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Mexico Asks Christie's to Cancel Upcoming Sale of Pre-Hispanic Objects
The National Institute for Anthropology and History in Mexico says 30 objects in the sale belong to the country's national patrimony, and three others are fake.
Paris
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Paris’s Centre Pompidou Will Close for Nearly Four Years During Restoration
“We don’t have a choice, the building is suffering,” said Serge Lasvignes, the museum’s president, of the €200 million renovation.
Art
Antibodies and Oppositions: Artwork That Addresses Our New Normal
At the Palais de Tokyo, mounting an exhibition loosely about infection, during a pandemic, presents its challenges.
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French Teacher Beheaded After Showing Muhammad Cartoons in Class
The killing happened amid controversial trials of suspected accomplices in the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo’s Paris headquarters in 2015.
In Brief
Activists Fined After Anti-colonial Protest at Quai Branly Museum
Four activists were fined for their live-streamed protest at the Paris museum, in which Mwazulu Diyabanza removed a 19th-century funerary post from its display.
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Activists Stand Trial for Protest in French Museum Over Plundered Artifacts
Members of a Pan-African group stood trial in Paris on charges of attempted theft for an action staged at the city’s Quai Branly Museum.
Art
A Timely Look at the Escape From Paris After Nazi Invasion
The intriguing exhibition Parisian Exodus demonstrates the importance of documenting such moments of upheaval with nuance.
Art
Rare Film Footage of Artist Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1930s Paris
Tanner avoided the cameras for much of his life, but a new documentary on Black American creatives who moved to France finds candid home movie footage of him.
News
Charlie Hebdo Reprints Controversial Cartoons of Prophet Mohammad
Coinciding with today’s trial for the alleged accomplices in the 2015 terrorist attack which killed 11 employees, the satirical paper reprinted the drawings.
Art
The Charm and Conviction of a Christo and Jeanne-Claude Exhibition
The show at the Pompidou Center demonstrates that the artists’ reputation as “ephemeral architects” or “temporary monument” makers is incomplete, if not altogether incorrect.
Art
The Unapologetically Gay, Erotic Drawings of Soufiane Ababri
Alternately funny, melancholic, erotic, and political, the Moroccan artist’s Bedworks series offers compassionate images of men blissfully enjoying themselves.
Art
When Fire Becomes Another Word for Revolution
At the Palais de Tokyo, Our World is Burning allows 30 artists to express the dream and necessity of a sustainable future in an egalitarian world.