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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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Christie’s appointed François-Henri Pinault as board chairman and non-executive director, a move that signals the end of Guillaume Cerutti’s tenure as chairman. François-Henri Pinault, president of...
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A Paul Cézanne watercolor, La Montagne Sainte Victoire (ca. 1888), shown in a recent Cézanne exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner due to Nazi-era...
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A provenance researcher working for the heir of Jewish businessman Gustav Schweitzer says a Paul Cezanne watercolour shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost due to Nazi...
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ARTnews’s summer preview lists 46 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, identifying spectacle as a major seasonal theme. It highlights projects including Laure Prouvost’s show about quantum...
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Spain’s 2022 law has begun enabling restitutions of art seized during the Spanish Civil War, decades after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 and nearly 90 years after the 1936 conflict began....
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The US Commission of Fine Arts approved President Donald Trump’s proposal for a 250-foot-tall triumphal arch modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, planned for Memorial Circle in Arlington, Virginia,...
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French artist JR transformed Paris’s Pont Neuf—the city’s oldest bridge over the Seine and its first built from stone—into a trompe l’oeil “grotto” installation titled La Caverne du Pont Neuf (2026)....
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Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a renewed five-year partnership with Chanel as the museum prepares for a long closure through 2030 during a renovation estimated at over $500 million. Chanel and the...
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A Paris Administrative Court judge rejected a request to urgently suspend the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are slated to...
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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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Hong Kong’s M+ and the Centre Pompidou in Paris have signed a multi-year partnership agreement, formalising collaboration on joint curatorial research, exhibition development and sharing,...
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“Paris in Black: Internationalism and the Black Renaissance,” an exhibition at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, surveys Black American painters, writers, musicians,...
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The Louvre in Paris announced that Selldorf Architects (New York), led by Annabelle Selldorf, will partner with Studios Architecture Paris to design its “Nouvelle Renaissance” expansion, a project...
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Photo London opened in its new venue at Olympia’s Grand Hall in West Kensington for previews on 13 May and ran until 17 May, reporting brisk early sales despite stormy weather. Paris-B Gallery sold...
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A French parliamentary commission formed after the 19 October heist of the Louvre’s crown jewels issued a report on 13 May calling for sweeping reforms to museum security and governance across...
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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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Artnet News reports that the Brooklyn Museum is presenting “Sculpting the Senses,” a retrospective of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen spanning roughly two decades and featuring more than 140...
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ARTnews reports that Air de Paris, a prominent French gallery, will declare bankruptcy and close after 36 years, according to cofounders Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino speaking to Cultured....
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Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, founder of the Zurich-based Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (established 1963), has died at age 86, the gallery announced on Saturday. Bischofberger helped introduce...
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ARTnews criticizes “Costume Art,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring Costume Institute exhibition, for what it calls weak art-historical comparisons between fashion and artworks displayed side...
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Two gilt-bronze botanical mirrors by French sculptor Claude Lalanne, commissioned by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent beginning in 1974 for his Paris apartment, sold at Sotheby’s on April 22, 2026...
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The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (Aipad) opened the 45th edition of The Photography Show on April 22, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The fair includes about 65...
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The Louvre Museum’s architectural competition for its “New Renaissance” renovation is expected to restart in mid-May, with the jury reportedly scheduled to meet on May 13 to review five shortlisted...
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A five-star review in The Art Newspaper praises “Rothko in Florence,” a major exhibition examining how Florence influenced American painter Mark Rothko (1903–70), who visited the city three times in...
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Gagosian will open a newly overhauled ground-floor gallery at 980 Madison Avenue in New York on April 25 with an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp readymades, timed to the Museum of Modern Art’s Duchamp...
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A New York Supreme Court judge, Joel M. Cohen, ruled in early April 2026 that the estate of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner is the rightful owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man...
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ARTnews reports that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has mounted a major Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) retrospective, described as the first comprehensive North American survey of the artist in more...
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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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The New York Supreme Court ruled that Lebanese billionaire art dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), a painting estimated to be worth up to $30 million,...
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ARTnews.com reports that an 11-year restitution dispute over Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) ended with a New York ruling against billionaire dealer David Nahmad and his family....
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The Musée du Louvre appointed art historian Christophe Leribault, 62, as director on 25 February, tasking him—according to French President Emmanuel Macron—with “appeasement” after a crown jewels...
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The Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced it will restitute Lesser Ury’s 1883 painting "Interior with Children (the Siblings)" to the heirs of Curt Goldschmidt, a Jewish banker and art...
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The Pinakotheken in Munich announced it will return Lesser Ury’s painting Interior with Children (The Siblings) to the Jewish heirs of its original owner, Berlin banker Curt Goldschmidt, after...
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Guillaume Cerutti is leaving all roles across François Pinault’s companies, including the chairmanships of Christie’s and Stade Rennais, after previously being reported to be departing as president...
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The Basque regional government has asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to approve a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which would be the painting’s first...
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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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Pat Steir, the New York-based painter and printmaker known for her “Waterfall” paintings, died at age 87 of natural causes in Manhattan on March 25, 2026, according to her husband Joost Elffers and...
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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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Artnet News reports that Art Basel’s parent company, MCH Group, is backing a new initiative called the Futurific Institute, planned to launch in Basel in 2028 as a large-scale “global ideas festival”...
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Paris dealer Kamel Mennour has acquired Galerie Malingue and will take over its 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. Mennour said the venue will focus on...
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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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The Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti announced it will open the Giacometti Museum and School in Paris’s 7th arrondissement in 2028, described as the first museum dedicated to Alberto...
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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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ARTnews reported that a Louvre official said fraud was “statistically inevitable” after the museum revealed a counterfeit ticket scheme. The article describes the incident as involving fake Louvre...
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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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Paris’s Arab World Institute (Institut du monde arabe, IMA) appointed French diplomat Anne-Claire Legendre, 46, to replace Jack Lang as chair, making her the first woman to lead the institution since...
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French authorities have made arrests in connection with an alleged decade-long ticket fraud scheme at the Musée du Louvre that prosecutors estimate cost the museum €10 million. According to Paris...
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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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French authorities arrested individuals connected to an alleged $11.8 million ticket-fraud scheme involving the Louvre, according to an Artnet News report. The investigation has added to the Paris...
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Artnet News reported that a hidden camera was discovered in a restroom at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, prompting an investigation and raising concerns about visitor privacy. The article, published on 12...
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On 12 February 2026, Jersey City mayor James Solomon said plans for a Centre Pompidou outpost in Jersey City, New Jersey, are “dead,” citing the city’s reported $255 million deficit. The most recent...
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Plans for a Centre Pompidou-affiliated museum in Jersey City, New Jersey, have been abandoned, according to ARTnews. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said the project is officially “dead,” signaling an...
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Ukraine announced on 5 February 2026 that artist Zhanna Kadyrova will represent the country at the Venice Biennale with a pavilion titled "Security Guarantees," referencing the 1994 Budapest...
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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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Jack Lang has stepped down as president of Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe after his name appeared in recently unsealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. The former French culture minister...
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Artist Claire Tabouret addressed public criticism of her commission connected to Notre-Dame Cathedral, saying she has also received significant support alongside negative reactions. In an interview...
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The Louvre has indefinitely postponed announcing the winning architect for its planned $776 million expansion, according to ARTnews. The delay leaves the project’s next steps uncertain and pauses a...
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At Sotheby’s “Origins II” auction in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, held on 31 January 2026, Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr set a $2.1 million record when her 1968 work Coffee Shop in Madina Road sold,...