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• Yes, Some People *Are* Wired Better For Learning Languages

  30-10-2016 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Analysis of the brain scans revealed that differences in improvement of each behaviour were related to pre-existing differences in brain connectivity. In short, the flow of oxygen in the participants’ brains while at rest predicted how much specific aspects of speech or language skills would improve.”
  
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• Bayeux Tapestry Makes Historic Arrival at London’s British Museum in the Dead of Night

  10-07-2026 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  Escorted in secret by police under the cover of darkness, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry finally arrived to London’s British Museum on Friday. The long-awaited but controversial loan from France was welcomed at 2:48 am by a “select crowd,” including France’s ambassador to the UK, per British reports. A large black box within a gridded, aluminum casing designed to keep the relic suspended to avoid damaging vibrations was removed from a yellow truck, as some teary-eyed
  
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• A Jersey Worn by Knicks Point Guard Jalen Brunson in NBA Finals Fetches $1 M. at Sotheby’s

  10-07-2026 15:33 via artnews.com
  
  Following the New York Knickerbockers’ historic win in the 2025–26 NBA season finals, Sotheby’s New York sold a jersey worn by point guard Jalen Brunson on Wednesday for just over $1 million. It was the Knicks’ first championship win in 53 years, and the jersey set a new record for any piece of Knicks memorabilia. The house’s expert, Brahm Wachter, had estimated it could make in excess of $1 million.Opened on June 30, the sale of finals memorabilia concluded We
  
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  10-07-2026 11:57 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  10-07-2026 11:41 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  10-07-2026 11:08 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Who Was Robert Rauschenberg and Why Was He So Important?

  10-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  If there’s a single adjective that sums up Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), it would have to be protean, though prolific fits as well. Estimated to number some 10,000 works, Rauschenberg’s oeuvre was driven by an expansive sensibility that saw possibilities for art everywhere and a generosity of spirit reflected in his cooperation with other artists.Rauschenberg’s avidity manifested most famously in his “combines,” begun in the mid 1950s. Harvested from the st
  
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• The Original Antifa Fought the Nazis. A New Art Exhibition Asks What’s Next

  10-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  A small German city unearthed a large chunk of history this past May. Urban construction in the Black Forest municipality of Pforzheim uncovered an undetonated World War II bomb, forcing an evacuation of surrounding areas before its eventual defusing.Other ghosts are not so easily exorcised. This past spring, a teen disco in Brandenburg saw more than a hundred adolescents chant Nazi slogans, while young folk in North Frisia were recorded intoning the same lines in May: “Foreigners out, Ger
  
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• MFA Houston Announces Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Ferdinand Hodler, Peter Bradley, Anicka Yi, and More

  10-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced a group of new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases, across its curatorial departments. The artworks range from a 17th-century wall hanging depicting courtly life in India to recent animatronic sculptures by contemporary artist Anicka Yi.In statement, MFAH director Gary Tinterow said of this round of acquisitions include “two works that constitute astounding rediscoveries in their respective fields: Ladies of the Court belongs to a series o
  
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  10-07-2026 06:41 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  10-07-2026 06:41 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  10-07-2026 06:24 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Esperienza Online Roulette: Una Guida Completa per Giocatori Esperti

  10-07-2026 06:24 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  09-07-2026 22:30 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Appeals Court Denies President Trump’s Request to Restore Name to Kennedy Center

  09-07-2026 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied President Trump’s request to restore his name to the facade of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in the latest setback to the institution’s legal battle against the federal courts. In their decision, three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that President Trump had failed to prove that the arts complex would be “irreparably injured” by the removal, as his attorneys had arg
  
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• Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi Appointed President of Sharjah Museums Authority

  09-07-2026 22:05 via artnews.com
  
  Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and a member of the Sharjawi royal family, has been appointed as president of the Sharjah Museums Authority. In her post, she will oversee 16 museums across Sharjah with purviews including Islamic art and culture, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life, and history.The appointment—issued by Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah—applies to an enterprise foun
  
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• Edi Rama, Artist and Albanian Prime Minister, Defends Controversial Kanye West Concert Near Tirana

  09-07-2026 21:54 via artnews.com
  
  Edi Rama, an artist who also happens to serve as Albania’s Prime Minster, has defended plans to stage a Kanye West concert in a recently built stadium outside Tirana, even as some Jewish groups continued to accuse the rapper of antisemitism.West, who previously denied the Holocaust and posted about his intentions to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” is set to perform on Saturday in a custom-built venue erected at a cost of millions of euros. The Albanian media previously quote
  
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• Egyptian Archeologists Discover ‘Golden Tongues’ Inside Sealed Tombs at Ancient Coastal City

  09-07-2026 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  Egyptian archeologists have found 18 previously unknown Ptolomeic and Roman tombs, as well as a stone sarcophagus and rare grave goods, at the Marina el-Alamein archeological site near Alexandria. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily on July 4, following an announcement by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.  The most recent discovery offers fresh insights into Marina el-Alamein, one of Egypt’s best-preserved ancient settlements, and illustrates how Egyptian be
  
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• Polarizing Portrait of King Charles Included in Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery Rehang

  09-07-2026 20:15 via artnews.com
  
  A large oil study for King Charles III’s polarizing first official portrait, unveiled a year after his coronation in May 2023, is now on view at Buckingham Palace, part of a major transformation of the Picture Gallery, one of the palace’s most popular semi-public spaces. The gallery now showcases 120 paintings, nearly double the 63 that had previously been on view there. The revamp also involved replacing the coral velvet wall hangings with green silk damask and updating the gallery&
  
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• New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia

  09-07-2026 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  Fifty-nine antiquities looted from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia, including 45 seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, have been returned to their countries of origin, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday.Among the objects seized from the Met and returned to Italy was a terracotta vase used for chilling and mixing wine and water, attributed to the famed Troilos Painter. One side depicts Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, and the hero Herakles on Mount Olympus; the
  
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• Honolulu Museum of Art Appoints New Director

  09-07-2026 18:29 via artnews.com
  
  The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) in Hawai‘i has named David Odo as its next director and chief executive. He will start in the role on September 1.  He succeeds Halona Norton-Westbrook, who left in July 2025 to lead the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.Odo is currently director and chief curator of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. During his tenure, the museum saw record attendance, which now sees around 61,000 annual visitors. He also increas
  
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• Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Slams White House Report As ‘Not a Fair Characterization’ of Museum’s Scholarship

  09-07-2026 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  On Saturday, July 4, the Trump Administration released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of “institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology.” On Tuesday, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III finally responded.In an email to staff obtained by the Washington Post and published Wednesday evening, Bunch wrote that the report was “not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of A
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Cleared by UK Judge of Breaching Russia Sanctions with Sale of a George Condo Artwork

  09-07-2026 17:44 via artnews.com
  
  Swiss-based megagallery Hauser & Wirth was cleared on Thursday of charges of violating Russia sanctions by selling an artwork by George Condo to Alexander Popov, a person connected with Russia. Judge Tony Baumgardner dismissed the criminal charges, saying prosecutors had not proven that Popov was a Russian resident at the time of the sale, reports the Independent.His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) had charged the Swiss-based megagallery, which has 17 locations around the globe, i
  
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• George Condo Returns to Hauser & Wirth, Painting Illuminates Shakespeare’s Rebellious Politics, and More: Morning Links for July 9, 2026

  09-07-2026 15:36 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good MorningA White House report accusing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of erasing US heritage is unfair, says the institution’s chief, Lonnie Bunch.Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi was appointed president of the Sharjah Museums Authority.George Condo is heading back to Hauser & Wirth after leaving the gallery.The HeadlinesBUNCH
  
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• George Condo Returns to Hauser & Wirth Less Than One Year After Leaving the Gallery

  08-07-2026 23:13 via artnews.com
  
  George Condo is heading back to Hauser & Wirth less than a year after leaving the mega-gallery, with the two sides reuniting for a pair of exhibitions in 2027 and resuming a relationship that dates back to 2019. Hauser & Wirth announced Wednesday that it will present exhibitions of new and historical works by Condo at its Paris and Palo Alto galleries in 2027, following the artist’s 2025 career survey at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. When asked about the
  
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• Curator Ingrid Schaffner Talks Hauser & Wirth’s Henry Taylor—James Jarvaise Show

  08-07-2026 22:49 via artnews.com
  
  James Jarvaise, the late California modernist (1924—2015), cuts a slick silhouette in Henry Taylor’s vibrant impasto rendering of him. Jarvaise, wearing black shades, his shoulder-length hair combed back, sits slouched at the lower center of Taylor’s glowing, yellow canvas. “He had swag,” Taylor has said of his subject and first real art teacher, who encouraged him to enroll in art school and eventually embark on a path to become the luminous, lauded talent Taylor i
  
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• Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit

  08-07-2026 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  Mickalene Thomas, an artist known for her popular paintings and photo-based installations centering Black women, is facing a lawsuit from the photographer Barbara Karant, who alleges that Thomas used her pictures without attribution or permission in works that appeared at an array of museums and blue-chip galleries.“In installation after installation, and in collage after collage, Thomas has engaged in the wholesale copying of copyrighted works from a fellow artist,” the lawsuit clai
  
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• Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art

  08-07-2026 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  The Italian parliament is advancing legislation to create a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws. The news was reported by the Jewish News Syndicate following a statement by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that works toward the return of Jewish-owned property in Europe.“The bill offers a historic opportunity to finally deliver justice to victims of Nazi and fascist persec
  
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• Artissima Announces 180 International Exhibitors Participating in Fall Art Fair in Turin

  08-07-2026 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  When the long-running contemporary art fair Artissima opens its 33rd edition in late October, 180 galleries from 35 countries will welcome visitors to the Oval, a vast former Olympic speed skating facility that has hosted the fair since 2010.Luigi Fassi returns as director for the fifth year running. He has organized this year’s 180 galleries (a handful more than the 176 that participated last year) into several distinct sections: new entries (33 galleries are participating for the first t
  
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