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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.

Art detective Arthur Brand strikes again, he has tracked down a painting stolen from the collection of Amsterdam art dealer Jacque Goudstikker by the Nazis. The painting spent years in the cellar of an Amsterdam local, who found it among household waste on the street.

The European Commission has recommended terminating a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale in a dispute over the Biennale's decision to allow Russia’s participation after the invasion of Ukraine.

Heritage Auctions has reached another milestone in its 50th anniversary year, reporting more than $1.41 billion in total sales through June 30 — the highest mid-year total in company history.

Her Highness Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi has been appointed president of the Sharjah Museums Authority by an Emiri Decree issued by His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, marking a new chapter for the Authority.

A new sculpture by New York based artist Tschabalala Self will be unveiled on London’s Fourth Plinth on 10 September 2026. 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 59 antiquities totaling more than $600,000 to Italy, Iraq and Indonesia.

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Established under the 1954 Hague Convention, the blue-and-white Blue Shield emblem marks cultural sites of exceptional historical, scientific, or artistic value to protect them from wartime destruction.

The New Museum announced that Massimiliano Gioni has been appointed the Museum’s next Toby Devan Lewis Director effective August 1, 2026.

Phillips, the global auction house, today announced results for its spring 2026 season, reporting total auction sales of $507 million — a 60% increase on spring 2025 — with a global sell-through rate of 90% by lot.

Paintings by Rubens, Caravaggio and Zoffany are among 120 masterpieces from the Royal Collection going on display for visitors to Buckingham Palace from Thursday, 9 July, as part of a major re-display in one of the Palace’s most important reception rooms.