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Google Lens failed to identify a recently acquired 17th-century portrait, suggesting some art-world tasks remain beyond the machines. If automation advances, certain art jobs still appear difficult to replace.
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Milemarker has launched an MCP AI server built natively on Snowflake. The server links advisory firms to over 140 custodians, CRMs, portfolio systems and planning tools via a single governed interface.
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Edwin Lickiss Jr. ran a Ponzi scheme from 1998 to 2024, promising clients exclusive tax-free bonds with returns up to 30% while diverting their funds for personal expenses.
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The former PayPal and Intuit CEO has launched a self-directed platform that applies AI to wealth management strategies. It aims to serve investors without requiring minimum balances.
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Legend Holdings has begun selling its 90% stake in Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, working with Goldman Sachs, in a deal that could value the wealth manager at €2.5bn or more.
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The fair's autumnal edition, focused on overlooked or under-recognised bodies of work from the previous century, takes over Sotheby's headquarters.
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In the closing installment of their Venice Biennale series, Hrag Vartanian and Aruna D'Souza disagree sharply over Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Austria, exposing the fault lines beneath this year's national presentations.
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Liu Wei's commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's facade, unveiled Thursday, features hybrid sculptures blending biological, technological, and architectural elements. The works, up to 16 feet tall, reflect the Beijing-based artist's long-standing practice of cutting, reassembling, and respo
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Vancouver's city council has created a cultural land trust to shield creative communities from real estate speculation, a model already used in San Francisco, Helsinki and London.
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James Cope brings his invite-only Dallas Invitational model to London with 12 exhibitors during Frieze Week. The boutique fair aims to help emerging and midsize galleries do business without the costs of major fairs.
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The largest ever show devoted to the 17th-century Chinese master Bada Shanren has found unexpected resonance with younger audiences. His eye-rolling birds have inspired memes and merchandise.
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Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza will open a new venue for contemporary art, housing more than 360 works from the TBA21 Collection. The expansion involves donated or loaned works led by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza.
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Buenos Aires's Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires has chosen Mexican architect Frida Escobedo for an expansion that will double its exhibition space.
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A new debt offering by wealth manager Mercer includes a $250 million delayed draw term loan earmarked for acquisitions and other investments.
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Apex and FusionIQ have struck a deal to simplify financial services technology development, targeting banks, credit unions, RIAs and broker/dealers modernizing wealth management products.
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An industrial dynasty's investment group is working with a fourth-generation member of a banking family, according to Family Capital.
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Madrid's Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza will expand into a second venue housing more than 360 contemporary works donated or loaned from the TBA21 Collection. The foundation was established in 2002 by philanthropist Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza for her personal collection.
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Taryn Simon's "Father Country I Do Love You" at the Guggenheim builds a sprawling narrative from an FBI agent's recollections. The exhibition pairs painstaking research with introductory tales Simon could never confirm, keeping doubt permanently in play.
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Taryn Simon's Guggenheim exhibition, Father Country I Do Love You, assembles more than 1,000 photographs and thousands of words into a 42-part installation built from a decade of interviews with an anonymous FBI agent.
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The British-Indian artist's retrospective at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge brings together intimate photographs that show how art and activism can work together. The images are described as both tender and powerful.
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Unionized workers at three New York institutions have voted to authorize strike action if contract talks fail. The vote lands amid a broader reckoning over museum labor and funding.
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A fast-moving storm dropped nearly two inches of rain in an hour over Florence on September 17, with water seeping through an Uffizi skylight and reaching the Palazzo Pitti. Concern focused on the masterworks housed in both institutions.
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The Kröller-Müller Museum is showing its entire collection of 88 Van Gogh paintings for the first time in more than two decades, organised around the themes of faith, hope and love.
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An Australian entrepreneur has developed Artist Engineering Hardware, a hands-free system intended to lower the risk of damage during art transport and installation. The approach removes direct contact with works of art.
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