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• Mayor Reestablishes City Arts Office, Names New Manager to Lead Effort - City of Spokane

  27-04-2026 22:53 via news.google.com
  Mayor Reestablishes City Arts Office, Names New Manager to Lead Effort  City of Spokane
  
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• Newly Excavated Egyptian Tomb Sheds Light on Greco-Roman Era

  27-04-2026 22:30 via ARTnews.com
  A newly excavated Roman-era tomb found at Al-Bahnasa, site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, offers insights into Egyptian funerary practices during the Greek and Roman periods (332 BCE–641 CE). The find, announced by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, was made by a team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers led by archeologists Esther Pons of Spain’s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona.  Among the contents of the tomb were
  
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• Hard Choices: Should You Donate to Institutions Getting Gutted by Trump?

  27-04-2026 21:36 via ARTnews.com
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver a quiz full of hard choices for Art in America readers from far and wide.They say that culture should be free for all, yet we’ve long been relying on our government to foot the bill in the form of grants and pork barrel spending. From the WPA to the NEA, America has underwritten the top tier of high culture for decades on end. The current president and
  
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• San Francisco Appoints Matthew Goudeau to Top Arts Job - KQED

  27-04-2026 21:28 via news.google.com
  San Francisco Appoints Matthew Goudeau to Top Arts Job  KQED
  
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• Seven-Foot-Tall Monument to Ramses II Discovered in Eastern Nile Delta Region

  27-04-2026 21:08 via ARTnews.com
  The top half of a large statue of the ancient Egyptian king Ramses II was discovered in northeastern Egypt at an archaeological site called Tell El-Faraoun. The fragment weights over 5 tons and is about 7 feet tall.Ahram Online reported that the monument was likely part of a group of three statues that once adorned a temple, though likely not the one at Tell El-Faraoun, where it was uncovered. Rather, it is believed to have initially been carved for a temple in Per-Ramesses, an ancient capital c
  
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• Luis Puenzo, Director of Oscar-Winning Argentine Film, Dies at 80

  27-04-2026 21:08 via NYT > Arts
  “The Official Story,” set during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, won the country its first Academy Award for best foreign language film, in 1986.
  
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• Art Show in London Canceled Over Allegations of Antisemitism from Pro-Israel Group

  27-04-2026 21:04 via ARTnews.com
  An exhibition at Delta House Gallery in London was cancelled after the group UK Lawyers for Israel raised concerns over drawings described by the Telegraph newspaper as “dripping with Jew-hate.”That appraisal ran in a review of a previous version of the show in Margate, where the artist Matthew Collings showed his work in an exhibition titled “Drawings Against Genocide.”As reported by the Jerusalem Post, “The drawings in the collection are graphic. One depicts the o
  
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• S.F. finally has an Arts Czar. Here’s what’s at stake. - The San Francisco Standard

  27-04-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  S.F. finally has an Arts Czar. Here’s what’s at stake.  The San Francisco Standard
  
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• Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice

  27-04-2026 19:47 via ARTnews.com
  Entering the cavernous Magazzini del Sale in Venice, viewers encounter Nalini Malani’s animations, which are projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve, and reappear as they are cast across architecture shaped by centuries of trade. The installation feels both contemporary and archaic: moving images that seem less like digital projections than pigment placed on stone, recalling cave paintings set in motion.
   
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• David Malouf, Novelist of Australia’s Divided Heritage, Dies at 92

  27-04-2026 19:44 via NYT > Arts
  Declared a national living treasure in 1997, he wrote poetry and short stories but was best known for his nine novels, including “The Great World.”
  
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• Venice Opera Cuts Ties With the Conductor Beatrice Venezi

  27-04-2026 19:36 via NYT > Arts
  Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director drew scorn from orchestra members who said she was unqualified. She fought back in several interviews.
  
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• At 77, Painter Archie Rand Is Still Telling New Stories

  27-04-2026 18:32 via ARTnews.com
  How do you know when a painting is finished? It’s a question asked of so many painters, many of whom struggle to come up with an answer. When I posed it to Archie Rand during a conversation in his Brooklyn studio, he stood up from his lounge chair and walked toward an easel on which sat a half-finished work. In it, a dapper street vendor sells ceramics from a wooden board balanced on his head. Two children watch him from behind while, in one sliver of the background on the top left side of
  
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• Sharjah Biennial Lines Up 109 Artists for 2027 Edition, Titled ‘What Remains, Sits Restive’

  27-04-2026 18:22 via ARTnews.com
  The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the title, curatorial framework, and artist list for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from January 21, through June 13, 2027.Titled “What remains, sits restive,” the exhibition will bring together 109 artists across sites in the emirate, including Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, and the Kalba Ice Factory.The edition is co-curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, who have structured the project around themes of unrealized so
  
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• Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics

  27-04-2026 18:21 via ARTnews.com
  At first glance, Nancy Burson’s “Quantum Entanglement” paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves. Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear as overlapping roundish figures. But when viewed as the 78-year-old artist intends—through a phone camera—the forms appear to jitter like static. Faint washes of color and a new sense of depth emerge. To Burson, the paintings—on view in the solo exhibition “Light Ma
  
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• ‘Kenrex’ Review: Plunging Into the Violent World of True Crime

  27-04-2026 18:16 via NYT > Arts
  The play, by Jack Holden and Ed Stambollouian at the Lucille Lortel Theater, tells the story of a brutal bully who was shot and killed in plain view.
  
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• A Long-Running Case Centering on Alleged Robert Indiana Forgeries Is Resolved with a $102 M. Settlement

  27-04-2026 17:53 via ARTnews.com
  A lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and forgery of the work of major American Pop artist Robert Indiana has come to a conclusion after eight long years. A New York jury found that art publisher Michael McKenzie had created unauthorized and altered versions of Indiana’s work, reports the New York Times. The suit included some versions of Indiana’s trademark work, LOVE, which depicts the word love in lively serif characters, the LO situated atop the VE, with the O placed at an an
  
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• Italian Culture Minister Will Not Attend Venice Biennale Opening in Protest of Russia’s Participation

  27-04-2026 17:26 via ARTnews.com
  Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the opening of the Venice Biennale as a protest against the Russian Pavilion, which marks the country’s return to the exhibition following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The news was announced in a statement from the Ministry of Culture, which noted that Giuli will neither travel to Venice for the preview of the exhibition nor attend its opening ceremony on May 9. Russia’s reopening of its national pavilion—with
  
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• South Carolina Artist Aldwyth Dies, The Box Closes in LA, and More: Morning Links for April 27, 2026

  27-04-2026 16:09 via ARTnews.com
  The HeadlinesLOVE ACTUALLY. After eight years of legal disputes, a New York federal jury has awarded the Morgan Art Foundation $102.2 million in damages, contending that art publisher Michael McKenzie isolated artist Robert Indiana near the end of his life and created unauthorized versions of his work, the New York Times  reports. Indiana is famous for his large sculpture depicting the word “love” in caps, with the L and O sitting atop the
  
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• “Primary Structures” Turns 60

  27-04-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum’s “Primary Structures” exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: “Here are 42 American and British artists,” Kramer observed, “who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary—the whole panoply of individual expressive devices
  
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• “Primary Structures,” Turns 60

  27-04-2026 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum’s “Primary Structures” exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: “Here are 42 American and British artists,” Kramer observed, “who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary—the whole panoply of individual expressive devices
  
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• Portland’s annual arts tax would increase, fewer people would pay under new proposal - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB

  27-04-2026 15:00 via news.google.com
  Portland’s annual arts tax would increase, fewer people would pay under new proposal  Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB
  
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• Israel Addresses Venice Biennale Jury’s ‘Boycott’ of Pavilion: ‘A Contamination of the Art World’

  27-04-2026 14:33 via ARTnews.com
  Israel has responded to a statement released by the Venice Biennale jury, in which its five curators said last week that they would not consider any pavilions by countries who are charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.Calling that move a “boycott,” Israel’s foreign ministry denounced the jury in a statement on X this morning that accused the group of aiding in “a contamination of the art world.”“The political jury has transfo
  
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• National Endowment for the Arts Leaders Visit Western North Carolina May 5-6, 2026 - National Endowment for the Arts (.gov)

  27-04-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  National Endowment for the Arts Leaders Visit Western North Carolina May 5-6, 2026  National Endowment for the Arts (.gov)
  
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• Artists Sell More Than $1 M. in Art at Sotheby’s in Support of a Debt-Free Yale MFA Program

  27-04-2026 14:00 via ARTnews.com
  Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby’s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University’s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of the works will appear in a contemporary art day sale during the marquee auctions. The most expensive piece of the bunch, a 2005 Richard Prince photograph of a clothed, adult Brooke Shields from his “Spiritual Americ
  
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• Book Review: “Colossus” — Swimming With the Snakes - The Arts Fuse

  27-04-2026 13:04 via news.google.com
  Book Review: “Colossus” — Swimming With the Snakes  The Arts Fuse
  
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• Is A Random Unknown Artist More Valuable Than Picasso? AI Thinks So.

  27-04-2026 11:18 via ARTnews.com
  What’s worth more—a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the answer is the latter.That surprising result came out of an experiment I ran with a data scientist and an AI expert from Silicon Valley. Our goal was to see whether artificial intelligence could bring more transparency—and, perhaps, greater fairness—to the art market.The timing is urgent. The art world has been in a recession for 15 years, galleries are
  
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• ‘Michael’ Fans Danced in the Aisles, Critics Be Damned

  27-04-2026 11:04 via NYT > Arts
  The biopic of the pop singer crushed box-office records on its opening weekend as admirers moonwalked to a movie that critics have savaged.
  
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• Courtney Washington Is Ballroom Fierce. Next, She Tackles Modern Dance.

  27-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Courtney Washington made her name as a choreographer in street-dance competitions and on the ballroom scene. Now, she’s making a work for Parsons Dance.
  
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• Courtney Washington: A New Stage but the Same Fearlessness

  27-04-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Courtney Washington made her name as a choreographer in street-dance competitions and on the ballroom scene. Now, she’s making a work for Parsons Dance.
  
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• The Cult Music Documentary ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Turns Middle-Age

  27-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  The film capturing the scene outside a Judas Priest show was 17 minutes long, only available on VHS and won the hearts of a generation of rock fans.
  
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• The Best Books of 2026 So Far: ‘Kin,’ ‘London Falling’ and More

  27-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.
  
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• Are Movies Really Getting Darker? Let’s Shine Some Light on the Issue.

  27-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  Movie watchers are often left wondering why today’s films look murkier than films of years past. Here’s how some experts diagnose the issue.
  
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• A Virtual Escape for Rikers Inmates

  27-04-2026 11:00 via NYT > Arts
  The New York jail complex uses video games as part of its strategy to reduce violence with programming for good behavior.
  
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• May-June Exhibition | Sertoma Arts Center - RaleighNC.gov

  27-04-2026 09:00 via news.google.com
  May-June Exhibition | Sertoma Arts Center  RaleighNC.gov
  
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• ‘Widow’s Bay,’ and 6 More Things to Watch on TV This Week

  27-04-2026 07:00 via NYT > Arts
  The Apple TV show starring Matthew Rhys premieres, and two true crime documentaries air.
  
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• ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Everything Breaks

  27-04-2026 05:10 via NYT > Arts
  Valerie has been terrible at keeping the A.I. thing a secret. Almost as terrible as Billy is at being her manager.
  
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• ‘The Lost Boys’ Review: Live, Die, Reprise

  27-04-2026 04:00 via NYT > Arts
  A Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 movie gets a lot of mileage from ’80s rocker aesthetics and over-the-top spectacle — until its second half.
  
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