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• Sotheby’s to ‘Unveil’ $1 B. of Art and Luxury Goods During Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week in December

  20-11-2025 23:10 via artnews.com
  When Sotheby’s revealed plans for Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week in August, the house’s first series of luxury marquee sales in the emirate, it came as no surprise. Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been increasingly pivoting to the luxury market, and the Gulf, to counter sticky art sales over the last couple of years—and milking it well. But Sotheby’s made a serious statement of intent on Thursday by announcing that $1 billion of fine art and luxury goods
  
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• US Artists Struggle with Food and Healthcare Insecurity, New Study Finds

  20-11-2025 22:48 via artnews.com
  A national survey of artists, commissioned by the Mellon Foundation, in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, has revealed a closer look at the livelihoods of US artists.The 102-page report takes into account 2,618 artists’ work and jobholding, earnings, health and wellbeing, and personal identifiers such as age, marital status, gender, and race. The comprehensive study considered artists across five artistic disciplines: performing arts, visual arts, writing, craft arts, and
  
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• Churchill’s ‘Marrakech’ Hits $1.3 M. at Canadian Auction House

  20-11-2025 22:44 via artnews.com
  A Winston Churchill painting sold at a regional Canadian auction house on Wednesday, achieveing one of the strongest results for the former British prime minister outside a major London or New York sale,. The sale underscores the continued demand for Churchill’s late-career landscapes.Churchill’s Marrakech (circa 1935), offered at Heffel Fine Art Auction House in Toronto as part of a 27-lot sale of works deaccessioned from the Hudson’s Bay Company’s corporate co
  
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• International Fine Print Dealers Association Expands Its Mandate, Adding Drawing Dealers for First Time

  20-11-2025 22:27 via artnews.com
  For nearly four decades, the International Fine Print Dealers Association’s annual print fair has been a crash course in how artists approach creating in multiples. In 2026, that picture will grow larger. The IFPDA will officially become the International Fine Prints & Drawings Association. When the next edition of the print fair opens next spring, there will be 77 exhibitors, including several who specialize in artists’ drawings.This change has been years in the making
  
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• David Bellos, 80, Dies; Wrestled French Wordplay Into English

  20-11-2025 22:18 via nytimes.com
  He translated nearly 30 books, including novels by Georges Perec, a master of linguistic games, and Ismail Kadare.
  
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• A Show at the National Gallery Highlights the Role of Photography in the Black Arts Movement

  20-11-2025 21:40 via artnews.com
  In a 1968 photograph by Doris Derby, a young girl longingly peers into the window of a toy store in Jackson, Mississippi. Within the image, Derby captures another photographer holding an 8mm camera, kneeling and holding the camera at the child’s eye level. While Derby’s photograph of a child dreaming of play is resonant for its tender simplicity, this era was marked by very different images of life in Mississippi, from the indelible photos of the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till in
  
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• Thirty-Five Arrested in Bulgaria, with Ties to Larger Criminal Art Trafficking Network

  20-11-2025 21:28 via artnews.com
  Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol, busted a criminal network involved in the trafficking of thousands of cultural artifacts across Europe on Tuesday, according to Europol. Investigations are still ongoing.Conducted by a Europol operational task force, the investigation has involved law enforcement and judicial authorities from Albania, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom.There were 35 arrests in Bulgaria and 131 searches in houses, vehicles, and bank safes, al
  
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• Superman Comic Sets Auction Record, Selling for $9.12 Million

  20-11-2025 21:23 via nytimes.com
  A family’s forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was sold by Heritage Auctions.
  
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• Superman Comic Sets Auction Record, Selling for $7.6 Million

  20-11-2025 20:50 via nytimes.com
  A family’s forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was $9.12 million, with fees.
  
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• Richard Lamparski, Author of ‘Whatever Became Of …?’ Books, Dies at 93

  20-11-2025 20:43 via nytimes.com
  He turned an obsession with forgotten stars into a popular series, long before “Where Are They Now?” features became ubiquitous.
  
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• Michael H. Smith, Dealer and Curator Who Prized Experimentation, Dies at 80

  20-11-2025 20:41 via artnews.com
  Michael H. Smith, an artist, dealer, and curator who prized experimentation and was instrumental to helping develop the art scenes in Southern California in the 1970s and ’80s, died on October 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old. A cause was not given.Smith first started in the LA art world by opening his eponymous gallery at 936 North La Cienega Boulevard in 1971. The gallery would close a few years later, and Smith would turn to private dealing and become a partner at the Jack Glenn
  
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• Francis McDormand and Artist Suzanne Bocanegra Want to Rock You at Hauser & Wirth

  20-11-2025 20:25 via artnews.com
  Ten years ago, a Reddit user asked: “What’s your last memory of being picked up by a parent?” The user StatOne recalled scrambling as a four-year-old to keep pace with his family as they briskly climbed an uneven hillside. He was falling behind and frightened of being forgotten in the dark when his father “unexpectedly” turned back. “He picked me up to his shoulder, never broke stride, so smoothly, so lovingly, like the hand of God reaching down,” wrote
  
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• Frances McDormand and Artist Suzanne Bocanegra Want to Rock You at Hauser & Wirth

  20-11-2025 20:25 via artnews.com
  Ten years ago, a Reddit user asked: “What’s your last memory of being picked up by a parent?” The user StatOne recalled scrambling as a four-year-old to keep pace with his family as they briskly climbed an uneven hillside. He was falling behind and frightened of being forgotten in the dark when his father “unexpectedly” turned back. “He picked me up to his shoulder, never broke stride, so smoothly, so lovingly, like the hand of God reaching down,” wrote
  
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• Laurence des Cars, Louvre’s President, Defends Her Tenure

  20-11-2025 19:17 via nytimes.com
  In one of her very few interviews since the museum heist, Laurence des Cars said the plan would increase much-needed security, but critics say it is too focused on new construction.
  
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• After the Louvre Heist, the Museum’s President Defends Her Tenure

  20-11-2025 19:17 via nytimes.com
  In one of her very few interviews since the museum heist, Laurence des Cars said the plan would increase much-needed security, but critics say it is too focused on new construction.
  
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• Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies

  20-11-2025 19:05 via nytimes.com
  Under Richard Grenell, the performing arts center has given steep discounts to CPAC and FIFA, signed contracts with administration associates and spent lavishly on friends.
  
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• SFMOMA to Reinstall Fisher Collection Galleries in April 2026

  20-11-2025 18:32 via artnews.com
  Donald and Doris Fisher’s collection of blue-chip contemporary art has been on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 2016, several years after the museum arranged a long-term loan—a 100-year-long one, to be exact—with the Fisher Art Foundation. Now, a decade after the initial installation, SFMOMA has announced an overhaul of the Fisher Collection galleries. The new presentation will open on April 18, 2026.“Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10” will
  
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• ‘The Family Plan 2’ Review: A Relaxing Vacation? Maybe Not.

  20-11-2025 18:03 via nytimes.com
  Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan return in a better executed, equally goofball sequel about a family’s tangles with organized crime.
  
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• New York–Based Coin Collectors Society Founded in 19th Century Moves to Ohio

  20-11-2025 17:30 via artnews.com
  The American Numismatic Society, an organization of coin collectors founded in 1858 whose motto is “Parva Ne Pareant” (“Let Not the Little Things Perish”), is moving to Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art to mint a new institutional partnership that will allow for expanded research and exhibition-making in a dedicated four-story building. The Art Deco-era dwelling was acquired from the Toledo Museum, on whose campus is stands, and will serve at the group’s new home st
  
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• Frieze Los Angeles Names 95 Exhibitors for Upcoming 2026 Edition

  20-11-2025 17:21 via artnews.com
  The upcoming edition of Frieze Los Angeles will gather together 95 exhibitors at the Santa Monica Airport, where the fair has been staged for the fourth time. Frieze LA is slated to run February 26 through March 1.The exhibitors, hailing from 22 countries, include top blue-chip galleries like Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, Lisson Gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, Gladstone, and Jeffrey Deitch, alongside some of the city’s most important dealerships like Comm
  
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• Phillips Takes $54 M. from Modern and Contemporary Sale, Bonhams on the Move, Demand for Female Photographers Rising: Morning Links for November 20, 2025

  20-11-2025 15:42 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesPHILLIPS TAKES $54 M. ON WEDNESDAY. Before Phillips kicked off its own modern and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday in New York, almost $1.4 billion of modern and contemporary art had already found buyers this week at its much larger competitors, Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Phillips, for its part, was hoping to get a slice of the pie with a concise 33-lot sale featuring an untitled Joan Mitchell painting (high estimate: $15 million), a Francis Bacon diptych (high esti
  
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• After 167 Years in New York, a Priceless Coin Collection Heads to Toledo

  20-11-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The doubloons, dollars and denarii of the American Numismatic Society will leave their overlooked home in Manhattan for a more welcoming headquarters on the campus of the Toledo Museum of Art.
  
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• Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Gregory Huebner Celebrate the Role of Mentorship in "The Hand That Guides" - Newcity Art

  20-11-2025 14:00 via news.google.com
  Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Gregory Huebner Celebrate the Role of Mentorship in "The Hand That Guides"  Newcity Art
  
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• Julia Stoschek Foundation to Stage Ambitious Video Art Show in Historic LA Theater

  20-11-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Julia Stoschek Foundation will stage its first major US presentation next year with “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a large-scale exhibition of time-based artworks set to open February 6 at the historic Variety Arts Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The show, organized by curator Udo Kittelmann, brings together contemporary video works from the foundation’s holdings and early cinema classics, creating what organizers describe as an encounter spanning 120
  
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• Bonhams to Open New US Flagship in New York’s Historic Steinway Hall

  20-11-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  Bonhams will relocate its US headquarters to 111 West 57th Street this February, establishing a new flagship inside the landmarked Steinway Hall as the 230-year-old auction house accelerates its expansion in one of the world’s largest art markets. The move marks a major step for Bonhams, founded in 1793 and now operating globally across more than 60 categories, from fine art and design to collector cars and luxury. The new 42,000-square-foot headquarters—30 percent larger t
  
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• Grace Dignazio ’22 on the MFA, Hybrid Poetics, and the Liberal Arts Experience - The Swarthmore Phoenix

  20-11-2025 11:07 via news.google.com
  Grace Dignazio ’22 on the MFA, Hybrid Poetics, and the Liberal Arts Experience  The Swarthmore Phoenix
  
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• Netflix Has a New House in the Suburbs: Come In and Chill

  20-11-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  After a string of successful events and activities, the streamer has opened its first permanent home for branded fun, at a mall near Philadelphia.
  
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• Arthur Jafa Crafts a Mixtape from MoMA’s Art

  20-11-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  In “Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa,” the artist mines the museum’s vaults for an exhibition that gives new meaning to what he found there.
  
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• ‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Two Besties Till the End

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu’s maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.
  
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• ‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Joel Edgerton stars in a gorgeous film based on Denis Johnson’s celebrated novella about a laborer in the Pacific Northwest.
  
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• Theater as a Safe Space? ‘Practice’ Demolishes That Idea.

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Nazareth Hassan’s darkly witty satire follows an imperious director who pushes his eager actors to extremes.
  
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• The Grand Ole Opry at 100

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  As the country music institution celebrates a century of its radio broadcast, listen to how the show defined the culture — and was reshaped by it — decade by decade.
  
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• ‘The Age of Disclosure’ Review: Release the Extraterrestrial Files

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A documentary argues that the U.S. government needs to divulge what it knows about the phenomena formerly called U.F.O.s.
  
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• ‘Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter’ Review: When Fame Recedes

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A documentary tracks the highs and lows of the 1990s fitness guru, now a food delivery driver in Las Vegas.
  
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• ‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ Review: Slapstick Rambo

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  In this sequel to the 2023 exploitation film, blood-splattered inanity becomes a delirium of popcorn fun.
  
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• Ruth Asawa Turned Wire Into Her Lifeline

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Her undulating looped-wire sculptures and drawings of flowers hint at personal depths, in a major retrospective at MoMA.
  
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• ‘Rental Family’ Review: Brendan Fraser, Lost in Impersonation

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Brendan Fraser is quietly endearing in this fish-out-of-water tale of an American actor in Tokyo who accepts some highly unusual assignments.
  
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• ‘Cutting Through Rocks’ Review: The Only Way Out

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A documentary about Sara Shahverdi, the first woman elected to the council of her village in Iran, is propelled by her no-nonsense resourcefulness.
  
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• ‘Cactus Pears’ Review: Finding Intimacy Amid Grief

  20-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  This understated Indian drama follows closeted gay man gingerly initiating a romance with an old friend.
  
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• Told to Avoid D.E.I., Arts Groups Are Declining Grants Instead

  20-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Even with arts funding at risk, some organizations are rejecting federal money because of censorship concerns.
  
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• In a Reimagined ‘Our Town,’ Dance and Poetry Run for the Woods

  20-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In “My Town,” Jack Ferver’s one-person take on the Wilder classic with hints of “Wisconsin Death Trip,” movement and storytelling are deftly intertwined.
  
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• Sertoma Arts Center Improvements - RaleighNC.gov

  20-11-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Sertoma Arts Center Improvements  RaleighNC.gov
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Prepares for Hurricane Epstein

  20-11-2025 08:07 via nytimes.com
  Kimmel wondered if President Trump might “pull a Taylor Swift and give us ‘The Epstein Files: Donnie’s Version.’”
  
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• Christie’s 21st-Century Evening Sale Sets Auction Records for Three Women Artists

  20-11-2025 05:21 via artnews.com
  Christie’s notched new auction records for Firelei Báez, Joan Brown, and Olga de Amaral during its 21st-century evening sale on Wednesday, underscoring strong demand for historically under-recognized women artists. Báez’s monumental 2021 painting Untitled (Colonization in America, Visual History Wall Map, Prepared by Civic Education Service) sold for $1,111,250, setting a new record for the Dominican-born artist whose work interrogates
  
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• Christie’s 21st-Century Evening Sale Totals $123.6 M. and Sets A Few Records

  20-11-2025 04:53 via artnews.com
  After Monday’s two-part blockbuster at Christie’s kicked off the November marquee sales week with a dozen or more bidding wars, the auction house’s 21st-century sale on Wednesday evening was far tamer, and quite a bit smaller.The sale’s hammer total came to $99.7 million on 44 lots, right smack in the middle of the cumulative pre-sale estimate of $87.5 million to $127 million. With fees, the night’s take came to $123.6 million. There were no withdrawals and only one
  
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• Phillips Modern and Contemporary Sale Nets $67.3 M., Led by $16 M. Francis Bacon Diptych

  20-11-2025 03:09 via artnews.com
  Before Phillips kicked off its own modern and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday in New York, almost $1.4 billion of modern and contemporary art had already found buyers this week at its much larger competitors, Christie’s and Sotheby’s. That’s a tough act to follow, especially given that not even 24 hours prior Sotheby’s sold a Gustav Klint portrait for $236.4 million, the highest price for any work of modern art sold at auction and the second-highest price ever paid
  
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• Newly Discovered Bach Pieces Are the Fruits of Decades of Detective Work

  20-11-2025 00:00 via nytimes.com
  A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the composer’s official catalog.
  
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