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Oscar Rey makes art the way others keep diaries, his canvasses are painted stories, lines pulled frompoetry and song. Each painting is a ritual, an attempt to preserve memory, to honor beauty, to map the ache between joy and grief.

A new mural by Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London.

The Adrien Dubouche National Museum was burgled overnight on Wednesday, September 3, with losses estimated at €9.5 million, local authorities said. 

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.

A painting looted decades ago in Nazi occupied Europe has been recovered in Argentina, officials have said.

A new study of the trace amounts of lead in Venice's winged lion statue suggests that its metal originated in China.

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani passed away on Thursday, September 4, at the age of 91, as confirmed in a statement from the Armani Group, the fashion company founded by the Italian designer.

The discovery of a painting allegedly stolen by a Nazi official who took it to Argentina has taken a new turn. On Tuesday, the Buenos Aires judiciary put the official’s daughter and her husband under house arrest for 72 hours on suspicion that they are hiding the artwork.

A Korean Buddhist painting, Sinjungdo, which was illegally exported overseas, has been recovered from Germany.

This September in New York, Sotheby’s will present over 90 works from the personal collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein in a dedicated sale titled Reflections on Pop.

The discovered tombs are believed to date back to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period.

Sylvain Amic had been appointed head of the museum d'Orsay and the Orangerie since April 2024.

In federal court in Brooklyn, Ashraf Omar Eldarir was sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling Egyptian antiquities into the United States through John F. Kennedy International Airport.  

Police raided a house belonging to the daughter of a deceased Nazi official in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata, where a painting allegedly stolen in the 1940s appeared to have been located.

The Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi has announced the discovery of a cross moulded on a stucco plaque from the ancient monastery on Sir Bani Yas Island, off the coast of Al Dhafra Region in Abu Dhabi.

“Most basements aren’t for people. They are for washing machines, cars, wine, or boilers. If kitchens are for cooking, dining rooms are for dining, and bedrooms are for beds, basements tend to be left undefined—they are simply underground. They are out of sight and open to interpretation. When people go there, they are free to do anything”. (Anthony Huberman)

At the end of August, Quartier Kortrijk, a new art initiative—will host its first art weekend in the historic city of Kortrijk. 

France on Tuesday returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops during a 19th-century massacre.

The Dutch government is not keeping the promise it made in the historic 1962 founding agreement with V.W. Van Gogh MSc., the painter's nephew also known as the 'Engineer', which leaves the future of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum in doubt, says Director Emilie Gordenker in The New York Times today.