Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of three antiquities collectively valued at more than $160,000 to Mexico.
Christie’s reported total revenue of $4.5 billion for the first half of 2026, describing its strongest opening six months in five years as renewed competition for major collections, museum-quality works and luxury objects helped drive auction sales sharply higher across every region.
One of the most influential artists of our time will now be awarded the 2026 European Culture Prize . At the world-famous Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the European Cultural Forum will honor a sculptor whose work has set standards for decades and inspired generations of artists.
The auction house said first-half consolidated sales reached $4.4 billion, a 58 percent increase from the same period last year, with gains across auctions, private sales, and its expanding luxury businesses.
Michaël Borremans paints at the moment when the image remains persuasive while its authority becomes uncertain.
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Bridges Foundation have chosen the 51 institutions that will participate in “50 for 50,” a national collection-sharing initiative coinciding with America’s 250th anniversary.
Around 1503 a Florentine silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo paid Leonardo da Vinci to paint his wife, Lisa. An ordinary job. The painter takes the fee, paints the wife, delivers the panel, and it hangs in the client's house.
The Met’s blockbuster exhibition Raphael: Sublime Poetry closed its three-month run at The Met Fifth Avenue after welcoming an extraordinary 6,800 visitors per day on average, making it the Museum’s highest-attended exhibition since 2018.
Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland today announced that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three of the artist’s renowned sculptures to ARTIST ROOMS.
"Gus", one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered, has sold at Sotheby’s for $50.1 million.
Willem de Kooning at work will be on view from 9 October 2026 through 17 January 2027 and is developed in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and The Willem de Kooning Foundation in New York.
A Dutch archaeological mission from Leiden University has discovered a tomb belonging to a person named “Paser” on Luxor’s West Bank, which likely dates back to the Ramesside period.