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A camera that the Leica brand designed and gave to the Pope Francis in 2024 was auctioned this Saturday in Vienna for 6.5 million euros.

After thorough investigation, an independent committee unanimously concluded that there are no grounds for restitution of the painting ‘Portrait of Bishop Antonius Triest’ by Gaspar de Crayer to the heirs of art dealer Samuel Hartveld. On 20 November 2025, the City of Ghent decided to follow that advice.

The highest ever graded copy of Superman No. 1 from 1939, found by a Northern California family in the attic of their late mother's home last year, now holds the record as the world's most expensive comic book after selling for $9.12 million with buyer's premium

The Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Art Museum (“art museum”) announced today the appointment of Daniel H. Weiss as the George D. Widener Director and CEO, effective December 1, 2025. 

An Old Master painting, discovered beneath a garage workbench, has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house in Banbury.

The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of The American Arts Conservancy (AAC) to represent the United States at the 61st Venice Art Biennale. 

Music visualizers have become a serious tool in contemporary art, not just in music production. They translate sound into moving form—color, rhythm, and shape—giving artists a responsive medium that expands what audiovisual work can look like.

Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) — painted in 1940, during a period of intense personal upheaval and artistic transformation — sold for $54.7m at Sotheby's, establishing a new auction record for the artist and the highest price for any work by a woman artist at auction.*

The criminal network is investigated for the trafficking of cultural goods; the invaluable antiquities have allegedly been looted from countries across the Balkans.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has announced a major repatriation of Khmer artefacts from Hungarian collector István Zelnik, marking one of the most significant voluntary returns of cultural property in recent years.

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) began implementing a pre-booking system for entry tickets on Sunday, with specific time slots allocated for each visitor.

A new evolutionary analysis indicates that kissing is millions of years older than humanity itself, with a primate ancestor that lived more than 21 million years ago.

Different artists create different art, a new study has confirmed. Adults and children were asked to recreate a famous Jackson Pollock painting, and researchers analyzed the characteristics.

Philippe Vanderpoorten is a passionate Belgian collector of African tribal art, particularly from Congo.

Gustav Klimt’s towering masterpiece Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer has just sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby’s inaugural auction at the Breuer Building in New York, more than doubling the previous auction record for the artist and marking the most valuable work ever sold in Sotheby’s history.

Maurizio Cattelan’s legendary gold toilet, America, sold to a famous American brand for $12.1m - the second highest price for the artist at auction.

‘The Fortress’ is the title of the new work to be presented by artist Dries Verhoeven and curator Rieke Vos for the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Christie’s said on Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world’s first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal in 1642.

The Louvre Museum said Monday that it was closing the Campana Gallery as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building.

The guitar that legendary Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain used on generation-defining albums Nevermind and In Utero and in the iconic music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will be publicly-exhibited and offered at Christie's New York in March 2026.