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For more than five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been something people travel to see. Now, more than 113,000 people around the world are helping to rebuild it.

A temporary export bar has been placed on two prehistoric handaxes representing some of the oldest human settlements in Britain.

Thieves stole jewelry from the Lalique glass museum in Alsace, France, early Sunday morning, worth several million euros.

Juan Andrés Hurtado Baeza (JAHB) is a technologist, researcher, and generative artist. His determination to understand the algorithm of beauty led him to found REIVGEN, a pioneering art studio where users can shape unique physical sculptures by exploring their aesthetic intuition with a single button.

A fire has broken out at the Kanal-Centre Pompidou museum in Brussels. The fire department is on the scene and has already managed to extinguish most of the fire. According to the fire department, no one was present in the building at the time of the fire.

For 16 years, Angela Merkel shaped the landscape of German and global politics as Federal Chancellor. Now, five years after leaving office, her official portrait has been revealed to the public.

KPN is to become the new Founder of the Rijksmuseum, the museum's leading corporate partner.

The British Museum had its “single biggest day of ticket sales” for an exhibition in its history, bringing in more than £2.5 million from those keen to see the Bayeux Tapestry.

The Yayoi Kusama exhibition is completely sold out until the beginning of August. To accommodate the high demand, the museum now plans to offer extended services, including round-the-clock opening hours.

Realising a Combined Total of £50.7 million/ $66.9 million/ €58.8 million Led by Lawrence's Record-Breaking Portrait of The 1st Duke of Wellington and an Important Egyptian Limestone Pair Statue.

In 1977, in the small village of Lucim in north-central Poland, a group of artists began an
experiment that today deserves to be read not as a regional curiosity, but as one of the most original European examples of socially engaged, site-specific and community-
based art.

The couple arrested by the NYPD for climbing the Empire State Building in Manhattan has been identified as Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov, who starred in the Netflix documentary "Skywalkers: A Love Story" in 2024 about their rooftop climbs.

Following a landmark €13 million transformation, Tallinn Art Hall (Tallinna Kunstihoone) will reopen to the public on 13 November 2026, unveiling a radically renewed institution that combines one of Estonia's most important cultural landmarks with a future-facing vision for contemporary art.

Birgit Donker, the former director of the Fotomuseum Rotterdam, was wrongfully dismissed. The court ruled that allegations of social insecurity and a culture of fear were unproven. Consequently, the Fotomuseum must pay Donker €400,000, equivalent to two years' salary.

Eighteen artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin have been returned to Nigeria by three Swiss museums.

In a recently published report, the Dutch Council for Culture advised AI companies to compensate artists.

From 13 June to 3 October 2027, Skulptur Projekte once again invites visitors to experience art in the public space.

After captivating millions of visitors in Tokyo, Miami, and Milan, an exhibition dedicated to Leandro Erlich arrives for the first time in France at the Grand Palais. From one work to another, perspectives shift, architectures are disrupted, and reality transforms before your eyes.

Kept out of public view for more than sixty years in Kees van Dongen’s studio, the portrait of Brigitte Bardot painted in 1959 reappears today. 

The only painting by John Singer Sargent in a Dutch public collection returns to display following restoration. Research on Egyptian Indigo Dyers reveals potentially reused canvas and the artist’s fingerprints.