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• Louvre Heist Suspect Denied Release As Investigators Unravel Tangled Testimonies

  22-10-2026 23:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports. The suspect, Rachid H., 40, has been detained since November 2025, and will remain in pre-trial detention, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.On the morning of Sunday, October 19, 2025, the gang used a truck-mounted motorized ladder to break into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery through a second-floor window. Once ins
  
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• Monet Painting Sells for $56.2 M., Setting French Auction Record at Sotheby’s Paris

  22-10-2026 23:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  A Claude Monet painting sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Thursday, setting a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.The painting, Iris, sparked a 45-minute bidding battle between six collectors before selling to a private buyer in Asia, represented on the phone by Sotheby’s deputy chairman Jen Hua. It had been expected to fetch between €22 million and €30 million.The sale was part of an auction of works from the collection of J
  
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• Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Sells for $8.3 M., Leading Christie’s London Auction

  22-10-2026 22:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday. Three of her sculptures were the top-selling lots in the auction house’s modern British and Irish art evening sale, including one that set a new record for a unique work by the British artist.The star of the evening was Sculpture with Colour (Eos), from 1946, which sold for £6.19 million ($8.3 million), within its £5 million–£8 million estimate. The sculpture, carved from a single block of pale Hopton Wood stone, t
  
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• Turkish Authorities Seize 2000-Year-Old Marble Head of Zeus

  22-10-2026 22:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  Turkish authorities have seized a marble head depicting the ancient Greek god Zeus in Izmir’s Konak district in western Turkey. The sculpture, which is believed to date to the Roman period around 2,000 years ago, was recovered during an operation conducted by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with officers from the Anti-Smuggling and Intelligence branches of the provincial police department.Three unnamed suspects were detained in the course of the operation and charged with violati
  
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• An $80 M. Kandinsky, Once Owned by the Guggenheim, Is Guaranteed to Beat a Record at Christie’s

  22-10-2026 22:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Russian-born abstraction pioneer Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Betonte Ecken (1922–23) will come to the auction block at Christie’s New York on November 17, carrying a $60 million to $80 million estimate. The anonymous seller acquired the work at Sotheby’s New York in 1986. The painting is guaranteed to sell at a record-setting level, the house told ARTnews.Kandinsky’s auction record currently stands at $44.8 million, paid for the artist’s 1910 painting Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau wi
  
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• Mystery Skeleton in Roman Sarcophagus Beneath Westminster Abbey May Be a Medieval Abbot, Study Says

  22-10-2026 20:56 via ARTnews.com
  
  For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations? Two Anglo-Saxon abbots are in the running, according to a new archaeology study.The limestone sarcophagus was discovered in 1820 and officially excavated in 1869 from what is now a grassy strip along the north side of the abbey’s nave. In the Middle Ages, it was the yard of the Great Sacristy, built during the reign of Henry III. How, then, di
  
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• Dealers Scramble to Get Works Out of Paris After Surprise Art Basel Announcement

  22-10-2026 20:37 via ARTnews.com
  
  With Art Basel Paris closing two days early, ahead of planned protests this weekend, dealers have yet to figure out how to get their artworks out of the Grand Palais.The fair will shut its doors at 7 p.m. Friday, rather than Sunday as originally planned, leaving exhibitors to rearrange tight shipping schedules and decide whether to pack up early or wait until the unrest has passed.Multiple dealers told ARTnews they’d received an email announcing the decision at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. By
  
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• Questions Raised Over Maintenance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home After Death

  22-10-2026 20:13 via ARTnews.com
  
  Questions have been raised over the maintenance of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home and studio, after a visitor was reportedly struck and killed on October 16 by an acrylic fragment that had been dislodged from the property by high winds.The Scottsdale Police Department has identified the deceased as Brazilian national Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, who had traveled to the US for an event at Arizona State University. According
  
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• With Her Miu Miu Commission in Paris, Filmmaker Alice Diop Offers a Much-Needed Space for Healing

  22-10-2026 19:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  For a few days this week, filmmaker Alice Diop has created a space for healing. For this year’s Miu Miu commission during Art Basel Paris, she has transformed the Place d’Iéna into a large-scale installation title Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation).The journey begins with Zanele Muholi’s Bona, Charlottesville, Virginia (2015), from the “Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness)” series. In the black-and-white photograph, we see the artist looking at themself in a mirror, bu
  
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• Three Paul Cézanne Paintings Pulled From Sotheby’s Schlumberger Evening Sale

  22-10-2026 19:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Three works by Paul Cézanne have been removed from the “Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection” evening sale at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday coinciding with Art Basel Paris.The three works: La Ferme, Arbres au Bord de la Rivière and Ciel Entre les Arbres, carried a combined estimate of $1.57 million to $2.24 million (€1.4 million to €2 million) and were painted between 1862 and 1864. The paintings are being returned to the artist’s hometown in Aix-en-Provenance to be displa
  
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• Historic Globe Used by Dwight D. Eisenhower Broken by Pete Hegseth’s Staff

  22-10-2026 18:58 via ARTnews.com
  
  In a scene that could have been ripped out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a historic floor globe used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II was broken when Pentagon staff tried to move it, according to The Washington Post.As reported by the paper, the globe caught the eye of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who ordered for it to be moved into his office to ogle on his own. “Ordinarily, moving historical items within the
  
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• Revised Tidal Basin Plans Scrutinized as Potential Backdoor for Trump’s Controversial Garden of American Heroes

  22-10-2026 18:01 via ARTnews.com
  
  The National Park Service has revised its plans to redevelop the Tidal Basin region of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The plan zeroes in on West Potomac Park, which Trump picked in May as his preferred site for the planned National Garden of American Heroes. One leading historic preservationist interpreted the plan as a way to create space for the project, reports the Washington Post.“The plan that we saw is really about making the space for the Garden of Heroes,” Charles A. Birnbaum,
  
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• Glasgow Museum Removes Mummified Head ‘as a Mark of Respect,’ Prompting Conservative Backlash

  22-10-2026 17:54 via ARTnews.com
  
  Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum removed an ancient Egyptian mummified head from view because there was no “informed consent from the deceased individual,” the museum said. The move has upset some conservative politicians in Scotland, with one alleging that it is a sign of “woke madness.”According to the Times of London, the museum had previously displayed the mummified male head in its galleries. But it has now been moved to storage, and in its place is a notice reading: �
  
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• Kid Cudi to Play Basquiat in ‘JEAN,’ Biopic He’ll Also Write and Direct

  22-10-2026 17:47 via ARTnews.com
  
  Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi, announced on Instagram that he is working on a biopic about the oft-mythologized New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film, titled JEAN, will be written and directed by Cudi, who will also star as the titular artist. Cudi shared an image of the first page of a draft of his script, dated August 25, 2026, and said that filming is set to begin in 2027.In his post, Cudi writes that people have been encouraging him to play Basquiat for years but that
  
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• Ancient Torso Statue Sells for $34.3 M. at Sotheby’s, a Record for a Roman Antiquity

  22-10-2026 16:50 via ARTnews.com
  
  An ancient fragment of a statue of a Roman emperor sold last night at Sotheby’s for $34.3 million, a sum that the house has deemed an auction record for a Roman antiquity.The three-and-a-half-foot-tall marble fragment depicts only the emperor’s torso, adorned in an elegant bronze cuirass. According to Sotheby’s, it once belonged to a larger statue of an emperor from the Julio-Claudinian dynasty and dates to the 1st century CE. Like many Roman statues, it is a copy of a Greek one.The statue
  
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• Colombia’s National Museum Is The First Casualty In The New President’s Culture War

  22-10-2026 16:32 via ArtsJournal
  Last week, Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right politician sworn in as President in August, declared a “cultural counterrevolution” and had dozens of artworks and historical objects removed from the Museo Nacional in Bogotá. In response, some 62,000 people demonstrated in the capital, arguing that the President’s action violates Colombia’s 1991 Constitution. – Artnet
  
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• Art Basel Paris and Fondation Louis Vuitton to Close on Saturday Ahead of Protests

  22-10-2026 16:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  Ahead of planned protests, Art Basel Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and other museums and art events in the French capital are planning to close for part or all of Saturday. In the case of Art Basel, the fair is also shuttering on Sunday, meaning that the event will end midway through its expected run. The news came during the final weekend of a packed calendar of events around the Paris fair. In an email to exhibitors, Vincenzo de Bellis and Karim Crippa, respectively Art Basel’s chief a
  
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• California’s Massive Tax Break To Stop Film Production From Leaving The State Isn’t Working (Yet)

  22-10-2026 16:04 via ArtsJournal
  
  “California’s $750 million bet on Hollywood has not reversed the overall decline in production, according to data released Wednesday by FilmLA. Instead, production levels fell 3.7% in the third quarter — even as the share of projects receiving state subsidies continued to rise. Location shoots remain well below the five-year average.” – Variety
  
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• Hundreds Of Authors Skip Class Action Case And Sue Meta/Facebook Individually

  22-10-2026 15:31 via ArtsJournal
  “Nearly 300 authors filed (separate) copyright infringement claims against Meta Platforms on October 19 in (Federal court in San Francisco), alleging the company trained its AI models on pirated copies of their books and, more recently, on physical books it bought and scanned without a license.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Broadway Contributes $21 Billion To NYC Economy: Study

  22-10-2026 15:05 via ArtsJournal
  
  The latest report from the Broadway League, covering the 2024-25 season, also found that the Broadway theater industry supported 114,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generated $979 million in taxes for the city. – Deadline
  
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• Now Staff At All Four V&A Museums In London Will Strike

  22-10-2026 14:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of ‘Amazon-style’ working conditions at the newly-opened V&A East Storehouse.” – ARTnews
  
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• Weekend Protests in Paris Raise Question of Early Art Basel Closure, $34.3 M. Marble Roman Torso Breaks Auction Records, and More: Morning Links for October 22, 2026

  22-10-2026 14:28 via ARTnews.com
  
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  Ahead of planned protests in Paris and calls to demonstrate at the Grand Palais, where Art Basel is held through Sunday, the fair would not confirm at this stage whether it will have to close over the weekend.An early Roman-era marble torso just broke an auction record for classical sculpture, selling for $34.3 million at Sotheby’s.The New York Public Library was gifted some 25
  
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• Publisher Cuts Ties With Author Thélyson Orélien Over Alleged AI Use In His Hit Novel

  22-10-2026 14:06 via ArtsJournal
  “Orélien has denied allegations that he used AI on his breakthrough novel (C’était ça ou mourir) and, last week, Canadian publisher Les Éditions du Boréal said it was standing by the 38-year-old writer. But on Wednesday, Boréal said it had conducted a further investigation” and concluded that Thélyson did use AI. – The Guardian
  
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• Simsinos en France : pourquoi une machine à sous ne devient pas « due » après plusieurs pertes

  22-10-2026 13:48 via Zouch
  
  Après une longue série de pertes, beaucoup de joueurs pensent qu’un gain important doit bientôt arriver. Cette idée paraît logique, mais elle confond le hasard avec une progression prévisible. Sur simsinos casino, un exemple chiffré permet de comprendre pourquoi une machine à sous peut continuer à produire des résultats indépendants, même après dix, vingt ou davantage de tours perdants.Comprendre l’illusion d’une machine « due » sur Simsinos
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• Quel stade confirme la réception d’un dépôt sur lunubet casino ?

  22-10-2026 13:42 via Zouch
  
  Après avoir ajouté un nouveau moyen de paiement, la vraie confirmation ne vient pas du simple choix de la méthode ni d’un écran bancaire marqué « accepté ». Sur casino lunubet, il faut vérifier que le montant apparaît bien dans le solde réel du compte, puis tenir compte des contrôles éventuels. Voici la marche à suivre pour distinguer une demande envoyée, un paiement en attente et un dépôt effectivement reçu.Les étapes d’un dépôt avec une nouvelle méthode
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• Jouer au casino sur grand écran avec betify : comprendre les messages du navigateur avant de continuer

  22-10-2026 13:34 via Zouch
  
  Un grand écran rend les jeux de casino plus lisibles, mais il ne change pas les règles du compte. Avant de poursuivre sur betify, prenez quelques minutes pour comprendre les messages affichés par le navigateur : cookies, vérification, connexion sécurisée ou blocage d’une fenêtre. Cette méthode aide à éviter une erreur de session, une promotion mal activée ou une demande de retrait retardée.Les messages à lire avant d’ouvrir un jeu betify
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• Objects With Narratives begins a new chapter in Antwerp

  22-10-2026 12:00 via Visual Arts
  A first look at the design gallery’s grand belle époque space
  
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• Wie die Kontoverifizierung bei Casinoly Einzahlungslimits verändern kann

  22-10-2026 11:53 via Zouch
  
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• New York Public Library Gets Over 250 Kiki Smith Prints, a Gift from the Artist’s Sister Seton Smith

  22-10-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Thanks to the generosity of a sibling, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is now the owner of some 250 prints by Kiki Smith. They come as the gift of her sister, fellow artist Seton Smith, who has pledged to give all future prints she receives by Kiki to the institution.The library’s Prints and Spencer Collections already have 30 other Smith prints and 12 of her artist’s books, and with the new gift, including works from as far back as the 1990s and into the present, the library will have on
  
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• Elisa Nuyten’s Vega Foundation Is Quietly Reshaping the World of Moving-Image Art

  22-10-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  To describe the plight of artists who make films and videos, Martine Syms compared the situation to a viral meme starring a giant, vacant head waiting to be filled in with words below a familiar prompt: “Why you so quiet? What’s on your mind?” For her part, Syms said she would fill in that empty noggin with some stark words: “I’m trying to fund my no-budget experimental film.”There has never been an especially easy time to make moving-image art, which is notoriously hard to monetize.
  
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• The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Tar Paintings to a Falling Knife

  22-10-2026 06:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  Across some 200 booths at Art Basel Paris this year, there is a lot to take in. As the Swiss company’s French fair matures, galleries have begun to bring more and more top-tier, high-priced works, which in turn has made it less a place to discover something new than a place for six-, seven-, and even eight-figure works to be sold. And during the Avant-Première VVIP preview on Tuesday afternoon, exhibiting galleries reported quite a few sales, which they would add to by the close of business W
  
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• Walter Hood is reshaping the American cityscape

  22-10-2026 06:00 via Visual Arts
  For the Oakland-based landscape designer, public space is political
  
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• The Phoenix Symphony Closes

  22-10-2026 04:23 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,The Phoenix Symphony will lay off its 66 musicians on November 2 though revenues rose more than 50 percent in two years; endowment gifts are restricted and can’t pay operating costs (Fox 10). San Francisco’s artist grants normally arrive within four weeks of July agreements; in October documentary filmmaker Susannah Smith was still borrowing from her mother for rent (San Francisco Chronicle).Caryl Churchill’s Triumph, 20 minutes long at London’s Almeida Theatre, takes its em
  
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