Article date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Harvard Law School’s ‘Copy’ of Magna Carta revealed as Original
British researchers have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact an extraordinarily rare original from 1300.
Article date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Peru's Chan Chan: Specialists to restore Wall damaged by Obscene Spray Paint Graffiti
The Decentralized Culture Directorate in La Libertad region (DDC La Libertad) expressed its strongest condemnation of the regrettable act of vandalism committed by an individual who painted an obscene figure on an original wall of the walled complex of Chan Chan, which is more than 600 years old.
Article date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Marlene Dumas' "Miss January" has set a New World Record Price achieved for a Living Female Artist
Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, the second and final evening sale of the Spring Marquee Week took place Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in the auction house’s Rockefeller Center saleroom in the heart of New York City.
Article date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Phillips sets Five New Artist Records in Evening sale of Modern & Contemporary Art
Women Artists Shine with New Records Achieved for
Grace Hartigan, Olga de Amaral, Kiki Kogelnik, and Ilana Savdie.
Article date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
163 Treasures of Tutankhamun arrive at the Grand Egyptian Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has received 163 priceless artifacts from the treasures of King Tutankhamun.
Article date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Turkey launches Major Restoration of Hagia Sophia Dome
Turkey has begun what a minister has said, the “largest and most comprehensive” restoration and reinforcement effort on the dome of Hagia Sophia.
Article date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Giacometti ‘Head’ estimated at $70 Million fails to sell
A 1955 bronze bust by Alberto Giacometti estimated at $70 million failed to sell at Sotheby’s modern evening auction in New York on Tuesday.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga wins the 2025 Joan Miró Prize
Kapwani Kiwanga is the winner of the ninth edition of one of the world’s mostprestigious and consolidated contemporary art prizes, awarded this year by the Fundació Joan Miró.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works And 20th Century Evening Sale Total $489 Million
Christie’s Spring Marquee Week commenced on the evening of Monday, May 12, 2025 with two consecutive sales taking place in the Rockefeller Center saleroom.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Egypt recovers 25 looted Antiquities
Egypt has retrieved 25 looted antiquities from the United States following a three-year legal and diplomatic campaign involving Egypt’s consulate in New York, with support from the US District Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, prosecutors, and private collectors.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
High Museum of Art names Alison Saar Recipient of 2025 David C. Driskell Prize
The High Museum of Art today announced artist Alison Saar as the 2025 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African American art.
Article date: Monday, May 12, 2025
Dutch Council for Culture makes Recommendations for the New Cultural Ecosystem
The Council for Culture in the Netherlands advises to structurally adjust the subsidy period for cultural institutions and funds from four to eight years.
Article date: Monday, May 12, 2025
The National Gallery London Room 34 to be named Blavatnik Family Foundation Room
Room 34 of the National Gallery will be named as Blavatnik Family Foundation Room in recognition of its significant gift to NG200.
Article date: Monday, May 12, 2025
New Archaeological Discovery in Sinai reveals Egypt’s Ancient Eastern Fortifications
The Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has uncovered military defensive structures and a residential area for soldiers at the Tell Abu Saifi archaeological site in North Sinai.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Export Bar placed on £10 Million Botticelli Painting
A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Koyo Kouoh, First African Woman appointed to lead Venice Biennale in 2026 has died
Koyo Kouoh, the visionary Cameroonian-born curator and Executive Director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), has died. She was 57.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Statement by the Drents Museum regarding the hearing of the Suspects in the Art Theft
Yesterday, two suspects in the violent attack on our museum, during which the golden helmet of Coțofenești and the three golden bracelets were stolen, appeared before court. It was an unprecedented assault in the more than 170 years of the Drents Museum's existence.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Dutch Prosecution: Abundance of Evidence in theft Romanian Artifacts Drents Museum
Two men, aged 35 and 36, from the Dutch town of Heerhugowaard will remain in pre-trial detention for an additional ninety days. The North Netherlands District Court decided this on Friday during a public hearing in the city of Assen. The court believes there is sufficient reason for this decision, given the role of the suspects in the art heist at the Drents Museum on January 25, 2025.
Article date: Friday, May 9, 2025
Julie Fragar wins Archibald Prize 2025
Brisbane artist Julie Fragar has won the Archibald Prize 2025 and $100,000 for her portrait of fellow Brisbane artist and colleague Justene Williams, titled Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), which depicts Williams as an ‘active master of a multiverse of characters and events’.
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Experts demand Russia be ejected from ICOM
French civil society “For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours!” (“Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre!”) has called for Russia’s expulsion from the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
