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QAGOMA is partnering with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) on an exhibition of highlights from ‘The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT) and QAGOMA’s world-renowned collection of Asian and Pacific art to be presented at V&A South Kensington in London in early 2026.

The Blue Lotus cover project, a unique drawing. The first illustration project created by Hergé in 1936 for the cover of The Blue Lotus was rejected by the publisher because it was too expensive to reproduce in colour. This artwork was sold at auction on January 14th, 2021 for €2.6M (excluding commission). Two auction world records: • For original artwork by Hergé. • For original comic strip artwork.

After a record year in 2022, Artcurial is expanding its business into Switzerland. Artcurial has just finalised the acquisition of the Swiss auction house Beurret Bailly Widmer Auktionen, which will become Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer.

There is an error in the caption of Van Gogh's famous painting 'Red coals and onions'. They are not onions at all, but garlic. Chef Ernst de Witte of Restaurant Feu in Utrecht discovered this and contacted the Van Gogh Museum to report the error. After investigation by the research team, the museum corrected the caption.

The Philharmonie de Paris is organizing the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful relationship with music. A feast for the ears as well as the eyes, Basquiat Soundtrack presents a rich and heroic score to the meteoric output of a peerless artist, offering new insight into how his visual work was informed by music – from Beethoven to Madonna, zydeco to John Cage, Louis Armstrong to the Zulu Nation.

Exhibitions, baroque music concerts, a lecture series featuring speakers from Belgium and abroad, and a remarkable immersive experience for young and old: all this and more awaits during Baroque Influencers.

All assets and economic resources belonging to Nazem Ahmad in the UK have been frozen

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's last masterpiece, the Salvator Mundi of 1679, is on display at Fiumicino Airport, T1.

Artist Renzo Martens, together with the artists’ collective Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) and curator Hicham Khalidi, will be providing the Dutch entry for the Venice Biennale 2024.

The site served as a burial ground for the important city of Memphis and sheds light on the funerary practices of the Ancient Egyptian elite.

An ambitious politician whose scheming to seize power in Rome would hasten the end of the Republic. In the spring of 52 BC fate placed him at the foot of the Gergovia oppidum (Gallic fortified town), where he suffered his main defeat during the Gallic War against Vercingetorix.

The EMOWAA (Edo Museum of West African Art) Trust is delighted to announce the appointments of Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, Nigerian art historian and Professor of African and African Diaspora Art at and Director of the Program of African Studies at Princeton University and Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford University, as Senior Advisor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Nigerian-British curator Aindrea Emelife as the new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Paleis Het Loo will open its doors on 22 April. This completes an unique renovation within five years and an expansion of over 5,000 m2 located under the palace's forecourt. This ambitious project has added space for permanent and temporary exhibitions and new visitor facilities. The renovated Paleis Het Loo exudes the grandeur befitting one of the Netherlands' most renowned museums.

The ‘Colchester Vase’ is one of the most important, and perhaps famous, pots from Roman Britain. It was discovered in 1853 at West Lodge in Colchester and donated to the Museum by local antiquarian John Taylor.

Using not only sculpture, drawing and performance but also writing and pedagogical formats, Otobong Nkanga (Kano, Nigeria, 1974) analyses the notion of ‘earth’ as a geological and discursive formation. She often starts from the systems and procedures used locally to excavate raw materials, processing them technologically and distributing them on a global scale. From this point, she follows the threads that bind together the minerals, material culture and the construction of desire with the redistribution of power and knowledge.

Kenneth C. Griffin ’89 has made a gift of $300 million to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to support the School’s mission and to advance cutting-edge research and expand access and excellence in education for students and scholars regardless of economic circumstances. This unrestricted gift furthers Griffin’s philanthropic legacy at Harvard, which spans four decades and totals more than $500 million.

Danny will work closely with artists, collectives, arts organizations, museums, and cultural institutions to bring their creative ideas to life.

Italy Plans to Charge Tourists who Damage Monuments. This was stated by the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, following today's Cabinet meeting, which approved the bill he proposed titled "Sanctioning Provisions for the Destruction, Dispersal, Deterioration, Defacement, Smearing, and Illicit Use of Cultural or Landscape Assets".

Fede Galizia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Orsola Maddalena Caccia: Works by important 17th century female painters for sale at Dorotheum’s Old Master Paintings auction on 3 May 2023.

FBI Launches Stolen Art App. Help us find missing art Claude Monet paintings. Stradivarius violins. Tiffany lamps.