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• What ‘Maverick’ Architects Do (And Why We Don’t Have More Of Them)

  25-01-2016 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is there no architecture that can bare its soul without simultaneously crushing you with its ego, that stirs, moves, troubles, provokes, inspires? And is there no way of being controlled and passionate at the same time? Is there no other choice but blancmange or dry biscuits?”
  
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• Leaks Spotted in New Museum Gallery with WangShui Work as NYC Braces for Floods

  18-07-2026 23:33 via artnews.com
  
  Flash flooding in New York City this weekend has presented a new test for the New Museum, which experienced a significant water leak on Saturday in a gallery housing work by WangShui. Video footage shared with ARTnews and confirmed by the museum as accurate shows water pooling on the gallery floor as staff members move quickly to place buckets beneath active leaks, as well as water streaming down the didactic for “New Humans: Memories of the Future”.The incident comes months after th
  
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  18-07-2026 14:19 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Официальный сайт казино: регистрация и игра на деньги в Казахстане

  18-07-2026 05:11 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Интернет в Казахстане за последние пару лет изменился до неузнаваемости.Скорости
  
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• Congressional Representatives Introduce New Bill to Protect Public Artworks in Government Buildings

  17-07-2026 21:05 via artnews.com
  
  On July 14, two Congressional representatives—Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) proposed a bill that would protect public artworks commissioned by the U.S. government.The PRESERVE Act (“Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual Expression Act”) would require the General Services Administration, which manages federal agencies, to identify any artworks contained within government buildings deemed “surplus property” and
  
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• French Officials Confirm Bayeux Tapestry Undamaged by Controversial Trip to British Museum

  17-07-2026 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  Cueing a collective sigh of relief on both sides of the English Channel, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry was not damaged during its contested voyage from France to London’s British Museum, according to French culture ministry officials, speaking to AFP on Thursday.  “I am able to confirm that there was no visible alteration and that the tapestry traveled well,” said Delphine Christophe, France’s general director of heritage and architecture, speaking Thursday, Jul
  
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• Shanghai Auction Executives Sentenced in Major Fraud Case as Industry Scrutiny Intensifies

  17-07-2026 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  Two former managers of a prominent Shanghai auction house have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for orchestrating an extensive fraud scheme that led one collector to spend about RMB 500 million ($74 million) on counterfeit or grossly overpriced artifacts.Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the collector, from Shandong province, purchased more than 40 items from Shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd., only to discover that authentication documents revealed many were forgeries or had been a
  
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• Strong First Half Numbers Confirm That the Auction Houses Have Changed, Even If the Rest of the Art Market Is Still Catching Up

  17-07-2026 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  The most revealing thing about this year’s first-half auction reports wasn’t how much money Christie’s or Sotheby’s made. It was how they made it.Just a few years ago, these reports would have revolved around blue-chip artists and auction records. This year, the houses devoted nearly as much space to private sales, lending, financial services, luxury goods, hospitality, and advisory work as they did to paintings and sculptures. Read together, they suggest that the biggest
  
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• Democrats Move to Shield Landmarks, Russian Artist’s Refugee Status, and More

  17-07-2026 18:02 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to protect federal artworks, including New Deal-era masterpieces, from possible sale or destruction.France considers withdrawing Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky’s refugee status.Think you need a degree in art history to appreciate a masterpiece? Think againThe Headlines PRESERVE, PROTECT, PROSPER. Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced the Preserve Act, a bill aimed at protecting public artworks in federal buildings
  
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• A Mural at Ancient City of Calakmul May Be the Oldest Known Image of Maya Hero Juun Ajaw

  17-07-2026 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  Researchers have identified what they believe is one of the oldest known representations of the mythical Maya hero Juun Ajaw at the ancient city of Calakmul in Mexico. Their findings, which were based on three years of research and analysis, were published in IdeAs, the online journal of the Institute of the Americas.The authors of the paper, archeologists Daniel Salazar Lama, Ana García Barrios, and Benjamin Esqueda Lazo De La Vega, focused on what is considered the earliest mural painti
  
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• In His Beaded Portraits of Black Luminaries, Felandus Thames Wants to Spark Curiosity

  17-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  A shrine to Black cultural scripts stands in West Haven, Connecticut, a short ride from Union Station. It isn’t an official monument of any kind, but the studio of Felandus Thames, who has been based in the Constitution State since 2008.  During a visit in March, the two-room space served as the temporary home to Thames’s latest beaded curtain portraits of notable Black luminaries, which lay on tables awaiting completion. One of his earlier works, a green beaded curtain with the
  
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• How the Surrealists Psyopped the Gestapo and Otherwise Fought Fascism

  17-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  While living on the English island of Jersey in the 1940s, a young queer French couple—Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore—performed a sly psyop on the Gestapo. They wrote notes taunting them to defect or commit sabotage and offering contagious complaints: I don’t want to spend my whole life in a uniform, signed SOLDAT OHNE NAMEN (soldier with no name).Those “paper bullets,” as Moore and Cahun called them, are on view in the heart of “In the Very Bowels of Change: S
  
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• LEGO Partners with Vienna’s Belvedere Museum on 4,000-Piece Set of Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’

  16-07-2026 21:17 via artnews.com
  
  The LEGO Group has announced a partnership with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna to release a 4,000-piece Lego set of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1907–08).The set, the largest painting-inspired one that the company has ever produced, will be available for purchase beginning August 1. It has a retail price of $299.99.Unlike the original painting, the Lego version of The Kiss is technically three-dimensional, as building enthusiasts (ages 18+, per the box) are meant to stack various section
  
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• Manhattan District Attorney Repatriates Three Antiquities to Mexico

  16-07-2026 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.The return of the objects is a result of multiple investigations into illegal trafficking networks, including one that led to the conviction of Eugene Alexander last summer. According to a press release announcing the news, “This marks this Office’s sixth repatriation to the People of
  
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• UK Politicians Call For Investigation of British Museum’s Removal of ‘Palestine’ from Display

  16-07-2026 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Several political parties across the UK Parliament have called for an independent investigation into the British Museum’s removal of the terms “Palestine,” “Palestinian,” and “Israelite occupation” after a Middle East Eye report linked the museum’s decision to lobbying by pro-Israel activists.The British Museum defended its decision to alter some displays in February, saying that “audience testing” showed the term “Palestine&rdquo
  
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• Mark Hamill’s ‘Star Wars’ Lightsaber Breaks Auction Record with $3.7M. Sale

  16-07-2026 19:43 via artnews.com
  
  An iconic piece of Star Wars memorabilia smashed predictions and sold for a record-setting sum. Heritage Auctions confirmed late Wednesday afternoon that Mark Hamill’s original screen-used Luke Skywalker lightsaber sold for $3.75 million. It’s the one he wielded during a climactic face-off with Darth Vader in 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back until the Sith Lord cut off his hand and delivered the infamous “I am your
  
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• Bavaria Revamps Procedures for Evaluating Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Art

  16-07-2026 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  The German state of Bavaria has overhauled the way that claims for restitution of Nazi-looted artworks will be evaluated. The state will establish a Center for Provenance Research and Restitution Issues of Nazi-Looted Art at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). This takes the provenance research outside of the museums that own the works and thus could be suspected of being less than objective in evaluating such claims. Andreas Wirsching, director of the IfZ, called the move a “qua
  
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• New Lawsuit Alleges Stolen Pierre Soulages Painting Sold at Christie’s as Part of Weis Collection

  16-07-2026 18:53 via artnews.com
  
  A Pierre Soulages painting that sold at Christie’s last fall is at the center of a new lawsuit, which alleges that the work was stolen from the plaintiffs’ family decades ago.Filed in New York State Supreme Court on Monday, the suit concerns Soulages’s 1958 abstraction Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958, which sold for just under $5 million at Christie’s last November during an evening sale of the collection of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis, who founded th
  
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• Steidl, the Art World’s Go-To Photobook Publisher, Faces Insolvency Proceedings in Germany

  16-07-2026 17:31 via artnews.com
  
  Steidl Verlag, one of the most beloved publishers of photobooks, is facing preliminary insolvency proceedings in Germany, according to reports in the German media.NDR reports that insolvency proceedings were opened on Friday in a court in Göttingen at the request of a creditor. A court is also reviewing claims that the publishing house did not pay salaries to employees or delayed “a considerable amount” of payment—as much as five or six months’ worth in some cases, a
  
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• LA’s Murmurs Gallery, Known for Its Eye for Rising Talent, to Close After Seven Years

  16-07-2026 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  Murmurs, a gallery located in Downtown Los Angeles that was known for its eye for spotting rising talent, announced this week that it will close after seven years in business. Its final exhibition was a solo for Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez, which ended on June 27.In an Instagram post, cofounders Allison Littrell and Morgan Elder and director Gabrielle Datau wrote that the “bittersweet news” came after “a long period of reflection.” They cited the “intens
  
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• Pat Oleszko Wins Whitney Biennial’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

  16-07-2026 16:40 via artnews.com
  
  Pat Oleszko, a sculptor and performance artist who was not well-known in New York before earlier this year, has won the 2026 Whitney Biennial’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, a prize previously won by famed artists such as Zoe Leonard, Ralph Lemon, and Pope.L.Oleszko’s contribution to the show was a large inflatable sculpture called Blow Hard (1995), featuring a gigantic green face pushing air into a trumpet that expels flames. As is the case with most of Oleszko’s work, the title i
  
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• A New Perspective on Munch’s Famous Frieze, How NYC’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit Transformed the Art Market: Morning Links for July 16, 2026

  16-07-2026 15:58 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos on the fight against the global trade in stolen antiquities. A new show in Norway explores the “harsher realities” behind Edvard Munch’s famous 1922 Freia frieze, which depicts cheerful scenes of workers enjoying nature. The British Council is closing offices in nine countries, inc
  
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• Clark Art Institute Unveils its Massive Aso Tavitian Gift, To Be Housed in a Brand-New Wing: ‘Any Curator or Director’s Dream’

  16-07-2026 14:20 via artnews.com
  
  The Clark Art Institute, a treasure trove of Western art, opened in the scenic Berkshire Mountains in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1955. The site was chosen partly because of the museum’s ties to Williams College on the part of founders Sterling and Francine Clark, but also, in the wake of World War II, so that the collection would be outside the blast zone of a potential nuclear attack on New York City (where the founders lived and also considered setting up shop). It expanded in 1973,
  
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