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The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has returned a 17th-century painting, 'Lady with a Fan,' to the descendants of a Jewish family who lost it during the Nazi era.

With the following conversation, I have ventured to engage in a conceptual exchange with Dr. Gindi, a sculptor of nourishing cathartic vigilance.

The works reached record numbers in the auction of modern and contemporary art, with results that exceeded the estimates.

Bonhams presents The Gene Hackman Collection: A Life in Art, a deeply personal survey of Modern and American art assembled by the legendary actor, to be offered in a dedicated Single-Owner sale on November 19 in New York.

UK Government announces £9 million grant, enabling National Trust to secure future of museums within UNESCO World Heritage Site that attract 330,000 visitors annually. 

€16.429.303 for Peter Doig’s Ski Jacket led the auction, which realised a sell-through rate of 92 per cent by lot and 90 per cent by value. Strong results for works by Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Paul Cezanne, as well as four new artist records

Since Frieze London first launched in 2003, Tate has acquired over 170 works by more than 100 artists at the fair.

An outdoor exhibition in central Moscow portrays Poland as historically hostile to Russia, alleging “ten centuries of Polish Russophobia” and promoting wartime narratives challenged by Warsaw and independent media. 

Qatar has revealed that it owns Gustave Courbet’s famed self-portrait The Desperate Man and will loan the painting to Paris’s Musée d’Orsay for five years.

Discovered in 2019 by a metal detectorist, the Museum has the opportunity to purchase the Heart to stop it entering a private collection.

Jehan Legac explores the woman as a vessel of presence, sensuality, and mystery. His work navigates the tension between intimacy and strength, delicacy and power, tradition and experimentation.

A pop song, a Shakespearean heroine and an Art Nouveau painting: Taylor Swift's music video for her number-one hit "The Fate of Ophelia" has caused a rush of visitors to the Hessian State Museum in Wiesbaden.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 29 antiquities collectively valued at $3 million to Greece.

Sylvia Batycka's work engages with female narratives and the aesthetics of absence, grounded primarily in the field of painting.

The Courtauld Gallery unveiled the first-ever museum exhibition in the UK on the celebrated modern American artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021). The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life is on display from 10 October 2025 – 18 January 2026.  

New research has shed light on one of the most haunting and widely recognized photographs of the Holocaust known as “The Last Jew of Vinnytsia,” Ynet reported.

The most famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, according to new research. Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages made the discovery while researching a book and working with the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (MAH) in Geneva.

A man urinated on a Vatican altar during a holy mass as hundreds of tourists looked on in disgust at the act of desecration Friday, according to local reports.

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo will close to the public starting Sunday.

Bangkok Art Biennale announced its first roster of participating artists, along with the theme, curators, and venues for its fifth edition, scheduled to take place from October 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027.