The Governments of the Netherlands and Germany have announced plans to return about 2,000 looted artefacts and items of cultural significance to Ghana as part of ongoing international restitution efforts.
Manifesta 16 Ruhr opens across four cities in Germany's Ruhr Area - Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen -, transforming twelve post-war church buildings into sites for contemporary art and architecture, social design and community encounter.
Getty Images announced a display agreement with OpenAI. Under the partnership, Getty Images’ licensed content libraries will appear across OpenAI search and discovery experiences within ChatGPT.
The Art Loss Register (ALR), the world’s leading resource for tracking lost and stolen artwork, announces the recovery of Jan van Kessel the Elder and Abraham Willemsens’ remarkable painting Interior of a Collector’s Cabinet: An Allegory of Sight.
French police searching a house near Paris as part of a drug trafficking investigation discovered an authenticated Pablo Picasso painting, prosecutors said Saturday.
Art Basel closed its 2026 edition in Basel today, reaffirming the fair’s position as the most closely watched annual moment in the international art market.
Restoration work on the western facade of the Parthenon has been completed, the Culture Ministry announced on Thursday, after the last pieces of scaffolding were removed from the external facade.
A painting at a thrift store in New York caught Helene Plotkin's eye. She paid less than $100 for the painting and took it home. It hung on her wall for decades, until last December, when her son became curious about the painting's origins.
Germany is returning a painting by Friedrich von Amerling to its rightful owners. The work, "Portrait of a Young Man," is to be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish antiquarian and art dealer Jacques Rosenthal and his wife Emma, as announced by the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich.
Long before tarot became shorthand for fortune-telling, it was a painter's commission. The earliest surviving decks, produced for the Visconti and Sforza families of Milan around the 1440s, were luxury objects: hand-painted, gilded, and burnished by court artists for an aristocratic clientele.
Art Basel announced Paula Cooper Gallery as the first recipient of the inaugural Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award.
London Museum announced it will open the doors to its new permanent galleries in Smithfield’s General Market on 26 November 2026, marking a new chapter for the world’s largest city museum.