Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga wins the 2025 Joan Miró Prize
Kapwani Kiwanga is the winner of the ninth edition of one of the world’s mostprestigious and consolidated contemporary art prizes, awarded this year by the Fundació Joan Miró.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works And 20th Century Evening Sale Total $489 Million
Christie’s Spring Marquee Week commenced on the evening of Monday, May 12, 2025 with two consecutive sales taking place in the Rockefeller Center saleroom.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Egypt recovers 25 looted Antiquities
Egypt has retrieved 25 looted antiquities from the United States following a three-year legal and diplomatic campaign involving Egypt’s consulate in New York, with support from the US District Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, prosecutors, and private collectors.
Article date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
High Museum of Art names Alison Saar Recipient of 2025 David C. Driskell Prize
The High Museum of Art today announced artist Alison Saar as the 2025 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African American art.
Article date: Monday, May 12, 2025
Dutch Council for Culture makes Recommendations for the New Cultural Ecosystem
The Council for Culture in the Netherlands advises to structurally adjust the subsidy period for cultural institutions and funds from four to eight years.
Article date: Monday, May 12, 2025
New Archaeological Discovery in Sinai reveals Egypt’s Ancient Eastern Fortifications
The Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has uncovered military defensive structures and a residential area for soldiers at the Tell Abu Saifi archaeological site in North Sinai.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Export Bar placed on £10 Million Botticelli Painting
A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Koyo Kouoh, First African Woman appointed to lead Venice Biennale in 2026 has died
Koyo Kouoh, the visionary Cameroonian-born curator and Executive Director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), has died. She was 57.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Statement by the Drents Museum regarding the hearing of the Suspects in the Art Theft
Yesterday, two suspects in the violent attack on our museum, during which the golden helmet of Coțofenești and the three golden bracelets were stolen, appeared before court. It was an unprecedented assault in the more than 170 years of the Drents Museum's existence.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Dutch Prosecution: Abundance of Evidence in theft Romanian Artifacts Drents Museum
Two men, aged 35 and 36, from the Dutch town of Heerhugowaard will remain in pre-trial detention for an additional ninety days. The North Netherlands District Court decided this on Friday during a public hearing in the city of Assen. The court believes there is sufficient reason for this decision, given the role of the suspects in the art heist at the Drents Museum on January 25, 2025.
Article date: Friday, May 9, 2025
Julie Fragar wins Archibald Prize 2025
Brisbane artist Julie Fragar has won the Archibald Prize 2025 and $100,000 for her portrait of fellow Brisbane artist and colleague Justene Williams, titled Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), which depicts Williams as an ‘active master of a multiverse of characters and events’.
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Experts demand Russia be ejected from ICOM
French civil society “For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours!” (“Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre!”) has called for Russia’s expulsion from the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Undercover Cops approached Drents Museum Heist Suspect trying to find Romanian Treasures
Dutch police used undercover cops in the investigation into the theft of Romanian treasures from the Drents Museum in Assen in January Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Major Chila Kumari Singh Burman Retrospective to reopen Tate Liverpool in 2027
The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Lisa Nandy, announced that the first major retrospective by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, one of the UK’s most celebrated artists, will reopen Tate Liverpool in 2027 following the gallery’s transformation.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
South African Minister calls for return of African Artifacts from Former Colonial Powers
South African Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie made the remarks at the second G20 Culture Working Group session held in Johannesburg, the largest city and economic hub of South Africa.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
King Charles III and Queen Camilla's Coronation Portraits unveiled
Two new paintings, commissioned to mark Their Majesties' Coronation in 2023, have been unveiled by The King and Queen at the National Gallery.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Tough Mold in Danish Museums is threatening Historic Collections
A type of mold resilient enough to survive on the ocean floor has now appeared in Danish museums.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
New Museum to unveil Sculpture by Tschabalala Self created for Museum’s Facade in Fall 2025
The New Museum announced that Tschabalala Self (b. 1990, Harlem, New York; lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York) will create a new sculpture for the building’s facade to be unveiled in fall 2025.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Sotheby’s postpones Hong Kong sale of Buddha relics after India intervenes
Sale by family of 19th century British engineer of ‘duplicates’ of sacred relics he found in India called illegal by Indian government.
Article date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The King and Queen reopen the National Gallery Sainsbury Wing
The King and Queen visited the National Gallery to officially reopen the Sainsbury Wing after its 2-year transformational capital project.
