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• Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch

  12-06-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River.The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for 20 hours a day, was revealed in a 24-page assessment by the National Park Service, according to a report by the Associated Press. The goal is to finish construction in three years.The assessment, part of a historic preservation re
  
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• Brice Marden Spent Sixty Years Chasing the Same Question. A New Gagosian Survey Shows the Results

  16-06-2026 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  Three years after Brice Marden’s death, his daughters found themselves looking at nearly every painting he had ever made.The occasion was the completion of Brice Marden: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, 1961–2023, a project the artist began with scholar Tiffany Bell in 2019 and one that his family helped bring to completion after his death in 2023. This fall, the publication will be accompanied by I Am Plane Image, a major survey at Gagosian that brings together pain
  
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• What Might the Kennedy Center Best Become — Take Two

  16-06-2026 05:29 via artsjournal.com
  
  I’ve received three memorable responses to my recent blog – also posted on Arts Fuse — pondering whether the Kennedy Center might become, or might
  
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• A Landmark Deal for Music, and a new TV/Video Giant

  16-06-2026 01:12 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Two big stories for a Monday. First a landmark licensing deal between an AI company and industry-wide music publishers. (Music Business Worldwide). This is the first pact to value songs and recordings equally as training fodder, an admission that the human-made original is the scarce input the machines can’t generate themselves (yet). AND it means the first framework for how music will be compensated by AI companies is now set. This is a huge story that will impact musicians e
  
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  15-06-2026 23:49 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• After Years of Uncertainty, Dealers Ready for Art Basel With Cautious Optimism

  15-06-2026 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  Paris gallerist Jocelyn Wolff is always stressed before Art Basel, he told me over the phone from a café in the French capital earlier this month. In fact, by his calculation, he has suffered 20 years of pre-Basel stress, less from worrying about the vicissitudes of the art market, than from the high participation costs for his small 8th arrondissement gallery. This year, however, he is feeling a bit less anxious than usual, thanks to some fortuitous pre-sales. That bodes well for the fla
  
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• Kennedy Center Establishes New Endowment in President Trump’s Name

  15-06-2026 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has voted to establish a new endowment in President Donald Trump’s name, apparently creating an additional source of private funding to complement its existing endowments and the approximately $257 million in federal funding appropriated for its building renovations. The Center’s board of trustees, which is chaired by Trump and composed largely of the president’s allies, voted unanimously to establish the new endowment during a meeti
  
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•  Artist Puts Vandalized Self-Portrait on View at Houston Museum of African American Culture

  15-06-2026 21:42 via artnews.com
  
  A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina–based artist is on view as part of a survey titled “Eden.”As reported by the Houston Chronicle, “the artwork was left with what appears to be a puncture and a horizontal gash in the canvas” after two museumgoers were seen walking around the museum. “Though staff did not witness the visitors in
  
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• London’s Jewish Museum Reopens in Temporary Location After Three Years

  15-06-2026 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  The Jewish Museum in London, an almost century-old institution that closed in 2023 amid ongoing financial and organizational challenges, is reopening on June 17. The temporary exhibition space is called Two Rooms and it will take up a pair of gallery spaces at JW3, a Jewish community center and cultural venue in Hampstead, North London, that was founded by Nick Viner, the museum’s board chair. The museum plans to open a new permanent museum by 2030.Charles Ross, the museum’s chief ex
  
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• Art Basel’s Vincenzo De Bellis on ‘Basel Exclusive,’ Price Freezes, and Why the Fair Is Getting Even More Global 

  15-06-2026 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  Art Basel opens its doors in Switzerland this week in an art market that has had an intriguing first half of 2026. The fair company hosted a successful first edition of Art Basel Qatar in February, and last November’s strong auction seasons, led by the blockbuster sales of trophy works, continued into May. What’s becoming clearer is that the current market looks increasingly bifurcated: the highest strata is performing well, as are safer categories like Old Masters and Impressionism,
  
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  15-06-2026 20:51 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  15-06-2026 20:50 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  15-06-2026 20:50 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  15-06-2026 20:06 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  15-06-2026 20:06 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• The Old Are Taking Over America

  15-06-2026 20:00 via newyorker.com
  
  Samuel Moyn argues that the oldest Americans, because of their retrograde politics and ever-increasing presence, are profoundly reshaping our collective life. – The New Yorker
  
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• Reimagining The Benefits Of Music In Dementia Care

  15-06-2026 19:40 via theconversation.com
  
  Music has a unique capability to engage multiple areas of the brain that can function in sync with one another. This includes areas involved in hearing and listening, movement, attention, language, emotion, memory and thinking. – The Conversation
  
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• Study: There Are Cognitive Benefits To Reading Paper Books

  15-06-2026 19:21 via psypost.org
  
  Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema. – Psypost
  
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• Sagrada Familia Might Have Topped Out, But Big Challenges Ahead

  15-06-2026 19:02 via dezeen.com
  “The biggest [challenge] will be Glory Facade, which is the main facade. Maybe it will take 10 years, but we don’t yet have a fixed schedule.” – Dezeen
  
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• Fox To Acquire Roku

  15-06-2026 18:46 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The transaction combines Fox’s sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel, first-party data and direct relationship with more than 100 million global streaming households, the deal partners touted. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Tunnels From Henry VIII’s Palace of Beaulieu Found Beneath an English Boarding School

  15-06-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  
  Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month.Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance, along with Tudor-era artifacts including pottery, bones, and glass bottles.New Hall School is named for New Hall, a house Henry VII acquired from his future (and ill-fa
  
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• Attack: FCC Opens Early Comment Period On ABC License Renewal

  15-06-2026 18:40 via theguardian.com
  The early renewal order represents one of the most significant actions the Trump administration has taken against a media company, a potential regulatory death-blow to go alongside the myriad legal actions taken against the press and access restrictions placed upon journalists. – The Guardian
  
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• This Bottle of Rare Japanese Whisky Sold for a Record-Setting $1 M. in Hong Kong

  15-06-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  A unique bottle of Yamazaki 50 Year Old single-malt whisky created exclusively for Club Natsume, an elite private club in Nagoya, Japan, nearly doubled its high estimate recently to fetch HK$8,250,000, or about $1 million, after a contest involving three bidders at Bonhams Hong Kong.. That broke the previous record, HK$6,200,000 (about $790,000), set at Bonhams Hong Kong in 2020 for a Yamazaki 55-Year-Old. The sale occurred May 30.“Breaking the world record for a Japanese whisky at auction
  
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• AI Company Makes Industry-Wide Licensing Deal

  15-06-2026 18:20 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  David Israelite said the Udio agreement is the first industry-wide licensing deal struck with a major AI music company, and the first to “value songs and sound recordings equally” when it comes to AI training. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• The Kennedy Center Sign Is Restored. But There’s A Bigger Issue

  15-06-2026 18:04 via artsjournal.com
  My biggest concern is that the Kennedy Center will remain nominally open—as in, I’ll be free to walk through the doors and perhaps buy a coffee at the cafe—but there will be few, or even no, performances to see. – Washingtonian
  
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• Expansive Show Focusing on Willem de Kooning’s Drawings Opens at the Art Institute of Chicago

  15-06-2026 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  On Sunday, an expansive exhibition focused on Willem de Kooning’s drawings opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show includes some 200 artworks, including paintings, bronze sculptures, and mixed-media works from throughout de Kooning’s seven-decade career.The earliest work in the show, Dish With Jugs (ca. 1919-21), was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by de Kooning. It is a black-and-white, almost photorealistic depiction of the three vessels on a wooden table. Accordin
  
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• Behold The New Obama Library

  15-06-2026 17:40 via theatlantic.com
  
  After standing in the glow of this new South Side landmark, I admittedly feel like a buzzkill focusing on documents, kind of like visiting the Sistine Chapel and contemplating the plumbing. – The Atlantic
  
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• What The Kennedy Center Might Have Been

  15-06-2026 17:20 via artsfuse.org
  
  Imagine a scenario in which Bernstein and the Kennedys — John and Jackie both — bequeathed a proactive White House arts component prioritizing American achievement, past and present. It would have shaped the goals of the envisioned national cultural center. It almost happened. – ArtsFuse
  
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• Living ‘FridaMania’ In Kahlo’s Hometown

  15-06-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Frida died – but she didn’t pass away. She was like a rocket. She just went up and up.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why The Art Workers Coalition Still Resonates Across The Art World

  15-06-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “Among their demands were a section of the museum dedicated to Black (and, in a later, amended statement, Puerto Rican) artists, an artist committee granted curatorial power, a ‘rental fee’ paid to artists for the exhibition of their work and free admission for all.” – The New York Times
  
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