Art
Thieves Execute Jewelry Heist at the Louvre Museum in Broad Daylight
SummaryThe Louvre Museum in Paris was hit by a brazen daylight jewelry heist that lasted approximately seven minutesThieves used a mechanized lift and angle grinders to access the Galerie d’Apollon and steal eight pieces of "priceless" Napoleonic-era jewelsThe museum was immediately closed for investigation, and the stolen items, including emerald and sapphire sets, are considered to be of inestimable historical valueThe world's most visited museum was the scene of a brazen jewelry heist this Sunday, as professional thieves executed a minutes-long operation at the Louvre Museum in Paris. As if straight out of a scene from a film, the robbery, which may have been more of a recession indicator than anything else, points towards the daylight strike, which occurred shortly after the museum ope...
Pablo Picasso’s $700K USD Painting ‘Still life with guitar’ Goes Missing During Transport
SummaryPablo Picasso's 1919 painting, Still life with guitar, went missing during transport to a Granada exhibitionThe small, framed work is insured for €600,000 EUR and was discovered missing upon unpacking on October 6Organizers cited improper packaging, and Spanish police have launched an investigationPablo Picasso's 1919 work, Still life with guitar, went missing during its transport from Madrid to a temporary exhibition in Granada, Spain.As per Reuters, exhibit organizers The CajaGranada Foundation confirmed that the small framed painting was being transported with other larger pieces for "Still life. The eternity of the inert." While the shipment arrived at the CajaGranada cultural centre on the morning of October 3, organizers were unaware of the missing artwork until the shipment's...
Masterworks and Modern Voices Lead Perrotin’s ART TAIPEI 2025 Showcase
SummaryPerrotin returns to ART TAIPEI with a showcase featuring artists from its international programThe lineup includes established artists and postwar masters such as Hans Hartung and Jean‑Michel Othoniel, alongside contemporary visionaries like Mr., Takashi Murakami and Aya TakanoPerrotin returns to ART TAIPEI 2025 with a tightly curated presentation that spans postwar masters, established visionaries and contemporary voices from its international program. The booth foregrounds 20th‑century abstraction and figuration alongside recent work by mid‑career and new‑generation artists, offering a cross‑generational survey that foregrounds material experimentation and narrative depth. Visitors can expect a conversation between historic and contemporary practices played out across painting, br...
BAPE GALLERY Shanghai Highlights Sustainability with New Exhibition by Tomotatsu Gima
SummaryThe BAPE GALLERY in Shanghai is hosting a solo exhibition by artist Tomotatsu GimaGima's art, including a cardboard BAPE STA, explores sustainability through upcycled collagesThe exhibition blends Chinese elements with BAPE’s streetwear aestheticBAPE GALLERY Shanghai is currently hosting a compelling art-meets-streetwear exhibition featuring the solo work of Okinawa-based artist Tomotatsu Gima. Gima, renowned for his upcycled cardboard collages, presents a visionary exploration of sustainability and environmental consciousness.Through his signature "upcycled creation" technique, Gima skillfully fuses traditional Chinese elements with BAPE’s iconic streetwear visuals, offering a transcendent cultural and artistic experience. Notable pieces include a cardboard BAPE STA sneaker, a live...
Meguru Yamaguchi Brings His Brushstrokes into the Third Dimension Through ‘AWAKENINGS’
SummaryMeguru Yamaguchi's AWAKENINGS exhibition is on view at ISETAN THE SPACE until November 3, 2025The show features six new 3D works, including "Awakenings NO.2 "and Möbius NO.24" – all expanding from his "OUT OF BOUNDS" seriesBrooklyn‑based artist Meguru Yamaguchi’s exhibition AWAKENINGS is on view at ISETAN THE SPACE in Tokyo, presenting six works that push his signature painterly language into three dimensions. Renowned for liberating brushstrokes from the conventional flatness of canvas, Yamaguchi carves painted forms that project into the surrounding space and engage viewers from multiple angles.Central to the presentation is the title work "AWAKENINGS NO.2 (2025)," executed in acrylic with UV and epoxy resin and finished with a UV urethane coating, a large‑scale piece that exempli...
Hugh Hayden Brings Fire and Faith to Lisson Gallery
SummarySculptor Hugh Hayden's new solo show, Hughmanity, is now on view at Lisson Gallery in London through November 1The show features a new body of wooden works that explore themes of assimilation, identity and belonging through reconfigured cultural symbolsAt Lisson in London, sculptor Hugh Hayden unveils Hughmanity, his fourth solo outing at the gallery's English outpost. Building on his investigation into communion, identity and belonging, the Dallas native presents a new series of wooden works that probe into the tension between assimilation and its often unsavory cost.Each work begins as a tree — felled, milled, carved and laminated — before being reconstituted into charged cultural relics that embody both the wood's raw character with a deft sculptural touch. Here, the Hayden intro...
Awake NY Opens ‘Silent Echoes’ by Leyla Fischer
Awake NY is kicking off its Fall/Winter 2025 season with Silent Echoes, a new installation by artist Leyla Fischer. The show opens October 18, from 6 to 8PM ET, at Awake’s Orchard Street flagship, which will transform into a small, meditative gallery space for the occasion.At the heart of Silent Echoes are Fischer's signature dog figures, painted in thick layers of oil that imbue instinct and reflection. The canvases, titled "Guardians of Valor," "Hidden Identity," "Masters of Angels," "Downfall," "Yer Blues" and "She Loves You" will be displayed as well each carrying a quiet tension. Fischer’s work has long explored questions of faith, identity, and emotion, but rarely through direct storytelling. Instead, her paintings feel like moments of pause, balancing between strength and vulnerabil...
New Print Sale Rallies Art World for Palestine
SummaryPerformance artist Millie Brown and White Label Editions launch a collection of signed limited-edition prints to support The Zaynab ProjectThe sale runs until October 24, with each print is priced at £250 GBPWhite Label Editions has joined forces with British artist Millie Brown to unite artists in an act of solidarity, launching a series of signed, limited-edition prints to raise funds for The Zaynab Project, a nonprofit providing emergency aid, medical support and education for children in Gaza.From Turner Prize winner Martin Creed and East Village legend Kenny Scharf to Patrick Martinez, Tali Lennox and Miles Greenberg, figures shaping contemporary art's new vanguard, the initiative collects an international roster of 18 names. Each print is priced at £250 GBP and is available on...
JOOPITER Launches First Standalone Tattoo Auction “Inked: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists”
SummaryJOOPITER launched its first standalone tattoo auction, "Inked: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists"Sixteen renowned artists created limited-edition designs intended to be permanently worn on the bodyThe auction, featuring a historic design by the late Lawrence Weiner, runs from October 22 to 31JOOPITER is launching its first-ever standalone tattoo auction, Inked: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists, a commission-based project that explores the body as the ultimate site for art collection. Curated by Sharon Coplan, the auction brings together sixteen globally renowned figures from the worlds of contemporary art, fashion, and design.Each participating artist, including Derrick Adams, Thom Browne, Jeffrey Gibson, Marilyn Minter, Peter Marino, Mickalene Thomas, and the late Lawrence Weiner, cre...
Elmgreen & Dragset Go Prada Mode
As the art world rolls into London for Frieze week, Prada joins in on the cultural conversation. For the thirteenth iteration of Prada Mode, the Milanese fashion house reunites with Elmgreen & Dragset, the acclaimed duo behind the cult Prada Marfa, for a new immersive installation, titled “The Audience”.Within a makeshift cinema inside the newly restored Town Hall in King's Cross, a hazy film loops on-screen. Peppered throughout the seats are five hyperrealistic sculptures of moviegoers, posed in expressions of fascination, frustration and distraction, while another sculpture, lounging in the mezzanine, wears an apathetic gaze with her phone in-hand.By redirecting the attention of visitors away from the screen and toward the immediate environment, the piece reconsiders what it means to...
Harmony Korine, Zaha Hadid & More Cultural Icons Spotlighted in ‘THE DEEP STATE’
Cultural Counsel is releasing a new book titled THE DEEP STATE: ART, CULTURE & FLORIDA, a lengthy dive into the strange beauty and contradictions that define the Sunshine State. The book traces Florida’s creative evolution from its earliest days to the present, uncovering forgotten stories, overlooked voices and the mix of icons and outsiders who helped shape its unique cultural landscape.Set to launch this December during Art Basel Miami Beach, THE DEEP STATE features work by Harmony Korine, who designed the cover alongside Zaha Hadid, John Singer Sargent and Bunny Yeager. Through essays, photographs and conversations with cultural figures, it explores how Florida became both a haven and a hallucination for creative minds.The book is packed with interesting stories that blur the line ...
Nan Goldin Embraces Her Cinematic Side in ‘This Will Not End Well’
SummaryAcclaimed American photographer Nan Goldin opens This Will Not End Well, her first major European retrospective, at Pirelli HangarBicocca in MilanThe exhibition features the largest corpus of slideshows presented together, alongside two recent works and the artist's first sound installation“I have always wanted to be a filmmaker,” says photographer Nan Goldin. “My slideshows are films made up of stills.” It's this cinematic sensibility that underpins This Will Not End Well, the first major European retrospective dedicated to Goldin, the filmmaker, now on view at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Originally presented at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the exhibition traces the evolution of one of contemporary photography's most influential voices, in an intimate, immersive journey throug...
