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• Sarah Schulman Also Predicted This

  12-10-2026 13:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  Writer and activist Schulman: “People raised to dominate are told – and taught – that they should never feel uncomfortable. If you ask them to question themselves or reflect on how they relate to others, it’s as if you’re attacking them, mistreating them.” – El País English
  
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• Walid Raad’s Way of Working Is Inspired by the Mirrors in Vampire Movies

  25-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  As a teenager, Walid Raad would walk around his hometown with a camera, just trying to make some sense of the world. At a glance, the black-and-white pictures he captured then offer cool, detached views. But he quickly discovered there was only so much sense to be made of war-torn Beirut. One day, walking by a bakery, he snapped a cake displayed in the window. It was decorated with birthday wishes for someone named Hassan. Only later, developing the film at home—his dad had converted the bathr
  
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• More than 1mn antiquities returned to countries of origin

  25-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  First comprehensive database of looted items returned by museums and collectors suggests articles worth at least $2bn have been repatriated since 1950
  
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• Art Basel Paris Closes Two Days Early

  24-10-2026 20:48 via ArtsJournal
  This Week’s Highlights:Art students blocked the Louvre’s glass pyramid on Monday and closed the museum, two days after a nationwide protest over public schools ended in about 2,400 arrests and a burned town hall in Limoges (ARTnews). By Thursday, Art Basel Paris had cut its run to end Friday at 7 p.m. instead of Sunday, leaving dealers to rebook shippers (ARTnews).The Phoenix Symphony suspended its season after November 1 and is laying off 66 musicians, though revenue rose more than 50% betw
  
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• Donald Borror shares the transformative impact of Pasculano Dance at Lincoln Center

  24-10-2026 17:35 via ArtsJournal
  Donald Borror, Director of the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance at Lincoln Center, shares their transformative impact on the field.
  
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• In a Historic Blunder, Wu-Tang Clan Sold an Album as a Unique Artwork—A New Doc Tells the Story of an Architect of the Sale

  24-10-2026 15:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  If you were on the internet in 2015, you likely followed the twisty tale of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The Staten Island hip-hop titans conceived of the album as a conceptual artwork, a protest against the cheapening of music in the age of widespread piracy. Rather than release the music to the general public, the work was sold at auction for a reported $2 million to a then-anonymous American buyer, seemingly proving that music could sell at the level of Picasso and Warhol
  
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• Jordan Casteel on the art of being seen

  24-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  In the quiet of New York’s Hudson Valley, the painter is building a life and a studio around the risks, and rewards, of being known
  
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• Adolphe de Meyer’s Venice palazzo of dreams

  24-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The photographer’s rented home was a magnet for famous artist friends, as seen in a rich cache of previously undiscovered images now on show in Amsterdam
  
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• Prized Monet Paintings at the Center of Milwaukee Art Museum and MFA St. Petersburg’s World Series Wager

  23-10-2026 21:55 via ARTnews.com
  
  When the Milwaukee Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in game one of the 122nd World Series tonight, they will be playing for more than just the right to hoist the sterling silver Commissioner’s Trophy after four wins. A rival museum’s Monet is also on the line.The teams’ local art museums—the Milwaukee Art Museum, four miles east of where the Brewers play at American Family Field, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, just over a mile west of the Rays’ Tropicana Field—have enter
  
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• Monument to Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Near Quantico Vandalized

  23-10-2026 21:53 via ARTnews.com
  
  A Virginia man allegedly beheaded one of six statues at the Iwo Jima monument near the Quantico Marine base, causing what police estimated was hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.According to the incident report, Prince William County police arrived at the site Wednesday night to find 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano “actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer.” The attack cost one of the monument’s Marines his head and left a second figure’s helmet and face “ch
  
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• A New Shanghai Landmark for Opera

  23-10-2026 21:37 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Snøhetta, the Oslo architecture firm, opened the Shanghai Grand Opera House on October 17 with a double-helix staircase on the Huangpu River that passersby can climb whether or not they have a seat inside (Architectural Digest).
  Buddy Brundo, 83, is asking $15 million for Conway Recording Studios, the Melrose Avenue complex where Fleetwood Mac and Kendrick Lamar recorded (Los Angeles Times). Will a judge break up Live Nation? Hundreds of independent venues around America have close
  
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• Executive Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts

  23-10-2026 21:31 via ArtsJournal
  Founded by collector and philanthropist Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) holds a singular place in the cultural landscape as the world’s first institution solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. Located in Washington, DC, the museum opened its doors in 1987, bringing recognition to the achievements of women artists across all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching their work, and educating the pub
  
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• The Deadly Dancing Plague Of 1518

  23-10-2026 20:50 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Five centuries later, the dancing plague of 1518 remains one of history’s strangest medical mysteries. Historical records confirm that a bizarre episode turned a medieval city” — Strasbourg — “into a very unwilling dance floor that summer, but exactly why it happened remains a matter of debate.” – Popular Science
  
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• Artist Duo Brognon Rollin Awarded 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s Top Art Prize

  23-10-2026 20:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Prix Marcel Duchamp jury announced Thursday that it has awarded the 2026 prize to artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, known for their multidisciplinary practice that spans installation, sculpture, video, performance, and photography.The Prix Marcel Duchamp is considered France’s most prestigious art prize, with winners recieving €35,000, or just over $40,000. For the award, a jury typically selects four nominees, who show together at the Centre Pompidou in October. This year,
  
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• Chatbots May Be Bad Writers. But So Are Most Humans

  23-10-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  After all, we’ve been producing particle board for a long time. As Orwell observed (in pre-chatbot 1946!), “prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.” – The Walrus
  
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• Korean Culture Ministry to Audit Former Director of the National Museum

  23-10-2026 20:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 23 2026, with additional information.The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism will audit You Hong-june, the former director of theNational Museum of Korea. You tendered his resignation on Wednesday after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by multiple South Korean news outlets, including the English language newspaper Korea Herald.The work in question was prese
  
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• Paul Stankard, Renowned Glass Paperweight Artist, Dead at 83

  23-10-2026 20:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  Paul Stankard, a visionary glass blower who memorialized flora and fauna in hardened and translucent form, died at the age of 83, according to a New York Times obituary that celebrates how his “decades-long obsession with replicating the natural world in glass transformed the American paperweight from tchotchke to fine art.” The cause of his death was cancer, according to his daughter.As the Times described Stankard’s fateful turn to the the mode of working he made his own, “In 1972, wit
  
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• Jonathan Groff’s Next Broadway Project Will Be A Solo Show About A School Shooting

  23-10-2026 20:03 via ArtsJournal
  “The play, The Amish Project, will be Groff’s first nonmusical production on Broadway, and it’s strikingly personal for him: It’s a work of fiction inspired by a 2006 shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, just a few minutes from Groff’s childhood home.” – The New York Times
  
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• Louvre, Picasso Museum, Musée d’Orsay Will Close Saturday In Anticipation of Hard-Left Groups Targeting Public Buildings, Says Interior Minister

  23-10-2026 19:54 via ARTnews.com
  
  Museum closures are expected to take place across Paris on Saturday, in anticipation of planned protests, reports Le Figaro.The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, Picasso Museum, and the Grand Palais’s exhibition spaces will all close their doors on Saturday. The news follows the cancelation of Art Basel Paris over the weekend, which is held at the Grand Palais. In a statement on Friday, the French Ministry of Culture said that all establishments must ensure “the safety of vi
  
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• The Art Of Attention

  23-10-2026 19:44 via ArtsJournal
  “You can’t talk about aesthetics,” he wrote, “without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil.” Attention, for him, was a matter of life and death, or at least of their cultural equivalents, remembering and forgetting. – The New York Times
  
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• Dealers Scramble To Get Work Out Of Art Basel Paris After Surprise Early Closing

  23-10-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  Multiple dealers told ARTnews they’d received an email announcing the decision at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. By then, many had already suspected Saturday’s opening might be canceled. The loss of Sunday came as more of a surprise. – ARTnews
  
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• How One Donor Came To Give $10.5 Million To The Philadelphia Orchestra

  23-10-2026 19:15 via ArtsJournal
  David Cohen said that after his return, he “very quickly circled around arts and culture as the space where I thought I could make a real difference, a place where obviously Philadelphia has prominence and wonderful organizations, but where I still felt were a little under-appreciated.” – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• How “Star Trek” Was Saved By, Of All People, Lucille Ball

  23-10-2026 19:04 via ArtsJournal
  
  Most people who know Ball only through her crazy-redhead I Love Lucy character don’t realize that she was a savvy TV mogul, and it was her company, Desilu Productions, that saved Star Trek from oblivion after NBC cancelled it at the end of its third season in 1969. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  23-10-2026 19:00 via Zouch
  
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  23-10-2026 19:00 via Zouch
  
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  23-10-2026 19:00 via Zouch
  
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• Canadian News Orgs Sue Anthropic Over Copyright

  23-10-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  The statement of claim says Anthropic breached the news media websites’ terms of service and circumvented technological protection measures they put in place to restrict copying of their content. – Canadian Press News
  
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• Why Friction Is Necessary For Making Progress

  23-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The reality is that friction, despite seeming so antagonistic, is necessary and even productive. The force that resists motion has, since humans first struck a spark from a stone, been the very thing that propels us forward. – Aeon
  
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