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Intense and profound, the Tracey Emin exhibition draws the curious to the Tate Modern

Are you heading to London any time soon, and want to take the opportunity to contemplate some fascinating works of art, far from the usual tourist attractions?

  • Aug 24, 2026 13:00

Freida McFadden: top doctor and bestselling author now also beckons on silver screen

Freida McFadden has become a success author in recent years, and chances are you've been hooked on one of her compelling books at one time or another. Coincidentally, McFadden didn't follow a conventional path, to say the least.

  • Aug 23, 2026 11:30

"The grace of a dancer": When a Swedish chimpanzee took the art world by storm

It’s February 1964 in Gothenburg, in southwestern Sweden. Journalist Åke “Dacke” Axelsson and gallery owner Yngve Funkegård manage to fool the art world by exhibiting five paintings by the “French painter” Pierre Brassau.

  • Aug 12, 2026 10:43

Thefts at French museums: The government requires that “most vulnerable” works be secured

To address the security lapses highlighted by these incidents, the French government has decided to implement a plan consisting of 33 measures based on work carried out by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Architecture.

  • Aug 08, 2026 11:53

What if Banksy had orchestrated the biggest hoax in the history of street art?

Released in 2010, Banksy’s feature film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” chronicles the spectacular and controversial rise of Thierry Guetta.

  • Aug 05, 2026 11:12

Giorgio Armani opens its archives for biopic series

Known for dressing and enhancing the looks of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and for designing costumes for more than 200 films, fashion designer Giorgio Armani is now the subject of a major television series directed by Ferzan Ozpetek.

  • Aug 04, 2026 11:21

Nationalist writer Maurice Barrès loses his square in Paris: controversy erupts in Lorraine

The news has just broken: the City of Paris will rename Maurice-Barrès Square in honor of Lucie Dreyfus, the wife of the wrongfully convicted French captain.

  • Jul 31, 2026 11:05

Louvre Museum: Stripped of its treasures, the Apollo Gallery reopens 9 months after Burglary

The 60-meter-long space, located on the first floor of the Denon Wing, will no longer display its precious artifacts and will instead return to its original 17th-century purpose as a “ceremonial gallery.”

  • Jul 23, 2026 10:41

Museum theft: $100 million treasure resurfaces after three years in the forest

On May 11, 2003, at 4 a.m., an alarm suddenly went off at the Vienna Museum of Art History, which was undergoing renovations at the time.

  • Jul 22, 2026 11:07

Ancient Egypt: 24 sacred "golden tongues" discovered in a cemetery

On the shores of the Mediterranean, about 100 kilometers from Alexandria, Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed eighteen tombs dating from the Ptolemaic or Roman periods, between 322 B.C. and 395 CE.

  • Jul 20, 2026 11:12