Installation shot of Oliver Jeffers Dipped Paintings at Praise Shadows. Dan Watkins There’s a quiet ceremony to the way artist and acclaimed children’s book illustrator Oliver Jeffers destroys his own paintings. At each dip performance—the latest held two days before the October 3 opening of his solo show at Praise Shadows in Boston—a portrait is …
Empress Eugénie’s crown was dropped by the looters as they made their escape. Photo Zhang Weiguo/VCG via Getty Images On Sunday, at around 9:30 a.m., robbers broke into the Parisian museum‘s Apollo Gallery using a cherry picker and an angle grinder to steal nine pieces of jewelry worth an estimated $102 million in less than eight minutes. Could the …
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The opening exhibition of the new Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain features works by Alessandro Mendini and Bodys Isek Kingelez. ©Marc Domage Paris Art Week is filled with vibrant events, the flashiest of which will, of course, be Art Basel Paris. Equally attention-grabbing in its own way is an event of a different sort: the …
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French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a jewel heist on October 19, 2025. Photo Kiran Ridley/Getty Images As the hunt for the Louvre jewel thieves continues, approximately 100 investigators have turned to DNA evidence found at the crime scene to help bring the perpetrators to justice. Investigators …
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Karim Crippa. Photo Matthieu Croizier for Art Basel Less than two months after announcing the surprise departure of its director, Art Basel Paris has a new leader in Karim Crippa, who currently runs the fair’s communications department. Crippa, who also serves as senior editor of Art Basel’s editorial arm, will officially assume his new role …
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Canal Projects. Courtesy Canal Projects Canal Projects, a New York art space that mounted shows for celebrated artists such as Karimah Ashadu, Sin Wai Kin, and Candice Lin, will shutter next year after just four years in operation. The nonprofit space announced on Wednesday that it would close its physical space on May 23, 2026, …
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Hector Hyppolite, ca. 1945. Courtesy The Gallery of Everything A few years ago, at Art Basel Paris, London’s The Gallery of Everything wanted to show the work of the late self-taught Haitian painter Hector Hyppolite, who is today considered a pioneering artist associated with the Surrealist movement. The response from the fair, gallery founder James …
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The Louvre upon its reopening. Photo Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES LOUVRE UNCOVERED. The smash-and-grab at the Louvre onSunday, when masked thieves stole jewels once belonging to Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie in broad daylight, is becoming an exponential embarrassment …
The Royal Institute of British Architects building in central London. (Photo Steve Parsons – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images A stinging report commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) found that female architects face dire working conditions defined by sexist workplace dynamics and toxic office cultures that “left them feeling humiliated, objectified, …
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