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Thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments have been stitched together into three expansive abstract compositions. These undulating forms, which are the artist’s largest work to date, cut through the vast industrial space of the Turbine Hall, reflecting on the expanse of human history and the elemental power of the natural world.

Photos released by authorities showed two sculptures that had been knocked off of pedestals and broken into pieces in the museum’s archaeology wing.

'The End Is Never Near' is the first overview dedicated to the work of Belgian artist Jan Van Imschoot.

UNESCO and the World Book Capital Advisory Committee commended Rio de Janeiro’s demonstration of the importance of its literary heritage alongside a clearly defined vision and action plan to promote literature, sustainable publishing and reading among young people tapping into digital technologies. This is the first time that a Portuguese-speaking city has been designated World Book Capital.

Stepping into the world of entrepreneurship as a student? Exciting, isn't it? But here comes the challenging bit: securing that all-important funding.

Flemish art, makes clear the role of the museum curator has fundamentally changed in recent decades. The task of the curator is shifting steadily from keeper of the collection and researcher in the direction of networker and narrator.

A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with the excavation and restoration of rooms in the pyramid of Sahura. The discovered chambers are probably storage rooms intended to hold the royal burial objects.

The Prado and LOEWE FOUNDATION announce that Chloe Aridjis has been selected as the second author to participate in their joint initiative the ‘Writing the Prado’ residency programme.

The sculpture was originally in the collection of the noted poet and musician Juan de Arguijo (1567-1623). It was among the objects he kept in his house in Seville where he welcomed figures such as Francisco Pacheco, Pablo de Céspedes, Fernando de Herrera and Alonso Vázquez and where Lope de Vega stayed as a guest.

The Nigerian/Belgian artist is the first to receive the prize under the new biennale format.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam proudly presents Van Gogh along the Seine. One of the highlights of this new exhibition is Vincent van Gogh’s Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières) (1887).

"The Migrant Child," one of only two Banksy works in Italy, is a mural created by the artist on a wall near Campo San Pantalon in Venice.

A Belgian court ordered insurer Liberty Special Markets to pay 3.5 million euros to the city of Ghent for the canceled tickets of an exhibition featuring the artist Jan van Eyck. The exhibition was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Consulate General of Nepal in New York and The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that The Met has initiated the return of two works of art—13th-century wooden temple strut and an 11th-century stone image of Vishnu flanked by Lakshmi and Garuda—to the Government of Nepal.

Kerry James Marshall, one of the leading international artists working today, has donated a portrait of prolific author, literary scholar and award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. to the University of Cambridge

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary visual artist Jean Paul Riopelle, the Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a new $2 circulation coin recognizing his status as one of Canada's, and the world's, most influential artists of the 20th century.

Max Oppenheimer was an Expressionist pioneer. Born in 1885 in Vienna, he first studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and later at the Art Academy in Prague.

The Flemish Government has decided to allocate an additional 18 million euros over the next five years to the cultural heritage sector. This brings the total amount for structural operational subsidies within the Cultural Heritage Decree to 51.5 million euros per year.

A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe, (9,500 and 6,200 years ago), in the Cueva de los Murciélagos of Albuñol (Granada, Spain). This site is one of the most emblematic archaeological sites of prehistoric times in the Iberian Peninsula due to the unique preservation of organic materials found there. The study has been published in Science Advances.

the Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco (the “Foundation”) started the process to file a cross-complaint against WHY Architecture Workshop Inc. (“WHY”) in a San Francisco County Superior Court action originally initiated by Swinerton Builders (“Swinerton”) in December 2021.