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Jennifer Packer approaches painting through intimacy, attending to bodies, relationships, and lived environments. Her portraits, interiors, and still lifes emerge from an interplay of observation, memory, and improvisation, transforming ordinary encounters into images of remarkable emotional depth.

CEO of the Grand Egyptian Museum Authority Ahmed Ghoneim said the museum has welcomed more than five million visitors since its opening.

Descendants of Gottfried Bermann Fischer argue Châtaigniers en fleurs (1890) was sold under duress in 1936 following the family’s flight from Berlin.

Caroline Jackson explores the possibilities of abstract painting through compositions in which colour, texture, and gesture shape the perception of space. Her layered surfaces evoke geological formations, atmospheric conditions, and fragments of landscape without settling into recognisable representations. Moving between material density and perceptual openness, her paintings invite viewers to experience space as something both physical and imagined

What microbes live on The Night Watch? ARTIS-Micropia and the Rijksmuseum unveiled the new installation The Night Watch Lives during a festive opening. For the first time, visitors can take a close look at the microbes cultivated from Rembrandt’s world-famous painting. From skin bacteria to soil dwellers: there is more life on The Night Watch than meets the eye.

Shuqing Shi is a Beijing-based sculptor and digital artist whose practice engages with the intersection of sculptural form, digital processes, and technological disruption.

he New Museum announced a major gift from the estate of Richard Hambleton, which at the late artist’s request will support arts education programs for young people.

When the visionary media mogul Ted Turner was asked about his plans for his Montana ranch, he used to say, “I want my lands to look and feel like those,” gesturing to the paintings on his living room walls – awe-inspiring panoramas of the American West in its untouched state by the preeminent landscape artists  Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and Thomas Moran (1837-1926). 

Sylvia Ong (Kuala Lumpur, 1980) is a contemporary artist based in Dubai whose practice explores the relationship between painting, music, and sensory perception through a language of lyrical abstraction.

A supposedly faked pencil drawing by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) has turned out to be an original.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the development of the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum through adaptive reuse of the North and South Block complex in Delhi, at an estimated total project cost of $340 Million.

American artist Lorna Simpson (*1960, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) will receive the 33rd Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2027, awarded by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig. 

The Düsseldorf-based gallery and local authorities are appealing to fairgoers and the international art community for information following the theft of the €145,000 bronze work on the final day of the fair.

A limited-edition art print is worth buying when three things line up: a fixed and declared edition size, a number and signature in the artist's own hand, and paper that will outlast the frame.

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) announces that the museum extension will open to the public on September 25, 2027. Initiated in 2022, the ambitious expansion project is being led by architectural partners Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects, and Two Row Architect, and will provide a home for the museum’s rapidly growing collections of modern and contemporary art.

Following a public competition for the directorship of Artissima, current director Luigi Fassi was reappointed to lead the Turin art fair for another four-year term.

At The Merchant House in Amsterdam, André de Jong's new exhibition taking place during Amsterdam Art Week, brings drawing, photography and performance into conversation, with paintings by Beppie Gielkens offering a counterpoint of colour and expression.

The Independent Commission of Switzerland's SKKG is evaluating potential Nazi-era persecution-related losses for two high-profile artworks.

A colossal 14-meter-tall statue of Pope Leo XIV, featuring wide outstretched arms, was installed on Friday in a seaside public park along Peru's Pacific coast.

Liverpool Biennial reveals the title and participating artists for its 14 th edition, 'The Age of
Magical Thinking'. The Biennial is curated by Aimee Harrison and Lucía Sanromán and will run between 5 June and 19 September 2027.