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• The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern: How pop art was used as dissent

  14-09-2015 18:06
  
  In his 1975 autobiography Andy Warhol wrote: "The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet." Perhaps he was being ironic, which is worse.
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein Saw Our Pictures-Obsessed Moment Coming—and Deliberately Fed Into It

  07-10-2026 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  If you, like me, cannot resist hate-reading a horribly misguided takedown of a great artist, check out the September 1963 issue of Artforum, which featured one of two screeds against Roy Lichtenstein by artist Erle Loran published that very month. (The other appeared in this magazine.) Loran was ticked off by Lichtenstein’s Portrait of Madame Cézanne (1963), a painting that borrowed Loran’s own diagram analyzing the Paul Cézanne work of the same name. As with the Loran
  
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• Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M. Auction Record

  07-10-2026 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Plucked from an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $30, Gertrude Abercombie’s Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951) sold for $1.35 million at Freeman’s auction house on October 1.The final bid far surpassed the lot’s $250,000 estimate, setting a new auction benchmark for the late Surrealist painter. For Freeman’s New York, success was almost guaranteed. Alderman Merriam’s Shells arrived on the block buoyed by its sensational rediscovery: the enigmatic still li
  
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• Rep. Jamie Raskin Wants the Smithsonian to Collect and Display Trump’s Propaganda, To Teach About Tyranny

  07-10-2026 18:35 via artnews.com
  
  Democratic Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, a dogged antagonist to President Donald Trump who attempted to have him removed from office, has introduced legislation directing the Smithsonian Institution to preserve “artifacts reflecting the rise of government propaganda, corruption, and authoritarianism” during Trump’s two terms and place them in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), a museum in the nation’s capital that is part of
  
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• Whitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Roy Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

  07-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” opens for previews tomorrow, and the artist’s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitti
  
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• The Gap and the Whitney Museum Unveil New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

  07-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there will now be a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, for its highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” and the artist’s estate, the Gap is launching an exclusive 18-piece retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting h
  
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• Gap and the Whitney Museum Unveil A New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

  07-10-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there will now be a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, for its highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” and the artist’s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive 18-piece retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting his s
  
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• Victoria & Albert Museum Reveals Strategy After Launching Voluntary Exit Scheme

  07-10-2026 16:36 via artnews.com
  
  After a summer of back and forth with its staff over strikes, pay and working conditions, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching a voluntary exit scheme as part of its strategy for 2026 through 2030.A spokesperson for the museum told ARTnews that “Like many organizations, the V&A is facing rising operating costs, driven by inflation, economic uncertainty, and reduced visitor spending. While we continue to receive government support, below-inflation settlements mean a rea
  
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• How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

  07-10-2026 16:28 via artnews.com
  
  America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs.What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era is a heavily researched academic art history book, peer-reviewed and professionally produced by the staff of Yale University Press. Its conception thus necessarily predates the
  
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• Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers to Stage Two-Venue Frank Stella Exhibition Next Spring

  07-10-2026 15:52 via artnews.com
  
  Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers will each stage an exhibition of the work of Frank Stella next spring in New York. Additionally, they will each feature a work by the late artist in their booths at Art Basel Paris later this month.The duo of exhibitions, which are being organized with the Frank Stella Estate, will be the first gallery shows dedicated to the Stella, who died in May 2024, since the now-closed Mnuchin Gallery mounted “Homage To Frank Stella” in September of t
  
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• Greek PM to “Ramp Up” Efforts for Parthenon Marbles Return, Quiet Listing of Robert Rauschenberg’s New York Home Sparks Concern, and More: Morning Links for October 7, 2026

  07-10-2026 15:24 via artnews.com
  
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  Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised to “ramp up” efforts to get the Parthenon marbles back from the British Museum.Many in the arts community are saddened and concerned about losing Robert Rauschenberg’s former New York home and studio, which has served as an exhibition and research site.The Trump administration is using a little-known budget mecha
  
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• How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted

  07-10-2026 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  Jean-Michel Basquiat once offered a wonderfully concise explanation of his practice: “I collage my own hand.”That line could serve as the motto for “Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction,” a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum centered on 11 paintings Basquiat made 1984, shown alongside other works by the artist.The “Blue Ribbon” paintings, reunited here for the first time in more than three decades, are full of rep
  
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• Eva Langret’s guide to London’s best museums — and the perfect gift shop

  07-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  The Paris-born artistic director of Frieze London on peerless postmodern architecture, the city’s most underrated museum and the artist who helped her understand the UK
  
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• Fumagalli & Dossi’s empire of plaster casts

  07-10-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  Meet the Milanese duo keeping the gipsoteca alive
  
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• Ten Out of Ten: Top 200 Collector Joop van Caldenborgh Reflects on His Museum Voorlinden’s First Decade

  07-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  A decade ago, Dutch industrialist Joop van Caldenborgh opened the Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands. To mark the institution’s anniversary, he spoke to ARTnews about his journey as a collector, the museum’s history and anniversary plans, and his latest acquisitions.ARTnews: How did you start collecting?Joop van Caldenborgh: When I was a young boy, I collected stamps, sugar packs, cigar tins—all kinds of little things that could be collected. When it became art, it wa
  
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• San Francisco’s newest exhibition curator? K-pop superstar RM

  07-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The BTS leader brings gems from his vast visual art collection to SFMOMA for ‘Between You and Me’
  
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• Cindy Sherman: ‘My photographs make me come to terms with my body changing’

  07-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The artist on her first dressing-up box, the most personal set of self-portraits yet — and the secret to Bananagrams
  
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• The Zaha Hadid Foundation Is Reopening the Late Architect’s Former HQ as a Public Arts Space

  06-10-2026 23:50 via artnews.com
  
  To mark the 10-year anniversary of Zaha Hadid’s death, the Zaha Hadid Foundation is reopening the architect’s former headquarters on October 29. The former Victorian schoolhouse, located at 10 Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell, will be repurposed as a public cultural space for architecture, design and the related arts.The newly-refurbished space will include galleries, a learning space, lecture hall and collection display. The spaces will be used to host exhibitions, talks, workshops
  
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• Zurich-Based Dealer Eva Presenhuber to Close ‘Sentimental’ Vienna Gallery Space

  06-10-2026 23:35 via artnews.com
  
  Dealer Eva Presenhuber told ARTnews she is closing her space in Vienna in early December, in a decision that the influential gallerist said had more to do with local conditions in Vienna than the overall financial stability of her Zurich-based business. The gallery in Austria is currently showing an exhibition of works by Angela Bulloch until October 23, which will be followed by a final exhibition of works by Austrian designer Nina Hollein, from November 11 to December 4. Shortly afterward, the
  
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• ‘Jodi,’ Sotheby’s Newly-Minted Nanotyrannus, Hits the Auction Block With $9 M. Estimate

  06-10-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s may have been hoping that the dinosaur skeleton known as “Jodi” was, in fact, a youthful T. rex, given the name recognition and resulting price tags that have accompanied this species of sought-after dinosaur.Instead, the auction house’s latest high-profile specimen is a Nanotyrannus, a mid-size tyrannosaurid genus that, according to Artnet, had previously been for sale for $20 million at Frieze Masters in 2023. At the time, the skeleton was called “Chompe
  
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• Martha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection

  06-10-2026 21:12 via artnews.com
  
  “Painting, for me, is about tension,” Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A “sensual” material, she said, “smooth or rough, its tactile quality often resembles skin.”For more than 60 years, Jungwirth has refined this painterly interplay. Spontaneous smears and streams of color form her famous abstractions, evoking a body in motion. It’s no wonder fashion found its way to her studio.The Swiss fashion A
  
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• Phoenix Art Museum Receives $5 M. Donation to Expand Sri Lankan and South Asian Art Galleries

  06-10-2026 20:37 via artnews.com
  
  Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution’s Asian art galleries, as well as acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programs on Sri Lankan art.The museum’s Art of Asia galleries will expand from approximately 6,000 square feet to 9,500 square feet, and it includes a new 2,000-square-foot Nagendran Gallery for the Art of Sri Lanka and South As
  
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• The State Russian Museum Has Restored Ivan Aivazovsky Seascape Painting Ahead of Major Retrospective

  06-10-2026 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  The State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg has restored Ivan Aivazovsky’s The Ninth Wave (1850) ahead of a retrospective on the Russian artist opening on October 16, according to Russian state media LenTV24.The restoration of the painting started in June and will be exhibited in the Benois Wing of the museum. In the 120 years that the State Russian Museum has owned the painting, only minor conservation has been carried out.“The Russian Museum has no canvases in unsatisfactory condi
  
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• New Museum Announces 36 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Triennial, Including Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Josi, Jota Mombaça, and Agnes Questionmark

  06-10-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  The New Museum in New York has announced the 36 artists and collectives that will participate in the 2027 New Museum Triennial, running February 4–May 16, 2027.Under the title “The Outside Expands,” the sixth edition of the Triennial will also be the first to take place at the museum since its expansion opened earlier this year. Among the closely watched artists included are Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Josi, Jota Mombaça, Agnes Question
  
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• Art Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Lists Upper East Side Co-Op for $12 M.

  06-10-2026 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020.At 5,000-square-feet, the 10 Gracie Square fourth floor apartment boasts incredible East River views and a massive amount of space, including a 32-foot-long entrance gallery, an expansive living room, a formal dining room, a terrace, four bedrooms, two staff rooms, a laundry room, and an eat-in kitchen, complete with paned
  
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• Dalí-Designed Bronze ‘Livre de l’Apocalypse’ Book Cover Stolen from French Museum

  06-10-2026 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  Yet another French museum has fallen victim to a brazen theft. A colossal, 330-pound book cover designed by Salvador Dalí, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells and—this being Dalí—cutlery, was stolen overnight on Sunday from a small, private contemporary art museum in the town of Issoire, in central France, reports Le Monde.The book is known as the Livre de l’Apocalypse, or in English, the Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse of St John. I
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg’s New York Loft-Studio Is For Sale. Should It Be Saved?

  06-10-2026 16:05 via nytimes.com
  The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation clearly doesn’t think so: not only has it listed the Soho building he bought in 1966, it has already sold the house on Florida’s Captiva Island where he spent his final decades. (A resort developer bought that property for $45 million.) – The New York Times
  
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• Plans Revealed For $250 Million Arts District In Historically Black Neighborhood In Chicago

  06-10-2026 15:36 via wbez.org
  
  The Bronzeville Legacy Collective says it has already raised $75 million toward its goal: a campus with museums dedicated to the gospel music, blues legend Muddy Waters, and Emmett Till; a center for Black dance; a theater with a resident company; a recreational trail; and an arts and culture center. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Whitney Museum And Staffers Agree On Contract Just Hours Before Strike Deadline

  06-10-2026 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  “Under the new contract, every Whitney employee will receive a wage increase of at least 14.75% over four years. Workers with the lowest salaries will receive larger raises, ranging from 5% to 23% in the first year.” The settlement came in time to avoid disruption of the museum’s major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. – ARTnews
  
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• Dali-Designed Bronze Book of Revelations Cover Stolen from French Museum, Sotheby’s to Auction Nanotyrannus Fossil, and More: Morning Links for October 6, 2026

  06-10-2026 14:51 via artnews.com
  
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  A 330 pound book cover designed by Salvador Dali, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells, and cutlery, was stolen overnight on Sunday from a museum in France.Sotheby’s will auction a fossilized Nanotyrannus, comparable to a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, estimated to fetch between $6 million and $9 million.The UK-based, Grenada-born painter
  
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