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Nico Williams the winner of the $100,000 2024 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s richest prize for contemporary visual arts. The remaining shortlisted artists – Taqralik Partridge, Judy Chartrand, Rhayne Vermette, June Clark, and Mathieu Léger – will each receive $25,000.

The Carabinieri (Italian police) has uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the best known names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol according to a pressrelease.

A portrait of Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, an AI-powered humanoid robot, has sold for $1.32 million at Sotheby's, marking the first time an artwork by a robot has been auctioned. This groundbreaking sale highlights the growing intersection of AI and art.

Daniel Spoerri died in Vienna at the age of 94, the managing director of the Spoerri exhibition house in Austria confirmed to the German Press Agency.

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. has announced the selection of artist, Isabel Nolan, with Georgina Jackson and The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art as the curator, to represent Ireland at the 61st Venice Art Biennale in 2026.

Bakunin’s Barricade is based on a concept introduced by the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, and the idea to use the worth of artworks in barricades in order to protect movements from state violence, as officers would not dare to destroy priceless artworks to breach a barricade.

A body has been found in the search for Sarah Cunningham who went missing in London over the weekend.

Friday night thieves used heavy explosives to enter MPV gallery in The Netherlands, causing significant damage to the building.

United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Berman Jerry Nowlin, Jr. (21, Huntsville, Alabama), a/k/a “Repulse” and “Zayous,” guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Nowlin faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Sentencing has been set for January 23, 2025.

The Frick Collection will reopen in April 2025, following the renovation and enhancement by Selldorf Architects of its historic Fifth Avenue home.

The ancient UNESCO World Heritage cities of Baalbek in the east and Tyre in the south have been under violent Israeli bombardment in recent days.

ICOM expresses its deep concern regarding catastrophic floods which have recently been impacting communities globally, already affecting almost all continents of the world in the past year alone.

The EU will increase its support to Ukraine’s arts and culture by another €5 million.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé.

Creative Folkestone announced the dates for the 2025 Folkestone Triennial and revealed the themes and ideas behind the sixth edition.

The Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property, chaired by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Papier, decided unanimously on 6 September 2024 in the case of the heirs of George Grosz versus Freie Hansestadt Bremen not to recommend restitution of the painting Pompe Funèbre by George Grosz and the painting Stillleben mit Okarina, Fisch und Muschel by George Grosz to the heirs of George Grosz.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Italy (the “ministry”) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (“CMA”) today announced that, working collaboratively, they have agreed to the transfer of a 13th-century manuscript leaf representing the letter “A” once part of a choral book located at a church near Siena.

Recent excavations at the north gate of the Royal Palace of Angkor Thom have led to the remarkable discovery of 12 sandstone door guardian statues.

Ashfika Rahman (35, Bangladesh) is the main prize winner of the 7th Edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. Tara Abdullah Mohammed Sharif (27, Iraq), Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (29, Mongolia), Dina Mimi (29, Palestine), Hira Nabi (36, Pakistan), Ipeh Nur (30, Indonesia), Zhang Xu Zhan (35, Taiwan) received the special prize.

The Penn Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) announced the Museums: Missions and Acquisitions (M2A) Project, an unprecedented three-year national study that will create an evidence-based framework for the future collecting decisions of U.S. museums.