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• Whitney Museum Hires Nolan Jimbo as Associate Curator

  26-10-2026 20:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Whitney Museum in New York has hired Nolan Jimbo as the Arnhold Associate Curator, a role most recently held by Rujeko Hockley. He will start in the role on November 16.Jimbo is currently an assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where he started in 2021 as a curatorial fellow. During his tenure at the MCA Chicago, he has organized solo exhibitions for Gregory Bae, which was on view in 2022, the year after the artist’s death; Kenzi Shiokava, the artist’s first inst
  
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• Remember Me — an ebullient photography extravaganza at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce

  03-11-2026 13:00 via Visual Arts
  The Pinault Collection’s sprawling show tracing the history of the medium is enjoyable, elegantly constructed and full of classics
  
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• ARTnews and Hublot Host Dinner at New York Headquarters of Kid Super

  03-11-2026 00:57 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Wednesday night, ARTnews and Hublot hosted a dinner at the New York headquarters of artist and fashion designer Kid Super (Colm Dillane).Guests included collector Carla Shen; Frank Suznjevic, president of Hublot Americas; ARTnews and Art in America editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas; Time to Drive festival founder Perri Dash; fashion designer Mobolaji Dawodu; collector Viljon Caka; Gazelli Art House senior director Haley Shaw; filmmaker Saam Farahmand; collector and commentator Jeff Magid; galleri
  
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• Pace CEO Marc Glimcher Responds to Reports of Financial Losses, Says Gallery Will Open New Location in Europe

  03-11-2026 00:39 via ARTnews.com
  
  Pace Gallery’s CEO Marc Glimcher is looking ahead and washing over the headlines over the last week regarding the gallery’s financial accounts. “We’re all off the bottom, we just had a record art fair at Art Basel Paris, and we’ve had sellout shows of primarily young artists—everything is turning,” he told ARTnews in a phone interview on Monday, noting that the business is already back in the black and will open a new location in Europe “fairly soon.”Pace Gallery has been shift
  
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• Cosmic Leonora Carrington Painting Reemerges at Auction After 70 Years

  02-11-2026 22:35 via ARTnews.com
  
  In a dreamy development for the fall auction season, another Surrealist standout has resurfaced on the market. After seven decades out of public view, Leonora Carrington’s Fil d’Or (1953) will appear at Heritage Auctions in New York on November 10, with an estimate of $250,000–$350,000.Its title translates from the French to “gold thread,” a term traditionally referring to the delicate metal wire used to ornament luxury textiles. The cosmic bird Carrington depicts appears to be compose
  
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• New Eames Museum in California Funded in Part by Trump Appointee

  02-11-2026 22:29 via ARTnews.com
  
  A new museum devoted to design legends Charles and Ray Eames in the Bay Area of Northern California received more than $25 million in initial funding from Joe Gebbia, an Airbnb cofounder who is currently a Tesla board member and previously worked with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a report by SFGATE.“Gebbia is an unexpected benefactor behind the museum in Marin County,” the publication wrote, after citing the $25-million figure from the North Bay Busi
  
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• Remembering Dolores Huerta: Artists Barbara Carrasco, Judith F. Baca, Yreina D. Cervántez, and Vincent Valdez Reflect on the Iconic Activist’s Legacy

  02-11-2026 21:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  “It’s hard to believe this amazing icon is gone from our world,” artist Judith F. Baca said of Dolores Huerta, the labor activist who died last week at 96.A cofounder of the United Farm Workers of America, Huerta is best-known for her decades-long dedication to fighting for the labor rights of farmworkers in the fields of California and more broadly for helping to galvanize the Chicano civil rights movement. She recruited members to the union’s cause, led strikes and ensured that compani
  
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• Tattoo Enthusiasts Have One More Week to Get a Rembrandt Inked for $400 or Less

  02-11-2026 21:25 via ARTnews.com
  
  Fans of both body art and the Dutch Golden Age have one more week to book an appointment for a Rembrandt-themed tattoo at the Rembrandt House Museum. The museum—located in the artist’s former canal-side home in central Amsterdam—is halfway through a two-week public event called “The Poor Man’s Rembrandt Project,” organized with the renowned 74-year-old Dutch tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher and his studio. (The Rembrandt House Museum held a similar event with Schiffmacher in 2023.)Thi
  
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• Czech Archaeologists Rediscover Long-Lost Tombs of Ancient Egyptian High Officials

  02-11-2026 21:20 via ARTnews.com
  
  Czech archaeologists working at Saqqara have re-excavated a group of tombs belonging to high priests and senior officials of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE). The news was first reported by Ahram Online following an announcement by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.Located 20 miles south of Cairo, the Saqqara archaeological site was the main necropolis for the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, which was founded around 3100 BCE and abandoned in the 7th century CE. The exc
  
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• Czech Archaeologists Re-Excavate Long-Lost Tombs of Ancient Egyptian High Officials

  02-11-2026 21:20 via ARTnews.com
  
  Czech archaeologists working at Saqqara have re-excavated a group of tombs belonging to high priests and senior officials of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE). The news was first reported by Ahram Online following an announcement by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.Located 20 miles south of Cairo, the Saqqara archaeological site was the main necropolis for the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, which was founded around 3100 BCE and abandoned in the 7th century CE. The exc
  
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• In Fiery Court Filing, Democratic Lawmaker Says Kennedy Center’s Closure Is Meant to Hide Its Failure Under Trump

  02-11-2026 19:56 via ARTnews.com
  
  The much-debated potential two-year closure of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is being proposed to cover up the institution’s failings since US president Donald Trump installed loyalists to the board and became its chair, says Ohio Democrat Joyce Beatty in a fiery 51-page Friday filing in US District Court for Washington, D.C. Beatty is an ex-officio member of the board of trustees. Trump has insisted the closure is necessary and dictated a date for it, the filing points out, witho
  
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• Hard Truths: Should a Jilted Artist Keep Applying for Grants?

  02-11-2026 19:02 via ARTnews.com
  
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide.Last year you answered a reader’s question about grants, and it really got me thinking. I’m a mid-career artist with 25 years of exhibitions in respected galleries and art spaces. I never pursued grants or residencies earlier in my career, and as a result my credentials might appear thin. Y
  
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• EU Looking to Downgrade Money Laundering Risk in Art and Antiquities Trade

  02-11-2026 18:55 via ARTnews.com
  
  The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, is planning to downgrade its assessment of the money laundering and terrorist financing threat posed by the art trade, the Financial Times reports.While a Commission spokesperson told the FT that the risk assessment has not yet been finalized, the paper pointed to publicly available minutes from a January 29, 2026, meeting in Brussels of the Commission’s Expert Sub-Group on Dialogue with the Art Market. At that meeting, the D
  
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• Egypt Requests Return of Mummified Remains Removed from View by Glasgow Museum

  02-11-2026 18:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  Egypt has sought the return of ancient mummified remains from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, which controversially removed those remains from its galleries last month.The mummified head, which belonged to a man named Nekht who lived sometime between 1985 BCE and 1797 BCE, was taken off view in October. In its place then appeared a new sign: “We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect.”Speaking to the Times of London at the time, a museum represen
  
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• London National Gallery Head Says Just Stop Oil Protests Targeting Artworks Were a ‘Sad Thing’: ‘The Pictures Are Not Guilty’

  02-11-2026 18:09 via ARTnews.com
  
  Between 2022 and 2024, the National Gallery in London was the site of three of the most public-facing protests by Just Stop Oil, the environmental activist group that controversially splashed liquids across two van Gogh paintings and hammered at the display case of a Velázquez (without causing any lasting to the paintings themselves). The protests earned a mixture of admiration and condemnation, and the actions’ detractors now even include the National Gallery’s director, who addressed Just
  
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• Christie’s First Fine Art Auction in Abu Dhabi Totals $8.94 M.

  02-11-2026 15:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Sunday, Christie’s hosted its debut fine art sale in Abu Dhabi, “MAWASIM: 20 Years of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art,” to mark the auction house’s 20th anniversary of its first auction in the United Arab Emirates. The sale totaled $8.94 million.The evening sale held at the Abu Dhabi Edition hotel featured works by artists from the Middle East and North Africa. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s Variations on the Hexagon (2006) led the auction, selling for $844,800; the pai
  
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• French Galleries Demand Art Basel Paris Compensate Early Closure, Mucem Workers Plan Strike Against President Pierre-Olivier Costa’s Return, and More: Morning Links for November 2, 2026

  02-11-2026 15:05 via ARTnews.com
  
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  A group of French galleries have sent a letter of complaint to Art Basel Paris for closing two days early in October due to a planned protest and for failing to consult them.Workers at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) in Marseille said they will strike tomorrow to protest the return of the museum’s president today, Pierre-Olivier Costa.
  
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• Bottega Veneta, Peggy Guggenheim and me – Louise Trotter has found her muse

  02-11-2026 12:00 via Visual Arts
  The fashion house’s creative director on the art of self-expression
  
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• EU to downgrade art market money-laundering risk despite heists

  01-11-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  European Commission experts cite ‘limited EU evidence’ linking high-profile museum thefts to criminal networks
  
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• Picasso called him ‘the father of us all’ — what explains Cézanne’s enduring influence?

  31-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  A thought-provoking though imperfect blockbuster at the Grand Palais in Paris manages to be both a glorious history lesson and a sexy contemporary show
  
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• India’s female bodybuilders 

  31-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  Across Kerala, women from often conservative backgrounds are embracing bodybuilding, finding community and overturning gender expectations in the process
  
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• In Reply to Senators’ Amicus Briefs, Austria, Albertina, and Leopold Museum Double Down on Unconstitutionality of HEAR Act

  31-10-2026 04:25 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Republic of Austria, the Albertina Museum, and the Leopold Museum Foundation—the latter two both in Vienna—filed a response Friday to amicus briefs submitted by two US senators, in which they repeat their claim that the updated Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act violates Article III of the US Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.Austria, the Albertina, and the Leopold are defendants in a suit brought by Timothy Reif, a descendant of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer
  
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• Ukraine Charges a Russian General in Absentia Over the Missile Strike That Destroyed the Skovoroda Museum

  30-10-2026 19:43 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in the spring of 2022.As reported by The Kyiv Independent, “According to the Prosecutor General, the Russian lieutenant general who ordered the attack is originally from the village of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast and commands Russia’s 6th G
  
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• Seven Sculpture Shows to See in New York, From Modernist Masterpieces to Contemporary Anti-Monuments

  30-10-2026 19:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  In 1979, at the start of her essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss wrote: “Over the last ten years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles in ordinary rooms; temporary lines cut into the floor of the desert.”Since then, sculpture has ventured even wider, into realms such as crafts, gardens, and masquerad
  
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• Italian Police Used AI to Identify $200 M. Worth of Stolen Art and Antiquities

  30-10-2026 19:08 via ARTnews.com
  
  In the fall of 2024, Italian police used AI to analyze photographs taken at a popular antique fair, identifying a particular oil painting as having been one stolen from a church near L’Aquila 20 years prior.The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Italy’s art crime squad, has been using an AI algorithm to identify stolen artworks and artifacts since 2023. The platform they use is called SWOADS—or Stolen Works of Art Detection System—and was developed by Salvatore
  
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• The Met Museum and Vacheron Constantin Unveil Artworks Produced Through New Residency

  30-10-2026 16:44 via ARTnews.com
  Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the three artists chosen for the Artisan Residency Programme, a collaboration between the museum and Vacheron Constantin, unveiled the works that each has created through the program.The Swiss luxury watch company launched the 18-month residency program with the Met in May 2025, making the third such partnership for the company. (The company also has partnerships with the Louvre, dating to 2019, and the Palace Museum in Beijing, established i
  
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• The Met Museu and Vacheron Constantin Unveil Artworks Produced Through New Residency

  30-10-2026 16:44 via ARTnews.com
  Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the three artists chosen for the Artisan Residency Programme, a collaboration between the museum and Vacheron Constantin, unveiled the works that each has created through the program.The Swiss luxury watch company launched the 18-month residency program with the Met in May 2025, making the third such partnership for the company. (The company also has partnerships with the Louvre, dating to 2019, and the Palace Museum in Beijing, established i
  
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• Vietnamese-American Photographer and Oberlin Professor Pipo Nguyen-duy Found Dead at 64

  30-10-2026 14:59 via ARTnews.com
  
  Pipo Nguyen-duy, a professor at Ohio’s Oberlin College and Conservatory and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, was found dead at 64 in an off-campus home on Wednesday.ABC News reports that Nguyen-duy’s son, Daniel Jones (formerly known as Asia Nguyen-duy), has been charged in connection with a double homicide for the murder of his father and stepmother, Tran Thi Phong. Nguyen-duy and Phong were found fatally shot by local police.“The male victim was discovered on the
  
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• Louvre Signs Deal with Unions, Ending Threat of Continued Strikes

  30-10-2026 14:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  As nationwide protests continue to loom across France, with the next action planned for Saturday, October 31, at least one social grievance has been addressed at the country’s top museum. On Thursday, the Louvre in Paris signed an agreement with unions who had threatened to strike for months, reports Le Figaro and AFP.“The signature of the agreement amounts to a positive step for the Louvre,” a museum representative told AFP.A few months after last year’s daytime robbery at the Louvre em
  
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• In Postwar Rural France, Alexander Calder Found Respite from Pressures of Fame and a Chance to Dream Big

  30-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  If you’ve ever looked long and slow enough at Alexander Calder’s mobiles made of wire-suspended, leaf-like metal shapes painted solid colors, you likely know that they are as much about their sculptural form and silhouette as they are about the breathing air, light, shadow, and nature all around them. They shiver, drift, and play with the unpredictable whims of the surrounding atmosphere, making the invisible ether newly visible. Calder’s alternately delicate and massive sculptures are in
  
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