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The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund announced that their public appeal to raise the £3.8m needed to save Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red for the UK has successfully reached its target, a week ahead of the deadline.

“The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,'” Trump posted on Truth Social.

On September 17, the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils will celebrate the 122nd birthday of the Latvian-born artist Mark Rothko.

Joe Caroff designed the iconic James Bond 007 logo and was behind some of the most iconic Hollywood posters like 'West Side Story' and 'Manhattan'.

After a 12-year hiatus, the Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries is set to return in 2026, restoring one of Egypt’s most historic cultural events and the oldest art biennale in Africa.

Highlights include major works by Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Jean-Michel Basquiat alongside other established and emerging Danish and international artists.

Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” has stirred the souls of art lovers for over a century. Now, its swirling skies may also speak to physicists, as it echoes the patterns of quantum turbulence.

Every week, Art to Collect by ArtDependence brings together an exceptional curation of works that reflect the pulse of contemporary art today, offering collectors, new and seasoned alike, a window into some of the most compelling creative practices around the world.

On August 13, the FBI returned a stolen manuscript signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to the government of Mexico.  

Greenpeace has installed a new work by conceptual artist Anish Kapoor on Shell’s Skiff platform in the North Sea.

In a post pon LinkedIn Guillaume Cerutti, president of the Pinault Collection, is raising questions about the place of museums and opportunities for European Union funding.

Sotheby’s announces the opening date for its worldwide headquarters as Saturday, November 8th, 2025. 

Eddie Van Halen’s trademark style black and white stripe abstract design with red paint guitar will lead Sotheby's upcoming 'Rock and Pop' auction on October 24.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the support of 2007–2036 Biennial Sponsor Koç Holding, the 18th Istanbul Biennial’s first leg will be open to the public free of charge from 20 September to 23 November 2025. 

The Harvard Art Museums announced the gift of Light-Relief (1960), a large-scale sculpture by internationally renowned artist Heinz Mack (b. 1931).

As a gallery owner, Andrée Sfeir-Semler has rendered great services to intercultural mediation between contemporary art of the West and the Middle East.

The Kunsthalle Wien Preis [Kunsthalle Wien Prize] seeks to support emerging artists living and working in Vienna and to promote discourse on contemporary art via an annual collaboration with Vienna’s two renowned art universities. 

The White House sent a letter to The Smithsonian requesting a "comprehensive internal review" of eight of its museums with the aim of bringing the organization in line with President Trump's cultural directives ahead of the country's 250th anniversary celebrations.

During a Russian infantry assault on the Zaporizhzhia front on August 8, artist and soldier David Chichkan sustained a fatal wound. He died the following day at the age of 39.

An export bar has been placed on an extraordinary collection documenting Britain’s rise as the world’s leading maritime power to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire it.