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Two paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France.
Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early on Tuesday, seizing four paintings but dropping two of the works in the museum gardens as they escaped, local Mayor Bryan Masson said.
South African artist Puleng Mongale explores how her childhood church still connects her to the women of her family, not through religion but shared history and memory
IX Shells' (Itzel Yard) interactive video installation is titled 'No Me Olvides', which translates to 'Don't Forget Me' in Spanish. The work transforms archival fragments from across Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America into living, algorithmic compositions exploring memory, gender, and cultural inheritance. It was shown as part of the first edition of Zero 10, at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025.
Descendants of David Drake have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim their ancestor’s work. They say the effort has not only reconnected them with their family’s legacy but also raised broader questions about art ownership and restitution. Geoff Bennett spoke with Pauline Baker and Yaba Baker for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Sliman Mansour, one of the defining figures of contemporary Palestinian art, has died at 79. Born in Birzeit in 1947, he spent more than five decades painting the landscapes, people and symbols of Palestine. His work, including the iconic Camel of Hardships, became closely associated with Palestinian identity, memory and steadfastness. Mansour also helped shape the Palestinian art movement through collective and cultural initiatives.
A pre-dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in southern France saw thieves seize four paintings before abandoning two as they fled after alarms triggered a swift police response. The two missing works are valued at about $10.5 million.
Mary Cassatt painted motherhood without turning it into sentimental fantasy. This video essay explores how her intimate paintings and prints reveal the inner lives of ordinary women—and how she pushed beyond innovative artists like Manet into something unmistakably her own.
❤️ART CLUB Art Club is the online community for self-taught artists. Six professional artists in your corner, a supportive community that shows up every week, and the kind of honest feedback that actually moves your artwork forward.
Designer Salehe Bembury turns sneakers into stories — like a sunset-colored shoe and footwear with a hiking whistle in the heel. In conversation with TED's Cloe Shasha Brooks, Bembury walks through some of his most coveted drops (for Crocs, New Balance, Versace and more) and breaks down the risk-taking behind his work.
Artist Joe Whale used to get in trouble for doodling in class, until a local restaurant let him cover an entire wall with his artwork … and the internet took notice. He traces his unlikely beginning to a bigger story: your imagination is a muscle, and it weakens when you hand it off to AI. Through a live doodling demo, he shows in real time what it looks like to let a thought become a drawing, one line at a time.
In 1533, all eyes were on London. Henry VIII was about to break with the Catholic Church, marry Anne Boleyn, and change the course of English history forever.
Spies gathered intelligence, diplomats traded secrets, and alliances shifted by the day. At the heart of this political storm, two French ambassadors were immortalised by Hans Holbein in what has become one of the most mysterious paintings of the Renaissance.
But who were these men? Why was the painting commissioned? And could this extraordinary image have done more than record history? Could it have helped shape it?
A French artist from Saint-Malo-du-Bois in the Vendée region has taken a sculpture known as the “Broken Eiffel Tower” all the way to the United States. The 26-metric-ton structure was dismantled piece by piece to be shipped from the port of Le Havre before being reconstructed at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. Caitlin Brown reports
A memorial display in Berlin has recreated the scene of the killing of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab by Israeli forces in Gaza. Activists displayed a vehicle representing the Rajab family car, which was found with 335 bullet holes.
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