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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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An installation by Marina Abramović is part of the newly opened Balloon Museum in New York, where it floats above Manhattan. Artforum frames the venue as the city's next gimmick.
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A Connecticut auction house identified two Eastman Johnson paintings stolen in the 1970s within a private estate collection and helped return them.
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Cultural leaders are urging the UK government to ring-fence revenue from its proposed 'tourist tax' for the arts. Plans announced this week offer few controls over how mayors spend the Overnight Visitor Levy income.
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Five teams of architects and landscape designers will compete for the Musée National Picasso-Paris's sculpture garden project, expected to be completed by 2030.
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Greek entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos has given fifty-one artworks, mostly by Greek artists, from his personal collection to four museums in Greece and Scotland.
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a microbes museum at the city's zoo have developed an installation depicting microbes found on the surface of Rembrandt's The Night Watch. The research is described as sampling bacteria on the painting.
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A previously unpublished interview with Yayoi Kusama, conducted in September 2025, marks the opening of her traveling survey at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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Modern Wealth Management has acquired Jacksonville-based Sanchez Wealth Management Group, adding close to $710m in client assets. Sanchez Wealth, founded by Christen (Chris) Sanchez, has advised whole-family households for more than 25 years.
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SEI research shows 71% of high-net-worth investors say their financial advisor has never asked to manage a larger share of their household wealth. The finding points to tax benefits left unaddressed in advisor-client relationships.
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Citi Private Bank has hired Teresa Radzinski as a private banker in Jacksonville, Florida, focused on individuals and family offices with balance sheets above $500m. She joins from Bank of America Private Bank.
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Farshid Asl and Matt Weir will succeed Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani as co-heads of Goldman Sachs' Investment Strategy Group, the chief investment office guiding asset allocation for private clients worldwide.
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Kathleen V. Jameson has been named director of Louisville's Speed Art Museum, beginning her role on Tuesday. She joins from the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown.
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Qatar Museums will open a permanent Gerhard Richter pavilion in Doha this autumn, sited in MIA Park outside the Museum of Islamic Art. Richter designed the building with Selldorf Architects.
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The Met acquires two works by Alison Rossiter from her expired photographic paper series. Kathleen V. Jameson returns to the Speed Museum as director.
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Artists from Muslim, South Asian and SWANA communities describe how the 2001 attacks and the backlash reshaped their lives and work. Wafaa Bilal and Shahzia Sikander reflect on surveillance, war and visual culture.
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The Musée Jacquemart-André presents Tintoretto alongside the French artists who revered him, among them Fragonard, Cézanne and Delacroix.
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The Los Angeles artist screens Deny, Defend, Depose, built from social media reactions to the killing of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Proceeds from tickets and T-shirts go to healthcare cost fundraisers.
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The black Christina Stambolian dress Diana wore in 1994 returns to auction at Sotheby’s London on December 9, estimated at $150,000–$300,000, with part of the proceeds going to NHS Lothian Charity. It was last sold at her 1997 charity auction for cancer and AIDS research.
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Savvy Wealth has closed a $100m Series C led by Halo Fund, bringing total funding above $200m. The AI-native advisory platform now reports $9bn in assets and more than 150 advisors across the US.
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Goldman Sachs Asset Management will take on portfolio management for five IG Strategic Wealth Portfolios, linking IG's financial planning operations with institutional multi-asset capabilities.
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Family Capital names Lars Villadsen and Emma Nehrenheim as Persons of the Week, recognizing their work in building a very sustainable family enterprise.
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Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III plans to retire as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution by year's end after repeated clashes with the Trump administration. The departure raises questions about political pressure on cultural leadership.
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The Smithsonian's top leader steps down after nearly four decades, a period recently marked by political friction. His departure reshapes the institutional landscape.
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