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• The Hamilton Algorithm (Or How Does He Make All Those Words Work?)

  07-06-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s a word-by-word analysis plus a nifty playback tool that shows you how the “Hamilton” rap works.
  
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• King Charles Visited Tate Britain’s ‘Turner and Constable’ Show and Loved What He Saw

  13-03-2026 17:28 via artnews.com
  “Turner and Constable,” a show at London’s Tate Britain museum that pairs works by J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, has become a smash hit, with some 185,000 people attending since its opening in November. Now, it turns out one of those visitors was none other than King Charles himself.He visited the show on Tuesday, the Tate announced Friday, confirming reports in the British media that he’d been toured around “Turner and Constable” by Amy Concannon, a sen
  
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• Smiljan Radic Wins the Pritzker Prize, ‘Men Retire But Women Get Fired From Museum Leadership’ Says Anne Pasternak: Morning Links for March 13, 2026

  13-03-2026 13:21 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayed because of Tom Pritzker’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, according to the New York Times. In an email, Radic said his designs “all try to reach a certain austerity.” By that he
  
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• Massive, 44-Foot-Long David Hockney Print to Headline Christie’s Spring Prints Season in London

  13-03-2026 12:44 via artnews.com
  A massive print by David Hockney is slated to headline Christie’s London spring prints season. Titled Autour de la maison, été (2019) and measuring almost 40 feet, it carries a high estimate of £300,000 ($400,000).The work is printed on a single sheet of paper. Not only is it among Hockney’s largest prints but also one of the most ambitious works in his printmaking career. It depicts the British artist’s home and garden in Normandy at the height of summer. T
  
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• Brooklyn Museum’s Chief Claims That Male Museum Directors Retire, While Their Female Counterparts Get Fired

  13-03-2026 11:13 via artnews.com
  At a forum in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak voiced concern about what she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, the Financial Times reported.Pasternak was speaking at the Making Their Mark Forum alongside guests including Jodie Foster, Christophe Cherix of Museum of Modern Art, Chelsea Clinton, and artists
  
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• At Making Their Mark Forum, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Notes Troubling Pattern in Museum Leadership

  13-03-2026 11:13 via artnews.com
  During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, Charlotte Burns reported in the Financial Times Thursday.“I’m petrified about what’s happening to leadership in our country, and particularly in our field,” said Paternak. “Take a loo
  
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• Meg Webster, Comme des Garçons, and DIA Art Foundation Have Partnered on a New Perfume

  13-03-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  Like lingering petrichor or damp earth, Meg Webster’s sculptures envelop the senses—hardly surprising, as they emerge from “soil, sand, and salt,” in the words of the DIA Art Foundation, a longtime guardian of her work. For years, visitors have been invited to step around and into the shadow of her earthworks, installed as mounds and pillars along the gallery floor.  Starti
  
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• Cindy Sherman’s 1997 Horror Movie Flop Is Coming to Blu-Ray. Is the World Finally Ready for It?

  13-03-2026 10:00 via artnews.com
  Photographer Cindy Sherman has made just one feature film to date—Office Killer, a 1997 box-office flop that was unloved by critics, such as the New York Times’s Stephen Holden, who called the movie “sadly inept” and “crude.” I agree, at least, on the “crude” part: in one scene, the film’s star Carol Kane plays with a violated corpse’s guts. Once she’s smeared them around the corpse’s opene
  
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• Netflix Is Developing a Series About Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

  12-03-2026 21:02 via artnews.com
  Netflix is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo and her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. The streamer said the drama will show how the couple’s love, betrayals and artistic work were shaped by the political and social atmosphere of the time.Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein will share directing duties. Mónica Lozano of Alebrije Producciones is producing.The series will be an adaptation of French
  
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• Collector Bob Rennie Donates 24 Works to National Gallery of Canada

  12-03-2026 21:02 via artnews.com
  The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from Bob Rennie, one of the country’s leading art collectors, and his family.The donated works include 17 works by Christopher Williams, two works by Kerry James Marshall, four by Brian Jungen, and one by Jin-me Yoon. With this gift, the Rennie family has now given the museum 284 works since 2012.“This gift follows one of the core missions of the collection,” Bob Rennie, who has
  
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• Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Works by Tishan Hsu, Berthe Morisot, and More

  12-03-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  The Denver Art Museum in Colorado announced this week that it acquired more than 750 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying its collection. Made between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, the acquisitions included Tishan Hsu’s mammal-screen-green-1 (2024) and Jackie Amézquita’s el SUDOR de mi GENTE (2023), as well as works artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum in 2025 such as Dawoud Be
  
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• Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy

  12-03-2026 19:49 via artnews.com
  While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found a defender in Glenn Lowry, a former director of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution where Black is currently a board member.Black was previously chair of MoMA’s board, but he left that position in 2021 following the publication of reports on his friendship and business relationship with Epstein. Prior to his departure from that position, activists an
  
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• Missing Page of Archimedes Manuscript Found in France, Shedding Light on Century-Long Mystery

  12-03-2026 19:35 via artnews.com
  A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. One side of the page, which had been missing for 120 years, contains part of Archimedes’s treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, while the other was covered over with an illumination sometime in the 20th century.The Palimpsest dates back to the 10th century in Greece and features several written works by Archim
  
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• A Superior Salvator Mundi, and 5 Other Strange and Wonderful Masterpieces at TEFAF Maastricht

  12-03-2026 19:32 via artnews.com
  The little Dutch city of Maastricht (population about 125,000), boasts an incredible masterpiece-to-resident ratio each March, when the TEFAF fair comes to town. This year, 276 dealers from 24 countries have brought many thousands of objects, arranged in sections devoted to paintings, antiques, jewelry, modern and contemporary art, design, ancient art, arts of Africa and Oceania, and more. Speaking to ARTnews ahead of the fair, which opened Thursday and runs a full six days, New York Old M
  
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• The Venice Biennale Claims It’s Neutral—But No Art Exhibition Ever Is

  12-03-2026 17:51 via artnews.com
  The 1974 Venice Biennale has gone down in history less for what went on view than what didn’t: the show itself. The explanations for why the exhibition didn’t happen are diverse. Some accounts attribute the show’s cancelation to an embarrassing disagreement among warring Italian factions. Others follow the narrative laid out by then-Biennale president Carlo Ripa di Meana, a socialist who said he shuttered the show as a means of political engagement.Certainly, the project that h
  
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• Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation

  12-03-2026 17:33 via artnews.com
  Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared “any barking from Austin” over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing “Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá,” an exhibition of work by Brooklyn artist Victor Quiño
  
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• Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists

  12-03-2026 17:17 via artnews.com
  The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics.One prominent Jewish group, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, had initially been invited to preview the Biennale ahead of its public opening this weekend. “If there are works with a pro-Palestinian bias, fine,&rdq
  
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• Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View

  12-03-2026 17:12 via artnews.com
  A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC.According to the Associated Press, the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from the São José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off the coast of Cape Town in 1794 while carrying more than 400 captive Africans. The 33-pound piece of wood, dis
  
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• Keisha Scarville Wins Brooklyn Museum’s $25,000 Uovo Prize

  12-03-2026 15:08 via artnews.com
  Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum’s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be featured on the facade of the art storage space operated by Uovo in Bushwick.“Receiving the 2026 UOVO prize deeply affirms my creative journey,” Scarville told ARTnews in
  
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• Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 2026

  12-03-2026 13:13 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader reports for Urgent Matter that the communications, obtained through a public records request, show school
  
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• Fab 5 Freddy Shares His Top Five Recent Obsessions

  12-03-2026 12:00 via artnews.com
  The formative graffiti artist and hip-hop pioneer, whose memoir Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture was published on March 10, discusses Black piracy and news of the day.
  
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• Scholars and MPs Call UK Museums ‘Unethical’ and ‘Sacrilegious’ for Holding Vast Collections of Human Remains

  12-03-2026 11:48 via artnews.com
  More than a quarter of a million human remains from around the world are currently held in UK museums, in what MPs and archaeologists are calling an uncomfortable legacy of the country’s colonial past. Not only this, but many of the items are reportedly being stored in ways that are disrespectful or even sacrilegious.An investigation by the Guardian found that British museums collectively hold more than 263,000 items of human remains, ranging from complete skeletons and preserved bodies li
  
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• Litecoin Przedsiębiorstwo Hazardowe: Kompleksowy Przegląd po Crypto Zakładach

  12-03-2026 09:43 via zouchmagazine.com
  Przez ostatnie kilka lat, świat zakładów on-line doświadczył znaczną transformację wraz z wprowadzeniem kryptowalutowych przedsiębiorstw hazardowych. Pośród elektronicznych walut robiących furorę, Litecoin pojawił się jako popularną wyborem z powodu jego szybkość transakcji i przystępność. Ten krótki artykuł przygląda się szczegóły Litecoina przedsiębiors
  
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• Wzrast Kasyn Online na Żywo z Kryptowalutami: Zmiana Wrażeń Hazardowych

  12-03-2026 08:14 via zouchmagazine.com
  W ostatnich latach, glob gier online doświadczył niespotykanej poprawy przy skrzyżowaniu nowoczesnej technologii blockchain i gier wideo w zakładach hazardowych na żywo. Kasyna kryptowalutowe na żywo, w szczególności, wyłoniły się jako innowacyjną innowację, dostarczając nieporównywalne doświadczenie entuzjastom pieniędzy cyfrowych i fanatykom hazardu. Ten krótki artykuł bada istotę kasyn k
  
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• After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report

  12-03-2026 06:00 via artnews.com
  The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in sales, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a 4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though the market still sits below its 2022 peak.The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged
  
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• How AI Terminated 1,477 NEH Grants: A Naive Exercise in Casuistry

  12-03-2026 04:01 via artsjournal.com
  Nate Cavanaugh of DOGE (March 2025)
  From 2010 until its sudden termination by DOGE last April, I directed Music Unwound, an NEH-funded national consortium of orchestras and universities.  A letter from Michael McDonald, the acting NEH chairman, informed me that the demise of Music Unwound represented “an urgent priority
  
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• Grand Rapids Symphony – President & CEO

  12-03-2026 03:57 via artsjournal.com
  As it approaches its 100th anniversary in 2030, The Grand Rapids Symphony seeks an accomplished, mission-driven President & Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization through its next chapter of artistic excellence, community impact, national relevance, and long-term sustainability.
  In partnership with a committed Board of Directors and Music Director Marcelo Lehninger, the incoming CEO will play a central role in propelling the Symphony’s artistic and organizational success, in
  
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• Abortion Nonprofit Claims Artwork in Malta Biennale Was Censored

  11-03-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  The second edition of the Malta Biennale opened in previews this week, and it was not without controversy. Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides information on safe abortion in restrictive settings, accused the Biennale’s organizers of “censoring” an artwork by the organization just before the opening on Tuesday.The work originally featured a banner reading Need Abortion Pills? in English and Maltese. According to a press release from Women on Waves, the banner was altered,
  
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• Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for $34.7 M.

  11-03-2026 21:25 via artnews.com
  Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry.The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of “exceptional importance,” Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said in a statement.The portrait had been kept in a private collectio
  
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• The Once-Banned Street Music Of Afro-Uruguayans Has Leapt Back To Life

  11-03-2026 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Candombe — not to be confused with candomblé, the syncretic religion created by Afro-Brazilians — was once confined to poor black neighborhoods in Montevideo. Now it has many thousands of practitioners and fans throughout the country. – The Guardian
  
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