Artnet

OCD Art Thief Accused of Amassing an ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of Stolen Works in France—and Carefully Labeling Each One

The 20-year career of a prolific and highly unusual art thief may have come to an end in Avignon, France, in recent days when police raided the home of a 45-year-old man. Inside, they discovered a ...
The Gazette

How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar

Quick! Name a story from 'The Arabian Nights.” If you answered 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” as most people probably do, you'd be wrong - at least technically speaking. There is no evidence that this ...
The Art Newspaper

Artist transforms French cathedral treasury into an Aladdin’s cave of colour

The French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel has spent the past eight years redesigning the treasury of Angoulême’s Saint-Pierre Cathedral in south-west France. The result, an Aladin’s cave of blue, gold ...
The Independent

French judge orders 'Aladdin's caves' of shopaholic Saudi princess Maha Al-Sudairi to be seized to pay €12m debts

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Aladdin review: Cork Opera House’s energetic panto evokes the kind of joy memories are made from

With enough dry ice to melt a glacier, this year’s Cork Opera House pantomime creates an appropriately mysterious, magical ...
The Washington Post

How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar

Quick! Name a story from “The Arabian Nights.” If you answered “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” as most people probably do, you’d be wrong — at least technically speaking. There is no evidence that this ...