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Christie's will present Wassily Kandinsky's large scale canvas Le rond rouge (1939) as the leading highlight of its 20^th/21^st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2026.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport UK and the Saudi Ministry of Culture have jointly announced the year 2029 as the official UK-Saudi Year of Culture following the official visit of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Henrike Naumann, born in Zwickau (East Germany) in 1984, belonged to a generation of German artists who developed a unique artistic voice amid the tensions between political reality, local roots, cultural independence and international aspirations.

Italy’s public broadcaster RAI is facing political scrutiny after an altered version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man appeared in the opening sequence of its coverage of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Passion and desire, lust and jealousy, cunning and deceit — few classical texts have stirred the imagination of artists as deeply as Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 

A group involved in a large-scale ticket fraud at the Louvre Museum in Paris has been apprehended.

Between June 13 and October 3, 2027, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany, will once again transform the urban landscape, inviting visitors to rediscover the city through the lens of public art.

The Denon Wing of the Louvre has suffered damage due to a water leak, a union representative reports.

A storied Francis Bacon self-portrait – painted in 1972 in the shadow of devastating personal loss – leads an extraordinary quartet of paintings from The Lewis Collection, set to headline Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary sales in London. 

The Art Institute of Chicago acquired of The Dugout by Norman Rockwell, the first work by the artist to enter the museum’s collection.

Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, have re-examined a small copper-alloy object excavated a century ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, and concluded it is the earliest identified rotary metal drill from ancient Egypt, dating to the Predynastic period (late 4th millennium BCE), before the first pharaohs ruled.

Rianne Letschert, President of Maastricht University and served as president of YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) until 2024 will become the new Minister of Education, Culture and Science. As member of the D66 party, she led the coalition negotiations these past few weeks.

The University of Cambridge today announces it has transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections to Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), operating under a management agreement with the Benin Royal Palace.

The Irish Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan TD, announced the successor scheme to the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot scheme.

Last semester a sophomore illustration major built a full concept-art portfolio over winter break. She typed vivid prompts and watched entire worlds bloom in minutes—proof that generative AI now sits beside the charcoal and Cintiqs. Search for “best AI image generator” and you’ll find generic lists that ignore student budgets and campus policies. This guide fixes that. We focus on the tools, prices, and rules that matter to art students right now and score each generator across five classroom-ready factors. Ready? Grab a coffee, open your sketchbook, and meet the new brushes at your fingertips.

The Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library (UB) at Goethe University Frankfurt has been systematically reviewing its collections since 2020 to identify Nazi-looted property and return it to its rightful owners.

The British Museum announced it has raised the £3.5 million of funding needed to acquire the Tudor Heart Pendant for its permanent collection, ensuring it will be on public display for generations to come.

Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang, 86, steps down as president of the prestigious Arab World Institute amid explosive revelations from Jeffrey Epstein's files.

An export bar has been placed on Michael Rysbrack’s sculpture of two ‘putti’ supporting a column to allow time for a UK buyer to be found.

Christie's begins a year of 40^th Anniversary celebrations in Asia and commences the Hong Kong spring season with the announcement of Gerhard Richter's seminal and incandescent Abstraktes Bild (estimate: HK$78,000,000 – 98,000,000 / US$10,000,000 – 13,000,000).