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• Why Does Canada Hate Canadians?

  07-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If Canadian curators cannot aspire to eventually manage the museums where they work, or Canadian stage directors need never consider running Canada’s festivals, they will not give their institutions the best of themselves. They will either slump into the self-fulfilling prophecy of lower expectations or they will go abroad.”
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Director Stephan Jost to Depart After a Decade

  01-09-2026 21:57 via artnews.com
  
  Stephan Jost, the director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, will leave his posts at the end of the year, the Toronto museum announced on Tuesday.Within the Canadian art scene, Jost’s leadership has been polarizing. He has drawn praise for making a significant investment in modern and contemporary art at the AGO, which acquired a range of important artworks in that area, including 450 works by Diane Arbus, 200 works by Peter Hujar, and 227 works by Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2027, the museu
  
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• ICE Unit Says It Seized 22,000 Ancient Artifacts in Florida

  01-09-2026 21:47 via artnews.com
  
  The Homeland Security Investigations unit of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said it seized more than 22,000 ancient artifacts in Florida as part of a smuggling inquest that counts “among the largest in the agency’s history,” according to a press release.“The identification and authentication process for the large number of items will take time,” the release reads, “but preliminary evaluations indicate that some objects may have origina
  
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• Christie’s London Offers a Restituted Kandinsky, Long Displayed in a German Museum, for $30 M.

  01-09-2026 21:46 via artnews.com
  
  A Wassily Kandinsky painting left behind by a Dutch family fleeing the Nazi occupation and later on view for decades in a German museum will come to the auction block at Christie’s London on October 14, during Frieze week. Estimated in excess of $30 million, Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life, 1907) was restituted to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in 2023 after a six-year legal battle. Measuring just over four feet high and five feet wide, it was Kandinsky’s largest ca
  
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• Camille Henrot Will Show 12 Dog Sculptures in Central Park This Fall

  01-09-2026 20:22 via artnews.com
  
  Dog-watching, already one of Central Park’s top attractions, is about to get a little more enticing. This fall, the Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot will install 12 large-scale dog sculptures in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, a very visible spot at the southwest corner of the New York park. The Public Art Fund project will be on view for a full year, from September 9 through August 29, 2027.Henrot’s “Dogs” will be made of bronze, stone, steel, and concrete
  
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• French Court Faults Deauville City for Removing AP Photograph of Gaza from Exhibition

  01-09-2026 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  An administrative court in Caen, France, faulted the Deauville city hall on Monday for removing a photograph taken in Gaza from a local festival, reported AFP and Le Monde. The image by Associated Press photographer Jehad Alshrafi features a soccer match being played by members of the Palestinian Ahli Gaza Club on a pristine, synthetic green field, surrounded by rubble from Israeli military attacks. But in mid-August, the image was quietly taken down from an outdoor exhibition that is part of th
  
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• Beeple Artwork at Wisconsin Museum Generates Controversy over Use of AI: ‘Devoid of Any Critical Engagement’

  01-09-2026 19:33 via artnews.com
  
  A Beeple artwork set to appear at Wisconsin’s Madison Museum of Contemporary Art next month has rankled locals who object to the way that the piece uses AI to analyze artworks in the institution’s collection.An open letter about the piece, titled Diffuse Control (2025), calls into question the ethics of allowing Beeple to scrape images of artworks from the museum’s holdings, seemingly without permission from many of the artists or their representatives. Visitors to the museum w
  
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• Divided Supreme Court Rules That Trump’s White House Ballroom Can Proceed

  01-09-2026 17:54 via artnews.com
  
  The construction of President Donald Trump’s luxury ballroom will proceed as planned and replace the East Wing of the White House, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday, the New York Times reported.The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard public buildings, challenged the construction of the project. It argued that longtime member Alison K. Hoagland, a District of Columbia resident and architectural historian, was personally and profess
  
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• Nazi-Looted Kandinsky Heads to Christie’s, Smithsonian Picks Existing Building as Permanent Site for National Museum of the American Latino, and More: Morning Links for September 1, 2026

  01-09-2026 14:46 via artnews.com
  
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  Rare Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish heirs of Nazi-persecuted former owners, heads to Christie’s in London.The Smithsonian Institution formally selected an existing building to house the National Museum of the American Latino, avoiding congressional approval. A government misconduct investigation is underway into two senior exec
  
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• Art in America’s Fall Issue Features Five “Icons,” Thoughts on Cringe Culture, and More

  01-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Critic Bob Nickas, in a recent essay on the musician Steven Stapleton, took the temperature of contemporary art and found it tepid. “Increasingly, since the pandemic and the rightward (wrongward) tilt in global politics,” he wrote, “we have witnessed an unfortunate shift in art—from works with more seriousness of purpose to works of palliative escapism, art in which there is scant danger of disturbance.” Those words came back to me as this issue was going to press.
  
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• Art in America’s Fall Issue Features Five “Icons,” a Theory of Cringe, and More

  01-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Critic Bob Nickas, in a recent essay on the musician Steven Stapleton, took the temperature of contemporary art and found it tepid. “Increasingly, since the pandemic and the rightward (wrongward) tilt in global politics,” he wrote, “we have witnessed an unfortunate shift in art—from works with more seriousness of purpose to works of palliative escapism, art in which there is scant danger of disturbance.” Those words came back to me as this issue was going to press.
  
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• Baltimore Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions

  31-08-2026 23:11 via artnews.com
  
  The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of approximately 118 artworks over the past six months. The new additions to its collection—purchases, gifts, and promised gifts—span periods, cultures, and mediums, strengthening the BMA’s holdings of art from around the globe as well as work by Baltimore-area artists.The acquisitions include 64 works gifted by Baltimore resident Constance R. Caplan, a former BMA board chair who has been actively engaged with the instit
  
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• TENNOZ ART WEEK 2026 Returns in September with Art Fair, Open Studios and Night Museum

  31-08-2026 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  Warehouse TERRADA will hold TENNOZ ART WEEK 2026, a multi-venue art event in Tennoz, Tokyo, from September 10 to 13. Now in its fourth edition, the event will be held in collaboration with Tokyo Gendai (September 11–13 at PACIFICO Yokohama), the international art fair for which Warehouse TERRADA serves as an official partner. On September 12 and 13, free shuttle buses will run at regular intervals between PACIFICO Yokohama and Tennoz for Tokyo Gendai ticket holders. Details of the shuttle
  
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• New Discoveries at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis Show Its Use Over Time

  31-08-2026 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  An Egyptian archaeological mission working at Saqqara has uncovered the tomb of Sekhentiu-Ptah, a high-ranking official of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (ca. 2700–ca. 2200 BCE). In a separate discovery, the archaeologists also found a network of burial shafts containing human remains and funerary objects from later periods.Heritage Daily reported the news following an announcement by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.The finds were made during the mission’s first excavati
  
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• Otto Muehl Retrospective at Vienna Actionism Museum Courts Controversy in Advance of September Opening

  31-08-2026 21:58 via artnews.com
  
  The Vienna Actionism Museum (WAM) has been controversial since it opened in March 2024, which is perhaps not an entirely surprising outcome given the postwar movement’s penchant for violent, graphic performance art.  A new scandal is brewing as the museum prepares for its fall exhibition, dedicated to the work of Otto Muehl, one of the co-founders of Viennese Actionism. The show “Otto Muehl: Art on the Precipice” will feature 150 paintings, objects, film, and prints, some
  
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• Auction Houses Won’t Sell a Keith Haring Drawing That Faced a Lawsuit

  31-08-2026 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  A Keith Haring drawing deemed authentic by a Superior Court judge but lacking sufficient provenance records to sell at Christie’s and Sotheby’s was the subject of a trial in Connecticut. The gallery that sold it ended up proving victorious.As reported by Greenwich Time, Nevada businessman Vernon Hartung bought the drawing of flying saucers from Martin Lawrence Galleries for $165,000 in 2018. But when he inquired about selling it at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the two a
  
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• City of Gwangju Attributes Biennale’s Taiwan Pavilion Controversy to ‘Insufficient Communication’

  31-08-2026 20:39 via artnews.com
  
  The South Korean city of Gwangju has issued an apology for controversy that surrounded the Gwangju Biennale’s Taiwan Pavilion, whose name was initially altered in promotional materials for the show, only to be returned to its current name following an outcry from its participants.The Taiwan Pavilion, one of many national pavilions that appears alongside the biennial’s main exhibition, was at one point billed as the NTMoFA Pavilion, a reference to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Ar
  
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• Shakira to Shake Up Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza During World Tour

  31-08-2026 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  Shakira will be shaking up Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza with a concert on November 28, promoter Rabih Mokbel told the National. It is the only stop in the region during her ongoing world tour.The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer was previously slated to headline Abu Dhabi’s Offlimits Music Festival on November 21. Her November 18 concert at Doha’s Stadium 974 was also canceled.“The only worry we have is that, production-wise, flying 200 people in Shakira’s
  
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• Jonathan Crockett, Phillips’ Outgoing Asia Chairman, Discusses the State of Asia’s Art Market

  31-08-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  The auction house Phillips is currently going through a major executive shake-up as several high-profile senior leaders have exited the company this summer, as ARTnews reported last week. Among them is Jonathan Crockett, Phillips’ outgoing Asia chairman who will step down on September 2 after leading the firm’s regional expansion for over a decade.An accomplished athlete of English, Irish, and Chinese heritage, Crockett previously worked at Sotheby’s in both London and Hong Kon
  
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• George W. Bush Made a New Series of Paintings to Mark the 25th Anniversary of 9/11

  31-08-2026 18:30 via artnews.com
  
  George W. Bush, the former US President who has become an artist since leaving the White House, created a new body of work to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11 this September.Debuting in an exhibition at his Dallas-based George W. Bush Presidential Center on Tuesday are 16 new paintings grouped under the title “Remembering 9/11.” On view through September 30, these paintings “reflect on the courage, sacrifice, and resilience that emerged from one of the most defining moments in
  
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• Collectors Marc Andreessen and Ken Griffin Among Biggest Donors to Midterm Elections

  31-08-2026 18:26 via artnews.com
  
  Some $1.2 billion have been funneled into this year’s midterm elections, with just over 12 percent of that being linked to two of the world’s top collectors: Marc Andreessen and Kenneth C. Griffin.Both Andreessen and Griffin rank among the top 20 of megadonors to the midterms, a group that leans heavily Republican, according to a report published by the New York Times on Friday. As the Times put it, these megadonors are “the ones that can turn around candidates’ fortunes
  
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• Lavinia Fontana Altarpiece Acquired by National Museum in Stockholm

  31-08-2026 18:22 via artnews.com
  
  An altarpiece by Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana has been purchased by the National Museum in Stockholm, the museum announced today. The work has largely gone unseen by the public until now.Titled The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1607), the altarpiece is set in a palatial interior and shows the moment when the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child appear in a vision to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with the child placing a ring on Catherine’s finger. Catherine, w
  
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• Alexa West Toes the Line Between Dance and Labor

  31-08-2026 18:11 via artnews.com
  
  Choreographer Alexa West wants to see you work. “So much of dance is supposed to hide how hard it is,” she told me. “All the dancers I work with are interested in pushing themselves, so we play with making material that allows them—or doesn’t allow them—to do the dance successfully. The labor has to be shown.” In the past five years in New York, West’s uncanny, Rube Goldberg-esque dances have made her one of the stars of the city’s exper
  
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