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This image is a frame from the apocalyptic animated short film Danse Macabre (2026), directed by Dutch filmmaker and painter Hisko Hulsing. Set to the second movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, the film uses over 75 hand-painted oil canvases combined with 2D and CG animation to create a nightmarish, hand-crafted aesthetic. The scene depicts a skeletal soldier wearing a helmet peering through a library window into a room with crystal goblets, against a backdrop of a city engulfed in orange flames.

Annecy Defends Director Hisko Hulsing After Anti-AI Protest Disrupts 'Danse Macabre' Premiere

The festival's artistic director issued a public statement backing the Dutch filmmaker as tensions over generative AI in animation boiled over for a third consecutive year at the French event

Zoya Mahroosh ZulfiqarJUN 25, 2026
Lee Krasner abstract expressionist painting with sweeping gestural brushstrokes in magenta, green and cream on a tan ground, featured in her first solo exhibition in France at Gagosian Paris.

Lee Krasner's First Solo Show in France at Gagosian Paris

A Paris debut seven decades overdue, timed to a sweeping Met retrospective that reframes her place in postwar American painting

Kamil DadJUN 11, 2026

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NewsJUL 16, 2026

Louvre Heist Suspects Say an Unnamed Mastermind Recruited Them Days Before the Theft

Leaked transcripts reveal the alleged organizer was disappointed with an €88 million haul, as a rash of French museum robberies raises urgent questions about cultural security

Kamil Dad
The 2025 Louvre Heist occurred on October 19, 2025, when a gang of thieves stole part of France's priceless crown jewels valued at €88 million ($102 million) from the historic Apollo Gallery. Executed in broad daylight shortly after the museum opened, it represents the first major art theft at the Musée du Louvre since 1998. Police officers in front of the Louvre Museum a few hours after the jewel burglary in October 2025.
PaintingJUN 25, 2026

A Stolen Picasso Found Among Cannabis and Couture in the Paris Suburbs

When French narcotics officers raided a suspected drug network in Champigny-sur-Marne, they uncovered an authenticated portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter worth up to €15 million

Kamil Dad
Pablo Picasso was a legendary Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who became one of the most influential and dominant figures of 20th-century modern art. Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, he spent most of his adult life working in France. Alongside French artist Georges Braque, Picasso famously co-founded the Cubist movement, an artistic style that completely dismantled traditional perspective by breaking down subjects into multi-angled geometric shapes. Over his exceptionally long 76-year career, he produced an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 distinct pieces of art.
AIJUN 25, 2026

Annecy Defends Director Hisko Hulsing After Anti-AI Protest Disrupts 'Danse Macabre' Premiere

The festival's artistic director issued a public statement backing the Dutch filmmaker as tensions over generative AI in animation boiled over for a third consecutive year at the French event

Zoya Mahroosh Zulfiqar
This image is a frame from the apocalyptic animated short film Danse Macabre (2026), directed by Dutch filmmaker and painter Hisko Hulsing. Set to the second movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, the film uses over 75 hand-painted oil canvases combined with 2D and CG animation to create a nightmarish, hand-crafted aesthetic. The scene depicts a skeletal soldier wearing a helmet peering through a library window into a room with crystal goblets, against a backdrop of a city engulfed in orange flames.

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ExhibitionsJUN 11, 2026

Lee Krasner's First Solo Show in France at Gagosian Paris

A Paris debut seven decades overdue, timed to a sweeping Met retrospective that reframes her place in postwar American painting

Kamil Dad
Lee Krasner abstract expressionist painting with sweeping gestural brushstrokes in magenta, green and cream on a tan ground, featured in her first solo exhibition in France at Gagosian Paris.

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