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The closed Apollo Gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, on October 30, 2025, following the theft of several French crown jewels. Photo Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images Louvre director Laurence des Cars sat down for an interview with the New York Times this week, one of her first since last month’s robbery. In it, des Cars forcefully pushed back …

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Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present, performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 9, 2010. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images What if one of the most commanding performance art events of the 21st century had never happened? What if a naysaying curator had quashed a performance that drew some 1,500 people, some of …

Marina Abramovic Says Curator Klaus Biesenbach Wasn’t So Sure About Her ‘Artist Is Present’ Performance  Read More »

French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum on October 19, 2025 in Paris, France. Getty Images Some 100 surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems are set to be installed at the Louvre Museum as part of increased security measures following the theft of France’s crown jewels last month, reported the Associated Press. …

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The Art Deco building to be the American Numismatic Society’s new home starting in 2028. Julia Chytil/Courtesy American Numismatic Society The American Numismatic Society, an organization of coin collectors founded in 1858 whose motto is “Parva Ne Pareant” (“Let Not the Little Things Perish”), is moving to Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art to mint a …

New York–Based Coin Collectors Society Founded in 19th Century Moves to Ohio Read More »

The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts from its Anima Mundi ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples in Canada. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett The Headlines CONTROVERSIAL SALE. The Phillips Collection, the art museum located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC, plans to auction major works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Georges Seurat at Sotheby’s New …

The Phillips Collection to Sell Major Works, Vatican Returns 62 Artifacts to Indigenous Peoples, Six Works That Could ‘Predict the Market’: Morning Links for November 17, 2025. Read More »

Kurt Cobain playing a different guitar in 1993. Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic A 1969 Fender Competition Mustang beloved by Nirvana mastermind Kurt Cobain is heading to the auction block at Christie’s in March, with an estimated sale price of $2.5–$5 million. The instrument figured in the recording sessions for the albums Nevermind and In Utero …

Kurt Cobain’s Guitar Goes to Auction at Christie’s, With $5 M. High Estimate Read More »

Auctioneer Oliver Barker just before he strikes his gavel to sell Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer. Photo Julian Cassady Photography/Courtesy Sotheby’s In a nearly three-hour marathon double sale, the first in its new Breuer Building digs, Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening sold Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer for $236.4 million, the second highest price …

Sotheby’s Double-Header Sale Totals $706 M. Including Nearly $400 M. for Three Klimt Paintings Read More »

Javier Téllez. Photo Till Schneider The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has awarded its annual Pérez Prize to New York–based artist Javier Téllez. The award, which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000, was presented to the artist at the museum’s Art of the Party Fundraiser on November 15. “Pérez Art Museum Miami is honored …

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Metropolitan Museum Of Art (Met) At Twilight. New York City, New York, United States Of America. (Photo by: F. M. Kearney/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Design Pics Editorial/Universal  The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s Costume Institute is putting form back into fashion—and placing fashion at the forefront of New York’s busiest institution.   …

Met to Open New Condé M. Nast Galleries with Exhibition About ‘Costume Art’ Read More »

Angela Westwater and Gian Enzo Sperone are going their separate ways after 50 years. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image Three months before yesterday’s announcement that Sperone Westwater would close after 50 years in business, dealer Gian Enzo Sperone sued his cofounder, Angela Westwater, claiming he was in a “parasitic deadlock” with her after she wrested …

Sperone Westwater Founders Are Locked in Legal Battle as Gallery Prepares to Close Read More »