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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.01.17

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  Belonging gone bad
  The idea of “belonging” has long been a key point of aspiration and advocacy for the arts. Art builds empathy. Art builds community. Art infuses a sense of belonging into a world so desperate for ... read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-06-01Other Matters: Meet The Stamps Quartet
  As I was writing liner notes for the next album by Cyrus Chestnut, the research led me to a remarkable performance of its title song. Published in 1989, “Sweet, S
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially Canceled After Jersey City Mayor Pulls Support

  12-02-2026 16:28 via artnews.com
  A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. On Thursday, a Centre Pompidou spokesperson confirmed that the museum was no longer pursuing the project.The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is currently closed for renovations. The Pom
  
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• Carnegie International, America’s Oldest Biennial-Style Show, Names 61 Artists for Biggest Edition Yet

  12-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  For a brief moment ahead of the Venice Biennale this May, all eyes will be on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Carnegie Museum of Art is staging its 2026 edition of the Carnegie International. For its biggest edition to date, the exhibition has tapped an array of 61 artists based in nations ranging from the Philippines to Peru, many of whom will premiere new work when the show opens on May 2.Founded in 1896, the Carnegie International is the oldest biennial-style show in the US; it is now sta
  
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• Florentina Holzinger Steps Into the Gallery World With Thaddaeus Ropac Ahead of Venice Spotlight

  12-02-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  When Thaddaeus Ropac announced this week that he would begin representing Florentina Holzinger, it landed as more than a standard roster update. Holzinger has spent the past decade building a reputation as one of Europe’s most uncompromising performance artists. She has filled opera houses and theaters with motorbikes, helicopters, heavy machinery, nudity, and feats of endurance that test what a body can withstand. What she has not had, until now, is gallery representation.That changes jus
  
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• Intuit Art Museum in Chicago Gifted Trove of Artworks, Hidden Camera Found in Women’s Restroom at Centre Pompidou’s Offices: Morning Links for February 12, 2026

  12-02-2026 13:55 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesBAILEY’S BEQUEST. The Intuit Art Museum (IAM) in Chicago, one of the country’s top museums dedicated to self-taught artists, has been gifted 61 works through two donations, reports The Art Newspaper. The largest of the two, numbering 47 pieces, comes from the estate of late Chicago collector and founding supporter of the museum,&
  
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• Hidden Camera Found in Women’s Restroom at Centre Pompidou’s Offices in Paris

  12-02-2026 13:48 via artnews.com
  A hidden camera was recently discovered in the women’s bathroom at the Centre Pompidou’s administrative headquarters in Paris. The device was found in mid-January by one of the museum’s employees, AFP reported on Wednesday.The Centre Pompidou’s offices are located inside its main building at Place Georges-Pompidou. The museum is currently closed for renovations, but its offices remain open. After the discovery, the museum filed a legal complaint and suspended a staff memb
  
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• Experts Believe Hidden Tunnel in New York Museum was Used as ‘Safe House’ by Slaves During Civil War

  12-02-2026 11:45 via artnews.com
  A historic Manhattan home that’s long been a window into 19th-century New York life has revealed an unexpected secret. It turns out the Merchant’s House Museum, a preserved landmark in the NoHo neighborhood, appears to have once served as a refuge for people escaping slavery.The discovery came during an inspection of a built-in dresser in a second-floor hallway. When archaeologists examined the area beneath its drawers, they found a small rectangular opening cut into the floorboards.
  
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• The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review

  12-02-2026 01:01
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  This quietly tremendous exhibition gathers more than half of the pointillist painter’s works, all depicting the Channel coast and sea, full of blizzards of light and a quivering sense of importGeorges Seurat died young. His two most famous paintings, both extremely large and innovative in their composition and technique, were completed while he was still in his mid-20s. As it was, Seurat painted approximately 45 paintings before his death, probably from diphtheria
  
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• World Monuments Fund Commits $7 M. to Protect Global Heritage Sites in 2026

  11-02-2026 23:41 via artnews.com
  The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that it will commit $7 million in 2026 to support 21 new preservation projects.Founded in 1965 and originally known as the International Fund for Monuments, the New York–based WMF has for the last 60 years worked to preserve more than 700 heritage sites across the globe.The organization’s 2026 funding will go to projects at places included on the organization’s 2025 World Monuments Watch List—a biannual, nomination-based list o
  
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• Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors

  11-02-2026 23:15 via artnews.com
  On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February. She will be replaced by the publication’s executive editor, Rachel Wetzler, and editor Daniel Wenger, who will now serve as co-editors. (The editor-in-chief title will no longer be used.)Ryan, a curator, critic, and specialist in digital art, joined the publication in 2024, after serving as a curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum for seven years. She also spent time at t
  
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• Queens Museum Promotes Debra Wimpfheimer to Executive Director

  11-02-2026 23:02 via artnews.com
  The Queens Museum has named Debra Wimpfheimer as its next executive director. She replaces Sally Tallant, who departed last month ahead of taking on the directorship of the Hayward Gallery in London.Wimpfheimer, a Queens native, has worked for the museum for more than two decades. She first joined as the institution’s director of external affairs in 2002, a role she held until 2006, when she left to serve as director of special projects at Lincoln Center for just over a year, according to
  
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• No, The Gardner Museum’s Stolen Rembrandt Is Not in the Epstein Files, Despite Claims in a Viral Video

  11-02-2026 22:20 via artnews.com
  Wouldn’t it be fascinating if one of the greatest museum heists of all time was somehow associated with one of the most sordid crime rings in recent history? And wouldn’t it be great if you could get a piece of the $10 million reward? That was the prospect presented by a video by Instagrammer Emily Kaplan (whose handle is @newsnotnoise and whose slogan is “Truth > Agenda”), in which she says that two artworks stolen decades ago from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gard
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially ‘Dead,’ Says Jersey City Mayor

  11-02-2026 21:46 via artnews.com
  A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday.The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is currently closed for renovations. The Pompidou also runs satellites in Shanghai and Málaga, Spain. Others are expected to open in Hanwha, So
  
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• David Bowie Will Be the Subject of the Next Immersive Exhibition Experience, Opening in London in April

  11-02-2026 21:11 via artnews.com
  The UK can’t seem to get enough of David Bowie. “David Bowie Is,” an exhibition about the late pop icon’s life, music, videos, and art, was organized by the V&A in London, where it opened in 2013 and proceeded to tour the world for five years. The V&A also recently opened the David Bowie Centre, a permanent installation of objects drawn from the musician’s 90,000-item archives, housed in the museum’s new storage facility in East London.Now comes &ldquo
  
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• Bonhams’ New HQ Opens, Lubaina Himid Wins PAMM Prize, and More: Industry Moves for February 11, 2026

  11-02-2026 18:48 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.Bonhams Opens New US Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan: The auction house’s official opening of its new 42,000-square-foot flagship at Steinway Hall comes with a month-long slate of exhibitions an
  
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• Bonhams’ New HQ Opens, Lubaina Himi Wins PAMM Prize, and More: Industry Moves for February 11, 2026

  11-02-2026 18:48 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.Bonhams Opens New US Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan: The auction house’s official opening of its new 42,000-square-foot flagship at Steinway Hall comes with a month-long slate of exhibitions an
  
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• Harmony Korine Talks About Creating New Worlds and Adding Emotion to AI

  11-02-2026 18:33 via artnews.com
  In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Harmony Korine—a filmmaker and multimedia artist whose boundless imagination has careened into painting, poetry, music, digital art, and pretty much every other artform that exists—talks about moving past his previous pursuits and going all-in on AI.From the Miami office of EDGLRD, the creative studio Korine started around the time of his infrared movie Aggro Dr1ft in 2023, the provocateur said he hasn’t read a book in decades and
  
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• Advocates for the Incarcerated Protest Removal of Artworks from UK Court Facilities

  11-02-2026 18:11 via artnews.com
  Cultural organizations and reformers in the UK are up in arms against government contractor Serco for removing artworks from court facilities in England and Wales. A February 10 report from Lay Observers, an independent monitor, found that Prisoner Escort and Custody Service, a government agency, provided artworks to all courts. Lay Observers found that only courts operated by prisoner transport company GEOAmey put the work on display. Some facilities operated by government contractor Serco
  
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• Iconic Baseball Painting by Norman Rockwell Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago

  11-02-2026 17:49 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday, the Art Institute of Chicago announced its acquisition of a study for The Dugout (1948) by Norman Rockwell. Donated by former governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner and Diana Rauner, it will be the first work by that artist in the museum’s collection.A popular painter of American everyday life, Rockwell (1894–1978) is most famous for his cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post magazine, which published over 300 of his artworks between 1916 and 1963. This oil study de
  
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• ‘Old Masters Are Back!’ New York Sales Set Records for Gentileschi, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt

  11-02-2026 17:40 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.As an Old Masters auction started up in a packed room at Sotheby’s new Madison Avenue headquarters on Thursday morning, the auctioneer, David Pollack, made an unusual announcement. By far the top-priced work in the sale, a two-sided panel painting by Italy’s Antonello da Messina tagged at up
  
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• ‘Letting the sound happen around you’: powerful sonic memorial remembers the dead

  11-02-2026 17:23
  Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has created a sound installation emulating second world war spaces: a Japanese internment camp in California and caves used as bunkers in OkinawaIn 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa, the great-uncle of the Japanese-American, Los Angeles-based artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork was stationed on the island as a US solider, having volunteered for service probably in the hopes that his family might be spared from the Japanese internment camps back home. They weren’t, and so
  
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• Louis Fratino, Ascendant Painter of Queer Intimacy, Joins David Zwirner

  11-02-2026 15:30 via artnews.com
  With his fame fast rising, painter Louis Fratino has joined David Zwirner, one of the world’s biggest galleries. Rather than cutting ties with his past galleries, as many artists do when they join a mega-gallery like Zwirner, Fratino will still be represented by Berlin’s Galerie Neu and New York’s Sikkema Jenkins Malloy, which helped make the artist famous in the city he calls home.Working in vivid figuration, Fratino has memorably painted bathers, fornicating lovers, dancers,
  
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• Dallas Art Fair’s Kelly Cornell Takes the Helm at Aspen Art Fair

  11-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Aspen Art Fair will return to the historic Hotel Jerome from July 29 through August 1, 2026, for its third edition, this time under the direction of Kelly Cornell, who will continue in her role as the head of the Dallas Art Fair.From her perspective, the pairing works because of the similarities she sees between the two fairs. She noted that both have strong communities, engaged collectors, and a commitment to quality. Both also occupy a space where there is room to grow thoug
  
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• Acquavella Plans 50-Work Matisse Exhibition This Spring

  11-02-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  This spring, Acquavella Galleries will stage one of the most ambitious gallery exhibitions of Henri Matisse in recent memory. “Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony,” on view from April 9 through May 22, will bring together 50 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that span roughly half a century of the artist’s career.For the gallery, the show is saturated with history. It is the first exhibition devoted entirely to Matisse at Acquavella since 1973, and comes at a time when
  
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• Trump Administration Removes Pride Flag from Stonewall Monument, MFA Boston to Create ‘People in Culture’ Position and Denies Targeting Minorities in Layoffs: Morning Links for February 11, 2026

  11-02-2026 14:55 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPRIDE FLAG. Over the weekend, the Trump administration removed the rainbow Pride flag that flew from New York City’s Stonewall National Monument to gay rights, reports the Washington Post. The divisive move was traced to a January 21 federal order by the Interior Department, which states that National Park Service (NPS) property should
  
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• Ahead of a “Mammoth” Smithsonian Show, Nick Cave and Bob Faust Open Up About Collaborating as a Couple

  11-02-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  Nick Cave and his longtime partner, artist and designer Bob Faust, moved into an abandoned textile factory on the northwest side of Chicago in 2018. The 18,000-square-foot building was dilapidated, so they spent three years renovating it into a mixed live-work-gallery space they named Facility. Upstairs is the couple’s chic but minimalist apartment; downstairs are studios where they and their 10 assistants labor amid tropical and desert succulents, a tidy profusion of fabrics and buttons a
  
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• Quartet of Works by Monet, Signac, Degas, and Léger to Headline Sotheby’s Spring Modern & Contemporary Sale in London

  11-02-2026 11:42 via artnews.com
  A quartet of masterpieces by Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Edgar Degas, and Fernand Léger will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s London this spring. The paintings are part of the house’s Modern and Contemporary evening sale on March 4 and have a combined high estimate of £24 million.Monet’s Maison de Jardinier (1884) spearheads the group. It was painted during the artist’s ten-week sojourn on the Italian riviera and conveys the famous garden of Francesco Moreno
  
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• ‘It still feels incredibly relevant’: the groundbreaking art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

  11-02-2026 11:03
  Korean-American artist’s work has continued to resonate in many years since her tragic murder in 1982 at the age of 31If there’s one thing the late avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is known for, it’s almost certainly her experimental 1982 book Dictée, a hard-to-classify work that has become a mainstay of college curriculums and ambitious writers. Poet Juliana Spahr has described the work as “part autobiography, part biography, part personal diary, part ethn
  
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• Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings

  11-02-2026 01:01
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonFreud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At least that’s how it felt to me, puttering along on the 27 to Paddington that is the National Portrait Gallery’s trawl through Lucian Freud’s sketches, engravings and even childhood crayonings, daydreaming until my stop, with the occasional flash of colo
  
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• TEFAF New York Names 88 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition at Park Avenue Armory

  10-02-2026 23:10 via artnews.com
  TEFAF New York will return to the Park Avenue Armory from May 15 to 19, 2026, with 88 exhibitors presenting modern and contemporary art, design, jewelry, and antiquities. An invitation-only preview will take place on May 14.The 2026 edition will bring together dealers from 14 countries across four continents. The roster includes nine new exhibitors and 78 returning participants, with four galleries rejoining after an absence.“The heart of TEFAF New York lies with its exhibitors,” Lea
  
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