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Kehinde Wiley has written to President Donald Trump asking to repurchase his 2015 painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, which the State Department removed from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo in August. Officials had branded the work 'woke' during a broader purge of embassy art.
Source date ·Image: ArtskUnion workers at the Brooklyn Museum and the American Folk Art Museum have reached tentative contract agreements, averting threatened strikes. Members of UAW Local 2110 were scheduled to vote on the deals starting September 29.
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Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez and Chip Thomas have won 2026 MacArthur Fellowships, each receiving $800,000 with no strings attached. The 'genius grants' honor exceptional creativity across disciplines.
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Image: ArtskAnn Temkin is stepping down as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in January, ending an 18-year tenure in the role. She will stay on as a strategic adviser working on the museum's 2029 centenary.
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Image: ArtskDáiddadállu, a 22-strong network of Sámi artists, has won the MUNCH Award, Munch's prize honoring artistic freedom of expression. It is the third edition of the NOK 300,000 award.
Source date ·Image: ArtskA senior executive at the National Gallery of Victoria has been accused of stealing AUD 8 million over six years, allegedly reselling mobile phones at a profit. The case, investigated by IBAC, comes to court on October 20.
Source date ·Image: ArtskEd Ruscha has designed the poster for Alejandro González Iñárritu's new dark comedy Digger, starring Tom Cruise, unveiled at LACMA on September 27. The design sets the film's title vertically in Ruscha's own typeface against an iceberg.
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Image: ArtskChng Hak-Peng has been appointed chief executive officer of National Gallery Singapore, succeeding Dr Eugene Tan effective January 1, 2027. The announcement also reshuffles leadership at the Singapore Art Museum.
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Source date ·Image: ArtskCULTURED published its fourth annual Young Photographers list on 16 September 2026, honouring 14 photographers aged 30 or under – from Suniko Bazargarid to Karolina Wojtas – whose work spans family histories, subcultures, war zones and private rituals.
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Singulart published an artist interview with Tetiana Surshko on September 8, exploring how she builds immersive worlds of colour and emotion.
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Singulart interviewed artist Reinhard Stammer, published September 18, on his lifelong search for meaning, presence and creative unity.
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