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• A New York Home Designed for a Real-Life Couple and Their Imaginary Muse

  11-02-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.
  
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• Diotima Unveils Fall Ad Campaign Inspired by Artist Wilfredo Lam’s Afro-Cuban Symbolism and History

  09-09-2026 17:34 via artnews.com
  
  Rachel Scott, founder and creative director of Diotima, has released the company’s fall ad campaign, which is a collaboration with the estate of Wilfredo Lam, whose art was shaped by Afro-Cuban symbolism, Caribbean spirituality, and European modernism and carries a political and cultural consciousness.On Friday, Scott told WWD how meaningful Lam’s artwork was to her and her fall ’26 collection. “He’s one of the most influential of my work and my life. The
  
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• Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted

  09-09-2026 17:21 via artnews.com
  
  Three of the Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen yesterday morning from a museum in southern France may have been stolen before. France’s Ministry of Culture announced in a press release that three of the four paintings initially snatched from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer had been returned to France from Germany after World War II. They became informally known as “orphans” because their rightful owners were unknown. It’s still unclear which paintings have the of
  
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• Jeff Koons Teams Up with Hublot for a New Watch Collaboration

  09-09-2026 16:17 via artnews.com
  
  Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot has collaborated with the likes of Shepard Fairey, Richard Orlinski, Daniel Arsham, and Takashi Murakami. Now, it’s tapping Jeff Koons as a collaborator and ambassador.Koons will unveil his reimagination of what a Hublot watch should look like in mid-September in New York. This is the artist’s first collaboration with a watch brand. “Hublot and I have always shared [a] fascination for the material sciences,” said the artist in a statement. H
  
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• Valie Export Was Ahead of Her Time and as Subtle as She Was Provocative

  09-09-2026 15:57 via artnews.com
  
  One chilly but sparkling afternoon this past January, I made a pilgrimage. The destination was a somewhat unlikely site for work by one of the most iconoclastic (in every sense of that term) feminist artists of the last century: a Roman Catholic church. The Pöstlingberg basilica gleams atop the steep hill of the same name, looking out upon a wide vista of the Danube flowing through Linz—where VALIE EXPORT, born Waltraud Lehner in Nazi-era Austria, spent her formative years. I was
  
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• Hungary Axes SANAA-Designed National Gallery, Basel Social Club to Launch Tokyo Event, and More: Morning Links for September 9, 2026

  09-09-2026 15:29 via artnews.com
  
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  Hungary’s new government has nixed plans to build a SANAA-designed National Gallery in Budapest. Basel Social Club is launching Tokyo Jazz Club in November. Greece rejected a request from Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection to borrow Parthenon marbles because of the British Museum’s participation.The Hea
  
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• Eric Firestone to Open Fifth Gallery in West Palm Beach

  09-09-2026 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  Eric Firestone is expanding south. The dealer will open his fifth gallery space, this time in West Palm Beach in mid-November, adding a permanent South Florida location to his two spaces in New York and two in East Hampton. The new gallery, at 2412 Florida Avenue, will occupy a warehouse space near the Norton Museum of Art. For Firestone, who grew up in Miami and left South Florida in 1989, the move is both a homecoming and a bet on a region he’s familiar with as an art dealer. &ldquo
  
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• Kasseem Dean and Alicia Keys Team Up with Bonhams for Initiative That Gives Artists a Cut of Secondary-Market Sales

  09-09-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  When Kasseem Dean (better known as Swizz Beatz) and Alicia Keys saw Kerry James Marshall’s painting Past Times (1997) sell at Sotheby’s in 2018 for $21 million, making what the house quickly labeled “a record for a living African American artist,” they despaired that Marshall himself didn’t see any of the upside from the sale. “We thought being a part of a milestone like that would be so advantageous to the artist who created the work,” they wrote to ART
  
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• Christie’s to Auction Peter Simon’s $172 M. Art Collection, Led by Bacon, Mondrian, Warhol Works

  09-09-2026 14:47 via artnews.com
  
  An art collection, estimated to be worth £87 million to £127 million ($118 million to $172 million), featuring works by Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, and more, is coming to Christie’s on October 14 and 15 during Frieze Week. The collection belongs to British businessman and art collector Peter Simon, who has appeared on each edition of ARTnews’ Top 200 Collectors list since 2005.The sale of “Monsoon: The Pe
  
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• Christie’s to Auction Bacon, Mondrian, Warhol in a £127 M. Art Collection

  09-09-2026 14:47 via artnews.com
  
  An art collection, estimated to be worth £87 million to £127 million ($118 million to $172 million), featuring works by Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, and more, is coming to Christie’s on October 14 and 15 during Frieze Week. The collection belongs to British businessman and art collector Peter Simon, who has appeared on each edition of ARTnews’ Top 200 Collectors list since 2005.The sale of “Monsoon: The Pe
  
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• Planned SANAA Architect Project in Hungary to Be Turned Into Public Parkland

  09-09-2026 14:20 via artnews.com
  
  The Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA’s plans to build a New National Gallery in Hungary have been axed. The decision was made by the country’s new government, which came into power in May with the newly appointed prime minister Péter Magyar. A decree published on June 18 put all construction work to a stop.The new gallery was part of the Liget Budapest Project to restore Hungary’s historic Városliget, otherwise known as City Park. SANAA won the competition to
  
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• At This Canadian Theater Festival, Forgiveness Is a Power Move

  09-09-2026 13:28 via nytimes.com
  For his final year as artistic director, Antoni Cimolino directs “The Tempest,” and like Prospero, he understands how to wield acts of kindness.
  
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• Eight Must-See Islands for Art Lovers

  09-09-2026 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  No work, no chores, no stress. . . A far-flung island may be the perfect place to hide from day-to-day responsibilities. If you’re an art lover looking to get away, but lazing in the sun with an exotic drink isn’t quite your style, you will be happy to know that there are some destinations—from the Seto Inland Sea to the Mediterranean, designed to quench your thirst for culture and contemplation. Below, a look at eight islands around the world that are certain to plea
  
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• Why Major Studios Are Sitting Out This Fall’s Film Festivals

  09-09-2026 11:06 via nytimes.com
  The major studios and their A-list stars are AWOL this season for a variety of reasons, forcing the festivals to scramble.
  
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• ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap: Boat Party

  09-09-2026 11:06 via nytimes.com
  The team does New Year’s Eve.
  
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• Film and TV Portrayals of A.I. Go Beyond Science Fiction

  09-09-2026 11:06 via nytimes.com
  Plots involving some kind of artificial intelligence are even part of soap operas. Here’s how they’ve evolved over the decades.
  
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• The Young Women at the Heart of American Landscape Art

  09-09-2026 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Once dismissed as exercises in dainty femininity, the handiwork of schoolgirls is now celebrated for anticipating the art of the Hudson River School and beyond.
  
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• Bill T. Jones’s Dance That Didn’t Happen at the World Trade Center Plaza

  09-09-2026 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Twenty-five years after 9/11 caused the cancellation of a Bill T. Jones group performance, he debuts a work in response.
  
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• A.I. Music Giant Suno Tries to Play Nice With Record Labels

  09-09-2026 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Suno has drawn copyright lawsuits from the majors. Now it is releasing a version of its A.I. music generator trained in partnership with Warner Music.
  
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• Sara Bareilles Confronted Grief, and Found Herself

  09-09-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  Her new album, “Good Grief,” mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel, and her musical adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel “The Interestings” is about finding a different kind of fulfillment in a creative life than you’d once imagined, which Bareilles knows something about.
  
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• ‘Liberation,’ ‘Purpose’ and 39 More Shows to See in the U.S. This Fall

  09-09-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  This season is rich with sharp productions, like Bess Wohl’s and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer winners, Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” and the hip-hop musical “Mexodus.”
  
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• Dolly Parton’s Musical, ‘Inter Alia’ and More on Broadway, and Off, This Fall

  09-09-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  On New York stages this season come the new musicals “Galileo” and “Wanted,” a “Shuffle Along” reunion with Audra McDonald, and Tom Hiddleston in “Much Ado About Nothing.”
  
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• Why This Small Dutch Town Is Teaching ‘Adolescence’ in School

  09-09-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Netflix series is seen as a way to kindle debate about gender roles and to confront online bullying.
  
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• Tippet Rise: Where Music and Art Meet Postcard Mountain Views

  09-09-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana offers concerts in surroundings that make you feel as if you’re listening inside the land rather than around it.
  
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• Philippe Parreno’s ‘Iceman’ Sculpture Will Melt Away at Independent 20th Century

  09-09-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The iceman cometh—to the Breuer building.Later this month, Philippe Parreno’s iconic Iceman in Reality Park (1995–2023) will make its New York debut, courtesy his gallery, Esther Schipper, which will show it at Independent 20th Century.“The beautiful idea with the ‘Iceman’ series is that it can be reproduced as many or as few times as desired,” Leah Turner, the gallery’s New York–based senior director, told ARTnews.The booth also marks Esther
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Weighs in on Trump’s New Look

  09-09-2026 07:56 via nytimes.com
  Back from his summer vacation, the late night host wondered, “Is it possible to have a midlife crisis at 80 years old?”
  
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• Jon Small, Director and Early Billy Joel Collaborator, Dies at 79

  09-09-2026 00:35 via nytimes.com
  They were in two bands together before Mr. Joel became famous, and briefly fell out over Mr. Joel’s affair with Mr. Small’s wife. Mr. Small later found success as a director of music videos and concert films.
  
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• 34 Albums and Shows to Look Forward to This Fall: Charli XCX to Riley Green

  08-09-2026 23:41 via nytimes.com
  Some of pop’s highest-wattage stars (Charli XCX! Sombr!) hit the road, and artists including Riley Green, Miranda Lambert and Victoria Monét prepare anticipated new releases.
  
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• Well-Preserved Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Official Found Near Saqqara

  08-09-2026 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  A joint Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission has found a well-preserved tomb dating to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (2494–2345 BCE), reports the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The find was made during the mission’s 2026 excavation season in the area known as the Mariette Necropolis, north of Egypt’s Saqqara archaeological site.The tomb consists of a mastaba containing two funerary chapels. One chapel belongs to a man named Yunmen, a high-rank
  
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• Production Mold for Ancient Female Figurine Discovered in Jerusalem

  08-09-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  A mold used to create a clay figurine during the First Temple Period was discovered earlier this summer on the grounds of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. The excavation, at Kishle, a former prison and military base that is now part of the museum, was overseen by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).“Although many figurines from this period have been uncovered in Jerusalem, this is the first time that a mold used to manufacture them has ever been found in the city,” said IAA re
  
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