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How to understand the price of art: a long Artsy article. Much good info, but it concludes "do research and ask questions" tinyurl.com/mu28bydp
Web 5.0: Digital platforms as proxies for state control through social scoring. A gloomy forecast by media ecologist Andrey Mir for Big Think tinyurl.com/3d5mdksr
Saudi Arabia doesn’t have enough money to pay for MBS’s Vision 2030 cultural and economic mega projects, reports The Wall Street Journal tinyurl.com/3c62sd9t
British Museum receives the biggest ever donation in UK museum history, 1,700 Chinese ceramic pieces worth £1bn tinyurl.com/49t3ekjr
This simple journal fades your words as you type, forcing you to keep writing instead of editing tinyurl.com/jadwtu5u
From Einstein to Twain via Churchill and the Bible, the Quote Investigator website tests the attribution behind your favorite quotes tinyurl.com/ybwvs9xy
Looks like Guggenheim Abu Dhabi *will* happen: Pentagram has designed a new visual ID for the foundation, based on a purpose-built typeface (Guggenheim Sans) that has Arabic as well as Roman characters tinyurl.com/7hxkew68
Nico Williams wins 2024 Sobey Art Award grand prize of C$100,000. Five other shortlisted artists each get C$25,000 tinyurl.com/47tch5sh
Art historian and curator Miren Arzalluz will be the new Director of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from 1 April. Currently she's director of the Fashion Museum–Palais Galliera in Paris tinyurl.com/22epjd6w
So that's why Frieze is up for sale: Endeavour, its owner, is reporting a Q3 loss of $420m (3x more than last year) despite higher sales of $2bn ($1.3bn last time) tinyurl.com/ys6wab67
#MAGPIESEZ Clean a mountain, walk a Corniche, laugh in the QE2: magpie weekly newsletter has your weekend sorted, if you're in the UAE! tinyurl.com/c7ffcx7m
End of an era: the grounding of the inflight magazine tinyurl.com/mryzfs95
The 10h Chicago Architecture Biennial (Sep 2025 – Feb 2026) will be led by Florencia Rodriguez, director of the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture, at its first Latina Artistic Director tinyurl.com/3rkmnfty
Tips for choosing fonts from graphic designers tinyurl.com/2s3rjh5z
"A biennale’s value does not have to reside exclusively in its cohesion, but also on its ability to act as a platform for the dynamic work of artists outside the traditional structures of galleries and institutions." Artnet looks back at Venice tinyurl.com/3nuwv5tu
Best thing at Dubai Design Week? A phygital cardboard pavilion from the JVC-based Ross Lovegrove/Ila Colombo design studio Deond tinyurl.com/2w6nhraf
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