Ahead of a major exhibition in 2026, the National Portrait Gallery acquired 12 new works from the estate of Lucian Freud, one of Britain’s greatest portrait artists.
Should we continue to display the body of Asru? Is it right for museums to have the bodies of mummified people on display?
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) returned two works of art from the Benin Kingdom to His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, in a ceremony at the Nigeria House in New York City,
The Cy Twombly Foundation has donated twelve works to the GNAMC - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. The donation also includes a gift of $3 million for the renovation of the museum’s restoration laboratory and the funding of a Master’s degree program in honor of the artist.
A colossal marble head was uncovered beneath Rome’s Via Alessandrina.
French auction house owner Aymeric Rouillac had no idea what lay in store for him when a collector from Berry contacted him about an item for possible sale.
Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world.
The formal reason for the refusal of the Prefecture of Central Administrative District of Moscow to approve Yabloko pickets was the “current epidemiological situation”.
Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento have been appointed as the curators of Sharjah Biennial 17, opening in January 2027.
Anadolu Agency reports that excavations at the site of Olympos in the current-day region of Antalya revealed new evidence that attests to the site’s early Christian history.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle, together with the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen and the Campe’sche Historische Kunststiftung acquired the painting Le Palais de Rideaux by René Magritte.
Robert van Langh succeeds Harry Tupan as the new general director of the Drents Museum.
Birgit Donker, the director of the Dutch Photography Museum, has been suspended.
The legal successors of Richard Semmel (1875-1950) – the granddaughters of Grete Gross, an acquaintance of the Semmel couple – and the Bührle Foundation as the current owner of the painting ‘La route montante” by Paul Gauguin have agreed on a settlement due to Semmel’s life circumstances and his emigration as
a result of Nazi persecution.
Opening at Pavilion 13 in Kyiv on September 14th and running until November 30, 2025 Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms Painted White is a major new work by the internationally acclaimed artist and activist, Ai Weiwei, in Ukraine.
ART X Lagos announces its tenth anniversary edition, taking place from 6 – 9 November 2025. Held under the theme Imagining Otherwise, No Matter The Tide and helmed by Founder and Director Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, ART X Lagos will spotlight international and local galleries alongside special commissions.
The south tower now features an impressive double-helix staircase.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced the acquisition of Jeff Koons’s Split-Rocker (2000), a monumental sculpture adorned with living plants and flowers.
For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to erase her from public memory.