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London-based artist Sophia Al-Maria has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Frieze London Artist Award. The award – in partnership with Forma – offers an early- or mid-career artist the opportunity to realise an ambitious new commission at Frieze London.

A new museum dedicated to Hector Guimard is due to open in Paris in 2027. Guimard was the architect for the Art Nouveau-style entrances to the metro. 

An iconic statue in Aleppo’s central Saadallah Al-Jabiri Square has been destroyed ‘accidentally’ after an attempt to remove it, leading to widespread outrage.

The Australia Council Board of Creative Australia today released the external report into its governance, decision-making and risk management processes in relation to Australia’s participation in the 2026 Venice Biennale.   

Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. A study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our distant cousins, the Neanderthals, pushed fat extraction from bones quite a bit further.

A 10-year-old girl died of a heart attack while visiting the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, French media reported, the girl had arrived from the United States with her family.

Since the autumn of 2020, researchers have been combing through University Library’s collections in the search for books that were unlawfully confiscated from their owners during the Nazi era.

The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) will officially open its Campus in Benin City, Nigeria, to the public on Tuesday, 11 November 2025. 

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from a man who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids, in research published today (July 2) in Nature.

A masterpiece by Canaletto – Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day – was the top lot at Christie's Old Masters evening sale in London.

A self-approved portrait of President Trump now hangs in the Colorado Capitol – replacing an earlier version he disaproved as “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst.”

The European Union is taking a significant step forward in protecting cultural heritage as Regulation (EU) 2019/880, which aims to prevent the illegal trade in cultural goods, becomes fully applicable. 

Relooted is a heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from the Western countries that stole them, developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop.

After a decade of restoration, the impressing Hall of Constatine in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, which houses Raphael’s masterpiece depicting Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, has been restored.

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.

The former residence of Ismail Gulgee has been transformed into a museum, showcasing over 170 of his artworks to preserve his artistic legacy.

Two rare Lincoln-signed copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation set new records for the documents at auction at Sotheby's New York.

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.