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Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels is scheduled to open on November 28 after a decade of delays and renovations costing more than €250 million ($290 million). Housed in a 430,000-square-foot former...
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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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A group of Vietnam veterans—Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen—along with architectural historian Calder Loth filed for a 14-day temporary restraining order on Friday to halt preliminary...
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Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, painted in mid-January 1889, will be a centerpiece of Gustave Fayet, Collector-Designer: Icons of Modern Art at the Fondation Louis...
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Paris prosecutors have asked that Giuliano Ruffini be sent to trial on charges of commercial deception and money laundering in connection with an alleged Old Master forgery network, and they also...
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A Hamburg criminal court convicted two children of German dealer Serop Simonian—alleged to have led a trafficking ring specializing in Egyptian antiquities—of money laundering on 24 August, ordering...
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ARTnews’s roundup “84 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall” surveys major museum shows and biennials opening in the fall season, noting a strong curatorial focus on art made in response...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will present “Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982” from May 2 to August 14, 2027, a thematic exhibition on mid-century African...
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Italian video-art pioneer Fabrizio Plessi died in Venice on August 23 at age 86, according to La Repubblica. Born April 3, 1940, in Reggio Emilia, Plessi studied and later taught in Venice,...
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A major survey of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, titled “Studio Wounds and Battles: Desire is the Reiteration of Hope,” opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, marking her first significant...
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ARTnews highlighted renewed attention to Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) following Christie’s promotional short film featuring Nicole Kidman with his bronze-and-gold-leaf...
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The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP), founded in Berlin in 2016, announced that it has added AI capabilities to its provenance research platform, Legacy Explorer, which launched last...
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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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Elizabeth Mulholland, a longtime director and partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is joining David Zwirner as a senior director at the gallery’s Los Angeles outpost. Zwirner expanded to Los...
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Two Indian artists, Srishti Gupta and Akriti Choudhary, were arrested in April after protesting alongside factory workers in Greater Noida near New Delhi, according to a report referenced from the...
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London mayor Sadiq Khan argued in an op-ed for LBC that national museums and galleries in London should remain free to enter, calling free admission a fundamental part of city life. He noted that...
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Artnet News reports that researchers at Santa Clara University have launched the A.I. Provenance Assistant, a chatbot designed to help track and repatriate Nazi-looted art from the 1933–1945 period,...
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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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A 5.1-magnitude earthquake on 18 July severely damaged the 16th-century Iglesia Apóstol Santiago in Chongos Bajo, Junín, Peru, collapsing most of its roof, part of its façade, and the carved stone...
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Artnet News’s “Industry Intel,” published July 25, 2026, reports that the Armory Show will return to New York’s Javits Center on September 24–27 with about 230 exhibitors, including newcomers Alison...
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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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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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ARTnews reviews “The New Grotesque,” an exhibition at New York’s Management Gallery curated by director Anton Svyatsky that examines how grotesque imagery is evolving in an era of constant...
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Two suspects in the October 19, 2025 Louvre jewel heist told Paris investigating judges that a “mysterious sponsor” recruited them two or three days before the robbery, according to statements...
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In late June, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) adopted a revised Museum Code of Ethics at its 41st Ordinary General Assembly in Paris, marking its first major update in more than 20 years....
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Post-Fair, a curatorially oriented fair associated with Frieze Los Angeles week, will launch its first international edition in Paris from 19 October to 25 October during Art Basel Paris week....
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The International Council of Museums (Icom) adopted a revised code of ethics on 25 June at its 41st general assembly in Paris, with 85.9% of members voting in favor after more than five years of...
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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced “Painting Magic,” an exhibition of about 70 works by Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo, running from September 18, 2026, to January 10, 2027, before...
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Paris gallery Helene Bailly Marcilhac is presenting a summer group exhibition titled “The Seventies,” surveying how artists in the 1970s expanded painting and other media through experimentation and...
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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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French police recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter during a drug raid on 15 June in Champigny-sur-Marne near Paris, according to Le Parisien. The Brigade des Stupéfiants...
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During a June 15 police raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb, authorities recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting while also seizing about 40 pounds of cannabis resin, several thousand euros...
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Artnet News reported that French police recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting during a drug-trafficking raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 15. The...
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ARTnews reported that Israeli optical and kinetic artist Yaacov Agam died at age 98, with the news covered by outlets including the Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post. Born Yaacov...
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Artnet reports that dealers described Art Basel 2026 as commercially healthy, though with a slower pace and fewer collectors than before the market downturn. Major sales cited include Hauser & Wirth...
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A life-size bronze cast of the classical group “Laocoön and his Sons,” one of only four known full-size period bronzes, is set to be auctioned in London as a prelude to Sotheby’s Old Masters evening...
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A New York Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday, June 16, that billionaire dealer David Nahmad has 30 days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), valued at more than $25...
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Louvre president-director Christophe Leribault, in office since February, told the French Senate’s Committee on Culture on Wednesday that the museum is “at the end of its rope,” citing aging...
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ARTnews describes a midnight filmed performance in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, in which Sydney-born, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti led about 35 participants through a three-hour procession...
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British artist David Hockney died at home on 11 June aged 88, prompting tributes from artists, curators, and museum leaders highlighting his influence across media. Tracey Emin called him a “great...
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An ARTnews.com essay argues that the “tragicomic” has reemerged as a defining aesthetic for the current era, linking today’s political and cultural absurdities to a form with roots in Plautus (2nd...
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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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British artist David Hockney died at home on Thursday aged 88, having become one of the world’s most famous artists through a wide-ranging practice that drew on sources from 15th-century Delft optics...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for June 9, 2026 reports that Paris-founded Templon Gallery has closed its 6,500-square-foot Chelsea space, opened in 2022, after its landlord sought a major rent increase...
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Artnet News columnist Margaret Carrigan reports on the opening of the sixth edition of London Gallery Weekend, which launched with a panel at Frieze’s No. 9 Cork Street space and includes more than...
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at age 97, having lived there since the late 1950s. Tate Modern will open a major survey, Light. Colour. Action (11...
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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 artist JR’s temporary inflatable installation wrapping Paris’s Pont Neuf, titled La Caverne du Pont Neuf, was damaged in a storm and its opening has been postponed, according to a project...
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French investigators have reportedly expanded their probe into the theft of eight French crown jewels from the Louvre—valued at €88 million ($102 million)—to Belgium, nearly eight months after the...
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A proposed US Department of Education rule published in April under the Trump administration could bar many arts Master’s programs from enrolling students who use federal loans, potentially affecting...
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US higher-education groups and advocates criticized the Department of Education’s proposed Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, which would evaluate...
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Franco-Argentine kinetic and Op art pioneer Julio Le Parc died in Paris on May 30 at age 97, days before a major Tate Modern retrospective in London scheduled to open June 11. Born in 1928 in...
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An immersive Black Mirror–inspired experience will make its U.S. debut at New York’s the Shed on June 20, running for a limited engagement through September. Built around an original story from...
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Kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc has died at age 97, as part of a wider Artnet News roundup that also highlights major appointments and upcoming fairs. The roundup reports that Art Basel Paris will...
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art known for participatory installations using light, mirrors, movement, and optical effects, died in Paris on May 30 at age 97. His son, Yamil...
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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,...