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#ArtnetNews: How’s the fair? The mood was buoyant at the four-hour “Avant-Première” opening on Tuesday afternoon, the first of—count them!—three days of previews at the Grand Palais. It’s a bit too soon to say definitively how the 211 exhibitors are doing, but dealers seemed happier here than they did at Basel Basel in June. Maybe it’s just because they’re in Paris.
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ALT The image shows a bustling art exhibition inside the Grand Palais with numerous people exploring display booths under the expansive, ornate glass roof. The interior space is filled with white, partitioned sections showcasing various artworks.
#ArtnetNews: Four works by Picasso will hit the auction block this November at Sotheby’s New York, two of which have not been on public view since a 1970 exhibition in Avignon. They were painted between 1964 and 1972, in what is dubbed the Spanish master’s “Heroic Years,” when his style took on a loose, expressive quality widely believed to be indicative of a “final flourish” as he entered the last decades of his life.
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ALT Abstract painting by Pablo Picasso featuring distorted human-like figures in grayscale and muted colors. The image is bordered on the left by a green strip with the text "ARTNET BULLETIN" in black.
#ArtnetNews: On Mondays, the Louvre typically opens at 9 a.m. But at that time this morning, protestors were blocking the doors to its iconic pyramid entrance. No one was going inside. Security officials milled about. Metal gates surrounded the plaza.
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Article by Andrew Russeth (@andrewrusseth)
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Pictured: The Louvre on Monday, October 19, 2026. Photo: Andrew Russeth.
#ArtnetNews: It’s fall in Paris! Art fairs from Art Basel to Design Miami are descending on the capital, as are a host of exhibitions that will leave you spoiled for choice. From a vast photography survey and a celebration of landscapes to spotlights on art giants like Zurbarán and Mary Cassatt, we’ve rounded up a selection of shows that can’t be missed.
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#ArtnetNews: It’s certainly not hard for Art Basel to convince collectors to come to Paris. Many Americans are now putting Basel, Switzerland, in the rearview mirror and committing instead to the French capital if they make only one overseas art-buying trip. Of course, it’s not hard to convince most people to go to Paris. There is no shortage of luxury hotel rooms in this City of Light, while finding a decent one in Basel is always quite challenging.
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#TheArtAnglePodcast: This week, artist Sara VanDerBeek joins The Art Angle to talk about Guild & Greyshkul, the SoHo gallery she operated from 2003 to 2009. A new show at Cooper Union revisits its history and why it still matters, bringing together work by more than 70 artists, from Dana Schutz and B. Wurtz to Mariah Robertson, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Ryan Johnson, Ryan Muller, and Valerie Hegarty.
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#ArtnetNews: London Invitational, an offshoot of the already beloved Dallas Invitational, has been hotly anticipated with good reason. The work is top notch, and the elegant installation feels resplendent thanks to the breathtakingly luxurious suites of the Chancery Rosewood hotel.
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#ArtnetNews: Flashes of excitement punctured an otherwise measured modern and contemporary art evening sale at Phillips in London tonight, which totaled £14.8 million ($19.6 million). All 20 lots sold—three more were pulled after being acquired ahead of the sale—and two artist records were set.
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#ArtnetNews: On Wednesday night in London, Christie’s 20th- and 21st-century evening auctions brought in £219 million, or $289.4 million, a solid though not spectacular result at the low end of the house’s estimates. The top lot was an early Wassily Kandinsky painting, which went for an above-estimate £31.6 million ($41.8 million).
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#ArtnetNews: The Louvre’s director, Christophe Leribault, just made a rather sobering statement to Le Figaro: The treasure-filled institution will need to close to the public if it does not receive serious cash from the government for infrastructure improvements.
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#ArtnetNews: “It's hard to buy right now,” one prominent millennial London collector sighed, rolling back his head in frustration. By which he meant: It's hard to get access to the most desirable work. Yet, for many dealers at the VIP opening of Frieze London today, it remained hard to sell, too. More than ever, excitement is concentrated in “heat pockets,” advisor Nico Epstein said.
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#ArtnetNews: Some selections are obvious. This year saw the opening of four restaurants attached to big-name art institutions in New York: Marcel (in Sotheby’s), Zoli (attached to Amant), Symone (MoMA PS1), and Oberon (New Museum). Other selections are less obvious, like a gourmet grocery store positioned at the nexus of the Tribeca gallery scene, or an unassuming tavern where dealers on the Upper East Side can still get a burger for under $20.
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#ArtnetAuctions: But is the market for women printmakers keeping pace with this institutional attention? To find out, we examined auction results from the Artnet Price Database, and the findings are more complicated than a simple price comparison suggests.
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#ArtnetNews: OK, here’s a very silly but very big story: “Miss Independent” singer Kelly Clarkson is in a furious internet dispute with tiny Brooklyn magic shop the Art of Play over whether or not its staff was rude to her when she inquired about buying a certain singing bird sculpture. Seriously, look it up. Huge story. I’m here to say: I’m team Art of Play all the way.
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#ArtnetNews: Walking into Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall on Monday morning, I experienced an initial wave of disappointment. The latest commission for the space, by Tarek Atoui, is certainly no spectacle. The hovering assemblage of bamboo frames, instruments, and draped electrical wires—all in a subtle color scheme of gray, beige, and orange—looks a bit like a cross between a boiler room and a mid-tier design store.
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#ArtnetNews: When Frieze Week arrives in London, there is always one exhibition that you’d be embarrassed to admit you missed. This year, that honor goes to Gagosian for its immaculately produced ode to René Magritte and his sprawling influence. The smash-hit show has received some 10,000 visitors since opening September 24, with lines often stretching around the block.
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#ArtnetNews: Until about a decade ago, Jaffa was basically an artist’s artist, working between the cinema and art worlds. His reputation only exploded in 2016, when he was in his mid-50s, in the immediate aftermath of Donald J. Trump’s shock defeat of Hillary Clinton.
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#ArtnetNews: Pope Leo XIV continues his campaign to champion and protect art. On Saturday, the pontiff welcomed the Bizot Group, the international network of directors from the world’s largest museums, to the Vatican for an audience. The meeting came just days after the pontiff announced plans to bolster the church’s alliance with artists and cultural institutions, citing rising threats of censorship and homogenization posed by A.I.
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#TheArtMarketMinute: The economist behind the Art Basel and UBS market report on 10 years of data analysis, Gen Z spending, and why collectors are playing it safe.
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#ArtnetNews: A veteran art dealer once told me that she loved a certain artist’s work because it was “a little bit evil.” That compliment came to me at the start of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s satisfying and slightly strange Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, “Like New,” where the very first painting is of a comic-book villain.
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ALT An art gallery showcasing various works, including Roy Lichtenstein's iconic pop art painting prominently displayed on a wall. The gallery features several other modern art pieces along the gently curving walls, under soft ambient lighting that highlights the minimalist design of the space.