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More than 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a major new fresco sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world. In a large banquet hall excavated in recent weeks in the central area of Pompeii, in insula 10 of Regio IX, an almost life-size frieze, or “megalography” (from the Greek for “large painting”-a cycle of large-figure paintings), has emerged, circling around three sides of the room; the fourth was open to the garden.

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson will open in fall 2025.

The fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) will be curated by Allison Glenn and presented from September to December 2026.

The Flemish government has appointed Belgian firm Bovenbouw Architectuur and Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein to design the ambitious new building for the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA).

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 11 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $1 million to Greece.

On Friday, February 28, more than 300 naturists from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg will gather at the Boverie Museum in Liège, Belgium, for a unique nude visit to the exhibition Paul Delvaux and His Universe. This will be the largest naturist museum night ever held in the Low Countries.

An unusual art restitution case is currently being heard in New York criminal court. The heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer and Holocaust victim, are seeking the return of Egon Schiele's watercolor and graphite piece Russian Prisoner of War (1916) from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC).

The world-renowned British artist, Lubaina Himid RA, CBE (b. 1954, Zanzibar), will represent Great Britain and deliver a major solo exhibition of new work at the British Pavilion.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Hellenic Republic of Greece announced that it will return a 7th century BCE Bronze Head of a Griffin to Greece.

Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The UK Government announced the shortlisted design teams for the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.

Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than historians initially believed Jinan Daily reports.

The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, exhibits a landmark exhibition of German artist Anselm Kiefer.

The National Gallery announces the partners for The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025–27. These will be the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; South Shields Museum and Art Gallery; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour has been running for over a decade, and this marks the first edition of the tour which will work with four partners.

Christie’s is to auction Egon Schiele’s Knabe in Matrosenanzug (Boy in a Sailor Suit) (estimate: £1,000,000 – 1,500,000), as a highlight of the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025. Part of the collection of Fritz Grünbaum, this work is being offered following a restitution agreement.

Owned by the Hon. Moyra Campbell (1924-2024) for over six decades, the painting was last publicly exhibited in Auerbach’s retrospective at the Hayward Gallery and the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 1978.

A 26-year-old man is the fourth suspect arrested in connection with the theft of the Coțofenești Golden Helmet and three Dacian gold bracelets that were on display at the Drents Museum in Assen, Dutch police said on Thursday.

Historic England acquired the Janette Rosing Collection of England: a world-class collection of some of the finest earliest landscape photography of England, taken by leading practitioners of the time.

The German sandal maker had sought a ruling that its sandals could be classified as art and thus afforded strong copyright protections.

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), fostering the first comprehensive collaboration between MoMA and a museum in Asia on such areas as curatorial research and exchange, conservation, programme sharing, and professional development.