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• World Monuments Fund Raises $62 M., Tripling Its Endowment Ahead of Schedule

  29-10-2026 01:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  The World Monuments Fund has raised $62 million for its endowment, beating its fundraising target 18 months ahead of schedule and giving the New York-based preservation organization considerably more financial muscle to protect historic sites around the world.The campaign, announced Wednesday, has tripled the organization’s endowment net assets, which are expected to pass $100 million by 2028. The money will support everything from conservation training to emergency efforts to protect cultural
  
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• Kim Kardashian’s First Auction Purchase Was a Monet Painting Because of the Film ‘Clueless’

  29-10-2026 20:42 via ARTnews.com
  
  In Citizen Kim, Jonathan Van Meter’s biography of Kim Kardashian, the author reveals that the billionaire reality TV star and Skims founder owns a painting by Claude Monet.In an excerpt published by The Hollywood Reporter, Van Meter writes that Kardashian bought the Monet because of Clueless, the 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone. “Kim bought a Monet not because she had visited the famous Water Lilies at l’Orangerie in Paris or under the art world tutelage of Kanye West,” Van Meter w
  
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• After a Museum Explores Homes Destroyed by US-Made Munitions, House Republicans Demand Information on Smithsonian’s Curatorial Process

  29-10-2026 20:24 via ARTnews.com
  
  Two Republican members of the House of Representatives want to know more about how the Smithsonian Institution evaluates proposed exhibits after a museum display tied US-made munitions to the destruction of civilian’s homes in conflict zones.“The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency is concerned that the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian) does not properly review proposed exhibits in its museums,” says a letter to outgoing Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, penned by
  
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• Phillips UK Reports Revenue Drop of 22.3 Percent for 2025, But Claims 2026 Is Major Rebound

  29-10-2026 18:44 via ARTnews.com
  
  The summer was a turning point for Phillips, with several leaders leaving the auction house, includingMiety Heiden, chairman of private sales, and Jonathan Crocket, chairman for Asia. While reporting at the time showed that Phillips was pivoting strategy after a costly attempt to compete with Sotheby’s and Christie’s, a new filing adds some financial figures to the picture.According to the auction house’s 2025 filing with Companies House, the UK government agency that keeps annual records
  
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• Suspected Thieves Flee Dresden Museum Complex After Being Spotted by Security Guard

  29-10-2026 18:39 via ARTnews.com
  
  Police have ramped up security around Dresden’s Zwinger, a Baroque palace complex that houses an internationally renowned porcelain collection as well as Old Master paintings and historic scientific instruments, after two men suspected of plotting a break-in were chased off by a security guard early Tuesday morning.According to Saxony’s criminal police and public prosecutor’s office, the two unidentified men entered the Zwinger’s open courtyard through the Crown Gate sometime between 6:1
  
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• Tony Berlant, Artist Known for Cut Metal Collages, Dies at 85

  29-10-2026 18:29 via ARTnews.com
  
  Artist Tony Berlant has died at 85, reports the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Louver, his longtime gallery, confirmed the death.Berlant, who was associated with the West Coast Pop art movement of the 1960s, was best known for large-scale collages made of shards of printed metal and thousands of nails. He often worked with vintage metal signs and occasionally added found objects to his pieces. In recent years, he had begun printing personal photographs onto the collages’ metal grounds, adding an auto
  
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• Dallas Art Fair Is Moving to Southern Methodist University in 2027

  29-10-2026 18:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Dallas Art Fair is heading back to school.Starting next April, the fair will leave its longtime home at the Fashion Industry Gallery in the city’s downtown Arts District and move to the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU), where it will take over the 67,000-square-foot Armstrong Fieldhouse. Organizers say the partnership will give galleries more room to show ambitious work while bringing the international art market into closer contact with students, academics, and the city’s c
  
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• Naomi Beckwith Adds Four to Documenta 16’s Curatorial Team, Including Artist Raven Chacon

  29-10-2026 16:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  Documenta 16 artistic director Naomi Beckwith announced Thursday an expansion of her curatorial team. Raven Chacon will serve as curator-at-large, while Osei Bonsu, Timea Junghaus, and Noam Segal will be curatorial advisers.Chacon is a Diné artist, composer, and musician who was the first Indigenous artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, doing so in 2022. He is no stranger to Documenta; as a member of the collective Postcommodity, he showed at Documenta 14 in 2017.Bonsu is a British Ghanai
  
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• Art Dealer Family the Nahmads Are the Consignors Behind $80 M. Kandinsky Set to Break a Record at Christie’s

  29-10-2026 16:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  With the major fall auctions right around the corner, ARTnews can reveal that the consignor of Betonte Ecken (1922–23), the Wassily Kandinsky painting set to achieve upwards of $60M at Christie’s New York on November 17, is the Nahmad family.The Nahmads are a prominent dynasty of dealers and collectors whose holdings are reputed to include as many as 5,000 artworks worth upwards of $4 billion. The family is also known to be the largest private collector of works by Pablo Picasso outside the
  
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• Studies Warn of Major Risks to Historic French Heritage Due to Climate Change, Surrealist Painter Cossette Zeno is Having Her Moment, and More: Morning Links for October 29, 2026

  29-10-2026 14:44 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Three recent studies outline how global warming is a major risk to historic French heritage buildings.New York’s New Museum director, Massimiliano Gioni, discusses the big challenges facing American museums.At 96, Surrealist painter Cossette Zeno is having her moment.The Headlines LA VIE EN ROUGE. France has its share of problems at the moment, from civil unrest over a widening
  
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• New York’s MTA Arts & Design Commissions Works from Ivan Forde, Trevor Paglen, and Howardena Pindell

  29-10-2026 14:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  MTA Arts & Design, the art-focused organization that facilitates the creation of artworks for New York’s mass transit system, has revealed the latest three artists to receive commissions: Ivan Forde, Trevor Paglen, and Howardena Pindell.Forde will create a large-scale mosaic installation for the Broadway Junction subway station. A release describes the artwork, titled Bedtime Story for Brownsville: The Fish Who Carried the Moon (2026), as “a mythic bedtime story in which flying fish carr
  
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• Marian Goodman Gallery Hires Ebony L. Haynes as Senior Director, Announces Leadership Changes

  29-10-2026 14:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Marian Goodman Gallery has hired Ebony L. Haynes to be its first-ever senior director, global head of curatorial affairs. She will start at the gallery in late November.Haynes is best known for running 52 Walker, a Kunsthalle-style exhibition space that was under the David Zwirner umbrella and had full curatorial autonomy as well as an all-Black staff. Opened in 2021, the Tribeca space mounted 17 exhibitions during its run, including solos for Kandis Williams, Nikita Gale, Bob Thompson, Arthur J
  
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• Opinion: As Federal Support for Culture Falls, We Need a New Generation of Giving

  29-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Kimberly Pirtle is the founder of Gabriel Advisory Group, an art advisory and philanthropy advisory firm working with collectors and institutions. Previously, she worked at Sotheby’s.I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, and the first museum I loved was the Detroit Institute of Arts. Before I even knew what a museum was for, I knew the building and its treasures: the Diego Rivera murals wrapping the courtyard, the Vincent van Gogh self-portrait that was the first of his works to enter an Americ
  
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• At 96, Surrealist Painter Cossette Zeno Is Finally Having Her Moment

  29-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  “This one over here is a weird one,” said Cossette Zeno, pointing to her 1952 painting Let’s Go Higher. Produced while she was still a student at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, the painting is a true oddity. It features an array of cubes in a largely vacant landscape set beneath a haze. A set of tiny people climb these angular modules, most of which have no windows or obvious function.We met at Richard Saltoun’s New York gallery, where she is currently the subject of a small
  
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• ‘They are an act of resistance’ — Tacita Dean on the works of Arte Povera artist Marisa Merz

  29-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  The late Italian trailblazer is being celebrated in her native Turin with a three-part exhibition, where Dean is debuting a new film
  
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• Museums urged to boost sensory experiences for blind visitors

  29-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  From audio trails to AI tech, projects around the world are elevating interactivity beyond simple Braille labels
  
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• See the Official Trailer for “Dig,” Amy Pohler and Michael Schur’s New Comedy Series

  28-10-2026 22:44 via ARTnews.com
  
  Peacock has released the official trailer for “Dig,” an upcoming comedy series created by Amy Poehler and Michael Schur (“Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place”). Screenwriter J. J. Philbin, Schur’s wife, is listed as writer and producer.The ten-episode series, based on the 2023 novel Excavations by Kate Myers, follows four women researchers working at a remote archaeological site in Greece. The expedition takes unexpected turn when the quartet unearths a priceless artifact, on
  
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• Pace Reports $5.6 M. Loss for International Business, With Glimchers Pledging to Keep It Afloat

  28-10-2026 21:53 via ARTnews.com
  
  Just days after filing its long-delayed 2024 accounts in the UK, Pace has filed its 2025 report, showing that its international business posted a $5.6 million loss last year.The documents were filed with Companies House, the branch of the UK government that maintains annual records for businesses established there. They cover only The Pace Gallery Limited, the London-registered company that operates the gallery’s London space and owns its subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Geneva, and
  
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• Leah Ke Yi Zheng Joins Antenna Space, Pérez Art Museum Miami to Honor Nicolas Berggruen, and More: Industry Moves for October 28, 2026

  28-10-2026 21:20 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves Leah Ke Yi Zheng Joins Antenna Space: The Chicago-based painter’s first solo show in China will open November 9 at the gallery, which has spaces in Shanghai and Hong Kong. She is also represented by Mendes Wood DM and has been supported by Galerie Emanuel Layr, which recently announced that it would scale back its opera
  
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• MSCHF Cofounder Lukas Bentel Leaves Viral Art Collective to Pursue Solo Work

  28-10-2026 21:05 via ARTnews.com
  
  It’s not every day that the art world gets a public break-up, but that’s the case with art collective MSCHF. This week, cofounder and founding chief creative officer Lukas Bentel announced, via a formal press release, he was leaving the group to pursue solo work.“I am enormously grateful and proud of the MSCHF team and what we created together, it was an enormous collective effort,” Bentel said in a statement. “We moved athletically at MSCHF, but we were designing stories that last. Th
  
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• London Falling? A New Report on Three Decades of the British Art Market Finds Its Growth Trailing Rival Hubs

  28-10-2026 20:59 via ARTnews.com
  
  The British Art Market Federation’s report “The British Art Market 1996–2025,” marking the anniversary of the foundation, is out now, measuring how the world’s second-largest art market has performed against its principal competitors, the United States and China. It’s authored by Arts Economics, the same firm that writes the Art Basel/UBS art market reports, founded by economist Clare McAndrew.The good news (for the British, anyway) is that the UK is the world’s second-largest mark
  
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• The Art Market Wanted to Go Global—It Didn’t Plan for Everything That Means

  28-10-2026 20:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  On the Saturday before the opening of Art Basel Paris, two art professionals I’m friendly with found themselves trapped in a Paris metro station. Protesters were stampeding down the stairs, trailed by clouds of tear gas. They couldn’t see, could barely breathe, and struggled to find their way out. When they finally emerged onto the street a block or two away, people were sitting in restaurants, eating and drinking as though nothing had happened.The contrast is almost comical, though I doubt
  
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• LA Artist Snuck His Own Drawing onto the Met’s Walls and Filmed It

  28-10-2026 20:19 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art became an unwitting new home for a work by the Los Angeles–based artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski, who snuck a drawing onto one of the institution’s walls and documented its time there for all the world to see.As reported by Hyperallergic, “In a viral Instagram reel, multi-hyphenate artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski detailed the steps of creating and surreptitiously installing a drawing on one of The Met’s gallery walls last Sunday, October 25. The work
  
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• Drawzilla im Praxistest analysieren

  28-10-2026 19:08 via Zouch
  
  Drawzilla im Test: Unsere Erfahrungen mit dem Casino-Angebot
  Unser Team hat sich in den letzten Wochen intensiv mit verschiedenen Anbietern auf dem Markt auseinandergesetzt. Dabei fiel unser Blick besonders auf das drawzilla deutschland Angebot, das in der Community zunehmend diskutiert wird. Wir wollten wissen, ob die Plattform hält, was sie verspricht, und haben uns die technischen Details, die Spielauswahl und die Benutzerführung genauer angesehen. Für viele Spieler ist es wichtig zu verst
  
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• Works From Agnes Gund’s Collection Head to Christie’s, Led by $8 M. Vija Celmins Painting

  28-10-2026 17:15 via ARTnews.com
  
  Christie’s will sell a group of works from the collection of the late philanthropist and collector Agnes Gund during its November auctions in New York, with proceeds benefiting the Gund Art Foundation.Leading the group is Vija Celmins’s 1990 picture Untitled (Ocean), a photorealistic painting of the ocean’s surface estimated at $6 million to $8 million. It will be offered in Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale on November 19.Other highlights include Alexander Calder’s 1963 mobile The
  
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• Outsider Artist Josef Hofer, Whose Developmental Disability Made Him a Target in Nazi-Occupied Austria, Has Died at 80

  28-10-2026 16:54 via ARTnews.com
  
  Outsider Austrian artist Josef Hofer, who was hidden as a child from Nazi forces by his parents due to a speech and developmental disability, has died at 80, reports Le Quotidien de l’Art. Gallery Christian Berst in Paris, where the artist had his last show this fall, said he passed away in the western Upper Austrian town of Ried im Innkreis on Friday, October 23, shortly after he was hospitalized for complications related to a pulmonary infection.Hofer, who signed his works “Pepi,” rarely
  
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• Neon54 Casino: Quick-Hit Slot Sessions for Players Who Want Fast Answers

  28-10-2026 15:23 via Zouch
  
  Some players open a casino to settle in for the evening. Others open it the way they check a scoreboard: a few minutes, a clear question, a quick answer. That second group is who this piece is about. The Neon54 experience, especially through https://neon-casino-au.com/, suits people who treat a session like a short burst of attention rather than a marathon, and the platform’s shape rewards that instinct more than you might expect.
  Short, high-intensity sessions are not about recklessness. They
  
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• New Report Says UK Art Market Growth Slower Than Competitors, Outsider Austrian Artist Josef Hofer, Has Died at 80, and More: Morning Links for October 28, 2026

  28-10-2026 14:20 via ARTnews.com
  
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  A new study shows the UK art market remains the world’s second-largest in terms of sales, but its growth has slowed compared to top competitors.Outsider artist Josef Hofer, who was hidden from Nazi forces by his parents due to a speech and developmental disability, has died at 80.About 250 construction workers were evacuated on Monday from the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels
  
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• New Report Says UK Art Market Growth Slower Competitors, Outsider Austrian Artist Josef Hofer, Has Died at 80, and More: Morning Links for October 28, 2026

  28-10-2026 14:20 via ARTnews.com
  
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  A new study shows the UK art market remains the world’s second-largest in terms of sales, but its growth has slowed compared to top competitors.Outsider artist Josef Hofer, who was hidden from Nazi forces by his parents due to a speech and developmental disability, has died at 80.About 250 construction workers were evacuated on Monday from the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels
  
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• 2,500-Year-Old Mesoamerican Observatory Discovered in Sierra Norte Mountains of Mexico

  27-10-2026 22:27 via ARTnews.com
  
  A team of researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico recently announced the discovery of a 2,500-year-old structure that they believe functioned as a solar observatory.The structure is part of the pre-Hispanic Teteles de Ávila Castillo archaeological site in Sierra Norte de Puebla and has been under excavation by INAH since 2015. Alberto Diez Barroso Repizo, Teteles’s archaeological project director, told the Art Newspaper that Teteles “flourished dur
  
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