The Louvre will be led by a female president for the first time in its 228-year-long history. On September 1, Laurence des Cars, an established figure in the art world, will take the helm of the Parisian institution.Des Cars is currently the president of the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay, both in Paris. She will succeed Jean-Luc Martinez, whose campaign to stay on as Louvre president for a third term faltered. "Four years at the Orsay gave me this confidence, this crazy idea that ...

New York City-based designer Kae Linh Ngo is set to launch an online fundraising project called Rise and Embrace. In celebration of the final week of AAPI Heritage Month, the aim of the project is to honor the work of Asian women-identifying creatives, including Lauren Kam, Wendi Ma, Sonia Yau and Amy Truong. Ngo shared the concept behind Rise and Embrace in a press release and said:"Recognizing that so many of our friends in our circle and beyond are incredibly creative and have such unique bac...

Back in January, London's Tate Modern announced that it would host Yayoi Kusama' biggest Infinity Mirror Rooms installation. Now, the gallery is set to open its latest exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist.The show features two of Kusama's signature mirror room installations. The Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life piece, originally created in 2012 for the creative's retrospective at Tate, is comprised of endless walls with a shallow pool of water that create an ...

Jumping on the ongoing craze around non-fungible tokens (NFT), Sotheby's is now set to launch its second curated NFT auction. Titled "Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale," the online crypto sale will feature works across six categories: Early NFTs, Digital Pop/Futurists, Generative, Conceptual, Emerging NFT Artists and Community-elected.Standouts from the selected digital art pieces include Kevin McCoy’s Quantum, which was the first NFT to ever have been minted. Elsewhere, Alien Cryptopunk ...