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.
Paris
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.
Sponsored
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.
Art Review
Apocalypse Art Has Never Been More Relevant
A Paris exhibition traces artists’ obsession with the Apocalypse, from rare Medieval illuminated manuscripts to Blake, Kandinsky, and Kiki Smith.
Opinion
To See New York’s Slavery Memorial, You’ll Have to Fly to Paris
A version of Barbara Chase-Riboud's inaccessible Manhattan monument "Africa Rising” is now on public display at the Jardin des Tuileries.
Art Review
Will the Real Cimabue Please Stand Up?
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.