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• The Orchestra Problem Isn’t The Playing

  13-08-2026 00:07 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Thomas Wolf’s autopsy of the Boston Symphony mess (Thomas Wolf) lands on something larger than one orchestra: the field has narrowed “excellence” down to the quality of the playing, then wondered why that alone won’t hold up. Two stories today show a wider definition working. At Vail, a choreographer put Irish step and tap on ballet dancers, and it works (Dance Magazine). And the concert stage’s dress code has quietly turned expressive instead of unifor
  
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• A Picasso Stolen 65 Years Ago Has Resurfaced. The Guggenheim Wants It Back

  14-08-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  
  A Pablo Picasso painting stolen while on loan from the Guggenheim Museum more than six decades ago has resurfaced, and the museum has gone to court to get it back.The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation filed suit in New York State Supreme Court this week, according to Hyperallergic, against Massachusetts residents Lawrence Jay Handler and Wendy Cohen Handler, who the museum says currently possess Femme dans un fauteuil (Woman in an Armchair), a small 1918 painting that disappeared from t
  
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• The Met Has Put the Oldest Existing Copy of the Odyssey on Display

  14-08-2026 20:56 via artnews.com
  
  Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be seen and appreciated after a long time out of view. The relic is now on display in Gallery 162 in the museum’s section devoted to Greek and Roman Art.In a round-up of Odyssey-related collection treasures on its website, the Met describes the relic as the first
  
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• Colombia’s Museo de Arte de Pereira Closes due to Extensive Earthquake Damage

  14-08-2026 20:55 via artnews.com
  
  As workers race against the 72-hour, so-called golden window to rescue survivors from collapsed buildings following Monday’s devastating 7.4 earthquake in northern Colombia, the region’s museums are also in serious jeopardy.On Monday evening, Alejandro Garces, a curator at the Museo de Arte de Pereira, posted photos on Instagram of the damage sustained to the museum that is located about 220 miles west of Bogotá and is the principal art institution for the states of Caldas, Ri
  
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• Roman Artifacts on View at Syria’s Damascus Citadel Following Repatriation from France

  14-08-2026 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Damascus in early July, he pledged to support the country’s rebuilding efforts in the wake of former President Basher al-Assad’s overthrow 18 months prior. While the main focus of the visit was economic—Macron discussed reviving Syria’s banking sector and returning more than $50 million that had been confiscated from the Assad family—the diplomatic gesture also involved the return of 23 artifacts that had been held in Fr
  
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• Italian Police Recover $10 M. Worth of Artworks by Cezanne, Matisse, and Renoir

  14-08-2026 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  If 2025 was the year of the museum robbery, perhaps 2026 will be the year of the recovery. On Friday, Italian police announced that they had recovered three artworks stolen in March from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca near Parma in Northern Italy, according to Reuters.The recovered paintings are Paul Cezanne’s Still Life with Cherries (1890), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s late-career Les Poissons (1917), and Henri Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace (1922). Thei
  
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• Kit Fitzgerald, Pioneering Video Artist With a Painter’s Sensibility, Has Died at 73

  14-08-2026 19:40 via artnews.com
  
  Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she “fought a rare and aggressive cancer, but always maintained a sense of beauty and wonderment.”A trained painter, Fitzgerald imbued electronic art with the unruly touch of brush and canvas—vivid color, dynamic light, stuttered gesture—resulting i
  
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• Low Salaries for the UK Arts Sector, Recovered Paintings in Brazil and Italy, and More: Morning LInks for August 14, 2026

  14-08-2026 19:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!Police in Italy and Brazil have recovered nearly a dozen paintings stolen over the last year.London’s cultural sector is facing growing scrutiny over salaries that fall short of the expertise demanded.A new museum in Slovenia is turning Balkan humor into an unlikely cultural attraction.The Headlines BACK IN THE FRAME. 2025 was the year
  
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• Top Executive and Senior Sales Director Leave Pace Following Gallery’s ‘Restructuring’

  14-08-2026 18:09 via artnews.com
  
  The shakeup at Pace Gallery isn’t over. Just two months after the gallery laid off roughly 50 employees in a sweeping restructuring, two of the executives who helped shape Pace during its years of rapid expansion are headed for the exit.Amelia Redgrift, the gallery’s chief communications officer, and Dani Forest Brandi, a senior sales director, have both resigned. Where they’re going remains under wraps. Sources told ARTnews, however, that both have already landed senior roles
  
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• New French Law Sparks Hope for Long-Awaited Return of Looted ‘Ségou Treasure’ to Senegal

  14-08-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  For decades, the descendants of the Senegalese Muslim mystic, scholar, and military commander Omar Saïdou Tall have been trying to retrieve his stolen belongings, known as the “treasure of Ségou,” from the French state. The trove, spread across several French museums and the national library, includes nearly 500 manuscripts containing Tall’s writings and those of contemporaries documenting the region’s history and culture, plus jewelry, weapons, and other arti
  
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• Michael E. Smith, the Elusive Sculptor-Poet, Opens Up After a Decade of Dodging Interviews

  14-08-2026 16:41 via artnews.com
  
  When I learned of an opportunity to interview Michael E. Smith—an artist I’ve long admired—my brain boomeranged: I was excited to hear from an elusive artist who seldom speaks, but also stumped as to what exactly I might ask the man. I intuited that direct questions—of the what does this mean, why did you make that variety—wouldn’t do for an artist whose work is so withholding. His sculptures have this magical yet vernacular quality you’d feel silly over
  
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• Fried at Last: Why Michael Fried’s Attacks on Literalism Matter As Never Before

  14-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Finally! The real Michael Fried has stood up. A new collection of his life’s work reveals him to be a poet with a memory bestowed from the gods—one who weathered Peter Schjeldahl’s trumped-up charges of being a formalist, conservative fuddy-dud, one who emerges in our AI slop epoch as one of the great art seers who makes a frightening lot of sense, now more than ever. The critic who found a helpful narrative to understand the history, and future, of our images, without a drop o
  
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  14-08-2026 05:54 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  14-08-2026 02:59 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Roleta com Saque Instantâneo: O Guia Definitivo

  14-08-2026 01:34 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  14-08-2026 00:17 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Three Ancient Tombs at Bahariya Oasis

  13-08-2026 23:42 via artnews.com
  
  An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered three tombs from different historical periods at the Sheikh Sobi archaeological site in the Bahariya Oasis. The news was reported by several outlets, including Arab News, following an announcement by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.The site, which lies about 225 miles southwest of Giza, contains a necropolis used to bury governors and priests of the oasis during Egypt’s Late Period (664–332 BCE), as well as the Bawit
  
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• A New Video Game is Subverting the Secrecy of Michael Heizer’s ’City’

  13-08-2026 23:41 via artnews.com
  
  Tulsa, Oklahoma-based digital artist Lily Belmira has made a new, free video game allowing anyone to virtually visit Michael Heizer’s mysterious and radically difficult-to-enter land artwork in the Nevada desert, titled City. Only six people a day who are willing to pay the regular admission fee of $150 are permitted to explore City, one of the world’s largest artworks, in person. Spanning over a mile and a half, its precise location has been kept secret to some degree since its open
  
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  13-08-2026 22:06 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Adds AI to Provenance Search Tool

  13-08-2026 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP), an organization founded in Berlin in 2016, announced today that it has added AI capabilities to its provenance research tool, Legacy Explorer, which launched last year. Legacy Explorer is currently able to search five archives, including the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg archive at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, as well as several others that organize property cards and photographs. A sixth archive will be added later this month, according t
  
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• Before France Approved Bayeux Tapestry Loan, a British Official Had To ‘Get On His Knees and Propose’

  13-08-2026 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  The Bayeux Tapestry is set for its big moment at the British Museum this fall, but the New York Times is dishing on how the loan came to be.In a feature published Tuesday, reporter Alex Marshall reveals the many behind-the-scenes negotiations that brought the famed Romanesque-style textile artwork depicting the 1066 Norman invasion back home to the UK.The most recent loan request was far from the first: the UK had previously asked for the work in 1953, 1966, and 1980. So what changed?
  
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• Defying Federal Judge, Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close, Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building

  13-08-2026 21:13 via artnews.com
  
  The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Thursday to close the center for renovations for a second time, while keeping a smaller, separate theater open. This week’s vote marked a dramatic escalation in the legal battle over the historic center: the Trump-allied board also moved to inscribe the president’s name beneath the signage—a direct rebuke of a May federal court order that had blocked both the closure and a name change. According to the New Yo
  
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• Alison Nguyen to Screen New Film Exploring the Hidden History of Westbeth on the High Line Next Month

  13-08-2026 21:04 via artnews.com
  
  The High Line and the Chanel Culture Fund have commissioned artist Alison Nguyen to create a new film examining the overlooked history of one of New York’s best-known cultural landmarks.Prior Occupants, as Nguyen’s work is titled, is the fifth installment in the High Line Originals series and the second produced in partnership with the luxury brand’s arts initiative. The film will premiere on September 8 and screen daily through early November on the High Line Channel, the park
  
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• The Luxury Industry is Contracting—So Why Are Auction Houses’ Luxury Sales Booming?

  13-08-2026 19:51 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.If you’ve been following ARTnews‘ reporting on the luxury market over the last year, you’ll know that luxury sales at the major auction houses are booming. At Christie’s, such sales jumped 30 percent year on year in the first half of 2025, to $468 million, before climbi
  
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• R&B Superstar Usher Reveals the Blue-Chip Art That Fills His Atlanta Home

  13-08-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  
  Did you know that multiplatinum and Grammy award-winning R&B superstar Usher is a devoted art collector? Now you do.For Architectural Digest, the singer opened the doors to his Atlanta home to show off his surprisingly deep collection of contemporary art. Among the works hanging on the walls or installed on the grounds are pieces by Rashid Johnson, Gordon Parks, Sterling Ruby, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Anthony James, Daniel Arsham, Jammie Holmes, Yoshitomo Nara, Michael Stipe, Damien Hirst, Richar
  
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• Unions Call V&A Director’s Absence from Contract Negotiation Talks ‘Shocking’ and ‘Disrespectful’

  13-08-2026 18:37 via artnews.com
  
  Tristram Hunt, director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), is on the receiving end of criticism from the two unions, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Prospect, which have issued a joint statement calling him to the bargaining table. The union is striking over pay, working conditions, and “dignity at work,” and says his absence from the negotiations is shocking and disrespectful.Union members at the V&A East Storehouse voted to strike in July o
  
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  13-08-2026 18:15 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Indian Luxury Brand Partners with Met Museum for New Jewelry Line Premiering During NY Fashion Week

  13-08-2026 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for a new line of jewelry inspired by the institution’s vast collection.Sabyasachi, which was founded by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, will unveil the jewelry line on September 15 as part of New York Fashion Week, WWD reports. The line marks the first part of a multiyear collaboration with the Met, “beginning with designs informed by the art and material culture of the By
  
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• New York’s Jewish Museum to Present US Premiere of Ruth Patir’s Installation from Israeli Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale

  13-08-2026 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  A video installation at the center of high-profile controversy at the 2024 Venice Biennale will go on view this winter in New York, marking its US premiere. New York–born, Tel Aviv–based artist Ruth Patir’s video installation (M)otherland was purchased by the Jewish Museum just months after the artist closed the Israeli Pavilion in protest over her country’s war in Gaza. At the time, Patir said the pavilion would open once the war was over, which did not occur during the
  
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• SFMOMA’s New Senior Curator, Blaqiuer Estate Sale, and More: Industry Moves for August 13, 2026

  13-08-2026 17:33 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.Happy Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Atlanta Art Fair Returns to Pullman Yards: The annual fair, running October 1–4, 2026, will feature nearly 70 galleries from across the American South and beyond, alongside an expand
  
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