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\n\t\u2018BAD BLOOD\u2019 IN LONDON?\u00a0Following news this week that the\u00a0National Gallery<\/a>\u00a0would start collecting art made after its long-held 1900 cut-off date, many wondered how that change would sit with its neighbor specializing in modern art, the\u00a0Tate<\/a>. The\u00a0Guardian<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0now reports that the expansion of the National Gallery\u2019s collection means both public institutions had to \u201ctear up an agreement\u201d that doled out which works went to which collections, ending a rivalry that came to a head in the 1970s. Unnamed \u201csenior sources\u201d are now reportedly worried the new policy will create \u201cbad blood\u201d and potentially spur the two museums to go \u201cat each other\u2019s throats.\u201d While Tate director\u00a0Maria Balshaw\u00a0welcomed the news, the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0reported that \u201cbehind the scenes,\u201d it\u2019s a whole other story, though some Tate staff apparently sympathize with the National Gallery\u2019s perspective. \u201cThey can\u2019t really just stop right at a certain point as we get further away [from 1900], it starts to become more and more arbitrary,\u201d one unnamed senior figure at the Tate told the\u00a0Guardian.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Digest<\/p>\n \n\tThe 1908\u00a0Singha Durbar Palace\u00a0in Kathmandu was among the landmarks destroyed in fires during protests over government corruption and a social media ban this week in Nepal.\u00a0[Hyperallergic<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tAshraf Omar Eldarir, a former doctor from Egypt, has been convicted in New York of smuggling hundreds of looted artifacts from his home country and was sentenced to six months in a US federal prison. In 2020, Eldarir was caught at New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy International Airport with a suitcase containing 590 ancient artifacts that still smelled of wet earth and sand, suggesting they had been dug up recently. [The Art Newspaper<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Getty Villa<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles is opening its first exhibition since the January Palisades fire shuttered the building. The show, \u201cThe Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece,\u201d features the \u201cPylos Combat Agate\u201d a small, carved stone that wasdiscovered in 2017, shedding new light on ancient Greek culture. [Los Angeles Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tTen more artists have been commissioned to create new works for the forthcoming\u00a0Obama Presidential Center, slated to open in the South Side of Chicago by 2026.\u00a0Barack Obamahimself and\u00a0Michelle Obama\u00a0were involved in conversations about the artist selection, which includes\u00a0Nick Cave, Nekisha Durrett, Jenny Holzer, Jules Julien, Idris Khan, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jack Pierson, Alison Saar, Kiki Smith, and\u00a0Marie Watt. [Artnet News<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Munich gallery\u00a0Walter Storms\u00a0is opening a new, 2,150-square-foot space in Berlin for the city\u2019s current Art Week. The opening exhibition, on view until October 31, is devoted to the work of the late German painter and printmaker\u00a0G\u00fcnter Fruhtrunk. [Tagesspiegel<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Kicker<\/p>\n