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Ten bidders battled it out over Leon Kossoff’s rare swimming pool painting, which made sold for £5 million at Sotheby's London on Wednesday. 

The 61^st International Art Exhibition – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh - organised by La Biennale di Venezia, will be accompanied by 99 National Participations and 31 Collateral Events.

The Iranian rocket strike destroyed an entire apartment building and also devastated the historic building next door, one of the architectural treasures of the White City in Tel Aviv.

The Ashmolean has returned a 16th-century bronze to the Government of India following research into the object’s provenance and liaison with Indian authorities. 

Mari Katayama has been named the winner of the inaugural Mori Art Award. The final selection took place on February 25, overseen by an international jury of museum directors: Mami Kataoka, Rhana Devenport, Glenn D. Lowry, Frances Morris, Suhanya Raffel, and Eugene Tan.

The Greek Ministry of Culture authenticated the collection of WWII photographs from Greece owned by a memorabilia collector in Belgium and reached an agreement to buy them.

A trove of sacred Jewish objects from Greece that was stolen by the Nazis and displaced for decades in Poland is finally heading back home. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers had a chance to touch history recently in Philadelphia after they encountered swords and arrowheads that date back to the Bronze Age, almost 4,000 years ago.

Frieze Los Angeles 2026 closed on Sunday following strong sales, sustained institutional engagement and decisive early acquisitions that defined the tone of the fair.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot legally hold copyrights for original artistic works or content it creates.

Following an extensive international search, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) appointed of Nicholas R. Bell as Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective July 6, 2026.

Tehran’s historic Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has sustained major damage after strikes on Tehran.

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum have demonstrated that the painting Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) was made by Rembrandt.

Zofia is turning the traditional pet portrait on its head, swapping stoic oil paintings for vibrant, high-fashion fantasies.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a major group of photographs by the celebrated twentieth-century American photographer Irving Penn.

President Macron on Thursday announced that Catherine Pégard, a former magazine editor and former head of the Palace of Versailles, will take over the coveted culture portfolio from Rachida Dati. 

After more than ten years of planning and six years of construction, the Hohenzollern crypt in Berlin Cathedral, one of the largest dynastic burial sites in Europe, is once again open to the public.

Seventy-four pieces of stolen Cambodian ancient objects, recovered from the possession of the late antique collector Douglas Latchford, have been returned to Cambodia from Britain, said a press release from the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts on Friday.

Around 30 inscriptions, the majority in Tamil-Brahmi, have been identified in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, offering striking new evidence of the global reach of ancient Tamil civilisation and confirming that Tamils travelled and lived in Roman Egypt between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE.

His figures are little more than lines – and yet they are full of life: to mark the 125th anniversary of Alberto Giacometti, his famous Walking Man I is now hiking across a Swiss stamp.