This photograph shows a bicorn hat recently authentified as worn by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during a press preview in the library of the Chateau de Chantilly, northern France, on March 26, 2026. AFP via Getty Images Good Morning! Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his relatively new role as president of the Pinault Collection. …
Jeff Koons’s Evian water bottles. Courtesy Evian Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town Évian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia. The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with …
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“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition.” Courtesy SEE Global Entertainment The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo’s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: …
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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit</i), ca. 1673-74. Courtesy Getty Museum The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note—including one that the institution said it “has been seeking over two decades,” according to a press release announcing the news. Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Glass Vase …
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Artworks from Sarp Kerem Yavuz’s AI-generated Polaroid series “Polaroids from the Ottoman Empire.” Images by Sarp Kerem Yavuz; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built …
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The Venice Biennale’s Central Pavilion, located in the Giardini. Photo Francesco Galli As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale. …
Steve McQueen. Photo Michael Campanella/Getty Images The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is this year’s winner of the Erasmus Prize, given annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution. The award comes with a 150,000 euro (about $172,000) cash prize plus “adornments”—in this case, a folded paper booklet printed with text in …
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The Galérie Medicis at the Louvre, where Peter Paul Rubens’s Marie de’ Medici cycle hangs. Photo Blanca Cruz/AFP via Getty Images If you want to see one of Peter Paul Rubens‘s beloved paintings in the Marie de’ Medici cycle, head to the Louvre before the fall. After that, these canvases, considered by some to be …
Marica Vilcek. Courtesy Vilcek Foundation Marica Vilcek, an art historian who, with her husband Jan, cofounded the grant-making Vilcek Foundation, died on Monday in New York. She was 89, according to the foundation, which said she died peacefully at her home. The Vilcek Foundation is an unusual one, since it funds endeavors in both art …
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Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.) Fresh off a …
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