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A blind man has sued the British Museum, saying its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition lacked audio description. The museum says in-person audio-described tours will be offered and it may add one to the exhibition's app.
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Christie's London evening sale will offer donated works by Igshaan Adams and Patricia Leite, with proceeds split between Gallery Climate Coalition and ClientEarth. GCC says the initiative is rolling rather than annual.
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Concurrent has made its first registered investment advisor platform acquisition, agreeing to acquire Virginia-based Spire Investment Partners. The deal brings 30 advisor teams onto Concurrent's RIA platform.
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Draft measures would allow performance-linked fees for registered investment advisers and open new routes to accredited investor status, including a FINRA-administered assessment.
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Singapore's MAS selected Amundi, Franklin Templeton, HSBC Asset Management, M&G Investments and Natixis Investment Managers for the third EQDP round, bringing total commitments to S$5.4bn across 14 managers.
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Waverly Advisors has purchased Richmond-based Heartwood Wealth Advisors, a practice managing roughly $1.7bn in assets. The deal adds Heartwood's nine-member team to Waverly's expanding US footprint.
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The Milwaukee Art Museum has transferred ownership of two 19th-century stoneware vessels by David Drake to his descendants, with an agreement allowing long-term display. A Virginia museum this week announced the return of another "Dave the Potter" vessel.
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São Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna has reopened following a two-year renovation, returning to its original pavilion with an exhibition that aims to push Brazilian art beyond representation.
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Kenneth C. Griffin has made the largest donation in higher education history, giving $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University. The gift funds a new Miami campus and renames its computer science school for the collector.
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A new World Monuments Fund study reports that inadequate public funding is now viewed as a greater danger to cultural sites than climate change.
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A long-hidden private collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Fauvist works, valued at about $450 million, will be offered at Sotheby's in New York on November 18. The dozen paintings come from the estate of Nelly Blaquier de Arrieta and Carlos Pedro Blaquier.
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Kehinde Wiley has written to President Donald Trump seeking to purchase a 2013 State Department-commissioned painting that the administration deemed unfit for an American embassy.
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Sotheby’s London achieved its highest-ever total for modern and contemporary South Asian art at £19.8 million ($26.2 million), with nine new artist records set.
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The Ukrainian Museum in New York is marking its 50th anniversary by showing its collection to its neighbours through a new project by the artist Molly Gochman.
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DTCC has invested in iCapital to build shared private markets infrastructure linking data and operations across the investment lifecycle. The undisclosed deal aims to cut complexity for wealth advisers and asset managers.
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The IRS has drawn new boundaries around 351 conversions, targeting prearranged plans in which an ETF acts as a conduit to convert appreciated securities into a materially different portfolio without an immediate tax bill.
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BNY has informed advisors that its multi-custodial wealth management platform, Wove, is being sunset. The platform will be folded into BNY's larger wealth solutions business, led by recently promoted wealth head Adam Vos.
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Goldman Sachs has launched a programme allowing individual investors to set standing orders that automatically direct their votes in line with board guidance. The bank says participation is optional and shareholder rights remain unaltered.
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"Eva Hesse: Wild Space, 1957-1970" opens in May 2027 with more than 150 works, foregrounding the drawing practice behind her canonical sculptures. It is the largest US museum presentation of Hesse since 2002.
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Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art are preparing to strike starting Monday, October 5 if a fair contract is not reached, with the action timed to the preview week of a Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. Meanwhile, Teresa Margolles opens her first large-scale US museum exhibition at M
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Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has confirmed that free admission for all will remain at England's national museums, following recent discussions about charging overseas visitors.
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Teresa Margolles's first large-scale US museum exhibition, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), spans over 30 years of work in a joint presentation by MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Modern Art. The show turns on an unsparing formal restraint: water from sites of violence, cleaning as signalization,
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Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art will strike on October 5 if no fair contract offer arrives, Local 2110 announced. The date falls perilously close to the opening of a major Roy Lichtenstein exhibition.
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Eva Respini and Shirish Rao move from interim to permanent shared leadership at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Respini also serves as chief curator; Rao takes on the executive director role.
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