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    <title><![CDATA[ Puzzled presidents bring festive cheer—Merry Christmas! ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Lego-style puzzle portraits of Donald Trump and George Washington are part of the White House Christmas decorations ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Mexico City's giant Modernist mosaics face uncertain future ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Public murals, sculptures and reliefs from the 1950s that adorned an earthquake-damaged building are now in storage ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Constanza Ontiveros Valdés</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Pablo Picasso and Safeya Binzagr headline Sotheby’s second sale in Saudi Arabia ]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[ The waves that disappeared—Art duo Cooking Sections track lost tides in new installation ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Centro Botin presentation also taps into community concerns about dredging and port expansion ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Emily Steer</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Guy Wildenstein steps down as president of Wildenstein & Co. gallery after 35 years ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Patriarch of the French-US dealing dynasty, who helped shape countless collections, insists legal issues played no part in the decision ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Vincent Noce</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Rwanda boosts culture infrastructure with new non-profit contemporary art centre ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art, a first for the East African country, houses residency spaces along with a reference library ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Emi Eleode</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Benjamin Sutton</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Robert Mnuchin, the blue-chip gallerist who loved the drama of the auction saleroom, has died aged 92 ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ After working in finance, he began a second art world career in New York in his 60s ]]></description>
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<category domain="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/willem-de-kooning"><![CDATA[ Willem de Kooning ]]></category>
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    <dc:creator>Gareth Harris</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz nurtures connections across geography and history ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ In its largest edition yet, the biennial frames art as an “arboreal metaphor” for exchange, resistance and resilience ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Constanza Ontiveros Valdés</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Comment | Digital art today has a narcissism problem ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Beeple’s anarchic entry into Art Basel Miami Beach doubled down on cult of personality at the expense of artistic substance ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator>Sarp Kerem Yavuz</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ We are all in the gutter but Banksy’s Christmas kids are looking at the stars ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The same work has appeared in west London and under the Centre Point tower in the city centre ]]></description>
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<category domain="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/port-talbot"><![CDATA[ Port Talbot ]]></category>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Late UK artist Sarah Cunningham honoured with Nottingham Contemporary show ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Exhibition next autumn marks return of the artist’s work to the city where she was born  ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator>Gareth Harris</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Arnulf Rainer, a revolutionary figure in postwar Austrian art, has died aged 96 ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ For her new Rogues Gallery series, the film star says she channelled spirits from across the centuries ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Six artists were shortlisted for Chinese contemporary art prize worth $130,000 ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as prosecutors in New York step up pressure on museums and collectors ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ For his new show, the multidisciplinary artist drew inspiration from 19th-century watercolours of Indigenous communities by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ President Trump's latest step in his takeover of the revered performing arts venue involved a hasty change of title  ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ From mutated humanoid figures to sculptural furniture and miniature theatrical scenes, the Italian artist’s exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli teems with proxies for loss ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia  ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Tariffs and new anti-trafficking rules took their toll in the US and Europe this year, as attention and investment shifted to the Middle East ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Kabir Jhala</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The $6.7m New York sale of the film star's prized possessions closed out a successful season for the auction house ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Anny Shaw</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This year also brought a disturbing threat to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Martin Bailey</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The proposed museum outpost at a nearby nature reserve has been mired in controversy since it was first mooted in 2008 ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Gareth Harris</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Public art installation marks anniversary of New Orleans terrorist attack ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Featuring more than 800 flags commemorating the 15 victims, the temporary installation “Second Line in the Sky” offers locals and visitors alike a space to reflect and heal ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Annabel Keenan</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Francis Kéré's design for Las Vegas Museum of Art revealed ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Pritzker Prize-winning architect plans for the building draw dual inspiration from Las Vegas as a centre of Modernist architecture and a site within a stunning natural landscape ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Gabriella Angeleti</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Art building, which played a key role in the emergence of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, has been granted Grade II listed status ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Joe Ware</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A series of small-scale, affordable events are challenging the dominant scene ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>J. Cabelle Ahn</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The artist will celebrate Black Chicago using photo archives from Jet and Ebony magazines ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Torey Akers</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A federal judge has rejected attempt by National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt president’s pet construction project ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Elena Goukassian</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Buenos Aires museum has acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection and is planning an expansion to accommodate its new holdings ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Archaeologists hope that the space, closed for more than ten years, will create positive change for the country’s heritage ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Hadani Ditmars</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Projected revenue at both auction houses is up from 2024, at $7bn for Sotheby's and $6.2bn at Christie's, with high-profile transactions increasingly taking place behind closed doors ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Kabir Jhala</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Labour peer Margaret Hodge, who led the report, has suggested new funding proposals based on philanthropic giving  ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Gareth Harris</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ While art-museum architecture remains vibrant across the globe, many US institutions are both uninspiring and unwelcoming ]]></description>
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<category domain="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/david-adjaye"><![CDATA[ David Adjaye ]]></category>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator>Annabel Keenan</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ A brush with… Olafur Eliasson ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Olafur Eliasson talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Ben Luke, Philippa Kelly, David Clack, Aimee Dawson</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The biennial opens its 17th edition with a wide-ranging programme of 17 curators directing the projects of 51 artists across multiple venues ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator>Veronica Pesantes, Charmaine Picard</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Charity's “Reimagine” programme will fund a variety of initiatives, from developing a new model for provenance research to preserving digital heritage ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Gareth Harris</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Show proposes that West and Central African photographers may have helped shape Black identities across the globe ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator>Simon Bainbridge</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ From collaboration to consolidation, some dealers are adapting to a changing market that many agree should not return to its previous peak ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator>Tim Schneider</dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ 56 participating artists, duos and collectives revealed for 2026 Whitney Biennial ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US power” ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Gareth Harris</dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[ “Exhibitions weren’t held, research wasn’t done,” says the curator of a new show on a forgotten generation ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Following the bankrupted institution’s closure in 2024, developer Scout has transformed two of its buildings into a Village of Industry and Art  ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ From Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou to Linder at the Hayward, these are the shows that stood out this year ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ San Antonio Museum of Art repatriates nine antiquities to Italy ]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The artefacts, most dating from the 4th century BC, include a terracotta statue of a woman and elaborate red-figure vessels ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Pakistan-born, British artist rose to fame in the 1990s with her “concise humour and profoundly understated visual language” ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”
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    <description><![CDATA[ From raunchy Tom of Finland merch to a sponsorship deal for a Victorian loo—here are some of the arty items that have caught our eye this season ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Balshaw will see out her nine-year tenure by co-curating the largest-ever survey of the artist Tracey Emin in spring 2026 ]]></description>
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