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• Should We Stop Listening To Technocrats?

  31-07-2026 18:31 via aeon.co
  International civil servants do not in fact escape power. They rearticulate it with the help of technical experts. By framing this rearticulation as real impartiality, however, they conflate technocracy and expertise. This conflation lies at the heart of the legitimacy crisis that international organisations face today. – Aeon
  
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• New York Socialite Tracey Amon Asks Court to Compel Advisor Sandy Heller to Turn Over Papers Connected to Late Ex-Husband’s Art Collection

  08-08-2026 00:49 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Tracey Amon filed a request on July 25 in the US District Court for the District of Southern New York to subpoena art advisor Sanford “Sandy” Heller. She wants him to turn over documents for use in her lawsuits in Switzerland over the disposition of the assets of her late husband, Maurice Alain Amon, who retained Heller as an advisor starting in 2013.Heller has been described as “possibly the biggest art advisor in the world,” and reputedly works with Rom
  
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• All-Night Art Heist in Italy Suspected to Be ‘Some Sort of Revenge’

  07-08-2026 22:54 via artnews.com
  On July 28, a group of 10 people ransacked the headquarters of the Italian fuel distribution company, Lilli Petroli, in L’Aquila, located in Italy’s Abruzzo region, spending as long as eight hours on the premises before making off with over £4 million ($4.63 million) of art, first reported local outlet Il Centro.About 30 artworks belonging to Lilli Petroli owner Mauro Lilli were stolen in the unusual heist, including bas-reliefs attributed to Pablo Picasso, a bronze ballerina s
  
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• Appeals Court Says Trump Lacks Authority to Build White House Ballroom

  07-08-2026 21:23 via artnews.com
  
  A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to build a $400 million ballroom at the White House without congressional approval.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with historic preservationists who sued to halt construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the site where the White House’s East Wing stood before its demolition last fall.  In response to the ruling, President Trumpwrote in a Truth Social post t
  
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• 20 Years After eBay, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Costumes Are Back at Auction, This Time at Christie’s

  07-08-2026 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s is taking Miranda Priestly’s closet to the auction block. Again.Twenty years after costumes from the original The Devil Wears Prada were sold on eBay, clothes and accessories from the sequel are getting a somewhat grander treatment. Christie’s will offer pieces worn by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simone Ashley and Lady Gaga in an online charity auction running Sept. 1 through 15.The sale, titled “A Million Girls Would Kill
  
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• A Picasso Etching Stolen 8 Years Ago Was Returned to Milwuakee Police

  07-08-2026 20:48 via artnews.com
  
  A Pablo Picasso etching stolen from Milwuakee’s DeLind Art Appraisals in 2018 was handed over to the city’s plice department on Thursday, according to a press release.The etching and aquatint printed in ink on paper, titled Torero, is the ninth in an edition of 30. When it was stolen in 2018, Bill DeLind told news organizations that it was worth between $35,000 and $50,000.“It was like, ‘Oh my God,” DeLind told local news station 12 News on Thursday. “I never
  
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• Oslo Museum Curator Attributes Forgotten Still Life to Flemish Old Master Clara Peeters

  07-08-2026 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  “Why have there been no great women artists?” Maybe because too many of their masterpieces were dismissively shoved into storage for not having been painted by a more famous man.That, at least, seems to be what befell a still life by the 17th-century Flemish painter Clara Peeters. Still Life with Small Game and Grapes on a Gilded Tazza, ca. 1620, was at one point thought to be by Ambrosius Brueghel (son of Jan, grandson of Pieter). But, according to the Guardian, that attribution was
  
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• Sprawling Nuclear Bunker in Italy Will Soon Be a Cold War Museum

  07-08-2026 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  After a study to map its sprawling network of rooms commenced in 2022, a nuclear bunker in northern Italy will transform into a Cold War museum scheduled to open in part next year.As reported in The Art Newspaper, the bunker—built between 1960 and 1966 in the town of Affi near Verona—was “engineered to withstand nuclear, chemical and biological attacks and was equipped with filtration systems, protected shower areas, kitchens, water tanks and dormitories. It was designed to sus
  
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• Aspen’s Ambitious AIR Festival Turns the Rocky Mountains into a Stage

  07-08-2026 20:07 via artnews.com
  
  Aspen, Colorado, stands at an elevation of just under 8,000 feet, enough to wonder what the atmosphere there might do differently to the eye, the ear, and all the rest of the bodily apparatus that we marshal throughout the day. Certainly the question was high in mind when the Aspen Art Museum reconvened AIR, an ambitious festival of art, performance, and talks whose second edition took over the mountain town last week.Last year’s inaugural edition of AIR added considerable intelligence and
  
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• The Rauschenberg Foundation Has Listed its New York HQ For Sale, Making Way for Possible ‘Luxury Rentals or Boutique Condos’

  07-08-2026 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Robert Rauschenberg hosted lively parties in the late 1960s at his New York townhouse. Artists and engineers bunked in, the artist’s turtle Rocky charmed visitors, and Rauschenberg created some key works in his studio there. That property may soon give way to luxury rentals and boutique condominiums. The five-story, 92,000-square-foot NoHo town house, which dates to the early 19th century, has been in the hands of the artist and his foundation since 1965. But development at an
  
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• National Gallery’s £250 K. Citizens’ Assembly Sparks Art World Criticism and Conservative Backslash

  07-08-2026 18:12 via artnews.com
  
  An initiative by London’s National Gallery to convene a panel of randomly selected UK citizens to advise on its future has drawn criticism from art-world figures and conservative MPs.For the assembly, called NG Citizens, the National Gallery brought together a demographically representative group of the UK population, including some who may not have a professional art background or have never visited the National Gallery before, to help shape its strategic direction. The project has conven
  
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• Jacques Chirac Presidential Museum in France Was Robbed Again

  07-08-2026 16:58 via artnews.com
  
  French museums can’t seem to catch a break. Between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the Musée du Président Jacques Chirac in the central French town of Sarran was robbed for the third time in less than a year, a French public prosecutor told local media outlet Ici Limousin. Thieves reportedly broke a window, allowing them to enter the museum via the front door, and authorities were alerted by an alarm system around 4 a.m. Though no details were given about what wa
  
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• UK Promises to Help Local Museums, The Masterminds Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Move, and More: Morning Links for August 7, 2026

  07-08-2026 15:54 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!The UK government has promised to help the country’s struggling local museums.A forgotten still life in Norway’s National Museum has been reattributed to Flemish master Clara Peeters.Meet the masterminds behind the painstaking transport of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum.The Headlines MUSEUMS IN CRISIS. The temporary cl
  
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• “New Humans” Takes a Disappointingly Old Approach to Disability

  07-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  When I picture cyborgs, I can’t help but picture the ones I know—all of them are disabled. Insulin pumps, cochlear implants, and pacemakers make human-machine hybrids out of people every day. So when I saw that New York’s New Museum was reopening with a cyborg-centric show, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” I assumed it would account for the disability arts movement blossoming right there in the museum’s backyard.I winced, then, when I read the artist list
  
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  07-08-2026 05:46 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Is Broadway Paying the price of Disneyfication?

  07-08-2026 02:24 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Major institutions are now partnering to buy works jointly and share them, swapping trophy acquisition for pooled expertise and a split invoice (Artnet). Pittsburgh is running the same play one level up, where the CLO and the Public Theater are merging instead of chasing the same subscribers and donors (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).The Alex Theatre in Glendale hadn’t screened a first-run movie in 35 years and is now the top-grossing venue in the country for Christopher Nolan&rsquo
  
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  07-08-2026 01:40 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• The Most Effective Bitcoin Online Gambling Enterprises: A Comprehensive Overview

  07-08-2026 01:32 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• How Online Casino Loyalty Points Work for Aussie Players

  07-08-2026 00:49 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• 7 Smithsonian Museums Abruptly Closed Over Mechanical Issue

  06-08-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian Institution on Thursday closed seven buildings on the National Mall, citing a failure of the temperature-control system.Visitors were turned away today from a swath of Smithsonian museums and facilities on the south side of the National Mall between Jefferson Drive and Independence Avenue SW, including the Smithsonian Castle, the Arts and Industries Building, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Asian Art, t
  
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• Uffizi Announces Plans for $57 M. Renovations Over Two Years

  06-08-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  Yesterday, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, revealed the extent of ongoing €50 million renovation plans spread across the museum. The revamp includes dozens of projects in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the nearby Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, some of which have already begun, while others are scheduled to start in the coming months, allowing the museum to remain open.“An operation of unprecedented scale and depth is underway,” said Uffizi director Simone
  
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• Monumental Bronze Age Tomb Discovered Amid Dense Vegetation in Sardinia

  06-08-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at Carrarzu Iddia, an archaeological site near the town of Macomer, as reported in Finestra Sull’Arte.The excavation was overseen by two local archaeology and fine art organizations, who were already working in the area.This tomb, and others in Sardinia, was built as a coll
  
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  06-08-2026 21:52 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Latest Brand Collaboration is A Makeup Line With MAC Cosmetics

  06-08-2026 21:14 via artnews.com
  
  MAC Cosmetics has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist’s creative signatures.Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, taupe and white shades to $120 for a four-piece set of Basquiat Artist Brushes, which come in different shapes and sizes and are inspired by
  
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• A Kinetic, Slightly Goofy New Form Of Competitive Dance Develops In Côte d’Ivoire

  06-08-2026 21:01 via theguardian.com
  “There is some debate over exactly when biama emerged, but it exploded in popularity after the coronavirus pandemic as young people turned to TikTok to post and respond to dance challenges that fused acrobatics with goofiness that pushed bodies to their limits.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Are Theatres Still Ignoring (Mostly) The Deaf Audience?

  06-08-2026 20:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Most films are distributed with caption tracks, but cinemas, on average, caption only 1% of all showings. This is despite statistics showing that in the UK, one in seven people – approximately 14% of the population – are deaf or have hearing loss. – The Conversation
  
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• Isaiah Davis Makes Metal—and Masculinity—Seem Soft

  06-08-2026 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  Isaiah Davis’s Midtown Manhattan studio was once Christian Louboutin’s atelier, and it still has red carpeting that evokes the lacquered undersides of the designer’s signature stilettos. When I visited Davis’s studio this past winter, that red peeked out from under heaps of black and brown leather the artist was working with.Leather appeared in Davis’s 2021 show at New York’s Participant Inc: White American Flag (2021) is a wall work with stars and stripes but
  
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• The Mystic Poet-Saints Of Kashmir, One Hindu And one Muslim

  06-08-2026 20:03 via theconversation.com
  
  The 14th-century Hindu poetess Lal Ded and the 15th-century Sufi Muslim poet Nund Rishi wrote not in the elegant, aristocratic court language, Persian, but with simple words and phrases in Kashmiri, the everyday language of ordinary people These mystics are seen by many Kashmiris as spiritual grandmother and grandfather, even today. – The Conversation
  
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• David Zwirner Recruits Longtime Andrew Kreps Partner Liz Mulholland for LA Outpost

  06-08-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner’s Los Angeles outpost. “I genuinely wish Liz the best,” Kreps told ARTnews. “It’s a big life decision, and I’m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I’m forever grateful.”Founded in 1993, Zwirner’s gallery
  
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• Rise Of The Neo-Luddites

  06-08-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  The label of “neo-Luddism” or “digital Luddite” is also being reclaimed by people concerned about labour conditions, society and democracy in an era of AI expansion twinned with personal profit. – The Conversation
  
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