Article date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Fowler Museum in California returns 11 Objects to Australia
In a historic handover event at the Fowler Museum in California, USA, a collection of 11 objects of deep cultural significance were unconditionally returned to the Larrakia Community of the Northern Territory in Australia.
Article date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
The Assignment for the Art Robbery at the Drents Museum may have come from Romania
The Hardliners motorcycle club, founded in the Netherlands in 2019 in prison by former leaders of the Hells Angels (a criminal organization banned by the court), is reported to have been involved in the robbery of the Dacian treasure from the Drents Museum, according to RTL Nieuws.
Article date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
120 Confiscated Smuggled Objects put on Display in Tehran
An exhibition themed “unfinished narrative; inheritance, forgery and smuggling” with a focus on displaying confiscated smuggled items was launched at the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran on Monday.
Article date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Indian Artist Sohrab Hura wins Eye Art & Film Prize 2025
The Indian artist Sohrab Hura is the eleventh winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize. Hura receives the award for the powerful way in which he captures today’s surreal reality in images.
Article date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Jan Davidsz. De Heem’s Still Life will be a Highlight of Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale
Jan Davidsz. De Heem’s luxurious and immaculately preserved still life will be a highlight of Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 1 July, during Classic Week London (estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000).
Article date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Art Basel announces launch of Art Basel Qatar
Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, and leading Qatari organisations Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), a major investor in sports, culture, entertainment and lifestyle, and QC+, a strategic and creative collective specialising in cultural commerce, today announced a one-of-a-kind partnership that will include the launch of a new fair of modern and contemporary art in Qatar.
Article date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
The National Gallery London acquires a Work by 17th-Century Dutch Artist Floris van Dijck
The National Gallery has acquired one of the greatest examples of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings – a rare picture, one of only 14 known to exist, by a pioneering painter of richly laid tables with a variety of objects and foodstuffs rendered in exquisite detail.
Article date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Manhattan D.A. Bragg announces return of Three Antiquities to Iraq
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of three antiquities to Iraq collectively valued at $500,000.
Article date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Calder Gardens will open to the Public on September 21, 2025
Calder Gardens announced today that it will open to the public on September 21, 2025, following a celebratory week of special events.
Article date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Getty Villa Museum to reopen June 27 following Palisades Fire Closure
Getty announced that the Getty Villa Museum will reopen to the public on Friday, June 27, following its temporary closure due to the Palisades Fire.
Article date: Monday, May 19, 2025
Paris Police recover Jim Morrison Bust, stolen from Grave 37 Years Ago
French police have recovered the long-lost bust of American singer Jim Morrison stolen from the grave of the frontman of The Doors, 37 years after it was stolen from Père Lachaise cemetery according to France 24.
Article date: Monday, May 19, 2025
Canadian Indigenous Leaders call on New Pope to return Thousands of Artifacts
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling for the Vatican to return sacred First Nation artifacts taken from Indigenous communities during the residential school era.
Article date: Monday, May 19, 2025
Ulaanbaatar Biennale participating Artists announced
Ulaanbaatar Biennale announced the participating artists and programs for On the horizon, under the moon / Сарны дор, тэнгэрийн хаяанд, presented across various venues in Mongolia’s capital from 6 to 20 June, 2025.
Article date: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Spectacular Find in the Ancient City of Nineveh Iraq
A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archeologists discovered large portions of a monumental relief that depicts the ruler of the Assyrian empire from the seventh century BC along with two important deities and other figures.
Article date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
National Museum of Asian Art returns Ancient Manuscript Fragments to China
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third century B.C.E.) from its collection and formally transferred them to the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) of the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
Article date: Friday, May 16, 2025
World Press Photo is suspending Authorship Attribution of the Iconic 1972 Photograph known as ‘The Terror of War’
Since 1972, the photograph The Terror of War has been credited to Associated Press photographer Nick Út. However, this attribution is now under serious question.
Article date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Smithsonian's National Museum and Saudi Arabia announce Collaboration for Cultural Exchange
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) have formalized a collaboration agreement to enhance cultural exchange and mutual understanding between museum professionals and scholars in the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Article date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Lindokuhle Sobekwa wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025
Lindokuhle Sobekwa was announced as the 2025 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, on Thursday 15 May 2025. The artist was awarded the Prize for his photobook “I carry Her photo with Me”, published by MACK in 2024.
Article date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Manhattan D.A. Bragg announces Return of Eight Antiquities to Peru
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of eight antiquities to the people of Peru. These objects were seized pursuant to multiple ongoing investigations into looting and trafficking networks targeting South and Central American cultural heritage. The items were returned during a ceremony at the Peruvian Consulate in New York City.
Article date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Christie’s Spring Marquee Week Totals $693 Million
Christie’s Spring Marquee Week—Monday, May 12 through Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Rockefeller Center—generated a total of $693 million, 123% over low estimate, surpassing the auction house’s totals from the previous two Marquee Weeks.
