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• Treasures of Versailles to go on display in Australia

  18-07-2016 17:04
  
  A harp belonging to Marie Antoinette and part of a fountain at French palace are among 130 items to travel to CanberraRiches from the Palace of Versailles including a harp belonging to Marie Antoinette will travel to Australia, the country’s national gallery has said, as part of a display never seen outside France.More than 130 paintings, tapestries, pieces of furniture, statues and other objects from Versailles, one of France’s grandest museums, will be on display in the Australian
  
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• Bluhm Family Gives $5 M. to MCA Chicago for Gender Equity Fund, Named After Outgoing Director

  05-10-2026 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has received a $5 million endowment from trustee and board vice chair Leslie Bluhm, on behalf of the Chicago philanthropic Bluhm family, that will benefit the institution’s Women Artists Initiative (WAI), which is geared toward ensuring gender equity in the museum’s exhibition programming and permanent collection.To mark the upcoming departure of longtime MCA Chicago director Madeleine Grynsztejn, who established the initiative, the WAI will be
  
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• Philip Tinari Appointed Director of Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong

  05-10-2026 20:12 via artnews.com
  
  Philip Tinari was named director of Tai Kwun Arts, after less than one year since he began working there, according to a press release from the Hong Kong arts and heritage center. His appointment is among two others, with Chin Chin Teoh named managing director and Timothy Calnin as director of special projects.Tai Kwun is an integrated institution, comprised of The Jockey Club CPS Limited and Tai Kwun Culture & Arts Company Limited, in partnership with the Hong Kong SAR Government, located i
  
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• Jackson Pollock’s Former West Village Loft Hits the Market for $1.99 M.

  05-10-2026 20:09 via artnews.com
  
  Just as a major exhibition of Jackson Pollock and his wife and fellow painter Lee Krasner opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Pollock’s former Lower Manhattan loft has hit the market for $1.99 million.The one-bedroom 1827 West Village apartment, listed with Shane Boyle of Compass, boasts nearly two centuries of New York history. Constructed on land once owned by the third US vice president Aaron Burr, the building was also home to a milliner who sold hats and bonnets in th
  
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• Jeff Koons Appears to Be the ‘Distinguished Collector’ Offering $100 M. in Old and Modern Masters at Christie’s

  05-10-2026 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  A collection of nine artworks totaling in the area of $100 million will come to auction at Christie’s New York, reportedly from the holdings of famed American artist Jeff Koons. The auction house did not confirm the seller’s identity, but two unnamed industry sources tell the New York Times that Koons is the seller. (The house also declined to comment to ARTnews.) The newspaper reports that Koons plans to invest the proceeds into his own notoriously resource-intensive art practice an
  
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• Whitney Museum Workers Reach Contract Deal Hours Before Strike Deadline

  05-10-2026 18:22 via artnews.com
  
  Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum in New York ratified its second contract Sunday night, hours ahead a strike deadline, narrowly heading off a disruption to the opening of a forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective.Under the new contract, every Whitney employee will receive a wage increase of at least 14.75 percent over four years. Workers with the lowest salaries will receive larger raises, ranging from 5 to 23 percent in the first year. The agreement also introduces longevity bonuses for
  
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• Attempted Robbery Foiled at the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris

  05-10-2026 16:51 via artnews.com
  
  An attempted robbery at the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris was foiled on Saturday night.Le Parisien first reported that the suspect fled when the museum’s alarm system was triggered, prompting Paris police to launch an investigation. Investigators are analyzing CCTV footage of the break-in. The thief reportedly smashed a window near the rear of the museum to gain entry. However, startled by the activation of the security system, the suspect fled the scene without stealing any loot
  
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• JW Anderson, Artist Cerith Wyn Evans Team Up for Frieze Week

  05-10-2026 16:44 via artnews.com
  
  Clearly, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson loves art. During his tenure as creative director at Loewe, the Spanish brand was one of the main sponsors of Frieze London. Now, Anderson is changing things up, inviting Frieze Week visitors to come meet him at his JW Anderson store on Pimlico Road for a special exhibition, “A Composition” running between October 15-21.The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Platinum Card from American Express, the financial services company th
  
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• Jeff Koons Cashes in $100 M. Art Collection to Christie’s, Damien Hirst Makes Case for Wearable Art Ahead of New Barrie Cashmere Collection, and More: Morning Links for October 5, 2026

  05-10-2026 14:50 via artnews.com
  
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  Jeff Koons is quietly selling about $100 million of his art collection at Christie’s.Damien Hirst makes his case for art as “anything done well,” ahead of a new capsule collection collaboration with cashmere brand Barrie.A suspect attempted and failed to rob the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris Saturday night.The Headlines KOONS RAISES CASH. Jeff Koons is
  
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• Beverly Buchanan: the rediscovered talent with a taste for the ramshackle

  05-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  The late artist never played by the rules — now the art world is catching up with her thrilling works
  
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• What Changing Views of the Young British Artists Say About the Art World Today

  05-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In his latest bestseller, London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe refers to art in his prologue to illustrate the way the city of London changed near the end of the 20th century: In 1988, a group of young artists used a derelict warehouse in the docklands of southeast London as the venue for their first group exhibition, “Freeze.” He doesn’t say anything else, assuming the reader will know who those artists became: the Young British Artists, or YBAs.Arguably Britain’s most f
  
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• An Exhibition Devoted to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock Argues for Krasner’s Equal Significance

  05-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Lee Krasner’s art has always been tough to is tough to define, because she was constantly changing and reinventing her work. Unlike her fellow Abstract Expressionists, whose paintings could be easily recognized by certain characteristics, Krasner worked in cycles.“Krasner refused to become a serial painter with a repeated trademark format,” wrote art historian Barbara Rose in the catalog for Krasner’s 1983 traveling retrospective, which opened at the Museum of Fine Arts,
  
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• Kylie Manning: the Alaskan fisher-turned-painter with an eye for oceans

  05-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The artist’s career has taken her from commercial trawlers to Pace Gallery — but the seas remain her guide
  
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• Anton Seidl and the Lost Promise of American Classical Music

  05-10-2026 03:23 via artsjournal.com
  
  This weekend’s online “ArtsFuse” carries an interview with me by Aaron Cohen (reproduced below).
  I will be speaking about my
  
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• Eight Million Books Burned in Kharkiv

  04-10-2026 22:19 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A Russian drone strike in August destroyed 8 million books at a Kharkiv warehouse belonging to Ranok, a Ukrainian publisher, more than 85% of its stock, including 628,000 new schoolbooks. The government estimates 13 million Ukrainian books were destroyed this summer, a third of everything printed in the country this year (The Guardian).The British Museum, which has the Bayeux Tapestry on loan from France until July 2027, will now run an audio-described tour after Yusuf Ali Osman, wh
  
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• Digital Lists Are Destroying The Fabric Of Society

  04-10-2026 22:00 via slate.com
  
  “The issue goes deeper than presents. I have four kids from elementary to high-school age, and as hard as I try to expose them to life’s realities, they remain sheltered from disappointment and dissatisfaction at every turn.” – Slate
  
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• The British Museum Adds An Audio Tour To The Bayeux Tapestry in Response To Blind Man’s Lawsuit

  04-10-2026 21:30 via bbc.com
  
  The museum apparently hadn’t thought of adding an audio description to its app, or having more audio description tours, before the lawsuit – despite saying they worked with specialists on accessibility. – BBC
  
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• We’re In A Gross ‘Great Man’ Statuary Backlash, But Look At Ancient Egypt

  04-10-2026 21:00 via theatlantic.com
  “The great public efforts—the colossal statuary, the expansive propaganda programs, the image campaigns, the attempts to remake the world of living people—have been shattered, defaced, and refaced.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Joys Of Music Discovery Don’t Include Robots

  04-10-2026 20:30 via salon.com
  
  With AI-generated “music,” “It’s not just the lack of discovery. … It’s more about the lack of anything personal behind the music. No history, no struggle, no catharsis, no exploration, no humanity. I listen to music because it’s flawed, raw and human.” – Salon
  
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• Turning Millennial Nostalgia For Raves Into A Big Business

  04-10-2026 20:00 via npr.org
  
  But this one’s for the real kids (of Millennials and older Gen-Zers): “We wanted to get the baby into the rave scene,” says one set of parents. – NPR
  
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• As A New Show Opens, It’s Past Time To Reevaluate Our Reactions To Lee Krasner’s Work

  04-10-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  “Her response to life with a mean and desperate drunk was to cannibalize her old canvases and explode into the pugnacious scale, audacious color, and thrusting verticles of collages.” – The New York Times
  
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• Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Books

  04-10-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  “In total, this summer, 13 [million] Ukrainian books have been destroyed by Russian missiles or drones – a third, estimates the government, of all books printed in Ukraine this year.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• So Now There’s Apparently ‘Weird Girl Lit’?

  04-10-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  Emerging from Reddit, the subgenre is not fully defined, but “books that get called weird girl lit tend to deal in uncanny or dreamlike circumstances.” – The New York Times
  
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• Netflix Had A Little Pivot Toward Prestige, But That’s Ending

  04-10-2026 18:00 via theverge.com
  
  Prestige movies don’t reliably make money on streaming. “It seems like Netflix’s main game plan is to put an increased focus on producing lower-budget series, live events, and sports programming.” – The Verge
  
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• When Will We Know The Answers To AI’s Most Important Questions?

  04-10-2026 17:00 via time.com
  “Several of the most fundamental debates about the future and safety of AI remain unresolved. I believe we can’t expect these disagreements to be resolved until it’s too late to change course.” – Time
  
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• Eugenia Errazuriz, Who Made Picasso Possible

  04-10-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Errázuriz was “a patron, adviser, connector and tastemaker whose influence expanded beyond Picasso and Stravinsky to fashion and interior design. She … opened doors, offered criticism and used her considerable wealth to steer artists toward the work that would make them famous.” – The New York Times
  
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• What It’s Like For Musician And Filmmaker Hayley Kiyoko To Be Called ‘Lesbian Jesus’ By Her Fans

  04-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  She’s felt a pretty big responsibility, honestly, and she’s proud of the film Girls Like Girls. “We go to watch movies to dream and to fantasise and to see representation that maybe we lack in our lives.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• This Administration Is Moving The Kennedy Center Honors To Capital One Arena

  04-10-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  “As Mr. Trump pushes to close the center for two years of renovations, he is trading the ruby-red Opera House for the 20,000-seat home of the N.B.A.’s Washington Wizards and the N.H.L.’s Washington Capitals.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Reminder For All Of Us – And Something New For The Young Ones – Who Love Music

  04-10-2026 15:00 via wired.com
  
  When CDs are seen more as merch, something to buy to help out the artists rather than to hear the music, then you get a first tip like “Get a CD player.” – Wired
  
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• Is 3D, As Film Tech, Finally Worth It?

  04-10-2026 14:00 via theverge.com
  
  “Almost every 3D technology cuts something you care about in half, whether it’s resolution … or the refresh rate and flicker you get with active shutter glasses. But what if you had a full screen for each eye? That’s what video glasses can provide.” – The Verge
  
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