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• Adolf Hitler’s Art Still Sells, as ‘Industry’ Just Reminded Us

  26-01-2026 23:44 via artnews.com
  Adolf Hitler’s artistic ambitions may have died in a Vienna admissions office, but his watercolors remain surprisingly alive on the auction circuit—and, now, on prestige television.This week’s episode of HBO’s Industry features a quiet reveal that would have felt implausible if it weren’t so well documented: a tasteful watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle turns out to be signed “A. Hitler.” The moment lands as satire, but it also reflects a
  
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• Jaume Plensa Sculpture Collapses Outside University of Notre Dame Museum

  26-01-2026 22:18 via artnews.com
  A 36-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture by Jaume Plensa collapsed outside the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame last month, with museum officials saying the cause of the failure remains unclear, according to the university’s student-run paper The Observer.The work, Endless, was found broken into two pieces on December 10 after standing outside the museum for nearly three years. No injuries were reported, and officials said there was only minor damage to
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Trustee Reportedly Led Push Against Acquiring Nan Goldin Work

  26-01-2026 21:38 via artnews.com
  A trustee at the Art Gallery of Ontario advised an acquisitions committee at the museum not to acquire a Nan Goldin piece because of the artist’s statements on Israel’s war in Gaza, according to a new report by the Globe and Mail.The same publication previously reported that the museum had sought the acquisition of Stendhal Syndrome, a 2024 video installation that does not address Israel, Palestine, or the conflict in Gaza. The plan was initially to purchase the work in tandem with t
  
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• AI-Generated Image Misattributed to Egon Schiele Provokes Outrage

  26-01-2026 21:36 via artnews.com
  An AI-generated image purporting to be a famous watercolor by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele has generated hundreds of thousands of page views, as well as outrage and alarm on X.The image was posted by @lovedropx, an account with 287,000 followers and a vigorous reposter with a weakness for maudlin inspirational quotes. The image in question is a depiction of a woman in a black dress and stockings rendered in the style of a Schiele drawing and titled with the name of an actual watercolor, g
  
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• In New York, the Stakes are High for a Young Gallery Dedicated to Play

  26-01-2026 20:53 via artnews.com
  A cold wind cuts through lower Manhattan, passing shuttered storefronts that once housed small galleries—some casualties of the rent crisis—before losing force at the corner of Broome and Chrystie Streets. There, a different kind of market experiment took shape. Last year, Spielzeug Gallery, a nomadic curatorial project had a turn as a brick-and-mortar commercial gallery, testing a model that reads almost anachronistic beside Tribeca: one in which chaos is not a pose, but the consequ
  
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• Artists Urge Jewish Museum to Save Federal ‘Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art’ from Demolition in Open Letter

  26-01-2026 20:03 via artnews.com
  The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel.The letter, addressed to Shari Aronson, chair of the board of the Jewish Museum, was written by artists Elise Engler, Joyce Kozloff, and Martha Rosler, and has been signed by hundreds
  
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• Louvre Closes Again as Union Negotiations Drag On

  26-01-2026 19:43 via artnews.com
  The Louvre closed on Monday due to a strike as employees’ demands for improved working conditions and pay equity continue to go unmet, marking the fourth day the Paris museum has shuttered since mid-December. The stoppage is one of the longest strikes in the history of the world’s most visited museum, a crisis intensified by the October 19 burglary and related revelations of systemic security failures.According to Le Parisien, roughly 300 employees voted in a general assembly on Mond
  
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• Salon 94’s Alissa Friedman on Coming Home, Cultural Lag, and Why Art’s Boundaries Are Disappearing

  26-01-2026 19:41 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now.For Alissa Friedman, returning to Salon 94 was a homecoming. After more than a decade of helping to shape the gallery’s identity, Friedman left when founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn joined forces with Brett Gorvy, Dominique Lévy, and Amelia Dayan to form LGDR. (Greenberg Rohatyn later left LGDR, which is now known
  
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• Studio Museum in Harlem Closes After Sprinkler Emergency

  26-01-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  A “sprinkler emergency” forced the recently reopened Studio Museum in Harlem to evacuate visitors on Friday and close for the weekend.As reported by Hyperallergic, staff told visitors to leave as a ceiling near the gift shop leaked water. “We saw a large pool of water on the floor near the entrance, and saw the water flowing down in the store,” an unnamed visitor told Hyperallergic.A spokesperson for the Studio Museum—which reopened in November in a high-profile new
  
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• 6 Books on Robert Smithson’s Shelf

  26-01-2026 18:31 via artnews.com
  By the time Robert Smithson died in a plane crash in 1973, at the age of 35, he had amassed over 1,000 periodicals and books. Soon after his death, a graduate student catalogued each and every one—save for a few loaned to friends and never returned—and grouped the artist’s titles by genre before arranging them alphabetically.Smithson, who was also a skilled and articulate writer, is perhaps best known for artworks that dabble in anthropology, archaeology, and Earth sciences. Bu
  
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• Record-Breaking Koch Sale at Christie’s Signals Renewed Interest in American Art

  26-01-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  Christie’s record-breaking sale of works from William I. Koch’s Western art collection may look like a one-off, but recent data suggest it fits into a wider, if uneven, revival of historical American art. According to the Observer, the two-part auction realized $84.1 million with fees, more than tripling the previous record for a single-owner Western art collection and setting five new artist records.The results stand out in a category that has spent much of the past decade on t
  
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• Amid National Upheaval Over Minneapolis Killings, Photographer Ellen von Unwerth Attends White House ‘Melania’ Screening

  26-01-2026 18:17 via artnews.com
  On Saturday, the same day that federal Border Patrol agents shot and killed intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in the street in Minneapolis, and as an historic winter storm bore down on a large swath of the United States, the White House staged a screening of Melania, the forthcoming documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. Among those in attendance was photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who shot the promotional poster for the movie, notes Hollywood Reporter. Other VIPs on the scene reportedly inc
  
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• Seyni Awa Camara, Sculptor Beloved by Artists Ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Pharrell, Has Died

  26-01-2026 17:56 via artnews.com
  Seyni Awa Camara, a sculptor whose clay creations made in a remote Senegalese town captured the European art world’s attention in the late ’80s and gained a vast following in the decades afterward, has died. DakArt News reported Camara’s death on social media on Sunday. Because Camara’s birth year has not definitively been reported, ARTnews was unable to determine her age.Working in Bignona, the Diola artist gained international recognition for her totem-like clay sculptu
  
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• South Carolina Artist Wins $158K in Copyright Infringement Case Over Mural

  26-01-2026 16:12 via artnews.com
  A judge in U.S. District Court in South Carolina has awarded local artist Todd Atkinson $158,400 in a copyright infringement case against artist Chan Shepherd and the owner of the building on which Atkinson’s mural was originally painted.Atkinson painted the mural, of a train and a water tank, with the words “Water Tank” in a red banner, on the side of a building in Clover, S.C., in the summer of 1982, according to court documents. He filed a copyright certificate on Dec. 11, 2
  
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• There Are a Lot of Open Art Museum Directorships in the United States Right Now

  26-01-2026 15:07 via artnews.com
  There’s been a lot of drama in the world of museum directors lately, headlined by the meltdown at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Perhaps just as dramatic, though, is the sheer number of open directorships at American art museums. In just the past two days, two major jobs opened up: at the Queens Museum, where Sally Tallant, who has been in the role since 2019, will depart to lead London’s Hayward Gallery; and at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, where David Brenneman, hired in
  
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• Legendary Dealer Marian Goodman Dies, Louvre Shutters Again Amid Strike: Morning Links for January 26, 2026

  26-01-2026 14:55 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The KickerGOODMAN GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Marian Goodman, the art dealer admired for her lifelong loyalty to her artists and her indifference to market trends, died on Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital at 97, ARTnews reported on Sunday. In 1977, at 49, she opened Marian Goodman Gallery in Midtown Manhattan with an exhibition of Marcel Broodthaers, signaling
  
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• New £1.5m awards scheme launches to celebrate UK visual art education

  26-01-2026 08:00
  Freelands Foundation will give £100,000 to three projects every year ‘against the backdrop of 15 years of cuts’A new £1.5m awards scheme has been launched to recognise and celebrate visual art education in the UK – with £100,000 being awarded to three organisations a year for the next five years.The Freelands Foundation announced the award on Monday for recent or ongoing projects “demonstrating commitment to progressive art education approaches with demo
  
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• Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Helped This Religion Reporter Uncover Her Own Lost History

  25-01-2026 21:30 via theatlantic.com
  “Stoppard wasn’t telling a story of Nazis and gas chambers; he was exploring the psychological danger of hiding one’s Jewish identity. A month after seeing the play, I decided to fly to London in search of some of my own hidden pieces.” – The Atlantic
  
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• What To Read Now

  25-01-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  At least according to Ali Smith, whose 2024 book Gliff is such a good, terrifying book about the surveillance state that you’ll think it’s nonfiction. (Her comfort read, should anyone be looking for such a thing for some reason, is Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.) – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Art Closes for Third Straight Day Amid Alex Pretti Killing, ICE Protests

  25-01-2026 20:39 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the city’s leading art museum, announced on Sunday that it would remain closed on Sunday “for the safety of staff and visitors,” according to a statement posted to Instagram.The institution was one of many in the city to close on Friday as part of the Day of Truth and Freedom, a statewide protest organized in response to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota communities in recent weeks.On Saturday, during an ICE operati
  
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• Seattle Rep Has Rare Paid Apprenticeships, And Washington State Approves

  25-01-2026 20:30 via seattletimes.com
  “Apprentices can study one of five tracks: directing and artistic programs, lighting design, production management, scenic paint or stage management. The apprenticeships are about 10 months long.”– Seattle Times
  
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• Marian Goodman, Renowned New York Art Who Helped Bring Post-War European Avant-Garde To Prominence, Has Died At 97

  25-01-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  “Famously loyal to her artists, Ms. Goodman aimed to place their work in museum collections rather than in private mansions. Her priorities could amount to a thorn in the side of collectors.” – The New York Times
  
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• Not Many Actors Have A Predator Movie And An Oscar Nomination In The Same Year

  25-01-2026 19:30 via salon.com
  Elle Fanning has had quite the year. Her “ability to hop between a thorny Norwegian drama and a high-concept alien movie is exactly the kind of exciting malleability that audiences forced to wade through modern cinema’s sea of sameness deserve.” – Salon
  
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• Spanish Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Julio Iglesias For Sexual Assault

  25-01-2026 19:00 via bbc.com
  “They ruled that Spanish courts had no jurisdiction and were therefore not competent to investigate crimes committed abroad involving complainants who were not Spanish citizens or residents and who had never travelled to Spain with the star.” – BBC
  
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• A Call For ‘Equal Time’ Could Have A Chilling Effect On US TV And Radio

  25-01-2026 18:31 via latimes.com
  “It’s the Trump White House’s latest salvo against the network late night talk show hosts, primarily Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel, who pound away at President Trump nightly in their monologues and offer ample airtime to his political opponents.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Gallerist Marian Goodman, Unwavering Champion of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 97

  25-01-2026 18:24 via artnews.com
  The art dealer Marian Goodman, who was revered for her enduring commitment to the artists that she represented, and for her disinclination to follow either aesthetic or business trends, died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 97. The New York Times, which first reported news of her death on Sunday, did not report a cause.In 1977, at the age of 49, Goodman opened her eponymous gallery in Midtown Manhattan with a show of the late Belgian artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers, whose con
  
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• Beatriz Gonzalez, Colombian Artist Who Turned Mass Produced Culture Into Painterly Critiques, Has Died At 93

  25-01-2026 18:00 via nytimes.com
  González, one of the foremost painters of the late 20th century, painted subjects included “the violence that permeated life in Colombia; the European ‘high culture’ that filtered its way across the Atlantic in cheap reproductions; and the in-your-face commercial aesthetic of pervasive urban advertising.” – The New York Times
  
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• At The Academy Museum, There’s No More Oral History Project Staff

  25-01-2026 17:30 via msn.com
  The museum’s union calls the cuts “a sad and reckless choice.”– Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Wait, How Exactly Did Heated Rivalry Become A Hit In Russia?

  25-01-2026 17:00 via msn.com
  “The popularity of the show has prompted calls in Russia to purge it from the internet.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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