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Culture Is Stuck. The Next Wave Demands Weirdness
Today’s culture spins in safe loops. The future belongs to creators who break form and let things get strange again. Audiences feel the stagnation in their gutz.
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Rijksmuseum Backs New Study Linking Art to Better Health
Dutch researchers move into the Rijksmuseum to test whether viewing or making art can ease Parkinson’s symptoms and lift daily life.
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Louvre’s New Ticket Wall Hits Foreign Visitors Hard
Paris pushes culture into a corner as the Louvre adds a steep surcharge for non-European visitors, sparking backlash and exposing deeper cracks inside the museum.
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US Museums Turn to Billboards and Blockchain as Survival Mode Becomes Policy
Across the US, museums are diving into side hustles — digital billboards, NFTs, tech patents, consultancy deals — to keep their doors open. The urgency is real, and the art risks being swallowed by the glow.
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AI’s Cold Eye Is Replacing the Human Eye in the Art World
As AI moves into art authentication, the human way of seeing is fading — risking a shallow, machine-led art world.
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💥Artists Are Recreating Trash—And Forcing the World to Look at What It Throws Away
From the Flash Grenades series — an opinion on why lifelike trash replicas sweeping global galleries are exposing global blind spots and unsettling the way we consume, discard, and deny.
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Three Brothers Crack Open an Attic Box — And Up Comes the Most Expensive Comic Ever Sold
A dusty attic, a forgotten box, and a 1939 Superman No. 1 that just shattered the comic-book price record.
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Museums Are Racing to Survive a Global Shake-Up
Public funding collapses, donors pull back, and political heat smolders. Museums worldwide scramble for new models as the old system cracks beneath them.
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US Reclassifies Architecture Degrees, Slashing Student Loans and Shaking the Field
A federal redefinition strips architecture of “professional degree” status, cutting loan access and threatening who can afford to enter the field.
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Gene Hackman’s Secret Art Trove Surges Past $2 Million in Emotional Estate Sale
A hidden cache of paintings and personal relics from Gene Hackman’s Santa Fe home surged past $2 million at Bonhams, revealing a private collector’s life he kept locked away for decades.
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Bob Ross Sunset Sparks Frenzy as John Oliver’s Auction Surges Past $1.5M
A Bob Ross sunset painting detonated into a million-dollar bidding war, powering John Oliver’s wild auction past $1.5M and throwing a lifeline to public broadcasting.
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The Auction Sugar High Masks a Shaking Art World
Record-breaking auction sales paint a rosy picture, but artists and galleries say the ground beneath them is unstable.