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Friday night thieves used heavy explosives to enter MPV gallery in The Netherlands, causing significant damage to the building.

United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Berman Jerry Nowlin, Jr. (21, Huntsville, Alabama), a/k/a “Repulse” and “Zayous,” guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Nowlin faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Sentencing has been set for January 23, 2025.

The ancient UNESCO World Heritage cities of Baalbek in the east and Tyre in the south have been under violent Israeli bombardment in recent days.

ICOM expresses its deep concern regarding catastrophic floods which have recently been impacting communities globally, already affecting almost all continents of the world in the past year alone.

The EU will increase its support to Ukraine’s arts and culture by another €5 million.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé.

The Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property, chaired by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Papier, decided unanimously on 6 September 2024 in the case of the heirs of George Grosz versus Freie Hansestadt Bremen not to recommend restitution of the painting Pompe Funèbre by George Grosz and the painting Stillleben mit Okarina, Fisch und Muschel by George Grosz to the heirs of George Grosz.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Italy (the “ministry”) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (“CMA”) today announced that, working collaboratively, they have agreed to the transfer of a 13th-century manuscript leaf representing the letter “A” once part of a choral book located at a church near Siena.

Recent excavations at the north gate of the Royal Palace of Angkor Thom have led to the remarkable discovery of 12 sandstone door guardian statues.

The Penn Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) announced the Museums: Missions and Acquisitions (M2A) Project, an unprecedented three-year national study that will create an evidence-based framework for the future collecting decisions of U.S. museums.

Curator Dr.Robinson McClellan uncovered a previously unknown waltz written in the hand of composer Frédéric Chopin in The Morgan Library & Museum’s collection.

A statue of Emmeline Pankhust, the suffragette leader, in Manchester got the Just Stop Oil treatment today with a speech bubble and high viz vest. Just Stop Oil is demanding that the UK government work with others to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.

A new mural by renowned British artist and Turner Prize 2024 nominee Claudette Johnson has launched at Brixton Underground station as part of Transport for London's (TfL) Art on the Underground programme.

The Clark Art Institute has received one of the largest gifts in its history from the foundation of the late philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian.

As the oldest modern art fair in the world, ART COLOGNE has been a pivotal force in the art market since its founding in 1967. ART Cologne established a blueprint that influenced the global art fair landscape we know today.

A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg Castle, outside Trondheim in central Norway, likely as an attempt to poison the main water source for the local inhabitants.

MUNCH announced the inauguration of the MUNCH Award, honouring artistic freedom of expression – awarded for the first time to Rosana Paulino (b. 1967).

Police in Poland are searching for unknown perpetrators who appear to have found a hoard of over 100 Bronze Age objects during an illegal dig and then left them outside a local historical society. The items, which include 3,000-year-old jewellery and weapons, are now in the possession of the authorities.

The Bodleian Libraries are announcing the discovery of previously unknown engravings on the reverse of a series of copper plates, which are thought to be the earliest engravings by the poet and artist William Blake.

Five works are returned to the heirs of the owners of the Matthiesen Gallery and one work remains in the Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin.