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The 14th Gwangju Biennale, titled soft and weak like water hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (President, Yang-woo Park) and the Gwangju Metropolitan City, opens to the public on April 7, running through to July 9, 2023.

In 2018, the Fondation Louis Vuitton featured the Basquiat x Warhol, Painting Four Hands exhibition, a huge success that drew an estimated 700,000 visitors. In 2023, from April 5 to August 28, the Fondation will continue its exploration of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, revealing, this time, his collaboration with Andy Warhol.

The Finding Committee of documenta 16 consists of six renowned international experts in contemporary art: Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Gong Yan, Ranjit Hoskoté, Simon Njami, Kathrin Rhomberg, and María Inés Rodríguez. The Supervisory Board at documenta gGmbH today appointed the Finding Committee for the exhibition, which will be held in Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027.

The National Portrait Gallery and Getty today announced plans to jointly acquire and share ownership of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ masterpiece, Portrait of Mai (Omai), in a new model of international collaboration that will maximize public access to this supremely important work.

Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440–1482/83) was the most important Netherlandish artist of the second half of the 15th century. His works impress with their monumentality and intense colours as well as with their astonishing closeness to life and emotional expressivity. In March 2023, 540 years after the artist’s death, Berlin’s Gemälde- galerie will celebrate a premiere: for the first time, almost all of the artist’s surviving paintings and drawings will be presented in one exhibition.

A team of archaeologists have discovered the remains of a lost palace of the kings of Girsu, in modern day Tello, Southern Iraq. Dating back at least 4,500 years to the third millennium BCE, this significant discovery is a result of the Girsu Project, a joint initiative and new holistic approach to saving endangered heritage sites between the British Museum, the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) of Iraq, and Getty.

An Egyptian-German research team has uncovered yet another series of colorful ceiling paintings at the Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt. The researchers reported that the Egyptian restoration team, led by Ahmed Emam, succeeded in completely restoring and re-coloring a representation of the heavens.

Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) announced today an exclusive collection featuring over 1,400 iconic items from over 100 years of pop culture history to be presented in “Hollywood: Classic & Contemporary”, taking place live Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd

The National Portrait Gallery and Getty today announced plans to jointly acquire and share ownership of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ masterpiece, Portrait of Mai (Omai), in a new model of international collaboration that will maximize public access to this supremely important work.

From April 4 to June 11, 2023, the Galleria Borghese brings to fruition its research on landscape painting and the relationship between Art and Nature with Dosso Dossi. The Aeneas Frieze, a never-before-seen exhibition – the first dedicated to the great Ferrarese master’s pictorial cycle-curated by Marina Minozzi.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it will transfer 15 sculptures for return to the government of India, after having learned that the works were illegally removed from India.

Alia Farid has been given The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2023. Presented biannually, the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award is intended to mark a significant milestone in an artist's career.

The Andy Warhol Foundation, working with eBay for Charity, has achieved a milestone of over $3 million from the sale of more than 750 original Warhol works.

This report deals with a claim brought to the Spoliation Advisory Panel on behalf of the heirs of the late Robert Bing, seeking restitution of the painting La Ronde Enfantine by Gustave Courbet currently in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Nigerian architect and artist, Demas Nwoko has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The aim is to improve the conservation of the site, restructure the edge of the excavation and obtain new archaeological data.

A team of researchers discovered 2,000 mummified ram heads inside a temple in one of ancient Egypt’s oldest and most sacred cities.

People sometimes argue that economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Sometimes that witticism reflects ignorance of the breadth of current economic science...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. has announced the return of 29 looted antiquities to the People of Greece. Collectively, they are valued at over $20 million.

Centre Pompidou and Hanwha Culture Foundation sign partnership agreement for the development of a modern and contemporary museum in Seoul (South Korea).