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The UK government has temporarily blocked an Anglo-Saxon mount from being taken out of the UK permanently.

Offered following landmark restitution to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in June 2023.

Chinese artists withdrew from the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea after the biennale allowed “Taiwan” to be used in the name of the exhibition, officials said yesterday.

The FBI returned three cultural artifacts to representatives of the Lebanese government at a ceremony held in New York. 

In an age saturated by images, Ali Banisadr’s paintings reaffirm the transformative potential of painting as a space of memory, imagination, and continuous becoming.

The seizure, part of a larger antiquities smuggling investigation, is among the largest in the agency’s history.

Gwangju City has officially apologized following fierce backlash from China over the controversy surrounding the designation of the "Taiwan Pavilion" during the 16th Gwangju Biennale.

Bonhams communicated to their clients about a change in the buyer’s premium, stating that a 30% fee will now apply to bids of £25,000 or less, previously 28%.

Hundreds of rare posters and prints related to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War are now available online to the public, thanks to the Picturing Lincoln project from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

An outdoor sculpture has been stolen from the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangārei, New Zealand, and if returned the gallery says there'll be no questions asked.

Nationalmuseum has purchased a previously unknown artwork by the Italian Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana. Fontana was one of the most successful Italian painters working in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and is considered one of the first professional woman painters. The painting is an altarpiece depicting the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

London offers countless museums and galleries, but few artistic experiences leave a lasting impression quite like standing in front of an original Claude Monet painting.

In an age saturated by images, Quentin James McCaffrey’s paintings propose a slower and a more contemplative mode of attention. Through carefully constructed interiors, architectural fragments and charged arrangements of objects, his practice investigates the relationship between perception, memory and imagination.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and John Galliano together announced today that the exhibition John Galliano: Horizons, previously scheduled to open in May 2027, will not proceed as planned. 

Walk into a contemporary gallery today and you may find yourself doing something that would have seemed rather strange a century ago: standing in front of a screen and waiting for the artwork to do something.

What does it mean to paint today? At a moment when images are produced, circulated, and consumed at unprecedented speed, painting occupies a peculiar position.

Reality is shaped by the traces we preserve, the stories we inherit, and the symbols through which we understand the world.

WHO GOES HUNTING DOES NOT COUGH is a group exhibition and a series of public events curated by Kisito Assangni for Pixelache Helsinki, and realised in collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Technology and with EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

China withdraws its artists from the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea on Friday after organizers approved the name “Taiwan Pavilion."

The UK government has blocked a painting by Rembrandt, one of the most famous artists of all time, from being taken out of the country permanently in the hope that a UK gallery or institution can save it for the nation.