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4 days ago | 
artnews.com | Devorah Lauter
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. In 2023, Nicolas Nahab joined blue-chip Brazilian gallery Mendes Wood DM as a director, helping set up its Parisian outpost in the Place des Vosges. In 2020, Samy Ghiyati was hired by David Zwirner in Paris to help the mega-gallery gain its footing in the French capital. Both men had serious French art world credentials.
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1 month ago | 
artnews.com | Devorah Lauter |Maximilíano Durón
Last Thursday, just ahead of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, art-world revelers gathered in a converted 1950s gas station, dubbed Die Tankstelle, in the capital city’s Schöneberg neighborhood. The spot is well-known to locals, less for filling up on gas, than for art. Until recently, it was a museum dedicated to German artist George Grosz. But as of this month it is the new shared space for megadealer Pace Gallery and a hometown shop, Judin Gallery.
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1 month ago | 
artnews.com | Devorah Lauter
At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s title, they are Delirium and Peace. Measuring 7.4 by 9.7 feet, Délire et paix (1954) by Georges Coran still packs a punch more than 70 years later.
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2 months ago | 
news.artnet.com | Devorah Lauter
Falling in love with the Louvre seems easy enough, but for Elaine Sciolino, there were some uphill battles. When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in the world, she almost gave up.
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2 months ago | 
artnews.com | Devorah Lauter
In a landmark 1971 essay published by ARTnews, the art historian Linda Nochlin pointedly asked, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Her piece was “an encouragement, an announcement of an arrival, a gift to women artists of a shared but previously little-known past, and a declaration of a future,” wrote artist Mira Schor in a recent message to ARTnews.
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2 months ago | 
artnews.com | Devorah Lauter
The outdoor balconies of Paris’s Centre Pompidou are one of the best places to take in the city’s iconic skyline. This past weekend, as the warm weather hinted at the arrival of spring, the balconies were full of families picnicking, taking in the sun, and this being Paris, couples embracing. Many were also there to bid farewell to the Centre Pompidou’s permanent collection, which closed Monday night. In September, the iconic building will fully close for five years of renovations.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Devorah Lauter |Sharon Stone
PARIS — For their winter edition, the Paris fashion and jewelry trade shows Who’s Next and Bijorhca gathered nearly 1,150 exhibitors under a single roof from Jan. 18 to 20 at the Porte de Versailles. Spread over Hall 1, the fairs — under the title “What’s Next for Who’s Next?” — were located in a building adjacent to sister events Salon International de la Lingerie and Interfilière, also organized by the WSN group.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Devorah Lauter
The Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin is teaming up with the Chanel Culture Fund in a major, three-year partnership. Each year an artist will be commissioned to create an immersive installation in the renowned institution’s historic central hall, which was formerly a train station. Emerging, Berlin-based, Czech artist Klára Hosnedlová has been tapped for the inaugural “Chanel Commission,” which will be her largest institutional exhibit to date.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Devorah Lauter
What exhibitions in 2024 helped define the art world chatter, for better or worse? We’ve selected a few that managed to hit a collective nerve or stir debate, sometimes perhaps revealing more about our current zeitgeist than the art on display.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Devorah Lauter
Even as global art sales have flagged over the last few years, Paris has proven a haven for the European art market. The French capital’s commercial scenes has continued to grow thanks to an influx of international galleries following Brexit, major private museums, and the recent addition of Art Basel Paris. Could this be changing? The country’s leadership and its national budget are in limbo after the government collapsed in a parliamentary no-confidence vote last week.
