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Art World Roundup: updates on Stonehenge, the Turner Prize, Christie’s auction of Igbo statues, a Parisian Banksy, and how the new Louvre experience
This week’s Art World Roundup offers updates. Recipients of the 2020 edition of an alternative Turner Prize have been announced, a recovered Banksy stolen from Paris, and the sale of […]
Art World Roundup: a $70k Basquiat, Cady Noland’s ongoing legal battle, and how you can support Black creatives
In this week’s Art World Roundup, we look at ways you can support Black creatives, art that benefits those who can’t make bail, a never-before-seen Basquiat, what the Louvre expects […]
‘Leonardo da Vinci’ shatters Louvre exhibition attendance records
After running its course, the numbers are finally out for the Louvre’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition and a blockbuster it was. A staggering 1,071,840 people ended up waiting their […]
For three nights only, Louvre extends blockbuster da Vinci exhibition to an all-night affair
Who hasn’t stayed up until midnight to see the premier of a long-anticipated movie? Well, get your coffees ready as the Louvre will be adding tickets to see its blockbuster […]
If you missed it: the Louvre and Picasso, strikes, smuggling, and forgery
Here’s what’s happening with strikes at the Louvre, which led to museum closures last week, and works by Picasso, both real and fake. Louvre reopens after worker’s strike forces closure […]
“Leonardo da Vinci”
To mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death, the Louvre has organised an unprecedented exhibit dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. This retrospective “will present the results of the most […]
Italian court halts loan of the Vitruvian Man ahead of blockbuster da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre
Just two weeks ago, Italy and France signed a deal that reinstated a 2017 deal that would green light a number of works by Leonardo da Vinci to be loaned […]
