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• Tillmans gets techno on Mr Ocean’s latest disc

  22-08-2016 16:30
  
  The German photographer Wofgang Tillmans is getting through his post-Brexit blues by collaborating with an unlikely partnerthe US rapper Frank Ocean. The New Orleans musician has just dropped his second album, Endless, which features the Turner prizewinners track Device Control. But Tillmans explains on Instagram that the music project took him by surprise. Enormously proud and happy that Frank Ocean did include my (yet unreleased) track Device Control as intro and as a full length ending of hi
  
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• National Gallery of Singapore Announces Chng Hak-Peng Will Replace Eugene Tan as CEO

  28-09-2026 22:25 via artnews.com
  
  Eugene Tan’s dual role as CEO and director of both the National Gallery of Singapore (NGS) and the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will come to an end on January 1, 2027. Starting in the new year, Tan will focus on his role at SAM, where he started as director in 2018, while Chng Hak-Peng will take over as CEO of NGS. In a statement about the leadership changes, both institutions confirm that they will continue to collaborate and share resources as they have in the past.While Chng’s role
  
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• Whitney Union Sets Strike Date Days Before Major Roy Lichtenstein Show

  28-09-2026 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of Art will begin striking on Monday, October 5, if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the museum, Local 2110 UAW announced today.Workers at the Whitney Museum approved strike action earlier this month in a milestone vote held in conjunction with unions at the Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum. The Whitney union, however, is the first to put a deadline on the calendar—October 5, only three days before member and press previews open
  
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• Pots By Enslaved Artist David Drake Returned to Family from Milwaukee Art Museum

  28-09-2026 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  Two stoneware pots were returned to descendants of the enslaved artist David Drakeearlier this month, when the Milwaukee Art Museum brokered a deal with the Dave the Potter Legacy Trust. After the repatriation, one of the pots was bought back by the museum, and the other will soon be on display by way of a long-term loan.As reported by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Drake’s work first entered the museum in 2010, when the Chipstone Foundation mounted an exhibition that featured Drak
  
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• Arthur Jafa’s Vital New Museum Survey Is a Horror Show for the Ages

  28-09-2026 21:26 via artnews.com
  
  In a self-portrait from 1988, Arthur Jafa holds his camera to a mirror and stares upward, meeting both his own reflected face and the gaze of his viewer simultaneously. When it was first published in Artforum, the photograph was called Self-Portrait. But at some point, Jafa changed it to Monster, the title it holds today.The renaming of Monster is, I think, a telling gesture, especially because Jafa’s films and videos are filled with terrifying creatures. Some are human, some are not, and
  
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• Remains of a Roman Temple Discovered in Germany’s Taunus Forest

  28-09-2026 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  The remains of a Roman temple have been unearthed by archaeologists in Germany’s Taunus region. According to experts, the discovery is especially notable given it still contains well-preserved foundations and fragmentary statues of ancient deities.Storm damage revealed an unusual arrangement of stones that comprised part of a previously unknown settlement near the Roman fort of Kapersburg in Hesse.A rectangular structure was identified upon further excavations. It is 16-and-a-half feet lon
  
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• Rare Working Apple-1 Signed by Steve Wozniak Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction

  28-09-2026 20:05 via artnews.com
  
  A rare, working Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak is heading to auction at Bonhams in New York, where it is expected to fetch between $500,000 and $800,000.Known as the “Hatfield” Apple-1 after its original owner, Fred Hatfield, the computer will headline Bonhams’ History of Science, Technology & Computing sale, which runs online from October 4 through October 14. The machine also comes with a 1978 letter signed by Steve Jobs offering Hatfield a trade-in for an Apple
  
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• At Amant, ‘Sentient Earth’ Redirects the Corporate Gaze to Climate Change

  28-09-2026 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s note: This story is the first edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every other Monday.Recently, the news has been full of diagrams of the Earth, appearing with a wide, red gash across its side, and accompanied by graphs detailing the extreme situation: This year’s El Niño, the regular, climactic pattern in which Pacific Ocean winds shift and water temper
  
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• Thomas Kaplan’s 18th Rembrandt is St John on Patmos

  28-09-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  Thomas Kaplan, the world’s largest Rembrandt collector, has by long made a habit of collecting and selling the Dutch artist’s work. Now, it has been revealed that the American businessman and owner of the Leiden Collection was in fact the buyer of Rembrandt’s St John on Patmos (ca. 1660), which sold for $9 million in December last year, according to The Art Newspaper.Kaplan said he acquired St John on Patmos, making it his 18th piece of work by Rembrandt, to preserve the artwor
  
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• ‘We Can Literally Be in Two Places at Once’: Vancouver Art Gallery Elevates Eva Respini and Sirish Rao to Co-CEOs

  28-09-2026 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Eva Respini and Sirish Rao will serve as co-CEOs at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG), effective immediately, the museum announced today. Respini will also serve as chief curator, overseeing the institution’s artistic vision, exhibition strategy, collection development, and the ongoing project to erect a new building. Rao, meanwhile, will also be executive director, leading operations, earned revenue, and finance along with overseeing community outreach, institutional partnerships, and inter
  
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• Pace Gallery Is Seeking a Tenant for Part of Its New York Headquarters

  28-09-2026 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Pace Gallery is looking for a tenant to take over one or more parts of its sprawling Chelsea headquarters, the latest step in what appears to be an effort to trim costs following a major restructuring earlier this year.Julie Davich first reported the news over the weekend in her newsletter The Appraisal, writing that Pace was seeking to lease space inside its eight-story headquarters at 540 West 25th Street.Pace spokesperson confirmed to ARTnews that the gallery is exploring bringing another ten
  
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• Ann Temkin to Step Down as MoMA’s Chief Painting and Sculpture Curator After 18 Years

  28-09-2026 18:48 via artnews.com
  
  Ann Temkin, the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curator of painting and sculpture for 18 years, will retire from the role in January 2027, the museum announced Monday. She will, however, continue to shape the New York institution’s programming, taking on a newly created position as an adviser to the director, Christophe Cherix, ahead of the museum’s centennial in 2029.Temkin joined MoMA in 2003 as a curator of painting and sculpture and was promoted to head of the department in 20
  
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• Whistleblowers Say Kennedy Center Leaders Put Off Fixing the Same Problems They Now Blame for Closing the Building

  28-09-2026 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  Former employees claim that officials at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, opted not to undertake repairs of leaks in the building’s roof overhangs months ago. Now, officials are saying the center must close temporarily due to risks associated with those same leaks. The anonymous former employees shared internal documents with Congress on Thursday, reports the New York Times. In a letter to Congress, the former employees say this betrays that the infrastructure
  
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• Janine Antoni’s Taste of Vision Graces the Cover of our Icons Issue

  28-09-2026 16:44 via artnews.com
  
  For this image, I wanted to reverse the anatomical expectation when it comes to penetration. I’m the licker, and my tongue is touching the eye of my ex-husband, artist Paul Ramirez Jonas. A lot of the works I make stem from a desire. In this case, I wanted to know the taste of his vision. Of course, it’s an unrealizable desire, as are some of the most interesting desires we have.To me, there’s something very sweet about this photograph, because I thought it was an act of trust
  
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• Frieze Abu Dhabi Unveils Exhibitors and Inaugural Curatorial Program

  28-09-2026 14:55 via artnews.com
  
  The inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi will open its doors on November 19 at Manarat Al Saadiyat, a roughly 15,400-square-meter gallery space in the Saadiyat Cultural District, and run through November 22.The art fair will feature more than 80 galleries from 36 countries including Carbon 12, Lawrie Shabibi and The Third Line from the United Arab Emirates; Athr and Hafez Gallery from Saudi Arabia; Experimenter, Galerie Isa, Jhaveri Contemporary, Nature Morte and Project 88 from India; Dastan from Tehran
  
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• Richard Manoogian, Industrialist and Collector of American Art, Has Died at 90

  28-09-2026 14:44 via artnews.com
  
  Richard Manoogian, a Detroit industrialist and avid art collector, died at 90 on Friday. His death was confirmed by Masco Corporation, the company where he was chairman emeritus, that was founded by his Armenian immigrant parents Alex and Marie Manoogian in 1929, famed for selling the single-handle Delta faucet.Richard Manoogian, who appeared on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list six times, including the first edition in 1990, was always engaged in cultural, charitable, and educational init
  
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• British Pop Artist Antony Donaldson Has Died, Rare David Hockney Dog Painting Heads to Christie’s, and More: Morning Links for September 28, 2026

  28-09-2026 14:34 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!
  The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86.A rare painting from David Hockney’s dog series is headed to Christie’s.Richard Manoogian, a top art collector, philanthropist, and businessman, has died at age 90.The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86, reports the Times of London. Don
  
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• Survivor’s Host And Producer May Work At Paramount, But He’s Not Abandoning Diversity

  28-09-2026 14:30 via variety.com
  
  Jeff Probst doesn’t care about the Trump-loving network owners. Instead, he says, he cares about story. “Our stories are so much more interesting now because we have people from completely different walks of life.” – Variety
  
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• Dolly Parton’s Estate Is In Shambles Over Accusations, Lawsuits, And Restraining Orders

  28-09-2026 14:15 via vulture.com
  
  “While the family appeared to be putting on a united front, behind the scenes, things were far from harmonious. Employees were afraid to come to work and some were allegedly quitting.” Then there was the security guy’s threats. – Vulture
  
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• Meta’s New Surveillance Mascot Looks Like A Toy

  28-09-2026 14:00 via wired.com
  
  It’s supposed to be for adults only, but it looks like a Tamagotchi. Will the cuddliness cause us all to forget the deep, deep creep factor? – Wired
  
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• Rose Tremain Knows Her Generation Of Novelists Is Dying, But She’ll Keep Going As Long As She Can

  28-09-2026 13:45 via theguardian.com
  “Contrary to what publishers hope and expect, serious writers don’t think obsessively about readers, or even about sales, royalties and prizes. What we talk to each other about, what we dream of, what we can’t live without is the work itself.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ashland, Oregon, Is Known For Its Shakespeare Fest, But Now It’s Got A Murder Fest As Well

  28-09-2026 13:30 via orartswatch.org
  
  OK, you could argue that Shakespeare is a murderfest of his own, but “Mystery Fest has given cozy mystery fans a new reason to discover Ashland, attracting readers who might not otherwise have put the city on their travel list.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Beckett Is Only Bleak If You Have No Sense Of Humor

  28-09-2026 13:15 via irishtimes.com
  
  “I think Irish actors and directors have an innate advantage in dealing with Beckett. They get his humour.” – Irish Times
  
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• The Strike Is Over In Cleveland

  28-09-2026 13:00 via nytimes.com
  “In a deal reached late Saturday night and ratified Sunday by the union, the two sides agreed to a three-year contract that includes a 5 percent annual raise for each of the three years, according to the orchestra.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Ragtime Cancellation That Lasted Twelve Hours

  28-09-2026 02:29 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Every hour in Veracruz, the clock tower plays the original “La Bamba,” three centuries older than Ritchie Valens’ hit. Son jarocho, the genre behind it, was dismissed in the 1970s as “the music of drunken people”; now its fandangos draw dancers from Tokyo to Los Angeles, summed up in one word, convivencia — alive together (NPR). In Melbourne, Charles Lai has spent a decade running a free calendar of gallery openings, turning down offers to let gal
  
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• The All-Night Song And Dance Parties Of Veracruz

  27-09-2026 22:00 via npr.org
  
  “This syncopated, jubilant folk music is a melange of European, Caribbean and Indigenous influences. While fandangos — where folks gather to play their instruments, sing and dance — are more than 300 years old, their popularity is now spreading around the world.” – NPR
  
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• In Leipzig, Ousted Boston Symphony Orchestra Director Andris Nelsons Feels The Love

  27-09-2026 21:30 via bostonglobe.com
  
  “When he conducts, he does not think in English or German or Latvian, even if that would be his own. But he thinks directly in music, and this is so direct. … Sometimes in a concert you have suddenly a new gesture never seen before, that everybody understands.” – Boston Globe
  
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• Major Social Media Platforms Are All Turning Down Paid Advertising For The Documentary About Elon Musk

  27-09-2026 21:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  No one will be surprised that X (formerly Twitter) won’t take the ads for Alex Gibney’s award-winning movie, but what’s up with TikTok, YouTube, and Meta? – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Sylvester Stallone Finally Reckons With Decades Of Trauma

  27-09-2026 20:30 via nytimes.com
  “When I look at that footage, I look distorted. I was gone for a few seconds. Sometimes in acting or painting or writing, you just subliminally lose yourself. You do not know where you are. … What was that?” – The New York Times
  
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• An Ohio School District Cancels A Popular Play, And The Fallout Is Ongoing

  27-09-2026 20:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Copley Superintendent Aimee Kirsch said the play was canceled not because of its gay themes but because the proper vetting procedure wasn’t followed.” Unh-hunh. The students cast in the canceled She Kills Monsters were offered parts in the newly approved Alice in Wonderland. – Akron Beacon Journal (Yahoo)
  
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