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 Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris last month, USA Today reported. Two men and two …
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Bob Ross, ‘Cabin at Sunset’, is the lead lot in comedian John Oliver’s sale to benefit public media. John Oliver’s benefit auction for public broadcasting just set a new market milestone for Bob Ross’ painting—and funneled some crucial funds toward free speech in America. On Monday, Ross’ Cabin at Sunset, painted for a 1986 episode …
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T-section of MacArthur causeway in Miami, Florida. Getty Images/iStockphoto Miami Beach, a city founded on the principle that nothing should ever take longer than ordering a cortadito, has finally admitted defeat. The traffic is bad—biblically bad—and the municipal solution is wonderfully literal: water taxis. For the second year in a row and beginning on December 1, the city will …
A security guard stands in front of the Louvre Pyramid, designed by Chinese American architect I.M. Pei, with the Louvre Museum in the background in Paris, France, on October 22, 2025. Photo THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, four more suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from …
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Robert S. Duncan, ‘Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine’, 1871. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Levine in memory of Bob Thompson. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York. “We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the …
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Michelangelo, Study for the right foot of The Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, c. 1511–12 Christies. A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie’s auction house in New York in February. Christie’s estimates the work to sell between $1.5 million …
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Getty Images. American museums, according to a new study, are in a bind. Visitation hasn’t gotten back to where it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, and expenses have risen dramatically, but institutions don’t think they can afford to invest in marketing robustly enough to increase attendance and thus box office. Museums’ traditional “build it and …
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The exterior of the US Pavilion in Venice, during the 2007 Biennale, featuring work by Felix Gonzalez Torres. Photo Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images The US Department of State on Monday morning confirmed that Mexico-based artist Alma Allen will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale, which will open to the public next May. The …
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Olafur Eliasson and Vignesh Sundaresan. Photo credit: Yanina Isla A new experimental space dedicated to the intersection of art and technology will open this November at Tanjong Pagar Distripark in Singapore. Padimai Art & Tech Studio will launch with Your view matter (2022/25), a VR work by artist Olafur Eliasson that was commissioned by the studio’s founder, …
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Recovered stolen artifacts found in a raid. Courtesy Europol Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol, busted a criminal network involved in the trafficking of thousands of cultural artifacts across Europe on Tuesday, according to Europol. Investigations are still ongoing. Conducted by a Europol operational task force, the investigation has involved law enforcement and judicial …
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