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• Spotify Review 2026

  23-10-2026 00:53 via Zouch
  
  Spotify is still the streaming service most people start with, and in 2026 it remains one of the most complete. The catalogue covers well over a hundred million tracks, plus podcasts and audiobooks, and the app looks and works the same on a phone, a laptop, a TV or a smart speaker.
  What works well
  Recommendations are the strongest part. The weekly discovery mixes and daily playlists learn from what you save and skip, and after a couple of weeks they get noticeably better. Collaborative playlists
  
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• Frieze arrives in Abu Dhabi amid a culture boom and geopolitical jitters

  11-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The fair is just the latest in the wealthy emirate’s cultural drive — art world players plan to keep calm and carry on despite travel concerns
  
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• Museum Organizations Call Bipartisan Infrastruture Bill a ‘Sweeping Assault’ on Historic and Sacred Places

  10-11-2026 23:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  Some historic preservationists are alarmed at the potential effects of a bipartisan bill whose sponsors say it aims to cut red tape for infrastructure and energy production projects.On Monday, the US Senate advanced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (S.5653), introduced by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, by a vote of 73–25. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Mike Lee, a Utah Republican; Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat; and Martin
  
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• Man Who Discovered Renaissance Church Facade Hidden in His House to Receive €1 M. Reward

  10-11-2026 22:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  When Juan Francisco León Catena bought an old house in southern Spain, he expected that a planned renovation would incur costs. What he came to learn was that a Renaissance church facade was hidden behind the walls—and that it came with a reward worth more than €1 million ($1.2 million).The discovery dates to November 2016, when León Catena and his father began tearing down interior walls in a property he’d purchased in Úbeda, a historic town in Andalusia that, together with neighboring
  
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• Oxford University Museum Returns 39 Sets of Ancestral Remains to Naga People of India

  10-11-2026 21:52 via ARTnews.com
  
  At a ceremony held on November 9, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University in the UK formally returned 39 sets of ancestral remains to the Naga people of India. The remains, primarily human skulls, were taken during the British colonial rule of India and Burma (now Myanmar) and have been in the museum’s collection for more than a century. A delegation of almost 30 community members from Nagaland, an Indian state bordering Myanmar, traveled to Britain for the handover.The Pitt Rivers claims
  
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• Oxford University Museum Returns 39 Sets of Ancestral Remains to Naga People of India and Myanmar

  10-11-2026 21:52 via ARTnews.com
  
  At a ceremony held on November 9, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University in the UK formally returned 39 sets of ancestral remains to the Naga people of India. The remains, primarily human skulls, were taken during the British colonial rule of India and Burma (now Myanmar) and have been in the museum’s collection for more than a century. A delegation of almost 30 community members from Nagaland, an Indian state bordering Myanmar, traveled to Britain for the handover.The Pitt Rivers claims
  
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• Actor Says He Removed His Mother’s Art from Venice Biennale Installation as a Pro-Israel Protest

  10-11-2026 21:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  Actor Eric Rasmussen revealed this week that he had removed his contribution to an installation by Denniston Hill in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale because the residency program appeared to support the “eradication” of Israel, in Rasmussen’s view.In an op-ed published by the Jewish Journal on Monday, Rasmussen wrote that he had combined two drawings by his mother of Adolf Hitler drawn from a notebook she kept during her childhood. The resulting work, transferred to an acetate p
  
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• American Alliance of Museums Makes Case for Policy Proposals Following Democrats’ Landslide Election Win

  10-11-2026 19:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made reining in the cultural sphere a core plank of his agenda.Those efforts have included slashing federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); attempting to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in his image; and unleashing a relentless barrage of executive orders, attempted firings, and investigations t
  
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• The Secret Handshake’s Latest Statue Mocks President Trump for Toe-Related Deferment to Avoid Vietnam War Draft

  10-11-2026 18:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  One of the five deferments President Donald Trump received to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War is now the subject of a new statue mocking him by the Secret Handshake, an anonymous artist collective. On Monday, a gold statue appeared on the National Mall depicting Trump sitting down and holding his right foot, reports the Washington Post.The plaque at the base of the statue says, “We honor the service and sacrifice of our Commander in Chief, Donald J. Trump. He’s a soldier in spirit, w
  
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• Pokiesww Casino: Quick-Hit Sessions for Players Who Want Fast Answers

  10-11-2026 16:21 via Zouch
  
  Some players open a casino lobby with a plan that stretches across an evening. Others want something different entirely: a handful of spins, a clear result, and out. That second mindset is the thread running through this article, and it shapes how a platform like Pokiesww actually gets used in practice. If you recognise yourself in that description, the observations below should feel familiar — and a skim through any honest pokiesww review will confirm that quick, outcome-focused play is a big
  
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• Britain’s BalletBoyz At 25

  10-11-2026 16:05 via ArtsJournal
  “Let’s dispel the myth about BalletBoyz — it’s not an all-male company and never has been. There were women in their first shows 25 years ago, in this show and others in between, while the ensemble’s lineup can change every year.” Founders William Trevitt and Michael Nunn never liked the name, anyway. – The Times (UK)
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Visited MoMA’s West African Modern Architecture Survey and Loved It

  10-11-2026 15:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has continued his social media campaign to stump for exhibitions staged by the city’s museums, this time focusing on a survey of West African modernist architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, whose praises he sang on Instagram early this morning.Titled “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa,” the 400-work show surveys architectural projects in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon produced during a period o
  
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• Chicagoans Vote To Create Permanent Site For Rock Festivals. But …

  10-11-2026 15:36 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The (non-binding ballot) measure, meant to gauge public interest, arrived after pushback in recent years from some Chicagoans who oppose privately run festivals taking place in the city’s public spaces, from Lollapalooza in Grant Park to Riot Fest in Douglass Park. But despite electoral support, there are no clear next steps.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Only Known Handwritten Draft of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Could Top $10 M. at Christie’s

  10-11-2026 15:05 via ARTnews.com
  
  Christie’s announced Monday that it will offer the only known handwritten manuscript of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, better known as the “I Have a Dream” speech.The manuscript has seven yellow pages of King’s handwriting, including edits and cross-outs. It will be offered in a single-lot sale on January 22, 2027. The lot will carry an estimate on request, though Christie’s said it expects the manuscript to sell for more than $1
  
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• Ancient Petroglyphs In Utah Vandalized, Damage May Be Permanent

  10-11-2026 15:04 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The Bureau of Land Management announced on November 6 that it was investigating vandalism at two ancient rock-art sites near Moab, Utah, where someone carved names into petroglyphs, leaving damage that may be impossible to remove.” – Outside
  
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• Julia Stoschek Collection to Celebrate 20 Years with ‘Selfish in Bed’ Exhibition and Düsseldorf Reopening

  10-11-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Sarah Lucas doesn’t appear particularly apologetic in her 2000 self-portrait Selfish in Bed II. Standing with her hands on her hips, the British artist wears a black T-shirt with the words “SELFISH IN BED” printed across the front. Next April, that cheeky photograph will set the tone for a major group exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany.Aptly titled Selfish in Bed, the exhibition opens on April 10, 2027, and will bring togeth
  
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• Former CFO Sues Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Claiming Her Severance Was Withheld

  10-11-2026 14:32 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Valarie McDuffie has accused museum director and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and board chair Ellen Caplan of withholding nearly $150,000 in severance out of ‘spite and retaliation.’ But the museum has countered with allegations of its own, claiming that McDuffie breached her severance agreement.” – ARTnews
  
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• Contemporary Stained-Glass Windows Installed in Notre-Dame, Spanish Man Awarded $1.12 M. for Renaissance Door Discovery, and More: Morning Links for November 10, 2026

  10-11-2026 14:30 via ARTnews.com
  
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  New stained-glass windows by French artist Claire Tabouret have been quietly installed in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and will be unveiled to the public on December 7.Canada has just proposed a federal budget that exempts artists from paying taxes on C$45,000 ($38,000) of their earnings.The 1963 handwritten final draft of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I Hav
  
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• The $900,000 Plug Hiding in Your Balanced Budget

  10-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  Every budget is a set of promises.
  Most boards treat a budget as a forecast, a test of how good or bad management is at predicting the future. But when a board approves next year’s budget, it is also approving a list of commitments the organization says it will keep: pay these people, fix that roof, raise this much from these donors by these dates. The bottom line comes out to zero, everyone exhales, and the minutes record a balanced budget. That zero says very little about whether the promise
  
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• Golobet ausprobiert: So läuft das Casino auf dem Handy

  10-11-2026 14:00 via Zouch
  
  Unser Team hat Golobet eine Weile lang auf dem Smartphone genutzt. Wir wollten wissen, wie sich die Plattform im Alltag schlägt, wenn man mal schnell etwas spielen möchte. Dabei lag unser Fokus klar auf der mobilen Nutzung – also ob die Webseite im Browser zügig lädt oder man vielleicht sogar eine App vermisst. Eine erste Sache ist wichtig: Golobet verfügt über eine Lizenz der Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority, nicht über einen deutschen Glücksspielschein der GGL. Das hat praktische
  
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• For The First Time, The Booker Prize Goes To A Bona Fide Sci-Fi Novel

  10-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history.” Booker Prize Foundation CEO Gaby Wood called it “the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world.” – The Guardian
  
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• Collectors Jill and Peter Kraus Want Artists to Look at Their Upstate New York Property and React to It

  10-11-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Jill and Peter Kraus’s almost 400-acre property in Dutchess County, New York, the rolling hills add to the serenity and also create drama. Standing in front of any one of the 18 commissioned outdoor sculptures here, you can’t see any of the others. Sabine Hornig’s 2010 concrete work, Entrance With Floating Stairs II, for example, stands atop a hill. “What I love about this piece is the siting of it,” Jill Kraus told me as we pulled up to the work on a Polaris utility terrain vehicle
  
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• Vip Casino Australia: How Mobile Players Chase Quick Wins in Short Bursts

  10-11-2026 07:02 via Zouch
  
  The modern player rarely sits down for a marathon session. More often, they grab a phone during a commute, a lunch break, or those ten quiet minutes before bed. Vip Casino is built around exactly that rhythm — quick visits, fast outcomes, and a session that ends before the coffee gets cold. If you want the broader picture, a full Vip Casino review Australia players trust will cover the fine print, but this piece focuses on one specific habit: the short, intense mobile burst.
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• Future of Photography

  10-11-2026 06:02 via Visual Arts
  200 years since the creation of the first photograph, this special report surveys how photographers, educators and curators are positioning the art form as it once again grapples with rapid technological change
  
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• Thomas Ruff: ‘Photography will live forever’

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Ahead of a major retrospective at Paris Photo, the prolific artist reflects on nearly 50 years of photographic experimentation
  
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• Publishers battle rising costs to maintain photobook renaissance

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Ever more ambitious projects are entering a market that is barely growing
  
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• Photography education navigates the rise of artificial imagery

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Art schools are grappling with how to teach students to use AI-generated imagery in ways that do not undermine the reasons for studying photography
  
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• Photography at 200: Why the camera still matters in the age of AI

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  From cinema to television and AI-generated imagery, photography has remained remarkably resilient throughout two centuries
  
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• Past is future at this year’s Paris Photo

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Highlights from the Grand Palais as the world’s largest fair dedicated to photography celebrates 200 years of the art form
  
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• Lebanese artist Dala Nasser: ‘I feel like Indiana Jones’

  10-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The adventurer undertakes expeditions to ruins steeped in myths across the Middle East, making charcoal rubbings from ancient texts and symbols
  
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