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Show me the money: UK gallery and auction house accounts reveal reality of a tough market

When the venerable Stephen Friedman gallery shut last month, it followed a number of recent closures. Financial filings of the biggest names in the art market paint a picture of collapsing profitabili ...
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Obituary | Umberto Allemandi, visionary publisher who founded 'Il Giornale dell’Arte', has died aged 88

The editor built an international network of publications—including 'The Art Newspaper'—that transformed cultural journalism ...
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São Paulo pop-up exhibition spotlights spherical home by architect Eduardo Longo

The fifth edition of “Aberto”, an annual exhibition melding Modernist architecture and contemporary art, offers the public a rare opportunity to visit Longo’s Casa Bola ...
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Pretty in pink: how Toulouse is establishing itself as a top arts destination

Set to overtake Lyons as France’s third-largest city, Toulouse is also gaining cultural momentum, with a boom in visitors to its venues, and renovations of two major museums ...
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Texas university provides few answers after cancelling exhibition with works critical of Ice, sparking outrage

The removal of Victor Quiñonez’s immigration-themed exhibition at the University of North Texas without explanation has intensified concerns about artistic freedom at public universities in the state ...
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Lebanon’s ancient city of Tyre hit by strikes as minister calls for Unesco intervention

A missile strike that hit the buffer zone of the ancient, Unesco-protected city of Tyre, in southwest Lebanon, on Friday (6 March) damaged the perimeter of one of its major archaeological sites, ...
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Such income streams are “are riskier” according to a new report by the National Audit Office

A report on the financial resilience of UK museums funded by the state has warned that “cost-containment measures” adopted by the institutions “can only go so far” in the face of dwindling government ...
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Influential collection of Indigenous art hires former Whitney curator, will open exhibition space in New York

The Gochman Family Collection has hired Laura Phipps as its director and will open a venue in Katonah, New York, this autumn ...
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Artists agonise over when a work is finished—but should we viewers care?

Of all artists’ dilemmas, among the toughest is deciding when a work is finished. A piece that might appear fresh and immediate runs the risk of being undercooked. And as the critic David Sylvester ...
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Unesco sites in Iranian city of Isfahan damaged by US-Israel strikes

There have also been reports of damage to the third-century Falak-ol-Aflak Citadel in Khorramabad, western Iran ...
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Tomás Saraceno and Indigenous communities build art complex in Argentine salt flats

The monumental outdoor environment, “El Santuario del Agua” (The Water Sanctuary), is located in one of the world’s largest lithium reserves ...