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Brian Boucher™️

@brianboucher.bsky.social
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Staff reporter, ARTnews. Formerly staff writer: Artnet News, Art in America. Past contributor: New York Times, New York, Cultured, CNN, et many al.

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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ARTnews can reveal… www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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‘We Can Literally Be in Two Places at Once’: Vancouver Art Gallery Elevates Eva Respini and Sirish Rao to Co-CEOs
Eva Respini and Sirish Rao will serve as co-CEOs at the Vancouver Art Gallery, effective immediately, the museum announced today.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
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Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Be very afraid www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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AI Companies Are Destroying Books by the Millions. What Will It Mean for Art?
Tech companies are destroying millions of books after scanning them to feed their Large Language Models. What will this mean for artistic practice?
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There is no such thing as “pre-boarding,” my friend
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The business practices of Cape Town gallery SMAC are, one artist told me, “not on.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Artists and Former Staffers Accuse Cape Town Gallery SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks
Artists and former staffers say that Cape Town gallery SMAC has a long record of failing to pay artists when their works are sold.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Fourth, bitches
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Are the Italians… okay? www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Did You Miss the Original Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius? Now You Can Experience It in Augmented Reality in Pompeii
A new app allows visitors to Pompeii to see the ancient city when it was still thriving, before and even during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“You think it’s bad at *your* workplace?”, Thursday edition www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse
The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale resigned on April 30, issuing a statement that did not provide a reasoning.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
You think it’s bad at *your* workplace?? www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Misconduct at Palm Springs Art Museum, Where an Ex-Trustee Describes a ‘Shattered Moral Compass’
A whistleblower has raised allegations of misconduct at California’s Palm Springs Art Museum, claiming violations of the law and best practices.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What word do you consistently mistype? You know how to spell it, but your fingers get it wrong. I almost always come up with “vocer” instead of “cover,” as one example.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
How I hope the WHCA dinner goes
A woman's face on a movie screen. She has blonde hair and is laughing. The screen is burning from below. This is from Inglorious Basterds
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Thinking of my friends and colleagues on what must be a tough day. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Artnet Makes Significant Layoffs Following Consolidation with Artsy
Artnet, a prominently online marketplace, made significant layoffs after it was consolidated with its competitor Artsy.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This seems a pity. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Local Resort Reportedly Pays $45 M. for Rauschenberg’s Famed Captiva Island Property
The South Seas resort reportedly paid $45 million for Robert Rauschenberg's 22-acre property on Captiva Island, Florida.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
California’s High Desert Is Rich With Natural and Artistic Beauty—All Amplified by a Budding Art Fair: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“Art Collector and ‘Galerie’ Magazine Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Jeffrey Epstein in Emails: ‘There Is No One Else Like You’”: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This sale may be within bounds set by professional organizations, but experts are unhappy about it. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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An Orientalist Painting Central to the Penn Museum’s History To Be Offered for $4 M. at Bonhams
The Penn Museum's purchase of Osman Hamdi Bey's painting curried favor with the artist-administrator in facilitating U Penn's archaeological digs.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Dealers are selling some amazing things at TEFAF Maastricht, like a two-inch-high enameled gold *book page*, for fuck’s sake www.artnews.com/artnews/news...
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Dealers at TEFAF Maastricht Report Robust Sales, Offering Works Ranging from Two Inches to Room-Size
A sprawling Neapolitan crèche, a gigantic sleigh, and two-inch-high enameled gold paintings all dazzle at the latest edition of TEFAF Maastricht.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Are you ready to rumble, by which I mean spend millions at TEFAF? www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
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Undaunted by Global Unrest, TEFAF Revs Up for Maastricht Edition With a ‘Museum For Sale’
Some 276 dealers from 24 countries will one-up each other for museums' attention at TEFAF Maastricht, a fair one dealer likens to "a museum for sale"
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Oh my god
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas
President Donald Trump touted gold curtains he selected for the White House at a Medal of Honor ceremony shortly as Americans die in the Iran war.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
👀 www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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In Los Angeles for Frieze Week? Watch Out For a Mobile LED Truck with the Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails
Tod Lippy has hired an LED truck that will troll the Los Angeles art world with emails between art-world luminaries and Jeffrey Epstein.
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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Never forget who you’re fighting for.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Frieze LA VIP day report: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
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Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’
The aisles were packed with collectors, museum trustees and, of course, actors at the latest edition of the Frieze Los Angeles fair.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Chicago’s DePaul University will shutter its art museum, it announced moments ago. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years
The DePaul Art Museum will close after 40 years amid substantial financial challenges at its parent university, which has initiated layoffs.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
👀 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Breaking on ARTnews: Louvre director resigns. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns After Heist and Internal Turmoil
Laurence des Cars, director of the Louvre, left her post amid strikes, a heist, leaks, and internal turmoil.
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It's a small win, but still... this fills me with civic pride.
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Chicago Just Named A Snowplow ‘Abolish ICE’— Here Are The Other Winners
The city received a record number of entries and votes for its annual snowplow-naming contest. The Department of Streets and Sanitation announced the six winners Monday.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Please shoot me.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“I Swam To See an Underwater Art Project Off Miami Beach That Imagines a Better Aquatic World.” My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
A photo shows a woman underwater, snorkeling above a number of concrete sculptures of carsA photo shows a man underwater, snorkeling above a number of concrete sculptures of cars largely covered with red algae
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Absolutely tremendous movie. I watched it again recently and does it ever hold up.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This is funny to me every year. theonion.com/cam-girl-has...
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Cam Girl Has Ash On Forehead
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
When “you can’t fire me—I quit!” looks more like “I didn’t quit—you fired me!” My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Art Investing Startup Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against an Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat
A co-founder and former chief product officer at startup Masterworks is threatening to sue over wrongful termination. The company says he resigned.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Another.
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Pete 👎 ABOLISH ICE 👎 @barrelbucket.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sickening. #ICEOUT #MN www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents
A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Some news about Artforum: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors
On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It’s almost as though our government were run by a secret cabal of sex traffickers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
As you may have heard, Trump bragged about a supposed weapon used in Venezuela that he claims to have dubbed the Discombobulator. “Sir, is there any chance the Discombobulator is on now?” asks Colbert. “I would not describe your recent behavior as, uh, ‘combobulated.’”
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 03/02/2026
Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
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Lorde donates merchandise proceeds from Minneapolis shows to immigrant rights groups
Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Epstein discussed with Ross an idea for a show of photos of underage people called “Statutory.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Epstein Files Reveal Friendship with SVA Chair David A. Ross: ‘I’m Still Proud to Call You a Friend’
David A. Ross, who headed museums including the Whitney and SFMOMA, corresponded with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein over several years.
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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It’s almost as though our government is run by a cabal of child pornographers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
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The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files
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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Federal officers use crowd control munitions as demonstrators protest outside Portland ICE building
Thousands of protesters turned out for a mostly peaceful demonstration Saturday in Portland to speak out against increased immigration enforcement. By the end of the day, scores of nonviolent proteste...
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
FYI, Kristi Noem’s full initials are K.L.A.N.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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PROOFREADING HULK @proofreadinghulk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JOURNALISTS, STOP SAYING “ACCORDING TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR.” FAMILIAR TO WHO?
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Key quote from the judge's order releasing Liam Ramos & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
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