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• The Broad Adds Four to Its Board of Directors, Including Thomas Campbell

  20-09-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  Sherry Lansing, Joanne Heyeler, and Deborah Kanter have also joined. Read More
  
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• Move Over Midcentury Modern: We Want the Wiener Werkstätte

  24-08-2026 21:01 via artnews.com
  I’ll say that I did not expect the exhibition “Modernity and Opulence: Wiener Werkstätte Women,” at the Jewish Museum in New York, to open with work by two men. Nor did I anticipate the wall label lauding one Nazi, listed among the founding members described as “progressive thinkers.” But I’d been eagerly awaiting my afternoon with the work of the little-known ladies of fin-de-siècle Vienna, so this puzzling prelude was hardly a deterrent. Alo
  
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• Europol Warns Museum Heists across Europe are Becoming More Violent, “Hand of God” Soccer Ball Sells, and More: Morning Links for August 24, 2026

  24-08-2026 19:18 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” soccer ball has sold for £2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction.After scammers stole nearly €700,000 ($816,600) from Estonia’s Artists’ Association, artists donated 124 works to an emergency auction.Canada’s Indigenous Art Center says 111 works from its federal
  
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• Russian Strike Causes Fire at Ukraine’s Kherson Regional Art Museum

  24-08-2026 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  The Kherson Regional Art Museum in Ukraine is the latest casualty in Russia’s ongoing war with the country. A Russian strike last Thursday set off a fire at the institution, Reuters reports.The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that there were no casualties, but the museum’s building and artwork took a big hit as firefighters tried to put out the fire. According to a report by United24, the Ukrainian government–run platform, the fire destroyed the museum’s historic
  
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• US Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Ballroom to Move Forward

  24-08-2026 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s ambitions of building a luxury ballroom with an underground military complex beneath it is going forward. On Friday, the US Supreme Court gave the green light for construction of the White House ballroom to continue. The stay was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts and will remain until further action from the court.“The Military/Ballroom Complex being built on the hallowed grounds of the White House, which is so vital for National Security, will be THE GREA
  
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• Two Years After Internal Audit, 111 Artworks Remain Missing from Canada’s Indigenous Art Centre Collection

  24-08-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  A total of 111 Indigenous artworks are still missing from the Indigenous Art Centre’s (IAC) collection in Canada, almost two years after an internal audit revealed 132 unaccounted artworks, the Canadian Press reports.In November 2024, IAC conducted an internal audit of its collection that tracked its operations from April 2019 to August 2024, which revealed that it could not locate 132 objects in its collection. Neither the missing works nor their value have been publicly identified.S
  
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• Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ Soccer Ball Sells for $3.3 M., Well Below $10 M. Estimate

  24-08-2026 18:36 via artnews.com
  
  The soccer ball used in the 1986 World Cup match in which Diego Maradona scored his infamous “Hand of God” goal sold for $3.35 million at Heritage Auctions in Texas. The price, however, came in well below the lot’s presale estimate of $10 million.Mike Provenzale, an auctioneer at Heritage, told Reuters before the sale that the ball was “a true one-of-a-kind item” and “arguably the most significant soccer item that exists.”Maradona scored the go
  
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• Hanneli Rupert, the Richemont scion building a Davos for craft

  24-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Meet the woman turning Homo Faber into a design powerhouse
  
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• How Do You Get Good Anymore?

  24-08-2026 00:32 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Classical music training still runs on a guru model — teacher as oracle, student as supplicant — and an argument in The New York Times says the deference is damaging the people it’s meant to turn into musicians. The useful question isn’t who behaved badly, it’s what should mastering your craft actually require you to hand over.One field over, the question is getting harder to answer. Young writers are finding that the small, unglamorous, paid assignment
  
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• The Struggles To Translate Final Fantasy, The World’s Biggest Entertainment, Between Cultures

  23-08-2026 22:00 via yahoo.com
  “For Final Fantasy XVI, Fox and his team were given unusual latitude. The writers wanted the story to feel true to Western medieval fantasy stories.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• How Winnie Became The Pooh Bear, A Century Ago

  23-08-2026 21:30 via npr.org
  
  “Sometimes words need pictures and pictures need words. When they find each other, characters spring to life.” – NPR
  
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• Writing Is Hard, And Young Writers Are Getting Extra Discouraged

  23-08-2026 21:00 via fastcompany.com
  “They’re simultaneously struggling to figure out if they need to use AI to keep up in today’s competitive industry—or eschew it altogether in order to maintain trust.” – Fast Company
  
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• Now The LAPD Are Involved In Finding Out What Happened To Netflix’s Nicolas Cage Movie

  23-08-2026 20:30 via msn.com
  “This report is being made on an emergency basis, as there is reason to believe that Netflix, Inc. and its employees are suppressing and/or spoliating evidence of the theft of an asset with a cost of $45 million to create.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• No, A Music Teacher Is Not A God

  23-08-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Why do teachers get so many pedestals – and so, so many opportunities for abuse? “Being perpetually curious is hard work. Grappling with an unruly instrument and the infinite subjectivity of music is extremely hard work.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Country Music Suddenly Started Dominating The Billboard Charts

  23-08-2026 19:30 via slate.com
  
  “For a century now, country music has been a parallel universe of hitmaking that didn’t always register on the national pop charts—for data reasons more than popularity reasons.” Streaming is changing everything. – Slate
  
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• First, Record Albums Came Back, And Now It’s CDs

  23-08-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Teens and 20-somethings are, again, driving the shift back (related: so are K-Pop bands). One fan, on switching out phone for CD player: “It gives me a different feeling. … I feel like I’m listening to an artist’s work. It brings me joy.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Patricia Douglas Challenged A Culture Of Abuse In Early Hollywood, And Paid A Price

  23-08-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  In 1937, Douglas was told to come to a producer’s ranch for a movie. But, “she later said, she and more than 100 other young women — many of whom were minors — had been summoned to entertain men attending MGM’s annual sales convention.” – The New York Times
  
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• Australia, Like Most Places, Has A Dwindling Number Of Drive-In Movie Theatres

  23-08-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  In Melbourne, there’s one hold-out. “The drive-in demands little of its audience. You can lie down, walk around, talk and sing without fear of being hushed. Parents feel at ease bringing newborns, and dogs can curl up beside their owners.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Don’t Be Fooled By The Emmy Nomination For SubwayTakes

  23-08-2026 17:30 via vulture.com
  
  “The Emmy nod isn’t, in itself, a milestone. What it actually represents is much smaller: a win for YouTube’s awards campaigning, confined for now to a category that’s spent most of its existence as the Emmys’ junk drawer.” – Vulture
  
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• How Theatre Created, Then Recreated, The ‘Rocky Horror’ Mad Scientist Lab

  23-08-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “A slapdash seediness has been embedded in the musical’s aesthetic DNA ever since it started in 1973 in a tiny upstairs space at the Royal Court Theater in London.” – The New York Times
  
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• What Sepideh Moafi Brought To The Pitt

  23-08-2026 16:30 via huffpost.com
  “The Iranian American actor drew from her own childhood experiences and advocacy work as an ambassador with the International Rescue Committee to shape Dr. Al-Hashimi into who audiences get to know onscreen.” – HuffPost
  
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• Designer Error, By About 10,000 Miles

  23-08-2026 16:00 via artsjournal.com
  Sydney, Australia, has an Allianz soccer stadium, and so does Munich, Germany. Guess which one appears on the Sydney Marathon medal? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Smithsonian Plan For A Latinx Museum Avoids A Congressional Vote

  23-08-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  “The Smithsonian Institution has called a board meeting to discuss giving one of its current buildings to the National Museum of the American Latino, which would bypass the need for congressional approval for a new site.” – The New York Times
  
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• Orchids Made Charles Darwin Who He Was

  23-08-2026 15:00 via lithub.com
  
  “Darwin had long been interested in orchids, possibly influenced by the borderline sexual love his grandfather, Erasmus, felt for them and put into his writings.” – LitHub
  
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• Meta May Finally Face A Day Of Reckoning Over Child Safety

  23-08-2026 14:30 via wired.com
  
  “Other companies in Meta’s social media cohort, like Snap, TikTok, and YouTube, have opted this year to settle some suits that allege their platforms have harmed kids’ mental health. Meta instead chose to go to trial, only to very publicly lose and pay massive fines.” – Wired
  
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• The Mayor Of Los Angeles Suddenly Loves The Warnermount Merger

  23-08-2026 14:00 via vulture.com
  
  What in the rolling over for rich people hell, Karen Bass? – Vulture
  
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• After The Pentagon Fired The Publisher, The Editor, And A Reporter, Can We Call Stars And Stripes Independent?

  23-08-2026 13:30 via artsjournal.com
  As they say, if a headline asks a question, the answer is usually pretty clear. The fired reporter, Lara Korte: “These are important issues we’re reporting on, and I think being able to maintain independence is extremely critical.” – NPR
  
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• Boston Symphony Orchestra Musicians Vote To Authorize A Potential Strike

  23-08-2026 13:00 via wgbh.org
  
  The contract expires at midnight tonight (Sunday, August 23). That’s not to say there will be a strike, but the musicians are supportive of a potential strike, which would be the first in the BSO’s history. – WGBH
  
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• Top Gambling Establishments That Approve Bitcoin Deposits: A Comprehensive Guide

  23-08-2026 01:28 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Bitcoin, the globe’s initial decentralized digital currency, has gotten significant popularity over the years. With its special functions such as privacy and protection, it has actually come to be a preferred payment approach for several on-line bettors. Because of this, numerous leading casinos currently approve Bitcoin deposits, supplying players with a seamless and exciting gaming experience. In this article, we will discover some of the very best online casinos that accept Bitcoin depo
  
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• Free Blackjack Games: A Guide to Play and Win

  23-08-2026 00:18 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Blackjack is one of the most preferred gambling establishment games all over the world. Its straightforward guidelines and calculated gameplay have actually attracted countless players throughout the years. And currently, with the introduction of on the internet gambling enterprises, gamers can delight in the excitement of blackjack from the convenience of their very own homes.
  In this post, we will certainly explore the world of complimentary blackjack games. We will explore how to play, where
  
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