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• Toronto Symphony Reverses Reverses And Finishes Its Year With A Surplus

  05-12-2014 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The deficit era is over,” new CEO Jeff Melanson said in an interview before the TSO’s annual general meeting where it was announced the orchestra posted a modest surplus of $222,349 on revenues of nearly $24 million. It’s a considerable improvement over last year’s deficit of $1.2 million and $800,000 the year before.
  
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• Aerial Surveys of Brazil Find New Evidence of Pre-Colombian Civilization

  30-07-2026 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  Surveys of the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas turned up evidence of pre-Colombian civilization that thrived in southwestern Amazonia.As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. “The team conducted more than 4,400 kilometers of airborne LiDAR surveys over the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. The laser-based technology, which can penetrate dense forest
  
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• V&A East Storehouse Workers Vote to Strike Over Working Conditions

  30-07-2026 20:46 via artnews.com
  
  Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new V&A East Storehouse have voted unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world’s most closely watched new cultural attractions. The ballot, organized by the trade union Prospect, covers collections access officers who staff the museum’s much-publicized “Order an Object” program, which allows visitors to book app
  
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• Trump Unveils Re-gilded ‘Arts of War’ Horse Statues Near Lincoln Memorial

  30-07-2026 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  The four massive bronze statues that make up the “Arts of War” and “Arts of Peace” statues on roads leading to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., were looking a little long in the tooth, according to President Trump. In April, the Department of the Interior engaged a studio in Maryland to conserve and regild the equestrian bronzes, originally unveiled in 1951, at a cost of $5.1 million. Earlier this week, President Trump posted photos on Truth Social of the project
  
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• A New Nasher Jury, Zachary Fine Joins New Yorker, and More: Industry Moves for July 30, 2026

  30-07-2026 19:34 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 Thursday! Here’s who’s moving and shaking in the art world this week:Art Critic Zachary Fine Joins the New Yorker as Contributing Writer: Fine, a postdoctoral fellow at Wesleyan University and the interim director of the school’s Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism,
  
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• Cyberattack on Dresden State Art Collections Lasted Days, Authorities Reveal

  30-07-2026 19:33 via artnews.com
  
  German authorities have revealed new details about the January cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections, suggesting the incident was more severe than previously understood. Monopol reports that the Saxon Ministry of Justice confirmed the perpetrators remain unidentified and that investigators found the attack itself lasted several days, from January 17 to 21, when the breach was detected. The Dresden State Art Collections, a network of some 15 museums in eastern Germany, announced s
  
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• Netflix Acquires Richard Avedon Documentary for 2026 Release After Cannes Debut

  30-07-2026 19:22 via artnews.com
  
  Avedon, Oscar winner Ron Howard’s documentary feature about the life and work of legendary photographer Richard Avedon, has been acquired by Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The film, which had its world premiere at May’s Cannes Film Festival and was met with raves, will be released worldwide on the streaming platform later this year, and will receive an awards push.A production of Imagine Documentaries an
  
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• FBI Executes Search on Blue-Chip Gallery That May Be Owned by Notorious Philadelphia Collector

  30-07-2026 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia that it was conducting a “court-authorized law enforcement activity.”Victor Fiorillo, a senior reporter at Philadelphia magazine, was on the scene of the search Wednesday, reporting that he “witnessed several FBI agents going in and out of the two-story building.” When Fiorillo approache
  
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• Documentary About the Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, “Keeper of Trees Anywhere,” Now in Production

  30-07-2026 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  The late sculptor Thaddeus Mosley came to art world fame in 2018, following his inclusion in that year’s Carnegie International. At the time, the self-taught artist was in his early 90s, having spent the past seven decades working diligently, and mostly alone, on monumental freestanding totems in his Pittsburgh studio. He died in March at 99.Filmmakers Sarah Cooper and Conny Fridh began filming Mosley in 2018, a turning point in his long, circuitous career. Their forthcoming documentary, n
  
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• At 8,000 Feet Above Sea Level, the Aspen Art Fair Aims to Offer an Elevated Experience, With Brisk Sales, Cold Plunges, and Mountain Hikes

  30-07-2026 16:45 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.Ask around at the tony Hotel Jerome, in Aspen, Colorado, and you’ll soon hear about the stories of ghosts—or, as some prefer to call them, friendly spirits. Local dealer Sam Harvey, of Harvey Preston Gallery, doesn’t believe in such things, but even he told me on Wednesday that he enco
  
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• The Bayeux Tapestry Has Returned to the UK for the First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years—Here’s What to Know

  30-07-2026 12:01 via artnews.com
  
  For almost a millennium, a spectacular visual chronicle of British history has remained on the far side of the English Channel, in Normandy. The Bayeux Tapestry—a Romanesque-style textile artwork that is 230 feet long and populated with 58 scenes, 626 characters, and 202 horses—is a masterwork long studied by scholars and even British schoolchildren, but it hasn’t been in England since it was made. That changed earlier this month, when it traveled to the British Museum on July
  
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• With a Massive Oyster Installation, Artist Alan Michelson Wants to Connect New York Harbor to Its Indigenous Ancestry

  30-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Before New York became a sprawling metropolis, its rolling hills, deep valleys, and tidal salt marshes were part of a larger estuarine ecosystem that was home to countless flora and fauna. This included fresh bodies of water like Collect Pond in Lower Manhattan and massive oyster beds along the harbor’s more than 500 miles of shoreline, both cared for and relied on by the Indigenous Lenape peoples. This rich, yet often underknown history—quite literally buried beneath New York’
  
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• Simone Forti, Leading Figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater Scene, Has Died at 91

  30-07-2026 02:10 via artnews.com
  
  Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today.“She was a beloved friend and mentor, whose immeasurable influence on contemporary art, performance, and dance spanned over sixty years,” stated the Milan-based gallery. &ld
  
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• Harvard Art Museums Tested Out Using Generative AI to Animate 18th-Century Painting as Part of Marketing Campaign

  29-07-2026 22:24 via artnews.com
  
  The Harvard Art Museums, a consortium of three institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested out a marketing campaign aimed at increasing visitor engagement and membership that makes use of generative AI in order to animate a 18th-century painting in its collection.John Connolly, the director of marketing for the Harvard Art Museums, and Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, recently spoke about the initiative on Open Call, a podcast produced by the Harvard Bus
  
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• French Scientists Precisely Date Paleolithic Cave Paintings for the First Time to 13,000 Years Old

  29-07-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Dordogne’s Vézère Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous for its prehistoric art, which includes the paintings at Font-de-Gaume as well as those at nearby Lascaux. Accura
  
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• French Scientists Precisely Date a Paleolithic Cave Painting for the First Time as About 13,000 Years Old

  29-07-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Dordogne’s Vézère Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous for its prehistoric art, which includes the paintings at Font-de-Gaume as well as those at nearby Lascaux. Accura
  
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• French Scientists Precisely Date a Paleolithic Cave Painting for the First Time as 13,000 Years Old

  29-07-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Dordogne’s Vézère Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous for its prehistoric art, which includes the paintings at Font-de-Gaume as well as those at nearby Lascaux. Accura
  
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• Yoshitomo Nara’s First Show with David Zwirner Slated for October in New York

  29-07-2026 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is slated to open October 29 and will run through December 12.Nara joined Zwirner after being represented previously by Pace and Blum galleries, and said at the time, “Now, I
  
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• Christie’s to Sell Monet Masterpiece From Durand-Ruel Collection in Paris

  29-07-2026 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  Claude Monet’s Bord des falaises à Pourville (ca. 1882) is coming to the auction block at Christie’s Paris this October with an estimate of €11 million–€15 million ($12.5 million–$17.1 million). The brightly hued landscape is leading a sale of works from the family collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer considered most responsible helped establish Impressionism as a commercial and critical success.The October 22 sale, titled “Dura
  
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• Mayor Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Puts Art World Heavyweights in the Spotlight

  29-07-2026 19:07 via artnews.com
  
  Will New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax drive major art collectors from the Big Apple into the tax-friendly arms of competing cultural hubs? That is the question at the heart of an ongoing debate, prompted by a database published last week by the New York City Department of Finance (DOF). The list identifies numerous prominent art-world figures as potentially subject to a surcharge on multimillion-dollar second homes, know as as pied-à-terres.According to the DOF datab
  
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• American Alliance of Museums Slams Trump Administration’s Report on the Smithsonian

  29-07-2026 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  The White House has continued to escalate its assault on the Smithsonian Institution this week, ordering signage outside the National Museum of American History to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits. A prominent industry group, the American Alliance of Museums, is finally hitting back.Earlier this month, the AAM released a statement condemning the Trump administration’s attacks on the Smithsonian. In a scathing rebuke, the grou
  
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• Hankering to See Salvator Mundi? An Artist Opened a Museum of the World’s Priciest Painting in His Brooklyn Lobby

  29-07-2026 18:39 via artnews.com
  
  When auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen brought down the hammer on Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) at Christie’s in 2017, it fetched $450.3 million, making history as the priciest work of art ever sold at a public auction. Sold as the last Leonardo in private hands, it went to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; ever since, it’s been visible in numerous headlines and even in a documentary, but hasn’t gone on public view. Well, New York’s Salvator Mund
  
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• 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces Exhibitors for Upcoming London Edition

  29-07-2026 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall.Scheduled for October 15–18 at Somerset House, alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the fair will feature a focus on African modernists through curated booths and a 1-54 Presents’ spotlight exhibition titled “West Wind,” curated by the South
  
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• A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition

  29-07-2026 17:22 via artnews.com
  
  You know it’s going to be a different kind of group show right away: A wall decal detailing the exhibition budget greets visitors to “Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Shaped like a receipt but organized like a spreadsheet, it lists artists’ honoraria—a nice $25,000 for 27 artists—alongside framing ($1,100, a steal), vinyl ($1,925), and more.But the exhibition quickly expands to consider costs bey
  
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• Metis Co-Founder Rebecca Fine on Why Art Lending Is Becoming a Bigger Part of Wealth Management

  29-07-2026 16:21 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past five years, as auction sales faltered and interest rates climbed, collectors became reluctant to sell prized works into an uncertain market. The result? Loans secured by art became one of the fastest-growing corners of the art market.Banks have expanded their offerings, auction houses have grown their lending divisions, and a wave of independent firms has entered the market, all betting that collectors these days see their collections not just as cultural assets but as financi
  
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• Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Accused of Whitewashing, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2026

  29-07-2026 16:11 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!The American Alliance of Museums has slammed the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution.Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has been accused of whitewashing the country’s wartime past.The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors on December 11.The Headlines PUSHBACK. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has slammed the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution, warning t
  
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• The 30 Best Art Museums in the US

  29-07-2026 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by major collectors—among them Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell Rales’s Glenstone—and the landscape becomes even more crowded.With all that in mind, the editors of ARTnews felt it was
  
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• The Ultimate Guide to French Roulette Low House Edge UK Popular

  29-07-2026 11:27 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  29-07-2026 10:08 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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