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Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) — painted in 1940, during a period of intense personal upheaval and artistic transformation — sold for $54.7m at Sotheby's, establishing a new auction record for the artist and the highest price for any work by a woman artist at auction.*

The criminal network is investigated for the trafficking of cultural goods; the invaluable antiquities have allegedly been looted from countries across the Balkans.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has announced a major repatriation of Khmer artefacts from Hungarian collector István Zelnik, marking one of the most significant voluntary returns of cultural property in recent years.

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) began implementing a pre-booking system for entry tickets on Sunday, with specific time slots allocated for each visitor.

A new evolutionary analysis indicates that kissing is millions of years older than humanity itself, with a primate ancestor that lived more than 21 million years ago.

Different artists create different art, a new study has confirmed. Adults and children were asked to recreate a famous Jackson Pollock painting, and researchers analyzed the characteristics.

Philippe Vanderpoorten is a passionate Belgian collector of African tribal art, particularly from Congo.

Gustav Klimt’s towering masterpiece Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer has just sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby’s inaugural auction at the Breuer Building in New York, more than doubling the previous auction record for the artist and marking the most valuable work ever sold in Sotheby’s history.

Maurizio Cattelan’s legendary gold toilet, America, sold to a famous American brand for $12.1m - the second highest price for the artist at auction.

‘The Fortress’ is the title of the new work to be presented by artist Dries Verhoeven and curator Rieke Vos for the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Christie’s said on Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world’s first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal in 1642.

The Louvre Museum said Monday that it was closing the Campana Gallery as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building.

The guitar that legendary Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain used on generation-defining albums Nevermind and In Utero and in the iconic music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will be publicly-exhibited and offered at Christie's New York in March 2026.

Florence, Italy, one of Europe’s most visited tourist cities, has decided to impose an outdoor dining ban on 50 streets within the UNESCO-protected historic city center. 

Bridget Jones has earned her placewith a statue in London’s Leicester Square, joining figures like Mary Poppins and Harry Potter. 

Christie’s New York 20th and 21st Century Art sales week began on Monday 17 November 2025 with The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis followed by the 20th Century Evening Sale, which together achieved $689,795,000 selling 96 per cent by lot and 97 per cent by value.

Germany has canceled an auction of Holocaust artifacts following backlash from politicians and outrage from Holocaust survivors, Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski confirmed on X/Twitter.

From November 14, 2025, to January 16, 2026, the Borso d'Este Bible, one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art, will be on display in the Capitolare Hall of the Senate of the Republic, at Piazza della Minerva, 38, in Rome.

An export bar has been placed on a rare sculpture by Henri-Joseph François, Baron De Triqueti, allowing time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire it. 

A new report from Jewish Times Asia highlighted several artists in Hong Kong exploring Jewish identity.