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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced the acquisition of Jeff Koons’s Split-Rocker (2000), a monumental sculpture adorned with living plants and flowers.

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to erase her from public memory.

Foster + Partners has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.

This fall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will unveil a new suite of sculptures by acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado) in the niches of its Fifth Avenue facade.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Giambologna’s Fata Morgana, the last known marble by the artist held, until now, in private hands.

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting is the largest major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to one of the world’s foremost contemporary painters.

With the passing of Arnaldo Pomodoro, the art world loses one of its most authoritative, insightful, and visionary voices. 

Shipping artwork seems like it should be straightforward - just put it in a box and send it, right? But then you realize you're dealing with something that's fragile, often expensive, and usually irreplaceable. One wrong move and you could be looking at a damaged piece that can't be fixed, or worse, something that's completely destroyed.

A tourist caused damage to a historic painting at the Uffizi Galleries on Friday morning while attempting to take a selfie.

Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that the descendants of dictator Franco must return two valuable Romanesque sculptures to the city of Santiago de Compostela, according to court documents.

The construction of a new work by Hew Locke in Ostend, Belgium, has been halted. The work was commissioned by the city of Ostend in 2023 to recontextualise an equestrian statue of former Belgian king Leopold II.

Italy is preparing to cut the VAT rate on art sales from 22% to 5%, responding to mounting pressure from the national art market and increased competition from other EU Member States with lower VAT rates on art.

A climate vandalist has been arrested after pink paint was thrown at a glass-covered Pablo Picasso painting at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)Thursday morning.

Paris-based practice Chatillon Architectes has completed a sweeping transformation of the Le Grand Palais, marking the most comprehensive renovation of the Parisian landmark in its 120-year history.

The sales of the Hilde & Dieter Scharf Collection and Pacific Art together achieved a total of €12,199,880 across 56 lots sold. 

Gernot Wieland is an Austrian artist based in Berlin whose films, drawings, lecture-
performances and installations comment on human notions of belonging within inherited
social, political and psychological processes.

Ghent University researchers have reconstructed the face and life of a prehistoric Belgian woman who lived in the Meuse Valley around 10,500 years ago. 

Members of the Dutch ultra‑conservative Catholic foundation Civitas Christiana demonstrated at the Rijksmuseum against the purchase of an ancient condom.

A temporary export bar has been placed on an oil sketch, titled ​​Cimon Falling in love with Efigenia, by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.