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• Students learn history through art at ARTS at King Street Station - Seattle.gov

  10-04-2026 23:59 via news.google.com
  Students learn history through art at ARTS at King Street Station  Seattle.gov
  
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• Martial arts instructor sexually assaulted 13-year-old during private lessons, police say - CBS News

  10-04-2026 23:32 via news.google.com
  Martial arts instructor sexually assaulted 13-year-old during private lessons, police say  CBS News
  
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• Institute of Museum and Library Services Saved from Defunding After Legal Challenge

  10-04-2026 23:31 via ARTnews.com
  The American Library Association, together with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees–the nation’s largest union of cultural workers– has reached a favorable settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, thwarting the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).According to an April 9 press release from the American Library Association (ALA), the settlement ensures the agency will continue award
  
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• Martial arts instructor charged with sexual assault against teen in Allegheny County - WPXI

  10-04-2026 23:22 via news.google.com
  Martial arts instructor charged with sexual assault against teen in Allegheny County  WPXI
  
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• 'Arts can help us live longer': UMass convening highlights growing evidence linking arts to improved health - Daily Hampshire Gazette

  10-04-2026 23:01 via news.google.com
  'Arts can help us live longer': UMass convening highlights growing evidence linking arts to improved health  Daily Hampshire Gazette
  
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• David Geffen Settles Divorce With David Armstrong After Bitter Legal Fight

  10-04-2026 22:40 via ARTnews.com
  ARTnews Top 200 Collector David Geffen’s short-lived marriage has come to an unceremonious end, with the billionaire entertainment mogul reaching a private settlement with his estranged husband, David Armstrong, capping months of unusually public legal sparring.According to court filings reported on by TMZ this week, Geffen, 83, and Armstrong, 33, have agreed to resolve their divorce, though the financial terms remain undisclosed. The split follows less than two years o
  
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• What Made Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades So Revolutionary?

  10-04-2026 22:34 via ARTnews.com
  When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it’s been painted? A block of marble once it’s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the answer was much more direct and far more radical: Anything—indeed, everything—could be art if an artist deemed it so. “An ordinary object,” he said, can be “elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.” This notion, which found expression in his iconic Readymades,
  
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• Tensions Rise Over Proposed New Zealand Statue Commemorating ‘Comfort Women’ Japan Forced into Sexual Slavery, Have a Bartering Breakfast with Maurizio Cattelan: Morning Links for April 10, 2026

  10-04-2026 22:21 via ARTnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesCOLD COMFORT. A proposed bronze statue depicting a seated girl, intended as a symbol of wartime sexual violence, has sparked tensions between Japan and New Zealand, the Guardian reports. The sculpture, donated to the Korean cultural garden at Barry’s Point Reserve in Auckland by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, commemora
  
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• Louvre Museum Jewel Heist Inspires Latest ‘Law & Order’ Episode

  10-04-2026 22:11 via ARTnews.com
  It’s Ash Wednesday in Brooklyn and two plainclothes detectives are getting coffee from a street cart. They continue walking down the street past a church. As they approach a museum, a commotion ensues. Someone has been shot, and the shooters are on the second floor of the museum, they are told.“Beyond Measure,” the 17th episode of Law & Order’s 25th season, was ripped from the many, many headlines related to the recent Louvre Museum heist, a story that dominated inter
  
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• Rome’s Colosseum Gets a New Pedestrian Plaza

  10-04-2026 22:02 via ARTnews.com
  A restoration of the Roman Colosseum’s southern piazza has been completed after four years of construction, according to Artnet News. The project, led by Stefano Boeri Interiors, has recreated the travertine-paved pedestrian plaza outside the amphitheater’s southern façade, where spectators once waited to enter the arena.Built between 70 and 80 CE, the Roman Colosseum remains one of the engineering marvels of the world. At four stories high and with 80 arched entrances, the am
  
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• Obama Presidential Center Announces Final Cohort of Commissions Ahead of June Opening, Including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Lorna Simpson

  10-04-2026 22:00 via ARTnews.com
  The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced the final round of artist commissions that will decorate its campus in the Windy City’s South Side when it opens in June.The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, and Norman Teague.Several of the works will be directly about Barack and Michelle Obama. Crosby will make a portrait of the f
  
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• Trump Unveils Latest Plans for Proposed 250-Foot Tall Triumphal Arch

  10-04-2026 21:31 via ARTnews.com
  The Trump administration released on Friday its design for a 250-foot triumphal arch that would face the Lincoln Memorial, part of a portfolio of projects intended to monumentalize the president’s time in Washington, D.C.According to The New York Times, which first reported the news, the plan was submitted to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The federal design panel, composed of members appointed during the Trump administration, will deliberate on the proposal when convened next week.The
  
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• Curiosity Clinics and the Speculative Pedagogical Future - University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences

  10-04-2026 21:18 via news.google.com
  Curiosity Clinics and the Speculative Pedagogical Future  University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences
  
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• The Long Legal Saga Between Artist Ryder Ripps and the Bored Ape Yacht Club Is Finally Over

  10-04-2026 20:11 via ARTnews.com
  A long-running legal saga between Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, and artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen, has finally ended, with the parties reaching a settlement on Tuesday. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, the parties disclosed that they agreed to a permanent injunction against Ripps and Cahen using any trademarks or images owned by Yuga Labs.The lawsuit stemmed from Ripps’s quest, at the height of the NFT craze in 2022, to
  
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• Ukraine Sanctions Russian Culture Figures Linked to Country’s Participation in Venice Biennale

  10-04-2026 20:10 via ARTnews.com
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Friday that has imposed sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who are involved with organizing the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The news was first reported by UA News.They include Anastasia Karneeva, who is the commissioner of this year’s Russian Pavilion, and Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russia’s delegate for international cultural exchanges and a former culture minister.In a release about the decree, the Ukrainia
  
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• Beeple’s Elon Musk–Robot Dog Is Roaming the Streets of San Francisco in Viral Stunt

  10-04-2026 19:25 via ARTnews.com
  You couldn’t possibly have thought that you’d seen the last of Beeple’s grotesque robot dogs? Last appearing in Art Basel Miami Beach’s new Zero10 digital art section in December, Regular Animals is now on the loose in San Francisco.So, if you’ll permit me, who let the dogs out?The answer to that age-old question is none other than Palo Alto’s Node Foundation, a digital arts nonprofit and exhibition space that will open a mid-career survey for Beeple, a.k.a. M
  
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• RIT opens new performing arts theater - WXXI News

  10-04-2026 19:15 via news.google.com
  RIT opens new performing arts theater  WXXI News
  
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• The Best Shows to See in New York This Month Are at Nonprofit Spaces

  10-04-2026 18:47 via ARTnews.com
  The bell tolls frequently these days for New York galleries of all sizes, suggesting that something in our art ecosystem is seriously broken. (Josh Kline has a diagnosis for that, as you may have heard.) Amid yet another wave of gallery closures, there is much to mourn. But there is also a ray of hope in the form of nonprofits that have sprung up across New York in the past few years, organizing shows that commercial galleries will not—and perhaps cannot—stage.Perhaps more so than ot
  
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• Review: A George Lewis Premiere at the New York Philharmonic

  10-04-2026 18:03 via NYT > Arts
  George Lewis’s new piece brought in the percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire, in an evening that also featured the soprano Golda Schultz.
  
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• Ex-Fresno Arts Council manager to plead guilty in $1.82 million wire fraud case - Fresnoland

  10-04-2026 18:00 via news.google.com
  Ex-Fresno Arts Council manager to plead guilty in $1.82 million wire fraud case  Fresnoland
  
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• Hilde Limondjian, Met Museum’s Longtime Concert Impresario, Dies at 89

  10-04-2026 17:55 via NYT > Arts
  She gave New York debuts to artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Peter Serkin, and introduced new music by Philip Glass and others.
  
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• Check Out Some of the Incredible NASA Photographs from Artemis II’s Historic Mission to the Moon

  10-04-2026 17:37 via ARTnews.com
  On April 6, the four astronauts aboard the Integrity spacecraft as part of the Artemis II mission documented their breathtaking view as they circled the far side of the moon and began their return to Earth.NASA shared a gallery of spectacular images of the first flyby, revealing areas of the moon that no human has laid eyes on before, as well as a surprise solar eclipse.The four astronauts—commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan to Open Milan Design Week with Dawn ‘Breakfast-Barter’ in Piazza Duomo

  10-04-2026 17:35 via ARTnews.com
  Maurizio Cattelan will inaugurate Milan Design Week at 7 a.m. on April 20 with what can only be described as a hopefully civilized and very caffeinated experiment in amateur economics: a public “breakfast-barter” in Piazza Duomo.According to Artribune, the premise is simple. Bring an object—ideally something “curious, iconic, affective, eccentric or unexpected”—and attempt to trade it with a stranger before the espresso runs out. Coffee will be provided by Lav
  
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• The Enduring Body and Soul of Martha Graham at 100

  10-04-2026 17:25 via NYT > Arts
  Her dance company, the oldest in the United States, celebrates its centennial in a series of mixed bills. But why aren’t all the dances by Graham?
  
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• Clark County, Nevada Arts Council and Film Nevadan Present Short Notice Film Showcase: Student Edition - Clark County (.gov)

  10-04-2026 15:13 via news.google.com
  Clark County, Nevada Arts Council and Film Nevadan Present Short Notice Film Showcase: Student Edition  Clark County (.gov)
  
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• School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions Open - Boston University

  10-04-2026 15:00 via news.google.com
  School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions Open  Boston University
  
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• Dealers Are Doing Brisk Business at a Smaller and ‘More Intentional’ Expo Chicago 

  10-04-2026 14:48 via ARTnews.com
  Tears of joy are not the first thing you expect to hear about at art fairs, but that was the order of the day for Tennessee artist Annie Brito Hodgin at Thursday’s VIP preview at the thirteenth edition of Expo Chicago (April 9–12), where she is showing her paintings with Red Arrow Gallery. “It’s the artist’s first time showing outside Nashville and her first time showing at an art fair, and she’s here with us,” gallery director Ashley Layendecker told AR
  
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• Music Commentary: Big Ears 2026 — Another View - The Arts Fuse

  10-04-2026 14:21 via news.google.com
  Music Commentary: Big Ears 2026 — Another View  The Arts Fuse
  
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• Knitting a community: how a Bellingham fiber arts store is building connection - Salish Current

  10-04-2026 11:06 via news.google.com
  Knitting a community: how a Bellingham fiber arts store is building connection  Salish Current
  
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• Why Beauty and Ugliness Go Hand in Hand

  10-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  A new exhibition explores Renaissance views on what is attractive and what is hideous, and how one can’t exist without the other.
  
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• ‘Euphoria’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know.

  10-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  The third season of the scandalous drama premieres on Sunday, more than four years after the end of Season 2. Fuzzy on the details? We can help.
  
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• Billy Magnussen Has Mixed Feelings on Playing ‘Punchable’ Guys So Well

  10-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  As the lead of a new Silicon Valley satire on AMC, “The Audacity,” he plays a particularly poignant variety: the tech bro.
  
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• The Sense of Touch at Billboard Scale

  10-04-2026 11:01 via NYT > Arts
  Ann Hamilton, known for conceptual art installations, embraces a new era with scanner photography at the Cleveland Museum — and finds a tactile tenderness.
  
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• How Authors and Readers Feel About the ‘Shy Girl’ Cancellation

  10-04-2026 11:01 via NYT > Arts
  Major publishing houses risk unwittingly putting out books generated with A.I. tools. Authors and readers are frustrated, nervous and grasping for solutions.
  
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• Robert Moses and Isamu Noguchi Battled for Decades—About Playgrounds

  10-04-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  In 1980, an Isamu Noguchi sculpture was abruptly removed from the lobby of the Bank of Tokyo in New York. Some customers had found the looming presence of the suspended 17-foot cube unsettling, and the bank’s leadership shared their unease; one report likened the folded aluminum structure to a guillotine. Once it was removed, Noguchi quipped to a friend, “We are out in the street where we belong.” His tongue-in-cheek remark reflected his conviction: that sculpture belonged not
  
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• Protoje, One of Reggae’s Premier Ambassadors, Doubles Down on His Roots

  10-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  The musician’s latest album, “The Art of Acceptance,” features stars of the genre (Damian and Stephen Marley) and fresh updates on nostalgic sounds.
  
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• My 5 Favorite Places for Art in London

  10-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city undergoing a palpable cultural renewal.
  
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• Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.

  10-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  A study found that traffic fatalities increased in the United States by nearly 15 percent on the same days as the biggest album releases.
  
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• In This Film About Amy Goodman, Independent Journalism Is the Real Star

  10-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  “Steal This Story, Please!” chronicles the life and career of the “Democracy Now!” host as it argues against corporate ownership of the news media.
  
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• Everyone’s Talking About Duchamp. These 5 Artists Are the Ones to Listen To.

  10-04-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  It is said that artists are the ones to decide which of their peers and predecessors go down in history. Most memorable are the works that influence others and start arguments or conversations, with others replying either in work or words. It is hard, then, to think of an artist more influential today than Marcel Duchamp, who lead the charge in breaking art out of the confines of sculpture and painting. Even artists who don’t give him much thought directly find themselves contending with h
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Salutes Melania’s White House Surprise

  10-04-2026 07:35 via NYT > Arts
  The first lady addressed her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in a prepared statement that the talk show host called “better than her movie.”
  
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• Casinos, vacations, altered records. Ex-Fresno Arts Council manager admits to $1.8M theft - Fresno Bee

  10-04-2026 04:57 via news.google.com
  Casinos, vacations, altered records. Ex-Fresno Arts Council manager admits to $1.8M theft  Fresno Bee
  
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• ‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap: Physician, Heal Thyself

  10-04-2026 04:00 via NYT > Arts
  Dr. Robby may be stressed out by the constant demands of the E.R., but the work may also be the only thing saving him from himself.
  
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• ‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time

  10-04-2026 04:00 via NYT > Arts
  Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy returns to Broadway, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf. Yet again, it is a triumph.
  
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• Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip-Hop,’ Is Dead

  10-04-2026 01:28 via NYT > Arts
  A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, Mr. Bambaataa was accused of child sexual abuse later in his career.
  
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