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#ArtnetNews: French art dealers are demanding compensation from Art Basel Paris after the fair closed two days early, in advance of planned protests.
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#ArtnetNews: More of Pauline Karpidas‘s holdings are heading to Sotheby’s. This time, the British art collector’s flamboyant and eclectic jewelry is hitting the block in New York, where the trove is expected to realize more than $10 million.
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#ArtnetNews: Three leading modern and contemporary art museums are joining forces. MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Hong Kong’s M+ signed a landmark framework agreement for a new cultural alliance on Friday. As part of it, they will plan joint exhibitions, share long-term loans, and partner on research and conservation work, while staying independent.
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#TheArtAnglePodcast: This week Andrew Russeth, Margaret Carrigan, and Katya Kazakina rehash the past few weeks of art fairs, protests, and auctions around the world.
It has been a whirlwind few weeks for the art industry in Europe. First, Frieze London and Frieze Masters alighted in Regent’s Park, and a bevy of satellite fairs opened all over the British capital.
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#ArtnetNews: Ever wanted to buy some folk art from Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith‘s collection? Now’s your chance! A whimsical pop-up called the Cornwall Whale in Cornwall, Connecticut, boasts about a dozen works from the art-critic couple’s holdings, among them several paintings dating to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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#ArtnetNews: Will there be a refund? That was the main topic of conversation among dealers participating in Art Basel Paris after the fair cut short its fifth edition this past weekend due to protests over school conditions and the cost of living.
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#ArtnetNews: The Pace news just keeps coming. The mega-dealer's U.K.-registered company posted a $5.4 million loss in 2025, according to documents published October 26 on Companies House, the U.K. government's database of businesses.
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#ArtnetNews: The Greenwich Village studio in which Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner once lived and worked is on the market for $7.9 million. In the winter of 1950, the couple borrowed the MacDougal Alley home from their friend Alfonso Ossorio, a fellow Abstract Expressionist and Pollock patron. Although the stint followed a series of artistic breakthroughs for Pollock, Ossorio believed the couple were still poor and would drop by with frequent gifts of food.
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#ArtnetNews: Call it a science-mandated rebrand. In 2023, a menacing dinosaur skeleton towered over visitors at Frieze London. It was billed as Chomper, a juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex, and slapped with a $20 million price tag. Three years and one paleontology paper later, that same specimen is named Jodi, classified as a Nanotyrannus, and just sold at Sotheby’s New York for $47.3 million—more than five times its high estimate of $9 million.
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#ArtnetNews: Ursula von Rydingsvard, the American sculptor whose towering cedar beam assemblies offered a looser, naturalistic rejoinder to Minimalism, has died at her home in New York at age 84. Galerie Lelong, which has represented von Rydingsvard for the past three decades, confirmed her death.
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#ArtnetNews: Art Basel Qatar‘s sophomore edition returns to Msheireb Downtown Doha in January with more than 80 galleries—and a plan to cultivate the collectors it hopes will buy from them. The fair will also offer increased financial support for exhibitors as the Iran War continues to cast a shadow of uncertainty over the region.
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ArtnetNews: Tate Britain has received a gift of 50 artworks made by artists working in India during the 18th and 19th centuries, significantly expanding South Asian representation in the national collection and bringing long-overlooked perspectives into the story of British art. Donated by art historian and scholar Charles Greig, the gift was made outright, without tax incentives, according to a press release.
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Another heavyweight has entered the ring for New York’s marquee auction week in November. A luminous landscape by Gustav Klimt with a storied history is anchoring Christie’s 20th-century sale, arriving with a $60 million–$80 million estimate.
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#ArtnetNews: A long-unseen Claude Monet painting made history tonight in Paris, selling for €50 million ($56.2 million), more than double its low estimate, during Sotheby’s sale of the Schlumberger collection. It’s now the most expensive artwork ever sold at a French auction.
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ALT A vibrant painting by Claude Monet depicting a lush garden scene with tall green plants, yellow and purple flowers, and a swirling, cloudy sky. The brushstrokes are bold and expressive, conveying movement and texture.
#ArtnetNews: On Wednesday, afternoon, Art Basel organizers made a decision: The fair will close early, on Friday, at 7 p.m., “in light of potential demonstrations across Paris this weekend, and in the interest of safeguarding our visitors,” Vincezo de Bellis, Art Basel's chief artistic officer, and Karim Crippa, the Paris fair's director, said in email to exhibitors.
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ALT A historic building with tall columns displays large purple banners reading "Art Basel Paris" and "Grand Palais." A crowd gathers outside. A headline at the bottom states, "Breaking: Art Basel Paris to Close Early in the Face of Weekend Protests."
#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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