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The Smithsonian has released a statement after President Trump announced on social media that he had fired National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet. 

The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) has demanded a complete ban on the upcoming auction of 25 paintings by late artist M.F. Husain, scheduled to be held at the Pundole Art Gallery in Mumbai on June 12. 

A groundbreaking tool developed by the University of St Andrews is transforming how cultural heritage institutions identify toxic pigments in historic books, making it easier than ever to distinguish hazardous books from those which are safe handle and display. 

Extensive FBI investigation results in the homecoming of two Taos treasures by Taos Society of Artists Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp—Aspens and Oklahoma Cheyenne (also known as Indian Boy in Full Dress), stolen off Harwood Museum walls in 1985. 

The fair returns to COEX with a vibrant line-up of global galleries, citywide programming, emerging talent and pioneers from across art history 

The National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam was unanimously chosen as the Best Building of the Year 2025 by the jury of the architecture sector organization BNA. 

The Royal Academy of Arts announced today that Simon Wallis has been appointed as the new Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. He replaces Axel Rüger, who stepped down from the role in October 2024. Simon Wallis is currently the Director of The Hepworth Wakefield. 

An art dealer from London has been jailed after an investigation by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command revealed £140,000 of sales to a suspected financier of the proscribed group Hezbollah. 

New European regulation designed to crack down on the trafficking of stolen antiques and art are causing concern among gallery owners. 

What began in 1955 in the Fridericianum, then still alongside the Federal Garden Show, is now one of the most important exhibition series for contemporary art in the world. 

Nabil Nahas has been selected to represent Lebanon at the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia, taking place from 9 May to 22 November 2026. This presentation is commissioned and curated by Nada Ghandour and organized in collaboration with the Lebanese Visual Art Association (LVAA). 

Starting January 1, 2026, tourists from outside the European Union will pay more in Paris to visit The Louvre. 

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world’s oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. 

A rare condom dating from 1830 will go on display at the Rijksmuseum on 3 June 2025. This almost 200-year-old contraceptive – probably made from a sheep’s appendix – features an erotic etching depicting a nun and three clergymen. Thought to have been a souvenir from a brothel, only two such objects are known to have survived to the present day. It reveals that printing was being used in a wide range of contexts, and provides an insight into sexuality and prostitution in the 19th century. 

The Mozambican authorities are demanding the restitution of at least 800 artefacts looted during colonialism. This is part of a continental movement demanding the restitution of African material and cultural assets, the number of which is estimated at around 3,000, inventoried since 2020. 

Two women and a man entered the Grevin Museum in Paris posing as tourists on Monday morning and changed their clothes to pass for workers. 

Police in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, said on Saturday that a man has been detained for damaging two Class-II protected artifacts. 

The programme for the inaugural Bukhara Biennial, Recipes for Broken Hearts, is released today by the Uzbekistan Art and Cultural Development Foundation (ACDF), including the lineup of participants, site-specific artworks and installations – with each work commissioned for the biennial and made in Uzbekistan – as well as events, performances and culinary activations. 

Manchester Museum has been recognised as one of Europe’s leading museums after winning the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) 2025. 

The Photography Seoul Museum of Art (Photo SeMA), the country's first public museum solely dedicated to photography, is set to open to the public, the Seoul Museum of Art said Wednesday.