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From 26-27 September, Christie's presented the 20th/21st Century Autumn Auctions in Hong Kong which totalled US$105,529,147, and were the highest value auctions in the Asia market this season.

Marina Abramović will make history in 2026 as the first living woman artist to be honored with a major exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.

The Dutch government has decided to return the Dubois Collection to Indonesia. This decision was made by the Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, Gouke Moes, based on the recommendation of the independent Colonial Collections Committee. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, which currently manages the collection, will cooperate in the restitution.

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) released a report revealing that there are major gaps in the provision of publicly accessible provenance research on potentially looted objects that were in Europe during the Holocaust and are currently held by U.S. museums. 

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates. 

Christie's offers three important works by Lucian Freud coming from the same private collection - Self-portrait Fragment, Woman with a Tulip, and Sleeping Head – to be offered in its 20^th/21^st Century: London Evening Sale on 15 October 2025.

The painting belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Old National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums) and had previously been considered a war loss.

Tom Colaux, a Belgian artist at the intersection of painting, photography, and audiovisual creation founded the agency CLXpictures and, for over ten years, Colaux has been developing a raw, instinctive, and visceral artistic language.

Rembrandt based the barking dog in The Night Watch on an early 17th-century drawing by Adriaen van de Venne (1590–1662), as revealed by art historical research carried out as part of Operation Night Watch, the largest and most comprehensive study ever undertaken of Rembrandt’s most famous painting. 

Romania has collected EUR 5.7 million in insurance compensation after four cultural treasures, namely the famed Dacian Helmet of Coțofenești and three gold bracelets, were stolen earlier this year from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, the Romanian Ministry of Culture announced.

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British sculptor Martin Jennings has been appointed to create the sculpture of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for the UK’s national memorial in St James’s Park. 

Kirsty Wain captures the living spirit of the landscape through bold, lyrical forms and a palette that transforms nature into something dreamlike.

New College of Florida plans to honor recently murdered activist Charlie Kirk with a statue on campus, the arts institution announced on social media.

Mieke Jonker started her creative career as a goldsmith, but was inspired to satrt painting after she saw Rembrandt's portrait of Haesje van Cleyburgh at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Nivaagaard Collection has, as the first museum in Denmark, acquired a major work by a truly outstanding woman artist of the seventeenth century: the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656).

In the dynamic realm of contemporary art, technology serves as both a catalyst and a collaborator, expanding the horizons of what is creatively possible. Among the technological advancements that have significantly impacted artistic creation, laser machines stand out for their precision, versatility, and efficiency. These sophisticated devices enable artists to transform their visions from abstract concepts into intricate, tangible masterpieces. This article explores the comprehensive journey of designing artistic pieces using laser machines, detailing each phase from initial inspiration to the final polished artwork.

Despite its five-year closure, the Centre Pompidou will live on in the capital and beyond. The Centre Pompidou will also be listed as a Monument Historique in 2026.

Among the most distinguished private collections of Surrealist art, Exquisite Corpus represents the culmination of a lifetime’s engagement with one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artistic movements.

A man has died after unloading the historic Andy Warhol-painted BMW car onto the National Mall on Wednesday evening, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.