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• Prairie, Chicago Gallery That Put Conceptualism Ahead of Commercialism, Closes After Nearly a Decade

  19-10-2026 22:02 via ARTnews.com
  
  Prairie, a Chicago gallery that helped put a range of cutting-edge artists on the path to success, will close after nine years.The gallery announced its closure on Friday by revealing that its forthcoming exhibition, a group show called “Retrospective,” would be its final one. “This will be our last show,” the gallery wrote on Instagram.Founded in 2017 by Tim Mann and Jack Schneider as an artist-run space, the gallery had a name that referred to “the ecosystem that
  
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• Bayeux Tapestry Display to Change Upon Return to Normandy Next Year

  19-10-2026 21:31 via ARTnews.com
  
  When the Bayeux Tapestry returns to Normandy next summer after its 10-month sojourn to London, the 11th-century textile will be re-presented in a new way that more closely resembles how it currently looks at the British Museum in London.Previously, reports Le Monde, the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidered cloth had been displayed vertically at the Bayeux Museum, which is closed for renovations and scheduled to reopen in October 2027. At the British Museum, however, it has been displayed flat, i
  
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• Protests Erupt Over Removal of LGBTQ and Feminist Objects at National Museum of Colombia

  19-10-2026 21:19 via ARTnews.com
  
  Protesters assembled around Bogota’s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects “related to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,” according to the digital news source Colombia One.As reported, “The decision by Abelardo De La Espriella’s government, announced last Friday, turned the area around the museum into a site of public demonstrations against what protesters describe as ‘an at
  
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• New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years

  19-10-2026 20:24 via ARTnews.com
  
  New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they’ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery&rsquo
  
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• Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem

  19-10-2026 19:52 via ARTnews.com
  
  What’s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list.The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression: The Hypnotist (2026) by Atlanta native Taylor Simmons. The work, he wrote, was “just incredible.”Simmons is a 2026 artist-in-residence, along with Simonett
  
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• Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

  19-10-2026 19:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The €
  
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• Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 18:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida city in 2002.But a New York Times report goes inside a sharp-elbowed fight over the future location of the fair, whose executives demanded that the city cut in half the rent it pays on the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the
  
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• An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map

  19-10-2026 17:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  A retrospective for Eva Gonzalès, who is today best known as Édouard Manet’s only formal pupil, has been long overdue. That correction was planned for 2020, when the Château-Musée de Dieppe was to organize a show as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, but it was put on hold by the pandemic until the Petit Palais took up the mantle, where “Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883): A Free-Spirited Artist’s Journey” is on view until Januar
  
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• Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France

  19-10-2026 16:25 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the same museum, and follows a massive, nationwide protest on Saturday against social inequality, particularly visible in public schools, which spiraled into clashes with police and riots. These continued to a lesser degree Sunday evening.The unrest has come on the eve of
  
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• Protesters Block Louvre Following Weekend of Unrest, Art Basel Will Stay in Miami Following City Rent Discount, and More: Morning Links for October 19, 2026

  19-10-2026 15:10 via ARTnews.com
  
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  The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on Saturday and devolved into rioting.Amid a “cyclical downturn” for Art Basel fairs, the company will hold onto its spot in Miami through 2031, thanks to a new deal that reduces annua
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies

  19-10-2026 02:08 via ARTnews.com
  
  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family.The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he
  
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