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This week, we honor a fixture of New York and New Delhi art, a painter who folded the world into abstraction, and a champion of Denver’s scene. In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world. Peter Nagy (1959–2026)Artist and gallerist who shaped art scenes in New York and New DelhiHe co-founded the East Village gallery Nature Morte in 1982, one of the earliest artist-run galleries in the neighborhood, which showed artists such as Louise Lawler, Gretchen Bender, and Keith Sonnier during its six-year run. He fell in love with India and its art in 1992, reopening Nature Morte in New Delhi five years later, helping to build the city's gallery system. In 2016, he co-founded the influential Lower East Side gallery Magenta Plains. An accomplished artist in his own right, his post-conceptualist work merged painting with photocopy technology. International Survey Condominiums (1985), for instance, wove art-historical timelines with museum floorplans. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and more.

A judge has ordered a halt to further exhibition changes, but experts warn the removals threaten protections enshrined in the constitution. The post Colombia’s President Declared a Culture War. The National Museum Is the First Casualty appeared first on Artnet News .

Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse. The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&A preemptively closed the three locations in response to the strike threat, a move it described in a statement at the time as a “difficult decision.”

Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat. A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in Tallahassee last week, only to begin melting in the Florida sunshine. As DeSantis’s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-looking skull appeared underneath. According to The Guardian, it was all part of the plan.

Earlier this month, the publisher Faber & Faber announced that it was pulling the books of Sally Rooney from UK shops due to the Irish novelist’s support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group designated as a terrorist organization by the UK government. Now, dozens of artists and writers have signed an open letter that appeared in the New Statesman on Wednesday in protest of the UK government’s policy. Among the signatories are artists John Akomfrah and Ben Rivers, art historian William Dalrymple, writer and Joyland magazine editor Stephanie Wambugu, and novelist and critic Kate Zambreno. Other prominent signatories include film director Jonathan Glazer; novelists Patricia Lockwood, Ben Lerner, and Zadie Smith; philosopher Slavoj Žižek; and actors Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, who starred in the television adaptation of Rooney’s Normal People.

cosima von bonin’s plush animals arrive at paris’ petit palaisParis’ Petit Palais has acquired some unusual residents for Art Basel Paris 2026. A velvet St. Bernard has joined the figures in its historic sculpture gallery, while leather octopuses and mohair whales occupy the same grand setting. The animals belong to Dollys & Beaux, an installation by Cologne-based artist Cosima von Bonin, whose oversized fabric creatures, created first for LOEWE, bring a peculiar sense of humor to the museum’s collection of classical sculpture. The gathering includes a bulldog and a pair of scallops, along with hermit crabs that extend the artist’s strange little animal kingdom. Some have been dressed in silk scarves, while others sport tartan textiles added especially for their appearance in Paris. Their soft, exaggerated bodies seem perfectly comfortable sharing the gallery with their more solemn neighbors. It’s an amusing encounter between materials, with floppy fabric creatures taking their place among figures traditionally carved to endure.