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Museum Leaders Support Louvre Director Laurence des Cars in Open Letter

The Louvre upon its reopening. Photo Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images Fifty-seven curators and museum directors—including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Christophe Cherix and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s Michael Govan—signed an open letter in support of Louvre‘s director Laurence des Cars, following the theft of the museum’s crown jewels …

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Basquiat Estate Releases New Print in Edition of 60, Signed by the Artist’s Sisters

Jean-Michel Basquiat, King Alphonso, 1982–83. ©The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/Courtesy Pace Prints The estate of Jean-Michael Basquiat is coming out with a new screenprint to be available from Pace Prints starting November 5. Produced in an edition of 60, the print reproduces a drawing that dates to 1982–83, around five years before the artist’s death …

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Seven Leading Foundations Launch $50 M. Literary Arts Fund

Books stacked on a shelf. Photo DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images Seven leading foundations have come together to launch the Literary Arts Fund to distribute $50 million over a five-year span to support nonprofit literary arts across the United States. The Literary Arts Fund will award grants to US-based nonprofits and fiscally sponsored literary organizations …

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Canal Projects, Cutting-Edge New York Art Space, to Close After Four Years

Canal Projects. Courtesy Canal Projects Canal Projects, a New York art space that mounted shows for celebrated artists such as Karimah Ashadu, Sin Wai Kin, and Candice Lin, will shutter next year after just four years in operation. The nonprofit space announced on Wednesday that it would close its physical space on May 23, 2026, …

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Paris’s Fondation Cartier Makes Its Grand Return in a Former Department Store

The opening exhibition of the new Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain features works by Alessandro Mendini and Bodys Isek Kingelez. ©Marc Domage Paris Art Week is filled with vibrant events, the flashiest of which will, of course, be Art Basel Paris. Equally attention-grabbing in its own way is an event of a different sort: the …

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Hector Hyppolite, the ‘First Black Surrealist,’ Gets His Due at Art Basel Paris

Hector Hyppolite, ca. 1945. Courtesy The Gallery of Everything A few years ago, at Art Basel Paris, London’s The Gallery of Everything wanted to show the work of the late self-taught Haitian painter Hector Hyppolite, who is today considered a pioneering artist associated with the Surrealist movement. The response from the fair, gallery founder James …

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Investigators Look to DNA Analysis and Video Footage to Identify Louvre Thieves

French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a jewel heist on October 19, 2025. Photo Kiran Ridley/Getty Images As the hunt for the Louvre jewel thieves continues, approximately 100 investigators have turned to DNA evidence found at the crime scene to help bring the perpetrators to justice. Investigators …

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Louvre Admits Stolen Jewels Are Not Insured, Art Basel/UBS Collecting Report Shows Growing Influence of Women and Gen Z, and More: Morning Links for October 23, 2025

The Louvre upon its reopening. Photo Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES LOUVRE UNCOVERED. The smash-and-grab at the Louvre onSunday, when masked thieves stole jewels once belonging to Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie in broad daylight, is becoming an exponential embarrassment …

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Five 18th-Century Snuff Boxes Stolen from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum Have Been Recovered

Paris (France): “musee Cognacq-Jay”, a museum located in the Donon Hotel Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Five out of seven valuable 18th-century snuffboxes stolen last year from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum have been found. Paris Musées, an organization that manages several of Paris’s city museums, announced the return of the objects this week. “Thanks to …

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