<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arts - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Arts news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:58:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Globe Used by Dwight D. Eisenhower Broken by Pete Hegseth’s Staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historic-globe-used-by-dwight-d-eisenhower-broken-by-pete-hegsethsstaff/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historic-globe-used-by-dwight-d-eisenhower-broken-by-pete-hegsethsstaff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revised Tidal Basin Plans Scrutinized as Potential Backdoor for Trump’s Controversial Garden of American Heroes]]></title><description><![CDATA[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,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/revised-tidal-basin-plans-scrutinized-as-potential-backdoor-for-trumps-controversial-garden-of-americanheroes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/revised-tidal-basin-plans-scrutinized-as-potential-backdoor-for-trumps-controversial-garden-of-americanheroes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glasgow Museum Removes Mummified Head ‘as a Mark of Respect,’ Prompting Conservative Backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[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: â]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/glasgow-museum-removes-mummified-head-as-a-mark-of-respect-prompting-conservativebacklash/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/glasgow-museum-removes-mummified-head-as-a-mark-of-respect-prompting-conservativebacklash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kid Cudi to Play Basquiat in ‘JEAN,’ Biopic He’ll Also Write and Direct]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kid-cudi-to-play-basquiat-in-jean-biopic-hell-also-write-anddirect/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kid-cudi-to-play-basquiat-in-jean-biopic-hell-also-write-anddirect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Torso Statue Sells for $34.3 M. at Sotheby’s, a Record for a Roman Antiquity]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-torso-statue-sells-for-343-m-at-sothebys-a-record-for-a-romanantiquity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-torso-statue-sells-for-343-m-at-sothebys-a-record-for-a-romanantiquity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Paris and Fondation Louis Vuitton to Close on Saturday Ahead of Protests]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-and-fondation-louis-vuitton-to-close-on-saturday-ahead-ofprotests/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-and-fondation-louis-vuitton-to-close-on-saturday-ahead-ofprotests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[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]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weekend-protests-in-paris-raise-question-of-early-art-basel-closure-343-m-marble-roman-torso-breaks-auction-records-and-more-morning-links-for-october-222026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weekend-protests-in-paris-raise-question-of-early-art-basel-closure-343-m-marble-roman-torso-breaks-auction-records-and-more-morning-links-for-october-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Public Library Gets Over 250 Kiki Smith Prints, a Gift from the Artist’s Sister Seton Smith]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-public-library-gets-over-250-kiki-smith-prints-a-gift-from-the-artists-sister-setonsmith/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-public-library-gets-over-250-kiki-smith-prints-a-gift-from-the-artists-sister-setonsmith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elisa Nuyten’s Vega Foundation Is Quietly Reshaping the World of Moving-Image Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elisa-nuytens-vega-foundation-is-quietly-reshaping-the-world-of-moving-imageart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elisa-nuytens-vega-foundation-is-quietly-reshaping-the-world-of-moving-imageart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Tar Paintings to a Falling Knife]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-paris-from-tar-paintings-to-a-fallingknife/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-paris-from-tar-paintings-to-a-fallingknife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberalisms-deepest-grounding-judith-shklar-writes-is-the-belief-that-cruelty-is-an-absolute-evil/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:19:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberalisms-deepest-grounding-judith-shklar-writes-is-the-belief-that-cruelty-is-an-absolute-evil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[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”]]></title><description><![CDATA[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”]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/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/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:19:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/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/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-can-be-intellectuals-but-no-real-artist-is-pure-intellect-that-was-marcel-duchamps-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:19:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-can-be-intellectuals-but-no-real-artist-is-pure-intellect-that-was-marcel-duchamps-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/somewhere-in-the-1980s-education-became-learning-and-reading-became-a-skill-for-completing-tasks-were-living-with-the-consequence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:08:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/somewhere-in-the-1980s-education-became-learning-and-reading-became-a-skill-for-completing-tasks-were-living-with-the-consequence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florentina Holzinger Is Closing Out ‘Seaworld Venice’ With a ‘Final Dinner’ Made From Bodily Waste]]></title><description><![CDATA[In piano parlance, an &eacute;tude is a technically tricky piece of music typically practiced to push a musician beyond their limits. Following that logic, the name of Florentina Holzinger&rsquo;s final Venice Biennale performance, CLOSING &Eacute;TUDE, 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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/florentina-holzinger-is-closing-out-seaworld-venice-with-a-final-dinner-made-from-bodilywaste/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/florentina-holzinger-is-closing-out-seaworld-venice-with-a-final-dinner-made-from-bodilywaste/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemning Violent Protestors, Alicja Kwade to Remove Art Basel Paris Public Sculpture Early]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.&ldquo;Unfortunately, only on view today and tomorrow, as it has to be di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/condemning-violent-protestors-alicja-kwade-to-remove-art-basel-paris-public-sculptureearly/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/condemning-violent-protestors-alicja-kwade-to-remove-art-basel-paris-public-sculptureearly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s Selling at Art Basel Paris? Reported Sales Top Out at $10 M. for a Richter and a Baselitz]]></title><description><![CDATA[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-Premi&egrave;re preview on Tuesday afternoon (aka the VVIP opening) that the experience is like &ldquo;drinking from a fire hose.&rdquo; 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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-selling-at-art-basel-paris-reported-sales-top-out-at-10-m-for-a-richter-and-abaselitz/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-selling-at-art-basel-paris-reported-sales-top-out-at-10-m-for-a-richter-and-abaselitz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay,&nbsp;Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of &ldquo;Amazon-style&rdquo; working conditions at the newly opened V&amp;A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&amp;A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union&rsquo;s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&amp;A pree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-paynbspconditions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-paynbspconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria &amp; 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&amp;A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&amp;A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&amp;A preemptively clo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-payconditions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-payconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melting Ron DeSantis Statue Makes a Point About Climate Change in Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&rsquo;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&rsquo;s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-lookin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melting-ron-desantis-statue-makes-a-point-about-climate-change-inflorida/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melting-ron-desantis-statue-makes-a-point-about-climate-change-inflorida/</guid></item></channel></rss>