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• New Freeman’s CEO, Rana Begum Joins Lehmann Maupin, and More: Industry Moves for June 3, 2026

  03-06-2026 22:10 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 Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Makeda Best Named Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA: The curator comes from the Oakland Museum of California, where she served as deputy director. Best will fill a role that has been vacant at MoMA f
  
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• We Asked Artists, Dealers, Lawyers, and Advisers What Gallery Representation Means Today—And It’s Surprisingly Complicated

  03-06-2026 22:03 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.Every young artist wants gallery representation. The details vary. Maybe it’s Gagosian. Maybe it’s Hauser & Wirth. Maybe it’s a scrappy gallery on Henry Street with a leaky roof and an owner who still installs every show themselves. The dream remains remarkably consistent: Someone
  
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• National Labor Relations Board Rules Buffalo AKG Art Museum Violated Federal Law With Layoff

  03-06-2026 21:55 via artnews.com
  The National Labor Relations Board has determined that the Buffalo AKG Art Museum violated federal labor law and retaliated against union workers when it laid off 13 employees last year. The layoffs and subsequent restructuring were widely condemned by the union, which described them as an effort to eliminate union positions.In a win for Buffalo AKG Workers United, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on May 28 ordered the museum to reinstate the 13 union workers laid off from its Visitor E
  
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• Colorado Governor Signs Artist Corporation Bill into State Law

  03-06-2026 21:14 via artnews.com
  On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. The new business structure is designed to help artists in the state—defined in the bill as “individuals that create works of authorship or artistic expression comprising written, oral, visual, graphic, literary, musical, audiovisual, digital, or performing art in any mediu
  
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• Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over 10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York

  03-06-2026 20:26 via artnews.com
  A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week’s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby’s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. (All prices include buyer’s premium unless otherwise noted.)The result came as Christie’s Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings sale brought in nearly $7 million with a sell-though rate of 89 percent, while the similarly titled sale at Sotheby’s sale
  
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• How Gedi Sibony Makes a Show, By Transforming Street Finds Into Magical ‘Frozen Moments’

  03-06-2026 19:48 via artnews.com
  The latest show by Gedi Sibony continues the artist’s practice of making enchanting assemblage sculptures out of the most minimal means, and of making paintings that rely on such restrained gestures that they’re barely there. The press release for “The Invisible Point,” his eighth show at New York’s Greene Naftali since 2008, consists of just four sentences, explaining that his process is “powered by an intuitive momentum,” that the show includes “
  
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• Christo-Inspired Public Artwork in Paris By French Artist JR Delayed Because of Storm

  03-06-2026 19:12 via artnews.com
  The opening of a public artwork by French artist JR inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1985 intervention The Pont Neuf Wrapped has reportedly been delayed after a storm damaged the installation overtop the River Seine in Paris.As reported by Euronews, the opening planned for this weekend has been postponed to an unspecified date after severe winds mangled part of the artwork on the oldest bridge in the French capital. A statement from Atelier JR, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundati
  
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• Venice Biennale Artists Threaten Legal Action Against Organizers For Disregarding Requests to Be Withdrawn from ‘Visitors’ Lions’ Awards

  03-06-2026 18:23 via artnews.com
  More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the “Visitors’ Lion” awards at the current edition over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The threat is included in a new announcement published on e-flux.A May 20 letter addressed to the foundation and its president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, is published in the announcement. I
  
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• Makeda Best to Lead MoMA Photography Department, New Lead in Louvre Heist, and More: Morning Links for June 3, 2026

  03-06-2026 16:13 via artnews.com
  The Headlines BRINGING OUT THE BEST. The Museum of Modern Art in New York finally has a new chief curator of photography: Makeda Best, who has served as deputy director at the Oakland Museum of California since 2023, reports the New York Times. The plum position “has influenced, implicitly or explicitly, so much of how we understand the medium,” said Best, who starts in September. It has also been vacant for almost four years. “I’m
  
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• New York State Adds $150 Million To Theater Production Tax Credit — But Is It Going To Shows That Really Need It?

  03-06-2026 15:36 via news.bloomberglaw.com
  “The program … faces criticism from budget watchdog groups, state lawmakers, and even theatrical insiders who say the tax credits don’t support shows most in need of financial support. Many that have received state aid had the backing of major production companies,” including Disney. – Bloomberg Law News
  
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• Trump Administration Wants To Judge Higher Ed Institutions On Graduates’ Earnings, Posing Dangers For Arts Schools

  03-06-2026 15:04 via artnews.com
  “The Department of Education has proposed a new ‘accountability’ system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates’ earnings, … a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail.” Programs whose graduates don’t meet earnings benchmarks could become ineligible for federal student loans. – ARTnews
  
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• Minnesota Star Tribune To Cut 65 Jobs, Explore Going Fully Nonprofit

  03-06-2026 14:32 via startribune.com
  “The Star Tribune employs 495 people and cuts will be made across every department. The newsroom has just under 200 journalists and will decline to 175 while remaining one of the largest between the coasts. Just last year, 125 employees were laid off when the company … closed its … printing plant.” – The Minnesota Star Tribune
  
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• Speight Jenkins, Director Who Transformed Seattle Opera, Has Died At 89

  03-06-2026 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Over his 31 years as general manager, he made the company into one of the most respected in the country and, said some observers, the Wagner capital of the U.S. It’s easy to forget that he began his career as a New York music critic and hosted Met Opera telecasts. – MyNorthwest.com
  
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• How Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn—a Painter, Collector, and Collaborator of Carl Jung—Mined the Archive and Her Subconscious

  03-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  “The deepest things in human life … can only be expressed in images,” wrote Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. And yet, though obsessed with images, she never called herself an “artist,” even as she painted and drew. Fundamentally, she was a collector: of people, of images, of ideas, always animated by her interest in symbols and archetypes. Carl Jung, her close friend and collaborator, fueled this long, epic inquiry. Still, she remains profoundly mysterious and contradictor
  
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• “America’s Greatest Opera Boss Has Died”

  03-06-2026 05:28 via artsjournal.com
  Norman Lebrecht’s obituary notice for Speight Jenkins, which ran today, is titled “America’s Greatest Opera Boss Has Died.” I couldn’t
  
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• The Movie Star Who Doesn’t Exist

  03-06-2026 03:02 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A top celebrity-profile writer set out to interview Tilly Norwood and ran into a problem: she isn’t a person (The New York Times). The AI “actress” has no inner life to report, which didn’t stop anyone from trying.
  Bookstores are supposed to be dying, but that’s old conventional wisdom. The count is actually growing, and briskly (AP). Publishing is supposed to be glamorous; but here’s how the business really works (The Republic of Letters).
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• Higher-Ed Groups Decry Proposed Federal ‘Earnings Test’ That Could Decimate Arts Education

  02-06-2026 23:05 via artnews.com
  
  The Department of Education has proposed a new “accountability” system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates’ earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail.The proposed guidelines, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, are intended to provid
  
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• Art Basel Reveals More Participating Galleries and the Artists Selected for its ‘Exclusive’ Initiative, Which Withholds Artworks from Email Previews

  02-06-2026 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  The criticisms of art fairs (and the art market they are a defining part of) are many. One of them is that though we might think of these shows as real-time events, where deals are made and multimillion-dollar artworks are sold to whoever gets to the gallery’s booth first, in reality some of the biggest-ticket sales are are quietly engineered ahead of time: the galleries email PDF previews to high-powered advisors and deep-pocketed collectors in the weeks leading up to opening day, such th
  
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• Kara Walker Fronts Loewe’s 180th Anniversary Campaign Nodding to Its Art-Filled Past

  02-06-2026 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  Loewe unveiled a new campaign on Monday celebrating the fashion brand’s 180th anniversary, complete with a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film, much of which nods to the house’s long-standing connections to the art world.Under former creative director Jonathan Anderson, the fashion brand played up that connection through numerous high-profile collaborations with artists ranging from Lynda Benglis to Richard Hawkins. Many of Anderson’s collections w
  
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• A New Partnership Helps Stand-Up Comics In Chicago To Finally Get Steady Health Insurance

  02-06-2026 21:02 via wbez.org
  The Health Alliance for Chicago Comedians is building a pilot program to help 10 comics pay insurance premiums through the Affordable Care Act’s next open enrollment period. Stand-up comedians, especially early in their careers, often take gigs and side jobs which offer no insurance. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Raymonde Arcier, Feminist Artist Who Worked With Fabric in France, Dies at 86

  02-06-2026 20:58 via artnews.com
  
  Raymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women’s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile/Art.Arcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made her way as an office worker and self-taught artist who “from 1970 on, produced her most striking works, crocheting wool and cotton, and knitting metal—with each piece demanding up to a
  
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• Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon

  02-06-2026 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according to footage posted on social media and local reports. The news follows intense Israeli strikes on the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Lebanon that is home to some of the region’s most significant Phoenician and Roman ruins, as well as a large civilian population.As reported by the Associated Press, the Israeli military release
  
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• French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein & Co. Gallery Can Proceed

  02-06-2026 20:26 via artnews.com
  
  Late last week, a French judge ruled that a judicial court in Rouen, Normandy, can proceed with handling a legal complaint filed by the heirs of Claude Monet, against the New York gallery dynasty Wildenstein & Co., according to French reports.The complex case revolves around a 2004 transaction, in which Monet’s great-nephew agreed to relinquish a rare Monet painting depicting the artist’s father, Adolphe, to the internationally renowned Wildenstein gallery, in exchange for severa
  
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• Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup

  02-06-2026 20:09 via artnews.com
  
  When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public artwork, after conservationist artist’s beloved mural was painted over in May.Florida-based artist Robert Wyland has filed a $25 million federal lawsuit against FIFA and the owners of the building where his mural had appeared for a quarter-century, who, he s
  
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• It’s Just A Few Cents: More People Are Listening To Music Pitched Down To A=432Hz

  02-06-2026 20:04 via apnews.com
  “Music recorded in 432 hertz (cycles per second) is taking off on social media platforms and music streaming services. … Scientists say there’s no robust evidence that music tuned to 432 hertz has any special benefits or healing properties. Some musicians and listeners say it helps them connect with nature, relax or concentrate.” – AP
  
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• Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time

  02-06-2026 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for the first time this summer after researchers uncovered evidence that appears to prove he painted it after all.The work, Man in a Black Scarf, will be shown in “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s Garden Museum, according to The Guardian. Freud painted the portrait in 1939 while studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Hadleig
  
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• Okay, Here’s How The Publishing Business Really Works

  02-06-2026 19:44 via therepublicofletters.substack.com
  Nobody would patronize a best-seller–only shopping mall kiosk called We Bet We Have That Book You Want, even though best-sellers are most of what anyone buys. People want to walk into stores with lots of books which they have no interest in even looking at. – Republic of Letters
  
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• Two Washington Stars Rise Up To Take On The Damaged Washington Post

  02-06-2026 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The two closely named rivals plan to take on a much more established competitor: The Washington Post, which is owned by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and recently cut its staff by a third. – The New York Times
  
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• Busting Conventional Wisdom: The Number Of Bookstores Isn’t Shrinking, It’s Growing Robustly

  02-06-2026 19:15 via apnews.com
  Membership in the ABA grew by more than 500 over the past year, to a total of 3,417 (at 3,783 locations), nearly triple what it was a decade ago and the highest level since the late 1990s. – AP News
  
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