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Bonhams announces Chabi Nouri as Global CEO of the international auction house. Nouri, who will be based in Bonhams’ headquarters in New Bond Street, London, will take up the position in October 2024 at the 14-saleroom auction house.

This September, Musée Rodin in Paris will open its first international outpost – in China. The French museum’s two existing sites in central Paris and in nearby Meudon, in the villa where Auguste Rodin lived until his death in 1917, are well-known cultural destinations thanks to the fame and influence of the sculptor behind The Thinker (1904) and The Kiss (1882).

For the fourth High Line Plinth commission, Iván Argote presents Dinosaur (2024), a colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum. Dinosaur was first submitted as a proposal for the High Line Plinth in 2020, among 80 proposals that included the third High Line Plinth commission, Pamela Rosenkranz’s Old Tree (2023).

Hundreds of artists, writers and actors on Monday sent an open letter to the UK’s Royal Academy of Arts accusing it of anti-Palestinian censorship after it removed two artworks from its Young Artists’ Summer Show.

The Stonehenge Alliance has welcomed the announcement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cancel the £2.5bn A303 Stonehenge scheme as a “low value, unaffordable commitment”.

In a River a Thousand Streams is a major new public artwork that was unveiled at London Bridge Station on Wednesday 24 July. The 57-metre mosaic mural is the result of a collaboration between London School of Mosaic (LSoM) and AA alum Adam Nathaniel Furman, and explores themes of craft, community and collaboration.

20 Items of significant cultural importance were returned to the Warumungu community of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Australia. The permanent, voluntary, and ethical return of the items by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, a renowned museum dedicated to global arts and cultures with an emphasis on Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Indigenous Americas, was initiated by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Over the past year, the Museum recorded strong recovery of local New York City audiences, exceeding pre-pandemic figures, and welcomed its highest-ever percentage of BIPOC visitors from the United States.

The World Heritage Committee, meeting in New Delhi in its 46th session, decided on the inscription of the “Via Appia. Regina Viarum” on the world heritage list which so it becomes the 60th Italian site recognized by UNESCO.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Ivan J. Arvelo of Homeland Security Investigations, New York, announced the return of an eleventh artwork to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime.

Palestinian archaeological site Tell Umm Amer has been added to the Unesco World Heritage List. Its inclusion comes after an emergency nomination due to the Israel-Gaza war. The announcement was made as part of the ongoing session of the organisation's World Heritage Committee, which runs until Wednesday in New Delhi.

Two Just Stop Oil supporters, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, who threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, have been found guilty of criminal damage exceeding £5,000.

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint.

For the first time in the history of the modern Olympic Games, the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony will take place in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site: on the banks of the Seine in Paris.

The Stonehenge Alliance is shocked that a highly damaging and inaccurate amendment from Kenya to the draft decision on Stonehenge was passed at the World Heritage Committee today, albeit with some minor changes.

Research in new exhibition confirms the flowers in Irises were originally not as blue as they appear today.

The collection includes 76 drawings by Michael Jackson’s, including images of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Walt Disney, Peter Pan, and Ronald Reagan.

The Justice Department has reached an agreement with “Jasmine” Loo Ai Swan (Loo), the former general counsel of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund, to recover artwork by Pablo Picasso and a financial account in Switzerland traced to funds allegedly embezzled from 1MDB.

Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass has announced that the "Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage" will launch a large popular campaign in September to demand the return of Nefertiti's bust, the Rosetta Stone, and the planetarium from abroad to Egypt.

The Supervisory Board has appointed Frans van der Avert as general director of Paleis Het Loo. Van der Avert will succeed Pien Harms, who has held this position ad interim over the past 12 months.