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• East End Arts Names Wendy Weiss as Executive Director - Dan’s Papers

  25-06-2024 17:17 via news.google.com
  
  East End Arts Names Wendy Weiss as Executive Director  Dan’s Papers
  
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• Guggenheim and Brooklyn Museum Unions Ratify New Contracts, Averting Strikes

  02-10-2026 21:48 via artnews.com
  Unionized staff at four of New York’s prominent cultural institutions—the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, and (AFAM)—have ratified new contracts, UAW Local 2110 announced today. The Brooklyn Museum and AFAM finalized four-year contracts this week, while the Guggenheim and Jewish Museum unions ratified their agreements in September.ARTnews has contacted the museums for comment.The Brooklyn Museum’s second contract gu
  
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• Swiss Government to Fund Research into Holdings of Cultural Artifacts

  02-10-2026 21:43 via artnews.com
  The Swiss government will provide $2.4 million in funding for research into the provenance of objects in its museums and collections, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture announced earlier this week. Funding for 26 projects from 2027–2028 was awarded following a public call for proposals.A core focus will be on items acquired by Swiss institutions in colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. The winning projects range from initiatives involving several museums to collaborations with
  
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• British Museum Refunds Bayeux Tapestry Visitors After Closing Early for Reception Attended by Princess Anne

  02-10-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  September has been a busy month for the British Museum with the opening of the sold out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, which has attracted swarms of crowds, as well as complaints from visitors and lawsuits, too. Now, the museum now trying to rectify those missteps.On Wednesday, the museum turned away visitors halfway through the day to get ready for a gala dinner it was hosting with its long-term corporate sponsor Samsung to celebrate the “Korea” exhibition that opened on Thursday. The
  
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• Ingrid Wiener, Viennese Actionist Artist and Collaborator of Valie Export and Dieter Roth, Dies at 83

  02-10-2026 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  Viennese Actionist artist Ingrid Wiener died at the age of 83, just shy of her 84th birthday, Charim Gallery announced in an Instagram post. The gallery did not state a cause of death. For decades, Wiener shaped the Austrian art scene with her combined textile, photography, painting, and collage works, as well as through notable collaborations with the likes of Valie Export and Dieter Roth.Wiener’s tapestries integrate objects and fragments of her everyday life, among them, cutting boards,
  
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• Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza, Undercutting its Rhetoric of Accessibility

  02-10-2026 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  An expansive public plaza surrounding Los Angeles’s recently opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be permanently fenced off, reports the Los Angeles Times. The plaza around the museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, “was always meant to be a generous civic space,” the Times notes, adding that architect Ma Yansong called it “gateway” between the museum and the city.This past weekend, the first days the museum was open to the publi
  
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• Insufficient Public Funding Identified as Biggest Threat to Global Heritage Sites, New World Monuments Fund Study Finds

  02-10-2026 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  In a new study released by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) this week, the nonprofit found that insufficient public funding is the primary threat to heritage sites around the world. It continues to surpass climate hazards and expertise gaps.The research was conducted as part of the organization’s larger nomination process for its forthcoming 2027 World Monuments Watch list, slated to be announced in February. Since 1996, WMF has published the list every two years in an effort to address fund
  
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• As New York City Doubles Grants for Individual Artists to $10,000, Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij Discusses Vision for City Agency

  02-10-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  New York will increase its direct support to artists, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Cultural Affairs commissioner Diya Vij announced today. Rising from $5,000 to up to $10,000, the increase doubles the funds given to artists and represents the first change in this funding stream in some 20 years.The funding comes from the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and is distributed to each borough’s arts councils, which act as regrant partners and dole out grants to individual artists annuall
  
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• He Wrote the Book on the Sedgwick ‘Family Disease,’ and Succumbed to It

  02-10-2026 19:05 via nytimes.com
  John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.
  
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• Buddhas and Dinosaur Bones Among Dozens of Smuggled Artifacts Repatriated to China

  02-10-2026 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  In advance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to the White House last month, the United States quietly repatriated 58 cultural objects and artifacts to China in a ceremony that took place at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), a unit that is part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced the news on Wednesday. The following day, six additional bronze objects were also returned to China by the Manhattan District At
  
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• Missouri Man Discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is His Biological Father

  02-10-2026 18:05 via nytimes.com
  Michael Goessling’s first phone call with his biological father brought a shock: He was speaking to Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.
  
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• The Kennedy Center Honors Will Be Held at Capital One Arena

  02-10-2026 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The center is moving its marquee event off site as it pushes for court approval of a plan to close its main building for a two-year renovation project.
  
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• New York City Ballet’s Gala: Stevie Nicks, Fashion and Dance. What Could Go Wrong?

  02-10-2026 17:20 via nytimes.com
  New York City Ballet hosted its annual fashion gala, this season pairing three choreographers with designers. The faux pas really added up.
  
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• How Feral Dogs Marshaled a Defense Against Nuclear Weapons, and Other Animal Stories Erin Johnson’s Films Tell

  02-10-2026 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  Who was the first person to domesticate dogs, to dare to bring a wolf into their cave and tame it? “They could grow up to eat your children,” reminds a mustachioed man posing these and other canine questions in Erin Johnson’s two-channel film Heavy Water (2018).Then, the film cuts to show our protagonist’s hand hovering in front of a slide projector displaying a plot of cheap land in South Carolina where nuclear weapons were developed during the Cold War. You might start
  
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• After Selling Napoleon Memorabilia, Sotheby’s Turns to His Enemy, Horatio Nelson, for $8 M. Auction

  02-10-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  After selling Napoleon Bonaparte’s worn stockings and other “deeply personal relics that reflected the inner world” of the French emperor last year, Sotheby’s is now laying bare the personal life of his great adversary, Admiral Horatio Nelson, on the auction block.The house will offer 415 letters, documents, and manuscripts connected to Nelson in a single-lot, sealed-bid sale with a high estimate of £6 million ($8 million). They include personal letters to his mistr
  
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• A Show Gives a Taste of What a U.S. Pavilion in Venice Might Have Been

  02-10-2026 15:34 via nytimes.com
  Some of the artist Robert Lazzarini’s works from his Venice Biennale proposal are on display at the MassArt Art Museum.
  
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• Mural of ‘Afrocentric’ Nefertiti Painted Over in Cairo Following Backlash, UK Collectors ‘Poised to Move’ if Assets Taxed, and More: Morning Links for October 2, 2026

  02-10-2026 15:13 via artnews.com
  
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  Cairo removed a mural of Pharaoh Tutankhamun and Queen Neferti following criticism that their skin looked too dark.UK dealers say local art collectors have “got their fingers poised to move on October 29” if the government announces a rise in capital gains tax rates.Nine Swiss museums are teaming up to research the provenance of over 6,300 objects from Cameroon.The He
  
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• At New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala, Sarah Jessica Parker and Steve Nicks Bring the Fairy Dust

  02-10-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  There were cascading ribbons, a flower crown and a “Landslide”-inspired performance at the New York City Ballet’s annual fall fashion gala.
  
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• ‘Friday Night Lights’ at 20: Can We Ever Get Back to Dillon?

  02-10-2026 11:03 via nytimes.com
  The football drama’s themes of community and hope are just as moving today, but ever more distant.
  
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• ‘The Last First: Winter K2’: Review

  02-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, the film forgoes the optimistic gloss typical of the genre and gets at the complex reasons that people scale peaks.
  
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• In ‘Creation Stories and All the Important Importants,’ a Dream Evaporates

  02-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  An overachiever who had her life mapped out hits a roadblock in Mfoniso Udofia’s haunted, surreally comic new play at LCT3.
  
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• How Miranda Lambert Helped Ella Langley Make History with ‘Choosin’ Texas’

  02-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  As her co-written song “Choosin’ Texas” continues to dominate, the country star returns with her most joyous album to date.
  
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• ‘Friday Night Lights’ Oral History: ‘I Remember Watching and Bawling’

  02-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Twenty years after the beloved football and family drama premiered, Peter Berg, Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch and others look back on its legacy.
  
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• Forget Quiet Luxury. In Ancient Rome, the Fashion Was Loud.

  02-10-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  An exhibition in Copenhagen reveals how imperial expansion delivered the vivid dyes, exotic fabrics and real-hair wigs that Romans used to broadcast their status.
  
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• Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq on Faith and Love in ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’

  02-10-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” was conceived well before the star and the director met for “Blade.” But it was fatherhood that informed the new movie.
  
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• Her Singles Made Her a Star. A First Album Took More Work.

  02-10-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Yendry’s one-off songs made fans of Cat Power and Barack Obama. Her debut LP, “Como Agua,” is a statement of her complex identity.
  
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• In This Utopian Video Game, It’s Always Sunny in Pittsburgh

  02-10-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  An academic’s miniature Grand Theft Auto goes beyond critiquing capitalism to show what might come after.
  
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• How Weird is ‘Weird Girl Lit’?

  02-10-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Romantic delusion. Social alienation. Body horror. Just a few of the elements celebrated online — if not always by the writers who earn the label.
  
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• Best Werewolf Romance Books, According to Laurie Gilmore

  02-10-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The best-selling author Laurie Gilmore recommends books that take all the best bits of a literary love story and take them from fun to feral.
  
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• After 30 Years, Fondation Beyeler Enters Its Next Chapter With a $144.9 M. Peter Zumthor–Designed Expansion

  02-10-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland is marking its transition from youth to adulthood after nearly three decades—or in astrological speak, it’s in Saturn return—with a $144.9 million expansion and a cosmologically minded exhibition to inaugurate the space.To mark the occasion, the museum tapped Basel-born architect Peter Zumthor, who recently completed a new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to design three new structures: a 16,000-square-foot gallery building
  
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