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See 10 Paintings from the Met’s Landmark Chang Dai-Chien Acquisition

In what will surely make for a survey to remember, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired 38 works by the revered Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien. The trove includes studies from Dai-chien’s time at Dunhuang, an ancient Buddhist temple complex on the edge of the Gobi Desert, in the 1940s, as well as works from the 1960s and beyond, when his delicate landscapes and still-life unraveled into radiant abstractions. “Chang Dai-chien stands as one of the most important painters of the modern era. He combined a deep knowledge of classical Chinese culture with a transnational perspective to fashion a style of ink painting that was both locally rooted and connected to a wider global outlook,” Met director Max Hollein said in a statement, alluding to the artist’s three-decade artistic journey, from his birth and early life in China through South Asia—from India to Japan and Taiwan—and, in the 1970s, to his later years in Monterey, California. According t...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Hawke’s Bay U18s (42) v Centurions U18s (41)

For the neutral observer, this match featured some cracking tries by both teams – and its all packaged up in the highlights below. Hawke’s Bay trailed the whole game but scored a try when it mattered with the final play of the game and kicked the winning conversion on fulltime. Earlier, the Centurions had got...
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Sideline Conversions 21 September (some news and information to start the new week)

Horowhenua-Kapiti and Ories flanker David Leota-Johnson surges forward on Saturday, flanked by teammates, including Petone prop Kafa Katoa and HOBM No. 8 Mika Alaifatu. Photo: Stewart Baid. They beat Thames Valley 57-26.  Monday morning edition: The first week of spring and the start of daylight savings at the end of this week mean the 15s...
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Rep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish Kennedy Center in Wake of Viral Photo

When Getty photographer Brendan Smialowski captured a photo on Wednesday night of Air Force One after landing at Joint Base Andrews, outside Washington, D.C., it showed president Donald Trump in a red baseball cap reading a placard that seems to read “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” This led to an emergency Thursday filing by Joyce Beatty, Democratic US Representative for Ohio’s Third Congressional District and an ex officio trustee of the Center, asking the federal judge in the ongoing Kennedy Center case “to make crystal clear that its order prohibits demolishing the structure.” On Wednesday, Trump said , “For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump administration should have recognition. If we don’t do that, it’s going to close and get ripped down.” “It goes without saying that demolishing the Kennedy Center’s main building would violate the Court’s preliminary injunction: Closure is both a prelude to and the necessary consequence of demol...
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New Discoveries at Ancient Egyptian Fort Include Ceremonial Burial of a Horse

New archaeological discoveries at Tell Al-Abqain in Beheira are revealing details about life within the ancient Egyptian fortress, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Wednesday. According to the ministry, they also underscore Tell Al-Abqain’s importance as a military stronghold during the New Kingdom period (1570–1069 BCE), when it was established to protect Egypt against incursions by Libyan tribes. The finds, made by an Egyptian archaeological mission, include a residential complex, stelae, and, most intriguingly, the possibly ceremonial burial of a horse. In a statement, Egypt’s minister of tourism and antiquities Sherif Fathy emphasized that the discoveries not only shed light on the fortress’s military function but on the daily lives of its inhabitants. Chief among the discoveries is a large mudbrick housing complex connected to the southern entrance of the fortress. In its northern section excavators found a main street ru...
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Stockholm’s Moderna Museet Appoints Cédric Fauq as Curator of Contemporary International Art

The Moderna Museet in Stockholm named Cédric Fauq as its next curator of contemporary international art, to start in the role on December 1. He is currently the chief curator and head of programs and collections at Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, and he worked previously as a curator at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary in England. Credits of Fauq’s in Bordeaux include the group exhibition “Blackground: murmures des mornes,” “Rammellzee Alphabeta Sigma (Side B),” and Trevor Yeung’s “Garden of the Nine Suns.” He was a member of the Turner Prize jury in 2023 and teaches at HEAD in Geneva and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In a statement, Moderna Museet director Tone Hansen said, “Cédric joins us at a pivotal moment as the museum prepares for its next chapter, where art, public art, architecture, and design come together. His experience, curiosity, and engagement with key artistic questions of our time will be a true asse...
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Hirshhorn Museum to Install ‘Eternally Unswimmable’ Pool by Elmgreen & Dragset in Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

When it reopens in a redesigned state at the end of October, the Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., will be home to a curious new work by the Berlin-based Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset—in the form of a vacant swimming pool. “Upended, empty, and eternally unswimmable, the 28-foot-tall sculpture emblematizes the artists’ mastery of displacement—excerpting familiar objects from people’s surroundings and presenting them as new and strange,” reads a press release announcing the museum’s new acquisition. The outdoor sculpture—“cast in stainless steel with a lacquered cyan interior, and furnished with a diving board, ladder, and lights”—is titled Eight and counts as the fourth such swimming pool in a series that Elmgreen & Dragset has installed in other locations including Miami and New York. The Hirshhorn has deemed it “a crowning installation” for its Sculpture Garden, which is scheduled to reopen October 31 after a ...
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