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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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The Vancouver Art Gallery has elevated Eva Respini and Sirish Rao to co-CEOs after eighteen months in interim leadership, pairing curatorial and operational mandates as the museum plans a new building.
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Fraudsters impersonating senior executives used AI-reproduced voice to extract €95m from Fideuram, Intesa Sanpaolo's private banking arm. About €53m was recovered; roughly €36m remains unaccounted for.
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At least eight international banks may be open to merger discussions with UBS, reports say, as Switzerland's upper house backs stricter capital requirements the bank says would cost roughly $16bn in additional CET1 capital.
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A GlobalData roundtable finds that while financial institutions are experimenting with agentic AI, few have deployed it at scale, citing data readiness, governance and regulatory barriers.
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An internal Morgan Stanley document listing over 100 investment-banking mandates and prospects in Asia was mistakenly sent to clients. The file, which included potential IPOs across China, South Korea and India, was shared this week, according to Bloomberg.
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The Thai Ministry of Culture has appointed jiradej-pornpilai meemalai: BAAN NOORG as artistic director of the Fifth Thailand Biennale, with Emily Chin-Jie Lee, Gesyada Siregar, and Tyuki Imamura serving as curators.
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The fourth Toronto Biennial of Art brings together more than 30 artists and collectives around the theme of rupture, curated by Allison Glenn. It unfolds across and beyond the city, on Lake Ontario and in a half-dozen other cities through a new partnership programme.
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Ivo Tzenov’s family office has been flagged as one of Eastern Europe’s most dynamic. The profile places him among the region’s notable family-office builders.
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A season of outdoor installations lands across New York, from Governors Island and City Hall Park to the High Line and Queens. The programme reaches beyond the museum circuit into the city's parks and public spaces.
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A weekly podcast surveys Cezanne's influence through a new Grand Palais exhibition, Taryn Simon's Guggenheim show, and a Magritte work on paper at Gagosian in London.
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“Cassirer: Breakthrough of Impressionism” at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie examines how dealer Paul Cassirer brought French Impressionism to Germany and the market mechanisms that shaped museum collections today.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis dismissed a British Museum suggestion that a Bayeux Tapestry exhibition could serve as a model for resolving the Parthenon Marbles dispute, arguing the comparison ignores the sculptures' division.
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Operating under an established nonprofit's tax-exempt umbrella lets charitable initiatives accelerate fundraising and reduce administrative hurdles, freeing them to focus on their missions.
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Switzerland's upper chamber has approved a stricter capital framework for UBS, dismissing the bank's preferred approach. UBS says the measure could require roughly $18bn in extra capital.
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DBS and Avaloq have extended an 18-year alliance covering wealth management services for customers and advisers across Asia, focused on business growth, joint innovation and capability exchange.
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Standish Management has agreed to acquire NCM Fund Services, which administers alternative investment funds from Edinburgh, London, Jersey and Guernsey. Financial terms were not disclosed; completion is expected later this year, subject to regulatory approvals.
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Wealth management merger and acquisition activity slipped 19% in the third quarter of 2026, with market volatility and uncertainty prompting advisors to postpone transactions, according to DeVoe & Company.
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Imelda Cajipe Endaya has been named to the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts, becoming the first woman to receive the honor in its fifty-four-year history.
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Dealers at the Armory Show reported steady first-day sales, with museum curators, advisors and wealthy collectors browsing the Javits Center fair. A Hollis Taggart dealer said wealthy buyers were unmoved by wars or inflation.
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The 2026 Turner Prize exhibition opens to the public on 26 September at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in North Yorkshire, featuring shortlisted artists Tanoa Sasraku, Marguerite Humeau, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije.
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Bogotá's Artbo fair remains a boutique, largely Colombian event as its 2026 exhibitor numbers stay below pre-pandemic levels. Its collectors and galleries remain predominantly domestic.
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The Armory Show's Presents section returns as one of the fair's most vibrant sectors, with emerging dealers presenting bold stands while clear-eyed about the costs of doing business at fairs.
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