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Detroit Institute Of Arts Reimagines “Museum As Instrument Of Cultural Education”

The DIA has achieved a rare feat with its presentations: making art history feel unexpected, and so, truer to life. What immediate change it chooses for its closest community—that’s a story Detroit won’t forget. - ARTnews

John Oliver’s Benefit Auction For Public Broadcasting Sets Million-Dollar Record For Bob Ross Painting

On Monday, Ross’ Cabin at Sunset, painted for a 1986 episode of PBS’ iconic “The Joy of Painting”, sold for roughly $1,044,000. - ARTnews

Report: Museums Are Dramatically Underspending On Marketing

Museums have been resistant to spending on marketing at the same levels as other cultural organizations, says the report, which posits that the thinking may go that museums and art might even be demeaned by treating them like any other product. - ARTnews

The Art Market Is Designed To Inflate Markets. But Here’s What Artists Need To Know

The structure itself is tilted toward collectors, dealers, and institutions. It is not designed to support artists. But artists who understand the language of the market can sometimes turn that knowledge into a form of protection.  - Hyperallergic

Exactly What Is This Odd New Group That Just Picked America’s Venice Biennale Artist?

If no one has heard of the Tampa-based AAC, this is because it was founded only in July of this year. The press release is so poorly edited that it repeats the same quote by executive director Jenni Parido twice. - Artnet

Philadelphia Art Museum’s Ex-Director Of HR And DEI Indicted For Theft

“Latasha Harling, 43, was arrested in July and charged with theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, and related crimes about six months after she quietly resigned from her job as the chief people and diversity officer for the museum.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

L.A. Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Is Retiring

“After 45 years, 36 of them at the Times, art critic Christopher Knight is retiring from daily journalism. His final day is Nov. 28. In 2020, Knight won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.” - Los Angeles Times

Why The Record Sale Price For The Frida Kahlo Painting Is Nothing To Celebrate

In the rush to map cultural issues like gender disparity onto high-level financial trading, we’re forgetting that this has nothing to do with gender at all, and even less to do with art. - Artnet

The Taj Mahal Has Become A Flashpoint Of Controversy

The symbol of love is now a flash point in India’s historical antagonism between Hindus and minority Muslims, a battle between historians — a battle over truth, identity and power. - Washington Post

One Big Beautiful Bill: Architecture Is No Longer A Professional Degree

Under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the provision of student loans in the USA will be overhauled starting 1 July, 2026, with borrowing amounts set to be determined by whether a degree is considered professional or not. - Dezeen

Four More Suspects Arrested In Louvre Jewel Theft Case

“The two men and two women in custody are from the Paris region and range in age from 31 to 40, said the prosecutor. … Her statement didn’t say what role they’re suspected of having played in the Oct. 19 theft. Police can hold them for questioning for 96 hours.” - AP

Inside The Portland Art Museum’s New $116 Million Campus

“The project involved integrating two neighboring buildings, adding almost 100,000 square feet of public and gallery space, and uniting the structures with a 21,000-square-foot, multilayered glass pavilion named for (Mark) Rothko,” who grew up in Portland. - ARTnews

Why The Gustav Klimt Fetched a Record Price

The painting is valued so highly because it carries a deep personal and political history – and because the artist’s incredible skill once helped it serve as a life-saving disguise. - The Convseration

Philadelphia Art Museum Charges Former Director With Financial Misconduct

That investigation, the motion states, concluded that Suda had “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft.” - ARTnews

What Art Market Reporters Are Getting Wrong

Smaller galleries may be in massive amounts of trouble. "Gallery sales are almost always private, and only a small percentage truthfully reveal their sales and profits. ... Average gallery sales are reported to be down 8 or 10%. That would hardly have caused closures. It is far, far worse.” - Hyperallergic

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