market.The painting, titled Ser III No. 5 (1920), will be sold by the Stockholm-based Bukowskis house during a November 19 sale of modern art and design objects. It has been given an estimate of $600,000–$800,000, and if it reaches even its low estimate, the work will shatter af Klint’s prior auction record.Once a relatively obscure figure within 20th-century art histo

Collector Libbie Mugrabi Faces New Legal Battle Over 1982 Basquiat to Satisfy $2.3 M. Judgment

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0200

Earlier this month, the real estate company 320 E 82nd Owner, LLC filed a petition seeking to compel socialite art collector Libbie Mugrabi and the auction house Phillips to turn over an untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in the latter’s possession in order to satisfy a $2.3 million judgment.New York County Supreme Court judge Linda M. Capitti pushed the petition forward last week, approving an order on October 14 preventing the sale or transfer of the Basquiat and compelling Mugr

After Decades On The Sidelines, American Contemporary Opera Is Now Thriving

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:32:00 +0200

After a few decades when most US companies (especially the Met) treated new opera like kryptonite, many are now presenting a contemporary work almost every season — and selling lots of tickets. Michael Zwiebach examines why this is happening now. – San Francisco Classical Voice

5 Pro Tips For Conserving Your Art Collection

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:32:00 +0200

In the world of contemporary art, the maintenance and conservation of paintings usually takes place in strict confidence. But the discretion that damaged art requires does come at an unintended cost, leaving many collectors in the dark about how to navigate the surprising and complex journeys paintings take through time. When defects can be so readily photoshopped out, it’s even easy to fall prey to the illusion that paint doesn’t age at all.In truth, paintings have always been needi

The First Opera About Russia’s War On Ukraine Has Its Premiere

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:04:00 +0200

The Mothers of Kherson, with music by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and libretto by American playwright George Brant, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera three years ago and got its first full performance on Friday at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. (The Met premiere is scheduled for April 2028.) – The New York Times

Teenage Suspect Arrested In Case Where Actor Was Chased Through Streets Before Performance

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:36:00 +0200

The incident happened last week at England’s Chichester Festival Theatre: last Tuesday’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was cancelled after a cast member reported that he’d just been chased through the streets by people shouting abuse. One 16-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged. – The News (Portsmouth, UK)

A lively Frieze Week has London gallerists dreaming of a Brexit U-turn

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:26:00 +0200

With solid auction results and a starry Frieze London, the capital’s art scene is enjoying a wave of optimism

Ann Hornaday, Longtime Washington Post Film Critic, Is Dead At 66

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200

“(She) brought a casual, if knowledgeable, approach to her reviews, writing more from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer than from the lofty perch of a scholar of cinema. She wrote hundreds of reviews … over more than 20 years and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism in 2008.” – The Washington Post (MSN)

Fondation Louis Vuitton Reunites Hundreds of Masterpieces Once Owned by One France’s Most Important, Though Now Forgotten, Collectors

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200

Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, January 1889 emerges like a vaguely familiar, climactic apparition about a third of the way through the new blockbuster exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (FLV) in Paris. Here, we find “poor Vincent,” as he is occasionally referred to in the exhibition catalog, smoking a pipe, an activity he associated with calm contemplation. Behind him, swaths of orange and red form a bold contrast to his green jacket and mat

Oh, what a beautiful ceiling!

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0200

Will you be activating your fifth wall?

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Prairie, Chicago Gallery That Put Conceptualism Ahead of Commercialism, Closes After Nearly a Decade

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:02:00 +0200

Prairie, a Chicago gallery that helped put a range of cutting-edge artists on the path to success, will close after nine years.The gallery announced its closure on Friday by revealing that its forthcoming exhibition, a group show called “Retrospective,” would be its final one. “This will be our last show,” the gallery wrote on Instagram.Founded in 2017 by Tim Mann and Jack Schneider as an artist-run space, the gallery had a name that referred to “the ecosystem that

Bayeux Tapestry Display to Change Upon Return to Normandy Next Year

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:31:00 +0200

When the Bayeux Tapestry returns to Normandy next summer after its 10-month sojourn to London, the 11th-century textile will be re-presented in a new way that more closely resembles how it currently looks at the British Museum in London.Previously, reports Le Monde, the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidered cloth had been displayed vertically at the Bayeux Museum, which is closed for renovations and scheduled to reopen in October 2027. At the British Museum, however, it has been displayed flat, i

Protests Erupt Over Removal of LGBTQ and Feminist Objects at National Museum of Colombia

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:19:00 +0200

Protesters assembled around Bogota’s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects “related to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,” according to the digital news source Colombia One.As reported, “The decision by Abelardo De La Espriella’s government, announced last Friday, turned the area around the museum into a site of public demonstrations against what protesters describe as ‘an at

New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:24:00 +0200

New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they’ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery&rsquo

Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:52:00 +0200

What’s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list.The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression: The Hypnotist (2026) by Atlanta native Taylor Simmons. The work, he wrote, was “just incredible.”Simmons is a 2026 artist-in-residence, along with Simonett

Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:17:00 +0200

Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The €

Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0200

Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida city in 2002.But a New York Times report goes inside a sharp-elbowed fight over the future location of the fair, whose executives demanded that the city cut in half the rent it pays on the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the

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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:14:00 +0200

A retrospective for Eva Gonzalès, who is today best known as Édouard Manet’s only formal pupil, has been long overdue. That correction was planned for 2020, when the Château-Musée de Dieppe was to organize a show as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, but it was put on hold by the pandemic until the Petit Palais took up the mantle, where “Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883): A Free-Spirited Artist’s Journey” is on view until Januar

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For Now, Art Basel Miami Beach Won’t Move To Las Vegas

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0200

“The sticking point, as discussed by city officials at a public meeting last Wednesday before a vote on a revised contract, was Art Basel’s demand to essentially halve the nearly $1 million annual rent the fair had previously paid to Miami Beach.” – The New York Times

Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:25:00 +0200

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What If Climate Fiction And Movies Have Been Hitting The Wrong Buttons?

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0200

Fear spreads its message more quickly – but it also paralyzes most people to inaction, exactly not what most writers of climate fiction would prefer. – The Guardian (UK)

Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0200

“Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR

We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0200

That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times

The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:15:00 +0200

“Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English

Protesters Block Louvre Following Weekend of Unrest, Art Basel Will Stay in Miami Following City Rent Discount, and More: Morning Links for October 19, 2026

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:10:00 +0200

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The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on Saturday and devolved into rioting.Amid a “cyclical downturn” for Art Basel fairs, the company will hold onto its spot in Miami through 2031, thanks to a new deal that reduces annua

Will Humans Still Know How To Clean It Up When AI Flubs Major Tasks?

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200

“As people become less involved in a task, they can become less prepared to step in when needed. Researchers have called this the out-of-the-loop performance problem.” – The Conversation

Saturday Night Live UK Ripped Into US SNL For Shane Gillis’s Blithering Misogyny

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:45:00 +0200

“A representative for [Lorne] Michaels did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.” – The New York Times

The Fine Art Of Literary Adaptation

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0200

Though some books are more easily adapted than others, “the quality of the source is irrelevant.” – The Guardian (UK)

For Those Currently Obsessed With ‘You Can See Everything,’ Who Is The Film’s Antagonist?

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0200

By now, anyone at all online knows it’s Billy Evans – but who is he? – The New York Times

Three Recent Films Demonstrate How We See Poetry – And Poets

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200

Ouf. “Is it wistful or cruel, the movies looking at poets only to find them pitiable, even or especially when they’re howling at the moon? The last artists who can’t make money, who have a pressing and practical concern about old books and what’s in them.” – LitHub

How The Music Of ‘Traitors’ Manipulates Our Emotions

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:45:00 +0200

Composer Sam Watts: “I knew it was going to be a bit camp and high drama and all the glorious things. … So I just went with that – dark but fun.” – BBC

Let’s Talk About Why ‘John Proctor Is The Villain’ Is So Massively Popular

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0200

Basically? “It’s a two-hour whirlwind of pop music-infused teen joy, thoughtful discussion of cultural revisionism, complex young characters, and dynamic performances.” – KC Studio

John Berger Is The Antidote To The Scroll

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:15:00 +0200

“It’s his essays about art and artists that matter most to me now. Reading them, you often feel you’re standing next to him in the museum or even looking through his eyes at a painting or a sculpture. You pay attention to his attention.” – The New York Times

Two Land Art Turf Swaps Reveal How Urban London And Rural Wales Are Doing, Ecologically Speaking

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0200

It’s not great news for the rural life, but urban London is looking pretty good. – The Guardian (UK)

Isabel Allende Entered Herself in a Contest under a Pseudonym

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:45:00 +0200

Good Morning,Isabel Allende, 84, won Spain’s €1 million Premio Planeta by submitting a sequel to The House of the Spirits under the name Luz Ventura, with the title Los que faltan. She told those at the ceremony she had never entered a contest before because she didn’t want to come last (The Guardian).Ana Mota, a senior at South Grand Prairie High in Texas, was cast as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors until the school board swapped in Frozen, citing the 2025 anti-DEI law, Senat

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:08:00 +0200

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family.The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he

A New Collective In Portland Would Really Like To Provide A Living Wage To Theatre Workers

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200

Possible? Maybe: “Davidson found sources for Puddletown’s business structure by looking backward, to the kind of cooperative arrangements used by first traveling commedia dell’arte companies to Shakespeare’s players, on down to late 19th and early [20th] century repertory troupes.” Its first show is free. – Oregon ArtsWatch

The Art Bird News Outrage Cycle Continues, But Why?

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0200

If you have miraculously missed most of the Kelly Clarkson/small business/rudeness cycle, it’s back. The art bird at the center of the Brooklyn storm, once tagged at $15,000, now retails for $15 million. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Recreating The Mona Lisa, By Plane

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0200

“Pilots looking to clock in flight hours and practice tricky turns can have a bit of fun by tracing the shapes of animals, words, phrases, or in Mr. McDaniel’s case, world-class art. Mr. McDaniel’s Instagram moniker is Pilot Picasso.” – The New York Times

Lessons about Value and AI from the Digital Revolution

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:02:00 +0200

Twenty-five years ago the digital revolution rewrote the ways culture gets found, valued and paid for. The battles were fought in a series of skirmishes over disruptive technologies that remade the ways creative marketplaces were organized. AI is poised to do the same. So… lessons?

If We Force Chatbots Into Third Person, Will People Stop Thinking Of Them As Sentient?

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200

Sherry Turkle: An AI is “really not afraid of death, it’s not afraid of illness, it’s not afraid of pain, it doesn’t love its children, and it doesn’t care if you kill yourself or make dinner.” – Wired

Is It Possible To ‘Do Jane Austen Justice’ With Movie Costumes?

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0200

Says the new Sense and Sensibility‘s costume designer, “It was an amazing experience to try and fight those two sides, making historic accuracy marry up with how I wanted to give us a more modern take in the film.” – Variety

Peter Nagy, Artist Turned Influential Art Dealer In India, Has Died At 66

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0200

Nagy was “a prescient artist turned canny art dealer who brought the New York gallery system to India and contemporary Indian art to the world.” – The New York Times

Playing A Rock Concert Is Like Giving Yourself A Concussion, Doctors Tell Billy Joel

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0200

His neurologist says performing is out for now. “He describes the combination of extreme sound volume, lighting, stress and energy as the concern. Further testing, he adds, will help determine whether he can return.” – The Hollywood Reporter

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Look Into America’s Most-Storied Art Couple

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200

“Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of more 120 works by America’s most storied art couple: Lee Krasner (1908–84) and Jackson Pollock (1912–56). Much has been said about them, with almost all the focus being on Pollock. A May auction made him the newest member of the $100 million club, and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Grego

Getty Images Heads to Bankruptcy With Koch’s Backing

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:33:00 +0200

This Week’s Highlights:Getty Images, whose photographers cover most red carpets and owns a significant portion of the world’s historical photo archives, plans to go private through Chapter 11 with up to $533 million from Charles Koch’s investment firm; its iStock stock-image business is losing demand to AI tools, while its news-photo division is forecast to grow from $369 million to $400 million by 2029 (The Hollywood Reporter).
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The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:27:00 +0200

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to London for its 14th edition, which has introduced a new section this year focused on African modernism, curated by art historian Nancy Dantas. Titled “West Wind” and inspired by Miriam Makeba’s 1966 anthem for unity, this presentation addresses the gap left by Sotheby’s when it closed its dedicated African modernism department in 2025. The showcase features mid-20th-century masters, like Ibrahim El-Salahi, Bertina Lop

Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200

Listen to Ibrahim Mahama speak, and he’s likely to credit his success to his community, which includes market women, weavers, craftsmen, studio assistants, railway workers, curators, professors, and fellow artists.The Ghanaian artist is quick to recognize their contributions when he receives one of the many awards he’s picked up recently. Ranked at the top of the influential ArtReview Power 100 list in 2025, he also won an Art Basel Gold Award that year and received the 2026 Arnold B

How Cringe Took Over Culture

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200

In art, as in life, the messy materiality of flesh fazes me not one whit.The climax of Lukas Moodysson’s A Hole in My Heart (2004), where Geko vomits into Tess’s open mouth? Wrote about it. Judy Chicago’s menstrual defiance, Ina Poppe’s mother’s milk cheese, Martin von Ostrowski’s spunk-strewn canvases, Marc Quinn’s sculpture cast with 10 pints of his own blood? Up my alley. Florentina Holzinger’s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at

Eight Galleries in India You Should Know

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200

The Indian contemporary art market has been on an upswing in recent years. The growth has been catalyzed by the country’s economic boom and explosion in private wealth. This has been amplified by a surge in prices for the work of India’s modern masters, now nearly inaccessible for emerging collectors. Galleries have been in rapid expansion mode, participating in more art fairs internationally, and opening new spaces.Below is a primer looking at eight of India’s top galleries, w

One weekend, 1,400 works — how much art can a person absorb?

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0200

A museum or gallery visit can end up as rushed viewing or sensory overload. So don’t seek ‘value’ in terms of money or time — what matters is the lingering impact

How artists have imagined the end of civilisations

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0200

From exhibitions to reinhabited structures, artists and architects explore how ruins and fragments show the beauty of what remains

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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0200

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Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Federation Over Cranach Diptych, Met Names Danh Võ for Genesis Façade Commission, and More: Morning Links for October 16, 2026

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:59:00 +0200

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The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter’s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection.The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected artist Danh Võ for its 2027 Genesis Façade Commission.The Biennale Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing it

Mao Weitao Shaved Her Head for Opera

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:41:00 +0200

Good Morning,Ian McKellen, 87, will appear as a hologram in Simon Stephens’s play An Ark, filmed by 52 cameras, at Manchester’s Factory International from March 27 (BBC).Mary Duggan was asked to design 80 council homes on a Croydon hillside and instead fit in 157 among five brick towers and a bluebell wood. Lion Green Road has just won Britain’s Stirling Prize for architecture, after a planning application that drew 257 objections (The Guardian).
The Centre Pompidou’s fir

Rubaiya Qatar Quadrennial Names More Than 120 Artists for Inaugural Edition

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:21:00 +0200

Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new initiative, presented by Qatar Museums in collaboration with ALRIWAQ Arts + Architecture.Unlike most other recurring art exhibitions, Rubaiaya Qatar will be made up of three separate shows at three different institutions and will also include a public art component.“The inauguration of Rubaiya Qatar

ARTnews Celebrates 2026 Edition of Annual Top 200 Collectors Issue

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200

On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from the Chrysler Building to the JPMorgan Chase Tower to the Empire State Building.The evening’s cohosts were Estrellita Brodsky, chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and cofounder of Another Space in Chelsea, and Becky Gochman, cofounder of the Gochman Family Collection, which will o

Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Dealer’s Heirs Over Looted Cranach Painting, Extending a Decades-Long Fight

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:59:00 +0200

In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by the Nazis and later sold to its founder. The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return.The museum opposes an attempt by the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles and its board chair Daniel Gryczman, who sued in

George Osborne Personally Helped Secure Controversial $6.6 M. British Museum Sponsorship, Emails Show

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:38:00 +0200

George Osborne, the former British chancellor who now chairs the British Museum, played a personal role in securing a reported £5 million ($6.6 million) sponsorship from billionaire hedge fund manager Igor Tulchinsky, according to internal emails obtained by the campaign group Culture Unstained.The correspondence, first reported by in the Art Journal, shows that Osborne introduced Tulchinsky to the museum and gave the go-ahead for sponsorship negotiations less than 90 minutes after receivi

Eight Group Shows to See in New York, From Incendiary Art History to a Lesson in Telenovelas

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:57:00 +0200

You’d be forgiven for thinking New York’s fall art calendar begins and ends with the museum spotlight. From the Whitney Museum’s Roy Lichtenstein retrospective to a Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock blockbuster at the Met, ’tis the season of mid-century heavyweights. But for those who’ve made the rounds—or simply like their art with a party—compelling encounters abound in group shows across the city.Some delve into lesser-known chapters of New York art his

Ice Dancing Champion Tessa Virtue Makes Her Professional Debut Dancing On Dry Land

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:50:00 +0200

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London’s Art Market May Be Damaged But Small Galleries Are Sharpening Their Edge

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:31:00 +0200

Though Brexit and reforms to wealthy international residents’ tax arrangements have damaged the Britain’s art market, the depth and quality of London’s midsize and smaller gallery offerings still give the city’s art scene an edge. – The New York Times

Brazilian Outpost of Centre Pompidou Pushed Back to 2029

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:17:00 +0200

A Brazilian outpost of Paris’s hallowed Centre Pompidou initially planned to open next year has been pushed back 2029, according to a report in the Art Newspaper.Construction on Centre Pompidou Paraná, in the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, has not begun, and a planned call for bids has reportedly been pushed back from its expected date next month. A Pompidou spokesperson told TAN, “The project is currently working toward an opening in 2029 and is in the techn

How Ukrainians Are Fighting Back Against Russia’s Destruction Of Their Books

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:01:00 +0200

“The Ukrainian response has been a renewal of patriotism and engagement with national culture, along with enthusiastic defiance: the queues outside bookshops that formed in response to … the destruction, the orders that flooded in for e-books, or customers content to wait months for physical copies.” – The Bookseller (UK)

New from Moloko Print It Is Written: Times with Brion Gysin

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:57:00 +0200