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In another setback, Ukraine said 19 soldiers had been killed in a strike on a medals ceremony last week. Unusually, the ceremony had been held in the open, rather than a protected space.

Source: Five Wounded as Russian Missiles Strike Odesa, Damaging an Art Museum

The Frick Pittsburgh cited fears that the show could become “a source of unintended insensitivity or offense.”

Source: Islamic Art Exhibition Postponed in Pittsburgh Amid Israel-Hamas War

Amid fears that a new war could threaten the world economy, New York’s coming auctions will test a growing consensus that the $60 billion art market is headed toward a down cycle.

Source: Will the Art Market Need to Discount Its Masterpieces?

Amid fears that a new war could threaten the world economy, New York’s coming auctions will test a growing consensus that the $60 billion art market is headed toward a down cycle.

Source: Will the Art Market Need to Discount Its Masterpieces?

The Italian media mogul bought up some 25,000 paintings, many on TV shopping binges, before he died this year. Now no one knows what to do with them.

Source: Berlusconi Bequeaths a Warehouse of Art Befitting the Man

A show at the Japan Society focuses on four innovators who created a blueprint for a new society with postcards, scissors, chess sets and instructions.

Source: Yoko Ono and the Women of Fluxus Changed the Rules in Art and Life

Jeffrey Gibson, the Indigenous artist representing the United States in April, must rely on patchwork private support. The promise of government sponsorship has not kept pace with rising costs.

Source: To Star at the Venice Biennale, Artists Need Patrons’ Deep Pockets

Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris.

Source: Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light

The Drift collaborative orchestrated a performance art piece with light-emitting drones that mimic swarming starlings or fish — but mostly slow-motion fireworks.

Source: Flight of the Drones Lights Up Central Park

At the Paris+ fair and its satellites, there was plenty of talk about the art world’s center of gravity in Europe shifting from Britain to France.

Source: The New Darling of the European Art Trade? Paris