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• Tongass Voices: Robin DeAlva on making an online exchange for arts supplies - KTOO

  25-03-2026 22:57 via news.google.com
  Tongass Voices: Robin DeAlva on making an online exchange for arts supplies  KTOO
  
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• At Art Basel Hong Kong, Blue-Chips Report Flurry of 7-Figure Deals, While Others Lament ‘Slower Than Usual’ Sales

  25-03-2026 22:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Cash flowed, but confidence trickled on Day 1 of Art Basel Hong Kong, where a cross-section of the 240 galleries offered a spectrum of responses to one simple question: How are sales? At Hauser & Wirth, Marc Payot, presiding over a packed booth, described a &ldquo
  
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• Pat Steir, Famed for Her Abstract ‘Waterfall’ Paintings, Dies at 87

  25-03-2026 21:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  Pat Steir, who made a name for herself via wall-size abstractions that she achieved by pouring paint from a ladder, died on Wednesday in Manhattan of natural causes. She was 87.Her death was confirmed by her husband Joost Elffers, her niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen, and Marc Payot, president of Hauser & Wirth, which had represented Steir since 2022.“Working so closely with Pat Steir—spending so much time with her, immersed in her work together and enjoying such a close frien
  
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• Yto Barrada Says France Had ‘Full Awareness’ of Her Views on Israel When It Chose Her for Venice Biennale

  25-03-2026 21:46 via ARTnews.com
  
  After her forthcoming French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale was denounced by a prominent Jewish group, artist Yto Barrada appeared to address the controversy, saying that the pavilion’s organizers knew about her views on Israel when they selected her.Barrada, who was born in Paris and is of Moroccan descent, was among the more than 200 artists who signed an open letter to the Biennale calling for the ejection of Israel from the show. Organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance, the letter
  
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• K-Pop Band BTS Performed Two Songs from New Album ‘ARIRANG’ at the Guggenheim on Wednesday Morning

  25-03-2026 21:19 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Guggenheim in New York City is one of the most famous art museums in the world, and on the morning of Wednesday (March 25), BTS descended on the landmark to add a little performance art to its galleries ahead of the band’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appearance.Billboard was on the scene as RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook sang and danced to two tracks from their new album, ARIRANG, which dropped earlier in March. One of them was &ldquo
  
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• Jury Awards Chance the Rapper $35 in Legal Fight With Former Manager

  25-03-2026 21:13 via NYT > Arts
  The former manager, Pat Corcoran, sued in 2020, seeking $3.8 million in unpaid royalties. Chance countersued for $1 million. The legal battle ended last week in what amounted to a draw.
  
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• Elsa Schiaparelli Gets Her UK Museum Debut at the V&A, in a Show Featuring Dalí, Man Ray, and Picasso

  25-03-2026 21:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  The UK has never before seen an exhibition of the legendary Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and now more than 400 objects are going on view at the V&A, including 100 ensembles and 50 artworks, along with accessories, jewelry, paintings, photographs, furniture, perfumes, and items from the archive. “Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art” encompasses looks from the house spanning from her first designs, from the 1920s, to the present day, under creative director Daniel Rose
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Partner Cristopher Canizares Departs to Start Artist Agency

  25-03-2026 21:07 via ARTnews.com
  
  After 16 years helping build one of the most powerful galleries in the world, Cristopher Canizares is stepping away from Hauser & Wirth to try something the art market still hasn’t quite figured out how to define: an artist management agency.The longtime partner will leave at the end of May to launch the Artist Legacy Bureau, a tightly run operation focused on long-term career strategy. He plans to work with a small group of artists—around five or six—keeping the model inte
  
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• The Good List: 8 Things to Add Delight to Your Day

  25-03-2026 21:00 via NYT > Arts
  March Madness madness, better small talk and the morality of sandwiches.
  
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• Pat Steir, Painter of Luminous ‘Waterfalls,’ Dies at 87

  25-03-2026 20:00 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  Spilling paint onto canvas and letting it streak down as it pleased, she often said that her celebrated works painted themselves.
  
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• Female Pharaoh’s Erasure From Memory Was Not Revenge, Researcher Says

  25-03-2026 19:34 via ARTnews.com
  
  Hatshepsut (ca. 1505–1458 BCE), the most powerful of ancient Egypt’s female rulers, was also one of the most successful, notable for reopening old trade routes, commissioning massive building projects—including her own mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri—and ushering in an era of political stability, economic growth, and artistic innovation. Her rise to the throne began when, after the death of her husband Thutmose II, she appointed herself regent for her young stepson, Thut
  
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• Underground Railroad Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Canceled Grant

  25-03-2026 19:33 via ARTnews.com
  
  Last week, the Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC) in Albany, New York, filed a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities, accusing it of cancelling a $250,000 grant on the basis of race. The suit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York by a group of lawyers affiliated with the organization Lawyers for Good Government, according to an NBC News report.The canceled grant, the suit states, is part of the Trump administration’s ongoing
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 M. Home for African Art Collection, One of America’s First

  25-03-2026 19:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Brooklyn Museum revealed plans to renovate and build a new home for its African art collection dating back to the early 1900s, making it one of America’s oldest institutional collections of art from Africa and the diaspora it informs. The $13-million project aims to establish a dedicated 6,400-square-foot destination on the museum’s third floor, to open with a display of more than 300 artworks from antiquity to the present in the fall of 2027.“This is more than a new collec
  
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• Newly Authenticated Modigliani Heads to Sale at Art Basel Hong Kong via Pace with a $13.3 M. Price Tag

  25-03-2026 19:16 via ARTnews.com
  
  Just weeks after announcing a book launch for Institut Restellini’s decades-in-the-making Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné, Pace is offering a painting by the artist at Art Basel Hong Kong that was only recently authenticated. The work has a long legal backstory.Titled Jeune femme brune (1917–18), the work is the highest priced piece on offer at the Hong Kong fair, according to ARTnews’s Tessa Solomon, who is on the ground reporting from Art Basel. Pace CEO Marc Glim
  
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• Stephen Colbert Is Writing a New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie

  25-03-2026 18:35 via NYT > Arts
  In an announcement video with the director Peter Jackson, the late-night host said he was developing a new film based on early chapters of the trilogy.
  
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• A Free Home for San Francisco Artists, From Dave Eggers and Friends

  25-03-2026 17:00 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  The writer, and the artist JD Beltran, have come up with Art + Water, to host exhibitions, give 30 artists studio space, and offer community events.
  
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• Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

  25-03-2026 16:56 via NYT > Arts
  A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.
  
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• A Must-See Raphael Retrospective at the Met Proves He Was ‘One of the Greatest Influencers’

  25-03-2026 16:31 via ARTnews.com
  
  The closing image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Raphael blockbuster, opening to the public on Sunday, is of a muscular man bursting out of a craggy hillside. As he does so, one jacked forearm blows right through the frame that surrounds him. Part of a monumentally scaled tapestry called Saint Paul in Prison (ca. 1517–21), it’s a ferocious picture of unbridled masculinity, bulging pecs and all. It might be read as the logical parting shot for a retrospective about a man wh
  
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• Banned South Africa Pavilion Show Moves to Another Venice Venue, Enslaved Girl Identified in 18th-Century Portrait at Art Gallery of Ontario: Morning Links for March 25, 2026

  25-03-2026 15:47 via ARTnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE SHOW MUST GO ON. Gabrielle Goliath’s banned performance artwork commemorating Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada, initially meant to be shown at South Africa’s Venice Biennale pavilion, will now go on display outside the main exhibition, reports the Guardian. The Chiesa di Sant’Antonin church in Venice’s Castello district
  
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• South Africa’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Sits Empty as Gabrielle Goliath’s Banned Work on Gaza Appears Nearby

  25-03-2026 14:43 via ARTnews.com
  
  South Africa’s contribution to this year’s Venice Biennale will be both absent and impossible to ignore. Months after the government abruptly canceled a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath, the work at the center of the dispute is now set to appear in Venice anyway, just not inside the Biennale proper. Instead, according to The Guardian, Goliath’s Elegy will be installed nearby at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, where it will run for three months
  
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• Hirshhorn Unveils First Sculptures for Revamped Garden Ahead of October Reopening

  25-03-2026 14:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. is starting to show its hand ahead of October’s long-awaited reopening of its rethought and improved sculpture garden. The museum has announced the first round of acquisitions for its overhauled garden, redesigned by Hiroshi Sugimoto, with a lineup that leans heavily on contemporary names now entering the institution’s orbit.The group includes works by Mark Grotjahn, Raven Halfmoon, Lauren Halsey, Izumi Kato, 
  
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• ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Playwright Briefly Kept Out of Broadway Rehearsals

  25-03-2026 12:54 via NYT > Arts
  A week before opening night, tensions spilled over offstage, with the show’s producing team temporarily prohibiting Stephen Adly Guirgis from entering the theater.
  
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• Mozart Wouldn’t Be Mozart Without These Three Objects

  25-03-2026 10:06 via NYT > Arts
  Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for Mozart’s life in music.
  
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• The ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Showrunner Feels Your Pain, Really

  25-03-2026 10:02 via NYT > Arts
  That big death at the start of Season 1 was hard for Dario Scardapane, too. Season 2 might not be any easier.
  
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• ‘Bait’ Review: Bond. Shahjehan Bond.

  25-03-2026 10:02 via NYT > Arts
  Riz Ahmed imagines the dark side of being a 007 candidate (a position he knows something about) in his Prime Video comedy series.
  
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• A Master of Animation Is Back, With a ‘Magnificent’ Story

  25-03-2026 10:02 via NYT > Arts
  The first animated feature in 15 years by the acclaimed French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet, the “Triplets of Belleville” creator, is a biopic of another artist who never lost his ability for wonder and curiosity.
  
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• Larry Reed, Master of Shadow Puppetry, Dies at 81

  25-03-2026 10:01 via NYT > Arts
  Entranced by traditional Balinese puppet theater, he developed a modern, multicultural version that he performed around the world.
  
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• In Marathon, A.I. Is Everywhere and Humanity Is an Anomaly

  25-03-2026 10:01 via NYT > Arts
  Over the decades, the depiction of artificial intelligence has evolved from sci-fi villain to systemic reality.
  
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• ‘A Little Prayer,’ ‘Splitsville’ and More Streaming Gems

  25-03-2026 10:01 via NYT > Arts
  Two of last year’s best indies — a family drama and a no-holds-barred sex comedy — are among the many treasures on your subscription streaming services this month.
  
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• How ‘One Piece’ Fixed a Common Problem for Anime Adaptations

  25-03-2026 10:00 via NYT > Arts
  The Netflix hit uses a combination of craft and collaboration to tackle one of the trickiest challenges for live-action anime adaptations: wigs.
  
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• Heirs of Dave the Potter, the Enslaved Artist, Are Battling to Recover His Legacy

  25-03-2026 10:00 via NYT > Arts
  The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance — and their own.
  
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• Write It Up! How Fast Do Our Journalists Type?

  25-03-2026 08:00 via NYT > Arts
  When it comes to breaking news, it’s a race not only to get the story, but to record it. We tracked down some of the speediest fingers in our newsroom.
  
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• Late Night Questions the ‘Very Big Present’ Trump Got From Iran

  25-03-2026 06:46 via NYT > Arts
  Josh Johnson was puzzled by what kind of gift the president could have received “from the people you are currently at war with.”
  
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• Final show of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' is March 28 at Logos Theatre - FOX Carolina

  25-03-2026 01:22 via news.google.com
  Final show of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' is March 28 at Logos Theatre  FOX Carolina
  
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• Los Angeles County High School for the Arts will celebrate 40 years at the Greek - Los Angeles Daily News

  25-03-2026 01:08 via news.google.com
  Los Angeles County High School for the Arts will celebrate 40 years at the Greek  Los Angeles Daily News
  
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• Middletown Arts Center presents MAC Music Cafe on Sunday - NewJerseyStage.com

  25-03-2026 01:03 via news.google.com
  Middletown Arts Center presents MAC Music Cafe on Sunday  NewJerseyStage.com
  
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• Wheaton Arts Parade floats find new home - NBC4 Washington

  25-03-2026 00:59 via news.google.com
  Wheaton Arts Parade floats find new home  NBC4 Washington
  
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• Pacific Beach Arts Center programming begins while fundraising continues - San Diego Union-Tribune

  25-03-2026 00:48 via news.google.com
  Pacific Beach Arts Center programming begins while fundraising continues  San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Anderson Ranch Arts Center: Visiting Artist Lecture with Ana Maria Hernando - Aspen Public Radio

  25-03-2026 00:40 via news.google.com
  Anderson Ranch Arts Center: Visiting Artist Lecture with Ana Maria Hernando  Aspen Public Radio
  
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• Show-to-concert performance of 'Outlander' gives audiences 'one unforgettable night of music' - KETV

  25-03-2026 00:37 via news.google.com
  Show-to-concert performance of 'Outlander' gives audiences 'one unforgettable night of music'  KETV
  
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• Investors snap up debt to finance Electronic Arts’ $55bn take-private - Financial Times

  25-03-2026 00:35 via news.google.com
  Investors snap up debt to finance Electronic Arts’ $55bn take-private  Financial Times
  
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• 24th annual WATCH Awards winners announced - DC Theater Arts

  25-03-2026 00:26 via news.google.com
  24th annual WATCH Awards winners announced  DC Theater Arts
  
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• GLCF’s Arts Elevate pilot project: ‘From Paper to Person: A Journey of Self-Expression’ at Danny’s Place, Acton - Lowell Sun

  25-03-2026 00:24 via news.google.com
  GLCF’s Arts Elevate pilot project: ‘From Paper to Person: A Journey of Self-Expression’ at Danny’s Place, Acton  Lowell Sun
  
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• Discover Delmarva Arts: Women’s History Month - WMDT

  25-03-2026 00:00 via news.google.com
  Discover Delmarva Arts: Women’s History Month  WMDT
  
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