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  Is Opera The Real 21st Century Art Form?
  A 2015 survey by blogger Mai Mae reported that 260 new opera companies started since 2000 in the United States. There are 80 opera companies now working in New York alone. … read more
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  No Good Deed Goes UNPUBLISHED.   That’s my motto – and why I ask: Have you seen an example of an arts organization doing somet
  
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• Artist Trevor Paglen Thinks Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Looks Awfully Familiar

  17-02-2026 21:41 via artnews.com
  On Super Bowl Sunday, Universal Pictures debuted the first full-length trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s latest extraterrestrial epic. Scattered throughout the trailer are repeated references to cardinals, presented as a kind of harbinger of alien life. If that sounds a little familiar, eagle-eyed art viewer, you’re not alone.Artist Trevor Paglen took to Instagram last week to note the visual link between his 2024 and 2025 shows at Altman Siegel and Pace—both title
  
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• Australian Police Catch Thief Behind Heist of Egyptian Artifacts

  17-02-2026 20:23 via artnews.com
  Police in Queensland, Australia, have arrested a man suspected of stealing precious Egyptian artifacts from a museum outside of Brisbane.According to local reports, the 52-year-old man was arrested Saturday on Russell Island in Moreton Bay after police discovered part of the stolen haul in a camper van parked at a ferry terminal. Among the recovered items was a 2,600-year-old wooden cat figure from Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, the last dynasty ruled by a native Egyptian pharaoh before t
  
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• Citing George Orwell, Federal Judge Orders Reinstatement of Slavery Display at George Washington’s Presidential House

  17-02-2026 19:43 via artnews.com
  Comparing the Trump administration’s efforts to control historical documentation to George Orwell’s 1984, a federal judge ordered the return of displays that acknowledged George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people to a monument in Philadelphia.Last month, the National Park Service removed the signs from the President’s House Site, the presidential residence for Washington and John Adams before the completion of the White House. The President’s House Site is pa
  
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• Macron Adviser Anne-Claire Legendre Tapped to Head Institut du Monde Arabe

  17-02-2026 19:11 via artnews.com
  Anne-Claire Legendre, a senior diplomat and one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s closest advisers on North Africa and the Middle East, has been chosen to lead the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, according to Le Monde, marking a turning point for the institution after weeks of turmoil.Legendre, 46, was selected by the institute’s board on Tuesday morning. Her appointment is expected to be ratified by the high council made up of representatives from the 22 member state
  
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• Eugenio Viola Says Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá Ended His Contract Over Labor Issues

  17-02-2026 19:08 via artnews.com
  Earlier this month, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá announced on Instagram that it had terminated its contract with longtime artistic director Eugenio Viola. Now, Viola is claiming that the board of directors did so after he raised concerns with working conditions at the museum.In a statement to the Art Newspaper, Viola, who began serving as artistic director in 2019, said, “The board of directors ended my contract early, not due to any artistic or leadership deficiencies. My de
  
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• University of North Texas Faculty Calls on School to Disclose Reason for Cancelation of Victor Quiñonez Exhibition

  17-02-2026 18:08 via artnews.com
  Members of the faculty of College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) at the University of North Texas (UNT) released an open letter on Friday objecting to the cancelation of a solo exhibition of artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez.In the letter, which was addressed to the “Office of the President and University Leadership, University of North Texas,” the faculty said that they “strongly object to the abrupt and unexplained cancellation” of Quiñonez&rs
  
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• British Museum Contests Report on Removal of ‘Palestinian’ from Some Wall Texts

  17-02-2026 16:28 via artnews.com
  The British Museum contested a Telegraph report from this weekend, saying that it had not entirely stripped the word “Palestinian” from its wall texts in response to pressure from a pro-Israel group.The Telegraph report stated that UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) had written to British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan, claiming that using the word Palestine in its displays of Middle Eastern art “erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity. Moreover, th
  
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• Paul Slocum, One of Digital Art’s First Champions, on Building a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem

  17-02-2026 13:35 via artnews.com
  This past week, Paul Slocum celebrated 20 years of And/Or gallery, a pioneering space for the exhibition of new media art. Founded in 2006 with a show featuring works by Tom Moody and Saskia Jorda, Slocum’s ad hoc gallery became a home for outsider artists exploring the cutting edge of art made with computers and the internet. Many of these artists, like Cory Arcangel and Petra Cortright, have come to define the first waves of computer- and internet-based art and have enjoyed significant i
  
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• Judge Orders Return of Slavery Exhibit at President’s House, Barbican Director Devyani Saltzman Departs: Morning Links for February 17, 2026

  17-02-2026 13:12 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.The HeadlinesGEORGE ORWELL-IAN. On Monday, a judge ruled the Trump administration cannot alter historical facts and must temporarily rehang an exhibition about slavery at a monument to George Washington and John Adams’ home in Philadelphia, while a lawsuit proceeds, reports the New York Times. Last month, the Interior Department and the Nationa
  
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• Museo Reina Sofía Calls for Investigation into Incident Involving Visitors with Israeli Flags

  16-02-2026 22:35 via artnews.com
  The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, one of Spain’s top art museums, said on Monday that it was seeking an investigation into a widely publicized incident involving visitors who came to the museum with Stars of David and Israeli flags.Video of the incident went viral after being published by Okdiario, a conservative Spanish publication. In the video, security officers appear to call for the removal of three women from the museum. As they begin the process of escorting the women out, one
  
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• Yin Xiuzhen and Chiharu Shiota review – so on-the-nose it gives you a nosebleed

  16-02-2026 16:06
  Hayward Gallery, London
  One artist critiques capitalism via sculptures made of tatty T-shirts. The other weaves threads like a hyperactive spider. Neither say much – but they’ll look great on InstagramGrief takes many forms. Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen mourns by preserving, stitching, sewing. Working in 1990s Beijing, she saw a city transforming so fast, and casting off its history with so little ceremony, that she had to save it somehow. Her show at the Hayward is full of scraps of t
  
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• Delaine Le Bas review – former Turner nominee delivers witches, warm welcomes – and wallpaper

  16-02-2026 14:06
  The Whitworth, ManchesterThe Romany artist takes a mural she made for Glastonbury as a starting point, then builds a dizzying series of rooms exploring connection and exclusion
  “No” shouts the red paint scrawled across the floor at the entrance. No entry? I wonder as I step tentatively into the gallery. The word appears again and again – always painted in red – across the large sheet of fabric that divides the first gallery space. Later, it decorates Delaine Le Bas’
  
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• David Hockney to Unveil 32-Foot-Long Window Installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate

  16-02-2026 13:47 via artnews.com
  This spring, David Hockney will unveil a major new work at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th-anniversary celebrations. The piece, a massive 22-by-32-foot installation, will transform the museum’s floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea.Running from April 1 to November 1, the window work depicts a sunrise in Normandy, based on an iPad painting Hockney created in 2020. Clarrie Wallis, the direct
  
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• Wassily Kandinsky Painting Worth £15.5 M. to Headline Christie’s 20/21 Spring Evening Sale in London Alongside Henry Moore Work

  16-02-2026 13:23 via artnews.com
  Wassily Kandinsky’s Le Rond Rouge (1939) will headline Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. The house has slapped at £15.5 million high estimate on the Russian modernist heavyweight’s painting, which measures 35 inches by 45.7 inches.It was painted when Kandinsky lived in Paris with his wife Nina toward the end of his career. The couple moved to France from Germany in 1933 to escape the growing hostility of the Nazi regime. Kandinsky quickly imm
  
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• Wassily Kandinsky Painting Estimated at $21.3 M. to Headline Christie’s 20/21 Spring Evening Sale in London Alongside Henry Moore Work

  16-02-2026 13:23 via artnews.com
  Wassily Kandinsky’s Le Rond Rouge (1939) will headline Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. The house put a £15.5 million high estimate, or about $21.3 million, on the Russian modernist heavyweight’s painting, which measures 35 inches by 45.7 inches.It was painted when Kandinsky lived in Paris with his wife Nina toward the end of his career. The couple moved to France from Germany in 1933 to escape the growing hostility of the Nazi regime. Kandi
  
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• Sculptor Henrike Naumann Dies at 41, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota Fires Director: Morning Links for February 16, 2026

  16-02-2026 12:55 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.The HeadlinesMAMBO SACKING. Italian curator Eugenio Viola has been fired from his position as artistic director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (MAMBO), which he held since 2019, reports The Art Newspaper. In a statement, Viola said he was abruptly dismissed following his “decision to raise concerns with the board in September 2025 regarding
  
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• ‘Bring it back’: Sicilians say Antonello da Messina’s Ecce Homo belongs with them

  16-02-2026 09:00
  Much of Messina’s cultural memory was destroyed in a 1908 earthquake, but the Italian government has secured a masterpiece by the port city’s greatest sonOn 28 December 1908, the city of Messina was struck by what is still considered the deadliest natural catastrophe in modern European history. In just 37 seconds, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed half its population and levelled much of the city.Along with homes, churches and monuments, invaluable historical sources and documents we
  
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• British Museum Removed the Word ‘Palestinian’ from Some Displays Amid Pressure from Pro-Israel Group

  16-02-2026 00:24 via artnews.com
  The British Museum in London stripped the word “Palestinian” from some of its displays about the Middle East amid pressure from a prominent pro-Israel group.The Telegraph reported this weekend that UK Lawyers for Israel had written a letter to Nicholas Cullinan, the museum’s director, seeking the removal of that word, specifically in texts that referred to certain peoples as being “of Palestinian descent.”“Applying a single name – Palestine – retro
  
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• Henrike Naumann, Sculptor Who Exhumed East Germany’s Troubled Past, Dies at 41

  15-02-2026 23:46 via artnews.com
  Henrike Naumann, a sculptor whose installations composed of furniture and design objects associated with East Germany’s troubled past made her a star of the German art scene, died on Saturday at 41.Her death preceded one of her biggest projects to date: the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where the Berlin-based artist is set to represent the nation alongside Sung Tieu this year. The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), the organization that facilitates the German Pavilion,
  
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• Alan Burgess Obituary

  15-02-2026 18:35
  My father, Alan Burgess, who has died aged 88, was a well-respected artist and art teacher, latterly at East Herts College, where he taught for nearly 30 years.In 1957 Alan was selected for Young Contemporaries (now New Contemporaries), a show for emerging artists. His early abstract work changed to paintings of trees and landscapes after a move to Roydon, Essex, in the late 1960s. Continue reading...
  
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• Roulette Online App: Ein Experte Leitfaden für Spieler

  15-02-2026 06:05 via zouchmagazine.com
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• ‘I cut out one little house at a time’: the trucker who spent decades building a tiny replica of NYC

  14-02-2026 14:00
  Queens-born Joe Macken’s hyperrealistic model, made with wood, cardboard and glue, is now on view at the Museum of the City of New YorkIn 2003, Joe Macken built a miniature model of a bridge out of popsicle sticks. He wanted it to look like a “hybrid” of the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges. Soon after, Macken, who grew up in Middle Village, Queens, moved his family to a small town upstate, more than 160 miles from the city. Macken loaded his bridge on the moving t
  
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• ‘The bear feels comfortable and uncomfortable. It’s a bittersweet moment’: Iñigo Jerez Quintana’s best phone picture

  14-02-2026 12:00
  Capturing things that mix the strange with the beautiful helped the Spanish graphic designer recover from a blue periodIñigo Jerez Quintana uses the French term objet trouvé to describe this abandoned bear. Quintana, a Spanish graphic designer, was walking from his studio to a work meeting in Poblenou, a district of Barcelona, when he spotted it.“I take photos based on visual impulses; anything that catches my eye,” he says. “The colour match of the bear&rsqu
  
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• ‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

  14-02-2026 07:00
  She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as everThere is a long buildup before I get to see Tracey Emin – her two cats, Teacup and Pancake, preceding her like a pair of slinky sentries as she walks into the white-painted basement kitchen of her huge Georgian house in Margate. The lengthy overture is because – though I’ve been
  
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• From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  14-02-2026 07:00
  Emerald Fennell’s film brings the raunch to Brontë’s romance, while Nintendo’s beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports gameWuthering Heights
  Out nowOut on the wily, windy moors, writer-director Emerald Fennell has constructed a new interpretation of the Emily Brontë classic. Margot Robbie is Cathy while Jacob Elordi takes on Heathcliff, and as you might expect from the film-maker behind Saltburn, the passionate pair are set to leave no height
  
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• “Vinegar Valentines” — Send A Token Of Your Sentiment To The Ex You Despise

  13-02-2026 20:50 via theconversation.com
  The name was given by present-day collectors and dealers; in their Victorian heyday, they were usually called mock or mocking valentines. They were very much intended to mock or offend their targets, and they did so with spirit. – The Conversation
  
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• Does Making Art Require A “Writer’s Room”? Or Is It Something Else?

  13-02-2026 20:31 via newyorker.com
  There’s no question that they’ve helped me write. And yet, if I look back over my career as a writer, the value I’ve derived from carefully controlling my environment has paled in comparison to my main source of motivation: scary e-mails from editors. – The New Yorker
  
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• Louvre Faces €10M Loss After Decades-Long Ticket Fraud Busted

  13-02-2026 20:19 via artnews.com
  A sweeping fraud scheme targeting ticket sales at the Louvre was uncovered earlier this week, leaving the scandal-plagued museum facing losses estimated at more than €10 million. The Palace of Versailles was also implicated in the scheme, which involved the sale of counterfeit tickets and the overbooking of guided tours, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday.French authorities shared that nine people have been arrested, including two museum employees, several tour guides
  
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• Adrian Searle to Step Down as the Guardian’s Chief Art Critic After Three Decades

  13-02-2026 20:09 via artnews.com
  After 30 years at the Guardian, chief art critic Adrian Searle is stepping down from the role he has held since 1996.The Guardian announced today that Searle will leave his full-time role at the end of March. His final article, a look back at the past three decades and what he has learned, will appear on April 1. He will continue to contribute occasional pieces.Searle joined the Guardian after transitioning from a career as a painter. Over the next three decades, he became one of the most influe
  
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