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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Paul-Cezanne-La-Ferme-Arbres-au-Bord-de-la-Riviere-and-Ciel-Entre-les-Arbres.png?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2300177764.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/west-potomac-park-tidal-basin-national-mall.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2297905501.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_1560.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Helena-Newman-Sothebys-Chairman-Sothebys-Chairman-Europe-and-Chairman-Impressionist-and-Modern-Art-Worldwide-fields-bids-in-Sothebys-Magnum-Opus-Evening-Auction.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP26__General_impressions__Avant_Premier_HiRes-2.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_5833.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Ahead of planned protests in Paris and calls to demonstrate at the Grand Palais, where Art Basel is held, the fair would not confirm at this stage whether it will have to shutter…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ULAE_KikiSmith_2000_PoolOfTearsII.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_5833.jpg?w=1024″] 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…