The heist has raised profound concerns about security at one of the world’s most-visited cultural institutions. Photo: Michael Fousert.
PARIS.- At around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday 19 October 2025, museum visitors at the Louvre in Paris were evacuated when a highly professional gang forced entry into the Galerie d’Apollon and made off with eight pieces of jewellery from the former French Crown Jewels—objects described by authorities as having “inestimable” cultural and historical value. According to French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, the raid lasted no more than four to seven minutes. The robbers used industrial-style equipment—including a basket lift and angle grinders—to breach an upper-level window of the museum’s Seine-facing façade, likely taking advantage of ongoing construction work. Once inside, the perpetrators broke into two high-security display cases and removed the jewellery. They made their escape by motorbike, leaving behind some of their gear. One of the stolen items—an emerald and diamond-set crown once worn by Empress Eugénie—was later found outside the museum, ... More
Melanie Yazzie (Diné (Navajo), b. 1966), Carry It Forward, 2014, monotype on paper, 29 ¾ × 22 in. Clara S. Peck Fund. 2019.10.
CORNING, NY.-The Rockwell Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, celebrates 50 years and recognizes America’s 250th anniversary with “Native Now: Contemporary Indigenous Art at The Rockwell Museum.” The exhibition, on view Jan. 24-May 4, 2026, will highlight Indigenous identity, resilience and creativity with 40 works of art by more than 30 artists. The exhibition features artists such as Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, 1940-2025), Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo, b.1969), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), b. 1981), Sarah Sense (Chitimacha/Choctaw, b. 1980), Hayden Haynes (Onödowa’ga:’ (Seneca Deer Clan) Kiowa, Mvskoke, b. 1983), Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne, Arapaho, b. 1954), Preston Singletary (Tlingit, b. 1963) and many others that showcase the exemplary range of The Rockwell’s holdings. Additional works on loan to The Rockwell Museum through ... More
Sinclair Aircraft Gasoline double-sided porcelain service station sign with airplane graphic. Sold within estimate for $49,200.
DENVER, PA.- If any one word could summarize the selection in Morphy’s October 4-5 Automobilia and Petroliana Auction, it would be “condition.” A dazzling array of advertising signs, gas pumps and globes; product cans and other antique and vintage motoring-related items presented bidders with a wealth of fresh rarities from which to choose in a sale that closed confidently at $1.7 million. Nearly 1,100 lots were entered, many emblazoned with mascots and graphics regarded as classics by those who collect gas and oil advertising. Two of the most sought-after auction treasures were produced for the Sinclair Oil Corporation, a firm that launched its business in 1916 from the combined assets of several small petroleum companies. At the top of prices realized was a circa-1930s Sinclair Aircraft Gasoline double-sided porcelain service station sign with an early single-engine-airplane graphic. Petroliana collectors seeking a high-grade example ... More
Installation view of Drawing the Italian Renaissance. Photo: Jane Massey.
EDINBURGH.- Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian are among 45 Italian Renaissance drawings going on display in Scotland for the first time this October, as part of an exhibition featuring more than 80 drawings by 57 artists – the most wide-ranging show of its kind in Scotland in over half a century. Following a successful run in London, Drawing the Italian Renaissance opened at The King’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on 17 October 2025. The exhibition explores how drawing was key to artistic practice in all fields during the Italian Renaissance and reveals how dynamic the art of drawing became during this revolutionary artistic period. Lauren Porter, curator of Drawing the Italian Renaissance in Edinburgh, said: ‘The Royal Collection holds one of the finest collections of Italian Renaissance drawings, many of which were acquired during the reign of Charles II. The drawings cannot be on permanent display because of th ... More
Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù (1698-1744), A Rare and Exceptional Violin, circa 1727–1730. Estimate: €2,000,000 – 2,500,000.
PARIS.- Fewer than 150 violins by Guarneri del Gesù are known today, each possessing its own distinctive character. Even more than his contemporary Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù is celebrated for the expressive power and dramatic intensity of his instruments. For nearly three centuries, the world’s greatest virtuosos - from Paganini to Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, and Itzhak Perlman - have chosen them for their exceptional resonance and emotional depth. Admired both for their rarity and their radiant tone, these violins embody the very essence of artistic mastery - timeless witnesses to Cremona’s genius and to the unmatched golden age of violin making. “This del Gesù was the faithful companion of my life,” wrote Eugène Ysaÿe in red ink on a label he affixed inside his violin in 1928. Years later, Isaac Stern, who inherited the instrument, added: “Mine too.” This intimate exchange perfectly illustrates the profound bond between the world’s grea ... More
Olivier de Givenchy and Bruce Springsteen attend the Academy Museum 5th Annual Gala in Partnership with Rolex at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Oscars/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which held its fifth annual gala tonight, raised over $12 million to support the museum’s exhibitions, education initiatives, and public programming, including screenings, K-12 programs, and access initiatives in service of the general public and the local community of Los Angeles. Dedicated to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking, the gala was generously presented in partnership with Rolex—Founding Supporter and Official Watch Partner of the Academy Museum. The company has been with the museum since the beginning. Its recognition of excellence and achievement in cinema is the basis of its long partnership with the Academy. The gala was co-chaired by Jon M. Chu; Common; Viola Davis and Julius Tennon; Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey; Jennifer Hudson; and Academy ... More
LENS.- From the birth of the cathedrals to the Goth counterculture and fantasy, Gothic art truly has traversed the centuries. In ground-breaking fashion, the Louvre-Lens is presenting its first ever panorama of Gothic art from the 12th to the 21st century, from its emergence through to the neo-Gothic style and right up to the “Goths” of today. Gothic art is closely associated with the age of the cathedral builders. As the first pan-European movement, it inspired exceptional artistic forms endowed with unparalleled expressive force. Sculptures, art objects, graphic arts, painting, photography, installations and furniture are gathered here in a journey through some 200 works of art. Together they reveal the recurrences and continuity of these Gothic languages, which blossomed during medieval times, came to life again in the 18th and 19th centuries, and still inspire us now. But where does the word Gothic come from? Why is this colourful art today associated with a dark aesthetic of bl ... More
Shepard Fairey, Berlin Tower, 2011. Screen Print on Cream Speckletone Paper, 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm).
BERLIN.- What do John Lennon, Barack Obama and Joan Jett have in common? They are not only icons of justice, empowerment, and fresh perspectives, but they have also all had their portraits created by the legendary street artist and activist Shepard Fairey. The exhibition Photo Synthesis is on display at Fotografiska Berlin from October 17, 2025, to March 8, 2026, with over 200 works from Shepard Fairey’s long career, presenting one of the biggest names in street art through a photographic lens. Shepard Fairey’s art goes beyond street walls – his creations have become symbols of activism and social change. He had his major breakthrough with the iconic portrait of Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and the explosive rise of the clothing brand OBEY. From the cult stickers of Andre the Giant Has a Posse to the globally renowned Obey Giant and Hope posters, his work charts both the evolution of his visual language and his relentless commitment to challenging authority. ... More
PARIS.- One hundred years ago, on October 29, 1925, Panayiotis Vassilakis, known as Takis, was born in Athens. The Xippas gallery has chosen to celebrate a double anniversary: the 100th anniversary of Takis’s birth and the 35th anniversary of the gallery, by bringing together a collection of historical works under the curatorship of Alfred Pacquement. A major figure in sculpture since the late 1950s, Takis has set magnetic forces in motion, defying gravity in a universe of light and sound. Fascinated by technology, which he imbues with a poetic dimension, by radars that detect metallic objects in the cosmos, by invisible waves that pass through the atmosphere transmitting messages, Takis chose magnetism as the basis of his visual language. Thus, a simple nail or any other metallic element is levitated by a magnet. In 1960, he pushed this approach to its paroxysm by exhibiting The Impossible, a Man in Space at ... More
Judy Pfaff, Rood en Groen (voor Sjorsje), 2025. Steel, epoxy resin, acrylic, imitation flowers, recycled plastic carpet, neon, LED light, polyurethane foam, 70 x 60 x 34 inches (177.8 x 152.4 x 86.4 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting Light Years, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Judy Pfaff. This is the artist's first solo show with the gallery, and the first solo show in our new location on 49 Walker Street. The exhibition opened Friday, October 17th and will be on view through December 20th. Light Years includes several new works that reflect Pfaff’s restless experimentation and ongoing fascination with light. In Travels to Bisnegar (2025), a recycled plastic carpet unfurls across the wall, studded with imitation flowers and punctuated by fluorescent neon rods. The work evokes a hybrid terrain where industrial detritus and natural growth intertwine, its surface alternating between light and the woven memory of domestic space. At the heart of the exhibition is a new sequence of large-scale panel works, each measuring eight by four feet. Created by pouring resin onto ... More
Cover of Azzedine Alaïa, Thierry Mugler, 1980-1990: Two Decades of Artistic Affinities (Damiani Books, 2025).
NEW YORK, NY.-Azzedine Alaïa, Thierry Mugler, 1980-1990: Two Decades of Artistic Affinities, new this fall from Damiani Books, features the work of fashion icons Azzedine Alaïa and Thierry Mugler—contemporaries, collaborators, and friends who influenced each other’s fashion designs in form, fluidity, and abstraction. In 1979, Azzedine Alaïa met Thierry Mugler, beginning a deep friendship and creative collaboration that would profoundly influence the fashion landscape of the 1980s. That same year, Mugler invited Alaïa to design a series of tuxedos for his fall/winter collection, publicly acknowledging the credit. Mugler’s support was crucial to Alaïa: he introduced him to key figures in the fashion world and played a major role in convincing him to stage his first show in New York in 1982, even helping to organize the event. Together, they shared a stylistic vision that celebrated powerful femininity, sculpted silhouettes, ... More
Steve McQueen’s stunning original 1926 Excelsior Super X Flat Tracker motorcycle the Hollywood icon rode at his Santa Paula ranch on local country roads and around his property (estimate: $125,000- $150,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bidders, start your engines! Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the ultimate destination for Hollywood memorabilia auctions, are hitting the track for their first race winning auction Movies & Motorcars at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The grand prix auction event of the season will take place at the world’s premier automotive museum Thursday, November 6th in Los Angeles and online at juliensauctions.com. A portion of the proceeds of select cars and other memorabilia will benefit the Petersen Automotive Museum’s educational programs to inspire curiosity and connect people of all ages to the history, design and innovation that drive the world of the automobile. Through creativity and discovery, these programs make automotive education exciting, accessible, and unforgettable. Exhilarating artifacts ... More
Precious Okoyomon, The animal that is most vulnerable - is usually the most cruel - It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers, 2025, (detail).
PARIS.- Mendes Wood DM presents It’s important to have ur fangs out at the end of the world, the first solo exhibition by Precious Okoyomon at the gallery. The show brings together new works that trace the artist’s exploration of ecosystems and dreams and how modes of relationality and belonging figure within these alternative imaginings. Through an installation comprising wallpaper, drawings, dioramas, and bears, Okoyomon stages oneiric inner worlds where the childlike and the erotic become paths to understanding how fragility can be a radical condition of care and transformation, while the structural violence of sexual shame is undone with vitality and mischief. The artist has written a new fable to accompany the exhibition. If one were to reduce matter to its smallest unit, it would come down to particles. The most infinitesimal division, irreducible and restless. Yet, such units never exist in pure isolation. Their destiny ... More
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Barnes Foundation presents world premiere of landmark exhibition Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Barnes Foundation presents Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets, a landmark exhibition of paintings by the self-taught artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), featuring works from the Barnes collection and museums around the world. With 18 paintings by Rousseau, the Barnes is home to the world’s largest collection of works by the artist, and the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, with 11, is home to the second largest collection. This exhibition brings together these important collections, providing an unprecedented opportunity to see works that the French art dealer Paul Guillaume either owned—now in the Orangerie’s collection—or sold to Dr. Barnes. Some of these paintings have been reunited for the first time in more than 100 years, while others have never been exhibited together. Co-curated by Christopher Green, consulting curator, ... More
New exhibition Hallo Halo Halot blends incompatible realities ANTWERP.- Hallo Halo Halot is a conversation between Galerie Halot, COUR, and GUSCH. A greeting—suggesting a moment of contact, a reverberation between worlds. Hallo Halo Halot becomes its own kind of heterotopia—a temporary alignment of constructed scenes, shared surfaces, and spatial fragments that don’t quite settle—objects that hold contradictions, that are both real and removed, intimate and anonymous. * Heterotopias—a term coined by Michel Foucault in his 1967 essay Of Other Spaces. In Foucault’s thinking, heterotopias are real locations that exist outside normative societal structures, yet mirror, invert, or disrupt them. Examples include cemeteries, gardens, museums, ships—and notably, hotels. These are spaces marked by curated presence, transience, and layered meaning. This exhibition brings together works that explore these ... More
How water shapes worlds: Indigenous aquatic technologies for a climate-adaptive future NEW YORK, NY.- Plunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This spell-binding book reveals how Indigenous innovations—like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge systems—have sustained civilizations for millennia by working with nature, not against it. Far from relics, these systems offer dynamic, adaptable solutions for the climate crisis of today. Structured to bridge past and future, the author Julia Watson dissolves the divide between technology and ecology, between ancestral wisdom and digital innovation. The TEKnological Renaissance it celebrates redefines water as an intelligent force that can shape resilient cities and landscapes. Aquatic infrastructure is reframed—from extractive and industrial into regenerative and evolving—designed to sustain life for generations. Co-authored with Indigenous knowledge-keepers ... More
Cornelius Völker's new solo show at Hosfelt Gallery explores love, loss, and mortality SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Painting was declared dead by Paul Delaroche in 1839, and that opinion has been frequently reasserted ever since. But in the hands of a virtuoso who is also an astute conceptualist, painting persists in being the most seductive and attention-holding of all mediums. Cornelius Völker’s fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery is a case in point. In his distinctive, wet-oil-paint-on-wet-oil-paint style, Völker explores the thorny relationships we humans have with nature, time and mortality, while at the same time critiquing the history of European painting. His precedents are 17th century Dutch still lifes, Édouard Manet, Chaïm Soutine, Giorgio Morandi, Gerhard Richter and Wayne Thiebaud, yet his methodology is original, and concerns are contemporary. Many of the subjects of the paintings in this exhibition were acquired from the florist or candy shop; ... More
Artcurial to hold Moroccan & African Spirit Auction at La Mamounia, featuring Majorelle masterpiece MARRAKECH.- On November 1st, 2025, Artcurial will present its Moroccan & African Spirit auction at La Mamounia in Marrakech. The sale will celebrate the great figures of modern and contemporary Moroccan and African art: Jacques Majorelle, Mohamed Melehi, Chaïbia, Baya, Chéri Samba… The selection of artworks embodies a shared spirit — that of a creative, vibrant, and multifaceted Africa, with Morocco standing out as both a major source of inspiration and a true cultural crossroads. Marché sur la place du village, Côte d’Ivoire, an oil on panel painted during Majorelle’s stay in the country, reveals the artist’s fascination with daily life, landscapes, and local cultures he discovered during his travels. His keen eye for detail lends his works a near-documentary quality, based on sketches and studies made on site. Majorelle captures the vibrancy of a bustling market ... More
Duane Michals' The Nature of Desire explores male form and longing at DC Moore Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Duane Michals: The Nature of Desire. Featuring the artist’s signature photographs with hand-written text and sequences, this exhibition focuses on Michals’s decades-long exploration of desire of the male form. Included in the exhibition are selections from Michals’s highly regarded bodies of work inspired by poets Walt Whitman and Constantine Cavafy, shown at DC Moore Gallery for the first time. “In photography I tried to reveal to myself the exact point of desire,” Michals explains. “When someone is desired, why? What are we responding to?” Through his innovative sequences and photographs with handwritten captions, Michals approaches desire through language and metaphor. Playing with language, Michals both incorporates text within the photograph, writes directly onto the photograph, and creates new languages ... More
Michaela Melián unveils public homage to Gustav Metzger at Kunsthalle Nürnberg NUREMBERG.- Michaela Melián’s public sculpture Bringing Gustav Metzger Back to Nürnberg was installed in front of Kunsthalle Nürnberg on September 18, 2025, the same institution that hosted Gustav Metzger’s 1999 solo exhibition Ein Schnitt entlang der Zeit. The sculpture was created by Melián as a tribute to Gustav Metzger (1926–2017), who was born in Nuremberg and is now widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. It consists of a framed steel plate the size of a billboard, mounted in front of the historic city wall adjacent to the Kunsthalle. A poster of the 1938 photograph selected by Metzger was affixed to the plate, and a second steel plate subsequently welded on top, covering the historical image in keeping with the concept of Metzger’s Historic Photographs series. As a starting point, the work takes Metzger’s own piece Historic ... More
Choreographing opposites: Christian Hidaka's hybrid paintings return to Michel Rein Gallery PARIS.- Michel Rein gallery is presenting the 11th solo exhibition of Christian Hidaka. Geographically decentred, culturally hybrid, sensual and cerebral, technically impeccable, choreographing outlines, and orchestrating colours, Hidaka’s paintings extend the range of figurative representation by incorporating a huge frame of temporal and spatial references, encompassing the whole history of European and Oriental painting. Reflecting his own intellectual identity, Hidaka’s compositions also express a contemporary global consciousness. Historically unprecedented, his combination of chiaroscuro and obliquely plunging perspective engenders unaccustomed spatial fluidity, but also the strikingly life-like representation of evolving alternative realities. Joining fiction and truth, stillness and movement, history and contemporary issues, the contingent and the absolute, Hidaka’s ... More
Sheerness Dockyard Church wins RIBA Reinvention Award 2025 LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced Sheerness Dockyard Church in Kent, by Hugh Broughton Architects as the winner of its Reinvention Award. 2025. The 19th century Grade II* listed former church on the Isle of Sheppey, which has been restored and repurposed into a community centre and co-working space, was declared the winner at the Stirling Prize ceremony in London’s Roundhouse on 16 October. The award recognises buildings that have been creatively reused to improve their environmental, social, or economic sustainability, to increase their longevity and energy efficiency, rather than demolishing and rebuilding them. The disused building, which had been on Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk’ register due to fire damage, was sensitively restored by Hugh Broughton Architects using innovative material, and employing ... More
Christian Bérard retrospective at Galleria Continua explores his legacy from Baroque to contemporary art PARIS.- Galleria Continua Paris Matignon presents an exhibition dedicated to Christian Bérard, curated by Carlo Falciani in collaboration with Bruno Botticelli (Botticelli Antichità). True to its mission of creating resonances between ancient, modern, and contemporary art, the gallery celebrates the figure of Christian Bérard, a pivotal presence in the French artistic scene of the 1930s and 1940s. This project, organized in collaboration with Botticelli Antichità, was born from the rediscovery of an important Baroque sculpture admired by Bérard, which he viewed as almost his double. Iconic photographs by Herbert List bear witness to this fascination, showing the artist embracing the monumental marble figure as if facing a mirror reflecting his own face and posture. Christian Bérard (Paris, 1902–1949) occupies a unique place in the Parisian art world thanks to the diversity ... More
Theaster Gates finds potential in ruins with new tar paintings and sculpture CHICAGO, IL.- GRAY opened OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY, a solo exhibition by Theaster Gates. The exhibition opened at GRAY Chicago on October 16, and remains on view through December 20, 2025. This is Gates’s fourth solo exhibition with GRAY. In OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY, Gates brings together a new series of tar paintings, sculpture, and installation to tell an allegory of the city in decay and the potential contained within its ruins. The exhibition’s title comes from a song by Chicago musician and poet Marvin Tate, in which the City, personified as a character, has cleaned up its act and attempts to lure its residents back from the suburbs. Gates’s artistic practice has engaged and reframed the cultural and material history of Chicago as material for the studio. His new installation explores the possibilities ... More
Portland Art Museum completes $116 million capital campaign in advance of November 2025 opening PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum (PAM) today announced the completion of its $116 million capital campaign in support of the Museum’s campus transformation opening on November 20, 2025. Marking one of the most significant investments in the arts in the history of Oregon, PAM’s capital campaign supports the expansion and renovation of its campus to reimagine the visitor experience and make the museum and its growing collections more accessible to all. The Museum raised $5M over its original capital goal to account for ongoing enhancements. The Museum has also raised $28.4M towards its $30M endowment campaign, which supports ongoing operations, endows curatorial and leadership positions, and more, ensuring PAM’s sustainability as a vital cultural resource for audiences throughout Oregon and Washington for generations to come. ... More
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