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The Azcatitlan Codex, an illustrated manuscript on Aztec (Mexica) history created between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, has gone on view at Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology...
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Two German men were arrested at the Louvre in Paris on Saturday, September 19, after taping two small paintings to a wall in the room where Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is displayed, according to...
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Venezuelan photographer Nelson Garrido died on August 20, 2026, days before his 74th birthday, with the news confirmed by his daughter, Gala Garrido. Born in Caracas on August 24, 1952, Garrido spent...
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Two visitors to the Louvre in Paris were arrested on Saturday after taping two small paintings (about 11.8 by 15.7 inches) onto the walls of the Salle des États, the gallery that houses Leonardo da...
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Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza announced plans for a second venue to house a contemporary art collection from philanthropist Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and her heirs. The agreement...
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Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum will expand to a second location to address overcrowding, with completion targeted for 2032, according to El País. The new site will be the 107,639-square-foot Ice...
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Pope Leo XIV marked his 71st birthday on Monday by opening the exhibition “AQVA: Catastrophe and Wonder” at the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City, featuring a major installation by French...
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Pro-Palestine group Energy Embargo for Palestine protested in the British Museum’s Great Hall on September 10 during the opening weekend of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The action followed...
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A series of museum thefts across Europe has highlighted security vulnerabilities at institutions with limited resources, following high-profile incidents including a daytime jewelry heist at the...
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After thieves stole four Pierre-Auguste Renoir works from a museum in southern France on Tuesday—abandoning two in the museum garden while two remain missing—new reporting said one missing painting,...
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French artist Claude Lévêque, who represented France at the 2009 Venice Biennale, has been ordered to stand trial in a French criminal court for alleged rape and sexual assault of three minors,...
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Two Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings—reported as Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune femme au puits (1886)—were stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer near Nice, with the mayor’s office...
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Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japan’s 37th Praemium Imperiale, a major international lifetime-achievement prize, and will each receive 15 million yen (about...
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An administrative court in Caen, France, ruled on Monday that Deauville city hall was wrong to remove an Associated Press photograph taken in Gaza from the Deauville Sport Images Festival’s outdoor...
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Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher is among politicians and public figures criticizing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned John Galliano exhibition, according to a New York Times report...
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Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday for money laundering in a case that ARTnews said closely matches the investigation into German dealer Serop Simonian’s alleged Egyptian...
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A new French law adopted in May has raised hopes in Senegal for the restitution of the long-disputed “treasure of Ségou,” a group of items taken by French forces in 1890 from the family of Omar...
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A sacred Ivorian “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted by French colonial troops in 1916, arrived on August 7 in its home village of Adjame in Côte d’Ivoire, where residents saw it for...
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The Musée du Louvre will lend 26 works from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, for the exhibition From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic...
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Researchers at Santa Clara University—management professor Michael Santoro and analytics professors Haibing Lu and Michele Samorani—launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research to help...
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Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier filed a request in US federal court in the Southern District of New York seeking an order compelling Sotheby’s to produce records tied to the private sale of Pablo...
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France’s culture minister Catherine Pégard announced a “national security plan” on July 27 after a series of violent thefts from museums and churches, including the theft of French crown jewels from...
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French investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with the July 24 theft of a 2,500-year-old, 24-karat gold Celtic torque from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais—Trésor de Vix in...
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A 2,500-year-old Celtic gold torque from the Vix Treasure was stolen in broad daylight on July 24 from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, according to...
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans in France has launched a “Wanted” poster campaign to help locate 424 artworks missing from its collection, many looted during World War II. Among the most prominent...
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The European Union has formally terminated a €2m grant to the Venice Biennale after controversy over Russia being allowed to use its pavilion for the first time since 2022 despite its ongoing...
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ARTnews reviews “In the Very Bowels of Change: Surrealism and Antifascism,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw that traces Surrealism’s political engagement and resistance to...
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Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and a Velázquez scholar, reported in ARS Magazine that he has identified a previously overlooked Diego Velázquez portrait from 1626 in...
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In a Hyperallergic weekly roundup, senior editor Valentina Di Liscia highlighted recent coverage ranging from Michael Glover’s review of an Elizabeth I exhibition to Rhea Nayyar’s piece on Surrealist...
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The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived at the British Museum in London, marking its first return to England since it was made in the 1070s, ahead of an autumn display. British Museum director Nicholas...
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Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is exhibiting 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to Colombia between 2022 and 2026 during President Gustavo Petro’s outgoing administration, in a show...
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Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective have opened “Correspondences” at Luma Arles in southern France, billed as the project’s first major European presentation and running until November 8. Installed...
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The White House published a 162-page report on July 4 titled “Saving America’s Story” accusing the Smithsonian Institution of “extreme political activism” and “anti-White activism,” escalating...
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Thieves stole 27 pieces of fine jewelry worth about €4 million (approximately $4.5 million) during an early-morning raid on Sunday, July 5, at the Musée Lalique in Wingen-sur-Moder in France’s...
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Ai Weiwei opened a large-scale exhibition titled Button Up! at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester on 3 July, presenting more than two decades of work alongside new commissions, many...
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Researchers working on the Vesuvius Challenge, launched by the University of Kentucky in 2023, used machine learning and advanced X-ray scanning to make major progress translating carbonized scrolls...
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In June, researchers associated with the University of Kentucky’s Vesuvius Challenge used A.I. and advanced scanning to decipher an entire carbonized Herculaneum papyrus scroll—PHerc. 1667—without...
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Klaus Kallmann, a 98-year-old heir of German Jewish collector Felix Kallmann (1853–1938), is seeking the return of Vincent van Gogh’s Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889) from the Musée...
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Sotheby’s announced it will auction more than 900 works from an unnamed collector in a series of sales beginning in October, with a total estimate exceeding $60 million. Branded “Magnum Opus,” the...
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Paris museums and major tourist sites reduced hours or temporarily closed in late June amid a record-breaking European heatwave, after France recorded its highest average temperature ever at about...
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ARTnews reports that Almine Rech has become the exclusive partner in France of the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, giving its network of galleries in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York,...
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ARTnews’s June 12, 2026 “Industry Moves” roundup reports that conservation scientist Francesca Casadio, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will livestream select World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright (the museum’s restaurant), with access free to...
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French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist, and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for co-writing and co-directing the animated film Persepolis, has died at age 56, ARTnews reported. Her family...
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French conservation specialists are developing an AI model to predict how climate change will affect cultural heritage sites, an initiative led by Ann Bourgès of the French Ministry of Culture’s...
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French filmmaker Romain Gavras is set to direct a movie based on the $102 million Louvre heist, adapting the book Main Basse sur le Louvre (A Grab at the Louvre), released in France on Wednesday by...
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The British Museum announced that tickets for its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition—running September 10 through July 11, 2027—will cost up to £33 (about $45) for peak times, with off-peak adult tickets...
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Rome’s Galleria Borghese is facing controversy after news emerged of a privately funded feasibility study, sponsored by engineering firm Proger, to explore adding exhibition and visitor space on the...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul opens to the public on 4 June as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, marking the Pompidou’s second branch in...
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A miniature wood-panel portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder depicting Friedrich III (“Frederick the Wise”) has been returned to the State Art Collections of Dresden after disappearing at the end of...
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More than 70 artists participating in the 61st Venice Biennale have withdrawn from consideration for the event’s awards, according to a protest statement published on e-flux on May 9. Signatories...
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Artnet News reported on 10 May 2026 that the Aspen Art Fair will return to Hotel Jerome from 29 July to 1 August 2026 for its third edition, featuring more than 35 exhibitors including Albertz Benda,...
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A group of 52 artists—just under half of those in curator Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale main exhibition “In Minor Keys”—signed an e-flux statement declining consideration for this year’s top prizes,...
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Christophe Leribault, the Louvre’s new director and former president of the Palace of Versailles until February, outlined a post-heist vision for the museum in a May 5 interview with Le Monde. The...
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The Art Newspaper reviews international efforts to curb the wartime looting and illicit trade of movable cultural property, focusing on legal tools and their limits. It highlights the 1954 Hague...
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ARTnews profiles Dear Monica Lewinsky, a new novel by art historian Julia Langbein, published this month by Doubleday, that blends the Monica Lewinsky scandal with medieval art and hagiography. The...
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On 13 April, the French parliament adopted a new framework law allowing the deaccession and restitution of cultural items plundered from former colonies, nine years after President Emmanuel Macron...
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A proposed French restitution law advanced after the National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved it on Wednesday, following unanimous approval by the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha is set to open in Seoul on June 4, following three years of planning, with the date marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The outpost...
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French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri filed a war-crimes complaint in France on 2 April with the French War Crimes Unit over an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s Noueiri neighborhood that killed his parents,...
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Lebanese artist Ali Cherri and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) filed a civil complaint on April 2 in France with the French War Crimes Unit, seeking an investigation into an...
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Artnet News reported on 2 April 2026 that two Claude Monet paintings, unseen publicly for around a century, have resurfaced and are headed to auction at Sotheby’s. The story centers on the works’...
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ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
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A controversy has erupted in France over plans to replace six undamaged 19th-century stained-glass windows at Notre-Dame de Paris—designed by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc during his 1844–1864...
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Artist Yto Barrada said French organizers had “full awareness” of her views on Israel when selecting her for France’s pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after criticism from the Representative...
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France’s culture ministry blocked the planned 23 March sale at Drouot Paris of a newly identified drawing by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung Grien, issuing a 21 March decree declaring it a...
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ARTnews reports that the Venice Biennale’s Central Pavilion in the Giardini has been fully renovated ahead of the Biennale’s May 2026 opening, with a total budget of €31 million (about $36 million)....
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu appointed Catherine Pégard as culture minister on 27 February 2026, replacing Rachida Dati, who is campaigning to become mayor...
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ARTnews reported that France’s controversial right-wing culture minister is stepping down in order to run for mayor of Paris. The article frames the move as a shift from a national cabinet role to a...
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On 25 February 2026, French president Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Léribault as president and director of the Musée du Louvre, replacing Laurence des Cars, who resigned on 24 February...
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ARTnews.com reported that France has returned a looted “talking drum” to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire as part of ongoing efforts to repatriate cultural objects taken during the colonial era. The...
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French police searched the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris as part of an investigation connected to Jeffrey Epstein. The search was reported by ARTnews as linked to a broader probe examining...
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Christie’s will headline its London 20/21 Spring Evening Sale with a Wassily Kandinsky painting estimated at $21.3 million, according to ARTnews. The same sale will also feature a work by British...
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In an Art Law Corner column published 11 February 2026, Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law examines how the legal principle of “inalienability” restricts museums—especially in...
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Jack Lang, France’s former culture minister, resigned on 7 February 2026 as president of Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), a role he held since 2013, after renewed scrutiny from the Jeffrey...
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Newly released US Department of Justice documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, made public on 30 January 2026, name several prominent art-world figures, including former French culture minister Jack...
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Jewish heirs filed a lawsuit in a French court challenging the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro, according to ARTnews. The case seeks to contest the work’s...
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ARTnews reported that a bill backed by French President Emmanuel Macron to facilitate the return of artworks looted during France’s colonial era has passed the French Senate. The measure is intended...