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• Vice President-Facilities & Program Planning

  17-05-2016 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts Consulting Group, Inc. seeks a vice president (VP) of facilities & program planning to guide new and existing nonprofit organizations, universities, and government agencies as they consider the scale, scope, and characteristics of building, renovating, restoring, or adaptively reusing cultural facilities.
  Arts Consulting Group, Inc. (ACG), and its subsidiary Arts Consulting Group Canada, Ltd., is the leading provider of hands-on interim management, executive search, revenue enhancement
  
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• Carol Bove’s Gripping Guggenheim Retrospective Transcends Time and Space

  05-03-2026 23:20 via artnews.com
  Lionel Ziprin’s unlikely rediscovery really got going with a walk-in safe in Carol Bove’s Brooklyn studio. It was a big safe, and an old one—Bove initially had to use a car jack to pry open its metal door—and it became the unlikely home for all things related to Ziprin, a doyen of the Lower East Side art scene of the 1950s and ’60s who was all but forgotten in the intervening decades.After Bove came into possession of Ziprin’s poetry and drawings via his daugh
  
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• The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Solves a Big Mystery (But Not That One)

  05-03-2026 22:26 via artnews.com
  The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist of all time.That mystery derives from the still unsolved case of three invaluable paintings—by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Manet—that were stolen by thieves who br
  
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• Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy

  05-03-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  A painting in David Salle’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work.Salle’s painting, Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer. The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,” opened on February 24,
  
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• Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

  05-03-2026 21:42 via artnews.com
  A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence.The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the White House complex, including a 22,000-square-foot ballroom designed to host as many as 1,000 guests. The project has already receive
  
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• Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems 

  05-03-2026 20:49 via artnews.com
  Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania?Well, the Trump administration is making those dreams come true with a fleet of six “Freedom Trucks”—mobile museums that will travel the nation through
  
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• The Aztec Dancers Of Silicon Valley

  05-03-2026 20:06 via mercurynews.com
  “Calpulli Ocelocihuatl (is) one of roughly half-a-dozen Aztec dance groups active in San Jose. Other Aztec dance groups – some whose histories stretch back more than half a century — are also thriving along the West Coast, from Washington state down to Sacramento, Oakland, Salinas and San Diego.” – The Mercury News (San Jose)
  
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• $7.6 M. Grant from William Penn Foundation Will Support Low-Income and Disabled Museum-Goers in Philadelphia

  05-03-2026 19:56 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, the William Penn Foundation announced a slew of grants, totally $7.6 million, that will support access to museums for low-income families and people with disabilities.The grants apply to six specific organizations based on the number of ACCESS visitors each received during the 2024-25 fiscal year. (The ACCESS card allows people who receive public assistance or identify as having a disability to receive heavily discounted tickets to participating cultural institutions, of which
  
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• Why Dictionaries Still Matter

  05-03-2026 19:44 via thenation.com
  The book is formal and highly structured; it seems like something from another, vaguely bygone time. Still, dictionary editors have long paid close attention to how language is used and perused—in signs, in novels, in articles and pronouncements, and lately on the Web. – The Nation
  
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• Our Culture Of Insurance Is Breaking Down

  05-03-2026 19:12 via aeon.co
  What emerged in tandem with the growth of capitalism was a system in which insurance and investment were bound together until it became integral to the economic system, seen as essential in protecting investments. This is why today you can’t get a mortgage without it. – Aeon
  
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• The British Museum Employee Who Stole More Than 300 Prints

  05-03-2026 19:04 via the-independent.com
  “Nigel Peverett, who worked at the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings in the early 1970s, had remained a ‘frequent visitor’ until one day in April 1992, when he was caught.” He was prosecuted, hospitalized after a suicide attempt, and got a suspended sentence. Amazingly, he kept his employee pension. – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Looking Back at NYC with Nostalgia and Dismay

  05-03-2026 18:59 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/looking-back-at-nyc-with-nostalgia-and-dismay.html" title="Looking Back at NYC with Nostalgia and Dismay” rel=”nofollow”>In a newly recorded video, the noted writers Elisabeth Bronfen, Maaza Mengiste, and Christoph Keller look back at their experience of New York City with nostalgic affection — and, it must be said, with considerable dismay — from their vantage points in Switzerland and Germany.
  
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• Russia Returns To Exhibiting At The Venice Biennale

  05-03-2026 18:44 via nytimes.com
  Russia will host a pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most important art event — the latest sign of the country’s will to end its pariah status in global cultural and sporting life amid the war in Ukraine. – The New York Times
  
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• How We Can Shape Our Dreams

  05-03-2026 18:31 via thewalrus.ca
  Targeted Dream Incubation (TDI) uses external stimuli to connect with a dreamer and encourage them to focus on a particular topic or theme. – The Walrus
  
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• Exiled Belarussian Theatre Brings Dissident Work To Venice Biennale

  05-03-2026 18:16 via news.artnet.com
  The exhibition, titled “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.,” is a group show presenting work by Belarusian artists who works challenge the long-standing authoritative regime in their native country. – Artnet
  
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• How A Scholar Stumbled On Handwritten Notes By Galileo

  05-03-2026 18:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  Historian Ivan Malara spotted notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by the young Galileo circa 1590 in an early printed copy of the Almagest, the second-century C.E. treatise on astronomy by Ptolemy which placed the Earth at the center of the universe. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Protests Over Announcement DePaul University Will Close Its Museum

  05-03-2026 17:44 via hyperallergic.com
  The move has prompted outrage from faculty and staff, including an open letter penned by art history and philosophy faculty members and signed by more than 2,000 community members that criticized the school’s decision as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Inside The Painstaking Restoration Of A Frank Lloyd Wright House

  05-03-2026 17:31 via news.artnet.com
  The Martin House’s resurfacing as a museum—with its insides restored, and its carriage house and conservatory rebuilt to original specifications—is nothing short of a “civic miracle.” – Artnet
  
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• Colm Tóibín: Of Course AI Is A Threat To Creative Writing

  05-03-2026 17:31 via theconversation.com
  “This idea [that] no machine could ever replace my sensibility, which is so rich, varied, complex, and arising from experience and from history – that’s all rubbish. You can actually manufacture that.” – The Conversation
  
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• Art Institute of Chicago’s Beloved Stock Exchange Room May Be Impacted by Expansion Plans

  05-03-2026 17:18 via artnews.com
  A treasured area of the Art Institute of Chicago may be reshaped by an expansion plan that would see the gallery spaces grow significantly in size.That area of the museum is the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, which was originally built between 1893 and 1894, and which was spared from demolition during the ’70s. Since then, this monumental room has functioned both as a point of pilgrimage for visitors to the museum and an event space available for rental.While the room may not receive
  
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• Chicago Art Institute Expansion Threatens Iconic Louis Sullivan Room

  05-03-2026 17:15 via chicago.suntimes.com
  The old Chicago Stock Exchange Building trading room — Adler & Sullivan’s gilded age space rescued from demolition 54 years ago — could be uprooted from its longtime Art Institute of Chicago home under preliminary expansion plans being considered by the museum. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• How Jonathan Groff Became A Now-Rare Thing: A Male Musical-Theater Superstar

  05-03-2026 17:05 via nytimes.com
  Says director Michael Mayer, “He’s now established himself as someone who can open and sustain a show. And this at a time when star power is pretty much one of the only things that can guarantee viability for a musical.” – The New York Times
  
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• Getty’s Next PST ART to Focus on Exchange Between Los Angeles and Pacific Rim

  05-03-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  The next edition of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART will be themed around cultural exchanges between Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim. The fourth edition of the initiative is set to open at institutions across Southern California in September 2030.Justine Ludwig, the inaugural creative director of PST ART, officially started in her role last October but even before then she began meeting with different stakeholders around Los Angeles, “asking people what they were thinking about in thi
  
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• 60 Years After Hollywood Abandoned It, VistaVision Is Back

  05-03-2026 16:33 via apnews.com
  While the format was quite popular in the 1950s (Vertigo and The Ten Commandments were filmed in it), the industry moved on in the 1960s and few VistaVision cameras have survived. Yet the films made in it in just the past few years include The Brutalist, Bugonia, Wuthering Heights, and One Battle After Another. – AP
  
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• Dalí Museum In Florida Announces $65 Million Expansion

  05-03-2026 16:01 via tampabay.com
  The 35,000-square-foot addition to the St. Petersburg institution, expected to begin construction this year and open in 2028, will increase exhibition space, add a dedicated learning center, and provide flexible environments for “experiential exhibitions that blend art and technology.” – Tampa Bay Times
  
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  05-03-2026 15:56 via zouchmagazine.com
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• Director of Museo National de Colombia Liliana Angulo Cortés Dies at 51, Art Centers in Beirut Pause Programming Amid War: Morning Links for March 5, 2026

  05-03-2026 15:49 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesIN MEMORIAM. Liliana Angulo Cortés, who led Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, died on February 21, aged 51, reports the Art Newspaper. She was the first Afro-Colombian artist to direct the museum, which she diversified by including more Black and Indigenous artists. Angulo Cortés also accelerated an institutional shi
  
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• Is This Bust Of Jesus A Michelangelo? Independent Researcher Says Yes, Scholars Are Skeptical

  05-03-2026 15:30 via apnews.com
  Valentina Salerno, an actress and novelist with no formal training in art history, says she has reviewed numerous documents indicating that the sculpture, located in a Roman church, is the work of Michelangelo. She published her findings at a non-peer-reviewed website, though she says she’s willing to let scholars examine her research. – AP
  
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• Trump’s “Freedom Truck” Mobile Exhibitions Are Now On The Road

  05-03-2026 15:02 via news.artnet.com
  “As the U.S. gears up for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump has dispatched six roving Freedom Truck exhibitions to crisscross the country. The first of 20 planned stops — mainly in the South, with forays to the Midwest, Arizona, and Utah — was last month in Nashville.” – Artnet
  
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• Belarus Free Theatre To Appear At Venice Biennale

  05-03-2026 14:34 via artnews.com
  “The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.’ as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale.” – ARTnews
  
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