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An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports. The suspect, Rachid H., 40, has been detained since November 2025, and will remain in pre-trial detention, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday. On the morning of Sunday, October 19, 2025, the gang used a truck-mounted motorized ladder to break into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery through a second-floor window. Once inside, they smashed two display cases and grabbed eight pieces of jewelry. (A crown once owned by Empress Eugénie was dropped in their haste.) As alarms sounded, they fled and escaped on two motorized scooters. The entire heist unfolded in roughly seven minutes.

Raye is the winner of the 2026 Mercury prize, for her second studio album, This Music May Contain Hope. Her win – for a hugely ambitious 73-minute record that spanned big band jazz, power balladry, funk and more – caps an ongoing renaissance for a British singer who at one point was in the doldrums, lashing out publicly at her record label for not letting her release a studio album. Since that low in 2021, she split from that former label and found huge success with two studio albums: My 21st Century Blues, which won her six Brit awards – still the record for a single Brits ceremony – and This Music May Contain Hope, which topped the UK charts and contains the global hit Where is My Husband! The judging panel said: “Raye displays real imagination and scope in showing what an album can be, going beyond any one style or genre to realise her vision. The judges agreed that Raye’s superb album will serve as a huge inspiration for years to come.”The award, handed out yearly to the best British or Irish album as voted for by a panel of music industry figures, comes with a £25,000 prize.

"The Prime of Your Life" examines what recognition and market success mean for 18 women artists over 75. Rose Wylie, "Opera Singer and Teapot" (2024), oil on canvas“What is an ‘old-age style’? Is it the same as a ‘late style’?” asks Linda Nochlin at the start of her 2008 essay, “Old-Age Style: Late Louise Bourgeois.” As our understanding of an artwork evolves with the artist’s age, the essay examines Bourgeois’s enduring aesthetics and interests throughout her seven-decade career, focusing particularly on the soft and hard qualities of her work. Nochlin, the esteemed feminist art historian, meditates on the relationship between a work made early in an artist’s career and one made at the end of their life, asking how the latter changes our understanding or interpretation of the former.

Author Isaac Butler discusses his book on the 1980s culture wars and the echoes of that history today. The post Back to the Culture Wars appeared first on Artnet News .

A Claude Monet painting sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Thursday, setting a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France. The painting, Iris, sparked a 45-minute bidding battle between six collectors before selling to a private buyer in Asia, represented on the phone by Sotheby’s deputy chairman Jen Hua. It had been expected to fetch between €22 million and €30 million.