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  30-11-2020 22:48 via mdislander.com
  
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• Swatch Launches Guggenheim Collaboration With Watches Inspired by Pollock, Degas, Monet, and Klee

  15-01-2026 22:32 via artnews.com
  Swiss watch company Swatch is the latest brand to partner with a major museum on a product collection. On Thursday, it announced the Swatch x Guggenheim Collection, featuring watches that translate pieces from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The artists featured include Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock.The pieces are the latest in Swatch’s larger Art Journey series, which launched in 2023
  
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• Centre Pompidou Reportedly Gives Up a Grand Palais Space Due to ‘Financial Constraints’

  15-01-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  The Centre Pompidou gave up one of its two spaces at the Grand Palais due to what the Paris museum described as “financial constraints faced by both institutions,” according to Le Monde.The Pompidou had been using two exhibition spaces within the Grand Palais while the modern art museum’s main base is closed for renovations. The space that the Pompidou forfeited was the smaller of the two, but it was being used for programming that remained notable no less.Indeed, in the fall,
  
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• Bucking Current Trends, Prado Director Says Museum Won’t Be Chasing Ever-Growing Visitor Numbers

  15-01-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  The new millennium has seen museums around the world grow—and then grow some more. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are in the midst of sweeping campus reimaginings, while the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston have unveiled major expansions over the past decade. Even the Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum, has floated plans to reconfigure itself.Much of this expansion has bee
  
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• Paris Investigators Say Stolen Louvre Jewels Were Hidden in Parking Lot as Thieves Ditched Getaway Vehicles

  15-01-2026 22:16 via artnews.com
  Three months on, the $102 million in jewels brazenly stolen from the Louvre in Paris remain missing. While Paris police have arrested at least eight people believed to be connected to the October 19 robbery, investigators have made little progress in recovering the loot. Recently, however, officers from Paris’s Anti-Gang Brigade (BRB) identified the jewels’ last known location.As reported by Le Parisien, the BRB traced the stolen items to an underground parking lot in Aubervilliers,
  
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• Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020

  15-01-2026 21:43 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.
  
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• Whitney Museum Taps Ego Nwodim as Art Party Co-Chair

  15-01-2026 21:34 via artnews.com
  Actress and comedian Ego Nwodim will co-chair the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual Art Party on January 27, 2026, the museum announced on Thursday.Hosted by the Whitney Contemporaries, the event will take place at the museum’s Gansevoort Street building and will feature DJ sets by Raúl de Nieves and The Dare, whose performance will headline the night. A fixture on New York’s arts and philanthropy calendar, the Art Party draws young patrons, artists, and figures fr
  
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• Ian McKellan Will Act Out Unheard Audio Recordings of Cult Artist L.S. Lowry in New Documentary

  15-01-2026 21:28 via artnews.com
  Ian McKellan has signed to star in a new BBC documentary about cult artist L.S. Lowry, with a focus on unheard audio recordings that Lowry made in the final four years of his life.As reported by the Guardian, “Fifteen years ago, Sir Ian McKellen was among the leading arts figures who criticized the Tate for not showing its collection of paintings by L.S. Lowry in its London galleries and questioned whether the ‘matchstick men painter’ had been sidelined as too northern and prov
  
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• Iranian Artists Killed in Anti-Government Protests, Advocacy Groups Report

  15-01-2026 21:27 via artnews.com
  At least four artists have killed by Iranian police and militias since nationwide demonstrations against the Islamic Republic erupted in December, according to Artists at Risk Connection (ARC).In a statement published on January 13, the nonprofit organization—which provides emergency financial support to imperiled artists and cultural workers worldwide—condemned the reported killing of civilians by Iranian authorities, as well as the government-imposed internet and mobile blackout.Ci
  
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• Kochi Biennale Foundation Co-Founder Bose Krishnamachari Resigns

  15-01-2026 20:11 via artnews.com
  Bose Krishnamachari, an artist and curator who co-founded the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) in 2010, announced his sudden resignation. South First reported the news, with a statement from the foundation citing “pressing family reasons.”The 6th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale—India’s first dedicated to international contemporary art and the largest in South Asia—opened on December 12, 2025, and is scheduled to close on March 31. The current exhibition, titled
  
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• Trump Reportedly Looking at D.C. Park Near Jefferson Memorial For Sculpture ‘Garden of Heroes’ 

  15-01-2026 20:10 via artnews.com
  The Trump administration is eyeing a Washington, D.C. park for its “National Garden of American Heroes,” according to two sources speaking anonymously to the Washington Post. West Potomac Park is south of the National Mall, near memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. and president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Just what part of the park is under review for the placement of the sculpture garden is not clear. The Post notes that if he wants to use the southern tip of the park, which is near
  
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• Harvey Pratt, Who Designed the Native American Veterans Memorial, Dies at 84

  15-01-2026 19:03 via nytimes.com
  A self-taught artist, he also spent more than half a century creating forensic sketches and reconstructions for law-enforcement agencies.
  
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• John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93

  15-01-2026 18:56 via nytimes.com
  He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and numerous film and TV appearances.
  
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• In ‘Sons of Echo’ Male Dancers March to Female Choreographers’ Beat

  15-01-2026 18:33 via nytimes.com
  “Sons of Echo,” in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don’t have a monopoly on bad taste.
  
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• Beloved Rocky Statue Will Move to Top of Philadelphia Art Museum Steps

  15-01-2026 18:25 via artnews.com
  A popular statue of Rocky that’s currently sited at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Art Museum is officially being relocated to the top of those flights.There is technically a sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer played by Sylvester Stallone, at the top of the stairs now, but it is a second casting of the original at the bottom, which remains the more popular statue. It regularly draws tourists and locals alike, and has functioned as a Philadelphia icon.The Phi
  
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• Tessa Thompson in ‘Hedda,’ and More Theater to Stream

  15-01-2026 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Other picks include “Bat Out of Hell: The Musical,” a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and “Lazarus,” featuring the music of David Bowie.
  
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• United States Artists Names 2026 Fellows, Including Mendi + Keith Obadike, Edra Soto, and Johanna Hedva

  15-01-2026 17:37 via artnews.com
  The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists has named the 50 artists who will receive its annual USA Fellowship and the recipient of its Berresford Prize, both of which come with an unrestricted grant of $50,000.This year marks the 20th anniversary of United States Artists, which was founded in 2006 and is one of a handful of US-based organizations that provides direct support to artists.“For two decades, United States Artists has advanced a simple yet powerful conviction—that
  
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• ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas

  15-01-2026 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.
  
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• 12th-Century Church in Spain Partly Collapses, Prompting Scrutiny From Preservationists

  15-01-2026 17:30 via artnews.com
  A section of the apse of a 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar church in the village of Muriel de Zapardiel, in Spain’s Valladolid province, collapsed on Monday, prompting the closure of the building and renewed scrutiny of the condition of historic religious sites in rural Spain.The collapse affected the semicircular apse of the Church of Our Lady of the Castle—also known as the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption—a protected Bien de Interés Cultural (Asset of Cultural Int
  
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• In Art Star Diego Marcon’s Videos, Virtual and Visceral Collide

  15-01-2026 16:49 via artnews.com
  I meet Diego Marcon at a Milanese café on an autumnal afternoon and remark that his work is blowing up in the US. Recently, he had his first American solo show at the Renaissance Society in Chicago and soon, he’ll have another at the New Museum in New York.He tells me he hasn’t spent much time in the US and that it has been interesting to learn about how his work was being received across the pond. In his first video TINPO (2006), a child wields a gun, light-heartedly terroriz
  
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• Felix LA Names 56 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

  15-01-2026 16:16 via artnews.com
  Felix LA has named the 56 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming eighth edition, scheduled to run February 26 to March 1, with a VIP preview on February 25. The art fair, which opens a day before Frieze Los Angeles, will once again return to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.The fair includes a mix of established galleries like Corbett vs. Dempsey, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Morán Morán, Nina Johnson, Parrasch Heijnen, and Yossi Milo alongside emerging enterprises like ATLA (
  
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• Felix LA Names 52 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

  15-01-2026 16:16 via artnews.com
  Felix LA has named the 52 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming eighth edition, scheduled to run February 26 to March 1, with a VIP preview on February 25. The art fair, which opens a day before Frieze Los Angeles, will once again return to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.The fair includes a mix of established galleries like Corbett vs. Dempsey, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Morán Morán, Nina Johnson, Parrasch Heijnen, and Yossi Milo alongside emerging enterprises like ATLA (
  
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• Tate Director Explains Departure, David Hockney Blasts Bayeux Tapestry Loan, Trump Eyeing Site for ‘Garden of American Heroes’: Morning Links for January 15, 2025

  15-01-2026 15:40 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINES HOCKNEY WEIGHS IN ON BAYEUX TAPESTRY LOAN. David Hockney has weighed in on plans to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to London this fall, calling the British Museum exhibition “madness” and warning that the fragile medieval embroidery could be irreparably harmed in transit. Writing in The Independent on January 14, the artist questioned the
  
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• Bob Weir Is Gone, but the Dead’s Music Plays On

  15-01-2026 11:04 via nytimes.com
  A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members dwindle.
  
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• ‘Riot Women’ Review: Women of a Certain Rage

  15-01-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  There’s much more to Sally Wainwright’s series about middle-aged punk rockers than the music.
  
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• White Lies, Inner Truth: The Contradictions of Henri Rousseau

  15-01-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than many critics appreciated.
  
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• ‘Queen Kelly’ Review: His Majesty, Von Stroheim

  15-01-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The 1929 silent film returns in a shimmering, sensitively scored restoration that brings out the lurid and the romantic in Erich von Stroheim’s story of orphan-meets-prince.
  
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• Holly Hunter Reaches for the Stars

  15-01-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  In “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” she got to play a few things she never had in her varied career: a space captain and a woman over 400 years old.
  
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• He Survived Dachau. He Captured Its Horrors on Paper the Next Day.

  15-01-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document what he had witnessed.
  
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• As Megadeth Counts Down to Extinction, Dave Mustaine Opens Up

  15-01-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The heavy metal pioneer known for his lightning-fast shredding and snarling vocal style is going out his way, with a final album and tour.
  
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