Palais de Tokyo to Close for Renovations in 2027, Sparking Ire with New Temporary Digs

By Polly WatsonAugust 3, 2026

Paris’s Palais de Tokyo will close for repairs in July 2027, necessitating a temporary move to a location that turns out to be hotly contested, French daily Libération reports. The noncollecting institution, which since its 2002 founding has been housed in a concrete structure built for the 1937 World’s Fair, recently revitalized its building and […]

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From Medusa to Nvidia: On the Algorithm’s Primal Scene

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Valerie Hillings Appointed Inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which recently announced that it will open December 11, has named Valerie Hillings as its inaugural director. Hillings joins the institution from Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMAA), where she has served as director since 2018. Her appointment marks her return to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, where she was curator and […]

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Bridgemaker Prize Awarded to San Diego Museum of Art and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Earlier this week, the Art Bridges Foundation announced that two museums—The San Diego Museum of Art and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art—are the recipients of the second annual Bridgemaker Prize. The prize, which this year comes with a $75,000 award to support future projects, is given to Art Bridges’ museum partners whose institutional endeavors […]

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CAM Raleigh is Selling Its Building and Reallocating Resources to Artists

The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM Raleigh), North Carolina is selling its longtime home in the city’s Warehouse District. The building has been listed the commercial real estate firm CBRE for an undisclosed sum. CAM Raleigh, which describes itself as a “non-collecting contemporary art museum,” was established in 1983 as the City Gallery of […]

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A petition launched by Scottish architect Ruairidh Moir to rebuild Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s famed Glasgow School of Art building has garnered almost 9,000 signatures. The campaign is a response to years of perceived inaction on the part of the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), with the building still standing unrestored following two fires in 2014 […]

Theo BelciAug 4, 2026

Artforum

Francisco Correa Cordero, Founder of New York’s Lubov Gallery, Dead at 37

Francisco Correa Cordero, whose ten-year-old Lubov gallery was a beacon for emerging artists, died on August 2 in a Manhattan hospital. He was thirty-seven. His death was announced by his gallery in an Instagram post, which noted that Cordero “passed away peacefully surrounded by what he loved the most—his chosen family, laughter and so much […]

Polly WatsonAug 4, 2026

Palais de Tokyo to Close for Renovations in 2027, Sparking Ire with New Temporary Digs

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