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• Iran Pushes Back on Venice Biennale Withdrawal Reports: ‘We’re Still Coming’

  13-05-2026 17:35 via ARTnews.com
  Last week, the Venice Biennale announced that Iran had dropped out of the exhibition. Now, it appears, that report was incorrect.On Tuesday, Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director-general of visual arts at the Iranian ministry of culture and Islamic guidance told the Iran Students News Agency that it still plans to participate.“Iran never withdrew from participating in the Venice Biennale,” Tehrani said, as translated by Google Translate. “Incidentally, we had the initial agree
  
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• Simon Denny Commissioned by New York Magazine to Create Portraits of ‘New AI Elite’ for Power Issue

  03-11-2026 22:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  For its latest “Power” issue, New York Magazine commissioned Berlin-based artist Simon Denny to illustrate the article “So Few People, So Much Influence,” about 26 AI engineers, founders, and thinkers whose “influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame.”These include people like Logan Graham of Anthropic, whose job is to try and push AI models to do terrifying things like build a bioweapon or enact a cyberattack; Beth Barnes, the founder of METR, a nonprofit that tests AI m
  
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• Ryū Murakami, Writer Who Explored Japan’s Dark Side, Dies at 74

  03-11-2026 22:48 via NYT > Arts
  His books about sex, drugs and social misfits amid the country’s economic boom — and subsequent bust — sold millions of copies.
  
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• Paris Jackson Asks Father’s Estate to Fund $600M to Family Trust

  03-11-2026 22:34 via NYT > Arts
  A representative for Michael Jackson’s daughter accused the executors of her father’s estate of incompetence, financial mismanagement and delays in distributing his wealth to his children.
  
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• Fair Warning to Auction Major Yoshitomo Nara Painting for Up to $15 M.

  03-11-2026 22:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  One of Yoshitomo Nara’s largest paintings is also one of his most subtle. Instead of glaring defiantly at the viewer, the child at the center of In the Milky Lake / Thinking One (2011) has her eyes closed and a somewhat serene expression on her face. Her body is half-submerged in a pale pool of water. On November 19, the monumental painting will be offered by Loïc Gouzer’s Fair Warning app with an estimate of $10 million to $15 million.Measuring 8.5 feet by 6 feet, it’s the largest Nara p
  
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• ‘Waiting for Lefty’ Review: Protest Songs in the Key of Life

  03-11-2026 22:14 via NYT > Arts
  The music of the folk duo Yeller Tooth gives Classic Stage Company’s revival of this dated Clifford Odets play a refreshing heart.
  
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• French Museum’s ‘Wanted’ Poster Campaign for Stolen Art Leads to Return of Missing 17th-Century Dutch Painting

  03-11-2026 21:36 via ARTnews.com
  
  Thanks to an inventive “Wanted” campaign by the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans in France, aimed at tracking down hundreds of WWII-era looted artworks, one painting has just been found, the museum’s director told ARTnews. A 17th-century painting by Dutch artist Willem Cornelisz Duyster, titled Un Buveur (The Drinker) and stolen in 1940 from the Orléans museum, was located last month at an auction house in Switzerland and is on its way back home to the French museum, Le Journal de l’A
  
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• Former High Museum COO Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Siphoning $600,000 to Buy Guitars

  03-11-2026 21:35 via ARTnews.com
  
  A federal judge sentenced the former chief operating officer of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to one year in prison and one year of supervised release for stealing more than $600,000 from the museum.Brady Lum, 60, served as the High Museum’s COO from January 2019 until December 2025, when he resigned. He began siphoning money from the museum in September 2019, around nine months into the job, until November 2025, when it was discovered.Lum’s theft involved the purchase of “non-business
  
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• Lawyers Spar Over Trump’s Executive Privilege in Kennedy Center Case

  03-11-2026 20:41 via NYT > Arts
  The administration is withholding communications sought by a Democratic lawmaker who is suing over the president’s management of the arts venue.
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Teams Up with MCA Australia on Two-Part Exhibition for Indigenous Artist d harding

  03-11-2026 20:23 via ARTnews.com
  
  New York’s Dia Art Foundation will co-present a two-part exhibition of work by the Indigenous Australian artist d harding to be split between Dia Chelsea and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. The New York component will open in February, with the other part slated for March; both will run into August of next year.“A through line in harding’s practice is the concept of transfer—a consideration of how histories are carried through materials, techniques, and places, transp
  
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• The Sublime Songs of Jimmy Webb

  03-11-2026 20:00 via NYT > Arts
  Hear “Wichita Lineman,” “MacArthur Park,” “P.F. Sloan” and more of the songwriter’s greatest works.
  
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• Miquel Navarro, Sculptor of Large-Scale, Pared-Down Cities and Valencia’s Beloved ‘Pink Panther,’ Dies at 81

  03-11-2026 19:55 via ARTnews.com
  
  Miquel Navarro, a sculptor known for his pared-down installation of cities that reflected on the promises of modernity in the latter-half of the 20th century, died on Sunday at 81 in Mislata, Spain, after a long illness, reports El País.Navarro’s hometown of Mislata, just outside València, served as a never-ending source of inspiration for him throughout his career. “The city that inspired part of his imagery was also where he lived, worked, and developed much of his creative process. From
  
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• Italy Looks to Join Its European Counterparts With Restitution Legislation

  03-11-2026 19:28 via ARTnews.com
  
  Italy is joining other European countries, including Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, the UK, and Switzerland, in establishing its own restitution laws. The legislation was introduced by a lawmaker from Brothers of Italy, the right-wing populist political party in Italy that is currently the country’s ruling party, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.The Art Newspaper reports that if the bill is considered, a five-member committee will be established by government officials, giving
  
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• Chinese Artist Sun Xun’s ‘Magic Atlas’ Is First Animated Feature in Tokyo International Film Fest Competition

  03-11-2026 19:26 via ARTnews.com
  
  Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun never expected “Magic Atlas” to become the first animated feature selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s competition.“I never thought of ‘Magic Atlas’ as an animated film. To me, it brings together many art forms. Animation is simply the label we use for its form. I’m glad people at TIFF understood the effort I put into it,” Sun tells Variety.“Magic Atlas,” a decade in the making, is set in Luocha, a coal-mining empire where
  
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• France Opens War Crimes Investigation into Israeli Bombing of Beirut that Killed Artist Ali Cherri’s Parents

  03-11-2026 19:24 via ARTnews.com
  
  In an apparent legal first, the French War Crimes Unit has opened an investigation into the 2024 Israeli bombing of a Beirut residential building where the family of French Lebanese filmmaker and artist Ali Cherri lived. The announcement comes six months after Cherri and the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) filed a complaint alleging that the Israeli military intentionally targeted a civilian structure, killing seven people, including the artist’s parents, which amo
  
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• How Broadcast, Cable and Late-Night Shows Plan to Cover the Midterm Elections

  03-11-2026 18:02 via NYT > Arts
  Viewers will be flooded with options, including 13 straight hours of NBC footage and a continuous livestream of Steve Kornacki and his big board.
  
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• How to Embody a Third Sex?A Classical Indian Dancer Finds a Way.

  03-11-2026 17:00 via NYT > Arts
  In Bijayini Satpathy’s new solo program, she depicts a warrior, a nymph and a character with no gender. After a career “dancing within the codes,” she had to explore.
  
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• How to Embody a Third Sex? The Indian Dancer Bijayini Satpathy Finds a Way.

  03-11-2026 17:00 via NYT > Arts
  In Bijayini Satpathy’s new solo program, she depicts a warrior, a nymph and a character with no gender. After a career “dancing within the codes,” she had to explore.
  
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• Installation Featuring Names of Children Killed in Gaza Refused Display by Local Australian Council

  03-11-2026 16:33 via ARTnews.com
  
  Phil Buehler’s Wall of Tears installation, featuring the names of 18,457 children killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and July 19, 2025, has been refused display by a local council in the Australian state of New South Wales, reports the Guardian. The installation was meant to be exhibited at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in Nowra on Tuesday and was organized by Shoalhaven Friends of Palestine.The council told the organizers to look into hiring “armed guards” in case “community conf
  
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• Eric Dane of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Highlights His Struggle With A.L.S. in Memoir

  03-11-2026 16:32 via NYT > Arts
  The actor, who played the handsome Dr. Mark Sloan on the ABC medical drama, worked on the book up until his death in February from A.L.S.
  
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• Russian Teenager Detained After Posting Neo-Nazi Threats on TikTok, Targeting Moscow Museum

  03-11-2026 16:25 via ARTnews.com
  
  The US embassy in Moscow put a warning on its website Saturday, alerting US citizens of “a credible threat of a mass casualty event” at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow. The palace museum and large park reserve are 10 miles from the Kremlin.Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it followed the warning from US officials and detained a teenage boy on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, reports Bloomberg.The Russian state-run news agency Tass reported that the teenager had
  
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• In a Rare Evening of Rachmaninoff Operas, Megalomania and Madness

  03-11-2026 15:48 via NYT > Arts
  A trilogy of the composer’s short works becomes an unsparing portrait of unhinged delusion in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov.
  
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• Pace’s Marc Glimcher Responds to Reported Financial Loss, High Museum of Art Former COO Sentenced to Prison for Embezzlement, and More: Morning Links for November 3, 2026

  03-11-2026 14:08 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Pace CEO Marc Glimcher responded to ARTnews about reports of financial losses and the gallery’s direction.Brady Lum, former COO of the High Museum of Art has been sentenced to one year in federal prison.For the first time, lawmakers in Italy are examining a new bill to facilitate the restitution of art and cultural items looted between 1933 and 1945.The Headlines KEEP UP THE PA
  
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• For Midterms Night, a TV Schedule Overflowing With Options

  03-11-2026 11:20 via NYT > Arts
  Viewers will be flooded with options, including 13 straight hours of NBC footage and a continuous livestream of Steve Kornacki and his big board.
  
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• A Deluge of (Loud, Twangy) Music Puts Twisted Teens on the Map

  03-11-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts
  Applying lessons from their past as buskers, the duo are releasing their third album of 2026 and winning over influential fans.
  
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• A Conceptual Artist Entwines Her Work With the State

  03-11-2026 11:02 via NYT > Arts > Art & Design
  How Jill Magid made the government her publisher and her artistic collaborator.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Mocks the President’s ‘Pettysburg Address’

  03-11-2026 08:13 via NYT > Arts
  “And where better to reassure the public that they are in good hands than in front of a pool you’ve repeatedly botched to the tune of $16 million?” Kimmel said of Trump’s speech before the midterms.
  
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• ARTnews, Art in America, and Hublot Host Dinner at New York Headquarters of KidSuper

  03-11-2026 00:57 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Wednesday night, ARTnews, Art in America, and Hublot hosted a dinner at the New York headquarters of artist and fashion designer KidSuper (Colm Dillane).Guests included collector and Brooklyn Museum trustee Carla Shen; Frank Suznjevic, president of Hublot Americas; ARTnews and Art in America editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas; Time to Drive festival founder Perri Dash; fashion designer Mobolaji Dawodu; collector Viljon Caka; Gazelli Art House senior director Haley Shaw; filmmaker Saam Farahmand; c
  
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• ARTnews, Art in America, and Hublot Host Dinner at New York Headquarters of Kid Super

  03-11-2026 00:57 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Wednesday night, ARTnews, Art in America, and Hublot hosted a dinner at the New York headquarters of artist and fashion designer Kid Super (Colm Dillane).Guests included collector and Brooklyn Museum trustee Carla Shen; Frank Suznjevic, president of Hublot Americas; ARTnews and Art in America editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas; Time to Drive festival founder Perri Dash; fashion designer Mobolaji Dawodu; collector Viljon Caka; Gazelli Art House senior director Haley Shaw; filmmaker Saam Farahmand;
  
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• ARTnews and Hublot Host Dinner at New York Headquarters of Kid Super

  03-11-2026 00:57 via ARTnews.com
  
  On Wednesday night, ARTnews and Hublot hosted a dinner at the New York headquarters of artist and fashion designer Kid Super (Colm Dillane).Guests included collector Carla Shen; Frank Suznjevic, president of Hublot Americas; ARTnews and Art in America editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas; Time to Drive festival founder Perri Dash; fashion designer Mobolaji Dawodu; collector Viljon Caka; Gazelli Art House senior director Haley Shaw; filmmaker Saam Farahmand; collector and commentator Jeff Magid; galleri
  
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