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Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Netherlands, and the Kremer family have announced that the Kremer Collection will potentially be housed on long-term loan at the museum.

A painting stolen in 1974 from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, has been found in a museum in Gouda, Netherlands. Museum Gouda and art detective Arthur Brand confirmed the discovery as reported by De Telegraaf.

A small wooden box which may have been a holiday souvenir either brought back by Rudyard Kipling, or given to him as a gift by his daughter, has turned out to be a very rare handmade South American casket.

Tate Modern celebrates the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century.

In December 2024, the G.A.S. Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, announced the call for the third edition of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award. This year, the award offered two fully-funded six-week residencies at G.A.S. Lagos for outstanding mid-career professionals based in Africa: one for a mid-career visual fine artist and one for a mid-career curator.

Catherine Nichols is an internationally acclaimed arts and literary scholar, curator and writer, whose work spans contemporary art, cultural history, and interdisciplinary research.

More than 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a major new fresco sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world. In a large banquet hall excavated in recent weeks in the central area of Pompeii, in insula 10 of Regio IX, an almost life-size frieze, or “megalography” (from the Greek for “large painting”-a cycle of large-figure paintings), has emerged, circling around three sides of the room; the fourth was open to the garden.

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson will open in fall 2025.

The fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) will be curated by Allison Glenn and presented from September to December 2026.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 11 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $1 million to Greece.

On Friday, February 28, more than 300 naturists from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg will gather at the Boverie Museum in Liège, Belgium, for a unique nude visit to the exhibition Paul Delvaux and His Universe. This will be the largest naturist museum night ever held in the Low Countries.

An unusual art restitution case is currently being heard in New York criminal court. The heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer and Holocaust victim, are seeking the return of Egon Schiele's watercolor and graphite piece Russian Prisoner of War (1916) from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC).

The world-renowned British artist, Lubaina Himid RA, CBE (b. 1954, Zanzibar), will represent Great Britain and deliver a major solo exhibition of new work at the British Pavilion.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Hellenic Republic of Greece announced that it will return a 7th century BCE Bronze Head of a Griffin to Greece.

Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The UK Government announced the shortlisted design teams for the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.

Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than historians initially believed Jinan Daily reports.

Owned by the Hon. Moyra Campbell (1924-2024) for over six decades, the painting was last publicly exhibited in Auerbach’s retrospective at the Hayward Gallery and the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 1978.

A 26-year-old man is the fourth suspect arrested in connection with the theft of the Coțofenești Golden Helmet and three Dacian gold bracelets that were on display at the Drents Museum in Assen, Dutch police said on Thursday.

Historic England acquired the Janette Rosing Collection of England: a world-class collection of some of the finest earliest landscape photography of England, taken by leading practitioners of the time.