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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP26__Public_Program__Public_Interaction_HiRes.jpg?w=1024″] A monumental sculpture by artist Alicja Kwade will be removed early from public display in Paris, where it was installed part of the public program of the Art Basel Paris fair. The piece is situated on the Avenue Winston Churchill, on the doorstep of the Grand Palais, where the fair is taking…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2217311632.jpg?w=1024″] 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. The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/7.png?w=1024″] Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat. A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Rosana-Paulino_Foto-de-Rodrigo-Ladeira_2.jpg?w=1024″] The growing visibility of Rosana Paulino’s work reaches a new chapter with the opening this week of her first solo exhibition in Paris, at Mendes Wood DM’s outpost in the French capital. Titled “Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight,” the exhibition introduces new plant goddesses into the Afro-botanical pantheon Paulino…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_5726.jpg?w=1024″] What’s the vibe in Paris, you may be asking? While the detritus of the weekend’s protests marks many of the city’s arrondissements, the art world is proceeding with business as usual, with events and openings going on as planned Monday night and Tuesday, culminating in the opening of Art Basel Paris’s Avant…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/aG1986RA2.jpg?w=1000″] With a career spanning 60 years, James Gibson was a revered Tennessee teacher and sculptor. Today, over 240 sculptures from his estate are available to collectors for purchase. It’s hard to miss a sculpture by James Gibson, whose numerous and often massive works can be characterized by blocky abstracted, yet continuous forms,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ORSAY_NEWMOCK_06_SQUARE.jpg?w=1024″] In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/kennedy-center-artwork-bust-sculpture.jpg?w=1024″] It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/aia_sylabus.jpg?w=1024″] Pop Art arrived in the middle of the 20th century, as artists experimented with pictures and processes borrowed from mass media. Their high-low mashups, nostalgic references, and high-octane colors remain alluring, relevant, and surprisingly misunderstood. In time for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on Roy Lichtenstein, read these five books…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HBTJvL9X0AAaN1_.jpeg?w=1024″] This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US. Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a…