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

As Fondation Cartier opens in Paris, new private art spaces in London—YDP and Ibraaz—offer a more diverse, global vision of patronage.

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 2h

Frieze London diary: a boozy gallery bar, head-turning headlines and talking mice
Plus: artworks with ectoplasm

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 2h

After her US retrospective was cancelled, the pioneering Palestinian artist brings her message of hope and resistance to Frieze Masters.

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

The London developer and collector opens his Modernist-filled home near Frieze, where design and art collapse into one seamless vision.

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

Curator Fatoş Üstek’s In the Shadows brings reflection and stillness to Regent’s Park—inviting viewers to confront what lies unseen.

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

For Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Sámi-Norwegian artist transforms reindeer materials into a meditation on ecology, survival and sovereignty.

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

At Frieze London, curator Jareh Das explores centuries of cultural exchange between Africa and Brazil through ten artists and eight galleries.

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

Seventy-five years on, Alexander Herman argues that the UK’s art export rules—set in a postwar world—are due for a long-overdue update.

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

At Frieze London, galleries pledge 10% of selected sales to the Gallery Climate Coalition—but critics say the art world must go further and ground its private jets.

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

The British Museum launches a £3.5m campaign to keep a rare gold pendant—linked to Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon—in the UK.

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

London’s Courtauld Institute receives a record £30m donation from the Reuben Foundation, marking a new era for the institution.

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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