The global art market returned to growth in 2025, with sales increasing by 4% year-on-year in value to an estimated $59.6 billion.
Russian authorities announced criminal charges against Netherlands, Ukraine and the Allard Pierson Museum over the return of Crimean gold artifacts to Ukraine.
Women played a vital role in the artistic life of the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750. Yet classical art history has largely ignored their key status within the creative economy
The European Commission has warned it could suspend EU grant funding for the Venice Biennale if Russia is allowed to reopen its pavilion at this year's exhibition.
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) sponsors and directly funds 15 museums and galleries in England. Between 2019 and 2024, the museums and galleries included seven of the top 10 most visited free visitor attractions in England.
An illegally excavated marble bust is to be repatriated to Italy, years after it was unwittingly sold to the University of Wellington, New Zealand, from the black market in antiquities.
The deed of purchase for Caravaggio’s Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini was signed today at the Ministry of Culture in the presence of the Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, the Director General of Museums Massimo Osanna, the Director of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in Rome Thomas Clement Salomon, and the notary Luca Amato.
David Blandy (1976, Lives & works in Brighton) is an artist examining global structures of control and networks of resistance, in areas that range from ecology, history and science to arenas of play.
At 35, Belgian painter Sara Bervoets is emerging as a compelling voice within the country’s contemporary art scene.
Few masterworks so powerfully capture the themes, concerns, and personal history that defined Jean-Michel Basquiat’s career as his 1983 Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown).
The proposals, developed by Foster + Partners alongside landscape designer Michel Desvigne and horticulturalist Professor Nigel Dunnett, draw on the existing character of St James’s Park while reflecting Queen Elizabeth II’s seven-decade relationship with the Commonwealth.
A passenger lift installed into the 400-year-old Banqueting House in Whitehall will offer visitors step-free access to Peter Paul Rubens’ masterpiece ceiling for the first time.