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Love notes, gladiator sketches and personal insults have surfaced on a long-studied wall in Pompeii, shedding new light on daily life in the ancient Roman city.

In his sculptural practice, Italian artist Thomas Pucci explores the moment where form is born - where pressure, matter and inner force find their way to the surface.

Germany has returned two small fragments of the Bayeux Tapestry stolen by a German scientist during the Nazi occupation of France in 1941.

A temporary export bar has been placed on Claude Lorrain’s Landscape with Rural Dance.

The Rocky statue that has stood next to the Philadelphia Art Museum steps for two decades is being moved to the top of the museum's steps, mirroring the infamous scene from the 1976 movie.

Last year, almost 600,000 people visited the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. 

Mehdi Salahshour, a sculptor and resident of Mashhad, was killed by direct gunfire from Iranian government forces during ongoing public protests in the city.

Art historians working for Argentina’s judiciary confirmed that the 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis and recovered in Mar del Plata is not by Giuseppe Ghislandi, the Italian painter to whom it was originally attributed.

Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés will offer at auction at Hôtel Drouot on Monday, 23 March 2026, a previously unknown work by Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545), one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance.

David Hockney has described a plan to move the Bayeux Tapestry from France to the UK later this year as "madness" and too much of a risk.

The application of the final layer of varnish in December 2025 marked the successful completion of conservation work on Potter’s The Bull.

Sudanese government on Tuesday announced that it has recovered 570 antiquities that were looted during the country's ongoing armed conflict, marking a significant step in efforts to safeguard Sudan's cultural heritage and historical identity.

The war has destroyed or damaged 1,630 cultural heritage sites and 2,437 cultural infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.

Israel's participation at the 2026 Venice Biennale has reignited calls for a boycott, two years after Israel's pavilion was closed due to protests.

A rare and fresh-to-market oil painting by pioneering ornithologist and one of the nation's most influential wildlife artists, John James Audubon (1785–1851), will headline Bonhams Skinner's forthcoming Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History, & Legacy sale on January 27 in Massachusetts.

An exceptional donation from the Don Quixote Foundation will enable the Rijksmuseum to enrich the city of Amsterdam with a public sculpture garden of international stature.

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion will open to the public on March 21, 2026.

The Mauritshuis is to loan Johannes Vermeer’s painting Girl with a Pearl Earring to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan. The painting will be on temporary loan while the Mauritshuis is closed for alterations* in August and September 2026.

If 2025 proved anything at Heritage Auctions, it is that a company accustomed to breaking records can still find new ways to surpass its own milestones.

Joël Andrianomearisoa, the duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, Laura Henno and Josèfa Ntjam have been shortlisted for this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) has announced.