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The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close its doors from 2025 to 2030 for a major renovation. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Precious few days remain before the Centre Pompidou closes for five years of renovation work, leaving the Paris art scene without one of its crown jewels and main sources of gravity. …

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Artist Martha Tuttle, now represented by Timothy Taylor Gallery. Photo Daniel Browne Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! A round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week: Marian Goodman Gallery Takes on Edith Dekyndt: Dekyndt has …

Marian Goodman Adds Edith Dekyndt, a New Gagosian Director And More: Industry Moves for September 17, 2025 Read More »

Old trolley cables grace the area in front of a 19th-century warehouse, now used as apartments, on the waterfront June 15, 2007, in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York. The National Trust for Historic Preservation plans to declare Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront one of America’s 11 most vulnerable historical areas. Under New York Mayor …

Brooklyn Artist Studios Wrecked in Warehouse Blaze Read More »

Conductor art fair during it’s 2025 soft launch. Gina Curovic A year after staging a soft-launch invitational, Conductor: Art Fair of the Global Majority will mount its first full edition at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn from April 30 to May 3, 2026, with a VIP preview on April 29. The fair, organized by Powerhouse Arts and directed …

Conductor, New Art Fair for the Global Majority, to Debut in Brooklyn in 2026 Read More »

The Galerie de Mineralogie of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, is closed after a theft. Photo Rachel Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images The National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, was broken into early Tuesday morning and several specimens worth €600,000 ($711,000) were stolen, France24 reported. The museum is known for …

Thieves Steal $700,000 in Prized Gold Holdings from Natural History Museum in Paris Read More »

Glenn Lowry. Getty Images Over the summer, just before departing the Museum of Modern Art as its longtime director, Glenn Lowry appeared to obliquely address the Trump administration’s ongoing attack on cultural institutions, noting that the veteran New York institution must fight to continue mounting the shows that it does. “If we believe in a …

Glenn Lowry Says MoMA Must ‘Actively Defend’ Its Values to Continue Protecting ‘Minority Rights and Dissent’ Read More »

Agnes Gund. Photo Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Agnes Gund, one of the greatest and most influential art patrons in the US, has died at 87. The New York Times reported her death on Friday, but did not state a cause. Gund’s collecting and philanthropy transformed the American art world, spurring on many others to begin buying …

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Uniqlo executive creative director John C Jay and National Gallery of Victoria director Tony Ellwood attend a KAWS show in 2019. Photo Graham Denholm/Getty Images for The NGV KAWS, artist, entrepreneur, and hypebeast patron saint, has a new first on his CV: Uniqlo’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Starting immediately, he’ll be tasked with expanding the Japanese company’s …

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David Lynch at his studio in 2002. Chris Weeks/WireImage “An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of …

David Lynch’s Daughter Urges Artists to Buy Her Dad’s Starry LA Compound Read More »

A look from Ulla Johnson’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection show at Cooper Hewitt, September 14, 2025. Photo Giovanni Giannoni/WWD Ulla Johnson looked to Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler as lodestar for her spring collection, the next chapter after collaborating with female artists Lee Krasner, Anna Zemánková, and Shara Hughes.   “She struggled with the meaning of the word beautiful,” Johnson …

Helen Frankenthaler Inspires Designer Ulla Johnson’s Spring Collection Read More »