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The Art World This Week: Louvre Heist, Art Basel Paris, British Museum Ball, and More

Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days

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23 Oct, 2025

The Art World This Week: Louvre Heist, Art Basel Paris, British Museum Ball, and More

See What Was Taken in the Louvre Heist

The stolen items, valued at about $102 million, include glittering royal tiaras, necklaces and earrings.

Ascendant Art Basel Paris Rewards Top Dealers, While Smaller Galleries Compete for Attention

The fair's new Avant-Première preview for the most important VIPs generated seven- and eight-figure sales of blue-chip art.

Champagne, Celebs and Artefacts: British Museum Hosts First Lavish ‘Pink Ball’ Fundraiser

£2,000-a-ticket event, where 800 guests will hobnob among world’s treasures, could herald new reality in desperate arts funding climate

The 2025 Art Basel/UBS Survey of Global Collecting Report Shows Women and Gen Z Rewriting the Rules

The Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2025 reads like a snapshot of an art world at a hinge moment—between generations, values, and the physical and digital spheres that define culture today. 

New York Names a Street in Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat

A stretch of Great Jones Street where the artist lived and worked now goes by “Jean-Michel basquiat Way.”

Private Asset Management Company Acquires Bonhams

London-based private equity firm Pemberton Asset Management has purchased auction house Bonhams from private equity group Epiris.

Art Toronto, Canada’s Biggest Fair, Turns Its Attention to Indigenous Artists

Art Toronto, Canada’s oldest and largest international fair for modern and contemporary art, opens to the public on Friday. 

Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month 

After 16 years in San Francisco, the gallery announced that “it has become too difficult for a gallery this size to scale in this climate.”


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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American, 1960 - 1988

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