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The two Nordic groups will combine advisory, discretionary portfolio management and research with a digital investment platform in an evenly owned venture, with a Swedish roll-out planned for 2027 pending regulatory clearance.
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Creative Planning is set to acquire RVK, an institutional investment firm with $4.3 trillion in assets. The deal would expand Creative Planning's institutional investment capabilities.
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Shafer Block Wealth Management leaves UBS after 20 years for NewEdge Capital Group's ultra-high-net-worth division, anchoring the firm's first Minnesota office with $1.2B in assets.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has broken ground on its Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, designed by Frida Escobedo. The 126,000‑square‑foot expansion, replacing the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, is slated to open in 2030.
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The London exhibition 'Renoir and Love' has already sold more than 22,000 tickets ahead of its October opening. It is staged in collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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The painter joins the mega-gallery while retaining representation with David Kordansky. Two upcoming presentations will gauge whether demand for her work holds.
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The Joan Mitchell Foundation has published Creating Future Memory, an 80-page report on preserving artists' legacies, alongside a new Legacy Field Map. The report draws on a 2025 convening of 145 figures, including archivists, conservators, estate executors and artists.
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A conceptually ambitious exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art brings together more than 40 contemporary artists and collectives from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and their diasporas, curated by Jessamine Batario.
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President Donald Trump has asked the Smithsonian to remove a modernist sculpture outside the National Museum of American History and install a thirty-foot-high statue of George Washington in its place.
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Philippe Bodenmann has gifted his entire collection to the Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds. The donation proved far larger than first thought after additional works were revealed in the donor's unopened portfolios.
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A new documentary, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, traces the Shipibo-Conibo artist Sara Flores, who is representing Peru at the Venice Biennale.
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Financial institutions are under pressure to justify technology outlays. AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing and AR each present distinct return profiles.
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Dan Arnold, former CEO of LPL, becomes executive chairman of a New York wealth management platform. The firm plans to launch its AI-native operating system next week.
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The Manship Artists Residency presents an exhibition examining how David Hockney used reproductive media — from fax machines to iPads. Over 90 posters, prints, books and multi-page faxes go on view September 11.
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Artist Naeem Mohaiemen revisits the aftermath of 9/11 and the South Asian community activism it sparked. Plus, a review of Pope.L and a new craft supply library in Brooklyn.
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The Bahamian-American sculptor, known for biting, licking and washing her own materials into form, is preparing her first museum retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her practice ties process, destruction and gender to the market's oldest subject: the body.
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Robert Stein leaves the National Gallery of Art, where he has been chief information officer since 2023, to lead the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. He succeeds Andrew J. Walker, who departed in August 2025.
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American artist Tschabalala Self has unveiled Lady in Blue (2026), a bronze sculpture patinated in lapis lazuli blue, on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. The work, depicting a young Black woman striding forward, will remain in place for two years.
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A solo exhibition at Garth Greenan Gallery showcases nearly 50 works by the late Pop artist, while fashion designer Rachel Comey draws inspiration from Drexler's life and art for her runway collection.
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Bhutanese artist Pem Lham has won the Rubin Museum's prize for Himalayan art. The award includes a $30,000 unrestricted cash prize.
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DWS Group will adopt Deutsche Asset Management as its global umbrella brand, effective early November 2026, with the rollout continuing in stages to March 2027. The parent company name and the DWS ticker will remain unchanged.
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Danske Bank has introduced Butterfly, an advisory platform for affluent private clients built on BlackRock's Aladdin Wealth. The bank says it is the first lender in the Nordic region to offer investment advice supported by Aladdin Wealth.
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Aqua has launched a turnkey alternative investments platform backed by $18.8m in funding, targeting wealth managers, RIAs, banks and trust companies building alternatives programmes.
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UBS is winding down its Shenzhen fund sales operation at the end of September, closing a digital platform that never scaled in China's crowded mutual fund distribution market. The move adds to a widening pullback by foreign asset managers.
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