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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/FSRG3777_HD-photo-Gregory-Copitet.jpg?w=1024″] If you planned to visit Art Basel Paris but just learned that it’s closing for the weekend ahead of Saturday’s planned protests, there’s some good news: for now, at least, several satellite fairs plan to welcome visitors for part or all of the weekend—while keeping an eye on the surrounding social and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2241971037.jpg?w=1024″] 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.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Iris-in-situ-Damien-Perronnet-Blok-Design-Group-Art-Digital-Studio-Sothebys.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-3.29.19-PM.png?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/download_343637.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Wassily-Kandinsky-Betonte-Ecken-1000.jpg?w=1000″] 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,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1036112882.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[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-3.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frank-Lloyd-Wrights-Taliesin-West-in-Scottsdale-Arizona-on-December-9-2017.-Photo-by-Jim-SteinfeldtMichael-Ochs-ArchivesGetty-Images.jpg?w=1024″] 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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/miumiu-empty_space-press-261019-1_72_16x9.jpg?w=1024″] 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),…