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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...