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• The modern face of the debutante ball

  02-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  African American communities have developed their own cotillion traditions
  
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• El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión Look at the Rise of Latinx Art

  05-09-2026 00:56 via artnews.com
  
  This spring, El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión hosted “The Rise of the U.S. Latino Art Market: Lessons from Latin America,” a half-day symposium in El Museo’s iconic Teatro space.The event brought together artists, curators, museum directors, market insiders, and more to discuss the most pressing issues facing Latinx art in the art world and how to continue to grow its infrastructure. (ARTnews served as the media sponsor.)The idea for the event was dreamed up by Asp
  
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• Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Preserve for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission

  04-09-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York’s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York’s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island’s Nassau an
  
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• Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Conservancy for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission

  04-09-2026 22:47 via artnews.com
  
  In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York’s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York’s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island’s Nassau an
  
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• An Incisive Exhibition in Buffalo Defies Expectations of What Latinx Painting Should Look Like 

  04-09-2026 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  There is a painting at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum that I still can’t get out of my head, six months after I saw it. It only measures 40 by 30 inches, and I missed it on my first walk through the gallery. Made by Los Angeles–based artist Karla Diaz in thinned-out acrylic paint, it shows two Latino men, both with mustaches, one carrying the other on his shoulders. The painting’s joyful casualness belies its subject matter, clues to which can be found in the coyote on one of the m
  
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• Prolific Mexican Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina Will Organize 2027 Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala

  04-09-2026 22:14 via artnews.com
  
  Cuauhtémoc Medina, a Mexico City–based curator and art historian who has organized exhibitions around the world, has been appointed curator of the Bienal de Arte Paiz. The biennial takes place in Guatemala City and Antigua, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is organized by the Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura, a family foundation that initially awarded education scholarships and supported soup kitchens. The foundation launched the biennial in 1978; Me
  
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• On Its 60th Anniversary, Anderson Ranch Balances Growth and Authenticity

  04-09-2026 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a five-acre complex of studios and artist housing in Snowmass, Colorado, that offers workshops and residencies, is often called a maker’s paradise. You understand that moniker upon arrival: Once you get over the 8,000-foot elevation, you feel energized, breathe in the crisp air, behold your bucolic surroundings—mountains dotted with the watching eyes of aspens—and want to revel in making something, even something as banal as your morning coffee.W
  
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• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Reveals Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Adam Pendleton and Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith

  04-09-2026 20:19 via artnews.com
  
  The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced a group of recent acquisitions across all ten of its curatorial departments. In the past year, the MFA reports, it has purchased 808 works of art and received 2,506 gifts from more than 50 donors, including the donation of 1,989 photographs by the Joy of Giving Something, Inc.Comprising both contemporary and historical artworks, new additions to the museum’s holdings range from a 2025 wall relief by Vietnamese-born artist Tuan Andrew Ng
  
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• New James Turrell Work Debuts at Superblue in Miami

  04-09-2026 20:03 via artnews.com
  
  Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled Blue Sea Sky (2026), marks the artist’s latest installment in his renowned “Ganzfeld” series (1976–).For the last five decades, Turrell has been making works inspired by the ganzfeld effect (German for “complete field”)
  
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• Collector Leon Black Sues House Oversight Committee over Jeffrey Epstein Investigation

  04-09-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Leon Black, a billionaire investor who counts among the world’s top art collectors, has sued the House Oversight Committee, alleging that its subpoenas to testify in its investigation into the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were “invalid.”Epstein’s friendship with Black has been well-documented. Black, who has repeatedly appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, provided Epstein with financial guidance while he was still CEO of Apollo Global Management, a
  
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• Argentina Ordered to Return Nazi-Looted Painting That Showed Up in a Real Estate Listing

  04-09-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis, which turned up eight decades later in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina owned by descendants of a financier to the SS, must be returned to the heirs of the rightful owner, reports France24.Attorneys, investigators, and heirs of collectors who had their art looted by the Nazis, or left it behind under duress, often spend decades trying to track down the artworks. So a public real estate listing might seem like the unlikeliest place to fin
  
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• Groundbreaking Work for Trump’s Proposed Triumphal Arch to Start in Two Weeks

  04-09-2026 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  United States President Donald Trump has big plans for his Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC, with excavation work for the proposed monument slated to start over the next two weeks, according to secretary of interior Doug Burgum.In a post on X, Burgum wrote that “after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memor
  
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• Kennedy Center’s Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture Raises Concern Among Artists: ‘I’m Crushed’

  04-09-2026 18:16 via artnews.com
  
  The removal of a monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has generated concern among artists who have shown there.Workers began to disassemble the Shapiro work, titled Blue, on Tuesday; the Kennedy Center has not stated a rationale for why the 24-foot-tall sculpture of a stick-figure-like person was taken away. But the New York Times reported that internal documents suggested that the work, which Shapiro gave to the Kennedy Cent
  
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• A Thrilling Barbara Hammer Documentary Puts the ‘Body’ in ‘Body of Work’

  04-09-2026 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  Of all the retrospectives and surveys I’ve seen, most have stimulated my eyes and my mind; a few have even involved using my ears. (There’s a reason what’s presented in museums is often called “visual art,” after all.) But the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s 2018 Barbara Hammer retrospective remains a standout because it demanded more of my body than a typical exhibition.  I’m thinking of Hammer’s 1982 film Pond and Waterfall, which mostly depicts
  
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• Luxurious Bath Complex Used by Roman Emperor Found in Serbia

  04-09-2026 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  An archaeological dig in Serbia turned up remnants of a uniquely constructed bathing complex thought to have been used by a Roman emperor.As reported by Live Science, “The suite of rooms—which included heated floors, three bathing pools, and a sauna—was uncovered at the bottom of a tower within an imperial palace, a design archaeologists had never seen before in the Roman Empire.”The bathing station was discovered at the archaeological site of Vrelo-Šarkamen, a fou
  
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• Eastman Johnson Paintings Stolen in New York in 1978 Are Recovered in Connecticut

  04-09-2026 16:23 via artnews.com
  
  Two stolen paintings by American artist Eastman Johnson (1824–1906) have been recovered in Connecticut. Milford auction house Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, which helped recover the works, announced the news on its website.The paintings, Mary and Her Lamb (1877) and The Young Mother (ca. 1872–73), were stolen from New York galleries Kenneth Lux Gallery and Hirschl & Adler Galleries, respectively, in 1978. Their whereabouts remained unknown for almost 50 years, until they w
  
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• David Hockney’s Serpentine Exhibition Broke Gallery Attendance Records

  04-09-2026 16:09 via artnews.com
  
  The David Hockney exhibition “A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,” on view at Serpentine North in London from March 12 through August 23, broke the gallery’s prior attendance records with around 300,000 visitors. This marks the best attended exhibition at the Serpentine in its 56-year history.The exhibition ran earlier this year with free admission and marked the artist’s first presentation at the Serpentine; accompanying the exhibition is a large-
  
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• Triumphal Arch Construction to Start Without Approval, Heatwaves Come at Hefty Cost to French Museums, and More: Morning Links for September 4, 2026

  04-09-2026 14:53 via artnews.com
  
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  Trump is proceeding with the construction of his triumphal arch despite lacking federal approval.Record heatwaves in France cost national monuments and museums hundreds of thousands of dollars. Germany’s arts sector is closely watching whether the far-right gains ground during this weekend’s regional elections, after threats to
  
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• François Halard talks taste

  04-09-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  The French photographer loves tantric art, ’90s garage and his Glengarry cashmere beanie
  
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• What Was Pop Art, the 1960s Art Movement that Changed Art History?

  04-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  By all appearances, Pop art is the quintessential American genre, born of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, comic books, and a mid-century cornucopia of TVs, cars, and appliances. Its marquee names—Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg (among a host of others, including female artists such as Rosalyn Drexler, Marisol Escobar, and Marjorie Strider)—were all based in New York City, the world’s art capital at the time. But while they became synonymous with Pop
  
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• This New Eva Hesse–Inspired Novel Is an Experiment in Form (and Foam)

  04-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  “I’m writing a novella about Eva Hesse, I say when people ask,” writes Kate Zambreno in their new book Foam, out from Semiotext(e) on September 15. But Hesse, the late sculptor who believed “art and life are inseparable,” keeps slipping away, getting subsumed or pushed out of Zambreno’s reach. Just one quick page break later, they “forgot where they were” in the writing: “I went into a period of constant work”—likely teaching, one
  
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• Minnie Evans in full bloom

  04-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  At the Whitney, a retrospective of the self-taught artist reveals a visionary world of riotous colour, spiritual fervour and unbridled joy
  
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• Face to face with ancient Egypt

  04-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Captivated by a portrait in a Boston museum, Sophy Roberts sets out to explore the temples, monasteries and desert landscapes of the Faiyum Oasis
  
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• The Lucas Museum Doesn’t Have a Narrative

  03-09-2026 23:19 via artnews.com
  
  If a picture is worth a thousand words, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has decided it’s not worth writing a single one.Nearly two decades in the making and costing more than $1 billion, the long-awaited Lucas Museum is finally ready to make its debut, with founding member previews starting next week and its public opening on September 22. The two scrapped plans in different cities (first Chicago, then San Francisco) and the eight years spent building it in LA have certain
  
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• Chinese Artists Officially Withdraw from Gwangju Biennale in Protest of ‘Taiwan Pavilion’

  03-09-2026 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  The Chinese artists set to exhibit at this year’s Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew today from the prestigious exhibition, which opens September 5. The announcement follows a directive issued last week by the Chinese embassy in Seoul ordering China’s artistic team to halt its activities in protest of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s decision to allow Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name “Taiwan.”On the eve of the exhibition’s opening, the Gwa
  
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• Christie’s and Bonhams Quietly Hike Buyers’ Fees

  03-09-2026 22:02 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s and Bonhams have both quietly raised the fees they charge buyers. The charges, which auction houses like to call “buyer’s premiums,” are added on top of a lot’s hammer price and are a key source of revenue for the houses.   At Christie’s, effective September 1, the house is charging 28% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including £1.5 million or $2 million; 22% of the hammer price from £1.5 million or $2 million up
  
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• Is The Berlin Philharmonic Really The Very Best Orchestra In The World?

  03-09-2026 20:03 via theguardian.com
  Tom Service: “What does being the ‘best’ mean? And how and why have the Berliners acquired, and held on to, their globe-topping orchestral reputation for so many decades, through changes of conductor and personnel, political upheaval and technological transformation?” – The Guardian
  
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• There’s A Difference Between Celebrating Innovation and Trying To Understand It

  03-09-2026 19:44 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Journalist Nicholas Carr called the online world “the shallows” for the way it erodes concentration. But the paradox is that its depthlessness arrives as immersion. – The Walrus
  
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• Why There Are Fewer English Majors In Universities Today

  03-09-2026 19:30 via porticoquarterly.com
  
  The decline of the English major offers a lesson in what young people want. Teenagers in the 2020s have a spiritual thirst that is unmet by a curriculum without order and greatness and charm. A field without a bible like the Norton doesn’t satisfy them. – Portico Quarterly
  
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• Americans Are Fascinated With Art Heists. Not So Much Fascinated By Art?

  03-09-2026 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  If you are a fictional character and you happen to be stealing art, odds are excellent that you’re in a heist movie. At this point, the genre is so famous, and mocked, that plumbing it for serious lessons about art and the art market may seem quixotic. – ARTnews
  
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