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• Spinanga Casino – Quick‑Play Slots & Instant Wins

  01-08-2026 17:01 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• After Resignation of Advisory Council, American Institute of Architects Weigh in on Trump’s Arch

  01-10-2026 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  On September 29, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sent a letter to Jaime Loichinger, director of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), a federal agency responsible for preserving historic properties and sites in the United States, denouncing the council’s effective resignation from the controversial project. The letter is critical of ACHP’s September 24 decision to bypass Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act ending the Council’s involv
  
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• Free Entry to UK National Museums Will Continue, Government Says

  01-10-2026 21:57 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, the UK government poured cold water on speculation that overseas visitors could soon be forced to pay entry fees to the country’s national museums. Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), confirmed that institutions including the British Museum, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, and National Museums Liverpool will continue to offer free admission. Nandy made the announcement at an event at Tate Liverpool organized by Art Fund and the C
  
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• A Late Baroque Master’s Lost Marble Turns Up in a UK Salvage Yard

  01-10-2026 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  Spotted at a Wiltshire reclamation yard and purchased for £300 ($395), a marble sculpture by Late Baroque master Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) is expected to bring between £ 5,000 and £10,000 ($6,600–$13,200) at auction. Research undertaken by a specialist at U.K. auction house Woolley & Wallis has identified the roughly two-foot-tall marble as the only surviving maquette for Bracci’s 1736 bronze statue of Pope Clement XII.The life-sized bronze once stood in t
  
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• A Late Baroque Master’s Lost Marble Turns Up in a U.K. Salvage Yard

  01-10-2026 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  Spotted at a Wiltshire reclamation yard and purchased for £300 ($395), a marble sculpture by Late Baroque master Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) is expected to bring between £ 5,000 and £10,000 ($6,600–$13,200) at auction. Research undertaken by a specialist at U.K. auction house Woolley & Wallis has identified the roughly two-foot-tall marble as the only surviving maquette for Bracci’s 1736 bronze statue of Pope Clement XII.The life-sized bronze once stood in t
  
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• Kavi Gupta Gallery Hit With Restraining Order Amid $2 M. Art Dispute

  01-10-2026 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  A New York judge has temporarily barred Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta and his gallery from selling or marketing a collection of artworks at the center of an increasingly messy dispute with a company that gave the struggling gallery more than $2 million in cash last year.The deal at the heart of the case is an unusual one, but its purpose was fairly straightforward.In May 2025, a company called Longcraft LLC paid Kavi Gupta Gallery $2.05 million for roughly 150 artworks. Rather than take possession o
  
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• How Haiku Became Hungarian

  01-10-2026 21:03 via asymptotejournal.com
  
  A foreign poetic form becomes local not when writers reproduce its original conventions faithfully, but when they discover what the form can do in a new language. In Hungary, Japanese short poetry encountered a literary environment already fluent in irony, epigrammatic compression, linguistic play, and knowing when to leave things out. – Asymptote
  
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• Sotheby’s To Sell Artworks from Collection of Bankrupt Hedge Funder George Allen Weiss

  01-10-2026 20:42 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will offer a dozen works from the holdings of Miami hedge funder and art collector George Allen Weiss in the wake of his firm, Weiss, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year. The proceeds will go to satisfy a $123 million debt to Bank of America that was secured by his artwork, reports Bloomberg. The auctioneer will sell 16 of Weiss’s works in the house’s marquee November sales, said Weiss’s lawyer, Paul Battista, in a court hearing on Wednesday, per Bloomber
  
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• Staying Human In The Age Of AI

  01-10-2026 20:31 via justingarydesign.substack.com
  
  The first step to building a better future is to acknowledge the reality of today. AI is not going away, and it is immensely capable across a wide range of domains. According to a recent Stanford study, 88% of organizations are using AI and the number is growing. – Think Like a Game Designer
  
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• The Real Achievement Of Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”

  01-10-2026 20:04 via newrepublic.com
  
  “(It) hasn’t simply been individual story lines, or how they jived with the historical reality in which we read them, but also the depth and breadth of human experience they charted. … Trudeau held the powerful to account, (yet) kept his attention on everyday people our politicians and (celebrities) often neglected.” – The New Republic
  
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• The Conservatives’ Case For Mamdani’s Opera Ticket Giveaway (“Why Didn’t We Think Of It?”)

  01-10-2026 19:44 via unherd.com
  
  Realistically, Mamdani and his colleagues may convert a few thousand New Yorkers who would otherwise never have set foot in the Met. Even so, they will have achieved more than armies of arts administrators and music teachers, not to mention the conservative guardians of culture who deplore musical wokery. – Unherd
  
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• Why Coltrane Still Matters

  01-10-2026 19:31 via news.harvard.edu
  
  First and foremost, to him, the relationship between music and communicating with the divine was ultimately the most important thing. To him, music and doing it with excellence, was about communing with the divine, and his ultimate expression of that that everybody cites is, of course, the album “A Love Supreme.” – The Harvard Gazette
  
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• Ben Affleck Says He Used AI Extensively In His New Movie

  01-10-2026 19:15 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “I used [AI] for lots of things in that movie. I’m a little bit hesitant to point out what they are — or even talk about it — because in my business, we’re trying to foster the illusion of reality, right?” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Why Reddit Is Shutting Down Its RSS Feeds

  01-10-2026 19:01 via techcrunch.com
  
  In a word (well, two words), AI bots. – TechCrunch
  
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• Atlanta Symphony’s Nathalie Stutzmann On Working With Orchestras

  01-10-2026 18:44 via artsatl.org
  
  “I think musicians are artisanal people. Every morning we have to try to do better. We have to start again — to practice. Why do we practice every day? Why do we question every day a score? Why do we reread a score that we have known for 40 years?” – ArtsATL
  
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• “Glee”s Outsized Impact On Broadway

  01-10-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  In the 11 years since the last episode of “Glee” aired, one thing has become clear: The TV series was a game changer for musical theater. – The New York Times
  
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• Stage Manager – The Most Stressful Job In The Arts

  01-10-2026 18:15 via artshub.com.au
  In theatre – and across dance, opera, musicals and concerts – the stage manager is like the air traffic controller of the production. Without them, chaos would ensue, yet they rarely get acknowledged. – ArtsHub
  
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• Houston’s Oldest Black Theater Company Is Now 50

  01-10-2026 18:05 via texasobserver.org
  “Back in the mid-1970s, the late George Hawkins, founder of the Ensemble Theatre, imagined a place where Black actors could find work and perform plays that mattered. Even after he passed away, in 1990, his legacy and that dream continue to grow as the Ensemble prepares for its 50th-anniversary season starting this fall.” – Texas Observer
  
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• BTS Star RM Will Share His Art Collection In New SFMOMA Exhibition

  01-10-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wondered what an art collection assembled by a Korean pop star looks like, look no further than the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s latest exhibition, “RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me.” The show will feature works from the personal collection of RM, the BTS superstar announced Tuesday on KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco. The news was first reported by Billboard.The 32-year-old singer said he began assembling his collection about eight years ago, often
  
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• Taryn Simon goes down the FBI rabbit hole at the Guggenheim

  01-10-2026 18:00 via ft.com
  The enigmatic photographs, videos, objects and texts on display in ‘Father Country I Do Love You’ are like a gallery version of the conspiracy buff’s corkboard
  
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• Utah Bans Even More Books From Public Schools

  01-10-2026 17:44 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah just banned seven more books from all public schools — the most it has ever banned in a single go since the state’s sensitive materials law went into effect. The additions bring the total number of books now prohibited in Utah public schools to 44. – Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• World Monuments Fund: Funding Is The Biggest Threat To World Heritage

  01-10-2026 17:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Of 372 nominations for the 2027 Watch list, 65% of nominators cited funding shortages and economic development as a primary challenge, up from 55% in 2024. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Luxury Accessories Brand Eittem Launches Collaborative Line with Frick Collection in New York

  01-10-2026 17:16 via artnews.com
  
  The New York–based luxury accessories brand Eittem created a new set of offerings inspired by the Frick Collection in New York, with a special focus on the newly accessible second-floor private rooms that opened to the public last year after the mansion’s four-year renovation.The line includes new editions of Eittem’s distinctive woodgrain handbags, priced from $5,500 to $7,900, as well as brooches ($750–$950) and a editioned sculpture ($10,000). The handbags bear the Fri
  
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• By Biological Definition, AI Is Life

  01-10-2026 17:15 via noemamag.com
  
  There is nothing artificial about systems built from real atoms, powered by real electricity, running in real machines. The systems reproduce, vary, adapt, undergo selection and gather energy from their environment. By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, that is life. – Noema
  
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• Rare Cache of Ancient Roman Sculptures Discovered at Chartres

  01-10-2026 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  A new archeological excavation at the Saint-Martin-au Val sanctuary in Chartres, France, has unearthed a collection of fragments of Roman stone statues and sculpted reliefs, reports Heritage Daily. Archaeologists also found evidence of a water system that may have played a role in ancient rituals.A monumental Gallo-Roman religious complex, the walled sanctuary occupied over 25 acres and enclosed a massive temple with walkways, a portico, and several other structures. Begun around 70–80 CE,
  
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• Choreographer Pam Tanowitz, Contemporary Dance Star, On Working With Ballet Companies

  01-10-2026 17:03 via thetimes.com
  “Yes, I am a ballet outsider. I don’t have all the ballet steps at my fingertips but I have a list of ballet steps and I go through them like a laundry list and experiment. … It’s hard to separate the two systems now. I have my own ideas no matter what.” – The Times (UK)
  
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• Artists for Climate Action Returns for Frieze Week With Christie’s Evening Auction

  01-10-2026 16:51 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s is going green, again. The auction house is teaming up with climate charities Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) and ClientEarth during its 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 and 15 during Frieze Week for the sophomore edition of Artists for Climate Action, which started in 2021.Artists Igshaan Adams will be donating his artwork, The certainty of being a rose (ii) (2025), a sculpture made of beads, thread and textile, to the auction with an estimate of £60
  
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• Together Again: Back for More Stupid

  01-10-2026 16:42 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/10/together-again-back-for-more-stupid.html" title="Together Again: Back for More Stupid” rel=”nofollow”>Musk and
  
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• After 40 Years, Segerstrom Center Is Thriving, Bringing L.A.-Level Performing Arts To Orange County

  01-10-2026 16:32 via yahoo.com
  Building a Lincoln Center-style multi-venue arts center in a county that was a byword for conservative suburbia seemed improbable in 1986, but philanthropist Henry Segerstrom pulled it off. Now, after getting hit hard by the pandemic, the complex is back on track, with a $14.6 million surplus last year. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Iraqi Archaeologists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over State Corruption

  01-10-2026 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Two prominent Iraqi archaeologists were arrested this month, the Art Newspaper (TAN) reported. Many involved fear their arrests are retaliatory, spurred by public comments they made about corruption at the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), which oversees the country’s archaeological sector.Archaeologist Ali Tabar was arrested on charges of extortion on September 17. He is one of the country’s leading drone surveyors who aerially documents sites before and after excavati
  
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