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Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns Amid Heist, Internal Turmoil

02/25/2026

After a prolonged period of internal turmoil that has included a widely publicized heist, striking workers, two structural leaks, and a ticketing scam, the Louvre has lost its director. On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had officially accepted …

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Chung Sang-hwa, Korean Artist Associated with Dansaekhwa, Dies at 93

01/31/2026

Chung Sang-hwa, a central figure in Korean modern art, died on January 28 after a prolonged illness. He was 93. The news was reported by the Korea Times. Chung is best known for his affiliation with Dansaekhwa (or “monochrome painting”), …

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ArtforumFounding Editor Philip Leider Dies at 96

01/20/2026

ArtforumFounding Editor Philip Leider Dies at 96 Philip Leider, the founding editor in chief ofArtforum, died at his home in Berkeley, California, on January 11. He was ninety-six. His death was confirmed by his daughter Polly Leider. Taking the helm …

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Scientists Extract DNA from Drawing That Could Connect to Leonardo da Vinci

01/09/2026

Scientists extracted DNA from a possible Leonardo da Vinci drawing that may provide genetic links to one of the most storied humans to walk the Earth. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper posted Tuesday in a preprint database, researchers from the Leonardo …

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Pathbreaking Austrian Postwar Painter Arnulf Rainer Dies at 96

12/24/2025

Pathbreaking Austrian Postwar Painter Arnulf Rainer Dies at 96 Arnulf Rainer, whose work provided crucial inspiration to the Viennese Actionists, died on December 18 at the age of ninety-six. His death was confirmed by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which represents him. …

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Tania Willard Wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award

11/11/2025

Tania Willard Wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award Tania Willard, an artist of Secwépemc descent known forher work centering Indigenous basketry, has been named the winner of the 2025Sobey Art Award. Presented annually by Ottawa’sNational Gallery of Canada(NGC) in partnership with …

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David Hockney's iPad Drawings Smash High Estimate at Sotheby's

10/18/2025

A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled “The Arrival of Spring,” hit the auction block at Sotheby’s London during a dedicated day sale on Friday, selling for a combined £6.2 million ($8.3 million). (All quoted prices include …

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UC Irvine Acquires Orange County Museum of Art

10/01/2025

UC Irvine Acquires Orange County Museum of Art The University of California, Irvine, has officially taken over theOrange County Museum of Art(OCMA), which it will merge with the UC Irvine Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA). All …

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Hidden Portrait May Be Vermeer's Earliest Known Work

09/22/2025

During the pandemic, the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., investigated four paintings attributed to Johannes Vermeer. During that time, it was discovered that the underpainting below the surface of one of those paintings, Girl with the Red …

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Picasso's 'Demoiselles' May Not Have Been Inspired by African Art

07/28/2025

New scholarship suggests that a pivotal Pablo Picasso painting—one that helped spur on modernism more broadly—may have been inspired by Medieval church frescoes in the Spanish Pyrenees rather than African art, as many art historians have previously suggested. The canvas …

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Trial Begins for Ron Perelman's $410 Million Insurance Claim

06/04/2025

The trial between mega-collector Ron Perelman and a group of insurers began on Monday in New York Supreme Court, nearly seven years after a fire struck Perelman’s home in the Hamptons, costing him, per his argument, five paintings by Andy …

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How We Made Our List of the Best 100 Artworks of the 21st Century

03/05/2025

I’m a fan of list-making, and most people in the art world are not, because this is a space, after all, where that form of writing is considered déclassé at best. And so, when I brought the idea to rank …

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Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London Nets $78.6 M.

03/05/2025

In the hour before Sotheby’s kicked off its midseason Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London Tuesday, a group of specialists huddled together outside The Windmill, a pub around the corner from the auction house. Their safety-in-numbers formation reminded me …

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66 New Museum Shows to See This Spring

03/05/2025

This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and Asian émigrés who took …

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