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Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GETY) and Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) announced that they entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in a merger of equals transaction, creating a premier visual content company.

The Chinese artist Ye Yongqing has been convicted for plagiarizing the works of Belgian painter Christian Silvain.

A 10-year-old Israeli boy out on a school trip in Jerusalem uncovered a cross medallion between 100 and 200 years old, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Sunday.

On 7 January 2015, 10 staff members of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed in their newsroom by two terrorists.

Wadi AlFann presents James Turrell is an exhibition surveying the work of pioneering Light and Space artist James Turrell. The exhibition will run from 16 January until 19 April 2025 and is presented by Wadi AlFann as part of the AlUla Arts Festival 2025.

At the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, a temple razed by fire around 612 BCE, has remarkably preserved shrines that were recovered by the Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists on a site excavation this year as part of the Penn Nimrud Project, one of several cultural heritage preservation and protection initiatives of Penn’s Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program (IHSP).

The Climate Museum, the first museum in the United States dedicated to climate change, is thrilled to announce its new permanent location at 418 11th Avenue. The State of New York announced today it is awarding The Moinian Group and Boston Properties (BXP) a real estate development project in Hudson Yards to be designed by the architecture firm FXCollaborative. This project will provide a 24,000 square foot permanent home for the Climate Museum.

Next spring, from 3 March to 27 April 2025, the Van Abbemuseum will invest in making the climate system in the Collection Building more sustainable.

Dia Al Azzawi is the winner of this year's Great Arab Minds award in literature and arts.

Bozar will present a large-scale solo exhibition featuring the work of Berlinde De Bruyckere for the first time.

The opening events for the year-long Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture will take place on 10 & 11 January 2025.

In a stunning find, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago), the trackways form part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ and include footprints from the 9 metre ferocious predator Megalosaurus, and herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size.

The stolen archaeological artifacts were found after several investigations by Italian police in various cities, including Rome, Perugia, Ancona, and Consenza. The investigation was also coordinated by five public prosecutor offices in Rome, Pordenone, Florence, Ancona, and Palmi.

The Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission, led by Dr. Kathleen Martinez in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), has uncovered foundation deposits beneath the southern wall of the enclosure at the Taposiris Magna Temple, west of Alexandria.

The Vatican on Monday launched the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, a cartoon character called Luce, whose name means "light" in Italian.

For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is dedicating an exhibition to Cimabue, one of the most important artists of the 13th century.

Three Downing Street visitor books are included in this December’s Cabinet Office file release. The red leather-bound volumes are the first ever released by the Government and provide a fascinating insight into eminent visitors passing through the doors of Number 10 between 1970-2003.

Researchers from Zayed National Museum have unveiled text concealed beneath an intricate decorative layer of gold leaf on a page of the Blue Qur’an - one of the world’s most well-known and recognisable Qur’an manuscripts and most important examples of Islamic calligraphy. Using multispectral imaging techniques, the team uncovered verses from Surah al Nisa’.

December 31st marks the end of the financial year, a crucial moment to evaluate the budget policies that will influence the near future. In terms of ugly cuts to budget, the situation seems similar in all the countries with a conservative government, in the US as in Europe. In Italy, the cultural sector continues to struggle with insufficient funding, with only 0.4% of the state budget allocated to its development.

The "Next" exhibition series, organized by the Amici dei Musei Siciliani association to commemorate the theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi, celebrated its 15th edition with an artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of Europe’s most renowned Italian artists and a leading figure in the Arte Povera movement.