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British documentary photographer Martin Parr has died at the age of 73, his foundation announced.

A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian Antiquities Department in Paris’ Louvre museum, reports on Sunday revealed, raising concerns about the state of the world's most visited museum’s internal management, weeks after a daring jewel heist exposed security flaws.

Architect Frank Gehry celebrated for his genre-shifting designs, has died at 96.

Four people were arrested at London’s Tower of London after food was thrown at a display case containing the Imperial State Crown, police said on Saturday, adding part of the historic building housing the Crown Jewels had been closed to the public.

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has officially received two ancient artifacts from the kingdom of Belgium, which had been illegally smuggled out of the country.

Syria’s Minister of Culture, Mohammed Yassin al-Saleh, announced on Wednesday the recovery of 1,234 archaeological tablets and 198 artifacts, which were returned to the Idleb Museum after years of conflict. 

The Mykolaiv School of photography MYPH released its first bilingual magazine, '525', which will focus on contemporary Ukrainian photography.

The Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum opened in Doha, within the Qatar Foundation's campus in Education City, a 12-square-kilometre urban environment designed for mixed-use that integrates education, research, recreation and cultural heritage.

A Faberge egg commissioned by a Russian tsar has sold for a record £22.9m at auction in London.

Valeriy Horbatov, the ex-lawmaker who fled to Russian-occupied territory before the full-scale invasion and was exposed for financing DNR terrorists, agreed to hand over 7,000 archaeological finds spanning from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation reports.

For the first time, curtains which once hung in Sandringham House have been expertly transformed into 25 luxurious festive stockings by the Dumfries House Sewing Bee.

Germany has agreed to speed up the return of looted Polish cultural property, the two countries' leaders, Merz and Tusk, said after talks in Berlin on Monday.

The Kunstmuseum Basel is compensating the heirs of Julius Freund for seven drawings and one lithograph dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation announced the creation of a new prize dedicated to supporting artists worldwide. 

New guidance on handling property stolen by Nazis provides clear guidelines for museums, archives and libraries.

The newly elected President of CIMAM (2026–28) is Amanda de la Garza Mata, Artistic Deputy Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain, who will lead the organization together with a renewed Board of 14 international museum professionals representing CIMAM’s global community across more than 91 countries.

Badru Temitayo’s works sits generally in the abstract-figurative. Sometimes he blurs the line in being outrightly figurative, yet still discernible.

Thanks to an amicable agreement with the heiress of the Hess family, who were  persecuted by the National Socialists, a major work from the Von der Heydt Museum can remain in the collection: the painting ‘Two Women (Women in the Green)’ from 1914 by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) expressed concern over the decision-making process used by the ad hoc group created by the city of Ghent to review a Holocaust-era spoliation matter. 

Egypt said Thursday that it had retrieved 17 ancient artifacts dating back to various historical periods from Australia.