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...

Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize Alumni: Sof

Italian artist Sof creates works that invite audience participation. His latest work, Geo 1 is an artwork that comes alive through touch. Instead of simply looking at it, viewers are invited to interact with the surface, moving pieces of the mosaic to reveal shifting...

Rethinking Africa Through Portraiture

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination explores the transformative power of photographic portraiture to shape identity, imagination and political consciousness. The exhibition traces how photographers across mid-20th century Africa and its diaspora...

Breaking New Ground

Togo Photo Festival 2025 has arrived. Founded and directed by Ako Atikossie and Giulia Brivio, its goal is to provide international visibility and create new opportunities for emerging photographers from Togo and West Africa. “For centuries, the representation of...

Archives Rediscovered

There’s a rare circle of artists that exists within photography: those whose creative genius came to light posthumously. Their images, once overlooked, misunderstood or simply hidden from public view, now serve as a touchstone for the medium. Perhaps the most famous...

Flooded Worlds & Parallel Realities

At the intersection of art, technology and the political imagination, Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, The Island, opens at Fondazione Prada’s Osservatorio in Milan as a meditation on the fluidity of time, space and knowledge. In a world simultaneously inundated by...