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• Summer Camp For The Conductors Of Tomorrow

  17-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Adding a conducting program seemed a natural way for [the Eastern Music Festival] to expand beyond training 200-plus young instrumentalists in classical orchestral and chamber music.”
  
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• Vija Celmins and Denis Villeneuve Are the 2026 Honorees of LACMA’s Glitzy Art+Film Gala

  15-07-2026 21:22 via artnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art has announced the honorees for its annual Art+Film Gala, chaired by returning hosts Leonardo DiCaprio and LACAMA trustee Eva Chow.This year’s star-studded event on Nov. 7 will honor artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The Art + Film gala raises funds for LACMA’s exhibition, acquisition, and education programming, with a special focus on projects at the intersection of visual art and film.Last year’s gala honored Ryan Co
  
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• At Management Gallery, Grotesque Art Evolves for the Doomscroll Era

  15-07-2026 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  The third episode of 2026’s breakout show on Apple TV, Widow’s Bay, ends with the creature of the week—the perpetually sopping Sea Hag—astride her prey: cynical mayor Tom Loftis, played by Matthew Rhys. He’d been warned. Her preferred method of murder is asphyxiation (she sits on your face). Pinned beneath her rotting legs in his recliner chair, Loftis narrowly escapes by yanki
  
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• Fresh Insights into China’s Famed Sanxingdui Illuminate Ancient Trade Networks

  15-07-2026 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  New research suggests that a treasured bronze artifact excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China is an assemblage of different parts made in different areas at different points in time—“offering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques,” according to a report in Heritage Daily.The research released by the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology pertains to a well-known bronze figure—wearing an e
  
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• Jacolby Satterwhite Receives Inaugural Artists Living With Cancer Grant From Rema Hort Mann Fund and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

  15-07-2026 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  Jacolby Satterwhite has been named the inaugural recipient of the Artists Living With Cancer Grant, a new $25,000 award co-presented by the Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.Satterwhite will be presented with the inaugural grant, the first such partnership between RHMF and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, at the former’s 30th anniversary gala on October 28.The new grant is meant to build on RHMF’s Peter Hort Quality of Life Cancer Grants, which have
  
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• A Rousing Tate Modern Retrospective Refuses to Reduce Ana Mendieta to a Tragic Figure

  15-07-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  In 1980, Ana Mendieta returned to her homeland of Cuba for the first time, having fled as a child refugee in 1961. She would make another six trips between 1980 and 1983, and the works she made during these visits open Tate Modern’s new major retrospective of her work. “Esculturas Repuestras”(1981)is a series of sculptures carved into limestone caves, cliffs, and valleys in La Escaleras de Jaruco, a nature reserve in Cuba. They combine so much of what animated Mendieta’s
  
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• Rutgers’s Zimmerli Art Museum Receives 70-Work Gift, Including Pieces by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, and Lee Friedlander

  15-07-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey is now richer by more than 70 artworks after a donation from the collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein that includes pieces by established figures such as Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, Kunié Sugiura, and John Waters, as well as emerging artists like Ever Baldwin, Troy Lamarr Chew II, and Lamar Peterson.“Anne and Arthur are visionary collectors who have long championed artists of color, women a
  
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• Bacteria Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Metropolitan Museum of Art

  15-07-2026 17:55 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has tested positive for traces of the bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, health officials announced Tuesday. The bacteria were previously detected at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as authorities continue searching for the source of the outbreak.The Met is typically closed on Wednesdays, and it said in a statement that the day would be dedicated to cleaning the premises and conducting follow-up testing
  
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• More Pressure on the Smithsonian, Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” Revisited at the Broad, and More: Morning Links for July 15, 2026

  15-07-2026 16:32 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!The Smithsonian is under yet more pressure from the Trump administration over its leadership and governance.Yoko Ono’s landmark performance Cut Piece is being revisited at The Broad in Los Angeles.The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its first Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room.The Headlines BOARD OF CONTENTION. The Smithsonian is facing an unusu
  
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• James Cohan Gallery to Become Norr Cohan as Partner David Norr Assumes Sole Ownership

  15-07-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  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.In 2020, after over 20 years in business, James and Jane Cohan started thinking about the future of their gallery, and made a decision: they wanted it to have a future beyond them. This week, those plans come to fruition as James Cohan Gallery takes on a new identity as Norr Cohan, with gallery partner
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Expands to Silicon Valley with New Gallery in Palo Alto

  15-07-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Hauser & Wirth is planting another flag in California, announcing that it will open a new gallery in downtown Palo Alto on October 3, marking the mega-gallery’s first permanent location in Silicon Valley. The space will debut with “Calder | O’Keeffe,” which is dedicated to the friendship and artistic relationship between Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe. The opening adds another pin to what is already one of the world’s largest commercial ga
  
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• Ohio’s School Librarians Are Worried

  15-07-2026 15:36 via ohiocapitaljournal.com
  “Proposed legislation to filter the reading choices students can make has brought concern, and budget reductions make some worry about the future of public school librarians. … ‘Right now, a lot of administrators and school boards look at having school librarians as a luxury,” said (union president) Gayle Schmuhl.” – Ohio Capital Journal
  
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• What Happens To Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Without Robert Wilson?

  15-07-2026 15:05 via nytimes.com
  “’Bob was always saying he didn’t want Watermill to become an institution,’ said Charles Chemin, Watermill’s new artistic director. ‘He didn’t want to create a Bob Wilson school. But Watermill is filled with the vision of Bob Wilson, with his unique form of composition and his unique way of collaborating.’” – The New York Times
  
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• As California Sues To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Paramount Considers Leaving California

  15-07-2026 14:33 via semafor.com
  
  “CEO David Ellison’s … confidantes have pushed him to consider moving its corporate headquarters and reallocating much of its $30 billion in planned spending outside the state” in reaction to the lawsuit. “The considerations may just be a show of brinkmanship, given so much of the industry’s production takes place outside of Hollywood already.” – Semafor
  
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• Writers Guild Files Latest Legal Challenge To Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

  15-07-2026 14:01 via apnews.com
  
  “This proposed combined entity would be the largest employer of writers, with tremendous power to suppress our wages, eliminate opportunities for emerging writers, cut jobs across the industry, and produce less programming,” said Writers Guild of America East president Tom Fontana in a statement. – AP
  
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• Christie’s Reports $4.5 B. in Sales, Strongest First Half in Five Years

  15-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The global auction market is finding its footing again, at least according to Christie’s.Christie’s reported $4.5 billion in first-half revenue on Tuesday, including $3.5 billion in auction sales and more than $1 billion in private sales, marking the company’s strongest first six months since 2021. Auction sales rose a full 71 percent from the same period last year. The results were driven by blockbuster consignments, led by the $630.8 million sale of the collection of publishi
  
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• Director of the Flint School of Performing Arts working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  15-07-2026 00:59 via artsjournal.com
  Flint School of Performing Arts’ Director will lead this celebrated and impactful division of the Flint Institute of Music and be a voice for community performing arts education in the region. They will collaborate with FIM’s leadership around FSPA’s major organizational direction and directly supervise their administrative and educational direct reports in the day-to-day work of the School. A successful Director will nurture FSPA’s strong assets and traditions while brin
  
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• Artistic Director – Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  15-07-2026 00:56 via artsjournal.com
  Studio Theatre is seeking its next Artistic Director, someone to cultivate and champion the artistic vision of Studio, planning seasons of stellar, thought-provoking contemporary theater written by significant playwrights and presented by a mix of local, national, and international artists. Studio Theatre has engaged Management Consultants for the Arts to lead the search, and interested candidates may apply for this position by visiting this link: https://www.mcaonline.com/searches/artistic-dir
  
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• Dancing in the Dark

  14-07-2026 23:54 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Aeon argues Silicon Valley has a science-fiction problem — an industry building the future from novels it read as blueprints when they were written as warnings. The writers, meanwhile, want their words back: US publishers and authors sued Google over the copying that trained its AI (Publishers Weekly). The Walrus profiles the Canadians who’d like to stop the machines altogether.The Trump administration is keeping Smithsonian board seats vacant, reshaping the institution
  
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• Lyndon J. Barrois Sr.’s Miniature Portraits of World Cup History Explore Moments of Joy and Political Controversy

  14-07-2026 23:03 via artnews.com
  
  There have been no shortage of controversies at this year’s World Cup, which enters its final leg this with the final match happening Sunday. The Iranian team was not able to stay in the US. Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry into the US and therefore unable to officiate any games. President Donald Trump intervened to have US player Folarin Balogun’s automatic match suspension from a red card being delayed a year so he could play in the USMNT’s match against Belgium. Th
  
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• Superblue Teams Up With Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre to Bring Immersive Art to Mumbai

  14-07-2026 22:44 via artnews.com
  
  Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition of immersive installations at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC).Titled “Second Nature,” the show opened at NMACC’s four-story Art House on July 3 and runs through January 10, 2027. Curated by Dent-Brocklehurst, the company’s cofoun
  
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• Zendaya Gets an Earful of ‘Orientalist’ Complaints for Wearing Ancient Iranian Earrings to ‘Odyssey’ Promo Amid US-Iran War

  14-07-2026 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Actress Zendaya has been on the receiving end of some, ahem, piercing criticism after wearing ancient Iranian earrings to a London event promoting the new Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey, in which she plays the Greek goddess Athena. The film hits US and UK theaters July 17 and has already been the subject of intense debate.Zendaya got the earrings, believed to date from the first millennium BCE, from London dealer Charlie Barron, and then had them remounted with diamonds and 18-karat yellow g
  
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• Frieze Seoul’s Public Programs Include a Hunt for Hidden Coins and a Place to Talk About Climate Change

  14-07-2026 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  Art fairs may have started out as trade shows for dealers to sell each other their inventory, but they have long since become major events in the art world’s attention economy, zhuzhed up with public art commissions and intellectual dressings, including elaborate programs of public talks and film screenings, as well as plain old fun events like concerts. (As I wrote in 2020, the Armory Show even once offered a museum-style audio guide.) The public programming for the upcoming edition
  
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• Terrified To Dance At A Party, Nightclub, Or Wedding? Now There’s An App For That

  14-07-2026 21:03 via npr.org
  
  Dance Guru is a virtual reality application in which a digital teacher, seen through your headset, walks you through the steps for salsa, waltzing, bachata or cha-cha — repeating as many times as you need, with no human there to make you self-conscious or to get impatient or bored. – NPR
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Webber Warns Of Broadway Crisis After “Cats” Closing

  14-07-2026 20:31 via broadwayworld.com
  Andrew Lloyd Webber has addressed the closing announcement of CATS: The Jellicle Ball, pleading for “theatre owners, unions and producers to come together urgently to address what is a crisis coming to a head.” – Broadway World
  
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• A Samuel Beckett Biennale Is Coming To Both Sides Of The Irish Sea

  14-07-2026 20:01 via theguardian.com
  “(The festival) promises experimental ‘performed readings’ of the playwright’s works in pockets of Ireland and Britain over the next 12 years. … Events will unfold at locations of significance to Beckett’s life and legacy – from Enniskillen, Belfast and Dublin to Folkestone, Reading and Snodland – tracing his footsteps across Britain and Ireland.” – The Guardian
  
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• Report: UK Humanities Programs Being Axed By Hard-Up Universities

  14-07-2026 19:44 via theguardian.com
  Analysis of the latest official data by the academy for the Guardian shows that nearly 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone.  – The Guardian
  
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• The Canadians Who Want To Stop AI In Its Tracks

  14-07-2026 19:31 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Canadians are hugely wary: a Leger poll found 85 percent of respondents want the government to regulate the technology. But that number doesn’t convey just how frightened many are. – The Walrus
  
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• Meet The Book Hoarder

  14-07-2026 19:15 via nytimes.com
  The stacks kept rising as Uminer added his hauls from thrift shops, book dealers and eBay deliveries. “I don’t think of myself as a hoarder,” he said, “but I guess my building did.” – The New York Times
  
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• Major Collection Of Mexican Art, Including Kahlos And Riveras, Is Going On Tour. Angry Mexicans Fear It Won’t Come Back.

  14-07-2026 19:04 via yahoo.com
  The privately-owned Gelman Santander Collection, whose 68 pieces include 10 paintings by Frida Kahlo along with works by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and others, is scheduled to spend two years touring Europe. Some citizens, unconvinced that the art will come home, are suing to keep it in Mexico. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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