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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 4m

After scandal over human remains, Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum begins rethinking how it displays—and repatriates—its collection.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 33m

Documents reveal San Francisco may have planned the demolition of Armand Vaillancourt’s Brutalist fountain years before telling the public.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1h

A new film revisits Kate Moss’s unlikely friendship with Lucian Freud—but critics say it skims the surface of two complex lives.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1h

Seventeen Native artists have digitally “reclaimed” the Met’s American Wing with an unsanctioned augmented reality project, reimagining colonial-era paintings through Indigenous cosmologies.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23h

Archaeologists using satellite imagery have uncovered 76 ancient hunting traps in Chile’s Andean highlands—evidence that hunter-gatherers thrived there thousands of years longer than once believed.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23h

Frieze London sticks with its bold floor plan—placing emerging galleries up front and forcing visitors to rethink their art fair routes.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

The Louvre has acquired its first-ever video work—Les 4 temps by Mohamed Bourouissa—filmed in the museum’s Tuileries Gardens.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

After 25 years of restoration, Beijing’s Qianlong Garden reopens—revealing the splendour of 18th-century imperial design in full colour and detail.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

Fondation Cartier unveils its new Paris home this month with a blockbuster show of 600 works by more than 100 artists at Place du Palais-Royal.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

As the US government shutdown continues, the Smithsonian’s 21 museums and the National Zoo have closed their doors indefinitely.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

MoMA opens its largest-ever exhibition by a woman artist, a major retrospective of Ruth Asawa’s visionary wire sculptures and works on paper.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

A new show in New York, Don’t Look Now, brings together 24 artists—including Marilyn Minter and Dread Scott—whose works have been censored or blacklisted.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian artist Dima Srouji’s London show explores myth, memory and erasure through the built heritage of her homeland.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

Artists Gala Porras-Kim, Jeremy Frey and Tuan Andrew Nguyen are among this year’s MacArthur “genius grant” winners, each receiving $800,000 over five years.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

From Picasso to Rauschenberg, museums can’t resist milestone anniversaries—but who are these endless celebrations really for?

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 3d

Opening 15 October, Ibraaz in Fitzrovia will spotlight global majority artists and “necessary conversations” about culture, identity and power.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 3d

Frieze is expanding to the Gulf with an Abu Dhabi fair launching in November 2026—its first in the Middle East and eighth global edition.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 3d

Bonhams Los Angeles will auction 30 Bob Ross paintings to benefit US public television after major funding cuts under President Trump’s administration.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 3d

Two new films—Alice Diop’s Fragments for Venus and Bingham Bryant’s Doomed and Famous—turn the act of looking at art into cinema’s central subject.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 3d

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Crowns (Peso Neto) (1981), from his first solo show, will headline Sotheby’s November sale in New York, estimated at up to $40m.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 3d

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered an 11,000-year-old carved face at Karahan Tepe, offering new insight into early human expression and symbolism.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 4d

NEW EPISODE | The Week in Art Podcast: Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s ‘Cake’

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 4d

As political pressure mounts, artists like Amy Sherald are pulling shows in protest—raising urgent questions about the future of political, truth-telling art.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Peter Doig and gallerist Parinaz Mogadassi are reviving McGlynn’s, a much-loved King’s Cross pub, preserving one of London’s few remaining community landmarks.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 4d

NEW EPISODE: A brush with... Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

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