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David Zwirner, one of the world’s largest galleries, announced Monday that it would now be the official representative of the work of artist Yoshitomo Nara. Nara will have his first solo exhibition with Zwirner at one of the gallery’s New York spaces. The deal for Zwirner to represent Nara comes via the artist’s international agent Joe Baptista, via his Equivalence Art Agency. Until earlier this year, Baptista was a partner at Pace Gallery, Nara’s longtime representative. Pace, which mounted its first solo for Nara in 2013, had not previously announced Baptista’s departure from the gallery. Zwirner’s press release, however, notes that “Pace Gallery will continue to have a relationship with the artist.” In an email to ARTnews, Pace CEO Marc Glimcher said, “We are so proud of everything we have done for Yoshitomo Nara. Looking back on our 14 years of working together, we would not do anything differently and as such this development is a little surprising, but we understand that in this environment things happen. We remain undying fans of the work and look forward to collaborating with the artist on future projects. We wish for a great relationship between him and David.” Nara is bes

STARS ALIGN. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) celebrated its 14th annual Art+Film Gala on November 1, drawing nearly 600 big names from the worlds of art, film, fashion, and entertainment, as ARTnews reports. This year’s bash paid tribute to artist Mary Corse and filmmaker Ryan Coogler, the director of movie Sinners. After a brief delay, courtesy of the Dodgers and a nail-biting World Series finale, the fundraiser resumed with some emotional speeches and a performance by Doja Cat. LACMA’s CEO Michael Govan told the star-studded audience: “We’re art, film, creativity, all deeply intertwined. I always say this is the most creative place on Earth, and you are it, here, all of you.” Co-chaired by LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the gala set a new fundraising record, bringing in nearly $6.5 million to support LACMA’s mission of integrating film more deeply into its curatorial programs and advancing the museum’s broader artistic vision.A ‘GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE’ REACTION. A climate activist who smeared washable black and red paint across the case holding an Édgar Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 2023 has received an

Last month, on Sunday, October 19, around 9:30 a.m., robbers broke into the Parisian museum‘s Apollo Gallery using a cherry picker and an angle grinder to steal nine pieces of jewelry worth an estimated $102 million in less than eight minutes. CCTV footage captured the thieves descending from a gallery window before fleeing the area on scooters. One of the nine pieces, a crown once belonging to Empress Eugénie, was subsequently recovered outside the Louvre. In a hearing with the French senate, Louvre Museum director Laurence des Cars said that alarms functioned properly and went off during the heist. But she admitted that the museum has “very inadequate” and “outdated” security systems in place.

A painting long hailed as a Moïse Kisling masterwork, held in the collection of a Japanese company, has been linked to notorious art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi—the latest in a wave of such discoveries shaking Japan’s fine art scene.   For years, a painting believed to be Kiki de Montparnasse by Polish French painter Moïse Kisling has been prominently displayed in the gallery of Okayama Prefecture’s Yamada Bee Company Group. Japan-based news outlet NHK, however, reported that the company’s art curator Kurose Kaori was contacted earlier this year by a museum in Fukuyama, which shared concerns about the painting’s authenticity.  The work had been tied to the prolific art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, who in 2011 was found guilty by a German court of forgery and corruption. The court found that 14 forgeries made by Beltracchi had been sold to collectors worldwide for a total of $45 million. Beltracchi has since claimed to have forged some 300 works by modern masters including Max Ernst, Max Pechstein, André Derain and Fernand Léger. He was released from prison in 2015 and now paints under his own signature. The Kisling case joins a growing list of high-profile art forgeries in Japan. NHK

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a project nearly 25 years in the making, has finally opened to the public after considerable delays. On November 1, visitors were able to explore all of the museum’s 968,000 square feet of space for the first time. Plans for the museum were announced in 1992, and construction began in 2002. A dozen of GEM’s main galleries opened to the public in October 2024. The rest were unveiled on Saturday. The 80,000-square-foot gallery housing all 5,600 burial objects from King Tutankhamun’s tomb is the most highly anticipated space in the new museum. More than half of these objects—among them shrines, coffins, thrones, and chariots—have never been exhibited before. “I had the idea of displaying the complete tomb, which means nothing remains in storage, nothing remains in other museums, and you get to have the complete experience, the way Howard Carter had it over a hundred years ago,” Tarek Tawfik, president of the International Association of Egyptologists told the BBC, referring to Carter, the British Egyptologist who discovered Tutankhamun intact tomb in 1922. (Tawfik is the former director general of GEM.)

Timothy Martin, a climate activist who smeared paint on a glass vitrine protecting an Edgar Degas sculpture in 2023, was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week. Martin had been found guilty of conspiracy and injury to government property in April.   Martin, along with fellow activist Johanna Smith, smeared paint on the Degas vitrine at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in April 2023, as part of a protest with the environmentalist group Declare Emergency. The vitrine was protecting Degas’s Little Dancer, Age Fourteen, one of the museum’s most well-known sculptures. According to the Department of Justice, Martin and Smith caused more than $4,000 in damage and the action caused the room displaying the work to be closed for 10 days in order for repairs to be made. Prosecutors had initially sought a sentence of five years for Martin. (Smith pleaded guilty in 2023, served a 60-day prison sentence, and paid more than $7,000 in restitution and fines.) The two have been barred from entering Washington, D.C. and from the city’s museums and monuments.

Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have gifted Tate 36 works by artists from Africa and its diaspora. It’s the second time the married collectors have made a high-profile donation to the museum network in the past year, having previously given Tate a large-scale Joan Mitchell painting. The artworks in the gift are by an intergenerational range of artists, spanning Seydou Keïta, a Malian photographer born in the 1920s, to Joy Labinjo, a rising British painter of Nigerian descent who was born in 1994. But in other cases, the gift has helped introduce artists to the holdings of the Tate. Chéri Samba, an influential Congolese painter, is now making his debut in the Tate collection. So is Adama Kouyaté, a Malian photographer. In a statement, Bonsu said, “Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have developed a dynamic and significant collection of works by African and African Diaspora artists and have shown a deep appreciation for these artists’ contributions to art history. With their generous support, I look forward to further expanding my research and networks across Africa and its global diaspora, and to sharing this work with visitors to Tate Modern.” Keïta, a photographer whose work is currently being

By Andy Battaglia Executive Editor, ARTnews & Art in America In what once functioned as an ancient Roman city focused on trade and thermal baths in the south of France, archaeologists have unearthed graves thought to offer new revelations related to Roman burial rites. After Marseille was taken over by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.E., the city of Olbia (50 miles along the coast to the southeast) went through a Roman period between the first and third centuries C.E.—the time to which the newly discovered cremation graves date back. As reported in Live Science, more than 160 recently discovered graves provide evidence of how cremation worked as well as the inclusion of offerings—including alcoholic drinks—in the process. According to the French National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research (Inrap), dead bodies were splayed over a wooden stand over a square fire pit. As Live Science described, “The heat of the pyre caused the stand to collapse and the bones to whiten, twist and crack. Glass objects melted, bronze artifacts warped, and the ceramics were tinged by soot.” In cheerier news for the deceased, evidence from the findings suggests the presence of “libation tubes” into

Watson was charged with one count of aiding, abetting, and counseling and/or procuring, destroying, or damaging an ancient protected monument. Naidu and Lynch were each charged with destroying or damaging an ancient protected monument, and causing public nuisance. “This was an important decision for the issues about the right to protest, the right to freedom of speech compared to the right of a world heritage site to sit unmolested by members of the public. It’s a difficult one to gauge,” Judge Paul Dugdale said in his summation.

According to a statement from the Dutch government, Prime Minister Dick Schoof told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that the Netherlands would return the ancient sculpture depicting a high-ranking official from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479–1425 BCE). The artwork was spotted for sale at an art fair in 2022 and later seized by Dutch authorities, who received an anonymous tip that it had been stolen from Egypt.  The statement said the art fair “trader voluntarily renounced the sculpture” after investigators “found that the head was obtained by looting and was unlawfully exported.”  CBS News reports that dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries attended Saturday’s opening of the $1 billion new facility nearly 25 years in the making, and now ranking among the largest museums in the world. The 968,000-square-foot building houses a collection spanning some 7,000 years; a 80,000-square-foot gallery is dedicated alone to all 5,600 burial objects from King Tutankhamun’s tomb. Other highlights include a large atrium featuring an 11-foot-tall statue of Ramses II and a grand staircase lined with statues and objects from a range of Egyptian dynasties.

  Denver Art MuseumOctober 26, 2025 - Feb. 8, 2026The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has announced that it will present a major exhibition of works by Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) in the fall of 2025, providing an overview of the artist’s illustrious career and examining his singular role museum retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre in more than four decades.Camille Pissarro, Self-Portrait (autoportrait), 1873. Oil on canvas; Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, the exhibition brings together more than 80 paintings from nearly 50 international museums and private collections, and figure paintings, showcasing the breadth of Pissarro’s oeuvre and the various influences that shaped his practice as he responded to the social and political environment of the day.“Through this exhibition, we hope visitors will explore Pissarro’s ability to capture everyday life in a way

artists worked, with a new-found appreciation for creativity pushing artistic boundaries. Drawing became central to this development, evolving from an essential tool of workshop practice to an exciting art form in its own right.This exhibition brings together a wide range of drawings from this revolutionary artistic period, including 45 drawings never exhibited in Scotland before. Exploring the diversity and accomplishment of drawing across Italy between 1450 and 1600, the exhibition will feature around 80 works by over 50 artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael

A través de ponencias y talleres prácticos, los participantes descubrirán cómo la innovación, la creatividad y la tecnología pueden transformar la gestión del patrimonio cultural y abrir nuevas oportunidades profesionales en el sector. El encuentro incluye ponencias, talleres prácticos y espacio de contactos profesionales para favorecer la colaboración entre jóvenes, mayores y agentes culturales. A través de ponencias y talleres prácticos, los participantes descubrirán cómo la innovación, la creatividad y la tecnología pueden transformar la gestión del patrimonio cultural y abrir nuevas oportunidades profesionales en el sector. Cultura, patrimonio e innovación: bases para la transformación

Sin embargo, hasta muy recientemente, las momias guanches fueron estudiadas a través de las fuentes escritas (crónicas de la conquista e historias generales de Canarias), echándose en falta la observación directa, el análisis de su contenido, la aplicación de las modernas técnicas de estudio biomédico y de imagen y la experimentación. Estas carencias en la investigación se debieron al escaso número de estos valiosos ejemplares en los principales museos de nuestro archipiélago, a las dificultades técnicas y al alto coste que, indudablemente, entraña este tipo de trabajo.

So begins Olivia Laing’s Silver Book, which takes place in this fraught historical moment. Yet The Silver Book does not precisely feel like a historical, or historicized, novel. Laing’s prose is vignetted and elliptical, relying on details rather than exposition to suggest the text’s setting: hippies at a train station; Don’t Look Now playing at the movies. In Laing’s novel, as in life, the historical importance of an era is not explicitly referred to so much as felt. Here, Laing focuses on Nicholas and Danilo’s daily acts of living, largely creative tasks devoted to the fabulations of filmmaking: costuming, set fabrication, sketching. And yet, The Silver Book appears to argue, no matter how much illusion and fakery go into its making, an artist’s work is inseparable from the era that produces it. At the heart of the novel is Danilo and Nicholas’s relationship, triangulated by their mutual devotion to art-making. From the outset, Laing’s text conjures a tight, sensual world. Nico, on his first night in Danilo’s hotel room in Venice, compares it to an underwater cavern: “[He] feels like a pearl, finely set.” Laing has a light touch with the third person narration, alternating betwee

The artist shared her screen with me and pulled up a PowerPoint presentation with hundreds of slides. She paused on one with pictures of a helmet-wearing person hugging a delivery worker who zips down a road. “That’s me,” Kim said of the passenger riding in tow. “It was really liberating,” she continued, being able to visit “so many strange and unknown, hidden places that I’ve never been, even though I’m so familiar with the city.” Tate in London acquired Delivery Dancer’s Sphere out of Frieze Seoul in 2022, and since then, the video and its follow-ups have since been shown frequently, with one recently appearing on the facade of the M+ museum in Hong Kong earlier this year. Following a showing at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum this past spring, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere and the other two films in the “Delivery Dancer” series will head next to MoMA PS1 in New York, which is staging Kim’s first US solo exhibition, opening this week. Later this month, Kim will also debut a new “Delivery Dancer” work, a motion-capture piece involving live stunt performers, at the Performa festival in New York. “Many people work with AI, many people work with data, but she’s [...]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) celebrated its 14th annual Art+Film Gala on November 1, drawing nearly 600 big names from the worlds of art, film, fashion, and entertainment. This year’s bash paid tribute to artist Mary Corse and filmmaker Ryan Coogler, the director of Sinners. After a brief delay, courtesy of the Dodgers and a nail-biting World Series finale, the fundraiser resumed with some emotional speeches and a captivating performance by Doja Cat.LACMA’s CEO Michael Govan told the star-studded audience: “We’re art, film, creativity, all deeply intertwined. I always say this is the most creative place on Earth, and you are it, here, all of you.” Co-chaired by LACMA trustee Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio, the gala set a new fundraising record, bringing in nearly $6.5 million to support LACMA’s mission: integrating film more deeply into its curatorial programs and advancing the museum’s broader artistic vision. LACMA’s CEO Govan announced on the night that the fundraiser had brought in a record-breaking $6.5 million, funds that will support the museum’s efforts to make film a more integral part of its curatorial programming, among other initiatives. American artist