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A colossal marble head was uncovered beneath Rome’s Via Alessandrina.

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. 

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.

Foster + Partners has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.

This fall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will unveil a new suite of sculptures by acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado) in the niches of its Fifth Avenue facade.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Giambologna’s Fata Morgana, the last known marble by the artist held, until now, in private hands.

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting is the largest major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to one of the world’s foremost contemporary painters.

Held from June 19 to 22, 2025, Art Basel’s 55th edition delivered a dynamic and successful week in Basel. 

With the passing of Arnaldo Pomodoro, the art world loses one of its most authoritative, insightful, and visionary voices.