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• Bill Ivey, 81, Dies; Quelled Conservative Ire Over U.S. Arts Agency

  17-11-2025 23:14 via nytimes.com
  As the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, Mr. Ivey, a leader in country music, shifted the agency’s focus away from avant-garde work and won more funding.
  
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• Met Returns Buddhist Painting Thought Taken During the Korean War

  17-11-2025 22:58 via nytimes.com
  The 18th-century painting, which the Met acquired in 2007, is believed to have been removed from a South Korean temple while it was controlled by the U.S. Army.
  
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• Ten Percent of National Endowment for the Humanities Budget Will Support Two Grantees

  17-11-2025 22:36 via artnews.com
  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funds appear to have been put towards supporting two awards at nearly 10 percent of the agency’s annual $207 million budget, the New York Times reported. The Trump administration previously canceled the NEH grants that had been approved under the former Biden administration, laid off the majority of the agency’s staff, and most recently fired the scholarly council that reviewed the grants.One of the awards was given to the conserv
  
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• Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, has died at 70

  17-11-2025 22:28 via artnews.com
  Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by Le Monde on November 17.An iconoclastic, and at times controversial, figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art whose specialty was the Nabis, a group of French Post-Impressionist painters active in the late 1800s.Born in Paris in 1955, Cogeval graduated from the Paris Institute
  
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• Ancient Limestone Face Carving Discovered During Controversial Maya Train Project Excavation

  17-11-2025 22:28 via artnews.com
  The Maya Train construction project has been ongoing since 2020, with the goal of connecting historical sites in the Yucatan and boosting tourism. The first section opened in December 2024. Over the years, the controversial project has unearthed thousands of archaeological objects and sites along the railway’s 1,000-mile-long route.  As reported in Artnet News, the latest find is a 2,000-year-old limestone face carving, discovered by archaeologists in Sierra Papacal, near M&eacut
  
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• The Phillips Collection to Sell Major Works, Vatican Returns 62 Artifacts to Indigenous Peoples, Six Works That Could ‘Predict the Market’: Morning Links for November 17, 2025.

  17-11-2025 21:38 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesCONTROVERSIAL SALE. The Phillips Collection, the art museum located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC, plans to auction major works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Georges Seurat at Sotheby’s New York on November 20, sparking controversy. The Washington Post reports that director Jonathan Binstock says the proceeds will largely support commissions from living artists, but the decision has stirred intense opposition among longtime supporters a
  
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• Met Museum Employees Petition to Create Union

  17-11-2025 21:07 via nytimes.com
  The proposal, for a union to represent nearly 1,000 employees, would make the Met one of the largest unionized museums in the country.
  
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• Met to Open New Condé M. Nast Galleries with Exhibition About ‘Costume Art’

  17-11-2025 21:03 via artnews.com
   
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is putting form back into fashion—and placing fashion at the forefront of New York’s busiest institution.  On Monday, the museum revealed that its spring 2026 blockbuster fashion exhibition will be “Costume Art,” which examines the bond between the dressed body and visual art history. Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, said that that relationship had long been downplayed in th
  
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• Eric Adams and Zohran Mamdani Battle Over Beloved Art Garden in New York

  17-11-2025 21:03 via artnews.com
  Elizabeth Street Garden is yet again the center of debate—this time between current New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his successor, Zohran Mamdani. Adams, who once sought to level the garden in favor of a housing development, abandoned the project in June.Prior to that change, the garden’s nonprofit tenant was scheduled to be evicted in March to accommodate housing development under Adams. In response, there was record turnout to save the garden by the nonprofit, community members,
  
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• Key Video Art Organization’s Future Is Uncertain After Downsizing by School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  17-11-2025 20:40 via artnews.com
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago dismissed more than half of the staff last week at the Video Data Bank, a video art–focused organization whose services are used widely by museums across the globe.Three of the organization’s five staff members saw their positions eliminated by the school on November 12, according to Tom Colley, the Video Data Bank’s former director. He said that Elise Schierbeck and Nicky Ni, respectively the organization’s digital collection an
  
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• KAWS, DRIFT, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Among 15 Artists Participating in Abu Dhabi’s Public Light Art Exhibition

  17-11-2025 20:38 via artnews.com
  For the second year in a row, Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism has organized a sprawling public art event focusing on sculptures, installations, and projections that incorporate light. The 2025-26 edition, called “The Light Compass,” has a four-person curatorial team: artistic director Khai Hori (based in Singapore), and Alia Zaal Lootah, Munira Al Sayegh, and Mariam Alshehhi (all based in the UAE).Installations by 15 Emeriti and international artists will take pla
  
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• Louvre Museum Closes Gallery Housing Greek Antiquities as Precautionary Measure

  17-11-2025 19:56 via artnews.com
  The Louvre’s horrible, no good, very bad autumn continues. On Monday, the museum announced that it was temporarily closing some offices and one public gallery after a recent audit found structural weaknesses in some beams in the building. In a statement, the museum said that a technical report submitted last week found “particular fragility of certain beams holding up the floors” of the second level of the the Louvre’s southern Sully wing because of “recent and unfo
  
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• Rodin’s Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Comes to the US for the First Time

  17-11-2025 19:26 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.To make his expressive sculptures of the human figure, Auguste Rodin often looked to the past. While his interest in ancient Greco-Roman sculpture served as a wellspring of inspiration, an often overlooked part of his artistic stimulation also came from ancient Egyptian art. Rodin was, in fact, a prodigious collector, amassing over 6,
  
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• Gallery Climate Coalition Five-Year Report Projects Members Will Halve Carbon Emissions by 2030

  17-11-2025 19:12 via artnews.com
  The Gallery Climate Coalition, a London-based enterprise with 2,000 members of artists, institutions, and art professionals in 60 countries, said that 80 percent of members who began tracking their carbon footprint in 2019 have reduced their impact by 25 percent. Taking that as a start, members are on track to further decrease their carbon footprint by 50 percent in 2030.The GCC put together a report titled “Five-Year Review of Climate Action in the Visual Arts” that it revealed last
  
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• Bill Ivey, Who Soothed Critics of Federal Arts Agency, Dies at 81

  17-11-2025 19:01 via nytimes.com
  By reducing the National Endowment for the Arts’s focus on avant-garde work, he eased conservative anger and won increased funding.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein Emails Show Art Buying Plans, Studio Visits

  17-11-2025 19:00 via artnews.com
  Newly released documents from the House Oversight Committee shed further light on Jeffrey Epstein’s entanglements with the art world, revealing discussions about direct purchases from emerging artists and fresh comments about one of the most controversial paintings of the century.According to emails reviewed by Urgent Matter, Epstein and two longtime associates—Etienne Binant and Darren Indyke—exchanged messages in February 2017 about acquiring art directly from artists ra
  
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• With New Condé M. Nast Galleries, the Met Museum Gets Fashion Forward

  17-11-2025 17:59 via nytimes.com
  The Costume Institute is bringing its annual blockbuster show to a permanent home off the Grand Hall, due in part to Anna Wintour’s efforts to get “out of the basement.”
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein Discussed Leon Black’s Plan to Buy a Picasso from Gagosian

  17-11-2025 17:34 via artnews.com
  A newly released set of emails written and received by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shows that he discussed a plan by billionaire art collector Leon Black to buy a Picasso painting from Gagosian gallery.Epstein’s ties to Black are well-documented and have occasionally been controversial for the latter, who departed his post as chair of the Museum of Modern Art’s board as their friendship came into focus in 2021. Black remains a trustee at that New York institution.The e
  
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• Review: ‘The Monkey King’ Premieres at San Francisco Opera

  17-11-2025 17:19 via nytimes.com
  Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera stage.
  
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• The Phillips Collection Plans to Deaccession Works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Georges Seurat

  17-11-2025 17:11 via artnews.com
  The Phillips Collection will proceed with plans to sell major works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Georges Seurat at Sotheby’s next week, a move that has triggered sharp backlash from former curators, members of the Phillips family, and a faction of the museum’s governing members board.According to The Washington Post, the works—long considered central to founder Duncan Phillips’s vision—will be offered at Sotheby’s on November 20 as part of the a
  
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• Javier Téllez Wins $50,000 PAMM Pérez Prize

  17-11-2025 17:00 via artnews.com
  The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has awarded its annual Pérez Prize to New York–based artist Javier Téllez. The award, which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000, was presented to the artist at the museum’s Art of the Party Fundraiser on November 15.“Pérez Art Museum Miami is honored to present this year’s Pérez Prize to Javier Téllez, an artist whose work continues to expand how we see and who gets to be seen,” PAMM
  
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• Crystal Bridges to Mount Exhibition by Singer-Songwriter Jewel During Venice Biennale

  17-11-2025 16:00 via artnews.com
  During the upcoming Venice Biennale, Crystal Bridges Museum will stage an exhibition dedicated to the art singer-songwriter Jewel at the Salone Verde, a venue that’s a short walk from the Fondazione Prada. The exhibition, running May 10 through November 22, will be organized by Crystal Bridges curator-at-large Joe Thompson.The exhibition, titled “Matricylism: An Archeology of Connections Lost,” takes as its theme “feminine memory [and] the mythology of feminine power,&rdq
  
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• With New Condé Nast Galleries, the Met Museum Gets Fashion Forward

  17-11-2025 15:10 via nytimes.com
  The Costume Institute is bringing its annual blockbuster show to a permanent home off the Grand Hall, due in part to Anna Wintour’s efforts to get “out of the basement.”
  
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• Tom Cruise Accepts an Honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards

  17-11-2025 14:45 via nytimes.com
  The star was feted along with Debbie Allen, Dolly Parton and the production designer Wynn Thomas at a show that has become an awards campaign stop.
  
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• Beloved Marquee Arts theater organist Andrew Rogers passes away - WEMU

  17-11-2025 12:34 via news.google.com
  Beloved Marquee Arts theater organist Andrew Rogers passes away  WEMU
  
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• LAB Foundation Celebrates Giants Of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts Award Recipients - TV News Check

  17-11-2025 12:18 via news.google.com
  LAB Foundation Celebrates Giants Of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts Award Recipients  TV News Check
  
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• COSMIC Symphony And St. Maries Choral Arts Join Together For A Free Holiday Show - The BayNet

  17-11-2025 12:05 via news.google.com
  COSMIC Symphony And St. Maries Choral Arts Join Together For A Free Holiday Show  The BayNet
  
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• Registration now open for Fairport Harbor Arts & Culture Alliance’s Port Plunge - News-Herald

  17-11-2025 12:00 via news.google.com
  Registration now open for Fairport Harbor Arts & Culture Alliance’s Port Plunge  News-Herald
  
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• Madison Arts Radar: Danny Brown's "Stardust" and Lydia's rewatch of Stranger Things - The Daily Cardinal

  17-11-2025 12:00 via news.google.com
  Madison Arts Radar: Danny Brown's "Stardust" and Lydia's rewatch of Stranger Things  The Daily Cardinal
  
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• Hickory Ballet & Performing Arts to present 'The Nutcracker' Dec. 11-14 in Newton - Hickory Daily Record

  17-11-2025 12:00 via news.google.com
  Hickory Ballet & Performing Arts to present 'The Nutcracker' Dec. 11-14 in Newton  Hickory Daily Record
  
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• North Augusta’s Arts and Heritage Center to be stop on Christmas home tour - Post and Courier

  17-11-2025 11:30 via news.google.com
  North Augusta’s Arts and Heritage Center to be stop on Christmas home tour  Post and Courier
  
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• A Day at the Beach Hunting Mammoths

  17-11-2025 11:24 via nytimes.com
  “Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils they uncover around Europe’s largest port. All the professionals ask is that those amateurs let them know.
  
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• Norwich University of the Arts opens virtual production studio - Broadcast

  17-11-2025 11:17 via news.google.com
  Norwich University of the Arts opens virtual production studio  Broadcast
  
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• These Six Artworks Could Predict the Auction Market

  17-11-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The art market had a summer of closures and consolidations. But major collections, blue-chip art and guarantees have pushed expectations high for the marquee sales.
  
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• Has This Director Made the Year’s Most Terrifying Movie?

  17-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  With the existential action thriller “Sirat,” set in the rave culture of Morocco, Oliver Laxe says that he was not out to shock, but that he is still haunted by one scene.
  
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• Harwich artist studio eviction from town cultural center upheld but delayed - Cape Cod Times

  17-11-2025 11:01 via news.google.com
  Harwich artist studio eviction from town cultural center upheld but delayed  Cape Cod Times
  
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• Zohran Mamdani and funding for the arts - New York Daily News

  17-11-2025 11:00 via news.google.com
  Zohran Mamdani and funding for the arts  New York Daily News
  
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• What Should I Do With My Playbill?

  17-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Readers ask about the most environmentally friendly thing to do with an unwanted program. And by the way, why is it always yellow?
  
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• Those Little Chimes That Say ‘Please Take Your Seat’

  17-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  At New York’s performing arts venues, herding audiences is a melodic mission.
  
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• Performing arts center among new businesses in Hillsborough - Central New Jersey News

  17-11-2025 11:00 via news.google.com
  Performing arts center among new businesses in Hillsborough  Central New Jersey News
  
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• Broadway’s Radical ‘Oedipus,’ With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville

  17-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.
  
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• Ballet Dancers Are Starting to Prioritize Their Mental Health

  17-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Dancers are famous for buckling down and getting through it. But a new openness about mental health has companies and schools focusing on their well-being, both physical and emotional.
  
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• A Fats Waller Musical All But Disappeared (Until Now)

  17-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The jazz pianist and composer wrote music for the World War II hit “Early to Bed,” which was running when he died at 39. Two concerts will bring its songs back to life.
  
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• Maharlika Martial Arts Concepts celebrates 30 years of teaching - Yahoo

  17-11-2025 10:55 via news.google.com
  Maharlika Martial Arts Concepts celebrates 30 years of teaching  Yahoo
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. $EA Shares Sold by Candriam S.C.A. - MarketBeat

  17-11-2025 10:50 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts Inc. $EA Shares Sold by Candriam S.C.A.  MarketBeat
  
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• Two Powerhouse Music Tributes Headed to Williamson County Performing Arts Center - Williamson Source

  17-11-2025 10:00 via news.google.com
  Two Powerhouse Music Tributes Headed to Williamson County Performing Arts Center  Williamson Source
  
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• Holiday Happenings: Upcoming festive events in Downtown - Los Angeles Downtown News

  17-11-2025 09:30 via news.google.com
  Holiday Happenings: Upcoming festive events in Downtown  Los Angeles Downtown News
  
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• South Coast Organizations Receive $33,000 in Grants from Oregon Arts Commission - The Coos Bay World

  17-11-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  South Coast Organizations Receive $33,000 in Grants from Oregon Arts Commission  The Coos Bay World
  
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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 16th Governors Awards - Reuters Connect

  17-11-2025 07:53 via news.google.com
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 16th Governors Awards  Reuters Connect
  
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• Kazakh, Uzbek Arts Universities Strengthen Ties with New Cooperation Agreement - Caspian Post

  17-11-2025 07:40 via news.google.com
  Kazakh, Uzbek Arts Universities Strengthen Ties with New Cooperation Agreement  Caspian Post
  
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