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• Walid Raad’s Way of Working Is Inspired by the Mirrors in Vampire Movies

  25-10-2026 10:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  As a teenager, Walid Raad would walk around his hometown with a camera, just trying to make some sense of the world. At a glance, the black-and-white pictures he captured then offer cool, detached views. But he quickly discovered there was only so much sense to be made of war-torn Beirut. One day, walking by a bakery, he snapped a cake displayed in the window. It was decorated with birthday wishes for someone named Hassan. Only later, developing the film at home—his dad had converted the bathr
  
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• In a Historic Blunder, Wu-Tang Clan Sold an Album as a Unique Artwork—A New Doc Tells the Story of an Architect of the Sale

  24-10-2026 15:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  If you were on the internet in 2015, you likely followed the twisty tale of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The Staten Island hip-hop titans conceived of the album as a conceptual artwork, a protest against the cheapening of music in the age of widespread piracy. Rather than release the music to the general public, the work was sold at auction for a reported $2 million to a then-anonymous American buyer, seemingly proving that music could sell at the level of Picasso and Warhol
  
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• What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles

  24-10-2026 00:59 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles
  
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• “What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”

  24-10-2026 00:59 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  “What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”
  
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• The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined

  24-10-2026 00:59 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined
  
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• Prized Monet Paintings at the Center of Milwaukee Art Museum and MFA St. Petersburg’s World Series Wager

  23-10-2026 21:55 via ARTnews.com
  
  When the Milwaukee Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in game one of the 122nd World Series tonight, they will be playing for more than just the right to hoist the sterling silver Commissioner’s Trophy after four wins. A rival museum’s Monet is also on the line.The teams’ local art museums—the Milwaukee Art Museum, four miles east of where the Brewers play at American Family Field, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, just over a mile west of the Rays’ Tropicana Field—have enter
  
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• Monument to Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Near Quantico Vandalized

  23-10-2026 21:53 via ARTnews.com
  
  A Virginia man allegedly beheaded one of six statues at the Iwo Jima monument near the Quantico Marine base, causing what police estimated was hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.According to the incident report, Prince William County police arrived at the site Wednesday night to find 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano “actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer.” The attack cost one of the monument’s Marines his head and left a second figure’s helmet and face “ch
  
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• Artist Duo Brognon Rollin Awarded 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s Top Art Prize

  23-10-2026 20:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Prix Marcel Duchamp jury announced Thursday that it has awarded the 2026 prize to artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, known for their multidisciplinary practice that spans installation, sculpture, video, performance, and photography.The Prix Marcel Duchamp is considered France’s most prestigious art prize, with winners recieving €35,000, or just over $40,000. For the award, a jury typically selects four nominees, who show together at the Centre Pompidou in October. This year,
  
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• Korean Culture Ministry to Audit Former Director of the National Museum

  23-10-2026 20:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 23 2026, with additional information.The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism will audit You Hong-june, the former director of theNational Museum of Korea. You tendered his resignation on Wednesday after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by multiple South Korean news outlets, including the English language newspaper Korea Herald.The work in question was prese
  
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• Paul Stankard, Renowned Glass Paperweight Artist, Dead at 83

  23-10-2026 20:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  Paul Stankard, a visionary glass blower who memorialized flora and fauna in hardened and translucent form, died at the age of 83, according to a New York Times obituary that celebrates how his “decades-long obsession with replicating the natural world in glass transformed the American paperweight from tchotchke to fine art.” The cause of his death was cancer, according to his daughter.As the Times described Stankard’s fateful turn to the the mode of working he made his own, “In 1972, wit
  
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• Louvre, Picasso Museum, Musée d’Orsay Will Close Saturday In Anticipation of Hard-Left Groups Targeting Public Buildings, Says Interior Minister

  23-10-2026 19:54 via ARTnews.com
  
  Museum closures are expected to take place across Paris on Saturday, in anticipation of planned protests, reports Le Figaro.The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, Picasso Museum, and the Grand Palais’s exhibition spaces will all close their doors on Saturday. The news follows the cancelation of Art Basel Paris over the weekend, which is held at the Grand Palais. In a statement on Friday, the French Ministry of Culture said that all establishments must ensure “the safety of vi
  
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• 'Wildwood' Is the Longest Stop-Motion Animated Film Ever. Each Frame of the Movie Is a Marvel of Handcrafted World Building

  23-10-2026 18:45 via Arts & Culture | smithsonianmag.com
  
  Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a fantastical world set in the forests of Portland, Oregon
  
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• Comcast Cofounder Gives $20 M. to Philadelphia Museum of Art, One of its Largest Gifts, To Greatly Expand Education Spaces

  23-10-2026 17:15 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced Friday that it has received one of the largest gifts in its history: $20 million from Comcast cofounder Julian A. Brodsky and his wife, Lois G. Brodsky. The gift will support the creation of a new education center named for the donors, vastly expanding on the museum’s existing education spaces.The current education space clocks in at under 6,000 square feet; the new Brodsky Center will more than triple that area. The museum currently has just 16 educati
  
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• More Paris Museums Announce Closures Ahead of Saturday Protests, Winner of Marcel Duchamp Prize Announced, and More: Morning Links for October 23, 2026

  23-10-2026 15:04 via ARTnews.com
  
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  The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Picasso Museum and the Grand Palais’ exhibition spaces will all close on Saturday in anticipation of planned protests in the French capital.Artist duo Brognon Rollin (David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin) just won the Marcel Duchamp Prize.Nearly 1,000 objects from the family of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have seen their value explode a
  
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• How Did ‘American Gothic’ Become So Iconic? This Art Historian Spent Five Decades Investigating.

  23-10-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  In need of a couple’s costume this Halloween? Try a calico apron over a dark dress, a low bun with one loose strand, a cameo broach at your throat; dress a partner in overalls and wire-rimmed glasses, holding a three-pronged pitchfork. It won’t take much to be immediately recognizable as the duo from American Gothic, Grant Wood’s 1930 painting and subject of Wanda Corn’s new book, The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon. Why, Corn wants to know, did this paintin
  
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• We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences

  23-10-2026 03:24 via Arts & Letters Daily
  We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences
  
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• As Art Basel Paris Shutters for Weekend Protests, Satellite Fairs Keep Their Doors Open

  23-10-2026 01:43 via ARTnews.com
  
  If you planned to visit Art Basel Paris but just learned that it’s closing for the weekend ahead of Saturday’s planned protests, there’s some good news: for now, at least, several satellite fairs plan to welcome visitors for part or all of the weekend—while keeping an eye on the surrounding social and political context as it evolves in real time.As of Thursday night, Asia NOW and Paris Internationale told ARTnews they are staying open as planned, through October 24, while exhibitors at O
  
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• Louvre Heist Suspect Denied Release As Investigators Unravel Tangled Testimonies

  22-10-2026 23:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports. The suspect, Rachid H., 40, has been detained since November 2025, and will remain in pre-trial detention, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.On the morning of Sunday, October 19, 2025, the gang used a truck-mounted motorized ladder to break into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery through a second-floor window. Once ins
  
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• Monet Painting Sells for $56.2 M., Setting French Auction Record at Sotheby’s Paris

  22-10-2026 23:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  A Claude Monet painting sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Thursday, setting a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.The painting, Iris, sparked a 45-minute bidding battle between six collectors before selling to a private buyer in Asia, represented on the phone by Sotheby’s deputy chairman Jen Hua. It had been expected to fetch between €22 million and €30 million.The sale was part of an auction of works from the collection of J
  
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• What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness

  22-10-2026 23:10 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness
  
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• We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw this crisis coming – and foresaw its consequences

  22-10-2026 23:10 via Arts & Letters Daily
  We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw this crisis coming – and foresaw its consequences
  
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• Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception 

  22-10-2026 23:10 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception 
  
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• Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Sells for $8.3 M., Leading Christie’s London Auction

  22-10-2026 22:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday. Three of her sculptures were the top-selling lots in the auction house’s modern British and Irish art evening sale, including one that set a new record for a unique work by the British artist.The star of the evening was Sculpture with Colour (Eos), from 1946, which sold for £6.19 million ($8.3 million), within its £5 million–£8 million estimate. The sculpture, carved from a single block of pale Hopton Wood stone, t
  
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• Turkish Authorities Seize 2000-Year-Old Marble Head of Zeus

  22-10-2026 22:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  Turkish authorities have seized a marble head depicting the ancient Greek god Zeus in Izmir’s Konak district in western Turkey. The sculpture, which is believed to date to the Roman period around 2,000 years ago, was recovered during an operation conducted by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with officers from the Anti-Smuggling and Intelligence branches of the provincial police department.Three unnamed suspects were detained in the course of the operation and charged with violati
  
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• An $80 M. Kandinsky, Once Owned by the Guggenheim, Is Guaranteed to Beat a Record at Christie’s

  22-10-2026 22:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Russian-born abstraction pioneer Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Betonte Ecken (1922–23) will come to the auction block at Christie’s New York on November 17, carrying a $60 million to $80 million estimate. The anonymous seller acquired the work at Sotheby’s New York in 1986. The painting is guaranteed to sell at a record-setting level, the house told ARTnews.Kandinsky’s auction record currently stands at $44.8 million, paid for the artist’s 1910 painting Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau wi
  
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• Mystery Skeleton in Roman Sarcophagus Beneath Westminster Abbey May Be a Medieval Abbot, Study Says

  22-10-2026 20:56 via ARTnews.com
  
  For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations? Two Anglo-Saxon abbots are in the running, according to a new archaeology study.The limestone sarcophagus was discovered in 1820 and officially excavated in 1869 from what is now a grassy strip along the north side of the abbey’s nave. In the Middle Ages, it was the yard of the Great Sacristy, built during the reign of Henry III. How, then, di
  
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• Dealers Scramble to Get Works Out of Paris After Surprise Art Basel Announcement

  22-10-2026 20:37 via ARTnews.com
  
  With Art Basel Paris closing two days early, ahead of planned protests this weekend, dealers have yet to figure out how to get their artworks out of the Grand Palais.The fair will shut its doors at 7 p.m. Friday, rather than Sunday as originally planned, leaving exhibitors to rearrange tight shipping schedules and decide whether to pack up early or wait until the unrest has passed.Multiple dealers told ARTnews they’d received an email announcing the decision at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. By
  
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• Questions Raised Over Maintenance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home After Death

  22-10-2026 20:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  Questions have been raised over the maintenance of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home and studio, after a visitor was reportedly struck and killed on October 16 by an acrylic fragment that had been dislodged from the property by high winds.The Scottsdale Police Department has identified the deceased as Brazilian national Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, who had traveled to the US for an event at Arizona State University. According
  
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• With Her Miu Miu Commission in Paris, Filmmaker Alice Diop Offers a Much-Needed Space for Healing

  22-10-2026 19:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  For a few days this week, filmmaker Alice Diop has created a space for healing. For this year’s Miu Miu commission during Art Basel Paris, she has transformed the Place d’Iéna into a large-scale installation title Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation).The journey begins with Zanele Muholi’s Bona, Charlottesville, Virginia (2015), from the “Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness)” series. In the black-and-white photograph, we see the artist looking at themself in a mirror, bu
  
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• Three Paul Cézanne Paintings Pulled From Sotheby’s Schlumberger Evening Sale

  22-10-2026 19:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Three works by Paul Cézanne have been removed from the “Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection” evening sale at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday coinciding with Art Basel Paris.The three works: La Ferme, Arbres au Bord de la Rivière and Ciel Entre les Arbres, carried a combined estimate of $1.57 million to $2.24 million (€1.4 million to €2 million) and were painted between 1862 and 1864. The paintings are being returned to the artist’s hometown in Aix-en-Provenance to be displa
  
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• Historic Globe Used by Dwight D. Eisenhower Broken by Pete Hegseth’s Staff

  22-10-2026 18:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  In a scene that could have been ripped out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a historic floor globe used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II was broken when Pentagon staff tried to move it, according to The Washington Post.As reported by the paper, the globe caught the eye of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who ordered for it to be moved into his office to ogle on his own. “Ordinarily, moving historical items within the
  
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• Revised Tidal Basin Plans Scrutinized as Potential Backdoor for Trump’s Controversial Garden of American Heroes

  22-10-2026 18:01 via ARTnews.com
  
  The National Park Service has revised its plans to redevelop the Tidal Basin region of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The plan zeroes in on West Potomac Park, which Trump picked in May as his preferred site for the planned National Garden of American Heroes. One leading historic preservationist interpreted the plan as a way to create space for the project, reports the Washington Post.“The plan that we saw is really about making the space for the Garden of Heroes,” Charles A. Birnbaum,
  
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• Glasgow Museum Removes Mummified Head ‘as a Mark of Respect,’ Prompting Conservative Backlash

  22-10-2026 17:54 via ARTnews.com
  
  Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum removed an ancient Egyptian mummified head from view because there was no “informed consent from the deceased individual,” the museum said. The move has upset some conservative politicians in Scotland, with one alleging that it is a sign of “woke madness.”According to the Times of London, the museum had previously displayed the mummified male head in its galleries. But it has now been moved to storage, and in its place is a notice reading: �
  
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• Kid Cudi to Play Basquiat in ‘JEAN,’ Biopic He’ll Also Write and Direct

  22-10-2026 17:47 via ARTnews.com
  
  Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi, announced on Instagram that he is working on a biopic about the oft-mythologized New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film, titled JEAN, will be written and directed by Cudi, who will also star as the titular artist. Cudi shared an image of the first page of a draft of his script, dated August 25, 2026, and said that filming is set to begin in 2027.In his post, Cudi writes that people have been encouraging him to play Basquiat for years but that
  
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• Ancient Torso Statue Sells for $34.3 M. at Sotheby’s, a Record for a Roman Antiquity

  22-10-2026 16:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  An ancient fragment of a statue of a Roman emperor sold last night at Sotheby’s for $34.3 million, a sum that the house has deemed an auction record for a Roman antiquity.The three-and-a-half-foot-tall marble fragment depicts only the emperor’s torso, adorned in an elegant bronze cuirass. According to Sotheby’s, it once belonged to a larger statue of an emperor from the Julio-Claudinian dynasty and dates to the 1st century CE. Like many Roman statues, it is a copy of a Greek one.The statue
  
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• Art Basel Paris and Fondation Louis Vuitton to Close on Saturday Ahead of Protests

  22-10-2026 16:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ahead of planned protests, Art Basel Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and other museums and art events in the French capital are planning to close for part or all of Saturday. In the case of Art Basel, the fair is also shuttering on Sunday, meaning that the event will end midway through its expected run. The news came during the final weekend of a packed calendar of events around the Paris fair. In an email to exhibitors, Vincenzo de Bellis and Karim Crippa, respectively Art Basel’s chief a
  
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• Weekend Protests in Paris Raise Question of Early Art Basel Closure, $34.3 M. Marble Roman Torso Breaks Auction Records, and More: Morning Links for October 22, 2026

  22-10-2026 14:28 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Ahead of planned protests in Paris and calls to demonstrate at the Grand Palais, where Art Basel is held through Sunday, the fair would not confirm at this stage whether it will have to close over the weekend.An early Roman-era marble torso just broke an auction record for classical sculpture, selling for $34.3 million at Sotheby’s.The New York Public Library was gifted some 25
  
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• New York Public Library Gets Over 250 Kiki Smith Prints, a Gift from the Artist’s Sister Seton Smith

  22-10-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Thanks to the generosity of a sibling, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is now the owner of some 250 prints by Kiki Smith. They come as the gift of her sister, fellow artist Seton Smith, who has pledged to give all future prints she receives by Kiki to the institution.The library’s Prints and Spencer Collections already have 30 other Smith prints and 12 of her artist’s books, and with the new gift, including works from as far back as the 1990s and into the present, the library will have on
  
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• Elisa Nuyten’s Vega Foundation Is Quietly Reshaping the World of Moving-Image Art

  22-10-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  To describe the plight of artists who make films and videos, Martine Syms compared the situation to a viral meme starring a giant, vacant head waiting to be filled in with words below a familiar prompt: “Why you so quiet? What’s on your mind?” For her part, Syms said she would fill in that empty noggin with some stark words: “I’m trying to fund my no-budget experimental film.”There has never been an especially easy time to make moving-image art, which is notoriously hard to monetize.
  
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• The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Tar Paintings to a Falling Knife

  22-10-2026 06:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Across some 200 booths at Art Basel Paris this year, there is a lot to take in. As the Swiss company’s French fair matures, galleries have begun to bring more and more top-tier, high-priced works, which in turn has made it less a place to discover something new than a place for six-, seven-, and even eight-figure works to be sold. And during the Avant-Première VVIP preview on Tuesday afternoon, exhibiting galleries reported quite a few sales, which they would add to by the close of business W
  
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• “Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”

  22-10-2026 01:19 via Arts & Letters Daily
  “Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”
  
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• Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”

  22-10-2026 01:19 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”
  
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• Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem

  22-10-2026 01:19 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem
  
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• Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence

  21-10-2026 23:08 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence
  
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• Florentina Holzinger Is Closing Out ‘Seaworld Venice’ With a ‘Final Dinner’ Made From Bodily Waste

  21-10-2026 22:44 via ARTnews.com
  
  In piano parlance, an étude is a technically tricky piece of music typically practiced to push a musician beyond their limits. Following that logic, the name of Florentina Holzinger’s final Venice Biennale performance, CLOSING ÉTUDE, suggests that after seven months of her propriety-imploding, waste-wonderland SEAWORLD VENICE, there are feats of endurance still ahead.Part performance, part installation, SEAWORLD VENICE opened at the Austrian Pavilion in May with the piercing
  
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• Condemning Violent Protestors, Alicja Kwade to Remove Art Basel Paris Public Sculpture Early

  21-10-2026 22:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  A monumental sculpture by artist Alicja Kwade will be removed early from public display in Paris, where it was installed part of the public program of the Art Basel Paris fair. The piece is situated on the Avenue Winston Churchill, on the doorstep of the Grand Palais, where the fair is taking place; it went on view today and will be removed on Friday, rather than Sunday, her Paris gallery, Mennour, told ARTnews in an email.“Unfortunately, only on view today and tomorrow, as it has to be di
  
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• What’s Selling at Art Basel Paris? Reported Sales Top Out at $10 M. for a Richter and a Baselitz

  21-10-2026 22:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  Top galleries are placing plenty of works for prices above $1 million at Art Basel Paris 2026. Dealer Emmanuel Di Donna told ARTnews at the Avant-Première preview on Tuesday afternoon (aka the VVIP opening) that the experience is like “drinking from a fire hose.” That was followed by the VIP preview on Wednesday.This all came off without a hitch amid heightened security as protests roiled Paris after demonstrations by high school students against crumbling educational infrastr
  
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• V&A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions

  21-10-2026 19:04 via ARTnews.com
  
  Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&A pree
  
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• V&A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions

  21-10-2026 19:04 via ARTnews.com
  
  Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&A preemptively clo
  
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• Melting Ron DeSantis Statue Makes a Point About Climate Change in Florida

  21-10-2026 18:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat.A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in Tallahassee last week, only to begin melting in the Florida sunshine. As DeSantis’s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-lookin
  
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