Feature
Is Art Basel Paris Too Big to Fail?
The fair showed relative market resilience but leaned into the risk-averse paintings, with most standout work in the emerging sectors.
Paris
Feature
Asia Now Is a Paris Art Fair, Festival, and Incubator
The view of the Seine from the windows warded off the fair numbness that so often sets in amid endless rows of booths in enclosed spaces.
News
Activists Protest Fireworks Display at Centre Pompidou
“Art cannot be an excuse to destroy,” said Students for a Free Tibet.
News
Louvre Director’s Testimony Sheds New Light on Heist
Laurence des Cars pointed to long-term security issues and overdue upgrades that may have facilitated the thieves’ brazen daylight break-in.
Guide
8 Fairs and Events to Visit During Paris Art Week
Hide your jewels and hop over to Art Basel, Asia NOW, the Upstairs Art Fair, and more art happenings in the City of Love.
Guide
10 Exhibitions to See in Paris This Fall
Surveys of French giants like Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre take center stage, but the city’s zeitgeist is perhaps best captured outside the big museum circuit.
Art Review
Lygia Pape Wants You to Participate
Pape’s work endures because it makes us feel collectivity as a physical condition rather than a concept.
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Announcement
Asia NOW Returns to the Monnaie de Paris for Its 11th Edition
Celebrating the artistic voices of Asia and its diaspora, the fair brings together over 70 international galleries in Paris this October.
Art Review
Agnès Varda’s Photographic Odes to Queer Paris
Varda spent much of her 20s photographing the queer community of Montparnasse, where she shared a life, home, and creative practice with sculptor Valentine Schlegel.
Art Review
The Asian Modernists of Paris
Across more than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age.
News
Artists Decry Centre Pompidou’s Cancellation of Caribbean Art Exhibition
Guadeloupean curator Claire Tancons called it a “brutal and shocking” decision and over 100 people signed a letter in protest.
News
Louvre Museum Shutters as “Exhausted” Staff Go on Strike
The unplanned work stoppage closed the museum for hours on Monday, leaving visitors waiting in long lines.