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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. 

Spain returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco Franco's dictatorship. 

Banksy's latest piece of art has been traced to a street in Marseille. 

On Thursday, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities received seven ancient Egyptian artifacts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Immigration, and Expatriate Affairs at the New Administrative Capital. This comes after French authorities seized the artifacts last January. 

U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Fetterman (D-PA), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Katie Britt (R-AL) introduced the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which would aid in the recovery of Nazi-looted art and deliver justice for Holocaust survivors and their families:

The Van Gogh Museum has acquired its first work by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), achieving a long-standing ambition to expand its collection of artists directly inspired by Van Gogh with a Matisse.

In an Instagram post on Thursday Banksy unveiled his latest piece: a lighthouse with the words ‘I want to be what you saw in me’ written over it.

Fukutake Foundation has announced the opening date for Naoshima New Museum of Art. Designed by Tadao Ando and with Miki Akiko as director, the latest addition to the nexus of museums on the island o f Seto Inland Sea in Japan will open on Saturday, May 31, 2025.

On Saturday 31 May 2025, the V&A’s new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens its doors to the public for the first time following 10 years of planning and extensive audience consultation, with input from V&A East’s Youth Collective. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, it opens as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park supported by the Mayor of London.

On May 27, 2025, the long-time President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, was bid farewell in a ceremony at the Neues Museum in Berlin. At the same time, Marion Ackermann was officially installed as his successor.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the significant discovery on Monday, describing it as a "major scientific and archaeological achievement."

Brussels’ vibrant contemporary art scene comes together again this September for the first full edition of RendezVous – Brussels Art Week.

Boy Playing the Violin and Girl Singing were bought at Sotheby’s with the help of the Rembrandt Association, the Mondrian Fund, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science’s National Acquisition Fund, the VriendenLoterij lottery and Haarlem municipal council.

In the Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of La Biennale in San Marco, the presentation was held of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh – which will run from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 (preview 7, 8, 9 May) at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations around Venice.

In light of national and international developments in provenance research, the intense public debate surrounding the presentation of the long-term loan at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the independent review of the Bührle Foundation’s provenance research by Prof. Raphael Gross, the relationship between the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and the Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection (hereinafter: Bührle Foundation) required reassessment and a new framework.