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Curatone.art has announced the results of Colors 2026, its international juried art competition. Artists from 27 countries submitted 485 works. The jury selected 79 for the online exhibition and gave awards to three artists.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX), authors of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, filed an amicus brief defending the legislation’s constitutionality in ongoing litigation over the recovery of Nazi-looted art.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia unveiled Mushrooms, a major new temporary public artwork by internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei for the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission series.

The J. Paul Getty Museum acquired the recently rediscovered 17th-century painting “Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares” by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez (1599-1660).

Germany's Bavarian State Painting Collections have handed over a painting by the artist Albert Lang, embezzled during the Nazi era, to the US-based heirs of banker's widow Sofie Heilbronner, who died in 1965.

James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, announced that the museum is returning Jean Metzinger’s Woman with a Fan to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein (1870–1930).

Henni Alftan (b. 1979, Helsinki) is a Paris-based painter whose work examines the relationship between painting and the image. Drawing from fragments of everyday experience, she constructs tightly framed scenes in which figures, objects and gestures acquire an intensity that exceeds their apparent simplicity.

The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague has decided to return the painting 'Fishermen by the Lakeshore' (1651) by the Dutch artist Jan van Goyen to the heirs of the renowned art dealer Jacques Goudstikker.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 15 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $3 million to Greece.

Large-scale reproductions of works by Van Gogh, Manet, Cézanne, Caillebotte, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema will appear at prominent locations across Paris this fall.

What does it mean to paint the everyday when the everyday has already become art
history? In Prose, Louis Fratino’s first solo exhibition with David Zwirner in London, the
answer might seem straightforward: to take life as it is—rooms, bodies, sex, friends, family, subway cars, cafés, saunas—and return it to painting.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it will return a group of objects to the Hellenic Republic, as part of its ongoing efforts to review the ownership histories of objects in its collections.

In an age saturated by images, Marina Perez Simão’s paintings return to a slower and more attentive mode of seeing. Working across painting, watercolour, textiles and drawing, she develops a practice rooted in accumulation, intuition and the gradual emergence of images from experience.

Frida Escobedo Studio will lead the museum expansion, which will double its exhibition space; Eduardo Costantini is donating the Daros Latinamerica Collection, comprising 1,232 contemporary works, along with 17 masterpieces of Latin American modern art; and he is establishing the Malba Art Trust with an initial endowment of USD 50 million to secure the institution's continuity.

For two years, they inhabited the spaces – both physical and imaginary – of the Louvre. Each had a studio on the premises, where they created, conversed with museum personnel, and engaged with the public.

Walk through any online print shop and the word giclée sits on a listing priced at forty euros and on another priced at four thousand.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced an acquisition of 38 paintings by preeminent Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian; 1899–1983) from the collection of the artist’s daughter, Sing Sheng Chang. 

Galleries and institutions across the UK have the chance to save Antico’s Seated Nymph for the nation, after the Government temporarily blocked it from leaving the country.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 147 antiquities totaling nearly $2.4 million to the people of Türkiye, Pakistan and Thailand.