“Creativity is about sticking with your guns and spending a lot of time at the table,” Sachs said. Mario Sorrenti Earlier this month, during Frieze Week, Tom Sachs was dishing out espressos and 86-proof mezcal from behind a bar at Thaddaeus Ropac’s London outpost on Dover Street. The American artist was launching his new show, …
Installation view of works by Rebecca Ackroyd at Peres Projects’ booth at Paris Internationale, 2024. Courtesy of Peres Projects Just before its 11th edition opened in the French capital, Paris Internationale announced that it will branch out to Milan in April 2026. The art fair is known for hosting emerging international galleries; among the 2025 …
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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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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, 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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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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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 …
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, c. 1495–1498 Wikimedia Commons. Second only to the Mona Lisa as Leonardo da Vinci’s most stupendous achievement, The Last Supper (1495–98) is almost as famous for its degraded state as it is for its enduring power. With details barely readable today, it’s a ghost of its original self, suspended in …
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Julia Scher, Danger Dirty Data (1991), installation view of the show “I’ll be Gentle,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper Berlin/Paris/Seoul In 2016, Josh Kline debuted “Unemployment,” a series that explored mass joblessness brought on by technology and automation, and the potential end …
Portrait ofCelia Paul, 2025. © Gautier Deblonde. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro The British artist Celia Paul, known for her moody figurative paintings that often draw from her life, has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums over the past decade—none of them in New York, save for a 2015 show at Gallery …
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