Over the past two years, the people of Gaza have been exposed to the sounds of bombs, drones, explosions, destruction, and sirens. These human-made sounds of terror have stood at the center of at least two of the United Nation Children's Fund’s campaigns and are...
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Matisse Prints Stolen From Brazil Library in Broad Daylight
Thieves in Brazil snatched 13 artworks from a municipal library in São Paulo on Sunday, December 7, including eight engravings by French painter Henri Matisse and five works by Brazilian artist Candido Portinari, as initially reported by local outlet Globo. A...
Lucas Museum Chief Curator’s Sudden Exit Raises Questions
The latest shakeup at the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is the departure last week of Pilar Tompkins Rivas, the museum’s chief curator and deputy director of Curatorial and Collections, just months after 14% of the museum’s full-time staff was laid off. ...
Brazilian Police Identify Suspect in Theft of Matisse Prints from São Paulo Library
In a daylight robbery on Sunday, two armed thieves stole eight prints by Henri Matisse and at least five engravings by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari from the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo. The works were part of “From Book to Museum,” an...
Louvre Staff Vote ‘With Unanimity’ to Strike, in Latest Blow to French Museum
At a meeting of 200 Louvre staffers from three unions, employees voted “with unanimity” in favor of a strike set to start on December 15, the Agence France-Presse reported Monday. A strike notice was filed by the CGT, CFDT, and Sud unions to France’s Ministry of...
Art World Figures Remember the Late Frank Gehry, Internationally Renowned Museum Starchitect
Frank Gehry designed some of the world’s most recognizable cultural landmarks, from museums like the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the Guggenheim in Bilbao to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago. Gehry died on...
Nashville Museum Seeks Help Restoring Red Grooms’s Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel
In 1995, armed with a grant from a Nashville nonprofit, New York–based artist Red Grooms set out to create a working carousel for the city of his birth. Three years later, the Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel opened to the public on city land at the base of Nashville’s...
UBS Report Provides a Sliver of Hope for Dealers: Many Billionaires Aim To Spend More on Art and Antiques
The eleventh Billionaire Ambitions Report from Swiss bank UBS provides a sliver of hope in a shaky moment for dealers of art and antiques—if they manage to get access to that coveted demographic. Global billionaire wealth reached an all-time high in 2025, says the...
Artist Zineb Sedira Picked for Next Tate Britain Commission
Tate, the UK museum network, announced Monday that Zineb Sedira will take on the next Tate Britain Commission, which is staged in that institution’s neoclassical Duveen Galleries. The commission, the artist’s largest to date, will run May 2026 to January 2027, and it...








