Work by Melissa Leandro at the DePaul Art Museum. Courtesy DePaul Art Museum The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the …
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Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova. Courtesy Catherine Shanley. Photo credit: Paul Shanley Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press. Founded …
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Rendering of “Van Gogh Alive!” at the Lume Indianapolis. Courtesy Grande Experiences In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh …
Rendering of Pace Prints’ new location in Hollywood. Pace Prints Pace Prints is heading to Hollywood. The New York–based print publisher and workshop has taken a space in Los Angeles and plans to open a production facility this fall with a small accompanying gallery, expanding its footprint at a moment when the L.A. art scene …
Jean Widmer. Photo S. Pierron Jean Widmer, a French-Swiss graphic designer whose minimalist aesthetic manifested a striking logo for Centre Pompidou upon its opening in 1977, died on February 2 at the age of 96. His death was announced by Centre Pompidou, which said, “Since that day in 1977, Widmer’s logo has travelled the world, …
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Tod Lippy, All of the Gang (2026). Courtesy Tod Lippy. Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still …
Corinna Durland Director kurimanzutto Photo by PJ Rountree, 2026 Kurimanzutto has appointed Corinna Durland as senior director of its New York gallery, the Mexico City–founded gallery announced Tuesday. Based in New York, Durland will lead the space in close collaboration with the gallery’s founders and partners, with a mandate to strengthen its program in the United …
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Honoree Judy Baca speaks onstage during the 2023 LACMA Art+Film Gala, Presented By Gucci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for LACMA Artist Judy Baca is pushing back against allegations from former employees who claim she improperly benefited from a $5 …
Ian McKellen in “The Christophers,” a new film by Steven Soderbergh about an artist and an art forger. Screenshot/YouTube The art world continues to be Hollywood’s new favorite setting. Following Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, an art thriller released last month, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, a 2025 film about an art heist, comes The Christophers …
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Christophe Leribault, the new president of the Louvre. Getty Images One day after Laurence des Cars resigned from her position as president of the Louvre Museum, President Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Leribault, the director of the Palace of Versailles, to take her place. The decision, a government spokesperson told Le Parisien, was announced by Macron …
